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Complexity Economics Shows Us Why Laissez-Faire Economics Always Fails
Markets are a type of ecosystem that is complex, adaptive, and subject to the same evolutionary forces as nature.
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By Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
During 2007 and 2008, giant financial institutions were obliterated, the net worth of most Americans collapsed, and most of the world's economies were brought to their knees.
At the same time, this has been an era of radical economic inequality, at levels not seen since 1929. Over the last three decades, an unprecedented consolidation and concentration of earning power and wealth has made the top 1 percent of Americans immensely richer while middleclass Americans have been increasingly impoverished.
To most Americans and certainly most economists and policymakers, these two phenomena seem unrelated. In fact, traditional economic theory and contemporary American economic policy does not seem to admit the possibility that they are connected in any way.
And yet they are—deeply. We aim to show that a modern understanding of economies as complex, adaptive, interconnected systems forces us to conclude that radical inequality and radical economic dislocation are causally linked: one brings and amplifies the other.
If we want a high-growth society with broadly shared prosperity, and if we want to avoid dislocations like the one we have just gone through, we need to change our theory of action foundationally. We need to stop thinking about the economy as a perfect, self-correcting machine and start thinking of it as a garden.
Traditional economic theory is rooted in a 19th- and 20th-century understanding of science and mathematics. At the simplest level, traditional theory assumes economies are linear systems filled with rational actors who seek to optimize their situation. Outputs reflect a sum of inputs, the system is closed, and if big change comes it comes as an external shock. The system's default state is equilibrium. The prevailing metaphor is a machine.
But this is not how economies are. It never has been. As anyone can see and feel today, economies behave in ways that are non-linear and irrational, and often violently so. These often-violent changes are not external shocks but emergent properties—the inevitable result—of the way economies behave.
The traditional approach, in short, completely misunderstands human behavior and natural economic forces. The problem is that the traditional model is not an academic curiosity; it is the basis for an ideological story about the economy and government's role—and that story has fueled policymaking and morphed into a selfishness-justifying conventional wisdom.
Even today, the debate between free marketeers and Keynesians unfolds on the terms of the market fundamentalists: government stimulus efforts are usually justified as a way to restore equilibrium, and defended as regrettable deviations from government's naturally minimalist role.
Fortunately, as we've described above, it is now possible to understand and describe economic systems as complex systems like gardens. And it is now reasonable to assert that economic systems are not merely similar to ecosystems; they are ecosystems, driven by the same types of evolutionary forces as ecosystems. Eric Beinhocker's The Origin of Wealth is the most lucid survey available of this new complexity economics.
The story Beinhocker tells is simple, and not unlike the story Darwin tells. In an economy, as in any ecosystem, innovation is the result of evolutionary and competitive pressures. Within any given competitive environment—or what's called a "fitness landscape"—individuals and groups cooperate to compete, to find solutions to problems and strategies for cooperation spread and multiply. Throughout, minor initial advantages get amplified and locked in— as do disadvantages. Whether you are predator or prey, spore or seed, the opportunity to thrive compounds and then concentrates. It bunches. It never stays evenly spread.
Like a garden, the economy consists of an environment and interdependent elements—sun, soil, seed, water. But far more than a garden, the economy also contains the expectations and interpretations all the agents have about what all the other agents want and expect. And that invisible web of human expectations becomes, in an everamplifying spiral, both cause and effect of external circumstances. Thus the housing-led financial crisis. Complexity scientists describe it in terms of "feedback loops." Financier George Soros has described it as "reflexivity." What I think you think about what I want creates storms of behavior that change what is.
Traditional economics holds that the economy is an equilibrium system; that things tend, over time, to even out and return to "normal." Complexity economics shows that the economy, like a garden, is never in perfect balance or stasis and is always both growing and shrinking. And like an untended garden, an economy left entirely to itself tends toward unhealthy imbalances. This is a very different starting point, and it leads to very different conclusions about what the government should do about the economy.
Einstein said, "Make everything as simple as possible, but not too simple." The problem with traditional economics is that it has made things too simple and then compounded the error by treating the oversimplification as gospel. The bedrock assumption of traditional economic theory and conventional economic wisdom is that markets are perfectly efficient and therefore self-correcting. This "efficient market hypothesis," born of the machineage obsession with the physics of perfect mechanisms, is hard to square with intuition and reality—harder for laypeople than for economic experts. And yet, like a dead hand on the wheel, the efficient market hypothesis still drives everything in economic policymaking.
Consider that if markets are perfectly efficient then it must be true that:
–The market is always right.
–Markets distribute goods, services, and benefits rationally and efficiently.
–Market outcomes are inherently moral because they perfectly reflect talent and merit and so the rich deserve to be rich and the poor deserve to be poor.
–Any attempt to control market outcomes is inefficient and thus immoral.
–Any non-market activity is inherently suboptimal.
–If you can make money doing something not illegal, you should do it.
–As long as there is a willing buyer and seller, every transaction is moral.
–Any government solution, absent a total market failure, is a bad solution.
But, of course, markets properly understood are not actually efficient. So-called balances between supply and demand, while representing a fair approximation, do not in fact really exist. And because humans are not rational, calculating, and selfish, their behavior in market settings is inherently imperfect, unpredictable, and inefficient. Laypeople know this far better than experts.
Markets are a type of ecosystem that is complex, adaptive, and subject to the same evolutionary forces as nature. As in nature, evolution makes markets an unparalleled way of effectively solving human problems. But evolution is purpose-agnostic. If the market is oriented toward producing junk and calling it good GDP, market evolution will produce ever more marketable junk. As complex adaptive systems, markets are not like machines at all but like gardens. This means, then, that the following must be true:
–The market is often wrong.
–Markets distribute goods, services, and benefits in ways that often are irrational, semi-blind, and overdependent on chance.
–Market outcomes are not necessarily moral—and are sometimes immoral—because they reflect a dynamic blend of earned merit and the very unearned compounding of early advantage or disadvantage.
–If well-tended, markets produce great results but if untended, they destroy themselves.
–Markets, like gardens, require constant seeding, feeding, and weeding by government and citizens.
–More, they require judgments about what kind of growth is beneficial. Just because dandelions, like hedge funds, grow easily and quickly, doesn't mean we should let them take over. Just because you can make money doing something doesn't mean it is good for the society.
–In a democracy we have not only the ability but also the essential obligation to shape markets—through moral choices and government action—to create outcomes good for our communities.
You might think that this shift in metaphors and models is merely academic. Consider the following. In 2010, after the worst of the financial crisis had subsided but still soon enough for recollections to be vivid and honest, a group of Western central bankers and economists got together to assess what went wrong. To one participant in the meeting, who was not a banker but had studied the nature of economies in great depth, one thing became strikingly, shockingly clear. Governments had failed to anticipate the scope and speed of the meltdown because their model of the economy was fantastically detached from reality.
For instance, the standard model used by many central banks and treasuries, called a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, did not include banks. Why? Because in a perfectly efficient market, banks are mere pass-throughs, invisibly shuffling money around. How many consumers did this model take into account in its assumptions about the economy? Millions? Hundreds of thousands? No, just one. One perfectly average or "representative" consumer operating perfectly rationally in the marketplace. Facing a crisis precipitated by the contagion of homeowner exuberance,fueled by the pathological recklessness of bond traders and bankers, abetted by inattentive government watchdogs, and leading to the deepest recession since the Great Depression, the Fed and other Western central banks found themselves fighting a crisis their models said could not happen.
This is an indictment not only of central bankers and the economics profession; nor merely of the Republicans whose doctrine abetted such intellectual malpractice; it is also an indictment of the Democrats who, bearing responsibility for making government work, allowed such a dreamland view of the world to drive government action in the national economy. They did so because over the course of 20 years they too had become believers in the efficient market hypothesis. Where housing and banking were concerned, there arose a faith-based economy: faith in rational individuals, faith in ever-rising housing values, and faith that you would not be the one left standing when the music stopped.
We are not, to be emphatically clear, anti-market. In fact, we are avid capitalists. Markets have an overwhelming benefit to human societies, and that is their unmatched ability to solve human problems. A modern understanding of economies sees them as complex adaptive systems subject to evolutionary forces. Those forces enable competition for the ability to survive and succeed as a consequence of the degree to which problems for customers are solved. Understood thus, wealth in a society is simply the sum of the problems it has managed to solve for its citizens. Eric Beinhocker calls this "information." As Beinhocker notes, less developed "poor" societies have very few solutions available. Limited housing solutions. Limited medical solutions. Limited nutrition and recreation solutions. Limited information. Contrast this with a modern Western superstore with hundreds of thousands of SKUs, each representing a unique solution to a unique problem.
But markets are agnostic to what kind of problems they solve and for whom. Whether a market produces more solutions for human medical challenges or more solutions for human warfare—or whether it invents problems like bad breath for which more solutions are needed—is wholly a consequence of the construction of that market, and that construction will always be human made, either by accident or by design. Markets are meant to be servants, not masters.
As we write, the Chinese government is making massive, determined, strategic investments in their renewable energy industry. They've decided that it's better for the world's largest population and second-largest economy to be green than not—and they are shaping the market with that goal in mind. By doing so they both reduce global warming and secure economic advantage in the future. We are captive, meanwhile, to a market fundamentalism that calls into question the right of government to act at all—thus ceding strategic advantage to our most serious global rival and putting America in a position to be poorer, weaker, and dirtier down the road. Even if there hadn't been a housing collapse, the fact that our innovative energies were going into building homes we didn't need and then securitizing the mortgages for those homes says we are way off track.
Now, it might be noted that for decades, through administrations of both parties, our nation did have a massive strategic goal of promoting homeownership—and that what we got for all that goal-setting was a housing-led economic collapse. But setting a goal doesn't mean then going to sleep; it requires constant, vigilant involvement to see whether the goal is the right goal and whether the means of reaching the goal come at too great a cost. Homeownership is a sound goal. That doesn't mean homeownership by any means necessary is a sound policy. Pushing people into mortgages they couldn't truly afford and then opening a casino with those mortgages as the chips was not the only way to increase homeownership. What government failed to do during the housing boom was to garden—to weed out the speculative, the predatory, the fraudulent.
Conventional wisdom says that government shouldn't try to pick winners in the marketplace, and that such efforts are doomed to failure. Picking winners may be a fool's errand, but choosing the game we play is a strategic imperative. Gardeners don't make plants grow but they do create conditions where plants can thrive and they do make judgments about what should and shouldn't be in the garden. These concentration decisions, to invest in alternative energy or not, to invest in biosciences or not, to invest in computational and network infrastructure or not, are essential choices a nation must make.
This is not picking winners; it's picking games. Public sector leaders, with the counsel and cooperation of private sector experts, can and must choose a game to invest in and then let the evolutionary pressures of market competition determine who wins within that game. DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology), NIH (National Institutes of Health), and other effective government entities pick games. They issue grand challenges. They catalyze the formation of markets, and use public capital to leverage private capital. To refuse to make such game-level choices is to refuse to have a strategy, and is as dangerous in economic life as it would be in military operations. A nation can't "drift" to leadership. A strong public hand is needed to point the market's hidden hand in a particular direction.
Markets as Machines vs. Markets as Gardens
Understanding economics in this new way can revolutionize our approach and our politics. The shift from mechanistic models to complex ecological ones is not one of degree but of kind. It is the shift from a tradition that prizes fixity and predictability to a mindset that is premised on evolution. Compare two frames in capsule form:
Machine view: Markets are efficient, thus sacrosanct
Garden view: Markets are effective, if well tended
In the traditional view, markets are sacred because they are said to be the most efficient allocators of resources and wealth. Complexity science shows that markets are often quite inefficient—and that there is nothing sacred about today's man-made economic arrangements. But complexity science also shows that markets are the most effective force for producing innovation, the source of all wealth creation. The question, then, is how to deploy that force to benefit the greatest number.
Machine view: Regulation destroys markets
Garden view: Markets need fertilizing and weeding, or else are destroyed
Traditionalists say any government interference distorts the "natural" and efficient allocation that markets want to achieve. Complexity economists show that markets, like gardens, get overrun by weeds or exhaust their nutrients (education, infrastructure, etc.) if left alone, and then die—and that the only way for markets to deliver broadbased wealth is for government to tend them: enforcing rules that curb anti-social behavior, promote pro-social behavior, and thus keep markets functioning.
Machine view: Income inequality reflects unequal effort and ability
Garden view: Inequality is what markets naturally create and compound, and requires correction
Traditionalists assert, in essence, that income inequality is the result of the rich being smarter and harder working than the poor. This justifies government neglect in theface of inequality. The markets-as-garden view would not deny that smarts and diligence are unequally distributed. But in their view, income inequality has much more to do with the inexorable nature of complex adaptive systems like markets to result in self-reinforcing concentrations of advantage and disadvantage. This necessitates government action to counter the unfairness and counterproductive effects of concentration.
Machine view: Wealth is created through competition and by the pursuit of narrow self-interest
Garden view: Wealth is created through trust and cooperation
Where traditionalists put individual selfishness on a moral pedestal, complexity economists show that norms of unchecked selfishness kill the one thing that determines whether a society can generate (let alone fairly allocate) wealth and opportunity: trust. Trust creates cooperation, and cooperation is what creates win-win outcomes. Hightrust networks thrive; low-trust ones fail. And when greed and self-interest are glorified above all, high-trust networks become low-trust. See: Afghanistan.
Machine view: Wealth = individuals accumulating money
Garden view: Wealth = society creating solutions
One of the simple and damning limitations of traditional economics is that it can't really explain how wealth gets generated. It simply assumes wealth. And it treats money as the sole measure of wealth. Complexity economics, by contrast, says that wealth is solutions: knowledge applied to solve problems. Wealth is created when new ideas— inventing a wheel, say, or curing cancer—emerge from a competitive, evolutionary environment. In the same way, the greatness of a garden comes not just in the sheer volume but also in the diversity and usefulness of the plants it contains.
In other words, money accumulation by the rich is not the same as wealth creation by a society. If we are serious about creating wealth, our focus should not be on taking care of the rich so that their money trickles down; it should be on making sure everyone has a fair chance—in education, health, social capital, access to financial capital— to create new information and ideas. Innovation arises from a fertile environment that allows individual genius to bloom and that amplifies individual genius, through cooperation, to benefit society. Extreme concentration of wealth without modern precedent that has undermined equality of opportunity and thus limited our overall economic potential.
Illustration credit: Elliot Gerard. To see more artwork from Elliot, follow him on Instagram and Twitter @elliotgerard
(c) 2011 by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer. Excerpted from The Gardens of Democracy by permission of Sasquatch Books.
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What Is Pumpkin Tattoo Design?
Pumpkin is a common, well-known culture, which with its impressive size of fruits and berries evokes thoughts of abundance and wealth, has always been a positive symbol. Many seeds were associated with fertility, filling the pulp of ripe pumpkins, and the bright color of the peel reminded of sunny days and summer warmth.
A pumpkin tattoo design is a sign of an autumn harvest season that promises a well-fed and calm future, a symbol of energy and good luck.
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The Common Meaning Of Pumpkin Tattoo
The pumpkin, resembling a vase or vessel in shape precisely because of the ability to empty it and re-fill it with something, in many cultures personified wisdom, health and even the universe. A good harvest of pumpkins provided people with satiety and tranquility even in severe frosts, and the medicinal properties of seeds were considered so valuable that healers and sorcerers recommended using them in magical rituals and rituals designed to attract wealth and longevity.
The homeland of the pumpkin is Mexico, where it began to be cultivated 5000 years ago. The Indians used the fruits completely, without a trace - a variety of dishes were prepared from the pulp, and the seeds were used for the prevention of diseases and made from them an extremely useful oil. The pulp was scraped out of small pumpkins with a hard peel and, after thorough drying, strong and light vessels were obtained. The South American Indians considered pumpkins to be similar to a woman's breast and therefore called the plant the Mother Goddess, a great creator with natural power and solar energy.
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Pumpkin was called "the queen of vegetables" in China - for the huge size of the fruit and the variety of dishes that can be prepared. The Chinese made vessels from a special kind of "bottle gourd", the shape of which (a small top and a voluminous bottom) symbolized harmony, the combination of the energies of Yin and Yang.
In Ukraine, pumpkins were used to brave unwanted suitors - they were handed the fruit during matchmaking as a sign of dislike and lack of respect. This ritual is based on the routine and simplicity of the well-known fruit, which is so common that it is not a pity to give it to someone. The guy who received the pumpkin as a gift should have realized that in this house he was not at all welcome.
In Christian mythology, the pumpkin is a symbol of rebirth, resurrection, because according to legend, it was this plant that gave Jonah a shadow, saving him from the deadly heat. The pumpkin image was used as the opposite of the sinful apple - the fruit of purity and innocence. The pilgrims carried water with them in pumpkin vessels - this emphasized the honesty and sincerity of a person's intentions.
All these above are the meaning of pumpkin tattoo design.
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The Meaning Of Tattoo For Girls
The pumpkin, surrounded by curly stems and bright green leaves, in the tattoo denotes the power of feminine energy, attractiveness, and harmony of character. The image of a solar rounded fruit on the body is a sign of wisdom and fullness with love and tranquility. A girl with such a pumpkin tattoo design believes that nature itself will help her realize her plans, fulfill her dreams.
The orange shining fruit used in the plot of colored vegetable tattoos is a symbol of love for warm autumn, a fruitful season. Such drawings on the body indicate that the owner is a good housewife, a creative person. The rounded shapes of the pumpkin tattoo design are a sign of kindness and self-confidence, and the bright shade of the fruit speaks of a positive disposition, love for the sun, and beauty.
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The Meaning Of Pumpkin Tattoo Design For Men
On the male body, a pumpkin tattoo design is a sign of longevity and a fulfilled, abundant life. The laconic silhouette of the fetus is often chosen for a tattoo as a talisman - such a pattern on the body will help to gain an understanding of life and wisdom. In addition to valuable personal qualities, the image of a pumpkin attracts success in business and business, attracts energetic and honest partners.
The image of a double pumpkin used to create a tattoo is a difficult sign that denotes a secret that oppresses a person. The haze enveloping the pumpkin fruit is an image of the spirit, consciousness, separating from the body. Such stories attract fans of Chinese philosophy, fans of Taoist culture, and lovers of mysticism.
Funny pumpkin images on tattoos are a symbol of simplicity and lightness of character. Carriers of tattoos with funny pumpkins in a cartoon style do not like deep reflections and long thoughts, they act quickly and do not worry about the possible consequences of stupid actions.
Pumpkin tattoo design of@yasaybartattoo via Instagram
Pumpkin Tattoo Design And Halloween
The pumpkin has become the main symbol of the ancient holiday, in which the traditions of the Celts and Christians are closely intertwined - people worship evil spirits and honor saints. In the modern world, little is left of real rituals, but dressing up in masquerade dresses and carving lanterns from pumpkins are invariably the most exciting activities.
Not just lamps are made of bright strong fruits, they are called "pumpkin heads", which symbolize the end of the harvest season, the light of hope. The tradition itself originated from the legend of a man named Jack who twice deceived the devil and escaped death. As a reward for Jack's soul, evil spirits promised not to take him to hell, but the road to heaven was also closed. Since then, Jack has wandered around the world, awaiting the Last Judgment and illuminating the road with a pumpkin lantern.
The pumpkin tattoo design denotes a love for mysterious and mystical stories. Bearers of such wearable designs are trying to understand the meaning of the ancient holiday, to solve the riddles of the other world. Many people love the scary brightly colored Newschool tattoos with evil pumpkin heads. Bright shades of original compositions in a pumpkin tattoo design evoke a lot of emotions and attract attention, especially if they are located on open areas of the body - hands, neck.
Pumpkin tattoo design of@skylar_rose_art via Instagram
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Q: Get UI Element (Inside Expander) by name in WPF For some reasons, I need to generate my UI using dynamic method. Below is the snippet of my code.
        string xaml = "";
        UIElement elementM = null;
        xaml = xaml + "<StackPanel Orientation='Vertical'>";

        //Init & FreeSyn
        xaml = xaml + String.Format("<Expander Margin='{0} {1} 0 0' VerticalAlignment='Top'>", iLeftMostPadding, iTopPadding);
        xaml = xaml + "<Expander.Style>";
        xaml = xaml + "<Style TargetType='Expander'>";
        xaml = xaml + "<Setter Property='IsExpanded' Value='True' />";
        xaml = xaml + "<Setter Property='Header' Value='Axes'/>";
        xaml = xaml + "</Style>";
        xaml = xaml + "</Expander.Style>";
        xaml = xaml + "<Border BorderBrush='DodgerBlue' BorderThickness='1'  Margin='3 3 3 0'>";

        xaml = xaml + "<StackPanel Orientation='Vertical'>";
        xaml = xaml + "<StackPanel Orientation='Horizontal'>";
        xaml = xaml + String.Format("<Button Margin='{0} {1} 0 5' Name='btnCheckAll' Background='{2}' Foreground='{3}' Height='25' VerticalAlignment='Bottom' HorizontalAlignment='Right' Width='{4}'>Check All</Button>", iLeftPadding, iTopPadding, szBtnBG, szBtnFG, 82);
        xaml = xaml + String.Format("<Button Margin='{0} {1} 0 5' Name='btnUncheckAll' Background='{2}' Foreground='{3}' Height='25' VerticalAlignment='Bottom' HorizontalAlignment='Right' Width='{4}'>Uncheck All</Button>", iLeftPadding, iTopPadding, szBtnBG, szBtnFG, 82);
        xaml = xaml + "</StackPanel>";

        int nRow = nAxisCount / 4;
        if (nAxisCount % 4 != 0) { nRow++; }

        xaml = xaml + String.Format(" <UniformGrid Columns='4' Rows='{0}'>", nRow);
        for (int i = 0; i < nAxisCount; i++)
        {
            xaml = xaml + String.Format("<CheckBox Height='20' Name='chkIsAxis{0}'  Margin='{1} {2} 0 0' Width='40' IsChecked = 'true'>{0}</CheckBox>", i, 0, iTopPadding);
        }

        xaml = xaml + "</UniformGrid>";
        xaml = xaml + "</StackPanel>";
        xaml = xaml + "</Border>";
        xaml = xaml + "</Expander>";

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elementM = (UIElement)XamlReader.Parse(xaml, context);
gridM.Children.Add(elementM);

string szTempM = "";

szTempM = "btnCheckAll";
Button btnCheckAll = CHelper.FindChild<Button>(elementM, szTempM); //Return Null Here !!!
btnCheckAll.Click += btnCheckAll_Click;

I fail to get the button "Check All" & "Uncheck All" by name.
I only success if allocate both button outside the expander.
Do you know how to get the button by name ? (Inside expander)
I need to add a onClick event into it.
Thank you in advance.
The UI look like this :

Below is my FindChild code :
 public static T FindChild<T>(DependencyObject parent, string childName)
       where T : DependencyObject
    {
        // Confirm parent and childName are valid.
        if (parent == null) return null;

        T foundChild = null;

        int childrenCount = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent);
        for (int i = 0; i < childrenCount; i++)
        {
            var child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, i);

            // If the child is not of the request child type child
            T childType = child as T;
            if (childType == null)
            {
                // recursively drill down the tree
                foundChild = FindChild<T>(child, childName);

                // If the child is found, break so we do not overwrite the found child.
                if (foundChild != null) break;
            }
            else if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(childName))
            {
                var frameworkElement = child as FrameworkElement;
                // If the child's name is set for search
                if (frameworkElement != null && frameworkElement.Name == childName)
                {
                    // if the child's name is of the request name

                    foundChild = (T)child;
                    break;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                // child element found.
                foundChild = (T)child;
                break;
            }
        }

        return foundChild;
    }

A: Wait until the Button elements that you define in your XAML markup has actually been created before you try to get a reference to the them. You could handle the Loaded event:
...
elementM = (UIElement)XamlReader.Parse(xaml);
gridM.Children.Add(elementM);

FrameworkElement fe = elementM as FrameworkElement;
if (fe != null)
{
    fe.Loaded += (s, e) =>
    {
        string szTempM = "btnCheckAll";
        Button btnCheckAll = CHelper.FindChild<Button>(fe, szTempM);
        btnCheckAll.Click += btnCheckAll_Click;
    };
}

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My passion: In studio I use a very limited palate of backgrounds and props. The focus of my studio work is on the subject - not silly backgrounds or giant numbers. I want these to be classic images that won't simply be a reflection of the current fads of over processed/Instagrammy looking snapshots.
I trained for a career in photojournalism and my weekday job as Promotions Director (formerly videographer/editor) dovetails perfectly with my weekend passion of creating artistic portraits for models, high school seniors and families.
2017 PPA - Three (out of four) images accepted into the PPA's general collection.
2016 Illinois Top Ten Photographer: 4th best portfolio in the state at the PPA's Northcentral district competition.
2015 Received "Master Photographer" designation from the Professional Photographers of America! I started working toward my M.Photog in 2009 and have countless mentors and friends that have helped me to sharpen my vision and creativity as well as hone my skills technically.
2014 Midwest Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - Emmy nomination for KSDK Promotion "Show Me St. Louis"
2010 Midwest Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - Emmy awarded for KSDK Promotion "Where The News Comes First"
1979 Second place portfolio at Indiana University's Summer Journalism Institute. This was a highly intense two week long course for high school yearbook photographers.. a long time ago but probably solidified my desire and confidence in my photographic potential.


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Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Road closed and 240 homes left without power after electrical explosion in Leicester
The incident lasted late into Friday evening
Corey Bedford
A road closure was in place after an electrical fire ignited from a manhole on Evington Road (Image: @Chickenbrocolli on Twitter)
240 homes were without power after an electrical fire ignited on Evington Road in Leicester.
The fire ignited near to the corner with Lyme Road, coming from an electrical manhole on the pavement near Al Hamra Halal Meat.
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service, Leicestershire Police, and Western Power were all called to the scene.
Power was restored to the last of the affected homes by 9pm on the Friday.
The road was closed while emergency services and Western Power handled the situation.
Follow the updates as they happened below.
21:18 Corey Bedford
Power restored to all properties
Western Power have confirmed all properties affected by the power outage have now had their power restored.
The next step will be to look into the incident and find out what happened.
An update by Western Power said: "The incident was raised at 2:22pm this afternoon affecting 240 properties. We successfully restored all supplies in the area by 9:00pm tonight."
Evington Road reopened
Inrix has now removed Evington Road from their list of closed roads/disruption, suggesting the road has now reopened.
Google Maps is also suggesting there is only moderate traffic in this area, too.
Power restored to 92 properties
An update by Western Power has confirmed 92 properties now have their power restored, mostly in the area towards St Philips Road.
There are still 148 properties without power at this moment.
Aftermath of fire
Our photographer, Chris Gordon, visited Evington Road earlier today to see the aftermath of the fire.
The pavement is scorched from the fire and shows the link box severely damaged inside.
(Image: Chris Gordon/Leicestershire Live)
Catch up: Power still off and road closed
For those only just joining us, Evington Road has had to close after a link box caught fire near Lyme Road this afternoon.
Western Power has had to cut off the electricity to 240 properties while they set out to fix the damage, and Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service were called out to handle the fire and close the road.
The incident was first reported to Western Power at 2.22pm, and the road is still closed at this moment in time.
Properties still affected
A power cut is still in place for 240 properties along Evington Road between the junctions with St James' Road and St Philips' Road.
The expected time is still 9.30pm for this to be resolved, but we will keep you up to date as this progresses.
Have you been affected by the power cut or did you witness the fire? You can email me directly at corey.bedford@reachplc.com.
Road closure to 'continue into the evening'
According to Leicester Area Traffic Control, the road is set to be closed into the evening as the work continues at the scene.
They wrote: "Please expect the closure to continue into the evening as Leicestershire Fire & Rescue deal with the incident."
New footage of the fire
We have received further footage from Ahsan Saani from Al Hamra Halal Meats on Evington Road.
It shows close up footage of the manhole being significantly on fire, which we now know to be a link box underground.
Power off for 240 homes
Western Power has confirmed that there is a powercut for 240 homes in the Evington Road area while they work on the incident.
They have also confirmed that the source of the fire is a link box, which is a critical part of high-voltage underground cable systems.
The power is expected to be off in the area until 9.30pm while work is underway, but this time may change depending on the work needing done.
A spokesperson for Western Power said: "I can confirm a piece of our equipment, a link box, has caught fire. We have had to take 240 customers off their electrical supply while we handle the incident.
"At the moment, we are working to get people's power back on, but this will depend on what work needs to be done and what needs to be replaced or repaired.
"We apologise for everyone affected by this issue, and we will investigate fully once we have restored the power to our customers."
Inrix - Road closure update
Inrix has confirmed Evington Road is closed between Linton Street and Glossop Street.
The update says: "EVINGTON ROAD - LEICESTER - BOTH DIRECTIONS - LEICESTERSHIRE
"Evington Road in both directions closed, slow traffic due to fire services activity between Linton Street and Glossop Street."
Footage of fire igniting
Thanks to Ibrahim on Twitter (@Chickenbrocolli) for sending us this footage of the fire igniting on Evington Road.
Road closed both ways
Leicester Area Traffic Control have confirmed that Evington Road is closed both ways while the fire service is dealing with the incident.
People are being advised to use an alternative route.
They said: "Fire Service is dealing with an incident on Evington Rd. Both lanes closed, please use an alternative route."
Photo from the scene
We have received an image of the fire on Evington Road shortly after it ignited.
A road closure is in place after an electrical fire ignited from a manhole on Evington Road (Image: @Chickenbrocolli on Twitter)
Comment from Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
The fire service has confirmed that, despite previous concerns of a gas fire, the incident is an electrical fire.
A spokesperson for Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We are on the scene and we can confirm the fire is from an electrical installation and not a gas incident.
"We have sent one appliance there, and Western Power has also been called to the scene.
"Smoke is still coming from the electrical manhole at this time. We are liasing with local business owners and police.
"A road closure is currently in place and Leicestershire Police are also on the scene."
Leicestershire Police


Professional dancers from Revolution Ballroom, The Ballroom Dance Center, and Emerald Ballroom performed a beautiful group Waltz to "It Is You (I Have Loved)" at the 2015 Augusta Dance Challenge and Showcase. The showcase featured music from favorite fairytales, and their song was selected from the Disney animated feature "Shrek".
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Dual purpose fowl, the Java excels in meat production. By commercial standards they mature slowly; however, their maturation rates prove sufficient for the small scale farmer. Given their large size, the backyard farmer can butcher a young cockerel and still have a respectable-size, table bird for a family. Their black pin feathers serve as quality control indicators over the plucking process by showing missed feathers. A Java hen lays two, medium brown eggs a week. Javas do best in warm weather. In colder climates they need a well insulated coop. Javas meet fifty percent of their nutrition needs by foraging which makes them an economical fowl to raise.
Java owners describe their large fowl breed as docile and easily handled. Javas like to forage but bear up well in confinement. As foragers they remain active throughout the day but do so in a calm, peaceful manner. They have a tendency toward broodiness. One owner describes his Javas as the "workhorse of the poultry world." Common, sturdy, productive the Java just quietly does its job. Many heritage breeders want to see the docile Java once again grace the serene farmyards of America.
Javas roosters weigh an average ten pounds with the hens coming in at a close eight. Javas have a rectangular shape with a full breast, tight feathers, and a single medium comb with matching medium wattles. They sport small red earlobes. The Black Java has black feathers that shimmer with a beetle-green glint in the sunlight. Mottled Javas has the same basic black color but with white markings on the tips of the feathers that give the plumage an appearance of spots. The American Poultry Association removed the White Java from the Standards of Perfection in 1910 because it resembled too closely the White Plymouth Rock.
In spite of their name most historians trace the Java's origins to America. Javas rank as America's second oldest breed. Early American writers mention Javas as early as 1835. However, breed experts believe that the fowl existed in North America long before then. Javas played a key role in the development of several other breeds including: The Jersey Giant, The Rhode Island Red, the Plymouth Rock, and Dominiques. They gained official acceptance as a breed in 1883. In spite of their rich heritage only a couple hundred Javas existed in America. The ALBC has made a concerted effort to protect one of America's premiere fowl.


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Day #13 is in the can!
If you're new to this blog, the title does not mean it's in the toilet .. it means it's in the film can. It's been shot and is at the developer's, then a digital copy of what we shot is on its way to the editor in LA.
The days have been full of hard work, getting some very sweet stuff. Great color, acting, depth of field in the scenes, sound.
We finish the scenes we need to shoot at the current location tomorrow, then Friday we're mostly outside.
One thing that distinguishes this shoot: singing. Sean Patrick Flanery and me do most of the singing. But yesterday Elisabeth Röhm led everyone in a spirited version of "All You Need Is Love" while we were waiting for lighting to be perfected. Our sound guys recorded it. Who knows - we may use it for the DVD version of the film.
Next week we're joined by Eric Roberts, Rick Overton, Jim Holmes and John Fugelsang. Sean Patrick Flanery has just a few days left to shoot, then he flies to Toronto to star in the sequel to Boondock Saints. The rest of us will be working for another three weeks to finish the film.
Our composer, Ragnar Rosinkranz, is watching the film being built by the editor in LA .. so he can build the soundtrack as the film is being put together.
The film is looking great, and editor Stephen Myers says it looks "excellent" so far.
In two days, THE WHOLE TRUTH principal shooting will be 50% completed. It's going by so quickly.
We're trying not to get media coverage yet because we want to keep a lot of the film's information under wraps until we're ready to show it to you! But some newspaper bloggers and neighborhood folks who saw our humongous trucks and lights wrote in a Seattle daily newspaper about what they saw us doing. The write up was pretty general, but wow. Some of the folks who read the short article and commented were pretty pissy -- writing suppositions about stuff that didn't happen, assumptions about the subject of the film and dissing it without having anything but minimal information about it.
But, that's show biz, baby, and think of all the people who will say whatever they want when it finally comes out.
At least they will have seen the movie! That is a good thing!
Today's shoutout goes to gafffer Ted Barnes. The gaffer lights the set in a way recommended by the director of photography. Ted is the very best -- lighting makes or breaks the scenes and how they are conveyed, and I have to say, our scenes are conveyed with the *best* lighting!
Lights are big and small, and can be very heavy. Working around as much electricity as we do, it is most important that safety be uppermost in everyone's mind working around all the lights, sound equipment and the heavy equipment it takes to light a 35mm film. Gaffing is very hard work; it requires a lot of knowledge, passion for the work (telling the story in the most dramatic/comedic way) and physical strength. Ted is also great to work with - he's an easy guy to be around.
But I constantly find that folks who know what they're doing and have confidence in their skills and abilities are fantastic filmmaking co-workers.
Labels: Elisabeth Röhm, Eric Roberts, Jim Holmes, John Fugelsang, Rick Overton, Sean Patrick Flanery, Ted Barnes, The Whole Truth shooting blog
At 5:33 AM, The Entertainment Corner said…
There's too many negative and judgmental people out there. I read one of the articles you've mentioned and shook my head in disappointment ... but hey forget those nay sayers ... we're out here cheering for you all ... looking forward to watching TWT!
*There's singing*
Oh sweet love! :) Yes, please do include that on the DVD ... at the very least, as bonus material on the DVD.
Oh and I know I'm going to say this to him elsewhere, in a day or so, but ...
Happy Birthday on Saturday SPF!!!
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Week #2 of principal photography completed!
Shoot day #8
Sweet shoot on day #6
Week 1 is in the can!


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A teaser to the main even coming soon. A fantastic pre wedding photo shoot in Cheltenham with Stuart & Rowena will be on the blog shortly. So many great photos from this engagement session, it's hard to choose just one to share…..so I've gone for two!!! The fab 'play dead' and the vibrant Cheltenham Gallery inspired backdrop with artwork from James Fowkes.
Watch this space for more photos soon.
If you fancy having an engagement session with me then drop me a line and we can make arrangements for a cool place to meet up and get some fun natural photos to make it even easier on the day for you to relax in front of the camera.


When you have clicked on Continue for an invoice, you will see a list of invoices that have not been sent. If you want to see more information in this view, you can add columns by clicking on Select columns.
If you need to edit any of the invoices, click on the pen or on the document number on the row that includes the invoice. If you want to remove an invoice, click on the red x to the right that illuminates when you hold your mouse over that invoice row.
Then select Send on the invoices that you want to send and Wait on the invoices that you want to wait to send in the actions column.
Click on Process invoices when the invoices are ready to be sent. The invoices are sent and the screen will display a list of sent invoices as well as delivery status.
If this is the first time you are sending an invoice, the system will ask you to fill out certain company information in your account that needs to be included on the invoice. You can also add this information before you send your first invoice by clicking on "Account" > "Profile".


Distance from Tirumala to Paramagudi is 465 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 289 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Tirumala and Paramagudi is 465 km= 289 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Tirumala to Paramagudi, It takes 0.52 hours to arrive.
Tirumala is located in India.


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117 How to react when encountering students who have previously failed my course?
41 What are strategies for minimizing student questions during exams?
19 How to get through the rigorous phase of PhD?
18 How to silence the voice that tells you you're being financially irresponsible by spending 4 to 6 years doing a PhD?


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"The recent detection numbers were not stellar," Jimmy Kuo, a member of the Microsoft security research and response team, said in a company blog.
"We missed capturing a VB100 [Virus Bulletin 100] in the last test because we missed one virus," he wrote. "As a result, we have adopted new methodologies to ... look more closely at families of viruses that have been found to be 'in the wild,' [those] found actively spreading among users."
Early last month, Virus Bulletin, a UK publication whose VB100 tests are considered one of the anti-virus industry's benchmarks, put 15 Vista security programs up against January's WildList, a master list of all viruses, worms, Trojans and other on-the-loose malware. Five titles failed the test, including Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare 1.5.
"We will keep on working to acquire the VB100 Award each time we are tested by Virus Bulletin," promised Kuo.
Kuo said that the company's developers would come up with signatures able to detect entire families of malware, something security vendors have been doing for years. Kuo also said that Microsoft would put more resources into identifying what he called "truly important malware."
"You will see our results gradually and steadily increase until they are on par with the other majors in this arena," pledged Kuo.
Kuo, who prior to joining Microsoft's security team last September was a 10-year veteran of McAfee's AVERT research lab, is probably best known as the researcher who tracked down the hacker who wrote 1999's Melissa virus.


What the hell kind of description is "juice drink in a blend with another juice"? Hello? I want to know what the OTHER juice is!
Or is it a secret juice perhaps?
Well, looky here. Why, it's white cranberry juice from concentrate mixed with apparently top-secret grape juice from concentrate.
Wouldn't it be more succinct for Shaw's to simply label it "White Cranberry and Grape Juice Drink"?
Hey I didn't realize we were neighbors. I live in RI (on the MA border) and I shop at Shaws, too. I'll be sure to avoid their juices in the future!
I'm confused! It's not your fault. It's easily done!
I think these thoughts when Wonder offers us "Made With Whole Grain" white bread. Uh, not so much.
I'm a South Shore blogger....and happened to notice in Stop & Shop just last evening when I was doing my shopping that the White Cranberry mixed juice by Ocean Spray states which combined juice on their label. (I happened to drink "Cran-Grape" so, when scanning the aisle...stumbled upon "White Cranberry" and saw "White Cran-Strawberry".) This was the first time I noticed it, too! Funny you should blog about it today!! LOL!
Maybe it's one of those potluck things where you got the grape juice version, but the next person may have prune juice as their "another juice"?
As a marketer, I crack up at things like this. The money and energy to print "juice drink in a blend with another juice" is classic. White Cranberry Juice Blend wouldn't have worked? LOL.
I run from any juice that says "drink" on it. I like my 100% juices.
And yes, juice drinks are so odd. Why don't they just call it Sugar in a bottle? That's what it is, right?
Hilarious. Thanks for a nice funny moment in my day!
I just want to know how hard one has to concentrate in order to get the white cranberry juice and/or grape juice. Does it jump out of the bottle if I concentrate hard enough? Wouldn't that be a cool trick to teach the kids? Especially the ones who can't reach the top shelf in the fridge.
Definately a WHAT THE HECK? Moment.
Yeah, "another juice" is way too vague for me. Kind of like mystery meat.
Weird label aside, that stuff is yummy!


The 34171st positive integer is an odd prime number that follows the number 34170 and comes before 34172. Thirty-four thousand one hundred seventy-one is 5 digits long.
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Located front of the exhibition centre of Le Bourget, the Le Bourget airport and the museum of space, near the leader firms of Aircraft, Air Hotel offers 35 rooms single, double, triple and quadruple, and opens its private car park during their stay.
From Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, take the bus 350 direction "Gare de l'Est" until the station "Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace".
From the center of Paris, take the Metro line 4 from "chatelet" to "Gare de l'Est", then take the bus 350 from "Gare de l'Est" to "Michelet Parc des expositions" station.


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Shropshire & District League 1897–98 var den ottende sæson af den regionale engelske/walisiske fodboldliga Shropshire & District League. Ligaen havde deltagelse af ti hold, der spillede en dobbeltturnering alle-mod-alle. Turneringen blev vundet af Wellington Town FC, der dermed vandt ligaen for anden gang.

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 Non-League Matters - Shropshire & District League 1890-1900
 Football Club History Database

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Designaré Time is an annual publication spun off from the main Designaré title, and seriously, the layout for this spread is so nice I almost couldn't recognize the images to be my photography when I first saw the PDF haha.
Isn't Lijiang so beautiful? The whole time this year I kept contemplating moving there to live for some months just to be away from the cities. But wanting to shoot in L.A. won out eventually, thou I stay faraway from L.A., enough that it's quiet too anyway hehe.
Talk at LCAD was great yesterday. The projector had some issues in the start but it was an enjoyable experience overall and the people and campus were wonderful.
Q&A was fun, I talked about the experience of shooting The Coldest Day and everyone had a good laugh at how stupid I was. XD They also have a small but awesome library with amazing selections, I met a girl who liked my work when we were there. She had a bunch of Yoshitaka Amano's artbooks in her hands so I related my experience of visiting Amano's home in Tokyo, it was amazing to relive those memories again.
My new editorial for Elle Singapore is out!


Julian currently works as the Director of the Professional Standards Committee for Europe Active, the leading not-for-profit organization representing the whole health and fitness sector in Europe. He previously worked for nearly 2 decades for the leading UK business to consumer fitness education provider, Premier Global, as Director of Research and Development. In this episode we get to know Julian and his professional background and explore the following topics: - the experience of working as a fitness tutor in the UK - as an early adopter of functional fitness training, what inspired Julian to get involved with this type of training in 2001-02 - the primary objectives of Europe Active across the fitness sector and how this impacts all fitness professionals - some of the challenges of driving the Europe Active vision across the continent - some of the success and highlights for Julian in working with an international organisation like Europe Active - ongoing professional development and the Europe Active Lifelong Learning requirements. If you enjoy this episode, then please rate the show and share it with your friends so they can benefit from this free expert information. Your comments and feedback are always welcome. Please subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or the video on You Tube so you will receive each update immediately upon release.


The Blogger Recognition Award: I've Been Nominated!
I would like to give a big shout out to Patrick O'Brien of Mental Health Musings (www.patobrienuk.wordpress.com) for nominating me for The Blogger Recognition Award. I would also like to say thank you to the Twitter blogging and writing community for being kind and supportive in the short time I have been in the Twitterverse. … Continue reading The Blogger Recognition Award: I've Been Nominated!


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On whose side will Governor stand?
Pat McCrory has yet to comment publicly on a radical proposal to cut unemployment benefits in North Carolina since that bill was voted out of a state house committee last week.
"The bill (so far unnumbered) is described by George Wentworth, senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project, as a "parade of horribles," meaning that it encapsulates the worst anti-worker provisions ever dreamed up in any state.
"It's been denounced by the state AFL-CIO, the N.C Justice Center and other progressive and labor groups.
The bill is likely to be one of the first orders of business when the state legislature reconvenes at the end of this month. If Governor McCrory is going to put the brakes on a plan that would not only inflict permanent pain on jobless workers but threaten our state's economic recovery, now is the time for him to speak up.
Read the rest of the story at http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/where-is-mccrory-on-a-bill-to-cut-unemployment-benefits/Content?oid=3244688.


A capacity gallery at Queen's had waited seven long days to see if the Challengers could make an impact after dramatic events in New York. The initial soundings were worrying as Jonathan Larken opened his account by reeling of six impressive serves; James Stout waiting to pounce and put away anything which was returned into play. The Champions were off the mark, leading 6-0. Neither Tom Billings or partner Richard Owen could make any impression of their serves and Larken was back in the box. This time, Larken was picked off but Stout extended the agony with two further points - now leading 8-0. However, neither Billings or Owen could make any impression at the second time of asking; although Stout could only add a further point in the next pair of hands too - 9-0. Although lacking in points, a fabulous exchange was brewing. Billings and Owen both make incredible pick-ups, Larken was playing intelligently with a deft touch and Stout was his magnificent self. The gallery roared as Billings served himself into the points, with five breath-taking points and one further from Owen to give them both hope. They now trailed 6-9. Both pairs added a couple of points apiece in their next hands to provide the Champions with an 11-7 advantage. But the final hand was just too much. Larken had found a sublime touch and took the game to 14-7; Stout served well but Billings forced an impossible let. But the writing was on the wall and Stout sercured the match (and Championship), winning 15/7; and five games to love. A fully appreciative gallery rose as one to salute the defending Champions, their enthusiasism only tempered by the fact it was all over!
John Prenn spoke with his usual eloquence, while his wife, Jane, presented the prizes. Huge thanks as ever to main sponsors John and PlayBrave, supported by our friends from Pol Roger.


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The Face of Britain- Suffragettes
In The Face of Britain, art historian and journalist Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, and unveils the secrets of some of the nation's best loved works of art. In this extract, Schama tells the story of Christina Broom (nee Livingston) – Britain's first female press photographer – and her photography of the Suffragette Movement at the beginning of the twentieth century.
75 years of George Orwell's Animal Farm
2015 marks the 75th anniversary since George Orwell's chilling fable of idealism betrayed, ANIMAL FARM was first published. Read an extract from the 1954 illustrated edition, republished this year by Penguin Classics.
The story behind… The Fox and the Star
Best known for designing the iconic covers for the Penguin Clothbound Classics, illustrator Coralie Bickford-Smith has now created her first tale. Here she tells us the story behind becoming an author as well as a designer ahead of the release of her original fable, The Fox and the Star.
Work like an artist
Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Correspondent, has interviewed countless artists. The role call of inspiration for his new book includes such influences as Ai Weiwei, David Hockney and Bridget Riley. In Think Like An Artist, Gompertz examines the habits and attitudes that unite successfully creative people, and looks at how we can apply those traits to our own endeavours.
The story behind… Penguin on a Canvas
After a childhood surrounded by boxes of books, artist and long-time Penguin fan Harland Miller has created Penguin on a Canvas, eleven new artworks for our offices around the globe.
Read about how Penguin design has inspired him over the years and how he followed in the footsteps of Allen Lane's Junior Designer at London Zoo in our exclusive interview.
Exclusive: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' as a Penguin Modern Classic
Celebrating 50 years of Roald Dahl's groundbreaking Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Penguin UK would like to share a new edition with you. Publishing for the first time as a Penguin Modern Classic, this design is in recognition of the book's extraordinary cultural impact and is one of the few children's books to be featured in the Penguin Modern Classics list.


(302) 674-3333	250 Beiser Blvd.
Former prosecutor with over 25 years experience working in the criminal justice system; currently protecting the accused as a criminal defense lawyer. Francis provides aggressive representation to people from all walks of life throughout the state of Delaware, including college students and out-of-state clients facing charges.
Dana Reynolds earned a B.S. Degree from Cornell University and a J.D. Degree from Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, DE. She is a former law clerk to Senior Judge Jane R. Roth of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and former Chief Judge Chandlee Johnson Kuhn of the Family Court of Delaware. Ms. Reynolds also worked as an associate attorney at Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.
(302) 697-2499	257 E. Camden Wyoming Ave.


The Gallery Monma is located in the quiet neighborhood in Sapporo. Since 2003,it has been a significant place for citizens to engage art and to create new culture . Based in Sapporo, we introduce various creative arts through our artist management work.


1.	Tickets are limited; they will go on sale from 1st March, 2018 and will be available from www.aberdeenhighlandgames.com , the Trybooking.com link or from the Scone Visitor Information & Horse Centre.
2.	Bookings will not be processed until written confirmation and full payment is received.
3.	Once the initial booking has been made, the issue of additional tickets will depend upon availability and cannot be guaranteed.
5.	Due to catering reasons no refunds will be given for tickets after 1 June 2018.
6.	Tickets are issued on first come first served basis.
7.	Tickets are limited. Once the full allocation of tickets is sold no more tickets will be available.
8.	In relation to any disputes, the decision of the committee of the Aberdeen Highland Games final.
9.	Any special dietary requests must be made in writing at the time of booking. The Committee and caterers will make all reasonable attempts to accommodate the request but in the event the request cannot be fulfilled a full refund for tickets purchased will be offered provided clause 4 has been satisfied.
10.	The Aberdeen Highland Games Committee comply with the responsibilities of the Responsible Service of Alcohol guidelines and safeguard the presence of students and children attending the Ceilidh in whatever capacity. Patrons whose behavior is deemed unacceptable will be asked to leave the premises. Security and Police will be asked to intervene where it is considered necessary.


The UN's World Happiness Report shows that migrants rate Finland as the best country in the world to live in. Places two and three have also been taken by Scandinavian countries.
Notice anything about the top 20 or so?


18th August 2016, at the Open University Campus in Milton Keynes. It was specifically for those STEM teachers teaching in a prison (or other secure) environment.
IET's programme of work is at the heart of the Open University's mission to be a world leader in the design, content and delivery of supported open and distance learning through the innovative use of technology.


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Eon Productions Taps Theater, Film & TV Producer Patrick Daly To Oversee Stage Projects
EXCLUSIVE: UK-based Eon Productions has hired theater, film and TV producer Patrick Daly to oversee production and development of the company's theatrical projects. Eon, best known in the film world for its longstanding production of James Bond movies, has been a big player on Broadway and the West End in recent…
Working Title, Heyday & EON Launch London Film & TV School
Working Title, Harry Potter producer David Heyman, Bond producers EON and The Last King of Scotland producer Lisa Bryer officially launched the London Screen Academy, their government-backed film and TV-oriented free school for 16-19 year-olds, at an event in North London this morning. The Islington-based school…
Blake Lively Thriller 'The Rhythm Section' On Track To Resume Production In June
EXCLUSIVE: After a report a week ago that production on IM Global/EON/Paramount Pictures' thriller The Rhythm Section was shut down indefinitely due to star Blake Lively's hand injury, we are hearing from several sources the film is expected to resume production in Spain in June. Lively suffered the injury while doing…
New James Bond Movie Sets 2019 Release Date, But Not Much Else
The next installment of the James Bond film franchise now has a release date. The untitled Bond 25 movie has been slotted for November 8, 2019, the producers said today, with a traditional earlier release in the UK and rest of the world. That takes care of one part of the future of James Bond on the big screen. There…
By Patrick Hipes
Blake Lively, Reed Morano Team On Female-Driven Espionage Thriller From James Bond Producers
Great news: A female Jason Bourne-type film is on its way and from the filmmakers who have given us the last eight Bond movies. They have tapped both Blake Lively to star in the female-driven espionage thriller and The Handmaid's Tale director Reed Morano to helm. The film called The Rhythm Section, based on the first…
Daniel Craig Is 'First Choice' For Next Bond, Say Producers
Eon Productions wants Daniel Craig to return for the next 007 installment, according to a senior production exec on the franchise. Speaking on the UK's BBC Radio 4 Today program, executive producer Callum McDougall, who has worked on the last four Bond titles, said Craig was "absolutely the first choice" for series…
By Diana Lodderhose
James Bond Producer Barbara Broccoli Appointed BAFTA Vice-President For Film
James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has been appointed BAFTA's VP for film. Her appointment follows Greg Dyke coming aboard as BAFTA's VP for TV. Previous VPs for film include Duncan Kenworthy and Lord Puttnam. BAFTA can appoint up to three VPs, in film, television and games, for a term of up to six years. "I am…
Apr 4, 2016 4:22 am
Red Arrow, Smuggler Inc Launch TV Shingle Cove Pictures, Set Deal With Eon
Cove Pictures will have bases in London, New York and Los Angeles and be headed by Heather Rabbatts. The joint venture between Patrick Milling-Smith and Brian Carmody, founders of talent and production firm Smuggler Inc, and Red Arrow Entertainment, has already set a creative alliance with James Bond producers Eon Prod…
By Nancy Tartaglione
James Bond 'Spectre' Script Stolen In Sony Hacking, Producers Say
An "early version" of the script for the next James Bond film, Spectre, was among the vast trove of documents stolen in the hacker attack on Sony Pictures, according to an official statement from the Bond producers, Eon Productions. The statement says MGM and Danjaq LLC, the family-owned business that controls with…
By David Bloom, David Robb
Bond 24 Title, Cast And Car Revealed: Live Stream
Anticipation is running high here in London as EON Productions, MGM and Sony prepare to unveil the cast and title for what we've heretofore only known as Bond 24. Director Sam Mendes along with superspy Daniel Craig and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are due on the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios over…
Dec 4, 2014 2:54 am
'Skyfall' Confirmed As Title Of New Bond Movie; Budget Around $230M; Sam Mendes Says He's Open To Follow-up
Shooting on the latest James Bond movie starts Monday, Daniel Craig revealed at this morning's press conference for Skyfall, the 23rd 007 movie. Producer Michael G Wilson scotched UK tabloid rumors that the budget for the latest Bond film has been slashed by $100 million. "We're in the same budget range as the last…
By Tim Adler in London
Nov 3, 2011 6:18 am
Chris Nolan: "I'd Love To Do A Bond Film"
Sam Mendes & Daniel Craig Will Wait For James Bond UPDATE: Christopher Nolan has told the BBC that, to him, James Bond is one…
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1929 June 12, - 1945 March 15, ANNE FRANK (Amsterdam, Holland)
Anne was born in Frankfurt, but spent most of her life in Holland. Once the deportations began, Anne and her family moved to a hiding place and stayed there from July 9,1942, until they were betrayed in August 4, 1944. She died in the Bergen- Belsen concentration camp from typhus, shortly before the liberation. Anne had hoped to become a writer and succeeded beyond anything she could have imagined when her diary was published in 1947. Since then, over 20 million copies of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, edited by Otto Frank, her father, have been printed and over 50 editions published. A theatrical version, The Diary of Anne Frank, opened on Broadway in 1955 and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, as well as a Tony for Best Play of the Year (1955). A film was later produced in 1959. For many, Anne�s diary is the main exposure to the horrors of the Holocaust.


Beautiful 3.5 acre estate in desirable Greenstone community has it all! This single story 4 bed, 3 bath custom home features a spacious floor plan, with bonus room, grand living area with custom features, and a large kitchen that is great for entertaining. The outside offers amazing local views, covered patio, gorgeous English gardens and walkways, and a private swimming pool. Don't miss this opportunity to live in a custom one story home in Greenstone!


Architects: Morris Adjmi Architects; Program: Offices, Retail; Location: New York, NY; Completion: 2014.
Exterior work is wrapping up on the Meatpacking District's newest trendy office building, 837 Washington. The warped exoskeleton addition, designed by Morris Adjmi's studio, has been fully erected on top of the existing 2 story structure that dates back to 1938 when it served as a meat warehouse. Not just for visual flair, the warped tower's structure will also allow for more open office floor plates by reducing the amount of interior columns. Vegetation is also accommodated by the warped form through planters that occupy the space between the columns and the exterior window wall. Views to the nearby High Line and its trendy neighbors, the Standard Hotel and the future Whitney Museum, will be available both in the office interiors and from the 7,000 square feet of outdoor terraces on the third floor and the roof. When completed, the project should achieve LEED Gold certification.


BRETHREN — The eighth grade volleyball team at Brethren Schools coached by Theresa Buckingham took first place in a tournament they hosted last weekend.
The Brethren eighth grade volleyball team won first place in a tournament they hosted with Ludington, Benzie Central and Bear Lake.
Buckingham said the Bobcats won the first set 21-17. Ludington came back to win the second set 21-10 setting up a third set that was played to 15 points with Brethren winning a 15-12 victory.
Brethren's seventh grade team also hosted a tournament with Ludington, Benzie, and Manistee Catholic Central. Benzie and Ludington played in the finals, with Ludington taking first place.


Two great flavors combine while leaving the gluten and added sugar behind.
Pour ¾ cup (6 fluid ounces) very cold skim milk into a mixing bowl. Add the contents of 1 envelope of Sans Sucre Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse. Using an electric mixer, blend on lowest speed until mix is blended.
Ingredients: Nonfat Dry Milk, Cream Cheese Blend (Bakers Cheese [Nonfat Milk Solids, Lactic Acid, Culture], Cream Cheese Solids, Disodium Phosphate), Whipping Base (Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Maltodextrin, Propylene Glycol Esters Of Fatty Acids, Sodium Caseinate, Acetic Acid Esters Of Monoglycerides, Dipotassium Phosphate, Microcrystalline Cellulose, Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose, Mono And Diglycerides, Sodium Aluminosilicate), Maltodextrin, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Modified Corn Starch, Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Sucralose.
Note: Cheesecake and Chocolate contain naturally occurring lactose from the milk used to make them.


In American cities, green design continues to expand its influence. Solar panels, porous pavement, and green roofs are all catching on as ways for developers to reduce environmental impacts of buildings. But what happens when these features and other smart surface design elements are deployed throughout a neighborhood, or even an entire city?
Delivering Urban Resilience is the first report to comprehensively quantify the costs and benefits of smart on a community scale. Authors Greg Kats and Keith Glassbrook of Capital-Ebillions make a convincing arguement that cities stand to gain billions through improved water management, energy efficiency, economic competitiveness, public health and even disaster mitigation.


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Home Car News Brand New 2 Series On Board! BMW M240i 2022
Brand New 2 Series On Board! BMW M240i 2022
There's no shame in admitting that 2022 has begun with a great start for BMW because from the beginning they have produced an insane number of cars and grabbed everyone's attention.
Source: Autodrive
BMW has been in the market for more than a decade and produced some great vehicles.
BMW made a big revelation with the "i4 M40", which grabbed everyone's attention and showed the world the real meaning of electric vehicles. BMW didn't stop there and introduced another big thing.
BMW M240i and it's the sporty version of the 2 series until they inevitably launch the M2 series in the market.
The word sporty comes in that means it has speed, top-notch performance, and elegant design.
Without wasting more time, let's hop in to check out some quirks and features of the new M240i.
BMW M240i – Sporty with performance
BMW M series has captured a lot of market with their ultimate performance and design. The brand new M240i has some brilliant things to offer and when it comes to performance it does stand at par level.
There are two versions out there, the base model 230i which has 255-hp turbocharged or you can step up to this beast.
BMW M240i has a 382-hp turbo 3.0-liter inline-six. Initially, the 230i is only offered with rear-wheel drive; the M240i is all-wheel-drive only.
Source: BMW USA
There have been some major changes made in this car, one the convertible model has gone and you can only two series as a coupe but a sedan has also joined the party too named "two series grand coupe".
Apart from performance BMW M240i looks incredibly beautiful and it's a pure combination of coupe and sport.
Once you roam around the car one thing you notice is the branding of the M series from inside to outside of the car.
Going to the back of the car, you get to see the muscular and aggressive rear diffusers with a bulky look.
Even the front side also looks more aggressive, especially with the big triangle sides painted in the M240i, if you go with purple color it surely blends in but with others, it does look weird.
This car has 19inch wheels and thin spokes they look sporty and there's also an M logo printed on the rims.
BMW M240i – Sporty Interior
Once you get inside you get to see the premium-looking coupe with the sporty interior and M branding.
Source: Motor 1
The seats feel comfortable as they should with the premium leather and little M color detailing as well.
One thing that interests me is the infotainment screen, a multi-panel display so you can several things at once and most importantly it's configurable.
Another thing to notice is that on doors you get to see that pattern designs like triangles imprinted into the leather which is a lot.
The steering wheel has nothing fancy just the usual BMW M240i one that has some toggle buttons and M branding as well.
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Keiji Uchikawa, Kazuho Fukuda, Takuma Morimoto; Predicting the luminosity thresholds for chromatic stimuli by the optimal color hypothesis. Journal of Vision 2017;17(15):50-51. doi: 10.1167/17.15.50a.
We previously developed the optimal color hypothesis to estimate an illuminant in a scene. It assumes that the visual system has a priori knowledge about optimal colors under different illuminants and selects the optimal color luminance-shell that gives the best-fit to the luminance distribution of chromatic stimuli in a scene. The peak of the selected optimal color luminance-shell corresponds to the illuminant color in the scene. This hypothesis has well explained color constancy in various stimulus conditions. This study aimed to verify the validity of the hypothesis using luminosity thresholds for chromatic stimuli. The thresholds were obtained in our previous experiments, where an observer adjusted the luminance of a test stimulus until it appeared to be brighter than the upper limit of the surface mode and dimmer than the lower limit of the luminosity mode (luminosity threshold). A circular test stimulus was presented at the center of surrounding stimuli on a CRT monitor. We selected 15 reflectances for the test stimulus and 180 reflectances for the surrounding stimuli from Brown's 574 spectral reflectance data of natural objects. We employed three luminance-chromaticity distributions (normal, flat, and valley) of the surrounding stimuli and three color temperatures (3000K, 6500K, and 20000K) of the illuminant. It was shown that the optimal color hypothesis well predicted the luminosity threshold function of the test stimulus chromaticity in terms of its shape and the peak regardless of the luminance-chromaticity distributions of surrounding stimuli and color temperatures of the illuminant.