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Friday, February 19, 2016

Finding Inspiration

Traveling through the social media stratosphere is my favorite way to find instant inspiration.  Today I'm sharing a few sites I visit regularly and why.
Alisa Burke is an artist who never ceases to inspire me.  Her creativity is infectious and downright fun.  She documents her artistic life via Instagram and on her blog.  I check it every day! A few years ago I was lucky enough to take one of her classes in Chicago and it definitely left me wanting more.
I recently found this blog and Jen the author is funny, genuine and extremely talented.  Her tutorials are easy to follow as is her writing style.  If you are looking to use wire in your artwork, and I encourage you to do so, please check her out.
"I heart naptime" has been in my reading repetoire for a few years.  I found Jamielyn via Pinterest of course and have noticed we have similar tastes in cooking and crafts.
And yes, I have to include a foodie website.  Her recipes and links are beautiful and yummy.  I've made several of them and they all turned out wonderful.

Enjoy perusing them and I'll bet you add them to your blog/website reading lists too.

Have a great day all and let your creative soul out.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Grandma's Pattern Books

As my mom sifts through Grandma's house and trinkets, she came across  these two sweet pattern books.

The first book has the patterns to make a cloth book for little hands and minds to "read" and learn.

The vintage crocheted fashions for fashion dolls AKA Barbie and friends bring back so many memories from my childhood.  Seriously I had several hand crocheted outfits made by grandma in my doll collection.

Both of these books are so sweet and in excellent condition. A fantastic addition to the family collection as we all do some sort of crafting!

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Make your own Jewelry?!

Beads, wire, and a crochet hook to make a gorgeous necklace to match an outfit!

Some wire, some beads, and a lovely little bracelet appears.

Pearls...It's so frothy, isn't it?
This is a new class I'm offering.  It would be a fantastic activity for a teen party or big girl party where everyone takes home their personally designed necklace or bracelet. Check out the class info here.  Contact me at 847 767 2949 or at to book your party now.

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Bravo4Freida Art FUNdraiser

On June 14th, we'll be creating collage masterpieces to fund raise for Freida's Service Dog, Bravo!  Come join us.  I am very excited to be supporting this great cause.  Tell your friends. Bring your friends.  Register here.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Upcycled Icons -- Heros

My grandfather is my personal HERO.

The giving power of "As You Wish".  (What movie is this fabulous quote from?)

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

What do you do with your stash?

We all have odd bits in our arts and crafts stash that we know we are going to use...someday.  These items jump to my attention when I'm looking for something else.

So over the weekend I puttered around the studio looking for new inspiration.  While I didn't discover the next big technique or gadget, I did use some of those little bits from my stash.

My basic crochet skills came to play as I made a soft glitzy bracelet from several black and silver yarns and some black pony beads.  It is stretchy so no clasp needed.  It shines and of course goes with most of my wardrobe. This little project took me less than 30 minutes. I have some bright colored yarns that will made a great bracelet like this one.

Go look in your stash and see what you come up with?  Then share it with us here in the comments or on Instagram tagging me at @wilsonshells and #stash #reuse.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Spring is here...sort of

It's Spring and I need to see some flowers.  So since they aren't quite visible yet here in the Chicago area...I made my own to enjoy!

If you want to make your own, check out Youtube and Pinterest for some great tutorials.

I started a flipagram on making this particular flower.  The only part that I didn't include is gluing the layers together.  Easy to do.  Stack the layers - largest to smallest - and add some glue between each layer.  Any craft glue will work.  Check it out.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Spring is in the Air! A New Wreath and Class

My newest book page wreath uses several different books including dictionaries, fiction novels, and children's books. I started making rolled flowers and folded/cut flowers.  No rhyme no reason.  Just making flowers that were pretty.

The rolled flowers are easy to make and require little effort. When making them out of paper, you do need to have a glue gun or glue dots available to hold the centers in place but otherwise they are simple rolled spiral cut circles. For a great tutorial, check out Joanne B at Splitcoast Stamping/.

The "crumpled" flower are even easier.  Use square pieces of paper -- any size -- I was using 4" squares for the bigger "petals".  Fold one in half, then half again to make a square.  Then fold the folded edge towards the two folded sides forming a triangle.  Remember when we made paper snowflakes as kids?  Same folding.  Then cut a little heart shape from the folded side to the two folded sides.  Unfold the "flower".

You will make 4 petals like this for each flower.  Stack them and push a scrap-booking brad through all layers and secure.  You now have a flat 4-layer flower.  Starting with the top layer, crumple it around the brad, then do the same to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th layers around all of the layers before it.  Simply loosen the crumpled petals from around the brad and Voila! a flower.  Attach it to your wreath with hot glue.

Using pages from children's books, really adds color and texture.  Any paper will work - explore your collection.  Go on and do it.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Sweet Pennant Flags & DYI

A friend asked me to make a pennant to hang in her daughter's room.  So I thought I'd document the project and process.  It does require using a sewing machine but all straight stitches!

Each pennant flag is approximately 5.5" wide and and 7" long and double sided (two different fabrics).  Make your own template to cut out the triangles. I used 8 different fabrics to make a 175" pennant string. Pick two different flags and pin them together (back of fabric together).  Run a straight stitch about 1/2" from the edge of the two long sides.

Using your pinking sheers trim a bit off each side to give some texture. To assemble the pennant string, I used .75" twill tape folded over the open/top edge of each flag, stitched down, to string them together.  Just line up each flag side by side on the twill tape as you sew.

Now hang it up!  Isn't it adorable?  Wouldn't this look great in any little girl's room?  But wait, what if you make other fabrics that reflect your little boy's favorite things?  So cute!

Remember to hang it high enough out of reach of little hands.

Voilá!  The finished and hanging pennant.  Isn't it adorable?  According to her mom, the little girl who sleeps under it, points to it when people come into her room. I think she likes it too.

Monday, March 2, 2015

Special Session -- Your Passion -- Your Career

Join us as we explore the power of a Renaissance Soul and what it can do for YOU!  Learn how to focus on your passions The Renaissance Way.  You will discover how easy it is to identify and articulate your heart’s desires.

After this workshop, you will feel fully empowered and at ease to live as the swan you are meant to be and not as a duck.    Here is more of what you can expect:

1.      Gain clarity in which direction to focus on to achieve the success you desire.
2.      Discover the values and beliefs that are limiting and in your way
3.      Visualization exercises to get you on your right track.    (meditation & vision board)
4.      Develop a manageable step-by-step plan of action honoring your talents, interests, and passions.
5.      Interactive activities to explore how to have a JOB compliment your passion pursuits.
6.      How to eliminate the competition between a JOB and your passion.
7.      How to focus when faced with multiple choices.
8.      Design a personal creative Renaissance visual journal as your map to following your heart’s desires
9.      Gain insight on the myths keeping you from living and embracing your uniqueness.
10.  Be inspired and motivated that “yes you can.”

Facilitators:  Theresa Maria Napa, CPCC, LOACC, Certified Career Coach & Shari Pontillo, Owner of Twisted Fiber Studio.


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Prioritizing software requirements across releases

Prioritizing software requirements across releases

When prioritizing requirements for the first release of our software, we’ve stressed the importance of including 100% of the ‘must have’ requirements in the first release of the software. We’ve also used Kano analysis to categorize requirements as ‘must be’, ‘surprise and delight’, and ‘more is better’ requirements. In this post we’ll talk about an approach to allocating these requirements across releases.

Simplifying assumptions

Every guideline includes implicit assumptions. Most useful strategies make simplifying assumptions to ease communication of the basic ideas. Readers are left with extra homework to determine the applicability of the advice to their unique situation. The ideas presented here are no different.

We are assuming that we are prioritizing requirements for a software application with a single user class. There is an added level of complexity that has to be addressed in rolling out software – the scheduling of use cases across releases, as they will be enabled for different users. We’ve writen about communicating a release schedule using use cases. Within that context, we apply the ideas presented in this post. But we will remove that layer of complexity from this discussion.

We also strongly believe that ROI should be the primary driver of scheduling decisions. In this post we will assume that there are many requirements in each of the Kano categories with varying net present values . When this isn’t true, the strategy presented here should be updated to account for the specifics of the current project. Within each release of the product, and in each category, we should focus on the most valuable features first.

Scheduling of releases

The first release of the software must include all of the “must be” requirements. The level of effort required to implement all of these requirements drives the scheduling of the first release. The amount of time required varies by project – it could be anywhere from weeks to years. With an iterative development methodology, the team may be managed to deliver multiple internal releases prior to the first external release – but there should never be an external release before all of the “must be” features are complete.

Additional releases of the software should be time boxed based upon the desired release frequency for the product. A time box is an arbitrary amount of calendar time allocated to a particular release. Releases could be scheduled monthly, quarterly, or at any other frequency.  Note – releases of patches (critical bug fixes, security updates, etc) can and should be delivered ASAP, and not held until the next timebox is completed.
The efficiency of the development process will determine how fast a team or company can roll out new software – some percentage of effort is involved in deploying the new software (even if the build process is fully automated, the end user will experience some overhead in upgrading). Our experience has been that 3 weeks is the shortest cycle that can be both delivered without overhead costs becoming too expensive and without user updates becoming too burdensome.

A release frequency of more than six months runs the risk of users perceiving the software as becoming stale. Our recommendation is to release between monthly and quarterly.

Allocation of effort in the first release

We mentioned that all of the “must be” requirements must be included in the first external release. We also suggest including some “surprise and delight” features. Geoffrey Moore reminded us that it isn’t enough to be innovative, our product needs to be differentiated.

[…]it is good to differentiate on an attribute that drives customer preference during buying decisions

If we have competitors, then our “must be” requirements will not differentiate us – because our competitors must have those features too.

We should allocate our efforts for the first release as 80/20 in terms of effort spent on “must be” and “surprise and delight” requirements. Dedicate one developer on a five person team as the “differentiator” for the release. Or have the development team organized around “fun stuff Fridays” where the focus is on the differentiating “surprise and delight” features.

This approach absolutely delays the first release of the software (relative to only implementing the bare minimum capabilities).

This approach also creates the opportunity to present a compelling message about product differentiation.

Allocation of effort in incremental releases

It is likely that we will have uncovered new requirements during the first release cycle, possibly even new “must be” requirements. As part of our process, we will prioritize the new requirements relative to the unaddressed requirements from the previous iterations. We should spend our time 50/30/20 on the implementation of (new) “must be” / “surprise and delight” / “more is better” requirements. When we don’t have enough “must be” requirements to fill half of our time box, we should adjust the times, while maintaining the 3:2 ratio of “surprise and delight” and “more is better” requirements.

This allocation assures that we are spending time on the most important stuff. It also makes sure that we are presenting the users with a perceivable track record of continuous improvement. Don’t ignore the “more is better” requirements – the incremental improvements will add up over time. Without this investment, we create opportunities for our competitors to differentiate against us – “Sure their software works, but it takes an hour to process each transaction. We can do it in two seconds”

What about bugs?
Bug fixes should be prioritized just like every other requirement or feature. A value must be assigned to resolving the bug. If that value-to-effort ratio is higher than the ratio for “new feature X”, then the bug takes precedence.

Our first release has to have all the features that users demand. It also should have differentiated capabilities in order to compete with existing products.

Additional releases should allocate half of their time to product differentiation – both in terms of “delight” and in terms of “more is better”. Keeping and communicating an explicit allocation (or allocation goal) will help us resist the urge to push off “unimportant” requirements until they become important, or even worse, irrelevant.

2 thoughts on “Prioritizing software requirements across releases

  1. Differentiating features are important.

    When doing a RUP project, the differentiating features are looked after and documented in the Vision document, in the “Product position statement”. That statement has the form:

    For our customers
    Who have
    Our product has
    Unlike our competitors products
    We even have

    The product position statement is a great tool for MoSCoWing (deciding whether a proposed new feature is Mandatory, Should have, Could have or Would/Won’t have). It the proposed feature aligns with the product position statement, include it, otherwise drop it!

    Another rule of thumb on including/excluding features is that you need to keep some features for the next release in order for the customer to be willing to do an additional pay.
    If all nice features are in your first release already, why would he bother bying your next release…

  2. Another benefit of multiple releases is sustained interest in the software. I read an article by someone who tracked his software sales for a product over a couple years. He found that both revenue and revenue growth correlated with frequency of update of the software. I wish I had tagged the link to share it, but I didn’t. Sorry.

    Thanks for the comment/trackback!

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Annual to tree
Leaves simple to pinnately to palmately compound, generally alternate; stipules free to fused, persistent to deciduous
Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary
Flower generally bisexual, radial; hypanthium free or fused to ovary, saucer- to funnel-shaped, often with bractlets alternate with sepals; sepals generally 5; petals generally 5, free; stamens (0)5–many, pistils (0)1–many, simple or compound; ovary superior to inferior, styles 1–5
Fruit: achene, follicle, drupe, pome, or blackberry- to raspberry-like
Seeds generally 1–5
Genera in family: 110 genera, ± 3000 species: worldwide, especially temp. Many cultivated for ornamental and fruit, especially Cotoneaster , Fragaria , Malus , Prunus , Pyracantha, Rosa , and Rubus
Reference: [Robertson 1974 J Arnold Arbor 55:303–332,344–401,611–662]
Family description, key to genera by Barbara Ertter and Dieter H. Wilken.

Barbara Ertter

Perennial from short rhizomes and leafless stolons, ± nonglandular
Leaves basal, 1-ternate; leaflet teeth generally simple
Inflorescence: cyme, ± umbel-like, open, 1–several-flowered; pedicels recurved in fruit
Flower: hypanthium shallow; bractlets 5; sepals 5; petals 5, ± obovate, generally white; stamens 20–35, filaments ± flat; pistils many, ovaries superior, jointed to stout style on side
Fruit: receptacle enlarged, fleshy, red, incompletely covered with achenes
Species in genus: 15–30 species: generally n temp
Etymology: (Latin: fragrant)
Reference: [Hancock & Bringhurst 1981 Amer J Bot 68:1–5]
Hair orientation and plant size have been used to define subspp. but seem to have no taxonomic significance, at least in CA. All species intergrade.

F. vesca L.

Stem generally 3–30 cm
Leaf thin; petiole generally 3–12 cm; central leaflet stalk < 2 mm, blade 15–70 mm, widely elliptic-obovate, acute to obtuse, teeth generally 12–21, below and above middle, sharp or obtuse, central tooth < to > adjacent ones; leaflets sparsely hairy above, hairier below
Inflorescence often >> leaves
Flowers bisexual, generally ± 15 mm wide; bractlets often 2-lobed; sepals generally 4–8 mm; petals generally 5–8 mm
Fruit: receptacle ± 10 mm; achene ± 1.5 mm
Chromosomes: n=7
Ecology: Generally partial shade in forests
Elevation: 30–2000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Central Western California, San Bernardino Mountains, Peninsular Ranges
Distribution outside California: to e N.America, Baja California, also Europe
Synonyms: subsp. californica (Cham. & Schldl.) Staudt
Plants intermediate to F. chiloensis or F. virginiana (especially in KR) have been called F. crinita Rydb
Horticultural information: 4, 5, 6 SHD, IRR: 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; GRCVR; CVS non CA.

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Nonlinear Theory for a Quantum Diode in a Dense Fermi Magnetoplasma
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2008 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, 036801- p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We present a simple analytical nonlinear theory for quantum diodes in a dense Fermi magnetoplasma. By using the steady-state quantum hydrodynamical equations for a dense Fermi magnetoplasma, we derive coupled nonlinear Schödinger and Poisson equations. The latter are numerically solved to show the effects of the quantum statistical pressure, the quantum tunneling (or the quantum diffraction), and the external magnetic field strength on the potential and electron density profiles in a quantum diode at nanometer scales. It is found that the quantum statistical pressure introduces a lower bound on the steady electron flow in the quantum diode, while the quantum diffraction effect allows the electron tunneling at low flow speeds. The magnetic field acts as a barrier, and larger potentials are needed to drive currents through the quantum diode.

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Patterns of androgen deprivation therapies among men diagnosed with localised prostate cancer: A population-based study
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Aim: Many men diagnosed with localised prostate cancer will eventually be treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). ADT is associated with adverse effects and its timing is controversial. Data on patterns of use are scarce. We describe patterns of ADT use, defined as castration (medical and surgical) or antiandrogen monotherapy initiated after primary treatment, in a population-based cohort. Methods and materials: Data were extracted from the population-based Prostate Cancer data Base Sweden (PCBaSe). Totally 45,147 men diagnosed between 1997 and 2009 with clinical stage T1-2, N0-NX, M0-MX and prostate specific antigen (PSA) <50 ng/ml without primary ADT were included. Outcomes in the period 2006 through 2010 were analysed using a period analysis approach. Results: The cumulative incidence of castration at 10 years after diagnosis was 11.6% (95% confidence interval (CI), 11.0-12.2%). The corresponding proportion of antiandrogen monotherapy was 10.8% (95% CI, 10.2-11.4%). Castration was the dominant therapy among men on deferred treatment. The probability of receiving castration rather than antiandrogen monotherapy increased with age. Estimated median durations of castration ranged from 4 years in the deferred treatment high-risk group to 17 years in the prostatectomy low-risk group. The main limitation was the lack of information on progression to metastatic disease and PSA at the time for initiation of ADT. Conclusion: When initiated early after curative treatment, the duration of castration can be decades. The findings indicate that more accurate tools are necessary to guide which men should be selected for ADT as secondary treatment. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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UNG senior training for spot on US Olympic team

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Ben Hefner is training in hopes of competing in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

On a typical Monday at 7 a.m., many college students are just beginning to stir and prepare for the day's classes. However, Ben Hefner, a senior majoring in physics at the University of North Georgia (UNG), is already on the water, training for a berth with Team USA as a flat water sprint canoeist for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Hefner recently took second place in the individual 200-meter sprint canoe and third place in the 1,000-meter at the U.S. National Team Trials in Oklahoma City, Okla., will graduate from UNG in spring 2014 and focus the next two years on training. He also took first place in the two-man 1,000-meter sprint canoe with partner Ian Ross.

"Ben is a top athlete; it's very tough to train and go to school, but he is very responsible," said Claudiu Cuir, Hefner's coach and a world champion canoeist from Romania. "He is very strong and can really move through the water. Ben is a little younger than most of his competition, but he has great potential and drive. He spends three months every summer training in Europe with some of my connections."

Hefner began paddling in 2005 at the age of 13 at the Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club in Gainesville, Ga., where the 1996 Olympic events were held. The following year he won the national championship in the 500 meter and 1000 meter sprint for his age group.

"I could see that I had a future and set my eyes on making the national team," Hefner said. "In this sport, in order to be competitive at the world championships and to make the Olympic team, I have to compete internationally. My love for the sport and my commitment to excellence fuels my desire to compete."

That commitment includes much more than the early-morning paddles. Hefner follows-up his sunrise session with a one-hour weight circuit, a second paddle set at 10 a.m., and a third paddle set from 4 to 6 p.m. He runs in the evenings.

Though he plans to take time off for training and for the Olympics, Hefner plans to attend graduate school later to major in astrophysics or nuclear physics. His ultimate dream is to become an astronaut.

"Ben is very smart and a hard worker, and a member of the UNG Honors Program," said Dr. Richard Prior, head of UNG's Department of Physics and Hefner's academic advisor. "He does a really good job of handling his dual responsibilities as a student and an excellent athlete. Ben is a leader among our majors as president of the Society of Physics Students, and is well-liked by them and the faculty members. Besides being one of our best students, he also works as a lab assistant and tutor for introductory physics classes."

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'Researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have confirmed that NASA is mulling over their plan to build a robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion – slightly more than NASA's Curiosity Mars rover – and could be completed by the 2020s.'
Report in the New Scientist; the Keck Institute's proposal here (.pdf)

Dark, carbon-rich material on the surface of Vesta may have transferred during early impacts with small asteroids.  Similar collisions may have delivered the building-blocks of life to Earth.

Stem cell scammers lay the ground work for a thousand technothrillers.

Scientists have manipulated a quantum gas to cool it to a fraction below absolute zero, paving the way to create new forms of material:
'If built, such systems would behave in strange ways, says Achim Rosch, a theoretical physicist at the University of Cologne in Germany, who proposed the technique used by Schneider and his team. For instance, Rosch and his colleagues have calculated that whereas clouds of atoms would normally be pulled downwards by gravity, if part of the cloud is at a negative absolute temperature, some atoms will move upwards, apparently defying gravity.

'Another peculiarity of the sub-absolute-zero gas is that it mimics 'dark energy', the mysterious force that pushes the Universe to expand at an ever-faster rate against the inward pull of gravity. Schneider notes that the attractive atoms in the gas produced by the team also want to collapse inwards, but do not because the negative absolute temperature stabilises them. “It’s interesting that this weird feature pops up in the Universe and also in the lab,” he says. “This may be something that cosmologists should look at more closely.”'

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Prometheus Warps The F Ring

An ancient philosopher from Earth once suggested that humanity’s defining characteristic was that it could not resist stamping its footprints into pristine unspoiled ground. There was no good reason, for instance, why anyone would want to live on Prometheus, the shepherd moon that orbited just inside the narrow, twisted rope of Saturn’s F Ring, the outermost discrete segment of the gas giant's glorious ring system. Prometheus was a lumpy, irregular cylinder of dirty water ice about a hundred and thirty-five kilometres long and sixty to eighty kilometres across. Porous, lightly scarred by impact craters, blanketed by drifts of bright ice dust stolen from the F Ring, it possessed no useful resources, and its chaotic orbit meant that it was difficult to reach. Even so, a crew of gardeners stabilised one of its shallow valleys with a muscular mat of fullerene strands and tented it with diamond composite, and quickened a homeostatic microgravity ecology of spinweed, air kelp, and hypertrophied bryophytes. A famous poet lived there for a year; two different but equally short-lived tribes of utopianists briefly colonised it; it became a way station for the occupying force at the height of the True Empire; much later, an ascetic hermit took up residence, and captured the restless fluctuations of the F Ring in an ever-changing symphony.

At its closest approach, Prometheus’s gravity warped the F Ring’s icy material into waves and streamers, ploughing temporary dark channels into the strand of icy shards and dust that spiralled around the central core. The F Ring’s other shepherd moon, Pandora, also perturbed the ring as it orbited the outer edge, and hundreds of snowball moonlets swung around the ring too, passing through its inner core whenever their orbits were perturbed by Prometheus and creating temporary jets that extended for hundreds kilometres. The ring shivered and shook, plucked by gravity and ponderously slow impacts.

The hermit injected several million self-replicating probes into the ring, wrapped in photosynthetic sheaths and equipped with detectors that emitted signals that fluctuated in response to minute changes in velocity and trajectory. A chamber in the tented garden on Prometheus translated the sum of millions of oscillating signals into sounds analogous to those generated by Tibetan Singing Bowls; some ten years after she died, a rare visitor to the tiny shepherd moon discovered the hermit's desiccated corpse there, her music still huming and chiming in the luminous air.

The so-called Eternal Symphony of the F Ring was briefly famous. Pilgrims came to Prometheus from all over the Solar System to float in the chamber and submerge themselves in the oscillating drone of the ring, the deceptive cadences and eerie glissades of the warps created by Prometheus’s orbit, the rumbling percussion of colliding moonlets and the chiming clatter of the resultant jets. There was a brief fashion for apoapsis parties in which afficionados gathered to bathe in the atonal and violent passages created when Prometheus passed close to the F Ring, but like all fashions this soon faded. A century after the hermit’s death, hardly anyone visited Prometheus anymore, and the mirror feeds of the Eternal Symphony on various moons of Saturn, on Earth and Mars, in various cities of the Belt, were either disconnected or languished in forgotten corners of libraries.

Perhaps it would be rediscovered one day; or perhaps all trace of it would vanish from humanity’s collective memory. It did not matter. The symphony played on regardless. The probes manufactured new copies to replace those lost to time and chance; the semisentient chamber repaired and renewed itself; Prometheus and Pandora and the snowball moonlets pursued their endless, endlessly changing dance around the F Ring, and the ring’s rope of icy fragments poured around Saturn, as it had long before the distant ancestors of humanity took their first steps across the African plains, as it would long after the unknowably distant descendants of humanity had forgotten all about their first home.

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R2P – A Short History

ed luckThe notion of protecting human lives and preventing large scale massacres goes back a long way. In 1864 the International Red Cross was established and through the years many other organizations have been established to help the downtrodden and people being abused. After World War II the UN resolution 260 of 9 December 1948 adopted the convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as a direct response to the horror of the Holocaust. The Wars in Indochina in the 1960s and 70s was also a turning point in many ways. Young people all over the world witnessed on their TV screen the atrocities that happen during a war, and the first televised famine in Biafra help spur further commitment to humanitarian work.

The modern turning point for the notion of “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) came out of the Rwanda experience. “Rwanda in 1994, the genocide, was a very important piece of this,” Edward Luck, the special advisor to the UN Secretary General on R2P told UN News Centre recently. He traces the story back to World War II: “Before that, there were the killing fields in Cambodia, after Rwanda there was the slaughter in the forests of Srebrenica. There was a whole series of such scars on the 20th century, going really all the way back to the Holocaust, which created a terrible stain on human history: mass violence targeted against one part of the population or another,” Luck explained.

Speaking at a seminar in Brussels recently, Kiyo Akasaka, the UN Secretary General for Communication and Public Information, said that the idea of R2P is not new with respect to states securing their people, but new in that the international community can intervene to protect civilians.

After the NATO intervention in the former Yugoslavia in 1999 there was a lot of debate on the legality of the intervention and so two years after, in 2001, the idea of R2P was first voiced, as a reaction to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s initiative. In late 2001 the Canadian government created the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), that released its report Responsibility to Protect which advocated that state sovereignty is a responsibility, and that the international community could, as a last resort use military intervention to prevent “mass atrocities”. The African Union (AU) later endorsed the idea and put in its founding charter of 2005 that the “protection of human and peoples rights” would be a principle objective of the AU and that the Union had the right “to intervene in a Member State pursuant to a decision of the Assembly in respect of grave circumstances, namely war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.”

At the World Summit in 2005 the member states included R2P in the Outcome Document. The next year, in April 2006, the UN Security Council formalized their support of the R2P by reaffirming the provisions of the paragraphs from the World Summit document. Finally the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon released a report the same year, Implementing the Responsibility to Protect, which argued for the implementation for R2P and its arguments were subsequently discussed at the 2009 UN General Assembly, resulting in Resolution (A/RES/63/308) which acknowledges the debate and Ban Ki-moon’s report and proposes the General Assembly to continue its consideration of R2P.

The international community now has a tool that could prevent further mass atrocities, as Edward Luck puts it: “Breaking that cycle of violence is something that everyone has talked about for years and years, but now it’s an effort to have a comprehensive systematic program to try to do something about it. It’s not easy, but it’s well worth trying.”

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Definition of the Responsibility to Protect

    • The State carries the primary responsibility for the protection of populations from mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.

    • The international community has a responsibility to assist States in fulfilling this responsibility.

    • The international community should use appropriate diplomatic, humanitarian and other peaceful means to protect populations from these crimes. If a State fails to protect its populations or is in fact the perpetrator of crimes, the international community must be prepared to take stronger measures, including the collective use of force through the UN Security Council.


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Uppsala Medieval Society

Over 15 years of excellence in beating the snot out of each other with large bits of steel!!

Welcome to the Uppsala Medieval Society webpage!

Did you see us at a recent Show or Fayre? Do you have an interest in Medieval History, but would like a more hands on approach? Interested in combat perhaps? (of course you are!) The following pages contain information about who we are, what we do, and how we do it! So, have a look around, read what we have to offer on this web space, and we hope to hear from you soon. Enjoy!

Upcoming events...

Uppsala's First Easter Event

Uppsala has decided to leap upon the opportunity from the cancellation of this years Conference in Queensland over the Easter long weekend to run our own combat based camp.

The event will be from Friday April 3rd to Monday April 6th at the Danelaw property, 30 minutes drive from Braidwood in the NSW Southern Highlands. Fighting will be in our own area of the site, which features two opposing palisade forts, large clear grounds and flat wide paths for fighting over. We will have a huge range of different fighting scenarios, including dual-fort fights where teams will have to defend their fort whilst attacking the opposing fort, and a bunch of other cool things to fight over!

This will be a mixed period, metal weapons event using the common inter-group combat rules. We will provide the marshals for fighting, interesting areas to fight over and both interesting and dull excuses to fight.

So to keep this brief, our plans are as follows:

Dates, Times and Main Activities:

>Thursday 2nd of April - 5pm - Gates will open early for those who prefer to start their camp the night before.
>Friday 3rd of April - 9am - Event registration will start.
- 12pm - Combat will commence, in the clearings and paths, and go for as long as it takes.
- 6pm - Tavern opens for business until sometime after midnight.
>Saturday 4th of April - 9am - Combat will commence, using the two forts and surrounding areas, and not stop until we're done.
- 6pm - Tavern opens for business and won't close until sometime in the next morning.
>Sunday 5th of April - 9am - Combat will commence, using any and all the areas with enough room to swing a javelineer by the tail.
- 11am - Tourney will start and go till 1pm, which will include a number of different 1v1 categories and some group/fort categories.
- 6pm - Tavern opens for business and so begins the migration of the thirsty re-enactors.
>Monday 6th of April - - There may be fighting dependent on how keen everyone is.
- 5pm - Event finishes and we all go back to pretending that we never wanted to leave camp for the real world.

What we be provided:

>Event tokens for all participants.
>Combat Tourney, with shiny prizes for the winners.
>Sword & Shield (Heavyweight class, above 80kg or 185cm)
>Sword & Shield (Welterweight class, below 80kg or 185cm)
>Sword (open class)
>Spear (open class)
>Men's shirtless wrestling (tavern class)

>A ridiculously well stocked tavern, with several varieties of beer, cider and mead.
>Hot food, tea and coffee for sale from the Tavern.
>Evenings - $5. - Swedish meatballs, gravy and honey roasted root vegetables.
>Mornings - $5. - AppleBacon, boiled eggs and flat bread.

>Permanent toilet facilities (including the wondrous luxury that is triple-ply)
>Big bonfire and covered areas for the evenings festivities.

Costs and Booking:

The price for the event is $30 per person

This will get you an event token, the chance to either get trounced or get a prize in the tourney, and some incredible stories that you can and should inflate to everyone who wasn't there. To register for the event you will need to firstly pay the man, which can be done by transferring $30 to Uppsala. Secondly fill out the registration form and the site access form, to which links are provided below the account info.

Details immediately are below. You will need to note your payment/transfer confirmation number, and enter it in the registration form.
Account Name: Uppsala Medieval Society
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Our end goal is to provide an inexpensive, relaxed and accessible event for anybody and everybody who wants to come and fight us. We are not planning to run any stalls or workshops though are happy for others to do so, and will provide areas for this on request. If you have any enquires at this stage please feel free to email a response back to this address, or get in touch with Cameron on 0423 721 920 (UMS Secretary & Head Combatant) or Dave on 0402 268 097 (UMS Herald & Head Combatant).

We look forward to seeing you all there, and then hitting you...in a friendly way...kinda,
- Uppsala Medieval Society


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Blake Griffin, LeBron James (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

This morning it was formally announced what we all knew anyway: Kevin Durant is the 2013-14 NBA MVP. Except, KD wasn’t unanimously voted as MVP this year. Six voters elected to go with LeBron James, who was one vote short of getting every second-place vote. So who voted for ‘Bron over KD?

Because the NBA under Adam Silver has increasingly made the league’s inner-workings more transparent (you can actually read the NBA’s constitution now), they’ve also published the votes for all the big awards.

Usually the writers who elected to vote against the overwhelming consensus had to out themselves, or their misshapen ballot was leaked, but now you can see who voted for each player. Usually this means a bias related to the team-specific media members as The Diss’ Kevin Draper wrote last month.

That wasn’t the case here, though.

Let’s look at the biggest regular-season award this year: NBA MVP. Here’s how the voting broke down, and below are the six individuals who voted for James over Durant. Surprisingly, none of them have a job related to the Heat. This almost makes it worse, though just almost. KD was the MVP, as we explained time and again. Even ‘Bron thinks he deserves it. So who are these six voters that thought LeBron should win his third straight MVP award?

Al McCoy — KTAR Radio
Phoenix broadcaster who voted for Suns wing P.J. Tucker as his Defensive Player of the Year. At least McCoy has a history of odd votes, he has Tony Parker at No. 3 and Dirk Nowitzki at No. 4 on his MVP ballot.

Bill Land — Spurs Television
Maybe he’s still reeling from the NBA Finals last season when LeBron decided to finally go HAM at the end of Game 6 and the entirety of Game 7. After inverted top-2, Land’s overall ballot is pretty in line with every other voter.

Bob Fitzgerald — Comcast SportsNet Bay Area
Warriors play-by-play announcer actually voted ‘Bron, Durant, Blake Griffin, Joakim Noah and then Stephen Curry, so we can’t chide him for playing favorites since he’s got Noah over Steph for fourth place.

Cedric Maxwell — WEEI Radio
Boston’s Cedric Maxwell, the 1980-81 NBA Finals MVP (yup) and two-time NBA champion-turned radio broadcaster for WEEI, had a strange mashup. He had James at the top, Durant second, then Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony and Noah in his fifth spot. The ‘Melo pick for fourth makes us think he drank too much cold medication that day. Anthony played well this year (he sported the second-highest PER of his career despite New York’s struggles), but team performance can’t be overlooked.

Grant Napear — CSN-CA
Sacramento Kings play-by-play announcer had to survive DeMarcus Cousins’ disrespect, so you know he doesn’t shy away from his opinions. His ballot is relatively on-point besides having KD in second place. Blake is in third, Noah fourth and — like Bill Land — LaMarcus Aldridge in fifth (which looks smart after LMA’s performance in the first two games of the opening round). Can’t find any fault here.

Steve Holman — Hawks Radio Network
The Hawks’ play-by-play announcer had KD second, Noah third, Al Jefferson fourth and Griffin fifth. We actually can’t disagree with that either as Big Al was probably the most dominant frontcourt player in the season’s second half.

In all, the six voters who cast LeBron James as their 2013-14 NBA MVP aren’t insane, they’re simply in the minority, which is why we have the voting in the first place. There were no LeBron votes by Heat media members, either, which is a big deal — maybe they’ve learned to avoid such obvious discrepancies since their votes are now public?

Still, considering how dominant Durant has been, this should have been unanimous.

Also, it’s worth noting that Chris Sheridan was the only media member out of all 125 who didn’t have LeBron at No. 1 or No. 2. He had KD No. 1, Griffin No. 2 and James third. Sheridan explains his rationale for the vote at his eponymous website.

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Last night Adam Scott tweeted the above photo, adding “Check out this photo from a pilot I worked on in ’03–PHILLY JUSTICE.” While he provided no additional context, and it’s clearly a photo from the Parks set, the tweet does confirm how badly I want to be friends with Adam Scott, and then, by default, Paul Rudd.

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The Falcons also hired Alex Gibbs as its offensive line coach. Gibbs worked for the Denver Broncos as an assistant coach and offensive line coach over the last nine seasons, but he's worked mostly as a consultant to the team the last three seasons.

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When I tell people I work for a criminal defense attorney’s office, they always ask how I feel about it.  The assumption is that if you work for a criminal defense attorney, you will be dealing with hard criminals on a daily basis and that you are working to put these criminals back on the street.  The underlying implication is that this is morally wrong and something I shouldn’t be proud to be a part of. The reality of it is, there is a wide spectrum of innocent to guilty clients.

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We are taught that we are “innocent until proven guilty.”  This certainly stands true in criminal defense.  The important thing to note is that many of our clients are innocent, and we are trying to help prove it.  Admittedly, some of our clients are guilty, and don’t try to hide it.  Those client’s, however, aren’t trying to get away unscathed, they are trying to make amends and get on with their lives.  From a moral perspective, our office isn’t trying to litter the streets with criminals, but trying to get just and fair deals for our clients.
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Many of our clients believe cooperating with the police means they will get a better deal in the end.  In cooperating with the police however, sometimes they say things that will lead to their conviction or admit guilt, regardless of whether or not they are truly guilty.  Many people are intimidated into saying things that they don’t mean or aren’t true.  Often times, detectives do what they call “blind calls” where they will have an alleged victim call the person they are accusing, and try to get them to admit guilt.  This is done without the accused knowing the detective is listening in on a third line.  This is completely legal, by the way.  Other times, detectives will interrogate suspects and say what they feel is necessary to get them to admit guilt, regardless of whether or not the information they are feeding you is true.  This is also legal.

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Polyomaviruses require dividing cells to multiply. The regulatory genes express proteins, theT-antigens, necessary for this to occur. Large T-antigen (LT), is a phosphoprotein withmultiple intrinsic activities, e.g. ATPase, helicase, and interaction with cellular factors. Crucial for the regulatory role of LT is its ability to specifically bind DNA containing GRGGC-motifs located in the non-coding regulatory region of the viral genome. This thesis focuses on the characteristics of LT-DNA interactions. Also, it addresses some important questions regarding the role of LT-protein interactions in initiation of DNA synthesis.

The DNA binding specificity of LT was investigated using a binding site selection protocolbased on the polymerase chain reaction. A pool of polynucleotides with randomised sequences was probed with LT. Molecules that bound to LT were selected. All obtained polynucleotides contained tandemly repeated GRGGC-motifs in a head-to-tail arrangement, with a relatively uniform spacing. Experiments with a DNA binding deficient LT produced evidence for an alternative lower affinity binding site.

LT binding to different types of sites was studied using surface plasmon resonance(BIAcore). Both association and dissociation rates were related to motif configuration. LTcomplexed with the origin of replication site was particularly unstable. Comparison betweensites containing one to four motifs in tandem, showed a preference for non-cooperative dimerbinding. Sodium chloride stabilised the complexes. A pH above 7.0 increased dissociationrate.

An enhancer-less polyomavirus (PyV) can be rescued by inserting binding sites for bovinepapillomavirus (BPV) E2 protein, and supplying E2. In BPV, E2 is a transcriptional activatorthat is, together with E1, required for DNA replication. Using a set of E2 mutants, a correlationbetween transcriptional activation and replication of PyV, but not BPV, was found, suggestingdifferent mechanisms for activation. Interaction assays found evidence of a cellular factoracting as a mediator between E2 and LT.

An LT with an amino acid substitution close to the DNA-binding domain could rescueviability in a PyV with a base substitution in the origin of replication. BIAcore analysisshowed no great differences between mutant and wild type interactions. The mutant LT wascomparable to wild type in other selected activities.

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Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecoms Conference in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday, Vivendi chief financial officer Philippe Capron was quoted by Dow Jones as saying: “No decision has been taken by our board yet as to the exercise of our liquidity rights option we have and no deal has been struck with General Electric Co. as to another way to exit,” he said.

Capron added: “We have never been closer to the end of the story. It’s in the future but I can’t comment on timing or the likelihood of what will happen.”

Comments to Bloomberg also suggest the months-long deal saga that could create a $9 billion TV advertising giant, is not quite at its end. Capron continued, “We are not interested in staying on board a new GE-Comcast ownership of NBC U, so yes we would exit,” he said, adding, “This year the situation is a bit more complex. We are not forced to do anything. We could just say no.”

Vivendi is believed to be holding out on finalizing the deal until it can extract maximum value for its stake. Back in 2004, when GE acquired Vivendi Universal Entertainment, Vivendi was left with a 20% stake in the combined NBC U. At the time the company was valued at $44 billion.

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When asked by the media if price was the stumbling block Capron responded. “It often is.” He also appeared to signal another stumbling block. “This decision that we have to take in the next three weeks is in conflict with the GE-Comcast deal,” he said. “We cannot do the deal with Comcast and have an IPO process.” Vivendi has until Dec. 10 to make its decision as part of an annual option to sell its stake which runs until 2012.

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