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Sure, it featured one of the most star-studded ensembles in the history of comic book movies. And yes, it took in more box-office dollars than any other movie in 2012. But Marvel Studios' "The Avengers" can now also boast another, less noble distinction: the most overrated film of the year.
According to more than 2,600 respondents to a Times online survey Joss Whedon's get-the-band-together take on the iconic superheroes was the most overpraised feature film of 2012.
The sometimes-quippy, sometimes-geeky save-the-world-fest garnered a whopping 85% of the votes, besting by a wide margin the next-closest film, Ridley' Scott's sci-fi actioner "Prometheus," which drew just under 5%.
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Of course, big money tends to come with a big backlash. Last year respondents voted "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1," a huge blockbuster, the most overrated film of the year. But while that film was praised largely by the faithful, the Hulk- and Thor-centric "The Avengers" also had a fair share of pundit and critical love, prompting the 85% to bring down the hammer.


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DBCLS Biohackathon 2010
The 3rd DBCLS BioHackathon for interpreting biological knowledge with Semantic Web technologies will be held during 2010/2/ 8-12 in Japan.
About the Hackathon
The hackathon (hacking + marathon) basically is a camp where invited participants discuss about current issues and implement software to solve the problems on site collaboratively. This kind of meeting is very effective for the intensive development of projects, because face-to-face meeting of developers, who are usually spread around the world, accelerates communication and collaboration to exchange their ideas. BioHackathon 2010 is sponsored by the Database Center for Life Science ( DBCLS) and Computational Biology Research Center ( CBRC), and will be held in Tokyo, Japan.
- DBCLS Biohackathon 2010 http://hackathon3.dbcls.jp/
- DBCLS Biohackathon 2009 http://hackathon2.dbcls.jp/
- DBCLS Biohackathon 2008 http://hackathon.dbcls.jp/
- DBCLS http://dbcls.rois.ac.jp/en/
The DBCLS is being accepted as a national center for the sustainable life science databases in Japan.
- To realize semantic search framework
- To establish High-performance storage system for semantic data
- To federate Linked Data
- To use, reuse, mashup and mix the biological data on Semantic Web
Pre-hackathon discussions
- Queries
- Example queries to be resolved by Semantic Web technologies
- Datasets
- Bio2RDF
- Linked Data
- What kind of data are currently missing (as RDF) to resolve the above queries?
- Tools
- Open Bio* -- "creating generic-yet-usable end user tools that work directly with the RDF graph data model"
- Stores
- Interfaces?
- InterMine
- Galaxy
- BioMart
- Cysoscape
- how to re-organize existing databases
- how to semantically annotate data (id, link, ontology)
- how to store and search triples
- how to utilize triples in open bio*
- how to query biological questions and get results
- how to scale for large amount of data
- how to utilize via web services
- how to visualize (what kind of user interface is required)
Mailing list
- http://kml.dbcls.jp/pipermail/biohack3/
- biohack3_at_kml.dbcls.jp
- Odaiba, Tokyo (CBRC) - for the 1st day (Symposium and Reception)
- Nezu, Tokyo (DBCLS) - rest of the days (hack, hack, hack)
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The planned Formula One race in Hudson County is once again being questioned. This time, however, it's by the racing teams, who say the circuit's 2014 calendar has grown too large.
For at least a week, racing executives have called the 22-race calendar "beyond the limit" or "almost impossible" for teams to navigate logistically, according to news outlets that cover the sport.
That has left the once-delayed New Jersey race in the crosshairs because it was scheduled with an asterisk — and because it's part of three-week stretch of races planned for next spring in Monaco, the Garden State and Canada.
The New Jersey race, scheduled to run June 1 in the streets of Weehawken and West New York, was noted as "provisional" when it was placed on the F1 calendar late last month. The inaugural event was supposed to take place this summer, kicking off a 10-year run, but financing and construction issues caused it to be postponed last fall.
In recent days, executives from high-profile teams have taken aim at the size of the 2014 schedule, which has three more races than this year's. On Oct. 4, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner sounded off to reporters before the Korean Grand Prix.
"I think we all recognize that 22 races is beyond the limit, the strain that it puts on the team and the entourage that follow Formula One," Horner said, according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, Ferrari team manager Massimo Rivola said the stretch of races in Monaco, New Jersey and Canada is "going to be almost impossible to do" with barely a week between each event to travel and prepare, according to the Associated Press.
"To be honest I'm still hoping we come back to the 20 races as per the current sporting regulation," Rivola said. "At the moment, the calendar is not the best calendar possible in terms of logistics."
A phone message left for a New Jersey race spokesman was not immediately returned this afternoon.
The race, known as the Grand Prix of America at Port Imperial, disappointed fans, government officials and business leaders when it was delayed last year. But organizers in New Jersey have said they are in good position to kick off the series next year.
The race has brought great anticipation since first being announced in late 2011, with expectations of drawing more than 100,000 to the three-day event. This year's race was meant to kick off a decade of consecutive Grand Prix events on the Hudson waterfront with the New York City skyline as a backdrop.


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One of my husband's students recently interviewed for a TV journalism job several states away.
The good news: she never had to leave Chicago.
And, for those of us who don't relish the opportunity to appear on camera, that's the bad news, too.
Interviews via Internet-based videoconferencing services such as Skype can be scary for the uninitiated, but they're increasingly common and it's easy to see why they appeal to cash-strapped employers: You get a live, face to face conversation, without springing for that pesky plane ticket.
Already, the Skype interview is popular in academia, according to Stephen Winzenburg, a professor of communication at Grand View University in Des Moines who recently wrote about the topic for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
"It seems like in the past year and a half, it's really burst through. Everybody's pretty much using it now," he says.
We asked Winzenburg, who recently underwent four Skype interviews, three of which were successful (he advanced to the next stage in the application process), how to meet the challenge.
Among his tips:
Adjust the webcam. You know how you have good angles in photos? That's true on video, too. Experiment a little to find out what angle works for you. Should the camera be slightly below your face? Above your face? "I found that my best angle was having [the laptop] propped up on a box, [with the web cam] looking down at me," Winzenburg says.
Do a trial run. "It's crucial that you do a practice run with someone and they give you honest feedback about how you look on your web cam," Winzenburg says. That means setting up Skype, or whatever service you're using, and having your honest critic do the same. If you learn that you look washed out, try toning down the lighting. If your face is shadowy, the culprit may be a light source located behind you. Reposition the light (or yourself) for a more flattering effect.
Dress appropriately. On camera, this generally means foregoing the all-white shirt. It's going to reflect light and may make your face look washed out.
Clean up. The area behind you should be interview appropriate. In Winzenburg's case that meant removing dog toys and straightening up bookshelves.
Make eye contact. In a one-on-one interviews you should mostly look directly into the web cam when giving an answer. It's fine to look at the screen when the interviewer asks a question. If you're being interviewed by several people at the same time, you can look at the screen while answering. (This gives you a better sense of how your interrogators are responding.) Feel free to look into the web cam during portions of a group interview.
Stay calm. Winzenburg's dog started barking, loudly, during one of his interviews. He was embarrassed, but he knew the situation would only get worse if he looked at the dog, which would have required turning away from the camera. He kept answering questions as if nothing was going on and, much to his surprise, got an invitation to move on to the next stage of the application process.
Office Hours appears weekly in TribU. If you have a work-related question – and remember, no question is too serious or too silly – send a note to Nara Schoenberg at email@example.com.


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Asian currencies have had a good run so far this year against the U.S. dollar, and analysts expect further upside as President Barack Obama's re-election signals an end to China bashing and raises hopes of further monetary easing.
Obama's Republican challenger Mitt Romney had said he would label America's second largest trading partner a currency manipulator on his first day in office and also indicated that the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may not get another term.
But these risks are now over, said forex analysts, and Asian currencies should benefit from the end of political uncertainty.
Nomura currency strategists Craig Chan and Prateek Gupta wrote in a note on Wednesday that the risk of conflict between U.S. and China was now gone thanks to the Obama win, and this should pave the way for the gradual appreciation of the yuan .
The yuan has appreciated about 1 percent against the greenback so far this year, and is now trading at 6.24.
"With Obama winning a second term, the risk of Sino-U.S. conflict and potential yuan depreciation - historical retaliation behavior from China - has been lowered," Nomura strategists wrote in the report. "Although President Obama and the U.S. Treasury will continue to press China for greater yuan liberalization and appreciation, the pressure is likely to be more diplomatic."
Relations between China and the U.S. are expected to stay strong over the medium term, they added. During Obama's first four years in office, U.S. exports to China have almost doubled and the yuan has strengthened nearly 10 percent, Nomura said.
Besides easing of tensions between the world's top two economies, the prospect of further easing by the Federal Reserve under the Obama administration will also benefit Asian currencies, analysts said.
"Obama's re-election to the White House has alleviated market fear of an earlier end to quantitative easing, which should be positive for Asian currencies," said Gaurav Garg, analyst of Asia forex strategy with Citi in Singapore.
Focus Shifts to Asia
With some of the uncertainty out of the way, attention can shift to other positive news for Asia, including a Chinese economic recovery, strategists said.
"We are generally quite bullish on Asian currencies, not just because of what's happening with the Fed and the U.S., but also because of Asia," said Thio Chin Loo, senior currency strategist with BNP Paribas in Singapore.
"With the Chinese leadership change this month, they may smooth out the hiccups that we have seen in the country's growth this year, and this will be positive for Asia."
[Read more: Changing Chinapackage]
A key beneficiary in Asia of China's recovery and a more stable U.S. will be the Korean won, according to Nizam Idris, head of strategy, fixed income and currencies with Macquarie Bank.
"The won can do really well if China shows a strong recovery. The currency also remains highly sensitive to global growth so any stability there will be good," Idris said. "I see a lot of value there waiting to be unlocked."
The won has appreciated 5.7 percent against the greenback since the start of 2012.
As for other currencies in the region, Thio favors the Malaysian ringgit and Philippine peso - which have so far this year risen 3.4 percent and 6.8 percent, respectively against the U.S. dollar - to benefit from capital flows from more quantitative easing by the Fed.
However, any rise in Asian currencies may be capped by concerns over the "fiscal cliff," according Macquarie's Idris.
The "fiscal cliff" refers to the combination of tax hikes and spending cuts that are due to kick in at the start of 2013 unless Congress takes action. Most economists agree the impending fiscal tightening would result in a recession.
"You have to balance that out with the fear of the 'fiscal cliff,'" Idris said. "Easing is only a cushion and the 'fiscal cliff' still has to be averted. And it will depend on whether Obama can become less aloof and garner bipartisan support."
Stronger currencies in Asia may also complicate policy making in the region, with central banks likely to intervene to try to curb appreciation, as seen in major moves by the Hong Kong Monetary Exchange last month.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The coach called them soft. Will Muschamp stood right up there in front of his first Florida team last January -- after a 7-6 season that included several second-half fades -- and called the Gators soft to their faces.
That is what stuck with them all offseason, through the work and the sweat and the hours in the weight room. That is what made them feel so good about what happened Saturday in the Swamp.
Not just the fact they crunched LSU and its No. 3 ranking, but how.
And not just the fact they are now 5-0, but why.
BEATDOWN: Gators pound out win over LSU
"We kind of took that to heart," guard James Wilson was saying Saturday night, after the 11th-ranked Gators took care of LSU in the way a steamroller takes care of asphalt pavement. "No one likes to be called soft. You don't play at Florida if you're soft."
Up next:South Carolina what LSU was supposed to be
Behold a Florida revival. You looked on the sideline to see if Urban Meyer were pacing. You looked into the huddle to see if Tim Tebow were there. The old days and the old thunder and the old swagger returned to the Swamp Saturday.
Are the Gators back? Can't tell that for sure until they spend a little more time out in the dangerous world of the SEC. But the 14-6 stuffing of LSU made it plain enough that this is Muschamp's Florida program now, and the pains of transition are over.
Things have changed with the Gators. There is nothing unsubtle in how.
"We've beaten it into their head that last year in SEC games, we were outscored 72-22," Muschamp said. "That's something that has been pounded into their head. As competitors, you respond to those things. We've got some guys who don't like to hear that. They've taken it personal.
"When you take something personal, sometimes you get pretty good results."
This is not soft: The Gators have trailed Texas A&M, Tennessee and LSU at halftime this season. Three SEC games sliding toward the dark side. They outscored all three 51-6 in the second half. They have not given up a point to anyone in the fourth quarter.
This is not soft: Their last 24 plays from scrimmage Saturday were on the ground. They rushed 58 times for the game. LSU ran 50 total plays and had but eight first downs.
This is not soft: LSU put 41 points on Florida last season. Saturday night, the Tigers managed two field goals.
Play tougher. Play harder. Play longer. Surely Muschamp preached that all week?
"Three-hundred and sixty-five days," he corrected.
And why?
"Were you in Baton Rouge last year?"
He talks of a team with confidence growing in concert with its bench press totals. He talks of having more believers. You could hear it around the Florida room.
From Wilson, "We had a standard we had to pick up and get back to where Florida's supposed to be."
From tackle Jonotthan Harrsion, "We kept it in our mindset we were going to be the first one to swing and we were going to be the last one to swing."
From defensive back Matt Elam, whose forced fumble after a long LSU completion was the defensive turning point of the game, "That's what we didn't do last year, finish. You've got to be able to finish in the SEC.
"We grind and we grind and we grind."
So said the man with a pink gator on his shirt, in honor of a sister fighting breast cancer.
There were only 19 pass completions the entire game by both teams, 14 punts and nine sacks. Baylor-West Virginia, it wasn't.
"That was typical 1980 SEC right there today," said Muschamp, who was all of 9 years old in 1980. "It was a physical, physical match because both lines of scrimmage were going to put pressure on the quarterback. That's the difference in playing in this league and these other leagues you watch on TV."
And the No. 3 team they hammered? LSU not only remains an enigma, it is now a one-loss enigma. A team that can stop anyone. But the best way it moves the ball up and down the field is with the punter.
So this had the gritty and intense feel of a rite of passage and test of manhood, as headliner SEC games tend to be. And when it was over, the Gators had not only put a torch to the chances of another Alabama-LSU No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown, they had established their own credentials. We'll know more about that later this month when they get South Carolina and Georgia back-to-back.
"This is one win. It doesn't count for 1½ and it doesn't count for two," Muschamp said."As you continue to climb the mountain, it gets more treacherous."
Soft teams won't make it. The new Gators seem anything but.


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Scripture and Science In Conflict by Prof. Philip Stott — Introduction
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"A created world is contingent upon the will of the Creator and need not necessarily conform to our a priori reasoning. These early scientists emphasized observation using the five senses and experiment, in order to gain new knowledge."
As a student in the 1960's I remember the derision heaped upon Christianity whenever professors or students mentioned it in the classroom. Serious thinkers, it seemed, had replaced mythical Christian doctrine with a far superior, more scientific view of reality. Christianity and Science, were seen, necessarily, as in conflict. Like most other Christian students of the time, I remained silent, intimidated by the superior knowledge of my mentors. Only several years later did I learn to discern the difference between science, and metaphysical naturalism masquerading as science.
While at Harvard in 1971, I had the good fortune of hearing a visiting lecture series conducted by Professor Rejer Hooykaas, a highly regarded historian of science.Hooykaas presented, what was to me, a new and provocative argument. The Dutch professor maintained that Christianity had played a vital role in fostering the development of modern science.[1]
I remember my reaction well. As a Christian I wanted to believe him; as a scientist, I was yet skeptical. Hadn't many learned scholars already dismissed Christianity as an incredible intellectual position? Surely Hooykaas was mistaken. Perhaps, I misheard him? Though intrigued, I simply could not accept an argument that ran counter the dominant perspective of my education to that point. I had a Christian heart, but, as yet, a pagan mind.
Nevertheless, Hooykaas' argument fascinated me. I began a reading program to examine his claims. I found other historians and philosophers of science who had recognized that a distinctly Christian world view had inspired early scientific investigation. P. E. Hodgson in reviewing Stanley Jaki's Science and Creation said: "Although we seldom recognize it, scientific research requires certain basic beliefs about the order and rationality of matter, and its accessibility to the human mind . . . they came to us in their full force through the Judeo-Christian belief in an omnipotent God, creator and sustainer of all things. In such a world view it becomes sensible to try and understand the world, and this is the fundamental reason science developed as it did in the Middle Ages in Christian Europe, culminating in the brilliant achievements of the seventeenth century."[2]
A. N. Whitehead added: "In the first place, there can be no living science unless there is a widespread instinctive conviction in the existence of an Order Of Things. And, in particular, of an Order Of Nature . . . The inexpugnable belief that every detailed occurrence can be correlated with its antecedents in a perfectly definite manner . . . must come from the medieval insistence on the rationality of God . . . My explanation is that the faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology."[3]
According to Loren Eisley, the origin of modern science was due to: "The sheer act of faith that the universe possessed order and could be interpreted by rational minds . . . The philosophy of experimental science . . . began its discoveries and made use of its method in the faith, not the knowledge, that it was dealing with a rational universe controlled by a Creator who did not act upon whim nor interfere with the forces He had set in operation. The experimental method succeeded beyond man's wildest dreams but the faith that brought it into being owes something to the Christian conception of the nature of God. It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science, which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption."[4]
Perhaps, Christianity had played a greater role in the development of modern science than I had imagined. I wanted to know more. If the Christian concept of creation in the late Middle Ages had motivated scientific inquiry, what could have discouraged it before then? In Europe, at least, the answer was clear.
The dominant view of reality in medieval Europe was essentially Greek, having been coopted by the Church and adapted for Christian service. It offered no motivation to investigate nature by observation and experiment. To the Greeks, reality consisted of forms and essences, not material things. In a world where ideals subordinate material reality observing "what is" becomes less important than reasoning "what ought to be."
The Greeks viewed nature as a living organism imbued with attributes of divinity. Nature was eternal and self-existent, not created. Nature was considered impregnated with final causes, with divine purposes and as such was self revealing. They had only to be apprehended by the mind, and, hence, the significance placed on intuiting axioms and principles from which all particular truths could be derived by deductive reasoning. It followed from this view that Greek knowledge of nature and reality rested on the authority of the "system builders": Euclid in geometry, and Plato and Aristotle in philosophy, etc. As a corollary to the Greek view of truth, sensory experience did not lead to new knowledge. It could only provide illustrations for what was already known through reason. Sensory experience was no more relevant to the Greek science of nature than it was to Euclidean geometry. Therefore Greek science of nature was never experimental. The Greeks' conception of nature and reality led them to distrust the senses.
The medieval world picture inherited from the Greeks was that of a vast hierarchy of beings extending from the deity in the Empyrean heaven at the outer edge of the universe, through a graded series of angels inhabiting the ten concentric crystalline spheres surrounding the central earth, to the levels of men, animals and plants on the earth itself which formed the system's cosmic center.
A sharp qualitative distinction separated the terrestrial and celestial domains of the universe. Not only were the two domains composed of different types of materials, they had different motions. The terrestrial environs consisted of earth, air, fire and water, each with rectilinear motion which had a beginning and an end. The heavenly bodies (above the moon) were composed of a more perfect fifth essence, with eternal circular motion.
According to ancient mechanics, motion was maintained only as long as there was a constantly applied mover. As Butterfield said, "A universe constructed on the mechanics of Aristotle had the door half-way open for spirits already . . . Intelligence had to roll the planetary spheres around."[5]
Medieval Christians were attracted to this Greek picture of the world. An authority-based hierarchical system with God in his Empyrean above the moon was easy to visualize. The angels mentioned in the Bible could push the planets around-not a hard job since celestial bodies were made of the very light fifth essence. And what could promote the importance of man any better than this Greek view of man at the center of the universe? What psychological power such a view commanded. The conception suggested that man was important in a truly cosmic sense.
The linchpin for this medieval cosmology was Aristotle's view of motion through constantly applied force. But as Butterfield remarked, "It was supremely difficult to escape from the Aristotelian doctrine (of motion) by merely observing things more closely . . . it required a different kind of thinking-cap, a transposition in the mind of the scientist himself."[6]
Late Medieval Christianity supplied just such a transposition of thought through a greater familiarity with Scripture, and an emphasis on the doctrine of creation. Through the advent of the printing press the ideas of Scripture were much more widely disseminated. People could discover for themselves that both Old and New Testaments regarded the material world as substantial, real and good. A premium was placed on the value and essential trustworthiness of sensory experience, especially in some of the more prominent authority based passages. For example, after Moses reiterated the Ten Commandments, he reminds the people that he is not the authority. The Commandments on stone only solidified the message all the people heard. Says Moses, "Ye heard the voice."[7] The Hebrews had an empirical test for identifying a false prophet.[8] Saint John introduces his First Epistle with an empirical emphasis: "We have heard," "we have seen," "our hands have handled."[9] Jesus said to the doubting ones after His Resurrection, "handle me and see."[10]
For many centuries the Church had openly acknowledged God and His creation. Yet the Medieval view of nature remained essentially Greek. But with greater appreciation for the value of sensory experience within a created universe, more and more people began to think through the implications of belief in creation for their view of nature. According to M. B. Foster; "The modern investigators of nature were the first to take seriously in their science the Christian doctrine that nature is created . . ."[11] (Emphasis his).
A created world is contingent upon the will of the Creator, and need not necessarily conform to our a priori reasoning. These early scientists emphasized observation using the five senses and experiment, in order to gain new knowledge.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) maintained that finding new facts required new methods. He set out to reformulate scientific method to give the empirical, inductive process a more central place. Part of the genius of modern empirical science was precisely its use of recurring natural events to provide observable checks on hypotheses. No more would scientists content themselves with speculative reason unchecked by sensory experience.
Bacon also repudiated the Greek search for final causes in nature, which he maintained were inscrutable to man. Therefore, "inquiry into final causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing."[12] According to Bacon, the Greeks were simply wrong in their approach to nature because they failed to regard it as created. Creation may have been a mere doctrine in earlier centuries, but to many in the late Middle Ages it supplied the impetus to rethink the ancients' view of the natural world.
Realizing the implications of a created nature opened the door to emphasizing the importance of sensory experience. Empirical science follows directly from belief in a created and therefore contingent nature. Not until the end of the 17th century would Newton reach a new understanding of physical reality. In the meantime, a certain sense of delight and fascination came in exposing cracks in the Aristotelian edifice.
The voyages of discovery in the 15th century not only opened up the New World with new trade routes, they gave empirical proof that ancient knowledge was both incomplete and in many instances wrong. The explorers contradicted the ancients by experience. They, for example, did not fall off the edge of the earth when sailing uncharted waters.
Once a "transposition" in thinking occurred allowing for meaningful experiential checks on ideas, the new empiricists found the universe replete with evidence repudiating the ancient cosmology.
In 1572, a new star appeared in the skies over Europe. The star remained visible for a year and a half, even in the daytime. The star hovered clearly above the moon. Yet, according to established Aristotelian views the heavens were supposed to be changeless. Some of the learned professors refused to acknowledge the new star, calling it an optical illusion. But for everyone else it was clear evidence the Aristotelian system was in deep trouble. What's more, the evidence was empirical.
Another blow to the Aristotelian picture came with the comet of 1577. The comet not only signaled more change in the heavens, but since it must have passed through the supposedly impenetrable crystalline spheres its appearance contradicted Aristotle's view of the heavens. Many, such as Tycho Brahe, were encouraged to actually deny existence to the crystalline orbs.
Copernicus had taken the bold first step, refashioning the world picture. He put the sun at the center in his system, thus making the earth just one of the planets. Copernicus did keep to circular motion for the planets, however. Later, Kepler would discover on empirical grounds the orbits were elliptical.
By the end of the 17th century Newton had synthesized the work of Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo by achieving a unity of heaven and earth, with the same substances in the heavens and earth, all equally subject to mathematical analysis. Newton banished the Aristotelian terrestrial/celestial dichotomy that had dominated intellectual thought for nearly two thousand years.
The modern scientific enterprise was now ready to explore by the senses combined with mathematics the structure and ongoing operation of the universe. Christian thought had done much to inspire this new form of inquiry. As for my own study I concur with C. F. Von Weizsacker's conclusion that modern science is a "legacy, I might even have said, a child of Christianity."[13]
Hooykaas, 1972. Religion and the Rise of Modern Science, Grand Rapids,
Michigan: William B. Erdmans Publishing Company.
[2] P. E. Hodgson, 1974. "Review of Science and Creation" (by S. L. Jaki) in Nature, Vol. 251, Oct. 24, 1974, p. 747.
[3] A. N. Whitehead, 1967. Science and the Modern World, New York; The Free Press, pp. 3-4, 12-13.
[4] Loren Eisley, 1961. Darwin's Century: Evolution and the men who discovered it. Garden City, New York: Anchor, p. 62.
[5] ...
[6] Herbert Butterfield, 1957. The Origins of Modern Science 1300 -1800. New York: The Free Press, p. 19.
Ibid., pp. 16, 17.
[7] Deuteronomy 5:23.
[8] Deuteronomy 18.
[9] First Epistle of John 1:1.
[10] Luke 24:39.
[11] M. B. Foster, 1934. Mind. Vol. 43, No. 172, p. 446.
[12] Quoted in T. F. Torrance, 1969. Theological Science. London: Oxford University Press, Ref. 2, p. 70.
[13] C. F. von Weizsacker, 1964. The Relevance of Science. New York: Harper and Row, p. 163.


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He is just a new employer for Victor and Lance Vance when he provides missions for them, and aids Victor on his rise in power in Vice City.
Lance soon finds out that he is an undercover cop, and he and Victor capture him and take him to an abandoned building where they tie him up and get some info from him. He is killed by Victor when he tries to escape after duping Lance and Victor into entering a gay white supremacist bar, Lance did not have any intention of killing him because he did not yet reveal where a big cocaine shipment was, however Lance learns that Jerry Martinez will be receiving the shipment.
Later on, in the mission The Mugshot Longshot, Lance uses Forbes's ID card to prove to Armando Mendez that Jerry Martinez tried to steal Mendez's cocaine. He sticks Martinez's photo onto Forbes's ID card to fabricate that Martinez is a DEA agent.
The official Vice City Stories website features a news report with pictures of a man in the same suit with his face blurred. The news report mentions "Agent BF," though it is unknown if this agent is Forbes or not.
Prominent Appearances in Missions
GTA Vice City Stories
- The Audition (Voice)
- Money for Nothing (Boss)
- Caught as an Act (Betrayal)
- Leap and Bound (Boss)
- The Bum Deal (Boss/Killed)
- Forbes originally had a moustache in the beta version.
- There might have been a different story line with Forbes, as in one of the screenshots of GTA VCS prior to release date shows Vic Vance driving Forbes while being shot at by the Mendez Brothers. This resembles the mission So Long Schlong albeit instead of Reni, Forbes appears.
- Forbes' outfit is similar to one of the iconic looks worn by Sonny Crockett (also a police officer) in the television series Miami Vice, which heavily inspired the two Vice City games.
- In the mission Caught As An Act, Forbes attempts to escape in a Stinger, which is an apparent homage to Sonny Crockett's Ferrari Daytona Spyder replica in the series.


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By Marc Livitz: The upcoming bout between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez already holds its own respective merits in terms of marketability to the sporting public. There's enough of a following for Mayweather, Jr. (love it or hate it) as nearly a household name and no need for such a wish upon a star likeness for Alvarez. "Canelo" is nearing national treasure status without exception in his native Mexico and many parts of the United States as well. What the September 14 pay per view Las Vegas card truly may have needed is enough of an undercard to entice the majority of fight fans from top to bottom to divvy up the cash to watch the evening's events unfold live. Hopefully, the recently added co-main event which features a wholly competitive showdown (and perhaps a throw down) between undefeated Danny "Swift" Garcia (26(16)-0) and the hard punching menace Lucas "La Maquina" Matthysse (34(32)-2) for multiple titles in the light welterweight division is just the kick needed to send the buy rate into the stratosphere.
The scheduled twelve round clash for the WBC and the WBA Super World light welterweight championships actually has what many see as a "one versus two" or "1a versus 1b" contest. Danny Garcia had an absolute stellar year in the ring in 2012. He recorded two victories over Mexican legend Erik "El Terrible" (the second by a resounding fourth round TKO) as well as a somewhat shocking fourth round TKO win against perennial light welterweight Amir Khan. Lucas Matthysse hails from southern Argentina and he could put himself in a position to surpass the South American country's king of boxing, Sergio Martinez should he prevail over Garcia on September 14. Lucas holds two highly disputed losses on his resume and both have been labeled by many as hometown decisions.
He came up short by one point apiece on two separate scorecards against Zab Judah in November 2010 and then by a single point when he faced Devon Alexander seven months later. Prior, between and since those highly debated defeats, "La Maquina" has established a frightening 94% knockout and his third round walkover victory against Lamont Peterson last May put him in pole position to not only move up the division ladder, but the mythical pound for pound rungs as well. Matthysse, Garcia and various other participants taking part in the undercard bouts of the event labeled "The One" spoke to the media this afternoon on an international conference call.
Selected highlights are below.
President Golden Boy Promotions Oscar De La Hoya: "We are one month away from this mega event. There are multiple titles at stake in the main event and we also have a tremendous undercard planned. We'll also have Ishe Smith versus Carlos Molina. Pablo Cesar Cano had a great fight against "Sugar" Shane Mosley recently and he'll be facing Ashley Theophane. Six different properties will be showing the bout live. All the fans who cannot make it to Las Vegas will be treated to a unique experience, as Fathom Events will once again showcase the evening's events on over 400 movie screens across the country. We are expecting this event to shatter all records and the live gate record has already been passed. The 2.4 million pay per view buy record can be broken as well."
CEO Mayweather Promotions Leonard Ellerbe: "It all starts with the Mayweather versus Canelo fight on Saturday, September 14. There are also two other championship fights on the card and this is the biggest boxing card that I've ever been involved with."
Danny "Swift" Garcia, Light Welterweight Champion: "I am very motivated for this fight and I've been working very hard in the gym. You'll see another epic victory from me on the 14th of September."
Lucas Matthysse: "I am training very hard and I am going to give the fans what they want and bring the title to Argentina. I respect Danny as a fighter, but I am going to give 100% for this fight."
Matthysse on working with Al Haymon: "He will get me bigger and greater fights in the future.
Garcia on respect in boxing: "I don't care who the media thinks is the best. I hold the titles and this will be another day of work for me. Those who don't want to believe can do that. I know in my heart that I'm the best. I made this my time and I took it. I'll continue to prove myself."
On the winner facing Mayweather or Canelo: "I'm not going to worry about that right now. I just fight and whoever they put me against is who I fight."
Matthysse on the idea of a KO win versus Garcia: "I'm just looking to win. The (Lamont) Peterson fight was difficult in the beginning but then it became easy. I respect Danny as a champion and this will not be easy. I'll go for the win and give a great performance. He'll feel my punches on the 14th and decide for himself whether or not I possess punching power."
On a potentially hostile crowd: "I believe the Mexicans in attendance will be behind me and support me. Of course, there will be some people from Argentina there, too. A win here would be the biggest of my life."
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Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II
Artist: Sir Peter Blake
Edition size: 150 signed limited editions
Medium: Giclée on textured fine art paper
Total dimensions: 8.27" x 11.69" inches (print), approx. 17.5" x 21.5" inches framed in gold
British, b. 1932, Dartford, United Kingdom, based in Chiswick, United Kingdom
Widely regarded as the godfather of British Pop art and the Young British Artists movement, Peter Blake creates paintings, collages, and prints that blend modernity and nostalgia. Though best known for designing the album cover for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, he considers painting to be central to his oeuvre. While celebrity figures inform his work, folk art, fairground signs, and an overall sense of nostalgia also influence his style. In 1997, at the age of 65, Blake emotionally retired from painting, he said, and entered what he calls his late period. He continues to work but is no longer interested in the art world's opinion of his art, instead creating what he wants regardless of its relation to his previous paintings.


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Baghdad: Bombings and shootings around Iraq`s capital, including an attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to kill army officers, killed at least 29 people and wounded dozens today, officials said.
Police said gunmen shot dead the five off-duty army officers after stopping their car on a road just north of Baghdad. They said gunmen ordered the officers, who held ranks from lieutenant to colonel, out of the car and then shot them.
Militants have used fake checkpoints, as well as stolen police and military vehicles, to launch attacks in the past.
The day`s first explosion came from a bomb-laden car left in a parking lot in Karrada, a busy commercial area home to several government offices, as well as courts and a hospital. The explosion killed four civilians and three police officers and wounded 21, a police officer said.
A few minutes later, a suicide bomber with an explosives belt blew himself up at the main gate of an office affiliated with the Higher Education Ministry, killing two police officers and two civilians, the police officer said. The attack wounded 12, he said.
Shortly before nightfall, police said a car bomb near an outdoor market killed eight people and wounded 17 in Baghdad`s Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. Meanwhile, police said gunmen stormed the house of an anti-al-Qaeda Sunni fighter in the town of Youssifiyah, killing the Sunni fighter along with his wife, son, sister and a cousin. Youssifiyah is 20 kilometers south of Baghdad.
Insurgents frequently attack members of the Sunni militia, known also as Sahwa, which joined forces with US troops at the height of the Iraq war to fight al-Qaeda. Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures for the attacks. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to journalists.
Since last year, Iraq has been seeing the worst level of violence since the nation emerged from the Shiite-Sunni bloodletting in 2008. The United Nations says violence killed 8,868 people in 2013, and killed more than 1,400 people in January and February of this year.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for today`s attacks, which came two days after a series of car bombings rocked the capital and killed at least 34 people. That was the bloodiest day in Iraq since April 28, when militant strikes on polling stations and other targets killed 46.


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A Letter from the President
From the beginning, St. Ignatius of Loyola found a way to be true to his core beliefs while simultaneously adapting himself to the realities he encountered. A man ahead of his times in the 16th Century, Ignatius was a restless leader of the Jesuits (Society of Jesus). He was never content with things the way they were. He was possessed of a drive to always improve, to try new ways of working, to locate new opportunities to serve God and God's people better.Don Sull of London's Financial Times described this approach of Ignatius as "strategic agility." Sull defines this as "an organization's ability to seize opportunities to achieve long-term goals as they arise and build the resources—including people, cash, and brand—to exploit unforeseeable opportunities." Ignatius had the traits of an entrepreneur: his creativity, his responsiveness to new opportunities, his willingness to take risks, and even to fail. He also had a dimension beyond your everyday entrepreneur. He was a "spiritual venture capitalist." Grounded in deep faith and formed with ethical values, Ignatius used his resources to work for the good of souls, and to better their condition in heart, mind, and body.
It is my desire that each of us feels that same restlessness of Ignatius, a desire for the better, an eye open for the next opportunity. When I listen in coffee sessions with staff and faculty, share a meal with student leaders, and read the dreams of our deans for their schools, I have a better sense of that restlessness, that shared desire to be an ever better, ever stronger, ever more humane Santa Clara.
This report illustrates our new Strategic Plan, one that has the stamp of restlessness coupled with vision and direction. This plan breathes new life into our rigorous programs and progressive initiatives. It will enable us to remain solidly committed to our mission and, at the same time, to unleash energies to realize our higher ambitions. With our plan in place, we have charted our course and positioned ourselves well for ongoing improvement.
Santa Clara University is thriving, and our students are flourishing. Enrollments are strong and our ever-rising applications for undergraduate admission are up 25 percent over the past 4 years. Our endowment realized a 19.3 percent return on investments in FY11. In two years, the number of alumni donors has increased by 50 percent. Signs of growth and revitalization abound in the new construction around campus. All are indicators that we are going in the right direction.
Our vision to educate leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion remains constant, and our restlessness will spur us to fulfill our great potential as the Jesuit, Catholic University in Silicon Valley.
Best wishes,
Michael E. Engh, S.J.


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She's long been a lover of furry friends, and Miley Cyrus just scored yet another dog to add to her ever-growing family.
The "Hannah Montana" starlet took to her Twitter page to show off her canine companion with an adorable photograph.
Miley added the caption, "Kodak moment! I love Penny Lane ❤ #rescueislove @SpotRescueDogs."
As for her engagement to Liam Hemsworth, Cyrus is rumored to be drawing up a prenuptial agreement to protect her fortune and her dogs in the event of a split.
An insider claimed, "Miley is worth over $130 million and has no plans to lose her nest egg in case of divorce. She has a half-dozen dogs that are her babies — she doesn't want to lose them."


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| Complemented Subspaces of Linear Bounded Operators
Bahreini, Manijeh; Bator, Elizabeth; Ghenciu, Ioana
We study the complementation of the space $W(X,Y)$ of weakly compact operators, the space $K(X,Y)$ of compact operators, the space $U(X,Y)$ of unconditionally converging operators, and the space $CC(X,Y)$ of completely continuous operators in the space $L(X,Y)$ of bounded linear operators from $X$ to $Y$. Feder proved that if $X$ is infinite-dimensional and $c_0 \hookrightarrow Y$, then $K(X,Y)$ is uncomplemented in $L(X,Y)$. Emmanuele and John showed that if $c_0 \hookrightarrow K(X,Y)$, then $K(X,Y)$ is uncomplemented in $L(X,Y)$. Bator and Lewis showed that if $X$ is not a Grothendieck space and $c_0 \hookrightarrow Y$, then $W(X,Y)$ is uncomplemented in $L(X,Y)$. In this paper, classical results of Kalton and separably determined operator ideals with property $(*)$ are used to obtain complementation results that yield these theorems as corollaries.
| Hook-content Formulae for Symplectic and Orthogonal Tableaux
Campbell, Peter S.; Stokke, Anna
By considering the specialisation $s_{\lambda}(1,q,q^2,\dots,q^{n-1})$ of the Schur function, Stanley was able to describe a formula for the number of semistandard Young tableaux of shape $\lambda$ in terms of the contents and hook lengths of the boxes in the Young diagram. Using specialisations of symplectic and orthogonal Schur functions, we derive corresponding formulae, first given by El Samra and King, for the number of semistandard symplectic and orthogonal $\lambda$-tableaux.
| A Note on Randers Metrics of Scalar Flag Curvature
Chen, Bin; Zhao, Lili
Some families of Randers metrics of scalar flag curvature are studied in this paper. Explicit examples that are neither locally projectively flat nor of isotropic $S$-curvature are given. Certain Randers metrics with Einstein $\alpha$ are considered and proved to be complex. Three dimensional Randers manifolds, with $\alpha$ having constant scalar curvature, are studied.
| Weighted Model Sets and their Higher Point-Correlations
Deng, Xinghua; Moody, Robert V.
Examples of distinct weighted model sets with equal $2,3,4, 5$-point correlations are given.
| Simplices in the Euclidean Ball
Fradelizi, Matthieu; Paouris, Grigoris; Schütt, Carsten
We establish some inequalities for the second moment $$ \frac{1}{|K|} \int_{K}|x|_2^2 \,dx $$ of a convex body $K$ under various assumptions on the position of $K$.
| Domains of Injective Holomorphy
Gauthier, P. M.; Nestoridis, V.
A domain $\Omega$ is called a domain of injective holomorphy if there exists an injective holomorphic function $f\colon \Omega\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ that is non-extendable. We give examples of domains that are domains of injective holomorphy and others that are not. In particular, every regular domain $(\overline\Omega^o=\Omega)$ is a domain of injective holomorphy, and every simply connected domain is a domain of injective holomorphy as well.
| The Milnor-Stasheff Filtration on Spaces and Generalized Cyclic Maps
Iwase, Norio; Mimura, Mamoru; Oda, Nobuyuki; Yoon, Yeon Soo
The concept of $C_{k}$-spaces is introduced, situated at an intermediate stage between $H$-spaces and $T$-spaces. The $C_{k}$-space corresponds to the $k$-th Milnor-Stasheff filtration on spaces. It is proved that a space $X$ is a $C_{k}$-space if and only if the Gottlieb set $G(Z,X)=[Z,X]$ for any space $Z$ with ${\rm cat}\, Z\le k$, which generalizes the fact that $X$ is a $T$-space if and only if $G(\Sigma B,X)=[\Sigma B,X]$ for any space $B$. Some results on the $C_{k}$-space are generalized to the $C_{k}^{f}$-space for a map $f\colon A \to X$. Projective spaces, lens spaces and spaces with a few cells are studied as examples of $C_{k}$-spaces, and non-$C_{k}$-spaces.
| Asymptotic Properties of Solutions to Semilinear Equations Involving Multiple Critical Exponents
Kang, Dongsheng
In this paper, we investigate a semilinear elliptic equation that involves multiple Hardy-type terms and critical Hardy-Sobolev exponents. By the Moser iteration method and analytic techniques, the asymptotic properties of its nontrivial solutions at the singular points are investigated.
| Non-complemented Spaces of Operators, Vector Measures, and $c_o$
Lewis, Paul; Schulle, Polly
The Banach spaces $L(X, Y)$, $K(X, Y)$, $L_{w^*}(X^*, Y)$, and $K_{w^*}(X^*, Y)$ are studied to determine when they contain the classical Banach spaces $c_o$ or $\ell_\infty$. The complementation of the Banach space $K(X, Y)$ in $L(X, Y)$ is discussed as well as what impact this complementation has on the embedding of $c_o$ or $\ell_\infty$ in $K(X, Y)$ or $L(X, Y)$. Results of Kalton, Feder, and Emmanuele concerning the complementation of $K(X, Y)$ in $L(X, Y)$ are generalized. Results concerning the complementation of the Banach space $K_{w^*}(X^*, Y)$ in $L_{w^*}(X^*, Y)$ are also explored as well as how that complementation affects the embedding of $c_o$ or $\ell_\infty$ in $K_{w^*}(X^*, Y)$ or $L_{w^*}(X^*, Y)$. The $\ell_p$ spaces for $1 = p < \infty$ are studied to determine when the space of compact operators from one $\ell_p$ space to another contains $c_o$. The paper contains a new result which classifies these spaces of operators. A new result using vector measures is given to provide more efficient proofs of theorems by Kalton, Feder, Emmanuele, Emmanuele and John, and Bator and Lewis.
| Weighted $L^p$ Boundedness of Pseudodifferential Operators and Applications
Michalowski, Nicholas; Rule, David J.; Staubach, Wolfgang
In this paper we prove weighted norm inequalities with weights in the $A_p$ classes, for pseudodifferential operators with symbols in the class ${S^{n(\rho -1)}_{\rho, \delta}}$ that fall outside the scope of Calderón-Zygmund theory. This is accomplished by controlling the sharp function of the pseudodifferential operator by Hardy-Littlewood type maximal functions. Our weighted norm inequalities also yield $L^{p}$ boundedness of commutators of functions of bounded mean oscillation with a wide class of operators in $\mathrm{OP}S^{m}_{\rho, \delta}$.
| A Generalised Kummer-Type Transformation for the ${}_pF_p(x)$ Hypergeometric Function
Miller, A. R.; Paris, R. B.
In a recent paper, Miller derived a Kummer-type transformation for the generalised hypergeometric function ${}_pF_p(x)$ when pairs of parameters differ by unity, by means of a reduction formula for a certain Kampé de Fériet function. An alternative and simpler derivation of this transformation is obtained here by application of the well-known Kummer transformation for the confluent hypergeometric function corresponding to $p=1$.
| Casimir Operators and Nilpotent Radicals
Ndogmo, J. C.
It is shown that a Lie algebra having a nilpotent radical has a fundamental set of invariants consisting of Casimir operators. A different proof is given in the well known special case of an abelian radical. A result relating the number of invariants to the dimension of the Cartan subalgebra is also established.
| On Sha's Secondary Chern-Euler Class
Nie, Zhaohu
For a manifold with boundary, the restriction of Chern's transgression form of the Euler curvature form over the boundary is closed. Its cohomology class is called the secondary Chern-Euler class and was used by Sha to formulate a relative Poincaré-Hopf theorem under the condition that the metric on the manifold is locally product near the boundary. We show that the secondary Chern-Euler form is exact away from the outward and inward unit normal vectors of the boundary by explicitly constructing a transgression form. Using Stokes' theorem, this evaluates the boundary term in Sha's relative Poincaré-Hopf theorem in terms of more classical indices of the tangential projection of a vector field. This evaluation in particular shows that Sha's relative Poincaré-Hopf theorem is equivalent to the more classical law of vector fields.
| Sharp Inequalities for Differentially Subordinate Harmonic Functions and Martingales
Osękowski, Adam
We determine the best constants $C_{p,\infty}$ and $C_{1,p}$, $1 < p < \infty$, for which the following holds. If $u$, $v$ are orthogonal harmonic functions on a Euclidean domain such that $v$ is differentially subordinate to $u$, then $$ \|v\|_p \leq C_{p,\infty} \|u\|_\infty,\quad \|v\|_1 \leq C_{1,p} \|u\|_p. $$ In particular, the inequalities are still sharp for the conjugate harmonic functions on the unit disc of $\mathbb R^2$. Sharp probabilistic versions of these estimates are also studied. As an application, we establish a sharp version of the classical logarithmic inequality of Zygmund.
| Chen Inequalities for Submanifolds of Real Space Forms with a Semi-Symmetric Non-Metric Connection
Özgür, Cihan; Mihai, Adela
In this paper we prove Chen inequalities for submanifolds of real space forms endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection, i.e., relations between the mean curvature associated with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection, scalar and sectional curvatures, Ricci curvatures and the sectional curvature of the ambient space. The equality cases are considered.
| The Continuous Dependence on the Nonlinearities of Solutions of Fast Diffusion Equations
Pan, Jiaqing
In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem $$ \begin{cases} u_{t}=\Delta(u^{m}), &x\in{}\mathbb{R}^{N}, t>0, N\geq3, \\ % ^^----- here u(x,0)=u_{0}(x), &x\in{}\mathbb{R}^{N}. \end{cases} $$ We will prove that:
| Characterizations of Model Manifolds by Means of Certain Differential Systems
Pigola, S.; Rimoldi, M.
We prove metric rigidity for complete manifolds supporting solutions of certain second order differential systems, thus extending classical works on a characterization of space-forms. Along the way, we also discover new characterizations of space-forms. We next generalize results concerning metric rigidity via equations involving vector fields.
| Marcinkiewicz Commutators with Lipschitz Functions in Non-homogeneous Spaces
Zhou, Jiang; Ma, Bolin
Under the assumption that $\mu$ is a nondoubling measure, we study certain commutators generated by the Lipschitz function and the Marcinkiewicz integral whose kernel satisfies a Hörmander-type condition. We establish the boundedness of these commutators on the Lebesgue spaces, Lipschitz spaces, and Hardy spaces. Our results are extensions of known theorems in the doubling case.
| An Onofri-type Inequality on the Sphere with Two Conical Singularities
Zhou, Chunqin
In this paper, we give a new proof of the Onofri-type inequality \begin{equation*} \int_S e^{2u} \,ds^2 \leq 4\pi(\beta+1) \exp \biggl\{ \frac{1}{4\pi(\beta+1)} \int_S |\nabla u|^2 \,ds^2 + \frac{1}{2\pi(\beta+1)} \int_S u \,ds^2 \biggr\} \end{equation*} on the sphere $S$ with Gaussian curvature $1$ and with conical singularities divisor $\mathcal A = \beta\cdot p_1 + \beta \cdot p_2$ for $\beta\in (-1,0)$; here $p_1$ and $p_2$ are antipodal.


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McQueen's masterful film is the kind that works on multiple levels simultaneously—as pure pulp entertainment but also as a commentary on how often it feels…
McQueen's masterful film is the kind that works on multiple levels simultaneously—as pure pulp entertainment but also as a commentary on how often it feels…
The cinematic equivalent of a clip-on version of the nose ring that its central character famously sports throughout—a simulacrum that tries to evoke the edge…
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
A wish list in honor of my birthday. #birthdaywishlist
An article about the 41st Mill Valley Film Festival honoring USC Annenberg associate professor Stacy L. Smith and devoting 45% of its lineup to films…
A short film by RogerEbert.com contributor Sam Fragoso.
A look back at Robert Altman's Quintet, as part of Scout Tafoya's monthly video essay series on maligned masterpieces.
The first episode of TNT's "I Am the Night" made its world premiere at AFI FEST on Friday afternoon at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
One of our Far Flung Correspondents talks about why the election of Jair Bolsonaro would be a disaster for Brazil.
An interview with Gillian Flynn about co-writing the Steve McQueen heist film, Widows.
An essay about Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf, as excerpted from the latest edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room.
"Fat Kid Rules the World" is a movie with a title that might be misleading: It's a lot better than it sounds like it has any right to be.
Here is the story of a suicidal high school outsider that generates great sympathy for the character, and miraculously supplies him with a loving and supportive father, a reckless new friend who turns out to be good for him, and even a sexy classmate who likes his T-shirt. That has to be the first time a girl has ever told him anything like that.
"Fat Kid Rules the World" isn't either of the things that we might fear: It's not a smarmy feel-good movie, and it's not another dumb teenage comedy. It's smart and observant, and when its laughs come, they're of the dark humor variety.
Much of its success comes from a fresh 21-year-old actor named Jacob Wysocki, who was inspired in his leading debut opposite John C. Reilly in "Terri" (2011), which I invited to Ebertfest this year. Knowing him to be outgoing and personable, I was struck by how convincing he is in this film's early scenes, as Troy Billings, a trudging, listless mouth-breather who exudes a deep sense of defeat. The fat kid he played in "Terri" was more transgressive (he wore his pajamas to high school because they were a "better fit"). Here he's a boy with such low self-regard that he seems frozen in his tracks.
As the film opens, he tries to throw himself under a bus. His life is saved at the last possible moment by a druggie street kid named Marcus (Matt O'Leary), a teenage con man; he quickly sees this sudden relationship as an opportunity to crash at Troy's house and raid the refrigerator. This scheme is greeted coolly by Troy's father (Billy Campbell), a crew-cut, no-nonsense ex-Marine who tries to run a tight ship.
Right away we expect Mr. Billings to be a sadistic drill sergeant, but actually he's a reasonable man who loves both of his sons and even has sympathy for Marcus because "everybody deserves a chance."
The family's mother died not long ago, and now Mr. Billings cooks dinner every night for Troy and his brother, Dayle (Dylan Arnold), who is forever doing his homework at the dining room table. Troy never visibly does homework, but claims he's good at math and everything else "except gym." The two brothers are not hostile but more mutually uncomprehending.
At school, Troy isn't picked on, but more invisible. He gains a little credibility simply by being acknowledged by Marcus, a popular rebel, who, strictly speaking, has been expelled by the school. Able to improvise his way out of any situation, Marcus tells Troy they're going to form their own two-man punk rock band. Troy will be the drummer. Encouraged that his son is at last showing interest in something, Mr. Billings actually buys him a nice set of drums, which come with some rules: no rehearsals after 10 p.m.
Let me describe Troy's ability as a drummer this way: an infant pounding its mashed potatoes with a spoon has as much rhythm. Nevertheless, after Marcus does a fashion makeover for the kid by drawing with a Sharpie on a T-shirt, the word gets around that the two of them are in a band, and his classmate Isabel (Lili Simmons) takes a sweet interest in him. Troy is not only fat but his round cheeks are inflicted with a bright red case of rosacea. What does Isabel see in him? She's sort of an outsider herself and enjoys what she interprets as his spunk.
Weathering this storm in his little family, Billy Campbell is spot-on as the father. No-nonsense middle-aged roles are hard to find, and although Campbell is well-known, especially from his television work, his performance here may intrigue casting directors with his possibilities.
Anyway, that's the set-up. The delivery is unexpected. Even what seems to be a public humiliation ends up making Troy a hit on YouTube. There are of course setbacks and alarming events, but what's affecting is how sensibly and kindly Mr. Billings responds. There's a quiet moment, easy to miss, when he calls Marcus "son." And for such a straight arrow, he takes a big chance on behalf of the two boys.
"Fat Kid Rules the World" marks the directorial debut of Matthew Lillard, who like many actors is better with people than with the camera. There isn't dazzling directorial virtuosity here, but direct and economical filmmaking that focuses directly on the characters. The screenplay by Michael M.B. Galvin and Peter Speakman is based on a best-selling young adult novel by K.L. Going, which tells a story with deep appeal.
Lillard deserves more time behind the camera, and I think we'll be pleased to watch Wysocki's development as an actor. In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.
An appreciation of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm as its 25th anniversary approaches.
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I can't believe that it's already December and that means that it is time to start thinking about Holiday cookie baking! You can never have too many cookies over the holidays whether for entertaining, giving them away as gifts or even just to snack on yourself. It's always nice to have a variety of cookies on your platter so that everyone can find something they like and perhaps even try some new ones! I have gathered a few of my favourite holiday cookies here to share with you and I will also be trying a some new ones over the coming days!
Although some cookies, like chocolate chip cookies, shouldn't be made until a few days ahead of time others, like shortbread and fruit cakes, will keep for weeks at room temperature and months in the freezer so you can plan accordingly to ensure that you are not swamped at the last minute with cookie baking. It's time to get your baking on!
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Josh Fialkoff necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 178 diseños de 61 diseñadores freelance.
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I am starting an online marketing consulting business focusing on small businesses in the United States who are looking for help generating leads online, through search engine optimization, online advertising and Web development.
I want to convey that I develop business-minded strategies rather than ones built on the latest fads or coolest sites.
In the future, I may change the name of the firm so that it's not centered around me, but rather around an idea, such as lead generation...so something which would work well if the name of the firm were different.
Small business owners searching for ways to adapt their businesses to the online realm. Clients tend to be men (though not exclusively) in their 40s and 50s. I also consult with non profit groups, so something appealing to this audience would be helpful.
I have no preconceived ideas. I am open to a new look.
It needs to work on my Website as well as on letterhead and potentially business cards.
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Cheers! Beverages for Health
Ingredient suppliers are using technological advances to help beverage makers transform mass market beverages into healthful juice drinks and condition-specific formulations with double and even triple-digit growth.
Functional ingredients and innovative technologies are transforming today's beverages into sophisticated nutraceutical value-added delivery systems with promises ranging from burning calories to boosting performance and even looking better.
The future of the beverage industry seems bright with emerging categories of antioxidant, ergogenic, satiating, anti-inflammatory, fiber-rich, mental-enhancing, and beauty-enhancing ingredients. Scientific evidence and crafty formulations help consumers readily accept new ingredients as well as the more popular ones which owe their success to appropriate delivery and clear communication of health benefits. Naturally, beverage processors are seeking low cost as well as good-tasting ways to deliver health benefits efficaciously.
Energy Plus
Antioxidants are outpacing protein and minerals as top-selling nutraceuticals for beverages. Consumers have absorbed the message that antioxidants are essential for health. This, plus an "anti-aging" impetus expanding as fast as the population of baby boomers getting their AARP cards is propelling the use of such antioxidant tea derivatives as green tea and its extracts, especially catechin polyphenols like epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG).
Marketed as a "health drink," FRS caffeinated, non-carbonated drinks are sweetened with organic cane or fruit juices.
Barry Cooper, the founder of Cooper Tea Co. (www.coopertea.com) Boulder, Colo., created Bazza High-Energy Tea, an all-natural, brewed iced tea for 7-Eleven Inc.'s fountain service. Made from all-natural ingredients -- guarana, kola nut, yerba mate and taurine -- Bazza straddles the line between energy drinks and teas. "Bazza came ahead in the energy section even while it taps both trends," Cooper said.
The product's success in an essentially saturated market is, according to Cooper, "because it's a healthy and natural alternative to energy drinks and teas."
Another Boulder, Colo.,-based beverage producer, Pixie Maté (www.pixiemate.com), is taking advantage of the stimulating properties of maté in its Maté Latte. Yerba maté -- a species of holly (Aquifoliaceae) native to subtropical South America -- is a rich source of xanthines, alkaloids in the same family as caffeine, theophylline and theobromine, well-known stimulants also found in coffee, tea and chocolate.
Researchers at Florida International University, Miami, found maté's caffeine content to vary between 0.3 percent and 1.7 percent of dry weight (versus 2.5-4.5 percent in tea, and 1.5 percent in coffee) and people seem to tolerate a maté drinks better than coffee or tea.
Maté, often marketed as a "caffeine-free" alternative to coffee and tea, is valued by its users for its promotion of wakefulness, focus and alertness similar to most stimulants, without the negative effects typically created by such compounds, including anxiety, gastrointestinal disturbances, jitteriness and heart palpitations. Preliminary scientific evidence helps support this: Xanthine, unlike caffeine, acts on muscle tissue, especially smooth muscle and myocardial (heart) tissues, instead of the central nervous system.
Santa Barbara, Calif.-based New Sun Nutrition (www.frsenergy.com) launched FRS Free Radical Scavenging antioxidant health beverage. Marketed as a "health drink," available in both "all natural" and "low calorie" (25 calories per 11-oz. can) versions, the caffeinated, non-carbonated drinks are sweetened with organic evaporated cane juices or fruit juices. They contain no added preservatives or coloring, but do contain such healthful antioxidants as quercetin, catechins, green tea extract, beta-carotene and tocopherol, as well as vitamins and other healthful compounds, such as inulin.
As Easy as E
Vitamin E (tocopherol) is a long-employed antioxidant for the food industry. But it was not readily usable in beverages until recently because of its extreme properties and hydrophobicity (repulsion by water). Emerging technologies to aid even dispersion of vitamin E in aqueous media have helped its proliferation in water-based beverages such as Vitaminwater from Glacéau (www.glaceau.com), Whitestone, N.Y.
Darius Bikoff, founder and CEO of Glacéau, says the company's "nutrient-enhanced water beverages are "designed to offer meaningful amounts of nutrients through a low-calorie format -- to be a refreshing way to consume as much as 20 percent of the recommended daily intake for daily vitamin E in each low-calorie serving."
Compounding with surfactants, the most common way to render vitamin E soluble in water, also produces foam, slowing the speed for filling beverages by as much as 30 percent. Darmstadt, Germany based AquaNova (www.aquanova.de) used polysorbates for solubilization to create its non-foaming SoluE ingredient.
"SoluE offers better cost-effectiveness ratio than most water-soluble vitamin Es simply by allowing processors to operate at maximum speed without slowing down for foam issues," says Wolfgang Haehnlein, director of marketing and sales. "SoluE is available in a liquid form and does not cause cloudiness in clear liquids. By creating a nanoemulsion fine spheres of vitamin E are encapsulated within a matrix, which allows even dispersion and maintenance of its optical clarity."
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St. Patrick's Day: Kids Activities to Help Celebrate
It's only fitting that March is the month we celebrate something so green: because we're all waiting for spring to arrive! Let's help make that cold air and snowy landscape go away with some shamrock crafts and activities to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Green Style.
These crafty activities will let you talk about spring, Leprechauns, and a little bit of magic too. At my house, I'd like to find an Oxalis plant with it's shamrock-shaped leaves too. I love that the leaves close up at night and open again in the morning! What do you do to celebrate St. Patrick's Day as a family?
- Thumb Print Four Leaf Clovers, Zakka Life
- Treasure Hunt Kit, KandyOh
- Shamrock PInwheel Craft, The Mother Huddle
- St. Patrick's Day Pins, Martha Stewart Living
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I, among with a lot of veteran MapleTowers members, have become exasperated with the large spambot problem that seems to have been plaguing this forum as of late. As I only have limited power over the forum (and limited contact with Lindsay) I have decided to enact the following changes immediately. (For any staff, you may share your opinion in the staff forum if you want. For now I want to throw something out there and hopefully this will change a bit depending on staff and/or user input.)
- Any new account whose posts are worded much like a spambot, regardless of whether or not the account has advertisements in their sig or profile, will be permanently banned.
- I will start to ban the Class B IP range (ex. 127.0.*.*) of any account banned for being a spambot
- All threads created in this forum specifically (The MT Digest) will be closed upon creation until further notice. I apologize that it has to work this way for our veteran members but, it has to do until I can come up with a more reasonable solution
- All accounts banned as spambots will be reported to the spammer database at Stop Forum Spam.
Once again, I'm sorry that it has to come to this. I especially understand that banning such a large class of IP ranges could have effect on innocent users. If by any chance any current or potential (non-spammy) user is affected by any IP ban I place then contact me immediately. (If you don't have me on any IMs or don't know my e-mail then PM me on Sleepywood, even.) If any other members have any ideas feel free to PM me.


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Line 6 have proudly announced they've sold over 1 million of their best selling Spider IV Amplifier range.
To celebrate, we have a special offer for all of you..let's make it 2 million!
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After the Fire
An abortion clinic overcomes arson with resolve
At 7 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7, Amanda was woken up by a phone call.
The clinic where she works as a counselor, Abortion Acceptance of New Mexico, had been damaged in the night.
"The person on the other line said someone had bombed the clinic. No one was hurt, and they'd let me know when there was a plan," Amanda says. "For about three seconds, I thought, Oh good, I don't have to work today. Then I just gasped when it hit me." Amanda declined to use her last name, because it could make her a target, she says.
Answer Me This
Lobbyists drop big bucks on politicians. Is it Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama for New Mexicans? What did someone steal from "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"? How high could UNM's entry GPA requirement go?
News Bite
Does it Have to be Coal?
Report says there are alternatives to the Desert Rock power plant
Navajo grassroots organizations continue to chip away at a Desert Rock coal-fired plant. Meanwhile, supporters maintain the proposed power plant will provide much-needed revenue for the Navajo Nation. The latest installment in the battle is 160 pages long.
Council Bite
Flash and Burn
Will the city make improvements to its STOP program, or will red-light cameras wink out of existence?
A task force appointed by Mayor Martin Chavez says if problems with the red-light camera program aren't fixed, it should be discarded. Ted Shogry, a task force staff member, reported to the City Council at its Wednesday, Jan. 23, meeting. "The study group had one main recommendation, and that basically is to continue the STOP Program, but to improve it."
News Feature
Drilling Albuquerque
Our future in the oil patch?
A Texas company that stirred controversy with plans to produce oil near Santa Fe has been exploring for natural gas on Albuquerque's Southwest Mesa. Tecton Energy of Houston won't say what it's found after six months of exploration. But the company is punching more wells into the ground to pursue its hunch that the area holds valuable quantities of natural gas.
An A-Historian
African or American?
An independent researcher on political assassinations, covert operations and hidden history, John Judge calls himself an "alternative historian." I liken myself to an "a-historian," whose only noble crusade is to correct the miseducation of me.
Odds & Ends
Dateline: Australia--On Jan. 22, a man in his late 20s was attacked by an alligator near a popular tourist spot on the Mary River in Northern Australia. To add insult to injury, unlucky Jason Grant also ended up getting shot by a rescuer who was trying to free him from the reptile's jaws. Grant was collecting crocodile eggs at a remote reptile farm when he found his arm locked between the teeth of an angry alligator. For a few terrifying moments, the animal "splashed about," shaking its victim before the intervention of fellow worker Zac Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald fired two shots at the saltwater croc. One hit the target, but the other struck Grant in the arm. Grant was flown by helicopter from Marraki Station, 75 miles east of Darwin, to the Royal Darwin Hospital for emergency surgery on both the bite and bullet wounds. He was reported to be in stable condition following his treatment. "They think he's probably got a broken arm and soft tissue damage from the bites and he's got a bullet wound on the upper part of the arm," Mick Burns, owner of the Darwin Crocodile Farm, told news.com.au. "His first words to me were: 'I don't think I'll be at work for a couple of days.' "
Why aren't Blacks offended?
Only in a Democratic debate can Barack Obama be asked a question about who would be the "first black president." Contrary to physical evidence, in some circles, people actually feel that Bill Clinton was. Obama acted above these contentious remarks, even making a joke about it. This was his way of dealing with it, but I could see him crawling within his own skin.


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Martin Chorzempa, '11 BSB, Receives Fulbright Scholarship
Fulbright alumni are the recipients of 39 Nobel Prizes, 65 Pulitzer Prizes, 24 MacArthur Foundation Awards, and 15 U.S. Presidential Medals of Freedom.
Martin Chorzempa, '11 BSB, recently was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, which he will use toward a master of arts in international relations.
"I will be researching banking regulations in Germany," he said. "This will likely involve a great deal of travel around Europe to interview the right people."
Chorzempa had initially prepared his application for the Fulbright Scholarship last summer and submitted it in October.
"It was very comprehensive, including a language evaluation, personal statement, grant proposal, and three letters of recommendation," he said. "I only recently found out that I was a finalist and that I had been granted the award."
The scholarship is sponsored by the U.S. government as a way to "increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries."


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Nexus leaks and hype is at an all time high, but everything is still just rumors and speculation until Google makes the official announcement. Today French newspaper Le Figaro claims the LG Nexus will launch on October 29th. A trusted source told us the next Nexus would be revealed this month and CNET also published a story that said the LG device was coming at the end of October.
We have no way to verify the French report, but Android chief Andy Rubin is scheduled to speak at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference which kicks off October 29th. Mr. Rubin has used the event to show off new devices and new versions of Android in the past, and we believe he will not disappoint this year.
I still doubt that the LG Nexus will actually launch on October 29th, but something is going down on that date.


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John has taken the comedy world by storm, and has entertained audiences all over the world. His intelligent brand of likable sarcasm is both off-beat and hillarious. He was invited to the prestegious Montreal Comedy Festival's "new faces" show in 2002, and began to headline comedy clubs across the United States. An appearance on Comedy Central's live at Gotham followed, and In 2006 and 2007 appeared on NBC's Last Comic Standing, and he is A regular On the syndicated Bob and Tom radio show. After a move to Los Angeles, John had the unique pleasure of Opening up for his Comedy Idol George Carlin ,and he has shared the stage with the likes of Dave Chappelle, Lewis Black, and Jeff Dunham, and Mitch Hedberg.
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The Australia day Skyworks in Perth, Western Australia.
I wanted to try something different this year, so I revisited one of the freeway overpasses that I had previously visited on another photo shoot.
My original plan was to shoot alongside the river, but the tide had come in late in the afternoon, and there wasn't anywhere good to stand since the water level had covered the beach and it was hard to get a clear shot of the city skyline so I decided to shoot from the overpass to take advantage of the traffic travelling along the freeway resulting in a combination of the fireworks and traffic trails.
Unfortunately as the fireworks display got underway cars started to park alongside the freeway in the emergency stopping lane which kind of ruined the clean lines I was after. People were told not to park alongside the freeway all day long, yet by the end of the display there were 25 cars parked in the emergency lane! The police finally came along just as the firework display was coming to a end to move everyone at the end.
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