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Sunday, February 17, 2013
If you like art to tell you about where we've been as a society or where we are going, you won't want to miss this month's Final Friday.
When artist Erika Nelson was a little girl, she remembers sitting in the back of her parents' AMC Gremlin and looking out the window on the many trips from her home in California, Mo., to her grandparents' house in Tipton.
"I knew when I saw the big 8-Ball water tower that we were close to Grandma's," she says, "and that is how I navigated. ... When you're little, everything is big and amazing."
Nelson held on to that sense of wonder as she grew older. She attended Kansas University for her MFA and took weekend road trips "to keep sane" and continued to marvel at the roadside curiosities sprinkled throughout the state.
"Kansas has some wonderful iconic attractions," she says, no doubt referring to icons such as Big Brutus, the world's largest electric shovel (West Mineral), the world's largest easel (Goodland), and the world's largest cow hairball (Garden City).
But something was missing for Nelson as she visited these sites. She wanted to remember the fascinations, but there weren't always souvenirs. So Nelson decided to create her own.
Otto the Big Otter in Fergus Falls, Minn., came first. Others include the world's largest bottle of ketchup, (Collinsville, Ill.), the world's largest washboard (Logan, Ohio), and the world's largest baseball bat in, you guessed it, Lexington, Ky.
Eventually, Nelson's "absurd little thing" grew into a real thing and a real traveling museum: The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things.
"It's the big, little, big show," she says.
And Nelson's traveling marvel is coming to the Percolator (913 Rhode Island St.) this month for Final Fridays. In addition to various pieces from her collection, Nelson will bring sketches from her travels. Last year she spent eight months on the road photographing, researching and recreating the roadside attractions from all over the country.
Nelson will spend an extra day in Lawrence and will again appear at the Percolator at 7 p.m. Saturday for a video and program, "Hucksters, Barkers, and Sideshows," about the history and craft of traveling showmen.
Andy Hadle at Wonder Fair
If your passions and journeys have less to do with Route 66 and more about the information superhighway, you won't want to miss Wonder Fair's Final Friday show: Buckle Up for Cheese and Rice Sonic Rush (803 1/2 Mass.) a new show by artist Andy Hadle who admits to living "a lot of life in virtual Internet space."
The show includes sculptures, drawings and videos that combine the "flat style of comic book with fine art" and "investigates the absurd, yet tenuous codependency of commodities and human survival."
"'Social commentary' sounds a little hard-edged," Hadle says. "It's a lot lighter than that."
Also included is a DVD for purchase designed to mimic the way we maneuver through the Internet.
"It's like the way you click on one link and watch for a few minutes, and the next thing you know you're watching a television commercial from the 1980s," he says. The DVD featuring original images and videos as well as found footage is designed to have different paths so it is a different experience each time you watch it.
"It's a microverse which embodies the barrage of video and imagery that are part of our daily lives," he says.
Michael Strickland photography
If Hadle's show leaves you feeling overwhelmed with life in the 21st century then step over to Pachamama's (800 New Hampshire St.) for Michael Strickland's photographs guaranteed to bring a little tranquility.
"I try to capture moments in history," says Strickland, whose works include images of the sky, nature and a little of the built environment.
"I like to capture the emotion that I felt when I looked at the images, the solitude and the beauty," he says. "And sometimes it can take weeks or months to get the right sunrise."
Many of Strickland's images are from Kansas but some are from the Grand Canyon where the KU engineering student will return this summer with a group of photographers.
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Tickets to this year's Edinburgh International Festival went on sale on Saturday 24th March from the Hub at Castlehill. From today, the public can also purchase them from five new venues across the city.
The Edinburgh Playhouse, Festival Theatre, The Queen's Hall, Royal Lyceum Theatre and the Usher Hall have joined the list of venues where members of the public can go to buy tickets for this year's Festival, which will take place from 9th August to 2nd September.
It hasn't taken long for ticket buyers to make use of the new box office locations in order to purchase tickets. According to a spokesperson for the Usher Hall, 5 people have already visited this morning within one hour of doors opening.
With tickets currently being sold from a variety of venues across the city, potential Festival goers are advised to be quick and buy their tickets in advance, in order to avoid future disappointments.
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Extra credit belongs to this student who stayed in character throughout a caught-on-camera April Fool's prank that has since gone viral.
The student pranked her macroeconomics teacher, Professor Stephen Barrows, last week at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Mich. At the center of the joke was the teacher's in-class policy: If a student's phone rings, the call must be answered on speakerphone.
Per the policy (and the joke), when the female student's phone rang, she answered. Here's what the class heard:
"Hi, this is Kevin from the Pregnancy Resource Center. Per your request, I am calling to inform you that the test results have come back positive. Congratulations."
A clip of the prank shows the teacher clearly looking concerned at this point. He can be heard telling the student she can turn off the phone.
"There is no need to worry," the caller says. "I know you told us the father is no longer in the picture, but we will be in contact with you throughout this whole process, so don't worry about anything. We provide counseling and other maternity services at no charge."
As the teacher moves to publicly apologize to the student, she plays it cool.
"That's okay," she says. "I've been expecting this, and I already know what I'm going to name the baby. Her first name will be April, and her middle name will be Fools."
The class erupts into laughter, right along with the professor. The prank had since garnered more than 4 million YouTube views by Monday afternoon.
Student's April Fool's Joke on Teacher Goes Viral
Student pulls prank in class, and the teacher's reaction is priceless
Extra credit belongs to this student who stayed in character throughout a caught-on-camera April Fool's prank that has since gone viral.


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Movies shed new light on how nerves are wrapped
Much like the electrical wiring in your house, the nerves in your body need to be completely covered by a layer of insulation to work properly.
Instead of red, white or black plastic, however, the wiring in the nervous system is protected by layers of an insulating protein called myelin. These layers increase the speed that nerve impulses travel throughout the brain and the body. The critical role they play is dramatically illustrated by the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, which is caused by lesions that destroy myelin. These include: blindness, muscle weakness and paralysis, loss of coordination, stuttering, pain and burning sensations, impotence, memory loss, depression and dementia.
The formation of myelin sheaths during development requires a complex choreography generally considered to be one of nature's most spectacular examples of the interaction between different kinds of cells. Now, a group of Vanderbilt researchers has successfully produced movies that provide the first direct view of the initial stage of this process: the period when the cells that ultimately produce the myelin sheathing spread throughout the developing nervous system. The results were published online in the journal Nature Neuroscience on Nov. 12 and should aid in the design of new therapies to promote the repair of this protective layer following disease or injury.
"We discovered that this process is far more dynamic than anyone had dreamed," says Bruce Appel, the associate professor of biological sciences and Kennedy Center investigator who headed up the study.
In the central nervous system, the myelin membranes are produced by cells called oligodendrocytes. These cells must be distributed uniformly along axons — the long, wire-like extensions from neurons that carry nerve impulses — so that the membranes, which wrap the nerve fibers like millions of microscopic pieces of electrician's tape, can cover the axons completely and uniformly. The wrapping process takes place near the end of fetal development and actually continues for some time after birth.
In order to study this process, Appel and his research group — graduate students Brandon Kirby and Jimann Shin along with post doctoral fellows Norio Takada and Andrew Latimer — created a transgenic zebrafish which incorporates fluorescent proteins in the cells involved in myelination. The zebrafish is a small tropical fish that has become a popular species for studying the process of development in vertebrates (animals with backbones). Because zebrafish embryos are transparent and develop within a few days, they allow biologists to watch developmental processes as they take place: something they cannot do with mice or other mammals. These characteristics allowed the Vanderbilt researchers to obtain images of the cells involved in myelination using a confocal microscope and edit them into time-lapse movies.
The oligodendrocytes that produce the myelin membranes arise from mobile, dividing cells called "oligodentrocyte progenitor cells" or OPCs. OPCs are made in special locations in the brain and spinal cord. These cells seek out axons and spread out along them. Then, at a certain point, a fraction of the OPCs transform themselves into oligodentrocytes and begin wrapping axons. Each of these cells can wrap portions of several different axons and each axon is wrapped by a large number of oligodentrocytes.
Before the Vanderbilt study, there were a number of different theories about how OPCs space themselves along axons. One was that the axons themselves produce some kind of positional cues that the OPCs follow. Another was that the OPCs sense each other and adjust their position accordingly: a mechanism somewhat similar to that which soldiers on the parade ground use to align a formation by extending their right arm and adjusting their position until their outstretched fingers touch the shoulder of the person on the right.
Previous studies of OPCs grown in tissue culture had seen that they could generate small pseudopods, called filopodia, but no one knew what their purpose might be. So, when the researchers began viewing their movies, they were excited to observe that the cells were continually sending out filopodia in different directions. They found that OPCs not only generate these tiny tentacles, but keep them extending and contracting in a fashion reminiscent of the party noise-makers called blow-outs that unroll when you blow on them and snap back when you stop. They observed that when one of these tiny tentacles touches a neighboring OPC, the cells react by moving in the opposite direction. This caused a surprising amount of movement as the OPCs repeatedly readjusted their positions.
"This could serve as a surveillance mechanism that allows the OPCs to determine the presence or absence of nearby cells of the same type," says Appel, "and could explain how they distribute themselves along the axons."
The researchers used the same system to see how the OPCs respond to injuries and conditions like multiple sclerosis. They did so by using a laser to destroy the OPCs along a short length of the embryo's spine a day before the axon-wrapping stage begins. They found that the OPCs in the vicinity of the gap start dividing to produce additional cells that move into the gap. After a day, the number of OPCs in the gap had grown to 50 percent of normal and after four days it had risen to 70 percent.
"Now that we have a better understanding of OPC and oligodendrocyte behaviors, we are in a much better position to identify and study the genes that are necessary for myelination," says Appel, "and having these genes in hand should aid in the design of drugs to promote remyelination following disease or injury."
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I was very pleased to hear about this a couple of weeks ago -- Murakami is one of my favorites.
By all accounts it sounds like an amazing read. Can't wait. It's up on Amazon already.
On a related note, they re-published Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, another epic of his, in hardcover in the UK recently: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog...ata=1846553873 The original US hardcover is out of print and goes for tons of cash used.
Too bad that it's not a new translation, though, since some material was cut from the original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Win...ssing_chapters
That was the first of his books that I read -- and I was hooked.
My first was Kafka On The Shore. He is a stunning author.
I had never heard of Murakami until a few days ago when I read an article about him. Now all of a sudden, I'm seeing stuff about him pop up everywhere. What book of his should I start out with?
I am Daenerys Stormborn and I will take what is mine. With fire and blood.
Apparently that Wind-Up Bird Chronicle edition is a limited edition of 2500 copies, according to http://www.camulodunumbooks.co.uk/th...i-murakami.asp Just found a good deal on it though.
Yes, Erin - A Wild Sheep Chase is awesome, you can then follow it with Dance Dance Dance.
The only book I have read from him is "The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World". Based on the posts above it looks like I should next read A Wild Sheep Chase or Dance Dance Dance? Has anyone else read The Hard Boiled .................and how does this compare with his other works.
I haven't read that one. I think we'll all be prejudiced in favor of the work that got us hooked on him -- The Wind-up Bird Chronicles in my case, which I always recommend to people.
OK mixed reviews on what to read next. Thanks for all the suggestions and I think I will pick up whichever one the local library has in.
I bought a copy of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle about a month or so ago. The first Murakami novel I read was Sputnik Sweetheart, which I love. I have read a few of his nonfiction works, which is fantastic as well. Right now I'm reading Underground, which is his series of interviews with survivors of the sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subway system.
I've already read the first two books of 1Q84, they're already published on spanish, but the third one will be published until october. It's freaking awesome.
My favorite it's The wind up bird chronicle. But I really enjoy this autor, I identifies so much with his stories and characters. Once he said "my characters want to tell a lot of things, but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves".
I also started with Sputnik!. It's suck a perfect book to start to read Murakami, I think.
Murakami has a new short story in the 9/5 issue of The New Yorker:
Also, there is an audio interview with the translator of 1Q84:
Thanks Pablo! I started reading it but my mind's somewhere else right now...will revisit this later on today.
Excellent -- thanks. Will transfer to my iPad to read later.
My bad, the story is actually an excerpt from "1Q84", the forthcoming novel:
What were the events demarcating the spirit of the 21st century from that of the 20th? From a global perspective, they were, first of all, the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent rapid end of the Cold War order, and second, the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings on Sept. 11, 2001. The first act of destruction was one filled with bright hopes, while the one that followed it was an overwhelming tragedy. The widespread conviction in the first case that "the world will be better than ever" was totally shattered by the disaster of 9/11.
These two acts of destruction, which played out on either side of the millennial turning point with such vastly different momentum in each case, appear to have combined into a single pair that greatly transformed our mentality.
Over the past 30 years, I have written fiction in various forms ranging from short stories to full-length novels. The story has always been one of the most fundamental human concepts. While each story is unique, it functions for the most part as something that can be shared and exchanged with others. That is one of the things that gives a story its meaning. Stories change form freely as they inhale the air of each new age. In principle a medium of cultural transmission, stories are highly variable when it comes to the mode of presentation they employ. Like skilled fashion designers, we novelists clothe stories, as they change shape from day to day, in words suited to their figures.
Viewed from such a professional perspective, it would seem that the interface between us and the stories we encounter underwent a greater change than ever before at some point when the world crossed (or began to cross) the millennial threshold. Whether this was a change for the good or a less welcome change, I am in no position to judge. About all I can say is that we can probably never go back to where we started.
Speaking for myself, one of the reasons I feel this so strongly is the fact that the fiction I write is itself undergoing a perceptible transformation. The stories inside me are steadily changing form as they inhale the new atmosphere. I can clearly feel the movement happening inside my body. Also happening at the same time, I can see, is a substantial change in the way readers are receiving the fiction I write.
There has been an especially noteworthy change in the posture of European and American readers. Until now, my novels could be seen in 20th-century terms, that is, to be entering their minds through such doorways as "post-modernism" or "magic realism" or "Orientalism"; but from around the time that people welcomed the new century, they gradually began to remove the framework of such "isms" and accept the worlds of my stories more nearly as-is. I had a strong sense of this shift whenever I visited Europe and America. It seemed to me that people were accepting my stories in toto — stories that are chaotic in many cases, missing logicality at times, and in which the composition of reality has been rearranged. Rather than analyzing the chaos within my stories, they seem to have begun conceiving a new interest in the very task of how best to take them in.
By contrast, general readers in Asian countries never had any need for the doorway of literary theory when they read my fiction. Most Asian people who took it upon themselves to read my works apparently accepted the stories I wrote as relatively "natural" from the outset. First came the acceptance, and then (if necessary) came the analysis. In most cases in the West, however, with some variation, the logical parsing came before the acceptance. Such differences between East and West, however, appear to be fading with the passing years as each influences the other.
If I were to pin a label on the process through which the world has passed in recent years, it would be "realignment." A major political and economic realignment started after the end of the Cold War. Little need be said about the realignment in the area of information technology, with its astounding, global-scale dismantling and establishment of systems. In the swirling midst of such processes, obviously, it would be impossible for literature alone to take a pass on such a realignment and avoid systemic change.
An acute difficulty brought about by such a comprehensive process of realignment is the loss — if only temporarily — of coordinate axes with which to form standards of evaluation. Such axes were there until now, functioning as reliable bases on which to measure the value of things. They sat at the head of the table as the paterfamilias of values, deciding what conformed and what did not. Now we wake up to find that not only the head of the household but the table itself has vanished. All around us, it appears, things have been — or are being — swallowed up by chaos.
When I hear the word "chaos," I automatically picture the scenes of 9/11 — those shocking images that were shown a million times on television: The two jumbo jets plunging into the glass walls of the Twin Towers, the towers themselves crumbling without a trace, scenes that would continue to be unbelievable after a million and one viewings. The plot that succeeded with miraculous perfection — a perfection that reached a level of near surreality. If I may say so without fear of being misunderstood, the scenes even appeared to be something made with computer graphics for a Hollywood doomsday film.
We often wonder what it would have been like if 9/11had never happened — or at least if that plan had not succeeded so perfectly. Then the world would have been very different from what it is now. America might have had a different president (a major possibility), and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars might never have happened (an even greater possibility).
Let's call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world that we might have had if 9/11 had never happened Reality B. Then we can't help but notice that the world of Reality B appears to be realer and more rational than the world of Reality A. To put itin different terms, we are living a world that has an even lower level of reality than the unreal world. What can we possibly call this if not "chaos"?
What kind of meaning can fiction have in an age like this? What kind of purpose can it serve? In an age when reality is insufficiently real, how much reality can a fictional story possess?
Surely, this is the problem that we novelists now face, the question that we have been given. The moment our minds crossed the threshold of the new century, we also crossed the threshold of reality once and for all. We had no choice but to make the crossing, finally, and, as we do so, our stories are being forced to change their structures. The novels and stories we write will surely become increasingly different in character and feel from those that have come before, just as 20th-century fiction is sharply and clearly differentiated from 19th-century fiction.
The proper goal of a story is not to judge what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. More important is for us to determine whether, inside us, the variable elements and the traditional elements are moving forward in harmony with each other, to determine whether individual stories and the communal stories inside us are joined at the root.
In other words, the role of a story is to maintain the soundness of the spiritual bridge that has been constructed between the past and the future. New guidelines and morals emerge quite naturally from such an undertaking. For that to happen, we must first breathe deeply of the air of reality, the air of things-as-they-are, and we must stare unsparingly and without prejudice at the way stories are changing inside us. We must coin new words in tune with the breath of that change.
In that sense, at the same time that fiction (story) is presently undergoing a severe test, it possesses an unprecedented opportunity. Of course fiction has always been assigned responsibility and questions to deal with in every age, but surely the responsibility and questions are especially great now. Story has a function that it alone can perform, and that is to "turn everything into a story." To transform the things and events around us into the metaphor of the story form and to suggest the true nature of the situation in the dynamism of that substitution: that is story's most important function.
In my latest novel, 1Q84, I depict not George Orwell's near future but the opposite— the near past — of 1984. What if there were a diffe- rent 1984, not the original 1984 we know, but another, transformed 1984? And what if we were suddenly thrown into such a world? There would be, of course, a groping toward a new reality.
In the gap between Reality A and Reality B, in the inversion of realities, how far could we preserve our given values, and, at the same time, to what kind of new morals could we go on to give birth? This is one of the themes of the work. I spent three years writing this story, during which time I passed its hypothetical world through myself as a simulation. The chaos is still there — in full measure.
But after a good deal of trial and error, I have a strong sense that I am finally getting it in story terms. Perhaps the solution begins from softly accepting chaos not as something that "should not be there," to be rejected fundamentally in principle, but as something that "is there in actual fact."
I may be too optimistic. But as a teller of stories, as a hopefully humble pilot of the mind and spirit, I cannot help but feel this way — that the world, too, after a good deal of trial and error, will surely grasp a new confidence that it is getting it, that the world will undoubtedly discover some clues that suggest a solution because, finally, both the world and story have already crossed the threshold of many centuries and passed many milestones to survive to the present day.


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OTTAWA — Parks Canada is proposing new lockage fees for the Rideau Canal that would nearly triple the cost of a boat trip from Ottawa to Kingston.
Canal users greeted the huge fee increases, posted to Parks Canada's website late Friday, with fury and consternation. If they proceed, they warn, the new fees will effectively kill the canal, along with the hundreds of businesses and thousands of jobs it supports in Eastern Ontario.
And if that happens, the canal's UNESCO world heritage designation could disappear as well, they say.
At present, boaters can purchase passes — ranging in length from a single day to the full season — that let them pass through canal locks for a single up-front price.
Parks Canada is proposing to scrap the pass system and replace it with a complex new ticket fee structure beginning in 2014. Under the new system, boaters would have to purchase between two and four tickets to pass through each lock station, depending on the number of locks it contains.
Each ticket would cost 30 cents per foot of a boat's length. So, for example, a single ticket for a 30-foot boat would cost $9, meaning the lockage fee would range from $18 and $36 for a vessel of that size. The fee would be less for smaller boats, but more for larger ones.
The new fee structure would raise the cost of travelling the full length of the canal by 287 per cent. The owner of a 20-foot boat now pays $93 in lockage fees for the Ottawa-to-Kingston trip, but would pay $360 under Parks Canada's proposal. For owners of 40-foot boats, the cost of a one-way trip would soar from the current $186 to $720.
The percentage increase would be even larger — more than 340 per cent — for boaters who now buy a season's pass. The owner of a 25-foot boat can buy a season's pass for $220. But the same boater would pay $975 for 130 tickets under the new system.
The fee increases apply to canoes and kayaks, as well, though they would need one fewer ticket to pass through a lock station than a power boat. Under the current system, those who want to paddle the full length of the canal can buy a transit pass for $74.40. If Parks Canada's proposed fees are adopted, the cost would rise to $182.40 in 2014.
Boaters can save 25 per cent by purchasing 80 tickets in advance, or 10 per cent by buying lockage tickets online in advance.
Parks Canada is also proposing sharp increases in mooring fees. Effective this year, the overnight mooring fee would more than double to $2 a foot, and a new $1-a-foot fee would be imposed for daytime mooring.
All 3,300 fees that Parks Canada charges at its sites across the country have been frozen since 2008 and are being adjusted. The public has until Feb. 18 to provide comments. In future, increases will be tied to the rise in the Consumer Price Index.
However, the fee increases Parks Canada is proposing for the Rideau Canal and other historic canals far exceed those at its other sites.
The agency says the large increases in canal fees are needed "to ensure sustainability" of the service in the future. But several system users said Monday they would have the opposite effect, deterring people from using the canal at all.
John Watt, a longtime lockmaster at Davis Lock who retired last summer, predicted the number of lockages will drop at least 50 per cent if the new fees proceed. Overnight moorings will drop by 70 per cent, he said. "People aren't going to pay those kinds of prices."
Sean Horsfall goes even further. The vice-president of operations and marina manager at Len's Cove Marina in Portland estimates the new fees will reduce lockages by 75 per cent.
That would be like closing Banff National Park, he said. The Rideau Canal "is truly one of the wonders of the world. It's an amazing piece of history and engineering that should be saved, but not paid for exclusively by a few recreational boaters."
If canal boat traffic drops dramatically — or if Parks Canada uses that to close operations entirely — it "would have a huge impact on the property values of every cottage and home along the Rideau Canal," Horsfall said. The economic impact "would be in the billions of dollars. The short-sightedness of this is catastrophic."
Horsfall said he hopes the proposed increases are just a negotiating tactic. Even so, Parks Canada has "done a lot of damage" already, simply by putting its proposal out there, he said. "I can't tell you what a punch in the gut this is to our customer base and our employees."
Ken Watson, a Rideau Canal expert who runs a website called Save Our Rideau, said a sharp decline in boat traffic would also undermine the heritage argument for recognizing the canal, which still operates in much the same manner as it did when it opened in 1832.
"One of the reasons it's a world heritage site is that it's still an operating canal," Watson said. "The only way you actually get to see a demonstration of the heritage and the engineering is to have the locks operating."
If boaters avoid the canal because it's too expensive, land-based visitors will also decline, Watson said, noting that it's the sight of boats going through the locks that attracts visitors.
"You have to have visitors at any historic site to maintain its relevancy," Watson said. But Parks Canada seems to see the Rideau strictly as a recreational waterway, he said. "They don't talk about anything else. That's got me really worried about what the future of the whole world heritage site (is)."
This is the second time in recent months that Parks Canada proposals for the canal have generated fierce controversy. Last spring, the agency proposed cutting the length of the canal's operating season to save money, but settled for reducing its hours of daily operation in the face of vigorous opposition.
Boaters and other canal supporters are vowing to push back against this latest proposal as well. They've already established a Facebook page, Save the Rideau and St. Lawrence, and are mobilizing a political campaign to force Parks Canada to scale back its proposed fees.
Monday, Parks Canada official Andrew Campbell told the Citizen the agency is open to restoring seasonal or other passes, or tweaking the threshold for bulk-buy discounts, depending on public feedback.
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Bernard J. "Sonny" Greenthaner, 94, of 1716 Bucktail Trail, St. Marys, passed away Sunday, February 9, 2014, at the Elk Regional Health Center after a brief illness.
He was born September 4, 1919 in Cadogan, PA, son of the late Fred and Mary Kurzinger Greenthaner. He was a lifelong resident of the area and attended schools in Cadogan. He was a retired employee of Modern Dairy.
On June 20, 1946, he married Helen Nagy who preceded him in death in January 2006.
He is survived by three sons, Arch Greenthaner and his wife Nancy of Blue Springs, MO, Thomas Greenthaner and his wife Norma of California, and Timothy Greenthaner and his wife Katie of Kersey; a son-in-law, Edward Zaremba of East Lansing, MI; seven grandchildren, Jeff Greenthaner, Sheri Tristan, Jessica Sheppard, J. P. Greenthaner, Terah Zaremba, Brenda Greenthaner, and Daniel Greenthaner; and by six great grandchildren.
Besides his wife and parents, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Barbara Zaremba; a son, Raymond Greenthaner; three sisters, Anastasia Fair, Cecelia Dorchack, and Adeline Wilhelm; and by three brothers, Raymond Greenthaner, Arthur Greenthaner, and Leo Greenthaner. He was the last member of his immediate family.
Mr. Greenthaner was a member of the Queen of the World Church. He enjoyed gardening and was an avid Pittsburgh Pirate fan.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in the Queen of the World Church on Thursday, February 13, 2014, at 12:00 PM, with the Rev. Richard Allen, Pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in the St. Mary's Cemetery.
Visitation is at the Lynch-Radkowski Funeral Home on Wednesday (2/12/2014) from 5:00 till 8:00 PM.


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Who Wins in a Battle of the Titular Action Heroes: 'Jack Ryan,' 'John Carter,' 'Jack Reacher,' 'Alex Cross' or...?
People have been complaining a lot about the recent action-movie titling trend that forgoes any sense of specific flavor and instead just presents the main character's full name. It's a curious marketing choice, to be sure, but there really aren't as many offenders as you might think. A lot of them do seem to start with the letter "J," though.
With the release of this week's Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (a title which is kind enough to tell us that he's a Shadow Recruit), the time has come to see which of these titular action heroes rules supreme. Let the Battle of the Titular Action Heroes begin.
Jack Ryan
We don't yet know how grand this film will be in the action department, but Jack Ryan is a character with a strong cinematic history thanks to Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin,and Ben Affleck's takes on the role.
Jack Ryan has an automatic edge not just because he has a PhD, but because his adventures usually include serious, end-of-the-world stakes, so pressure is no problem for him. Ryan must also wear a myriad of hats to get the job done. Just being a competent fighter isn't good enough. He must also juggle proficient spying and statesmanship. Think James Bond, but with far more paperwork and less philandering.
John Carter
On Mars, John Carter is something of a superhuman. He can run and jump faster than most inhabitants on the planet thanks to his acclimation to Earth's much stronger gravity. But that wouldn't mean much if he did not also possess bravery and an almost reckless adventurer's spirit.
Unfortunately, that spirit and bravery is one of the only things giving John Carter an edge here on Earth. Without Mars' gravitational boost, his physical talents diminish considerably. On the other hand, extensive Martian warfare endows John Carter with a bevy of otherworldly weaponry and the experience needed to use it to full effect. That's if his enthusiasm for adventure doesn't lead him straight into a well-placed trap.
Jack Reacher
There is little Jack Reacher cannot do. He has a photographic memory. He is a champion marksman. He can take on a group of opponents without raising his heartbeat. He can drive like Burt Reynolds. He spent years as a military crime investigator, and lives without history or home, completely unaffected by familial or emotional vulnerabilities. He once beat a guy to death with another guy's head.
Alex Cross
Both a police lieutenant and a psychologist, Alex Cross has an encyclopedic knowledge of criminal pathology which he uses to hunt down some of the most sadistic and soulless murderers known to man. This means he faces both lethal danger and significantly brutal horrors on a daily basis. He can hold his own in both a gunfight and melee combat.
Alex Cross also has a big heart, however. Family is very important to him, but gives him strength as well, particular when they get murdered by the very psychos he's chasing. This happens with some frequency, making him increasingly dangerous as he gets older. Though soft on the inside, Alex Cross' exterior is hard as a rock.
Frances Ha
Frances Ha is not actually Frances Ha's real name. She had it unofficially changed upon realizing that her mailbox identification panel was too short for "Halladay." This may seem like a throwaway detail, but it speaks volumes about her character.
Those who find Frances Ha somewhat clumsy and flighty upon first impression would be wise to reconsider their understanding of her strengths. The very traits that would disqualify Frances Ha from serious consideration become the key to her charm and irresistibility the more you spend time in her presence. In short, her scatterbrained giddiness and endless optimism make her impossible to dislike, and therefore very difficult to harm. She is also a dancer, which means she can kick.
How It Goes Down:
As Jack Ryan sizes up Jack Reacher, Jack Reacher sizes up everyone else. So they both kind of just stand around for awhile, thinking things over.
Unable to run or jump with his usual superhuman ability, John Carter uses this opportunity to go for the weakest threat: the older and mostly ab-free Alex Cross. Alex Cross already knows John Carter will do this, of course, and he raises a shotgun against the mostly naked barbarian running his way. The gun does not fire, however, because Frances Ha looked it over earlier and unknowingly switched on its safety mechanism. As he tries to figure this out, John Carter's space dog Woola zooms in out of nowhere and eats Cross up.
Meanwhile, Jack Ryan attempts to appease Jack Reacher with a diplomatic solution to fighting. Reacher responds by rolling his eyes and explaining Ryan's absolutely nil chances of surviving the next 90 seconds of his life. The two tussle momentarily. This gives Ryan hope, but Reacher is really just playing with him because he promised it would last a whole 90 seconds.
This leaves Jack Reacher, John Carter, John Carter's space dog and Frances Ha, who immediately tries to resuscitate the dead Jack Ryan with CPR she learned 10 years ago in a YMCA lifeguard training course.
John Carter knows he's outmatched. But the leader in him will not accept defeat. So he pulls out a Barsoom sword and approaches Reacher. He asks Frances Ha to hold Woola's leash, so he doesn't interfere and get himself hurt.
The fight between John Carter and Jack Reacher is much more evenly matched than expected, largely due to Reacher's underestimation of his opponent. Having trained in a swordplay style developed on a whole different planet, Carter's moves are too alien for Reacher to predict. So he focuses all his energy on disarming John Carter. This offers Carter many undefended openings.
Eventually, however, a tired and somewhat bloodied Jack Reacher manages to take the sword and deliver a Reacher-sized beating. John Carter surprises him with a hidden dagger to the foot. Unfortunately for Carter, Jack Reacher's wearing a brand new pair of steel-toed boots, and the blade does not penetrate.
While all this transpires, Frances Ha narrates the fight in a tone wavering between nervousness and amused disbelief. Jack Reacher tells her to be quiet but secretly admires how awesome he appears in her play-by-play. This distraction gives John Carter an opportunity to pat down Jack Ryan's body for guns. He finds one and shoots Jack Reacher in the hand. Jack Reacher has never been hurt before, so he cries like an infant and begs for clemency. He then comes to realize the spectacular emptiness of his existence and passes away from sadness.
Frances Ha doesn't have enough money for cab fare, so John Carter has Woola take her home. Then John Carter returns to Mars, which forfeits him from competition. Thus, Frances Ha wins the Battle of the Titular Action Hero Showdown. Unfortunately, she moved to a new apartment and forgot to officially change her address, so she never receives her congratulation letter.
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WASHINGTON _ A study on life expectancy shows "big extremes" between Arizona counties, with residents of some counties likely to live more than seven years longer than residents in others.
The report from the Institute of Health Metrics Evaluation at the University of Washington also said Arizona was one of a handful of states that saw life expectancy increase by more than five years in some counties while decreasing in nearby counties in the state over a 20-year span.
"Arizona is a state with big extremes," Ali Mokdad, the lead researcher in the study's U.S. county performance team, wrote in an email.
"In La Paz . . . life expectancy has gone down for men by one full year right next to a county, Yuma, that has gone up by more than eight years in life expectancy," Mokdad wrote. "This simply should not be the case."
The report compared life expectancy by county across the country, in 1987, 1997 and 2007. It said life expectancy in the U.S. ranged from 65.9 to 81.1 years for men and 73.5 to 86 years for women in 2007; the statewide average for Arizona was 76.7 for men and 81.8 for women that year.
The authors and state health officials said the gaps between counties in Arizona could be attributed to the availability of health care in the counties and differences in residents' lifestyles.
The report's authors pointed to obesity, smoking and other preventable factors to explain the difference between life expectancy in the U.S. and other countries. Those factors were cited by state officials for the disparities within Arizona.
Jeanette Shea, the assistant director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, said the authors were "right on" in their commentary. She said the life expectancy numbers are indicative of smoking and obesity rates in the respective counties.
From Apache County in Arizona's upper northeast to Yuma County in the southwest, there is more than a seven-year difference in life expectancy for men, according to the report. That gap grew markedly since 1987.
In Apache County, men's life expectancy was 70.8 years in 2007, about a year higher than it was when the study began in 1987. The report claims that male life expectancy in Yuma County grew by more than eight years, to 78 years in 2007.
According to the state health department, about 15 percent of Apache County residents smoked in 2010, compared to 11.51 percent of Yuma residents.
Gila and Mohave counties, which have the highest smoking rates in the state at 22 percent and 23 percent, respectively, fall in the bottom five counties for life expectancy for men and women.
Arizona Department of Health Services Director Will Humble compared the varied quality of health from county to county to that of Colorado and Kentucky. It's not that one state or county has better health services, although they might, he said, it's because some people "take better care of themselves."
"Mohave County is kind of our Kentucky and Yuma is our Colorado," Humble said.
Mohave County Health Director Patty Mead said the numbers reflect numerous factors plaguing the county, including low-income and high-unemployment rates. Health concerns include diabetes and smoking.
"The county does see a number of people engaging in unhealthy behaviors," Mead said.
The report's authors propose that state and local policymakers "use the life-expectancy data and the county comparisons to tailor strategies to fit the dynamics of their communities." Humble said his department would do just that.
"We'll use this information for marketing efforts to identify target areas through the state," Humble said.
Life expectancy by county for men in 2007
Yuma County: 78 years
Maricopa County: 76.8 years
State of Arizona: 76.6 years
Cochise County: 75.8 years
Coconino County: 75.8 years
Pima County: 75.8 years
Yavapai County: 75.8 years
Pinal County: 75.3 years
Graham County: 74.6 years
Greenlee County: 74.6 years
La Paz County: 73.9 years
Gila County: 72.9 years
Mohave County: 72 years
Navajo County: 71.4 years
Santa Cruz County: 74.3 years
Apache County: 70.8 years
Life expectancy by county for women in 2007
Yuma County: 83.8 years
State of Arizona: 81.8 years
Pima County: 81.7 years
Maricopa County: 81.6 years
Yavapai County: 81.6 years
Cochise County: 81.1 years
La Paz County: 81 years
Santa Cruz County: 81 years
Coconino County: 80.8 years
Pinal County: 80.7 years
Apache County: 80 years
Gila County: 79.6 years
Graham County: 79.5 years
Greenlee County: 79.5 years
Navajo County: 79.5 years
Mohave County: 78.5 years
Source: "Falling Behind: Life expectancy in U.S. counties from 2000 to 2007 in an international context"


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Developing Windows CE Device Drivers: May a Regular Application Benefit from It?
Brief Device Drivers Overview
What is a device driver? According to its definition, it is software that abstracts the functionality of a physical or virtual device. For instance, network adapters are physical devices whereas a file system or virtual serial port are of the second type. A device driver manages all operations of such devices. In this article, I don't pretend to make you an expert in device driver development, but rather give you an idea of how to use it for your own purposes as an application developer.
Under Windows CE, device drivers are trusted modules, but they aren't required to run in kernel mode. You might need to sign your driver with a certificate to run it on WM 5.0.
Stream drivers have to export the following functions:
- XXX_Init
- XXX_Deinit
- XXX_Open
- XXX_Close
- XXX_IOControl
- XXX_Seek
- XXX_Read
- XXX_Write
Actually, the first two functions are called during RegisterDevice and DeregisterDevice, respectively. All the rest of the implements stream the interface. I will discuss a device driver that also deals with power management, so you need the next two functions as well:
- XXX_PowerDown
- XXX_PowerUp
Now, let's take a look at actual implementation and later usage.
Sample Power Driver
Your sample device driver will perform simple yet important operations: It will notify applications when device power is about to be ON and OFF. The very first sight on the driver's code will lead you to the XXX_Init function:
PWRDRV_API DWORD PWR_Init(DWORD dwContext) { // initialize the critical section // (used for changing the messaging HWND) InitializeCriticalSection(&g_csMsg); // create messaging working thread if (g_hMessageThread==NULL) { g_hMessageThread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, MessageThreadProc, NULL, 0, &g_dwMessageThreadId); } return TRUE; // return non-zero value }
First of all, the "XXX" placeholder was replaced by "PWR", which means that later on you can address this device as "PWR1:" and so forth. As was said above, this function is called during RegisterDevice. You will see how to use it later in this article.
So what does PWR_Init do? As you can see, only one simple thing—it starts a thread that periodically polls power state flags and in turn sends notifications if needed:
DWORD WINAPI MessageThreadProc(LPVOID lpParameter) { while (1) { if (g_bPoweredUp && !g_bMsgSent) { g_bMsgSent = TRUE; EnterCriticalSection(&g_csMsg); if (g_hMsgWnd!=NULL) { PostMessage(g_hMsgWnd, WM_PWR_POWERUP, 0, 0); } LeaveCriticalSection(&g_csMsg); } // wait some time before polling again Sleep(1000); } return 0; }
And finally, the PRW_Deinit function cleans up all resources:
PWRDRV_API BOOL PWR_Deinit(DWORD hDeviceContext) { if (g_hMessageThread!=NULL) { TerminateThread(g_hMessageThread, 0); } DeleteCriticalSection(&g_csMsg); return TRUE; }
In reality, you might want to add more initialization/deinitialization code, but for this simple purpose, it is enough. If you use such a driver from the application side, you have to call the open/close functions:
// Register power on notification driver DLL hPwrDevice = RegisterDevice( TEXT("PWR"), // device identifier prefix 1, // device identifier index TEXT("PWRDRV.DLL"), // device driver name 0); // instance information (passed // to XXX_Init) // open power on notification driver g_hPwrDll = CreateFile( TEXT("PWR1:"), // "special" file name GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE // desired access FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE, // sharing mode NULL, // security attributes // (=NULL) OPEN_ALWAYS, // creation disposition FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, // flags and attributes NULL); // template file // (ignored) ... // Close the power on notification driver if (g_hPwrDll!=NULL) { CloseHandle(g_hPwrDll); } // Deregister the power on notification driver if (hPwrDevice!=NULL) { DeregisterDevice(hPwrDevice); } ...
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The Pen Again
Yesterday's blog featured a photo that included Monday night heroes A.J. Pierzynski, Alex Rios, Gordon Beckham and Sergio Santos celebrating after the game. Also in the photo was Brent Morel, who went 0 for 4 and committed what could have been a fatal fielding error if the Sox hadn't rallied to win.
What a difference a day makes. Last night, Morel bounced back and was at the center of the offense as the Sox won their fifth in a row, 4-3. He drove in the Sox's second run in the second inning with a single and homered in the fourth to widen the Pale Hose lead to 4-0.
While Morel's bat, along with Carlos Quentin's 24th homer and Pierzynski's RBI double, paced the attack, it was the shutdown bullpen that was most impressive as it held the O's to only the three runs they scored off starter Gavin Floyd in the fifth. Granted, the pen hasn't been perfect as evidenced by Jesse Crain surrendering the three-run homer to J.J. Hardy on Monday. But the talent and versatility that Ozzie has at his disposal gives the Sox an advantage over most of their opponents.
Here was last night's scenario:
* Despite showing signs of tiring, Floyd began the seventh. He gave up a double to Felix Pie, who moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. Floyd then retired the red-hot J.J. Hardy on a grounder to third. Two outs, runner on third, Sox killer Nick Markakis at the plate. Ozzie makes the call to the pen and lefty Will Ohman ends the threat by striking out Markakis.
* Jason Frasor came on to start the eighth. He walked Adam Jones and struck out Vlad Guerrero. With the lefty Chris Davis coming up, Ozzie called on Chris Sale, who retired Davis on a popup and then struck out Mark Reynolds.
* Instead of calling on Santos to begin the ninth, the skipper chose to have Sale face switch-hitter Matt Wieters. He struck him out. With the Orioles opting to call on Josh Bell to pinch-hit for lefty Felix Pie against Sale, Ozzie decided to stay with his lefthander. Bell grounded out to shortstop. Two outs, nobody on.
*Making his final move, Ozzie then called on Santos to face righthanded hitter Robert Andino and he proceeded to strike him out, the way he did with the three batters he faced the night before. For Santos, save number 24.
And at the risk of burying the lead, the Indians extra-inning win over the Tigers helped the Sox narrow the Detroit lead to four games. A win tonight and the Sox are back at the .500, something we doubted might happen again this season after last week's four-game sweep at the hands of the Yankees.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Bruno Frey: the epilogue?
The scheme blew in his face when some editors and some blogs started raising questions when very similar articles about the Titanic, with Benno Torgler and David Savage, appeared in four journals (some say there is even a fifth one in German, but I cannot verify). And the article was not even original, as a similar analysis was done and published 25 years prior and is now standard reading and exercise in statistics courses. Newspapers picked up the story, Frey went into denial but finally confessed to the editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, who published correspondence about the case and publicly admonished him for multiple submissions (he do not yet know about the prior literature). But that is only for this case, there are all the other ones. The University of Zurich, from where Bruno Frey recently retired, promised an investigation. That was sometime in the Summer. Since then, nothing.
One could suspect the University would do nothing, as Bruno Frey is the best ranked economist in German-speaking universities. And the prolonged silence clearly seemed to corroborate this. But rumors started circulating in the hallways, rumors that were not encouraging at all. But no evidence from Zurich.
Finally, I got good evidence from a reliable source. And it is indeed not encouraging. The University of Zurich mandated three prominent academics to look into the case. But the mandate was formulated in such a way that only the articles about the Titanic could be analyzed. The experts came to the obvious conclusion that unethical behavior was at play for this case. They could not mention the others and thus the University concluded that this was a one off miss-step. The University gave Frey a verbal admonishment, which does not go on his record, and did not release the report.
But this was not an one-off miss-step. Frey has been banned from the editorial board of Public Choice for a similar case of re-publication. He is by now banned from publishing in at least a half-dozen journals. To make matters worse, he has himself advocated to go against plagiarizers and others that unnecessarily take up valuable publication space. The investigation should have looked at his whole career, like when a scientist is suspected of fabricating data and all his publications are subject to scrutiny. And it is not like the information would be difficult to obtain, it is readily available and people have even compiled it, as documented in the FreyPlag Wiki.
For more about the case, you can read my past blog posts: 30 April 2011, 3 September 2011, 27 September 2011. Also, Olaf Storbeck's Economics Intelligence blog was the one that convinced the University of Zurich to finally (pretend to) act: 4 July 2011, 4 July 2011, 5 July 2011, 6 July 2011, 7 July 2011, 9 July 2011, 20 August 2011, 29 August 2011, 12 September 2011
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Typical swiss hypocrisy.
- March 17, 2012 at 8:01 AM
That was unfortunately to be expected. Frey was too prominent and important for the University of Zurich.
Keep pressing.
- March 17, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Since Frey is above the retirement age for swiss public servants his contract had to be renewed every year or so. As far as I can tell Frey had no intention of retiring but rather his contract was not renewed by the department.
- March 17, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Confirmed. This seems pretty harsh punishment. Frey asked for his contract to be renewed and the department declined. They essentially fired him. Not sure what part of this is disappointing (for anyone but Frey).
- March 18, 2012 at 12:35 AM
Zurich still tried to hide the fact that Frey was a serial offender. Zurich made no announcement about the report. And Frey is claiming he was not punished (I saw a recent email from him).
I applaud Economic Logician for bringing this to light.
- March 18, 2012 at 5:33 AM
Bruno Frey also has an appointment with the Warwick Business School, which WBS is touting regularly. Anything happening there?
- March 18, 2012 at 4:46 PM
Does anyone really believe that Bruno Frey is unique? I would argue that examination of "outlier" publication numbers for professors/scientists in any discipline would reveal similar occurrences.
- March 31, 2012 at 3:00 AM


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Katie Couric has officially stepped down, and now CBS has officially named her successor.
Veteran "60 Minutes" reporter Scott Pelley - who was an early favorite to snag the gig the minute rumors of Couric's possible departure started to gain steam - will take over the "CBS Evening News" anchor desk. The 53 year-old has worked for CBS for over two decades.
In an official statement, CBS News chairman Jeff Fager sang Pelley's praises.
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"Scott has it all," Fager said. "He has the experience, the credibility and he is among the very best reporters ever to work at CBS News. We like to think of CBS News as the 'reporter's network,' and I can't think of anybody in this business better suited for the anchor chair than Scott."
Couric announced that she was leaving "CBS Evening News" after five years last week. She has plans to pursue a syndicated show, but details have not been finalized. All Couric has said is that she is interested in pursuing "multi-dimensional storytelling."
CBS has also not set a firm end date for Couric, although her contract is set to expire on June 4th. It is believed that Pelley will take over on June 6th.
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HURRAH?0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 10:48 pm
new (old) lens arrived!!0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 10:12 am
HURRAH! the 50mm 1.8 Nikkor that I ordered off eBay has arrived! I ordered from Jesscollie Classic Cameras, who's now on my fave sellers list.
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more lens comparison0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 2:59 pm
I've just snapped off a few shots for lens comparison on my Nikkormat EL and Olympus Trip 35, I've still got frames to use up on the rolls in both cameras, so they'll be a while away yet, however after I did it I thought I may as well snap a shot off from my iPhone, after all it has a camera, I do take pictures with it, why not add it to the mix. So here it is.
Shot landscape, no adjustments.
The full set. More will be added as and when.
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Lenses lenses everywhere0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 2:14 pm
Well not quite everywhere, but still...
I've just recently added a couple of zoom lenses to my kit (2nd and 3rd from left), both by Tokina and both found in a charity shop in Horsham! (hopefully on it's way via eBay soon is also a Nikkor 50mm f:1.8 prime)
- Nikkor AF-S DX 18-55mm f:3.5-5.6G VR (kit lens)
- Tokina SZ-X 270 28-70mm f:3.5-4.5
- Tokina SZ-X 210 70-210mm f:4.0-5.6
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MIPS Technologies says that it will soon publish the source code of its port of Android for the MIPS architecture. This could boost adoption of Google's open source mobile platform on MIPS-based devices.
Android, which is built on top of the Linux kernel, is attracting interest in many segments of the mobile and embedded space. Although it was originally designed for cell phones and is only supported officially by Google on the ARM architecture, it is being ported by third parties to work on other kinds of chips and form factors.
MIPS touts its Android port as a step forward for its "digital home" strategy, part of the company's emphasis on the suitability of MIPS-based chips for the wide range of consumer electronics products that are outside of the increasingly ARM-dominated smartphone space. In practice, what this means is that we can probably expect to see Android running on a lot more high-end MIPS-based digital photo frames. Some other potential areas where Android on MIPS could be useful include multimedia set-top boxes, VoIP hardware products, and GPS devices.
"We are seeing an enormous amount of customer interest in Android on the MIPS architecture," said MIPS Technologies marketing VP Art Swift in a statement. "Android presents a compelling value proposition in bringing internet connectivity and a broad range of applications to MIPS-based digital home devices. We are working closely with customers and partners to ensure that critical technologies are available for developers to take advantage of Android for consumer electronics."
As you may recall, we wrote about Android on MIPS back in April when Embedded Alley announced its own unofficial port and development tools, which were primarily targeting RMI's Alchemy Au1250 SoC. Last week, Embedded Alley was acquired by Mentor Graphics, one of MIPS Technologies partners for Android. Mentor hopes to encourage adoption of its own Nucleus real-time operating system alongside Linux and Android in mobile and embedded devices.
Although the MIPS Technologies website declares that the code is being made available to the public, that is actually not entirely yet true. It's initially being made available to select users. In order to get access to the MIPSAndroid.org website and the private git repository, you have to first fill out a registration form and be approved by the site's administrators. I filled out the form myself and got approval several hours later. The limited access is a temporary measure while they are in the process of rolling out the infrastructure and the code will be more broadly available to the public soon.
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(2014-07-29) — Warning that the economic cost of global warming in the U.S. could soon mount to $150 billion per year, President Barack Obama today announced a new array of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that would, among other things, require U.S. homes to be powered and heated by friction alone.
"We know that fossil fuel emissions will soon incinerate the planet, and could reduce Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the U.S. by up to 3.1 percent," Obama said. "We also know that wind power slaughters birds, solar and water power clutter the landscape and disturb wildlife, batteries contain corrosive chemicals–and are often not included anyway — and nuclear power creates tsunamis, as we saw in Fukushima, Japan, not so long ago. America's last best hope is friction."
"As long as I'm in this White House," President Obama said, "the future is friction."
Under the new rules from the EPA, the power industry would have up to 90 days to make the transition to friction generators after disabling existing power plants at the end of August.
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The former president of CNN's Headline News almost found himself in deep doo-doo after he was caught on camera placing a bag filled with dog excrement in a neighbor's mailbox last week, Yahoo! News is reporting.
Bob Furnad was seemingly oblivious to the surveillance camera capturing him and his dog as he looked up his neighbor's driveway, then shoved a plastic baggie into their mailbox.
Hours later Benjamin Dameron and Ralph Miller discovered just what he'd left behind. Dameron said that he was "shocked" to discover what was in the bag.
"We cannot figure out why he did it," Dameron said. "At this point we really don't care why he did it … You know it was a silly thing to do, and were over it. I mean it's just a silly prank."
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It is First Advent today and my partner and I are meeting his parents for a pre-Christmas lunch. Last year we spent the Christmas here in Sydney and I prepared a full-on Scandinavian feast for us to enjoy: Finnish Christmas casseroles, salads, home-made gravlax and joululimppu - the Finnish Christmas bread.
I also prepared a Christmas hamper with everything home-made; including tomato chutney, apricot marmalade, chocolate, truffels, date cake, etc. Yes, I went Christmas crazy! Obviously I have taken it easy this year seeing we are departing for our trip in a week's time. I couldn't help myself but make this bread again as it was a huge success (especially had with home-made gravlax!), and this morning my home smells like sweet Christmas :-)
This is a typical bread for Christmas in Finland. We call it joululimppu ('joulu' meaning Christmas and 'limppu' meaning a type of bread), it is sweet because of the dark syrup (treacle) and fragrant thanks to the spices like aniseed and fennel. The crust is sweetened with syrup-water and it is my favourite of the whole bread. Back in Finland I'd have to fight over the end pieces of the bread with mum, but here I can enjoy them all by myself :-)
100ml treacle (dark syrup)
1 tsp fennel seeds
1 tsp aniseed or 1/2 tsp carraway seeds
1 tsp dried (but not candied) orange peel, finely chopped*
600ml buttermilk or milk
about 300g organic rye flour
about 300g organic white, unbleached spelt flour or plain wheat flour
4 tsp dry active yeast
a good pinch of salt
100ml canola oil or melted butter
1 tbsp treacle, extra
100ml water
*in Finland I would use 'bitter orange peel' for this, but dried orange peel works well, too
In a small saucepan bring the syrup and the spices to boil. Remove from the heat. Pour the milk into a large bowl and add the warm syrup. Mix and check the temperature. You will need this to be hand-hot so place it in the microwave and heat for a minute or two to get it right. Be careful not to over heat though! Add the yeast and the salt into a small amount of flour and stir into the milk. Starting adding the flour kneading and mixing as you go. You may need more flour (or use less) depending on the type of flour you are using. Knead the dough until smooth and slightly elastic. Add the oil and knead it in as well. Place the dough in a large bowl, cover with a tea towel and leave to double in size.
Form the dough into two large breads (shape of a large ball), place on a large roasting tin lined with baking paper and leave to rise for 20-30 minutes. Prick the breads and bake in 200C for about 50-60 minutes. After 45 minutes brush the bread with the syrup and water mixture (mix the syrup into warm water) and continue to bake until the base of the breads seems cooked. Leave to cool on a wired rack and serve with butter or gravlax.


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Taylor Swift's love life – both actual and rumored – has been making headlines ever since her 2008 split with Joe Jonas. Many gossip Web sites and blogs have linked her to "Twilight's" Taylor Lautner – but the country cutie says she's single and better because of it.
Fresh off her MTV VMA win heard around the world and right in the midst of her "Fearless" tour, the 19-year-old appeared on Wednesday's "Oprah Winfrey Show," where she set the record straight on her love life.
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"Do you have a crush on anyone now?" asked 11-year-old Jordan, who was on assignment from Oprah to interview the country singer.
"As far as like, do I have a guy in my life right now? No," Taylor said. "I think that as far as having a boyfriend, I've never wanted to be in a relationship that I wasn't completely 100 percent in… I'd rather be single than be with someone I kind of like, rather than really like."
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Later in the show, Taylor appeared with Oprah and continued to reveal more details on her love life and approach to dating.
"I think that for me, I've never been a boyfriend girl where I've always got a boyfriend," Taylor explained to the talk show queen, adding that she believes her life is better if she's flying solo. "As far as relationships, that's me making an exception. Like if I'm in a relationship, that's an exception. Because I'm better single I think."
Despite her penchant for the single life – and insanely busy schedule touring and recording – the young star said she would make room in her life for a special someone.
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"I feel like if I were to meet the right person I would make time for it," she told Oprah.
And the 19-year-old also revealed that she finally has a place of her own in case she does meet the right guy.
"I bought a condo and I'm really excited, because all my friends moved out and went to college," she said. "So, I'm moving out of mom and dad's house."
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Young Professional: Just another title?
Post by Tiffany Paine, Flower City Habitat's Associate Manager of Outside Constituent Groups.
A YP is typically defined as anyone from 20-40 years old; that's a 20 year gap (for those bad with math) and a long time period in someone's life! Let's face it, it's a descriptive word for those of us not yet of age to hang with older professionals but also (or alas in some cases) not in college anymore. Your 20s and 30s are filled with a ton of change, and changing of the titles you and others use to describe you.
As a Young Professional I've already graduated from college, worked in a professional setting, quit that job to go back to school for a masters, moved to a new city, landed a new professional job, and eventually left that to move back home to Rochester, buy a house and get married. Phew, I'm tired just thinking about it!
I'm blessed to have a great friends and family who have supported me on that journey, but if you would have asked me at 22 if I would be blogging for my local Habitat for Humanity YP group at 31, I would have laughed in your face! Not that I don't love this part of my job (I secretly feel I have a great face for radio but blogging will have to do) but as my 20's get farther away and I grow into my 30's I start look at the titles people give me, and how they change. College student, go-getter, Young Professional, community activist, blogger and now, Wife (insert the doomsday music here). Of the things I never thought I would be, Wife is at the top of the list.
For those of you who don't know, my (hard shelled on the outside, mushy on the inside) hubby and I were married last September at what I lovingly refer to as the culmination of 19 months of wedding planning HELL. (Good thing the outcome was well worth every horrific minute of planning!) But now, a new title; and think about it, when they call you by your job title you hope to live up to that, right. So what would be different about your personal title? And how do live up to being a wife?
For me and many others, it's a balancing act. When I think of the hundreds of things I'm trying to accomplish every week like you are - being present at work appointments, returning phone calls, saying thank you to volunteers, balancing the check book, cleaning the bathroom, dropping off dry cleaning... how do I make sure I'm a good wife AND professional? For starters, breathe! Once I quelled the panic attack ensuing, I took a suggestion from a colleague of mine and invested in a notebook (and it's a girlie one, so what?) that helps me track all tasks needed to be accomplished. This thing is my saving grace. But how do you write down 'be a good wife'?
The last thing I try to do to balance all the titles in my life and be a good life-partner is remember that no matter what happens that day, I have to be right with three things at the end of the day: my conscious, my husband and occasionally my mother.
I don't care what title you have now or are striving to achieve later, the only way I sleep peacefully at night is to know that I did my best during that day to achieve my goals, one of which is to be a good partner. Me dropping off the dry cleaning, and occasionally putting work first or asking for help doesn't make me a bad wife, it makes me a human!
Put the time and energy into the things you need to get done and the things you love, whether it's organizing a fundraising happy hour or your marriage - don't hold back! Be organized and be passionate, you're a Young Professional for crying out loud. And don't worry - this title too shall pass eventually...


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Anime World Order Show # 9 - Golgo 13: He Shoots, He Scores
We're back to the "regular" show format. Daryl talks about the Often Overlooked gekiga mainstay Golgo 13 and gets made fun of by shut from 4chan, Gerald reviews Cannon God Exaxxion, and we offer a sample of the upcoming Katsucon and Megacon interview segments.
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Introduction (0:00 - 23:01)
Listener email reveals that we were totally wrong about Transformers last week, among other things. Per your requests, we give our thoughts on G Gundam, Lensman (the DUB!), Harmagedon (the DUB...ABSOLUTE ZERO [NOW]!), Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Plus, Daryl reveals THE SHOCKING HIDDEN TRUTH behind Gravitation and how none of us can pronounce "yaoi" right! It must be because Daryl has the Ultimate Eye.
- Red vs Blue, as if you didn't know; they've got shirts at Hot Topic for crying out loud
- MAHQ, a good resource site that's also where all the TRUE GUNDAM FANS hang out
- Wikipedia entry on Lensman (basically defined the entire genre of science fiction)
- Teen Geek Podcast (sorry we couldn't read your email since Gmail was down!)
- Wikipedia entry on Masamune Shirow (another scam artist who's got the world fooled)
- Otaku Generation episode where Orion is reviewed (took Dan 3 months to endure through it)
- List of the dubs that ZRO Limit Productions worked on
Let's News! (23:01 - 29:50)
As proof of how untimely podcasts are for getting news, we get around to mentioning how the hentai title Discipline got a DVD release that's as comedically entertaining as its ad copy, ADV licenses the original Area 88 OAVs (as discussed in Show #4), and Daryl uses the Ultimate Eye to deduce that the odd handling of Prefectural Earth Defense Force is all just another manufactured controversy designed to get the crazed otaku--that's us, by the way--angry in an attempt to raise awareness of the title, just like Ghost Stories was (as discussed in Show # 1). And if you want to be on the show, we give you the chance to show us how good a voice actor you are! Listen to find out how!
- Robert's Anime Corner Store (the only other place to buy PEDF other than the ADV site)
- JPG email from Golgo 13 regarding that Canadian "anime = pornography" thing that got rescinded (Golgo 13 always knows when people are trying to do stories on him; clearly this must be our one warning before he kills us)
Often Overlooked: The Professional: Golgo 13 (29:50 - 50:53)
Daryl pulls your triggers lovingly and softly using the pulsating holster OF LOVE as he regales us all with the history of one of the most enduring characters in gekiga ("dramatic comics"), Golgo 13 "the man with the custom M-16," created by Takao Saito. This was supposed to just be about the theatrical animated feature, but ends up being about how Golgo 13 truly is the Japanese equivalent of a Jack Chick tract.
- Official website of Jack Chick (includes Japanese editions, so help us)
- Toastyfrog's Golgo 13: Perfect Machine of Snipe -- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (writeups on the out-of-print Saito Productions English releases of Golgo 13, including pictures; hurry before it's taken down like how "Chuchu Died For Your Sins" isn't there anymore)
- Duke Togo: A Retrospective of the Localized Golgo 13 in America -- Part 1, Part 2 (excellent article which is so near identical to what Daryl said that it's not even funny; Daryl would like everyone to know that he never heard of this site or Toastyfrog's writeup until it was time to do these show notes and that he didn't plagiarize from either)
- Scans Gerald made from the first story in the Viz release -- 1 2 3 4 (he notes the art is better in the second story)
Special Bonus Feedback: shut from 4chan Respects Daryl Highly (50:53 - 56:06)
We forgot to read this message in the beginning since it wasn't sent directly to us, but FYAD All Star and 4chan sensation shut exposes us for the snob elite indy band hipsterites we are. We hem and haw in an attempt to justify our existences, failing miserably but learning a valuable lesson in the process. We bet this is all because Daryl still can't find where he put that AMV CDR that W.T. Snacks gave him two years ago.
Review (manga): Cannon God Exaxxion (56:06 - 1:08:11)
Gerald tells us all about Kenichi Sonoda's current manga series being published in America by Dark Horse that nobody else seems to really be talking about. I guess that's why we're talking about it, though Daryl and Clarissa aren't quite sure what makes this one NOT as utterly generic as it sounds, since the plot is "guy is surrounded by harem of women and pilots robot against aliens." Listen and judge for yourself.
- Gerald's Exaxxion pictures -- 1 2
- The long-gone EX.org's writeup on Exaxxion
- Riding Bean (which along with Gunsmith Cats is probably what Sonoda does best)
- The best Gall Force site on the Internet (actually it's Gerald's and it hasn't been updated in forever)
Special Bonus #2: Katsucon Report Preview (1:08:11 - 1:20:48)
Man, this episode is going to be like an hour and a half long because of this, and we just got an email saying "stop making the episodes over 80 minutes for the sake of the people who burn them as CD audio), but as a preview for the upcoming weeks, Daryl has decided to share with everyone one of the HOURS AND HOURS of interviews he conducted while he was off at Katsucon 12 in search of the hidden secrets of the universe, and by that he means interviewing people he deemed "worthy of the Internet." This one interview went like 10 minutes; for next week, Daryl will have to figure out if he can somehow fit in all the high points within about 15 minutes or so. And on top of that, he did interviews at Megacon this past weekend as well. Don't worry, those are forthcoming too.
- Picture of the pros being interviewed (Piv's on the right; BTW, I was wrong about Masamune Shirow not counting, since he did in fact direct the Black Magic M-66 OAV)
- The AnimeMusicVideos.Org page for David Violence
Closing (1:20:48 - 1:22:58)
Somehow, the shows keep getting longer and longer despite Daryl's feeble attempts to keep things at about an hour's length. We've heard plenty of people saying that the length isn't an issue, but be honest: if you think the show is too long (or if you start listening to episodes but stop before they're done), we want to hear from you too! Next time, Clarissa reviews the manga Homunculus (though she is not certain whether or not it contains the Ultimate Eye), Gerald talks about a favorite of his, the Often Overlooked Lensman (the DUB), and Daryl kicks off his quest for THE TRUTH and THE AMERICAN DREAM (no, not Ron Killings and Dusty Rhodes) as he interviews YOU, the anime convention-attending populace at large! Be ready for lots more pictures of really cool people! ABSOLUTE ZERO, NOW!


text: Our indoor stuff will be taken down and packed away this weekend. I will chip away at the outdoor stuff as weather permits. Last night was the last night I will have my display on outside, but it'll sit out there for a few more weeks as I wait for warmer weather to get stakes out of the ground.


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Thursday, March 26
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Blackstone Teen Advisory Group, or BTAG, is an exclusive weekly club for high school & college students, where members work with the Teen Librarian (Miss Sarah) to select books, plan programs & work on special projects. Every meeting includes free snacks, games, & a chance to improve the library for you & your friends! After all, a renovated Teen Space is coming soon & we need YOUR input to make it awesome. Plus, for each meeting you'll earn 2 hours of community service. Join us Thursdays from 4-6 pm. Email Miss Sarah to RSVP or visit: https://jbmltag.eventbrite.com
Snacks have been generously donated by Feed Branford Kids (FBK). We thank you for filling bellies and your support!


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Although it sounds like I won't be missing much by not attending the Venice Biennale this year (oh hell, who am I kidding? or any year except one, when someone else was paying for it), based on some of the write-ups I've read, there are two events taking place there that I truly regret not being able to see for myself.
The first is Swoon's Huck Finn-style floating barge, which I blogged about a few weeks ago and which has received in-depth coverage in New York magazine. More than I want to see the thing itself, though, I think what I really want is to be friends with Swoon and her deck mates.
The second is Peter Greenaway's multimedia installation based on the Italian Mannerist Paolo Veronese's gigantic painting, The Wedding Feast at Cana. Now, Greenaway isn't someone I'd necessarily want to be buds with (I don't think I could keep up), but he's long been one of my favorite filmmakers (though I admit it seems a bit strange to talk about work like Greenaway's in terms of 'favorites,' like it's an ice cream flavor or something.) His early films, like The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), A Zed and Two Naughts (1985), The Belly of an Architect (1987) Drowning by Numbers (1988) and his most mainstream "commercial" success, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) are the films I know best; his later forays into installation and site-specific projects I'm less familiar with due to sheer lack of access to them.
Greenaway's take on Wedding at Cana is part of an ambitious multi-part project in which the filmmaker/artist plans to bring nine classic art historical paintings to life in a modern context. Greenaway has already created installations revisiting Rembrandt's The Nightwatch at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (via Greenaway's film and an accompanying installation Nightwatching, made in 2006) and Leonardo's The Last Supper in Milan (in a 2008 installation titled The Last Supper).
Greenaway's "vision" of the Wedding takes place at the Palladian Refectory, the site where Veronese's painting was first situated. Now, however, a facsimile of the work, commissioned by the Giorgio Cini Foundation, exists where the original once stood. Greenaway's website describes the installation thusly:
"The Wedding at Cana facsimile, set in the original architectural context for which it had been conceived – the Palladian Refectory – offers Peter Greenaway the opportunity for an innovative and original interpretation via a state-of-the-art interplay of images, lighting, music, voices and sounds that will seem to emerge directly from the painting and the walls of the Refectory. The performance – a true multimedia event lasting about 50 minutes – makes spectators relive the episode of the marriage feast at Cana where Christ accomplished his first miracle, as narrated in the Gospel of John. Greenaway points out to the public the painting's scores of characters, from the servants preparing dishes, to the banquet guests, to the guests of honor – Jesus Christ and his mother Mary – seated at the center of the painting's architectural composition, in an on-going crescendo culminating in the narration's crucial moment: the miracle of water turning into wine."
Here's a small image of the Paolo Veronese painting that's under Greenaway's scrutiny:
(click on the picture to be taken directly to the Wikipedia site containing a much larger file, which also gives you the ability to zoom in close on different parts of the painting).
There is an unofficial and no doubt surreptitiously shot video of the piece online to be found here; the quality is not great of course, but it gave me a little sense of what Greenaway is trying to accomplish. Better still, Roberta Smith has written a lengthy article on Greenaway's Venice installation for the NYT today; it contains a great full-color installation shot which I'm too chicken to lift and post here. And Wired U.K. posted a brief, tech-oriented interview with Greenaway about the project last week.
I'd like to make a special request to any of you out there who went or are planning to go to Venice, saw this installation, and would care to comment on it, good or bad. Make me jealous: tell me all about the piece. What was it like? Did you think it worked? Was it smart or silly, and/or did you enjoy it?
Claudine Isé
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The send() call may be used only when the socket is in a connected state (so that the intended recipient is known). The only difference between send() and write(2) is the presence of flags. With a zero flags argument, send() is equivalent to write(2). Also, the following call
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The argument sockfd is the file descriptor of the sending socket.
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For send() and sendto(), the message is found in buf and has length len. For sendmsg(), the message is pointed to by the elements of the array msg.msg_iov. The sendmsg() call also allows sending ancillary data (also known as control information).
If the message is too long to pass atomically through the underlying protocol, the error EMSGSIZE is returned, and the message is not transmitted.
No indication of failure to deliver is implicit in a send(). Locally detected errors are indicated by a return value of -1.
When the message does not fit into the send buffer of the socket, send() normally blocks, unless the socket has been placed in nonblocking I/O mode. In nonblocking mode it would fail with the error EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK in this case. The select(2) call may be used to determine when it is possible to send more data.
The flags argument is the bitwise OR of zero or more of the following flags.
Since Linux 2.6, this flag is also supported for UDP sockets, and informs the kernel to package all of the data sent in calls with this flag set into a single datagram which is only transmitted when a call is performed that does not specify this flag. (See also the UDP_CORK socket option described in udp(7).)
The definition of the msghdr structure follows. See recv(2) and below for an exact description of its fields.
struct msghdr { void *msg_name; /* optional address */ socklen_t msg_namelen; /* size of address */ struct iovec *msg_iov; /* scatter/gather array */ size_t msg_iovlen; /* # elements in msg_iov */ void *msg_control; /* ancillary data, see below */ size_t msg_controllen; /* ancillary data buffer len */ int msg_flags; /* flags on received message */ };
You may send control information using the msg_control and msg_controllen members. The maximum control buffer length the kernel can process is limited per socket by the value in /proc/sys/net/core/optmem_max; see socket(7).
POSIX.1-2001 only describes the MSG_OOB and MSG_EOR flags. The MSG_CONFIRM flag is a Linux extension.
According to POSIX.1-2001, the msg_controllen field of the msghdr structure should be typed as socklen_t, but glibc currently types it as size_t.