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Greek for God
New fraternities and sororities are popping up around the country, but their popularity isn't about partying. It's about piety. There are at least 210 Christian fraternities and sororities around the country now.
An Associated Press article [1] describes how parents set out lunch for tailgating at Lambda Sigma Phi [2] at the University of Alabama while at other houses on frat row, there's girls, booze, and rock-n-roll. "We want to be a light on this campus," says Lambda Sigma Phi chapter president Daniel Weaver.
In the college world of "hook-up culture" (see our interview with Donna Freitas [3]), these organizations seem to be trying to bring the evangelical campus to public school campuses across the country. The AP reports that Alpha Delta Chi, [4] a sorority, requires members to comply with certain rules: They must be church-going Christians, no premarital sex, and no smoking, illegal drugs, or drinking to the point of embarrassment. Activities include Bible service and service projects.
Having been a member of a Greek house in college (though not very active in it), it seems that these houses are simply going back to the roots of most houses. Sororities, at least, were intended to be the home of good Christian girls, encouraging scholarship, service, and sisterhood. To this day, there are prayers and a watered-down faith (along with a great deal of Greek and probably made-up mythology) in official meetings.
So what's the big deal with these houses? The mainstream houses are now inclusive and the structure of recruitment would not allow a house to discriminate against potential members based on religion. My campus had very active African American houses, but these didn't take part in the main recruitment process.
The University of Florida refused to recognize Christian frat Beta Upsilon Chi [5] because the school said the group was discriminatory and now the fraternity has filed a discrimination suit against the school.
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Up on Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt is smiling: America has a new national park. With its formal elevation from a national monument this week, Pinnacles National Park in California becomes the 59th in a string of magnificent landscapes that we the people have preserved for everyone and for all time. It's about time, Roosevelt would say.
When President Obama signed the legislation in January creating the new park, he ended a 10-year drought in congressional participation in what is considered "America's best idea." And he was linking himself with Roosevelt, the greatest conservation president in our history. Roosevelt's signature in 1908 establishing Pinnacles as a national monument was even more important than Obama's a century later in saving the area — 27,000 acres of spectacular rock formations and the home of dozens of endangered California condors.
Roosevelt was familiar with congressional foot-dragging when protecting America's public lands was at stake. In 1903, during his first visit to the Grand Canyon, he advised the people of Arizona: "Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it." No one listened.
For 20 years, people such as John Muir had been calling for the canyon to be designated a national park, and for 20 years Congress had refused because of lobbying by special interests more interested in the canyon's commercial and industrial potential. With Roosevelt joining the effort for park status, you'd think that would have tipped the scale. Here was one of the great natural wonders of Earth — as self-evident a national park as they come — and a vigorous president calling for its preservation. Congress still wouldn't move.

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The world has become more and more interconnected in the years since SimCity 4, and the new SimCity reflects this. In your region, you can engage in commerce with other players, such as selling them coal to power their power plants. You can even send resources to your neighbors--your power grid can transmit electricity to a city lacking in the resources needed to develop power, making a tidy profit while doing so (or you could do it out of the kindness of your heart). Or you can sell your excess resources. SimCity's new interconnectedness extends to a global economy. Markets exist for resources, and one way you can make money in the game is by selling commodities on the open market. It'll be interesting to see just how this works with players--while showing us a number of design docs pinned to the wall outlining the game's basic systems, Lead Designer Stone Librande mentioned how a group of players could fight back against a player-cum-oil cartel by organizing a boycott on the game's forums for a day, causing a sharp drop in the price of black gold.
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As you build your city, you're no longer locked to the traditional SimCity grid; your city can now assume many shapes, allowing for you to build suburban areas off your main city or other industries, such as mines or electrical stations. This includes, in a move that mirrors Civilization's decision to ditch squares for hexes, curvy roads. If you want to build villages and small towns, full of sweeping roads, you've now got the tools to do so. One thing sure to provoke ire in some gamers is SimCity's always-online requirement. Even if you want to run a private, single-player game, you must be online in order to play SimCity--you're still part of the game's global economy and leader boards even if you're not playing with other people in your region. At release, SimCity won't support modding, as was the case with SimCity 4, when the team was more focused on getting the game out than allowing for mods. Quigley said that "the data set in Glassbox is modable." Maxis always realized the value modders brought to SimCity 4, a game people still play nearly a decade later, thanks in part to mods. "The mod community re-created [SimCity]. We recognize it. We're not idiots."
Stone Librande
Sims are resources of a sort as well. Each city has lower class, middle-class, and wealthy sims. But you want to make sure you have a balance of the three to make your city hum--rich sims consume more resources, and many industries don't hire them in large numbers. Buildings need a specific number of workers by class; a factory will have more low-class workers than middle and high-class sims, and a high-tech business is going to employ more high-class Sims. While explaining design documents about the Sims, Librande emphasized how important it is to get your sims to spend money in town--it improves their happiness. Sims stay in a city if they're happy, and they leave (if they can) if they aren't. And this is why businesses are a new addition. "Businesses feel real," Librande said. "If it were all offscreen, you wouldn't care. It's another facet of managing a city." If your sims can't find work, those that can will move to another city; the poorer sims may end up abandoning their houses and become homeless (and street gangs could move into those empty homes, boosting your crime and further wrecking your city's happiness). Parks also boost your Sims' happiness. SimCity also has tourist Sims, which are important; they come into town (by car, by train, or by plane), spend money, and leave once they've spent all their money. You want Sims to do this--tourists are low-upkeep for you because you don't need homes, and they benefit you by adding to your local economy. Just like in real life. SimCity has three different zones for buildings: residential, commercial, and industrial. The best way to see the information coming out of your zones is by digging into the Google Maps-inspired visual layers, a component of the Glassbox engine that segregates specific data sets on an information layer, making it easy for you to see and process. If you don't have power to your city, the power layer will be red. When you connect power (or gather more resources for your power plant if you're out), you can watch a surge of energy pulse through your town as the power comes on.
Look closely ... Curvy roads (concept art)
You can upgrade buildings as well. "You can unlock gyms, buses, and 'bling' like signs," said Lead Producer Kip Katsarelis. Some of the cities in the videos Katsarelis and company showed off look like a digital Levittown (the first modern suburb, constructed shortly after World War II in New York). The homes and roads are, for the most part, in nice, orderly layouts. Cities now have specialties, which work kinda like classes in an RPG. Katsarelis showed us a region where a casino city was not the only one dealing with crime--it had spilled out to affect its neighbors. Another city grapples with homelessness, and with skyrocketing coal prices, an "Occupy Thing," as Katsarelis describes the protest, appears at City Hall. This protest, led by the plant's shop foreman, is actually a mission. Build a coal mine and the protest goals away, providing jobs for the protestors and the homeless. You can specialize in other areas as well, such as becoming an industrial giant or a green city. It's a new age for SimCity. The cities you build no longer stand alone; they are not only part of a region but a global market as well. Your sims play a greater role in your city's life. You must balance the needs of your situations with the resources you can find, create, and afford. Yet the core of SimCity remains the same--giving the player a real influence on the world. As Morgan Freeman says during a voice-over of one of the videos we saw, "A single decision does not change the world. You do." In case you missed it, be sure to check out our in-depth interview with Lead Producer Kip Katsarelis. Disclaimer: EA Maxis provided lunch and various refreshments during our preview of SimCity 5. No other accommodations were provided.
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Some Like It Hot: Tomato Terms, Types and Tips
Temperatures are rising, and while that may force those of us faint-of-heart indoors for the dog days of summer, it's a tomato's dream come true. Many tomato varieties can ride the heat wave with you, setting fruit even as the temperature rises. Gardening expert Joan Casanova offers some basic terms, tips, types and a list of heat-set tomato varieties that like it hot:
Tomatoes are the most popular vegetable in home gardens across America. It's important to understand common tomato terms, often seen on tomato plant tags and the basics of growing tomatoes... the more you know the better you'll grow. Now through mid-July, you can plant extra tomatoes for later harvests in fall, often right up to frost dates if you protect them overnight or harvest them green and ripen them indoors.
Tomatoes need the right combination of good soil, water and heat. Use transplants - they're faster than starting from seed and easier to grow. Transplants offered in biodegradable pots are planted directly in-ground, preventing transplant shock and saving millions of pounds of plastic from landfills. Find a sunny location (at least 6 hours of sun) with good drainage, and if you plant tomatoes each season, it's a good idea to rotate the spot in the garden where you plant them.
Tomato plants are classified as either indeterminate or determinate. Indeterminate plants grow all season, continuing to bloom and produce fruit as long as weather conditions are favorable. Determinate plants are the compact bush type - they grow to a certain size, set fruit, and stop growing, bearing fruit all at once. This type of tomato is perfect for a homemade tomato sauce.
Tomatoes are often designated by the terms early, middle and late, which refer to when the fruit will be ready to harvest. Early season tomatoes are the first to ripen, late season are the last to ripen and middle season types fall somewhere in between. Planting some of each type is a good strategy for enjoying ripe tomatoes throughout the summer.
What's Your Type?
Heirloom tomato - Any tomato that is at least fifty years old and is not a hybrid, like "Mortgage Lifter." This heirloom tomato got its name because a mechanic in West Virginia who developed the variety made so much money selling the seeds he paid off his mortgage.
Hybrid tomato - A tomato bred by crossing varieties. Hybrids offer better disease resistance, higher yield, and other improved traits.
Now it's time to pick your plants: While tomato lovers have a seemingly endless list of varieties to plant in their gardens, tomatoes fall into three basic categories: small salad (cherry) tomatoes, slicing tomatoes and thick-walled tomatoes ideal for making sauces.
Bonnie's Plants offers a "Tomato Chooser" on its website, where you can sort through tomato varieties. If temperatures are rising in your area, choose a heat-set tomato variety that's able to set fruit in high temperatures compared to many other varieties.
Planting Tomatoes Step-by-Step
1. Prepare your plot
Loosen the ground to create a welcoming bed for roots to grow. You can add three or four inches of compost or other organic matter, especially in clay or sandy soils. Then dig a hole that is as deep as the plant is tall because you are going to bury two-thirds of the plant.
2. Slip plant from pot if in plastic
Gently remove the plant by slipping the plastic container from the root-ball. Don't tug on the plant stem; this can sever it from the roots. If the roots are growing out of holes in the bottom of the pot, tear or cut them away and squeeze and twist the pot as necessary to work it from the roots. If your plant is in a biodegradable pot, just tear off the bottom of the pot to make sure that roots are in instant contact with the soil.
3. Bury two-thirds of the plant
Set the plant in the hole deeply enough so that two-thirds of it is buried. Roots will sprout all along the buried stem to make a stronger plant. You can pinch off the lower leaves if you prefer, but it is not necessary.
4. Don't forget to fertilize
Mix fertilizer into the soil that you will put back into the hole. It is best to fertilize according to recommendations from a soil test, but if you don't have that, use a natural timed-release fertilizer, which doesn't leach... or use an organic fertilizer at the rate recommended on the label. When you're done, two-thirds of the entire plant will be buried; only the top of the tomato plant remains above ground.
5. Water
Water thoroughly at soil line. This is very important to help settle the soil and start the plant.
6. Maintain your mulch
Mulch with pine needles, straw, or compost to help keep moisture in the soil and prevent weeds. Mulch should be two to three inches deep for effective weed control.
Plant tomatoes that work for you - a homegrown tomato is always more delicious than any store-bought tomato because you'll be (literally) enjoying the fruits of your labor.
For more gardening tips, visit www.bonnieplants.com


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Montreal, Canada – June 29, 2009 — Matrox® Video Products Group today announced Matrox MXO2™ Mini support for the popular CineForm NeoScene editing workflow that streamlines AVCHD editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 on the PC. The Matrox MXO2 Mini I/O device provides inexpensive HDMI monitoring with 10-bit 4:2:2 color precision. It turns an HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor with Matrox's unique color calibration tool. Controls for hue, chroma, contrast, brightness, and blue-only are provided. Users get accurate color representation so that an inexpensive HDMI monitor can be used even for color grading. Matrox MXO2 Mini even provides 1:1 pixel mapping on HDMI displays that support this feature so video will not be stretched and distorted by the monitor.
"CineForm users appreciate the high visual fidelity and realtime editing capability NeoScene brings to their AVCHD workflow but until now, they have not been able to enjoy full-screen previews of their work," said Francesco Scartozzi, Matrox sales director. "Matrox MXO2 Mini provides an affordable, high-quality, video output solution that greatly improves the AVCHD editing experience."
"The AVCHD camera format is designed for recording, not editing, but now with a few simple steps editors can benefit from professional realtime editing performance," said David Taylor, CineForm co-founder and CEO. With NeoScene, users can easily convert difficult-to-edit AVCHD files into CineForm's professional 10-bit Wavelet compression format for faster editing performance, plus conversion to 24p (24 progressive frames) for users who desire a cinematic presentation. We're excited about our collaboration with Matrox because of the enhanced editing experience that results; users can now drop their CineForm content on a CS4 timeline using a Matrox project preset and enjoy realtime playout through MXO2 to their preferred monitor or television.
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Matrox MXO2 Mini, priced at $449 US (£338, €382) not including local taxes, is available through a worldwide network of authorized dealers. Each MXO2 Mini comes with the customer's choice of either an ExpressCard /34 laptop adapter or a PCIe desktop adapter. Additional adapters may be purchased separately at $99 US (£69, €83) each.
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CineForm Inc. develops compression-based workflow solutions for the post production marketplace. Offering the industry's highest fidelity compression technology, CineForm is trusted among Hollywood filmmakers, television producers, videographers and digital media artists who rely on high image quality, high performance and innovative compression-based workflow solutions with up to 4k spatial resolutions for their online content creation projects. Available on both Windows and Mac platforms, CineForm workflow solutions are optimized for direct-to-disk camera recording, high-resolution post production and long-term content archives. For more information, visit www.cineform.com.
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Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, audio/video input/output, DVD/Blu-ray authoring, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs. Matrox's Emmy award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, corporate communicators, and videographers worldwide. Founded in 1976, Matrox is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada. For more information visit www.matrox.com/video.
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Deborah Gillis, Chief Operating Officer, gives an address via video at the Sustaining Women in Business 2013 Conference in Sydney, Australia. SWB covers the issues that impact you professionally and personally on your path to career success and personal fulfillment. Whether it's the latest trends in business that you simply must be up-to-date on, economic and global trends that inform the work you do, the latest in leadership thinking, or pure inspiration and personal development strategies that help you thrive, you will get it at SWB.
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Nova Scotia's private utility says the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project would add about $1.50 per month to the average household's power bill over the first five years.
Emera Inc. (TSX:EMA), the parent company of Nova Scotia Power, says power rates would then remain stable or decline over the next 30 years.
The company says the calculation considers the costs of the Maritime Link subsea cable portion of the project and projected savings because of a reduced reliance on coal-fired electrical generation.
Emera is expected to file an application for the project's approval before the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board on Monday.
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I use RSS to monitor all of my forums, and losing the LXF one is a big pain.
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On its official website, Microsoft explains that Xbox Live Indie Games differs from Xbox Live Arcade in that it offers "an outlet for the masses to experiment and create the most innovative and irreverent games imaginable on a console." If you're not quite sure what "irreverent" means, you're about to find out.
Originally launched in 2008 as Xbox Live Community Games, the Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG) service allows users, novice programmers, and experienced developers alike to experiment with new games and genres. As a matter of course, countless submissions that can only be described as absurd have found their way into the XBLIG library.
Entertainment is sure to arise amidst absurdity, and the following five titles provide plenty of it. Between shooting sharks in the face with spearguns, avenging your pa who was murdered by giant turkeys, and jet-packing to techno music as an alabaster kitty, these Xbox Live Indie Games will have you wondering why you didn't explore the service earlier. With all the fun offered by XBLIG, it's a shame that Xbox One won't give them their own category.
Note: All XBL Indie Games are required to offer a free trial, so you have no excuse not to try these.
Techno Kitten Adventure
Techno Kitten Adventure is more or less the Xbox Live Indie Game equivalent of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. This psychedelic jetpack side-scroller from 21st Street Games was released in 2010, and has since become one of the most popular games in the XBLIG store. While the basic goal of the game is to avoid floating shapes made of stardust, each stage changes in time with the background techno music. Be prepared to have no idea what's going on when the beat drops.
Shark Attack Deathmatch
This indie game gem was released by Lighthouse Games late last year, bringing with it a fresh component to the underwater FPS formula: sharks. You may have seen it featured on the XBLIG home page. Shark Attack Deathmatch allows players to enter a subaqueous arena wielding a speargun, a knife, and stun grenades. As you try to maintain your oxygen level and get kills, great white sharks meander about, attacking you when you get too close. When this happens, your screen is taken over by the award-winning message "you were murdered by sharks." It costs $1.
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Nava, Kalish look to earn significant playing time
By Evan Drellich / 01/23/2013 12:31 PM ET
BOSTON -- Their window looks plenty open.
With the offseason quickly fading, the Red Sox have brought in outfielders Jonny Gomes and Shane Victorino to replace Carl Crawford and Cody Ross. Victorino should play every day in right, but that's not the case for Gomes in front of the Green Monster, leaving in-house options Ryan Kalish and Daniel Nava with a real opportunity heading into Spring Training.
On a freezing cold Wednesday in Boston, Kalish and Nava both said they were aware they have a chance to earn significant playing time in 2013, with an emphasis on "earn."
"I thought about it a little bit, but at the same time, you don't want to look too far ahead," said Kalish, who along with Gomes, Nava and David Ross served Dunkin' Donuts around the city in a morning promotion. "And it's there, like you said, but you got to get there first. I'm just trying to get my body right still and get my swing down still."
Toward the end of last season, Nava took grounders at first base at the behest of former Boston utility man Nick Punto, whom Nava recalled saying, "Hey, man, if I can play first base, you might as well take some [grounders] just in case." Nava said the team hasn't talked to him about playing first, but he'd be happy to try if it gets him in the lineup.
"No one has talked about that at all, so it hasn't been brought up," Nava said. "I'd be open to playing wherever they want me to play."
Kalish said he feels even stronger than he did nearly two months ago, when he met with reporters at Fenway for a holiday event. Still, as Kalish has said for some time, there's a reality that he'll have to play with pain, at least for a bit. How much that pain hinders Kalish could well be the difference in his season.
"I feel real strong as far as all my body goes," said Kalish, who came back last season from neck and shoulder surgeries in 2011.
Swinging a bat right now is a little bit more of a challenge, and it has its ups and downs, said Kalish.
"There's a point where you play with your pain and you know you're good and be able to give what you have, but if it gets to a point where it's too much, it's too much -- and that's performance based."
As much as Nava's and Kalish's own performances will be a factor, so too will Gomes'. The Sox didn't ink Gomes to a two-year, $10 million contract to ride the bench, but he's said from the day he was signed that how much time he sees will be dependent on his performance. Gomes has played 120 games or more just twice in his 10-year career, in 2010 and '11 with the Reds.
"My goal right now and my goal throughout the year is to be ready for 162 games, to be ready when my number's called," Gomes said. "This is a results-driven industry. I understand that and I understand putting the hottest hand out there gives us the best chance to win, which is our goal. Do I want to play? Yeah. Do I want to play every single day? Yeah. If I were to pick a record to beat, it'd be Cal Ripken Jr. Obviously that's out of the question, but I'm an everyday guy and want to play every day."
Of course, if the Red Sox go out and trade for an outfielder, the dynamic changes.
Nava, a switch-hitter, said he's been working particularly hard on his right-handed swing. He hit .185 off lefties in 81 at-bats last season. Neither he nor Kalish have been told much by the team about their potential roles entering the season.
"No one's mentioned anything, but I think that's because there's a lot of things -- [the Mike] Napoli contract, a bunch of other things [going on] -- but I'm aware of the situation," said Nava. "In the same sense, I still got to go out there and perform and do my job, and we'll see what happens."


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Baseball's brightest stars will shine at the 2015 All-Star Game on Tuesday, July 14 at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.
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There are abundant opportunities in the Tennessee Valley for higher education at more than a dozen colleges and universities. Students can earn anything from associate and bachelor's degrees to technical certificates, master's and doctoral degrees.
Chattanooga State Community College serves more than 12,000 students. Located on Amnicola Highway, the college offers associate's degrees, technical certificates and 50 career programs in nursing and allied health, business, construction and human services, among others. Among its programs are Tech Prep, offering free credit in skills courses, and Middle College for high school students to adjust to college curriculum. The college curriculum strongly focuses on linking academic and professional teaching with current industry and business trends. 423-697-4404; www.chatta noogastate.edu.
Cleveland State Community College in Cleveland, Tenn., enrolls 3,500 students. The average student age is 28, and 90 percent of the faculty hold master's or doctoral degrees. With 40 possible areas of study, the college offers day and evening classes as well as online and video courses. Satellite sites are in Athens and Madisonville. 800-604-2722; www.cleveland statecc.edu.
Dalton State College in Dalton, Ga., a unit of the University System of Georgia, offers 14 bachelor's degree programs, including early education, marketing systems and technology management. The college offers more than 56 associate degrees and 11 certificate programs as well as adult literacy programs. Almost 6,000 students attend Dalton State. 800-829-4436, 706-272-4436; www.daltonstate.edu.
Georgia Northwestern Technical College, in Rock Spring, Ga., emphasizes professional skills to provide students with jobs after graduation. With day and evening classes available, students can choose from 93 programs with courses offered on the main campus or other sites in North Georgia. Northwestern offers degrees in accounting, social work and medical assistance. 706-764-3510 or 800-735-5726; www.nwtcollege.org.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga offers bachelor's, master's, postgraduate and doctoral programs to more than 10,000 students. The colleges of the university offer degrees in liberal arts, business administration, engineering and computer science, education, nursing and premedical studies. The university recruits students from the greater Chattanooga area and from across Tennessee and the Southeast. 423-425-4111. www.utc.edu.
Bethel University is a private Christian university, based in McKenzie, Tenn., and affiliated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. It has a campus in Chattanooga at 735 Broad St. and offers undergraduate and graduate programs in liberal arts, business, education and nursing. 423-756-1110; www.bethelu.edu.
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The University of the South is a private, four-year institution in Sewanee, Tenn. Commonly known as Sewanee, the college occupies 13,000 acres owned by 28 dioceses of the Episcopal Church. It offers 36 majors, preprofessional programs and master's degree and doctoral programs through the School of Letters and School of Theology. The College of Arts and Sciences has about 1,450 students, with environmental studies, economics and English among the most popular majors. 931-598-1000; www.sewanee.edu.
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Marie-France Pisier, a French actress who was discovered as a teenager by New Wave filmmaker Francois Truffaut and went on to star in such movies as "Cousin, Cousine" and Truffaut's "Love on the Run," has died. She was 66.
Pisier's body was discovered April 24 by her husband, Thierry Funck-Brentano, in the swimming pool of their home in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France, according to the French news agency Agence France-Presse. The cause of death is not known but foul play is not suspected, authorities said.
Truffaut directed Pisier in her first film, "Antoine and Colette," with Jean-Pierre Leaud, a short film that is part of 1962's "Love at Twenty." Pisier and Leaud played the same characters in the 1979 film "Love on the Run."
"A friend sent him my picture and he came at the end of the school term and said, 'Would you like to work in a film with me?' " she told the New York Times in 1981 about meeting Truffaut. "He was shy in front of a schoolgirl. It was very funny."
Her career also included roles with renowned filmmakers including Luis Bunuel in 1974's "The Phantom of Liberty" and Andre Techine in 1976's "Barocco." She also wrote and directed.
Pisier was born May 10, 1944, in Dalat in what was then French Indochina, where her father was colonial governor. At 12, her family moved to Paris.
The success in the United States of filmmaker Jean-Charles Tacchella's 1975 film "Cousin, Cousine" led to opportunities in Hollywood, but most of the roles did not measure up to the quality of her work in France.
"I know there were bad reviews but I liked very much the part I had," she told the New York Times in 1981 about "The Other Side of Midnight," the poorly received 1977 film based on a Sidney Sheldon novel. "I had been working in France in the family of the avant-garde. After a while you want to break away from your family. Anyway I discovered you can learn as an actress, even in bad movies."
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One former factory worker called it "the end of an iconic American brand."
Fender Musical Instruments Corp., based in Scottsdale, Ariz., and maker of the iconic Stratocaster electric guitar, said in an announcement Tuesday that it was ceasing domestic production of Ovation guitars and closing the New Hartford factory, citing "current market conditions and insufficient volume levels." The company also said it is consolidating production of U.S.-made acoustic instruments.
Ovations will continue to be manufactured outside the U.S., Fender spokesman Jason Farrell said Wednesday. He said Fender also builds Ovations in China, South Korea and Indonesia.
"We are committed to providing the same high quality musical instruments our artists, consumers and customers expect and demand, and will continue to support the brands that are currently being produced in New Hartford," Richard McDonald, senior vice president of Fender, said in a statement.
The factory also has been making Fender and Guild guitars since Fender bought Ovation's owner, Bloomfield, Conn.-based Kaman Music Corp., in 2007. The shop opened in 1967 after Charles Kaman, an engineer who founded Bloomfield-based aerospace company Kaman Corp., developed the first Ovation guitar. Kaman died in 2011.
The factory closing was first reported by the Republican-American newspaper of Waterbury, Conn.
Richard Hall of Winsted, who worked for Kaman and Ovation for three decades including 18 years at the New Hartford plant, told the newspaper that Ovation made the first acoustic guitar that could be plugged in to an amplifier and the company had 66 percent of the acoustic market in the U.S. in the early 1990s.
"It's the end of an iconic American brand," Hall said. "In the 1970s and '80s, just about every big touring band was playing Ovation."
Ovations made in New Hartford have been praised for their craftsmanship and tone. The company's website shows pictures of many music legends playing Ovations, including Simon, Campbell, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Eddie Van Halen, Kenny Rogers, Neil Diamond and Melissa Etheridge.
A worker at the shop referred questions Wednesday to an official at Fender subsidiary KMC Music Inc., who didn't return a message seeking comment.
Fender officials say the factory closing will affect all 46 workers, who will get severance packages, outplacement services and other assistance.
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IMS overcame an early deficit with some late heroics to knock off Mediapolis 6-5 in Southeast Iowa Superconference baseball Tuesday night in Kalona.
The Bulldogs jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead after the first on RBI hits by Jordan Wagenbach and Chase Miller. That's where things stayed until the 4th when IMS broke through with four in the frame.
IMS put together the rally in an inning where the first two batters grounded out, five straight IMS hits led the offensive barrage including RBI hits from Cameron Gingerich, Reggie Hostedler and Chris Perez.
The see saw battle continued the rest of the game, each team tallied one in the fifth inning and Mediapolis pulled even at five in the sixth, scoring two runs on a pair of wild pitches. IMS found another answer for the Bulldogs in the sixth as Dallas Nye, who had already made several sparkling plays in centerfield came through with the game winning RBI with two down in the frame.
Nye talked about his play in the field and what he was looking for in that at bat.
"We knew these guys were going to hit the ball, and they did that. They put a charge into the ball, you just have to try to read it off the bat and chase it down, use your instincts. We knew that Cameron was going to pitch hard and they were going to take the ball where it was" Nye said. "They had a good pitcher, he had a good fast ball, you just have to try to make contact, turn on it, and I happened to find a little gap there."
Mediapolis threatened to tie it in their last at bat, after Jacob Darbyshire drew a lead off walk, Gingerich was able to strand him at 3rd following a Chase Miller strike out to end the game. After the game first year Coach Danny Hershberger talked about how his team answered the bell in the see saw game.
"I think we got a bunch of competitors on this team, they really love to go out there and compete, play really hard and good things will happen when you do that," Hershberger said.
Gingerich posted the win for IMS to improve to 2-0, going all 7 innings, allowing seven hits five runs, four of them earned, striking out nine while walking two. At the plate IMS was led by Gingerich who was 2 for 4 with two RBI, Hostedler and Nye each had two hits and drove in one. With the win IMS is now 2-1 on the year and will next be in action at Van Buren tomorrow night.


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what should I do with an EA81?
Posted 31 March 2007 - 11:12 PM
Any ideas?
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Posted 02 April 2007 - 08:01 AM
sorry, got bored.
Posted 06 April 2007 - 05:54 PM
I am building a Doran. I just got the plans yesterday.
it's a huge PITA b/c the way the plans are drawn they don't show your how long things are and there isn't a bill of materials.
So I have to pretty much review the entire plans to know how much metal I need to buy. I guess that's a benefit cause then I will know exactly how things are put together.
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Posted 13 May 2007 - 08:04 AM
unfortunately the previous owners tore it down and hauled it away before I could get pics
Posted 21 May 2007 - 04:10 PM
an air pump like the vdub idea might be pretty cool too.
cheers, brian
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 03:51 PM
2 words
on that note, why not a wood splitter? hook up a hydraulic pump (maybe powersteering pump would work?) and a ram, put it on a trailer and you're in business
Posted 23 May 2007 - 08:06 PM
Try a snowcat/snow mobile since you are in Alaska.
Or more apropriately a snowmachine. Gotta have the true Alaska speak there. I think it would be cool to build something like an old honda odessey chassis or something slightly larger with four ski's and mount the motor with a pusher prop on the back.
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Posted 26 May 2007 - 06:17 PM
rebuild and put it in one of these... qualifies as an ultralight here in canada :cool:
Posted 30 May 2007 - 03:15 PM
rebuild and put it in one of these... qualifies as an ultralight here in canada :cool:
wow. That's cool.
I think for me.... I might want to keep both feet on the ground until I get better at wrenching and stuff.
Something breaks on a car, it will roll to a stop. Something breaks on a plane
Posted 02 June 2007 - 02:57 PM
Posted 02 June 2007 - 03:17 PM
I'll bet adding some wheels and a tongue so it could be trailered.
Then add a gen/alt set up for 120v and welding, with a convert
for the air compressor - 2 cyl x 2 cyl.
You'd be Snowking
You could do what I hope to and put it in one of these
Posted 02 June 2007 - 04:40 PM
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Posted 09 July 2007 - 01:44 PM
you can make a pretty wicked go cart with one of those:headbang:
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Mars goes to you!
Okay, now that's out of the way, only intelligent discussion from here on out. Come on Slashdot, I know you can do it.
I say they should make a porno, actually. Who doesn't want to do what sex on other planets will be like?
Granted, many of us here on
Of course we know what sex is like.
It involves a high-speed internet connection and a hand, right?
And thank goodness for broadband.
Remember the days of 300/1200 baud dialup? That Pamela Anderson download would be halfway thru her chest and you would already be done.
And I know I'm dating myself (besides in *that* sense). Not because of the 300 baud reference, but by referring to Pam Anderson as fap-worthy material.
If the Martian were underage it could bring a new meaning to "illegal alien"
Psst. Wanna know a secret?
If you get a sufficiently sized group with at least one person of each sex, and they are confined in a space long enough (like a simulated spaceship), there will be sex going on soon enough.
Hell, they've made all kinds of laws about sex in the workplace. Anyone who's ever worked in an office should be able to recount their sexual harassment training. Regardless of the training, office romances start, and some of them never leave the o
only intelligent discussion from here on out.
Yeah, like that's going to happen...
It needs an element of reality, such as a vacuum chamber around the compartments/rooms these pseudo-astro/cosmo/euronauts will use, and if a leak is detected, the area along with the -nauts all get blown up...
ESA is looking for European volunteers to take part.
If I were going on a trip to Mars, the last thing I'd take along would be some techno-listening Eurotrash with unreasonable demands for prompt health care and a propensity for labor unrest. Hell, with their thin figures and tight jeans, some Eurotrashtronaut might get sucked out of the spacecraft through some any ol' tiny tear in the outer wall.
Don't they need any good old corn-fed Midwestern American boys on this mission? Sign me up.
They don't have storage room for the sheep
ESA is looking for European volunteers to take part.
If I were going on a trip to Mars, the last thing I'd take along would be some techno-listening Eurotrash with unreasonable demands for prompt health care and a propensity for labor unrest.
Yeah, but if we shut the worst of them in a small room together, then the world becomes a better place for the next year and a half.
Well, I didn't mean this as flamebait OR insightful... just funny.
I guess looking for humor on Slashdot is like looking for life on Mars
Since 'funny' mods don't give karma, the person who modded you insightful was probably just restoring your karma after the flamebait mod.
Is there any way we can combine this into an interdisciplinary role with the marijuane reviewer job?
I mean WOW
"Hey what did you do this year?"
"Oh systems analysis, architecture, etc. How about you?"
See: Biodome. The failed movie or the failed experiment.
Biodome was a different kind of experiment. There, they were trying to create a self-sustaining Martian colony. The Russians are conducting a much simpler experiment...stick a bunch of people into a metal tube for year and a half and see if they go looney or not. From the article, it doesn't mention if the mission has to live on the same water or not, or a slowly dwindling food supply. But, that is probably secondary to the just-as-dangerous mental effects isolation being targeted for study.
The Russians are conducting a much simpler experiment...stick a bunch of people into a metal tube for year and a half and see if they go looney or not.
All they have to do is check last century's Gulag records.
The Soviets were no Nazi's when it came to record keeping. In fact it was so bad people would disappear from photographs!
I would rather have rock pools and some place to pretend I was on earth.
Fuck pretending about Earth. I would rather have the masturbation pod. Some sort of self-sustaining lubricant producing plant, mood lighting, and all the latest porn transmitted from Earth. Give the women a Sybian or some equivalent shit too.
I guarantee you an hour a day in one of THOSE pods and I just might not mind looking at bunch of plastic walls and algae tanks. Or to put it another way... without the masturbation pods I guarantee you they will be sending up a 2nd mission to find out what went wrong with the 1st mission.
Some sort of self-sustaining lubricant producing plant, mood lighting, and all the latest porn transmitted from Earth. Give the women a Sybian or some equivalent shit too.
Only on Slashdot would someone trying to use sex to stave off boredom, in a mixed gender pool, suggest everyone be given masterbatory aides.
And only on Slashdot would it be modded insightful.
rock pools and stuff
From "Horse With No Name
There were plants and birds and rocks and things...
They already did this, read the logs of all the Mir space station missions....
An experiment is only a failure if you don't learn anything from it.
See: Biodome. The failed movie or the failed experiment.
Biosphere 2 was designed by ecological mystics with a minimum of engineering and scientific support to meet specific environmental, ecological, philosophical, and quasi-religious goals. This lead them to make many costly errors;
Etc... etc... etc..
In short, Biosphere 2 isn't a valid standard to judge such experiments by. Sadly, it was such a highly visible flop and so few people are aware of the reasons why, they've poisoned the well for decades and rendered it difficult for actual scientists and engineers to gain funding and acceptance for such work. As shown by your comment...
I figure it this way. They need to pass a lot of downtime. Let them play a MMORPG. Then if your really creative you can let them farm gold and pay for the trip by selling the gold and characters they create.
Well I am kind of serious about the first part. Its going to take something highly addictive to keep them occupied during the trip there and back. Certain types of games would do it just fine. If you could find a way of combining learning into them all the better, but in some ways mindless entertainment may be key.
Their astronaut selection process tends to weed out all but the most motivated adventurous go-getters who tend to go crazy when asked to do basically nothing for 6 months.
Amen! As I understand it the first astronauts were test pilots, familiar with confined cockpits, long periods of total boredom, and incredible risk of a human roasting giant fireball. Why they ever went away from those men with way too much bravado, I'll never know.
"We're going to lock you in this metal box, blast it into outer space on a giant pile of explosives, and then you'll drink your own urine for 6 months and crash-land in the ocean."
I think that kind of requires an adventurous go-getter attitude.
"We're going to lock you in this metal box [...] for 6 months [...]"
I think that kind of requires an adventurous go-getter attitude.
This is Slashdot. If sitting on my ass for 6 months is an adventure, then I'm Buzz Lightyear.
Why are they going to do nothing? Do people on the ISS sit around and do nothing while they are there?
They would most certainly be running experiments for the duration of the trip, both directions. It would waste a lot of time if they just sit there, and all the energy expended to get the thing up there and moving on its way could at least be useful to some experiments.
Don't think of it as sending a ship to Mars. Think of it as sending the ISS to Mars. There would likely be plenty to do.
It's kinda hard to play real-time interactive games when you're dealing with round-trip signal times of up to 40 minutes... I think that would knock out MMO games. Now something like split-screen Halo, on the other hand, doesn't require that, but is more likely to forment anger amongst the crew.
On the gripping hand, the old naval solution would probably work best. That is, keep the crew occupied with enough busywork that they don't have time to piss each other off. This was the standard practice on old sailing men of war; you needed large crews for combat/damage repair and for certain shipkeeping tasks, but otherwise they sat around with little to do. Hence, rituals of inspection, holystoning the deck, etc. This is also why modern crew-reduction initiatives on ships can backfire; smaller crews have a harder time performing damage control than larger ones.
Anyways, for a Mars mission you need a lot of crew for the surface exploration in order to get as much data as possible; the cruise phases (for the most part) have little for them to do. They'd likely be occoupied running different experiments and performing regular maintenance, and exercising (a lot) rather than just being couch kudzu.
It's kinda hard to play real-time interactive games when you're dealing with round-trip signal times of up to 40 minutes... I think that would knock out MMO games.
Posting to slashdot would still work well enough, although you'd cop more -1 redundants than normal. Otherwise I guess you could play single player games. Like System Shock, or Doom for example. What could possibly go wrong?
They couldn't play normal WoW, because of the lag.
I am assuming that this 'trip' will correctly simulate speed-of-light delay, right? And bandwidth issues?
From what I can tell, they're not simulating the technical aspects of the trip, just 'locked up for 17 months', just the social ones, but hopefully they're doing that. (And even stuff like 'Okay, today we made it to Mars, so you're going to have to run around like madmen for a few hours pushing whatever button we light up to simulate the stress and work
A lot of the social issues are well studied already, or at least should be. For example, submarine service in the various navies of the world.
A lot of the social issues are well studied already, or at least should be. For example, submarine service in the various navies of the world.
Speaking from experience as a submariner, I must disagree.
Among other differences are the rather large size of the boat's crew (comparatively speaking) and the mission duration.
For a submarine, four months is a long voyage.
And there aren't enough ways to divvy up six guys so that you can rearrange things so that two guys getting on each other's nerves can be kept apart.
The freaky part is that only 28 members of the crew were female.
Mindlessly addictive games seem like exactly the wrong approach to pass the time. You might as well just put them in a light coma instead. On the other hand, I would pay for 520-day sabbatical from the world during which I could write and illustrate a graphic novel, or some other creative pursuit that's otherwise frustrated by the distractions of Life On Earth. Also give me some ebooks to read, and maybe a limited quantity of mindless passive entertainment for seasoning, and I'd be happy.
Also give me some ebooks to read
Ebooks would be the only choice on such trip. During 520 days I could read more paper books than I weigh.
At least with the lag time to Mars, they'd get a chance to read it before the DRM server wipes it from their Kindles.
During 520 days I could read more paper books than I weigh.
But how would you measure that in freefall?
Or maybe include another computer as a dedicated server for MW2.
I saw what you did there.
An astronaut playing WoW during a 520 days trip to Mars while moving near the speed of light could barely get his character to level 40, while in the same time-span on earth his identical twin will easily have maxed the gear of 3 different characters.
(of course, one might argue that the astronaut simply is a n00b)
Mars needs women!
so there aren't any extra unplanned astronauts to arrive on "mars"
Okay, this might sound a little naive, but why can't they use people who have long prison sentences but are not severely criminal? The data gained concerning space travel could allow these people to contribute to society when otherwise they would just be rotting in a cell.
Two things. First, what information would these prisoners provide? I'm reminded of a novel I read where secret US agencies engaged in medical experiments to develop yet another supersoldier. They were excited at getting a real doctor as a test subject. The reason was because they got someone who could contribute and understand what was going on with his own body rather than "It hurts, Doc."
Second, prisoners aren't the people that would be sent to Mars for a real mission. One of the things that will be te
There are plenty of examples of small groups making do in an isolated environment for years at a time
The Amish ? Scientologists ?
I hear Bernie Madoff isn't too busy for the foreseeable future
By the time they get to Mars, they won't have any shirts
that one of the volunteers spends each of those 520 days asking, "Are we there yet?!" over and over...
That's a good point.
Of course I have to wonder about the validity of the psychological effects. In a simulation you _know_ when it is over, "Earth" is just an "exit door" away. On Mars, you are putting your life on the line and don't have your support system (friends, family) "next door" so to speak.
The United States Congress.
We won't miss them, really. How many more new laws do we need? Seriously.
I wonder if the monitoring the psychological effects of the experiment would include adding an increasing the amount of lag between when the isolated crew send a message to Mission Control, and when they get a response back. After all, instant response would make the crew feel like mission control were just a phone call away. Also, wouldn't the atmosphere of the environment be different, because you would always know you could be brought out if something went wrong. To run a real simulation, wouldn't the crew need to really think they were millions of miles away with no chance of rescue?
People act like sticking these people in an isolated chamber for a few hundred days is a new problem, it isn't. Sailors have been doing it for centuries.
If you want to study the effects further, give these people all a free 600 day cruise around the open sea. They're going to get horny, they're going to get angry, and they're going to get bored. That is what will happen.
Put a server on board with some quake and a few other video games. Give them all a bunch of contraceptives.
It will be fine. Trust me.
People act like sticking these people in an isolated chamber for a few hundred days is a new problem, it isn't. Sailors have been doing it for centuries.
And discipline had to be enforced with physical brutality, while those doing the disciplining sought solace in alcohol. To put it mildly, neither is an acceptable course nowadays. (Not to mention that routinely being isolated for hundreds of days vanished well over a century ago with the rise of steam power.)
Put a server on board with some
Wouldn't the psychological effects of knowing that you're taking part in a (mostly meaningless) test negate any actual behavioral data collected?
If I was given the opportunity to walk on Mars, I'd consent to outright torture for 6 months.
If I was placed in isolation, and told that at the end, I'd have gobs of paperwork and medical exams to complete, my psychological perspective would be rather different. I'd get very bored very quickly.
On the flipside, if I became severely ill in space, I'd (rightfully) panic, while I'd be more comfortable in an isolated trial, knowing that the full facilities of Moscow's health system were at my disposal, a few blocks away.
Also don't forget the physiological effects of zero-gravity and increased radiation in space that you wouldn't experience on earth.
I reckon if people can't handle it in a safe, controlled, Earth bound experiment than we learn something important.
They should really perform this experiment in Antarctica, in the winter, somewhere near the South Pole (or at least, several hours from the nearest base). Make them eat pre-packaged food and recycled water, and breathe recycled air, for a year and a half, with only the habitat walls standing between themselves and a rapid death from hypothermia, and you'd have something that begins to approach the experience of traveling to Mars.
If we can't keep a crew alive for the required time period in a hostile environ
/., you disappoint me.
I heard that VASIMR plasma engine cuts the trip time to 40 days. Those poor volunteers
"ESA is looking for European volunteers to take part."
oh wait! how about:
Less than a month into her run, Lapierre suddenly encountered serious problems. She was twice forcibly French-kissed by the Russian team commander, and soon afterwards witnessed a 10-minute-long fight between two Russians that left blood spattered on the walls.
She insisted that the controversial kisses were not merely "friendly celebrations" and that she had vigorously told the Russian to back off. She quoted him as saying, "We should try kissing, I haven't been smoking for six months. Then we can kiss after the mission and compare it. Let's do the experiment now."
Lapierre dismissed the notion that the Russian thought his actions were normal and acceptable. "Why did he try to pull me out of sight of the camera?" she asked.
When Lapierre's team first entered the modules, Dr. Valery Gushin, the scientific coordinator of the project, voiced attitude that in hindsight could have been seen as warnings about the problem. "Men, they have some expectations from women," he told a Canadian television team. "They want them to be more like women, not just partners. At least Russians do."
Following the incident, Gushin blamed Lapierre. His official report, which Lapierre has seen, saud she had "ruined the mission, the atmosphere, by refusing to be kissed." She should have been taken out, he wrote, and he also insisted that the foreigners had caused the fight.
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Originally conceived with a gothic twist on the usual afternoon soap, Dark Shadows plodded along during its first year garnering a small following who were weary of the everyday love libations offered by the plethora of other soaps of the time. Set in the small fishing village of Collinsport, Maine and revolving around the rich and powerful Collins empire, Dark Shadows developed several mysterious kernels during its initial offering. Who was this beautiful orphaned Victoria Winters and where were her parents? What had happened to Paul Stoddard, husband of the Collins matriarch, Elizabeth Stoddard? What horrible secret was Roger Collins hiding? Why had Burke Devlin returned to Collinsport after five years in jail? Was he seeking some personal revenge against the Collins clan? What dark secret was Jason McGuire lording over Elizabeth Collins? Why was young David Collins so afraid of his mother? Set all of this in a gigantic mansion on top of Widow's Hill, blend in a quirky mix of satellite characters with secrets of their own, play some haunting music, leave your audience in suspense at the end of each day and you have everything needed to whisk your audience away from the horrible realities of 1966 America. With the Vietnam War raging and racial discord commonplace on the early evening news, most viewers were ready to escape the reality of their own situations and involve themselves in the remote and foreboding problems of this troubled family whose own Pandora's box seemed far removed from the social revolution going on outside their front door.
As each of the mysteries began to come to light in Collinsport, the producers struggled to hold the interest of it steadily declining audience. The show needed something to give it the added dimension that would set it apart. According to Dan Curtis, Executive Producer of the series, ABC was ready to drop the show because of faltering ratings. Plagued by overall low ratings, ABC was always seeking a way to bolster its dismal ratings. So any program that showed signs of failing was offered up to the chopping block to make way for the next. Acting on a suggestion from his children, and desperate to save his brainchild, Curtis decided to give the series an extra dimension with the introduction of Josette Collins, a ghost from 1795 who had come back to trouble the present inhabitants of the Collinwood mansion. Immediately the show's ratings began to climb and Curtis figured he must be on to something.
One thing was certain, no other afternoon soap had even scratched the surface of this theme. Along with Josette Collins came the questions of who she was, where she came from and why she had come back to haunt Collinwood. These questions and many more would eventually be answered in the subsequent weeks and months that followed. Curtis decided to introduce another sinister element to the story. A vampire, Barnabas Collins, would be unceremoniously unearthed. Claiming to be a long-lost cousin from England, he would hang around for several episodes munching on lovely necks and then disappear in a puff of dust, victim of the bane of all vampires, the wooden stake. But then something phenomenal happened. The ratings skyrocketed. The reluctant and misunderstood monster was on his way to superstardom. Women and children all across America, the typical afternoon viewing audience of the time, were turning on and tuning in faithfully to see who Barnabas would claim as his next victim. Faced with the difficult situation of killing off the monster and disappointing the audience or further developing the vampire theme, Curtis opted for the latter. And with extraordinary results. Dark Shadows would eventually blossom into a most fruitful venture, spawning hundreds of spin-off products and building a tremendous fan following.
Acting on the obvious, Curtis developed the shy and reclusive vampire plot to include a possible cure for his vampirism, a 200 year old love story, attempts at recreating his long lost love via kidnapping, and traveling in time to rescue Victoria Winters from the clutches of the Massachusetts witch hunts. Later story arcs included several elements from the horror genre. Adam and Eve were both monsters created from corpses, expanding on the Frankenstein story. The Quentin Collins character, a ghost from 1897 who haunted David Collins and Amy Jennings, is reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw. The werewolf character of Chris Jennings is borrowed for the Wolfman themes of earlier Hollywood classics.
Working within the restraints of the live on tape format, with everything done in one take, Dark Shadows exhibited extraordinary and sometimes truly masterful use of costuming and special effects. Plot expanding trips into the past or future via tape cut and splice became commonplace. These excursions created the opportunity for actors killed off in earlier sequences to return in the guise of characters from another era, resplendent in period clothing of exceptional detail. Seances held in the old mansion were often visited by ghostly apparitions of quivering ectoplasm. Dream sequences hypnotised the viewing audience with colorful psychedelic spectacles superimposed over ethereal, fog filled fantasies. Individuals of normal appearance were transformed into hideous creatures of the netherworld.
Keeping up with the demanding schedule of a daily half-hour show was sometimes evident in a minor verbal blooper or misplaced stagehand. Microphone boom shadows helped the program live up to its name. In retrospect however, the ability of the troupe of actors who participated in the development of this everchanging panorama of gothic visualizations was particularly commendable, especially considering a new script every day, a brief and demanding rehearsal schedule or the fact that many of the actors often appeared in nearly all of a days taping.
Notable actors among the cast included Joan Bennett[?], Louis Edmonds[?], Thayer David[?], Grayson Hall[?], David Selby[?] and Kate Jackson[?]. During the past thirty years, Dark Shadows has developed a large and loyal fan following. This is due largely to the willingness of former cast members to participate in several gatherings each year, notably the Dark Shadows Festival[?] held alternately in California and New York and a Halloween fright fest centering around the mansion used in taping the stock outdoor footage.
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Thursday, 3:33 a.m. — 21-year-old man charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants on the 1200 block of Siskiyou Boulevard.
Thursday, 6:17 a.m. — Stolen motorcycle recovered at Takelma Way and Tolman Creek Road and returned to the owner.
Thursday, 12:44 p.m. — Bicycle reported stolen on the 200 block of Grant Street.
Thursday, 1:34 p.m. — Woman arrested on a warrant on the 1100 block of E. Main Street.
Thursday, 11:14 a.m. — Man taken into protective custody on the 1600 block of Siskiyou Boulevard and transported to detox.
Thursday, 3:06 p.m. —31-year-old man arrested on warrants on the 100 block of Winburn Way and lodged at the Jackson County Jail.
Thursday, 2:52 p.m. — Man charged with theft at Market of Choice on the 1400 block of Siskiyou Boulevard.
Thursday, 7:56 p.m. —27-year-old man arrested on a warrant on the first block of Lithia Way.
Friday, 1:39 a.m. —29-year-old man charged with interfering with a police officer on the 100 block of Will Dodge Way. Lodged at the Jackson County Jail.
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Department Overview
Mathematics is the study of structure and the way it can be applied to solve specific problems. The mathematics one sees in high school and the first year or so of college—techniques for solving equations, trigonometry, analytic geometry and calculus—represents only a small corner of the discipline. Some of the structures discussed in more advanced courses include algebraic systems such as groups and vector spaces, geometric notions such as surfaces, manifolds and topological spaces, and spaces of differentiable or integrable functions. Such structures are used to construct mathematical models that may explain and predict events in a wide variety of disciplines. Mathematics, a diverse field encompassing many subjects, has been with us since antiquity and is a pervasive force in our society. The major branches of mathematics—algebra, analysis, geometry, and logic in pure mathematics; applied analysis, combinatorics, probability and statistics, and operations research in applied mathematics—are well-represented among our faculty's research interests.
Curriculum Overview
As mathematics is both a technical and cultural field of study, the curriculum is planned with the following varied objectives: (1) to offer students an introduction to mathematics as an important area of human thought; (2) to prepare students for graduate study in pure or applied mathematics, and in such related fields as statistics and operations research; (3) to serve the needs of students in fields that rely substantially on mathematics, such as the physical, biological, social and information sciences, engineering, and business administration; and (4) to provide liberal arts students with an introduction to the kinds of mathematical and quantitative thinking important in the contemporary world. Students seeking guidance in the selection of courses are strongly urged to confer with a member of the department, all of whom are happy to be consulted.


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It's 'Later'
On Oct. 22, Apple told the world the iPad Air would be available for purchase on Nov. 1, only 10 days after its unveiling. Though the new iPad mini debuted on the same day, Apple told customers the smaller tablet would not be available until "later in November." Well, it looks like "later in November" actually meant Nov. 12, as Apple quietly began iPad mini sales via its online store early on Tuesday. Here are the nuts and bolts on Apple's latest tablet release, the new iPad mini.


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This series provides in-depth coverage of the top religion and ethics stories of the week as well as religious and ethical perspectives on domestic and foreign events and the arts. Hosted by veteran journalist Bob Abernethy, the series brings viewers breaking news through live and taped reports filed by a team of correspondents in the field and interviews with prominent newsmakers.
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Submission + - Assange wins another journalism award (crikey.com.au) 1
Pav writes: Julian Assange has won a Walkley award, the equivalent of a Pulitzer in his native Australia. This is separate from the Martha Gellhorn prize won earlier this year. The story is reported on crikey.com.au, a web magazine frequented by Australian journalists and political elites. Although the comments there will be waffling and long-winded perhaps they will also be interesting as an indicator of the mood in that world.


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Propagating a novel operating system (OS) can often be a frustrating chicken-vs-egg scenario, as many abandoned platforms and even current ones like Linux can demonstrate. An OS won't gain many converts without a reasonable stream of ready-made applications as well as the necessary ecosystem support (especially device drivers). In open source contexts, this is compounded by Digital Rights Management (DRM) and similar sticky, usually legal, bogeys.
Maintaining a compelling closed ecosystem, such as Apple has chosen with its various OS offerings, certainly goes a long way toward solving those hurdles. On the other hand, Google's breadth of services, brand recognition and sheer size have quickly carved out secure toeholds for the more open Android and undoubtedly Chrome OS. And there are already several well-established (although shrinking) platforms occupying the rest of the market slots… so where's the space for upstart MeeGo?
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IT ILS/Database Administrator
Department: Information Technology (IT)
Reports to: Coordinator of Information Technology
Salary Track: I-J
FLSA Status: Exempt
Acts as principal developer and designer for District's database and interactive systems, including ILS system (LISTEN2000) which is used in the daily operation of the library. Provide programming support for internal and third-party software applications. Evaluate possible plans of action and recommend proposed plans to IT coordinator. Analyze user specifications and requirements in order to determine scope and possible outcomes of actions. Encodes, tests, debugs, and documents programs on extremely complex projects.
Works independently on assignments with general instruction on results expected, recommending to IT Department Coordinator proposed plans for projects, and receiving guidance on unusual or complex issues. May serve as liaison with a variety of committees and organizations inside and outside the Library District system.
1. Performs the work of a turn-key system developer providing new products and features for the ILS.
2. Provides creative changes, enhancements, and "fixes" for the ILS system.
3. Analyze department needs, write programs to address needs, perform system tests and document application; communicate with user departments regarding software and hardware needs and concerns.
4. Write detailed flowcharts for programs and convert flowcharts to computer programs.
5. Test program adequacy and compile documentation on program development. Responsible for system-wide software maintenance and analyze, review, and modify programs to adapt to new requirements.
6. Confer with management to resolve questions of program intent and output requirements.
7. Maintain web-based user interface, telephony software used for reserve auto-calling and inter-system data transfers.
8. Determine the requirements for database software, ILS hardware, and other related upgrades.
9. Responsible for development and administration of Microsoft SQL Server databases used in conjunction with the district's ILS.
1. Act as lead person on large, complex projects, providing Programmer / Analyst(s) and others with direction and assistance.
2. Troubleshoot programming and equipment difficulties; correct or repair problems as requested.
3. Attend and participate in seminars, training and professional groups; stay abreast of new trends and developments in the field of computer programming.
4. Lifts IT equipment weighing up to 35 pounds; and accesses and connects cables/plugs on the floor, under desks, behind furniture, etc. as needed.
5. Perform other duties as assigned.
Desktop and laptop computers, printers, laser scanners and other computer and electronic equipment used for District communications, as well as District delivery van.
Must have strong communication skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team. Must hold a BA/BS in a related field. (Under exceptional circumstances, relevant experience or training may be substituted for degree requirement.) Requires 2-4 years relevant professional experience or equivalent education. Must have experience in a three-tier architecture utilizing COM/DCOM and SQL Server databases. Knowledge of Visual Basic 6.0, VB.NET, C, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, IIS, HTML, XML and relational databases such as Microsoft SQL server required. Experience in database administration and Microsoft network and desktop environments required.
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Signed and embossed limited edition print on 420mm x 420mm 350 gsm Hahnemühle Museum Etching fine art paper.
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Indexes subjects in the applied social sciences including mental health services, social work, and substance abuse. (Content from Applied Science & Technology (formerly owned by Wilson) is now part of this database.)
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375 hours of videos of dramatized consultations, counseling sessions, and scenes, as well as documentaries, interviews and lectures
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The most comprehensive index and access to materials in psychology articles and books. Coverage from 1887 to the present.Alternate access via library barcode
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Multidisciplinary index to research journals in the social sciences. 1900 to present.
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"I'm always optimistic, so that's scary. But, you know, our starting pitching is going to be a work in progress. I feel good with our bullpen, and I think we are going to be good offensively," Monfort said over the weekend. "I was good with it last year, too, and we lost 98 games. So, we'll see."
The Rockies open their 21st season, looking to avoid consecutive last-place division finishes for the first time in team history. Colorado is counting on the health of today's starter Jhoulys Chacin, Jorge De La Rosa and Juan Nicasio to improve a rotation that was baseball's worst statistically a year ago.
Getting full seasons from shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, who was limited to 47 games a year ago because of repeated left groin issues, Michael Cuddyer and Todd Helton is also paramount. Tulowitzki's absence affected all-star Carlos Gonzalez's second half performance, the outfielder admitted, and contributed to an overall dismal team defensive season.
"I want to see how we will do without all of the injuries," Monfort said. "I'm excited to see how we do."
In the latest Las Vegas odds, the Rockies are predicted to finish last with 71.5 wins. The Dodgers (90.5) are the favorites followed by defending World Series champion San Francisco (87.5), the Diamondbacks (81.5) and Padres (74.5).
Here we go again
When told there should have been a home plate ceremony last Thursday at Salt River Fields for potentially his last spring training game, Helton bristled. He doesn't want any extra attention for his what is expected to be his final season.
His numbers will demand notice. Helton will start his 16th consecutive opening day, the longest active streak in the big leagues, and also a franchise record.
The first baseman, who finished with the exhibition season with a home run and double in Saturday's loss to the Mariners, is one of only eight players to appear in 1,000 games to own a .320 average and .410 on-base percentage -- a list that includes Babe Ruth and Ted Williams.
Relief support
Manager Walt Weiss believes his final four relievers -- Rafael Betancourt, Wilton Lopez, Matt Belisle and Rex Brothers -- can match up with anyone. However, for their outs to matter the middlemen must build a bridge. That group includes Adam Ottavino, who is wearing No. 0, Edgmer Escalona and Chris Volstad, who beat out Manny Corpas for the final roster spot.
"Ottavino's a big-arm guy, his stuff is real good. Escalona is another big-arm guy who's got electric stuff," Weiss said. "And Volstad really embraced (the transition from starter to reliever). He did everything we asked."


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Deal was unanimously appointed to replace Arthur Lloyd, who announced his retirement from the Caltrain Board of Directors in March and will sit on the six-person board.
The TJPA is in charge of the development of the transit center in San Francisco, which is slated to one day serve Caltrain's new electrified trains and future high-speed rail service. Construction on the center, located on Mission Street in downtown San Francisco, began in 2011 and is scheduled to be completed by 2017.
"I'm extremely excited about the opportunity to serve on the TJPA," said Deal, who is also a member of the Burlingame City Council. "The Transbay Transit Center Project will one day act as a vital connection point for local, regional and state transportation networks."


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Weasel Reader is an e-text reader for Palm OS. It is geared towards reading Project Gutenberg e-texts, but will work on any ASCII file. It uses zlib for compression, resulting in good file sizes, an important consideration for Palms. Weasel reads both zTXT (its own format) and PalmDoc files. It includes features such as bookmarks, annotations, categorization, searching, beaming, VFS access, and many display options. Also included is makeztxt, a command line program to generate zTXT databases. makeztxt supports regular expressions to automatically generate a list of bookmarks. Java and Perl/PHP versions of makeztxt are also available.
FBReader is an e-book reader. It currently works on the Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia Internet Tablet (Maemo platform), Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780/A1200 smartphones, PepperPad 3, Asus Eee PC, IRex iLiad, UMPC, and desktop computers running Linux, Windows XP/Vista, or FreeBSD. It supports several e-book formats: epub, plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, CHM, fb2, TCR (psion text), OEB, OpenReader, RTF, non-DRM'ed Mobipocket, and plain text.
jbookshelf is an electronic book collection organizer and reader. It supports collecting plain files (text, HTML, PDF, etc.), has basic collection search, fulltext collection search (planned), internal viewers for plain text, HTML, RTF, and PDF, notes and citations, book categories, FB2 support (planned), and portability (removable drives support) (planned).
Wikipedia4epub is a set of commands that constructs an offline e-book from articles on Wikipedia in EPUB format. There are commands to create an EPUB book from the articles from Firefox history file, or create an EPUB book from the given article and its children. It is useful for people with offline e-book readers.
Page Number Saver (PNS) is an application designed to help book or e-book readers save their page numbers. It does this with an interactive console-based menu. The future of the project from this point is first a simple GUI, then a customized one, then version 1.0 will be a PDF reader.
PdfMasher is a tool to convert PDF files containing text into a ready-for-ebook set of HTML files. Most ebook readers support PDF files natively, but it's often a real pain to read those documents because you can't control the font size of the document and have to resort to the zooming feature instead. Another drawback of PDFs on ebook readers is that annotations are not supported. Unlike other tools that convert PDFs to ebooks, PdfMasher does not try to guess the role of each piece of text in the PDF, and instead asks the user about the role of each piece of text, and does so in an efficient manner.
Book Manager is intended to provide a simple interface to manage a collection of e-books. Users can also view their e-books, as well as many other files in tabs. With the collection disabled, Book Manager can also be used as a tab-supporting shell for the popular KDE PDF reader Okular.
eBook parser library is a Java library designed to handle the epub and fb2 e-book file formats. It retrieves information such as title, author, genre, series title, etc, and can be used to process or organize databases of large numbers of e-books, where speed is essential. To maintain speed, it does not extract all content from the e-book or check the structure for errors.
Klen-library is a program for creating electronic books. It consists of three modules, for editing books, reading books, and creating tests. It offers password protection of every book and the editing mode. The print function makes it self-sufficient, as it allows creation of books without using third-party text editors. It uses SQLite, so you don't have to install a database server. It can export to the XWB, HTML, TXT, PDF, PostScript, and RTF formats, and can import from XWB, HTML, and TXT.
A simple WebDAV 1.0 server.
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MAC Viva Glam Rihanna
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MAC has released a huge, very Spring-worthy collection consisting of beautiful pastels, and vivid pops of color, alike. This collection consists of 6 lipsticks, 6 Cremesheen Glass, 4 Mineralize Eye Shadows, 4 Pigments, 2 Fluidlines, Haute and Naughty Lash mascara, 2 Mineralize Skinfinish, 2 Mineralize Blush, 4 Nail Lacquers, and 3 Brushes.
*Keep in mind, I do not have the entire collection... These are just the shades MAC was kind enough to share with us!
These lip colors are right up my alley. While there are other beautiful ones in the collection, I think these are ones I'd really wear. The nude shades are obviously beautiful (and, hello... Nectarsweet is the most gorgeous Cremesheen Glass I've ever owned), but my biggest surprise was how beautifully wearable the Heavenly Hybrid is. It looks like it would be dark and fairly intense, but the lustre formula makes for a shiny and more sheer application.
Stereo Rose MSF is one of those re-promoted colors from previous collection that is talked about often. I totally get the hype. It's beautiful. While it's a bit too frosted for me to use completely on it's own as a cheek color, I see myself using this lightly over other blushes to give it a nice glowing finish.
The Petal Power blush is SUPER pigmented and gorgeously bright. It reminds me of NARS Orgasm, but brighter with a bit more frost. This color will look crazy-good on darker skin tones.
While you all know I've never been a huge fan of the Mineralize Eye Shadows, I have to say that these swatched beautifully. I also love a good group of purple shadows. Great Beyond is honestly the best Mineralize shadow I've ever had. Can't wait to use it more!
If you love bright colors, you should definitely check out the pigments in this collection! Crazy beautiful colors, also including a bright yellow, bright violet-purple, and a gorgeous lavender-pink.
Hope this helps those of you that wanted a few more details about these before you purchase! They're available online now and in stores.
Don't miss the other two MAC collections posted here today, linked at the top of the post!
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