Hanno's been been hit with a bad cold this week so things have been quietly busy here. I'm hoping I don't get sick too, so far it's looking good. We're still having trouble with Gracie at night when we're asleep. Most nights are good but then she'll go crazy and destroy whatever she can find. She's now sleeping in the kitchen in her dog box and she's tethered to the wall. Luckily she loves her new bed so we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed and hope she settles down.
This week I'm delighted to give you the blog addresses of a group of women who did an online blog workshop with me recently. I think they've all started off well and present interesting blogs, which show us, yet again, how different we all are while being very similar. Please visit these new blogs and take the time to leave a comment. Comments encourage bloggers to continue writing and help build online communities of like-minded people. The list is below, I hope you enjoy these blogs and add them to your daily reads.
Hi Rhonda, I'm sorry that you're still having trouble with Gracie. I remember how trying the puppy days were. It's so much easier once they are older. I hope Hanno is feeling better. I'm looking forward to the rest of the blog course. Thank you for all that you've done for us.
Aggie has been terrible this week. I thought she might have teeth that were aching? I bought her a stack of rawhide bone chews and she has chilled out considerably back to her usual self. The bigger and tougher chews the better!
These might help Gracie inside? We give bones outside and these inside.
I think Gracie is right on the money. Tim Winton is a terrible writer... so overrated.
She was actually trying to save you the trauma of trying to plough through it.
I've read the book twice, Frog. Once when it was published, again quite recently. I enjoyed it both times.
Oh no Gracie! I find it hard not to smile when I see her, but I do know how frustrating it can be. I hope she starts to improve her behaviour soon. Thank you for linking our blogs today. I have really enjoyed doing your course and connecting with so many like minded people.
Wishing Hanno a speedy recovery and fingers crossed you remain healthy Rhonda. I hope Gracie settles for you soon.
I'm thoroughly enjoying your course and am so glad I'm participating. Everyone's blogs look great and are wonderful to read. The connection with like minded people just tops it all off.
Also, it may be my end but I'm having trouble opening the link about free-range.
We keep our dogs in a crate at night, its all wire so they can see out. They go right in at night and we dont have to worry about them getting into anything.
I was originally horrified to see a friend, and later my sister, use wire crates for their puppies. However I now see that when properly used by a caring owner they can be the most useful item you can have.
My sister's collie (now about four) has slept in hers every night, now with the door open but is not concerned if she is shut in if she's been naughty or when things get busy around her. Indeed, our German Shepherd, now has a soft 'crate' that his bed fits in snugly to sleep in as we were concerned about the cold and drafts - even with one side open it keeps him wonderfully snugly too. Like a lot of dogs he loves sleeping in smaller spaces with a roof over his head, I heard it goes back to when dogs slept in caves!
Our puppies are crate trained. Sounds good doesn't it? But they sort of trained themselves. We had the crate set up in the garage using the materials we bought them home in. Don made a travel crate for them for the trip home using a cardboard tea chest with the front cut out and some fencing mesh. They used that as their crate in the garage originally and we soon changed the tea chest to a dog house with the fencing mesh around it. Of course being puppies they do have some naughty puppy behaviours. Like Emma's Aggie our puppies love to chew.
Best wishes to Hanno for a speedy recovery.
Oooh isn't she naughty! She picks the best book to chew though! Thanks for sharing the great list of bloggers for us Rhonda. I'm blessed to have developed a lovely friendship with the delightful Emma from A Simple Living Journey, and gosh she writes so well.
I hope Hanno gets well soon and that you do not come down with it. I hope Gracie settles down soon. I just wanted to say thank you for such a great blogging course. I' looking forward to reading everyones blogs over the weekend.
Aww Gracie is adorable! Just a suggestion, we got a puppy a few months ago and we actually use a crate with a baby playpen attached to it for him at night. This gives him more room and the option to stretch his legs, sleep in his crate if he likes or snooze on another dog bed which is placed in the playpen portion along with some chew toys. He now understands that this space means sleep time. It's like it's his own little "bedroom." We got our pen and crate from Vebo who deliver really quickly. You can also add panels to make it bigger if desired. Trick is to make the space positive with food, treats and toys and get the little one used to it gradually. A few minutes to begin with and building up from there.
Gracie is used to sleeping in her little house and is happy in there. When Hanno is well again he'll put a steel mesh door, that we can close, on the front so we don't have to tether her. In the meantime, she's sleeping like a baby in there and she's not able to run around the house.
Hi Vanessa. I'm doing the final blog workshop for this year starting next week. Let me know if you want to join in.
Thank you for your reply! Have I missed out? I check in here weekly but must have missed your reply! Is it too late to join?
I replied two weeks ago, Vanessa, so yes, you missed out. I'm sorry.
Thank you for letting us all know about the blogs you have helped establish. I have viewed them all and have put them all on my desktop to follow every day. I think all the ladies have done a brilliant job, the designs are very appealing and make me want to read more. Well done, you are a very clever lady and always happy to share with us all.
We have always "crated" our dogs at night...from what I read , they like the security of their own cosy spot....and if not at least your home won't be destroyed...our German short haired pointer is now 5 years old and can be safely left out all of the time...but he still get his "training cooler" put on when he goes outside as it helps him to listen and "come" so much better...worth a try!
Sweet Gracie is releasing pent-up energy. We were taught that pups have to get it out somehow! Our pup used to do that, too, until we took him on a nightly 15 minute pre-bedtime walk. All that energy was released and we all enjoyed a restful and uneventful night's sleep.
Hope Hanno feels better, soon.
Nice to see that Gracie shares my appreciation of Cloudstreet. One of my favourites. I wonder if she would also like Wuthering Heights and Gilead, another two that I happily read again and again.
Diana. Rhonda, I am reading your books. There is a wealth of knowledge in them that I totally agree with. Also making some of the green products.
I'm sorry to hear Hanno is not well. I wish him all the best and hope he recovers soon. Fingers crossed you stay healthy.
Gained so much from your course Rhonda and I still go back to our notes. The community of bloggers really tops it off. I look forward to sitting down each morning before the rest of the house wakes up reading my favourite blogs.


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A wide variety of new glass fruits and flowers were once being exported to the United States from the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia). These three dimensional glass pieces closely resemble glass fruits and flowers made in Venice, Italy from ca. 1920s-ca. 1960s. Some Venetian flowers, fruits and plant-related items from the 1930s by famous designers such as Martinuzzi, have sold for as high as $30,000. Typical Venetian fruits from ca. 1950-1960s can sell for $50 to several hundred dollars. New Czech fruit retails from $10-$69 each; new Czech flowers from $28--$46 a stem.
The original Wheat in Shield glass kerosene lamp was made by Central Glass Co. based on a pattern that was patented in 1871. It is believed to have been produced only in clear crystal. Original lamps were made in an 8 inch table model, and 3 1/4 and 5 inch models, nd some were made with handles. A new 8 inch Wheat in Shield lamp is now being produced in clear crystal (shown above), plus green, cobalt blue, white glass (milk glass) and pink.
The reamer style in Fig. 1 is from an original Westmoreland Glass Company mold. This new piece is green with a white opalescent top rim. No old reamers of this style were ever made in green opalescent.
The log cabin theme was used by several glass companies around the time of the American Centennial celebration of 1876. Best known is probably the pressed glass tableware made by Central Glass Company of Wheeling, West Virginia issued during the mid-1870's. Less well known is a small figural log cabin lamp made about the same time by the Thomas Atterbury Glass and Lamp Company.
In 1886, a Chinese porcelain vase with "Peach Bloom" glaze sold at auction for $18,000. The tremendous price and the phrase Peach Bloom were widely publicized. Within months, American glass companies developed new formulas to capitalize on the Peach Bloom name. This glassware that is now collectively referred to as "Peachblow".


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Simultaneous Production and Consumption
by Asif J. Mir in Simultaneous Production and Consumption Tags: action, affect, airplane, apparent, business, centralization, children, clearly, consume, Consumer, consumption, convenient, Customer, decentralize, deliver, dependent, difficult, dining, economy, employee, essential, experience, fact, family, frequent, goods, happen, highly, including, ingredient, interact, interaction, involve, length, location, mass, mean, nature, need, negative, observe, operation, outcome, part, passenger, play, positive, possible, present, process, produce, producer, Product, production, provide, Quality, real, relative, restaurant, Role, satisfaction, scale, seat, service, significant, similar, simultaneous, sold, stranger, sure, time, transaction, traveler, understand, usually, view
Whereas most goods are produced first, then sold and consumed, most services are sold first and then produced and consumed simultaneously. A restaurant services cannot be provided until they have been sold, and the dining experience is essentially produced and consumed at the same time. Frequently this also means that the customer is present while the service is being produced and thus views and may even take part in the production process. This also means that frequently customers will interact with each other during the service production process and thus may affect each others' experiences. For example, strangers seated next to each other in an airplane may well affect the nature of the service experience for each other. That passengers understand this fact is clearly apparent in the way business travelers will often go to great lengths to be sure they are not seated next to families with small children. Another outcome of simultaneous production and consumption is that service producers find themselves playing a role as part of the product itself and as an essential ingredient in the service experience for the consumer.
Because services often are produced and consumed at the same time, mass production is difficult if not possible. The quality of service and customer satisfaction will be highly dependent on what happens in "real time," including actions of employees and the interactions between employees and customers. Similarly, it is not usually possible to gain significant economies of scale through centralization. Usually operations need to be relatively decentralized so that the service can be delivered to the consumer in convenient locations. Also because of simultaneous production and consumption, the customer is involved in and observes the production process and thus may affect (positively or negatively) the outcome of the service transaction.
Positive Thinking and Reality
by Asif J. Mir in Positive Thinking and Reality Tags: ability, action, alone, apply, approach, attend, attitude, audience, base, become, behind, best, build, candidate, choice, class, colleague, communication, company, concentration, concept, confidence, conscious, cooperative, corporation, culture, Defeat, diminish, distract, doom, economy, employee, enhance, enlighten, essential, establish, eve, exam, experience, expert, final, friend, gloom, graduate, gravitate, guarantee, image, imagery, impact, in spite, individual, industry, influential, ingredient, insist, internal, invest, job, lack, landslide, language, long, marks, mental, negative, nurture, outperform, People, Performance, plunge, political, polls, positive, power, powerful, principle, Product, Promotion, public relations, real, reality, recognize, result, self-talk, sell, sense, service, set, simply, situation, smile, still, store, stressful, student, study, style, success, support, thinking, tone, top, trained, untrained, upcoming, victory, wallow, win, wishful, word, work, workplace, world, young
We have seen positive-thinking political candidates on the eve of a landslide defeat still insisting they can sense victory in spite of the polls. Positive thinking alone will not guarantee top marks for a student on his upcoming final exam, if he has never studied or attended classes. Positive thinking that is unsupported by any cooperative actions can become simply wishful thinking.
On the other hand best-trained people will never win if they lack positive mental images, because the resulting lack of confidence will always distract concentration and diminish ability.
The same powerful principles of imagery apply to enhancing performances in the working world. Rather than taking untrained young graduates and plunging into stressful work situations, enlightened companies are first investing in the building of positive images to enhance performance and confidence. Imagined experiences can be as good as real ones in building up a store of confidence.
In any job, a style of language can set the tone for a positive or negative approach. The power of words in establishing an image has long been recognized by public relations and promotion experts. However, even more influential than the choice of words to sell products or concepts to large audiences is the impact of the wording of our internal communications, otherwise known as "self-talk."
With so much of the economy based on service industries, the positive attitude behind every employee's smile becomes an essential ingredient for success in the workplace. An individual who thinks positively and gravitates towards positive-thinking friends and colleagues, or a corporation that consciously nurtures a positive culture, will always outperform those who wallow in doom and gloom.
Openness to Criticism
by Asif J. Mir in Openness to Criticism, Uncategorized Tags: accept, active, actual, adequate, aftermath, appropriate, audit, avoid, below, business, cause, confront, consequence, contain, core, cost, criticism, criticize, cultivate, decision, describe, develop, difficult, dilemma, dimension, disapproval, discomfort, doubt, effective, element, enable, encounter, engage, ethic, examination, examine, failure, fundamental, goal, honest, identify, ignore, imagination, important, incentive, indication, individual, ingredient, integrate, issue, key, learn, lesson, life, light, list, moral, move, need, negative, objection, openness, order, Organization, past, personal, perspective, practical, present, process, professional, question, quick, reality, reflect, reflection, reproach, review, Role, self, step, temptation, tempting, tool, understanding, Value, vision, work
Criticism of any decision not only reflects on the actual appropriateness of the decision itself, but also on the decision-maker as well. When making a difficult decision, it is very tempting to quickly move past it in order to avoid the questions and doubts the disapproval causes. However, the failure to adequately engage the objection becomes its own ethical dilemma with costs to both the individual and the organization when the ethical dimension is ignored. Openness to the criticism and the lessons it contains can be a key indication that the professional is actively integrating ethics and value reflection into his or her professional life.
When one's decisions are criticized, one needs practical tools and processes to effectively learn from the reproach and to engage the ethical issues the disapproval presents. there are four fundamental steps in such examination described per herebelow:
Accept the discomfort of the criticism and honestly confront the temptation to ignore it. An important incentive for this honest self-reflection is an understanding of the negative consequences of ignoring the ethics of one's decisions and their consequences.
Identify personal core values, listing them and examining them in light of the criticism being encountered.
Cultivate openness to the ethical dimension of the business life and of business decisions. The role of the moral imagination and reflection will be examined.
The need for practical tools to identify and audit the core values at work in the decision-making process will be reviewed.
These elements will enable the professional to effectively engage the ethical dimension of decisions and their aftermath. Openness to criticism, developing the moral imagination, having practical tools for ethical decision-making, and understanding the need to integrate one's values into business goals, perspectives, and decisions are fundamental ingredients in integrating both vision and reality.
Business Markets
by Asif J. Mir in Business Markets Tags: account, activity, appliances, banking, bodies, bought, business, buy, compete, component, consulting, Consumer, consumption, corporate, countries, Customer, deal, deliver, develop, direct, distinguish, economic, emphasis, equipment, example, executive, facilitate, factor, firm, form, goods, government, graduate, grocery, half, heighten, home, hospital, incorporation, increase, industrial, ingredient, installation, institution, interchange, interest, international, local, maintain, management, market, Marketing, material, nature, office, Organization, package, percent, personal, principal, private, process, Product, production, program, public, resale, school, Services, sheer, size, spawn, supplies, technology, term, Training, university
Business markets are markets for products and services, local to international, bought by businesses, government bodies, and institutions (such as hospitals) for incorporation (for example, ingredient materials or components), for consumption (for example, process materials, office supplies, consulting services), for use (for example, installation or equipment) or for resale . . . The only markets not of direct interest are those dealing with products or services which are principally directed at personal use or consumption such as packaged grocery products, home appliances, or consumer banking. The factors that distinguish business marketing from consumer marketing are the nature of the customer and how that customer uses the product. In business marketing, the customers are organizations (businesses, governments, institutions).
Business firms buy industrial goods to form or facilitate the production process or use as components for other goods and services. Government agencies and private institutions buy industrial goods to maintain and deliver services to their own market: the public. Industrial or business marketing (the terms can be used interchangeably) accounts for more than half the economic activity in developed countries. More than 50 percent of all business school graduates join firms that compete directly in the business market. The heightened interest in high technology markets—and the sheer size of the business market—has spawned increased emphasis on business marketing management in universities and corporate executive training programs.
Commitment to Plan
by Asif J. Mir in Commitment to Plan Tags: ability, able, accomplish, achieve, admit, anyone, area, attempt, break, business, certain, certainty, change, commit, commitment, Competition, concept, conversely, crucial, current, deep, define, determine, develop, difficult, difficulty, direct, enable, enjoy, essential, establish, evidence, execution, exist, failure, feel, fulfill, function, functional, game, group, history, implement, importance, indication, individual, ingredient, injure, jeoperdize, life, look, management, meaningful, meet, met, obstacle, overcome, part, past, peer, personal, plan, player, position, positive, pressure, probably, probe, psychologist, question, recommend, record, respect, result, root, sense, several, sign, still, submit, successful, team, teammate, thing, though, tough, track, understand, unikely, unrealistic, walk, whether, whole, win
Management commitment to plan is a difficult concept to define and probably the most difficult area to probe. At the same time, it is in many respects the most crucial area. A deep-rooted sense of commitment is why certain management teams are able to overcome all obstacles and still achieve planned results. It is the same ingredient that enables a team to win against tough competition even though their best players are injured or all the breaks in the game go against them.
Without attempting to be a psychologist, there are several things to look for to determine whether this sense of commitment exists. What has been the track record of those submitting the plan? It is a positive sign if they have a history of fulfilling commitments. Conversely, if the group has not met its commitments in the past, it is essential to find out what has changed to make their commitment to the current plan any more meaningful. Is this evidence that individuals understand how a failure to meet their personal or functional commitments would jeoperdize the ability of the whole group to accomplish its plan? Is there any indication that anyone in the group feels that function has overcommitted or that they have been pressured into making commitments that are unrealistic?
It is unikely that anyone will admit they are not committed to a plan they developed and recommend. But questions directed to each functional area about the certainty or difficulty of achieving their part of the plan help everyone see what musdt be done to successfully implement the plan. Such questioning helps to establish the importance of each individual's personal commitments not only to the plan but to the rest of the organization. In a sense, it helps to develop a form of peer pressure, which is just as important in the execution of the business plan as it is in other walks of life. No one enjoys being in the position of having let teammates down.
What will other people think?
by Asif J. Mir in What will other people think? Tags: accept, adhere, admire, anything, approval, approve, asking, basic, beat, Behavior, buy, car, chance, conform, conformist, conformity, criticize, deal, decide, decorate, delight, deny, Development, dislikes, doing, easy, enjoy, everyone, expect, fail, fear, feel, folks, friends, home, Human, individuality, ingredient, insecure, job, legal, life, likes, live, meet, mentor, mind, money, moral, nature, need, offend, People, prejudices, seek, select, shock, standards, strict, stunts, success, successful, suggestions, think, trouble, upset, view, wear
Everyone wants the approval of other people. This is a basic need of human nature. Before doing anything—deciding what to wear, decorating the home, buying a car, or accepting a job—many people ask theselves, "what will my friends say?" "Will they approve?" Most people fear doing anything they feel may shock, offend or upset others.
The easy way to deal with the will-other-people-approvre? Fear is to adhere to strict conformity. But living your life to conform to other people's likes, dislikes, and prejudices stunts your development. Conformists deny themselves individuality, and ingredient you must have to enjoy success.
Here are two suggestions to beat the do-other-people-approve? fear:
If what you want to do meets moral and legal standards, do it! Your life is your life. Friends who criticize what you do aren't really friends. Chances are the people who think your behavior should always meet their standards won't be there when you need money, a job, or help. And the folks who want you to think and act the way they do would delight in seeing you fail or get into some kind of trouble. Remember this: People who expect you to conform to their way of viewing things are themselves very insecure.
Seek the approval of people you admire most. Select a mentor. Instead of asking, "what will other people think?" ask, Would the most successful person I know approve of what I have in mind?" Think and do as successful people think and do.

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College students notoriously enjoy drinking beer, but some students hope translate their love of brews into a career.
The craft brewing industry has grown substantially over the past decade — nearly one out of every 10 beers sold by a craft beer company, according to the Brewers Association — and college officials are taking notice.
Schools have been quick to cater to the trend by offering degrees and certifications for students to create and manage craft beer companies. College officials noted to USA TODAY College that their programs have experienced an increase in enrollment in recent years in response to the rapid growth of the industry.
The first college brewing program in the U.S. began in Davis, California in 1958 with a push from the brewing industry in the U.S. Since then, the program has expanded to offer a bachelor's program in brewing and master's program which can focus on brewing, as well as courses which range from one week to nearly five months long. The Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences at UC-Davis, Charlie Bamforth, says in an interview with USA TODAY College, the master's program of 40 students is so popular that there is a two-year waiting list to enroll.
According to Bamforth, the curriculum is an all-encompassing approach to brewing.
Alumni of UC-Davis' Brewing Science Program have gone on to work for companies of all sizes — from Anheuser-Busch and Miller-Coors to Sierra Nevada to opening their own microbreweries such as Captain Lawrence and Almanac.
Oregon State University too has a history in educating brewers; their Fermentation Science program is by far the most popular of their three options of study within their Food Sciences major — with 65% of students opting to study craft brewing. In an interview with USA TODAY College Tom Shellhammer, Nor'Wester Professor of Fermentation Science at OSU, says the recent industry growth has led to many students asking themselves how they can be a part of the movement.
The courses focus on beer production from raw materials to packaging, but the program itself works to create innovation in the field. With the largest brewing-related research institution in the Americas, Shellhammer says OSU's program goes beyond searching for the next hit flavor.
"One of the unique things about OSU is that we are a research university and as such I have a research lab that investigates beer flavor, flavor stability, beer foam, hop chemistry, hop bitterness and aroma chemistry, beer processing and sour beer chemistry/microbiology," Shellhammer says. He adds UC-Davis is the only other university with a similar research program.
BaseCamp Brewing, as well as other microbrews, came out of the Fermentation Science program, but other alums have landed jobs at companies such as Anheuser-Busch, Boston Beer Company and the Craft Brew Alliance.
The program has only been in existence since 2009, but it is already garnering attention. Director of the Craft Brewing Program, Steven Wagner, says CWU's one-year certificate program and four-year BS Craft Brewing major attracts students from all over the world — many of which attend as a second career.
The program itself is a meld of a science and business education. It trains students to both ferment their own ales, as well as properly manage a business and test for quality assurance.
Most graduates choose to stay in the Northwest and work in the region Wagner says is "experiencing a brewing revolution." Graduates have worked for craft brewing companies like Iron Horse Brewery, Bale Breaker Brewing Company, Yakima Craft Brewing and Odin Brewing.
Since 2012 students at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. have been brewing their own libations and learning how to construct a successful brand. The program focuses heavily on the chemistry end as the business — students studying chemistry can opt to add a concentration to the fermentation sciences.
Unlike the other universities, SDSU emphasizes business management over brewing. The program focuses on refining entrepreneurial skills, better understanding the market, building connections and improving oneself as a professional, according to Leslie Reilly, assistant marketing director for SDSU.
The program takes a year for students seeking a Level I certification to complete and a year and a half for those pursuing a Level II certificate. Reilly emphasized the importance of a certification in craft beer by explaining employers are seeking individuals who truly understand the business.
After receiving their certification, most students land jobs at local breweries and some have even gone on to open up their own, such as the start-up brewery Thr3e Punk Ales.
Emma Kinery is a student at the University of Michigan and a member of the USA TODAY College contributor network.


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This article drafted by fellow NACBA memeber, Reed Allmand, bring up several things to consider in the New Year as a reason to file bankruptcy now. Of course the decision to file and the timing of when to file varies for each individual and each case. It is important for you to review your case with a bankruptcy attorney before making your decision.
The Article raises the importance of meeting with counseling and not delaying. Delaying could result in wages being garnished, assets repossessed, and your home being foreclosed.
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CFR: Considering the PetroEuro
Filed under: CFR, Economic Collapse, economic depression, Economy, Euro, gas prices, Great Depression, gulf, Iran, monetary union, Oil, OPEC, petrodollar, petroeuro, qatar, Saudi Arabia, single currency, UAE, US Economy, Venezuela
Easily missed amid the rising outcry over oil prices is the fact that they have only been skyrocketing in dollar terms. Priced in euros—or yen, or pounds sterling—the cost of a barrel of oil has risen much less over the past decade. At recent meetings of OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, ministers disputed whether oil should be sold in euros instead of dollars (WashPost), in light of the dollar's recent decline. Officials from Venezuela, Iran, and Algeria called for a switch. But Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, both of which hold huge dollar reserves, urged caution, and the bloc concluded the meetings saying it would further study (FT) the impact of the falling dollar on its member states.
If oil were priced in euros, what would the effect be? On the surface, possibly not much, experts say. "Whether they're selling in dollars or euros, they can make their currency conversions," says Peter J. Robertson, vice chairman of Chevron Corporation, in an interview with CFR.org. The fact that major currencies are easily exchanged means that oil producers don't sustain any immediate monetary loss by accepting payment in one currency or another. Yet a currency switch could bring a slew of more subtle changes. First, there is the psychological impact. Robertson says a shift would send a clear signal that oil producers "didn't have as much confidence in the future of the United States"—a sentiment that could deeply undermine investor confidence.
This, in turn, could further hamper the strength of the dollar. As Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says "the mere mention that the OPEC countries are studying the issue of the dollar is itself going to have an impact," adding that a dollar collapse could take a severe toll on OPEC (UK Telegraph) economies. Indeed, several of the main oil-exporting nations would be among the most vulnerable parties, globally, should the dollar's value decline. Having accepted dollars in payment for years, countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates have compiled massive dollar reserves (Economist), rivaling those held by China. They have a compelling interest in keeping those dollar piles as valuable as possible. Other countries, including Iran, have already diversified away (Gulf News) from the dollar, which explains the sharp differences of opinion within OPEC.
Beyond its effect on the dollar, OPEC shifting to the euro could also bring substantial benefits to European countries and companies by reducing currency risk (Guardian) currently built into their trade with oil states. More broadly, an OPEC shift to the euro could bring an overall reduction in global demand for the dollar, taking away one of the main ways in which the United States has financed large budget and trade deficits, as CFR's Brad W. Setser notes in a recent interview.
The pressing question, then, is whether OPEC will switch. Here, expert opinion is mixed. Pressure from Saudi Arabia, OPEC's heavyweight, seems likely to keep any immediate switch at bay. Two Lehman Brothers economists write on the website of the Financial Times that Riyadh's stockpile of petrodollars binds its prospects to the health of the currency. Still, it seems all but certain that more oil states will follow Iran's lead in diversifying their holdings away from the dollar. Riyadh has substantial support (Bloomberg) in defending the dollar, but Nigeria and Angola, two of Africa's major oil exporters, are making new efforts to diversify their currency reserves.
Gulf States to Discuss Single Currency Plan by 2010
http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-30787820071202
Gulf to Discuss Single Currency Plan by 2010
Filed under: Euro, Greenback, gulf, Iran, monetary union, Oil, petrodollar, petroeuro, qatar, Saudi Arabia, single currency, UAE, Venezuela
6 Oil-Exporting Gulf States planning to develop a monetary union with a Euro-like single currency by 2010
DOHA (Reuters) – Gulf Arab finance ministers will discuss a plan to speed up a delayed monetary union project before their rulers meet on Monday, the secretary general of Gulf Cooperation Council economic bloc said on Sunday.
The finance ministers will prepare the agenda for the summit, which is under intense market scrutiny after the United Arab Emirates, the bloc's second largest economy, called for an end to region's currency pegs to the tumbling dollar.
"The ministers will discuss the GCC single currency," Abdul-Rahman al-Attiyah told Reuters on the sidelines of the meeting in Qatar's capital Doha.
Asked whether there was any plan to speed up the project, he said: "Yes." The plan would be designed to meet the 2010 deadline for monetary union, he said.
The minister would also discuss a customs union, monetary union and creating a common market in the world's biggest oil exporting region, Attiyah said.
He declined to comment on whether dollar weakness and market speculation about the demise of the region's dollar pegs were on the agenda.


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Internationella matematikerkongressen är den viktigaste kongressen i den matematiska gemenskapen. Det firas vart fjärde år i International Mathematical Unions regi.

Lista över kongresser
Inför kongressen 1897 kom Internationella matematiska kongressen.
 1897: Zürich, Schweiz
 1900: Paris, Frankrike
 1904: Heidelberg, Tyskland
 1908: Rom, Italien
 1912: Cambridge, Storbritannien
 1920: Strasbourg, Frankrike
 1924: Toronto, Kanada
 1928: Bologna, Italien
 1932: Zürich, Schweiz
 1936: Oslo, Norge
 1950: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
 1954: Amsterdam, Holland
 1958: Edinburgh, Storbritannien
 1962: Stockholm, Sverige
 1966: Moskva, Sovjetunionen
 1970: Nice, Frankrike
 1974: Vancouver, Kanada
 1978: Helsingfors, Finland
 1982 (genomfördes 1983): Warszawa, Polen
 1986: Berkeley, Kalifornien, USA
 1990: Kyoto, Japan
 1994: Zürich, Schweiz
 1998: Berlin, Tyskland
 2002: Peking, Kina
 2006: Madrid, Spanien
 2010: Hyderabad, Indien
 2014: Seoul, Sydkorea
 2018: Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien
 2022: (Sankt Petersburg), [Paris}
 2026: Philadelphia

Referenser

Återkommande evenemang med premiär 1897

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Q: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type In a header file, foo.h, I have something like:
extern const int array_foo[];

Then in a source file, foo.c, I have something like:
const int array_foo[] = {1 , 2, 3};

then in the main.c I have somehting like:
#include "foo.h"

int main(void)
{
    sizeof(array_foo);
    return 0;
}

However, compiling yields the error:
error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type `const int[]`

I have it defined in the foo.c file, so why is the compiler complaining that it doesn't know what the array is?

A: You were supposed to put in foo.h all the information that main.c needs to know about array_foo. But you didn't put its size in there. That's fine so long as main.c doesn't need to know that. But it does, so that's not fine.
The header file must include whatever other files need to know. You could include a prototype of a get_size_of_array_foo function in foo.h, implement it in foo.c and call it in main.c if you want. But the size won't be known at compile time because you can't rely on the compiler being able to look into foo.c when it compiles main.c.

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Thank you to everyone who supported this year's Holiday Toy Drive. With your help, we distributed nearly 10,000 action figures, books, games, basketballs, dolls and more for homeless girls and boys in New York City.
Last week, more than 120 kids from city shelters celebrated the festive season at our annual Kids' Holiday Carnival, co-hosted by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT). Children were greeted with bags stuffed full of holiday goodies to share with their families and which included fun party favors, stuffed animals and delicious cookies courtesy of Coalition supporters Burke & Co. The kids hit the dance floor with special guests Black Panther and Bumblebee the Transformer, and enjoyed a magic show, cool graffiti art by Xmental Inc., party games with Camp Homeward Bound staff, manicure stations and, of course, a visit from Santa himself! The children left with huge smiles on their faces and arms full of treats and presents.
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" There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction." — Oprah
Since the beginning of mankind, humans have been struggling for their existence, then for success. The never-ending thirst for success is met only by those who are determined enough to face the struggle. Presenting seven such personalities whose struggling stories touch hearts of thousands on daily basis.
1. J.K Rowling
Back in 1994, JK Rowling fought against a sour relationship with her husband, took care of her daughter Jessica single-handedly, wrote a book that changed the literary world for eternity and also got it published. As a single parent it was hard for her to get a job and she, therefore, had to live on government aid. Her poverty obstructed her from buying a computer or photocopy her work hence, she manually typed each version of the first Harry Potter book and sent to the publishers. After getting several rejections her work finally got accepted by a small London publisher Bloomsbury and we all know what happened next.
2. Charlie Chaplin
Even after facing a lot of struggles initially due to sharp poverty conditions and absence of parental care, Charlie Chaplin emerged as one of the most prominent comedians of all time. Back when he was a child, Chaplin's mother had no means of occupation while his father did not provide for his family. Gradually his father not only became a drunkard but also an abuser. Later on, his death put an end to their trauma. By the age of 13, Chaplin supported himself by working at various places and only had the dream of becoming an actor and that's what he became after facing such storms in life.
3. Michael Jordan
Known as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Michael Jeffrey Jordan had to face a number of ups and downs to reach to the peak where he is now. Jordan, when young had the gambling addiction that h had to fight away on his own. His father was killed while he was sleeping in a car and was found a way later than the time of the incident. Personal issues like splitting from his other half also left scarf on this man's heart and mind. Nevertheless, he stood tall and faced everything with a brave heart and achieved what he wanted.
4. Abraham Lincoln
He is known all over the world as the 16th President of United States Of America but little is known about this man's struggle to fame. At a very young age, he lost his mother as well as sister. This famous personality even underwent bankruptcy in his life. Loss of his beloved fiance made him fall sick and he became bedridden for a long time. However, he never gave up on his dreams and hopes in spite of several personal and public failures he got elected and held his sear for four long years as per the tenure.
5. Rajinikanth
The man who is known as the King of south the famous Rajnikant started off his career as a carpenter, cookie and even a bus conductor. Inspire of being poor, he never gave up on his dream of acting even when his parents were not fully supporting his choice his desire for acting kept him going and he went on to become one the prestigious personality in the industry.
6. Nawazuddin Siddiqui
This man does not belong to an affluent family but knows how to win hearts in seconds. Born to a farmer family Nawazuddin had to serve the country as a chemist in a petrochemical company and later on as a watchman. His passion for acting drove him to Mumbai where like many others he had to struggle to get those meaty roles. Soon he got recognized as Bollywood's next big thing and since then he has climes the ladder of success only upwards.
7. Walt Disney
We all love the channel and the creator is equally lovable and honorable. Walt Disney's road to success like many others were dotted with difficulties. He wouldn't have achieved so much if not for his hard work and determination. He was put to work at a very early age, had only completed 8th standard studies, had no prior training in art and animation. He even suffered business setbacks but whatever, the case has he brushed them aside with patience and became one the greatest visionary of time.
Hence, no matter who the person is the one common string that binds them all is the struggle behind their success. They proved that in need no work is small and that hard work, determination and patience sometimes does beat talent.
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MEDIA DISTORTION: Reuters and Ahmadinejad: Anatomy of a Dangerous 'Misquote"
The 4th Media News on 2012-09-28
Headlines are designed to grab the reader's attention and pull 'em in.
Today, Reuters rolled out a serious eye-grabber: In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be "eliminated"
Just sounds like par for the course when it comes to Iran's dangerous doom-dealer, right?
Well, there is a bit of a problem.
You see, the headline doesn't quite match the actual quote in the story. Rather than delivering on their big tease with a blustering rant about destroying Israel with a hail of newly-minted nuclear weapons, Ahmadinejad's quote in paragraph eleven of the story comes across a bit differently:
"We don't even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they (the Israelis) represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated."
In the story, that quote follows a number of other quotes responding to questions about the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran, to which Ahmadinejad offers a number of dismissive responses and some blustery posturing about Iran's centuries-long history and fearlessness in the face of these threats:
"Fundamentally we do not take seriously the threats of the Zionists," Ahmadinejad, in New York for this week's U.N. General Assembly, told reporters. "We have all the defensive means at our disposal and we are ready to defend ourselves."
"We do believe that they have found themselves at a dead end and they are seeking new adventures in order to escape this dead end. Iran will not be damaged with foreign bombs," Ahmadinejad said, speaking through an interpreter at his Manhattan hotel.
Put into the context of the full interview and, even more alarming, taking the actual quote referenced by Reuters in their sexed-up headline, it seems that Ahmadinejad is referring to threats made by Netanyahu and that Iran, which, sadly, he is speaking for in this interview, simply "eliminates" the "minimal disturbances that come into the picture" regarding the threats being made against it. It sounds like Ahmadinejad is saying he disregards the threats being made.
That has far different implications than those stated in Reuters' eye-grabbing headline. And with the talk of war at a fever pitch, and the tension in the region rising faster than a Predator drone on take-off, it might be more important than ever for a much-respected news source to pay close attention to these details.
Perhaps something was lost in translation. But the alarming part of this is that we are not comparing quotes from various sources. No, the misquote featured in the headline is misquoting a decidedly less incendiary quote found in the story itself!
This is not a small matter, particularly when it comes to Iran, Ahmadinejad, Israel and the hurly-burly of Middle East diplomacy—and the role news plays in shaping public opinion as nations dance on the precipice of war.
Reuters takes this fast and loose word game even further by following up the quote in question with this little remark:
In 2005, Ahmadinejad called Israel a "tumor" and echoed the words of the former Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, by saying that Israel should be wiped off the map.
Apparently, the folks at Reuters haven't been reading newspapers.
Why? Because he never actually said it.
This misquote, which entered the public's consciousness in 2005 and been repeated ad infinitum by politicians and war advocates, has been thoroughly debunked by Professor Juan Cole and a real, live Farsi speaker at the Mossadegh Project. In fact, the story was featured in the October 05, 2011 edition of the Washington Post—hardly an obscure or little-read news source.
Even more damning, Dan Meridor, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, admitted in an interview that Ahmadinejad did not call for Israel to be "wiped off the map." This story in the New York Times ran on April 17, 2012 and in it the infamous misquote is debunked yet again:
Mr. Meridor said that Mr. Ahmadinejad and Iran's ruling cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had said repeatedly "that Israel is an unnatural creature, it will not survive. They didn't say, 'We'll wipe it out,' you're right, but, 'It will not survive.'"
But that still doesn't quite get there. According to Cole and the Mossadegh Project, the translation of Ahmadinejad's "original statement in Persian did not say that Israel should be wiped from the map, but instead that it would collapse."
And all of this well-established debunking was lost on the folks at Reuters as they simply compounded an ongoing error with a brand new, attention-grabbing error of their own creation.
This is not meant as a defense of Ahmadinejad or the Iranian regime. Obviously, Ahmadinejad says plenty of incendiary and outrageous things all by himself. He doesn't need to be misquoted to look like a lunatic.
But accurate news and precise translation are so critically important in matters of war, of diplomacy and to the future of those who would die if the rhetoric finally escalates beyond misquotes…to missiles.
A few words are not the only thing that might get lost in translation. How unfortunate it would be if tens of thousands of lives were lost as well.
This article was originally posted at News Vandal –
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/**
 *
  Package: MAG - VistA Imaging
  WARNING: Per VHA Directive 2004-038, this routine should not be modified.
  Date Created: Nov, 2009
  Site Name:  Washington OI Field Office, Silver Spring, MD
  Developer:  vhaiswlouthj
  Description: DICOM Study cache manager. Maintains the cache of study instances
  			   and expires old studies after 15 minutes.

        ;; +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
        ;; Property of the US Government.
        ;; No permission to copy or redistribute this software is given.
        ;; Use of unreleased versions of this software requires the user
        ;;  to execute a written test agreement with the VistA Imaging
        ;;  Development Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs,
        ;;  telephone (301) 734-0100.
        ;;
        ;; The Food and Drug Administration classifies this software as
        ;; a Class II medical device.  As such, it may not be changed
        ;; in any way.  Modifications to this software may result in an
        ;; adulterated medical device under 21CFR820, the use of which
        ;; is considered to be a violation of US Federal Statutes.
        ;; +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

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package gov.va.med.imaging.vistaimagingdatasource.storage;

import gov.va.med.imaging.exchange.business.storage.NetworkLocationInfo;
import gov.va.med.imaging.exchange.business.storage.exceptions.RetrievalException;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

public class NetworkLocationInfoDAOTests
{
	NetworkLocationInfoDAO dao = new NetworkLocationInfoDAO();

	@Test
	public void testTranslateGetCurrentWriteLocation() throws RetrievalException
	{
		StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
		builder.append("0^^1\r\n");
		builder.append("NETWORK LOCATION IEN^PHYSICAL REFERENCE\r\n");
		builder.append("2^\\\\vhaiswimgvms501\\image1$\\");
		NetworkLocationInfo info = dao.translateGetWriteLocation(builder.toString());

		Assert.assertTrue(info.getNetworkLocationIEN().equals("2"));
		Assert.assertTrue(info.getPhysicalPath().equals("\\\\vhaiswimgvms501\\image1$\\"));

	}

	@Test(expected = RetrievalException.class)
	public void testTranslateGetCurrentWriteLocationFailure() throws RetrievalException
	{
		StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
		builder.append("1^No Write Location Found for this Place IEN^0");
		NetworkLocationInfo info = dao.translateGetWriteLocation(builder.toString());
	}

	@Test
	public void testTranslateGetNetworkLocationDetails() throws RetrievalException
	{
		StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
		builder.append("0^^1\r\n");
		builder.append("PHYSICAL REFERENCE\r\n");
		builder.append("\\\\vhaiswimgvms501\\image1$\\");
		NetworkLocationInfo info = dao.translateGetNetworkLocationDetails("17", builder.toString());

		Assert.assertTrue(info.getNetworkLocationIEN().equals("17"));
		Assert.assertTrue(info.getPhysicalPath().equals("\\\\vhaiswimgvms501\\image1$\\"));

	}

	@Test(expected = RetrievalException.class)
	public void testTranslateGetNetworkLocationDetailsFailure() throws RetrievalException
	{
		StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
		builder.append("1^No Network Location Found with this IEN^0");
		NetworkLocationInfo info = dao.translateGetNetworkLocationDetails("17", builder.toString());
	}
}


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Keith Lango Animation: "Our jobs"
Furthermore at the panel discussion, some wondered what will happen as India and South Korea (and others) gear up to build strong animation industries. "They're going to take our jobs," many worried. I say, that's only possible if there's such a thing as "our jobs." I argue that there is NOT. There are no agreed upon jobs that are ours for the taking or that can be reserved for us like a rental car. Not on an individual level, nor a city-wide level, nor a national level. We have to reach out for those jobs...to create them ourselves. There's no such thing as entitlement. Just because we decided to be journeymen animation artists doesn't mean the industry owes us squat. This can be empowering if you let it. That's how I think. Who can say I'm wrong? It's my view of the universe and it holds true in my own head, and it helps me survive and navigate this difficult industry.
I have had the unique pleasure of having many students from around the world taking part in my APT online animation training program, as well as benefit from my video tutorials in the VTS. Occasionally somebody asks me about my feelings regarding training folks over seas to take 'our jobs'. I've usually replied "Who said that only westerners can have animation jobs?". Nationalism is a dangerous mindset often found at the root of many evil deeds. Americans lament that over 4,000 US servicemen and women in the armed forces have died in Iraq since 2003. Most Americans haven't spend two seconds of thought over the 80,000+ Iraqis who have died as a direct result of our making a mess of their land for no justifiable reason. This parochial value-ism is immoral. A person is a person whom God made and that's that- no matter where they live. By my way of thinking I don't see the life and career of an American animator as having any greater or lesser value than an animator in Singapore, Mumbai, Seoul or Beijing. Both are human beings, both have hopes and dreams, both love what they do, both want a chance to succeed and-- if they are of suitable skill & talent for the tasks available to them- both can and will succeed. If you can't compete on price, then it's your job to provide value (tangible and intangible) that cannot be matched elsewhere. This requires you to be creative, to think, to grow and improve, to find new ways of getting things done. If the dinosaurs step left, then be nimble enough to know how to scamper to the right. The world is never static and nobody ever promised that everything will stay exactly the way you like it to (oh, how I wish it would have sometimes!). Adjust with the world or get left behind, because the world is not going to stop just because you're comfy with where it is right now.
So by your argument, the onus is still on the 'Western' economies to innovate products that can be exported abroad to be then produced.
Does this stimulate these countries to create product themselves, or just do the work by having a cheaper workforce?
Why should a country invest in R n' D when the eventual social benefits of such go somewhere else?
I think that we do all have access to jobs.
If you have the experience and the drive, you can start your own studio or projects and tell the stories or make the games that people will want to buy.
@dan: I disagree. I don't think your conclusion extends what Keith wrote.
We live in a world where "R n D" - or production of knowledge - is done in countries other than the US. It is not just a matter of workforce any more. It could sound weird, but people in other places are also able to think and produce original things.
Think anime, for a pretty obvious example. I personally don't like the style, but that's no way to deny good bits of originality and technical avant-garde in some productions.
If only poor quality (technical and story wise) animation is done overseas, nobody in the US should to be worried. The competition is no longer in refinement of drawings.
Once again thanks for supporting us..
I don't think it has anything to do with Art, Culture, recognition of 'Humanity' or whatever.
It's a function of Capitalism - the bottom line, the greatest reward for shareholders.
That's the generator that turns the fan, that blows the wind that tosses us all around.
"Most Americans haven't spend two seconds of thought over the 80,000+ Iraqis who have died as a direct result of our making a mess of their land for no justifiable reason. This parochial value-ism is immoral."
What's immoral is this kind of constant misrepresentation of the facts. Invading another country, paying off the families of fanatic psychotics, testing biological weapons on innocent civilian population centers, and firing on a military guarding a UN sanctioned no-fly zone are more than enough to justify invasion. The kind of thinking that leads to statements like 'no justifiable reason' are not only ridiculous, but when held up to history they're downright stupid.
I think you have forgotten about one thing Keith. The biggest purpose of moving jobs (be it animation or whatever..) to Far East countries is greed.
People down there are paid less - people from the west are, well not paid, because there are no jobs.
Nobody wins (on regular worker level).
Personally I give it 5 to 10 years and 3D animation will go the way of 2D..
People complain about jobs going overseas all the time, but I don't think it's right to accuse them all of jingoism. Perhaps they're not complaining because they think foreigners are less deserving of jobs, but simply out of fear of losing their own jobs. Prejudice has nothing to do with it. Everyone's just trying to earn a living.
Keith, reread what you just wrote. You compared complaining about losing your job to not caring about the death of tens of thousands of people.
Personally I think my problem with the whole thing is that US companies are more than willing to send jobs overseas or to Canada, sacrificing the country's workforce. Whereas other countries will tend to protect the workforce they have and not hire foreign workers. I'm using Canada and Europen countaries an an example here.
The US doesn't really value it's workforce. Not just in animation, but in other industries as well. They're rather keep it in the black than keep people employed.
@Paul: Actually I was trying to point out that viewing the world through a parochial, nationalist lens often causes people to de-humanize others from different lands and cultures. An innocuous example being that an "American job" is of greater value than "a foreigner's job", the most extreme example being that an American life is of greater value than a foreigner's life. Same point of view, just the two ends of the intensity graph.
I find people's reactions intriguing. The point of the post isn't that it's good or bad that animation work is going away from American locales, or that wars are good or bad or that business is good or bad, etc. The point of the post is that people everywhere are people just like you and they also should have a chance to succeed doing what they love to do. The second point is that the world is flowing the way it's flowing whether we like it or not and complaining about it is of no value. Folks seem to be focusing on the politics (a waste of time) or the economics (tipping at windmills), while ignoring the primary call to action- step up your game to remain relevant. It's always going to be easier to get upset at businessmen, foreigners or me than to turn that view inward and examine where we can improve our own offerings in the animation marketplace as individuals.
Sorry if it came off that way.
if there were two Michelangelo's would you hire the one living in America expecting retirement and health insurance, or would you hire the one who is hoping for just $20 a day?
Stepping up your game becomes a moot point once you've maxed out your skill level. Once you're feature film level, is there really such a great difference in skill level up there that an employer would be willing to pay 10 times more?
And since the competition is so fierce, stepping up my game basically comes down to practicing every free moment I have (your opponent trains while you sleep) which is not acceptable because my kid needs a Dad around in the few hours I'm not already working.
No offense taken, Keith. And of course I agree with your main point that people are people no matter where they live (to paraphrase Horton). And that a hardworking animator in Manila deserves a chance to earn a living the same as a hardworking animator in Redwood City. I also agree that complaining is not the answer - the answer is to adapt and stay competitive.
I just disagree with the implication that animators dread outsourcing for jingoistic or prejudiced reasons, versus anxiety over paying rent.
In regard to the above post by AES, I love the idea of people in countries all over the world working on local productions that are targeted at a local audience. Not only would there be more jobs, but we'd have a much more varied body of films to enjoy.
The idea of people in countries all over the world working on local productions might sound romantic, but consider my country of 6-7 millions vs the US.
For every person in my country there are 50 people in the US. That means 50 times the revenue potential.
That means that as a producer, to invest in a movie that is local to my country with our specific culture and language, and to make the same kind of profit as in the US, he would have to invest 50 times less money. Which either means really cheap animators (wages here are lower, but not THAT low), or less animators, or less time to work on the movie, which all boils down to much lower quality of the final product.
The idea of competing with outsourcing by "stepping up the game" is completely irrelevant as it addresses the wrong parameters: The workers in India or everywhere else in the world are not generally better animators than the US animators - they are just cheaper. Quality is not really a parameter here - and even if it was, it's not fair that every animator in the US has to be top-notch to be able to compete with an average animator in India.
Excellent point. I hadn't thought about it like that before. You're totally right.


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Q: How to intercept AngularJS $http logging for display in page I want to intercept console log message from AngularJS and display them in a div on the page. I need this in order to debug ajax traffic in a PhoneGap app.
This is an example of the kind of errors I want to capture:

I tried this Showing console errors and alerts in a div inside the page but that does not intercept Angular error messages.
I also tried the solution gameover suggested in the answers. No luck with that either. Apparently $http is handling error logging differently.

A: I guess the answer you tried has the right idea but you're overriding the wrong methods. Reading here I can see  angularJs uses $log instead of console.log, so to intercept you can try to override those.
Something like this:
$scope.$log = {
        error: function(msg){document.getElementById("logger").innerHTML(msg)},
        info: function(msg){document.getElementById("logger").innerHTML(msg)},
        log: function(msg){document.getElementById("logger").innerHTML(msg)},
        warn: function(msg){document.getElementById("logger").innerHTML(msg)}
    }

Make sure to run that after importing angular.js.
EDIT
Second guess, override the consoleLog method on the LogProvider inner class on angular.js file:
function consoleLog(type) {
  var output ="";
  //arguments array, you'll need to change this accordingly if you want to
  //log arrays, objects etc
  forEach(arguments, function(arg) {
    output+= arg +" ";
  });
  document.getElementById("logger").innerHTML(output);
}

A: I've used log4javascript for this purpose. I create the log object via
var log = log4javascript.getLogger('myApp')
log.addAppender(new log4javascript.InPageAppender());

I then use this in a value dependency, and hook into it where needed (e.g. http interceptor).
A more lightweight approach might be to use $rootScope.emit and then have a component on your main page which prepends these log messages to a visible div, but this will require you to change all your calls to console.log (or redefine the function in your js).

A: I think that this message is not even displayed from AngularJS. It looks like an exception which has not been caught in any JavaScript (angular.js just appears on top of your stack because that's the actual location where the HTTP request is being sent).
Take a look at ng.$exceptionHandler. That should be the code you seem to be interested in. If not, take a quick web search for "JavaScript onerror" which should tell you how to watch for these kinds of errors.

A: I would rather user an $http interceptor.
Inside the responseError function, you can set a property on a service that will be exposed to the div's scope.


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So, come on, all! Let's have a show and tell thread!!
Great beads, Margaret. My favorites are the greenish dot ones. I have a hard time with even dots..and I think yours look great. OK, I'll play. Here's a pic of some boro beads from a short while ago. They were called Ruby Kissed, and I haven't been able to duplicate them since.
Wow! Beautiful beads. Margaret, I love the blue and green, especially how you patterned your dots around the long bead, and the amber/black/creme are always a favorite color combination for me. As far as any trouble you are having with your beads today, it always guarantees for me, that the next day things will run so smoothly! Stick with it!
Lauri, I love your boro beads, wonderful colors, details, and a great photo to boot!


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package com.parse.starter;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.EditText;

import com.parse.ParseAnalytics;
import com.parse.ParseException;
import com.parse.ParseUser;
import com.parse.SignUpCallback;

public class Register extends Activity {
	// testing hi
	/** Called when the activity is first created. */
	public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.register);
		ParseAnalytics.trackAppOpened(getIntent());
	}
	public void registerSubmit(View v) {

		EditText username = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.register_email);
		EditText password = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.register_pass);

		ParseUser user = new ParseUser();

		user.setUsername(username.getText().toString());
		user.setPassword(password.getText().toString());
		user.setEmail(username.getText().toString());

		// other fields can be set just like with ParseObject
		//user.put("phone", "650-253-0000");
		try
		{
			user.signUpInBackground(new SignUpCallback() {
				public void done(ParseException e) {
					if (e == null) {
						// Hooray! Let them use the app now.
						Intent intent = new Intent(Register.this, Homescreen.class);
						startActivity(intent);
					}
					else {
						// Sign up didn't succeed. Look at the ParseException
						// to figure out what went wrong
						Log.e("register error", e.getMessage());
					}
				}
			})
			;
		}
		catch(Exception e)
		{
			Log.e("register error", e.getMessage());
		}
	}
	public void gotoLogin(View v)
	{
		Intent intent = new Intent(Register.this, Login.class);
		startActivity(intent);
	}
}


On December 29th, 2016, the tension between US and Russia has escalated after President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats from US soil in connection with cyber-attacks during the 2016 Presidential Election. According to the White House and Treasury Department, US government has imposed sanctions on nine entities and individuals including Russian intelligence agencies, the GRU (the main military foreign-intelligence service of the Russian Federation) and the FSB (the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation). Russian intelligence compounds in New York and Maryland will also be closed.
President-elect Donald Trump compared this cyber-attack charge against Russia to the failed intelligence which led to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. According to wikipidia record, after the unforgettable September 11th, 2001 attack on US soil, US government under President Bush administration kept a close watch on Iraq. President Bush and his senior members expressed their willingness to eliminate Saddam Hussein from his power, even with force. In early October of 2002, CIA delivered a classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to claim that Saddam Hussein regime had weapons of mass destruction. The assessments gave enough leverage for both houses of Congress to approve the war in Iraq.
Trump told the reporters at the New Year Eve party: "I just want them to be sure, because it's a pretty serious charge, and I want them to be sure. And if you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster, and they were wrong."
Prior to his tweet on the delaying of intelligence briefing, Trump suspected the timing of the hacking accusation was a retaliation from the lost party.
On January 5th, 2017, at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Russian Cyberattacks, President-elect sat quietly, no tweeting during the session, listened to the testimony of the US Intelligence Agency on the matter.
Even though the Obama administration has achieved some positive movements toward Russia over the past 8 years, Obama and Putin have never seen eye to eye on political ground. The recent actions against Russia's cyber-attacks, interfering with the 2016 US Presidential Election put an end to US effort to keep Russia in the friendly zone. House Speaker Paul Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, said in a statement that despite the measures being overdue "It is an appropriate way to end eight years of failed policy with Russia".
Donald Trump sided with Julian Assange over US Intelligence agency.
Trump reinstated his doubts on US Intelligence agency's charge against Russia's cyber-attack by tweeting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's denial on Russia's involvements in the hacking. Further, he blamed Democratic National Committee for being so careless to lead to the hacking. Trump's joking about going back to the basic communication method, mail carriers, for important things to say to someone. Very funny, Mr. Trump! We are in the 21st century now.
On Thursday, January 05, 2017, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Adm. Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency and Marcel J. Lettre, undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence testified at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on foreign cyber threats, reaffirmed their accusations on Russian direct interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went into detail a well hacking plan and propaganda campaigns that went beyond leaking hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman with fake news and misinformation. Clapper also called out to the President-elect Donald Trump that "there is an important distinction here between healthy skepticism, which policymakers, to include policymaker number one, should always have for intelligence, but I think there is a difference between skepticism and disparagement.'' South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham directed his strong message to President-elect Donald Trump, urged him to trust and respect US Intelligence community as well as people who serve him and the country: "Mr. President-elect, when you listen to these people, you can be skeptical, but understand they're the best among us and they're trying to protect us." President Obama said he hopes once Mr. Trump receives his own briefing on Friday January 6th, 2017, with a 50-page document that US Intelligence presented with clear evidences on the cyberattack carried out under the orchestra of Putin, the President-elect Donald Trump and his team will reduce some of those tensions and doubts.


Love Your Bike. org http://www.loveyourbike.org is a collaboration between Manchester City Council and Manchester Friends of the Earth.
The site features some very good ideas, and nice opportunities to learn more about cycling in Manchester, this advert in particular caught my eye.


Almost all of us have had at least one sleepless night in our lives, whether it's from illness, a jetlag-inducing plane flight, anxiety about the next day, or just having a deep need to watch the entire box set of Friends. (No judgement.) But before you become cavalier about regularly pulling all-nighters, there are things you should know about sleep deprivation. Not sleeping has serious consequences for your body and brain — and even though they get worse as you lose more sleep, they definitely start to kick in after just one up-all-night experience.
There's a standard in science when discussing sleep deprivation: performance declines by 25 percent for every 24 hours you go without sleep. But that figure hides a lot of variation and some very interesting stuff happening in the brain and the body. We're gradually understanding that it's not just a matter of the entire brain feeling the weight of hours without sleep; a University of Wisconin-Madison study conducted on rats found that various parts of sleep-deprived mammal brains might actually just "go to sleep" on their own, even if the animal itself is acting as if it's fully awake. If that's what happens in humans, it means that regions of your sleep-deprived brain are simply checking out for stretches of time even while you're still up and about, which can lead to all kinds of havoc.
So next time you feel like it wouldn't be such a bad idea to dance until dawn and then go to work as if nothing has happened, remember: you're not going to have a good day afterward.
There have been a lot of studies conducted examining the cognitive effects of being deprived of sleep for less than 48 hours — so many, in fact, that scientists have done what's called "meta-analysis" of them, bringing all the studies together and seeing what the full picture on sleep deprivation is. And it seems that even a day without sleep starts to mess with our minds pretty intensely.
The biggest thing that happens when you're sleepless for 24 hours (or more) is that your ability to focus and pay attention slips, according to a 2010 analysis of studies published in Psychology Bulletin. The scientists behind that report looked at 147 different cognitive tests performed on people who had gone between 24 and 48 hours without sleep. They found that the big thing to suffer was "simple vigilance", or your ability to pay attention to one kind of stimuli at a time (a person talking, for example, or a piece of music). Another study found that the impact of a night without sleep on your brain's ability to focus was the same as having a 0.10 percent blood alcohol content.
At this point in sleep deprivation, your working memory is still functioning reasonably well, as is your complex attention, which does stuff like putting things in numerical order or arranging lists of names. But your hand-eye coordination will worsen, and some complicated mental processes are already breaking down: according to a 2011 study, 24 hours of sleep deprivation make you less effective at making certain kinds of decisions. Simple ones become hard, though more complex ones are less affected, but there's a catch: If the complex stuff you're being asked to decide involves things you haven't encountered before, the need to revise old plans, or being forced to deal with big distractions, your performance will not be at its best. So it's best to get a good night's sleep before the big strategizing meeting at work.
The brain also finds it a lot more difficult to filter out relevant information from everything it picks up. A study from the Journal of Neuroscience found that, after one night without sleep, people were much less able to filter out irrelevant stimuli, leading to confusion from taking in too much information. And your body is less capable of reacting quickly: a study of college athletes found that after one night of sleep deprivation,they were still able to perform athletically, but their reaction times were pretty shoddy.
It's clear that the longer you go without sleep, the worse the situation in your body and brain gets. One study showed that, while even a little bit of sleep deprivation has a negative effect on the cardiovascular system, after 39 hours without sleep, the pressure on the subjects' hearts had increased, with a higher heart rate and bigger variations in blood pressure.
At this point of sleep deprivation, your cognitive performance is deteriorating, too. You won't be able to recall faces properly, and your ability to remember words will be significantly impaired. One study found that things like suppressing inappropriate responses, making verbs out of nouns and using visual memory — all pretty complex skills — basically go completely haywire after 36 hours of sleep deprivation in young people.
After 48 hours without sleep, the body really starts to be under stress. The immune system in people deprived of two days of sleep is pretty drastically different from the body of someone who has gotten enough rest; levels of NK cells, or "natural killer" white blood cells, which are a key part of the body's immune response, fell dramatically in people deprived of sleep for 48 hours in one study (don't worry — they went back to normal after they were allowed to sleep again).
A study of healthy young dudes who had been deprived of sleep for 48 hours found high levels of nitrogen in their urine, which is a sign that your body is dealing with incredible levels of stress. That means your system is less capable of responding well to infections or recovering from illness.
And your reaction time is, by this point, seriously impaired. When scientists from Columbia University checked out cognitive impairment in subjects who hadn't slept in 48 hours, they found that their ability to react swiftly was thoroughly shot — which has serious implications for your ability to keep yourself out of danger.
The interesting thing about serious sleep deprivation is that it doesn't make you feel uniformly hopeless. Instead, it makes your psychological and motor responses incredibly unstable. A study of people deprived of sleep for three to four days found that, when it came tasks where they had to pay attention, their performance was as erratic as hell: their ability to focus fluctuated madly and tried hard to compensate, but couldn't maintain a constant for more than a few seconds. The scientists thought that, by this point, they weren't either fully awake or asleep.
After 72 hours of wakefulness, your motivation plummets, and you may start to have some weird experiences. You may see visual illusions or hallucinate, but you won't actually enter psychosis; that's generally thought by scientists to be a myth about sleep deprivation. One thing that will likely start to happen, though, is you will experience "microsleeps." These occur when the brain goes to sleep for a very brief time, usually a matter of seconds, and then "jerks" awake again. I shouldn't need to note that experiencing this is ridiculously dangerous, particularly if you're driving. For everybody's sake, if you're sleep-deprived, stay somewhere safe until you can get some Zs and don't try to do anything complex or life-changing; the longer you go without rest, the less capable you'll be of doing, well, anything.