Marin County Housing Authority

It's an unusual setting for a school: an apartment in the low-income, high-rise Golden Gate Village subdivision in Marin City, built in the 1950s and operated by the Marin County Housing Authority.

A former living room, decorated with a piano, a football and a drum, now serves as a classroom, where students gather for an assembly each day before starting work. A bedroom with homemade bookshelves serves as the library; student-done paintings and vocabulary lists decorate the walls of other bedrooms-turned-classrooms.

As the students were in class in one of the third-floor units, the father of one student was working on his broken car in the parking area. For his family, commuting to school is not a big deal -- just walking up two flights of stairs.

The school uses three of the 21 apartments and a refurbished boiler room at 79 Cole Drive. But it's more than the physical plant that distinguishes Marin City's Women Helping All People Scholastic Academy -- the 2-year-old private school is run entirely by women.

Acumen Waste Services

Specialist waste adviser Acumen Waste Services, which runs a regional office in Four Ashes, near Wolverhampton, has been bought by its management in a deal aimed at developing further growth.

The new owners said the deal would also consolidate Acumen's position as a major waste services provide in the UK market.

Based at Wetherby, in Yorkshire, the company runs a regional office at the Four Ashes Industrial Estate.

The deal, giving Acumen's directors full control of the business, involves the buyout of venture capital company Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) for an undisclosed sum. LDC has been a shareholder since an original management buyout in 2001.

The latest deal was funded by Yorkshire Bank, with Hammonds in Leeds acting as legal advisers.

Acumen provides waste management advice and services to customers in the construction, chemicals, industrial and food & retail sectors.

It has won a string of major contracts over the past three years, including a £1 million deal to provide waste services to biodiesel manufacturer Biofuels.

Konrad Zuse

 
Defining one point along this road as "the first digital electronic computer" is exceedingly difficult. On 12 May 1941 Konrad Zuse completed his electromechanical Z3, being the first working machine featuring automatic binary arithmetic and feasible programmability (therefore the first digital operational programmable computer, although not electronic); other notable achievements include the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (shown working around Summer 1941), a special-purpose machine that used valve-driven (vacuum tube) computation, binary numbers, and regenerative memory; the secret British Colossus computer (demonstrated in 1943), which had limited programmability but demonstrated that a device using thousands of valves could be both made reliable and reprogrammed electronically; the Harvard Mark I, a large-scale electromechanical computer with limited programmability (shown working around 1944); the decimal-based American ENIAC (1946) — which was the first general purpose electronic computer, but originally had an inflexible architecture that meant reprogramming it essentially required it to be rewired. 

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Raising an African Grey baby to adulthood is a lot like creating an artfully designed and constructed quilt. Initially, buying quality materials will contribute to the eventual outcome and strength of the quilt. If you don’t have a pattern to follow and a good idea of what you want the quilt to look like in the end, you may wind up with something that lacks integrity and cohesiveness. If you don’t proceed with deliberation, adhering to the pattern to which you have committed, skipping steps or leaving some out, the quality will not be good. A beautifully made quilt becomes an heirloom, something of which we can be proud.

Aids Incubation

Unlike the family dog, parrots are not domesticated creatures. It takes thousands of generations of breeding to domesticate an animal, and parrots are, at most, only two generations removed from their wild ancestors. This means that our domestically bred greys still have their wild instincts in-tact. Therefore, the more we understand about their wild nature, the better we can work with them in the home.

First, they live in huge flocks. They have been observed roosting (sleeping) in tall palms in groups ranging from several hundred to thousands of icubation birds. On top of that, they are “single species” birds, which means they do not associate with other parrot species, as many South American parrots do. During the day, they break into smaller flock groups and fly long distances to forage for most of the day.

African Grey Incubation Humidity

Many owners have stories about how their greys have shocked them with appropriate understanding. I play a game with my two greys, Merlin Tewlliager and Sweet Pea, called “Look-at-that-Bird.” When they say “Look at that bird,” I run into the room to look at them. Then I extended the concept by saying “Look at that bowl”...“look at that door”..and so on. While I was preparing breakfast in the kitchen one morning, a crow flew by the window. Sweet Pea yelled, “Aw, aw. Look!” She was telling me to “look at that crow.” She had proven she understood the concept “look.”

Greys are so intelligent and observant that they notice everything that goes on in the home. They study every movement and reaction, and they learn how to get their human companions’ attention. They are even capable of cause-and-effect thinking. For example, many greys observe their owners “running” to the telephone every time it rings or to the microwave every time it beeps; therefore, they replicate these sounds to make their human companions “run” to them.

Domain incubation

Domain incubation is a new strategy in which domain owners "outsource" their site management to a third-party service that provides content and link-building support. Internet domain incubation differs from parking in that it doesn't generate revenue, but can improve a domain's resale value by improving its Google rank and the number of incoming links.

"This offer is intended for those with poor quality domains," notes the intro to the concept at the Domain Incubation web site. "You will sell a domain with some PR and backlinks for more than you will without them. We do all of the work and take the risk that you could remove your domain at anytime, that's why we keep any and all money from advertising. If you think your domain is hot and will generate money from type-in traffic, you should use a domain parking service that will pay you part of the income."

Does web domain incubation make sense? It probably won't be of interest to experienced domainers, since there's no revenue and you don't get to keep the content or design. But with recent news coverage of the domaining business, many new speculators are acquiring domains in hopes of striking it rich, but may not have the time or experience to establish traffic and develop content on their names. Incubating the domain names could provide those investors with a way to move beyond the unvisited parked page and begin improving the value of their name. DomainIncubation.com gets short-term advertising revenue, with the expectation that as soon as the site's performance improves, the owner may want to reassume control and use the traffic.

Ad-laden parking pages

The service picks up on the trend towards developing domains with content (or at least more stylized parking pages) as opposed to ad-laden parking pages. Demand Media is the best example of this trend, with its purchases of eHow and eNom combining content and a huge portfolio.

But domain incubation is not a full-fledged content solution like No Parking.com, which provides professional content development and optimization in exchange for half the advertising revenue and, in some cases, a piece of the profit when a domain is sold. NoParking has also recently launched a service that provides paid content development for domain owners.