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Two years into the MOOC revolution we’re now at a stage where the content of entire degree-programs can be found online. Of course, going through MOOCs won’t get you any paper certificates, even though you can certainly pay for virtual proofs of your identity if you are so inclined. Coursera offers a “Signature Track”, and EdX recently added a similar option to a number of courses. You can acquire the knowledge, however.
I’m not suggesting that MOOCs can be a replacement for the entire college experience, though. You’ll miss out on a few aspects, such as interacting with your professors, but in any large university you won’t interact much with your professors either. Further, there is no equivalent of writing a thesis, or getting involved with research. Apart from those limitations MOOCs are a dream come true for an autodidact.
I was wondering whether it was possible to follow a typical CS curriculum solely with (free) online courses, and it turned out that it is largely possible. There is also a paid-for option through the University of London, but their Computing and Information Systems BSc, taught by Goldsmiths, comes with a sticker price of close to GBP 5,000. So, let’s say you don’t want to spend that much money, or much more on a traditional college degree in the UK or US. How far could you get?
Please note that I won’t bother with any “general education” requirements. In Europe 3-year BSc programs are the norm, and you primarily focus on your major subject. In the US, though, you’ve got to endure roughly a year’s worth of courses that are entirely unrelated to the subject you’re actually studying. They are proclaimed to turn you into a well-round person. This is pretty much just marketing speak. What most commonly happens is that people pick courses where they hope to get an easy “A” in, and most students don’t take them seriously anyway. A case in point is the Harvard Cheating scandal of 2012. Oh, and I certainly would feel ripped-off if I were forced to pay several thousand dollars for the doubtful privilege of taking a survey course on popular music. This isn’t an essay on the shady sides of US higher education, though, so I won’t dwell on that topic any longer.
Computer science historically grew out of either engineering or mathematics, and therefore there are differences between programs. Some have a stronger focus on CS theory and mathematics, others include many courses related to electrical engineering in their curriculum. I’ll instead focus on what I consider to be “core CS” courses, and I will highlight some specializations that are well-represented online. CS is not applied IT, though, so anything in the vein of Codecademy doesn’t quite qualify for this article. Some typical courses you won’t find on Coursera et al. yet. However, I’ll point to alternative resources in that case.
There is a wealth of introductory programming courses. I think there are benefits in beginning with a functional programming language, which entails a much reduced level of artificial complexity, and the fact that it’s much easier to reason about programs without mutation. A very good first course would therefore be Introduction to Systematic Program Design – Part 1 by Gregor Kiczales, which uses the Lisp dialect Racket. Part II is planned. Those courses are based on the classic introductory CS textbook How to Design Programs by Felleisen et al. I don’t like that book due to its slow pacing. Prof. Kiczales’ course is much more digestible, though.
You’ll probably want to pick up a more mainstream language such as Python or Java. For Python, I would have recommended Udacity’s CS 101 a year ago. That course used Python. A problem with the Udacity platform is that the forums are a wasteland. I don’t like some of their forced attempts at involving students, either. For instance, in CS 101 they asked students to submit exercise questions themselves, and probably in a misguided attempt to be “inclusive” they put exercises online that show very poor style, such as printing a value instead of returning it. Some other student’s exercise, which is likewise part of a set of optional problems for CS101, has a bug I reported over half a year ago in the forum. There has been no response to it at all. However, there are now about a dozen threads of students who are confused by the original problem because their (correct) solution does not take that particular bug into account.
Udacity also offers an introductory Programming in Java course, which I haven’t gone through. It’s probably okay. If you can motivate yourself, I’d recommend Stanford’s CS106A: Programming Methodology for self-study. Mehran Sahami is a fabulous lecturer, and his course is very thorough. I taught myself Java with it, and Allen Downey’s free textbook Think Java.
If Udacity’s CS 101 is not so great, then what’s the alternative if you want to learn Python? I think it’s Rice University’s An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python. You’ll build increasingly complex games, and by the end of the class you’ll have written between 1,000 and 2,000 lines of code, which will get you a lot of practice. It’s an entertaining class, which I’d recommend even for guys with some years of experience, particularly if you’ve never built simple games.
Those courses will teach you enough programming skills. They should be followed with a course on datastructures and algorithms, i.e. a traditional second course in CS. Unfortunately, the most thorough treatment of that topic is taught in Java: Algorithms (Part I, Part II) by Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick. It would be preferable if an algorithms course was taught in either a language-agnostic way, or in a more expressive language. Tim Roughgarden’s excellent Algorithms: Design and Analysis (Part 1, Part 2) is language-agnostic. This course also includes a review of important data structures. However, to get the most out of these courses you’ll need some mathematical maturity.
It seems that there is relatively little use for continuous mathematics within CS. Calculus is nonetheless commonly taught, which is arguably due to historic reasons. I don’t think you could make a good utilitarian argument for studying calculus within CS. However, you could easily argue that a certain degree of mathematical maturity makes you a lot smarter. You’ll certainly be less impressed by mainstream media information if you know a bit of statistics and probability.
If you didn’t take calculus in high school, then I’d recommend two fun introductory classes from Ohio State University: Calculus One and Calculus Two. Calculus One is an introductory course on single-variable calculus. The presentation of the material is a bit different from what you might be used to in mathematics, but I don’t mind the popularization of the material. For instance, I had no idea what a grain elevator was when I first encountered that term in calculus problems, so I appreciate that Jim Fowler and Bart Snapp use examples you can more easily relate to. Calculus Two covers series. If you like mathematics, you’ll probably enjoy it, but I view the material as mostly optional. You’ll come across telescoping series in some analyses of algorithms, though.
A much more important topic is discrete mathematics. Unfortunately, a MOOC on that topic is still missing. Thankfully, MIT OCW offers a great course in Mathematics for Computer Science, with fabulous lecture notes. There are several versions available. The Fall 2010 version has video lectures, while the Spring 2010 version comes with a very good set of lecture notes.
The big draw of Coding the Matrix, computer science applications, turned out to be much less exciting in practice. You’d work on toy problems that illustrate, say, Hamming codes or image transformations, but the scale was so small that you walked away being thoroughly unimpressed. Of course, we were using a slow interpreted language like Python, and working on small problems. I would have much preferred to have been properly exposed to linear algebra, and then shown realistic applications. Alternatively one could have used highly-performant libraries so that you could have solved moderately sized problems.
Linear Algebra – Foundations to Frontiers. Then there is also Linear Algebra on MIT OCW with fabulous lectures by Gilbert Strang. He is an enthusiastic lecturer, and he develops the material properly, which makes it easy to follow the material. A further bonus is that he made the linear algebra textbook he wrote freely available as a PDF. However, going through a course on MIT OCW might require more motivation and determination since there are no fixed deadlines, and no automatically graded exercises or exams.
If you’re fine with a less traditional way of teaching mathematics, you could also make use of Khan Academy, which covers calculus, statistics and probability, as well as linear algebra. There is currently very little discrete mathematics on offer, though.
Now we’ve got basic CS, programming, data structures and algorithms covered. There is only one course missing to complete the content of a typical CS minor.
To round off your basic CS education, one course in “systems” should be added to the mix. Such courses seem to be much more common in traditional CS programs that grew out of engineering departments, while they are either electives or wholly absent in other CS programs.
I’ll admit that I have a poor background in systems, with only one project-based university course under my belt that I didn’t consider thorough enough. This is therefore an area I intend to explore further. The two most interesting options seem to be by the University of Washington and the University of Texas, Austin. I didn’t have enough spare time when it was first offered, but I had a look at the materials, and I got a very good first impression of the University of Washington course The Hardware/Software Interface. A related course is the upcoming EdX offering Embedded Systems – Shape The World.
With the requirements of a CS minor out of the way, what would you want to go on to study? I’m quite amazed at the wealth of offerings. Of course you won’t find any cutting edge research seminars online. If you’re serious about CS research, then MOOCs are only a poor substitute, but most of what you’d find in a typical taught BSc or MSc program, as opposed to a research-based one, you can find online as well.
If you’re interested in knowledge that is more intermediately useful, pick Jennifer Widom’s thorough Intro to Databases course. It covers theory, and also a lot of practice. For anyone only wanting to learn a bit of SQL it’s overkill, though.
If networks are what interests you, then you can start by taking the University of Washington’s Computer Networks, followed by Georgia Tech’s Software Defined Networking.
Are you interested in learning more about programming languages and their implementations? In this case, there is a wealth of resources available, too. Peter Van Roy of the University of Louvain, author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, is going to offer a course on programming paradigms on EdX. You could follow this up with Dan Grossman’s fabulous course on Programming Languages. That course focuses on the elements of programming languages. A good complement to Dan Grossman’s course is Wesley Weimer’s Programming Languages: Building a Web Browser, which gives you a good foundation for a course in compilers. Wesley Weimer is another one of my favorite lecturers, by the way.
Computer science legend Jeff Ullman is about to offer his course on automata theory for the second time on Coursera. His colleague Alex Aiken teaches one on Compilers. This is another one of the courses I have not taken yet. The syllabus looks quite intimidating, though. It has one of the highest estimates for weekly workload of any course on Coursera, 10 to 20 hours, and judging from feedback on the web, it’s pretty accurate.
A hot topic at the moment is Machine Learning. Coursera lists courses from Stanford, the University of Toronto, and the University of Washington. EdX offers the Caltech course Learning from Data, which has a reputation for being the most rigorous online course in ML.
Traditional AI seems to have taken a backseat compared to Machine Learning in recent years, but it nonetheless has a strong online representation. Udacity now hosts the seminal “AI Class”, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, taught by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun. Sebastian Thrun also teaches a more advanced class on self-driving cars: Artificial Intelligence for Robotics. Alternatively, you could take the UC Berkeley course Artificial Intelligence on EdX.
While I’ve given an overview of core CS courses and a few specializations, there is a lot more you could learn. There are courses on scientific computing, computer architecture, cryptography, computer graphics, computational investing, parallel programming, and even on computational investing and quantum computing. The list goes on and on. I do miss a course on operating systems, though.
I merely wanted to highlight some of the larger areas of computer science, and show that they are already well-represented online. The selection is largely based on my personal interests. Still, I think my presentation convincingly conveyed that there is, a mere two years after the MOOC revolution started, an absolutely staggering amount of MOOCs available. Just look at the numbers of CS courses, generously interpreted, that are currently listed on the websites of the major providers! EdX counts a total of 18, and so does Udacity, incidentally. Coursera, on the other hand, lists 91. This is as total of 127 courses in CS, and this is not taking into account the many courses that are tangentially related to CS, like mathematics, or statistics and data analysis.
This entry was posted in Education on October 29, 2013 by Gregor Ulm.
Thanks for such a comprehensive review. I find it extremely helpful in developing my future curriculum in online learning, especially now that I’m trying to build a relatively systematic course for myself.
Gregor , thanks for posting this — and the list of books for the LinkedIn group. These posts address precisely what I’m interested in pursuing. For myself, I think it makes sense to get another couple programming classes under my belt, and then focus on making up for my lack of a mathematics education — a result of my once-upon-a-time music major — before diving into higher level CS topics.
I’ll intend to make a separate post on books that are suitable for autodidacts soon, too.
Don’t worry too much about mathematics. Discrete mathematics is pretty useful, in my opinion, but the other areas much less so if your goal is to become a reasonably competent programmer. It’s quite different if you aim to educate yourself in theoretical CS, though. I’d recommend you just sign up for a course like Tim Roughgarden’s Design and Analysis of Algorithms, and see how much mathematical background you need for that. Many online courses offer brief review sessions on the prerequisites, and if this isn’t enough, then set some time aside using the materials on Khan Academy.
Your recommendations are appreciated. I do want to improve my math skills, though, even if not entirely necessary for programming. My earlier focus on humanities has left me essentially illiterate in math and science. This is something I want to redress. I can read Milton and Montaigne, or Johnson and the Russian novelists with little effort, untranslated Chaucer with effort, but my knowledge of math doesn’t go past rudimentary algebra. My grasp of science isn’t much better. As a kid I hated math, and kids avoid what they hate. As a music major, I was able to hide from all things I didn’t want to face. Things are different now — it’s a bit of a feeling of wanting to make up for lost time.
Gregor, I wanted to thank you for your very lucid and informative writing and reviews of courses and programming books. For the past week, I’ve been weighing the pros and cons of a handful of both Java and Python books, and had essentially decided on the two very books you think so lowly of: Liang’s Intro to Java and Lutz’s Learning Python.
I’d had similar thoughts on the textbook industry, but Amazon reviews kept me from making the connections and coming to your conclusions. But, when I stumbled here and read a few articles, I was really pleased to see you mention (several times) Downey’s work.
You really helped me out and I look forward to some productive–and efficient–learning with these books, with much thanks to you.
Good article and idea. MIT (not surprisingly) gets it right by giving you the core Math you need early on. The saddest thing is that middle and high school don’t prepare you with the grounding in Math needed for CS. They should focus more on Discrete Math. MIT address this problem, others duck it. MOOCs are sure to become a way of life. There’s too much to learn and not enough supply to satisfy demand. It’s a sad reality when CS majors can’t get jobs because they were shafted into learning the same stuff. Specialisation needs to happen earlier, and skills officially upgradable in a more natural manner. Much like books are often now written with chapter dependency diagrams, courses too need to be like this. So you can cover the core modules or courses, and then move laterally across to whatever field is of need/interest to you. It’s unfortunate that if I had a child in Uni and wanted him to be prepped for a career in technology, I would steer him/her clear of a tech degree and focus on Pure Math. Tech degree just don’t give you the rigorous Mathematical core knowledge you need to be able to move on and expand wherever you like .
Yes, all of this is a consequence of dumbing down the high school curriculum, and making mathematics mostly optional. Largely the OECD is to blame for this, with their push to increase high school graduation and university enrollment rates on paper. What better way to achieve that than to lower standards? O tempora, o mores!
The problem with CS majors is that plenty simply can’t program. This has to do with what I just mentioned. So, if half you students can’t code, how do they get their degree? That’s easy, just let them do group projects.
Great post, I’ve been using it as a reference for a while now. A few things I wanted to ask about–Spolsky always talks about the importance of understanding pointers. It looks like edX’s Harvard CS50 is taught in C, which probably covers that, have you looked over that course?
Any suggestions for courses on Theory of Computation or Theoretical CS? Or anything on applied probability as related to CS?
It depends what you want to do. Understanding C (and pointers) is relevant if you want to program at the system-level, but not so much otherwise. Spolsky is very opinionated, and I disagree with quite a few of his posts. For instance, he boasts about the importance of understanding C, and that Java was “too easy”. However, he misses the point that it’s about the adequate level of abstraction. Sometimes, you might have to dip down to the level of assembly language. In other cases, a higher level language, like Java, can be far superior to C, and then there are domains where you would disadvantage yourself if you didn’t choose a pure functional programming language. Maybe have a look at the classic K&R book. The first chapter gives you a condensed overview of C, and the subsequent chapters expand on it.
For theoretical CS, you might want to bookmark Ullman’s course on Automata on Coursera, which is slated to run again this autumn. The corresponding text, Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by Hopcroft and Ullman, is quite readable. As a working programmer, though, I think one would be very well served by working through Schaum’s Outline of Discrete Mathematics, which has two chapters on automata and models of computation. Maybe use this as a starting point for your further studies. Lastly, this week Rice University’s Principles of Computing (https://www.coursera.org/course/principlescomputing) started, which covers some theoretical CS, including a unit on applied probability.
I’m an economist and always wanted to learn how to code properly, so I’ve been through some of the courses you mention. Actually, the Rice courses on Coursera almost got me convinced to switch carrers :).
That led me to Lynda’s videos for specific skills. After a few months of that, I thought that in order to consider myself a card carrying programmer and be up to speed with university trained people I should do more formal training.
Until I got hooked with Stan Grossman’s Programming Languages course. I did most of the homework (I’m currently implementing closures in a made up language interpreted in racket ;)). Now I’m looking forward to test my Java skills on the next edition of Sedgewick’s algorithms.
Anyway, you look a lot like where I’d like to be in the future, I loved reading your blog, so I wanted to say hi and thanks for sharing!
“Software Defined Networking” is actually offered by Princeton University, not Georgia Tech.
Thanks for pointing this out. Unfortunately, this is one of the many MOOCs that run only very infrequently. It’s probably time I update the original article anyway.

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Medical treatments and procedures are expensive as you’re charged for everything from the cotton swabs and latex gloves to the use of the hospital gown. All these items contribute to escalating medical bills. But, the rising cost of healthcare shouldn’t leave you and your family without any cover.
Medical Insurance is usually a cheaper option than Medical Aid and provides in-hospital cover. A lump sum is paid out for each day that you are hospitalised. The payment is made directly to you and the money can be used to pay for the cost of medical treatment or to pay for other daily expenses incurred whilst in hospital. Depending on the policy that you choose, Medical Insurance can also provide cover for certain day-to-day medical expenses like doctor’s visits, medication for colds and flu, or trips to the dentist.
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text: Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Amir Mehmood Kiani on Thursday launched public awareness Dengue Prevention here in Rural area (Tarlai) of the capital. While addressing the launching ceremony, the Minister assured for making the society dengue-free. He said that the campaign would be practiced in indoor and outdoor of the various locations of the city. The Minister Kiani asked for a plan of action for field activities during the dengue awareness campaign. He said that the trainings of staff comprising of Lady Health Workers and others, was already completed to make the plan comprehensive. Initially the campaign was started with daily activities from Tarnol, the area of the city. While the Barakau and Rawat are planned to put in this campaign. The ministry has deputed 3 Lady Health Supervisors in each area along with respective area Lady Health Workers. The health ministry already issued directives to all the Sanitary Inspectors, Malaria Inspectors to ensure their assistance in this regard. As per plan, the Lady Health workers were going from door to door for identifying active mosquito breeding sites and destroying them manually and use of chemical through placing tempos 1 percent granules that breaks mosquito life cycle. The lady health workers were asked to demonstrate their skills of communication and social mobilization for educating the community about how to prevent themselves from the bite of the dengue mosquitoes and cover their sleeves and body with full clothing, motivating the community to close the small openings in the underground and overhead tanks inside houses, install screens in windows and doors, not to keep trash or garbage inside or outside homes, remove it swiftly from the surroundings. It was warned to the public to keep cover all the water pots, containers, cistern so that to dengue female mosquito may not lay its eggs in the stagnant open water. The ministry also prepared the banners and posters, stickers to display them on streets, Bazars, schools, offices and other public places to make maximum people aware about the precautionary measures to avoid this hazard disease. In his address, the minister Kiani said that as the twin cities are located in endemic zone for dengue, due to which there was more important to be careful to avoid this disease. Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever are the fastest emerging mosquito-board arboviral infections since 2005 in the country. There have been some severe outbreaks of the dengue in some parts of the country in past years. Although, during recent few years, the mortality ratio by this disease has been reduced significantly, however there are still some areas which are on the risk of the dengue outbreak in the country.


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LIGHT THIS CITY FRAGILE HEROES LYRICS"
Because I never lied about that... at least.
It probably would have scared you, anyway.
One more excuse for you to run away.
And it scares me that you're so easily scared.
What falsity did I lead my heart into this time?
Maybe I just fell in love with being the dream.
Ugh, more and more, I find I don't want you.
Well, they say we don't need anyone... at least.
Or do I hate myself for loving one I've just created?
A hero's a most fragile thing.
And holes form inside their perfect characters.
When heroes turn to cowards, you start to resent your dreams.
Now you can't even meet their dull, downward-turned eyes.
(It's so easy, it's so pathetic).
All Light This City - Fragile Heroes lyrics are property and © copyright of their respective owners.
All Fragile Heroes lyrics provided for educational purposes only.

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Formal meetings will be held 3-4 times during the year. Development sessions will also be held for Board members during the year as required.
Agendas and minutes of formal meetings of the Board will be published on the Council website.
The Leader of the Council will chair the Health & Wellbeing Board.
Where a decision is required, that decision will be made by agreement among a majority of members present. Where a decision needs to be ratified by one or more of the statutory agencies, the ratification process will be in accordance with the agreed process within that particular agency.
The Agenda Setting Group will agree the draft agenda and pass to Chair of the Health & Wellbeing Board for approval.
Minutes of the proceedings of each meeting of the Health & Wellbeing Board will be drawn up, circulated and agreed as a correct record at the subsequent meeting, once any required amendments have been incorporated.
The membership and terms of reference of the Health & Wellbeing Board will be regularly reviewed (at least annually) to ensure that they remain relevant and up to date.
· The Wirral Joint Strategy Needs Assessment (JSNA) Executive Group which is the way that Board partners discharge their responsibility for ensuring that local people get the sorts of services they need.
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Multi-agency task and finish groups will be established as appropriate to progress the work of the Board and Health and Wellbeing Strategy. They will be accountable to the Wirral Health and Wellbeing Board.
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The membership and chair of the groups will be agreed by the Health and Wellbeing Board. Meeting arrangements will be agreed by each group to meet the timescale set by the Health and Wellbeing Board.


text: “Le iene” is the first Italian website completely developed with the AMP technology. It consists of HTML, JS, and cache libraries that, with specific extensions and AMP-focused properties, accelerate load speed for mobile pages, even if they feature ‘rich’ content like infographics, PDFs, audio or video files. The AMP pages load between 15% and 85% faster then a non-AMP page. Since the mobile users usually abandon a website that takes longer than 3 seconds to load; as such, businesses that adopt AMP could help to drive mobile abandonment rates down and increase conversions. Our team in Milan improved “Le iene” website in only few weeks, being able to bypass some technical limits, to provide a much better experience for the web site visitors.


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Have you ever thought about learning CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation)? Now’s your chance.
A CPR certification course will be offered at the next Mid-Cities Care Corps Lunch & Learn that will take place Wednesday, May 15th.
The certification will be provided through the Carrollton Fire Department. The curriculum is from the American Heart Association and participants will receive a course completion card provided by the Carrollton Fire Dept. The course is geared toward Adult CPR with compressions only (no ventilations). AED (automated external defibrillator) demonstration will also be covered.
The course duration will be between 1 to 1.5 hours with hands-on training and guidance. The cost will be $10 – $20 per person depending on the number of participants attending, with a maximum attendance of 50.
If you are interested in attending, please send an email to our Volunteer Coordinator, Jane Nauman at [email protected], to get your name on the list to participate. Thank you so much for letting us know and we look forward to seeing you.


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When I first saw his short film “Flower”, I went mad with excitement. The plot of the animation was like none I’d ever seen, and it certainly wasn’t one I expected. “Flower” was the gateway to discovering the incredibly talented illustrator/animator/writer that is Selorm Dogoe. I’m not even ashamed to say that I stalked his Instagram account all the way back to his 2016 posts like a creepy fan.
His work is literally that good.
It’s even more amazing that Selorm created ‘Flower’ on a dare by a friend to make a short film in three weeks. He won the bet by releasing the tragic love story on 14th February 2017; Valentine’s Day. I had a little chat with Selorm about his striking short film, and here’s how it went.
Thanks for speaking to me, Selorm. My first question is on the intent behind Flower. Is Flower intentionally tailored towards a global audience? Because aside from your name, there’s nothing that visibly indicates it’s Ghanaian. Was it more of a ‘think global, act local‘ thing for you?
Lol, I certainly didn’t notice that! What about the score for the film? What informed your choice of the soundtrack? And how long did it take you to find the perfect soundtrack?
The song came first actually. It’s a song by Eric Taylor. It doesn’t usually happen that way but at the time I was trying out a different approach to ideation. So I’d listen to music and try to tell a story from the mood I got from it. That’s how it happened. The story was very rough in the beginning but I made it up as I went along.
That’s interesting. Since you mentioned the story, let’s talk about the incredibly unexpected turn of events at the end. Why, oh why did you kill off the couple? Was there a particular message you wanted to send across with this unusual story?
( Laughs) I wish there was a deeper meaning to it especially because I finished it on Valentine’s Day. It depends on how you look at it — he actually saved the flower’s life. I guess I have a twisted sense of humour. But then again, it is a love story only this time, between the gardener and his flower, and what he was willing to do to protect it.
Well, we expected the gardener to do something, just not that extreme. Then, he dragged them off like sacks of potatoes? Twisted is such an understatement for your sense of humour. It’s lit!
( Laughs ) I tried to foreshadow it and this is where I got a little too artsy. It didn’t come out well. If you look at 0:57 you’ll see a picture of 2 mice from one of my old Instagram projects. One was giving a flower to a lady. At 1:02 you’ll see the hunter’s gun resting on a cabinet.
Such cryptic foreshadowing. Let’s talk about setting. What particular thought went into deciding the setting?
It was a 3-week project so I had to be decisive. If I had to do it all over again with more time there’s a lot I’d do differently. One thing about my process is that I draw from my head and I try to create it the way I see it. And then when I draw, there are some creative decisions I make that influence the final artwork. But I don’t stop till I get it right. For example, I spent about 10 hours creating the gardener (I tracked time on Procreate, the drawing application I use for character design).
Cool. Just for clarity, you work completely on your own?
You do all this as a hobby? Then why animation? Why not any other art form/media, say comics or something so?
Why animation? I love animation. It was a way of stretching my creative muscles. It’s a long and tedious process sometimes but I like the feeling of progress. Plus, it lets me combine all the skills I’ve acquired over the years under one discipline.
Well, we’re certainly looking forward to seeing more of your work.
I’ve submitted my film “The Little Churchmouse” to a few festivals and so I have to keep it private for a while, but once it’s done, I’ll let you guys see review it.
Awesome! Thanks for talking to us!
You’re welcome. And thanks for having me!
Watch this space for more updates on Selorm’s work, including The Little Churchmouse. Till then, check out Flower below.


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UNITED NATIONS, August 19, updated -- On the crisis in Egypt, why is the UN so irrelevant? In the Egyptian presidency's hour long press conference on August 17, the UN was absent. In the US State Department briefing on August 19, a question about the UN was answered by referring to Secretary of State John Kerry's telephone calls.. with the European Union.
Inner City Press has interviewed a range of knowledgeable sources on this, including since being first to report on August 15 that former US official, now head of the UN Department of Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman had been arranging a trip to Egypt before the killings of August 14.
Now Inner City Press can report the following: calls by the UN Secretariat of Ban Ki-moon and his deputy Jan Eliasson to current and just-resigned Egyptian authorities are described by knowledgeable UN sources as failures, garnering responses that "Egypt does not need the UN, it has enough expertise" and that Morsi was being held for his own protection.
Within Feltman's UN Department of Political Affairs, Egypt is not part of the Middle East but rather of Africa. And, sources tell Inner City Press, the African unit of DPA viewed the ouster of Morsi as a coup, as the African Union views it. But they were overruled.
Now, they ask, how long will Feltman really be working on his pre-planned trip to Egypt? [Update: Egyptian diplomats tell Inner City Press: two days.] Who will meet with him? Will the UN be transparent? Will they make Feltman's schedule at least as public as Ban's or Eliasson's?
Some who question why even UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Navi Pillay has not been more forceful point, in the OHCHR bureaucracy under her to "a Coptic Christian view against the Muslim Brotherhood, like, look the other way for now."
Is this how the UN system is supposed to work? Watch this site.

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April is the perfect time to escape your daily routine and have a little adventure. The crowds of summer tourists have not yet hit these popular spots but the weather is great and the offers are even better.
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Berlin has become of Europea��s must-visit cities in recent years and its reputation certainly precedes it. As the capital and cultural centre of Germany, Berlina��s eventful past can be seen and felt throughout the city. Today Berlin is known for its art scene, architecture, and super-cool bars and clubs. With so much to do and see the only way to know what people love so much about Berlin is to find out for yourself. April is a great time to visit Berlin a�� find out what the fuss is all about and also learn some German!
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Being in Rome is a little bit like stepping back in time. The history of this city can been seen and felt with every step you take. Whatever direction you look in you find a breath-taking, grand, imposing ancient building that remind you of your own insignificance. Yet at the same time Rome is like any other modern European city, with busy people fulfilling their busy itinerary. Have the chance to see the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, Vatican City, and Michelangeloa��s Sistine Chapel frescoes whilst learning a bit of Italian this Spring!
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text: Back to School Sales are in full swing and our school supply bags need that-supplies. At Walmart boxes of Crayola crayons are $.50 and some folders are $.15 a piece. Which means that you can get 20 boxes of crayons for $10 and 6 folders for a dollar.


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How online dating can help us realize that we're enough.
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The Beech View self catering apartments are amazing to stay for your Hen Party. You can party all night and relax all day in there beautifully fully furnished apartments.
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Finally - A kid's paint that WILL totally wash out of all clothing!
Premium quality, non-toxic paint that washes easily from children's clothing, making this an ideal poster paint for preschoolers through to early primary school use. Total wash paint is perfect for general art and craft work, finger painting and non-permanent posters - use a brush, sponge or fingers as required. Comes in 14 great colour choices. Paint stains disappear like magic in just 15 to 45 minutes by soaking in soapy water. Dilute with water if necessary.


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When writing the source code for the book Exploring Java 9, I feel that I need to have the continuous integration (CI) builds for the source code. The source code is a Maven project running with Java 9. Java 9 is not supported natively on most CI servers. However, with the help of Docker, we can easily run CI builds using Java 9.
I use CircleCI to build the source code. The code below is the circle.yml of CircleCI. Here I use the docker image maven:3.5.0-jdk-9 to run the Maven builds. ([[ ! -d $JAVA_HOME/conf ]] && ln -s $JAVA_HOME/lib $JAVA_HOME/conf) is used to workaround the issue with error java.lang.SecurityException: Can't read cryptographic policy directory: unlimited when starting the JVM.
Update: The Maven Docker image has been upgraded to use JDK 9 build 178, which fixed the issue. So it’s no longer required to use the workaround.
See the actual circle.yml file used for the source code.


text: Thank you all for the wonderful experience. Please accept our gratitude for the smooth experience, as the name suggests your staff helped and guided us along the way. Your hospital truly lives up to its name.


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Do you ever wake up in the morning and have a major hankering for an over-the-top, totally decadent breakfast?
It happens to me most Sundays and while I don't usually indulge, mostly out of laziness, when an idea like this one comes it's impossible to let it go. Vegan French Toast coated in coconut and quinoa.
Pretty much the most epic breakfast ever. What's makes it even better (as if that was actually possible)? It's simple AND healthy!
Making vegan french toast is actually way easier than I imagined. Really you just have to replace the egg (and the milk) and so I turned to my trusty vegan egg replacer: flax.
You know from my other vegan baked goods, I love using flax as a replacer for eggs. Not only does it help bind ingredients together like an egg does, it's also incredibly nutritious. Packed with omega-3s, fiber and protein, flaxseed meal is amazing.
So to make our batter you start with your plant milk (I used coconut since we're making coconut crusted french toast) and then you just whisk in your flax and cinnamon. Let it sit to thicken and that's it. Yep, it's really that simple. Hard to believe, huh?
Now you could just leave it at that. Dip your bread, cook it up and enjoy….but we're going to have a little fun this morning. You in?
Instead of just regular french toast, I thought it be tasty to give it a little crust. Coconut is a natural ingredient to use in crusts, but to give this recipe even more crunch I added in my fave ingredient of all time: quinoa crispies.
Remember how I said these are starting to become the most used ingredient in my pantry? Here's the proof. Now that I've use it in one crust…I'm thinking the possibilities are endless!
But now we need to focus on one thing and one thing only: french toast.
Crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, with faint hints of coconut, warm cinnamon swirled throughout, the sweet caramel notes of pure maple syrup and bursts of fresh berries, a plate of this vegan french toast will make everything in the world seem right.
So now I think it's time you put on your slippers, head into the kitchen and whip up a batch. And I promise, if you're worried about eggless french toast…you'll never be able to tell. This french toast is absolutely dreamy. Be prepared to fall head over heels for it!
Have you ever tried making vegan french toast before? If so, let me know how it turned out! Or if you haven't yet tried it and plan to give this recipe a whirl, I want to hear what you're going to use for toppings. That's one of my favorite parts!
Whisk together the coconut milk, flaxseed + cinnamon in a shallow dish or bowl. Set aside for 5 minutes to thicken.
Heat a non-stick grilled over medium-low heat and grease with coconut oil or vegan butter.
In a shallow dish or plate, combine the quinoa crispies and coconut. Mix together so they're evenly combined.
Taking one or two slices of bread a time, place them in the dish with coconut milk mixture. Allow to soak for 30 - 60 seconds, flip and soak the other side for another 30 seconds. Remove the slices from the batter then coat both sides with the quinoa-coconut mixture. Place on the griddle and cook for 2 - 3 minutes per side. Repeat with remaining slices of bread.
Serve warm with sliced berries and a drizzle of maple syrup!
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Hello, I can’t wait to try this yes we do celebrate Easter! So i am just seeing this now i will make this next weekend! Thank you for coming up with these recipes you are so creative!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you.
This might be the dreamiest vegan french toast I’ve ever seen! I haven’t attempted a vegan version yet, but this tops my list of recipes I need to try. Thanks!!
I hadn’t experimented with it much either and now I’m so glad to know how simple it is. Can’t wait to hear what you think 🙂 xo!


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Designing in pursuit of being original, or even interesting, can be a foolhardy prospect. Design that strives to be original for the sake of it, and typically at the expense of its real purpose of communication, often falls into a mire of stylistic tropes and shallow meanings.
So true! Great quote. Thats basically my philosophy as well. This is just better worded and to the point.
I like it! This is something I really need to remember.
Interesting quote. Often I have tried to bend around the project requirements to put in that thing called “my style of design”. Honestly, sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.
I’ll try to learn something form it.
I see what he’s saying, but I think you do have an imperative to try to be original. There’s value in novelty, even if you fail, because you’re pushing the boundaries. Surely you should never lose sight of doing _good work_—but also never lose a spirit of experimentation.
I agree. Great Quote. If your creating purely for the sake of originality, you should be an artist. Not a designer.
I see what he’s saying, but I think you do have an imperative to try to be original. There’s value in novelty, even if you fail, because you’re pushing the boundaries.
Pushing the boundaries of what? There’s a difference between being original because it helps solve a problem or helps communicate something, what Rand and Mies are saying is that novelty alone can’t be the solution, because it doesn’t amount to anything other than fluff.
Ludwig is the man! He also known for saying “Less is more”.
Lovely! This is just what every designer need to remember.
I agree with Mark Aplet too, if one wants to be original, one must be an artist in a deep sense.
Re: boundaries… “Design that strives to be original for the sake of it,” is perhaps not design but art. Is the trick then to avoid claiming art as design?
I always found that being original took a really long time and was rather difficult. Being good was a lot more efficient. Both paid the same. I do try to manage both and be both or else I just might as well use clip art.
This is a great quote, I will think of this more often. I always seem to get upset at myself if I produce something that I think is good but than realize its probably been done before, which it most likely has.
One of my most-liked quotes. Focus on the meaning and quality of the design first, solve the problem well and brilliance will follow.
That’s kind of funny. If I recall correctly, I saw this exact same quote in a presentation at Mix last month, also showcased this very site.
…what Rand and Mies are saying is that novelty alone can’t be the solution, because it doesn’t amount to anything other than fluff.
Novelty alone isn’t the solution, but it’s not valueless. You arrive at good solutions by always looking for better solutions, and that’s a question of originality: seeing the same thing hundreds of other people have in a different (and better) way.
“Tropes” is a good word.
Good discussion. Is it possible that by focusing on creating something good, you create something original?
That’s such a great quote. I think that a lot of designers just try to “make it look pretty” and forget to solve the problem at hand.
At least that’s what I get out of that quote.
I like to think that originality stems from doing exceptionally good work. That is, not something you can force. It’s the reward for hard and inspired work.
Inspiring — and very true. Being “original” or different for the sake of being, well, original or different does not do you favors.
I want to be good too!
But i work to be the best i could be!
Just the best of me!
Thanks for this. I knew the Rand part, but I was unaware it was a paraphrase. I like both versions. As I hone my design skills, I’m constantly striving to be better, not more original. “Originality” was/is responsible for grunge fonts. Being “good” was responsible for Helvetica. Enough said.
Believe, Paul Rand is saying that being good is DAMN difficult, that’s all.
Thank you for your article, it looks awesome.
Very true. Trying to be good leads to original work.
I will add that to produce good work, you need to design with the purpose in mind.
Remember though, what one person might consider original another might consider derivative. And what one person considers good another might consider not so good. In the end, it’s all subjective.
Jason, you mean this guy?
I comment because of Proxima Nova, love the quote, iffy about the colors but nice message in a great space.
Correct, but also note that being (or trying to be) sometimes original is essential to sustain creativity – so try to be original sometimes, but don’t show it to anyone before you have thrashed out the design really well.
That you won’t have the time to thrash out the design, for most of your original ideas, is sometimes reason enough not to try being original.
Awesome quote! I think original is over rated.
Great Quote! I think Originality has died long back.
Don’t try to be good in everything, just try to be the best in something.
It’s certainly an excellent quote.
Being good will always get you good results, but being original can be a big risk, something to look for with caution and thinking as the results can be outstanding but also disastrous.
Its sick to use the lack originality as your personal truth and reason for you not to dream. Originality isn’t dead at all, the mediocre minds just have a great lock on everything and make it hard for those who have those original ideas..
If everyone only ever tried to be “good” which appears to mean: be good at something that already exists. Then true invention and progress would never happen.
What about: “Re-use whats great and be original when it isn’t” Or something like. However somehow squeeze in: “not all original ideas are worth keeping…” :) mmmm… well I must mean something in that.
I think talking about reusing things is missing the point. My interpretation is that you should focus on solving the problem rather than over-engineering or over-designing a complicated solution.
Sometimes the best solutions will be original ones and interesting problems might require interesting solutions. However, originality and innovation should be products of the process rather than the goal which you aim for.
It’s not the difference between being good and being great, it’s the difference between being novel and being gimmicky.
This is the very reason why I generally only like Jason’s posts on his site: They are beautiful and invitingly short, yet they communicate entire volumes in a space that to others might take a long-scrolling page.
In struggling to do something well you’ll inevitably do something original. I suppose this is a question of mindset. Focusing on doing something original is more a struggle of ego. If it turns out well, then that’s probably the product of luck.
Indeed an excellent quote. It`s a long way to walk until you are good and i try to walk it, step by step, and ho knows maybe someday i`ll get there.
I“m kind of mad at Paul Rand right now. I was just reading from a book on Norman Rockwell and Paul has some not so kind things to say. I’ll get over it, I’m just a little sensitive when it comes to Norman Rockwell.
@Craig – You nailed it. We shouldn’t attempt to be original just for the hell of it, but we also shouldn’t avoid it if it is the best solution to the problem at hand.
In all cases, do what is right for the project. 99% of the time, doing what is right going to mean using a solution that has been used before. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.


text: Ack! Sorry for the delay! I managed to be a good blogger through the first week of vacation, but the second week things just got away from me. Meals got made but pictures were not taken. Honestly I did not even turn my computer on the entire second week (!!).


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This fine and impressive diamond and onyx dress ring has been crafted in 12 ct yellow gold with a 12 ct white gold setting.
The pierced decorated oval shaped mount is ornamented with a black onyx panel embellished with a collet set 0.38 ct Old European round cut diamond in the iconic Art Deco style.
The 12 ct white gold setting is accented with millegrain and bead decoration and has feature scalloped edged motifs to the upper and lower borders.
The pierced decorated ring shoulders are decorated with a simple cuff design junction with the plain 14ct yellow gold ring shank.
This antique cocktail ring has been independently tested using state of the art technology (Niton XL2 Analyzer) and verified as 12 ct gold.
This impressive antique dress ring is fine quality set with an onyx panel and a very high clarity graded old cut diamond.

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To get the right price quote from our waste removal company in Osage Beach, MO, you need to call us or send an e-mail. We always have the time to go to the location of your waste and provide you an upfront price quote.
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Spray insulation is the very best energy saving insulation solution, period. Any other insulation is the equivalent of having a an expensive itchy blanket on a cold night, and it doesn’t cover your feet. Spray Foam insulation can maximize a homeowners investment by sealing the building envelope to stop conditioned indoor air from escaping and prevent unconditioned air from entering a home.
Spray Foam Insulation is a spray-applied plastic that can form a continuous insulation and air sealing barrier on walls, roofs, around corners, and on all contoured surfaces. It is made by mixing and reacting unique liquid components at the job site to create foam. The liquids react very quickly when mixed, expanding on contact to create foam that insulates, seals gaps, and can form moisture and vapor barriers. Spray Foam Insulation is known to resist heat transfer extremely well, and it offers a highly effective solution in reducing unwanted air infiltration through cracks, seams, and joints.
Closed cell is the denser and more common of the two types of polyurethane spray foam. The common measurement system for foam resistance to heat flow (i.e., insulation) is a foam’s “R-Value.” Closed cell polyurethane foams have higher R-values than other types of foam, around 6.0 per inch, although some stronger ones have R-values of 7.14 per inch and higher. Closed cell foams feature better insulation because of this resistance, and are also more resistant to water degradation or penetration, which includes moisture build-up. Moisture can eventually attract bacterial growth, promoting mold, which can eat away at wood and compromise structural integrity. Preventing moisture migration can help greatly curb mold growth.
Closed cell foams are also dense enough to insulate air, preventing drafts and keeping in regulated temperatures. This density also prevents mold growth because temperature control can cut down on humidity, which spawns mold. In order to maintain their resistance, closed cell foams are usually dense and strong, and resemble solids when they fully form. This strength not only helps to insulate buildings and appliances, but can also strengthen walls to which it is applied.
Open cell polyurethane spray foams are much less common because they were originally manufactured by only one company, and their R-values are much fewer than those of closed cell sprays. However, as their strengths were discovered, other companies began using them. Installation is similar to that of closed cells, but the effects are different. Open cell foam sprays expand once applied, allowing them to be installed in hard to reach, out of the way nooks and crannies. This includes wall and ceiling cavities that can be difficult to seal with closed cell foams. The expansion feature will hermetically seal the area and provide proper insulation. However, the R-value of open cell polyurethane spray foam is lower, in the 3.6 to 3.8 per inch range. This means its heat resistance level is lower, which can cause insulation failures in extreme temperatures. Because open cell foam is still very dense, it provides good insulation. Open cell spray foam does not have water resistance, though, and its lower strength provides less support to walls. It is also more permeable to vapor and air, and lower noise frequency ranges.
Another positive attribute of open cell polyurethane foam is its cost. Because of its disadvantages compared to closed cell foam spray, it is more affordable. This can be a great boon when an application does not require airtight seals and hermetic moisture prevention. Caution needs to be taken, though, that the less expensive alternative does not lead to more expensive repairs in the future. Establishing the needs of a given application are important before choosing which foam spray to use.


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Results occur sometimes very quickly when students practice movements on their own in between our sessions. Feldenkrais at HomeTM audio products are ideally suited to enhance the results achieved during the individual sessions.
By exploring the detailed and non-habitual movements on these audio downloads, you are awakening the hidden reserves of your brain, you are stimulating it to create new neuro-pathways.
In my opinion, the approach to patient care which Moshe Feldenkrais developed is one of the most innovative systems of our time. I have personally observed many positive changes in the patients Eileen has worked with. I utilize many of the movement lessons in my own treatments and home programs and highly recommend the use of these tapes for assisting individuals to improve their conditions and movement patterns.
(often not where one feels the pain), a gentle touch, and a profound understanding of Feldenkrais… seems to produce magical results. Now, I find I am beginning to learn how to avoid muscle strains, not just heal them….
I have tried several techniques to help my recovery from a stroke. By far the best, most rapid, lasting and effective method is that developed by Moshe Feldenkrais and, in my case, applied by Eileen Bach-y-Rita… Needless to say, I am a believer.
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The bodies of two pilots who died after an incident with two fighter-bombers su-34 in the sky over the sea of Japan, was entangled in the parts of the parachute system. On this edition of told 47news in the emergency services of the Sakhalin region.
The planes collided in the afternoon local time, control over them was lost. The crews of two su-34 (only four people) ejected and fell into the icy water in the Tatar Strait, and soon there was zapelengovali signal emergency beacon. In the area where, presumably, were pilots first went fishing trawlers.
One military — according to 47news, this pilot was quickly rescued and evacuated by army helicopter. The search for other crew members who continued to be in the icy water, was delayed, and only at night, the fishermen of the vessel Elektron spotted a life raft with one pilot. It is alleged that his body was connected by a tether, a parachute is fastened, and on his head was a helmet. It is reported that this major named Alex.
Then the sailors from the same trawler found another raft with the body of another pilot, which was entangled in a parachute and slings. It also took a helicopter. Later Elektron found a third life raft, but the body wasn’t on it. Other vessels found in the waters of a bag with supplies and two fragments of the crashed aircraft.
The search for the fourth pilot continued on the morning of January 19. By the time for surgery has joined the forces of the Navy, and the help of the trawlers refused.
The Russian defense Ministry this information has not commented. About the discovery of the bodies of the two dead pilots, the military reported without details.
Two su-34, as passed TASS, touched each other during a training flight on 18 January over the Japan sea 35 kilometers from the shore. Causes of accident will be established by the special Commission, its review was organized by the military Prosecutor’s office. According to sources, the incident occurred due to pilot error.
Fighter-bombers su-34 took part in anti-terrorist operations in Syria. On one of these machines in 2009 flew the then President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.

industry_corpus2: Aerospace


text: In 2018, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our church building in Marriott-Slaterville. Each 4th Sunday of the month, we're having a History Highlights presentation during worship. The history of FUMC goes back to 1870.


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Solution Dynamics is a national distributor of Royal Basket trucks and carts. All poly truck products are rotationally molded in Royal Basket molds and assembled in the same manufacturing environment as all of their other products.
R11-X-RC-4HNN 14.4 Standard Unit 35.5" 25" 28" 33.5"
R13-X-RC-4HNN 23 Standard Unit 43.5" 29" 31.5" 37"
R13-X-RF-4HNN 23 Fork Lift Base 43.5" 29" 31.5" 37"
R11-X-RL-4HNN 14.4 W/ Locking Lid 35.5" 25" 28" 33.5"
R13-X-RL-4HNN 23 W/ Locking Lid 43.5" 29" 31.5" 37"


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We are excited to share with you that we at Torri’s Legal Services effectuated service through text message and email following a court order last month. This is just one of the ways we offer exceptional services to our clients!
Our text message service, a first for us, included 16 images, each a page of the complaint, and a statement directing the defendant to attend a hearing.
After multiple attempts to serve the woman at her home address and workplace proved she was being evasive, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Laura Cordero ordered that we serve the defendant through text message and email, two methods she was using to harass and stalk the individual seeking the protective order. The harassing included hundreds of emails, phone calls, and text messages.
The order included very specific instructions as to how service should be effectuated. Our affidavit included copies of the emails (with receipt notifications) and photographs of the text messages.
The notice of service and court instructions below was included in both the email and text message serve.
The 16 page text message sent to you at 6:49 CONSTITUTES LEGAL SERVICE: You are to appear at DC Superior Court of the District of Columbia 500 Indiana Avenue, Washington DC 20001 in Courtroom 114 on August 4, 2015 at 8:30AM for a hearing on a Civil Protection Order.
This is just one way we are offering exceptional service to our clients. In this case, we worked hard to get an evasive defendant served by closely following an order from the court and working through our first text message serve. While this is not the routine serve or situation, we’re excited to be pioneering a new method of alternative service.
Torri Schaffer was interviewed about the service for an article that breaks down all of the details, including the court order, affidavits, and photographs. You can read more about this serve and case here: “Defendant Served Temporary Protective Order via Text Message”.
If you have questions about alternative service or need a process server who offers exceptional service for every client, email Torri[at]TorriLegalServices.com or give us a call at 800-990-SERV(7378) or 202-296-0222 .

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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STIMULATE is an exciting project that aims to reveal the importance of Advanced Materials in our everyday life. Advanced Materials are our allies for a sustainable future and this is the main message that we aim to communicate in 23 European langagues, with an innovative way, by producing a film and an interactive computer game.
Find out the role of the advanced materials on issues regarding health, environment, technology, innovation, energy and much more in the LEARN section and stay tuned in our website for sneak peeks from the film and the game.
This project is funded from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No 608995.
The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is the oldest and most prestigious technical university in Greece. It is divided into nine academic Schools. The School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences is the coordinating partner in this project. NTUA currently offers two post graduate diplomas that focus on advanced materials, microsystems and nanodevices.
The National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos (NCSRD) is the largest research centre of Greece and it consists of 5 Institutes, focusing among others on advanced materials, nanotechnology, nanoelectronics, telecommunications, biosciences, nuclear and particle physics. The Centre has a long tradition in educational activities.
The Open University (OU) is a unique institution, delivering supported distance learning to over 250,000 students in the UK and worldwide. It is the largest University in the UK and Materials Engineering at the OU is one of the biggest groups in the UK in this area. The OU has had a partnership with the BBC for over 40 years and with them co-produces up to 25 TV and radio series a year.
The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) was founded in Strasbourg in 1983 and is the largest conference organizer in Europe in the field of advanced functional materials; it has several thousands of members from industry, government, academia and research laboratories that meet regularly to debate recent technological and scientific developments.
Serious Games Interactive (SGI) is an award-winning research-based company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and, since 2006, has set a new standard for what can be expected from games used for serious purposes. SGI focuses on serious games development including programming, animation, game design and graphics.
APT Film & Television Limited (APT) is based in Ealing Studios in a synergistic collaboration with the Met Film Group. APT is dedicated to the development and production of innovative, internationally distributed features such as the award-winning documentary “Deep Water”, the highly acclaimed “Wondrous Oblivion”, and the Oscar’s Academy Award nominated film “Solomon & Gaenor”.
tve (television for the environment) is an independent film and media producer who works with filmmakers and partners worldwide to make and distribute films and educational materials that put the environment and sustainability on the global agenda. tve is helping to promote the STIMULATE materials and producing an educational pack to accompany the project.


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Hollins Lock (number 27) has all the features associated with water supply and control along the Rochdale Canal. From its beginnings, channelling water for the canal was a problem as there were already water-powered mills along the route that needed to protect their supply. Gauges were installed on streams and rivers at many locations to ensure that the canal only took water when the mills had been supplied with what they needed.
However, there was no control over the amount of water that these small streams provided, so after heavy rainfall, the water level in the canal could rise enough to breach the canal walls. To overcome this problem, waste weirs were established, like the one just above Hollins Lock. Passing over the weir, any excess water was returned to the streams or rivers alongside the canal, where it was again available to power water mills.
One of the small streams that feeds the Rochdale canal enters just below the road bridge by Hollins lock. This stream has a ‘wrack dam’ where any silt or debris carried by the stream can settle before the water enters the canal. The dam has to be cleaned out every couple of years for the system to work effectively.
ll, the towline had to be passed under the bridge and then re-attached to the horse. The towline was run over a wooden roller to prevent the line from damaging the lower side of the bridge as the boat was pulled out of the lock. You can still see the rebate for a wooden roller on the towpath side of Hollins lock.
Hollins Lock also has several fittings that were installed to help the passage of boats. Bollards would originally have been on the towpath side of the canal only, as only one wide boat could use the lock at a time. With narrow boats, at least two can, so extra bollards have since been fitted on both sides of the lock. The ladder on the side of the lock chamber is also new; boatmen in working days would have climbed out up the lock gate. The large cast iron hooks by the top and bottom gates were used to control the boat whilst the lock was filling.
It is important that the mitre – the flat faces on a pair of lock gates where they meet to form a seal – always fit together properly. This is especially important for the larger lower gates. To ensure that this happened every time the gates were closed, a wooden frame was fitted to the chamber below the gates to support the top when they were closed. Today, most of these have been removed, but on many locks, including Hollins Lock, it is still possible to see the rebates in the stone coping where the frame was fitted.

industry_corpus2: Water Resources & Marine


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BPW Australia - How do the new tax and childcare changes affect working women?
How do the new tax and childcare changes affect working women?
Professor Miranda Stewart from ANU has analysed the tax and childcare changes to ascertain whether working mothers would really benefit. Her findings: mothers will have little to show for extra days of work under the changes. Given that many commercial childcare centres plan to raise their fees on 1 July when the childcare fee changes begin, any benefit to families may simply be converted to increased profits for providers.


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Our website address is https://www.thomrigsby.com.
Which quizzes are collecting personal data?
When visitors or users submit a quiz’s answer, we capture NO Personally Identifiable Information.
When visitors or users answer a quiz we retain the answers data for 30 days and then remove it from our system.
All collected data might be shown publicly and we send it to our workers or contractors to perform necessary actions based on answers.


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Find your new agency in just 6 weeks and 4 meetings!
We offer you extensive industry experience and know the German advertising agency market like the back of our hand. With us, you will learn what really makes agencies tick and gain important insights and key knowledge advantages.
We will help you find ‘your’ agency from the immense torrent of advertising agencies and communications service providers that come in all shapes and sizes – regardless of whether you need a specialist or generalist. From the exciting spin-off to the international network agency. For every industry. And with just the perfect amount of digitalisation that is right for you.
Our modular and customisable approach to an agency selection process provides you with a tried and tested framework, which allows us to cater to your specific requirements, objectives and challenges in a customised format.
In some cases, however, a subsequent pitch presentation is also useful or indispensable. This way you also get our support, advice and organisation as with other decision-making formats, such as challenge projects , immersion workshops and completely unique solutions .
We keep all stakeholders (including international ones) on the same page throughout the entire process. We merge all aspects and requirements as well as different levels of expertise in a uniform process and take on all reconciliation and coordination efforts required for this purpose. After each process step, we prepare an audit-proof document describing the current project status, which is coordinated with all decision-makers.
By hiring us, you receive the complete market overview and save yourself a lot of valuable time as well as costs, which you can dedicate to other important tasks.
You can rest assured that we take a completely neutral and objective approach in all that we do, since we are only paid by our customers – companies putting out advertising – and have no business ties with advertising agencies.


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Through education, policy and outreach, our mission is to promote the power of the natural world to stabilize the climate and to restore biodiversity to ecosystems worldwide.
Collaborating with organizations around the globe, we advocate for the restoration of soil, and of grassland, forest, wetland, coastal and ocean ecosystems–along with the associated carbon, water and nutrient cycles – to draw down excess atmospheric greenhouse gases, cool the biosphere, and reverse global warming, for the benefit of all people and all life on earth.
Education, public information campaigns, organizing, scientific investigation, collaboration with like-minded organizations, research and policy development are all elements of our strategy. Our primary current project is to re-direct the mainstream climate conversation from an almost exclusive concern with atmospheric carbon to encompass the entire carbon and water cycles and the regenerative role of biology. Emissions reduction efforts are essential but seriously insufficient, and climate change is now proceeding not only from fossil fuel pollution but from its own self-generating processes.
Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on the planet. Restoring the complex ecology of soils is the only way to safely and quickly remove excess carbon from the atmosphere, where it’s extremely dangerous, and store it in the ground, where it’s desperately needed to regenerate the health of billions of acres of degraded lands.
Since NASA scientist James Hansen’s landmark appearance before Congress in 1988 to alert the world to the dangers of global warming, the efforts of climate scientists and activists have been sharply focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and other sources such as deforestation and factory farming. While there is no question about the importance of emissions reductions, the hard reality is that over twenty-five years of intensive worldwide effort, the rate of emissions has actually accelerated. In 2013 there were roughly 50 parts per million more carbon pollution in the atmosphere than in 1988. While we must pursue the elimination of fossil-fuel and other damaging carbon emissions with due dispatch, the inadequacy of emissions reductions so far necessitates urgent adoption of other measures to address planetary warming.
Because climate science traces its development to the fields of physics and chemistry, our understanding of climate change has not generally included the impact of biology and ecology on the geophysical world. In fact, there has been little understanding in the mainstream climate community of the biosphere as a driver of climate change. When considered at all, life on earth is regarded as a victim of extreme geophysical events over which it has little control. The impact of the biosphere on the course of global warming is virtually invisible.
Without life, the Earth would be little more than another celestial rock. Yet over the past 3.5 billion years on this extraordinary planet, through the miracle of light and the basic properties of matter, inert elements organized themselves into infinitely varied self-replicating organisms.
When coming into being, organisms have both adapted to their environments and adjusted their environments to suit their needs. The shift to an atmosphere containing oxygen is one such dramatic environmental adjustment resulting from the evolution of green plants. But life has shaped the entire global landscape and made the soils and the atmosphere, the oceans and the weather, the water and the carbon cycles, what they are today.
Now we have the knowledge we need to mobilize nature to reverse human damage to the biosphere. The carbon that we’ve spewed into the atmosphere we can return to the earth; the vital fresh water that we have wantonly thrown to the oceans, dragging billions of tons of rich topsoil along the way, we can return to thirsty lands worldwide.
Evidence from the formal scientific literature, historical record, and the experience of restoration ecologists, farmers, ranchers and wildlife and land managers across the globe strongly support regeneration of biodiversity and ecosystems as keys to reversing global warming. Broadly speaking, nature does this by capturing carbon and water in soils, thereby lowering atmospheric carbon burdens and regenerating water cycles to reduce surface temperatures. We are at an impasse, however, because the active biosphere is not currently a part of the mainstream climate discussion. It is remarkably ironic that the most effective, most beneficial, least risky and least expensive approach to reversing global warming is not yet on the table.
The vast biodiverse living world has remarkable capacity for regeneration, measurable in spans as short as a few years when conditions are right. We have the knowledge, ability and experience to create those conditions to benefit all living creatures, including ourselves. We have only to decide to do so.


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Tsukuba dancers to perform in a dance event called Dance Souseiki 2008 on May 21, Wednesday. Yuriko Arima and one of her students who goes to the city elementary school will be performing.
Project Nao at 03-3476-0526 or you can call Yuriko Arima at 029-850-3667. She speaks fluent English. Advance tickets are available at R-Dance Club, Yuriko’s school, in Inarimae (MAP).


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Gotta say, We've got some great friends with AvA. We teamed up with them against TOG on Battle of Britain.
Bigbird has a way with words.
In an awesome nail biting finish AUS (with coalition partners AvA) fought a fierce 4 round match against a well organised ToG clan. Final score AUS/AvA 165 TOG 109.
In conclusion our victory was achieved by following the plan and making good improv of the strats we had. Our coalition with AvA was great, you guys had our backs the whole time and if we can ever repay the favor, we will.
For us, AUS, we have a good core team now that I think we should capatilise upon. We needed a good decent win after yet so many defeats, and now we have two recent wins, both on BoB under our belts. Even though these have been free-play games they still count towards how we work as a team. What I mean is, the victory last night was no means an easy one, and I should'nt say we got lucky but the battle for us to get there as a team in the first place is probably the greater victory. So, to those of you that have perservered through these rough times I salute you. Let's keep it going and get ready for official ladder season to commence.
Keeping with the tradition of only posting news when I feel like it rather than when it happens.
Actual recent news finds Bird with the *AUS* member of the month which is hand chosen by we all cosider our Allah, Camo. Congrats Bird.
Other news finds that the GA ladder is down and GC servers are down. So basically Bird has been rallying the dedicated troops to the mod servers where we've been playing shitloads of Eve Of Destruction.
ST back from the dead!!

industry_corpus2: Gaming