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NATIONWIDE — Reflecting what is now becoming a university standard, four universities are at different stages in their plans for new recreation centers. California State University Sacramento (Sacramento State) is in the beginning of its process, recently announcing it received a $10 million gift for a planned $73 million Recreation, Wellness and Events Center.
Real estate developer and San Diego Chargers owner Alex G. Spanos and his wife, Faye, gave the cornerstone donation for Sacramento State's new center and for the remodeling of Hornet Stadium. The proposed 236,000-square-foot multi-purpose center will include a new student health center, fitness center, rock-climbing wall, swimming pool, athletic courts, bowling center, conference center and an 8,000-seat arena for events such as commencement and intercollegiate athletics.
The new center passed a referendum vote of the students in April 2004 upon a pledge that the University President Alexander Gonzalez would raise $23 million toward the building. Student fees have increased $10 per semester, and once the university raises its portion, student fees for the center will increase to a total of $110 per semester.
In the meantime, California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) is poised to start construction on its $17.6 million recreational and multipurpose facility. The two-story, 92,000-square-foot rec center will include a 13,000-square-foot fitness center and two academic components — the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Leon and Pete Peters Education Center. The fitness facility includes cardiovascular equipment and free weights.
The building is financed by a $49 per semester fee referendum passed by students in November 2000, under the stipulation that the fee increase would not start until the opening of the facility. The project is scheduled for completion in December 2005.
The first-floor of the building will have two racquetball courts; two aerobic and dance studios that will offer classes for students; four full-size courts for intramural basketball, badminton and volleyball games; shower/locker rooms and multipurpose meeting/game rooms. The second floor will have a jogging/running track and room for additional fitness equipment, plus administrative and staff offices. The east side of the building will include an outdoor terrace with tables and chairs and a lawn area.
"Having the rec center on campus will drive home the message that physical activity and recreation are key elements in the health and well-being of active college students," Molly Fagundes, president of Associated Students Inc., said.
Central Washington University (CWU) in Ellensburg, WA, has broken ground for its new $40.7 million, 228,261-square-foot Student Union and Recreation Center, which is scheduled to open in January 2006. The center will be three-stories tall and include a four-court gymnasium, elevated running track, rock-climbing wall, fitness/cardiovascular and strength training areas, group exercise rooms, outdoor equipment rentals and locker rooms.
The student union component, scheduled to open in April 2006, will include dining services, the University Store, tenant spaces, a theater, meeting rooms, student government and administrative offices, and the student radio station.
The University of Akron just dedicated its Student Recreation Center and Athletics Field House as part of a $300-million, five-year campus improvement program.
The field house features a 120-yard AstroPlay field, 300-meter Mondo track, a strength and conditioning center, an indoor golf facility, football locker rooms and spectator seating for 1,200. The golf facility includes a putting green, bunker, a video player development simulator and a study lounge for student-athletes.
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Latimer House is a three-story steel-and-glass landmark Philadelphia home. Situated on a corner in the city's Washington Square neighborhood, the home's unassuming exterior is its best ruse: Architect-designed in the modernist tradition, over 5,000 square feet of space gives way to full-floor staircases, soaring ceilings and cavernous spaces. Cool in its steel-cased angularity, this home retains its warmth from the sun, let in by ample windows and skylights, including a glass rooftop atrium. A contemporary stunner. View the property.
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Our Adam Smith Benevolent Fund is making two new micro loans. The first is to Fifadji Jérônime in Benin. She is 35 years old and stopped her studies at the primary school level. She no longer lives with her husband. She is the mother of two children, both of whom have received schooling and live in her care. She lives with her children and provides for their various needs on her own.
In order to cover her expenses, Fifadji Jérônime has been selling beverages and other various items by the distribution system for two years now. This business allows her to provide for her needs without much difficulty. She stocks up in Togo.
The loan will allow her to expand her business and increase both her customer base and her revenue.
Rosa Emperatriz is 55 years old, is a widow, and has a son who is 36 years old. She started her business 20 years ago selling various products. She has always been a merchant and she likes to innovate. She currently works alone from Monday to Sunday from 6:00am to 5:00pm. In the evenings, she sells meat brochettes and roasted wings.
With the loan, she wants to buy supplies for her store such as oil, grains, sweets, candies, beverages, etc. Her goal is to make her business grow, so she will have more income to finish building her house.
The Adam Smith Benevolent Fund is a division of the Moorfield Storey Institute. A portion of the Institute's income is channeled into benevolent projects either as loans or donations. Income includes sales of books via our discount libertarian book service, Fr33minds.com.
We prefer to use micro-lending in most cases to encourage economic development in poor nations. Economic development is the key to solving most problems in poor nations.
As opportunities and businesses expand poverty is reduced, educational levels increase, social toleranace is fostered, health improves, etc. Helping poorer people become wealthier, through their own efforts, address a large portion of problems in developing countries.


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A person's first thought after being arrested and put in jail is often how to get out and fast! The usual way to do it is to post a bail.
Bail is cash, a bond or a piece of property that has a cash value, that a defendant gives as a guarantee that he or she will appear in court when ordered to do so. In general, if a defendant shows up to court when he or she is supposed to after being released from a jail, the court will return the bail. BUT if he or she DOES NOT show up, the court will keep the bail and most likely issue a warrant for the defendant's arrest.
Judges are responsible for setting a bail. Commonly many people want to get out of jail immediately instead of waiting a day or longer to see a judge, that's why most jails have standard bail schedules that specify bail amounts for common crimes. Where a defendant poses a threat to the safety of the community, he or she may be held without bail.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Gold's Gym CEO James Weaver announced a new concept club program at a franchisee press conference on March 17 during the IHRSA 2009 Convention and Trade Show. The smaller box concept clubs will be 8,000-square-foot and 12,000-square-foot facilities designed to include custom add-ons targeted toward the club's demographic market.
The modular clubs were designed to be put together for a lower capital investment, the company said, and can be enhanced with pre-packaged, pre-negotiated add-ons. These add-ons include small cardio cinemas, cycling, tanning and juice bars.
Joel Tallman, Gold's vice president of operations and franchising, said discussions for 40 new concept clubs already are under way, though the idea was just announced this week.
The company also debuted a partnership with software maker Ubisoft to release a Gold's Gym branded cardio Wii workout that will be available March 31 at locations such as Best Buy and Amazon.com.
The interactive video games will include a seven day pass to a Gold's Gym facility, plus a chance to win a free one-year membership. Franchisees also may sell the game at their pro shops.


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The Korean market isn't new to corporate promises that the iPhone will appear on its shores. Since the 3G's 2008 American introduction – a product launch which, along with the App Store, gave Apple's phone new legs, promises of the phone's introduction have come in well-timed spurts which are never accompanied by product. The lastest, again from Korea's largest carrier, KT, suggests that it will supply Apple's handset -a promise which SK (the nation's 2nd largest carrier) are also staking. Several hardware hurdles which have held foreign manufacturers from the market have been removed, but still, successfully establishing a niche in what has until now, been a handset dictatorship, is difficult.
That may just be the problem – the dictator has become the prime minister. Samsung pretty much owns the country and is looking for a bigger piece all the time. Theme parks, grocery stores, car parks, life insurance, skyscrapers, mobile carriers, etc.; without Samsung, which accounts for 20% of Korea's export market, the country would cease to operate.


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The nominees for Best Sketch are:
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Ask The Pastry Chef: What to Eat at Levain Bakery, NYC
Levain Bakery opened its first storefront on the Upper West Side in 1994. And since day one, everything has been baked on site without preservatives or additives. As popularity grew, two additional locations opened—one in Harlem and one in the Hamptons.
Most people who go to Levain order the cookies. After all, the substantial, sweet discs are what the bakery is famous for. But what many don't know is that Levain's owners, Connie McDonald and Pam Weekes, actually started out making wholesale artisanal breads for restaurants around New York City.
It's no surprise, then, that when McDonald and Weekes were asked for their list of Levain's must-try items, the list included a few breads. The owners had a hard time picking just 5 items—they said they don't make anything they don't love—instead, they've suggested a few items people might not be as familiar with as their famous cookies.
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Don't want to de-rail the match thread any further, so new thread for a new discussion.
I don't know if I've got the maths spot on for this, but a glance at Statsguru shows that the average RR in T20Is is 7.52, with the average RR for ODIs played since Jan 1 2005 being 5.01.
Based on England's RR of 9.55 yesterday, which is 129% of the average, an equivelant ODI score would have been 318, which according to duckworth-lewis.com would have seen the West Indies set 171 to win from 20 overs, which immediately seems like a much fairer total - in this hypothetical scenario, West Indies would need to score at 8.5 an over in response to a total of 6.36 an over, as opposed to 10 plays 9.55.
I think D/L is a good system, however the last 2 WC games between England and West Indies have shown its flaws when applied to Twenty20 cricket. IMO, the maths involved definitely needs an overhaul.


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Well, we made it, we are now at Belle Mère's. President Sarkozy stepped in with regard to the striking oil refinery workers, so France did not come to a grinding halt. And we were able to continue unhindered with our plans.
Yesterday morning MG went to collect the van that we have hired and when he backed it into our drive, I got quite a shock, van! It's more like a small lorry, but it is very important we have a tail lift, and standard vans don't come with tail lifts, you will see why in a second. All three of us got in the cab, Crusoe was very excited to be allowed up front, on the seat, he loved looking out of the windscreen. Six hours later after a very uneventful and uncomfortable journey we arrived at Belle Mère's.
Well you can imagine what Belle Mère's house looks like at the moment, piles of stuff and packing boxes everywhere, she would never forgive me if I published a photograph of it.
This morning we got up bright and early, first job move Belle Mère's plants, these are not going into storage, Belle Mère has had permission to put them in the garden of the house she intends to buy.
After we had done this, I had some errands to run in town, and MG went to get his hair cut, I promised you lot's of picture's and I think I have delivered. I took my camera with me, whilst doing my errands I snapped everything in my path! I am sure you will be able to see why I love this place so much.
This market is in town every morning until 12.30 pm. I would never go to the supermarket again if I lived here. The proper market is every Wednesday, it is one of the biggest in Provence, with some fabulous stalls and yes I will be going.....with my camera of course.
Something for the children and something for Julie at Being Ruby!
The port, no tacky gin palaces or floating nightclubs here, just fishing boats and modest sailing boats.
When the local fisherman return with their catch, they sell it, from a stall in front of their boat, can you get fresher than that?
Fancy an Ice cream?
Bunch of flowers? One of the biggest flower markets in the south of France is nearby and all the florists go early in the morning to purchase, there is so much variety and the prices are so reasonable (compared to our part) that you could flower up your whole house quite inexpensively.
OK, let me take a closer look.
Smell that Mimosa!
Whilst waiting for MG, I think I will have a quick aperitif before lunch.
On the way back, the market has gone, reavealing the treelined walkway, the trees are covered with glittering fairy lights at Christmas and provide much needed shade in the summer.
Saw these guy's windsurfing, whilst we were on the way back to Belle Mère's and could not resist snapping them through the windscreen.
Well back to Belle Mère's for lunch and more hard work this afternoon, have a lovely weekend, back soon.


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While it is true that virtual work, and in various cases working from home, can present certain difficulties when it comes to separating work and life, since both are taking place in the same space. In fact, one need not look far to see the many times that our working lives are so intrusive into personal spaces that it leads to high levels of stress, health problems and even difficulties in our personal relationships because there is no work-life balance. This is where we need to place a warning sign to allow us to avoid these kinds of situations. This course on Balancing Work and Life will give you the tools you need to stop work from taking over your personal life and vice versa.
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Through a personalized, practical experience methodology, you will be able to identify your own work dynamic, and recognize the positive aspects and those with room for improvement in terms of creating a more comfortable work space without risking your personal life. In this way, it offers the participants in the course the necessary rules for achieving work-life balance.
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Boxer Mix & Boxer, Rottweiler Truck Dogs - Truck Dogs
According to the vet, Kyle Harrity's dog Kawi is believed to be a cross between a Boxer and a Heeler. These photos were taken at the 10th Annual Mid West All-Truck Nationals held in Riverside, Missouri, September 11-13, 2009. To be more exact, right before and slightly after Kyle's '67 C10 with a hopped-up six-cylinder won the burnout contest on September 12. Kyle and Kawi live in Springfield, Missouri, and are members in good standing of 67-72ChevyTrucks.com.
There's only one thing slightly easier than herding cats, and that's trying to get a couple of dogs to pose for the camera. Here's Rocky the Boxer and Kandy the Rottweiler in the back of Hot Rod Alley's shop truck. If you ever find yourself in Lompoc, California, and would like to meet a couple of good dogs, and some fine folks, drop by Hot Rod Alley.
Getting a picture of your truck dog published in the pages of CCT is easy. Mail us good quality prints to CCT Truck Dogs, 774 S Placentia, Placentia, CA, 92870. or email high-resolution (798kb or larger) images to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please don't forget to include your phone number, and sorry we cannot return submitted material.


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Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, named after the tenth Sikh Guru, was established in 1973 by the Sikh Educational Society with the primary mission of providing quality education to women. To realize its mission, the college is imparting value based education to young women synthesized with their intellectual, spiritual, social and physical development so that the quality of their life can be enhanced. In the last almost four decades of its existence, the college has made utmost endeavors to train individuals to become responsible citizens of the globalized world. The college fully realizes its responsibility in equipping the students with adequate competencies to emerge as successful professionals, entrepreneurs, leaders, administrators, etc. Through various activities such as debates, declamations, creative writing workshops, seminars, talks, brain storming sessions, etc. the students are given exposure to build robust confidence and self- esteem. To stir and motivate under performing students, the college provides remedial classes. The advanced learners are provided with extra books/ material by the teachers who set suitable goals before them so that they feel adequately challenged. They are motivated for attaining excellence in the University examination through various incentive schemes such as scholarships, fee concessions, Roll of Honor and prizes. To facilitate access to higher education, students from socially and economically weaker sections are given financial aid which subsequently leads to their academic growth.
Catering to the total development of its students, the college fosters in them the spirit of healthy nationalism, social responsibility, moral uprightness, feelings of compassion and love, and above all a life of service and sacrifice as exemplified by Guru Gobind Singh ji. The inculcation of these eternal values is achieved through various activities such as the celebration of the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh ji, the patron saint of the college, as Founder's Day, visits to old age homes, orphanages, Institute of Blind School etc. The college nurtures compassionate disposition and encourages the students to contribute to the alleviation of suffering in a troubled world.
The college is playing a progressive role in transforming the society for the better by holding literacy campaigns, and by developing entrepreneurial skills among women. In its own small way, the college is trying to eliminate social evils. Societal issues are deliberated upon and discussed at various seminars/talks held in the college sometimes in collaboration with external agencies/ NGOs. Gender sensitization is one of the prime concerns; the college holds awareness talks and theatrical performances to sensitize the larger audience on gender related issues. The social orientation of the students is made possible through the National Social Scheme and National Cadet Corps programmes.
The rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is now inextricably linked with modern education. The college strongly integrates ICT into the delivery of its educational programmes. There are well equipped computer labs with broadband internet facility and fully automated library. The students play an integral role in various college activities by becoming class representatives, members of the Student Council, College Magazine and Alumni Association.
With its impeccable reputation, the Department of Physical Education has attained quite a name among the top institutions of the city by winning prestigious tournaments at various levels. The department makes ceaseless efforts to enable the students to compete at the highest state and national levels in number of sports. It is commendable that the college has been thrice the winner of the Over-All Inter College Championship of Panjab University, in the recent sessions. The role of the college is to create infrastructure which facilitates optimum efficiency of our sports women for achieving excellence in various competitive events at all levels. The Physical Education Department initiatives are geared towards achieving these objectives.
There are various clubs and societies that manage academic and cultural activities of the college. Students are encouraged to participate in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities and are given opportunities to exhibit their innate talents/skills .The Placement Cell of the college supports students in career choices and helps make job placements in industry, banks, call centers, educational institutions, etc. Apart from the other important committees, the college has a Grievance Cell to look into the complaints and grievances of the students. The Counseling Cell provides necessary guidance and advice to help students succeed in the face of increased competition while maintaining healthy perspectives.
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Earlier today we got confirmation that the next Alan Wake will indeed be downloadable, and that more details will be revealed at the upcoming Spike Video Game Awards.
Back in May, Kotaku ran a rumor from the site XBLA Fans that the next Wake game would be called "Alan Wake's Night Springs," and that it would be downloadable. Today, the site posted (and sent in) the above off-screen image of the game's title screen. If the image is accurate (and nothing about the game has changed since May), it looks like the game will indeed be called Night Springs and will be episodic.
The "Arcade Action" option sticks out most to me, and makes me think of either some sort of scored "arcade" method of playing the campaign (similar to Gears of War 3) or a series of ranked standalone challenges. The "Unlock Full Game" option is consistent with the rumor that the game will be episodic. That format makes sense with the title, too, since by making it "Alan Wake's" seems designed to communicate that the game is not Alan Wake 2. Basing it around Night Springs, the Twilight Zone-style television program of the Alan Wake universe, would open things up to an episodic format quite nicely.
We'll know more soon, as Microsoft sounds just about ready to spill the beans on the next Alan Wake.
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SEATTLE (AP) � It may be weeks or months � if ever � before rescuers can get on the ground to search for six climbers who likely plummeted to their deaths high on snow-capped Mount Rainier in Washington state.
Park rangers and rescuers often are able to retrieve bodies within days of an accident, but sometimes it takes weeks or months, when conditions have improved and snow has melted on parts of the mountain.
Occasionally victims are never found, as in the case of 11 people swept to their deaths in an ice fall in 1981 in Mount Rainier's deadliest accident. The same is true of a non-alpine accident in which a cargo transport plane crashed into the mountain in 1946 � the bodies of 32 Marines remain entombed.
"The mountain is so inaccessible and can be inhospitable. We can't always retrieve everybody who is lost there, unfortunately," said Patti Wold, a spokeswoman with Mount Rainier National Park.
The bodies of the two guides and four climbers who fell to their deaths last week on the 14,410-foot glaciated peak may never be recovered because of the hazardous terrain, authorities say.
"The degree of risk in that area, due to the rock fall and ice fall that's continuously coming down from that cliff onto the area where the fall ended, we cannot put anybody on the ground," Wold said.
It's unclear whether the climbers were moving or camping at the time of the accident, Wold said this past weekend. Searchers located camping and climbing gear and detected signals from avalanche beacons buried in the snow at the top of the Carbon Glacier at 9,500 feet in elevation.
It's also not known what caused the climbers to fall from their last known whereabouts at 12,800 feet on Liberty Ridge, whether it was rock fall or an avalanche. They were last heard from at 6 p.m. Wednesday when the guides checked in with their Seattle-based company, Alpine Ascents International, by satellite phone. The group failed to return Friday as planned.
Alpine Ascents identified the two guides on its website. Matthew Hegeman, the lead guide, was described as intense, philosophical and always in the pursuit of excellence with a good sense of humor. Eitan Green, the other guide, loved his time in the mountains and was a strong leader and quick to smile, the website said.
The Seattle Times reported Monday that Seattle mountain climber John Mullally was one of the six who died. His wife, Holly Mullally, issued a statement Monday saying that she had previously been on climbs organized by the company, and had also climbed with Hegeman.
"I respected his leadership and found him to be experienced, skilled, appropriately conservative, thoughtful, and someone who I could count on to keep my husband safe, barring tragedy beyond our control," Holly Mullally wrote of Hegeman.
Officials at Maine's Colby College said Green was a 2009 graduate of the college. Colby spokesman Steve Collins said the Massachusetts native majored in anthropology and was a member of the college mountaineering club. A memorial service is scheduled for June 5 in Levine Chapel in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Rob Mahaney told The Associated Press that his 26-year-old nephew, Mark Mahaney, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was among those presumed dead. He said the climber's father and brother flew to Seattle on Saturday after learning what happened. Mahaney said his nephew had climbed Rainier before.
The area will be checked periodically by air in the coming weeks and months, Wold said. They will also evaluate the potential for a helicopter-based recovery as snow melts and conditions change.
In 2012, park rangers recovered the bodies of three climbers about eight months after they disappeared during unrelenting storms on Mount Rainier.
In 2001, the body of a 27-year-old doctor was discovered more than two years after he vanished while snowboarding on the mountain. Also that year, the remains of three men were removed from the mountain after being entombed there for nearly 30 years after their small plane crashed. A hiker and former climbing ranger found the wreckage of the single-engine aircraft that crashed in January 1972.


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Rihanna Rocks New Hair
Style chameleon Rihanna has made another hair transformation. Though she rocked blonde for a bit, she's back to the color drawing board. What shade did she choose this time?
Jet black! Perhaps inspired by her 'Princess of China' looks, RiRi went back to the same raven hue as her 'Umbrella' days — but with a twist. She shaved one of the sides of her head! Is she taking a cue from Kesha, maybe?
In the new shots, RiRi is fully clothed, but still manages to look a bit racy. In one shot, her hand is dangerously close to her privates, and she dons red animal print pants and a Rolling Stones tee. Her bright red lipstick matches her jeans, which she accessorizes with fierce black heels, hoop earrings and a simple bracelet.
In another black and white shot, she blows smoke seductively at the camera, similar to her cover image for 'Talk That Talk.'
Her black hair looks great — heck, any color would look amazing on RiRi — but it's not her favorite shade yet. "Navy blue is my color right now," said in a recent interview about her dream hair color. "Not any blue, not the punk blue. I have yet to see the right one. It does not exist yet!"


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The Dark Matters Film Festival Zombie Dance Party shambles into Sister Bar (407 Central SW) tonight at 8 p.m. The event promises lots of dead patrons and plenty of live bands, including Hoverbourd, Lindy Vision, Get Action, YOU and First Lovve. It's the official launch party for Dark Matters—which unspools May 17-19 at Guild Cinema with more than 14 horror, sci-fi and dark fantasy films from around the world. You can pick up your official DMFF programs tonight at the party. Check out the trailer above. When's the last time you saw a trailer for a party?
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All of this to preface the following question: Why is Shannon Stewart bellyaching to Jeremy Sandler about his release?
"In all honesty I don't really understand why I was brought over here, the whole experience didn't make much sense," Stewart told the CanWest scribe.
Stewart doesn't get why he was brought in at a discount when basically every other team passed on him? And he doesn't get why he didn't get all of the at bats as a DH/corner outfielder when he could barely slug over .300? And he didn't understand why the Jays couldn't have given him a shot to finish off the season in the Majors when he didn't even produce at Menchian or Wilkersonian levels this year?
When we look back at the things that we wrote earlier in the year, we were wrong about plenty of things. But when it comes to Stewart's signing, we pretty much nailed it:
Frankly, Stewart is a guy who has aged quickly, has a fraction of the power you'd hope for from a corner outfielder, can't reasonably play any other outfield position, and has hamstrings that could spontaneously combust at any moment. So we're not printing up the playoff tickets quite yet.And because everything comes full circle
We just thought we'd mention that the Twins have signed Bobby Kielty to a minor league deal. So order has been restored anew in the universe. Peace be upon us.


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Bruce and Peg Ganger might be the nonprofits power couple of Northeast Florida.
They each run a nonprofit and formerly owned a company that helps other charities raise money and promote their causes.
Bruce Ganger has led Second Harvest North Florida for the past two years, and his wife of 21 years, Peg, was chosen in August as executive director of Girls Incorporated.
"We feel we play a role in the quality of life," Bruce Ganger said of the work of their agencies in Jacksonville.
With more than 1,500 nonprofits in the five-county area in and around Jacksonville, how can donors know which charities to give their money?
"We encourage all donors to do their due diligence before they invest in a nonprofit," Bruce Ganger said. "That might include being a volunteer or attending an event or visiting their service sites to get an insider perspective of how the organization handles itself."
At Second Harvest, Bruce Ganger oversees 31 employees and some 6,100 volunteers.
"At some point, you have to trust the organization and have faith in them and their work," he said. "The best donors and investors are those who are also involved in the success of the nonprofit."
Both Peg and Bruce Ganger said they would also recommend the United Way of Northeast Florida. Their agencies receive funds from United Way, and Bruce Ganger said the agency checks out all the organizations it funds.
"Many companies offer payroll deductions to give to the United Way, so it can be a very convenient way to give," he said. It also allows donors to make contributions to specific charities.
The Gangers also expressed the importance of small donations.
"For Second Harvest, we can stretch a dollar donated to provide enough food to create seven meals, so every dollar is precious to us and to those seven hungry people," explained Ganger.
According to the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida, area nonprofits generate more than $5.8 billion in revenue, employ more than 56,000 people and have payrolls of more than $2.3 billion.
"Given the number of organizations, it should come as no surprise that the sector is extraordinarily diverse," according to a report called "State of the Sector" released in fall 2012 by the Nonprofit Center.
"It is diverse in size. Revenues range from more than $800 million in one year to zero, with the vast majority reporting less than $500,000 in revenues a year," the report states. Funded by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the report uses data compiled by Roy Oldakowski at Jacksonville University's Division of Social Services and analyzed by Mary Kress Littlepage of KBT & Associates.
"And it is diverse in mission. From state-of-the-art hospitals to stray-cat shelters, from soccer leagues in the suburbs to after-school programs in the urban core, to radio ministry to major universities, the nonprofit sector includes one of almost every flavor," according to the report.
Soon, the old Haydon Burns Library in Downtown Jacksonville will be home to the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida. The Jessie Ball duPont Fund, which in 2011 had revenues of $19.2 million and assets of $248 million, has purchased the former library and is spending $20 million to convert it to "a philanthropic and nonprofit center." It will also rent out offices to other nonprofits and charities in the area at a discount.
An estimated 2.3 million nonprofit organizations operate in the United States, and the sector contributed $804.8 billion to the U.S. economy in 2010, according to a 2012 report from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, published by Urban Institute Press.
Technology and the Internal Revenue Service make it easy to determine the financial picture of a nonprofit — its spending and how much it pays its top executives — but they do not make it easy to determine the nonprofit's effectiveness in providing services for its target audience.
Nonprofit agencies with annual revenues of $25,000 or more are required to fill out what is known as an IRS Form 990, a multiple-page form which has dozens of possible schedules charities must file each year. The completed forms are available online through several search engines, though some charge for their services.
Several organizations, including GuideStar, Charity Navigator and Charity Watch, rate charitable organizations, and most of the large ones operating in Northeast Florida have generally good ratings.
Ganger recommends using Charity Navigator to check out nonprofits, though it doesn't list charities with revenues of less than $1 million a year.
Charity Navigator issued a donor alert for two local nonprofits, the Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police Foundation and the Allied Veterans of the World, both of which were involved in what prosecutors said was a $300 million gambling scheme through the operation of Internet cafés.
A jury has convicted Jacksonville attorney Kelly Mathis of more than 100 charges that could send him to prison for 30 years. Mathis is appealing his conviction, claiming he was merely acting as an attorney for Allied Veterans.
In addition to contributions from individual donors, many nonprofits receive grants from foundations, businesses and governments.
Each year as part of its budget, the city of Jacksonville issues public service grants, saving millions of dollars each year by allowing charitable agencies to handle legal aid, homeless residents, a medical clinic for low-income workers, a shelter for battered women, refugee assistance and dozens of other services.
In this year's budget, the City Council approved public service grants of $2,015,501, compared with $2.4 million last year.
A chart presented by the nonprofit agencies during city budget hearings shows the value of nonprofits to the city. According to the chart, without the assistance of nonprofits, the cost of providing the same services would cost the city $93 million a year, according to a survey of 34 agencies which received public service grants.
In addition, an estimated 51,141 volunteers donate more than $8.76 million to work "on Jacksonville's most pressing issues," according to the center's diagram.
While providing more than 2,000 jobs, public service agencies also bring in more than $49 million in federal grants.
Some nonprofits get by with a handful of employees and very little payroll, while large agencies may have hundreds of employees, with the CEO or president pulling in a six-figure salary or more than $1 million a year.
"The IRS permits tax-exempt organizations to pay executives 'fair and reasonable' compensation. There is no universal standard defining fair and reasonable, however; what's fair and reasonable at one nonprofit may be a gross under- or over-payment at another," according to a report on executive compensation by GuideStar.
"Any assessment of nonprofit compensation has to take into account a multitude of factors" such as geography, size of the organization and specialized skills, Littlepage said.
"Most of the serious funders who support nonprofits take the view that judging an organization by how 'cheaply' it operates is wrong-headed," she said. "Nonprofits are businesses and, like any business, they must invest in staff and operations if they are to deliver quality goods and services and provide value to their customers/clients."
"Just because a business is a nonprofit does not mean it should be impoverished. When we devalue the people who do the work, we devalue the work that they do," Littlepage wrote in an email.
Folio Weekly examined several local nonprofits and charities, both large and small, choosing some because of their size and others because they have been prominent in the news. Every organization that has been recognized as tax exempt by the Internal Revenue Service has to file Form 990 every year, unless it makes less than $200,000 in revenue and has less than $500,000 in assets, in which case it has to file Form 990-EZ.
Total 2012 revenue: $1,704,842
Total function expenses: $1,575,736
Net income: $129,106
Contributions: $1,503,471 or 88.2 percent of total revenue
Executive compensation: $383,319; 24.3 percent of total expenses
Other salary and wages: $646,137; 41 percent of total expenses
Warren Grymes, CEO, $105,000
Steve Gilbert, COO, $81,847
Cheryl Grymes, vice president of programs, $80,000
Purpose: Its vision is that all children achieve success in life and to provide all children facing adversity with strong and enduring professional supported one-on-one relationships that change their lives.
Charity Navigator rating: 3 out of 4 stars
Total 2011 revenue: $33,261,314
Total function expenses: $16,676,142
Net income: $16,585,172
Contributions: $28,904,875; 86.9 percent of total revenue
Executive compensation: $526,282; 3.2 percent of total expenses
Nina M. Waters, president, $197,482
Grace M. Sacerdote, vice president, $137,477
Cheryl Riddick, assistant secretary, $95,185
Purpose: Its mission is to stimulate philanthropy to build a better community through grant-making that is fair and thorough but innovative.
Charity Navigator rating: 4 out of 4 stars
Total 2011 revenue: $93,322,538
Total function expenses: $83,725,500
Net revenue: $9,587,035
Contributions: $2,249,974 or 2.4 percent of total revenue
Executive compensation: $2,024,730; 2.4 percent of total expenses
Susan Ponder-Stansel, president and CEO, $464,875
Phil Ward, chief business operator, $298,310
Carlos Bosque, CFO, $256,949
Other salaries and wages: $34,058,943; 40.7 percent of total expenses
Purpose: It provides home care of terminally ill patients and comprehensive guidance care and support for patients and their families.
Not yet rated by Charity Navigator
Total 2012 revenue: $572,884
Total function expenses: $609,564
Net income: -$36,680
Contributions: $528,482 or 92.2 percent of total revenue
Executive compensation: $122,340; 20.1 percent of total expenses
Beth Clark, president, $58,510 (This position has changed; Peg Ganger is executive director.)
Meg Bake, administrative manager, $38,967
Ebony Williams, administrative manager, $24,869
Other salaries and wages: $234,551; 38.5 percent of all revenue
Purpose: The organization's main programs are an after-school program, outreach, a national literacy program and summer camps.
Not enough revenue to be rated by Charity Navigator
Total 2012 revenue: $4,824,426
Total function expenses: $3,647,125
Net income: $1,177,301
Contributions: $4,299,972 or 89.1 percent of total revenue
Executive compensation: $377,433; 10.3 percent of total expenses
Ellen Siler, CEO, $156,785; Carol Ginzig, $103,539
Gail Patin, $84,073
Other wages and salaries: $1,736,3633; 47.6 percent of total expenses
Purpose: Providing safety for victims of domestic violence and their children.
Charity Navigator rating: 4 out of 4 stars
Operates Second Harvest North Florida
Total 2011 revenue: $29,011,985
Total function expenses: $29,557,364
Net income: -$545,379
Contributions: $27,470,756 or 94.7 percent of total revenue
Executive compensation: $282,866; 1 percent of total expenses
R. Wayne Rieley, president and CEO, $146,720
Richard Mochowski, controller, $80,033 Jerome Crawford, vice president of operations, $79,732
Purpose: The faith-based social services ministry offers programs in AIDS care and education, refugee and immigration services, representative payee services, Second Harvest of North Florida and the Sharing Place Thrift Store.
Not rated by Charity Navigator
Total 2012 total revenue: $25,751,407
Total function expenses: $23,289,829
Net income: $2,461,575
Contributions: $25,729,071 or 99.9 percent of total revenue
Executive compensation: $1,008,869; 4.3 percent of total expenses
Connie S. Hodges, president, $363,317
Patricia Kilgore, vice president, finances and administration, $210,067
Linda Malloy, vice president, resource management, $142,733; Melanie Patz, vice president, community impact, $122,266
Kit Thomas, vice president, major gifts, $161,166
Purpose: It provides leadership, resources and focus to change lives in the community by creating sustainable improvements in education, income and health.
Charity Navigator rating: 4 out of 4 stars
Total 2011 revenue: $74,058,348
Total function expenses: $57,757,314
Net income: $16.301,634
Contributions: $70,145,724 or 94.7 percent of total revenue
Executive compensation, $1,092,206; 1.9 percent of total expenses
Steven Nardizzi, CEO, executive director, $310,692
Jeremy Chwat, chief program officer, $171,657
Victoria Nemerson, executive vice president
and general counsel, $157,303
Professional fundraising fees: $1,796,697; 3.1 percent of total expenses
Other salaries and wages: $10,412,548; 18 percent of total expenses
Purpose: It is committed to serving wounded veterans with both visible and invisible wounds of war, from burns and amputations, traumatic brain injuries and paralysis to combat stress, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
Charity Navigator rating: 3 out of 4 stars


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"Lynn Lee" <email@example.com>
st: twoway line
Sun, 7 Oct 2012 21:33:14 +0800
I finally got the graph done with -twoway line- command. Thank you.
Best Regards,
Lynn Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 8:27 PM
To: email@example.com
Subject: Re: st: twoway line
By -parm- you presumably allude to -parmest- (SJ/Roger Newson's own site).
If you use that, or any other convenient command, to save the coefficients
to a dataset, then you can plot the coefficients with
-eclplot- (SJ/Roger Newson's own site) or with a suitable combination of
-twoway line- and -rcap-.
That said, your treatment of years may yield inaccurate confidence intervals
if you are not properly modelling serial dependence.
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Lynn Lee <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your reminder, Nick. I apologize for unclearness.
> I run an OLS regression regarding returns to education.There are 20
> years, each year has its coefficient on returns o education. So, I
> want to plot a graph, with year on x-axis , each year's coefficient
> on y-axis, and confidence interval marked on the graph. How to create
> a data set that store all coefficients in it, so, I can plot this picture
> Maarten,
> First, thank you for your email regarding the interesting document of
> -parm- and confidence interval plot. But I see, the plots seems to be
> in discrete case. If I want to plot graph that is in "twoway line"
> shape, how to do that? Since I want to plot coefficients over years.
> I appreciate for your help.
> Best Regards,
> Lynn Lee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: firstname.lastname@example.com
> [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 4:13 PM
> To: firstname.lastname@example.com
> Subject: Re: st: twoway line
> What is "the [line] graph regarding [20] coefficients" from what
> presumably is a multiple regression obtained with -regress-?
> You need to explain precisely what you want, i.e. what is on the y
> axis, what is on the x axis, and how the 20 coefficients feature.
> Nick
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Lynn Lee <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to plot twoway line with regard to coefficients in OLS.
>> For example, the model has 20 coefficients, I want to plot the graph
>> regarding these coefficients. I tried to use command -eret-, but
>> coefficients can not be stored in data set. How to do this plotting?
>> Any suggestion is appreciated.
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I was a blubbering mess when I saw Whitney at the listening session in New York earlier this summer. Click here to read the article.
Whitney's new album I Look To You is available now. A true superstar declaring that it's time we stop f-cking around with the pretenders.
Yes, please.
The reviews are in – mostly positive and this from the New York Times:
"She's tentatively climbing back into the pop machinery, no longer invincible but showing a diva's determination."
I do.
More reviews can be found here.
Whitney was on Good Morning America today promoting the album.
This is Million Dollar Baby – Alicia Keys wrote it for her. Like way she opens ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…And all the oh ohs that follow.
I lipsynched this in the mirror while getting ready for studio this morning.
At the listening session Alicia was dancing in the aisle during this song, pumping her fist, beside herself with excitement. She wrote a song for Whitney. Yeah.
And here Alicia talks about the experience.
Is it her greatest sh-t ever?
You're measuring against a formidable standard.
But Whitney's Pretty Good is better than anyone else's Best They Can.
Whitney. True talent.
Enough of this f-ckery. Heidi Montag is cutting an album?
Time to support the artist. Whitney is on iTunes.
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Third Major Talent Agency Makes Way for Christian Musicians
A bi-coastal talent and literary agency with offices in Beverly Hills, New York and Nashville, has announced the launch of a full service Christian Music Division.
With the new service to be installed at its Nashville office, the Agency for the Performing Arts (APA) Inc., becomes the third major agency – along with William Morris and Creative Artists Agency (CAA) – to offer a division dedicated solely to booking artists in the Christian music marketplace.
APA currently offers representation in all areas of the entertainment industry – from motion pictures to television to literary, as well as concerts and tours for their artists. It represents actors, comedians, broadcasters, radio personalities, writers, directors, producers and musicians.
"We have been involved in Christian music for the past five years, and with the addition of Mark Guynn we can now offer a full service Christian Department," states Jim Gosnell, APA's president and CEO. "We are thrilled to be able to provide across the board representation of Christian clients, and look forward to proceeding."
Former William Morris agent Mark Guynn, an industry veteran of fifteen years, will oversee the Christian division for APA. All of the APA/Nashville agents will participate in booking the Christian roster.
"We are very excited to be in the Christian music business full time and to start building the future of our division with these amazing acts," says Guynn. "Our goal is to dedicate the kind of time and resources it takes to effectively represent each one of our artists at every stage of their careers. We plan to build careers that will endure."
The latest artists to sign onto the APA Christian roster include the band Overflow and Brave New World recording artists The Wedding. They join current APA clients including Christian rock superstars Stryper.


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Dolby Inks Deal with Microsoft
Dolby Inks Deal with Microsoft
From stereo to surround sound, and from real-time encoding to discrete channel codecs, Dolby Labs Inc has probably done them all. More recently, Reuters reported that Dolby Labs has just signed an agreement with Microsoft. This deal would enable Microsoft to integrate Dolby's products into their upcoming Windows 8 operating system. More precisely, Microsoft will include two-channel encoding and Dolby Digital Plus 5.1-channel decoding in Windows 8. However, it won't be a free ride though. Original equipment manufacturers and PC makers will have to pay a base royalty fee to Dolby for use of its products, according to John Coulings, Dolby's VP of marketing. The firm will receive one royalty payment per device containing related Dolby technologies.
Speculators have also been wondering about the state of Dolby's stocks as well ever since the company hinted that they weren't going to be part of Windows 8 last year. And not surprisingly, Dolby's shares took a bump of 19 percent (to US$44.60) after the partnership with Microsoft was announced, and closing at US$37.63 on Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange. Dolby's CEO, Kevin Yeaman, also added that each licensed copy of Windows 8 will be enabled to play all online content with Dolby encoding. However, OEMs will have to fork out more for playback of media found on optical discs. Actual royalty figures weren't disclosed, unfortunately. Lastly, the audio firm also mentioned that all video clips recorded with Dolby Digital Plus will be fully compatible with Windows 8 on tablets and personal computers.


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For the centenary of Alfred Russel Wallace's death, November 7, 2013, I assembled a host of on-line resources about Wallace's life and work, which was posted to ncse.com and sent in Evolution and Climate Education Update, NCSE's free weekly e-newsletter. (Not a subscriber? That's easy to fix.) After he received the update, Norman Sleep, a professor of geophysics at Stanford University, sent me Kevin Zahnle's 2001 article (subscription required) from Nature about Percival Lowell's ideas about canals on the planet Mars. Although Lowell didn't discover the canals—that credit belongs to Giovanni Schiaparelli—he was responsible not only for popularizing them but also for promoting the idea that they were the products of intelligent design. Lowell's views were dotty; Zahnle admits that "Lowell's flamboyance, combativeness, and inflexibility made him look ever more like a crank" on the topic. But what's the connection to Wallace?
Well, in 1907, at the age of 83, Wallace wrote a book—entitled Is Mars Habitable?—responding to Lowell's 1906 book Mars and its Canals. In his Man's Place in the Universe (1903), Wallace had argued that Mars was not inhabitable, so he was understandably concerned to defend his position against Lowell's. Zahnle writes, "Lowell's arguments were generally much better than Wallace makes them out to be, which is why many survived substantially intact into the 1960s," adding, "but Wallace identified three fatal flaws, two in physics, the third in interpretation." It's the interpretative flaw that interests me here. Zahnle writes, "Here Wallace answered the 'Nothing I can think of apart from life can explain ...' or the "I'll know it when I see it' arguments that still pervade the abstract business of life detection." But since Is Mars Habitable? is freely available on-line, I decided to take a look for myself at what Wallace in fact argues.
Wallace was not attacking Lowell's observations. Indeed, he expressed his admiration for his observational diligence, offering, "I myself accept unreservedly the substantial accuracy of the whole series"—although he added, presciently, that it is "quite possible" that "new discoveries might so modify present appearances as to render a satisfactory explanation of them more easy than it is at present." In fact, it wasn't long before improved telescopes discredited the existence of canals on Mars, and Schiaparelli's and Lowell's observations—always controversial—were generally attributed to optical illusion. (Zahnle notes, however, that a few purported canals correspond to actual geographical features on Mars: the canal dubbed Agathadaemon, for example, is the very real Valles Marineris, a gigantic system of canyons more than 4000 kilometers long, 200 kilometers wide, and up to seven kilometers deep—eat your heart out, Grand Canyon.)
Rather, Wallace was taking issue with Lowell's interpretation of his observations. Here's a representative passage from Lowell, quoted by Wallace, who wrote that Lowell is here describing "the plain teaching of the 'canals'":
But last and all-embracing in its import is the system which the canals form. Instead of running at hap-hazard, the canals are interconnected in a most remarkable manner. They seek centres instead of avoiding them. The centres are linked thus perfectly one with another, an arrangement which could not result from centres, whether of explosion or otherwise, which were themselves discrete. Furthermore, the system covers the whole surface of the planet, dark areas and light ones alike, a world-wide distribution which exceeds the bounds of natural possibility. Any force which could act longitudinally on such a scale must be limited latitudinally in its action, as witness the belts of Jupiter and the spots upon the sun. Rotational, climatic, or other physical cause could not fail of zonal expression. Yet these lines are grandly indifferent to such competing influences. Finally, the system, after meshing the surface in its entirety, runs straight into the polar caps.
It is, then, a system whose end and aim is the tapping of the snow-cap for the water there semi-annually let loose; then to distribute it over the planet's face (p. 373).
Anyone familiar with "intelligent design" creationism will be struck by Lowell's reasoning here: a phenomenon is identified as in need of explanation; all possible natural explanations are dismissed; and intelligent design is triumphantly inferred.
Now, Wallace's main answer to Lowell involves providing a possible natural explanation that Lowell overlooked: "a physical model of fracturing of a cooling, originally hot lithosphere accreted around a primordial cold core," as Zahnle summarizes it. But it's interesting to note two features of Wallace's discussion that indisputably put him at odds with today's "intelligent design" creationists.
- First, Wallace (along with Lowell) clearly assumes that intelligent design entails adequate function: for example, he notes that the length of the channels make it implausible to suppose that they were constructed for irrigation—unless, he jokes, they were "the work of a body of madmen rather than of intelligent beings." In contrast, "intelligent design" creationists insist that intelligent design doesn't entail adequate function—while blithely helping themselves, of course, to the idea that adequate function entails intelligent design.
- Second, Wallace clearly assumes that the canal system's supposed designers were ordinary physical agents, constrained by the same laws of physics that constrain civil engineers here on Earth. If Wallace had been reasoning like today's "intelligent design" creationists, however, he would have been studiously neutral here, allowing that the canals might have been the product of a direct creative act of God—or, perhaps, Tur, the god of the Phundahlians on Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom—and thus would be in no position to counter Lowell's design inference.
The recent "intelligent design" creationist attempt to coopt Wallace as a precursor was never all that plausible, especially when Wallace authorities like George Beccaloni, Michael Shermer, and Charles H. Smith took pains to debunk it. But it was gratifying to see for myself how implausible it is. It's too bad, really, that I didn't give it any credence: otherwise I could thank Sleep for rousing me from my dogmatic slumber!


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3-D pen that lets you draw objects in the air
(Brandon Griggs@CNN) We're all doodlers by nature. Give most people a pen, paper and some down time, and they'll fill the margins with the fruits of their imagination.
But imagine if you could wave a pen in the air and create a three-dimensional rendering: A toy, a sculpture, a crude architectural model.
Soon you will. A Boston-based startup, WobbleWorks, has created what they are calling the world's first 3-D printing pen. It's called the 3Doodler, and it's been a sensation on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site, since it debuted there Tuesday morning. The makers of the 3Doodler set a modest fundraising goal of $30,000; within 48 hours, backers had pledged more than $1.1 million.
"We knew it was a great product. But we didn't expect the response to be this fast," said Daniel Cowen, a spokesman for the gadget, which is still a prototype. "The velocity of the response caught us by surprise. It's phenomenal."
The 3Doodler plugs into an electrical outlet and works sort of like a glue gun. As the pen draws, it oozes heated plastic, which quickly cools and solidifies, allowing its user to build an infinite variety of patterns and shapes. Its makers say it works on surfaces or in the air.
Users load spaghetti-like strands of non-toxic ABS plastic - the same stuff that's in 3-D printers - into the back of the pen. (A biogradeable form of plastic made from corn is also available.) The 3Doodler's makers say each one-foot strand of plastic, available in a wide range of colors, can produce about 11 feet of moldable material.
WobbleWorks sees the 3Doodler as a simple and affordable form of 3-D printing, an emerging form of manufacturing that uses computer models to help machines build plastic objects. The MakerBot Replicator 2, perhaps the best-known 3-D printer for the home, costs $2,200. Cowen said they expect to sell the 3Doodler for $75, which includes a small bag of plastic strands.
Additional 1kg spools of plastic will be available from a variety of sources for $30 to $55, WobbleWorks says. The pen's makers say the average 1kg spool of 3mm ABS plastic will supply roughly 4,000 feet of 3Doodling, or about the height of three Empire State Buildings.
The gadget is shaping up to be a hit for WobbleWorks, a small toy and robotics company led by computer engineers Peter Dilworth and Maxwell Bogue.
If manufacturing goes according to schedule, the first buyers will receive their 3Doodlers in September, Cowen said. Buyers who order now won't receive the pen until November, he said.
The makers of 3Doodler have been collaborating with wire artists on Etsy, the crafts website, to show how the pen can be used to create artwork, jewelry and other objects.
"We really want to create a community around 3Doodler," Cowen said. With more than 13,000 financial backers already on Kickstarter, they may already have.
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You will need the MySQLdb Python module. The main development site for this module is found at sourceforge. There is also a cheeseshop page.
Best Approach:
If that fails:
$ easy_install MySQL-python
You will need the MySQLdb binary installer for Windows (the file will be called something like MySQL-python-1.2.2.win32-py2.5.exe).
For Darwin Ports:
$ sudo port install mysql4 +server
$ sudo port install mysql5 +server
Alternatively, you can just download the MySQL package format installer from the MySQL site (Mirror).
There have been reports about problems when trying to install MySQLdb via easy_install on Mac OS X, so you may be better of using one of the above alternatives.
Another issue with installing mysql-python on OS X Leopard (and a work-around for it) is described in the article the MySQLdb on Leopard. In short, before attempting to install, ensure that the MySQL bin directory is in your path, otherwise mysql_config will not be found.
First set the database connection string in your project's deployment configuration (i.e. dev.cfg for a development environment, prod.cfg for a production environment):
assuming george as the database user name, localhost as the hostname of the database server and test as the database name. See the TurboGears Configuration page for more information on TurboGears' configuration files.
Then we need to create database using the mysql shell (give the password for the MySQL root user when prompted for):
$ mysql -h localhost -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE test;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec)
mysql> GRANT ALL ON test.* TO 'george'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)
mysql> [Press CTRL+D]
Now we can test the DB connection as follows:
shell> mysql -h localhost -u george -p test
Enter password: ENTER
Now it is everything prepared and we can create database structure using our model:
tg-admin sql create
MySQL includes several storage engines (e.g. MyISAM and InnoDB). MyISAM is older and most sites only use this engine. MyISAM is somewhat faster than InnoDB but is not able to handle transactions (and you like to keep your data integrity, right? ;-).
Note that transactions are not the only reason why using InnoDB is a good idea. InnoDB also enforces data integrity more strictly than MyISAM and also has many more features.
Every table in MySQL can have its own engine. When creating a table, you can specify which engine to use. The default engine in MySQL is MyISAM.
Unfortunately, SQLObject does not allow the specification of a storage engine as most databases only use one storage engine.
When the command tg-admin sql create is issued, the default table type is used.
There are several ways to use InnoDB with MySQL:
By default TurboGears uses transactions. But there is a hook that allows you to disable transactions in TurboGears. If you do not want TurboGears to manage transactions put :doc:`/notrans` in front of the dburi, TurboGears will silently ignore all begin / commit / rollback / end instructions. Here is the above dburi string with transactions disabled:
To change the default storage engine of MySQL to InnoDB, you have to add the following line to the [mysqld] section of your my.ini / my.cnf file:
This will have the effect that when you issue a CREATE TABLE statement, MySQL will create an InnoDB table by default. Under Windows the file is usually found in the C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server X.Y directory and on Linux under the path name /etc/my.cnf or /etc/mysql/my.cnf.
If you have the MySQL Administrator GUI installed, you can also change this setting from within this program.
Select "StartUp Variables" from the left pane
Then choose the "General Parameters tab"
Down the bottom you'll see a "Default Storage" section.
Choose "InnoDB" from the drop-down.
For detailed information on this topic, see the MySQL Reference Manual.
If you want to store international characters in your database (and who doesn't want to?), there are several things your should take care of:
Use an UTF-8 encoding declaration for all your Python source files by writing the following on the first line of every .py file:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
and make sure that you really save the files with UTF-8 encoding.
In your deployment configuration file (i.e. dev.cfg for development, prod.cfg for production), add the follwing suffix to the dburi:
For example, your dburi may now look like this (all on one line):
sqlobject.dburi = \
Please note, that the encoding name used here is utf8 not utf-8.
In your application's configuration (<yourpackage>/config/app.cfg), make sure that you have the following setting:
In your my.ini / my.cnf file, make sure that you have the following setting in the [mysql] section:
Now you can verify that everything is OK in the database. Open the MySQL command line client and try the following SQL statements:
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%character_set%';
| Variable_name | Value |
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | <mysql home>\share\charsets\ |
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> SHOW CREATE DATABASE my_db;
| Database | Create Database |
| my_db | CREATE DATABASE `my_db` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */ |
1 row in set (0.24 sec)
To change the default character set of an existing database, execute the following SQL statement:
ALTER DATABASE data_base DEFAULT CHARACTER SET=utf8;
Or to change the character set of a table:
ALTER TABLE table_name DEFAULT CHARACTER SET=utf8;
Your version of the MySQLdb module must be compatible with the database you want to connect to. Old versions of MySQLdb may not support newer MySQL versions as data formats may have changed or the underlying C libraries behave differently in certain situations (such as "Connection lost").
If you experience problems because your MySQL server version is too new, the correct solution to this problem is to update your MySQLdb module.
Unfortunately, Redhat ships incompatible versions of MySQLdb (version 1.0) and MySQL (version 4.1) in its Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 (Update 4). You may experience problems with that configuration if you have database fields with the MySQL type TIMESTAMP which changed its format from MySQL 4.0 to 4.1. If your SQLObject class is being autogenerated from the database, this error will be raised:
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 33, in
raise errorclass, errorvalue
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 1-
Due to the popularity of this platform, a special workaround was added in TurboGears 1.0.1. This workaround consists of a custom converter for timestamp fields.
You can enable this converter by adding this option to your configuration file:
turbogears.enable_mysql41_timestamp_workaround = True
This option defaults to False, and is only in effect if your version of MySQLdb is <= 1.0.
Please note that this workaround is currently implemented for SQLObject only. However, you are welcome to submit a patch for SQLAlchemy, too.
Further information: