We haven't decided yet. The project was well under way before we decided that we'd better put together something manifesto-like, or at least make some sort of attempt to explain ourselves.
Is is political? Something subversive?
Hmmm. That depends how you choose to take it. The way we see it, it's more in the realms of mischief than subversion, but then these are just words.
We couldn't deny that we're trying to influence people, of course, but there's no clearly defined agenda. The closest thing we've got to an agenda is a desire to re-enchant some of those many people out there who've got stuck in a very dull, rigid version of reality.
Well, initially to amuse ourselves, we started looking at existing roadsigns as if they were intended to be pieces of modern art. You should try this. It certainly livens up boring car journeys. The exclamation mark (indicating danger) was one of our favourites, and we started to joke about roadsigns involving other bits of punctuation. The idea of a "semicolon" roadsign struck us as particularly hilarious (although we did consider that this might be funny only to a particular, very small group of eccentrics like us).
Other ideas started to flow, and we started to consider the nature of the existing signs. Eventually it became clear to us that when a driver sees a black symbol on a white background in a red triangle on a pole by the side of the road, their mind automatically switches into a receptive state. "Pay attention, this might be important," the mind tells itself. The red triangle is a sort of window into a world of authority. similarly, the particular font used on all roadsigns in the UK (and nowhere else, as far as we're aware) carries an authority with it.
If you want to get symbols into peoples' heads, this is ideal. Imagine if we were to spray symbols onto walls, etc., graffiti-style. Most people who we were hoping to reach would automatically filter these out. Now the situation is reversed. The mind tells itself, "Don't pay attention. That shouldn't be there." We want to bypass these filters, by making use of a format that already commands authority. It's similar to computer hacking in some ways.
The whole road network is our gallery, red triangles are our frames. Our chosen medium is black-and-white sticky-back plastic on cardboard (although we would like to move into something a bit more natural, eventually).
So you consider yourselves to be artists? What are your influences?
We do consider ourselves to be an artists. Some of us would argue that everyone is an artist, but this comes down to how you define "art", and the last thing the world needs at the moment is another "what is art?" debate.
Influences? Everything we've ever encountered, really, but if we have to be less vague: Dada, situationism, NY subway-style grafitti art, crop circles, The Incredible String Band, Captain Beefheart, various kinds of sacred/religious art, Jungian psychology, mosses and lichens and things growing in the hedgerows, "sacred" geometry, subvertising (subtle alterations of billboards by various types of activists), spiderwebs, existing roadsigns...We could list lots of writers, painters, etc. but we're not going to. Get in touch with us if you're really interested.
Don't you think you're being a bit irresponsible? I mean, putting up false roadsigns could cause accidents, couldn't it?
Well we've thought hard about this, but decided ultimately that the project could be carried out responsibly. Firstly, this means that none of our designs could be mistaken for existing signs which might lead drivers to misunderstand the behaviour of the road ahead of them. For example, we considered using certain runes, but many of them could be understood as indicating, say, a fork in the road where there isn't one. Most of the signs will at worst cause drivers to be more attentive. If they see an image of a snail it might actually cross their mind to be aware of snails. Or to slow down a bit, which wouldn't be a bad thing.
Some of the more powerful symbols (Tibetan mandalas, the Celtic "Triskel" knotwork, or the Eye of Horus) might cause reactions in drivers, but then the roads are full of signs, advertising, and various other things which could potentially be dangerously distracting. Walking along the side of the road in a completely outrageous costume would create a far greater danger, and no one would suggest that this is irresponsible behaviour.
What other symbols have you considered?
We're continually coming up with new ideas. At the moment some of them are a unicorn ("unicorns"), a dragonfly, a starfish, an aubergine ("aubergines"), the yin/yang symbol, the OM symbol, a maze/labyrinth ("minotaurs"), amoebas ("single-celled organisms"), moon/stars ("space"), a brain ("brain"), a large black dot ("dot"), pixies, elves, gnomes and various other species of little people, trolls (near bridges, obviously), Mayan hieroglyphics, astrological and alchemical sygils, images from cave paintings and rock carvings, "timewarps likely", "Deja vu" (repeated several times along one stretch of road), etc.
How do you choose the symbols you use? There seems to be quite a diversity: punctuation, religious symbols, things drawn from nature, etc.
This reflects the diversity of our aims and interests. One thing that interests us is the power and the ultimate nature of symbols. If you go far enough back in the past, most symbols had what we'd now consider a sacred/ religious/ritual meaning. Now things like corporate logos are more dominant. People are continually exposed to symbols like the Nike "swoosh", the McDonald's "M", etc. These are powerful symbols, too, carefully chosen to tap into the "religious" levels of peoples minds, to inspire devotion, if you like. Our use of Tibetan yantras (circular geometric patterns) could almost be classed as "spiritual guerilla tactics". Although we don't have one fixed "spiritual" belief system, we wholeheartedly trust symbols like these and believe that contemplating them is good for humans. Putting them in the red triangle format is a playful way of trying to elevate peoples' consciousness.
There's obviously an element of humour ("blobs", and the semicolon, for example), as we feel people really need a bit of lightness and cheer in their lives. As we imagine most of our signs will get removed fairly quickly, many of the drivers who see them will be up early and on their way to work. These are the people who need this the most. We'd like to spread a bit of spontaneity and joy, to brighten up the world a bit, and to let people see that things like this are possible.
We noticed that there are a lot of wildlife-based signs in the "official" collection: horses, cattle, deer, etc. These tend to be large animals, which pose a threat to the flow of traffic. This is understandable, but we feel that smaller creatures (snails, spiders, ladybirds, beetles, fieldmice, etc.) don't get much representation. They're very small and delicate compared to large metal vehicles, so people are becoming increasingly unaware of them. We feel that there's a lot to be learned from nature at that scale - there are whole worlds going on down there!
Things like seahorses have been used to remind people that they live on an incredible planet which is home to such wonderous creatures.
Fairies (and the other species of little people) definitely need representation, we feel. The existence of such beings was commonly acknowledged in this part of the world not so long ago. Now most people in this society would dismiss this as superstitious nonsense. We've chosen not to be so quickly dismissive. As a result, we risk not being taken seriously, of course, but we don't mind - we're not aiming to be taken seriously.
If you're in any doubt about the fairies issue, check out some of the more serious literature on "fairy faith in the Celtic countries", or worldwide belief systems involving little people, nature spirits, devas, etc. You might be quite pleasantly surprised. There's something that was once central to peoples lives and communities, and we've lost touch with it in recent history. If you keep an open mind, don't try to give this something a particular form, and just explore the issue of what it might be, you might end up like us!
We're also concerned with the erosion of folklore and mythology. Stories and characters which had been almost universally familiar to our ancestors until quite recently are now being forgotten. To some extent, they continue to resurface, in somewhat altered forms, in the worlds of commerce and entertainment (adverts, cartoons, etc.). However, if you think about it, this usually involves someone trying to sell you something, so the "historical transmission" of these stories and characters is being distorted by peoples' greed. We suspect that folklore is one of the basic ingredients of a healthy society, that it wasn't just to amuse or entertain, but that it served an important purpose. This suggests that the erosion and distortion of folklore in the modern age is one of the factors causing our society to be quite unhealthy.
We'd like to dissolve certain boundaries which have been rigidly established in people, to shatter the monotony and mundanity which many people feel trapped in. Obviously our signs won't reach that many people, but they might inspire a few of them to do something in a similar spirit. We're just doing our bit.
So are you encouraging other people to produce and display their own signs?
No, but of course we'd be flattered if other signs started to appear without our involvement. Obviously this is outside our control, so we'd ask anyone who's considering similar activities to do so in a responsible way (as described above). Also, we'd prefer that anything of this nature was in a similar spirit (gently mischievous rather than overtly "political" or confrontational).
And if you see signs like ours appearing in the future, please send us a picture!


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Pyongyang test-fired a ballistic missile on Friday, sparking fears of an imminent war between North Korea and the west.
The ballistic missile exploded within minutes and never left North Korean airspace, according to US Pacific Command and South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"North Korea fired an unidentified missile from a site in the vicinity of Bukchang in Pyeongannam-do (South Pyeongan Province) early this morning," the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement.
The US administration is "aware of the most recent North Korean missile test," and President Trump was briefed on the launch, the White House said in a short statement.
It also comes just hours after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the UN Security Council that the military option remains on the table for the US to curb Pyongyang's nuclear program.
Tillerson's remarks come just a day after US President Donald Trump told Reuters that there is a "chance" of a major conflict in the region if diplomacy fails.
North Korea's previous missile launch on April 16 also resulted in failure, according to Washington and Seoul. It took place a day after a huge military parade in Pyongyang. The latest launch marked the 75th missile test during the rule of Kim Jong-un.
In an attempt to deter North Korea from more nuclear and missile tests, the US has sent a group of American warships led by an aircraft carrier to the region. This week, North Korea conducted large-scale, live-fire exercises on its eastern coast, just as the US and South Korea were engaged in their annual war games.
As the US continue to push for peace through increasing its military power in the region, China and Russia have been urging both sides to refrain from provocations and belligerent rhetoric, and to find a diplomatic solution to the ongoing crisis.
Stressing the need to avoid "chaos" on the Korean peninsula, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for cool-headed negotiations over North Korea's missile and nuclear programs.
"Right now, the situation on the Korean peninsula is under grave tension and at a critical point," Wang said, ahead of a UN Security Council meeting Friday.
"[The peaceful settlement] of the nuclear issue [on] the Korean peninsula through a dialogue and negotiations represent the only right choice that is practical and viable," the minister added.
A military solution to the North Korean issue is totally unacceptable and could lead to a terrible catastrophe, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.


Musing: The Butchering of the Butterfly Effect.
I read Stephen King's 11/22/63 recently and it reminded me the challenges of writing about time travel. While Two Destroyers is related to a time loop or time tampering, it's not quite the same thing.
Time Travel Pioneers? Or masterminds of Evil?
If you go back to the past and change anything you risk changing everything. The concept has been repeated in the theory of the mathematical term: the Butterfly Effect. I know I joke about using the lottery numbers to get rich, but even that could change the world irreparably.
In doing so, you may have discouraged a good Samaritan from buying a ticket next week. That Samaritan would have gone on to donate money to a charity that spares the life of a young genius that would go on to cure cancer.
It's like a big Rube Goldberg machine. You take out one cog and the machine may stop working. The Butterfly Effect name stems from MIT Meteorologist Edward Lorenz's suggestion that a massive storm might have its roots in the faraway flapping of a tiny butterfly's wings. If you watched the 2004 movie of the same name you probably knew that.
Behold the face of the apocalypse.
The interpretation of popular media actually gets it backwards. Changing a seemingly insignificant event doesn't change a person's predestined fate, it throws it into chaos. The important part of Lorenz's theory that is missed is the 'might'. The result may be potentially discovered after it happens, but there is no way to anticipate the end result.
If I went back in time and paused to admire a butterfly, it could cause and prevent tragedy in equal portions. Have you ever been spared from injury by distraction? Something falls near you moments after you pause to consider something? And in reverse has being too hesitant ever caused an accident? You bet it has.
Events that shape the world are so delicate that you simply arriving in the past and doing nothing can change everything. It can also do nothing. Time Travel is roll of the dice, but it's a lot of dice. Because you're changing some tiny detail, hundreds of tiny details change too. Each of those tiny details turns into thousands, and those millions.
Eventually it may cause a freak accident that didn't happen without your intervention. If that freak accident kills or wounds someone, the result will affect others. Someone may be too shaken by the accident to pursue a romance that leads to a marriage. And conversely it may inspire another person to find love and have a child that didn't exist.
Any way you look at it, time travel is a terrible idea.


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Obituary: Allan A. Buckhantz (1923-2011)
Live television director Allan A. Buckhantz died on October 10 in Los Angeles. Born on January 3, 1923, he was 88.
Buckhantz was one of the regular directors of Matinee Theater, producer Albert McCleery's lamentably forgotten 1955 effort to bring anthology drama to daytime television. The NBC series presented a live hour-long play, in color, five days a week. Buckhantz remained among the regular rotation of Matinee Theater directors for the entirety of the series' three-season run, directing a total of over eighty segments.
Matinee Theater exists mainly as a memory today. UCLA has a couple dozen of the roughly 150 episodes, none of them directed by Buckhantz. We have to conjure them in the imagination, drawing from the names of the writers and actors associated with them. Buckhantz's Matinee Theaters included Henry Misrock's "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (his first), with DeForest Kelley and Cara Williams; "Jigsaw," with Tom Laughlin and a twenty-four year-old Angie Dickinson (who went on to star in several more Buckhantz segments); Sumner Locke Elliott's "Friday the 13th," with Paul Burke in a small role; "The House of the Seven Gables," with John Carradine; a version of William L. Stuart's novel "Night Cry," which Otto Preminger filmed as Where the Sidewalk Ends; a remake of Alvin Sapinsley's "One Mummy Too Many," originally directed by Sidney Lumet for The Alcoa Hour, with Nita Talbot; "Something Stolen, Something Blue," with Jack Larson, Dolores Hart, and Frances Farmer; Theodore Apstein's "The Quiet Street," with Rip Torn and Suzanne Pleshette; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," which McCleery had deemed unproducible on live television until Buckhantz suggested the character experience an "organic" rather than a physical transformation.
Those sound rather like they would have been worth preserving.
Directing Matinee Theater was a thankless task: the schedule was grueling, the scripts were generally second-rate, and McCleery was an obsessive and difficult boss. Matinee Theater originated from Los Angeles and most of the major dramatic directors were in New York, so McCleery recruited a motley crew of up-and-coming local TV directors, failed actors, and assorted other unknowns to direct the series. Buckhantz had been a $37.50-a-week messenger at Twentieth Century-Fox when he got a job as a television stage manager at CBS and Los Angeles's station KNXT; he made his directing debut on Peter Potter's Jukebox Jury. "Immediately," he recalled years later, "I started a love affair with live television."
In The Days of Live (Scarecrow, 1998), Buckhantz told interviewer Ira Skutch:
At CBS on the Coast, we didn't do a show a day. We didn't do a show a week. We did five, six seven shows a day. Rehearsal was a luxury. I was doing news, Peter Potter's Jukebox Jury, commercials, and whatever else needed to be done. I probably did the first band show ever to hit television – a local show, out of the Palladium. The orchestra would sit on the stage while I made notes on when the trumpets came up. Then I'd add whatever I could do to make it look more staged . . . .
After we finished Peter Potter's Jukebox Jury at midnight on Saturday night, we'd stay an hour, setting the lights for a live religious show Sunday mornings on KNXT. There were four or five staff directors who alternated. Everybody hated directing it, because the various religious groups were always changing things.
On one occasion, he told Skutch, Buckhantz directed a group of children in a Jewish service. One little girl dropped her cue card and exclaimed, on the air, "Jesus Christ, what do I do now?"
About half of the Matinee Theater directors transitioned into filmed television and went on to substantive careers as episodic directors – Walter Grauman, Boris Sagal, Lamont Johnson, Arthur Hiller, Sherman Marks, Lawrence Schwab. The rest were never heard from again – Jim Jordan, Irving Lambrecht, Livia Granito, Alan Cooke, Alan Hanson, Pace Woods.
Buckhantz, alas, fell largely into the latter category. His only other television credits of note were a single Kraft Television Theatre and two episodes of The Dakotas, a good 1963 revisionist western produced by Anthony Spinner, who had been a Matinee Theater story editor. Immediately after Matinee Theater, Buckhantz produced and directed a disastrous Broadway production, Happy Town, from which (as reported in Dorothy Kilgallen's column) Buckhantz was ousted following a "bitter feud" with the cast and crew. The show closed after four days in October 1959.
The peripatetic Buckhantz moved to Germany and worked there as a television producer and director during the sixties. Buckhantz resurfaced in the United States as the executive producer of a 1969 television adaptation of Hans Brinker, with Eleanor Parker and Richard Basehart, and as the director of an action movie, Portrait of a Hitman (starring Jack Palance and Rod Steiger) that sat on the shelf for years.
Updated on January 6, 2014, to add the dates of Buckhantz's birth and death.
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For those of you who don't think it's important to secure your phone, let me share all the information I was able to get off a person's phone this morning without ever opening it.
I was able to have Siri call whomever I wanted.
I was able to have Siri give me directions.
I was able to see all texts that came in because the settings allow to be seen on lock screen.
I was able to answer all incoming calls.
I knew upcoming appointments because calendar showed on lock screen.
I saw all incoming social media.
I saw all incoming messages from Facebook.
And lastly, I was able to find this persons home.
Now thankfully I'm not a bad person, but if your phone falls in the wrong hands, it could have a different ending.
I highly recommend you Go to settings and change what shows on your lock screen.


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Still working on getting my comments fixed. I seriously need to find someone who can help at this point since I am clueless. Out of the 30 something comments I received on Matthews birth (thank you all so much) only 5 or 6 are showing on the blog.
I have received numerous requests for my laborade recipe. Its funny what some of you will catch in my posts, its nice to know that my words are actually read : ) I figured I better post it soon since I have a few bloggy friends who are expecting a baby any day now ; ) and they might want to make some.
Oh, firstly for those of you who have no clue what laborade is…its kind of like a homemade version of those drinks that athletes drink to keep Momma's hydrated during labor. There are many versions on the internet, this is just the way I make it. Sipping on this drink will keep you refreshed and hydrated and puts back the minerals you will lose during labor and will give you a little boost of energy.
Boil two cups water and steep the tea bags for 10 minutes. Remove tea bags and add 2 more cups water to the tea. Put in the blender and add the lemon juice, honey, sea salt, magnesium and calcium tablets. Whirl it up for a minute to make sure the tablets get dissolved and put away in the refrigerator until the big moment. You can adjust the honey to your taste. I don't like anything too sweet but you might like a bit more.
You can also use this to replace athletic drinks for the rest of the family by not adding the raspberry leaf tea. It is very refreshing and really works to replace minerals lost in exercise.
Momma, question. So I don't really like the taste of lemon. Do I need to put lemon? What's it for really? I'm due in like 3-7 days. Thank you!
Thanks for the recipe! I'm thinking of adding a little Rescue Remedy to the mix… have you ever tried that? I'll be mixing this up this afternoon in preparation for precious little #5 who will make her arrival sometime soon! May Mary's mantle cover you and yours!
Can you recommend a different herbal? I flat out despise raspberry tea. I keep trying it and it just doesn't do it for me!
I can't wait to try this! We are a family of four runners who are constantly trying to eat cleaner and drink with intention. My kids like replacement drinks but they are often so filled with all the wrong things. Thank you for sharing your recipe! BTW I just found your blog and am really enjoying your peacefulness. Thanks again!
I made this during labor and took it to the hospital and it was amazing. JUST the ticket for the 6 hrs I spent in labor at the hospital!
Thank you…we will be preparing this…two weeks to go!


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Captain, president and editor — Kristen Crippen personifies leadership at PNG High School
Published 12:14 am Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Kristen Crippen, a senior at Port Neches-Groves High School, is captain of the Indianette drill team, editor of the War Whoop yearbook and president of the student body council. (Cassandra Jenkins/The News)
PORT NECHES — Kristen Crippen, 17, is a senior at Port Neches-Groves High School and is the epitome of leadership. She holds not one, not two, but three prestigious campus leadership roles.
Role one, Crippen is the captain of the Indianettes drill team. She joined the Indianettes her junior year before being named captain earlier this year.
Kristen Crippen, a senior at Port Neches-Groves High School, is the senior captain of the Indianette drill team. Crippen performs during halftime of PNG's homecoming game against Baytown Lee on Sept. 27. (Courtesy photo)
"I've been a dancer my whole life," Crippen said. "I tried out to be an Indianette last year and just loved it. We had our officer tryouts at the end of April and I was chosen as one of the line officers. Later that week, which was a Tuesday, we had a banquet and I was chosen as the captain. I've wanted that my whole life, so it was amazing."
Role two, Crippen is the student council president. She has been a part of the student council program since middle school and wanted to continue the role as she transitioned to high school.
"In middle school you don't do much," she said. "In high school, I get to help with all these different committees. We have an encouragement committee, so when different teams or organizations have competitions or games, we decorate the sidewalk for good luck or give them little gifts. We also have our special needs committee, which every month we put together a little care package to give to them.
"I just like getting to help with our school, building the school spirit and showing what PNG is supposed to embody with unity."
Role three, Crippen is also the War Whoop yearbook editor. She signed up for the journalism program her sophomore year, fell in love with working on the War Whoop and was selected editor last year.
"I joined the journalism program, but it was more so just to fill an empty spot in my schedule. I figured if I liked it, I liked it, if not it was OK," she said. "But then I really started to enjoy it, so my junior year I joined the War Whoop staff.
"Mr. [Mike] Tobias has taught me a lot about what I can do to make pages look a lot better. He's helped magnify how much I really do love it. I have a lot of ideas. I want this year's yearbook to be amazing and for everybody to remember it."
Journalism program director Tobias said he made the right choice in selecting Crippen to be the editor.
"I was a little nervous at first, because I knew she was going to have a very busy senior year but I'm very confident in her," he said. "It's not just yearbook, but Indianettes, student council and everything else. She's busy, but I knew I made the right choice after all that."
Crippen said her short-term goals include deciding on a major between forensic science, pharmacy tech and engineering.
"I really do enjoy science," she said. "My dad and I always watch Forensic Files, Criminal Minds and all that, so I've been interested in that since I was younger. I also like math and feel like it's one of my natural academic talents."
Crippen is hoping to attend the University of Texas at Austin next fall once she's settled on a major. Crippen said before she leaves, she wants to thank everyone who has played a vital role in her life.
"When I move off to college, I want to make sure that I keep my roots with everybody [at PNG]," she said. "I want to remember all the life lessons I've learned here and keep those through my adult life."


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Q: How send page number in KendoUI Filter in server side I have a kendo grid  my paging is in the server side but the filter is in the client side.
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7 Aug 2017 7 Aug 2017 Sean Kramer Athletics, Rants and HOT TAKES
Big Sky be damned, I'm still buying season tickets. Why you should too:
I'm counting the days until kickoff. I haven't been the Moscow in nearly nine months, and that's just too much time for me to have been away.
Vandal football is giving me the perfect excuse to end that hiatus.
I'll be around my Vandal family. I'll be able to shove Grub Truck and Sweaty Teddys into my mouth. I finally won't have to drink my beers in pint-sized portions like an animal. I'm getting that shit 32 ounces at a time.
I'll be there for the season opener against Sacramento State and the banner unveiling for the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl following the most successful season in Idaho's FBS history.
Yet, something feels off. We all know what that feeling is. The internal battle inside of us between excitement for this program and the disappointment and distress at the inevitable death of our FBS foray in 2018.
In fact, how good Idaho is projected to be in 2017 just makes this feel worse. This has to happen now? Right when Paul Petrino has not only built a good football team, but a great and sustainable program from the recruiting aspect to the system on the football field?
Augh.
It sucks. It sucks all around. And no matter what it's going to affect how I feel about this season.
Still, I'm going to be there for every game I can be, with season tickets in my hand, cheering on my Vandals. I'll do it because the players on the field had nothing to do with the decision and they still deserve our support.
Listen, you think you're upset about the drop to the Big Sky? Nobody is more upset about this than the coaches and players.
None of these kids who signed on in Petrino's first few seasons came to North Idaho to play for the FCS playoffs. Most of them came because Idaho offered their only opportunity at FBS football and an opportunity to build a program from the ground up.
Few of these players want to see what could be back-to-back bowl winning seasons amount to a scholarship-budget slashing and a drop in level of competition.
They had no say in the situation, though many current and former players publicly opposed moving to the Big Sky.
You not attending games because you're mad accomplishes little. The players are as mad as you are. They're still playing football for Idaho. You can go watch.
Look, if you want to withhold donations that's cool. The administration should understand the financial impact of the decision they've made. If we're talking about thousands of dollars per year of your money you're throwing at the university, that's your choice.
Withholding your money from the ticket office will barely make an impact.
Idaho projected 2016's football ticket sales would be less than half of the nearly $1 Million the school received in 2011. This means football ticket sales barely account for five percent of the total athletic department revenue. You and a thousand of your buddies not buying tickets may make an annoying impact, but it won't act as a deterrent. It's something Idaho was certainly prepared to absorb.
I get it. It's going to be a battle to care as much when it's Southern Utah and UC Davis coming to the Kibbie Dome. I get the disappointment at the administration not even at least exploring independence.
Don't take your disappointment out on these players.
It meant a lot to them wen we made that disgusting Boise stadium ours in December, battling temperatures so cold our beers became slushy after three sips. Still we showed up 25,000 strong.
It'll mean a lot to them to see the Kibbie Dome have atmosphere in their final season as an FBS program.
And if you don't feel like it? Here's what you're missing:
Matt Linehan becoming the all-time leading passer in the history of Idaho Vandal football with only ~ 2,100 yards remaining. He'll pass Doug Nussmeier, Ken Hobart, Nathan Enderle and John Friesz. He'll likely end top five all-time in touchdown passes and simply replicating each of the last two seasons could make him the most accurate Vandal quarterback of all time.
A defensive front seven with NFL prospects in Aikeem Coleman and Kaden Elliss. Tony Lashley, who was a part of Paul Petrino's very first signing class at Idaho, is also getting a lot of preseason hype.
The best marching band in all the damn land.
A good fucking football team. Some of us were with this program during the worst years bridging Robb Akey's last few teams to Petrino building this thing up. I'm not going to take this type of talent for granted.
Finally, you're missing out on Moscow. Coming back to the University, the town and the community that gave you so much in life. There's never a bad excuse to make your way to the Palouse for $4 tubs of Rainier and good people.
I'll see you in Moscow.
Tagged Big Sky, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, FBS, Matt Linehan, Vandal football
Why Don Verlin's well-groomed mustache is still in style in Moscow
Jeff Tingey thinks Idaho State is academically as good as U of I, is dumb


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Seagate Announces New Executive Appointments
Dave Mosley Named President, Operations and Technology;
Rocky Pimentel Named President, Global Markets and Customers
Jakarta, Indonesia Oct. 31, 2013 — Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage solutions, today announced two strategic executive appointments to further Seagate's effectiveness in delivering its core product technology portfolio, customer engagement and operational excellence.
Dave Mosley, who most recently served as Executive Vice President of Operations and R&D, has been named President, Operations and Technology, responsible for Seagate's global hard drive, heads and media manufacturing operations, as well as global research and development. Rocky Pimentel, who most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, has been named President, Global Markets and Customers, responsible for Seagate's global customer engagement, sales, sales operations, product line management, marketing and retail activities. Both will continue to report to Steve Luczo, Chairman and CEO.
"These appointments reflect the significant opportunities in front of Seagate," said Luczo. "We believe that the trajectory of long-term demand for storage is outpacing supply, and the markets that we serve are both expanding and changing rapidly. Our traditional OEM and distribution customers are addressing important opportunities with new technology offerings and go-to-market capabilities. We are also actively engaging with many new customers directly, especially in the cloud services market and with start-up businesses that are also pursuing innovative technical approaches for their storage infrastructures and lack significant go-to-market capabilities.
"By elevating Dave and Rocky to lead our core product technology, operations and customer engagement, Seagate is even better positioned for continued operational excellence and to further our ability to capitalize on our growing opportunities in the storage marketplace. Additionally, this new alignment of our leadership allows me to focus more on the longer term strategic opportunities for our company, and to increase my efforts around accelerating our mobile and cloud technology strategies. These promotions are well-deserved and we are fortunate to have two executives as capable as Dave and Rocky to step into these important roles."
Since joining Seagate in 1996, Mosley has held a variety of leadership positions, including: executive vice president of sales and marketing; vice president and site management team leader for Seagate's Longmont, Colorado, operation; senior director for R&D engineering; and he has led Seagate's emerging products development team. Prior to joining Seagate, Mosley was a research physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a senior engineer at Micropolis and Conner Peripherals.
Albert "Rocky" Pimentel
Prior to joining Seagate in 2011, Pimentel served on the Company's Board of Directors and was a member of the early Seagate management team, working with founders Al Shugart and Finis Conner. He also was part of the founding management team at Conner Peripherals. Since that time, his diverse career experience has included COO and CFO at McAfee, senior vice president and CFO at LSI Logic, and senior leadership positions at Glu Mobile, Zone Labs, WebTV Networks and Redpoint Ventures. Pimentel currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Xilinx, Inc., Imperva, Inc. and LifeLock, Inc.
Seagate is a world leader in storage solutions. Learn more at www.seagate.com. Follow Seagate on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and subscribe to our blog.
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Papua New Guinea | 22 September 2016
Continued State-Owned Enterprise Reform will Benefit the Pacific
This week, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched Finding Balance 2016: Benchmarking the Performance of SOEs in Island Economies. The study, produced by ADB's Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative, compares the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) across 12 countries: eight Pacific countries, as well as Jamaica, Mauritius, Singapore, and New Zealand. The results are sobering.
SOEs' performance overall lags behind their private sector counterparts. PNG's SOE portfolio generated an average return on equity (ROE)—profit as a percentage of equity investment—of just 2.4% from 2010 through 2014. Over the same period, the portfolio's average return on assets (ROA)—profit generated by the firm's total assets—was only 1.3%.
PNG's SOE's aren't alone in performing poorly. Only two of the 12 countries' SOE portfolios surveyed for the study produced enough return to cover capital costs from 2010 to 2014. Some countries' portfolios produced ROAs and/or ROEs of below zero.
Why does this matter for PNG? As the sole providers of core infrastructure services such as power, water, and port services, SOEs play a vital role in the PNG economy. When they perform poorly, the whole economy suffers. PNG needs to reinvigorate SOE reforms to improve corporate governance and transparency, boost efficiency, and bring in private sector expertise and capital.
SOE profitability has steadily declined in PNG since its peak in 2005. Over 2010 to 2014, average ROA was 1.3% and ROE 2.4%. That compares poorly with the 4% and 7%, respectively, achieved between 2002 and 2009.
A leading reason for the poor performance of SOEs around the world is weak governance frameworks. SOEs have conflicting mandates, no hard budget constraints, and poor accountability mechanisms. They are not given incentives to operate efficiently, unlike private sector firms, and are often directed to deliver unprofitable services known as community service obligations without adequate compensation. Often, SOE directors can be appointed without regard to the skills required on SOE boards.
To be successful, SOEs must have operational autonomy and be held accountable for results. Rather than approving corporate plans and directing SOEs to provide CSOs, elected officials should only influence SOE operations through the establishment of sector regulations. Only in this way will SOEs be able to focus on achieving commercial returns.
PNG has initiated reforms which, if implemented, could help to further improve SOE performance. The Community Service Obligation Policy endorsed by the National Executive Council in 2013 will ensure that SOEs are compensated for any non-commercial services they deliver. It will also allow the government to purchase these services from other providers if they are more cost-effective than SOEs. The policy was piloted with one SOE in 2015-2016 but funding has not been made available for full implementation. Funding and extending the policy to other SOEs will be an essential step towards improving their performance.
Sustained improvements to SOEs' service delivery will require greater private sector participation and competition. The private sector can not only bring much needed capital to infrastructure service delivery, but also technology, management expertise, and strong efficiency incentives. To date, attempts to involve the private sector in SOE operations have lacked coherence and transparency. The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Act of 2014 has not been gazetted. PPPs are being developed in an ad-hoc manner, increasing their perceived risk—and, therefore, cost. This could be quickly remedied by implementing the PPP Act and building national expertise in developing PPPs.
Many of these proposed reforms are already in place in countries with stronger performing SOE portfolios such as Singapore, where all infrastructure SOEs are publicly listed and have partial private ownership. Most were established as joint ventures with the private sector. Most importantly, Singapore's SOEs operate at arm's length from politics and are exposed to international markets and competition.
SOE reform requires sustained political commitment to strengthen underlying legislation, resist interference, and allow greater private sector participation. These reforms have been initiated in PNG but have lost some momentum. With renewed political commitment, PNG can realize the enormous benefits of a fully-implemented SOE reform program.
By Laure Darcy, PSDI SOE Reform Team Leader
This piece was originally published in The National on 22 September 2016.


The Corporate Income Tax Reform Act had introduced a distinct taxation of 5% due by each company (large or small) that does not grant a minimum director fee of EUR 45,000 (EUR 75,000 for a group of affiliated companies). The tax was due on the difference between the highest compensation actually paid and the required amount, and is tax deductible.
On 4 April 2019, however, the Chamber adopted the proposal eliminating the sanction for non-compliance with the minimum remuneration condition (adopted text not yet available).
Article 219quinquies is removed from the Income Tax Code. Therefore, the distinct taxation of 5% will be considered never to have existed and will not apply to any company, regardless of the amount of the director fee since 1 January 2018.
The provisions referring to this article will also be modified. Except for one provision, theses changes will be applicable as from the assessment year 2019 that is linked to a taxable period that starts, at the earliest, on 1 January 2018.
The adopted text has still to be published in the Official Gazette.


NAEC Celebrated their 75th year in 2015 with many firsts. Sawyer Brown was the headliner and for the first time a governor attended and spoke at the meeting. Asa Hutchinson was the first Arkansas Governor to attend.


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Suomenmaa (till 1965 Maakansa), är en finländsk dagstidning som är huvudorgan för Centern i Finland.

Tidningen, grundades 1908 var ursprungligen ett språkrör för småbrukarbefolkningen i Karelen med Viborg som utgivningsort fram till 1940, men utkommer sedan 1945 i Helsingfors. Dess starke man var från seklets början Juho Niukkanen, som var styrelseordförande 1934–1949. Under 1950- och 1960-talen dikterades dess linje i mycket av president Urho Kekkonen. Tidningen blev officiellt partiorgan först 1967. Idag utkommer den med en riksupplaga i Helsingfors (fyradagars, 7 605 exemplar 2009) och en regional upplaga (femdagars, 2 468 exemplar 2009) i Uleåborg.

Källor

Finländska dagstidningar
Finskspråkiga dagstidningar
Centern i Finland
Media i Helsingfors
Uleåborg
Dagstidningar startade 1908

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I love Jasmine's long black braided hair. She really has a unique look that's separate from some of the other princesses.
Black: 2", three pieces of 1", four pieces of 4"
Blue: 2", two pieces of 1", three pieces of 1½ ", four pieces of 4"
Step 1: Roll tan 3" piece of ribbon into a circle and glue. This will be your head.
Step 2: Cut tan 2¼ " piece at each end so that the tips are rounded. Spray with no fray spray. These will be your arms.
3. Take your 2" piece of blue and your 2" piece of black and overlap leaving blue showing beneath black. Glue together.
4. Wrap around head and glue ends to back of head.
5. Glue your three pieces of 1" of black ribbon side by side. Then fold in half and glue to top of head.
6. Take your four pieces of 4" black ribbon and glue two together side by side in pairs.
7. Over lap in an upside down V and glue.
8. Overlap left over right and glue underneath hair.
9. Over lap left over right again and glue underneath.
10. Glue ends together at bottom.
11. Cut ends of ribon in a curved point. Spray with no fray spray.
12. Take two pieces of your 1½ " blue ribbon and wrap around black ribbon at the narrowest points and glue ends to back of ribbon.
13. Take one of your 1" piece of blue ribbon and pinch it in the middle and glue.
14. Wrap blue ribbon around body and glue ends in back.
15. Take your other 1" piece of blue ribbon and cut in half lengthwise. Spray with no fray spray.
16. Wrap around arms in a V shape leaving enough space for your body to lay between.
17. Glue ends to back of arms.
18. Turn over and glue down body to front of arms.
19. Take your four pieces of 4" blue ribbon and fold in half gluing ends together.
20. Take two of those piece and glue together at the ends in a V shape. Repeat with other two pieces of blue ribbon. These are your legs.
21. Glue legs to back of body in a V shape.
22. Glue last piece of 1½" blue ribbon to the front of Jasmine's waist at an angle.
23. Wrap ribbon around back and glue end in front at an angle.
24. Take your braided hair piece and glue to back of head.
25. Wrap braid around to front and glue the side of the braid to the side of Jasmine's legs.


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Giuliani, the next Lieberman?
Beware early prognostication
IN RESPONSE to our post below on the Republican front-runners a commenter argued for the futility of polling this early in the process, noting that Joseph Lieberman was leading the Democratic field on this date in 2003. Indeed he was (if you exclude Hillary Clinton), as the results of this Quinnipiac poll from February 2003 show.
Lieberman 27%
Kerry 18%
Gephardt 16%
Edwards 14%
Dean 3%
Sharpton 6%
DK/NA 16%
So are John McCain and Rudy Giuliani destined for a fall similar to Mr Lieberman's? Probably not, but Mr Giuliani may be more likely to stumble. Mr Lieberman's problem was that in early 2003 the public still thought of him as the quirky, yet genuine, vice-presidential candidate, who provided the perfect foil for Al Gore during the 2000 campaign. By the end of the year he came to be seen as an uninspiring right-of-centre candidate, who drew the ire of left-wingers. His poll numbers plummeted.
Similarly, Mr Giuliani is regarded today as America's most famous mayor, who used conservative principles to turn around New York City and put in a heroic performance following the September 11th attacks. But, as Lexington points out this week, "a recent USA Today/Gallop poll found that barely one in five Republicans knew that he supported abortion choice and civil unions for gay couples," not to mention stricter gun-control laws. As the public learns more about Mr Giuliani, might he be destined for a Lieberman-like fall?


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The Buranovo Grannies will inaugurate Orthodox centre in Finland
by Juha Repo January 23, 2013 1:22 pm 315 views
The singing grannies from Udmurtia, Buranovo Babushki, will travel to Iisalmi in Eastern Finland in June. They will be the main attraction in the reopening of an Orthodox centre 6 June. The singing group were the runners-up at the 2012 Eurovision Sonc Contest in Baku.
Father Elias Huurinainen tells Finnish Eurovision news site viisukuppila.fi that the grannies will arrive to Iisalmi in the beginning of June to be the main attraction at the re-opening of KulttuuriArtos and HotelliArtos.
There has been a cultural centre in Iisalmi celebrating Karelian Orthodox belief for 24 years, and that has now been expanded and will be relaunched in June to better serve visitors to the area.
Father Elias further says he wanted an act to celebrate the relaunch that was in keeping with the centre's philosophy and the Orthodox belief and the choice of the singing grannies was a natural one.
A letter was prepared in Udmurtian and the grannies agreed to travel to Finland. Father Elias also says that they both represent minority cultures and belong to the same religion as well as the Finno-Ugric language group, so the match is made in heaven.
Buranovski Babushki will perform apart from the Artos Centre in the Iisalmi cultural centre with 480 seats, or if enough of the €35 tickets are sold the performance can be moved to the sports centre with 1000 seats.
Iisalmi is a town of 22.000 inhabitants in the province of Eastern Finland. The Orthodox faith is one of the two officially recognised religions in Finland, and it is mainly connected with the Karelian culture of Eastern Finland.
Buranovo Babushki with special guests partying at a special New Year's show on Russian TV:
Buranovo Babushki
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Centuries ago on a faraway planet Sproinkus scientist noticed a huge meteorite which was flying their way. It was very strange: it had millions of energy crystals which were glowing very brightly. The crash with the planet was inevitable. No one could survive in such a catastrophe. But the scientists were sure that they could save people of Sproinkus. They decided to build an underground refuge for five million people. It was a marvelous plan of saving the whole civilization. People started living under the surface. Three centuries passed like this and now the food supplies are running out and it is necessary to come up to the surface. The Sproinklings need someone who could take charge of this dangerous journey. In the game Sproink you can become their leader and help them survive. Catch the falling crystals and direct them into the area of same-colored ones. To do so you have a special device. Thus you will destroy the crystals and be able to move forward and lead thousands of Sproinklings to the surface. There are hundreds of kilometers ahead and more crystals are falling and falling. Be very careful as the fate of the whole race is in your hands! You can use power-ups that will help you in dangerous situations. During your journey through the game Sproink you will reach the supply depot and find out if the old supplies are still good. Then you will visit the Lake People colony. The Cavern of Storms is a very dangerous place, be especially attentive there. Will you be able to lead the people to the surface in Sproink?


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Sunday The Last Day To Buy Health Insurance On Federal Marketplace
By Bret Jaspers
Open enrollment for buying 2020 health insurance on the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace closes at 1 a.m. Monday, Dec. 16.
The pace of enrollment is down from last year.
Through Dec. 7, the number of Arizonans who had selected a plan on healthcare.gov was 60,339. Last year, the end of the sixth week of enrollment saw 73,214 enrollees.
That's a difference of about 17%, and a much bigger drop than the decline nationwide, which is about 6%.
There could be many reasons for that, including fear among legal immigrants of using safety net programs.
But premiums are down from last year, too.
Sylvia Burwell, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, said people need to realize there are affordable plans on healthcare.gov.
"There are millions of consumers across the country ... that are in the marketplace and could qualify for zero dollar plans," she said on a call with reporters.
The Arizona Alliance for Community Health Centers said about 300,000 Arizonans could be eligible for health insurance without a monthly premium. People can find assistance at coveraz.org.


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Focus on the zone around a tree approximately where the branches extend. Roots can extend beyond this zone but this is the area where roots are more delicate. The secret is to make sure that the soil is not too compact so that roots can keep soaking up water and oxygen.
Think of the bark as an armour that protects the tree. Protecting the tree bark will prevent infections, illness or insect activity. Keep an eye out for possible risks that could damage tree bark, including:.
Vehicles: trees near roadways or driveways can suffer hits from tall vehicles. Remove lower branches to avoid breakage and ensure trees show up during the night.
Sprinkler system: a spray of water that repetitively strikes bark at the very same place can cause damage. If you utilize sprinklers to water your lawn, make sure these do not directly strike trees.
Lawn devices: wear; t get yard devices near the tree trunks as this can cause major damage to the bark.
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Plant lawn or some kind of ground cover. Dead plant product will decay in the ground and enrich the soil. Make sure your plants can thrive in the shade and that their roots don't take on the tree.
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Press Release20 November 2018Siemens Mobility GmbHMunich
Siemens Mobility secures major order to manufacture a new generation of Tube trains in London
94 metro trains for London based on the Inspiro platform
Delivery beginning in 2023
Digital services based on Siemens Mobility's Railigent
New trains will be more spacious, air-conditioned, have walk-through carriages and improve accessibility
Additional capacity, maximized throughput and improved passenger experience for millions of passengers
Siemens Mobility has been awarded a major contract in the United Kingdom. London Underground (LUL), a subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL), responsible for the urban rail system in Britain's capital, signed a contract with Siemens Mobility to design and build 94 new generation Tube trains worth around 1.5 billion GBP (1.54 billion Euro) to replace the existing 1970s fleet. The trains will serve the Piccadilly line and delivery will begin in 2023.
"Our new metro trains for London will significantly increase capacity and frequency on the Piccadilly line. At the same time, they will offer tube users substantially improved passenger experience. Our services will support London Underground over the trains' full lifecycle to ensure that they serve the London public with the highest reliability and availability," said Sabrina Soussan, CEO of Siemens Mobility.
Nigel Holness, Managing Director of London Underground, said: "The introduction of new trains on the Piccadilly line will significantly improve the journeys of millions of our customers, providing more frequent and more reliable trains for decades to come. This order will mean the replacement of the 1970s Piccadilly line fleet, with delivery of the new trains starting in 2023, and will help address crowding on the line as London's population continues to rise."
The new spacious Piccadilly line trains are based on Siemens Mobility's Inspiro family of metro trains and offer passengers substantially improved comfort and convenience. The state-of-the-art Tube trains will significantly improve the experience of millions of customers, with wider doors and longer, walk-through, fully air-conditioned carriages. In addition, in-train information systems will help all customers plan their onward journey more easily.
As part of a fleet services contract, Siemens Mobility will be responsible for covering the supply of spares for a period of five years beginning with the commissioning of the first trains. Siemens Mobility will also provide whole life technical support for the trains when they are out of their general warranty. Additionally, LUL has ordered digital services based on Siemens' Railigent.
TfL and Siemens Mobility will work closely together to consider options for local manufacture in the United Kingdom in partnership with Siemens Mobility's global centre of excellence for metros in Vienna, Austria. In March 2018 Siemens Mobility announced plans for a local rail manufacturing facility in Goole, East Yorkshire, where Siemens Mobility is planning to create up to 700 jobs (and a further 250 during the construction phase), with an additional 1,700 potential UK supply chain roles.
LUL has ordered the trains as part of its Deep Tube Upgrade Programme which includes the Piccadilly, Bakerloo, Central and Waterloo & City lines. By 2026, there will be increased frequencies during peak times on the Piccadilly line (up from 24 to 27 trains-per-hour), which is used by 700,000 passengers daily. This service provides a train every 135 seconds at the busiest times.
The formal contract for the supply of new Piccadilly line trains is between Siemens Mobility and London Underground (a subsidiary of Transport for London). Of the 1.5bn GBP (approximate) total contract value, around 1.54bn euro is immediately bookable by Siemens Mobility, the remainder will be booked over the course of the contract (in accordance with accounting principles) as it is related to the 40 year Fleet Services Agreement.
This press release, press photos and further info materials are available at:
www.siemens.com/press/tube-london
Read more about "Siemens Mobility to deliver the new metro trains for London's Tube"
Website: Inspiro – the metro from Siemens
Siemens Mobility is a separately managed company of Siemens AG. As a leader in transport solutions for more than 160 years, Siemens Mobility is constantly innovating its portfolio in its core areas of rolling stock, rail automation and electrification, turnkey systems, intelligent traffic systems as well as related services. With digitalization, Siemens Mobility is enabling mobility operators worldwide to make infrastructure intelligent, increase value sustainably over the entire lifecycle, enhance passenger experience and guarantee availability. In fiscal year 2018, which ended on September 30, 2018, the former Siemens Mobility Division posted revenue of €8.8 billion and had around 28,400 employees worldwide. Further information is available at: www.siemens.com/mobility.


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SOCIAL TIES OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: EVIDENCE FROM A LONGITUDINAL SURVEY IN RUSSIA
Education. EDU. Высшая школа экономики, 2016. No. 33.
Leonova L., Krekhovets E.
Student friendship networks can be considered as social capital, which is known to be a very useful resource during university and after it. Several empirical studies have examined static models of student behaviour in social networks. In this study we analyse the dynamic changes of student social connections. We use original longitude data of student social ties from one Russian university. Data was collected within the framework of a research project of the International Research Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms. To investigate factors influencing the evolution of social ties during university probit regressions were tested. We found that students with similar characteristics such as gender and academic achievement are more likely to become friends and continue to be friends. Both studying in the same group and living in a dormitory increase the likelihood of being friends. We also found a transitivity effect. We observe a positive effect of having common friend on friendship ties. We also notice a positive link between reciprocity and friendship stability.
Research target: Education
Priority areas: economicssociology
Keywords: social networksfriendship higher education
Project or Process? How to Measure the Real Type of Employees' Activity?
Dmitry Romanov, Сидоров П. In bk.: IEEE Ninth International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), 2011. IEEE, 2011. P. 1084-1088.
By analyzing the logs of corporate e-mail networks we found a number of patterns, showing how the size of ego-networks of individual employees changes on a day by day basis. We proposed a simple model that adequately describes the observed time dependence of an employee's "social circle". Comparison of experimental data with the theoretical model showed that employees are divided into two groups - with fast and slow changes in their social circles, respectively. We believe that the presence of these groups reflects both project-type and process-type of employees' activities. Comparison of data obtained before and during the global economic crisis has shown that the crisis led to an actual reduction in project-type activities.
The European Higher Education Area: Between Critical Reflections and Future Policies
Bridging the gap between higher education research and policy making was always a challenge, but the recent calls for more evidence-based policies have opened a window of unprecedented opportunity for researchers to bring more contributions to shaping the future of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Encouraged by the success of the 2011 first edition, Romania and Armenia have organised a 2nd edition of the Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers' Conference (FOHE-BPRC) in November 2014, with the support of the Italian Presidency of the European Union and as part of the official EHEA agenda. Reuniting over 170 researchers from more than 30 countries, the event was a forum to debate the trends and challenges faced by higher education today and look at the future of European cooperation in higher education. The research volumes offer unique insights regarding the state of affairs of European higher education and research, as well as forward-looking policy proposals. More than 50 articles focus on essential themes in higher education: Internationalization of higher education; Financing and governance; Excellence and the diversification of missions; Teaching, learning and student engagement; Equity and the social dimension of higher education; Education, research and innovation; Quality assurance, The impacts of the Bologna Process on the EHEA and beyond and Evidence-based policies in higher education.
State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus. Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Politics
Edited by: S. Voell, I. Kaliszewska. Ashgate, 2015.
Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. This is a region affected by a multitude of legal orders and the book describes social action and governance in the light of this, and considers how conceptions of order are enforced, used, followed and staged in social networks and legal practice. Principally, how is the state perceived and how does it perform in both the North and South Caucasus? From elections in Dagestan and Armenia to uses of traditional law in Ingushetia and Georgia, from repression of journalism in Azerbaijan to the narrations of anti-corruption campaigns in Georgia - the text reflects the multifarious uses and performances of law and order. The collection includes approaches from different scholarly traditions and their respective theoretical background and therefore forms a unique product of multinational encounters.
Does Competition Matter? Efficiency of Regional Higher Education Systems and Competition: Case of Russia
Leshukov O., Platonova D., Semyonov D. Basic research program. WP BRP. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2015. No. WP BRP 29/EDU/2015 .
The paper explores the relation between the degree of competition between higher education institutions (HEIs) and efficiency of regional higher education systems taking the evidence from the Russian Federation. The choice of regional system of higher education as a unit of analysis explained by features of the Russian system of higher education, especially by "closeness" in borders of regions. Using data envelopment analysis (DEA) we investigate the efficiency of higher education systems in the regions and juxtapose the results with the extent of higher education competition within them. The analysis finds that within the overall sample the correlation is positive, but not striking. Yet, the extent of competition is connected with the efficiency of the regional sets of HEIs more in the regions that are less developed socio-economically.
WEB 2.0. ESP Coursebook
Golechkova T. Y., Shemyakina V. I., Klepko E. Y. M.: Sputnik+, 2010.
This book presents a course of English for Specific Purposes devoted specifically to the widely-discussed topic Web 2.0. It covers several aspects of online communication ranging from online friendship to business interacions. The activities presented in the coursebook are aimed at developing students' communicative competence in both written and oral discourse. Web 2.0 includes a variety of authentic articles that arouse interest and provoke discussions. It also presents listening texts based on professional podcasts. Most grammar and vocabulary activities are developed from authentic texts as well.
Web 2.0 can be used at the B2-C1 levels of Common European Famework. The coursebook will help learn and practice the target vocabulary. It will be relevant to those interested in the development of Information and Communication Technologies in general and the Internet in particular.
Кризис образования и социальная динамика сферы труда
Савельева О. О. Локус: люди, общество, культуры, смыслы. 2016. № 1. С. 86-96.
The main reason the so-called "crisis of education" covers not only the rap-id changes in the system of knowledge and technology, but also the changes in the labor market, the prevalence of atypical employment. As a result, the univer-sity, by definition, can not train a specialist, fully satisfying the requirements of the employer. For example, the direction of "Advertising and public relations" proposes measures to resolve the existing contradictions.
How social ties affect peer-group effects: a case of university students
Poldin O. V., Valeeva D., Yudkevich M. M. Sociology. SOC. Высшая школа экономики, 2013. No. 15/SOC/2013.
Among the key issues of peer effects estimation is the correct identification of relevant peers. In this study, we explore how the individual performance of university students is influenced by characteristics and achievements of peers from individual's social network. The analysis uses data from two directed networks: a network of friends and a network of study partners for third-year students at a top-tier Russian university. Data on network ties in randomly formed student groups enables us to address the endogeneity problem and disentangle the influence of peers' performance from the effect that a peer's background has on students. We show that both the GPA of peers and their ability measures are significant in the estimated regression model. A one-point increase in the average GPA of peers is associated with an increase in an individual student's own GPA of approximately one fourth. The regression on the data from the network of study partners has slightly greater explanatory power than the analysis based on data from the network of friends. No effect from a student's classmates is found in the model that assumes group interactions occur between group mates.
Protest and Social Media: Friendship and Communication
Dokuka S., Gradoselskaya G. Social Science Research Network. Social Science Research Network. SSRN, 2014
Online social networking sites are considered as one of the most influential facilitator of many recent social movements. In this paper we investigate both the dynamics of friendship interactions and the structure of communication in protest-related community. We find that offline actions play insignificant role for the dynamics of the structure of a relatively stable protest online community.
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Интернет и культурная глобализация: глокальное сообщество каучсерферов Санкт-Петербурга
Кустов А. Н. Этнографическое обозрение. 2012. № 3. С. 105-117.
The article discusses the phenomenon of interconnected glocal hospitality communities which have recently spread over the world in the context of the internet development and cultural globalization processes. It focuses on a typical community of users of CouchSurfi ng.org, a major social hospitality network in St. Petersburg. The author argues that, in the framework of this web service, there occurs a transformation of virtual groups of users localized in various spots of the globe into actual interconnected glocal communities which shape shared identities, norms, values, and practices among its members.
Перспективы развития школьной социальной сети как пространства неформального образования учащихся
Ульянова Н. Н. В кн.: Управление образованием. СПб.: Отдел оперативной полиграфии НИУ ВШЭ – Санкт-Петербург, 2012. С. 29-31.
СЕТИ. 8.1. Сеть как механизм координации 8.2. Преимущества и недостатки сетевого взаимодействия 8.3. Основные типы межорганизационных сетей
Шерешева М. Ю. В кн.: Институциональная экономика: Новая институциональная экономическая теория. М.: ИНФРА-М, 2011. Гл. 8. С. 159-177.
Разработка рекомендательной системы на основе данных из профиля социальной сети «ВКонтакте»
Воронова Л. И., Авхадеев Б. Р., Охапкина Е. П. Вестник Нижневартовского государственного университета. 2014. № 3. С. 68-77.
There have been implemented engineering and development of multi-agent recommender system «EZSurf» that performs analysis of interests and provides recommendations for the social network «VKontakte» users based on the data from profile of particular user. During the work process different methods and technological solutions have been analyzed with examination of their advantages and disadvantages. Besides of that the comparative analysis of analogous products has been held where the most similar is Russian start-up service - Surfingbird. Based on this analysis the decision of recommender system implementation and integration has been accepted. The feature of this system is that it uses social network "VKontakte" profile for user's data collection and API of third-party services (LastFM, TheMovieDB) for an extraction of information about similar objects. Such an approach contributes into optimization of recommender system, because it does not require creation of its own object classification system and objects database. The functionality of multi-agent system was separated between three agents. First agent (Collector) collects user data from "VKontakte" profile using VK API. Second agent (Analyzer) collects similar objects from databases of thitd-party services (LastFM, TheMovieDB) that will be the criteria for further search of recommendatory content. For search and selection of information an agent (Recommender) that works as web-crawler has been implemented. System «EZSurf» can be exploited by the users of social network "VKontakte" in everyday life for time economy on web-surfing process. At the same time they will get recommendations on content that are filtered depending on preferences of every particular user.
Поддержание изменений в университетах. Преемственность кейс-стади и концепций
Кларк Б. Р. М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2011.
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Материалы 77-й Международной научно-технической конференции ААИ «Автомобиле- и тракторостроение в России: приоритеты развития и подготовка кадров»
Кн. 14: Секция 14. Развитие образовательного процесса на основе современной системы интерактивного обучения в условиях модернизации образования. М.: МГТУ «МАМИ», 2012.
Роль деловых игр в формировании профессиональных компетенций на занятиях по английскому языку
Жунич И. И., Ткачева Н. Л. Вып. 1: Содержание профессиональной подготовки по иностранным языкам в неязыковом вузе: современные тенденции, актуальные проблемы, пути решения: доклады и материалы Международной научно-практической конференции. М.: Логос, 2012.
Institutions and the Allocation of Talent
Natkhov T. V., Polishchuk L. Economics. EC. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 15.
Institutions affect investment decisions, including investments in human capital. Hence institutions are relevant for the allocation of talent. Good market-supporting institutions attract talent to productive value-creating activities, whereas poor ones raise the appeal of rent-seeking. We propose a theoretical model that predicts that more talented individuals are particularly sensitive in their career choices to the quality of institutions, and test these predictions on a sample of around 95 countries of the world. We find a strong positive association between the quality of institutions and graduation of college and university students in science, and an even stronger negative correlation with graduation in law. Our findings are robust to various specifications of empirical models, including smaller samples of former colonies and transition countries. The quality of human capital makes the distinction between educational choices under strong and weak institutions particularly sharp. We show that the allocation of talent is an important link between institutions and growth.
Ритуалы в медиатизированном обществе
Черных А. И. Политическая теория и политический анализ. WP14. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. № 03.
Математическое моделирование социальных процессов
Edited by: А. Михайлов Вып. 14. М.: Социологический факультет МГУ, 2012.


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The capital of the central African country of Chad is N'Djamena. The city is located on the country's southwestern border, adjacent to the country of Cameroon. N'Djamena lies on the Chari River where it joins the Logone River. It is the largest city in Chad by far.
The city has a cosmopolitan air, with lively sidewalk cafés, small bars, and discotheques. It is also known for its bazaars, which sell locally produced traditional goods such as textiles, camel-hair carpets and jackets, brass ornaments, and pottery. N'Djamena is the site of the University of N'Djamena (founded in 1971 as the University of Chad) and the National School of Administration (1963). The city's National Museum has collections specializing in prehistory and human cultures.
Most of the people in N'Djamena are employed in commerce. Farmers from the surrounding area sell their cotton and cattle in the city. It has a refrigerated slaughterhouse and is the headquarters of many companies in finance and light industry. N'Djamena is connected by road with Nigeria, Sudan, and the Central African Republic, as well as with major towns in Chad. The city also has an international airport.
The city was founded in 1900 as a French military post named Fort-Lamy. It was situated at the site of a small fishing village. Fort-Lamy was made part of a French colony in 1910. Fort-Lamy remained a small village until Chad became an independent country in 1960. The city then grew as the country's capital. In 1973 the city was renamed N'Djamena.
Rebel groups began fighting the government of Chad in the mid-1960s, and at times N'Djamena was the site of heavy fighting. During the long civil war that resulted, troops from Libya temporarily took control of the city in 1980–81. Population (2009 estimate), 993,492.