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ROBIN rolls out channel API: measure sales conversion for all your service channels
Today, we rolled out ROBIN's real-time channel API. This API allows ROBIN customers to connect any channel (with an open API) to their ROBIN customer service dashboard.
This means that as a ROBIN customer you can now add for instance Facebook Messenger or WeChat to your channel strategy and measure conversion on each channel. We have joined forces with TheChatFactory to also unlock WhatsApp - which doesn't yet have a business API - for your ROBIN dashboard.
What's in the channel
PriceWaterhouseCoopers research [PDF] from July 2015 shows that phone (84%), email (55%) and live chat (44%) are the preferred service channels for customers in retail.
Adding a new channel to your channel strategy can unlock new opportunities, but in the end it's about the quality and speed of service, rather than the number channels. That's why we often advise our customers to first focus on speeding up response times on email, before they start adding new channels to the mix.
Also, as an E-Commerce store, you need to measure the impact of a new channel on conversion. Without it, you're just adding a gadget to your store.
"you need to measure the impact of a new channel on conversion. Without it, you're just adding a gadget to your store."
Optimize sales conversion per service channel
In 2015 we have signed up 50 of the largest and fastest growing retail & E-Commerce organizations in The Netherlands. The ROBIN team helps them set goals, measure, analyze and optimize.
The journey towards personal, real-time and proactive service starts with creating a solid base for customer satisfaction - mostly using phone and email only. From that base, we start scaling up live chat and proactive chat.
Based on the existing integration with your E-Commerce platform, ROBIN shows you exactly the conversion on customer contact channels. We already do this for email, live chats and registered phone calls.
So, with the new channel API you can now add channels such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WeChat to your channel strategy in a controlled way. It allows you to increase your service levels without losing sight of your most important E-Commerce goal: sales conversion.
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Tame Impala - "Borderline"
Earlier this year, Tame Impala made their SNL debut playing their latest single "Patience" and a new track called "Borderline." Now, the later song has been given an official studio release.
"Borderline" follows the sleek synth styles of "Patience" and certainly screams more yacht-rock than psych-rock, but still has that classic Tame Impala feel. This sounds like a totally different band than the one that released Innerspeaker and it's exciting to experience band leader Kevin Parker's musical shifts as he discovers more bongos and moves away from delay pedals. The track itself is a breezy number that finds itself centered around a steady beat, but with crystalline synth riffs adding an extra sparkle. It's an interesting new direction for the band and as they gear up to start playing live shows this weekend, we can hope to expect a few more songs from their still unannounced new album supposedly coming later this year.
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Rooster Illusion: 'Blue is the Warmest Color'
James Melville / February 26, 2014
Blue is the Warmest Color (2013):
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The Plot: Seventeen-year-old Adèle (Adèle Exarchopolous), exploring her sexuality for the first time, becomes infatuated with the blue-haired college student artist Emma (Léa Seydoux). The two fall in love and begin dating. Over the years, the relationship shapes Adèle, helping her find confidence to pursue her professional goals, even as she remains blind to Emma's emotional needs.
Blue is the Warmest Color is an honest, lyrical portrayal of a young woman's first love and sexual self-discovery. We watch as Adèle grows from shy high school student to assured teacher. She is empowered through that sexploration (pun!). But her relationship to her own sexuality isn't a simple case of "loses virginity, finds confidence." While she grows in some ways, she remains very immature in others. As a lover, she's selfish, never quite able to give Emma the emotional support that she needs. Adèle truly does love Emma, but her love is characterized by an almost frantic need to be loved in return. I say this not as a criticism of the film, or even of the character, but as a way to explain one of the points I think writer/director Abdellatif Kechiche is making: first love is inherently selfish.
Love "fills a hole in our hearts," to reference the first scene in the film. It awakens us to a whole spectrum of feeling that we've heard about but never really understood or seen up close. It's an enriching experience, but it can also be an isolating one. The joy of exploration eclipses our ability to empathize, to give more than we take. Even after years of dating Emma, Adèle never quite manages to see this flaw in herself. Feeling isolated during a stressful, career-defining period in Emma's life, Adèle cheats on her. Eventually found out, she denies it, and then pleads with Emma to keep on loving her. Adèle has grown dependent on her love. But she's taken too much, and Emma throws her out.
This is what shows up when you Google search "Blue is the Warmest Color crying." Goddamnit.
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Even after that, Adèle never really understands what she lacked as a lover. She grows to accept that Emma has moved on, but she needs to be told. It's something that many of us go through, especially when we're young. We run through scenario after scenario in which friendship gives way to romance, and things return to the way they were. Once again, want eclipses empathy. But we get older, and that burning desire is tempered by self-awareness and compassion. The film ends on what I suppose is a hopeful note, with still-distraught Adèle finally seeing that Emma is happier without her, and walking away. She isn't quite ready to maintain a healthy relationship, but she's finally started to mature.
That's only one facet of the film, and of Adèle's burgeoning sexuality. Selfish or not, first love is transformative. Her professional growth is a direct result of that empowering exploration. Emma, the older and wiser of the two, loves with the benefit of experience. She encourages Adèle to write, to try new ideas. She's a mentor as much as a lover, but eventually she needs more than a student to have a fulfilling relationship. Through the conception, growth, and collapse of that relationship, Kechiche shows us how profoundly love can shape our lives.
This dedication to conveying basic human truths is aided greatly by the two lead performances. Adèle Exarchopolous and Léa Seydoux create fully-realized characters. Each actress is perfectly at ease in her role, making their respective characters absolutely believable. They also have wonderful chemistry, and not just in the sexual sense. It really does feel like these two people like—and later love—each other. As the film's timeline spans years, we get to see the characters mature and change. Exarchopolous nails the vulnerability of Adèle's early years, hitting the intensity and heartbroken loneliness of her pre- and adult life with equal perfection. Seydoux's performance, though given less attention in the film, is perhaps even more impressive. Emma is mostly viewed through Adèle's eyes, but Seydoux never fails to show what's going on beneath her idealized exterior.
Her hair is so blue because it's full of secrets.
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Which brings me to the sex. Since the film goes to great lengths to visually capture Adèle's emotional state, the sex is both explicit and idealized. Before I go into all the Male Gaze shit I'm pretty sure I need to talk about, I want to cover the function that the very explicit sex scenes actually serve in the film. As I said, the way that Kechiche films the sex scenes is meant to reflect the protagonist's point-of-view. Before she meets Emma, Adèle has sex with a boy at her school. It isn't awkward, exactly, just devoid of passion. Something's missing. Later, when A + E are a couple, the film devotes a significant amount of time to the two, shall we say, engaged in Earthly pleasures. Kechiche doesn't hold back, and while explicit sex isn't really necessary to convey the way a character feels about the sex, it's hard to argue that it doesn't serve the function. He wants to show us how passionate the relationship is, but he also uses the sex scenes to contrast the unfulfilling nature of the relationship's emotional side. "Sure, the sex was great, but I feel like she didn't really get me, y'know?"
So the sex scenes, as blocks of action, serve their function. The way that Kechiche chooses to film those scenes is less obviously functional, though. By forcing us to see everything in 10+-minute chunks is he being honest? Frank? And as I said earlier, these scenes are beautifully shot, to the point of idealizing the act itself. The camera frequently does a slow pan over a beautiful girl's naked body. The lighting is ethereal. There are candles. So is this Kechiche finding the emotional truth in the act, the way he does in the film's numerous scenes of attractive people slowly dancing? Or is he reveling in the fact that he gets to film two hot girls doin' it? I like to think that it's the former, but Kechiche anticipates the criticism that Blue is the Warmest Color's NC-17 lesbian love scenes will inevitably garner. The way that he chooses to defend himself is perhaps more frustrating than fifteen minutes of artistic fucking.
During a pivotal dinner party scene, Kechiche writes himself into the film. Joachim (Stephané Mercoyrol) is a handsome intellectual. He is also the male art dealer who has the power to jump-start Emma's career. While everyone is sitting around drinking and chatting, he launches into his theory of why the nude female form is so prevalent in Western art: Because men are just trying to understand the female orgasm. We're limited by our male perspective, so putting naked women on the proverbial pedestal and waxing poetic about the female form for hundreds of years is just a way of trying to see beyond our own experiences. I hate to go all (former) Film Student on your guys, but that reads a lot like a pretentious justification of the pervasive Male Gaze in cinema. You know what I'm talking about. That thing where the majority of movies are shot from a male point of view, objectifying women. It's totally cool you guys, we're just trying to understand women by treating them like sex objects.
Yeah, I'll bet you do.
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What's all the more frustrating is that right before Joachim goes off on this tangent, one of the female party-goers asks if we can ever really understand another person, since we're all limited by our own perspectives. This perfectly complements Adèle's arc. What eventually brings her heartbreak is that very inability to see beyond her own perspective, to think about what Emma wants. But instead of having his stand-in talk about that, Kechiche descends into some "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" bullshit. It's a disservice to the film, and it manages to come off as both pretentious and incredibly juvenile at the same time. No, of course we never really know what's going on in another person's head. But we can try to understand by using this little thing called empathy. Goddamn.
"Oh my God, will this kid ever shut up about the Male Gaze?"
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So what is Blue is the Warmest Color? Is it art? Exploitation? I'm leaning more towards the former than the latter, but can it be both? Can a filmmaker find the truth in a story while taking advantage of his actors and giving in to his more basic instincts on film? Perhaps the very fact that the sex is so explicitly depicted is part of Kechiche's point. When we watch these beautifully-shot scenes of naked girls writhing in the sheets, are we thinking about the characters, or do we get caught up in the more immediate pleasure of arousal? The way we perceive art is inevitably filtered through our own experiences. The universal becomes personal. At the end of the day, maybe he's just using our baser instincts to help us connect with the characters. That's certainly in keeping with the film's focus on the need for empathy in relationships.
However you feel about the Male Gaze/Art vs. Exploitation stuff, Kechiche is largely successful in his attempts to make an honest, thoughtful film. The characters feel real, the performances are excellent, and the direction, questionable sex scenes aside, is flawless.
Except for this shot. Jesus Christ.
Source: http://bit.ly/1fF75yn.
February 26, 2014 in Movie Review. Tags: Abdellatif Kechiche, Adele Exarchopolous, Bechdel Test, Blue is the Warmest Color, Blue is the Warmest Place to Hide, French lesbians, James Melville, Lea Seydoux, Movie Review, NC-17, Rooster Illusion
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8 thoughts on "Rooster Illusion: 'Blue is the Warmest Color'"
agladwin says:
"So what is Blue is the Warmest Color? Is it art? Exploitation? I'm leaning more towards the former than the latter, but can it be both?"
And therein lies the point that almost every other review of this movie that I've seen misses. Maybe it is just one or the other, but people shouldn't ignore the fact that a movie can have both good and bad qualities, even ideologically.
Writer Loves Movies says:
Really interesting review! This sounds like a thought provoking film and is working its way up my watch list.
roosterillusionreviews says:
Thanks! If you get around to watching it, let me know what you think!
dmpart10 says:
I keep wanting to sing "blue is the warmest color" to the tune of "One Is The Loneliest Number," but it doesn't fit.
This is a serious issue for me.
I feel your pain. I kept trying to work in a "blue is the warmest place to hide" joke, but the possible innuendos were too horrifying to contemplate.
Looq says:
Thank you for this highly interesting review. Another integral layer to the film is Kechiche's obsession with class issues. While I agree with Kechiche anticipating criticism with regards to "male gaze/art", Kechiche is IMO, via Joachim, showing the ridiculous, shallow and pretentious side of the Artist as represented by Emma. Even Emma when she brings up "So you think the female orgasm is mythical, eh?" seems to poke fun at Joachim.
Kechiche's proxy is Samir rather than Joachim (even though Kechiche in an interview recently brought up that Samir with his personal questions to Adèle betrayed her trust. No-one of the dinner party guests were apparently spared criticism.), given that Kechiche is from working class origins as well as having stated several times that he more closely relates to Adèle's point of view rather than Emma's.
Not mythical, mystical :-).


As if floating on the warm South Carolina sea, Beach Tiger's electronically-influenced blend of indie-rock and dream pop is a laid-back, ethereal offering oozing with hazy summer vibes. Imagine the lof-fi singer-songwriter rigour of Bahamas, complemented with a full band and little refrain from making a bit more noise.
The 4 piece's sound is undeniably charming, and is the kind of track you'd use to set you in a good mood for the day (remember how 'Lets Go Surfing' by The Drums used to make you feel?). Their previous single 'Just Woke Up' contains a little more edge and bite, showing that they are comfortable switching up their vibes from track to track, and we look forward to seeing where they go next.


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Canon today announced the new firmware updates for the EOS C500 Mark II and EOS C300 Mark III cameras. The firmware updates are expected to be available for download on July 30, 2021.
Canon's EOS C500 Mark II and C300 Mark III are a formidable combination of 4K Digital Cinema Cameras, and they're getting even better thanks to a new firmware update.
Both cameras will now be compatible with Canon's XC Protocol, which better enables them to be used in live productions and allows them to be controlled remotely via Canon's RC-IP100 remote controller or via 3rd party controllers.
Both cameras can also now limit the 12G-SDI output to 2K/FHD when recording in resolutions at 4K and above. This allows compatibility from the SDI Out port with 3G-SDI devices.
We have also added the ability to use both the Monitor Out & HDMI output simultaneously. This brings the total number of monitor outputs to three, increasing flexibility in production.
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There's No Such Thing as Self-Driving Cars, Not Yet Anyway
August 27th, 2020 AutoAfter News
As clickbait-y as that headline reads and sounds, it's true.
According to Silicon Valley's claims in 2015 we should have been in cars bereft of drivers by now. We were promised an influx of fully autonomous cars by the year 2020. But as things stand today, that future is unlikely to become a reality in our lifetimes. Before we delve into the why, here is a teeny-tiny backgrounder. Back in 2015, tech companies like Waymo, Argo AI, and May claimed that we would be able to see fully autonomous cars on our roads by 2020.
Car companies responded in kind with claims on their own. Ford claimed that it would put its own autonomous car on the road by 2021. BMW teamed up with Daimler, and started buying stock in various tech companies. Meanwhile, Ford invested heavily in Argo AI to help build its autonomous system. But in 2019, Ford CEO Jim Hackett stated "we overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles," and with good reason.
The whole operation suffered a major setback and got a severe reality check when a cyclist was fatally hit by Uber's self-driving car in 2018. That made the whole auto and technology sectors take stock and rethink where we stood in letting cars have free rein without human intervention. Almost every company, even Waymo, who has been testing (also operating selectively) driver-less cars in Phoenix since 2017 agrees that making a fully autonomous car is (get it?) complicated and daunting than initially thought.
But what makes self-driving cars so complicated and tricky to make? And where do we stand in all of this?
What in the heck is an autonomous car anyway?
A fully autonomous car is a vehicle that requires no inputs from the passengers whatsoever—though the driver would still be able to take control when/if they see fit, in theory. According to the SAE, there are six levels of autonomy labeled quite simply levels zero through five:
Level 0: Pure driver inputs only, no assistance systems of any kind.
Level 1: Driver assistance systems such as cruise control are included; driver still uses brakes and steering.
Level 2: Multiple automated systems function together, such as adaptive cruise control with lane-keep. The driver must still pay attention and make inputs at regular intervals. Usually only applicable on highways.
Level 3: The above, but applicable to intra-city travel as well. Driver may still need to take controls when systems encounter unknown situations.
Level 4: The car can handle all aspects of regular driving, in certain conditions. Driver control is optional.
Level 5: The car can handle all aspects of regular driving in conditions, including snow and rain. Drive control remains optional.
Level 5 is quite simply full autonomy and driver inputs are not required at all. This is the ideal scenario, where the car drops you to work, picks up the groceries en route to pick your kids up from school, drops them home and returns to fetch you. This is what we were promised. But largely, we are only at Level 2.
In two words, human unpredictability. Driving is quite a nuanced process. There is a stream of information coming at us in the form of road signs, changes in road surface and our environment in general while we are strapped to a hunk of metal going 60 mph. Yet, our brain is somehow able to process all of it . Okay, most modern cars are able to process this information thanks to sensors, radar, lidars (radars that use lasers), to a high level of accuracy. And in the past few years, technology has solved about 80 percent of the problem which is the equipment required to make cars fully autonomous. But it is the final 20 percent, or the software, that is proving to be the bigger challenge. That 20 percent is the crucial difference between human drivers and a machine, and most of that 20 percent is human judgment.
We as humans, can instinctively predict the behavior of the car in front of us or judge if the pedestrian will cross the road on a green light and act accordingly. We have in-built systems to takes calls and operate in grey areas where a machine simply cannot (at this time anyway). Next time you're driving in the city or on the highway just notice the movements of your body and how your brain instinctively processes the swathes of information and you will realize that driving a car safely is an incredibly complex and nuanced process and despite popular belief, it's something we are quite adept at.
A machine cannot yet judge the course of action in case a cyclist comes in the other way or if a dog runs across the road—or maybe even identify a site where a stop should be present but isn't. What we previously thought as a small gap between man and machine turned out to be a chasm. Currently, the systems rely heavily on road markings and good visibility, both of which are in short supply in the winter months, which creates a fundamental issue for anything self-driving.
Then there is the whole issue of environment and driving conditions. Driving conditions, road maps, and even driver and pedestrian behaviours tend to vary from city to city and country to country. This means car companies will need to calibrate each car depending on where it will be sold and how and where it will be driven. The variables to consider though finite are too numerous to predict with 100 percent accuracy, which is what is expected of self-driving cars of the future. It's like trying to navigate an obstacle course while blindfolded on horseback in a dust storm. The task is way past monumental.
Currently, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are the best driving tech we have. This includes adaptive cruise control, lane centering, blind-spot warning, emergency braking, the works. And all of this, including Cadillac's Super Cruise system, which allows you to change lanes hands-free; and yes, Tesla's Autopilot system, all classify as Level 2. It's simply because they require undivided driver attention, and we've seen what happens when it's lacking.
Audi's A8 already comes with hardware that is Level 3 autonomy capable. But its lack of operation has little to do with the technology itself. The personal transportation system is an immensely complicated one. The carmakers and the insurance regulators along with governing bodies simply aren't confident enough in the human drivers to take over the wheel at a moment's notice.
Progress. The advancement of driver technologies has been ramping up at a rapid rate and certain companies are attempting to bypass Level 3 autonomy altogether.
Waymo is already testing autonomous shuttle services in Phoenix as we mentioned before. Ford and Volkswagen have partnered with Argo AI to make their robo-taxis a reality while Zoox, a California based company, is developing its very own robo-taxi from the ground up. Currently, Zoox runs retrofitted Toyota Highlanders as test vehicles and claims to have developed a system that is quite close to a human's understanding of its driving environment. May Mobility has been operating small six-passenger (golf cart) shuttles in Detroit in closed circuits ferrying people between short distances.
So the progress is there but it is going to take time a lot of time.
Will I see it in my lifetime?
Robo-taxis might become a reality in the next decade or so, if they have their dedicated lanes and operating routes—the way it is being done in China. They'll need to operate at limited speeds, possibly no faster than 30 mph.
A fully autonomous transport system will require a complete overhaul of the current system, which could take decades—if we're lucky—and will be a painfully slow process. Then there is the whole issue of machine learning and judgement. The fleets we mentioned above only operate their cars up to a max speed of 25mph. As speeds climb, the processing power will need to increase to reduce reaction times to ensure safe transportation. Higher processing power requires more advanced equipment which seldom adds weight but definitely adds to the cost. You see where we're going with this.
Then there is the—sorry to keep harping on about this—the human element.
Here's a scenario: when you're at a four-way stop, you will almost certainly be able to judge when or if someone is about to jump their turn. Such organic thinking is impossible for a machine to execute at this point regardless of what Elon Musk says. Even if someone can develop a system that can predict such a situation and act accordingly, it will probably be too expensive for large scale production. Not to mention that it will severely affect the cost of the vehicle which consequently makes the autonomous car, the opposite of what it is aimed to be: for . Plus, with the claim of zero casualties, it is the tallest of orders even for the most advanced systems in the world.
So you see, the biggest challenge the autonomous car faces is the very thing it is being developed to serve: humans.
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Using computed tomography (CT) to evaluate patients with chest symptoms is common in emergency departments (EDs). This article describes recent trends of CT use in U.S. EDs for patients presenting with symptoms common to acute pulmonary embolism (PE).
The 2001–2009 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), a nationally representative survey of U.S. ED encounters, was used for data collection. Patients with at least one of three complaints (chest pain, dyspnea, or hemoptysis) were categorized into the chest symptom study (CSS) group. The yearly increases in CT use for the complaints were tabulated first, then linear regression analysis was used to calculate average rates of increases in CT use between 2001 and 2007, the years where CT use increased, for the overall population and among specific subgroups. The ratios of the number of visits when CT was ordered and there was a target diagnosis relative to the total number of visits with CT in the CSS group (diagnosis/CT ratio) were calculated for PE and pneumonia.
Annual CT rates for the CSS group increased from 2.6% in 2001 to 13.2% in 2007, subsequently leveling off at approximately 12.5% in 2008 and 2009. The average growth rate of CT use for the CSS group was 28.1% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 20.9% to 35.7%) per year between 2001 and 2007. Testing rates for all subgroups increased. The lowest growth rate was among Hispanic patients, whose CT rates grew 14.2% (95% CI = 5.7% to 23.5%) per year. The highest growth rate was in nonurban hospitals, at 43.1% (95% CI = 15.2% to 77.8%) per year. Patients triaged as nonurgent received the fewest CTs, compared to those who should be seen in 2 hours or less. With regard to sources of payment, the self-pay subgroup experienced the highest rate of increase at 35.1% (95% CI = 18.6% to 53.9%). The PE diagnosis/CT ratio from 2002 to 2009 was 2.7% for the CSS group. The pneumonia diagnosis/CT ratio grew from 5.8% in 2002 to 2005 to 7.8% in 2006 to 2009.
Computed tomography use in ED visits by patients with chest symptoms increased dramatically from 2001 to 2007 and seems to have leveled off in subsequent years. The low PE diagnosis-to-CT ratio suggests that EDs may need to promote evidence-based use of CT.


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How Will Lifting China's Ban On Game Consoles Change The Industry?
Stephen "Dirk" Libbey July 28, 2015
The world of video games may be about to change in a big way. The market just increased by over one billion people. In 2000 China implemented a ban on foreign game consoles but that ban has just been lifted meaning that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo just got a lot of new customers.
The game industry in China is still worth more than $22 billion and that's just in PC and mobile gaming. Consoles have the potential to add a great deal to that bottom line. With a potential consumer base as large and China even a minor dent will have a significant impact on any console makers sales.
The long term impacts of this change also have the potential to make a noticeable change on the game industry as a whole. Hollywood has seen the impact that the Chinese audience has and now makes a lot of their film decisions based on that audience. If China becomes a large enough market for console gaming we could see the same thing happen there.
There's the potential for special versions of some games with content that is only available in China, not to mention we may see many games full of heroic Chinese characters, and not so much with Chinese Chinese villains, as China always likes to see their characters painted in a positive light.
On the other hand there's also the possibility of technological advancement thanks to Chinese interest. One of the reasons that so many movies are filmed in 3D today is because China actually requires a certain percentage of their foreign films be done in 3D. If China started to decide they wanted more 3D games, or 4K resolution games, you can rest assured that we would start to see them here as well.
While none of these changes will occur overnight, if they ever occur at all the power of China's market cannot be undersold. This is huge. Time will tell exactly how huge.
Stephen "Dirk" Libbey
Stephen is a veteran of the consumer electronics industry where his passion for technology was born. Most of the people he knows in that industry call him Dirk, but that's not important. He is an avid gamer, occasional podcaster, coffee snob, and watches much more TV than is probably healthy. Today he is a freelance writer specializing in his various geek obsessions.
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Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
David W. Galenson
Why have some great modern artists--including Picasso--produced their most important work early in their careers while others--like Cezanne--have done theirs late in life? In a work that brings new insights, and new dimensions, to the history of modern art, David Galenson examines the careers of more than 100 modern painters to disclose a fascinating relationship between age and artistic creativity.
Galenson's analysis of the careers of figures such as Monet, Seurat, Matisse, Pollock, and Jasper Johns reveals two very different methods by which artists have made innovations, each associated with a very different pattern of discovery over the life cycle. Experimental innovators, like Cezanne, work by trial and error, and arrive at their most important contributions gradually. In contrast, Picasso and other conceptual innovators make sudden breakthroughs by formulating new ideas. Consequently, experimental innovators usually make their discoveries late in their lives, whereas conceptual innovators typically peak at an early age.
A novel contribution to the history of modern art, both in method and in substance, Painting outside the Lines offers an enlightening glimpse into the relationship between the working methods and the life cycles of modern artists. The book's explicit use of simple but powerful quantitative techniques allows for systematic generalization about large numbers of artists--and illuminates significant but little understood features of the history of modern art. Pointing to a new and richer understanding of that history, from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism and beyond, Galenson's work also has broad implications for future attempts to understand the nature of human creativity in general.
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artists, and even about how they went about planning and executing their work. But I was also disappointed to discover how completely art historians have neglected quantitative approaches to their discipline. Such work can offer new insights into the history of modern art, and in so doing adds another dimension to existing work based on traditional approaches. Since the 1960s, economic and social historians have used quantitative evidence, often accompanied by economic theory, to explore a wide
parts of the next two years. During this time, in Fry's words, "Cézanne became in effect apprentice to Pissarro."19 Under Pissarro's inºuence Cézanne's art was transformed, as he adopted several of the key innovations of the Impressionists, including the small brushstrokes, the bright palette, and the use of changes of color instead of shading to achieve the illusion of depth.20 Cézanne later acknowledged his debt to Pissarro, reºecting, "We are perhaps all derived from Pissarro . . . 'Only paint
research has poisoned those who have not fully understood all the positive and conclusive elements in modern art and has made them attempt to paint the invisible and, therefore, the unpaintable. They speak of naturalism in opposition to modern painting. I would like to know if anyone has ever seen a natural work of art. Nature and art, being two different things cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not . . . I also often hear the word evolution.
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these markings. In contrast, the Americans generally did not use automatism to create ªgurative works. The most celebrated adaptation was that of Jackson Pollock. After beginning a painting with random markings, Pollock would examine the pattern these had created, then develop this into a coherent but still abstract composition. Historians have observed that Pollock and his American contemporaries used the idea of automatism, rather than the manner, but that it served an important purpose, New
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Axed Queens Public Library director suing for over $2M
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The fired director of the Queens Public Library is suing his former employer for more than $2 million, claiming his ouster over wild misspending was a political hatchet job.
Thomas Galante made headlines last year for allegedly treating library coffers like his personal piggy bank — building a $27,000 smoking deck outside his office and charging nearly $200 worth of gas in one day for his company-issued Nissan.
A defiant Galante now says he will "set the record straight" in Brooklyn federal court on Monday.
"After giving 27 years of my life to the Queens library and raising millions of dollars to make it better, the political winds changed overnight and my name was dragged through the mud," Galante fumed in a statement to The Post.
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz ordered the library board to put Galante on leave in April 2014 after a series of published stories accused Galante of graft.
Then, last fall, city Comptroller Scott Stringer ordered an audit of Galante's credit-card charges. The investigation found that Galante had racked up $260,000 in "inappropriate expense" on his library credit card over two years.
Galante also bought four tickets to a Maroon 5 concert for $1,962.95 in January 2013 and listed them as "employee appreciation" gifts. Staffers told Stringer's office that Galante attended the concert along with the library's lawyer and vice president of human resources. It was unclear to whom the fourth ticket went.
Galante's lawsuit claims Stringer's office made no effort to get his side of the story.
Of the $200 worth of gas he charged on Nov. 2, 2012, "Galante incurred those charges filling both [his] Nissan as well as gas cans used by the library during its recovery efforts in the Rockaways, as there was a gas shortage in New York," his suit says. And the smoking deck was "part of a system-wide campaign to upgrade and modernize both public and staff areas," Galante adds.
He says his performance justified the expenses. Under his leadership, the library's revenues increased from $94.4 million to $128.1 million, according to his suit.
An attorney for the library, Daniel Kurtz, said he is "not in a position to comment" because he hasn't seen the lawsuit or discussed it with his client.
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On June 2, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission announced a pair of antitrust enforcement actions to block pending health system transactions that, according to it, would harm competition in the provision of inpatient general acute care hospital services.
First, the FTC authorized filing of an administrative complaint and accompanying federal lawsuit in opposition to a proposed transaction between HCA Healthcare and Steward Health Care System involving hospitals in Utah (the "Utah Transaction"). HCA and Steward are "healthcare competitors" in Utah which the FTC describes as, respectively, the second and fourth-largest healthcare systems in the Wasatch Front region of Utah (which contains approximately 80% of Utah residents). The FTC alleges that the Utah Transaction would reduce the number of systems offering inpatient general acute care hospital services, significantly increase market concentration, and eliminate a low-cost competitor that could enable the surviving entity to command higher commercial reimbursements that lead to higher cost-sharing obligations for consumers. Interestingly, according to the FTC, its complaint will name the CEO and controlling shareholder of Steward individually, in addition to naming HCA and Steward.
Second, the FTC similarly authorized filing of an administrative complaint and a federal lawsuit to stop the proposed acquisition in New Jersey (the "New Jersey Transaction") of Saint Peter's Healthcare System by RWJBarnabas Health. The FTC alleges that the New Jersey Transaction would harm competition for inpatient general acute care services in Middlesex County, NJ, where the combined system would have an approximate commercial market share of 50% for those services. The FTC's Bureau of Competition Director notes in a press release that Saint Peter's and RWJ have the only hospitals in New Brunswick, NJ, and according to the FTC, each party sees the other as its most significant competitor. In this case, the FTC also expresses concerns that allowing the New Jersey Transaction to proceed would eliminate competition, increase market concentration, and allow RWJ to obtain higher commercial reimbursements from insurers with fewer options, which the FTC states "will harm consumers."
Notably, the FTC vote in favor of filing both cases was unanimous (5-0). The taking of these actions by the FTC shows the government's continued concern with competition and consolidation in the health care market. We will continue to monitor developments in these cases and other antitrust matters as they progress.
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Urban renewal money from Clackamas Town Center area to end, leaves board to decide how to spend it
Updated: Jan. 10, 2019, 8:10 a.m. | Published: Apr. 10, 2013, 8:33 p.m.
The Clackamas Town Center mall is part of the Clackamas Regional Center urban renewal district.
By Molly Harbarger | The Oregonian/OregonLive
The Clackamas Town Center urban renewal district will stop collecting money soon, and there is some left over. That $97 million is the center of an ideological divide among the commissioners.
There is $653 million worth of needed infrastructure projects over the next 20 years in the most densely populated planned area in Clackamas County. A work group of citizens, business owners and representatives from various agencies put together a list of priority projects that totals more than $38 million.
In June, the 2,100-acre urban renewal district, which overlaps with some of Milwaukie and Happy Valley, ceases collecting funds, so the remaining money is ready to divide among top priority projects. Or, if Commissioners John Ludlow and Tootie Smith have their way, be returned to the taxing districts, such as the Sheriff's Office and North Clackamas School District, whose taxes were frozen and diverted to the urban renewal district.
"These are projects that certainly have merit. But I think even more merit is given to these taxing entities," Ludlow said. "Look at them, everyone one of their budgets are suffering."
The board will hear the work group's presentation Thursday. The public is invited to comment, but no action is planned.
Urban renewal districts freeze the property tax base of an area that would normally go toward public services, such as schools and fire districts, and diverts the money to development. The idea is that when the taxes are unfrozen, property values will be higher and the city will recoup its money, plus some.
Other commissioners are leaning toward funding some of the projects ranked top priorities by the work group because starting them now could be more cost-effective than doing them in the future.
"I think one important thing the Sunrise project showed us, there are good deals out there right now and we ought to take advantage of it," Commissioner Jim Bernard said.
In its 30-year lifespan, the urban renewal district was praised by supporters for revitalizing the area that holds the mall and has become a business center in the county. Its critics call it an abuse of urban renewal for its duration and bringing crime to the area with the Green Line.
"All the districts including this county have benefited from this district," Commissioner Paul Savas said. "Is it perfect? No."
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That quote from your post in Computer software section.
I have tried so far on windows 10 64 bit and get errors or not reading all channels using a USB to serial adaptor. I can try other options as have other older laptops.
Hello ! I used the serial interface with XP.
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rooth wrote: Hello ! I used the serial interface with XP.
OK I did try that but it did not work, maybe because on windows 10 64 bit. I will try it on my laptop with XP.
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SIUE's Dr. Tim Staples Highlights Leadership Attributes for UBSA Students
Be persistent despite challenges, dream big and form your own board of directors. These are just a few instructions that Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center (ESLC) Executive Director Timothy Staples, EdD, gave Collinsville High School students on Friday, June 18 on the Edwardsville campus.
The students are participating in the SIUE East St. Louis Center Collinsville's Upward Bound Scholars Summer Academy (UBSA) that runs from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday through July 16 on the Edwardsville campus.
"Our Summer Academy is designed to give our students more opportunities for learning and leadership, exposure to college information and tours, and a time to have fun," said UBSA Program Director Yvonne Hart. "I invited Dr. Staples, because he is an engaging educator who loves young people. He gives students good, important information, and does so in an entertaining way!"
"I remember getting off of work at the Walmart in O'Fallon and driving to campus trying to make my class in time," recalled Staples, who talked to students about leadership qualities and how to position themselves as leaders. "I was concerned about what Dr. Earleen Patterson would say. I remember rushing into this very building (Peck Hall) and thinking, 'I'm not going to make it. It's hard. I have to work all these jobs.' Financially speaking, I still don't know how I made it through."
"It's wonderful to be able to talk with students, and give you hope and encouragement," he continued. "In those times when I was really low, I couldn't see myself leaving this campus with a degree. I could not see myself where I am now."
Staples earned a bachelor's in historical studies from the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences in 2000. He completed a master's in educational leadership in 2003, and a doctorate in leadership and administration in 2017, both from Aurora University.
In 2007, Staples began his career in student affairs as a residence hall coordinator at Illinois State University. From 2008-12, he served as assistant director of residence life for diversity initiatives and student leadership development at Miami University. From 2012-15, he was assistant director for training and leadership development at American University in Washington, D.C.
Staples joined SIUE in July of 2018 as the inaugural director of the new Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion (CSDI), housed in the Office of Student Affairs. He provided strategic leadership for the CSDI, initiating and developing four focus areas for the Center: cultural teaching and learning, cultural affirmation, inclusive excellence, and retention. He was named director of the ESLC effective Sept. 23, 2019.
"I kept going despite challenges, because I loved learning, education and people," explained Staples.
He shared specific problems he faced at college, as well as those involving his home life. "But I was fortunate to have professors and educators who believed in me and wanted to see me succeed, like Dr. Earleen Patterson and Professor Lydia Jackson."
Staples also recalled difficulties as a professional educator. "I wouldn't be here, if I didn't connect with certain individuals and sought out people who were willing to pour into me," he shared, "and keep up with me wherever I moved and whatever situation I found myself."
These people, Staples informed the class, are his board of directors. "A board of directors make decisions that are in the best interest of a company," Staples continued. "Sometimes, those decisions are hard ones. It is important to have people on your 'board' who have your best interest in mind.
"I have a board of directors, and I am on other people's board of directors. These people call me, especially during hard times. Who is on your board of directors?"
Other leadership qualities and strategies that Staples emphasized included:
Do not compromise your values
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Do not align yourself with bad conduct
Develop a plan
Take positive risks
"We all have challenges, but the ability to persevere is in us," said Staples. "The fact that you're in this program says something about you. Keep making good choices, and you will be a good leader."
Upward Bound Scholars Academy (UBSA) is a TRIO program federally funded by the U.S. Department of Education. UBSA serves Collinsville High School students, ages 14-19, from low-income families and from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor's degree. The goal of Upward Bound is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education and enroll in and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education.
SIUE East St. Louis Center (ESLC) Executive Director Timothy Staples, EdD, talks leadership qualities with ESLC Collinsville's Upward Bound Scholars.


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The refurbishment works include distribution upgrades, fire alarm, CCTV, security, lightning protection and a complete new power and lighting system, designed to be economical and functional whilst retaining the original charm and character of the property.
The project which requires detailed programme planning to ensure minimal disruption and a careful undertaking to protect the original fabric of the building will provide an exciting challenge to the staff at System Electrical Ltd.


If you want to add a little something to your home décor you should think of installing affordable plantation shutters and blinds or other window treatments. Window treatment is just not a mere window covering. It enhances the style and functionality of your windows. Different window treatment gives a different kind of look to your interior décor. There are different types of window treatments the most commonly used one are curtains, drapes, blinds, sheers and shutters. All these kinds serve the same objective of controlling the sunlight, providing required privacy, insulating and adding elegance to the rooms' décor. You have the options of using any one type of treatment or combining different styles to get the needed effect.
Window treatments are very beneficial. The following are the benefits of window treatments.
Protection: Installing affordable plantation shutters and blinds or curtains or drapes will protect your home from the excessive heat and harmful rays of the sun. They prevent damaging of the furniture due to exposure to harsh rays of the sun.
Privacy: No one wants to let others to see what goes inside their house. Be it in their house or office privacy is something which everyone desires. Window treatments aid you to increase your rooms' privacy. If you keep your windows completely covered by drapes or curtains or any other window treatment you can prevent anyone from seeing into your house or office.
Light Control: You can control the amount of light from entering your room by using any window treatment. Covering the windows fully will stop the light entering your rooms and will give you complete darkness. You can thus have a peaceful and sound sleep even in daytime. If you want your rooms to look fresh and vibrant in the daylight or you want to work, what you can do is simply open the drapes or curtains letting the sunlight bright your rooms.
Aesthetics: Window treatments enhance the overall beauty of your rooms. There are a variety of window treatments available in the market which will be best suited for your interiors. You will find sophisticated and stylish window treatments that will suit any modern décor and also beautifully designed treatments for any traditional décor. Different rooms require different types of window treatment. For instance, plantation shutters are best suited for kitchen whereas roller blinds are most appropriate for bedrooms. Thus this is an important thing that should be considered will choosing the style of the treatment. You should also be careful about the decorations you want to use for your window treatment. You can select from various styles ranging from transitional, traditional, formal, rustic, European, electric, casual, modern or classic American. The material you pick should also go with the type of treatment you want to apply. The options range from metal, fabric or even natural materials like bamboo and wood.
Energy Saving: Most of treatments offer good insulation. In very hot environment, the coverings on the windows stop the heat from entering the rooms and keep the rooms comfortable. Similarly during cold times, the inside heat does not escape from the room keep it warm enough to feel comfortable. So installing affordable plantation shutters and blinds or other window treatments will let you use any cooling or heating device less, resulting in less power consumption. Thus you can save more energy.
There is a wide range of options for choosing a window treatment. So you do not need to worry much regarding the choice. But one thing is which is very important is that they should be maintained and cleaned properly to make them last long.


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Pandemic reveals true value in technical education
Years from now, histories will be published about the worldwide impact of COVID-19 in 2020. While we do not yet know what those pages will hold, I want to get on the record about how the leaders of South Carolina technical colleges are responding to the workforce challenges created by the pandemic.
Consider the breakneck speed at which things changed this spring. In March, South Carolina experienced two diametrically opposed records. The March 12, 2020 S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) numbers showed that more South Carolinians were working than ever before: 2,334,652. But by the end of the month, DEW reported the highest weekly number of unemployment claims in South Carolina history: more than 64,800 in just one week. By June, more than half a million people in South Carolina had filed claims and $2B in payments have been made since the pandemic response began.
The leadership at Midlands Technical College and the S.C. Technical College System recognizes that workforce development is critical like never before, and took immediate action. It is what we do. For decades, our colleges have been leading and developing skilled employees who are needed for essential careers and professions. This pandemic has demonstrated a new need – educating and training a new wave of working people who are newly out of work.
Technical colleges provide real-world learning that allows for excellence in essential work – work that is the backbone of our economy. Of those who have been immune from layoffs and shutdowns the several past months, a large percentage got their start at a technical college. This is especially true in fields such as nursing, respiratory therapy, information technology, manufacturing, automotive and construction technologies. Also think mechanics, heating and air repair technicians, computer network and security admins, business owners, and engineers to name a few others. These are the jobs that are essential -- always in high demand. We train and educate people for them each and every day at Midlands Technical College and the other technical college campuses across the Palmetto State.
The value our colleges provide is not just for those looking for a new skill or new job. Technical college graduates include professionals, such as teachers, accountants, and business executives, all of whom saved money on their education by attending or graduating from a technical college and then transferring to a four-year college or university. Paths are already in place to make the transfers seamless and stress-free. And just as important, it's a path to family sustainability and personally rewarding careers.
This pandemic illustrates the true value of a technical college education. Our affordable cost is matched with high quality and established career paths that provide the best value over the long term.
Consider this, the average annual tuition at South Carolina technical colleges is approximately 65% less than a four-year institution. Each year, there about 175,000 residents who enroll in a technical college, and 90% of graduates get a job in their field or continue their studies in their local communities.
We are yet to see the full impact of COVID-19 on the workforce in South Carolina and across the nation. But, rest assured that Midlands Technical College and other members of the South Carolina Technical College System are nimble as we adjust to new realities while being committed to working hand-in-hand with business and community leaders to keep the graduates coming, and to help make sure that new and emerging skills are integrated into our curriculums.
Dr. Ronald L. Rhames, a 1978 graduate of Midlands Technical College, became its sixth president in March of 2015.


Safa president Danny Jordaan has urged South Africans to come out in their numbers to support the vision, the dream and the legacy of Madiba in the upcoming Nelson Mandela Challenge.
Bafana Bafana host Egypt at Orlando Stadium on Tuesday, 6 September in the annual spectacle to honour the former South African president.
"This annual tournament is in honour of one of the greatest icons ever to live in this world," Jordaan said. "He is the proud Father of our Nation; in the late Tata Nelson Mandela, we are sanctified as a nation to have been blessed by such an extraordinary human being.
Jordaan said in recent times most South Africans had seen the need to live the values of Nelson Mandela and through the NMC, the football world was living this legacy.
Kick-off on Tuesday is set for 19:00.


William Morris, socialist and innovator in the Arts and Crafts movement.
William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British Arts and Crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Great Britain. His most famous work was the socialist, utopian novel, News from Nowhere, which expresses Morris' idealistic view that socialism would solve the problem of the drudgery and alienation of labor by making it an expression of human creativity. However, the attempts to implement state socialism have proved to stifle human creativity.
His family was wealthy, and he went to school at Marlborough College, but left in 1851 after a student rebellion there. He then went to Oxford University (Exeter College) and received his degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine with his own funds. Many of his later collection of poems, The Defence of Guenevere, were first published in this journal. He became influenced by John Ruskin there, and met his life-long friends and collaborators, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb there as well. He also met his wife, Jane Burden, a working-class woman whose pale skin, languid figure, and wavy, abundant dark hair were considered by Morris and his friends the epitome of beauty.
These friends formed an artistic movement, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. They eschewed the tawdry industrial manufacture of decorative arts and architecture, favoring a return to hand-craftsmanship, raising artisans to the status of artists. He espoused the philosophy that art should be affordable, hand-made, and that there should be no hierarchy of artistic mediums.
Morris left Oxford to join an architecture firm, but soon found himself drawn more and more to the decorative arts. He and Webb built Red House at Bexleyheath in Kent, Morris' wedding gift to Jane. It was here his design ideas began to take physical shape. (In honor of Morris's connection with Bexleyheath, a bust of Morris was added to an original niche in the brick clocktower in the town center in 1996.) He also built Standen House in Sussex along with Webb.
In 1861, he founded the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. with Gabriel Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Madox Brown and Philip Webb. Throughout his life, he continued to work in his own firm, although the firm changed names. Its most famous incarnation was as Morris and Company. The company encouraged the revival of traditional crafts such as stained glass painting; Morris himself single-handedly recreated the art of tapestry weaving in England. His designs are still sold today under licenses given to Sanderson and Sons and Liberty of London.
Morris had already begun publishing poetry and short stories through the magazine founded with his friends while at university. His first independently published work, The Defence of Guenevere was coolly received by the critics, and he was discouraged from publishing more for a number of years. He had also made a painting of King Arthur's Queen Consort. However, "The Haystack in the Floods," probably his best-known poem, dates from just after this time. It is a grimly realistic piece set during the Hundred Years War in which the doomed lovers Jehane and Robert have a last parting in a convincingly portrayed rain-swept countryside.
When he returned to poetry it was with The Earthly Paradise, a huge collection of poems loosely bound together with the theme of a group of medieval wanderers who set out to search for a land of everlasting life and after much disillusion discover a surviving colony of Greeks with whom they exchange stories. The collection brought him almost immediate fame and popularity.
The last-written stories in the collection are retellings of Icelandic sagas, and from then until his Socialist period Morris's fascination with the ancient Germanic and Norse peoples dominated his writing. Together with his Icelandic friend Eirikr Magnusson he was the first to translate many of the Icelandic sagas into English, and his own epic retelling of the story of Sigurd the Volsung was his favorite among his poems.
Due to his wide poetic acclaim, Morris was offered the Poet Laureateship, after the death of Tennyson in 1892, but declined.
Although Morris never became a practicing architect, his interest in architecture continued throughout his life. In 1877, he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. His preservation work resulted indirectly in the founding of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. Combined with the inspiration of John Ruskin—in particular his work in The Stones of Venice on The Nature of Gothic—architecture played an important symbolic part in Morris's approach to socialism.
In the last nine years of his life, Morris wrote a series of fantasy novels later to be a strong influence on J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. In many respects, Morris was an important milestone in the history of fantasy, because, while other writers wrote of foreign lands, or of dream worlds, Morris' works were the first to be set in an entirely invented world—a fantasy world.
These were attempts to revive the genre of medieval romance, and not wholly successful, partly because he eschewed many literary techniques from later eras. In particular, the plots of the novels are heavily driven by coincidence; while many things just happened in the romances, the novels are still weakened by the dependence on it. Nevertheless, large subgenres of the field of fantasy have sprung from the romance genre, but indirectly, through their writers' imitation of William Morris.
Morris and his daughter May were among Britain's first socialists, working directly with Eleanor Marx and Engels to begin the socialist movement. In 1883, he joined the Social Democratic Federation, and in 1884 he organized the breakaway Socialist League. Morris found himself rather awkwardly positioned as a mediator between the Marxist and anarchist sides of the socialist movement, and bickering between the two sides eventually tore the Socialist League apart. This side of Morris's work is well-discussed in the biography (subtitled 'Romantic to Revolutionary') by E. P. Thompson. It was during this period that Morris wrote his best-known prose works; in particular A Dream of John Ball and the utopian News from Nowhere.
Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, Kelmscott Manor at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, as a summer retreat, but it soon became a retreat for Rossetti and Jane Morris to have a long-lasting affair. After his departure from the Socialist League Morris divided his time between the Company, later relocated to, the Kelmscott Press, and Kelmscott Manor. At his death in 1896 he was interred in the Kelmscott village churchyard.
The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, printed by Kelmscott Press. First page of text, with typical ornamented border.
News from Nowhere (1890) was an answer to the critics of socialism as well as a response to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, a book that epitomizes a view of socialism that Morris abhorred. It is a classic work of utopian fiction. In the book, the narrator falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. The remainder of the book explores a number of aspects of this society, including its organization and the relationships which it engenders between people. The book offers Morris' answers to a number of frequent objections to socialism, and underlines his belief that socialism will entail not only the abolishment of private property but also of the divisions between art, life, and work.
In the novel, Morris tackles one of the most common criticisms of socialism; the supposed lack of incentive to work in a communist society. Morris' response is that all work should be creative and pleasurable. This differs from the majority of Socialist thinkers, who tend to assume that while work is a necessary evil, a well-planned equal society can reduce the amount of work needed to be done by each worker. News From Nowhere was first published in serial form in the Commonweal journal beginning on January 11, 1890.
In January 1891, Morris founded the Kelmscott Press at Hammersmith, London, in order to produce examples of improved printing and book design. The books were designed to make reference to the methods and techniques he used, what he saw as traditional methods of printing and craftsmanship, in line with the Arts and Crafts movement as a whole, and in response to the prevalence of lithography, particularly those lithographic prints designed to look like woodcut prints. He designed clear typefaces, such as his Roman 'golden' type, which was inspired by that of the early Venetian printer Nicolaus Jenson, and medievalizing decorative borders for books that drew their inspiration from the incunabula of the fifteenth century and their woodcut illustrations. Selection of paper and ink, and concerns for the overall integration of type and decorations on the page made the Kelmscott Press the most famous of the private presses of the Arts and Crafts movement. It operated until 1898, producing 53 volumes, and inspired other private presses, notably the Doves Press.
Among book lovers, the Kelmscott Press edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, illustrated by Burne-Jones, is considered one of the most beautiful books ever produced. A fine edition facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer was published in 2002 by The Folio Society.
The Morris Societies in Britain, the US, and Canada are active in preserving Morris's work and ideas.
The influence of William Morris lives on in modern interiors and architecture. Companies such as Harvest House and Stickley Furniture continue to sell Arts and Crafts-style pieces.
Edward Burne-Jones-designed and Morris & Co.-executed Nativity windows (1882), Trinity Church, Boston.
Edward Burne-Jones-designed and Morris & Co.-executed The Worship of the Shepherds window (1882), Trinity Church, Boston.
Detail from Edward Burne-Jones-designed and Morris & Co.-executed The Worship of the Shepherds window (1882), Trinity Church, Boston.
Morris also translated large numbers of medieval and classical works, including collections of Icelandic sagas such as Three Northern Love Stories (1875), Virgil's Aeneid (1875), and Homer's Odyssey (1887).
Morris's book, The Wood Beyond the World, is considered to have heavily influenced C. S. Lewis' Narnia series, while J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired by Morris's reconstructions of early Germanic life in The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains.
Editor and fantasy scholar Lin Carter credits Morris with originating the imaginary-world fantasy with The Well at the World's End and his subsequent fantasy novels. These contain no reference to this world; they are set neither in the past nor in the future (as is News from Nowhere), and not on another planet.
↑ Lin Carter (ed.), Kingdoms of Sorcery, (Doubleday and Company Garden City, NY, 1976), 39.
↑ William Morris Society: Merton Abbey Retrieved April 16, 2008.
Carter, Lin (ed.). Kingdoms of Sorcery. Doubleday and Company Garden City, NY, 1976.
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We have multiple versions of Vishnu Sahasranama in our scriptures like Mahabharata, Padma Purana, Skanda Purana, etc. But the Mahabharata version is mostly used by us. So apart from the fact that Mahabharata is more popular than the other scriptures, is there any specific reason why that version of Sahasranama is mostly used and recommended by saints?
It is asked by Dharmaputra who was a great person following dharma to the core.
And more importantly, it was witnessed by the Lord Krishna himself when Dharmaputra asked those 6 questions and Beeshma answered explicitly mentioning the Lord Krishna while all the three connected were physically present together.
The upanyasakar said that Krishna endorsed the answers of Bheesma and hence this is the superior of all.
Puranas are a gain lesser importance with respect to Smirti granthas. Mahabharata which of course is a Smriti grantha, because Badarayana often quotes Vyasas BhagavadGita as smriti pramana in his SharirakaSutras (Vedanta Sutras) [1-2-25,1-3-23 etc]. But moreover it is considered as Panchama Veda (abridged Veda for all). Hence Smriti Mantras are more powerfull and nearer to Veda than Purana Mantras. So Indian saints from all castes have always preferred Vishnu Sahasranama of Mahabharata.
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Starry Night College 6.4.x & OSX 10.5.8 - Error message: Incompatible library version: Starry Night requires version 10.0.0 or later, but libxml2.2.dylib provides version 9.0. – Simulation Curriculum Corp.
Starry Night College 6.4.x & OSX 10.5.8 - Error message: Incompatible library version: Starry Night requires version 10.0.0 or later, but libxml2.2.dylib provides version 9.0.
1. Download the info.plist file attached to this reply (use a web browser like Google Chrome or FIrefox if you encounter any difficulty downloading this file).
Right click your Starry Night College program (in the Applications folder) and select "Show package Contents". Open the Contents folder and replace the info.plist you see with the one I attached.
To right click on Mac, hold down the control key, and then click either your touch pad or mouse.
Run the updater. This will revert your SNC to 6.4.3. This should make SNC compatible with OSX 10.5.8.
Don't update to 6.4.6 afterwards. Just stay at 6.4.3. If an update for 6.4.7 becomes available you can update then.
To start, use Google Chrome or Firefox to apply this solution - by this I mean download one of those two internet browsers (unless you are already using one of them) and then reopen this KB article in the new browser. Please do not skip this step.
Next, once this KB article is open in Google Chrome or Firefox download the "info.plist" - attached in the bottom left corner.
Right click your Starry Night College program (in the Applications folder) and select "Show package Contents". To right click on Mac, hold down the control key, and then click either your touch pad or mouse.
Open the Contents folder and replace the "info.plist" you see with the one I attached.
Important: If you download the "info.plist" file more than once you will see the additional files are named as "info.plist(1)", "info.plist(2)", etc. These file names will not work as replacements. The file name must be "info.plist".
Download this update for SNC 6.4.3. Run the updater. This will revert your SNC to 6.4.3. This will make SNC compatible with OSX 10.5.8.
Remember! You will not be able to run the updater until the info.plist has first been replaced.


Taurus: Venus will be ruling your horoscope this month which could well be a blessing in disguise. If your profession involves writing or finance, September will be very rewarding however, you might experience a little downside in terms of communication and social status. Spending some time with family won't be a bad idea this time of the year. Romance is in the air so enjoy and shower your partner with love. Read Your Taurus Monthly Horoscope.
Gemini: Sun and Mars are forming an association in the fourth house early this month, making homely affairs quite prominent. Your career is looking better than ever so don't be surprised if you get a big promotion or a raise. People seeking love could finally get lucky this month. Read Your Gemini Monthly Horoscope.
Cancer: September monthly horoscope dictates your productive suggestions may not be received well this time around. Communication will be below par and most of what you experience this month could be a result of it. Work looks good though as your efforts will be met with appreciation and reward. Read Your Cancer Monthly Horoscope.
Leo: You'll be looking to touch more social circles this month, and since you are brimming with creativity, it will give you all the more opportunities to mingle and build a strong social network. But don't forget to play your part in the family rendition, it's equally crucial. Finances look terrific and there is a substantial monetary reward coming your way by the end of the month. Read Your Leo Monthly Horoscope.
Virgo: Birthday month is here and believes us, there are all the more reasons to celebrate. Mercury enters the tenth house making this month probably the best time to start something new, especially if you're looking to make a mark in the field of finance. All your plans are going to pan out exactly the way you wanted. September belongs to you, make it count. Read Your Virgo Monthly Horoscope.
Libra: This is going to be a transitional month for you in terms of career. Venus and Saturn confluence in the house of the profession is a sign that you might switch fields this September. However, don't land on something out of impulse, think through your choices. We suggest you get your priorities straight and plan a good strategy to move forward. It's an excellent time to plan a family. Read Your Libra Monthly Horoscope.
Scorpio: Pluto has moved out of the Scorpio retrograde, making this month awfully sluggish and exhausting. You need to drag yourself throughout September, so keep your spirits up and high. Also, you might come to face with some harsh realities of life, therefore we would like to advise you to maintain your composure and be very careful with the choice of words. Let this month slide peacefully, a good time awaits on the other side. Read Your Scorpio Monthly Horoscope.
Sagittarius: This month looks a bit more challenging relative to what you would experience for the rest of the year. But take it as an opportunity to get closer to yourself and explore newer ways to deal with unpleasant circumstances. Be careful with your purse and don't spend recklessly as your finances may get jostled later this year, and saving some portion would be in your best of interests. Read Your Sagittarius Monthly Horoscope.
Capricorn: For you, the entire focus this month will be on mending your relationship with your partner. You better be ready to walk an extra mile because it's not going to be easy. You'll come across lots of career opportunities this September, don't squander them. Also, put on your reading glasses because you'll be curling up with some good books this month. Read Your Capricorn Monthly Horoscope.
Aquarius: You'll be more focused and passionate towards your career. Sun and Jupiter in the upper monthly chart suggest you will be regarded highly at your workplace. Health might suffer a blow this month so stay careful there. Overall, September will only bring good news and you might get a chance to spend some time out with your family and friends. Read Your Aquarius Monthly Horoscope.
Pisces: Saturn uprising has got your creative juices flowing which means you'll be looking to embark upon a new professional journey. Family troubles might give you a few hiccups but it'll all be momentary. Your love life is looking great, and if by any chance you're looking to pop the question, this month will be the best time you'll ever gonna get. Read Your Pisces Monthly Horoscope.
So this how September would fare out for each zodiac. Want to know it in detail? Take a look at your Monthly Horoscope now!


The ninth annual First American State Bank Fitness Festival will be held on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009 beginning at 7:30 a.m. at Crescent Park in Greenwood Village (Belleview and DTC Boulevard). The Festival includes the Kaiser Permanente 5K run/walk and NEW 1-mile fitness walk, food samplings from thirteen of the top restaurants in the area, entertainment, silent auction, prizes and lots of family fun. This year's Grand Marshal is former Denver Nugget Bill Hanzlik.
The event benefits the Community Asset Project (CAP), a partner with the Cherry Creek School District. During the past eight years, the Festival has raised more than $500,000 to support CAP in its efforts to foster and develop skills for a "healthier lifestyleapostrophe as a deterrent to negative behavior such as alcohol, other drug use and violent behavior.
Entry fees are $15 for children 17 and younger and seniors 60+ prior to Race day and $20 on Race day; $27 for adults prior to Race day, and rise to $35 for those registering at the event. A special family 4-pack is available for $75, and includes registrations for two adults and two children. The family 4-pack is $100 on the day of the race. All registrants will receive a 2009 FASB Fitness Festival T-shirt, as well as admittance into the post party featuring free food, live entertainment, a silent auction and giveaways. Should participants wish to partake of the after party food sampling only, the entry fee is $10.
For more information or to register, visit www.fasbfitnessfestival.com.