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• 3-D printing technology has already made appearances in surprising places, and experimentation suggests future uses could be even stranger:
• Students at Washington State University last fall demonstrated that 3-D printing could be used to turn lunar soil into print replacement tools for astronauts.
• One of the silver Aston Martin DB-5 sports cars use (and destroyed) in the latest James Bond film, "Skyfall," was actually a 3-D printed replica.
• As early as 2011, scientists "bio-printed" cartilage and a silicon "ear."
• Bespoke Innovations in San Francisco specializes in 3-D printing custom prosthetic limbs.
• Last July, engineers 3-D printed a race car called Areion that could do 0-60 in four seconds and entered it in the Formula Student 2012 challenge.
The MakerBot Replicator 2 desktop 3-D printer in Company Lab's office builds a nut and bolt out of thermoplastic. The printer head heats a spool of the plastic until it melts then deposits it in layers onto a build platform. Following a pattern guided by a nearby computer, the platform lowers by fractions of an inch as each successive layer is completed.
Last year, 3-D printing technology came under fire from after Defense Distributed, a Texas-based open-source non-profit, announced its intention to create Wiki Weapon, a 3-D printable firearm.
In an introductory video on the organization's website, Defense Distributed founder and University of Texas law student Cody R. Wilson says the group intends to perfect the design and upload the schematic to the Internet. There, he says, it can be downloaded for free and manufactured by anyone with a 3-D printer.
"Defense Distributed's goal isn't really personal armament. It's more the liberation of information," he says. "As the printing press revolutionized literacy, 3-D printing is in its moment. ... When a 3-D printer can, in theory, be anywhere, so also anything can be produced anywhere.
"Anywhere there's a computer, there's a weapon."
After crowd-funding site Indiegogo.com ended Defense Distributed's campaign to raise $20,000 to fund its work, the project eventually was funded through donations to its own site in September. Defense Distributed has yet to print off a working prototype, but the group has uploaded videos of successful test firing of 3-D printed magazines for assault rifles.
When people see Mike Bradshaw's 3-D printer in action for the first time, there's usually a rush of in-drawn breath followed by an astonished silence.
Guided by a computer, the print head seems to vibrate as it traces intricate patterns, depositing layers of melted plastic as thin as spun spider silk. At first, the project -- a chess piece, screw or an almost endless variety of other objects -- looks like a formless puddle, but as time passes and the printer's platform descends by increments, it begins to take shape.
Then come the inevitable questions: How does it work? What can it make? Where can I get one?
In Chattanooga, those questions are being answered by a growing community of 3-D printing fans and early adopters of the technology such as Bradshaw, the entrepreneur-in-residence at Company Lab -- or CoLab -- a local small business accelerator.
In late January, Bradshaw installed a MakerBot Replicator 2 in CoLab's Main Street lobby. People's giddy astonishment at the device, he says, is proof that, after decades of being the province of do-it-yourself hobbyists who built their own printers and major manufacturers who bought them for tens of thousands of dollars -- sometimes hundreds of thousands -- 3-D printing has hit the mainstream, with prices dropping as low as about $1,000.
"This is getting real and accessible, and people are starting to understand it," Bradshaw says. "This is when we can get one of these things, put them out here and watch people's eyes get wide."
Layer by layer
Like its 2-D counterpart, 3-D printing begins with a computer file. The blueprint for the finished product starts as a virtual model that the software slices into cross-sections and transmits to the printer. The printer then applies these layers atop each other and binds them together to create an identical replica of the virtual model.
The processes and materials involved vary. Some use UV light to selectively harden a liquid resin. Others, such as the Replicator, melt and extrude metal alloys, wax or plastic from coiled filaments. Spools of the thermal plastics used by these devices currently are available on Amazon.com for $30 to $50 per kilogram.
Some printers have been modified to print using a range of materials, from cement and silicone to cake frosting and cheese. The CandyFab 4000 applies hot air to a bed of low-melting-point materials and can even be filled with granulated sugar to craft edible objects from caramel.
Printing times range from 15 minutes to several hours. Some printers and print methods are faster than others, but generally, the larger and more solid an object is, the longer it will take to complete.
Modern 3-D printing is the brainchild of inventor Charles Hull, who in the mid-'80s developed stereolithography, a process for replicating solid objects from designs stored on a computer. For decades, however, the users of 3-D printers have been a study in extremes.
At the high end were expensive printers that primarily were used for rapid prototyping by manufacturers and universities. On the other end of the spectrum was a devoted community of home-brew builders who designed low-cost, Frankenstein-like machines assembled using plans they shared online. Parts for these machines often could be acquired for $1,000 or less, but the tradeoff was the quality construction and official tech support offered on high-end devices.
In the past three years, however, companies have begun introducing relatively inexpensive, easy-to-construct kits such as MakerBot's Cupcake and MakerGear Prusa 3D. These have been followed most recently by a wave of desktop-size 3-D printers that require no assembly and are designed to work right out of the box. Greater ease of use, plug-and-print functionality and lower sticker prices have resulted in an upswing in 3-D printer sales and popularity in the last two years.
The 3-D economy
In a study released in October, the Consumer Electronics Association named 3-D printing one of five technology trends to watch. According to the study, about 23,000 personal 3-D printers were sold in 2011 at an average cost of $1,132.
That year, the 3-D printing market was worth $1.9 billion, about 290 percent more than in 2010. By 2019, 3-D printing could triple in value to more than $6 billion, according to CEA forecasts.
With the barrier to entry so low, the time is ripe for the public to embrace 3-D printing, says Tim Youngblood, a local developer and business consultant. After watching the industry grow for years, Youngblood says he was convinced to buy his MakerBot Replicator last spring, when the price dipped below $2,000.
If 3-D printing continues to grow in popularity, Youngblood says, its impact could be as revolutionary as echo the micro-processing revolution of the '80s that made PCs a household fixture.
"To see [3-D printing] work and happen and then hold something in your hand ... really is a liberating moment," he says. "You can see the wheels turning in people's heads. "It's a new way of thinking about how we make things, and it's a technology that is going to be extremely disruptive over the next few decades."
The ability to print almost any object raises inherent questions about the sanctity of intellectual property. On the online schematic library Thingiverse, for instance, models are available for functional LEGO blocks, pieces for the "Settlers of Catan" board game and replicas of Star Wars characters. The terms of use agreements for most virtual 3-D printing storefronts, however, have clauses prohibiting the upload of copyrighted content.
What's next
Some companies have taken advantage of 3-D printing to set themselves up as micro-manufacturers.
In contrast to traditional production methods, in which products are produced on a massive scale to please a large audience, 3-D printing's proponents say the technology has led to the advent of small-scale production of hyper-customizable goods.
Last summer, Ooltewah resident Willie Spurgeon bought a MakerBot Replicator and established Chattanooga 3-D Printing with his friend, Shane Burrow. Spurgeon owns a sign company, but he says he wanted to build a second company around contracting out the printer to create cheap prototypes for area businesses.
So far, however, being one of the first companies in the area to offer the services of a 3-D printer has been a double-edged sword.
"Most people can't fathom it," he says. "It's almost like 'The Jetsons'-type stuff, futuristic stuff that wasn't supposed to happen yet."
Stimulating thought about that potential is why Bradshaw decided to install the MakerBot in the middle of CoLab's lobby where everyone could see it.
"Our mission in this and the reason I thought this was a good place for this to land is to stimulate people's thoughts about a forward-looking technology," he says.
Uses for the technology are becoming increasingly diverse. In October, the 3D Print Show in London showcased a collection of 3-D items that included the world's first 3-D printed bikini, 3-D printed shoes, guitars and replicas of Egyptian mummies.
"Walking around the show today, you can literally see the birth of a revolution," says futurist and video blogger Christopher Barnatt in a video for his website, ExplainingTheFuture.com.
Encouraging interest in 3-D printing and preparing people with the skills to participate in an economy driven by the technology is a key goal of the downtown library, says Meg Backus, the systems administrator for the Public Library system.
Backus says the plan is to install at least one 3-D printer as part of an effort to turn the library's now-empty fourth floor into a "big creation lab." What people do with it is up to them, but the goal is to familiarize them with the technology, she says.
"The whole idea of the 3-D printer is whiz-pop, cool technology, but the underlying principle of it is that it democratizes manufacturing," she says. "The biggest thing right now is just getting the technology accessible so people can start learning to design things for it on the computer."
On March 16, CoLab, the library and other local organizations will collaboratively host a meet-up for local 3-D printers and have begun discussions to organize a "Maker Fair" for spring 2014 to showcase the work of local 3-D printers.
At the moment, 3-D printing may be flying mostly under the radar, but Bradshaw says that's changing with every printed object he puts in someone's hands.
"When I print one of these things and give them to someone, I call them 'souvenirs from the future,'" Bradshaw says. "It literally gives me chills to think ... that whole Star Trek-y thing is coming onto the page right now, right in front of our eyes."


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The former controller and chief financial officer of an entertainment group that owns and operates restaurants and nightclubs at Foxwoods Resort Casino pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling funds from her employer.
Lynn A. Scheufler, 35, formerly Woodstock and currently of Vermont, pleaded guilty to one count of illegally structuring financial transactions as part of an illegal activity of stealing at least $400,000.
Scheufler was the controller and CFO of Big Night Entertainment Group of Boston, which operates three venues at Foxwoods: Shrine Asian Kitchen Lounge and Nightclub, Scorpion Bar, and High Rollers Luxury Lanes and Lounge.
As CFO, Scheufler was responsible for all aspects of the company's finances, including using cash proceeds from the business that had been placed into nightly deposit bags to fill ATM machines in the company's venues.
She is accused of taking cash out of the deposit bags and making unauthorized withdrawals using the company's ATM cards. She concealed the thefts by misstating or altering the company's books and records, according to the government.
The government said that Scheufler, with the assistance of her then boyfriend and now husband, Craig L. Galligan, deposited at least $400,000 in stolen cash into their personal accounts. They made the deposits in increments smaller than $10,000 to avoid triggering bank reporting requirements.
Galligan, 42, pleaded guilty in August to one count of conspiracy to structure financial transactions. He awaits sentencing.
Both Scheufler and Galligan were arrested Oct. 10, 2012, and are currently out on bond.
The matter is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael S. McGarry.
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Jesus prophesied Islam. Prophecy of Jesus
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JESUS PROPHESIED ISLAM / PROPHET MOHAMMED (peace be upon him) AND TOLD ABOUT "PEOPLE OF THE BOOK"-RELIGIONS (in Qur´an 600 years later!), AND TIME-SCHEDULE OF THOSE, AND TOLD ORDER OF THOSE RELIGIONS WITH DESCRIPTIONS: (Allah knows best)
(These two "hidden prophecy" are connected to Luke.5:36-39, why new religion is necessary instead of change of old religions.)
1 "hour" = approx. 200 hundred years, from Abraham/Jacob 1800-1700 BC (and so Jewish-religion 1600 BC->) to Islam 632 AC = 2400 years / 12 hours = 200 years
Matt.20:1. "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner (God) who went (send prophets) out early in the morning (before "first hour" of 12 hours of day in Jewish calendar, so Abraham/Jacob 1800-1700 BC and Jews as a religion after them in "first hour" 1600-1400 BC) to hire men (believers) to work (for His glory) in his vineyard (Earth). 2. He agreed to pay them a denarius (paradise) for the day (world history) and sent them into his vineyard.
3. "ABOUT the third hour (1300/1200-1100 BC Sabians / Zarathustrians, even in Bible there is two "Sabians" in opposite directions, another possibly in [DIRECTION OF] South-Iraq) he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing (Judaism had not spread much outside their own Jewish nation). 4.He told them, 'You also (besides Judaism) go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' 5. So they went.
"He went out again ABOUT the sixth hour (600 BC beginning of prophecies about Messiah) and the ninth hour (around 1 AC Jesus were born) and did the same thing (created Christians and Christianity, notice simple and short description as Jesus is speaking about religion most connected to himself).
6. ABOUT (not exactly 400-600 or 500-700 AC, depending on calculation of two first group of workers) the eleventh hour (Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him: 570-632 AC) he went out (send prophet) and found still others (Arabs) standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing (Arabs had not had religions through prophets, only polytheism-paganism)?'
7. "
'Because no one has hired us (Arabs were so despised that even
8. "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages (what they deserve), beginning with the last ones hired (Muslims) and going on to the first (Jews).'
9. "The workers (Muslims) who were hired about the eleventh hour (400-600 or 500-700 AC, depending from calculation of two first group of workers) came and each received a denarius. 10. So when those came who were hired first (Jews), they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner (God). 12. 'These men who were hired last (Muslims) worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day (exiles, slavery, occupations, persecutions).'
13. "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? 14. Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous (you want to keep God for your nation only, as a "chosen people")?'
16. "So the last (Muslims) will be first, and the first (Jews) will be last."
[Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, said that even though he was last of prophets, and Muslims are last of believers, they will be first to enter paradise, "last will be first"]
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1 "year" = approx. 600 years, from Abraham / Jacob 1800/1700 (and so later Jews) to Islam 632 AC = 2400 years / 4 "year" = 600 years
Then he told this parable: "A master (God) had a fig tree (symbol of
8. "
'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one (1*600) more year(s), and
I'll dig around it and fertilize it (make world ready for Islam, also in
Middle-East, "around"
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MY CALCULATIONS IN Matt.20:1-16
There is no mentioning if workers came in what part of each "hour"
("about") 11th = 400-600 AC, Islam 570-632AC (to beginning of 12th)
10th = 200-400 AC
9th = 1 AC-200 AC (Christianity 32 AC ->)
8th = 200 BC- 1 AD
7th = 400 BC-200 BC
6th = 600 BC-400 BC (Messiah prophesied)
5th = 800 BC-600 BC
4th = 1000 BC- 800 BC
3th = 1200-1000 BC (Sabians / Zarathustrians)
2nd = 1400 BC-1200 BC
1st = 1600 BC-1400 BC (Early Jews)
"0-hour" = 1800 BC-1600 BC. ("Early in the morning he went", not actually INSIDE first hour, Jewish religion was practically born only after Jacob etc. in 1600 BC-1400 BC)
Well, Jesus did not go to practice math in schools. This is not math-exam, but for people to understand some idea. And maybe he being just a human, who makes errors and has somewhat limited knowledge, is reason also to why there is least "error-marginal" (+ - inside 200 years) in places of parallel connected to himself and Christianity.
MY CALCULATIONS IN Luke 13:6-9
Israel AS AN OFFICIAL STATE (even though part of Rome and so not state) was
"cut down" 70 AC, but Jewish religion and its sect Christianity did
not "expire" as a (right) religions before Islam came 600 years after
Jesus (Jesus 32 AC - Mohammed 632 AC) from point of Islam.
Could be said that after "Tree of Judaism was cut down" according to Jesus, he became only a prophet of Muslims, and so now he (with Bible) is kind of "mole/spy" of Islam in areas where Islam was not to be spread so much (as Islam was in India or China for example already 1000 years ago, where Christians are only a recently born minority). All those Christian areas / populations are under "hidden" power of Islam through Jesus and Bible now (there is in hadiths prophecy of prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, that he saw power of Islam stretching from west to east in the future).
More questions for Christians refusing this interpretation:
Some would say that verses in Matt.20:1-16 question actually point to divine generosity that transcends human ideas of fairness. Yes it can do that TOO (although first group complaining about payment because of extra-work and master getting furious about it does not really support it), but it is far more complex and long for that alone. It would have just been easy to say that master gives denar for workers, and that's it.
Most popular Christian interpretation is that here Jesus told how disciples were hired in "early in the morning" and in "third" hour as apostles (it does not make sense at all, as all disciples were "hired" at once by Jesus, not in two time periods, and why would apostles be unhappy about later Christians entering also paradise, even before them, as they were one to convert them?), and that from "sixth" to "ninth" hour is about apostle Paul (again, why it would have been said to happen between these two time-periods, and not just in one?), and that in last hour is talked about all later Christians (who will come "first even though they were last", why would they enter paradise before apostles that were chosen by Jesus himself, and especially why would apostles go mad about them going one second before them into paradise, as all mentioned in parallel are saved anyway?).
Some say this Luke.13:6-9 is just numerical games. So tell me more reasonable and as compatible explanation. Fig tree is symbol of Judaism generally in Bible. Also when Jesus cursed fig tree in Matt.21:19 by words "may no fruit ever come from you again", he probably stated that no more prophets are going to come from Jews. What else could it be? And why time schedules fits so well in both of these religions, did Jesus not know about coming of Islam or did he not care how these will look in the future? Did he not care about souls lost because of this interpretation?
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Luke.12:51-52 "Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division; for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three."
So house of Abraham is divided because of different beliefs about position of Jesus, mainly into 3 Christian religions (Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants) and into two Islamic religions (Sunni and Shiite). And it has NOT been denied that these could battle even with other sects among themselves, but most commonly conflicts have happened between Islam and Christianity.
Christians say this is about sacrifice inside real families (as in elsewhere in
Gospels there is used words as "mother against daughter" in similar
parallel) in case of "conversions" to another religions. Otherwise
good explanation (in fact differences / similarities between
"household" and f.ex. "daughter" can be seen to tell us
about comparation between households and relationship with followers of other
religions), but there has not been much such controversy and diversity in
Christian-countries since emperor of Rome declared Christianity as only allowed
religion. After that invaded areas in
Matt.12:26-27 Jesus told us that Islam can not be from satan, as it directs worshipping and bowing to God of Abraham, reason why satan fall from heaven, and so would never tell to do so. Even Jesus spoke about God of Abraham, about "Father", not about Jehovah for example. Why? And "I am truth, way, and life" does not mean Jesus was a god, but a prophet who did teach TRUTH in monotheistic teaching about one God (f.ex. Mark.12:29 and Luke.4:8), who gave us WAY and example in worshipping on knees face to ground (Matt.26:39) and being totally submitting to God, and all this will give LIFE (comfort and paradise). All Muslims have to believe in Jesus TOO to be a Muslim: as Jesus said, no Muslim will be saved but through (ALSO) him (as by believing into all prophets, as demanded in Islam).
Matt.21:43 "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."
As Jesus told (to ALL people who were there, so "Christians", his followers, also, not just to priests, who even might not be there then anymore, but maybe left him after he answered theirs question much earlier), Jews (and its sect Christianity as it is based only to Jewish nation) lost kingdom of God when it was given to Arabs, ONE nation (Christianity is not based on other single nation but Jews).
More debate about this:
DEBATE: http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64807&page=3 &pp=20
Here Jesus announced that He has been send to direct those few chosen (usually) Christians by Bible to Islam and eventually to Muslim-countries:
John.10:16 "I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen (offspring of Ishmael, not Isaac-Jewish). I must bring them also (Jesus in Qur´an and monotheism/prophecies in Bible). They too will listen to my voice (same message), and there shall be one flock and one shepherd (monotheistic believers and prophets teaching about one God, now only Islam)."
Matt.18:12-14 "What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the MOUNTAINS and go and search for the one that is straying? If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. In the same way, my Father in heaven does not want one of these little children to be lost."
Luke.15:4-7 "What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the DESERT (open pasture) and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbours, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost! I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. "
Here words
(leaving other sheep's at SAFELY HOME in) "MOUNTAINS" and
"DESERT" describe general nature / climate in Muslim-countries near
Christian countries ( =
Some Christians may say that these are Christians who are "directed to home by death of Jesus", but here Jesus confirmed that if Christians (99+1 sheep's) are in "true religion", then he did not come for them in general, to save them all, as he described his followers as sheep's (he even said that there is "other" sheep's in his followers). So he came for (future) Muslims (that +1):
Matt.9:12-13 "But when Jesus heard this, He said, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are SICK. But go and learn what this means: 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Luke.9:56 "for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them."
So Jesus
WAS (prophesied) king (of Jews and
"He answered, ´A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.´
Jesus was understood to be dead by all but God as he said that he will be "gone", so "dead" for disciples f.ex., and so came true prophecy about his "death" (human-view), and also words of Qur´an about him not dying into crucifixion by Jews (what Allah knows), see my writing in http://www.angelfire.com/planet/crucifixion. So in fact Jesus gave for some part of people in the World "postponed" / "delayed" judgment as a "people without knowledge" (like illiterate people dictated by church and interpretations of priests about Bible, translations from Qur´an came for Christians mostly in modern times with immigration of Muslims, and now that and everything else about Islam f.ex. by internet), until Islam and knowledge reached them too (immigration of Muslims into Christian countries is accepted also because even Jesus immigrated too and told to "invite others in", as Christians think that they can convert Muslims into Christianity easier in Christian countries).
There is reason for existence of Christianity, and there is reason why Jesus is coming back: To direct his "own" back into Truth again. Over 50% of world population are either Christians or Muslims, and only real difference between them is dispute about position of Jesus. In Africa 50% of population are Muslims, in Asia 33%, over there lives most poor people, and even Jesus and Qur´an both told that some have their share in this life, and some in next life (and some in both). Could be said that after "Tree of Judaism was cut down" according to Jesus, he became only a prophet of Muslims, and so now he (with Bible) is kind of "mole/spy" of Islam in areas where Islam was not to be spread so much (as it was already 1000 years ago in India or China for example, where Christians are just arrived minority). All those Christian areas / populations are under "hidden" power of Islam through Jesus now (there is in hadiths prophecy of Mohammed, peace be upon him, that he saw power of Islam stretching from west to east in the future).
Matt.22:45 "If then David calls him 'Lord,' how can he (Jesus) be his son?"
Here only possibility could be that spirit of Jesus were born before David, and so Jesus was in "high rank" compared to David (Jesus is most mentioned prophet in Qur´an). Idea about Jesus being son of David, from descent of David, contradicts and refutes idea about actual "son of God", as if Jesus had no human father, then he did not have genetically background in David who was relative of Joseph. So why would God be his genetic father then, if even David was not? So Jesus confirmed his saying that he was created (in heavens) before Abraham, and that he is "son of God", prophet, as Jews understood it (look at link "Jesus warned about Paul" http://www.angelfire.com/moon2/koran/index.blog?topic_id=102 1117 ) , as Jesus was a Jew too. But not actual biological son of Allah...
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Since this is a recursive algorithm and I tend to post material about parallel algorithms, I asked myself the question: "Can the Tower of Hanoi puzzle be solved in parallel?" If I'm physically moving pegs, then the answer is "No." Even with a myriad of multi-tasking monks making many masterly moves, the 64-disk puzzle cannot have more than one disk moved at a time. Even if I'm just printing out instructions, the order of printing is going to be a serial constraint to get the correct answer. Undaunted, I used Intel Cilk Plus and simply prefixed the recursive calls to
tower() with the
cilk_spawn keyword. The first output I got from running the parallel code on a two-core (four-thread) system solving the 3-disk puzzle was:
Moving 3 pegs from A to C Move from A to C Move from A to C Move from B to A Move from B to C Move from A to C Move from A to B Move from C to B
It's easy to determine that this is an erroneous output. The first two moves violate the disk order constraint, the third move is impossible since no disk has been previously moved to peg
B, and the final move doesn't put the last disk moved on the final destination peg. So, there are some obvious ordering issues between tasks and threads. Solving those issues with some kind of synchronization will just serialize the whole execution and the total time would be longer than the serial time due to all the overhead for spawning and managing tasks.
What if I knew or could compute, in advance, where a print statement was going to fall within the overall output stream? In that case, I could simply store the puzzle solution steps in an array at the proper position to be printed when computation has completed or when all elements in lower indexed positions have been filled and output. Luckily, with the Tower of Hanoi, I can compute where each and every executed output statement will fall within the entire output results; and I can do that computation independently of any other computation or other output.
As with all other recursive examples I've written about, you can visualize the solution moves of the Tower of Hanoi organized as a tree. It will be a perfect binary tree where each node is a move of one disk from a source peg to a destination peg. The left child of a non-leaf node is the tree solving the first recursive call, while the right child is the tree solving the second recursive call. Now, with this binary tree in your mind's eye, what algorithm does the
tower() code above suggest? Did you think of inorder traversal (i.e., process left subtree, process node, process right subtree)?
Do we know the minimum number nodes needed in the Tower of Hanoi tree for a given number of disks,
D? Yes, there will be (2**
D) – 1. (See Section 1.1 of Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik for a derivation of this limit.) For 2 disks, there will be 3 moves; for 3 disks, we have 7 moves; for 64 disks, it works out to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 moves. (Note: if Lucas's monks could move 1 disk per second, they will need almost 5,845,420,461 centuries to complete the task. Regardless of when you think the universe started, I'd say we have quite a few more years. Take that Mayan calendar!) Thus, to hold all nodes of the solution tree, we simply allocate an array of size 2**
How can you encode a binary tree (a 2D object) in an array (a 1D object)? One way is to use a scheme analogous to the heap data structure. The data in the heap is held in an array as a complete binary tree (with the heap property enforced at each node on the tree). The root of the tree is in index position [1]. The left child of the node at index [n] will be in the [2n] indexed element and the right child will be in the [2n+1] indexed element. If we add a parameter to the
tower() function for the index of the current node of the Tower of Hanoi tree, we can use that to store the move of that node rather than print out a message. The indices of the child trees are easily calculated and would be used as parameters to the recursive calls and tasks generated to execute those calls. Once all the recursive tasks have concluded, simply do a serial inorder traversal of the tree held in the array, printing out the moves, to complete the computation.


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|The Life and Times of Jim
|Hi, there. I'm Jim. Welcome to my phlog!
This site was written for Las Vegas, then LouisVille. Now, it seems to be about anywhere. In these phlogs, you'll see a lot of my personal notes and pictures. I like to post my observations here to remember life and celebrate it. I'm not religious. I don't pray for good fortune. I'm ecstatically grateful for the gift of life and I think our time should be remembered and not taken for granted. I'm not a writer. I think pictures tell stories so much better than words. I love just about everything in this life, and, I guess that would have to include you. So, if you've seen me, don't be surprised if your picture is in here somewhere. Of all the critters, people are absolutely the most interesting.
03/26/2009 18:20:46jim Life as always is good
As I was working with a fellow Support person (in training) today, a problem came up. We used my new Support Menu to check it out, which resolved the problem quick.
That was cool.
Also, his boss borrowed my electric cigarette to show other people.
He's all enthused. I told him, hey, you have an S-Corp in PA, I have one in NV, I also have the paper work, Lets market this thing!!!
I know I've when I've seen something good, and my electric cigarette is one of my latest gadgets.
Its pretty much unknown to the US, and there is no marketting for it yet. So, we could be on the ground floor.
On the other hand, I really like the way things are now. I wonder what I'd be if I had a lot of money.
We could get rich off of this thing...we're both go-getters as the term used to go. But...
Someone has to turn on the ignition and take the wheel.
03/26/2009 17:29:54jim Cranberry BarLouie-20090326
03/25/2009 19:13:37jim We hooked up with a Singles Group..
Now its not like you think!!!
These are professionals like myself, who are temporarily displaced here in Pittsburgh, and they all are both attractive, and nice or either or neither :^).
We went to an Irish Pub in Cranberry, where they had happy hour AND appetizers for $6 between 5pm and 7pm.
We got 6 stuffed mushrooms that were as big as my foot, and burgers as big as my head!!!
We had a lot of fun.
In other news, we just saw Las Vegas on national news
They were talking about people torching their cars for the insurance, however, I'd swear I've got pictures of the car and truck they were hauling off of Lake Mead Blvd near the lake. I took them over a year ago. I thought it was so interesting, I walked from the road down through a gulch to get to them...
Makes me want to say hmmmmmm about what we see on the news.
03/24/2009 19:10:59jim Pittsburgh MullaneyPub-20090324
Mullaney's is an Irish Pub
We've got a good group at my job site. Becky and I got together with two of my coworkers, to see/learn Ceilee dancing (bad spelling). We had fun, and the dancing lessons were interesting. My ears are still ringing from fiddlers tunes though.
I think it might have been happy hour for senior citizens when we got there. It sure made me feel younger! Oh Yea!!!
03/22/2009 21:11:01jim A good weekend - Its SPRING!
We went to Erie, Pa. Watched the sunset over Lake Erie. Hung out and at a local pub off of the lake. Drove around downtown.
We talked to Sonny almost the whole hour and a half back to Wexford on the Truck Phone. That was great.
Coming back through Cranberry, Pa, it was all lit up, and a lot more exciting than anything I'd seen in Erie.
I thought that was strange, that a small town like Cranberry could be so much more exciting than a city off of the Great Lakes.
Anyway, the rest of the weekend was about chatting, writing code and playing Wii. What a life. This weekend seemed to last a month.
Renee set up a three-way conversation with us and GMa. We enjoyed that a lot.
To cap off the weekend, we ate at the Outback, where we got a couple of steaks and a weeks worth of leftovers.
Just another weekend, but, we enjoyed every day.
03/22/2009 13:47:50jim Wexford Outback-20090322
03/21/2009 18:36:44jim Lake Stevens, Wa - Renees New House
03/20/2009 23:48:11jim Favorite Songs from the past on YouTube
Barbara Lewis:
Seems Like a Mighty Long Time
Baby I'm Yours
Minnie Ripperton:
Loving you is easy cause you're beautiful
Johnny Rivers:
On the Poor Side of Town
03/20/2009 16:49:10jim Erie Church-20090320
03/20/2009 15:47:30jim Erie,PA-SloppyDuckBar-20090320
03/20/2009 15:30:16jim Lake Erie Sunset 20090320
03/20/2009 15:28:46jim Erie,PA-Bayside-20090320
After I got off work on Friday,
Becky and I decided to see Lake Erie. It's about 100 miles north from here. My step mother (Lottie Cutlar) passed away there last week, while we were in Vegas. It's amazing how much can be seen within a few hours of driving.
BTW-My Grandfather burned this into me. Every Sunday, we'd go to some park, or forest near Paducah, Ky.
Thanks Grandfather !
03/20/2009 14:51:02jim Erie Drive-20090320
03/18/2009 12:34:18jim North Park - 2009/03/18
03/18/2009 06:42:14jim Meanwhile: Back in Pittsburgh
I got up at 6 yesterday morning, drove to work and it was dark and foggy. I LIKED IT!
I had the same old problems to solve, sitting on my desk, and I LIKED IT!
I came home to my beautiful Becky, and saw some red breasted robins searching the new grass for worms. And guess what...I LIKED IT!
Some think I am crazy for wanting seasonal weather, but I don't.
As the weather changes, its like another year is being reborn, just to dye again. Snow, fog, rain, sunshine, those days when the sun just barely peeks through the clouds,
to me, they are beautiful. I can't wait to hear our first thunderstorm.
Oh, I told a white lie.
I actually picked Becky up at the store.
She grabbed her back pack, took the trail down to the creek's bridge, crossed McKnight Road, and went shopping at Giant Eagle (or as I like to call it, the Big Bird).
Yesterday was a nice day for taking a hike through the woods.
03/15/2009 19:13:06jim Vegas,NV-Leaving
03/15/2009 15:19:38jim Vegas,NV-FlightToPA
03/15/2009 15:19:38jim (Reply)Vegas,NV-FlightToPA
03/15/2009 15:13:16jim Across the Skies - 2009/03/15
03/15/2009 15:01:52jim Vegas,NV-LeavingMcCarren-LakeMead
03/15/2009 13:13:01jim Vegas,NV-FlyingOutOfMcCarren
03/15/2009 11:57:00jim Taking off from Vegas - 2009/03/15
03/15/2009 11:45:36jim Vegas,NV-LeavingVegas-Sonny
03/14/2009 16:13:46jim Vegas,NV-GMas-Bedroom,Bathroom
03/14/2009 13:31:24jim GMas-Dustin,Jen,Becky,Robert,Em
03/14/2009 10:56:08jim Vegas People - 2009/03/14
03/14/2009 10:56:08jim (Reply)Vegas,NV-GMas,Jen,Dustin,Emily,Amy
03/13/2009 14:57:41jim Vegas,NV-Giving Sharon A Bed
03/13/2009 12:07:22jim Vegas,NV-Condo,Views,Mustang
03/13/2009 12:07:22jim (Reply)VoTech Hill - 2009/03/13
03/13/2009 11:07:15jim Why are the stocks falling?
From: http://www.thealmostmillionaire.com/why-did-the-stock-market-drop-today/
The following are the top 5 reasons I believe that the market dropped today:
1. People are scared! Today's sell off in the stock market was not just mom and pop investor scared about losing their retirement savings, there were huge institutional trades today that seem to be driven by fear.
2. People are confused! The world financial markets are so much more complex than the news anchors on CNBC make it appear to be. Generally, when I'm having trouble understanding something, I run from it. I believe folks all over the world did the same thing today. Many folks are realizing that the stock market is not a game to play.
3. People are irrational! There are sectors of our ecomony that are having huge struggles. In the middle of the struggles, there are companies that have made good decisions, and are doing extremely well because of those good choices. Unfortunatly, on days like this, people don't care about fundamental business metrics, they just want to get dollars away from the stock market.
4. People are fed up! If you are the average American, you get 99% of your market information from the media. This makes it difficult to navigate past the personal opinions and biases of those bringing you the news. With a presidential election on the horizon, the media seems to have gone extremely negative on the US economy. I believe that lots of hard working folks are simply tired of the daily dose of bad news there have having to digest. The natural way to combat that is to get your investments into cash, and turn off the tube.
5. People are funny! We really are funny. We are all experts in our own right. "We sure would do things differently if we were in charge." "I got out before the fall." "I wouldn't have made that mistake." Etc. I think that many people feel like if they get out now, their personal story is stronger. We humans HATE to be wrong!
03/13/2009 11:07:15jim (Reply).Why are the stocks falling?
This article seems funny to me. I don't know anyone personally who sold their stocks.
I think that only an organized group of investors could artificially deflate the value of stocks like it happened in the last few months.
What happened took a lot of large sell orders to be placed across the board, and if it wasn't you or me, then who?
03/13/2009 06:35:10jim I just read an article about stocks
It explained that the value of a stock is based on what people think it is worth, so when it goes from $10 to $5, $5 hasn't dissappeared.
People aren't willing to pay $10 a share anymore. They think it is worth $5.
My problem with this analogy is this, if those shareholders who own most of those $10 shares sell high, then buy back the stock at $5,
they've created the perception of the stock both not being worth $10 a share, then being worth more than $5 a share.
The stock market isn't a car. Its perception of what that car is worth.
If you bought your Ford at $10,000, but now they sell it at $5,000, then you've lost $5,000 (if you try to sell it).
If it really was always worth $10,000, then its value will appreciate when it sells for what it is worth ($10,000).
The real question that needs to be asked is, why was it selling for $10,000, then for only $5,000.
Its the buyers. In the case of the stock market, the car is the same car...but it doesn't get devalued until people quit buying it.
With the stock market, the perception of what a stock is worth is created by the brokers, the news, and what has been going on with the stock.
If people are selling major shares of corporations for top dollar, the perception will be the stock isn't worth as much as what seemed to be.
I believe that is what happened to the stock market. I believe the perception of a failing economy has created one.
This is an except: Much of the talk this past week has been around Microsoft's drop in share price since they made public their acquisition offer for Yahoo. SAI has a nifty calculator and tonight Techcrunch Editor Mike Arrington calls the deal a "$80 billion Headache". TC notes that the share price of Microsoft has dropped from $32.60 per share on January 31 to $28.56, a ~13% drop. I agree with Mike that the Yahoo deal might be a factor in the decrease in stock price, but I am not sold that it's the only factor. I am certainly no stock guy (go read Howard Lindzon for that) and will never give stock advice, but I took a look at some other technology companies to see potentially what the market did as a whole during the same time (January 31st - February 8th). Also, check Ashkan's coverage of the deal, it's very thorough.
03/13/2009 05:47:16jim Saw Criss Angel-Believe at the Luxor
We were comped by Emily to 3 x $160 seats.
The show was excellent !!!
There was a lot of magic with the smoke and mirrors, fake floors, and doves up the sleeves, but the effects were terrific.
The dancing, the screens, the theatre itself, and the people all made the show work.
We even shook hands with Criss Angel (or his look alike).
It was a lot of fun to watch.
03/12/2009 17:01:01jim Vegas,NV-Luxor
03/12/2009 17:00:14jim Vegas Luxor - 2009/03/12
03/12/2009 08:31:12jim Too all of you out there losing everything
You are not alone.
Last year, I lost a fortune in stocks, I lost a fortune of equity in my home, and I too have a bad loan on my house.
Eventually I may lose everything I have.
But I have hope, that by not being alone, things will turn around.
There's a good chance I'll have to start all over again.
If I do, this time, I'll do everything better than I did the last time.
I'm not sure what happened to the stock market and the housing market.
But I have faith.
Kids will get their higher education somehow, houses will be sold, and people will somehow be able to retire, even though most of us have lost our savings.
03/11/2009 20:00:55jim Vegas,NV-Cannery-Becky,Jim
03/11/2009 18:26:53jim From what I have seen of Vegas
The air has cleaned up a lot. You can see the mountains now!
Its just as busy as it ever was. It is still crowded.
About 1 out of every 20 houses I've seen is a Bank Repo.
There seems to be fewer tweakers and street walkers.
I've only met one local that didn't speak any English (it used to be maybe 1 out of 5 people spoke Spanish only).
Driving is still crazy. The same roads are still under construction.
There still are a lot of rude people here. Very few people have been friendly outside of the casinos.
I think its gotten better, but, it is still probably not a good place to live.
03/11/2009 11:37:32jim Vegas,NV-4703 Gabriel-Kitchen,LR
03/10/2009 19:59:08jim Cannery w/Emily,Amy,Becky,Sonny,Robert
03/10/2009 11:37:32jim The Old House Looks the Same
03/09/2009 09:47:47jim Obama reversed Bushes Stem Cell Ban
Imagine, having a new liver grown from a cell from a embyro destined for the trash can..
Imagine some one else saying nope, you can't do that, God says its wrong.
Mr. Bush limited the use of taxpayer money to only the 21 stem cell lines that had been produced before his decision.
He argued he was defending human life because days-old embryos - although typically from fertility clinics and already destined for destruction - are destroyed to create the stem cell lines.
It's nice to have a logical president.
It gives me hope. Taking pills is a lot of fun, but, if it were possible to have an organ replacement for what you're taking the pills for, I think I'd rather NOT take the pills.
03/09/2009 09:07:24jim Vegas Cannery - 2009/03/09
03/09/2009 09:07:24jim (Reply)Vegas,NV-Cannery
03/09/2009 09:07:11jim Vegas,NV-Cannery
03/09/2009 09:07:10jim Vegas Cannery Colors - 2009/03/09
03/09/2009 02:01:33jim This is a very bleak entry.
My brother and I like to sit around, and state our observations of what has been happenning in our worlds.
If you think about anything long enough, you can piece together something that is close to the truth.
The Gas Prices
Ain't it obvious? The refineries got together and decided to cut back on the supply when demand was high. This caused the prices to almost double for gas. This took $100's from every driver in the world each month. We got ripped off.
If supply and demand were working, they refineries would have met the demand with the supply.
The refineries got together and timed this.
This had to have happened.
The Stock Market
Ain't it obvious? Extremely wealthy have sold their stocks, putting their money in their mattress, artificially bringing down the prices of stocks. This has cut our 401ks and our chances for retirement down to almost nothing. The hope is, we will lose our hope, sell our remainings stocks (along with our dreams of a simple 10% return), to drive the stock prices down even lower. When that happens, the extremely wealthy people are going to pull their money our of their mattresses and buy the stocks back at bargain prices.
Here is my sinceriaro
I bought 250 shares of Boyd stock at $40 for $10,000. It was valued at $50.
Now, the wealthy sell their 1,000,000 stocks, and stuff their mattresses with $40,000,0000
The stock goes down to $4 a share.
Having lost faith, and having fear that Boyd will go out of business, I sell my 250 shares of stock a $4 for a $1,000. I've lost $9,000.
When the time comes, the wealthy will pull their $40,0000,000 back out of their mattresses, and buy back the stock at $1 a share, giving them 40,000,000 shares of stock.
The stock will go back to what it was worth ($40 a share). This will make their $40,000,000 now be worth $160,000,000.
The stock is still worth undervalued at $40 a share, but the wealthy will have gained a 400% profit by playing this game.
They've taken my retirement money from me, and caused me extreme depression and despair.
A group of wealthy people got together and timed this.
This had to have happened.
It wasn't fear this time. It was planned. It was organized.
Who are these people?
They are the people who actually have been running the world for a long time.
They would have to be wealthy people from all over the world, to coordinate this intentional disruption of the laws of Supply and Demand.
Competition wasn't working like it should have been.
For example, if one oil refinery was under producing, then another should have been over producing, so they're refinery could make more profit.
But if all the oil refineries all decide to invent reasons to under produce, then Supply is not going to meet demand. Competition has failed to work.
All of the refineries ended up selling less product for more money.
What basic Economics has always overlooked is the power of monopolies.
This is when the government has to step in and make regulations, so the cost of electricity is fairly priced.
But now, there is a world economy. The large businesses control it. No single government can.
Somewhere out there, there MUST EXIST a group of wealth people from all over the world,
that are planning ways to take individual wealth of the middle class, and redestribute it to the upper class.
I hope their grandchildren are happy with my 401k, and all of that money I spent on gas last summer.
I suffered. All of the middle class people I know suffered.
What we aren't reading about in the news, is something else that must be happenning. People are killing themselves. People are dying for the lack of income that they needed from their dividends, or from the money they had to spend driving to the grocery store. A lot of people are just barely surviving.
What we seeing is the new type of WAR
This is a century where the world could actually blow itself up. But that's not going to happen.
This war is quietly killing people. Its quietly destroying the process of supply and demand. The weapons they are using today is money.
They aren't using guns to do it. There are no bombs. Without money, we will die just as surely as if someone put a bullet in our head.
They are using numbers. Simple numbers.
They are creating coordinated attacks on our incomes.
It will have a death count associated with it, but, has anyone figured out how many people died because they didn't have enough money to survive while these gas prices were rising and the stock market was falling? I doubt you will ever hear a number that will reflect the casualties of this war.
We've been misdirected. It's simple magic.
One eye is watching the stock market, wondering how this trick is being done. Our money is dissapearing right in front of our eyes.
Wait a couple of years, and we'll see our money reappear in some elses pocket.
There is no such thing as magic. Magic is a series of planned events that make something seem to disappear and reappear.
Like the dove, in the magicians pocket, it didn't dissappear. It only seemed to. It still existed.
Like the money from the stock market, it didn't dissappear. I don't know know where that money is, but I do know it still exists.
Here is my theory of what is happening, and it is very ugly.
Suppose you knew this planet could support 10 billion people.
If you had power, what you might consider doing is waiting until the population hit 10 billion people, letting the people build their buildings, their bridges, their dams, their infrastructures. However, you and your think tanks would know, this planet could only support 10 billion people. So what do you do when the population starts to hit 11 billion.You might quietly cause the deaths of say, half the population.
You and your friends might cause a water shortage next time, instead of gasolene.
Wouldn't that be wonderful for the survivors? What a wonderful world it could be if I could have an ample supply of buildings, power, food, air, water.
All I'd have to do is mess up the laws of Supply and Demand for a year or so.
And with the worlds knowledge being shared, what you really need really need those 5 billion people for.
Ask yourself "What would have happened if gas prices went up to $50 a gallon"
Hopefully, in your mind, you'll see what I see...a world at war, not in any particular country, but in every neighborhood on this planet. People would be fitting for survival, siphoning gas, robbing gas stations, they'd be willing to kill for gas.
I see that it might possible for something terrible to happen around the year 2012.
I see it, not because of a prophet's predictions, not because of the planets lining up....that cracks me up laughing.
NO, I see it because of the evidence I witness all around me every day.
We know we are destroying this planet. Look at the sky. Look at the lake levels. Look at a garbage dump sometime.
The packaging on a box of cereal cost more than its contents. Where do you think our sewage goes?
People don't care about the animals and plants of this planet. They care about the future of their kids, at any cost.
We know people must die to sustain a decent quality of life for the survivors.
We know at sometime, all of those welfare babies are going to have to starve to death.
We know that the elderly, receiving $10,000 a month in public health care, will have to die.
The time is coming. It has too. Something terrible happens every century.
A group of people, people from probably every country in the world, are letting us know what is coming.
They have been decent enough to give us fair warning.
Hopefully, they'll be decent enough to kill the population of the world without too much discression as to race, creed or color.
I'm pretty sure, it'll be a war between the haves and the have nots.
Wall Street is dead. It hasn't moved to Main Street. I don't where it went.
BTW - Did you see how the magic trick actually worked, or was it just me?
That money in the stock market didn't just disappear, and the oil was always there.
I'm sure the house loans were easy money, given to us, so we'd lose our homes.
These magic tricks keep happening.
Drive around, look at all the bank repos. Remember the prices of gas going up to $4 a gallon. Remember the Dow when it was at 13,000.
What's going to happen next?
Well, it won't be good, I can promise you that. Most people have already lost their retirements and homes.
Maybe what will happen next, will kill most of the human population, but save the planet.
Maybe it seems awful, but if it is a necessary evil, then it is going to have to happen. If the planet can't support10 billion people, then we have to die sooner than expected.
If that is the case, then I'm willing to die for that cause.
That cause, of course, would be the survival of life on this planet.
I'm old anyway, and the youth will hopefully bee wise enough to use the knowledge acquired in the past century, to build a much better colony of our species.
At any rate, the American Dream for me has died.
I made A's in college, but I couldn't afford to go any further. I had to work. Nobody seemed to care that I made straight A's.
And the companies with their retirement plans went away, giving up jobs to the poor people working in factories in China.
And I'll lose my house. I'll lose everything I've worked so hard for and saved for most of my life.
And I'll die from some easily fixed health problem, because I won't even be able to afford that blood pressure test that cost me $80, because I can't afford insurance.
So, good bye Mr and Mrs Cleaver. Beaver will grow up and kill himself some day, and it won't really be his fault.
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Conan Posters Signed at SDCC 2011 Being Auctioned Off for Pediatric AIDS
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Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Dean, UCLA School of Public Affairs
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Keystone Pallet & Recycling and owner Matt Roberts, a 2001 graduate of Bucknell University, received a Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence during a recent Earth Day gala event.
Since the company launched in Milton in 2004, Keystone Pallet & Recycling has prevented more than 1,672,000 pounds of wood waste from being sent to the landfill. Keystone's clients are saving about $8,000 a year in avoided disposal costs. The company's wood pallet collection system reduced annual diesel fuel consumption by 2,600 gallons, saving $7,200 a year in fuel costs and preventing 330 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
In announcing the 2008 recipients, Gov. Edward G. Rendell acknowledged that Keystone and the eight other awardees "look at environmental challenges as opportunities to do things differently. ... These awards recognize and celebrate that unique perspective and can-do spirit that makes Pennsylvania a progressive place to do business." Kathleen A. McGinty, Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), delivered the event's keynote speech on April 22.
Bucknell SBDC assistance
Pallet recyclers keep wood pallets out of the landfill by collecting, repairing and reselling used pallets. After a brief stint working with a pallet recycler in Ohio, Keystone owner Roberts brought the concept back to Pennsylvania and approached the Bucknell University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for assistance.
SBDC business consultants helped Roberts create a comprehensive business plan and referred him to the SBDC's Environmental Management Assistance Program (EMAP), where consultant Denise Bechdel offered advice on environmental compliance and suggested applying for a Small Business Advantage grant from the Pennsylvania DEP. With Bechdel's assistance, Keystone Pallet & Recycling applied for and received four successive grants – a total of $29,850.
On-site mobile collection units
A challenge for recycling businesses is to find and maintain a steady source of materials. Usually, this involves driving to collect the materials, increasing fuel costs coupled with long travel distances. Keystone devised a way to collect more used pallets by installing on-site mobile collection units at its larger sites, which are picked up only when full. Roberts used his nearly $30,000 in grant funds to assist with the purchase of several 53-foot portable recycling collection units as well as a larger truck, reducing the number of trips to smaller collection sites. These investments have resulted in significant decreases in miles traveled, diesel fuel consumption and associated fuel and maintenance costs.
Roberts acknowledges the assistance of the SBDC's environmental program in starting and obtaining funding for his business, saying, "the Environmental Management Assistance Program has been a vital tool used during the start up of my business. ... Overall, EMAP has provided my business with an invaluable service, which I will continue to use in the future."
EMAP Director Christopher Lynch applauded Keystone Pallet & Recycling for its exceptional accomplishments and recognized all 2007-08 grantees for their efforts. "Matt Roberts and these other small business owners are proving that small businesses are big players in making the business case for energy efficiency and going green. Their achievements also underscore the urgent need to continue financial and technical assistance programs that help small business owners find and take advantage of opportunities to both reduce operating costs and environmental impacts."
For more information about Keystone Pallet & Recycling, visit http://www.keystonepallet.com/. For more on the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers' services and impact, visit http://www.pasbdc.org/.
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Just call me a RAC star
I got a note from Ken Salazar the other day. I was glad to hear from him. It had been a while since we had visited. Well, OK ... we've never visited. The secretary of Interior doesn't know me from Adam's cat. But still, it was nice to hear from him. I don't get all that much mail, aside from the Cabela's catalog and the AARP magazine. So I opened the darn thing.
And lo and behold, it said I'd been appointed to the Wyoming Resource Advisory Council (RAC). What the heck is that, you ask? Well, according to my note from Secretary Salazar, it's a group "composed of citizens from diverse backgrounds," whose job is to "provide advice to the Bureau of Land Management on management of public land resources."
Dang ... I guess I'm a citizen from a diverse background. Short of California, you can't get much more diverse than Sweetwater County these days, though this eighth-largest county in the country boasts only four persons per square mile. And I've been advising just about everybody who would hold still on public-land resources for a long time, not that anyone has paid much attention. But now I'm a RAC star, because a while back I apparently told the BLM that I was willing to serve.
As a brand-new RAC-and-roller, I have an unusual perspective. I've come to think that public-lands policy in Wyoming was created by Lewis Carroll. Lots of times I feel like Alice in Wonderland. If you remember the story, Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole and ends up in a hall with many locked doors of all sizes. It's a lot like Wyoming: Behind this door is some outfit representing the gas industry and suing the Department of Interior because it isn't processing gas leases fast enough. Behind that door, Interior is jacking up the gas industry for sitting on thousands of acres of undeveloped leases. Behind still another door, you've got the suits in Houston who'd happily drill on their mother's grave, or at least on your mother's grave. Behind the next, you've got some angry activists on the green left whose furnaces apparently run on rainbows and gumdrops. Curiouser and curiouser...
No less amazing is the feral horse dilemma. As near as I can tell, the public land of the Interior West is loaded up with feral horses, and no one seems to be willing to admit that our current system of adoption and incarceration doesn't work. It's not unlike the Dodo in Wonderland, deciding that the best way to dry Alice and the other tear-soaked characters would be a Caucus-Race, in which everyone runs in a circle and there's no clear winner. If anyone is winning in the feral horse dilemma, I'd sure like to know who it is. We sure seem to be running in a circle.
The whole thing feels a little like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party (not to be confused with the political entity of the same name) at which the Hatter asks the question: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" When Alice gives up, the Hatter admits that he doesn't know the answer either.
Maybe that's the point of it all. I think Secretary Salazar is a smart-enough guy to know that neither the Department of Interior nor the Bureau of Land Management knows all the answers. I've been watching Salazar for some time now, and frankly, I like the guy. Heaven knows, he inherited a mess beyond all comprehension from the former Bush administration. But he's trying hard to take a balanced, thoughtful approach.
We're no longer approaching gas leasing the way frat boys approach beer. And I think Salazar gets the feral horse issue. Being from one of the oldest ranching families in Colorado, I think he knows which end of the horse eats and which end doesn't. I think there's a chance that he's the real deal. So I'm hoping that this upcoming Western RAC concert will accomplish something: That if we round up a group of Wyoming folks and ask them to help out, they'll come through - and maybe things will get a little less weird out here.
The secretary says that there will be RAC meetings (RAC festivals?) two to four times a year. That's good -- my cardiologist won't let me have donuts more often than that. But along with free pastries, what I'm really looking forward to is coming up with common sense ideas without a lot of rigid thinking. I just saw a list of my fellow RAC stars, and Secretary Salazar has tapped some pretty smart folks. I hope the BLM listens.
Walt Gasson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an op ed service of High Country News (hcn.org). He runs the Wyoming Wildlife Federation in Cheyenne.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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Friday, November 30, 2012
2012 Ohio State Bowl Game T-Shirts
Get 'em while they last!
(HT: SiC. He wasn't sure of original creator of this little piece of brilliance as it arrived in his inbox. So if you know, let us know and we'll pass it on)
UPDATE: U-M QB-to-be Shane Morris tweeted this after the M/OSU game. Again, don't know if he's creator, but it's the earliest version of the joke I can find.
10 comments:
- Dennis said...
I know Shane Morris tweeted this the other day which is why I said he was after your job in the healing pic posts. I screwed up the html and the link wasn't clickable. SiC must've actually went to the effort to copy and paste. :) Actually his image is a bit clearer and may have been someone elaborating on the Shane Morris tweet. Not sure if it is an original idea by shane, but it looks like he found a website with an image of a balnk white t-shirt and then in the comments added that it was our championship shirt.
- November 30, 2012 4:19 PM
- Yost said...
Thanks, D. Someone else mentioned Shane's tweet as well so I added an update to the post. Much appreciated.
- November 30, 2012 5:00 PM
- Dennis said...
Yeah I think you were putting up the update as I was typing my response. No worries, if I get too many hat tips from you, I'll not be allowed to use a pooper cooler when tailgating. Have a good weekend.
- November 30, 2012 5:11 PM
- Ramona said...
I was so tired last night when I first looked at this, actually said out loud: "It's blank......oh!"
- December 01, 2012 12:01 PM
- Tom C said...
So I live in Gamecock country, and we are getting zero respect. If I hear anotherone bites the dust on the radio again I'm gonna go kick Clowneys ass my self!....Uhhh could use a lil help....
- December 04, 2012 7:15 PM
- srudoff said...
Looks like the ones you guys wore in 2008 and 2009! Back to back!
- December 06, 2012 1:00 AM
- Tom C said...
Geez I thought you had choked to death on your own bile, or seen a mirror and turned to stone....
You and your team suck.
- December 06, 2012 7:40 PM
- surrounded in columbus said...
well said. well said.
- December 07, 2012 12:43 PM
- Ramona said...
My, my, srudoff, how sour are the grapes today..
- December 08, 2012 11:20 PM
- Dennis said...
First Alabama bets you up, now they steal your ideas?
- December 12, 2012 12:21 PM


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Is this a flying kick by Henrik, or something else entirely? You be the judge.
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The last time I wrote in this space was before the Final began. I wrote about how many chances the Sedins were getting and how fickle the narrative around their playoff performance has been. It's time to re-visit this idea.
Clearly, the story in Games 3 and 4 was about, as much as anything, a lack of production of every Canuck. Just one goal for the boys in white, green and blue obviously won't get your anywhere, but there is some hope. Despite some discussion to the contrary, in Game 4 at even strength, the Sedins were dominant players, outchancing their Bruins opponents 4-1 . Game 3 was almost a completely opposite story as the boys were mediocre at even strength (0-1 for Daniel, 2-1 for Henrik) but unlike Game 4, where they were shutout on the PP, Daniel and Henrik actually put up good numbers on the PP (both 3-0). Daniel was 3-1 in Game 2, but Henrik was an even 2-2 and each produced just a solitary chance on the PP. Game 1, which seems oh so long ago, was a carry over from the previous round for the Twins: 5-1 in ES chances for Daniel, 4-0 for Henrik (also, a PP chance for each).
So, quality stuff for Daniel and Henrik in games 1 and 4, brutal stuff in game 3 (then again, 40% of the 8-1 shellacking was on the PP, so take that for what it's worth) and basically mediocre in game 2. It's food for thought. The twins must keep working,my gut feeling after game 4 was, 'christ, we didn't get any bounces' seems to be somewhat accurate; perhaps that's what should be expected when you get 40 shots on Tim Thomas and NONE go in! Also, the Torres, Lapierre, Hansen line crushed the Boston 3rd line in game 1, prompting a move to Rich Peverley which is a lot harder for Julien to make happen. Matchups will once again be huge for the Canucks, as they do have last change. FInding a way to get the Sedins on the ice as much as possible will force hard decisions for the Bruins defensively, and getting the 3rd line out against Boston's 3rd and 4th liners will also be crucial. In many ways, the story over the next two games rests on two things: can the Sedins break through and turn their possession into goals, as they've done all year; and can Ryan Kesler find something, anything, to get his game going. His whole line looks in a funk, all three of them losing the even strength battle in game 4 1-4. A thought worth considering: flip Raymond and Hansen, see if the Great Dane can use his outstanding forechecking ability to open up some chances for Kesler. Raymond won't hurt the 3rd line.
There's tons of hope yet, they are on home ice, they are still getting chances despite the difficulties of the past couple games, and they've been under the gun before. Let's see what tonight brings!
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Nathan Woessner is sitting up, watching cartoons and -- for the first time since being buried in a sand dune -- talking.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital said the 6-year-old boy has been taken off a ventilator and is now breathing on his own.
Last Friday, Nathan fell into a hole as he followed his dad to the top of Mount Baldy at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. He was buried 11 feet below the surface for four hours before rescuers could get to him.
A post on the First Baptist Church of Galva website, where Nathan's grandfather the Rev. Don Reul is the senior pastor, said he was feeling well enough to watch television, sit up and speak.
Sand lodged in Nathan's lungs created pneumonia-like symptoms and was flushed out daily. The young boy was kept sedated for the past week, but is now recovering from that sedation.
"Nathan Woessner has been upgraded from critical and is now in serious condition," Dr. Rachel Wolfson, who took over Nathan's care this week, said in a statement. "He has been extubated, is recovering from sedation and continues to respond to commands."
Dr. Tracy Koogler, who attended to Nathan over the weekend at University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital, said at a press conference earlier this week that Nathan is expected to make a full or nearly full recovery.
But he's still got months of healing ahead of him, she said.
"Please continue to pray for Nathan and his family," the church website reads. "Nathan has a little ways to go to make a complete recovery."
Nathan's parents have asked that the media respect their privacy as they attend to their son.
Reul said he believes Nathan's rescue and survival was a miracle.
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Gear Talk => EOS Bodies - For Stills => Topic started by: unfocused on January 23, 2013, 01:30:30 PM
7D Noise Reduction Tips
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January 23, 2013, 01:30:30 PM
Reading this discussion http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=12519.0 (http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?topic=12519.0) and seeing some of the great examples of higher ISO on the 7D I thought I'd start a new thread and ask people to share their tips and tricks for getting lower noise at higher ISOs on the 7D.
I consider myself reasonably competent in Photoshop and Camera RAW, and as long as I keep the ISO around 400 (I'm an old film guy and that good old Tri-X film speed remains my 'standard') I have no problem enlarging prints to as much as 24 x 36 with no visible noise. But, once I go above 800 everything seems to fall apart.
I'm very impressed with some of the work shown in the other thread by those who shoot at higher ISOs and I'd like to know more about their post-processing techniques. Please share.
Re: 7D Noise Reduction Tips
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January 23, 2013, 01:43:30 PM
I use a combination of softwares, whatever gets the end result I'm looking for. Some of them work better in some conditions and some better in others, but my few go-to programs are:
Aperture 3 + Noise Ninja plugin (need to upgrade to new Photo Ninja but resent the idea of another stand-alone app).
PS5 Extended (inc. ACR) and Color Efex Pro 3.
99% of the time these will do.
I've created some Aperture Import Presets for different scenarios I seem to find myself in more often than others:
Indoor - High ISO preset: (this usually means some sporting event of exhibition, no flash allowed)
Boost: 0.70
Hue Boost: 0.55
Sharpening: 0.85
Detail: 0.75
Moire: 0.50
Radius: 4.00
De-Noise: 0.60
This will be applied to each RAW image as it is imported from a High ISO shoot. I then use either the Noise Ninja or PS5 to clean house and make the final image. I'd say processing time varies from 2-10minutes depending on what I want the final result to be, and how much in a playing mood I am. ;D
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January 23, 2013, 01:46:02 PM
The lower DR is part of the culpret, a perfect exposure is needed. The camera will take acceptable low light images at ISO 3200, but you have to nail the exposure and use NR. I prefer to stay at 800 or less when possible.
1. If you can, bracket exposures and pick the best ones.
2. Don't use jpeg, use RAW.
3. Use a newer version of raw conversion software. Algorythms have greatly improved in the last two years, and noise is less apparent.
Re: 7D Noise Reduction Tips
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January 23, 2013, 02:20:58 PM
Cool. It. Down.
Carefully, gradually, and without condensation.
Cooler=quieter, with sensors.
In practice, this means taking your camera to the coldest room in the house and letting it cool down there, before going out with it. Assuming "out" is where you are going with it. If you're wanting to shoot indoors with humid steamy people around, it might be harder to do satisfactorily.
Pumping your 7D with liquid nitrogen or stuffing it with dry ice are both probably bad ideas.
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January 23, 2013, 02:24:23 PM
First off is to remember the 7D has a light hungry sensor. Correct exposure is the key particularly at high ISO's. It is not forgiving and underexposure at high will not yield good results.
You have two key sliders in PS - Color and Luminance. DPP calls Luminance Chrominance which is actually correct.
ISO 12,800 with no NR. You should always do this at 100%.
ACR sets Color NR at a default of 25 you can increase it until the color blotchiness goes away. Sliding any higher when it is gone as it does not gain anything. I find 25 is pretty good and usually leave it there.
You can see the difference between the color blotchiness between the first image and this one. I set Color to zero in image one so you can see the difference.
Now you use the Luminance slider. This gets rid of the grain or noise. Be careful with it because it effects the image sharpness. The higher you go the less sharp your image will be. You will really notice it when you sharpen it. It is upi to you how you want to balance sharpness vs NR.
A little more detail.
http://www.peachpit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=102a9f80-8d15-4fc8-b3e1-80065441b5d0 (http://www.peachpit.com/podcasts/episode.aspx?e=102a9f80-8d15-4fc8-b3e1-80065441b5d0)
Also in the sharpening sliders you will see a slider called masking. If you hold the option key (mac - not sure about PC) and move the slider to the right you will see a lot of white at first. The further you move the slider more white disappears. At around 80 you will see very little white, only around the edges. These white edges are the only thing being sharpened. The black background will not be sharpened. Not using the masking slider only sharpens the existing noise in the background or other unwanted areas. I'll se if I can find a visual example of this.
All the above works in LR as well.
Next I like to use this method. Another edge sharpening technique. I don't use it for mass edits in LR as it takes too much time. I just use it for hobby shots.
http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-really-smart-sharpening.html?search=edge+mask&bool=and (http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-really-smart-sharpening.html?search=edge+mask&bool=and)
Re: 7D Noise Reduction Tips
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digital paradise
January 23, 2013, 02:30:27 PM
If you scroll down to the 4th and 5th images you can see the difference masking makes.
http://photographylife.com/how-to-properly-sharpen-images-in-lightroom (http://photographylife.com/how-to-properly-sharpen-images-in-lightroom)
Re: 7D Noise Reduction Tips
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January 23, 2013, 04:11:37 PM
Getting some good tips here. I hope it continues. One aside on sharpening. Lately I've been playing a lot with Scott Kelby's technique of using the high-pass filter.
For those unfamiliar with this filter, it is in the "other" submenu in the filters menu. A quick summary: duplicate the layer (cntl-J) select the duplicate layer. Go to the high-pass filter. Set it at a low level (just enough for the edges to show up -- usually somewhere between 2-4)
Apply the filter. Then in the layer's panel, using the drop down list at top, select hard light to start. If that is too intense, try another choice (soft light).
But don't quit there.
Add a layer mask and then, using a soft edged paintbrush, paint out the details where you don't want them (oftentimes, with a person, I may only leave the mask visible for the person's eyes and lips, giving them soft skin but sharp eye features. For shots of things or nature, I will usually paint out the layer mask in the sky or background -- in other words, any areas where you don't want every little detail to show up.)
Anyone else use this technique? I've saved several shots where my focus was just slightly off. With careful masking and painting, only the details you want to pop will really pop.
Re: 7D Noise Reduction Tips
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January 23, 2013, 04:13:39 PM
- shoot RAW
- only use 'full' ISO (like 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 ...)
- turn off 'long exposure noise reduction' in custom settings (yes it removes hot spots on the sensor, but it also adds noise)
- turn off 'high ISO speed noise reduction' in custom settings
- I've not tested this, but this is recommended on other forums: don't use ISO 6400. Instead use 3200 and underexposure 1 stop. Turn up brightness 1 stop up again in post processing.
- google ETTR (sorry, I don't have time to explain it right now 8))
- turn of noise reduction in DPP (especially luminance NR makes it only worse)
- use third party noise reduction in post. I use NeatImage - maybe it's not the best, but results are impressive. It's also free and very easy too handle. You don't have to bother about settings (but you can when you want).
Re: 7D Noise Reduction Tips
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January 23, 2013, 04:59:24 PM
In agreement with the others: raw; raw; raw. I use PS and reduce luminance by 50% for bad cases. I used to use Noiseninja on jpegs, but raw and luminance reduction is so much better. The 7D is still an excellent camera.
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January 23, 2013, 05:27:18 PM
I use fast glass, shoot in raw, over expose slightly, then pull back in post.
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The Charlotte Bobcats officially signed free agent center Al Jefferson on Wednesday.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but according to the Charlotte Observer, Jefferson will make approximately $13.5 million per season in the three-year deal, which includes a player option for 2015-16.
The 6-foot-10 Jefferson averaged 17.8 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 78 games with the Utah Jazz last season.
Selected out of high school with the 15th overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft, the 28-year-old Jefferson has career averages of 16.4 points, 9.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists with the Celtics (2004-07), Timberwolves (2007-10) and Jazz (2011-13).
"We are ecstatic to add Al to our roster," Bobcats president of basketball operations Rod Higgins said. "He gives us a low post presence that we have not had on our roster and brings a skill set that does not become available very often. He is a veteran leader who helps his teammates get better, but at the same time he is only 28 years old so he can be part of the core of this franchise for several years to come."
The Observer also reported that the Bobcats will use their amnesty clause to waive forward Tyrus Thomas to make room for Jefferson under the salary cap.
Thomas, who had two seasons and more than $18 million remaining on a five-year contract he signed in July of 2010, averaged career lows of 4.8 points and 2.3 rebounds over 26 games in a disappointing 2012-13 campaign.
Additionally, Charlotte inked fourth-overall pick Cody Zeller. Over 36 games with the Indiana Hooisers last season , the seven-footer averaged 16.5 points and 8.1 rebounds per game.


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Southampton captain Adam Lallana is closing in on a return to first-team action after a six-week lay-off.
The 24-year-old midfielder suffered a knee injury in the win over relegation rivals Reading at the start of December, ruling him out of the club's crucial festive period.
But despite his absence, the Saints have gone on a decent run of form, losing just two games in 13 matches. And with Lallana now back in full training, the former England U21 international is keen to help Mauricio Pochettino's side continue their resurgent form.
Speaking from Southampton's warm-weather training camp in Barcelona, Lallana said: "Getting injured was obviously frustrating. I feared the worst when it first happened, so I was lucky that I've only been out for weeks rather than months," he said.
"I've just been professional about it – got stronger and worked harder so I hopefully come back a fitter and better player."
A lot has changed at the club during Lallana's injury lay-off, and the mid-season training camp represents a good opportunity for the Saints squad to get to know their new boss.
"With this being my first session back, it was nice to be with the lads again and trying to impress the new manager.
"I felt a little bit rusty but it's my first day back after being out for six-or-seven weeks.
"It'll take me a few training sessions but hopefully I haven't lost too much fitness because I've been doing quite a lot of running."
With the season drawing to a close, Lallana will be hoping he can help the Saints preserve their Premier League status, with the club sitting four points clear of the drop zone with 23 games played.
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"Nashville" Cast Quotes About Nashville
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The cast and crew of "Nashville" have been in Music City for quite awhile now. They're not just working here. They're also playing here and absorbing the community that makes us unique. Here's what they have to say about their Music City experience.
"I'm doing what I love with people that I love in a city that I love," she said. "I found my place. I've been traveling for a long place trying to find it, and Nashville is my home."
- Clare Bowen to The Tennessean
"There's an authenticity to the music and a truthfulness of the music right there in Nashville. It's not even really performed. Performing always has that like fourth wall that's a break between the audience and the actor but in Nashville, it's just kinda gone. You're just in the room with these people and it's all very honest and real."
- Charles Esten at PaleyFest
"The lights, the energy, the music. How could you not love this town?"
- Hayden Panettiere, Juliette Barnes on TV's "Nashville", on PeopleStyleWatch.com
"She also opened her heart, explaining how Nashville makes it flutter. 'If I have to say what causes this good feeling, it's hearing live music every night. I'm not exaggerating. It's just jaw-dropping how good the musicians are. The bench is 20 deep. You can tell I love Nashville, can't you? I couldn't do a show about a place that I didn't have a connection to.'"
- Callie Khouri, writer and producer of TV's "Nashville", with The Washington Post
"I really like the family [vibe] here - it's just a big party in Nashville, everybody's friends and everybody's congratulating each other. It's really cool."
- Clare Bowen, Scarlett O'Connor on TV's "Nashville", with Rolling Stone
"It couldn't exist in another place." - Talking about filming "Nashville" in Nashville.
- Sam Palladio, Gunnar Scott on TV's "Nashville", at PaleyFest
"I love it there and I'd be there regardless of the show being there or not."
- Hayden Panettiere, with E! News
"One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other, Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess."
- Callie Khouri, with The New York Times
When asked his perception of Nashville prior to the show: "...coming here, you find such a cosmopolitan city and a melting pot of so many different styles of music."
-Sam Palladio with CMT
"This city feels different than any other place we'd find to shoot, this is a city that really has a soul."
- Callie Khouri, with Nashville Scene
"It's just the best place. It's so much fun." - When asked about filming and living in Nashville.
- Clare Bowen at PaleyFest
"The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music. It's not just country music anymore... There's rock and roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town, but it's also, as you say, it's a family town, there's politics...There's so much fun stuff to get in to."
- Connie Britton, Rayna Jaymes on TV's "Nashville", on "Good Morning America"
"Here it is all about the raw talent and true artistry behind a song, and people are more interested in who wrote it than who's belting out the latest hit. It is an entire community of people supporting one another and I feel so lucky to be meeting and befriending these incredibly talented people."
- Hayden Panettiere, with Nashville Scene
When asked her perception of Nashville prior to the show: "I knew it was an amazing music town and I knew that this was where a lot of American music started, but I could have never prepared myself for what we've been given and what we've been welcomed into."
- Clare Bowen, with CMT
On Nashville's music community: "It is so touching to see these huge, famous faces standing up and singing out the song along with a peer that is performing on stage. They really do care for and encourage one another here."
- Hayden Panettiere, with Nashville Scene
"I love being in Nashville. The cast thanks me all the time for bringing them to this wonderful city"
- Callie Khouri, with @visitmusiccity on Twitter
"The starlet cannot say enough about the new home she's created in Music City. From the people to the landscape to the music, she is in love with everything about it…She describes Nashville and its music industry as humble and made up of completely unassuming people. As to how that compares to her life in Los Angeles, she says it's a big but refreshing change:
'I love LA, but Nashville is truly special. The southern hospitality and community support for struggling artists is the real difference. You don't have to be wary of people here. It's far more real than Hollywood.'"
- Hayden Panettiere, with Nashville Scene
"...Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that."
- Sam Palladio, with Bello
"You can replicate many cities and locations in shooting, but Nashville is not one of them. The reason the show has resonated with viewers is because it is authentic and honest. There is no way that could be achieved elsewhere, as the city is as much a character as any of us."
- Hayden Panettiere, with Nashville Scene
"Because of the people I have met here, I feel more inspired and embraced than I have in a long time. There is no way that I am going to leave that behind. I'm staying."
- Hayden Panettiere, with Nashville Scene
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