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This is an excerpt from a piece that appears in full on Zone Coverage here.
On Wednesday the Minnesota Twins announced the winners of their Sherry Robertson (Minor League Player of the Year) and Jim Rantz (Minor League Pitcher of the Year) Awards.
Catcher Mitch Garver got the nod for the Robertson Award, and it was richly deserved after the numbers he posted at Triple-A Rochester.
Garver was rewarded with a call-up to the big leagues after hitting a stellar .291/.387/.541 in 88 games with the Red Wings. While the 26-year-old Garver hit just .196/.288/.348 in his cup of coffee with the Twins, he did well to add some versatility in the minors which should help him claim a full-time roster spot in the big leagues in the near future. Besides making 66 starts behind the plate for the Red Wings — where he threw out 31 percent of attempted base thieves — Garver started 14 games in left field and four at first base.
It’s unclear what his future projection is in the big leagues due to the fact that he’ll already be 27 when the 2018 season starts, but if nothing else, he could have a future as a platoon bat after slashing .290/.408/.530 against lefties this past season. He wasn’t too shabby against righties — .273/.361/.509 — either.
Previous Robertson Award winners include:
- Zack Granite – 2016
- Max Kepler – 2015
- Kennys Vargas – 2014
- Byron Buxton – 2013
- Oswaldo Arcia – 2012
- Brian Dozier – 2011
Right-handed starter Aaron Slegers was named the winner of the Rantz Award, as both award winners appeared in the big leagues for the first time this past season.


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DMA to Launch ID Theft Campaign; Working with FTC to Help Consumers 'Deter. Detect. Defend.'
June 21, 2006 – The Direct Marketing Association announced today that it will partner with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in its “AvoID Theft” campaign. The goal of the campaign is to provide information to consumers on how they can avoid becoming a victim of identity theft and what to do if they suspect their personal information is being misused.
“The message of the AvoID Theft campaign is practical, clear, and concise: Deter. Detect. Defend,” said DMA President & CEO John A. Greco, Jr. “We’re committed to helping the FTC get those words out into the public and understood by as many consumers as we can.”
To help spread the word, DMA is developing a series of template materials that will be provided to its member companies. The brochures, bill stuffers, online content, and other materials can then be co-branded and offered to customers.
These materials will include tips for consumers on how to guard against identity theft and recognize when they might be at risk, as well as the appropriate steps to take if they believe they have become a victim.
“Our members know how to reach consumers – it’s what they do every day,” said Patricia Kachura, DMA’s senior vice president for ethics and consumer affairs. “ What DMA will do is to provide them this consumer-oriented information, which they can adapt and disseminate using their own existing and effective tools and channels.”
Campaign materials will be made available to DMA members later this summer, with a consumer Web site to be launched by early fall. All DMA materials will include messages and information that are part of the larger FTC campaign, which is now available online at www.consumer.gov/idtheft.
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This paper is a comprehensive research review on the learner control strategies in software tutoring systems. With the application of more computer techniques in education and the involvement of more adults in software tutoring systems, the learner control strategy has become more appreciated than tutor control or program control. In this paper, the efficiency and necessity of learner control in software tutoring systems is discussed through the description of learning mechanism. Some typical applications of learner control strategies in software tutoring systems are presented. The available learner control strategies are classified from two perspectives: educational theory, and software mechanism. Finally, a set of open problems related with learner control strategies are raised and the possible solutions are proposed correspondingly.


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When Adam Lanza committed his horrific crime at Sandy Hook Elementary, he misused a Bushmaster brand AR-15 to do it. That gun would be banned by Dianne Feinstein’s newly unveiled “Assault Weapons Ban of 2013,” but it would hardly be the only weapon outlawed.
The ban covers “all AR types,” including but not limited to:
AR-10, AR-15, Bushmaster ACR, Bushmaster Carbon 15, Bushmaster MOE Series, Bushmaster XM15, Colt Match Target Rifles, Doublestar AR rifles, DPMS Tactical Rifles, Heckler & Koch MR556, Olympic Arms, Remington R-15 rifles, Rock River Arms LAR-15, Sig Sauer SIG516 rifles, Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifles
In addition to the AR, these are some of the other rifles banned as well:
AK, AK-47, AK-47S, AK-74, AKM, AKS, ARM, MAK90, MISR, NHM90, NHM91, Rock River Arms LAR-47, SA85, SA93, Vector Arms AK-47, VEPR, WASR-10, and WUM, IZHMASH Saiga AK, MAADI AK-47, and ARM, Norinco 56S, 56S2, and 86S, Poly technologies AK-47 and AKS
The list also includes, but is not limited to, the following pistols:
American Spirit AR-15 pistol, Bushmaster Carbon 15 pistol, Doublestar Corporation AR pistol, DPMS AR pistol, Olympic Arms AR-15 pistol, Rock River Arms LAR 15 pistol, Calico Liberty pistols, DSA SA58 PKP FAL pistol, Encom MP-9 and MP-45, Heckler & Koch model SP-89 pistol, Intratec AB-10, TEC 22 Scorpion, TEC 9, and TEC DC9
The ban would also include, but is not limited to, the following shotguns:
Franchi LAW 12 and SPAS 12, all IZMASH Saiga 12 types including IZMASH Saiga 12, IZMASH Saiga 12S, IZMASH Saiga 12S EXP-01, IZMASH Saiga 12K, IZMASH Saiga 12K-040 Taktika, Streetsweeper, and Striker 12
These guns represent only 40% of what Feinstein ultimately wants to ban. We’re supposed to believe that this extensive list of guns is all driven by the fact that a criminal misused an AR-15 on Dec. 14th?
The number of weapons listed here proves that the real goal is to end importation and sale of these weapons so that registration can be implemented and the exact location of every gun and every gun owner can be ascertained.
And as the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre pointed out on Tuesday night, once such registration begins, we’ll quickly learn there are only two possible reasons for it: 1) to tax all gun owners or 2) to seize all guns.


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Asking how people are inspired may seem like a pretty straightforward question and for many people it can be all about highly charged motivational speeches and dynamism. Of course it can be quite the opposite, a quiet word at the right time with the right person and considered decision-making.
So what it boils down to is how you interact with others and how you behave. Not only do you influence those people with who you have direct contact, others see or hear about how you operate. Influencing in a positive way will be inspirational and those stories get around. Influencing in a negative way will be demotivating and discouraging and unfortunately those stories will get around far more quickly than the positive ones.
The strange thing is that even if you are in a situation when you are alone, rare for many people, others will be watching. They will see what you do in those moments and more importantly what happens after those periods of reflection.
The word gets around as to what you are like as a leader or manager and people who may never have met you will build up an impression based on perhaps second or third hand observations. It’s important that every now and again we remind ourselves of this, as it can be far too easy to focus solely on what is right in front of us without considering wider and longer-term implications. The reputation of our group or business and of ourselves as a professional is at stake.
Remember then that ensuring your interactions with others are positive in nature is far more likely to inspire them than discourage them. They will tell others about this and on-lookers will see it for themselves. Those who have never met you will start to hear of how your interactions with others, your behaviour, inspires and motivates. Just think how empowering that is for those you work with and how beneficial it can be to have such a positive vibe about how you operate within your business.
So what is it that you do that inspires those around you?
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Just over one year later and good girl Winnie is still loving life in her furever home with Jack and Fern! The adorable red Labrador/Retriever mix was adopted from the HSVC in late May of 2020 and it has been nonstop fun ever since!
According to her pawrents, 7-year-old Winnie was a little anxious when she was first brought home. However, with time and training, she grew more comfortable and has blossomed into a lovable, goofy dog. Her hobbies include hiking, watching squirrels through the front window, laying on the bed for morning cuddles, and giving high fives in exchange for treats.
"I have discovered that I don't like the ocean (way too cold) or dressing up for Halloween (so embarrassing) or being picked up, but my humans seem to enjoy those things, so I try to be a good sport. I still like to greet other dogs very carefully but have made a few furry friends who I play with on my morning walks. My favorite walk is the one we do on Saturday mornings up to the grassy field so I can get some sun on my belly!" said Winnie via her parents.
Thank you, Jack and Fern, for choosing Winnie and giving her all the attention, care, and love she deserves!
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Let’s return to a discussion of the doctrine of hell and in particular, the concept of hell as eternal conscious torment. According to this concept, to end up in hell is to end up in a state of eternal alienation from God, one which results in unimaginable physical and spiritual/psychological torment. And that torment never ends.
The inevitable question arises: how can God possibly allow a state of affairs so awful, so unimaginably terrible as this?
If you don’t yet resonate with the force of the question, perhaps we can personalize it. Suppose that the damned wretch of which we speak is your own son or daughter. Can you imagine a heaven which exists concurrent with your beloved child suffering unimaginable physical and spiritual/psychological torment forever?
No doubt, many people will reply that they cannot envision such a scenario, even as a remote possibility. How could anyone possibly be reconciled to God in Christ, how could they exist in a state of affairs where there are no more tears (Rev. 21:4), and how could they do so at the very same time that their beloved child is suffering maximally in body and mind in hell?
C.S. Lewis felt the sting of this problem. And in The Great Divorce he sought to provide an answer. In that answer, Lewis opted to dehumanize and depersonalize the damnable wretches that end up suffering forever. This is how he put it:
“Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others … but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine.”
This is a very frustrating passage insofar as it aspires to have its rhetorical cake and eat it too. On the one hand, Lewis suggests that we need not suffer forever with our damned loved ones because at some point “there will be no you left…” On the other hand, he never endorses annihilationism, the claim that human beings are destroyed in the process of damnation. And that leaves one with the impression that in some sense the damnable wretch does exist forever, although not as “you”.
But if it isn’t “you” then who is the individual that is suffering … and why are they suffering for the sins and errors that you committed Assuming that annihilation is off the table, what would it mean to say that the “grumble” goes “on forever like a machine”? So far as I can see, it can only mean that the individual continues to exist and to suffer. However, that individual has been depersonalized as a “grumble,” presumably as a way to reconcile that unimaginably horrific fate with the redeemed parent who is now expected to experience inexpressible joy in heaven.
And this, I would insist, is horrible. No doctrine of hell should be sustained by depersonalizing the damned children of the redeemed as “grumbles”. The conclusion: either embrace the conclusion that your beloved child may eventually suffer unimaginable torment eternally, and that this horrific eventuality is consistent with the world-redeeming goodness of Christianity, or reject the doctrine of eternal conscious torment outright as an intolerable error.

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Mention Kodak, and chances are you’ll probably think about film and cameras. Well, the company is back with a bunch of new products that will definitely tickle your fancy, so let’s take a quick look at all of them before you decide whether to redirect some of your monthly resources to purchase one of these, eh? First off we have the Kodak Zi8 pocket video camera that will bring full high definition video recording within reach of the masses, while the EasyShare digital camera market will be expanded by the introduction of the Z950 and M381. As for digital photo frames, Kodak ensures it has that ground covered with the S730 and D830, while the Kodak Theatre HD player rounds off the list of recent product announcements.
First off is the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera that offers integrated electronic image stabilization for vibrant and sharper full HD videos, a generous 2.5″ color LCD display, a swing-out USB arm for fast uploading, sharing and charging, a 5-megapixel 16:9 widescreen image sensor, an external microphone jack and easy uploading of snapped photos and videos to Facebook and YouTube.
Up next is the EasyShare Z950 digital camera that boasts a 10X image stabilized SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH VARIOGON optical zoom lens, a 12-megapixel sensor, Kodak’s Smart Capture feature and a fast click-to-capture speed of less than 0.3 seconds. The smaller EasyShare M381 digital camera, however, also comes with a 12-megapixel sensor with a 5X optical zoom lens and an advanced feature set which comprises of HD still image capture, easy uploading to Facebook, YouTube or Kodak Gallery, face detection of up to 5 faces and blue reduction technology.
The EasyShare S730 digital frame comes with a built-in rechargeable battery, allowing one to use this as a portable digital photo album without being restrained by the length of its power cord. It comes with a new Picture Finder feature that makes it easier to locate images you want to share with others on the spot. As for the D830, this new Décor Series will come in a choice of hundreds of traditional picture frames for those who want to maintain a visible link between old and new technology. Last but not least is the Theatre HD player that comes with YouTube support, Net video access and discovery collage views, giving you superior all round control of your photo collection.
The Kodak Zi8 pocket video camera, EasyShare Z950, EasyShare M381, S730, D830 and Kodak Theatre HD player will retail for $179.95, $279.99, $179.99, $139, $139 and $199.99, respectively.


Movie music at its best
Movie music has always been important, and you would be hard-pressed to find a filmmaker who doesn’t understand and appreciate the immense power that music can have within the context of a scene.
But over the last 20 years, that appreciation has spread much farther than the filmmaking community. Now, many audience members have grown to love movie music for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it can remind them of their favorite movies with just a few notes.
As movies have diversified, so too has film music become a very wide genre. It seems to have room for just about every other genre of music within it.
Versions of classical music have been used since before the days of Kubrick. Industrial and electronic music found its way into mainstream movies thanks to the likes of Trent Reznor. Minimalist horror scores like the one featured in Under the Skin have expanded the emotional reach of a film genre that had been growing stale for decades.
Some movie fans fall in love so deeply with film scores that they decide to become composers themselves.
If you’ve been wanting to try your hand at film composition, either as a hobby or as a profession, this is the article for you. We will take a look at how to practice film scoring with the help of professional musician and film composer Marvin McMahon.
McMahon has contributed music to more than 50 television shows, including The Voice and Law & Order. He also serves as the frontman of the rockband River Becomes Ocean.
Current Artisan caught up with him last week to discuss how film composition hopefuls can hone their skills and create a musical voice all their own.
Film music bootcamp
So where should you get started with film music composition? Well, if you’re not already familiar with the nuts and bolts of music and instrumentation, then you’ll have to start from square one.
Learning a versatile instrument like the piano or the guitar is never a bad place to get started, but you should also listen to many different composers.
Whether you want to attend a music program at a well-regarded college or university is up to you. The alternative would be to teach yourself as much as you can.
McMahon himself used a combination of both to develop his skills.
Before entering the world of writing music for the screen, McMahon studied music theory and performance in Germany and the UK. But none of his studies were directly related to composing score music.
He started doing some digging online, finding resources that helped to familiarize him with the ins and outs of film music.
“There is so much valuable information everywhere online and offline, from books like ‘The Study Of Orchestration’ by Samuel Adler to the scores of the great composers on YouTube that you can study free of charge. But I think the best way to really develop your skills is just by doing it every day: writing, writing, writing!”
Write as often as you can. Yes, your early work will probably be bad. Don’t let it discourage you. This is how absolutely everyone has to start their career.
A popular phrase in music schools around the country is that each student has a thousand terrible songs in them, and they need to get them out as quickly as possible. Learn from every awful piece of music you write. You’ll become a skilled composer much faster that way.
If you’re an absolute beginner, a great way to practice is to cue up a movie or TV show, preferably one you haven’t seen before. Keep it on mute and try to compose in real-time.
What is the tone of the scene? What does the color scheme tell you about how the scene is supposed to feel?
Do this again and again and again. It won’t be long before you notice improvement. You can even try to take some video yourself, even if it’s just of friends sitting around, talking.
Later, on your own, try to make the footage feel different by applying different music styles.
Intuition vs. technical skill
There’s a tendency among art students of any stripe to say that they don’t need to worry about the fundamentals, that their artistic instincts are far more important.
After all, learning all the intricacies of music theory and the subtleties of different instruments is time-consuming and may seem less important than coming up with interesting musical ideas.
So we decided to put the question to our guest expert: in your experience, what is more important, technical skill or intuition?
“As a professional, I believe intuition is more important. You can always hire one of the many amazing session musicians or program a difficult passage in your software. However, solid technical ability and an understanding of theory and harmony will help immensely when composing, and I think every composer should always strive to learn more and more.”
In other words, it’s often a mix of both. The twist here is that intuition often comes as the result of expert-level technical ability. For example, when you can make a piano or a DAW do absolutely anything you want it to, you can implement any music idea you could ever think of.
The act of composing itself can be a great way to practice, but it’s never a waste of time to learn the foundations of music itself.
No ‘I’ in team
Chances are if you’ve been picturing your future career as a film composer, you imagine yourself alone in a dimly lit room, surrounded by computer monitors and keyboards. At most, maybe you saw yourself conducting a studio orchestra.
Sure, there are times when composers shut themselves away in a room to work on a project in solitude, but every piece of music involves a certain amount of collaboration, intentionally or unintentionally.
You need to be comfortable with the possibility of integrating other people’s ideas and even asking for help when you hit a roadblock.
McMahon cheerfully described how each of his projects involves some degree of collaboration with other talented artists.
“I usually work on 3-5 projects at the same time, and for every single project, I’m collaborating with someone. Collaborating is such a great part of music, you get to write musical pieces that would have never sounded the way they do if you would have composed them on your own. You get to learn from each other and become a better writer in the process.”
This is especially important to keep in mind at the start of your career. You most likely won’t be hired outright to compose the music for a major motion picture. Many young composers start out as assistants to other composers. Odds are you will be a collaborator for years before getting the chance to spearhead a significant project.
Blend in or stand out?
While writing your own music, there will be times when a piece sounds very similar to something you’ve heard before. It’s inevitable.
While outright musical theft is illegal, you should be able to imitate the styles of different composers with ease by the time you enter the field as a professional. McMahon made this clear during our conversation.
“I think finding your own musical style is something that takes a lifetime to develop. You also need to be able to imitate other composers’ styles, as clients will sometimes tell you that they want a track that sounds like composer X or Y.”
Think of finding your own musical voice as a long-term goal, one that will be achieved passively, by practicing your craft and learning more about yourself.
Until that time, you’ll mostly be trying to please the client. Most clients don’t want wholly original music, but instead music that sounds like something they’ve heard before, music that has been successful in the past.
This reality might clash with your artistic goals, but it’s incredibly common. It might help to have your own side projects at all times, where you’ll have an outlet for your more creative musical ideas. But in the beginning, the most important thing is to do work that the client loves.
The best moments
Confronting what real-life film composition actually looks like can be difficult. You’ll need to spend a massive number of hours practicing your craft just to be considered for small jobs.
Ultimately, you’ll need to find the practice method that works best for you. It may be composing to pre-existing movies or you may prefer to start from scratch, working out a simple melody around which to build the rest of the score.
But there is light at the end of the tunnel, even when you find yourself at a loss for ideas.
McMahon explained that there are moments during each project when he is reminded of his love for music and his own abilities as a composer.
“I think my favorite aspects of the composition process are the beginning and the end. Not knowing what is going to happen at the beginning is scary. Then, after some very hard work, you finish the composition and you’re happy with what you’ve written. Following a struggle, suddenly it all works and you feel an indescribable sense of relief and happiness. It’s wonderful.”
With enough practice, you too could reach this euphoric state, having written something you will always be proud of.


KKL-JNF's Omer Golan (right), with Mekelle University's Dr. Kiros Meles (left) and colleague, with beetles from Israel and infected cacti samples.
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Experts from KKL-JNF’s Afforestation Division have enlisted in a battle to save prickly pear cacti in Ethiopia from a serious aphid attack.
KKL-JNF has experience of combating aphids on prickly pear plants, as a similar outbreak has taken place in Israel in recent years. The Israeli aphids are generally supposed to have arrived from Lebanon. The cochineal aphid (Dactylopius coccus) was introduced into northern Ethiopia over a decade ago as a source of natural red dye. The breeding plan was abandoned, but the cactus-eating insect spread and began to sow destruction among the country’s prickly pears. By feeding on the juices of the cacti, the aphids caused them irreparable damage, and so deprived camels and other domestic livestock in Ethiopia’s Tigré region of an important source of grazing.
Northern Ethiopia suffered severe famine until about twenty years ago, and many thousands of people starved to death. Today the prickly pear cactus is an important component of nutritional security in the region, and during periods of drought this cactus functions as the “bottom of the barrel” for both human beings and livestock. At such times, people eat the prickly pear fruit, while the animals feed off the flesh of the plant. As the cactus regenerates, it can continue to provide food in times of severe shortage.
Because combating the aphid is so vital to nutritional security in the region, KKL-JNF Chief Forester David Brand has invested a great deal of effort in promoting cooperation designed to bring KKL-JNF’s professional help to Ethiopia.
KKL-JNF already has experience of the battle against aphids of this kind, which have spread in Israel, too, in recent years, after arriving, it is assumed, from Lebanon. Unfortunately, the variety found in Israel is much more aggressive than its Ethiopian relative and it has caused enormous damage to prickly pear cacti in the north of the country.
Director of the KKL-JNF Afforestation Division’s Forest Health and Protection Department Omer Golan was summoned to Ethiopia to help combat the aphid. He did not arrive there empty-handed, but came equipped with 600 wild Cryptolaemus montrouzieri beetles, relatives of the well-loved and familiar ladybird that are sometimes referred to in English as “mealybug destroyers.” As their name suggests, they are a commercial biological pest-control product. These particular beetles were collected in the Acco and Western Galilee region before being summarily dispatched on their mission to Ethiopia.
Activities in Ethiopia are being coordinated by Dr. Kiros Meles of Mekelle University.
“I’m proud that we can place our expertise at the disposal of other countries,” said Omer Golan. “We’re not just helping to breed a natural enemy of pests – we’re also opening a new channel of cooperation. And, of course, I regard all collaborations of this kind as a wonderful opportunity to learn from the knowledge of others.”
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Shaun Landry (she/her) currently teaches at The Pack Theater, is the Artistic Director of Oui Be Negroes, and cofounded The San Francisco Improv Festival. She is also half of the Duo of Landry & Summers and currently produces The Seniors and The Nationals. Shaun has worked for The Second City Chicago Tour Company & Children’s Theater, Geese Theater Company, and African American Shakespeare Company .
She has been in the improvisational festival circuit teaching and performing at The Kansas City, Big Stinkin Improv Austin, The Funny Women’s New York, Miami, Hawaii, Duofest Philadelphia, Improv Festival, Oberlin College, Chicago, Amsterdam, Seoul and Tokyo Improv Festivals, BATS Improv Comedy Festivals ,and has taught at universities including Stanford and Northwestern.
She can be read in numerous books including Whose Improv is it Anyway: Beyond the Second City. As a member of the SAG/AFTRA, she has appeared on Conan, Transparent, and in the movies Read You Like a Book as Marcia, with Danny Glover and Karen Black, and The Oscar Award winning movie Milk as Gwenn Craig, with Sean Penn.
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Author: Todd Strasser
Release Date: September 2009
Published By: EgmontUSA
Goodreads Rating: 3.83 stars
Review: The day after anonymous blogger Str-S-d wishes the popular girl would die, Lucy vanishes, tearing apart the world of Madison, Lucy's friend and the last person to see her alive. When two more popular students disappear after their names are mentioned on Str-S-d’s blog, the residents of Soundview panic. Meanwhile, Madison receives anonymous notes warning that she could be next. The clock is ticking. Madison must uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances... before her name appears in Str-S-d’s blog.
WISH YOU WERE DEAD was just the kind of psychological suspense I love to read. The plot was immediately compelling, grabbing the reader from the first page and refusing to let go through the end. The further you go into the book, the faster the pace picks up, until you reach the point where you're basically flipping pages as quickly as you can to find out who the killer is and why they're on this mission. And let me just say - the big reveal does not disappoint. Of all the characters in the book, it truly was the last one I expected, just as should be in a good mystery.
One aspect that I especially liked was the narration. Although Madison wasn't really a go-getter kind of character, it didn't bother me for two reasons: the first is that I was content to see the plot unfold through her eyes and the second is that her narration somehow perfectly complemented the book. Usually you would expect a certain tone from such a dark book, and while the serious parts were serious and the creepy parts were creepy, Madison's narration took a more light-hearted approach than you might anticipate - and it worked.
The only part of the novel that truly bothered me was the romance. I always seem to have quibbles with this in books so this really could just be me, but the romance seemed like something that was just sort of hastily shoved into the plot for the sake of having a romance. I found Tyler more tiresome than enchanting, and frankly, I couldn't understand why Madison didn't feel the same way.
All in all, WISH YOU WERE DEAD was an excellent young adult suspense novel that I would rank high for its intriguing plot concept and shocking mystery reveal. I only wish that the romance was better, but the narration and cool plot more than make up for this flaw. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys young adult thrillers but doesn't want something that would make them scared to go to sleep.


R&B recording artist Porcelan is not only a singer and songwriter but she also has an eye for fashion and beauty. She is one of the first to sign with Made in Memphis Entertainment. She is currently #36 on Urban A/C billboard with her single “Real Thing Don’t Change.”
She became a recording artist at the age of sixteen. She has always been surround by music and she comes from a family of musicians, gospel groups and pastors. “It’s just always been a thing…if you come to my family reunions, ok, we are going to get up and do a song and that’s normally how it goes…the kids get up in front of everybody. It’s a generational thing.”
Aside from her family being a major influence in her life, she also looks up to Stevie Wonder, Prince, Whitney Houston. “Prince inspired me to be different and Whitney is captivating in her stage performance.” She also mentioned Beyonce and Rihanna and says “they are my top favorite artist because they do so many thing for young girls to be proud of and something to look up to.” She expressed interest in collaborating with Kendrick Lamar and Drake. “I think they will be complimentary to my sound… you know what you’re going to get when you hear them on the record. You know it’s going to be dope… and they’re going to come with a hit.”
Porcelan has a taste for fashion and beauty. Her favorite go-to beauty products are NARS, ICONIC Illuminator, BECCA highlighter and MAC Bronzer. She uses Nivea moisturizer and says “in order to get a good coverage and a good makeup look, you have to have your skin in tact…your skin has to be taken care of.” “When it comes to lips I use NYX,“she says.
Porcelan is a big fan of June Ambrose. She says” she has an eclectic style…she mixes and matches really well and she all about statement pieces. I love what she does with her look.”
We asked her what is the one piece of clothing she can not live with out and she said “I’m a big fan of my jackets, duster and trench coats! I feel like it’s an accessory. A lot of girls now are wearing it off the shoulder. It’s like an accessory.”
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Modern Websites Require Responsive Design
Whether a web visitor is browsing on a smartphone, a tablet or a desktop PC, the expectations are the same. They want to find information, buy a product or learn something new. They want a positive user experience. One way to provide meaningful interactions is to use responsive web design.
RWD uses fluid, dynamic page layouts to present web pages based on how the user is viewing the site. The site shrinks when it’s viewed on a phone and enlarges when viewed on a large monitor. It seems like a sensible approach but it’s not widespread practice. Despite Google’s stated preference for mobile-enabled sites, 91% of small business websites are not optimized for mobile presentation (Basekit). Why not?
Here are key points why RWD has become increasingly important. Real data suggests it should be considered for any web project.
Mobile Is Here To Stay
Websites were originally created to be accessed from computer monitors. Over time, sites have gotten bigger and screens smaller. By 2018, an estimated 2.6 billion people will be using smartphones. That’s not farfetched. In the U.S. alone, 64% of adults owned a smartphone in 2015. The smartphone is a constant companion for 87% of millennials.
Mobile devices have influenced browsing habits. Where phones were simply used for communication pre-Internet, people now study, shop and share on their phones. Smartphone users check their devices 150 times a day. Most users spend two minutes out of three online on their tablet or phone.
Browsers on mobile devices have constraints that those on desktops do not have. They may be limited on bandwidth, time and device sophistication. These constraints have led to different expectations for mobile consumers.
- Site pages should load fast over any connection speed. Display speed was critical to 65% of consumers. An decrease in page loading speed from eight to two seconds can increase conversion rate by 74%
- Pages should fit the screen size on opening. Eight out of ten users would leave the site if the pages did not fit on their screen.
- Navigation must be clear and consistent.
- Text must be readable.
- Layouts should be visually pleasing even on a small screen. 38% of browsers will go elsewhere if they find the layout unappealing.
The reality is that mobile devices have become everyday essentials at work and at home. No business can ignore mobile trends. Those who do impose artificial limitations on themselves. A responsive website can help erase these limitations increasing their chances of converting mobile visitors into real customers.
Marketing Goes Digital
The web is the new radio, TV and mail route rolled into one. A 30-second ad on the Super Bowl can cost $5 million and reach 100 million American viewers on broadcast. A professionally-made video posted on social media can cost $25,000. Mentioned by an influential blogger and gone viral, a video can reach a million impressions or more in a week. Email click throughs had a measurable 5% – 15% increase in with responsive email design according to MailChimp research. Internet-based marketing is maturing and fast.
Not only has the web become a viable advertising medium, it’s become a source of trust and influence. The average person uses social media for two hours a day. 67% of consumers are influenced by online comments and reviews. Consumers acquired through some form of social media interaction are 37% more likely to be retained.
A responsive design allows businesses to craft marketing interactions based on the device. A user on a desktop may be served a lead-generating form. A mobile user on the same page will see a call to action button instead of a form. Filling a form on a phone would be awkward and time-consuming. A button would encounter less user resistance. Even chat messaging or notifications can be customized by device.
A company that seeks to maximize the ROI from digital marketing needs a strategy and a suitable platform. That platform can be a responsive website that can incorporate blogs, video, audio and social media interactions.
Start Your Search Engines
Optimizing display for mobile users and having a digital marketing strategy are smart decisions but they’re not enough. A business must be visible and accessible in search engines like Google or Bing. Enter Search Engine Optimization.
Google handles more than a billion search requests per month. They found that searches on mobile devices surpassed those done on a desktop. In April 2015, Google changed their search engine ranking algorithm to give fast-loading, responsive websites a higher page ranking. Since Google controls 80% of search traffic, the best websites takes SEO seriously.
A responsive website has a direct effect on SEO.
- Some mobile websites are actually multiple websites. Content is duplicated several times to handle each possible screen size or device. In contrast, a responsive website is designed as one site only. The site detects the viewing device and transforms on the fly.
- There is no content duplication which is something that Google frowns on. Visitors can share one link instead of many.
- Google recommends a page load speed of one second.A responsive website reduces page load times. This is done by not redirecting to alternate web pages when a mobile device is done. Images are automatically optimized for display.
- When a visitor dislikes a website they leave, the bounce rate increases. Google’s ranking algorithm does take a dim view of high bounce rates. A speedy responsive design combined with appealing content and layout decreases overall bounce rate.
- Authoritative backlinks can increase ranking by indicating good, valuable content. Having only one set of pages makes linking easier.
- The Google site crawler is made more effective by only having to pore over one set of site pages. This increases the likelihood of the crawler detecting fresh content more frequently. A regular schedule of site updates using fresh content has a significant impact on SEO.
Google continues to make changes to their algorithm. The goal being to direct search users to better results on pages that provide the best experience. In the long term, a focus on site usability benefits everyone. Users will enjoy their browsing activities. Businesses will have better opportunities for engagement and conversion.
Responsive web design balances the needs of the user with the needs of the site owner or business. It can improve and prolong visitor engagement. SEO efforts are enhanced not hindered by a responsive design. Google’s close attention to the user experience means that there is no better time to evaluate existing websites. Businesses who do not consider a responsive approach stand to lose out on a growing worldwide audience.

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Last month PEARL JAM general EDDIE VEDDER released two new solo
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Work done in w/c 21 January 2019, temporarily surfaced with tarmac, has created uneven road surface, cobbles not reinstated.
Reported in the Carriageway Defect category anonymously at 23:06, Thu 2 May 2019
Sent to Bristol City Council 5 hours, 24 minutes later
Works carried out in w/c 21 January 2019, appeared to be water works (blue markings on road). When works completed hole filled in roughly and surfaced with tarmac though road is cobbled. Has created uneven road surface, large area affected. Will cobbles be reinstated?
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Further investigation required.
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Your enquiry has been investigated and deemed that no action is required at present.
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I don't know why this description of a soldier's homecoming impacted me more than ones I've read previously, but it did. I'm still drying my tears as I type. His mother wrote:
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New York-based law firm Proskauer has equipped more than 500 of its 700 attorneys with iPad 2s. The attraction was the device's “elegant simplicity” as well as the opportunity for the firm to enhance its own brand by being first.
At law firms, the technology spend ranks as the third-largest line item behind people and office space. Its place on the budget sheet, though, is well justified: Lawyers rely heavily on computers to deliver services that are at the core of a law firm's business. All of this underscores the huge risk Proskauer took to adopt the newfangled iPad as a lawyer's go-to computer.
The attorneys, who also work with desktop PCs, use the iPads with PowerPoint, Excel and Word. They also allow them to show information to judges. Among the questions IT had to confront:
Will lawyers pay for apps? Will iPads come pre-installed? What apps will be mandatory? Can iPads also be for personal use? And if so, can the lawyers download movies at work? What will be the impact on the corporate network? How will you manage the fleet of iPads.
In the end, personal use was allowed. IT knew it wouldn’t be able to stop it anyway. Of course, that raises its own set of security issues, which Proskauer wrestles with every day. Source: InfoWorld


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"In connection with thematic and geographic defects and double standards in the OSCE work the Russian side raises the question of the importance of the organization and its ability to adequately respond to modern threats and meet real demands and interests of the member-states," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Chizhov.
"The methods of artificial correlations and unworthy political bargaining used by a number of delegations frustrated the council's approval of such objective initiatives as a seminar on military doctrines and an energy conference," Mr. Chizhov noted.
"This will reinforce the imbalance between the three key trends of the OSCE activity (military-technical, economic and humanitarian)," Mr. Chizhov said.
According to him, the sides failed to find consensus on the improvement of the electoral practice. However, Russia does not consider this issue closed and hopes that in 2005 the OSCE "will thoroughly analyze the electoral legislation in its member-states in order to elaborate common standards, criteria and methods of objective observation at elections and impartial assessment of their results".
The diplomat regretted that the council of OSCE foreign ministers ignored the CIS initiatives to improve the situation within the organization mentioned in the Moscow statement of July 3, 2004 and the address to OSCE partners adopted in Astana on September 15, 2004.
In Russia's opinion, overall reform of the OSCE structures, specialized institutions and financing system should be the key trends of the organization's work in 2005, Vladimir Chizhov said.

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Seems simple, right? The last point is impossible to know but that is where the individual judgement comes in. But I felt that, given its subject matter, the film created wonderful ways of reaching inside the lead character and letting the audience understand and get involved in his plight. Film editing is a crucial component in that. So, when I sit down with my final ballot for the Oscars every year, those four questions always rise to the top. And, by the way, they are also four of the five questions that I constantly ask myself as I edit. Some of the panelists this weekend include Ed Abroms, A.
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There is no absolute right and wrong if a film is really working.
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This gives him the cudgel that he uses to slap around a mesmerized and overly polite Chen. In fact, he tells all three of these Internet film critics, that he feels that Web film criticism is mostly uninformed and shallow, and that everyone who calls him or herself a film critic should be trained in the profession. Where has he been for a decade? The biggest thing that attracted me to teach at USC full time, when I started there eight years ago, was the fact that the Dean told me that our mission was not to teach better toys though we certainly have to teach technology but to teach better storytelling.
Ask any cinematographer, editor, sound designer, production designer, actor, producer, director, etc. Sure, I learn a lot from video tutorials — I watch them all the time.
About a year ago, Larry Jordan FCP guru, trainer and co-host of the necessary-to-listen-t0 show The Digital Production Buzz and I were talking about working together, and it occurred to me that, together, we could create just such a videocast. Surely, we could pool our overlapping talents and come up with something that could help fill that gap.
Each episode deals with a different aspect of how to use the initial storytelling concepts that we talk about in the first two episodes. Some of the concepts that we deal with in minutes each include: how to work with actors, how sound design and camera techniques can help enforce the story that you want to tell. You can leave your wallets at the door or on your night table, whichever is safer. One of the difficulties that many up and coming editors face in this age of DIY has to do with social connections.
When I was starting out, back in the Stone Age of editing I often joke that I cut my first film on a flip book , I apprenticed for a few years, stood next to some really great editors as an assistant for some years after that, and only then did I start editing. It was a fantastic way to learn all of the skills needed in an editing room — technical, aesthetic and political. And my students, for better or worse, have spent years experimenting with the form and developing great skills. Still, the chance to meet and hear really fantastic editors talk about their craft is never to be passed up, as is the chance to have some drinks and pizza with them.
Which is why I am heartily recommending that those of you within driving distance of Manhattan on June register today for the upcoming EditFestNY. There are panels galore, with editors such of features and television, fiction and documentaries. It starts off on Friday June 11 at pm with a panel that I am thrilled to be moderating called with the editors Michael Berenbaum, A. Sex and the City 1 and 2 , Joe Klotz, A. Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Wrestler.
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I can talk about pre-lapped audio all I want, and I can show you examples of it until the cows come home. If it can get better with a tweak to the opacity then they will really remember that setting forever. It also gives them three chances to figure out how this new concept works for them. Third, all teaching is really about entertainment. I was thinking about these thoughts as I began playing with the latest version of Avid Media Composer — 5.
See if you can spot it. Monday, January 19, From p. But allow me to tell you the story of when I got mentioned in a Roger Ebert review. It starred Jeff Goldblum as a laconic and top mob hit man who, while his mob boss Richard Dreyfuss is out of town locked up in a funny bin has to fend off hit man after hit man including a delicious Gabriel Byrne while balancing two girlfriends — Diane Lane and Ellen Barkin. Pollard, Billy Idol, and the amazing Gregory Hines. When it came out it was, to put it kindly, pilloried by most critics, who felt it was too reverential to Tarentino, without having the talent or class of Tarentino.
Now, I have my own feelings about the film, which are far more positive than the reviews. But I did love the mention that I got from Ebert:. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. What were they thinking of? Dreyfuss is the executive producer. Did he think this was a script? The actors perform their lines like condemned prisoners. A blend of hand-drawn comic-book images and computer animation gives the action a unique sort of electricity, like its jumping off the screen.
According to Wikipedia only the best sources for this journalist : around animators were used for this project, the largest of any Sony Pictures Animation film. Aside from the incredible animation at work, this film is hilarious, drawing the best from the powers of Lord and Miller, and an exciting cast of voice performers. The film navigates the inter-dimensional madness with elements of slapstick humor, meta-commentary and heartfelt drama.
Shameik Moore delivers a terrific performance as Miles, while Jake Johnson plays perhaps the most compelling Peter Parker ever. The film is an absolute oddity, and a refreshing step in the world of comic-book adaptations. One can only hope it will be successful, and will cause studios to lean a little less formulaic and a little more risky. The gamble paid off with this film. Liu — both the filmmaker and an active player in the story — unfolds the different paths the three friends take, but focuses on the similarities that brought them together and magnetized them to the challenging, painful activity they love.
The camera glides smoothly with its characters down empty streets, through parking lots and up and down half-pipes, giving the viewer just a slice of the soaring ecstasy that keeps these skaters getting back up, no matter how intense the fall. Though the skating sequences are executed brilliantly, the film is far more focused on the broken homes and shared traumatic experiences that led these men children at the time to seek solace at the skate park.
Liu fabulously bridges the gap or, perhaps, minds it between filmmaker and subject by establishing himself as both early on, even including some interactions where he clarifies from behind the camera that the person being filmed can address him as a person. During a scene in which an important confrontation is taking place, Liu seems to almost hide behind the camera and lighting equipment, as if he wishes he could be a third-person observer instead of enduring the difficult emotional situation he finds himself in. The film also manages to serve as a lens through which men view masculinity, responsibility and family as time goes by and the burdens in life become heavier.
New paths are forged and then retreated, pivotal decisions are made for better and worse and independence is sought.
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Tampere, Finland – Primoceler, a microfabrication developer, has created what it calls the world’s first sapphire-to-sapphire laser welding process that can be used in the manufacture of sensors, lenses and many other devices.
The cost-effectiveness, durability, high melting point, chemical inertness, transparency and capacity for optical transmission make sapphire highly suitable for many industrial applications. “At Primoceler, we constantly expand technological boundaries,” said Ville Hevonkorpi, Primoceler’s managing director, who says his company was the first to laser weld glass to glass, glass to silicon, and now sapphire to sapphire. “Sapphire-to-sapphire welding is even more difficult than glass-to-glass welding.”
With its resistance to heat and chemical erosion, sapphire substrates currently are being used in the manufacture of LEDs for mobile handsets, television, auto headlights, and general lighting. “Now that we have developed this totally new technology, we’re anticipating that it will open new possibilities for industries, just as our glass-glass welding technology did,” said Hevonkorpi.
Medical applications for the use of sapphire abound. As an optical material, its durability is second only to diamond; sapphire also is chemically inert and non-thrombogenic, so it won’t cause blood clots, making it an excellent material for use in surgical tools, medical implants, and braces, as well as endoscopes and laser windows, according to the company.
Primoceler’s prior developments include a laser welding process that produces very little heat-affected zone (HAZ) and expands the market for packaging of fragile components, including under or inside glass, said Hevonkorpi. To date, Primoceler has successfully applied its technology in laser welding glass to glass for medical applications, he added, and sapphire also holds potential for use in medical devices.
“Sapphire is widely used in sensors, different types of lenses and other devices, so there is a range of potential for this new technology,” said Hevonkorpi. “Companies that use sapphire for their products will come to us with ideas of how sapphire-to-sapphire welding technology can benefit them. We always welcome customers to challenge us and test their products.”
A new laser welding machine developed by Primoceler for the new sapphire process is similar to its laser-based welding system that produces a small HAZ. The new machine contains a fiber laser optimized for the welding process by Corelase (Tampere, Finland). The system includes in-house developed software and components, and it can weld a wide range of materials including glass, silicon, and sapphire.
Primoceler will expand on its laser welding of glass materials in a feature article to appear in the July/August 2014 issue of Industrial Laser Solutions.
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Pflugerville police said one mad died after a rollover accident on Sunday morning.
Police said they were conducting a traffic stop around 1:30 a.m. near northbound FM 685 and Pfenning Lane when the driver turned on Pflugerville Parkway at a high rate of speed.
Police said the car rolled over near the 3500 block of Pflugerville Parkway.
According to police, the driver was the only person in the vehicle and was pronounced dead on the scene. On Thursday, he was identified as Darwin Adolfo Velasquez, 27.
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In a post published(opens in a new tab) on Wednesday, Amazon announced that Alexa users will be able to donate to presidential candidates through the voice-activated virtual assistant’s Alexa Political Contributions(opens in a new tab) feature as early as next month.
According to Amazon, all a user will have to do is say a phrase like “Alexa, I want to make a political contribution” or “Alexa, donate [amount] to [candidate name]” and they can make a contribution of anywhere from $5 to $200 per campaign for each election cycle. Donations are powered by Amazon Pay, which is connected to a user's payment information via their Amazon account.
Candidates running in the 2020 U.S. presidential elections looking to accept political contributions through Alexa can sign up(opens in a new tab) starting tomorrow. According to Amazon’s onboarding information, it appears that Alexa Political Contributions is currently just open to U.S. presidential candidates.
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I bought this letter from Claude Monet in 1989 in Paris. Claude Monet was my favourite impressionist already at that time, so I was very very proud to hold a handwritten letter from this master painter in my hand. Monet made three successive visits to London in 1899 to 1901, when he worked on the great series of Views of the Thames. Mrs Charles Hunter (a friend of Sargent) had arranged for Monet to have a room in St Thomas’s Hospital, from which he painted the series of views of the Houses of Parliament, working only in the late afternoons so as to concentrate on backlit and sunset effects.
Only some years later I acknowledged the content of this letter:
Monet was just coming back from St. Thomas hospital to the Savoy hotel talking about his experiences while painting.
Later in his letter he is talking about his day, having breakfast with his son in the hotel room and about he will be sad as on Sunday he will not be able to work at the hospital nor getting letters from his wife Alice. A nice 4 pages letter from the old master Claude Monet.
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On January 15, 1985, a month after being released from prison for armed robbery, Salvador Santiago murdered 20-year old Dean K. O’Hara in New Castle (Lawrence County), Pennsylvania, after O’Hara stopped to help him with his disabled car.
Santiago, 22, then stole O’Hara’s car and fled. Two days later, he robbed the Minuteman Press shop on East Carson St. on Pittsburgh’s South Side and shot to death store clerk Patrick Huber.
Based on information provided by witnesses, on January 17, state police issued a warrant for Santiago’s arrest for killing O’Hara. Approximately three weeks later, based on descriptions matching witness reports from New Castle, Santiago was connected to Huber’s killing and the search intensified.
He was arrested by FBI agents in Washington D.C. on April 4, 1985, for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for O’Hara’s killing. Once questioned by Pittsburgh Police, Santiago confessed to killing Huber. He told police voices he heard directed him to perform the killings.
At the time of his arrest, Santiago, who already had a lengthy criminal record, was also wanted in connection with the non-fatal shooting of a bus station clerk during a robbery in Sharon, Pennsylvania, in early January 1985.
Soon after his arrest, his girlfriend, Marilyn Denise Giles, whom he had met in Washington, D.C. in February 1985, told police of the multiple murders Santiago had confessed to her.
At trial in Lawrence County, Santiago was found guilty of second-degree murder but mentally ill in the O’Hara case and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Despite that and his earlier diagnosis as “a seriously disturbed paranoid schizophrenic,” Santiago’s mental health defense failed and he was convicted of first-degree murder on April 26, 1986, in the Huber case. The jury favored the prosecution’s argument that “a conscience never formed” in Santiago.
After brief deliberations following the penalty phase of Santiago’s trial, he was sentenced to death on April 28. The jury again rejected the defense claim that Santiago’s guilt was diminished by mental illness.
While Santiago’s life sentence was upheld on appeal (Commonwealth v. Santiago, 376 Pa. Super. 54, 1988), his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence were reversed (Commonwealth v. Santiago, 528 Pa. 516, 1991) after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that he had been questioned without the benefit of counsel when he spoke with Pittsburgh police soon after his arrest. A new trial was ordered.
Retried, he was convicted of first-degree murder on September 9, 1992, and sentenced to death a second time. That conviction was sustained on appeal by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (Commonwealth v. Santiago, 541 Pa. 188, 1995).
After twenty-three years of appeals that reached all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple stays of his execution, Santiago’s death sentence was vacated by the state supreme court and he was resentenced to life imprisonment on August 25, 2009. The decision was based on a finding of ineffective counsel in his second death penalty conviction. That conclusion was reached as part an agreement with his counsel that Santiago would cease all further appeals.
Salvador Santiago is serving a life sentence in SCI-Greene.


Researchers at the University of California – Santa Barbara are pretty excited over this new solar cell they’ve been working on, and who can blame them? For the past 100 years or so, everybody’s been tinkering around with solar energy conversion based on semiconductors and meanwhile a promising new field called plasmonics has been bubbling up under the surface. The research team has developed a free-floating plasmonic device that produces hydrogen from water using only clean, renewable solar energy, which could lead to high efficiency, low cost hydrogen production for fuel cell electric vehicles, among other uses.
Low Cost Hydrogen for Fuel Cells
Before we get into the details of the new device, let’s take a look at how it could fit into the big picture, sustainably speaking. Zero emission hydrogen fuel cells have a promising future, but there is one big catch: they run on hydrogen, and splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is an expensive, energy-intensive process.
One way to get around that is to use solar energy to power the process, such as the “artificial leaf” solar cell developed at MIT.
Plasmonic devices offer a more durable, and potentially more efficient, way to accomplish the same goal.
The UC-Santa Barbara Plasmonic Solar Cell
As described by UCSB writer Sonia Fernandez, when sunlight strikes a conventional solar cell made of semiconductor material, electrons shift positions to leave positively charged “holes,” which creates an electric current.
Plasmonic solar devices also create a shift in electron position using solar energy, but they are made of metal nanostructures instead of semiconductors.
The UCSB team created a cell in the form of a “‘forest’ of gold nanorods,” topped off with titanium dioxide crystals and platinum nanoparticles. When placed in water with a catalyst and exposed to visible light, electrons in the nanorods oscillate together, creating a phenomenon called plasmonic waves. Fernandez writes:
“As the ‘hot’ electrons in these plasmonic waves are excited by light particles, some travel up the nanorod, through a filter layer of crystalline titanium dioxide, and are captured by platinum particles. This causes the reaction that splits hydrogen ions from the bond that forms water. Meanwhile, the holes left behind by the excited electrons head toward the cobalt-based catalyst on the lower part of the rod to form oxygen.”
As a replacement for semiconductor-based solar cells, the plasmonic cell is still years away from commercial development. However, one promising aspect of the work so far is the ruggedness of the nanorods, which could lead to a device with a far longer lifespan than today’s conventional solar cells in addition to increased efficiency.
Get Ready for a Plasmonic Future
UCSB isn’t the only research institution dreaming of a plasmonic future. Over at Stanford University, researchers are working on “waffle iron” thin-film solar technology that integrates a plasmonic effect, resulting in a thinner, more efficient and more durable film.
Meanwhile, other paths to clean, low-cost hydrogen production are also in the works. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for example, is developing a solar-powered process that uses “disordered” titanium nanocrystals to boost efficiency, and Brookhaven National Laboratory is working on an inexpensive nickel-based catalyst.
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Nearly a month has passed since we arrived in Barrancabermeja. Our experience serving with Christian Peacemaker Teams has been energizing and inspiring for us. Yet here in Barranca, January was sobering as we read nearly every day about a murder in the city. In a city of 250,000, there have been 14 murders in the month of January. That’s four times the murder rate of Chicago in 2007 (see source for figures ), and double the rate for last year in Barranca.
The context for these killings is part of what makes them especially worrying. I’ve mentioned here before the paramilitary take over of Barranca in 2000 and 2001. Their method of control is a climate of fear created by killings, both random and targeted at those seen as undesirable (gay and lesbian people, drug users and juvenile deliquents, or people who are homeless).
In 2003, the government of Alvaro Uribe began negotiating with the paramilitary with the goal of demobilizing the paramilitaries. The paramilitaries supposedly completed their demilitarization in 2006, but since then, groups of “demobilized” paramilitaries have continued to operate with impunity. On Jan. 25, a demobilized paramilitary chief, Rodrigo Pérez Alzate, (alias Julián Bolívar) admitted before a judge that these re-armed groups were operating in Barrancabermeja.
Despite admissions from the paramilitary leader about continued paramilitary activity, it’s difficult to tie these 14 murders directly to demobilized paramilitaries. When I read articles about murders in the paper, they usually end with the phrase “la policia no tiene datos” which translates, “the police have no evidence.” There are frequently witnesses to the murders, but people are afraid to come forward to testify.
In one case (Vanguardia article in Spanish), the murderer sat down to watch a neighborhood game of soccer for a few minutes before walking to the side line and shooting dead a 26 year old player, while “everyone in the stands watched, astonished.” The article continues:
After committing the crime, the murderer was in no hurry to flee and he walked through the crowd that was gathering around the body of the dead man. Nobody chased him, nor did the police make any attempt to prevent his escape.
The article concludes with the familiar refrain: “What is certain is the fact that the authorities have no evidence since … Unfortunately citizens do not provide any information.”
In a sidebar to the article, the police admit:
“… ‘We can not hide the fact that have these murders have been selective and premeditated and everything suggests that the assasin was well known to his victim. There are many situations where, without assistance from the community, we cannot find the murderers, but we will continue to work with the human intelligence resources we have,’ said Rojas, the commander of the police for Magdalena Medio region.”
This lack of evidence stems partly from the fact that the police have virtually no presence in many poor neighborhoods in Barranca, only swooping in ocassionaly to prevent teenagers under the age of 14 from playing violent video games at local stores.
In a second sidebar to the article, we read the first mention of any connection between the 14 murders this month and the paramilitary. It was a two sentence excerpt from a report from the office of the Defender of Human Rights (an official government branch):
“After the demobilization of the structure of the AUC [the main paramilitary group] the criminal activity in the city has not diminished, but on the contrary it has entered a new phase of violent control and enforcement, for which groups with paramilitary background are responsible.”
So what’s to do with marching agains the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)? You may have heard that tomorrow (Feb. 4), people around the world will march against the FARC (the largest guerilla group in Colombia). Given the violent reality in Barrancabermeja, many human rights partners we work with feel that marching against the FARC is an oversimplistic response to the conflict. The march ignores Colombian military and paramilitary violence and the social economic realities at the root of the civil war. They published a letter on Saturday titled “A False Dilemma” (which I helped translate into English) in which they called for recognition of the social roots of the conflict and an end to all violence by illegal and legal armed groups.
When you read the news tomorrow or Tuesday about this march, take the time to talk with friends about the bigger picture of the conflict in Colombia.


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