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Edouard Martinet
Edouard Martinet transforme en oeuvres d'art des objets du quotidien comme des freins de vélo, des moules à gâteaux, des vieilles machines à écrire qu'il récupère dans des brocantes, des braderies... et qu'il assemble sans aucune soudure : les pièces tiennent par emboîtement et par quelques vis uniquement et forment un bestiaire métallique : insectes, batraciens, poissons, oiseaux... Chaque sculpture est soigneusement préparée avec de nombreux croquis à l'appui et exige beaucoup de temps depuis l'idée jusqu'à la réalisation.
Alastria Software :: Software :: 7stacks
7stacks is an easy to use, free app that lets Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) users have "stacks" of icons in their Taskbar (in 7) or QuickLaunch Toolbar (in Vista and XP). By using stacks, users can reduce icon clutter, and combine a group of related icons into a single icon. For instance, if you use application suites such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or Adobe CS4, you can have all the suite's icons combined into one icon!
On imagining flexible work « Penguin unearthed
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The best candidate, by far, was someone who wanted to work three days a week. She had been doing that for the last 8 years. I really didn’t think the role was doable three days a week, but talked to her anyway. She convinced me that she was good at managing it. Three months later, it is working out much better than I expected. If she was working full time, she probably wouldn’t have taken the role – she would have had a bigger choice, and taken something more senior, with more challenge. But with the savings from her working only three days, I’ve hired an extra junior person in her team. She is giving space to her team to grow and develop, but at the same time adding much needed experience to the team.
Letters: Girls can aspire to be high-flyers | Life and style | The Guardian
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We are saddened that arguments for equal opportunities have to be made over and over again. Berry asserts that a woman's aspiration for a high-flying career can "all work fine, until their children are ill", ignoring the fact that parents, male and female, often share this responsibility.
We are successful scientists, researchers and educators. Many of us daily attest to the fact that having children, ill or otherwise, does not wreck a career. Those of us who are mothers also acknowledge men and women who combine caring responsibilities with paid employment.
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Half the UK's talent resides in individuals that carry two X chromosomes. To discourage girls and women from developing their potential and achieving financial independence not only denies them fundamental equality but damages the economy and society. We must get real about tackling inequality of opportunity.
Womanist Musings
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I am by no means a rich woman but my family and I are comfortable. We live within our means and occasionally splurge on comfort items. I see no shame in poverty because I understand that were that to be the case, it would be result of the capitalist mode of exchange, which is designed to enrich some while leaving a vast majority of the population impoverished. How or why should one feel shame for existing in a system that one has no control over?
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No longer do people assume the possibility that I may be lower to middle class, now it is assumed by most that I interact with, that I am poor. It is assumed by all that I am incapable of doing anything meaningful. Before becoming disabled, I understood that to many, being differently abled is a licence to live off of our social welfare system, thereby draining the system.
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flip flopping joy » Blog Archive » When you get punished for defending yourself, you don’t even want to fight any more
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“I would fight back and then be punished. They would lock me in the bathroom the whole day. And when you get punished for defending yourself, you don’t even want to fight any more, so I would just go and sit somewhere alone.”
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as much as we want to put things like race and gender into a nice clean box–we can’t
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Mandelson's Madness - Community - ComputerworldUK
This is penalising every other industry, and every online user, for the sake of one, congenitally lazy sector that has fought every new technology for the last century on the basis that it will “destroy” its business model, and “ruin” it. Of course, just as every new technology turned out to be a new *opportunity* for those self-same companies once they were forced to work with it rather than against, so file-sharing will enable a host of new business models. Until that point, though, if the current proposals go through, we will all be paying the price for this unjustifiable preferential treatment.
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This is penalising every other industry, and every online user, for the sake of one, congenitally lazy sector that has fought every new technology for the last century on the basis that it will “destroy” its business model, and “ruin” it. Of course, just as every new technology turned out to be a new *opportunity* for those self-same companies once they were forced to work with it rather than against, so file-sharing will enable a host of new business models. Until that point, though, if the current proposals go through, we will all be paying the price for this unjustifiable preferential treatment.
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Business does not need to be made “easier”: it is *already* trivially easy – that's the whole point. It's the “creative industries” that have insisted on making business harder by refusing to engage with the technologies, and then trying to sabotage them with things like DRM.
Similarly, there is no necessary causal link between reduced online copyright infringement and increased sales: one model that works perfectly well is to *encourage* people to copy your stuff to provide free marketing. Contrary to what the “creative industries” would have you believe, people are willing to buy stuff that is freely available online; in addition, there are many opportunities for selling ancillary goods off the back of the primary content. - 2 more annotations...
zyOzy Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Definitions and manifestations of “hunger.”
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Ending food insecurity requires everyone to get involved. Governments, businesses, individuals and nonprofits—including food banks—all have important roles to play in creating solutions. Food banks serve as a bridge between the immediate needs of those who are hungry and food insecure today and longer-term solutions. For example, many food banks not only distribute food, but they also provide training, connect recipients with social programs and act as a focal point for community development initiatives.
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- 642 million in Asia and the Pacific
- 265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 42 million in the Near East and North Africa.
Here’s where the world’s undernourished people live:
Some 907 million undernourished people live in developing countries, and 65 percent of the world’s undernourished are located in just seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
Examine PHP V5.3.0 features under the microscope
The following are the main PHP V5.3 features I look at in this article:
Late static binding
Namespaces
Class method overloading
Variable parsing and heredoc
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Feedforward. The Angle of History. Part 1: Wreckage and Countermeasures
Feedforward. The Angel of History, a compelling exhibition that opened a few weeks ago at LABoral in Gijón, addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces--largely enabled by the "progress" of digital information technologies--inexorably feed us forward. The exhibition title references Paul Klee's watercolor Angelus Novus. Walter Benjamin saw it as depicting "the angel of history" transfixed by the wreckage of the past that is accumulating in front of him while being propelled into the uncertain future by progress.
CORDIS : ICT : Programme : Content and Knowledge
What is IKS?
IKS is an integrating project targeted at the hundreds of SMEs in Europe, which are providing technology platforms for content and knowledge management to thousands of end user organisations. Downstream, hundred-thousands of corporate end users and millions of content consumers are affected by the quality of service provided through these platforms. The majority of these platforms lack the capability for making use of semantic web enabled, intelligent content, and therefore, lack the capacity for users to interact with the content at the user‘s knowledge level!
The major technological result of the project will be the 'Interactive Knowledge Stack', a layered set of software components and specifications which will make traditional content management platforms capable of dealing with the future 'Semantic Web'.
PC Remote Control Software and Remote Access Software: Control Remote PC Securely, Transfer Files, Share Remote Desktop, Access Remote PC from Anywhere, Perform System Administration
Access and control your home and office computer remotely from anywhere
Perform remote systems administration
Provide Help Desk (remote support) functions for remote users
Work from home remotely
Manage remote computers in small, medium, and large networks
Organize online presentations and conferences
Share your remote desktop
Teach and monitor students' activities remotely
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- Access and control your home and office computer remotely from anywhere
- Perform remote systems administration
- Provide Help Desk (remote support) functions for remote users
- Work from home remotely
- Manage remote computers in small, medium, and large networks
- Organize online presentations and conferences
- Share your remote desktop
- Teach and monitor students' activities remotely
A streamlined new me - The F-Word
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the beauty myth is perpetuated by products, advertisements and discourse within the media and traditionalist societal values
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Following my head shaving, I stood there, Mylene Klass mirror-spinning transformations in mind, with a demonic grin plastered across my face. I had just mercilessly hacked away at one of my most prominent physical features and it had felt good.
Gender and sentencing - The F-Word
Of course, anyone harming anyone is an awful crime, but women are often doubly condemned because of these gendered care assumptions and ideas about what is natural and feminine. Men, on the other hand, can act in a violent manner without transgressing the natural order. It may be condemned as a bad act, unhelpful to the day-to-day running of society, but it is all-too-often interpreted as simply the male nature gone too far: the latent possibility of violence which is expected to lie in men. Violent crimes are seen as the product of an unchecked male nature, a part of the masculinity which ‘real’ men should embody. If men go before a jury in court there is already a certain societal acceptance of their violence
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We have a belief within our society that women care. I mean ‘care’ in two senses: caring for other people and caring about other people. Parenting or caring for elderly or other dependent relatives within the home, or the paid work of nurse, social worker or teacher is all seen as ‘women’s work’. The archetypal woman should be predisposed to care, her ‘natural’ femininity making her willing to work hard to nurture and protect those around her and, importantly, prevent her from being able to harm anyone, particularly children. If a woman does act to harm another person she has transgressed the natural order and will be judged accordingly as something less than a ‘normal’, ‘proper’ woman.
Of course, anyone harming anyone is an awful crime, but women are often doubly condemned because of these gendered care assumptions and ideas about what is natural and feminine. Men, on the other hand, can act in a violent manner without transgressing the natural order.
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Compare the example of Brian Steadman, jailed for just three years in 1995 for killing his wife by hitting her 13 times with a hammer after pleading diminished responsibility because his wife constantly nagged him, with the example of Zoorah Shah who had experienced 20 years of sexual and physical violence from her partner - who then began to abuse her eldest daughter - and was given 20 years for his murder.
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