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As early as the Romans and Anasazi Indians, man was aware that by orienting his home south, towards the sun, he could let the heat of the day in by opening animal-skin shutters and doors. By closing them, he could hold that heat in through the night. That is the basis of today's passive solar design.
There are three techniques used for heat collection in a passive solar home:
Direct Gain, or the construction of a glass south wall that admits light directly into a room so the heat may be absorbed into the floor and walls. This is an efficient system, but in the middle of winter, the rooms heated this way can fade furniture and be uncomfortably bright.
Greenhouses, or rooms dedicated to the admission and storage of heat. These rooms are often perfect for the propagation of plants and are generally vented to let the stored heat into the house.
Trombe wall, is a masonry wall behind glass on the south side of a house. The sun passes through the glass and falls directly upon the storage wall. This heat is then admitted to the house by conduction, when heat radiates through the wall into the house, or by convection, when a vent is placed at the top and bottom of the mass wall allowing heated air to circulate into the house.
As summer arrives, one notices a change in the angle of the sun. Through careful design of overhangs on the south side of a solar house, the rays of the sun can be excluded at any predetermined date. With the sun blocked, the home works in reverse, rather than absorbing heat from sunlight during the day, the thermal mass gives off heat at night, keeping the interior cool during the day.
Active Solar Homes
The state of the art in sustainable homes that a working family can afford is the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and BGNM (Build Green New Mexico) certified homes. Ranked in Silver, Gold and Platinum classifications with Platinum being a true Zero Energy Home with Photo Electric Panels to attain net zero energy use. These new certified designs are inspected during construction and tested after completion with a pressurization test called a “Blower Door Test” to make sure there are no leaks. Properly built these homes provide comfort, durability, healthy air quality and dramatically reduced energy costs. As these designs have evolved we have found that they can be built for little more than a conventional Low Efficiency house.
Whole House Ventilation
As LEED homes have become tighter and better insulated thy are becoming nearly airtight not allowing smells from cooking and other vapors to escape impacting inside air quality. New whole house ventilators, exchange the air in a home 4 or 5 times a day while recovering heat in the winter and cool in the summer as the air is exchanged. These systems come equipped with HEPA filters that remove dust and pollens. Nearly silent and energy efficient the Whole House Ventilator is a must have in a modern certified Green Home.
As summer arrives, one notices a change in the angle of the sun. Through careful design of overhangs on the south side of a solar house, the rays of the sun can be excluded at any predetermined date. With the sun blocked, the thermal gain works the opposite of how it works in winter; rather that absorbing heat from sunlight, the house absorbs heat from the atmosphere, keeping the interior cool during the day. The heat absorbed by the outside walls is radiated into the house at night, keeping the house comfortable when temperatures outside are moderate.
Passive Solar Homes have evolved since their inception in the late 60s. Alan Hoffman has been in the for front of Passive Solar design working to make solar heating invisible and comfortable for the residents. In New Mexico cooling is even a greater problem than heating, so he has worked to perfect Passive Cooling.
New Mexico is situated just north of the Mexican border with Santa Fe nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 7,000 feet. This high desert averages 13 inches of precipitation per year. With a total population of just over a million, New Mexico has sufficient water for its citizens, but the time to consider water conservation is now. The County of Santa Fe has already begun to conserve water for the future. County officials believe that any family can prosper on 1/4 of an acre-foot of water per year. That equals 223 gallons of water per day. There is a community in Santa Fe that has proven that a family can use ½ this amount of water with no effect on their Quality of life. For living a comfortable life within these water constraints, the County requires the following innovations:
• Water-Saving Toilets
• Water-Saving Showers
• Natural Landscaping and Drip Irrigation
The average toilet uses approximately 4 gallons per flush. A family of three that uses the toilet 12 times per day expends 48 gallons. A water saving toilet uses approximately 1.5 gallons per flush, or 18 gallons per day for a savings of 30 gallons per day, or 7.5% of daily use.
The average shower runs at just under 5 gallons per minute. The average family of three, which showers for 30 to 40 minutes total, uses 140 to 180 gallons per day. Showers are the greatest use of domestic water. A showerhead using 2.5 gallons of water per minute reduces use by 75 to 100 gallons per day; this is a savings of up to 80 gallons per day, almost 30% of total use.
Natural Landscaping and Water Reclamation
In many other places in the country, large, lawns cover great portions of residential areas. In this semiarid climate, large lawns are quite rare; in fact, homes on large lots in the Santa Fe area are often surrounded by the junipers and piñon pines that have been there for hundreds of years. A large piñon may well be 300 years old, growing slowly in response to the climate. There are many advantages to natural landscaping. Besides the fact that natural landscaping uses no potable water, you also never have to cut the lawn. We have learned that that smaller garden close to the home surrounded by a wall can create a microclimate that is more moist and fertile than the area outside the wall. Irrigation for these areas is required and can be provided by water reclamation systems both big and small.
Water Reclamation and reuse for irrigation can dramatically reduce the demand for potable water demand. A modern reclamation facility treats all the wastewater from a home including the so-called black water. The resulting effluent can be near a potable standard wit BOD under 10 and is filtered to 10 microns. Drip irrigation from wastewater reclamation is the best way to create a lush garden area with trees, shrubs, vegetable gardens, and even small lawns while using no potable water.
If we in New Mexico use our resources wisely, we can make the desert bloom for many generations to come.
101 Coyote Ridge Road was designed and built by Alan Hoffman in 1989. This two-story home was the fourth in a series of prototypes.
17 Via Brisa was designed and built by Alan Hoffman in 1991 as the fifth in a series of Passive Solar heated homes utilizing Direct Gain, Greenhouse and Trombe Wall heating systems. The house also utilized Thermo Siphon Cooling system.


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BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister called North Korea’s ambassador in for a dressing-down Tuesday and demanded his country’s cease making further threats, in a show of Beijing’s displeasure over its erstwhile ally’s latest nuclear test.
Yang Jiechi delivered a “stern representation” to Ji Jae Ryong and expressed China’s “strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition” to Tuesday’s test, the ministry said in a statement posted to its website.
“Yang Jiechi demanded that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea side cease talk that further escalates the situation and swiftly return to the correct channel of dialogue and negotiation,” the statement said. It did not say if Ji made any response. Calls to the North Korean Embassy rang unanswered Tuesday.
Yang reiterated China’s desire for peace and stability on a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and said issues should be resolved within the framework of long-stalled denuclearization talks involving North Korea, China, the U.S., South Korea, Japan and Russia.
The appeals were contained in an earlier statement from the ministry calling on North Korea to abide by its denuclearization pledge, and not to “take additional actions that could cause the situation to further deteriorate” — echoing the wording of China’s responses to previous North Korean nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
Yang’s meeting with the ambassador shows China’s anger and frustration over North Korea’s actions since the ministry calls in foreign diplomats only in cases of extreme pique, such as U.S. arms sales to Taiwan or Japan’s nationalization of a disputed island group. However, neither statement pointed to any specific actions Beijing would take in response to Tuesday’s nuclear test, the North’s third.
The meeting also followed a warning from North Korea that the test was merely its “first response” to what it called U.S. threats, and that it will continue with unspecified “second and third measures of greater intensity” if Washington maintains its hostility.
Despite being the North’s biggest source of aid and diplomatic support, Beijing has been reluctant to back more severe measures that could destabilize the North’s hardline regime, which serves as a buffer between China and democratic South Korea backed by U.S. forces.
China’s patience appears to be wearing thin, however, and Beijing reacted in unusually strong terms to the North’s December rocket launch by agreeing to tightened United Nations sanctions on the country, a move that brought criticism from Pyongyang.
China had repeatedly called on the North not to conduct a test, and Pyongyang’s decision to proceed anyway will likely strengthen Beijing’s arguments that it has little power to influence its neighbor and that harsh actions against the regime will have only a negative effect.
Although Beijing hasn’t proposed any concrete plans to punish the North, disgust with Pyongyang’s defiance and lack of gratitude is growing in. Tuesday was a public holiday in China, but the nuclear test was widely criticized on the country’s popular Twitter-like Weibo microblogging service, with users calling it inhuman and anti-social and urging the government to reconsider its assistance to the regime.
Many found the test offensive because it took place less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Chinese border and came on the third day of the Lunar New Year, when most work stops for family gatherings.
“We’re all celebrating the new year, but it feels like someone just tossed a hand grenade at my front door. North Korea is just too crazy,” said a Beijing office worker standing outside a downtown McDonald’s restaurant, who would give only his surname, Ke.
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The Classic Oldies Sung Package is a collection of jingles and imaging designed to create a nostalgic and upbeat atmosphere for radio stations that play classic hits from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. These sung packages typically feature catchy tunes, memorable lyrics, and a classic sound that reflects the era of the music being played. In this essay, we’ll discuss some tips for creating a Classic Oldies Sung Package in 2023.
- Choose Classic Melodies:
To create an effective Classic Oldies Sung Package, it’s essential to choose classic melodies that reflect the era of the music being played. These could be melodies from popular songs from the 60s, 70s, or 80s, or new melodies that capture the spirit of the era. Make sure the melody is catchy and memorable, so it sticks in listeners’ minds.
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The lyrics of your sung package should be catchy, upbeat, and reflect the theme of the station. They should also be easy to remember, so listeners can sing along. Use simple language and avoid being too verbose or wordy. The lyrics should complement the melody and add to the overall feel of the package.
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To create a classic sound for your sung package, it’s essential to use classic instruments that reflect the era of the music being played. These could include electric guitars, organs, or horns, or other instruments that were popular in the 60s, 70s, or 80s. The instruments should be played in a way that is energetic and upbeat, so they reflect the upbeat nature of classic hits.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday praised President Donald Trump as the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the Oval Office.
Netanyahu’s comments at the White House came moments before the president signed a proclamation for the United States to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, territory seized from Syria in a 1967 war.
“Israel has been blessed to have many friends who sat in the Oval Office, but Israel has never had a better friend than you. You showed us time and again,” Netanyahu told Trump.
The prime minister noted that Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal that the Obama administration had entered into, that Trump moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and is now moving to recognize Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights, a strategic point to fend off enemy attacks.
“You’ve showed it once again, Mr. President, with your official proclamation recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” said Netanyahu, standing next to Trump.
“In the long sweep of Jewish history, there have been a handful of proclamations by non-Jewish leaders on behalf of our people in our land,” the Israeli leader said. “Cyrus the Great, the great Persian king; [Britain’s] Lord [Arthur] Balfour, President Harry S. Truman, and President Donald J. Trump. You, Mr. President, have done it not once, but twice, with your bold proclamation on Jerusalem and your bold proclamation today on the Golan.”
In signing the proclamation, Trump said, “This was a long time in the making. Should have taken place many decades ago.”
Netanyahu was set to return to Israel immediately after the visit, in a U.S. trip that was cut short because of a rocket attack from Gaza that damaged a home north of Tel Aviv, wounding seven people, including two small children.
The Israeli prime minister was scheduled to speak Tuesday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and then meet with congressional leaders.
The visit between the two leaders also comes at an unusual time regarding legal issues both have faced. While the Justice Department announced that Trump had been cleared in a two-year special prosecutor’s investigation into whether his campaign conspired with Russians in the 2016 presidential election, Netanyahu faces the specter of an indictment for an alleged bribery scandal.
“Our relationship is powerful,” Trump said. “Today, Israel demonstrates the incredible possibilities when strong, sovereign, and independent nations chart their own destinies. There can be no better example of greatness than what Israel has done, starting from such a small speck of sand.
“Israel is an inspiration, a trusted ally, and a cherished friend,” he said.
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Envelopes may be an obscure half swedish half french indie band but please don’t let that put you off…they really are quite good.
Here Comes the Wind came out about this time last year and after I gave it a quick listen online I pretty much forgot about it. It was quirky and fun, but more than a tad incohesive full of wildly different songs that sounded good on their own but didnt really fit together as an album.
I stumbled upon them again recently and got my hands on a copy of the album, after a couple more listens I started to realise just how much better it was than I originally thought.
My original impressions of the album still stand, there are a lot of different sounds going on in this album, from the garage rock of “Life on the Beach,” down to the full on electro of “Put on Hold” but it becomes forgiveable just on the strength of each track alone. In fact being all over the place and a little disorganised kind of works in the bands favour, the songs feel anarchic and playful as does the album as a whole and maybe a more uniform album wouldnt have that.
An overwhelming sense of fun is what the album gives you, and the band are obviously having a lot of it when writing and performing their songs. Unexpected instruments and nonsensical lyrics abound, stylophone anyone?
If Envelopes are to be compared to anyone it’d be to the pixies, especially the Kim Deal tracks which is certainly no bad thing. They share the one guy one girl dual singer set up and the same dedication to sonic experimentation and the pop single. Although similar to the pixies, Envelopes have built on their sound exploring more electronic sounds and taking influence from a large amount modern indie bands, theres occasionally hints of Franz Ferdinand style twangy guitars.
In short, any Pixies fans should love them as should any fans of innovative playful indie pop.


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being underwater – is a treat. Growing up in San Diego, a little fiberglass pole spear was something that we always brought to the beach with us, but it mostly sat unused. Years later, after attending college at land-locked UC Davis, I re-kindled that saltwater fever by heading straight to the murky waters of Mendocino with a friend, on an adventure for that sweet beast called abalone.
After a season of ab dives, and seeing multiple NorCal monsters staring back at me from holes, it didn’t take long to dust off the old pole spear. Fast forward 5 years – now I’m back in sunny Southern California, where the water is clearer but the fish are quicker, and I’m loving every weekend spent in the water. Peter can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org


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Five BGC proposals discontinued, suspended
April 5, 2012
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The Funding Analysis Committee for the Blugold Commitment has approved to continue funding for several multi-year proposals, but has also decided to discontinue or suspend five of the multi-year programs.
At the Student Senate meeting on Monday, Academic Affairs Director Jacob Bernardy gave a presentation about the decisions. Bernardy mainly focused on programs that were suspended or cancelled after the Funding Analysis Committee looked over revised proposals that were submitted to them.
The Student Research and Design Center’s Blugold Commitment funding has been suspended for the 2012-13 year. This is because the project has been unable to find physical space to put the research center. Funding that wasn’t used in the previous year was also taken back.
“They’ll be moving forward during the next cycle, hopefully with a spot to actually function,” Bernardy said.
Effective July 1, the Immersion Experience to Istanbul and Anatolia will be discontinued. It was decided by the Funding Analysis Committee that the cost of the program was still too high for students, Bernardy said.
“The dollar amount per student was higher than we’d hoped to be accomplishing,” he said. “It’s a great immersion and we’re hoping to see a revised proposal at some point in the future, but right now this model just isn’t functional … with that price tag on it.”
The Funding Analysis Committee decided to take back funding that wasn’t used for the Infusing High Impact Educational Practices into Mathematics Service Courses program, and suspend the program for one or two years, after which they can come back with a revised proposal, Bernardy said.
Due to having had a high number of retirements over the past year, the mathematics department now has almost as many new faculty members as it does returning faculty, so it has been tough for them to develop new projects, Bernardy said.
Funding for the Social Justice Living-Learning Community will be discontinued, effective July 1, because the program is having a hard time filling seats, Bernardy said. “One of the issues with it is that the students coming in and deciding if they want to be in an LLC are making that decision when they’re filling out housing applications, when they might be 17 years old,” Bernardy said. “If you talk to 19-year-old students, there would probably be a ton more interest from those who’ve been out in the real world for a little while. But the interest from incoming students just isn’t there.”
The Blugold Commitment funding of the WITS Tutoring project to Enhance Student Success and Retention for Computer Science Students has been cancelled as well. Bernardy said the committee found that the impact of the project was not high enough to continue receiving funding.
Other than these five programs, Bernardy said that the amount of funding for the other multi-year Blugold Commitment projects stayed the same, with the exception of one program.
The LTS Improving the Campus Infrastructure to Support New and Emerging Technologies program was the only multi-year proposal increased. Bernardy said the need for the increase was because of the benefits package for employees.


The town of Oak Bluffs announced the winners of its photo contest. The town received an impressive 39 entries from nine amateur and professional photographers in its quest for images that best represent and celebrate life in Oak Bluffs, and depict things that make the community special, according to a press release.
First prize and $100 cash was awarded to Gabrielle Mannino, photo editor at The Times, for her entry “Fireworks.” Second prize and $75 cash was awarded to Vici Surr for her entry “Tabernacle Solstice,” third prize and $50 cash was awarded to Davin Tackabury for his entry “OB Architecture,” and fourth prize and $25 was awarded to Wendy Palmer for her entry “Nashawena.”
The town awarded honorable mention to Lorna Welch for “Hibiscus,” Marilyn Miller for “Grand
Illumination,” Eric Townes for “Church’s Pier,” and Michael Johnson for “Promise 2.”
Winning entries can be viewed on the planning board’s web page.


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Amenities are a given in any luxury development, but these days a pool, a gym, and even a world-class spa aren’t enough to satisfy the needs of elite buyers looking to call South Florida home. At the Estates at Acqualina, a $1.5 billion residential project in Sunny Isles Beach (slated to open in 2020), upscale living means a property that’s also a one-stop shop for all your action, adventure, and entertainment desires. The Trump Group (no relation) hired Reddymade Architecture and Design to create Villa Acqualina, a 45,000-square-foot residentsonly amenity complex. Forget about keeping up with the Joneses; this place would make the Jetsons feel at home. “Wealthy people love to be pampered,” says developer Jules Trump. “This is the treatment that they are accustomed to. I don’t think it matters whether they’re from India or Connecticut; they love the pampering idea.” The key, according to Trump, is to design an environment that residents never need to leave—which is why Villa Acqualina will include facilities like a movie theater, bowling lanes, an ice-skating rink, a salt room
in the spa, and even a twostory nightclub. “With the level of client we serve, it’s very important that they be entertained,” he says. “They don’t want to go to a public ice rink. As we’ve learned over the years what people like, we add and we test and see what’s around the world that’s attractive to people.” Taking the concept of amenities to a dynamic new level, the Estates will also be home to a soccer field, basketball courts, a FlowRider for surfers, and a Formula One racing simulator that received an unsolicited seal of approval from a racing legend. “Emerson Fittipaldi was here one day,” Trump says. “He and his son were on the simulator in the Mansions [an adjacent property at Acqualina] for two hours. They enjoyed it tremendously. It gives a very real experience.” For the developer, these perks (which also include a cigar room, an intimate wine room, and a new spin on the office dubbed the Wall Street Traders Club) amount to a $100 million expense—and that isn’t even counting the neighboring Acqualina Resort & Spa, a AAA Five Diamond facility that residents will have full access to.
The combination makes the Estates tough to duplicate. “I don’t know that others will follow,” Trump says. “It’s expensive. There are very few places that will go to the extent of having a five-star hotel and five-star amenities.
You don’t have to do this to sell apartments, but we want to provide the finest.” For Trump, the living experience begins the second a resident walks through the door, which is why he enlisted Karl Lagerfeld to design the
lobbies. “At first we thought, ‘How different can a lobby be?’ But he did something amazing. People are not just impressed by the name, but the sheer beauty of it. Walking in each time will be an experience.” And living
there will be extraordinary.


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text: I've been one of Dr. Reisman's patients for over 25 years, and have always received the very best dental care available, as well as the most pleasant contact with his staff imaginable. Yesterday, I was treated for the first time by his associate, Dr. Contrucci. It was a long and technically demanding procedure that she completed with expertise and finesse. She and her assistant Dyan are real assets to the practice. You can depend on great care from Reisman Dental regardless of which doctor you see. And as always, the office personnel are just very positive, friendly, and kind. You'll leave with a smile.

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I found this video on Digg showing the airport runway rubber removal process and it had me thinking. Would it make sense for airplanes to have anti lock wheels?
Could airplane wheels spin up to match their landing speed? I wonder if it would help a plane land in a shorter distance? It would be similar to the anti lock brakes we have on cars. It would eliminate the skid marks we have on runways and it would allow the wheels to last longer.
I thought maybe have electric powered wheels could be used, maybe they could be used to taxi around the airport. I wondered if that would also save of fuel use as well but I bet those powered wheels wouldn’t be powerful enough and if they were it’d make the plane to heavy.
2nd idea could the wheels spin using wind power. Maybe the wheels are connected to a device which captures the wind passing under the plane and transfer that energy into wheel spin. The wheels could then have a governor which controls spin to match ground speed. This additional drag would also help slow the plane down.
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ACOs become settled in the health care landscape
■ Connected coverage — selected articles on trends, challenges and controversies in the changing world of medicine.
Posted Dec. 31, 2012.
In a short amount of time, accountable care organizations have grown from a curiosity to a fact of life for many physicians. More public and private ACOs are forming, with an increasing number of doctors joining them in their goal of managing patient populations to improve health and save money — with a possible bonus for the organization to pass around if it succeeds in those goals.
American Medical News has covered the growth of ACOs. Articles have studied not only the trend of ACO startups, but also the practical considerations physicians should think about when deciding whether to join one, or which to join.
ACOs, already surging, poised for even more growth
A survey put the number of ACOs as of Nov. 1 at 328, up from another survey's count of 221 in May. One organization says that up to 31 million patients are getting care from ACO practices. With more Medicare ACOs to come in 2013, analysts expect the number of private organizations to grow as well.
What doctors should ask insurers before joining ACOs or medical homes
Private insurers are forming ACOs, and consultants advise doctors to start analyzing each ACO individually with this question: “What's in it for my patients, and what's in it for me?”
Four steps to a successful ACO
Physicians, hospitals, insurers — about anybody in the health system can lead an ACO. But can they lead it well? Is it worthwhile to lead one? One report looks at some issues that should be considered before launching an ACO.

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Vibrata Chromodoris 6 Inch Thick Artwork. Original Price: $4,000
Design Plus Gallery presents an Art Piece by Artist Vibrata Chromodoris. A thick in-depth stretched canvas. Illusions of the bright colors of reds, yellows and white over a black background. A striking green wave circle attracts the eyes of the art piece. Ready to be the striking point of your space. Minor wear. No signature nor title.
“Originally from Ontario, Canada, Vibrata’s intermedia paintings, installations and digital work have been seen in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Chicago and as far away as Turkey, Portugal and Japan.
Rhythmic patterning and the use of beguiling perceptual distortions find their way throughout all of her work. The work is sometimes suggestive of symbols or logos—a result of her parallel work as a graphic designer. She’s most at home in the peculiar, techie playground where digital design meets painting or sculpture techniques. Her 3D pieces and immersive installations incorporate the use of a CNC router or laser cutter with wood and plastics. In adapting to venues and events that require large-scale work to be portable and quick to set up and strike, she’s developed her own style of modular, flat-pack, knock-down joinery art.
“I love to play with symmetry and geometry, organization and orderliness. There’s a component of numerical logic in each piece, no matter the medium. I explore interconnectedness and movement with the way shapes and colors fit together and push and pull on each other. Elements repeat, mutate, and evolve, telling a story of fundamental energy.”- Vibrata Chromodoris


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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) -P.J. Hill ran for 161 yards and two touchdowns to help No. 21 Wisconsin beat Purdue 24-3 Saturday.
John Stocco completed 13 of 21 passes for 201 yards for the Badgers (7-1, 4-1 Big Ten).
Purdue's Curtis Painter completed 20 of 40 passes for 187 yards. He entered the game ranked second in the nation in passing yards, but never found a rhythm.
Wisconsin, which entered the game with the nation's sixth-ranked defense, held the nation's fourth-ranked offense to 286 yards, 185 below its average. It was the first time since a 31-3 loss to Michigan on Oct. 25, 2003, that Purdue failed to score at least 10 points.
Purdue (5-3, 2-2) entered the game with the nation's 111th-ranked defense, but that wasn't the problem Saturday. Defense kept the Boilermakers in the game, but Wisconsin dominated time of possession, and eventually, Purdue wore down.
The Boilermakers drove 60 yards on the opening possession of the second half, but Chris Summers missed a 37-yard field goal attempt, and Wisconsin maintained its 10-3 lead.
Wisconsin came back with a 12-play, 80-yard drive that Hill capped with a 3-yard touchdown run to give the Badgers a 17-3 lead.
A 46-yard run by Hill set up Wisconsin's final touchdown, an 8-yard run by Lance Smith with 6:30 remaining.
Hill's 1-yard touchdown run with 8:13 left in the second quarter gave the Badgers a 7-3 lead.
Purdue defensive tackle Ryan Baker intercepted Stocco and gave the Boilermakers the ball at the 50. Purdue drove to the Wisconsin 23, but rather than attempting to kick a field goal into a stiff wind, the Boilermakers went for it on fourth down. Painter's pass to Greg Orton was incomplete, and the Badgers took over. Wisconsin capitalized when Taylor Mehlhaff kicked a 51-yard field goal that gave the Badgers a 10-3 lead with 1:15 left in the first half.
After holding Purdue to a three-and-out, Wisconsin had a chance to increase its lead. The Badgers reached the Purdue 18 with 11 seconds left in the half when Stocco fumbled while trying to spike the ball to stop the clock. Wisconsin had no timeouts, so the clock ran out.
Purdue opened the scoring when Chris Summers kicked a 47-yard field goal with 5:16 left in the first quarter.
Wisconsin held Purdue to 106 yards in the first half.

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It's one of the most anticipated matches of the AFL season, 455 days in the making.
It's been almost a year and a half since Richmond and West Coast met on a football field, and on Sunday at the MCG, there's plenty on the line.
For visitors West Coast, a win would mean only Hawthorn - their round 23 visitors in Perth - could stop them claiming a top two place.
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That would put Adam Simpson's side within two home wins of another grand final.
For Richmond, it's about locking up a top four place, and maintaining the momentum from seven straight wins.
And surely the mantle of flag favouritism - currently held jointly by both sides - will transfer to the winner of the contest, even with a table-topping clash at the Gabba this weekend.
"It's a great challenge to play great sides," Richmond coach Damien Hardwick said.
Their last meeting, at Optus Stadium in round nine last year, cemented West Coast's credentials in 2018.
Both sides took a 7-1 record into that match, but it was the Eagles who ran all over Richmond at Optus Stadium with a 47-point victory.
"The beat us quite easily," Hardwick remembered.
"There's some things in the game that we we took away from that. We made some changes to the way we wanted to play last year.
"They're a great aerial contested side. Their ability in the clearances is another strength of theirs and they control the ball by feet. There's three areas of the game that we'll try to negate as best we can."
Richmond, without captain Trent Cotchin and ruck Toby Nankervis, could at least be supported by the weather gods.
Up to 10 millimetres of rain is forecast in Melbourne on Sunday, and the Tigers have shown their pedigree by winning three games in the wet over the last month.
West Coast coach Adam Simpson said he wouldn't allow that as an excuse.
"I don't buy into the weather as much as perhaps others," he said.
"Early on we struggled in a couple of games. Was it because it was wet, or that we just got beaten?
"The wet weather doesn't really faze us."
Simpson showed the same level of respect as his counterpart when discussing Richmond's forward line, calling it "as dangerous as anyone in the competition".
"There's different ways we go about it, no doubt," he said.
"But a lot the same as well. They've got some good speed. We've got good speed.
"They've got some good key talls and talent across the board, and we think we're the same.
"The way they go about the ball movement might look a bit different than us, but essentially the contest and the way the game's fought out, that's where it's going to be won."
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Items related to Florida State University student (BS, Physical Education, 1918) and professor (1918-1958) Dr. Katherine W. Montgomery. Items include her mortar board and tassel, two photographs (1918 and later undated), coin award (to "Miss Kate"), Red Cross award, unidentified award ("Lingiaden, 27/7-13/8, 1949"), a necklace with AAHPER ("American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation") charm, FSU Garnet Key and ribbon, and number "28" arm band. The mortar board and tassel were later worn by FSU professor, Dr. Frances "Frankie" Hall (BS, Physical Education, 1946) in academic processions until the end of her association with FSU in 1969. In 2007, Dr. Hall passed the mortar board on to Mary Lou Norwood (BA, English, 1947) to be worn the ceremony awarding her an honorary doctorate in humane letters on 13 April 2007.
FSU Special Collections & Archives: 00.HP-2007-039
The Grace I. Fox and Mary Jane Martin-Vegue Collection consists of a variety of materials relating to their involvement with Florida State University and their leadership in physical education in the state of Florida, as well as nationally.
FSU Special Collections & Archives: 00.HP-2007-00M
The Jewell Genevieve Cooper Scrapbook chronicles her years as a student at Florida State College for Women, from 1924 to 1930. The scrapbook contains many rare photographs offering a unique insight into student life during the 1930s.


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In this paper, we describe our research activity on the integration of technologies in the environment of people with disabilities who have reduced abilities to perform daily living tasks and who are usually using adapted systems, described as assistive technologies, to compensate, even partly, the problems of daily activities. This paper focuses on the process design of an accessible smart environment, described as the smart homes concept. This process design will cover our explanation of the use of smart homes technologies as appropriate solutions to support user needs. In this paper we will focus on the software infrastructure developed within the Smart Homes project which started two years ago and provides preliminary evaluation results on users needs in term of assistive technologies and highlights the role of communication protocols to control heterogeneous devices. This project1 is funded by the GET and the LLR foundation.
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Trollbeads is the unique jewelry line. For over three decades the people at have been creating trollbeads that have history, beads that tell a story. Trollbeads are affected by mythology, astrology, fairy tales, fauna, flora, cultural diversity and familiar themes from everyday life. For many years collectors have found many different trollbeads and continue to collect and find meaning in each bead, telling their story. Every Trollbeads have it’s own history and just like the person created it, troll beads continues to advance and encrease populariry.
Troll Beads are made from a wide variety of the finest materials: Silver, Gold, Glass, precious stones and Pearls.
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I’m a bit of fanatic for Youtube video essays. Learning more about context, and how that slots into the creation and consumption of art, is a very important thing for me as a writer.
So Linsday Ellis’s long and thorough takedown of the frustrating and disastrous Bright was always going to be on my list. I’m a huge fan of fantasy, particularly epic fantasy, and listening to a thoughtful and angry video of how exactly this movie fails was cathartic.
What I didn’t expect, however was how much of her explanation would be given over to the exact ways in which its fantasy racism fails. Specifically, it does as much fantasy tends to do and shorthands lots of fantasy races into real world counterparts, while at the same time not actually paying attention to the context being built or how that would change the history of a world in which those events happen.
It’s given me a lot to chew on in my own writing, as an author writing an epic fantasy set in a world with racism and fantasy races. I’ve been committed to doing this as right as I can, and watching this video has given me an enormous amount of What Not To Do. Give it a watch.


This article is part of Hive’s Mental Health Week initiative. To celebrate World Mental Health Day on October 10th, we’re hosting a panel all about mental health at work. To compliment that panel, we’re releasing articles throughout the week about mental health in an effort to open and improve dialogue around mental health.
Meditation has become a buzzword in the wellness community over the last 10 years and is now the fastest-growing health trend in the United States. There are dozens of meditation apps on the market, meditation studios where you can practice with a group, and even week-long meditation retreats that you can sign up for.
When it comes to meditation, the science is definitely there to back up any anecdotal claims of its benefits — it really does help reduce negative activity in the brain and increase activity in the part that aids in positive emotion and attention. Meditation has also been shown to alleviate anxiety and depression, increase focus, make you more creative, and enhance our ability to connect and empathize with others.
We’ve written before about how meditation is becoming the next big productivity tool — it’s effects on focus, memory and positive emotions are hard to argue with. And being the forward-thinking tech startup we are, we decided to conduct an office-wide Hive experiment to see how much of an impact meditation really makes on our ability to get things done. To kick this experiment off, we brought a meditation expert into the office from MNDFL, one of our partners throughout our Mental Health Week initiative (which you can learn more about here). MNDFL is a meditation studio in New York that teaches a variety of class types, ranging from breath to mantra classes, and also offers corporate in-office sessions.
Hive employees gathered in our biggest conference room at 11:30 AM, right before lunch, to take part in a 30 minute MNDFL Breath class, which is described as “a practice that grounds you in the here and now like a cold shower on a hot summer day. Learn to focus on your breathing in order to become more present. Work with the breath in a way that allows you to be calmer and not get too lost in your own head.”
For thirty minutes, we worked with a MNDFL teacher to quiet our minds, improve our breathing, and center our awareness. After the class was wrapped, I decided that Hive employees would take part in a little experiment — we’d anonymously collect the number of tasks they completed today in Hive, and in the days following the meditation, to compare the results to prior weeks. Then we’d use that data to posit the effectiveness of the class.
Now I know what you’re thinking: Isn’t meditation a “practice?” Don’t you need to do it more than one? And the answer is yes. But our staff immediately noticed calming effects, anxiety reduction, and increased focus. And we wanted to see how that played out in our overall productivity.
When I went back over the data, the results were impressive. That one, 30-minute meditation class actually improved our employees’ productivity by a whopping 47% on average, when compared to the average tasks completed on that day of the week. We also had resounding positive feedback from employees — one of our Account Executives noted that “After meditating, my head felt totally clear. Once I got back to my desk, I ran through a list of contacts that I had to write in half the time it usually takes. I had a new focus that lasted for hours.”
Now, we’re not saying that all it’s going to take to improve office morale or productivity is a singular meditation session. But incorporating wellness rituals on a weekly and monthly basis at your company could set the stage for positive improvements at an individual and company level. You can’t argue with the science — meditation does increase empathy and your ability to connect with the people around you, which is pretty pivotal in the office.
A Hive team member also noted that “the office felt lighter, less anxious, and less hectic,” which makes sense, because the decreased anxiety on an individual level can lessen the office’s anxiety as a whole via emotional contagion, or the idea that “emotions, both positive and negative, actually spread among your employees like viruses.” (Read more about emotional contagion here.) And if a meditation practice can help prohibit the spread of negative emotions, it’s definitely a work perk worth looking into. If you’re in the NYC area, check out MNDFL’s corporate classes here.
Do you practice meditation? Does your company meditate together? Let us know in the comments below.
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From: Don Allingham <dallingham@us...> - 2002-03-03 04:53:01
On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 18:58, Gary Montalbine wrote:
> checking for python ... (cached) /usr/bin/python
> checking for python1.5 ... no
> checking for python2.0 ... no
> checking for python2.2 ... no
> I am using python 2.1.1
This is actually okay. Gramps checks for your version of python. It
found /usr/bin/python, and determined it was 2.1, it then checked to see
if any other versions are installed.
> Checking for gnome-config ... (cached) no
> ./configure: gnome-config: command not found.
This is not an absolute requirement (which is why it did not fail at
that point). If it can find the Python bindings for GTK and GNOME, it
does not need this.
> There appeared to be no problem with Make.
> Make install - after about three entries, I got the following error:
> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat '*.so': no such file or directory.
> What am I missing? Any suggestions?
It looks like what happened is that the python development include files
where not found, so it did not build the internationalization libraries
(intl21.so). If you only need English support, you should be able to
force the install by typing:
make -k install
If you need Spanish, Italian, French, German, or Swedish support, you
will need to either install from the RPM (which has the library file
already built), or install the python-devel RPM from the Mandrake
distribution, and rerun configure.
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Haining Sangmi Garment Co., Ltd. is located in Jiaxing which is called "Capital of Silk" of China. Its predecessor is Jiaxing First Silk Group Co.,Ltd ,which was established in 1979, once the most famous silk products manufacturer in Zhejiang province. We recombined Jiaxing First Silk Group Co.,Ltd and registered Haining Sangmi Garment Co.,Ltd in 2014.
The company mainly produces all kinds of silk products, including SILK SLEEPWEARS,SILK TOPS&PANTS,SILK BEDDINGS,SILK QUILTS,SILK SCARFS,SILK WOVEN&KNITTED FABRICS etc.We have more than 80 employees and occupy more than 4000 square meters.
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A freak hunting accident probably will cost the San Diego Padres the services of right-handed pitcher Andrew Cashner at the start of next season. Cashner had surgery Dec. 4 to repair a lacerated tendon in his right thumb. Cashner suffered a puncture wound when he was accidentally stabbed by a friend while the pair was trimming a carcass. Although it took only two stitches to close the wound, the laceration required a surgical repair. "It's a three-month recovery," Padres general manager Josh Byrnes said. "The doctors don't expect any long-term consequences, but Andrew will be behind. To say he'll be ready by Opening Day is unrealistic." Cashner was expected to compete for a spot in the rotation. Now he will most likely join starters Cory Luebke and Joe Wieland on the disabled list for Opening Day. Luebke and Wieland are recuperating from Tommy John surgery. Cashner's injury is the second setback suffered by the Padres this offseason. Cat...
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As reported via twitter by Bill Center of the UT, Andrew Cashner suffered a hunting injury. Cashner has surgery on his right thumb and is expected to miss opening day.
Cashner has been one injury after another since arriving in San Diego by way of Chicago. Although Cashner was not a lock for the rotation, he was being counted on to compete for a spot and has the best “stuff”...
The amount of casualties across Major League Baseball as a result of hunting grew on Wednesday, as the San Diego Padres announced that pitcher Andrew Cashner is likely to miss the start of the season after cutting his hand during a hunting trip. According to Padres general manager Josh Byrnes, Cashner was accidentally stabbed in the hand while he and a friend were cleaning a carcass...
Padres pitcher Andrew Cashner was unintentionally stabbed in the hand by a friend when trimming a carcass while hunting, with the accident cutting a tendon in his thumb.
This one almost got lost in all the hustle and bustle of the Winter Meetings. The San Diego Padres will not have their fireballing relief/starting pitcher Andrew Cashner for the start of the 2013 season. Cashner suffered a strange injury while hunting with friends.
According to Corey Brock of MLB.com, Cashner suffered a lacerated tendon in his right thumb while dressing...
The day after Cubs manager Dale Sveum revealed he was injured in a hunting accident involving Baseball Hall of Famer Robin Yount, San Diego Padres starting pitcher Andrew Cashner will likely miss the beginning of the 2013 season after lacerating a tendon in his thumb while dressing meat after a hunting trip.
Cashner, an avid hunter, and a friend were apparently trimming a carcass...
One of the top hitting prospects in the Padres organization, Nate Freiman was selected by the Houston Astros in the Major League portion of the Rule 5 Draft. Freiman was a mid-season and post-season All-Star in 2012 for the double-A San Antonio Missions.
At 6’7” 225, Freiman is a beast of a man and swings the lumber as you would expect. In 2012 he put up a line...
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The Padres selected two players in the Triple-A portion of the Rule 5 Draft. 3B Diego Goris (21) and RHP Federico Castaneda (28) both from the Kansas City Royals organization.
Rule 5 Draft info via Wikipedia:
To prevent excessive turnover in the minor league levels, each draftee costs $50,000. If the draftee does not stay on the...
Well we are back now with a new layout and new everything. But have no fear as the Friarhood will be here leading up to and through the 2013 season. With that the Daily Friar is back as well where you can get your Padres news everyday in one place. For those that are seasoned veterans to the site you will know how this post works, but for those that are new to it let me give a quick...
The Padres offseason is underway, albeit it is very quiet. Yesterday we debuted the brand new Friarhood page for you all, and with it I was able to update you all on the news that has happened over the past couple weeks. Now we are on the back end of the winter meetings with not a whole lot to show for it. A couple guys came our way in the rule 5 draft, and Jason Marquis has a new...
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The PTBNL in the Cory Burns trade has been announced, and it is 23-year old RHP Wilfredo Boscan. The Rangers signed Boscan out of Venezuela in July 2006 and he made his debut at the age of 17 in the Domincan Summer League. Baseball America ranked him as high as the 11th best prospect in the Rangers system in 2009...
Oh, baseball...another day, another report of a hunting-related injury.Seriously?Tuesday, Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum revealed that his former teammate, Hall of Famer Robin Yount accidentally shot him in the right ear during a quail hunting incident.Wednesday, word leaked out that San Diego Padres pitcher Andrew Cashner was going to start the season on the shelf due to, get this...


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Sticking to is a write-up on native american tribal tattoos.
native american tribal tattoos pictures
Old school tattoos continue being desired, however there are a great number of more design choices available to choose from today. when you have chosen a great artist, he will have the ability to help you assembled a design that you will take pride in. This design happens to be categorised as an indicator of this circle of existence.


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"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
- Bob Marley
I am a typical human being, having five fingers on each hand. I look at my left hand and realize with that one hand alone, I can count off all the people in Houston whom I trust in friendship. It's been one hell of a year, the sloughing off of worthless friendships, discovering (quite painfully, unfortunately) the fickle and cruel nature of the majority of individuals I once considered friends. Experience is a redundant teacher, yet I can't seem to grasp the lesson. People will disappoint, hurt and break me. Words are the worst weapon against me.
It's not I don't know this... it's that I hope so hard each time it's different. I hope this time this person will actually love me. This person will actually think before they speak, before they judge, before they make me cry.
My open heart is something I value and a part of myself of which I'm immensely proud. I'm going to let everybody in the world have the chance to hurt me because I can't be any other way.
I love Houston so much; I love living here, the vibrant culture, the bigness of it and the ability to start over.
I put down a deposit on an apartment today. I was doing rather well for myself: respectable career, home-owner, wife, etc... don't worry, I'm only regressing materially.
I'm sitting here on my bed, type type typing this up, two little pups curled up next to me, snoring slightly. Losing them is the hardest part of all.

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Avoid Early Death By Understanding Dwarf Hamster Food
As responsible pet owners, we are interested in making sure that our hamsters are as happy and healthy as possible.
This would mean that we would want to make sure that we were providing them with the best dwarf hamster food that is available.
There are a number of things for you to consider whenever looking healthy hamster food. These food choices may make the difference between whether your hamster is healthy or whether it could end up dying as a result of your neglect.
One of the first things that I would like to mention before anything else is that you would absolutely want to avoid sugar whenever possible in feeding your hamster. This is especially true with the dwarf varieties, as they tend to be more prone to diabetes.
That is why whenever you look at a list of acceptable food for your dwarf hamster, it's more than likely you're going to see a lack of any type of fruit that is included on that list.
This is because fruit is very high in sugar and it can lead to some rather serious problems when it comes to your hamster's health. It's not that your hamster will not enjoy the fruit, it's just that it is a very bad idea to feed it lots of a food group that contains a high sugar count.
One of the things that you want to include in your hamster diet at all times is a high grain mixture that includes plenty of seeds. You can buy these food items at the local pet store however; you want to make sure that you look at what is included in the mixture before you actually give it to your hamster.
For the most part, many people are going to be limited with the type of hamster food that they are able to feed their pet if it's too expensive for their budget. However; This is not true if they took the time to search the Internet they could purchase good food for their dwarf hamster.
You can get high quality, organic hamster food for not much more than what you would pay for the regular, run-of-the-mill food at your local hamster pet store. If you did this then you would be saving money and be taking better care of your dwarf hamster at the same time.
It's fine to feed your hamsters food in the form of fresh greens, but this should be in addition to their regular diet and should not make up the absolute bulk of their daily intake.
The general rule is to only feed your hamster food in the form of green leafy vegetables that it can eat within the span of about 20 minutes. If they begin to have some digestive problems and are going to the bathroom more frequently, you can take the greens out of their diet and reintroduce them after a week or so at a much lower level.
You can search the Internet for a list of dwarf hamster food for different ideas of what you should and should not be feeding to your pet.
This is a good general guideline, but it will not be long before you are an expert and generally what little hamsters can eat but a real expert in what your dwarf hamster can eat.
Source by Jadi S Anatchi

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In 2008, Jon Rafman began to collect screenshots of images from Google Street View. At the time, Street View was a relatively new initiative, an effort to document everything in the world that could be seen from a moving car. A massive, undiscerning machine for image-making whose purpose is to simply capture everything, Street View takes photographs without apparent concern for ethics or aesthetics, from a supposedly neutral point of view.
This neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time, that are fleeting beyond memory, or went wholly unwitnessed. Now we can wonder whether a sunset only seen by non-human eyes is losing anything of its marvelous beauty.
This very way of recording our world, this tension between an automated camera and a human who seeks meaning, reflects our modern experience.


Research and development efforts to get ethanol into the nation’s already-existing oil pipeline… a key issue into getting more ethanol into the nation’s gas tanks… took a step forward this week.
This story in Ethanol Producer Magazine says the Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL) is expanding its ongoing research and development efforts to get past the technical barriers to pipeline transportation of ethanol:
APOL President Shirley Neff said the expansion in research and development has the support of the U.S. DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
One project being expedited by the new focus on ethanol research and development is testing the feasibility of transporting ethanol blends in existing pipeline infrastructure without significant modification. The low-level blends with gasoline will be tested to see if E10, E15 or E20 can be transported without causing stress corrosion cracking in the pipeline—one of the bigger hurdles associated with fuel ethanol. Initial test results are expected within 12 to 18 months.
The AOPL has also announced it will continue its study looking at the environmental and stress conditions that causes stress corrosion cracking. Researchers are looking at lessening that problem.


The GBW block was built in the 1960s with simple features. Useful, efficient layouts and restrained but high-quality façades. At the time of construction, the car was established as the status symbol of the middle classes, so all free space was sacrificed to traffic. The renovation and densification of the block gives us the opportunity to take modern zeitgeist and the inhabitants into account: cars are banned to the underground garage, garages make way for a garden and a true-to-scale courtyard design. Thanks to the energetic restoration of the building, the previously unused attic has been turned into new living space.
“Mainzer Strasse” restoration of a residential building with roof extension, Munich Schwabing
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Omarosa Manigault, who gained fame on the first season of NBC's "The Apprentice," joined Fox News on Saturday night during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square. The former reality star explained what attracted her to the president-elect and why she joined his campaign. "He's a winner," she explained, while also praising his knack for marketing and building the successful Trump brand.
When asked whether or not she'll be joining the White House, Manigault said "of course."
Trump will be announcing her role on Tuesday. "It's going to be huge," she said.

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Beowulf Mining Plc appointed SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd. to complete a scoping study at its Kallak magnetite iron ore project in Sweden.
The scoping study is scheduled to be completed by the end of February 2018, according to an Oct. 9 release.
Beowulf CEO Kurt Budge said the company expects to be granted an exploitation concession for the Kallak North deposit and has the support of local stakeholders.
In July, the company appointed a group of economists to complete a study of the economic benefits of the Kallak project.
Beowulf shares crashed in February after the County Administrative Board for the County of Norrbotten, where the mine is located, referred the company's exploitation concession application for the Kallak North project back to the Mining Inspectorate of Sweden.


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Informed by memory, botany and ecology, my practice employs the mediums of drawing, collage, installation and video.
Drawing and collage are the foundation of my practice and influence my sculptural and video interventions. I gather knowledge on form through drawing and when the narrative demands extension, I translate the ideas into installation or video based works.
This is reflected in my ongoing series, Drawing Breath (2012-) which explores organic matter and the human relationship to it, through drawings, watercolors and collage. These meditations led me to experiment form further and culminated into Currencies of Absence (2016), an installation that investigates the exploitation of the planet’s finite resources, the construction of scarcity through the attribution of economic value to these resources. The work draws attention to the man-made artifice that influences and defines our perception of the imbalance between nature and commodification.
My preoccupations with the study of plants and soils and the proposition of a non-human witness push me to further examine traditional lines of inquiry on the biological ideas of sentience, neophyte, native and naturalization. These concepts that pertain to science, particularly native and naturalization are frequently used in geo-political discourse, to form vocabularies of Othering. Concurrently, I question the documentation, organization and dissemination of biological knowledge within the rigid didactics of natural history institutions which determine what we refer to as wilderness. Specifically, the constructed boundary between weeds and cultivated ornamental species. I’m interested in how this construct – weed – is premised on what can resist man’s effort to control nature. In my more recent work, I draw parallels of my botanical research with decolonization. This is manifested in two works in particular:
Styx (2020) – An installation made of found objects and based on blueprints made by the Elf petroleum company in the 1980s. They represent the sites of crude oil extraction throughout West Africa – namely Angola, Congo and the Republic of Chad.
The title refers to the river Styx, death and the use of currency as safe passage into the depths of the Underworld. The work draws analogies on extractivism, slave labor and the civil wars that Elf manipulated to its advantage, fueling the neocolonialism that the French State profited from.
Styx is the first finished work of a new series that comprises of 6 other blueprints that are currently works in progress.
Appropriation Disinformation – Nature and the Body Politic (2019) is a work specifically made for the Dhaka Art Summit 2020 – Seismic Movements. The works were placed in the Colonial Movements section of the Summit. The maps and statistics that form the basis of the 14 collages are sourced from the Larousse Atlas Politique et Économique (1950). They are effectively lists of extractivism, however they remain silent on the violence inflicted upon the environment, on modern day slavery and on the displacement of indigenous communities. I chose to examine this book as a tool of Capitalism and a ledger of systemic violence. These collages are not only a representation of what has been forgotten, buried or annihilated; they also stand in for a subconscious that is mutant and diseased. In its soft sensuality and secretions, the work attempts to trigger a visceral memory of a situated environment that existed before it was reduced to highly mobile commodities.
I use film as a language to create abstraction and subtlety around ideas that would manifest as too literal with other mediums.
Cadence (2018) – The Lac Léman has been central force in my decision to live and work in Geneva. My relationship to the lake borders on obsession and compels me to immerse myself and scrutinize its waters repeatedly over time. Cadence is a contemplation on this lake and its vegetation. An abstraction on solitude and death. Deracinated from the bed of the lake, the errant plants float on its surface, struggling to live, in the hope of sinking to the bottom and root themselves again in order to survive. Paradoxically, the human swimmers that religiously immerse themselves in the waters, do so for the purpose of shedding their emotional burden and feeling the rootlessness that water provides. The sensation felt while floating in the water is akin to la petite mort. Cadence attempts through video, to translate these simultaneous sensory states of exhilaration and the mildly unsettling anxiousness of being out of one’s natural environment.
While articulating the idea of environmental justice and more importantly nature for the sake of nature, over sustainable development; my practice aims to subvert or disarm the false binaries we have been conditioned to, through the proposition of queer ecology.


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Anti-static PTFE adhesive tape, as a special product in PTFE tape, has a special test for the production capacity of a factory, and it is also a balance to measure the production capacity of a factory. According to the different substrates, we generally divide it into two types: glass fiber cloth anti-static PTFE tape and film anti-static PTFE tape.
The most conventional PTFE Adhesive tape in the current market is the thickness of 0.13 and 0.18mm, and the color is brown. The basic difference of this composite process is not too big, but since the black color paste and antistatic agent are added, the production process is totally different. The anti-static PTFE tape base fabric produced by some factories does not pass the composite process, which causes the PTFE coating to fall off easily; some are easy to fall off and cause residual glue; some are on the adhesive side with more bubbles, when the high temperature is high to a certain extent, the bubble bursts, and this is the key to shortening the life of the tape; some of the performances seem to be very good, but when the machine is put on, the surface of the cloth will be imprinted when the temperature is high; some of the anti-static index is extremely high Uneven, or simply not anti-static at all in some places; some have an anti-static index less than the 6th power of 10, the anti-static level is not enough, and the anti-static effect is not good.
There are many brown PTFE tapes on the market, but black anti-static PTFE tapes are even more mixed. According to the problems encountered by customers on the market, our company has developed two types of anti-static PTFE tape products:HY-T018F and HY-T013F, and has a deep relationship with two of the world’s top 500 companies.The cooperation product is mainly anti-static tape with glass fiber cloth as the base cloth.
Based on the deep demand of the market, our company has developed anti-static PTFE tape with film
as the base material. In addition to eliminating the problems of PTFE fiberglass cloth tape
, our company makes full use of its good insulation properties. It has been widely used in the electronic field. The main thickness of anti-static PTFE film tape is 0.08mm, 0.15mm and 0.20mm. Other thicknesses need to have a minimum amount before ordering.

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Bryan Caplan tells the story of opera tenor Joseph Schmidt (1904-1942) – a man elevated by market forces only to be murdered by political ones.
Thomas Sowell discusses the perversity of ‘diversity in his review of Richard Sander’s and Stuart Taylor’s Mismatch. (HT Walter Williams)
And here’s a related, very thoughtful essay by Stephen Asma. (HT Peter Minowitz)


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March Madness: 5 Teams That Can Help You Win Buffett’s $1B
You might have heard about Warren Buffett’s billion-dollar offer. The one that made you sit up a little bit straighter while you were watching Sportscenter at the gym. The one that made you reappraise your usual March Madness strategy of “the school with the coolest mascot wins” or “I’m an alum, I have to make my school go all the way.”
In case you missed it, Buffett’s prize offer is for a perfect March Madness bracket. Perfect meaning no mistakes, starting with the first round all the way to the Final Four. The odds, according to DePaul math professor Jeff Bergen, hover somewhere around 1:9.2 quintillion. Or, as they say, a nine with 18 digits after it. (Like this: 9,200,000,000,000,000,000.) In Bergen’s words, if you’re just guessing, you essentially have no chance at all. The odds if you know basketball, though, are much better:
They’re still not great odds, mind you, but channel your inner Han Solo and remember that you didn’t ask for the odds anyway — you’re looking for some teams that are poised to win when they shouldn’t and others that are going to be prone to upsets. Besides, who needs math when we’ve got luck and infallible hoops knowledge? Past performance is no indication of prior success, but expert knowledge is forever.
1. Kansas Jayhawks: They’ll go further than you think
After that first page, all you get is that the Jayhawks are looking to make some noise? Obvious, but hang tight: The Hawks might actually be underrated right now, which is some blatant absurdity that could pay serious, serious dividends. Kansas is currently listed at No. 7 in the AP power rankings, No. 8 in the Fox standings and all the way at No. 9 in the ESPN rankings. For a team with some starters who are all but guaranteed to go in the top three in the 2014 NBA draft, that seems low.
Why are they ranked that low? Mostly because they’ve lost a couple of games (bringing their record to 18-6) and because one of those starters is hurting right now. Seven-foot center Joel Embiid, who has drawn comparisons to Hakeem Olajuwon and otherwise driven NBA scouts into a frenzy, is currently suffering from knee and back injuries he’s accumulated over the past month. His lack of playing time, coupled with some losses (especially a “big one” to Kansas State), have the power rankers down on them.
On the flip side, they’re still 18-6, and they still have Andrew Wiggins, aka Maple Jordan. We don’t care about power rankings, we care about March Madness. Kansas coach Bill Self has responded to Embiid’s injuries by shutting him down until he’s healthy enough to play, a good sign for their tournament stock. And Wiggins, when he’s on, is still the best player in college hoops. Even through the purists often talk of preferring college to the NBA “because of the emphasis on team play, rather than a game dictated superstars,” the fact remains that the team with the best players wins most of the time.
Provided Embiid and Wiggins are playing close to full strength, it would be a shock if Kansas didn’t do some steamrolling. Pencil them in to make the Final Four.
2. Syracuse: Going to fold early
Put down the pitchforks. Right now, Syracuse is undefeated. Because they’re undefeated, they’re languishing atop everyone’s power rankings like Caligula. (A Caligula that likes dressing like a road cone almost as much as eating grapes.) As for being undefeated, having a painfully easy schedule and hanging on to your perfect record on miracles like Tyler Ennis’s contested three* just don’t inspire a whole lot of confidence.
Folding early is a vague term, though, and should probably be clarified. Since the Orange last won a title with Carmelo Anthony in 2003, ‘Cuse has made it to the Final Four once, the Elite Eight once, the Sweet 16 twice, and has been knocked out in the second round once. If it’s fair to say that if an appearance in the Final Four is expected for the “best team” in the NCAA, then early would be being bounced in the Sweet Sixteen or the Elite Eight. Smart money says the Elite Eight, since Syracuse’s famous zone defense should be able to cover the team for three games, including the first round.
* Even if that three was pretty sweet:
3. Duke: Speaking of star power…
Basketball knowledge can transcend the typical metrics used to show how good a team is. Like how Syracuse is undefeated, but only because of that buzzer-beater. Duke, hovering down around the 10-spot in all the power rankings, has an edge in March Madness that doesn’t show up on the stat sheet. It’s Coach K, also known as Mike Krzyzewski.
OK, well, some of his greatness shows up in the stat sheet. He’s the winningest Division I coach of all time, breaking noted chair hurler Bob Knight’s record of 902 wins in January. Not to mention that no player on any of Coach K’s teams, at Duke or anywhere else (he’s also the coach for the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team), has ever been called for a blocking foul (these data remain unconfirmed). If anyone gets a facsimile of the Jordan rules in the college game, it’s Coach K. And that’s before you get to Jabari Parker.
Parker is the best scorer in the NCAA, full stop. He struggles to do much else, and his defensive deficiencies have been documented and dissected by a legion of fans at the college and the professional level, since he’s a favorite to go in the top three of the draft, along with Wiggins and Embiid. Between Parker and Coach K, Duke is going to get approximately 99.9 percent of the calls this March, and as a result, they’ll Duke their way to the Final Four. Yes, Duke is a verb. Everyone that’s ever seen a Duke fan preen about their team knows exactly what it means. Still, they’re bound for the Final Four.
4. Wichita State: Suffering from Syracuse symptoms?
Here’s the thing: When Syracuse’s unbeaten streak is brought up, no one gives much mind to Wichita State, the other team that has yet to lose a game this year. The Shockers, by most accounts, just aren’t as good as their record. They’ve won enough games by the skin of their teeth that everyone’s looking at them askance, and to top it off, they play in an awful conference.
How awful? So bad that only one other team has a record over .500. That’s Indiana. The Missouri Valley Conference is not good. Not good at all. On the other hand, an undefeated team is still an undefeated team, so when the brackets are being assembled, more weight could be given to Wichita State by someone who’s giving lip service to, you know, actually watching the games.
Don’t be that bracketeer. We want you to win Buffet’s billion. Sorry Shockers, but Wichita’s very unlikely to make much noise in even the Sweet Sixteen, let alone later rounds in the tournament.
5. Last year’s Florida Gulf Coast University team
Last year’s team? Why should anyone care about last year’s team? Especially a flash in the pan, novelty team that went on an upset run by doing nothing but dunking? There’s no way they’ll replicate that success again this year.
Exactly. But Cinderella stories are as essential to March Madness as filling out brackets, and watching for teams that have the potential to go on an FGCU-type run is a fun way to gun for that one-in-9-quintillion spot. The best prospect? The Creighton Bluejays, who have created “the craziest, deadliest offense in the country.” With a heavy emphasis on bombing threes, the Bluejays could plausibly get hot and chuck themselves all the way to the Elite Eight.
They could just as easily flame out in the first round, of course, but would you want to be on the wrong side of that call? Not only would you avoid the $1 billion, you wouldn’t be able to cheer for one of the most fun offenses in the tournament. And that’s a mistake no one should make. Bluejays go all the way.

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