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This past Friday was the big SQL Server event of the year in Prior Lake, MN with the first ever SQL Saturday on a Friday (for the R2 launch earlier this year we were around 240 people in attendance). Last year we simply put together our own little all day free event called PASSMN SQL Summit and this year we decided to leverage the SQL Saturday branding. Based on last year's attendance of 100 people and the R2 launch this year we knew that we needed a large area to hold the event. This year we headed back to one of my previous employers and went to Mystic Lake Casino Hotel. We had over 280 people register for the event, around 20 decided to cancel, and then 50 that were still on the wait list (around 330 people signed up!). We ended up with approximately 250 show up for the event (around 40 people were wait list or just showed up – a 23.6% drop off rate, but the wait list or unregistered count made up for that and so did the sponsors) and then add another 30 or so headcount with the sponsors (probably more because they were taking shifts), so in all close to 280 or so in attendance. I was completely in awe by the turnout and I think we did surprisingly well getting everyone through the registration process in time for the opening sessions.
Each of our rooms held up to 66 people. Next year we will definitely need more seating because the rooms did fill up. We did have the rooms split into 4 rows of classroom style and then a couple of rows of theater style seating. The class room style setup was nice for the people taking notes or using laptops. We did have free WIFI service, but I was offline for the entire event. Here are a few things that I will need to remember for next time (some of these I did think of, but just didn't get the tasks completed):
- speaker room – on the way to the event I thought about this, but when I arrived at the location and started setting everything up it slipped my mind. There actually was one other room in our area we could have leveraged, so next time I will make sure we get something setup where the speakers have an area designated for them to get prepared, relax, and place their items.
- speaker survey baskets – I did have four spare baskets from the raffle baskets and I simply didn't get around to labeling them and placing them at the back of the rooms by the water stations. I thought about this after I placed the raffle baskets on the sponsor tables, but then I headed up to the registration area and forgot about it, plus I needed one more and I could have used a box.
- prize table signage – we had a prize table setup loaded with books, training video, and software (along with a couple of sponsor raffle baskets), but I didn't have a 'Prize Table' sign.
- prize ticket distribution – should have provided the tickets ahead of time to the speakers or simply left some at the podium in each room for the speakers to give away during their sessions. We were providing each speaker with two tickets to give out so that an attendee could go and claim a prize at the table that was not labeled (I think people caught on though after a bit – tons of great books thanks to our sponsors and we got some of them autographed).
- speaker survey collection – because of the lack of baskets setup for these we didn't communicate what we were doing with these. Basically we just wanted the speakers to collect them and keep them for their own personal feedback. I didn't get any results, but I did ask people that attended. They said I did a good job and learned something new, so I am happy. I am sure I was a bit out of it, so hopefully I did a halfway decent job (don't know what compels me to present and help organize the event).
- networking bingo card basket – once again we didn't have any formal process for the collection of these either. A basket was finally setup on the prize table for people to place them, but we only had about 30 of them turned in by the end of the day (not a high rate for the work put into them, but great concept).
- bring camera – yeah I did have my blackjack phone, but an actual camera would have been a better idea and by the end of the day I didn't take a single picture. Jason Strate did bring his, so I am anticipating some to be posted on his follow up blog posting sometime soon.
- double check event guide prior to print – wasn't a huge deal, but there were a couple minor glitches. The schedule on the web site had Brian Knight's sessions back to back and in the guide we had Brian Larson set to present in between his sessions. We simply made this designation on the poster by the room and made an announcement to the people in the room and standing in the hallway. Wasn't a huge deal, but none the less a glitch. In the guide it also had two different times for the drawings, not a big deal. The other thing that I missed was stating that Microsoft User Group Support Services (MSFT UGSS) was also a sponsor and provided funding for the event.
- more communication – I should have provided more information to sponsors about a few things like how the raffle process was going to work at the end and came up with a table designation for them that placed them in the area according to their service. Some of the sponsors did swap tables, so that was solved for the most part (basically between the DBA and BI vendors). Should have provided more information in the event guide about prizes, breakfast, lunch, surveys, and PASSMN 2011 election. People asked for the most part and I explained it, but it would have helped to include a few more details in the guide and in email reminders prior to the event. I did do one blog posting about the event prior to go-live, so hopefully that provided a little more insight – Inside Scoop on SQL Saturday 58 – Minnesota. Over communicating is never a bad thing, especially for such a large event. Live and learn I guess. This was a big task to pull off based on the size of the event.
- more planning time – so we started setting this up on August 9 with getting the SQL Saturday site setup and then on August 11 I started talks with Mystic Lake Casino. 81 days (2 months, 2 weeks, and 6 days) later the event happened. Pretty amazing that we were able to get 24 sponsors and everything put together in that time period, but all-in-all I think it was extremely successful and we can only improve upon this for next year. The PASSMN Executive Board did a great job in helping out and my wife also came through for me big time. I have a tough time asking for help and I am working on that and next year we will definitely need a few more people to help out during the day at registration and at the prize table (need to create a schedule and sign-up sheet).
- bring chap stick – sounds rather odd, but for some reason my lips got very dry and they still are today.
It would have been nice to sit in on a couple of sessions, but I did not. I spent my time making sure everything was running smoothly, helped with registration, worked the prize table, talked with the sponsors, talked with speakers, and of course talked with attendees. I wish we would have been able to come up with some way to record them, maybe with more time we could have tried to get Live Meeting setup and have everyone record their sessions (if they were okay with that of course). Hopefully we will be able to get everyone to upload their content and have it available on the schedule page (click on the session and the download link will be available if they have done this). I uploaded my content today – Leverage the MS BI Toolset to Monitor Performance.
I did get a lot of compliments on the event, the location, food, setup, speaker lineup, and prizes. That was good to hear. I hope everyone enjoyed it (how could you not?). I know I did and it made me feel really good to see everything come together and to have people actually show up, volunteer, sponsor the event, and for people to come and speak. We only had 16 speakers/volunteers show up for the dinner the night before the big event and 18 people show up for the after party (was hoping for more, so not sure what happened there – we hit the happy hour though). I would like to see some better numbers for these two items, so next year we will try and improve upon that.
Now next year we will have to see if we have this on a Friday or Saturday. We would anticipate that we would need a larger lunch area if we provide food for the event. Mystic Lake could still work, but based on a convention style setup with the costs we would have to evaluate this (going to add a Platinum level for sponsorship). I will not be on the PASSMN Executive Board next year. After two years of being the Chair/President I have decided to open the spot up for someone new. I have definitely enjoyed being a part of the board and am very pleased with how things have gone the last couple of years.
I will actually be shifting my focus over to the Microsoft BI User Group here in Minnesota next year. I will be working with GNet Group and Microsoft, so this will now include Superior Consulting Services. Next year I believe we are going to try to pool the two user groups together and combine forces to have another event like this, but try and make it even more special (is that possible? can it be done? yes, we can surely try or best). We might have to explore the possibility of going down to the U of M campus and doing it on a Saturday, but we will see because I am still not a fan of the Saturday events. We will publish a survey to get feedback about this year's event along with suggestions/ideas for next year soon (please take a few minutes and provide some meaningful feedback with constructive comments).
I did a little PowerPivot analysis with the attendee registration last week (did you think I wouldn't…) just to see how we were distributed and what companies were attending. I know for a fact that Mystic Lake had at least 10 people in attendance, so they were our number one company for attendance if you factor out the blanks. A little data cleansing would need to be implemented here to get the company names standardized because you will see quite a few different variations of the company names (data quality problems? nah). Here is what we had (this is who registered, not actually attended):
And just remember, this was a FREE event for all of the attendees. Simply amazing with a big kudos to all of the organizers, volunteers, Mystic Lake staff, and our sponsors!
I did upload my presentation material and this is available on the schedule page once you click on the session – Leverage the MS BI Toolset to Monitor Performance. A reminder will be getting sent out to make sure that the other speakers upload their content as well, so hopefully over the next week or two all of them will be available.
Well, that is it for this one. We should be ready to announce the new PASSMN 2011 Board shortly (doesn't look like a vote will be needed – 2 years in a row). We will have three new members on the board next year and I will still be around and volunteer when needed. I am a fan of the SQL community, so I will always be around to help out. We still have at least one more meeting this year and possibly two if we have a December meeting and it seems like we typically squeeze one in.


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On September 20, 2012, Brandie and Dustin Stoddard welcomed their second baby girl into the world. Haevyn Delanie weighed-in at a healthy seven pounds, two ounces, was 18 inches long, and went home right on schedule.
Just four months later, though, her family was back in the hospital. This time, they were in Kansas City, waiting for a team of medical professionals to transport their critically ill baby to St. Louis Children's Hospital.
"In her four months, she had never had a fever, never even had a runny nose," Brandie remembers.
But on January 17, when Brandie picked Haevyn up at daycare, she knew something was terribly wrong. Her baby girl was lethargic, her breathing labored, and, "She was the palest shade of white."
Rather than wait even a few hours for an appointment, the pediatrician suggested they take Haevyn straight to the emergency room.
"In the chest x-ray, it looked like her heart was taking up half of her chest."
Haevyn's condition rapidly deteriorated, until her doctors decided Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)would be the baby girl's best option.
ECMO is an advanced treatment that uses a pump and oxygenator to deliver oxygen to vital organs – doing the work in place of failing heart and lungs.
After a few days, though, they didn't see enough of an improvement.
"Since her heart was so sick, they recommended we get to St. Louis because they could offer support that wasn't available in Kansas City."
Transporting a child on ECMO, however, is a very delicate task, and offered by only a handful of pediatric hospitals. St. Louis Children's had only launched the service in late 2012. Haevyn would be the team's second ECMO transport.
Each specialized trip requires the expertise of an attending physician, two nurses and a perfusionist. While the physicians and nurses balance the patient's condition and medication needs, the perfusionist operates the heart-lung machine. On this trip, Mark Shepard was responsible for transferring Haevyn from one ECMO circuit to another.
"We received the call about Haevyn on a Monday," Shepard recalls. "So our team got together and made a plan to get to Kansas City the next morning. We were wheels up in St. Louis at 8:15 a.m."
They arrived in Kansas City within two hours.
"When we walked into the room, I saw Haevyn's mom sitting in the corner, worried to death. I went over and talked over everything as we went through it, reassured her that we knew the routine. We'd been in this ICU. Everyone knew their roles."
Their process worked. Hours after they arrived, Haevyn was on KidsFlight 3, St. Louis Children's Hospital's fixed-wing aircraft. Her parents began the drive from Kansas City before the plane carrying their daughter was off the ground.
"I was so sick the entire ride," Brandie remembers. "I knew she was being sustained by a machine. I knew she was in good hands. But I also knew I couldn't hold her, and that was hard."
They were half way to St. Louis when a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) nurse called to say Haevyn had done well with the flight, and was getting settled in the unit. That was 16 hours after the transport team first left St. Louis.
"It's a long day for everybody," Shepard says. "But it's so rewarding when you see a patient transferred as successfully as Haevyn was."
Haevyn arrived in St. Louis on Tuesday, January 22. Doctors told the family that the longer she was on ECMO, the more likely Haevyn would develop complications. They listed her for heart transplant the following Friday. And after a series of ups and downs, her team determined it was time for a solution that could provide more long-term support while she waited for a new heart. On February 14, Haevyn received the ultimate Valentine. That was the day she received her Berlin Heart, a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) that would function in place of her heart for longer than ECMO.
Exactly four weeks later, Haevyn was offered a new heart. Shepard saw the family that morning.
The surgery went beautifully. The Stoddards were able to leave the hospital ten days later. "Mom was terrified the day she arrived at the hospital. But the day of the transplant, she was so happy."
Monitoring her from transport to transplant, Shepard became a barometer for Haevyn's progress.
"The child we had to take out of Kansas City on a stretcher left here in a stroller with her parents."
Two months later, Haevyn is back home in Kansas.
According to her mom, "She's the same happy baby now that she was before she got sick. She's catching up on her developmental milestones, and everything looks good!"
"That's what the program was designed to do," Shepard says. "That makes you feel like the entire program works. Success like this is what makes us want to get up and get to work."

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Beware of the media when they report solutions to problems allegedly posed by Newton.
A current claim is that a 16-year old kid that goes by the name of Shouryya Ray solved a 350-year old problem allegedly formulated by Sir Isaac Newton.
An article putting in the right perspective Ray's solution is given here.
Still, Ray must be praised for solving what old school-trained mathematicians and physicists were not able to solve.


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As already stated on this blog, Bada OS is total crap. Scripting is a mess, T9 is missing of original versions, updating is not an available option depending on your phone (even if the phone is less than a year old). It keeps being absolutely worthless when it comes to reading PDF. No matter how, even if you feed it a specifically cropped PDF with no margins, you'll always end up with something not really readable, too big, too small, whatever. A pain in the ass.
I soon realized it's best, with such an appalling combination of software and hardware, to convert ebooks/PDFs to HTML. And as the provided HTML reader can't remember what page you last read (not surprising) and, ahem, is unable to load a 3 MB page (low memory it says: even if a 30 MB PDF can be loaded by the PDF reader with no issue on the exact same phone, go figure!), it needs splitted HTML.
PDF is usually an output format, not a source format. While there's plenty to convert to PDF, fact is there is no complete suite to convert from. pdftk is powerful but not easy to handle IMHO and pdftohtml latest released is almost 10 years old. So I ended writing a small wrapper (pdf2htmls.pl) for both theses tools to convert one PDF to multiples HTML files with basic indexes. It takes –input=file.pdf and (optional) –output=directory arguments. Asides from Perl, it requires debian packages pdftk and poppler-utils.
The indexes are über-crude. They could be improved with chapters/titles, I'll maybe add that later.


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Kalsnava (estate)
From Latvian Surname Project
Kalsnava (German: Caltzenau) was an estate in central Latvia, located in Kalsnava parish. The exact year of the estate's founding is not known, but the manor house is believed to have been built in the mid-16th century, though it no longer exists today. Some of the subsidiary peasant farms still survive.
The surnames found in the 1826 revision list for Kalsnava, written as they appear in the document:
The 1826 revision list is one of the earliest sources for the surnames of Kalsnava.


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The Angelic Midwife
Although this meant sacrificing his own Seder he consented. His plan was to first come home to perform all the mitzvot and to then go deliver his inspiring talk. But when he came home he saw his pregnant wife suffering from labor pains. As expected, he accompanied her to the hospital where they found many women preparing for birth and only a single midwife on duty. He was reluctant to leave his wife but she insisted that there was nothing he could do to help her. She insisted it would be wiser for him to go deliver his talk and rely on Heaven to take care of her and all the other expectant mothers.
When he returned from the talk, his wife had given birth to a healthy child. She told him that as soon as he left, a woman in white entered the room and took care of all her needs and then disappeared. When she took a look at her face she recognized her as a rebbitzen who had passed away a few years earlier.


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What was Brandon Phillips doing when J.C. Romero picked him off of second base last night?
Talking to Jimmy Rollins. About base-stealing. That's what the Phillies shortstop said today after he got a well-deserved day off in the Phillies' 10-4 win over the Reds.
There was one out in the 11th inning when J.C. Romero walked Joey Votto to move Phillips to second base. The Phillies' lefty was struggling to find the strike zone. With Votto on first and Phillips on second, Romero threw three straight balls to Reds third baseman Scott Rolen. The Reds were one pitch away from having the bases loaded and the go-ahead run on third base with one out.
Then came the inconceivable.
Phillips had his head turned toward short stop, completely oblivious to the mound. Romero whirled around, and by the time Phillips realized what was happening, Wilson Valdez was applying a tag for the out. Suddenly, there was a man on first and two out. Romero would walk Rolen and Jay Bruce before David Herndon replaced him and recorded the final out, stranding the bases loaded.
"We were talking about base-stealing," Rollins said.
He would not go into details. But he said he did not feel bad about the situation.
"I was embarassed for him," Rollins said. "But hey, it's an out for us."
That said, he did not purposefully set up Phillips, who has a history of not paying attention while on the base paths.
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Since then, I've been on the lookout for other works which, like Proof, feature characters whose lives are lived primarily in the mind, and who view the world, and interact with it most fully, through their intellect. It's most common, in fiction, to encounter depictions of these characters which paint them as villainous or at best pitiable--stunted and detached people, incapable of meaningful human relationships and more comfortable interacting with inanimate objects or abstract concepts. Arrogant and immature monsters, who need to be cured of their intelligence in order to live a full and happy life. When I asked some friends for examples to use in this post, Graham Sleight suggested Robert Hichens's 1900 horror novella "How Love Came to Professor Guildea," which perfectly exemplifies this approach. The title character is a brilliant scientist who has no use for emotion, tenderness, or companionship. His closest relationships are a caustic friendship with a soft-hearted priest and a detached ownership of a pet parrot. Though the priest cautions him that his manner of living will leave him vulnerable at any sort of extremity, Professor Guildea ignores him until he becomes the object of supernatural affections, as his home is infested by a spirit trying to force its love on him--an experience with which Professor Guildea is utterly incapable of dealing, leading his friend to conclude that he is being punished for living a loveless life.
There's no denying the danger of living entirely without emotion (though it may pale next to the danger of living entirely without intellect), but what stories like "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" seem to be saying is far deeper. They present a view of human nature in which the fundamental building block of the human psyche is emotion, with intellect being something that is layered on top, almost an artificial appendage. Which is true in extreme cases--a person in fear for their life, or experiencing great pain or pleasure, will react purely on an animal level. But in our day-to-day lives most of use both emotion and intellect to experience the world, process our experiences, and express ourselves. Some of us prioritize one of these tools over the other, and what I've been looking for since that performance of Proof are works that try to imagine what it's like to be an intellectually-oriented person, without assuming that such a person is damaged or less human for that orientation. This is what I've come up with.
An obvious starting point, since we've already mentioned a play about a scientist, would be works that try to imagine the origins of science. Neal Stephenson in the Baroque Cycle books, James Morrow in The Last Witchfinder, Iain Pears in the first segment of An Instance of the Fingerpost, try to bring to life the people who defined the scientific method, and set among them fictional characters who, like Newton and Hooke and Boyle, are shaken to the core by this new way of looking at themselves and at the world, unmade and made anew by this new set of concepts and terms with which to describe their environment. For these characters, a distinction between their intellectual pursuits and their emotional life is just as impossible as a separation between the scientific and political-economic ramifications of their discoveries--the latter being, of course, the point that Stephenson and Morrow (and to a lesser extent Pears) are trying to make with their books.
Moving from the origins of science to modern science, the last time I mentioned Proof on this blog was in comparison with Allegra Goodman's Intuition, a novel about a scandal that erupts in a medical research lab when one researcher accuses another of faking his results. Like Proof, I wrote
Intuition insists on treating research as a form of self-expression that is just as meaningful and just as personal to the people who are drawn to it as painting and literature are to artists and writers, but Goodman does Auburn one better by refusing to romanticize the process of scientific research, as he does with his shut-in mathematical genius of a protagonist. Intuition's plot hinges, in fact, on the primal importance of precision and attention to detail in the experimental process, and on the catastrophic consequences that can ensue when scientists surrender their detachment and skepticism in the face of potentially good results.The scientific mindset seems ideally suited to the kind of stories I'd like to highlight in this piece, which in turn brings us to science fiction--Niall Harrison, for example, has suggested that Intuition is the mainstream analogue of Gwenyth Jones's Life. Just recently I reviewed two stories by Greg Egan which both center around mathematicians--"Dark Integers," whose protagonists find themselves at the vanguard of a mathematical cold war, and have to struggle with the weight of responsibility for the planet's survival where previously they had expected to find only cold numbers, and "Glory," which is told from the point of view of a mathematician trying to extract an important mathematical proof from a war-torn alien planet. This latter story in particular stresses the importance of the proof not as a means to new technological innovations (which the mathematician's alien hosts assume must be her goal) but as an end in its own right, an expansion of the sum total of understanding and, in its own way, a work of art. For "Glory"'s protagonist, the proof is an object of almost spiritual significance, and towards the end of the story she begins to wonder whether her society might not be dispirited by its retrieval, and by the loss of the great mystery of pursuing it. Ted Chiang touches on a similar theme in "Division by Zero," in which a brilliant mathematician discovers a flaw underlying the foundations of all mathematics, and can't deal with the realization that the discipline she's dedicated her life to is predicated on a lie.
Of course, there are other kinds of science, and since we're talking about Ted Chiang let's not forget his most famous story, "Story of Your Life," whose protagonist, a linguist, is transformed into an alien being by opening her mind to an alien language. Chiang's story is exceptional for many reasons, and among them is the attention it lavishes on the linguist's profession, on her affinity for language and her fascination with it, at the same time as it explores the more prosaic aspects of her life--a burgeoning romance, her relationship with her daughter.
Moving on to the humanities end of the scale, we have Norman Rush's Mating, narrated by an American anthropologist in Botswana in the same dry, detached tone in which she might compose a doctoral thesis. Her subject does, at first, appear to be a worthy topic for one--a women's commune in the Kalahari desert--but the narrator arrives there searching for something more personal, and finds it when she falls in love with the commune's founder, a philosopher and human rights activist. Throughout their relationship, and her deepening involvement with the commune, her voice remains acerbic and distant, her scientific inclinations informing her personal relationships and weighing them with her experience of both anthropology and politics as she constantly second-guesses her actions and choices. The result, rather than being remote, is a funny, warm novel about a woman who overthinks everything, and who is never, ever made to consider that this is a flaw or something she needs to change about herself.
Less clinical, if no less linguistically complex, is A.S. Byatt's Possession, a novel which juxtaposes the lives of 19th century poets with those of 20th century scholars researching them. Much of Possession is concerned with the struggle to strike a balance between passionate appreciation of an artist's work and cool dissection of it. For the main characters, Roland and Maud, the poets Ash and LaMotte are important because, as Maud puts it, their work "survived our education," remaining vibrant and alive under layers of scholarship and analysis. At the same time, Roland and Maud are also consumed with the need to know, to understand Ash and LaMotte's work more fully and to know the secret details of their lives--a desire towards which Byatt is quite ambivalent, arguing at several points that the poets' work ought to stand on its own. Other characters in the novel fall on different points on the spectrum between emotional and intellectual appreciation of the poets. Mortimer Cropper has so thoroughly fetishized Ash that he places a higher premium on a lock of the poet's hair than on the substance of his poems. Roland's colleagues have become immured in scholarship and ancillary material, barely able to recall why they loved Ash to begin with, and Maud's friend Leonora Stern is interested in LaMotte first as an example of a female, lesbian artist and only secondly as a poet. Though Byatt is more critical of some of these approaches than she is of others, she doesn't argue that it's only on the emotional level that the poets' work can be appreciated, that a more cerebral approach to them is inherently flawed. Underlying Possession is Byatt's acceptance and even celebration of her characters' choice to make their life's work the study of another's.
Then there are novels in which the scholarly mindset is independent of any specific topic, whose characters are driven by the love of knowledge, any knowledge, for its own sake. Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics is narrated by the teenage Blue, a bright and fearsomely overeducated girl whose narrative is peppered with annotations, learned digressions, and references to scholarly texts (though oddly enough, no footnotes). What's most appealing about Blue is her unwillingness to compromise--though she's surrounded by people who aren't smart or energetic enough to keep up with her, she never dumbs herself down or doubts the appeal of her interests in the face of others' indifference to them. Unfortunately, though Blue is amusing, she is more a performance than a person, and as the novel draws on and the flaws in its plot are revealed, that hollowness becomes a fatal flaw.
For a truly successful variant on the hyper-educated narrator, we need to turn to Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai. In its first half, it is narrated by Sybilla, an American single mother living in England after dropping out of Oxford. Furiously intelligent and yet utterly incapable of making the compromises necessary to succeed in academia or the world outside it, Sybilla ekes out a living doing typing while caring for her young son Ludo, a genius whose thirst for knowledge is starting to tax her intellectual resources. In the novel's second half, eleven year old Ludo sets out to find his father, making his way through a list of geniuses, celebrities, adventurers and humanitarians before he find one worthy of the title. Whereas Pessl played the meeting of an uncompromising genius with the mediocrity of the wider world for laughs, DeWitt acknowledges the inherent tragedy of Sybilla and Ludo's situation, the impossible choice they face between staying true to themselves in isolation and living a worthwhile life by playing according to the rules of a society which doesn't value knowledge. DeWitt presents this as a moral choice, and ultimately The Last Samurai is a moral novel, which examines the ways in which people who love knowledge for its own sake can function in a world in which knowledge is a means to an end.
Slightly different, and perhaps a little more functional, than the scholarly mindset as described in these novels is the geeky mindset--the difference, to put it very broadly, being that the geek is obsessed with practical, worldly knowledge, and its applications. The webcomic XKCD has for some time been doing a fantastic line in juxtapositions of geekiness with real life, but the seminal work on the geek mind remains Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Though in its historical strand Cryptonomicon treads similar ground as Stephenson's later Baroque Cycle, setting the fictional mathematical genius Lawrence Waterhouse (whose classification as a halfwit by the US navy after he treats a oversimplified physics question as a complicated fluid dynamics problem would not have been out of place in The Last Samurai) alongside Alan Turing and in Bletchley Park, the novel's present-day strand focuses not on geniuses but on craftsmen--engineers and programmers for whom knowledge is a tool with which to take the world apart, see how it works, and try to make it better. Much of Cryptonomicon is spent cycling through the clichés of geekish behavior--social awkwardness, especially around women (of course all of the geeks in Cryptonomicon are middle class white men), a desire to appear superior as a way of concealing an inferiority complex--but most of its characters are sufficiently self-aware to have come up with strategies for dealing with their shortcomings and making an accommodation with the mundane world. Cryptonomicon is a novel about geeks, but more than that it is a novel about grownups, who refuse to be limited or defined by either their shortcomings or the common perception of them.
Some geeks, of course, are geekish about subjects for which there is very little real-world application, and very few opportunities for fame and fortune. I haven't read it yet, but Juno Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao appears to be a novel about just such a person. The examples on my list, meanwhile, offer characters of this type a sort of wish-fulfillment--rare instances in which people manage to parlay their hobby into a meaningful, widely recognized accomplishment. Walter Tevis's The Queen's Gambit is a novel about that classically brainy activity, chess. Its protagonist is Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy growing up in an orphanage, and later under the care of an adoptive mother who is, if not exactly neglectful, then certainly not nearly as caring as Beth needs her to be. Chess is all Beth has, and the only thing she's good at--her life outside of tournaments is a mess, characterized by empty relationships and substance abuse. Which, at first glance, seems to make The Queen's Gambit precisely the sort of book I was hoping to avoid, and it is true that Tevis at times seems more concerned with Beth's chess career than with her mental health and happiness. Whatever strides Beth makes towards these two goals, however, she makes through chess--by finding a reason to overcome her addictions when they begin to compromise her skill, and by forming a community with other chess players.
Possibly the most famous intellectual hobbyist is Sherlock Holmes. Though it might be argued that solving murders is, unlike chess, an objectively important activity, as far as Holmes is concerned the two are interchangeable, as he is motivated to solve crimes mostly out of intellectual curiosity. The Holmes stories are exquisite intellectual puzzles, but they also paint the portrait of a man whose intellect is his salvation, as it provides him with his most meaningful relationship, and, like Beth Harmon, an escape from substance abuse. Of the slew of Holmes pastiches that appeared on the scene a few years ago, Michael Chabon's The Final Solution and Mitch Cullin's A Slight Trick of the Mind both build on that quality, imagining a frail, aged Holmes forced to face the decrepitude of his mind and body, and struggling to comprehend atrocities far greater than the murders he once solved.
For some characters, intellect is not an alternative to emotion but a stand-in for it, a meticulously constructed system with which they compensate for an inability to process emotion or emotional cues. The most famous example is Christopher Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, though to my mind Elizabeth Moon's Speed of Dark is far superior. Both tell the story of autistics trying to function in the world by laying out patterns, routines, and rules through which they can navigate the chaotic system that is human society. Both novels reveal their narrators to be limited in their capabilities, not their essence as human beings. (Pat Murphy tells a similar story, albeit on a smaller and simpler scale, in "Inappropriate Behavior"). Somewhat less successful is Peter Watts's Blindsight, which, though a clever and thought-provoking novel, didn't quite manage to convince me that its narrator, Siri Keeton, who underwent a hemispherectomy as a child, is a 'Chinese box'--a machine which processes input and produces output without comprehending either. It seems incredible that a person could be rendered so inhuman, and then actively seek to sham humanity as Siri does, when they no longer possess the mechanism by which they might feel a desire to do so.
Finally, we have Flowers for Algernon, a novel about learning to live with intelligence, and the effect that intelligence has on personality, effectively transforming the dull, childlike Charlie into a brilliant and completely different person, and presenting the loss of that intelligence as a tragedy comparable to death.
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While Cloth armour has the lowest armour value, it also boasts the cheapest repair cost.
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As "The Adventures of Tintin," director Steven Spielberg's award-winning adaptation of the beloved Belgian comic book character, makes its debut on home video, Matt Aitken of Weta Digital, the film's visual effects supervisor and a veteran of such dazzling productions as "Avatar," "King Kong," "District 9" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, takes PopcornBiz behind the pixels.
It's mind-boggling to think of what you were able to accomplish on this film, technically. What were some of things – aside from achieving director Steven Spielberg's storytelling vision – that you really wanted to do with the film?
This is Weta Digital's first foray into fully animated film production, so rather than having to match our computer generated elements to film elements, which is what we do a lot of the times in our visual FX work, we had complete creative control over the look of every frame. So we wanted to maximize the benefit of that. We wanted every frame to be beautiful and to work on the design of the worlds that we created, and the designs of the characters and the look of the lighting and just make the whole thing as visually rich as it could possibly be.
How did you marry both Spielberg's and Tintin creator Hergé's very distinct artistic approaches?
Often they worked in parallel. But just looking at the takes of Hergé's source material – the panel art that he drew, which is very much in that lean, clear style where it's bold outlines, a lot of flat color, a very strong graphic style which worked incredibly well on the page. But then translating that so that it came off the page and worked in a fully 3-D, highly detailed world, and yet was still recognizable, still honored the source material – that was a very involved process and one where we went through many, many iterations of designs and trying out different approaches over many years actually. We worked on this film for six or seven years, and a lot of that early work was about getting that design work right. If you just look, for example, at the character of Tintin, the way that he's realized on the page is very simple. His head is an oval. He's got two black dots for eyes, a little curve for a nose and often his mouth is just a line or a dot. Obviously there's that signature quip of hair. Hergé was able to get a lot of expression into that on the page, but we had to translate that Tintin in this very detailed, sort of idealized world that we had created for the characters. So we went from on the one hand by starting off with a sort of CG version of the panel art. It looked too kooky. When you put the Tintin as Hergé drew him and just translated that onto the computer screen it looked almost creepy when we created it in CG, so we had to move away from that. We looked at the features of Jamie Bell, the English actor who did the performance capture work for the character of Tintin, and we tried to make Tintin look more like Jamie. Then we'd lost a little too much of the character of Tintin when we did that, so we ended up finding a sweet spot in between, but that process of exploration took many, many iterations, hundreds of different versions of the look of Tintin. At the same time, we were very mindful of the fact that we need to be supporting Steven Spielberg, and as you say, his very visual storytelling style. That was about creating an environment and a character that supported that, was detailed enough and the characters had enough range of facial expressions to create fully empathetic characters for his film.
How quickly did Spielberg adapt the way he was going to tell the story based on what you and your team were doing?
He seemed to adapt to it very quickly and embrace the technologies that we presented to him very, very wholeheartedly. I think a great illustration of that is when he went on to the performance capture stage for the first time – for the principle shoot, as we call it, which is really when all the motion capture work is being done for the characters. He was presented with what we call a virtual camera, which is really like a computer monitor screen, a flat panel display, but its location within the motion capture stage is tracked by the motion capture equipment so it's able to work as a handheld camera on the virtual world. Obviously, you've got your actors – Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis and Daniel Craig –performing the movement for the characters, and in real time we're able to take their movement, their performance and [link it to] the CG characters, the virtual characters of Tintin and Haddock and Sakharine. Spielberg was able to use that virtual camera, as we call it, as a window into the world of Tintin as the audience was going to see it. So on the one hand he's able to talk to Jamie and Andy and Daniel and sort of direct their performance as directors have been doing since the beginning of cinema on a shooting stage, interacting with the actors, but then at the same time he can turn and look at his virtual camera and see their performances translated in real time onto the digital characters on the ship, the Karaboudjan, or 1940's Europe and the Moroccan town of Bagghar. He's got a real-time view of the digital world as the audience is going to see it. So he loved that approach and he didn't let go of that virtual camera once we gave it to him.
Was there something creatively that you didn't know if you'd be able to rise to the challenge and pull off?
Across the board there were challenges. There were challenges in terms of things like the water FX and the fire FX, something that might seem quite simple. Captain Haddock falling off the longboat and creating a big splash – that was a months and months of work just to create that splash. The crane fight. There's some huge destruction FX going on there, all that stuff which was really work that we had to take to a level that we hadn't really done before. Even on productions like 'Avatar,' we felt like we were pushing the envelope in terms of our simulation work on this show. But for us, the stuff that we work hardest at, the stuff that we find most challenging and the work that we spend the most time on, is getting those performances working. Getting the performance of Tintin so that it reads well and just making sure that the characters' performances are supporting the storytelling as much as they can. It comes down to very subtle nuances of facial expression. It can make a world of difference there. So, we actually tweaked the look of Tintin's face about halfway through our production period, when we'd really completed about half of the film. That involved going back and revisiting some of the shots that we'd already considered done in the movie at that point just to make sure that they could be what they should be.
What project are you taking your "Tintin" lessons into right now?
I'm working on mainly Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit.' I feel like I can't go into too much detail about 'The Hobbit' right now because we want to focus on 'Tintin,' but I will tell you that it's great being back in Middle Earth again.
"Tintin" was so wildly successful across the globe. Are you already thinking about sequel ideas?
I'd love to work on a sequel. I had a great time working on 'Tintin.' It was a fantastic project to work on. So, yeah, I'd relish the opportunity to go back into that world again.
Behind the Pixels of 'The Adventures of Tintin's' Dazzling Digital World
As "The Adventures of Tintin," director Steven Spielberg's award-winning adaptation of the beloved Belgian comic book character, makes its debut on home video, Matt Aitken of Weta Digital, the film's visual effects supervisor and a veteran of such dazzling productions as "Avatar," "King Kong," "District 9" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, takes PopcornBiz behind the pixels.


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Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong is headed to treatment for substance abuse.
Sunday's announcement by the band's rep comes after the rock frontman had a meltdown onstage at the iHeart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas. In a clip that has gone viral, Armstrong profanely complained that the band's time was being cut short, then smashed his guitar.
In a statement to The Associated Press, the band apologized for the incident and said that their set was not cut short by Clear Channel, the host of the two-day festival.
The Grammy winning band also is canceling some of its promotional appearances. It is due to release the album "Uno" on Tuesday.


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Lawrence T. Doyle, a retired WBAL-AM and WIYY-FM sales manager, died Aug. 12 of lymphoma at Franklin Square Hospital Center.
The Parkville resident was 78.
The son of a Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. credit manager and a homemaker, he was born in Baltimore and raised in Hamilton.
He was a 1950 graduate of City College and in 1952 enlisted in the Marine Corps, where he was trained as an air traffic controller.
After being discharged in 1955, he went to work as an insurance salesman for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in Baltimore.
He began his radio career in 1967 when he went to work selling advertising for WBAL-AM and its new sister station at the time, WIYY-FM.
In 1983, he was named sales manager and remained in that position until retiring in 1996.
A lifelong boater who began with a small runabout, Mr. Doyle eventually purchased the boat of his dreams, a 44-foot Sea Ray Sundancer sports yacht.
He was a member of the Baltimore Yacht Club and enjoyed boating in the Chesapeake Bay.
Mr. Doyle was a longtime member of the Hamilton Post 20 of the Drum & Bugle Corps. He was also a Baltimore Colts and Orioles fan.
He supported many local charities and religious organizations, family members said, and had served on the board of St. Ursula parochial school.
His wife of many years, the former Doris Weinreich, died in 1999.
Mr. Doyle was a communicant of St. Ursula Roman Catholic Church in Parkville.
A Mass of Christian burial was offered Aug. 16 at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Fullerton.
Surviving are two sons, Larry Doyle of Havre de Grace and Tim Doyle of Dagsboro, Del.; a daughter, Debbie Haubert of Lake Worth, Fla.; a sister, Dolly Rizzi of Perry Hall; and six grandchildren. Another son, Michael Doyle, died in 2004.


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A few days ago, we reported a new vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer that could allow an attacker to execute code remotely on an affected PC. The vulnerability had been spreading fast and had been added to free attack tools used by hackers.
Microsoft has now issued an interim solution in the form of a Fix It tool which can be downloaded from here. In a blog post published today, Microsoft's Yunsun Wee says that the tool is a one click solution that will protect users right away and that it will not hinder user's web browsing in any way. You wont have to reboot your computer as well.
Microsoft will be releasing an out-of-band security update, MS12-063 this Friday to close the vulnerability. The update will be rated critical and will address the zero day vulnerability (Security Advisory 2757760) along with four other remote code execution issues. Users who downloaded the FixIt solution need not uninstall it before installing the update.
If you have automatic updates enabled, the update will be installed automatically and if you don't, make sure that you install the update so that your computers are not vulnerable. Also, I highly recommend installing the FixIt solution right now to prevent any zero day attacks.


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Quick tomato soup with cheesy garlic dippers
Prep: 5 mins Cook: 20 mins
Everyone needs a trusty tomato soup recipe - and this one costs less than a pound per serving
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal414
- fat22g
- saturates13g
- carbs38g
- sugars15g
- fibre3g
- protein19g
- salt2.13g
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- 400g can cherry tomatoes
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
- 100ml vegetable stock
- dash each Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tbsp mascarpone
- few torn basil leaves (optional)
For the dippers
- 1 medium ciabatta roll, halved
- 1 garlic clove, halved
- 125g ball mozzarella cheese, shredded
Put the tomatoes, sugar, stock and sauces into a medium pan with some salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer and cook for 5-10 mins. Stir in the mascarpone and blend to a smooth soup. Return to the pan and keep warm while you make the dippers.
Heat the grill to high and toast the ciabatta until golden. Rub with the garlic, season, then top with the cheese and grill until melted and golden. Slice into fingers and serve with the soup, sprinkled with the basil, if using.
Recipe Tip
Use up mascarpone: Pea & mint pasta for 2Cook 200g/7oz pasta following pack instructions, adding 140g/5oz frozen peas for the final 3 mins of cooking time. Drain, reserving 2 tbsp of the cooking water, and tip back into the pan with 100g/4oz mascarpone, a handful chopped mint, reserved cooking water and some seasoning. Mix well.
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Video of the Hardmode at the bottom; used a slightly altered strat.
Raid Makeup:
- 2x tanks
- 2-3x healers (we used 3 for first kill)
The Pull:
For the first two phases, you will only be using 1 tank. Your second tank will turn into a (friendly) abomination by drinking a potion from the table behind the boss as the raid pulls, and will spend most of the fight in this form.
|DO NOT cleanse your abomination tank; this will remove their abomination shapeshift. It will appear as a debuff, but do not cleanse them!!
P1 and P2 of the fight (up until Putricide reaches 35%) will be spent with the raid swapping back and forth from one side of the room to the other, staying on the side farthest from where the next ooze add will spawn. For this reason we found it easiest to pull on the left-hand side of the room, since the first ooze add spawn will always be the green ooze on the right-hand side.
Things to avoid:
P1-P2-P3: Slime Puddles: straight-forward green puddles of pain. These are thrown out periodically (two at a time) at random players. Do not stand in them unless you're the abomination. They steadily grow larger; the abomination will be eating these puddles (yummy) to make them go away and power the abom's own attacks. Aboms: you can only eat slime that you're standing on; you will have to reposition yourself closer to the center of a large puddle as you eat it away.
P2-P3: "Flasks:" these orange gas-bombs are placed in melee range, 2 at a time, and will explode 20 seconds after they are placed down. They look like flasks on the ground radiating an orange-brown mist. The flasks themselves have a damaging, hit reduction aura before exploding; the explosions will hurt anyone caught in them. When you see these go down, kite the boss to the other side of the tables, away from the flasks, and stay away from them. The explosion does a hefty chunk of damage and reduces your +hit by 75% for 20 seconds, so these NEED to be avoided.
|MELEE: Putricide's hitbox is very large; be sure to make use of this large hitbox when staying out of slime and flask-gas. You can refer to melee combat pets' attack spacing to get an idea of what the melee hitbox is.
P2-P3: Malleable Goo: a glob of green jello-like substance is hurled through the air at a random player, bouncing along until it reaches where it target had been standing, where it will then explode much like the gas-bomb-flasks. Does a hefty chunk of damage and doubles your casting times for 20 seconds, so these NEED to be avoided. If you see one flying through the air, call it out in warning so all the ranged can move away.
These are a key ingredient to phase 1 and 2. Oozes spawn one at a time, green on the right and orange-brown on the left; they must be destroyed as quickly as possible. You will want to be on the far side of the room from wherever an ooze spawns, to give maximum distance it must travel before it reaches whoever it decides to target. Oozes will not target the MT or the abomination. Once the ooze is dead, dps can return to killing Putricide.
Green ooze:
- Spawns on the right-hand side of the room, and is the first ooze to spawn.
- Roots and debuffs one player, dealing heavy damage via a DoT
- Explodes on the player if they reach them, then switches to a new target.
- Explosion damage is split among nearby players, so less dangerous if shared by more people.
When the green ooze nears its target (assuming it does not die before it reaches this point), the dps and healers should GROUP UP on that target to share the explosion, preventing anyone from dieing from the blast. The pile of players will be knocked back, and then the ooze will choose a new target: being dpsing it again immediately, and repeat should it reach that target, as well.
Once the green ooze is dead, the ranged all need to move to the right-hand side of the room while dpsing Putricide.
Orange-Brown Ooze:
- Spawns on the left-hand side of the room.
- Does not root its target.
- Stacks a gaseous bloat debuff on its target that slowly ticks down from 10 to 0.
- If it reaches the target, deals damage to the raid (not split) based on the number of bloat stacks.
- Switches to a new target if the bloat stacks reach 0.
Again, the abomination can cast regurgitated ooze on it to slow it down. The raid does not need to group up on the player being targeted by this one; just dps and heal away while the targeted player flees. Once the orange-brown ooze is dead, the ranged all need to move back to the left-hand side of the room while dpsing Putricide.
|Resto druids: as Keeva pointed out, aboms do proc energy returns off of Revitalize. Keep a rejuv running on them as much as possible (assuming you have the talent).
At 80% and at 35%, Putricide will stun the entire raid while he goes to the table to buff himself. Phase 2 begins at 80% and introduces the Gas Bomb Flasks and Malleable Goo into the fight; Phase 3 puts a halt to the ooze spawns and starts the true "burn him quick!" phase with necessary tank swaps.
When you approach the 38% mark, halt all dps and dots on Putricide, because transitioning while a slime is up will cut uncomfortably into your dps time on Putricide. Wait until you have JUST killed a slime before pushing Putricide over the 35% transition mark! It will make your phase 3 much smoother if you do not have an ooze add to worry about killing at the same time.
Phase 3:
Your abomination will need to shift out to his usual tank form for this phase, meaning that the slime puddles on the floor will eventually overtake the room. Putricide has increased his own attack speed and damage by 50% compared to previous phases, and will be stacking a debuff on the tank that causes increasing raid-wide damage as it stacks higher and higher. Unfortunately, it also heals Putricide once the stacks drop off of a tank.
We had our tanks swap at 2 stacks.
This phase is all about burning him down as fast as possible before the slime puddles leave you with nowhere to go. He will continue to toss:
- slime puddles
- gas bomb flasks
- malleable goo
Good luck :)
Captured on hardmode by our holy priest, Kuchki.


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nate robinson hasnt been on the court or even in uniform since the all star break is he hurt or did he lose his spot cuz of so many guards thanks to rose and francis??
nate robinson hasnt been on the court or even in uniform since the all star break is he hurt or did he lose his spot cuz of so many guards thanks to rose and francis??
yep...lost his spot because of the guards.
duhhh ... willie ... to many guards .... i thought u knew that... =]
imma stick wit the knicks even when s**t gets tough ...
imma tru knick fan for lyfe ...
Damn, his stock was soo high after all-star weekend! Now he is gona rot on the bench and loose his trade leverage.
I could just see him on the cover of Slam magazine to.
Not that I really like the guy, but he is marketed real well. Some teams need magnetic players like that. Those are the same teams that would choose KG over Duncan. bc KG = fans and Duncan = Rings
well a friend said hes hurt (pablo)Originally Posted by alonreppinNY23
thats crap all he did was play his hurt out and he loses his spot to a ****ty job by isiah bringing in another ball hog instead of getting a big man
it really looks as if he lost his spot. this is really a shame a talented guard, maybe a bit big headed, and isiah brings in a point guard with chronic headache that already has shown that he is no winner. it makes me sick. the best stretch we had was when nate and lee got more minutes in combination with antonio and frye taking turns as pf. please guys, let him play: GET NATE IN UNIFORM!!!
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
Kurt Vonnegut
Don't you think he's better than Q.Woods ??? because I mean Woods is on the bench while NAte is on IR...
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I'm a big fan of Robinson and would like to see more of him. We have nothing left to play for so give him court time to devlop so he can be even more useful lext year. One of the problems is we have too many overpriced superstars which is keepin guys like him down the pecking order.
I wish Larry went with Jamal, Q, Lee, Frye and Curry the rest of the way. Have him bring Nate, Malik, Woods and Butler off the bench. Teach the other arrogant bitches a lesson.
Of course, this would hurt their trade values, so we need them to play and suffer the rest of the way.
Can you say Rudy Gay to Chicago thanks to the Knicks? I think that's what hurts the most.
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The dangerous "knockout" attacks on strangers in large U.S. cities are leading to arrests, more officers flooding the streets and more warnings for vigilance among an unsuspecting public.
Hoodlums have dubbed the violent practice as the 'Knockout Game,' where teens try to randomly knock out strangers with one punch.
The attacks have raised concerns across the country. Recent attacks have occurred in New York, New Haven, Conn., Washington, D.C. and suburban Philadelphia. But the violent attacks go back several years. In 2011, St. Louis, Mo. had a rash of incidents, one of which led to the killing of a Vietnamese immigrant.
The trend may have hit the west coast with an attack Tuesday on a man in downtown San Diego, according to local news stations.
Some of the assaults are recorded and posted on social media by the attackers.
In New York, where there have been seven incidents in the last month, police arrested four suspects Friday in Brooklyn, NBC News reports.
The NYPD told the station that a 24-year-old victim was walking in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn when he heard people talking about the game. The man was then hit in the head.
As the attackers ran away, police officers helped the man and fanned out across the area to find the suspects nearby, NBC reports. Their names were not released.
New York police Sgt. Brendan Ryan did not respond to a request for information about the arrests, but said in an email that extra officers have been assigned to the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn for the immediate short term.
The attacks in New York have racial overtones because the attackers are black and the victims have been Jewish.
In New Haven, police spokesman David Hartman says police are investigating six incidents in the last month as part of the knockout trend. He says investigators have identified three people of interest, though no arrests have been made.
He says no one suffered serious injuries in any of them. But as a result of the attacks, he says, more undercover officers are patrolling downtown and a neighborhood called South Hill, where five of the assaults occurred.
"I think the fact that this has been labeled a game is sickening," Hartman says. "This is not a game. This is violent."
Will Marling, the executive director of the National Organization for Victim Assistance, says this trend is not an epidemic.
"But it could be the start of one," he says, because the attacks have a social media component that could go viral. "As experience shows, other kids will see this is an easy thing to do and then it becomes group think."
He says the attacks are an example of why there is a need for a deeper conversation with young people about respect.
Michelle Boykins, a spokeswoman for the National Crime Prevention Council, says what is so disturbing about the trend is that it is so random and the intent is to hurt someone seriously.
She says that the instances often involve someone walking alone, so she suggests the tried-and-true ways to stay safe: walk with a friend and always remain aware of your surroundings.
"There is safety in numbers," she says. "And if you are by yourself, there is nothing wrong for you to decide to cross the street if you see a group of people walking toward you."


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As many of you know, the brain is still well under way in the development process through the teen years into your 20's. Your decisions today can affect the way your brain develops. Ever wondered how? "Warda" from Wantagh Middle School in New York asks:
"How can alcohol affect the development of the brain?"
The teen years are an important time for brain development. The thinking, memory, and feeling parts are all changing during this time, and alcohol can interfere with these important changes and actually shrink the thinking and memory parts.
Research shows that drinking lots of alcohol when you're a teen can make an area of the brain called the frontal lobes smaller. The frontal lobes help us make decisions, think about things, and pay attention. Teens who drink a lot have problems in these areas.
Alcohol also can shrink the hippocampus, the brain area that helps with learning and memory. For weeks and months after a teen stops drinking heavily, these parts of the brain still struggle to work correctly. Drinking at a young age also makes alcoholism more likely later in life.
So the decision to drink when you're still a teen could have lots of negative effects on brain development over time. So be kind to your brain and think before you drink.
I wish these studies had been out twenty years ago. It would have changed the way we did things.
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Great post. We need to get this message to the schools.
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This is great! I especially agree that the earlier a person starts drinking alcohol, the more likely they are to become addicted. I think I saw over on teen talk for parents that a person who starts at 15 is 5x more likely to become addicted than someone who waits until they are 21. [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
That's awesome! We should try get this to the schools, people have a right to know what alcohol does to us, it can hurt us in many ways, and also the ones around us. We need to find a way to get it towards the schools, and so they can know alcohol is BAD!
I took my first sip of alcohol when I was 3 then it got yucky
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i hate alcholha its yuckyyy
it was really hard dealing wih it
none of us enjoy alchhol
im writing a reasearch project for school on How Alcohol Effects the brain, and this is very helpful! also im glad i chose this topic, because now i know about the dangers of alcohol, and i dont want to drink!
I`m writing a reasearch project for school on How Alcohol Effects the brain, and this is quite helpful!
why would anyone drink alcohol at age? its kinda gross
im doing a reserch project and this "blog" is helpful although its not a real blog its named after a part in the brain!
alchol is bad for you and its YUKYYYYYY
this very help full
i hate alcohol its yucky and makes me sick wen i drink it
alcohol costs a lot of money and ruins lives
The brain is only affected this way when it it still developing, and only if a teen abuses alcohol. The only reason teens drink in the first place is because it is such a big taboo. If parents drank responsibly around their children, maybe even letting them have a sip in their own home (which is legal), then they would not grow up to drink it irresponsibly. Also, for adults who modieratly drink, there are many health benifits. If you dont believe me then google [link removed, per guidelines]
Actually, although it's commonly believed that giving children a taste of alcohol at home is a way to protect them from abusing it later, research shows this is not true. In fact, although research studies have produced some mixed results, most of the evidence suggests that access to alcohol in the home actually increases the likelihood that a teen will abuse it outside the home. A recent study by McMorris et al concluded that "Adult-supervised settings for alcohol use resulted in higher levels of harmful alcohol consequences, contrary to predictions derived from harm-minimization policy." You can find the article at: http://www.jsad.com/jsad/article/Influence_of_Family_Factors_and_Supervi.... Still, many factors go into whether a person becomes an alcoholic, including the age they start drinking. NIAAA—the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that "The younger you are when you start drinking, the greater your chance of becoming addicted to alcohol at some point in your life. More than 4 in 10 people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholic."
thank you. alcohol kills me
I dont like people who drink alcohol that much,but i have a friend that does...i wish she would stop but it's hard for her to stop. Im doing my best to get her to stop but it's really hard...
Drink. dont get drunk. thats where all the problems come from. simply drink in moderation and if not your [expletive deleted, per guidelines] your self.
beer is gross when i drank it i got sick and could not go to school. Dont drink at all
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THE federal government's controversial eHealth system to get the nation's medical records available online has had a dismal uptake from the public and the medical profession.
The scheme has been compared to the government's bungled roof insulation system by the Coalition's eHealth spokesman, Andrew Southcott, who called it ''Pink Batts on steroids''.
The eHealth scheme was launched with fanfare in July, with an advertising truck touring Australia to encourage 500,000 people to register in the first year. The Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, declared: ''We estimate eHealth will save the federal government around $11 billion over 15 years. That's pretty good bang for your buck.''
But the bang appears to have turned to a fizzle after a parliamentary estimates committee was told that only 56,761 people had registered.
Mr Southcott said that of 560,000 health practitioners nationwide, 1325 had registered.
The system has also crashed in the past, according to Mukesh Haikerwal, a GP and former Australian Medical Association president who is helping the National E-Health Transition Authority with the introduction of the scheme.
Dr Haikerwal has toured the country to tell the medical profession about eHealth and will be in Sydney this week.
He said he was one of the few doctors linked into the complete eHealth service and went live with it at his Melbourne practice in mid-December to test the system. ''When I logged on, I got thrown out and was told the service was not available. It crashed. I contacted the Health Department and they said it hadn't crashed - but then I sent them a screen grab. Then they admitted we have had a crash. If the Qantas website was like this, you would say, 'I will go to the travel agent instead.'
''The potential is great but all the snags around the country need to be addressed. The end-users want this to work but it is a bit of a hard sell at the moment. When you do use it, there's not an awful lot on there. The way it is at the moment, I would struggle to know why I would use it.''
Mr Southcott said: ''We are three years down the track with almost $1 billion spent and nothing to show for it. It's Pink Batts on steroids.''
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The powerful 19-year-old vocalist from Sunrise, Fla., won the Fox talent competition Thursday over soulful 30-year-old singer Josh Krajcik of Wooster, Ohio.
Amaro, who was mentored by judge Simon Cowell and was at one point eliminated from the contest, was awarded the grand prize: a $5 million recording contract and a starring role in a Pepsi commercial.
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"Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God," Amaro repeated after host Steve Jones announced her as the winner.
Despite continued prodding from Jones, Amaro couldn't quite formulate words when she was revealed to have captured the most viewer votes, and she struggled through tears to reprise Beyonce's "Listen," the soaring song that Amaro crooned at her audition and on Wednesday's final performance round.
"I want to say, 'America, thank you for giving this girl an opportunity,'" said Cowell.
Chris Rene, the 28-year-old singer-rapper from Santa Cruz, Calif., came in third place.
Before the winner was unveiled, the three finalists crooned classic Christmas tunes, and Justin Bieber, Stevie Wonder, Leona Lewis, Pitbull, Ne-Yo and 50 Cent performed various songs with former contestants. Amaro and Krajcik also dueted on David Bowie's "Heroes."
Unlike "American Idol," the contest was open to both solo singers and groups, and had a lower minimum age of 12 and no upper age limit.
The judges also served as mentors during "The X Factor's" debut season. Cowell represented female vocalists, including Amaro; L.A. Reid headed male singers, including Rene; Nicole Scherzinger was in charge of over-30 singers, including Krajcik; and Paula Abdul helmed the groups.


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Can anyone who speaks Spanish pick up the location Rachel asks Brendon about when she is just putting on her pack?? That should be the pitstop area I think?
Take the total weight of the cows in the pen (given by the auctioneer) and divide by the number of cows, to get the average weight per cow.Simple math, lol. Counting the number of the cows looked harder!
This leg was verrrrry boringActually super boring!
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with his once all-but-assured nomination now severely in jeopardy, how can squishy mitt romney hope to steal the hearts of GOP voters away from ultra-hardcore social conservative rick santorum?(from "heavy metal: the movie", 1981)
wow! hard to find a more hardcore campaign slogan than that! i can already hear the applause ...
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love story
as an ice age crept upon them thousands of years ago, neanderthals and modern human ancestors expanded their territory ranges across asia and europe to adapt to the changing environment. in the process, they encountered each other.
although many anthropologists believe that modern humans ancestors "wiped out" neanderthals, it's more likely that neanderthals were integrated into the human gene pool thousands of years ago during the upper pleistocene era as cultural and climatic forces brought the two groups together, said arizona state university professor c. michael barton of the center for social dynamics and complexity and school of human evolution and social change.(art by gary larson)
Monday, February 06, 2012
from hero to zero ... once more with feeling
on january 20 birthers found a savior in georgia deputy administrative judge michael malihi, who rebuffed obama's lawyers' attempt to quash their "subpoenas" and who invited all to make their cases in open court. it was not the first time birthers thought a true liberator had come:
"god willing nobody gets to this judge, as they did with judge carter."
— orly taitz, co-counsel for the plaintiffs (malware alert!)"LOL. the chances of [obama] showing are nil but i admire this judge."
— paul51"i think it is turning out that an honest judge is the biggest problem for obama. that, and his hubris."
— pa-river"pray for him. with god's help, this will cause a tidal wave to sweep obama out."
— pray4liberty"the good people of GA need to find and fund professional personal security folks to insure this judge does not fall victim to an "accident" or other means of demise...."
— manly warrior"god bless the great state of georgia! this is one judge that intends to uphold his sworn oath to protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america."
— godebert"OH *U** YEAH!
oh I LIKE this judge! he is following the LAW!!!! who knew! RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh it's a good friday now, even if i don't have my chemistry homework done!!! WOOT!!!!!"
— danae"gingrich/mahili 2012."
— churchillspirit"i am beginning to wonder if this judge mahili may just go down in history as one of the many people who saved this great republic."
— nesnah
a week later on january 26 birther fortunes only soared higher when obama's team boycotted the hearing; the cowardly usurper had ceded the field, both legally and morally, to america's protectors:"we have won our case. the judge is going to declare a default judgement against obama."
— david farrar, plaintiff"now we're merely awaiting the publishing of this judge's ruling which, as previously stated, will be a default judgment.
in other words ... we won."
— carl swensson, witness for the plaintiffs"the "birthers," who have been ridiculed if not ignored by the media and much of the american public for the past three years, have officially been vindicated today."
— floyd brown"bring it to 'em, judge malihi!"
— backwoods-engineer"i grilled steaks tonight and we're getting ready to eat pineapple cream pie and coconut cream pie here at our house — to celebrate that there is still apparently one honest judge in the country.
wish i could treat all my fellow patriots here."
— butterdezillion"georgia does not play!!!! finally a judge with courage!"
— julie"not showing up makes the judge's job real easy... facts/evidence is undisputed. bamm! (gavel cracking judge's bench)"
— freepersup"remember to pray for this judge, he has a lot of eyes looking at him and weighing a judgment in this case is going to be a heavy decision."
— an american!"lord, give the judge and the SOS the courage to do the right thing and keep this miserable spawn of hate off the georgia ballot."
— enterprise
cruelly, even unfettered and unopposed testimony on the record in open court proved insufficient to keep afloat their savior, who delivered his judgment on february 3:
"this behavior of judge malihi was so outrageous, that not only his advisory opinion needs to be set aside, as not grounded in any fact or law, but state and county grand juries and the attorney general of georgia need to launch a criminal investigation into actions of judge malihi ..."
— orly taitz, co-counsel for the plaintiffs (malware alert!)"the question remains, who got to him or was his mind already made up before the hearing. his ruling is NOT written in his usual style and the ankeny case he cited was provided by someone. who, we may never know but FOGBOW and or perkins cole are the prime candidates."
— carl swensson, witness for the plaintiffs"i guess bath-house barry could walk into this bastard's court, piss in his face and malihi would just apologize for not helping barry lower his pants."
— mortrey"UNBELIEVABLE! THE VERDICT IS IN! THERE ARE ZERO GOVERNMENT MEMBERS WITH INTEGRITY."
— anonymous"TRAITORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
— kenyanBornObamAcorn"may he die in his sleep tonight, and all other traitors of the USA"
— margie urban"all of this is not surprising that the "evil ones" would place a muslim judge to again squash any dealings in a court of law. the "evil ones" planted a seed of hope for us folks that possibly, just possibly, there might be a person of character and a noble and honest judge who would find the answers. then they dashed everything, as part of the plan to again destroy any evidence."
— betsy"i believe the judge was threatened. most of these people in bench positions, have gotten cushy in their lives, and have "strange skeletons" in their closets. some skeletons they would rather sell america up the road than have exposed. ...then remember that 2 of the supremes are o appointed. and of course, roberts is tainted, having sworn the "illegally sitting resident" into our whitehouse. i am praying hard for our military, and hope they will step in."
— true patriots, navy vet"i suspect this ruling was not written by judge milihi. ... in his final ruling he makes several constructed opinions based on assumptions ... completely contrary to what he wrote several days earlier. i swear this ain't the same person"
— p5151"that is what happened in the california case with judge carter. remember the bauer law firm in seattle sent a law clerk down to work for carter and then the case went south from there. i wonder who wrote judge malihi's so called decision."
— iontheball"that really sucks that the judge caved. i guess the chicago muslim mafia convinced him that was the best way to keep himself and his family breathing."
— hm"it is a significant number of cowards who fear to stand up to power. the fix is in, IMHO. its gonna take some stones to do the right thing. Beyond the every day set of stones that is. we have not seen a judge with a set yet."
— danae"just saw the ruling from malihi. there is no other rational explanation than the obama thugs got to him or he saw the gravitas of his decision and he HID HIMSELF like a frightened child."
— dr. david earl-graef (malware alert!)""we" were defeated because a craven judge decided he would like to live to see his children and grandchildren grow up."
— hinckley buzzard"judges are the most pusillanimous and obsequious of the entire political class. you will not find a courageous judge, it is essentially an oxymoron."
— hinckley buzzard"he is iranian for sure. i have somewhere a printout of his background info. his parents names, last names, all iranian
god knows, what kind of a deal was done there
... this judge belongs in prison in the best caes scenario, he should be sharing a cell with obama"
— orly taitz, co-counsel for the plaintiffs (malware alert!)"well, what scares me is what's coming in november. now that we know that judges can't be trusted to support and defend the constitution, i'm betting that we'll see a very strong showing by the republican nominee (probably mitt romney) and that somehow, the courts will deny him the presidency. once that happens, obama will be in complete control and the increasingly rapid strangulation of our once free country will commence. i foresee that this november will probably be our last free election—unless the bravery of real americans waters the tree of tyranny with the blood of traitors. i haven't fired a weapon since 1974—i came back from viet nam sick of violence (hell, i just a medic), but this bullsh*t makes me so angry i'm going out tonight to cabelas to see what they've got in the way of a nice warm rifle. it's clobbering time!"
— ralph swain"in the interest of public safety i would like to request of all who are aware of this stinking rotten judge's actions, to please refrain from mugging the low down lying cockroach, throwing rocks at this dog's house, slapping this treasonous corrupt scoundrel's children, spitting on this disgusting animal's wife, to just go directly to the whorse's mouth. give him a call or stop in to see him, for a polite civilized discussion, on why he chose to turn his back on the country that provided the means for him to be in the position he is in.
i am sure that he would want to hear from the people who pay his salary, who put food in his family's stomachs and puts clothes on their backs. naturally, he would want to thank you personally.
for conversing, socializing, bonding with his neighbors and undermining the american legal system, he lists his address as: [redacted]
or, people always love a good fax
why not? he faxed us good."
— mark mcgrew
but let's not judge the judge too harshly, folks:
"all through the past three years there have been judicial decisions wrought with errors ... like breadcrumbs along a trail. one suspects the decisions to have been done purposefully in an effort to propel this issue to SCOTUS."
— satinDoll
see? these so-called traitor judges are really just helping birthers — if the lower courts ever let them win a case, the issue would never make it to the supreme court! just a matter of keeping their powder dry for them ...(photoSnark via verbalobe)
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Customers have been asked to stump up nearly £1 million to keep 2e2's data centres running until the 15th February, in a bid to relieve some pressure on migrating data away to new hosting environment.
The government's G-Cloud team has also urged public sector 2e2 customers to get in touch for advice on migrating to a new cloud environment via the G-Cloud framework.
"This is a bad situation for the customers that rely on 2e2 for their hosted services. You obtain and outsource hosting so that you can sleep soundly at night knowing that someone else is looking after it," said Kate Craig-Wood, Managing Director of Memset.
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