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Classy banks
The uber-rich, of course, are used to such coddling, but now a class of customers that bankers have dubbed the "mass affluent" get cookies, too. Think you might qualify? You do ... if you have a minimum of $500,000 to open one of these mass-affluent accounts.
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Letters l Danish and his cave
The March 22 story "Taste-trepreneurs" incorrectly described the way in which Life Opening processes its cacao beans. The cacao beans are not soaked or germinated. Rather, they are dried at low temperatures. Therefore, they are "alive" and keep all of their available nutrients.
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It's time to talk about rape
In October, it will have been 20 years since I wrote my first Uncensored column. The subject of that column was sexual assault, a topic that I've covered again and again. The column was written in response to a series of ignorant letters to the editor written about rape by men from the Boulder community.
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—Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Don Walsh, regarding film director James Cameron's successful 6.8-mile deep trip to the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, the lowest point in the ocean.
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In case you missed it | Pat Roberston sees the light
Robertson saying he's now a hero to the hippie culture? Was he high? He soon returned to his usual form, however, when he addressed the issue of the Denver Broncos signing Peyton Manning and dumping Tim Tebow. Apparently referring to his holiness, Mr. Tebow, Robertson suggested that if Manning got injured this season, it would serve the Broncos right.
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Behind closed doors
It's been 70 years since the Allied Chemical Company first obtained a license to store radioactive and heavy metal contamination at Valmont Butte.
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Audit critical of BVSD's special ed program
Indeed, many of the "systemic noncompliance and necessary corrective actions" identified in the Feb. 9 audit from the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) are related to incomplete documentation.
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Penny wise
Since losing his eyesight, becoming asthmatic and contracting chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, Celias' life has been a constant battle to survive. He has lived in seedy motels surrounded by drug dealers and shootings. His life savings were stolen from his bank account after he failed to realize his checkbooks were missing.
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Environmental engineers
The car, named F-CAT, or Fastest Car at Track, is the result of five years of work by various teams of seniors in the engineering program. The first team came up with the design, and each year the new team selected for the project makes improvements.
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eco-briefs | Consumers see through greenwashing
According to a recent article on the Marketplace website, "American consumers expect companies to address the full environmental impact of a product's lifecycle, from the impacts associated with manufacturing the product (90 percent), to using it (88 percent), to disposing of it (89 percent).
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Running full circle
Vigil is the only man to have won four straight Sierre-Zinal mountain races, a 32-kilometer course through Switzerland. He's also won the Cleveland Marathon three times, competed in U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, won a 100-mile stage race in Algeria in 1989 and was a National 25K Masters Champion in the Old Kent River Run in 1995.
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Got a dream?
The American Alpine Club has launched a series of "Live Your Dream Grants" to support climbers with ambitions for their own improvement and experiences as climbers.
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Race Across America documentary on bicycling the country screens at Dairy Center for the Arts
The Race Across America route crosses 3,000 miles from coast to coast, Oceanside, Calif., to Annapolis, Md., with 170,000 feet of climbing. Solo racers have 12 days to complete the course. The distance they'll ride is half again as long as the Tour de France, completed with no rest.
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He describes the thing as the consummate predator, unencumbered by delusions of morality or mercy, unlikeable and un-killable, the perfect organism..
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Coughing up something nasty
But behind the facade of success, Doughty was seething. Struggles with his bandmates over songwriting rights and other clashes became a force that pushed him into deep and heavy drug use, withering his doughy frame to a mere 135 pounds. He quit the band, got clean and embarked on a solo career.
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Taking out the thrash
"We started from the ground up, and when it blew up we were already working on our third record," says frontman Tony Foresta, who started the band with guitarist Ryan Waste. "We were like, 'What? We've already been here! You guys are a little bit late.
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Boulder Symphony comes full circle
Having travelled through several other communities, the county's community orchestra is back in Boulder with music director Devin Patrick Hughes. They will play "Transcendental Metamorphosis," a concert featuring music of Charles Ives, Arvo Pärt, Brahms and Denver's Conrad Kehn, at 7 p.
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He came, he saw, he kvetched
Whiteside's increasingly unwilling hosts are the Stanley family. Father Ernest ( Jim Porter) is a suc cessful businessman whose patience with Mr. Whiteside's ever-more-onerous intrusion quickly dwindles. Wife and mother Daisy (Elaine Niesen) comports herself as a paragon of Midwestern civility, but she is utterly overmatched by Whiteside's bluster.
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Event calendar | Week of March 29, 2012
Climb On! Celebrate Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Month..
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Arts l Week of March 29, 2012
Naropa University, Lincoln Gallery, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303- 875-6879. Through May 15..
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Theater l Week of March 29, 2012
Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000..
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Words l Week of March 29, 2012
Eben Weiss. 3 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303- 447-2074..
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Dull expectations
Since their married friends have morphed into shrill shadows of their former selves, they wonder: Is it possible to bring children into your life without destroying the possibility of romance? Only one way to find out: Tackle the former without even a whiff of romantic expectation.
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Remake worth watching
Jenko and Schmidt weren't friends in high school, as we learn in the 2005-set prologue. Jenko was the jock triumphant and a lousy student, and Schmidt (sporting an impressive mouthful of braces) spent most of his waking hours being embarrassed by his parents.
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Reel to Reel | Week of March 29, 2012
After the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a terrorist plot against the U.S., a team of Navy Seals is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt to foil the attack. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT.
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Cooking l I first discovered Choux in Cooking with Pomaine,
Choux paste, for those who aren't familiar, is French plaster made from flour, eggs, butter and milk or water, or both. And not only does it plug small holes in drywall, it also has a few uses in the kitchen, most notably, profiteroles — also known as "cream puffs" if you drive an electric-mobility scooter.
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Dressing up your drinks for spring
My two favorites are cucumber and watermelon. They go really well together in a combination. I love cucumber in general — just the scent and the oils give you a really nice, refreshing, vibrant cocktail. Watermelon is my distant second, and they supposedly have really great health benefits like antioxidants.
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A distinctive Indian lunch buffet
For those old enough, you may remember 1985 as a dark time, mostly because that's when McDonald's launched the McDLT. In today's recycling-conscious age, the McDLT probably wouldn't exist. For those of you unfamiliar with this environmental atrocity, this was a burger adorned with lettuce and tomato that came in a double-chambered Styrofoam container.
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Tidbites l Centro's birthday
Centro's executive chef, Ian Clark, will prepare a pig roast at 3 p.m., with live music from Mariachi Regional starting at 5 p.m. A donation of $25 for the all-you-can-eat pig barbecue is requested, and includes two drinks. Tickets will also be available for a chance to break piñatas containing candy, gift cards to Centro and coupons for Top Rope Lager.
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Zucca Italian Ristorante 808 Main St., Louisville 303-666-6499
Available items range from a crisp, anise-scented fennel salad to a surprisingly flavorful interpretation of Chinese barbecued pork. Made-to-order fare includes taqueria-style Mexican street food and Asian noodles, highlighted by the Vietnameseinfluenced pho ga, a chicken and rice noodle soup.
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Astrology l Week of March 29, 2012
"Go to the worst crimeinfested place you can find. Go heavily armed, wearing a flak jacket and a Kevlar helmet. Set up shop in a vacant lot. Announce to the residents that you are there to help them, and in the loudest voice possible yell that every Crip and Blood within hearing distance is a PANSY.
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How much does it cost to put up drywall?
The national average cost to hire a drywall installation professional ranges $375-$1,500, depending on the job at hand and where you are in the country. Your drywall installation cost will often be lower if the professional is installing the drywall in a new construction with open access as opposed to a remodel. The square footage of the job, the amount of materials, and the labor required also determine drywall prices. According to drywall pros, materials costs can range from 15 percent to 50 percent of your total project cost, depending on the work you're having done. Request several quotes from drywall installation companies to find the right fit for your construction project. The quotes may be based on the company's standard cost per square foot or a calculation of the time estimated to complete the job plus the size of the job plus materials and any travel fees. For example, drywall installation for one or two standard-size rooms could cost $900-$1,500. The cost to hang and tape an outbuilding with approximately 40 drywall sheets at 75 cents per square foot could total $1,450, including 3.75 days of labor for the drywall crew.
How much does it cost to repair drywall?
The national average price range to repair drywall is $210-$300. Drywall prices can vary greatly depending on the size of the hole or crack that needs repair, the amount of materials required, and other factors. Cracks can appear at the seams in your drywall due to uncontrollable factors like your house settling or even minor earthquakes. Drywall, although sturdy, will break with enough impact, so if a dresser falls and crashes into a wall or your have a mishap hammering in nails for artwork, you could need drywall repair. Drywall repair professionals may have a minimum service fee of $100-$150 regardless of the size of the job. This ensures that their business expenses are met anytime they send their crew out to a job. Here are some additional examples of average drywall repair prices:
- Sand and texture five wall patches: $200 (45 minutes of labor and $40 of materials).
- Repair a 4x8 section of wall: $225 (labor $150 and materials $75).
- Replace drywall in an entire bedroom: $1,500 (price varies depending on the number of windows, whether there's metal trim, etc.).
What is the difference between sheetrock and drywall?
People sometimes use the terms "sheetrock" and "drywall" interchangeably, but they are not exactly the same. Drywall is the industry term for prefabricated sheets of wall, while Sheetrock is the brand name of a type of drywall. Depending on what room is being built, your drywall installation pro will select different thicknesses or grades of drywall. Standard residential drywall is ½-inch thick. Garage walls adjacent to a living space are typically ⅝-inch thick and serve as a firewall. For a garage ceiling, most contractors will use firewall-grade drywall materials to keep your home as safe as possible.
Different types of drywall can be color-coded to indicate their purpose. Purple or green drywall boards are often mold-resistant (MR) and are applied where moisture tends to accumulate, such as in bathrooms and basements or behind tile backsplashes at sinks. These mold-resistant sheets have a fiberglass instead of a paper facing finish to prevent water absorption. Regular drywall is gray or white. The drywall industry is constantly adapting with technology to provide safer and more targeted materials. You can even install soundproofing drywall to help prevent noise transfer through rooms.
How much will it cost to fix a hole in the wall?
If you have a hole in your wall, don't despair; drywall repair professionals can patch the hole and repaint the surface and no one will be the wiser. The cost to repair a drywall hole depends on the size of the surface area of the damage, the materials and labor required, and (for a minor repair) any minimum service fee the repair company may charge. The actual labor and drywall prices may be lower than the minimum service fee, but pros must ensure their business overhead costs are met when they go out on minor jobs. To help keep costs low once the pros get there, make sure you have the right paint on hand if you want them to do to a touch up after the repair is complete, so you don't keep them wait (and charging you for their time) while you search in the garage. Here are two examples of average prices for smaller drywall repair jobs:
- Approximate cost to repair a 5-foot crack in a wall: $125 (labor $75 and materials $50).
- Approximate cost to repair a 3-foot ceiling crack: $150.

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Pope Francis' 1st year: Not yet a revolution, but perhaps a start
ROME Seated in one of the thousands of stacking chairs packed between the enfolding arms of St. Peter's Square, pointed at a small stage on the steps of one of the world's most recognizable places of worship, Texan Bob Boillet uses the word everybody seems to be using when talking about the head of his church, Pope Francis.
The word? "Hope." It's a big word for many Roman Catholics these days. There's hope for inclusion, for acceptance and mostly for forgiveness.
"He talks about a more open-armed church. I like that," the 48-year-old San Antonio resident said. "Actual change won't be easy, especially when that change is about some dearly held beliefs. But he talks about a more open, more accepting church, and that gives me hope."
It'll be a year ago next Thursday when a puff of white smoke from the Sistine Chapel announced that the Roman Catholic Church had a new head. The choice was a 76-year-old Argentine cardinal named Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He arrived to find a church that many thought was out of touch with the modern world.
His church was struggling most visibly with a child sex abuse crisis, but there were other problems, such as how to deal with the modern realities of marriage, divorce and contraception. The Vatican bank had been shunned by most of Europe's central bankers. There were reports of homosexual orgies that involved members of the Vatican's government, fueled by a series of leaks of secret Vatican reports.
Amid this chaos, Francis' predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, a theologian who'd once overseen the church's investigation of child sexual abuse, announced that he would retire. It was a notion, in a church where every leader had died in office since 1294, that underscored the level of crisis. Popes simply don't retire.
Another centuries-old assumption also was about to die. The new pope was from South America, the first non-European to lead the church since A.D. 741. It was a signal of a church turning from its European past to a Southern Hemisphere future.
Bergoglio was not a choice without controversy, not least because he was not a man without controversy. Immediately, old accusations resurfaced that he'd failed to stand up strongly enough against the abductions of two priests during Argentina's "dirty war," an accusation he's strongly denied.
Others wondered whether Pope Francis would be as fiery as he'd been when as the archbishop of Buenos Aires he'd once lashed out at "hypocrites" among the clergy who "drive God's people away from salvation" by refusing to baptize the children of unwed mothers.
But if his ascension created a bit of stir, his first year in office has been closer to a whirlwind. Within months, those both inside and watching the Vatican _ the city-state within Rome that serves as home to the church _ were talking about "the Francis revolution" and "Vatican glasnost," a reference to the period in Soviet history when Mikhail Gorbachev began coming clean about huge problems such as the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.
Francis quickly told the Vatican to act aggressively on child sexual abuse cases and has since set up a commission to advise him on how to deal with pedophile priests. While a change in policy remains to be seen, it was an open and very public declaration of intent, which many saw as at least the beginning of a positive change.
In addition, on a plane ride back to the Vatican from a world youth day in Brazil, he said: "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"
He baptized the baby of a couple who'd been married outside the church _ in the Sistine Chapel, no less _ and promised an unmarried pregnant woman that he'd baptize her child as well, if she couldn't find another willing priest.
The head of an almost unimaginably wealthy church, he spoke out against financial inequality. In a November apostolic exhortation, he said, "Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?"
The Rev. Professor Diarmaid N.J. MacCulloch, one of the world's most noted Vatican experts, who teaches at Saint Cross College of Oxford University, said it was difficult not to be impressed by the speed with which Francis had changed the image of a global church.
"He's not put a foot wrong so far and he's clearly a delightful and lovable man," MacCulloch told McClatchy in an email. "And the change of atmosphere he's created is remarkable . . . the transformation from the embattled atmosphere, particularly under Benedict, and the bits of the spectrum which John Paul II simply seemed unable to see (like the real seriousness of the child abuse scandal) is remarkable."
But, MacCulloch noted, there is a "but." In fact, he said what many have said through the centuries about attempting dramatic change at the Vatican: "Overnight, things have changed. Very dangerous for him."
There are powerful vested interests in the church status quo. As such, some Vatican watchers focus more on Pope Francis' moves with the Vatican bank than on his social programs. In his first year, he replaced four of five cardinals who sat on a bank supervisory board. Those replaced had been appointed to five-year terms in the last days of Benedict's papacy.
During Francis' first year, the Vatican has been more transparent about scandals within the bank _ most notably accusations of money laundering _ than a history of tightly held finances would have foreseen.
Still, how deep and broad change can be is another matter. Marco Tosatti, who writes the Vatican Insider blog for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, said that until now change had mostly been skin deep.
"It's an image change, certainly," he said. "But real change can take many years, even several popes. You don't so easily change an organization of 1 billion Catholics."
While Francis has addressed topics such as Communion for those who've divorced and offered hope for a larger role for women in the church hierarchy, Tosatti notes that any change would come against the deeply held beliefs of many around the world. Change isn't as easy as announcing it from the Vatican.
Tosatti points to a bishops' synod on the family scheduled for October as a better gauge of the potential for change than simply reviewing the pope's statements after a year. There, topics such as divorce and single-parent families are expected to be discussed in depth, providing a real view of church opinion.
Still, an image change is no small feat. And that change in the church is evident even in the way Pope Francis appears on the news in Rome. John Paul II was a superstar pope; experts note that he was covered almost like a celebrity, with the focus on his personality. Pope Benedict XVI was a dour theologian. He made headlines only when he seemed provocative. But Francis makes headlines every time he speaks. The change in image, at least around the Vatican, has been so dramatic that every word he utters is parsed and discussed for new, hidden changes it might bring.
While a new poll says Francis has yet to bring more worshippers to the pews in the United States, attendance at his weekly audiences here _ every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. he preaches to and blesses the crowds in St. Peter's Square _ is up an estimated 30 percent. When he arrives, in an open-topped Mercedes on a slightly elevated flatbed, he rolls over the ancient cobbles of the square down open rows that allow him to come into closer contact with the followers and pilgrims who've made the journey to see him in person.
He's joyous; he stops to kiss babies. In November he famously kissed Vinicio Riva, disfigured by neurofibromatosis, which immediately became of a symbol of his concern and connection to all people. But even on less dramatic occasions, his connection to the audience is visible. He's the leader, the one everyone wants to see. But when he stops to take a sip from an onlooker's soda or laughs good-heartedly when he's asked to share in a selfie, there's a sense that he's not just the head of the church but one of its followers, as well.
Anne Ahern is a Catholic who's spent most of her life as a Roman, working around and with Vatican journalists, historians and followers. She said the increase of interest in this pope was palpable. Even very conservative priests seem intrigued by his vision, often repeating his Wednesday themes in their Sunday sermons.
Sitting in a cafe just blocks from the Vatican after a papal audience, she correctly noted that "What he said this morning will be the top story on all the local newscasts. What he said was pretty standard sermon material, today. But the journalists don't want to get caught missing something that, again, is new. Francis is a revolution."
MacCulloch added that revolutions are difficult to control.
"Equally dangerous is the release of expectations _ it's like the history of France in the 19th century," he wrote. "Liberalism comes in, and then all is swept away by people wanting much more than the liberals expected. So it's a very difficult tiger to ride."
Others note that revolution, in an institution such as the Catholic Church, cannot be completed quickly.
Pope Francis acknowledged as much in an interview last year with America magazine, a Jesuit publication.
"I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time."


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Once there were two bhikkhus of noble family who were good friends. One of them had learned the Tipitaka* and was very proficient in reciting and preaching the sacred doctrine. He taught many other bhikkhus and became the instructor of eighteen groups of bhikkhus. The other bhikkhu after striving diligently and ardently, attained Arahanthood together with extraordinary knowledge in the course of Insight Meditation.
On one occasion, when the second bhikkhu came to pay homage to the Buddha at the Jetavana monastery, the two bhikkhus met. Not realising that his friend had already become an Arahant, the Master of the Tipitaka looked down on him, thinking that the old bhikkhu knew very little of the sacred Dhamma. So he decided to ask him some questions on the Dhamma. The Buddha knew about his unkind intention and he also knew that as a result of seeking to ridicule a noble disciple the learned bhikkhu would have to suffer.
So, out of compassion, the Buddha visited the two bhikkhus to prevent the learned bhikkhu from ridiculing his friend. The Buddha himself did the questioning. He put questions on jhanas and maggas (higher achievement through meditation) to the master of the Tipitaka who could not answer them because he had not practised what he had taught. The other bhikkhu, having practised the Dhamma and having attained Arahanthood, could answer all the questions. The Buddha praised the one who had practised and realised the Dhamma but not a single word of praise was spoken for the learned scholar.
The resident disciples could not understand why the Buddha had words of praise for the old bhikkhu and not for their learned teacher. The Buddha explained the matter to them saying that the learned bhikkhu who knows a great deal but does not live in accordance with the Dhamma is like a cowherd, who looks after the cows for wages, while the one who practises Dhamma is like the owner who enjoys the five kinds of produce of the cows. Thus, the scholar enjoys only the services rendered to him by his pupils but not the benefit of Sainthood. The other bhikkhu, though he knows little and recites only a little of the Dhamma, having clearly comprehended the essence of it and having practised it diligently, has eradicated craving, ill-will and ignorance. His mind being totally freed from mental defilements and from all attachments of this world as well as to the next he truly reaps the benefits of Sainthood or Perfection.
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We are currenlty implementing Canon EOS liveview with Neurotechnology NLView box. Everything is working ok, we can take a photo and display it in the NLView and then switch back to liveview.
The problem is when we switch back to liveview the Face Detection Square is still active on the NLView window, when we take another photograph it is update but never goes away when we switch back to liveview.
I'm using .Refresh() and .Update() but this does not clear the Face Detection Square. Is there a way to turn this off or clear the square when switching to liveview.
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Welcome to my photography blog where I will show images from my photo shoots of people, places, products, and events. I might also throw in some life philosophy every once in a while for my younger readers. I'm really a better photographer than writer so I'll try to post more frequently. I'm a commercial photographer who mainly shoots virtual tours and stitched panoramic photographs. I also photograph business environmental portraits as well as family portraits


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Turns out Finland doesn't have free speech. Since that's the engine of innovation and growth, Finns are headed back to reindeer herding.
Gates of Vienna reports:
Last Friday the Finnish TV network YLE published the following brief news item:
A blogger in Finland has been fined for writing offensive material about Africans.
A court sentenced the 30-year old Espoo resident to a fine for inciting racial hatred. It found that the man's writings on the Internet constituted illegal propaganda.
The judgment ruled that the man slandered Africans by comparing them to animals. In his defense, the man said that laws governing freedom of speech protected his right to express his opinion.
Inciting racial hatred — hets mot folkgrupp in the Swedish version — is the catchall offense used in Finland to suppress politically incorrect speech.
Consider how modern economies would fare without free speech:
– Suppliers would suppress negative consumer reviews, so free markets would collapse.
– Governments would suppress aggrieved voters, so democracy and hence capitalism would be replaced by Fear State collectivism.
– Scientific criticism would be silenced, so growth of scientific knowledge would stall.
– Without the freedom to dissent from perceived state abuses, people would take up arms.
So without free speech you get what Finland was until 18 years ago – an impoverished communist hellhole.
Shame to see it revert.


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In September I traveled to Uaaipur, India to shoot a concept wedding film with a few of my great filmmaking friends. Kevin Shahinian wrote and directed this movie, it was an amazing experience that I will never forget! This is only the beginning of collaboration filmmaking, and I can't wait to see where this takes weddings.
There are so many ways to tell a story...
And so much a marriage symbolizes. So many questions it tends to raise: What is love? What is faith? It was our hope to explore these themes in a far more dramatically engaging way than we felt possible in a traditional documentary... Perhaps there is more within this story then meets the eye.
In the fall of 2009, Melissa & Samir embarked on an incredible journey to Udaipur, India, to fulfill a lifelong dream of having their wedding in the country of their ancestry. This transcendent place, affectionately called the "CITY OF LAKES," located in the breathtaking region of Rajasthan, would be the setting for their extravagant, three-day marriage celebration, and the backdrop of our unprecedented film production - shot entirely on-location. We believe this to be the first ever live event/scripted concept production 'hybrid' film produced on this scale.
We hope you enjoy the trailer for "CITY OF LAKES" and look forward to sharing the film with you soon.
Pacific Pictures presents "CITY OF LAKES"
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Pacific Pictures presents "CITY OF LAKES"
Starring Melissa Kumar, Samir Shah, Anubhab Saha, Sharon Chawda & Rushad Rana
Written & Directed by Kevin Shahinian
Produced by Kevin Shahinian & Patrick Moreau
Line Producer Pravin Thakur
Director of Photography Patrick Moreau
2nd Unit Director Joe Simon
2nd Unit Steadicam Casey Warren
Film Editor Kevin Shahinian
Jib Operator Chris Geiger
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Life Sentencing, life hermeneutics, and the inescapable influence of life experience.
***SPOILER ALERT – This is a film analysis examining the spiritual implications of events in the movie and will give away the conclusion.***
Bernie, a 2011 black comedy crime drama, is a spin on documentary reenactment that centers on a middle-aged town hero (Jack Black), and his relationship with his popularly loathed companion, the widowed senior Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). A vast divergence from his typical performances, Black earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Leading Actor for his portrayal of Bernie Tiede, after whom the film is named. Bernie strikes a shockingly brilliant balance between director Richard Linklater's consistent socio-philosophical depth and Black's humorous musical whimsy. The opening lines of the movie, which read, "What you're fixin' to see is real," [1] are as ironic as humorous in their overt tip of the cap to the story's East Texas setting. The movie is indeed based on a true story, a screenplay adaptation from a 1999 Texas Monthly article titled "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas" by Skip Hollandsworth. [2] The story's subject matter, however, is so odd that it demands investigation to be believed. The film is edited in such a way that documentary style interviews (given by nearly sixty authentic townspeople) are woven between scripted elements, allowing the story to unfold to the narration of a Greek chorus of town gossips. This narration, by the authentic witnesses of the real-life events, allows the audience to watch the story unfold from the unique perspective of those who were intimately involved in the events that took place in Carthage, Texas in 1996.
The film's main character is an assistant funeral director who exudes Christian virtue in generosity, love, and kindness for others. He pours himself out in his neighbors' service not merely in their lifetimes, but takes extraordinary care of them, and their families, even after their passing. The audience is told that Bernie was a "very charismatic man, a loving person, and he had the ability to make the world seem kind." Bernie "just made you feel real good about yourself." Scenes are shown in which Bernie comforts the surviving as they mourn the loss of loved ones, and he is shown leading worship as the music director of the local congregation. Bernie is a man who leads hymns, preaches, takes the Little League team for ice cream, and assists friends in filing their income taxes. All knowledge the audience gains of Bernie is constructed by authentic accounts of his public image, and Bernie's private actions and thought-life are left unexamined in respect for the real Bernie Tiede. This effectively places the audience behind the eyes of the citizens of Carthage. By all public accounts Bernie seems to carry himself as a man who (in love for Christ and genuine care for others) gives himself away sacrificially. An interviewee asserts, "He was about the most popular man in Carthage," and another says that "if the people of Carthage were to make a list of those people that they thought would get to heaven . . . Bernie would be right at the top of the list."
In stark contrast, the film introduces Bernie's counterpart and companion, the recently widowed senior wife of a Texas oil tycoon, Mrs. Marjorie Nugent. She is said to have been "a mean, old, hateful [expletive]." By every account she is portrayed as contemptible, despised not merely by the collective townspeople, but also by her own family. One woman summarizes the town's dismissive disdain of Mrs. Nugent saying, "There are people in town . . . that would have shot her for five dollars." Mrs. Nugent first becomes a focus of Bernie's attention when he begins visiting her (as he did many other widows) to comfort her after the loss of her husband. Bernie quickly becomes Mrs. Nugent's only friend, bringing her back into fellowship at the church and travelling the world with her, and their budding friendship grows into an inseparable and toxically co-dependent pairing. The question of romance is dismissed by the town's majority perception that Bernie is a celibate homosexual. With Bernie's jovial influence Mrs. Nugent's demeanor and attitude begin improving, and the two appear to be flourishing together. During this same time, Mrs. Nugent adds Bernie to her bank accounts, makes him sole heir of her will, and grants him power of attorney over her estate. These events set in motion a crescendo that builds into the "event of the season in Carthage."
*The following video contains obscene language not suitable for all viewers.
Cut ahead two years, and the honeymoon phase of the relationship has clearly passed. The dynamic of Bernie Tiede and Marjorie Nugent's relationship has shifted drastically. Marjorie is now depicted as having taken ownership of Bernie, manipulating him into a glorified servant. Mrs. Nugent has returned to her former contemptibility, and Bernie has become a personal whipping boy. Bernie waits on Mrs. Nugent hand and foot while enduring her constant denigration and possible psychological abuse. "She was demanding, condescending, or even conniving; and she had intentionally put him in a dependent position. She was jealous of his time, envious of his community status, and overly generous to him so as to make him stick around." This unhealthy relationship dynamic climaxes in a scene in which Mrs. Nugent throws a temper tantrum likened to that of a three year-old child, during which she locks the electronic driveway gate so that Bernie cannot leave the property in his car. As the bars close, the visual depiction of Bernie's imprisonment tangibly illustrates his fully grown despair. "Basically it was like Bernie had become her property."
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In Mrs. Nugent's final denial of Bernie's dignity, she very unsympathetically declines to attend an important dress rehearsal for a play in which he is cast. This becomes the last straw for Bernie, who seems to have come to the end of his psychological rope. Thus, the stage is set for the town hero to become the story's very unusual antihero.
In the next scene, Bernie shoots the 81 year-old woman four times in the back with a .22 caliber armadillo rifle. He then proceeds to store Mrs. Nugent's body in her deep freeze to preserve it for "a proper burial." The next time Bernie appears he is cast in an eerie celebration of his new found freedom. Bernie is shown, head thrown back, legs kicking up and down as he sings and dances a musical number for the local play. Here, in one of the director's only veiled attempts to cast questions on Bernie's motives, Linklater shows Bernie performing "Seventy-Six Trombones" as Harold Hill in the Music Man. This is more than slightly significant, as Music Man's main character is a gifted con-man who rolls in from out of town, and through much false presentation, charm, and manipulation comes to compel the personal investment of the town's people. When he is exposed as a fraud, Hill is saved only by the towns' markedly skewed perception of the hope and transformation he has brought to the town. It is necessary at this point to question just how much similarity Bernie Tiede holds to Harold Hill.
For the next nine months, the disappearance of Marjorie Nugent draws little concern as Bernie tells those concerned that she has moved into a nursing home. "The only person looking for her was her stockbroker." During those nine months Bernie went on to disperse Mrs. Nugent's wealth throughout the town, sewing into everything form local businesses, students' tuition, children's playground equipment, and the church building campaign. While Bernie had given a ridiculous amount of Mrs. Nugent's fortune away, the film gives no indication that he had spent it on himself. Whether these were purely acts of generosity, attempts at penance, or efforts to buy the peoples' favor, Bernie's motives are left to the viewers' interpretation. Eventually, Mrs. Nugent's stockbroker, who was not getting his regular commissions on her trades, stirs up the family and local authorities and a search ensues. Upon the discovery of Marjorie Nugent's body, Bernie makes a full confession.
The town of Carthage's unexpected response is where the plot gets interesting. "From the day that deep freeze was opened, you haven't been able to find anyone in town saying, 'Poor Mrs. Nugent,'" said city councilman Olin Joffrion, a respected Carthage insurance agent. People here are saying, 'Poor Bernie.'" [3] In a reaction too bizarre for fiction, the people of the town unanimously side with the killer. Some could not believe he had it in him to kill a person. Others flatly refused to believe, even given the evidence. Summarizing the way in which the town processed the news, one man says, "I don't claim to know what Bernie did or did not do. I figure that's between him and God Almighty. And the way I figure it, that's where it should stay." In the weeks following, it becomes abundantly evident that, despite his confession, there is not a potential juror in town willing to convict Bernie of his crime. By the movie's account, this was a first. "Trials are generally moved when the defendant can't get a fair trial locally," Bernie's defendant says. "Now that's usually because the crime is so egregious, and so well known, that everybody in the community has already convicted the . . . accused. But in all the years I've been doing this for a living I have never heard of the state seeking a change of venue because the defendant was so well liked that they couldn't get a conviction."
Enter District Attorney Danny Buck (Matthew McConaughey). Knowing he cannot get a conviction in Carthage, Buck convinces the state to move the trial 47.7 miles down the road from Carthage to San Augustine County, the "Squirrel hunting capital of the world." A Carthage resident explains that the jury would now be comprised of a bunch of "cousin counting rednecks," with "more tattoos than teeth . . . without a brain in the whole dozen of them." Buck, the multiple term District Attorney, upholder of justice, and defender of order, becomes the town villain.
At the trial of Bernie Tiede, Linklater's audience now becomes unquestionably aware that Bernie is recapitulating a crime story riddled with philosophical questions and social implications. To this point Bernie has been portrayed (through the eyewitness accounts of Carthaginians) in a unified positive light. Playing on the emotions of the "cousin counting rednecks," Danny Buck brings before the San Augustine jury the deep freeze, pictures of the dead Mrs. Nugent, and her crying relatives. Buck proceeds to forge an image of Bernie as a first-class-flying, uppity snob, who used Mrs. Nugent as the means to fund his expensive tastes. Bernie was a Ritz Carlton living, Les Miserables watching, fancy word using, white wine drinking lover of extravagance. Bernie was "a liar, a coward, and a back shooter," who shot a little old lady in the back . . . four times. Buck depicts Bernie as an inhuman, evil, con artist . . . a monster. Danny Buck had created two different worlds and painted Bernie as being of a world to which members of the jury could not relate. Bernie becomes dehumanized. Given this perspective, the jury unanimously convicts Bernie of capital murder, and sentences him to life with parole in 50 years (a conviction and sentencing typically reserved for premeditated and other more egregious acts than that which Bernie committed).
Where in Carthage, "Bernie became the town's Robin Hood" (a character in a historic story that holds its own set of debatable ethical implications), Danny Buck convinced the people of San Augustine that Bernie was not an angel, but instead an "angel of death." What the film captures is one group of people, with a specific set of influences, who cannot bring themselves to the exercise of reasonable justice. Another group of people, given a different set of influences, issues a sentence that unjustly exceeds the circumstances of the case. Where the truth of the matter, and appropriate justice, likely falls somewhere between the two positions, both groups exhibit grossly perverted judgments (which are heavily influenced by their specific experiences) and show themselves incapable of mustering objective responses. The reality is that there is an objective truth to be known. Relative "truth" is a crime in itself, and this crime has victims of its own. Many people suffer from the inability of others to see truth, and likewise when others take as dogma that which is false.
In the end, Bernie is a film that poses more questions than it answers. "If anything it is a film about the selective application of moral judgement based on personal prejudices. Even as the film ends it is difficult to say if it's a story about an entire community that was deceived or if it is a story about a remarkable individual who paid dearly for his kindness through one deadly, momentary lapse in reason." [4] What is more broadly evident, however, is that Bernie is a microcosmic demonstration of the way in which societies' worldviews drastically shape their interpretations, ethics, judgments, and their subsequent outcomes. Bernie raises questions about the way in which social context, personal relationships, and emotions impact the way in which people rightly or wrongly interpret reality. This movie is a commentary on life hermeneutics, the method (or unconscious lack thereof) by which people interpret the events of the piece of history in which they live. Further, people without a firm grasp on truth and morality are prepared to excuse blatant wrongdoing, or to condemn right-doing, based on grounds that lack any coherence with truth. This film illustrates that without objectivity, the "truth" becomes whatever people say it is. This translates into people being what others say they are, and justice being what the collective says it is. Like Bernie, the truth is silenced, sentenced, and ruled upon; branded anew by perverted perspectives.
This inability to escape the influence of circumstances has innumerable applications. A person cannot interpret anything apart from accessing his worldview in order to formulate his construct of reality, and his worldview is formed by the influences and circumstances of his life experience. Beyond the failure of justice demonstrated in the case of Bernie Tiede, this issue has direct application to the way in which people make moral decisions. A person's individual bias and conditioning has a very significant impact on the way in which he interprets the Bible as well as other literature. In some way, these biases inform the way in which people interact with every thought. The ultimate question becomes, "Is it possible to set aside bias in order to interpret information in such a way as to essentially get to the truth, despite bias always remaining technically present? Or are people always inevitably predisposed to perverted interpretations?" Will there be no ability to attain perfect truth or perfect justice this side of eternity? For the Christian, perfect truth is found in Christ and His Word, and the Christian's desire is to have his mind transformed by the Word's renewing power. The Christian's hope is in Christ's promise that "if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." The Christian's hope is for the renewing of our minds that we might be able to see more clearly what is right and good. The only answer that Bernie offers is that knowing what is right and good certainly won't be the case for those who make interpretations and judgments according to the status quo. An uninformed foundation, uncritical analysis, and lack of diligence in the pursuit of truth results in real victims and drastic consequences.
[1]All quotes are taken from the film unless otherwise noted.
[2]Skip Hollandsworth. "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas," Texas Monthly (January 1998).
[3] Ibid.
[4]Brody, Richard. "Bernie in the Heart of Texas," The New Yorker (April 26, 2012).
***I would like to add that this post is not an endorsement of the obscene language or unrighteous themes of the movie, Bernie, nor is it an endorsement of the movie as a moral guide. Rather, this post is an attempt to shine the light of Biblical Truth among movie fans that might otherwise not hear the hope and truth of the Christian worldview.***
If you enjoyed this film analysis, you may also enjoy my other film analyses (and the ongoing dialogue) of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, or George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road.
Chad W. Hussey is an average Jesus loving iconoclastic non-conformist neighborhood hope dealer – a husband, father, urban missionary, community group leader, Master of Divinity student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Community Life Intern at Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY.


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When I was first diagnosed with AIDS in 1988, I did not know what to do. I was blessed to be listening to WLIB in New York, and heard a wonderful doctor named Barbara Justice talk about the possible treatments she had for HIV, and the potential for low-dose alpha interferon to be a successful treatment. With a strange combination of faith and desperation, I sought out Dr. Justice and she became my primary care physician. We developed a doctor-patient relationship that was based on her desire to cure or heal me, and my willingness to participate in my own survival.
Our mutual trust became so profound, that I ended up in Kenya looking for a cure for myself, and everyone else dying from the disease by being one of the first to test the alpha interferon protocol created by Dr. Davy Koech in 1989. I did not have a primary care physician before I met her, so I am a eternally grateful for the foundation she set as to how my relationship with my medical team would be for the rest of my life. Like most young people back then, I did not think anything would happen to me that an emergency room or clinic couldn't handle, but boy was I wrong about that.
I was concerned about leaving my hometown of New York to live in Atlanta, because I did not know if I would find another doctor like Dr. Justice, but I did. Dr. Justice guided me to Dr. William Richardson as my next primary care physician once I came to Atlanta, Georgia. We don't have the time and space for me to express my gratitude to him, and all the wonderful medical professionals that have played a part in my wellness to this day. I would, however, like to thank some of the superstars who have been on my team since 1988. Dr. Justice, Dr. Richardson, my present angel and primary care physician Dr. Joyce Drayton, Dr. Mark Armstrong (complimentary), Dr. Kimberly Carter (hypertension), Dr. Sadine (thyroid), Dr. Okolo (liver), Dr. Parikh (corneal specialist), Dr. Kyle Jones (opthamologist), Dr. David Gasdsen (chiropractic), Dr. Brian Pearlman (liver specialist), my buddy and co-advocate Dr. Luther Virgil, Jr., their entire staffs, and so many others that have played such a big part in helping me to live well. They are all the tops in their fields, and I am blessed to know and be treated by them.
I am grateful to have had a union job with the IBEW that afforded me good health care, so that I would be able to afford the care that I have received. I am blessed to be able to receive Medicare so that I can continue to get great treatment. Even as an electrician making decent money, I could never have afforded the expensive life-saving treatments and medications that have been necessary for me to be alive. It is such a relief to have been able to provide medical care insurance for my children and wife. I know, though, that it is by the grace of God that I am able to share my experiences with you.
Here is some wisdom that many politicians and others seem to not want to admit: Something will happen to every human body. We, as humans, do not like to suffer, and we can't just die to avoid it. Currently, my eyes need critical treatment so I can see, my liver will need hepatitis C treatments to avoid cirrhosis or cancer, we are treating the HIV virus and high blood pressure. Thank God there are now treatments available, and useful natural therapies to support them, but what good would it do if I could not access them because I could not afford them? Heck, my sister had a double lung transplant last year and she is better than new! None of that would be the case without medical insurance.
In America, greedy politicians and people who lack empathy use the power we gave them to starve and deny the less fortunate. We can do better than this as a society, but for now I'd say sign up for the so-called "Obamacare" and make the states that are rejecting Medicaid money for the poor change their policy.
I was 28 years old when I went to drug and alcohol rehab, and emerged after 31 days to begin my new life. When I took the job as an electrician, I was more concerned with how much money I could make then I was with the security that my medical coverage would provide for my family and me. As I found out soon thereafter, and realize still today, you never know when disease or accident will afflict you or your family. When we are young, we feel especially invulnerable.
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As I face my latest health challenge, and we all have something to deal with physically, I wonder why anyone would want to deny another human being the option of being able to afford health care. Why does it cost so much anyway? I know that God is in charge and that through faith and effort I will be all right, but I want the same for you. That is how I know it is indeed time to RISE.
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Hot Water Beach is situated a short 10minute drive to the beautiful Hahei Beach, and the iconic Cathedral Cove which is a 40minute scenic walk down through native New Zealand bush to which you arrive at the secluded beach below. Many people choose the alternative option to reach the famous archway in the rock, by sea kayak. Cathedral Cove Sea Kayaking takes you on an adventure to Cathedral Cove around the rugged coastline, and if you travel onboard with Kiwi Experience they will give you best price guarantee on this adventure and transport you to and from your accommodation. Pull up on the shore and enjoy a coffee, tea or hot chocolate and some snacks before exploring the spot and heading back around the rocks to Hahei Beach.
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Pablo Martin is hoping a return to his "special place" at the unique Leopard Creek Country Club in South Africa can help him secure a third successive Alfred Dunhill Championship.
The Spaniard has won the last two editions of the championship to establish a wonderful affinity with one of the world's most fascinating golf courses, where many of the planet's most amazing animals reside in their natural habitat.
Now he has history in his sights as he bids to become only the fifth player to complete a hat-trick of victories. Should he win for a third consecutive time, the Spaniard would join Ian Woosnam (1990-92 Monte Carlo Open); Sir Nick Faldo (1991-93 Irish Open); Tiger Woods (1999-01 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational, 2005-07 WGC – CA Championship and 2005-07 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational) and Ernie Els (2002-04 Heineken Classic), as the only players to win the same European Tour event three times in succession.
Martin's two shot victory over Anthony Michael, Thorbjørn Olesen and Charl Schwartzel in December of last year was the first event in The 2011 Race to Dubai, and, now with just four events remaining before the Dubai World Championship presented by DP World, the tournament takes on a new significance with various sub plots bubbling under the surface. Many will be eyeing a place in the season climax while others are involved in a battle to retain their playing rights for 2012.
Martin has no such worries about his card but needs to rediscover his outstanding Leopard Creek form to guarantee a place in The European Tour's season-ending finale.
"It's such an amazing place," said Martin. "It's just beautiful and one of those places that you get on Tour that you can get away from the golf course and experience something amazing. To go on safari and hopefully see some of the 'big five' – it really is special.
"I have been lucky enough to see quite a few lions but the only leopard I have seen is the trophy. Maybe I shouldn't complain about that because it has been a great trophy for me for the last two years. Hopefully I can do it again.
"I don't know what it is about the place. If I knew what it was that makes me win there I would do it every week but it is the place that I just go to and become totally relaxed."
Martin is the first to admit that his form over the past two months has been nowhere near the standard to complete a hat-trick of Alfred Dunhill Championships, but he has experienced enough in the game of golf to know that everything can change in a single moment.
"I need to find something this week because I have not a lot of confidence at the moment so I don't know what to expect to be honest.
"But you just never know with this game. Golf is a crazy sport that drives you mad most of the time and it might the case that this week I find my game again in this very special place and maybe I can do something good.
"It would be great to win it again. Three times would be special and if I do it I will be taking that trophy home – even if they won't let me!"
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Master developer Julian M Bucknall provides Delphi developers a comprehensive overview of using algorithms and data structures from a practical perspective. He begins with a discussion of algorithm performance, and provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as arrays, linked lists, and binary trees. The book focuses on search algorithms--such as sequential and binary search--and sort algorithms--including bubble, insertion, Shell, quicksort, merge sort, and heapsort--along with techniques for optimization. Additionally, the author presents hashing and hash tables; priority queues, state machines and regular expressions; and data compression techniques such as Huffman and LZ77.
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Dec 14, 2010The book helped me find what I needed to get over the mental obstacles I had about algorithms. It was a big help in my term paper.
May 5, 2010Excellent book. It's a very well written book with a hard to find proportion of theory and practice. Although Delphi-oriented, I think it's usefull for any programmer. Thanks to the author for making it available again.
Aug 22, 2009The book starts off with the basic ground work surrounding algorithms: what is a proof? Computer Science, Mathematics and theory, etc.. It basically answers the question why anyone should bother learning about algorithms and the complexity that surrounds this topic. The authors then take a rather unique approach to the theory behind algorithms by discussing program recursion and iteration. It seems a little odd, but it turns out to be a very good way to introduce readers to topic algorithms. Recursions is a topic covered in CS1 courses, and using that as the basis and introduction to algorithm design and correctness proof really reels in the reader and makes the topic easier to grasp. Corllins University
Jan 9, 2009This book teaches fundamental algorithms that will improve your code.(unless you have Don Knuths mobile number). There are other books that cover the same material,(even the author calls it the 3rd best book on Algorithms!), but in my opinon it has two advantages over it's competitors for Delphi programmers. 1: It is written in a very accessible manner, without loss of rigour. 2: All examples are in Delphi.(Downloadable from authors website) No other Delphi book covers this subject with anything like the same depth & clarity. If you are serious about programming in Delphi this book will pay for itself in a matter of hours. It went out of print a couple of years ago and second hand copies were changing hands for literally hundreds of dollars. Buy, read, use, and be happy.
Jan 2, 2009"Excellent Algorithms book.. A must for delphi developers" If your a delphi developer and don't own this book. You should.. It covers a variety of classic algorithms in delphi. Well worth the money..
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Gwyneth Paltrow has come under fire from child protection advocates after a young girl modeling bikinis was featured on her lifestyle website.
The "Iron Man" star's Goop.com site sells swimwear designed by Melissa Odabash, and shows pictures of a little girl wearing one of the two-piece creations, as well as beach cover-ups.
The outfits, which are described as "great for girls who want to look grown up," have sparked outrage among campaigners who claim the images sexualize children.
Claude Knight of Kidscape, a British foundation set up to prevent child abuse, tells Britain's Daily Mail, "We remain very opposed to the sexualization of children and of childhood.
"The dangers have been discussed at length, so it is a great pity that such trends continue and that they carry celebrity endorsement."
It is not the first time Paltrow's Goop.com has caused a backlash – last year, she was criticized by health experts for promoting a drastic detox plan, which involves consuming just one low-calorie meal and two protein shakes a day.


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Dennis Lee's '65 Buick Riviera GS
In Dennis Lee's neighborhood, not every kid has to climb into some vast and dull minivan when there are trips to be made and errands to be run. In fact, the kids at Dennis' house get to take those kinds of rides in the coolest car around.
To most of us, this long, low, mild custom Riv probably doesn't shout "family fun!" When we look at that assertive stance and that extensive black sheetmetal, our imagination whips up images of sharkskin suits, and cool tough-guy attitude-but according to Dennis, it's all about trips to the video store and the ice cream shop, and cruising down Main Street. What it's not about is sliding side doors, liftgates, and flip-down DVD screens.
While Dennis definitely wanted a custom his whole family could ride in, he also wanted something that still had some of that edgy flavor. He had previously owned a stock '65 Riviera and really loved the lines, which he says reminded him of some of the exotic European classics. This time he wanted a Riv with some modifications, but not so many mods that they would "custom out" the lines he liked so much. And he wanted it jet black to intensify the car's ready-to-go aggressive look.
He discovered this '65 Riviera GS on eBay, posted by a classic auto dealer in New Mexico. It was in great shape, rust-free, and a bargain. Finding a builder who was able to understand his ideas and could apply them to a not-so-typical car was a more difficult mission, until Dennis met Randy Clark from Hot Rods & Custom Stuff in Escondido, California. Dennis had been impressed by the Ridler-winning '49 Chevy that Randy built a few years ago. When he found out Randy had owned a couple of mid-'60s Rivs, the deal was sealed.
For the next two years, Dennis and Randy worked together to determine the direction of the mild custom modifications. Dennis' kids got involved in the project by contributing their own ideas. His daughter Taylor loves the color red, which ended up all over the interior, from the leather upholstery to the door panels, dash, and trim. His son Grant inspired the choice of a Grant steering wheel. And preschooler Garrett knew there had to be some flames somewhere on the Riv, a wish carried out with some black outline licks on the woodgrain side panel inserts. From the beginning of the buildup to the end, all the kids wanted to know was, "When is the Buick coming home?"
Now that the big black Buick is home, Dennis, his wife Liza, and the whole gang love to go for family rides in the coolest car in the neighborhood. "They just go berserk," Dennis says. Then again, who wouldn't?
Dennis LeeHuntington Beach, California'65 Buick Riviera GS
ChassisThe factory frame was modified for driveshaft clearance, and the original steering and spindles were kept in place, but SSBC disc brakes were added to the front and rear. The suspension includes an Air Ride Technologies Intelliride airbag system with 'bags in front and ShockWaves in back.
DrivetrainInitially, Dennis was thinking about a larger engine, possibly an EFI small-block, but ultimately chose a Nailhead because of its classic looks and the fact that it's a Buick. Luckily, there happened to be an ideal donor engine right under the hood of the Riviera. The 425ci engine wears an Offenhauser intake and dual four barrels, along with finned aluminum valve covers and air cleaner. Custom headers funnel exhaust to a pair of Flowmaster Xcel mufflers. A custom adapter hooks the engine to a Chevy 700-R4, which spins a custom two-piece driveshaft. A narrowed Ford 9-inch rear was packed with 3.73 gears and a Posi.
Wheels & TiresThe 18-inch wheels are proportionally perfect for a car this long, show off the big disc brakes, and are the primary exterior components distinguishing the car from a stock appearance. The contemporary five-spokes are alloy Cruzers from Wheel Vintiques, with three-spoke knockoffs covering the lug nuts. Radial tires are Pirellis.
Body & PaintIf you're gonna paint a car this big this black, you'd better have it laser-straight before you start shooting. The New Mexico desert climate probably helped keep the body fairly rust free, but 40 years worth of driving required a little attention to bring the body back to brand-new condition. Hot Rods & Custom Stuff shaved the emblems and door locks, but retained the rest of the trim, and covered the car with mirror-perfect coats of PPG black. While they were at it, they fabricated some custom horizontal trim for the taillights.
InteriorElegance continues into the interior of the Riviera, where the original seats were stripped of the factory vinyl and covered in red leather (inspired by Taylor Lee) by the guys at Hot Rods & Custom Stuff. Randy Clark modified the tilting armrest between the rear buckets with a padded insert and added three sets of seatbelts so all the Lee kids can buckle up in the back. Engine-turned panel inserts were installed in the factory dash, along with vents for the Vintage Air A/C system. Dennis chose a Grant three-spoke steering wheel (inspired by Grant Lee), which matches the woodgrain door panel inserts. Those inserts were dressed up with some subtle 'striped flames (inspired by Garrett Lee).


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An initiative which aims to enhance understanding around the issue of young people and juvenile crime through the medium of drama is being run by the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.
The play 'Blackout' - run by the Creative Learning department at the Lyric Theatre thanks to the support of Belfast Harbour and Phoenix Gas - tells the story of a young man called James who wakes up to find himself in a prison cell with no recollection as to how he ended up there.
The play has been performed in more than 25 schools across Northern Ireland in partnership with Hydebank Wood College and the PSNI.
The cast was made up of five actors who rehearsed in conjunction with young offenders in a local prison.
Some of these young offenders toured with the company and took part in post-show discussions sharing their experiences, in particular with Restorative Justice programmes, in the hopes to dissuade young people away from crime.


text: 03 Sep 2015 08:30 Etihad Airways has appointed Sajida Ismail as Vice President Service and Hospitality to lead service design and development of the hospitality culture across all areas of the business. Reporting to Shane O'Hare, Etihad Airways' Senior Vice President Marketing, Ms Ismail will be responsible for the design of Etihad Airways' award-winning signature service at all customer touch points. She will also be responsible for the development of training standards for all staff working inflight, and at airports, lounges, and crew training centres.She moves to the new role from her previous position as Etihad Airways' Head of Product and Service Standards, where she was responsible for the design, development and implementation of the airline's revolutionary new service delivery concepts in all cabins including The Residence by Etihad and its dedicated Butler, as well as the acclaimed Flying Nanny program. Prior to joining Etihad Airways in 2007, she worked for Bahrain-based Gulf Air for 20 years in various senior marketing and product related roles.Shane O'Hare, Etihad Airways' Senior Vice President Marketing, said: "With almost 30 years of experience in the airline and hospitality industries, Sajida's tremendous knowledge and expertise in the fields of product and service development has placed her in the ideal position to deliver outstanding hospitality excellence in her new role. She has provided remarkable leadership and direction to the Product & Service Standards team."Sajida was instrumental in the design and realisation of Etihad Airways' new inflight service concepts on the new Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 fleet and she will be invaluable in her new role, responsible for the development and implementation of the next phase of the Etihad Airways service and hospitality journey."Commenting on her appointment, Ms Ismail said: "Being part of the growth and success of Etihad Airways continues to be a rewarding experience for me. This new role will allow my team and I to create the strategies and innovative programs needed to feed the growth of the airline as a world leader in service and hospitality design. This will enable us to foster guest loyalty by creating unique travel experiences they will value." Contact met Etihad Als wereldwijd opererende luchtvaartmaatschappij hebben wij natuurlijk overal ter wereld vestigingen. Lees hoe u contact kunt opnemen met uw dichtstbijzijnde Etihad-kantoor. Bekijk onze contactgegevens Feedback Als u een opmerking, compliment of klacht wilt doorgeven, of een vraag wilt stellen, klik dan hier Vind ons leuk Bezoek onze Facebookpagina!


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The herbalists of ancient times knew about the powers of St. John's wort, and they used it for a wide variety of ailments. However, Western medicine discarded the ancient knowledge, dropping the study of herbs from medical school curricula. In its assumption that the old teachings were unscientific old wives' tales, the medical profession lost touch with these gifts of the natural world.
In this chapter, we'll first look at the history of this fascinating plant. I'll then discuss St. John's wort's antidepressive effects and its numerous other benefits.
An Ancient Medicine Rediscovered
St. John's wort presents a wonderful paradox. Known to healers for thousands of years, it has become an overnight sensation in the modern media. No doubt utilized by some of the earliest civilizations, the oldest records of its use come from Greek and Roman times, according to herbalist Christopher Hobbes. Dioscorides, the foremost Greek herbalist, recommended it for sciatica and malaria relief, and as a diuretic and female tonic. Pliny the Elder, the Roman naturalist, found it effective against snakebite when mixed with wine. (We're not sure whether the wine was to be mixed with the herb, or just drunk to take one's mind off the pain!)
The botanical name Hypericum comes from the Greek words yper, meaning upper, and eikon, or image. The Greeks and Romans believed that St. John's wort protected them from evil spirits and witches' spells, and often placed the herb in their homes and above statues of their gods. Perhaps the spirits and spells referred to depression and anxiety, mental disorders with no obvious physical cause.
The early Christians incorporated many ancient beliefs into their new religion. Preexisting spring rituals, for instance, were renamed as saints' feast days. In this tradition, Christian mystics named Hypericum after St. John the Baptist. It was traditionally collected on St. John's Day, June 24, and soaked in olive oil for days to produce a blood-red anointing oil, said to symbolize the blood of the saint.
By the thirteenth century, belief in the herb's mystical power was well established. People brought the flowers of the plant into their houses on Midsummer Eve, or St. John's Eve (June 23), to protect them from the powers of evil. In another common practice, they put the plants under their pillows on St. John's Eve. According to legend, the saint would appear in a dream, give his blessing, and protect the sleeper from dying during the following year. St. John's wort was also burned in bonfires on St. John's Eve to drive away evil spirits, purify the air, and protect crops.
According to the traditional doctrine of signatures, an herb's physical appearance gives an indication of its specific healing power. Red plants, reminiscent of blood, were felt to be good for wound healing. The red oil in St. John's wort was no exception. Crusaders not only carried the plant to protect themselves from sorcery, but also used the soaked flowers and leaves as an ointment to help heal the wounds of battle. Physicians in the sixteenth century found the herb to be very effective for treating deep wounds. The first London Pharmacopoeia, published in 1618, recommended that the flowers be placed in oil and allowed to stand for three weeks. The resulting tincture was used for wounds and bruises. Other traditional folk uses for St. John's Wort include the treatment of gout, rheumatism, and jaundice.
When the first European colonists arrived in North America, they found that the Native Americans were already familiar with the herb. The latter used it for diarrhea, fevers, snakebite, and wounds and other skin problems. It later served as a valuable medicine for treating soldiers' wounds during the Civil War. St. John's wort was also prescribed by the homeopaths of the period for a variety of ailments, as it is to this day. (For a list of the active ingredients in St. John's wort and their effects, see "The Many Active Ingredients in St. John's Wort" )
Unfortunately, toward the end of the nineteenth century, the medical establishment in the United States turned its back on traditional folk remedies. Teachings that had been passed down through the ages were dismissed as primitive superstition. Medical researchers considered most of the complex chemical constitution of a plant to be extraneous, and their objective was to isolate the plant's so-called "active ingredient." Now, of course, we realize these "extras" are often the ingredients that hold the secret to a plant's strength and healing power.
Medical authorities established what we now know as conventional medicine, focusing their attention on medical and surgical techniques, and manufactured drugs. They lobbied Congress and the state legislatures for the prohibition of herbal medicine, which had a chilling impact on the legitimate use of herbs to promote health. Current laws still restrict the use of specific healing claims on herbal medicine labels. Only recently has conventional medicine begun to explore once again the potential contributions that herbs can make to health.
St. John's Wort and Depression
Conventional medicine may be scratching its collective head about the value of St. John's wort, but that hasn't stopped ordinary people such as Kate from reaping its benefits, including its remarkable ability to fight depression.
Kate, a 48-year-old married author and public speaker, had a super-busy lifestyle, with frequent deadlines and an intense travel schedule, and it had caught up with her. "While on an impossible deadline, I had a total collapse. I was exhausted, stressed, and depressed. My doctor put me on Prozac, but it made me even more depressed, and then, I couldn't sleep. He gave me sleeping pills that zonked me, and that was it. I stopped the Prozac. Then I read about St. John's wort, and thought I'd try it, 250 milligrams twice daily. I figured it couldn't hurt! Three weeks later, my husband Mike suddenly noticed: 'You're different! You seem more relaxed, less tense. What's going on?'"
Kate hadn't told him she was taking St. John's wort, but her change in attitude was obvious. "One of the most dramatic things I began to notice is I felt happy and ebullient in the mornings, which I never was before. It was never like this on Prozac. I'm more energetic and focused, and there's more laughter!"
Her good news continued. "Our sex life has always been very sporadic and difficult. Four weeks after starting St. John's wort, we had a sexual experience that was distinctively different from any we have had in our twenty years together. I felt an openness, a sexuality, that was a pervasive feeling, coming from my very core. It was extraordinary for me, and Mike was just swept away. I don't think I'd ever felt that way, even when I was younger. And this openness has continued."
In a separate conversation with me, Mike was even more effusive than Kate. "I can't believe how she's changed. She's always been so tense, barely available, especially when she's stressed. Now, she's a delight. We are having the time of our lives!"
This all sounds too good to be true, you might say. Maybe it's an isolated incident, or simply the power of suggestion as a result of all the positive publicity surrounding St. John's wort. How representative is Kate? According to the research I have read, reports from other physicians and practitioners, and my own clinical experience-hers is not an isolated case.
In fact, one of my colleagues, a holistic physician, had been asked by a woman in his yoga class what he knew about St. John's wort. He gave her what information he had. Two months later, she came running up to him in class, exclaiming, "I must thank you. The St. John's wort changed my whole life, my outlook, everything. It's like a veil lifted from around my head. I've never felt so good. And I'm dreaming again, and remembering my dreams. I can hardly believe it!"
Contemporary Research Proves the Value of St. John's wort
In Germany, where herbal medicine is a standard part of the medical-school curriculum, 80 percent of German doctors prescribe herbs such as St. John's wort on a regular basis. Not surprisingly, a great deal of the research on this most valuable herb has been conducted in Germany.
Mild to moderate depressions respond well to treatment with St. John's wort. More than twenty studies involving thousands of patients confirm the herb's ability to reduce and often eliminate the symptoms associated with these conditions. Compared with both placebos-inert comparison substances-and various antidepressant drugs, St. John's wort has come out on top every time.
The herb's success rate as an effective antidepressant is between 60 to 80 percent, a rate equal to that of prescription drugs such as Prozac, with far fewer side effects. A drug monitoring study published in 1994 looked at the experiences of 3,250 patients who were treated with St. John's wort. It found that only 2.4 percent of these patients reported any side effects at all, a rather remarkable finding when you consider that Prozac produces side effects at least ten times more frequently, and that even the placebos produced side effects.
Scientists are not yet sure of exactly how St. John's wort works. For example, a preliminary National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in vitro, or test tube, study indicates that St. John's wort has a high affinity for GABA receptor sites in the brain (see Chapter 3 in St. John's Wort: Nature's Blues Buster). The amino acid GABA (gamma-amino-butyric acid), plays a role in mood regulation: GABA levels are low in people with depression, and GABA-enhancing agents show both antidepressant and antianxiety effects. Despite the herb's Valium-like effect on anxiety, there is a lack of sedation, which is an obvious advantage in treatment.
Let's see how St. John's wort can help several specific problems.


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JUNEAU, Alaska — A federal judge on Thursday struck down claims in a lawsuit alleging that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acted to silence an activist who complained about traffic around the governor's mansion in 2009.
U.S District Judge Timothy Burgess granted Palin's request for summary judgment, finding that activist Chip Thoma failed to provide the evidence necessary to support his claims. Palin's attorney, John Tiemessen, said the ruling means that, as a matter of law, no valid claims stand, and it should lead to dismissal of the case.
Thoma sued for at least $100,000, claiming that Palin, while governor, undertook an effort to punish, embarrass, discredit and silence him after he complained about tour bus traffic around the mansion following her failed 2008 vice presidential bid.
Thoma, in his lawsuit, said he complained about the traffic in 2009 to a state agency and made signs and fliers about the traffic situation that he posted and handed out. He alleged that Palin and unidentified conspirators retaliated — in some cases "twisting" his words, in others, "concocting complete fabrications" — to silence him and others whom Palin perceived as speaking out against her.
Thoma's initial lawsuit was partly based on a leaked draft manuscript by Frank Bailey, a Palin aide during that period. Bailey's book claimed Palin aides "went into discrediting Chip overdrive" after Palin expressed frustration with complaints she took as an attack on her family being in Juneau. For part of her tenure, Palin had gotten flak for not being in Juneau enough, or full-time.
Burgess said excerpts from the book could not be considered in the motion for summary judgment for several reasons, including that the passages are inadmissible hearsay. He said Thoma lacks the personal knowledge to authenticate the statements made in the book.
Burgess also said the only documented evidence that Thoma submitted to support his motion and oppose Palin's was his own affidavit.
"The record is simply devoid of evidence concerning the alleged retaliation," Burgess wrote.
Thoma deferred comment to his attorney James W. McGowan, who Thoma said was traveling. McGowan did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.


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