I had lunch recently (see, they do let me out of the office for reasons other than events, every once and a while) with an extremely interesting new friend who is a member of the clergy.
We spoke about the upcoming Fearless Caregiver Conferences in his neighboring communities where he will be joining us and a wide range of other topics.
One topic we discussed was how beneficial it is to sometimes be able to emotionally reframe the situations in which we find ourselves. One of the best examples I have ever heard of emotional reframing came from a story he told about his mother who, many years ago, was living in a long-term care facility at the age of 94.
A fiercely independent person, his mom had been the first to realize that continuing to live in her own home was no longer a safe option and she needed to find other accommodations. She had a terrific attitude about her new living situation, so it came as a surprise when he received a very upset and tearful call from her.
She explained that another resident she knew well had been found dead in his shower and that he was the third friend in a row living in the facility who had recently passed away. My friend tried to console her and visited her at his earliest opportunity.
He was pleasantly surprised when she greeted him with smiles and a spring in her step. He asked her how she was doing, and her response was an object lesson for everyone at any age. She said "You, know, dear, with all of these friends passing away, I just realized that this was the Lord's way of telling me I needed to make new ones." She joined the facility's welcoming committee and made sure she interacted with all the new residents as they moved in.
PS, A few months later she was complaining that she now couldn't get a moments peace, since all the new friends she just made wanted to talk with her whenever they saw her in the halls!
I found that as a caregiver for my husband, I had to reframe our relationship constantly, to let go of our past active lifestyle and to appreciate that we were still together after 45 years and any activity we could do together was a special event. As an artist, I found happiness in my art and teaching others.
I totally agree. My husband and I are almost 30 years married and we feel the same.
Simple things like singing together bring so much pleasure! No need for hoopala....and not the energy for it either....and now we value every moment together more than EVER as we grow older together.....we are grateful for the seasons of life; it would be so boring if we stayed the same!!!


How pretty is this dress from Carolina Benoit?
A cardigan inspired by Moonrise Kingdom? Someone stop me before I buy this with money I don't have.
I wish I had a need for stationary!
I've been on the hunt for a good trench coat this season too!
I like both sets of stationary but the last group by Black Apple are my favorite. Plus, they seem to be very reasonably priced.
Gah! All of these items are the definition of cute. I cannot get enough of hand drawn stationery.
ooh, love that sweater (very harry potter-esque lol) and those shoes.
Gah, so many pretty little things!
I can definitely see you rocking those awesome ELF heeled oxfords.
These posts are my favorite because you always post the cutest things. That striped shirt would be so cute with jeans and a blazer!
I just got the e-mail about you commenting on my blog when I was looking through this post! Love coincidences. Hope you're having a lovely Sunday night! I also hope you can add some of these amazing pieces to your closet sometime soon. I LOVE the burgundy coat and those amazing oxford-ish heels!
Those Elf shoes are amazing!!!!
But I don't get it, why would you want cards that say Amanda or Laura?! ;) Moonrise Kingdom cardi is my fav. I need to get in on the fox trend!
Such good finds! I am dying over pretty much all of these. Please let me win the lottery, or get a raise at work, or let me sell LOTS from my shop really really quickly. That trench is beautiful, and so are those oxfords, or basically anything with scalloped detailing! I love those last cards too. Everything is perfect, keep these posts coming, they thoroughly entertain me at work!
i never owned a trench. i'm not sure if i'm the type, but i'm sure going to try one next time i see something i like. the moonrise kingdom inspired cardigan could be a fairly easy diy, right?


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What is BEERG?
BEERG – The Brussels European Employee Relations Group is part of the HRPA Global Network. BEERG is a Brussels based networking and consultancy organisation focused on European and global labour relations. Established in 2002, BEERG has over 90 major transnational corporations in membership and is the leading employer group specialising in European Works Councils (EWCs). The BEERG team has been involved in negotiating and renegotiated over 100 EWC agreements over the past two decades.
How BEERG Operates:
BEERG holds three member network meetings per year, in February, June and October. The February and October meetings are held in Brussels; the June meeting is held just south of Barcelona.
At BEERG meetings labour and employment relations professionals discuss issues of mutual concern, in confidence, in an informal environment. Our reception and dinner on the Wednesday evening provides members with an important networking opportunity in a relaxed setting. We regularly feature outside speakers from a range of stakeholder groups, such as: trade unions, EU Commission, national or international agencies with an interest in labour relations. In addition to our scheduled meetings we run "ad-hoc" meetings and briefing events on specific topics from time to time across Europe.
BEERG does not seek publicity or lobby for itself or its members but, where appropriate, it does make submissions to EU institutions and EU member state governments on a range of issues that matter to the employee relations sector, such the transposition of European Directives into national law and GDPR. We have had dialogues with national governments and EI institutions on how proposed changes in domestic employment law would impact the international business community.
BEERG was established to help HR and employee relations executives and specialists and in-house labor counsel with pan-European employee relations issues in general and with issues involving European Works Councils in particular. BEERG is the only employers' grouping with its own EWC database which allows us to provide members with up-to-the minute information on how best to manage EWCs based on "best practice" among peer companies.
Increasingly, our members have asked that we broaden our services to take account of the continuing globalisation of business and the employee relations issues that come with it. We provide advice and guidance to members companies on the provisions of the international labor codes of the ILO, the UN and OECD.
We help members to understand global trade union strategies and advise than on how to deal with international corporate campaigns and requests from Global Union Federations to negotiate International Framework Agreements. We also assist members to manage labor-related corporate social responsibility matters in the company's own facilities and in the facilities of their supply and distribution chains contractors.
BEERG membership benefits include:
A weekly newsletter highlighting important employee relations developments across Europe and globally;
Information on European Union employment law and social policy initiatives;
Access to the BEERG EWC database
Opportunities to meet with EU decision makers to discuss the content of proposed legislation;
Informal peer-to-peer benchmarking and information sharing on key employee relations questions;
Regular BEERG and HR Policy member publications and briefings;
Preferential access for your managers to our training programmes.
Meet Tom Hayes, BEERG Executive Director
Contact BEERG

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MATT BERNINGER – " Serpentine Prison "
Posted: May 20, 2020 in ALBUMS, MUSIC
Tags: Book Records, Matt Berninger, The National
The National's Matt Berninger has shared the title track of his debut solo album, "Serpentine Prison", along with the single art. The record is out October 2nd via Book Records—a new imprint from Berninger and Booker T. Jones in conjunction with Concord.
The video was directed, shot, and edited by Tom Berninger and Chris Sgroi. Berninger announced Serpentine Prison last year, revealing it would be produced by the keys-playing leader of iconic Memphis soul outfit (and longtime Stax house band) Booker T. & the M.G.'s. In recent months, Berninger has teamed with Phoebe Bridgers for "Walking on a String" and "7 O'Clock News/ Silent Night." He's also covered Mercury Rev's "Holes" and Big Thief's "Not."
The song Serpentine Prison was written in December 2018 about a week after recording The National's I Am Easy to Find. For a long time I had been writing songs for movies and musicals and other projects where I needed to get inside someone else's head and convey another person's feelings. I liked doing that but I was ready to dig back into my own garbage and this was the first thing that came out.
The title is from a twisting sewer pipe that drains into the ocean near LAX. There's a cage on the pipe to keep people from climbing out to sea. I worked on the song with Sean O'Brien and Harrison Whitford and recorded it about six months later with Booker T. Jones producing. It feels like an epilogue so I named the record after it and put it last.
The album features contributions from a wide array of notable artists, including Matt Barrick (The Walkmen, Jonathan Fire*Eater), Andrew Bird, Mike Brewer, Hayden Desser, Scott Devendorf (The National), Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz), Booker T. Jones, Teddy Jones, Brent Knopf (EL VY, Menomena), Ben Lanz (The National, Beirut), Walter Martin (The Walkmen, Jonathan Fire*Eater), Sean O'Brien, Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan), Kyle Resnick (The National, Beirut), Matt Sheehy (EL VY, Lost Lander) and Harrison Whitford (Phoebe Bridgers).
The official music video for "Serpentine Prison", the title track from Matt Berninger's debut solo record. Produced by Booker T. Jones, the album will be released via Book Records in conjunction with Concord Records on October 2nd.
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Mark Henkel, the Founder of TruthBearer.org, has appeared on the show live, for more than one interview. On both occasions, the host was very friendly and professional.
In the March 28, 2006 interview, Mr. Henkel responded to questions about the new HBO TV-show, "Big Love." A number of quotes from the interview are provided.
In the September 05, 2006 interview, Mr. Henkel responded to the issue of the August 29 capture of fugitive Warren Jeffs and how pro-polygamists around the country are glad that he was caught. The entire transcript of the interview is provided.
In the November 22, 2006 interview, Mr. Henkel responded to the November 21 prelimiary hearing of Warren Jeffs in Utah, which included a young woman's testimony that proved that polygamy was not involved in any form whatsoever. The entire transcript of the interview is provided.
In the December 22, 2006 interview, Mr. Henkel was asked back as a "friend of the show" as part of their Christmas special. The host asked questions about how polygamists manage the logistics of the Christmas holiday. It was a very fun, entertaining yet positively informative interview. The entire transcript of the interview is provided.
In the August 08, 2007 interview, Court TV's Trial Correspondent, Michel Bryant, filled in for Vinnie Politan as guest-host. The questions pertained to the August 7, 2007 parole of Tom Green and the upcoming September 2007 trial of Warren Jeffs - both Mormon Polygamists about whom non-Mormon and most Mormon Polygamists oppose. The guest-host was very positive and entertaining, and Mr. Henkel provided some important answers to many callers' questions. The entire transcript of the interview is provided.


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Legends in the Field: Sylvia Plachy
When Sylvia Plachy, 70, got serious about photography, she was in her junior year at Pratt Institute and engaging in...
By Michael Kaplan | Published May 8, 2014 8:55 PM
Sylvia Plachy
"Tightrope Walker," New Orleans, 2011. © Sylvia Plachy
Kay Macy among her flowers a few days before her 100th birthday, Cold Spring Harbor, 2012, by Sylvia Plachy. © Sylvia Plachy
"Crone," Sicily, 1988 © Sylvia Plachy
"Invisible Man," Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2002. © Sylvia Plachy
When Sylvia Plachy, 70, got serious about photography, she was in her junior year at Pratt Institute and engaging in a medium that other students saw as a distant second to fine art. "But I fell in love with taking pictures," she remembers. "I decided that this is what I wanted to do." Though Plachy is a contributing photographer for The New Yorker and has shot for a number of publications including the New York Times Magazine, she was most prolific when working with the Village Voice, snagging black-and-white images from one corner of New York City to the other as well as internationally. With several shows in Europe—three last fall, another later this year—and her seventh book in the works, she says, "I am looking back and rescuing pictures that I have taken and not seen. I am at the age where I want to make sure I see them."
Back when she was shooting for the Voice, Plachy worked continually and imagined her photos would have longevity. In fact she was creating a serious body of work: Her photos wound up in museums and private collections. Having accomplished all of that, she's now investigating the corners of her career, digging out images that didn't necessarily make the printed page but still resonate. "For example," she says, "there are really interesting photos that I took on the way to the assignments. I'm rescuing photos that have been clamoring for attention. I'm seeking pictures that I can look at for a long time. I want pictures that are timeless and that have meaning to me now."
For more, see: Legends in the Field: 5 Photographers Over 70
© Sylvia Plachy


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Thank you, Jon, for this great narrative of how the show went. You are an extremely good writer - I could see myself there as I read.
I love how you Americans have literally made up these offensive terms (well, except for "special snowflake") for political purposes in the course of one year for the sake of the elections.
And we've voted for Brexit and we've literally made up nothing offensive at all despite the whole thing being just as heated as the elections. You Americans and your terrifying pottymouths.
At least I'm a bit more mature and I follow politics more than the average 12 year old. Age does not equal maturity and you'll find there are a lot more like me who are young and don't act their age out there.
Also, I don't even throw swear words around on this forum like a crazy 12 year old kid at their keyboard - would you think I'd throw around anything offensive, for that matter?
Heds - you're only 12? You're mature! Lemme be completely honest, I'm only 10... Once again, more mature than the average 10 year old... I think?
So, no recordings of this event at all?
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I believe the venue has a strict "no photography allowed" rule, so unless someone secretly recorded audio in their pockets, you'll probably never see footage of the event.


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Looking to the Future: Optimizing Fertility Preservation Decisions in Pediatric Patients Newly Diagnosed with Cancer
Endocrinology, Hematology/Oncology/BMT
Katie Brind'Amour, PhD, MS, CHES
Family-centered research aims to improve fertility preservation uptake and decision satisfaction among adolescents newly diagnosed with cancer.
With about 84 percent of children, adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer surviving five years or more, the population of survivors is large and growing. Recent estimates from the National Cancer Institute suggest nearly half a million pediatric cancer survivors currently live in the United States. As this population ages, focus on their health needs must shift to include long-term side effects of treatment, not least of which is impaired fertility.
"Among males in particular, more than half may experience impaired fertility as a late effect of cancer therapy," says Leena Nahata, MD, medical director of the Fertility and Reproductive Health Program and a pediatric endocrinologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital. "This is definitely a vulnerable population, and fertility preservation remains underutilized."
That's why Dr. Nahata worked with a multi-disciplinary team to design a fertility preservation program to remove system-related barriers to uptake. Since the program's official start in 2015, the program has initiated automatic orders for a consultation with a fertility preservation expert for all children with a new cancer diagnosis. In these consults, nurse practitioner Stacy Whiteside, APRN, patient navigator for the Fertility & Reproductive Health Program at Nationwide Children's, discusses preservation methods — which vary by age but include novel experimental options such as ovarian and testicular tissue cryopreservation for prepubertal children — as well as financial considerations, timing and available research studies.
One such study is Dr. Nahata's recently funded K08 grant from the National Institutes of Health to optimize fertility preservation decision-making among adolescent males with a new cancer diagnosis.
"Numerous retrospective studies have shown survivors and their parents experience distress and regret over missed opportunities for fertility preservation, which made me feel we need to move the needle on uptake and we need to do it at the time decisions are made," says Dr. Nahata. "Building consensus within families and facilitating conversations between adolescents, parents and providers about this topic in a time-sensitive manner is crucial."
Dr. Nahata's prospective pilot research administers a decision tool to adolescent and young adult male patients and their parents or caregivers to facilitate discussion and decision-making at the time of their initial consultation. They are then surveyed and interviewed one month later to help evaluate the feasibility and benefits of the decision tool. The program also tracks uptake of preservation options among participants and factors associated with their decisions. Data obtained from this pilot will provide the foundation for a randomized-controlled trial in the next phase of the research.
To make prospective decision aids as effective as possible, however, Dr. Nahata and her colleagues believe a systems-based process must first be in place in any institution hoping to impact uptake.
"It doesn't start or stop with oncology or endocrinology — so many teams have a special niche that contributes to the success of our program," says Anthony Audino, MD, one of two pediatric oncologists actively involved in the Fertility & Reproductive Health Program at Nationwide Children's. Other subspecialties include gynecology, urology and psychology. "By collaborating and having an automatic referral process, as well as broad institutional awareness and buy-in, we ensure patients get the best care."
Of course, discussing fertility, insurance coverage and future reproduction goals may seem awkward or even irrelevant to families facing a new diagnosis. But Whiteside has found that bringing fertility preservation into the care discussion at the time of diagnosis also offers families a beacon of hope.
"It can be overwhelming, but it can also be very comforting," says Whiteside. "Somebody, in the midst of all that is going on, is thinking about the future for their child, thinking they will have a future. It's something to hold onto in the chaos — that their child will be a survivor. Because of that, our counseling and research efforts are generally well received."
More than 95 percent of patient families approached to take part in the research so far have agreed to do so. Recruitment of the 40 planned patients for the pilot study is more than halfway complete, and early feedback is promising.
"We have found that adolescents and their parents have appreciated the opportunity to consider fertility preservation more in-depth," says Dr. Nahata. "I think the key is that we're taking the family-centered approach, since recent research has highlighted the importance of parents' recommendation on the ultimate decision to pursue fertility preservation."
Once fertility preservation decisions are made, Whiteside coordinates all of the necessary steps, from obtaining samples to working with a tissue storage bank offsite. When funding concerns arise — since the procedure is not always covered by insurance in Ohio — she can also help find funding from charitable organizations.
"We hope that by doing this, no patient comes back 10 years from now saying they didn't know about their options or that they feel they've missed their opportunity to have a family," says Dr. Audino.
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Zgromadzenie Księży Misjonarzy, właściwie Zgromadzenie Misji, łac. Congregatio Presbiterorum Saeculorum Missionis (CM) – stowarzyszenie życia apostolskiego założone 17 kwietnia 1625 w Paryżu przez św. Wincentego a Paulo w celu ewangelizacji ubogich, w szczególności w formie misji ludowych w małych miasteczkach i wioskach. Misjonarze prowadzili przytułki dla sierot, opiekowali się chorymi oraz zajmowali się formacją kleru, nie przyjmowali natomiast beneficjów i godności kościelnych.

Historia

Pierwsi misjonarze św. Wincentego a Paulo zostali sprowadzeni do Polski z Francji przez królową Ludwikę Marię Gonzagę w listopadzie 1651. Osiedlili się w małym domku położonym w okolicy drewnianego kościoła św. Krzyża, będącego poprzednikiem bazyliki Świętego Krzyża w Warszawie. W 1653 nastąpiło oficjalne objęcie świętokrzyskiej parafii i kanoniczne ustanowienie domu Zgromadzenia. W następnych latach dokonano jego rozbudowy i wzniesienia nowej świątyni.

Placówki Zgromadzenia w Polsce
(kryterium zamieszczenia jest artykuł w polskiej Wikipedii)

Polscy Misjonarze św. Wincentego a Paulo
(kryterium zamieszczenia jest biogram w polskiej Wikipedii)

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Zgromadzenie księży misjonarzy. [dostęp 12 września 2011].

Linki zewnętrzne
 Witryna internetowa Zgromadzenia Księży Misjonarzy

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The Xbox One - Mini Review & Comparison to Xbox 360/PS4
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 20, 2013 8:00 AM EST
Introduction, Hardware, Controller & OS Performance - An Update Image Quality - Xbox 360 vs. Xbox One Image Quality - Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 Power Consumption Final Words
Earlier this morning Microsoft lifted the embargo on press reviews of the Xbox One. I've been playing with final hardware and near final software for a few days now and I wanted to share some thoughts. This is by no means one of our usual thorough review jobs, just a side quest I found myself on over the past few days.
I like the look of the Xbox One. I wish it felt a little more durable, but perhaps that's the mobile side of me speaking where materials are a bigger deal. Sitting on a stand, desk or rack from across the room the One looks clean, simple and honestly, it looks like an Xbox. The Xbox 360 was a journey into a weird sort of industrial design that was a significant departure from the original. The past couple of revisions of the 360 have moved towards sharper angles and away from the curves of the original 360. The One completes the journey back to its roots. Dare I say it almost looks like a PC, and if you crack open the chassis you'll be reminded of the same.
I'll start with IO on the sides and back. There's a single USB 3.0 port on the left side of the chassis, with two more on the rear of the machine. Support for external storage is apparently on its way, as the Xbox One doesn't allow end user upgrades of the internal 500GB hard drive. I have to say that I prefer Sony's stance on this one.
Gigabit Ethernet and dual-band 802.11n WiFi handle Internet connectivity. I'm still shocked that the PS4 shipped with 2.4GHz only WiFi in 2013. On the AV front there's an optical output and HDMI in/out. Kinect has its own port on the rear of the chassis and there's an IR port as well. There's a Kensington security slot to the right of all of the IO on the Xbox One.
The ring of light from the Xbox 360 is gone and replaced with a single, white, backlit Xbox logo on the front of the console. You'll notice the controller position indicators are gone as well (not only from the One, but from the controllers themselves). A combination of the Kinect camera that comes with every Xbox One and IR transceivers in every controller is all you need to figure out player/controller mapping. Indeed, the Xbox One can actually log you into your appropriate Xbox Live account based on recognizing your face alone. I set the One up at my work area, so I had to awkwardly position my face in front of the Kinect camera to make the auto login work but if you've got a more normal setup I can see this being supremely convenient. If you live in a household with multiple Xbox users, the facial login will be one of the standout features of the new console. There's a quick training process that you have to go through to have the console recognize your face, but after that I never had any issues with using my face to log me in. As long as I was sitting in front of the Kinect camera, I sort of forgot about needing to log in, it always just happened for me.
It's very obvious to me that proper cooling and quiet operation were top priorities for the Xbox One. Big portions of the One's top are covered in vents to provide air for the large fan inside. Plastic grills adorn the sides as well. The One is larger than the PlayStation 4, despite having a lower system TDP, but the chassis size is designed to keep the internals cooler and the system quieter. It's a tradeoff we've seen time and time again. While I do appreciate the PS4's size and fully expected the Xbox One to seem huge, it absolutely doesn't in practice.
Gallery: Microsoft Xbox One
I won't talk too much about the Xbox One's HDMI input. I cut the cord a few years ago, so I'm not really in the best position to comment on cable TV set-top box integration with the Xbox One. What I will say is the One's HDMI input can really be used for anything. In testing the One, I actually had my PS4 plugged in to the HDMI input and could quickly switch between consoles simply by saying "Xbox Watch TV". The HDMI input properly (read: legally) handles HDCP content, so by default you can't use it to circumvent the HDCP protection that's enabled on the PS4 at launch unfortunately. The One's HDMI output only applies HDCP to content that needs it. The dashboard, most apps and games stream through unencrypted. Unlike the PS4, the Xbox One does not support HDMI-CEC, relying instead exclusively on IR blasting to turn on your TV and cable box (if applicable).
Kinect and voice control are big parts of the Xbox One experience. Since every Xbox One comes with a Kinect in the box, developers can count on a 3D camera and always-on mic whenever they sell to an Xbox One customer. The early titles that I've played don't really do a great job leveraging either of these things, but I suspect we'll see some clever use cases in the future. I've never been a big Kinect user, but I did use the Xbox One's voice control quite a bit. Just to set expectations, voice interaction with the Xbox isn't as natural as what you'd see on an episode of Star Trek: TNG, but it's not bad either. I found myself using voice as an augmentative interface rather than something I replaced the controller with. In fact, I typically used voice control as another pair of hands to deal with the Xbox One's UI while I'm off doing something else. For me it was always quicker to hit the Xbox button to go home rather than telling the Xbox to go home, but for things like recording a clip of the last 30 seconds of gameplay the voice integration is irreplaceable. More than a few times I'd be particularly proud of something I did in Killer Instinct or Call of Duty, call out Xbox, record that, and it would immediately dump the last 30 seconds of gameplay into a temporary buffer. All of this would happen with no impact to game frame rate or performance. I'd just have to remember to go back into the Game DVR and actually save/commit these recordings otherwise they'd eventually be overwritten if I kept going. Unfortunately Microsoft's Upload studio, the application needed to share these recordings, won't be available until the official launch of the console so we'll have to wait and see how all of that turns out.
I feel like we're heading in the right direction as far as voice recognition goes, but we're not quite there yet. The voice integration on the One still feels awkward and doesn't make good use of natural, conversational language. I don't want to feel like I'm issuing commands to my console, I want to sort of ask it to do things for me in whatever way I want and to have it respond accordingly. Hey Xbox, start downloading Dead Rising 3 and I want to play Battlefield 4 in the meantime - get me there and we're in business.
One feature I absolutely loved using the Kinect camera for was to read QR codes to activate downloads in the Xbox Store. Recognition is extremely quick and it keeps me from having to type on the miserable on-screen keyboard (with no word suggestions like the PS4 nonetheless).
Those concerned about their privacy will be happy to know that Kinect isn't required for use. You can boot the console and use it just fine even if you never connect Kinect. While at the dashboard you will get a little message telling you that Kinect is unplugged however.
The UI and Multitasking
The Xbox UI is much improved over its predecessor. Multitasking is no longer a painful endeavor. You can quickly move between playing a game, changing settings or even messing around with other applications. If anything, the most visible feature of the next-generation of game consoles is just how much better multitasking is. On the Xbox 360 if you wanted to mess around with any console settings while in a game you'd have to physically quit the game, and in some cases even log out of Xbox Live. With the One it's all a matter of suspend and resume. It's quick, unobtrusive and tremendously less frustrating.
Multitasking is also far less of a performance hog than on the 360. For starters the One has a ton of x86 cores to handle multitasking (8 total, I believe 2 of which are dedicated to OS work), and it's now running two independent OSes with a hypervisor managing both. The results are quite evident. If you're coming from a 360, you'll appreciate better graphics in games today, but you'll probably love the fact that you no longer have to fight the UI as much.
It's not all roses though. I can definitely get the UI to drop frames, particularly when using the One's new snap feature that lets you display two things on the screen at once. GPU power is time sliced between the the Windows kernel and Xbox OS (10% allocated to the Windows kernel). Microsoft hopes to eventually offer that remaining 10% up to game developers as well, but we're not there yet. The time slice is quite obvious when you're playing a game and Xbox notifications slowly animate at the bottom of the screen. When things do get sluggish however, the One mostly seems to drop UI frames and avoids increasing response time. I always dreaded doing anything while playing a game on the 360, the same is no longer true on the One.
The Xbox One's UI isn't always incredibly straightforward either. It's good that Microsoft has been able to so quickly embrace and deploy a common UI across all platforms, but I'm not sure that it's necessarily the best UI out there. There's a large horizontal list of tiles, reminiscent of Windows 8. You can pin individual tiles to the left side of the dashboard, and depending on what screen you're in the order of the tiles may vary depending on what you've done most recently. Transitions between tiles are also a bit odd. I expect to go into a tile when I select it, but in most cases the display will scroll up, transitioning to a new "window" when I activate a tile. The other thing I'd say is the tiled interface isn't particularly pretty. Go into the movie, music or game stores and you get these beautifully integrated photos and artwork, but the bulk of what you stare at in the Xbox One UI are big blocks of color. I would've loved to have seen a more dramatic reimagining of what this could be (although it's still worlds better than the Xbox 360's UI).
The Controller
The Xbox One supports up to 8 wireless controllers, one of which is included in the box. By default the controllers take two AA batteries, although Microsoft will offer optional first party rechargeable batteries at launch. I didn't get time to build a good battery life test for the One's controllers, but Microsoft tells me you should expect somewhere around 30 hours of use on a single set of AAs.
The new controller is a clear evolution of the 360's controller. There are three features that stood out to me in using the controller. For starters, the amount of initial resistance in each thumbstick has been dialed back considerably. The new thumbsticks are easier to use and less fatiguing as a result. Secondly, the new d-pad ditches the silly old platform that the old d-pad rested on. Instead you get a standard plus-arrangement. Each direction is accompanied by a shallow but pronounced click. It's great for using the d-pad for issuing commands, but for fighting games I'd prefer something a little softer rather than discrete clicks. I feel like Microsoft likely picked the right tradeoff here as the days of Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct are long behind us, despite the latter making another appearance on the One.
The final improvement to the controller is the inclusion of what Microsoft is calling impulse triggers. The One's controller features a total of four vibrating motors, one in each grip and one in each of the two big triggers (LT/RT). For games that choose to implement it, impulse trigger support is awesome. You get a subtle rumble that's very focused on the triggers rather than your whole controller vibrating like crazy. I feel like force feedback in controllers is obviously here to stay, but it's rarely used in a particularly subtle fashion. Instead what you normally run into is short bursts of feedback or long, agonizing vibration. NBA 2K14 appears to use the impulse triggers and the result is something in between, and something I really did appreciate.
For the first time since the introduction of the Xbox, Microsoft has done away with the back/start buttons and instead replaced them with view and menu buttons. They more or less serve the same functions, it's just interesting to me how every major generation we come across an obvious desire to ditch select/start.
Performance - An Update Introduction, Hardware, Controller & OS Performance - An Update Image Quality - Xbox 360 vs. Xbox One Image Quality - Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 Power Consumption Final Words
elerick - Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - link
Thanks for the power consumption measurements. Could the xbox one standby power be higher due to power on / off voice commands? Reply
althaz - Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - link
I suspect this is almost certainly the case. I wonder if it drops down below 10w if you turn off the Kinect (which I would never do myself)?
I also hope Sony update their software - the Xbox stays in the 16-18w range when downloading updates, whereas the PS4 jumps up to 70 (70w when in standby and downloading an update, but still takes 30 seconds to start up!). Reply
mutantsushi - Saturday, November 23, 2013 - link
It seems that the PS4's extremely high standby/download power draw is due to the ARM co-processor not being up to the task, it was supposed to be able to handle basic I/O tasks and other needed features, but apparently it wasn't quite spec'd sufficiently for the task, forcing Sony to keep the main CPU powered on to handle that task. The rumor is that they will "soon" release a new revision with a more powerful ARM core that is up to the task, and which should allow powering down the x86 CPU completely, as per the original plan. (either that, or managing to rework the "standby" software functions so that the existing ARM core can handle it would also do the trick)
I believe MS is now also rumored to "soon" release a revision of the Xbone, although what that might entail is unknown. An SKU without the Kinect could allow them to drop the price $100 to better compete with PS4.
Incidentally, the Xbone seems to be running HOTTER than the PS4, so MS' design certainly cannot be said to be a more efficient cooling design, more like they have more open space which isn't being efficiently used compared to PS4's design. The temp differential is also probably down to MS' last minute decision to give a 5% clockspeed bump to the APU.
I'm looking forward to the 'in depth' article covering each. As far as performance is applicable in actual use scenarios, i.e. games, I'm interested to get the real low-down... The vast similarity in most aspects really narrows the number of factors to consider, so the actual differentiating factors really should be able to comprehensively addressed in their implications.
Like Anand says, I don't think memory thru-put is a gross differentiator per se, or at least we could say that Xbone's ESRAM can be equivalent under certain plausible scenarios, even if it is less flexible than GDDR and thus restricts possible development paths. For cross-platform titles at least, that isn't really a factor IMHO.
The ROP difference is probably the major factor for any delta in frame buffer resolution, but PS4's +50% compute unit advantage still remains as a factor in future exploitability... And if one wants to look at future exploitability then addressing GPU and PS4's features applicable to that is certainly necessary. I have seen discussion of GPGPU approaches which essentially can more efficiently achieve 'traditional graphics' tasks than a conventional pure GPU approach, so this is directly applicable to 'pure graphics' itself, as well as the other applications of GPGPU - game logic/controls like collisions, physics, audio raycasting, etc.
When assessing both platforms' implications for future developments, I just don't see anything on Xbone's side that presents much advantage re: unique architectural advantages that isn't portable to PS4 without serious degradation, while the reverse does very much present that situation. While crossplatform games of course will not truly leverage architectural advantages which allow for 'game changing' differences, PS4's CU, ROP, and GPGPU queue advantages should pretty consistently allow for 'turning up the quality dial' on any cross-platform title... And to the extent that their exploitation techniques becomes widely used, we could in fact see some 'standardizd' design approachs which exploit e.g. the GPGPU techniques in ways easily 'bolted on' to a generic cross platform design... Again that's not going to change the ultimate game experience, but it is another vector to increase the qualitative experience. Certainly in even the first release games there is differences in occlusion techniques, and this is almost certainly without significant exploitation of GPGPU. Reply
If Xbone's resolution is considered satisfactory, I do wonder what PS4 can achieve at the same resolution but utilizing the extra CU and GPGPU capacity to achieve actually unique difference, not just a similar experience at higher resolution (i.e. 1080 vs. 900). If 900 upscaled is considered fine, what can be done if that extra horsepower is allocated elsewhere instead of increasing the pixel count? Reply
errorr - Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - link
That is still ridiculous considering the moto x and some other future phones can do the same thing at order of magnitudes less power draw. Reply
Teknobug - Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - link
I love my Moto X, X8 8-core processor means each core has its own job, 1 core for always listening and 1 core for active notifications. Very easy on the battery, which is why it is one of the best battery life phones right now. Reply
uditrana - Thursday, November 21, 2013 - link
Do you even know what you are talking about? Reply
blzd - Thursday, November 21, 2013 - link
Moto X is dual core. x8 is a co processor not eight cores. Reply
errzone - Monday, November 25, 2013 - link
That's not entirely true either. The Moto X uses the Qualcomm MSM8960. The SOC is a dual core processor with an Adreno 320 GPU, which has 4 cores. Adding the 2 co-processors equals 8; hence Motorola marketing speak of X8. Reply
Roy2001 - Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - link
Kinect? Reply


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Pirelli's overall rating is 85 points, compared with an industry average of 51.
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In January 2015 Pirelli was confirmed World Sustainability Leader in the ATX Auto Components Sector and Gold Class Company for the eighth year in a row in the prestigious Sustainability Yearbook 2015, published by RobecoSAM. The Yearbook is one of the most complete and authoritative global reference tools for sustainable finance specialists. It includes only the top sustainability scoring companies, ranked as such by RobecoSAM in the Dow Jones Sustainability Assessment, or 15% of firms in 59 business sectors.


SRWC Intramurals is hosting their annual free dodgeball tournament for students to have fun with this classic six-on-six game while competing amongst eight to10 other teams. Your team of six will attempt to knock out the other team by hitting people with the ball, and the first to eliminate everyone on the opposing team will advance in the tournament.
"People always enjoy this tournament because everyone wants to be competitive—yet you can't help but have fun!" said Director of Intramural Sports Glenn McDonald.
Beginning in 2011, the tournament tradition has continued each year. This time, SRWC Intramurals hopes to give students a fun, leisurely experience before finals. Compared to more traditional sports, the dodgeball tournament will give participants time to exercise, enjoy themselves and get their energy going.
The dodgeball tournament will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. in Main Gym Court A. The deadline for participants to register their team of six is Monday, Dec. 5. The winner of the tournament will receive a prize, as will all the participants. For more information, visit www.asirecreation.org/intramurals/tournament.


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Connacht Plan Family Fun Day
Connacht Rugby are hosting their annual Family Fun Day this Saturday at the Sportsground. The event, which has been a huge success in recent years, is a thank you to the families and younger fans of Connacht.
From 2.30pm, the training pitch ar the Sportsground will be transformed into a children's playground full of bouncy castles, an inflatable obstacle course, a rugby assault course and much more.
There will also be face painting and a chance to meet some of the Connacht players as well as Eddie the Eagle. There will be a signing station where fans can secure autographs with giveaways and promotions from Connacht's sponsors/partners.
The event will run until 4.30pm with the Connacht v Aironi RaboDirect PRO12 match kicking off at 5pm. Entry is free for Under-12s, €;5 for Under-18s and adult tickets are just €;15 before 4pm and include admission to the game at 5pm.
After the game, the Official Connacht Supporters Club will be holding a forum with a number of Connacht players in the Clan Bar as well as presenting their choice of Senior Player and Young Player of the Year awards, making the whole day an event not to be missed.
Connacht's newly-appointed head of marketing Alex Saul said: "It's great to throw the doors open to the younger fans and to give something back to the community.
"We pride ourselves on being a child friendly business with initiatives such as free admission to the majority of our RaboDirect PRO12 matches and our great value family Season Ticket.
"We're all looking forward to welcoming the next generation of Connacht fans and players to the Sportsground on Saturday.
"Our previous Family Fun Days have been a huge success and it's a great way for supporters to interact with the squad and bring their kids along for a great day out. All we need now is for the weather to be good to us!"
Tickets can be purchased on www.ticketmaster.ie or by calling into the Connacht Rugby Office on College Road in Galway.
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Greenfield man arrested for attempted murder
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GREENFIELD — Greenfield Police Department received multiple calls from residents on the 100 block of 10th Street who reported a suspicious person in their front yard last Tuesday morning.
Derick Martin Barajas
When officers arrived at about 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 10, they found an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital and is expected to recover, police said.
Detectives of the South Monterey County Task Force arrived on scene and took over the investigation. Officers of the Soledad, King City and Gonzales police departments helped with the initial response.
Derick Martin Barajas, of Greenfield, was identified as the suspect, and an arrest warrant was issued for Barajas.
The next morning, Jan. 11, Barajas appeared for a previously scheduled court hearing at the Monterey County Superior Courthouse in Salinas, where he was arrested and held on the warrant for attempted murder.
"We would like to thank the community members who called 911 to report the victim in their yard," police said. "Without your help, the victim may have succumbed to his injuries. We would also like to thank the residents who came forward to help us identify Barajas. Lastly, we couldn't be successful without the help of our partner agencies."
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Matthew Nordman
Matthew Nordman is a self taught California-born photographer. Previously working as a mechanical engineer with a degree from LMU, he discovered his passion for photography while working at SpaceX. Currently he is focused on fine art and commercial work. You can find him exploring the streets of Los Angeles.
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A Sit Down with Matthew Nordman
Matthew Nordman is a photographer from El Centro, California that possesses an uncanny ability to capture candid moments and intricate textures deep within urban environments. While mostly shooting around Los Angeles, Nordman makes it a point to bring his camera wherever he travels.
"We have our camera on us 100% of the time pretty much," he said. "We really only don't have our cameras on us when we go for a run."
He and his wife and fellow photographer, Jenae Lien, compose a tight-knit team that inspire and guide one another. Together they push each other to be true to their nature and dedicated to perfecting their craft.
"We have a very deep connection, so we really feed off each other's imagery", Nordman said.
Street photography often focuses on people or their natural behavior in public; a covert look inside the candid essence of a human being. Similar to a social documentary, Nordman's work transports viewers to the place in the photo, offering untouched perspectives on the people within.
"Anywhere we go we do street photography," Nordman said. "It doesn't matter where you are at in the world, the most satisfying art is when you capture something that can be relative through a picture tied to a human emotion."
Nordman's precise framing and timing guide the viewer's focus, initiating a sense of exploration in each photo he snaps. His instinctive art direction leads to timeless moments, and his viewership is appreciative of his style, whether he shoots for a personal project or commercial business.
Another unique aspect of Matthew work is his use of Leica cameras. The couple chuckled as they recalled the story of Matthew finding out Jenae had a Leica M6 camera tucked away in her closet for years, and their journey with the German company took off.
"I had known about Leica through my engineering career," Matthew said. "I used to work at SpaceX, and there we had lasers made by Leica; lasers used to manufacture rocket parts for various precise degrees of location. For me it was like seeing a unicorn that I'd probably never see. Once Jenae showed me her film camera and I was actually able to start shooting with it, I made it my mission to collect more of these cameras."
Matthew and Jenae have since developed a bond with the Leica community, frequenting their store in Los Angeles and trying out various models of their cameras.
"We try to reach out to them and be as active in their community as possible. We've been really luck to establish a relationship with them," Matthew said. "They follow us, and they've featured me multiple times on both of their accounts; Germany and USA."
When shooting, Matthew fluctuates between black and white and color. Colors can give context to a specific setting; a cool palette can be used to portray a cold winter, a warm palette for summer, or dense greens for spring. Color can help portray a mood more efficiently, but black and white images appear timeless, allowing the viewer to focus more on the moment.
"I'm leaning toward black and white at this moment in time, but I'm really fond of color," Matthew said. "Not many people are going to ask for black and white if you're doing commercial work or anything for brands, but for street photography, specifically black and white is so good and timeless. Almost all street photography in the beginning was shot in black and white, and those are some of the best images."
Matthew's portfolio is profound and ever-expanding as he and his wife journey together with their cameras in hand. Their genuine approach to photography and their excitement about life is apparent in their photos and their love for the art. In a crowded industry, photographers like Matthew give viewers a refreshing take on the world by capturing beautiful, subtle moments in time.
If Matthew Nordman could photography anyone now or go back in time to shoot any era or person, who would it be?
"If I could photograph one living person right now it would have to be someone high in the political world. It would be awesome to photograph Trump. When I think about that I think of the Time magazine issue with him on the cover; so powerful. It doesn't necessarily have to be Trump, but something of that status.
If I were to go back in time to an era it would be when street photography was getting really good in New York in the 50's and 60's. That was when much of the black and white street photography in New York was at its prime. Just to be in a city like that where everyone is out in the streets is just pure gold. In terms of photographing someone that is dead, I'd choose Tupac."
You can find his incredible street photography on Instagram @n.rdy or on his personal website here.
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On April 16, 2008, the Foundation named after Professor Kazimierz Bartel was established in the Notary's Office of Andrzej Ciba in Krakow. It was created on the initiative of the Professor's daughter – Mrs. Cecylia Bartel.
The Foundation's goal is to comprehensively support the development of education in the Republic of Poland
Why do we help?
"We can't help anyone, but anyone can help someone".
By helping the Bartel Foundation, you contribute to the development of your child. You support education in the spirit of noble values (based on the ethos of the interwar period) and invest in its future. We help mathematical talents, often from neglected families, we also encourage youths for sport and artistic development.
Above all, however, we want scientists to be educated in Poland of such a rank and greatness as Professor Bartel. Our patron was noted in our history as an outstandingly righteous politician and a man of great honour on whom one could always relied. Those who had the opportunity to meet him in person emphasize his kindness towards people and "his crystal clear nature".
We want to cultivate all this through our Foundation while giving young people a chance to develop their passions.
That is why we present to young people the great historic figures and scientific heritage of the Polish Eastern Borderlands and at the same time we patronize computer labs. We want the youths to be educated as versatile people. Professor Kazimierz Bartel was just such a man: an engineer and an art lover at the same time.
We support a variety of interests, from sciences to fine arts, because we believe that every well managed talent works for the good of our country.
We want young people to see for themselves that history can be learned in contact with its witnesses. We are lucky to have the opportunity to get the knowledge from Mrs. Cecylia Bartel, Professor Bartel's daughter.
Aspirations are conveyed during the written work, sports, and dance competitions. Our goal is: thought in motion.
Sometimes it does not take much to motivate someone. It is enough to show that we believe in them.
The Bartel Foundation awards "talented young people" in a variety of ways, ranging from material awards in various competitions to financial assistance for the most talented. We get great satisfaction from this help because we can observe how much this is translated into specific effects.
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I am in the process of moving and downsizing.
If you are wondering, what does this mean for you, well then I have exciting news.
You could be the proud new owner of a piece of original framed art from yours truly.
I am going to be giving away several framed prints.
and I will print it and frame it for you.
I will post more information about how the process will work in the next few days.
Take a moment now to go through and check out my website and blog to pick your favorites.
I really want one of your cherry blossom pics. Not exactly sure which one but something that fits a standard mat size so I don't have to have it professional framed. I will look through in the next day or so and let you know.
I'm always excited about the chance to get art from you however the moving part isn't too exciting. Where are you moving to?
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Creator, Founder, Philanthropist Ray Armstrong
Sun Peaks Center for Art & Sustainability
A Model of Sustainability
Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, after 40 years of conception, design and construction, this project explores new terrain, featuring a variety of designs and ideas that embody a new balance between current technology and future possibilities, bringing breakthroughs in environmental science down to a comfortable, understandable human scale.
Ray Armstrong: Creator, Founder, Philanthropist
The idea of a self-contained model of environmental sustainability began the day Ray Armstrong first sat on a knoll… the highest point on a piece of land which he had just acquired.
At once, Ray felt a powerful sense of responsibility to preserve the natural beauty of this land, conserving it for generations to come.
Ray Armstrong began his adult life at UCLA. It was a busy time, as he was on a football and track scholarship, while majoring in Zoology. He played in UCLA's first Rose Bowl victory against Michigan State and was an Academic All American.
Upon graduation, he entered UCLA dental school, after which he found himself in Denver completing a dental internship. During this time, he fell in love with the mountains of Colorado, and all the skiing, mountain climbing, running, biking and everything else Colorado has to offer. He just couldn't leave.
Ray set up a solo dental practice in Colorado Springs, and maintained this practice for 40 years. Early on, in 1976, he found the property where Sun Peaks now sits, and the vision to create something that would give back to the community. He has been slowly evolving and developing the place ever since. He retired from dentistry in 2013, to devote all his time to continuing the realization of his vision.
Recently, he decided that what has developed into quite a model of Sustainability should now be available for others to experience and learn from, and so began Sun Peaks Center for Art & Sustainability.
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Where is CCTV AKA Video Security Surveillance applicable?
The following site applications shows how CCTV systems may be able to improve your bottom line profits & safety of you and the others around you, by reducing theft, vandalism and the time spent seeking to reduce general nuisance, crime and/or identifying those responsible for it.
As more and more children are open to anything from abuse to abductions installing cameras on site gives a clear view of all covered areas from everyone coming and going, to the checkout counter, play areas and other rooms. This not only gives a visual record of people as they arrive on site but also acts as a deterrent to criminal or abusive behavior. Also see the section below on staff fraud.
As we are sure you are aware, security is increasingly becoming an important factor to those who are considering holiday home ownership. Attracting one or two additional owner-occupiers as a result of installing CCTV will often pay for the system.
A camera mounted at the entrance to the area will enable you to monitor and record all vehicles, with their number plates, twenty-four hours a day. This is used at a number of locations to deter armed robbery and undesirables from entering. Should they persist in doing so you will have a record of when they entered?
Car theft is growing at an alarming speed. Although sites are not generally liable for guest's cars, if a car is damaged or stolen a guest may not feel like returning in the future. We can install a camera system that will cover your parking lots, 365 days a year at a fraction of the cost of employing a foot patrol. Video footage and pictures always make undisputable evidence and can help find those responsible.
As receptionists are open to anything from abuse to armed attack we have installed cameras on some sites to give a clear view of everyone standing at the counter. This not only gives a visual record of people as they arrive on site but also acts as a deterrent to criminal or abusive behavior. Also see the section below on staff fraud.
A camera placed within the cash room can deter armed attack or unauthorized staff entry, while a camera outside the cash room can give the staff inside a view not only of who is opposite the door (as does a peephole) but also anyone else in the general area.
This is increasingly an area for consideration, especially as most trade magazines estimate retail shrinkage to be in the region of 2-3½% of turnover (This may translate to 20+% of profits). See section what every retailer needs to know!
Systems can be used to detect unauthorized visitors entering the site and using the pool or to make sure that recreational assistants are doing their job and not simply congregating at a single point for a chat. Cameras can also be used on your behalf to ensure that health and safety policy is adhered to in areas that cannot be directly observed.
Cellars and kitchens can be covered to deter and detect any staff theft. It is a sad fact that up to 60% of shrinkage from retail premises is now believed to be staff related.
Private hospitals as well as other Health Authorities.
The main benefit reported by many leisure and sport complexes, holiday sites, clubs and pubs is the high level of customer perception that the location has above average security.


NETHERLANDS – Xeikon has introduced its Fusion Technology, a new concept that the company claims brings closer to reality the promise of fully automated, unattended label and packaging production from customer order to delivery.
Combining full color production printing with digital embellishment of labels and packaging in a single, one-pass and fully digital production process, Fusion will consist of a series of embellishment modules released over time that are not just put in-line with the press, but are components of an entirely new modular system with the digital front-end taking care of prepress, data processing, color management and press operation as well as full control and operation of all embellishment modules without manual intervention.
Potential digital embellishment modules include hot / cold foiling; screen prints; matte, gloss and structured flood and spot varnish and a digital braille module.
"As part of our mission to be a leader in the analog to digital conversion in the world of labels and packaging, we are excited to be sharing this new concept with the industry," says Wim Maes, Xeikon CEO.
"Our Fusion Technology will offer converters the true flexibility to produce virtually any label or package on demand. It will make instant re-runs of previous jobs easy since all necessary parameters are in a single digital file. More importantly, converters will no longer need to invest in offline embellishment solutions, nor will they incur the time delays and potential for error inherent in both offline and manual processes.
The goal of Fusion Technology is seamless, end-to-end production of labels and packaging that require high quality, fast turnaround, possibly variable information and any enhancements that increase a brand's shelf appeal – briefly the high-end label and packaging market segment. With Fusion Technology, a print job containing multiple channels defining each aspect of production is dropped into a hot folder and RIP'ed, after which the different channels are sent to the relevant modules including the press – and this without manual intervention.
As every embellishment module is digital, every single design element can be made variable or personalized, which opens up enormous opportunities for new applications. Depending on the requirements, these digital embellishment modules can be positioned before and/or after the Xeikon digital five-color press. The resulting configuration produces a digitally printed and embellished label or package in one single pass.
The cornerstone of this revolutionary concept is Xeikon's dry toner electrophotographic five-color printing press, which the company claims matches offset and flexo benchmark quality - meeting the requirements of this market in terms of print quality, color gamut and accuracy, light fastness, food safety and brand protection.
The Xeikon X-800, its in-house developed digital front-end, ensures a seamlessly automated digital printing workflow while enabling integration with existing workflows and any market-leading third party applications, such as design packages, web-to-print applications and MIS.
"We are developing Fusion Technology to address what we see as a critical emerging need in the labels and packaging market," Maes adds.
"Our initial focus will be on self-adhesive labels where we project significant growth in demand for short-run high-end labels, especially for luxury goods like cosmetics, wine & spirits, and confectionary or for products like pharmaceuticals where these embellishments can also be used in counterfeit prevention.


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 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (Madame Vincent; 1749–1803), französische Malerin
 Daniel Labille (1932–2022), französischer Geistlicher, Bischof von Créteil
 Jean-Pascal Labille (* 1961), belgischer Politiker der Parti Socialiste (PS)


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LaGrange ist eine Stadt und zudem der County Seat des Troup County im US-Bundesstaat Georgia mit 29.588 Einwohnern (Stand: 2010).

Geographie
LaGrange liegt ganz im Westen des Bundesstaates und etwa 90 km südwestlich von Atlanta. Das Stadtgebiet erstreckt sich im Norden bis an den Chattahoochee River, der hier künstlich zum West Point Lake aufgestaut wird.

Geschichte
LaGrange wurde im Dezember 1828 zur Stadt ernannt. Im Mai 1854 eröffnete die Atlanta & West Point Railroad eine Bahnstrecke von Atlanta über LaGrange nach West Point. Im Januar 1891 wurde durch die Macon & Birmingham Railroad eine Bahnstrecke von Macon nach LaGrange fertig gestellt und die Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad erreichte LaGrange im Januar 1907.

Demographische Daten
Laut der Volkszählung von 2010 verteilten sich die damaligen 29.588 Einwohner auf 11.243 bewohnte Haushalte, was einen Schnitt von 2,52 Personen pro Haushalt ergibt. Insgesamt bestehen 12.846 Haushalte.

64,6 % der Haushalte waren Familienhaushalte (bestehend aus verheirateten Paaren mit oder ohne Nachkommen bzw. einem Elternteil mit Nachkomme) mit einer durchschnittlichen Größe von 3,13 Personen. In 37,7 % aller Haushalte lebten Kinder unter 18 Jahren sowie in 24,1 % aller Haushalte Personen mit mindestens 65 Jahren.

31,1 % der Bevölkerung waren jünger als 20 Jahre, 27,6 % waren 20 bis 39 Jahre alt, 24,1 % waren 40 bis 59 Jahre alt und 17,3 % waren mindestens 60 Jahre alt. Das mittlere Alter betrug 33 Jahre. 46,2 % der Bevölkerung waren männlich und 53,8 % weiblich.

44,5 % der Bevölkerung bezeichneten sich als Weiße, 48,0 % als Afroamerikaner, 0,2 % als Indianer und 2,5 % als Asian Americans. 2,9 % gaben die Angehörigkeit zu einer anderen Ethnie und 1,8 % zu mehreren Ethnien an. 4,7 % der Bevölkerung bestand aus Hispanics oder Latinos.

Das durchschnittliche Jahreseinkommen pro Haushalt lag bei 33.501 USD, dabei lebten 29,4 % der Bevölkerung unter der Armutsgrenze.

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LaGrange hat Städtepartnerschaften mit

  – Craigavon, Vereinigtes Königreich
  – Poti, Georgien
  – Aso, Japan

Sehenswürdigkeiten

Folgende Objekte sind im National Register of Historic Places gelistet:

Wirtschaft
Der Automobilhersteller Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia hat seinen Unternehmenssitz in LaGrange.

Verkehr
LaGrange wird von den Interstates 85 und 185, von den U.S. Highways 27 und 29 sowie von den Georgia State Routes 109 und 219 durchquert. Der örtliche Flugplatz LaGrange Callaway Airport grenzt im Südwesten direkt an das Stadtgebiet. Der nächste internationale Flughafen ist der Flughafen Columbus (rund 60 km südlich).

Kriminalität
Die Kriminalitätsrate lag im Jahr 2010 mit 425 Punkten (US-Durchschnitt: 266 Punkte) im durchschnittlichen Bereich. Es gab sechs Vergewaltigungen, 60 Raubüberfälle, 66 Körperverletzungen, 376 Einbrüche, 1234 Diebstähle und 76 Autodiebstähle.

Söhne und Töchter der Stadt
 James M. Griggs (1861–1910), Politiker
 Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877–1934), Historiker
 Howard H. Callaway (1927–2014), Geschäftsmann und Politiker
 Bubba Sparxxx (* 1977), Rapper
 Brian West (* 1978), Fußballspieler
 Elijah Kelley (* 1986), Schauspieler, Sänger und Tänzer
 Wesley Woodyard (* 1986), American-Football-Spieler

Weblinks

 Website der Stadt (engl.)

Einzelnachweise

County Seat in Georgia
Gegründet 1828


Hoax Hunters | You hear that?!?
Yesterday, I wrote about a few of the many reasons to see live music. There's one example I left out because I had today's post in mind, and in the age of the interweb, it's an extremely rare one: music that's exclusively available in live form. In late May, Hoax Hunters performed their first set as a band under the name the Blood Vowels. I couldn't make this inaugural show, but this past Friday (YES, the same night as the Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings show — Mrs. You Hear That?!? is a trouper!), which was just a few days after the name change was made Twitter-official but before any of their music had made its way online, the Richmond-based band performed their second show at Strange Matter. It was such a gift to walk into the venue completely free of preconceptions, filled with the excitement of knowing I was about to hear music that, at the time, wasn't within Google's beneficently creepy purview. Hoax Hunters rewarded me with six explosive and exhilarating rock songs that resonated right away, leaving an uncommonly gripping first impression. Three of the tunes from Friday's show have been posted on the band's ReverbNation page, including my favorite of the night, "Mantooth." The track highlights how well-crafted their songs are, mixing power and subtlety in a way that shows real care and creativity. Check it out here, and be sure to check the band out at their next show, on August 4 at Sprout with White Laces, Fossil Eyes and Grandfather.


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Develops and reviews study protocols, case report forms and informed consent documents.
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O Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (BOPE) é uma Organização Policial Militar (OPM) da Polícia Militar de Santa Catarina (PMSC). Ela é uma Unidade de operações especiais de alto risco, que dá apoio aos Batalhões de Polícia Militar (BPM).

História
O BOPE surgiu em 1994 com a denominação de Batalhão de Operações Especiais (BOE). Nessa data foi reunida, em uma só OM, o Esquadrão de Polícia Montada, o Pelotão de Policiamento com Cães e a Companhia de Choque (transformada em Companhia de Operações Especiais); a qual foi então instalada no aquartelamento do esquadrão de Policia Montada, às margens da BR-101, no município de São José.

Em 2005, a Companhia de Operações Especiais foi transformada em Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (BOPE), pela absorção do efetivo dos Pelotões de Patrulhamento Tático (PPT) do demais BPMs. A polícia montada e ao canil receberam autonomia e passaram a constituir OPMs independentes.

Sede
O BOPE acabou mudando-se da antiga base para uma nova, também no município de São José, totalmente estruturada e equipada para as missões da corporação, e apesar de estar sediado em São José, tem como área de atuação todo o Estado de Santa Catarina.

Efetivo e funções
Atualmente o BOPE conta com um efetivo altamente treinado e qualificado, constituindo-se em uma tropa de pronto emprego em todo o território catarinense e força de reação imediata do comando geral da PMSC.

Capacitação
Os integrantes do Bope  são altamente treinados através do Curso de Ações Táticas Especiais e capacitados para atenderem a missões de alto e altíssimo risco.
Além o BOPE oferece o CURSO de OPERAÇÕES ESPECIAIS POLICIAIS(COEsp-CAVEIRA) que é requisito para integrar o Grupo COBRA, elite com poucos homens que operam nas missões que exigem maior preparo da tropa.

Os Pelotões de Patrulhamento Tático (PPT's), antigo (GRT - Grupo de Resposta Tática) Foram criados nos principais Batalhões do Estado, tendo em vista o alto índice de violência nas grandes cidades do litoral e também do interior, O PPT é o braço direito do Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais(BOPE), Tendo treinamento especifico de Patrulhamento tático de alto risco, sendo subordinado ao BOPE, e trabalhando em conjunto quando houver ocorrências de vulto, quando necessite o emprego de um grupo especializado, dentre os principais PPT's destacam-se os grupos pioneiros no estado nas cidades de Itajaí, Balneário Camboriú, Chapecó, Criciúma, Caçador, Canoinhas, Mafra, Joinville, Florianópolis, Jaraguá do Sul, São Miguel do Oeste, entre outras cidades do litoral e também do interior do estado.

Treinamento
Os cursos oferecidos são:
 Invasões Táticas;
 Entradas Explosivas;
 Patrulhamentos Urbanos;
 Operações Anfíbias;
 Controle de Distúrbios Civis;
 Patrulhamento Tático.

Notas e referências

Ligações externas
Página oficial do BOPE - PMSC

BOPE
Tropas de elite policiais militares do Brasil
Fundações em Santa Catarina em 1994


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All 5 Living Ex-Presidents Get Together Today In The Lone Star State
Well here's something that's never happened before...
TODAY all five living former presidents will attend a hurricane relief benefit at Reed Arena at Texas A&M University called "Deep From the Heart."
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Click here to watch live performances from College Station starting at 7pm
It's also the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Bush Library on the Texas A&M Campus in College Station. In case you're having trouble naming all five living ex-Presidents that's Jimmy Carter (39), George H.W. Bush (41), Bill Clinton (42), George W. Bush (43), and Barack Obama (44). Pretty neat!
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Tips: Avoid playing with it at places with water as it's not waterproof.


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Deryni Reread
Rereading Katherine Kurtz
Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapters 14-15
Judith Tarr
Mon Nov 28, 2016 3:00pm 4 comments Favorite This
Welcome to the weekly reread of Camber the Heretic!
Last time, the regents cemented the human takeover of the royal court, and King Alroy was crowned and celebrated. This week Tavis suffers a terrible injury at the hands of his own people, Javan comes to some dangerous conclusions, and the Camber family struggles to do damage control.
Camber the Heretic: Chapters 14-15
Here's What Happens: As Chapter 14 opens, we pick up directly from the previous chapter, with a stunned but conscious Tavis being hauled off by what turn out to be Deryni with violent objections to Deryni who serve humans. Their punishment is ferocious: they cut off his hand.
The royal guards arrive too late to catch the attackers. Javan does his utmost to stop the bleeding, until the guards take over. Rhys Michael completely loses it after tripping over the severed hand.
Javan, who is coldly composed, rescues the hand and takes it with him. He hopes it can be reattached by a Healer.
But they can't find one. Rhys is unavailable. Some of the guards go looking for him while others deal with Tavis and the princes. The royal physicians, who are human, cauterize Tavis' arm, which eliminates any chance of reattaching the hand.
Rhys Michael is put to bed, but Javan refuses. Meanwhile Alroy and the regents come back from the tournament. The regents immediately double down on the Deryni-hate and decide the attack was a plot against the king.
The chaos continues. Alroy is put to bed, but Javan still refuses. He actually prevails on the regents to let him stay outside Tavis' door.
The Healer who arrives is young, and can't do much besides try to make Tavis comfortable. Rhys finally arrives with the whole Camber family, and gets to work with the young Healer, while Father Alfred, the boys' longtime confessor, gets Javan under control.
We're treated to a detailed description of Rhys' Healing process. Droning Narrator is in attendance. There's science. Also, surgery.
When it's over, Javan comes in and wants to know if Rhys attached the hand. Rhys confesses he couldn't, and asks what happened. Javan gives him the Javan's-eye view of Tavis' abduction and its aftermath.
Javan feels terribly guilty. Camber reassures him that he saved Tavis' life. He's not receptive. Evaine comforts him, building up his confidence while she moves to put a mind-whammy on him.
But she can't get in.
The Camber family discuss this mentally. Cinhil must have given Javan his mental shields. It's terribly inconvenient.
Camber tries a different way to get Javan to sleep: the contagious yawn and the ostentatious "falling asleep Right Now" maneuver. Everybody else joins in, and so, fairly quickly, does Javan.
Hours later, Tavis starts to come to. Camber notes that he's terribly traumatized, and wants them to "just force him back down for a while yet."
Mind-rape, it's the Deryni way.
Rhys demurs. Tavis is a Healer. The sooner he realizes what's happened, the better.
Rhys wakes him up and fills him in. Tavis is deeply depressed. "What good is a Healer with only one hand?"
Rhys doesn't get it. Tavis quotes on Scripture about Healers with plural hands. Rhys fires back with different Scriptures about one hand. Tavis starts to melt down. Rhys metaphorically slaps a modicum of sense into him.
Then he asks Tavis who did this. Tavis shocks them all by saying the attackers were after him, not the princes. And that they were Deryni.
Tavis blasts them with the memory of the attack. Evaine has to exit, at speed. Her unborn daughter will be a Healer (extremely rare in females), Rhys says, and the child must have picked up on the pain. Rhys is proud. Also, he makes sure we all know Healing is harder on females than on males. (pause for reader snarl)
Rhys kvells for a while longer, then has to get back to Tavis. Camber helps Rhys force him into sleep. It's rough—and Camber is flattened. Tavis is unbelievably bitter that his own kind did this to him.
Rhys can't help, either, after what he did to Tavis the night of Cinhil's death. They have to find someone else. Rhys suggests Queron, or better yet Emrys. They'll send for both.
They make sure Tavis and Javan are both asleep. Rhys fusses a bit more over Javan's shields. Then he and Camber leave.
At the end of the chapter, Javan reveals that he's not asleep.
Chapter 15 moves on directly to Javan pondering what he overheard. Especially the part about Deryni. And about Tavis resenting Rhys.
This is bad. This is really bad. Javan mines his memory of the night his father died, and comes to conclusions that will not serve the Deryni, or Rhys and the Camber family, well at all.
Javan manages to call Tavis back to consciousness, mentally no less, and asks him what Rhys did to him the night Cinhil died. They compare notes. Javan tells Tavis about the shields Rhys couldn't pass.
Tavis does some testing—in and around a roaring headache. He confirms that Javan has shields, and "Damned if I know what you are."
Javan goes on to tell him about Queron and Emrys. That's a lot of Healer power for one minor royal servant. Javan is afraid they'll add to whatever Rhys did.
Tavis has an idea. Javan can help him "be progressed to the point that I don't need any more Healers." Javan trusts him even if he's Deryni.
Tavis gets to work, in detail. Javan has a flash of what happened at his power ritual, before his mind goes dark.
By the time Camber and Rhys come back, they're both honestly asleep. Camber isn't concerned.
When Tavis wakes, he is in surprisingly good shape, and he is not cooperative. Rhys is startled to discover that the arm is healed.
Tavis continues not to cooperate. Rhys realizes Tavis tried something with Javan. Tavis plays innocent. "Javan is human." Rhys is dubious, but lets it go.
Rhys leaves him for a while. Tavis, with much drama and a whole sequence of phantom-limb syndrome, studies his injury, then has a colossal weeping meltdown and eventually falls asleep. Rhys finds him that way, and leaves him to it.
When Emrys and Queron arrive, they note that Tavis looks incredibly good considering what he's been through. Tavis is cool and evasive. Emrys and Queron lean on him until he lets them see how completely he's healed.
It's amazing. It's as if he was born that way. Emrys wants to go deep, but Tavis' shields are up and rigid, and he goes nuclear about how Deryni did this to him.
The Camber family and the Healers beat a strategic retreat. Rhys doesn't like what he's picking up from Tavis. Nor does Emrys, whose last experience of such shielding in a Healer resulted in a psychotic break that nearly destroyed St. Neot's.
Queron wonders if Rhys should shut off Tavis' powers. Rhys (for once) worries about ethics, and also about how unstable Tavis' shields (and for that matter his mind) are. "Something very strange is going on in that man's head."
Camber keeps pushing. If Tavis goes over to the regents, that will be a bad thing. Tavis could hunt Deryni for them.
Rhys keeps hoping he can teach someone else to block Deryni powers. Camber pushes him hard about what if he can't, what if it's only him, can he get together with Revan and do what has to be done? It can't even be the best Deryni he shuts off. The best ones have to be able to teach the children.
The Healers are shocked that "Alister" is so upset. Camber actually is having a crisis of confidence—and in front of Queron and Emrys no less, as Rhys rather frantically, and mentally, reminds him. Does he want to tell them the truth?
He does not. He does some fast tapdancing, as he's wont to do, and carefully refrains from thinking about whether Javan was involved in Tavis' healing—because Queron and Emrys don't know about the power ritual, either.
Javan meanwhile continues to ponder what happened. He gets together with his brothers, but they're not terribly interested in remembering the night their father died. Javan pushes Alroy to do something about the Deryni who attacked Tavis. Alroy resists, until Javan points out that Tavis would recognize them—and he wouldn't hesitate to hand them over, either. Tavis presses him to ask the regents, who hate Deryni.
Alroy grudgingly agrees. Javan promises to raise hell if they don't do something. "They must learn that no one trifles with the servants of the royal House of Haldane!"
And I'm Thinking: Hoo boy. Not only are the Deryni in for it now, Rhys and the rest of the Camber family are pretty directly responsible. Rhys' ham-handed handling of Tavis made an enemy of him even without the attack by Deryni insurgents, and that's now extended to Javan and Alroy. Classic example of what happens when people try to stop something from happening: they're all too likely to make it worse.
I admit to feeling as if the Camber family is a little too sure of what's going to happen. They're constantly bustling about trying to stop things that not only haven't happened yet, they're not actually, in terms of events as written, completely inevitable.
At the same time they're not effectual in what they do. The power shutoff thing is a continuous nonstarter, as they themselves frequently lament, but they keep right on pushing it rather than trying to find other, less dicey ways to save the Deryni. Like, setting up evacuation plans. They have Portals, for goodness' sake. Why aren't they using them? Get in touch with Deryni elsewhere (they've had over a decade to do this, come on), set up a chain of Portals, make sure everybody has one to get to in case of emergency. Gradually funnel people out in the meantime. Step it up once the regents take control. Hello. Captain Obvious?
And why aren't they actually working to calm the humans down and resist the ongoing campaign to remove Deryni from the government? With all their mind-whammying powers and their frequently demonstrated willingness to use them, wouldn't you think they'd at least make a try at changing the regents' minds? Or the humans' in general? Couldn't they find a way to get together and defuse the whole situation?
But no. The timeline says bad things happen. So nobody makes a serious effort to stop them. It's all got to be terribly complicated and terribly fraught and totally useless. Because timeline.
Or else Deryni just aren't capable of that level of planning. Camber seems to be the smartest Deryni that ever was, and his plots and plans tend to be either crazily off the cuff or so baroquely elaborate there's no way they can't go wrong. He outsmarts himself.
As he's done here, along with Rhys and Evaine (who is just as willing as ever to mind-rape for Daddy). They really are not nice people. Or particularly intelligent.
Judith Tarr's first novel, The Isle of Glass, a medieval fantasy that owed a great deal to Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books, appeared in 1985. Her new short novel, Dragons in the Earth, a contemporary fantasy set in Arizona, has just been published by Book View Cafe. In between, she's written historicals and historical fantasies and epic fantasies and space operas, some of which have been published as ebooks from Book View Café. She has won the Crawford Award, and been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. She lives in Arizona with an assortment of cats, a blue-eyed spirit dog, and a herd of Lipizzan horses.
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