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A winner was selected from 134 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
Libby Gill & Company
An entertainment industry veteran, Libby Gill spent fifteen years heading public relations and corporate communications at Universal Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting. She was also the branding/PR brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show.
Libby is now an internationally respected executive coach, speaker, brand/web strategist and bestselling author. She is a dynamic and powerful speaker who motivates clients to get "unstuck" by helping them clarify their vision, simplify their path and execute their plan with measurable milestones.
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Looking for creative but clear typography of Libby Gill & Company or Libby Gill & Co with a small icon or design element that could be used as a stand alone eye catching "button" (using maybe LG & Co or LG&C or just LG). It should be contemporary but not stuffy. It should be easy to read and memorable. It needs to be simple but not plain and have a distinctive design element or graphic.
Logo should be powerful and strong (but not overpowering) and not too feminine.
Dark red with black or other complimentary color such as a marigold orange or rich plum. See our websites for colors and ideas http://www.libbygill.com and http://www.speakerlibbygill.com
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Rhod Gilbert is to take over as the new host of long-running music panel show Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
The gravel-voiced Welsh funnyman will join the regular team captains Noel Fielding and Phill Jupitus when the 28th series of the BBC Two programme is screened in the autumn.
Since 2009, the BBC Two series has been fronted by a number of guests hosts - who have included Rhod - following the departure of Simon Amstell as presenter.
The quiz launched in 1996 and has famously seen guest panellists such as Huey Morgan and Ordinary Boys frontman Preston storming off screen.
Rhod joked: "After my first Buzzcocks in 2009, I was told I was in with a shout to take over as regular host, and now, just five years later, I got the call. It has all happened so fast.
"Never Mind The Buzzcocks is one of those rare shows that feels like it belongs on our screens - it's an institution, in a good way. It's a great honour to be asked to take the reins full time and to hang out with Noel and Phill, and I'm equally excited and nervous about adding my name to those who have hosted it in the past," he added.
The BBC's controller of entertainment commissioning, Mark Linsey, said: "Rhod is the perfect host for Buzzcocks. He has great knowledge of music and fantastic comedy talent that will brilliantly complement Noel and Phill."

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New 'CEO' of the Vatican's Congregation for Religious
Learning the realities of monastic life and women's religious orders have been new for him. Getting used to his role as a bishop and living outside of community for the first time in his life have also made for changes.
Archbishop Joseph Tobin, the American who serves as secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, is no stranger to community life.
He grew up with 12 brothers and sisters. He made his vows to religious life through the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, or Redemptorists, almost 40 years ago. He is the son of a father who played in the Orange Bowl as a freshman at Boston College and a mother who courageously provided for the 13 kids after his early death. The robust 58-year old archbishop is an athlete himself. He last took to the ice for a hockey game at Christmas.
Archbishop Tobin's vocation to the Redemptorists came in Detroit where his dad worked at the General Motors plant and the family went to a parish run by the order. "I think growing up I knew these fellas and I wanted to be like them," he recalled.
The missionary order carries on the work of 18th-century founder St. Alphonsus of Liguori, reaching out to poorest and most abandoned. Much of their work is down in schools, parishes and missions.
He began his priestly ministry with Hispanics in the late-1970s which eventually led him to Chicago. It was there, in 1991, when he first got the call that his order was considering him for a position in Rome.
"I received that phone call with a Bible under my one arm - a Spanish Bible - a hot dog in my hand and thinking of playing hockey that night," the archbishop recounted with a laugh. He told his superiors at the time, "you tell them that in Rome if I can teach Spanish Bible circles, eat hot dogs and play ice hockey, I'm your guy."
Archbishop Tobin has been based out of the city for nearly all of the 20 years since that day. He began as general consultor for the order's international operations and, in 1997, was elected to serve as the superior general. The election put him at the head of what are now 5,500 international consecrated members working in 77 countries.
Through the position, he said, he came in contact with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when a Redemptorist got "a little off track" in his moral theology. He remembers the future Pope Benedict XVI as "tremendously spiritual, very intelligent, and very simple ... deep without being complicated, which is interesting."
As superior general, he made it to every corner of the earth where the Redemptorists have communities and after two six-year terms, he thought he had moved on from Rome for good. "I left Rome in November of 2009 thinking I had said goodbye to the Eternal City and then in July of 2010 I got the call to come back."
This time, the call came while he was on a sabbatical year, studying at Oxford University in England after a stay at the Trappist Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. There was word that the order's mission in Cuba might be in his future. "I guess there was a different plan," he said.
The Pope appointed then-Father Tobin to his current position as secretary of the congregation for religious last August. And he was in Rome to start work a month later. "There's a whole lot to learn," he said, still less than six months into the job. The work, he said, is a lot like that of his previous position as leader of the Redemptorists, but with some major differences.
Learning the realities of monastic life and women's religious orders have been new for him. Getting used to his role as a bishop and living outside of community for the first time in his life have also made for changes.
The Vatican department was not completely unfamiliar ground. In Rome, in addition to being his order's superior, he was vice president of the international men's religious Union of Superiors General and served as a member of the Council of 16, a group of international men's and women's congregation leaders. These positions put him in periodic contact with the officials from the congregation for religious.
He described his position as "CEO," whereas the head or prefect of the congregation is like the "chairman of the board." He works to coordinate the 40 men and women working in the office and corresponds with other Vatican departments. He sees that the prefect has more responsibility for the general policy and reports directly to the Pope. As secretary, his new job is "day-to-day service ... to the million or so men and women of consecrated life around the world," he said.
While that job description awaited him when he walked in the door, he has learned that the scope of his position is "just about anything" to do with Catholic religious life on the globe. He described the role of the department as one of helping communities in times of need or discernment and assisting them in dealing with other circumstances that may arise. They promote mutual awareness between orders and local bishops when there are misunderstandings, for example.
As he begins to settle into his duties, another new arrival will be forthcoming. Pope Benedict XVI appointed a new prefect, Archbishop Joao Braz de Aviz of Brasilia, to take the reigns from the 76-year old Vincentian Cardinal Rode, his now former superior. Archbishop Braz de Aviz was appointed on Jan. 4 and due to arrive in the Vatican soon. The two archbishops have not yet met, but the secretary said he has written his new superior to welcome him.
Alan Holdren, Rome Correspondent
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Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/June 14
June 14: Really Really Long Events Day
- 1517 - Frank Cabbage proposes a sauerkraut engine in a paper to the Royal Flabbage Society entitled "A brief Enquiry upon the Application of Machinery into the Root and Terminal Causes of Dabbage in so Far as the Computation of Tables of Astronomical and Mathematical Usage are Necessitated by Research of a Nature which is Verily called Scientific." The paper is a wild success, and Cabbage was an instant celebrity across the known world. His movie career began shortly thereafter, in a morality play called "At Home by One's-Self, or, what could be Knowne as, Being Left Alone as a Child in a Building which Criminals seek to Enter and Plunder".
- 1842 - Kitten Huffing Karl, brother famed anti-drug activist Kitten Klubbing Klark, donates a considerable amount of Kittens to the Jack Bauer's Kitten Huffing Abuse Research Clinic for the Protection of Youths. However, the kittens were stolen en route by a small troupe of transsexual ninja clones from the local circus at Washington, D.C.. These ninjas were notorious for practicing Kitten Huffing and were wanted by the local authorities. This led to the land mark Supreme Court case of Karl v. Transsexual Ninja Clones Troupe.
- 1861 - Melville P. Snort of What Cheer, Iowa, set a world record for the most kittens huffed in a single "sitting" (then the current measurement of kitten huffing stamina) -- 14,391,012.6. That record still stands today.
- 1959 - The tin of sardines that took over the world the previous day is defeated by the life force of Spiro T. Agnew.
- 1978 - Ben Vereen goes insane, riding a hobby-horse unicorn through Weehawken, New Jersey and destroying six laundromats in the process. He is later pardoned by Governor Flibberty V. MacNaughton III, because "those laundromats needed a good thumpin' anyway, and my buddy Ben was the perfect man to dish it out".
- 1981 - The world accidentally appoints a bemused dictator due to a tpying error.
- 2002 - Mel Gibson and Chuck Norris finish filming their critically acclaimed action/comedy buddy film, "The Laundry Room", where Chuck Norris plays a retired, alcoholic laundromat owner while Mel Gibson plays a slightly less retired and slightly less alchoholic laundromat owner. During the filming of the movie Gibson beat the sissy pants off of Norris for, "Being a little bitch," and this drove Norris to learn the art of Karate. He is now known to be one of the greatest fighters in the world and Mel Brooks is on his hit list. This drove Mel Gibson to produce the movie, "The Passion of the Christ", which, in fact, is a portrayal of what Gibson would do to Norris if Norris even came close to Gibson. The film is NOT a portrayal of the death of Jesus Christ as so many would believe. What gives way to the former theory is the phrase written in the ending credits stating, "Norris, if you even come close to me this shit is gonna happen to your ass!" Tensions have risen between Gibson and Norris ever since.


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The Y-Wing is insane looking. Very big set.
After reading through a review of the Solar Sailer I may pick it up. The review was at http://eurobricks.com/forum
Noticed that one of my local Targets put out an entire endcap of CW LEGO today. Hopefully that means a good sale next week.
Blah blah...no LEGO sale or TPC or whatever at Target this week. Just a shiny new endcap.
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Ahhhh. We are practically there - I've got very little painting left to do, we've taken off the floor protection and we've even moved down a piece of furniture. Oh, and the kids had an improv ballet session on the empty floor tonight. Basically we're super excited.
This moment hasn't come without some panic and craziness, but I'm prepared to blame that on too many hours spent painting. You see, when we first uncovered the floor in the hall (photo on left) my heart sunk. All I saw was red in the finish, a tone that I didn't expect to be there. Which then led me to question my wall colour choice. On a section of wall that was finished, and at that point finishing anything was a milestone (because after jinxing myself, I did paint the bathroom 3 times, just like my kitchen debacle, but this time in oil.) I have a bad habit of obsessing about colour and caring way too much about getting it just right. Luckily I have an amazing husband who knew exactly how to save my sanity. While I was at work he brought down a carpet, a bookcase and my favourite mushroom lamp so the space looked lived in. The floor is just one part of the space, and truthfully it isn't red at all. I was just going bananas at the wrong time. And since that night (only two nights ago!) I have finished up the main room and done the one risky move - a black wall. Thankfully the unanimous vote in the house is that we all LOVE it.
Also highly recommended is Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child. Oh, wow. I loved this quiet, fairytale-esque novel - and not just because the cover is amazing or that the description of hand-sewing a snowflake embroidered wool coat had me swooning. It is just a charming story, wonderfully told.
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- Cynthia Calvert, Alcorn Writing Project
- Jason Shiroff, Denver Writing Project
- Lynne Culp, UCLA Writing Project
- Kevin Hodgson, Western Massachusetts Writing Project
- Peter Kittle, Northern California Writing Project (invited)
- Christina Cantrill, NWP Program Associate in Technology
We asked pairs of teachers who presented at the NWP Annual meeting to continue their dialogue on this webcast. We focused on their collaboration before, during, and perhaps after their face-to-face presentation. Find out what their conversations and questions are now.
The theme of the webcast was about how moments where teachers have the opportunity to gather and share practices, such as the NWP's Annual Meeting, are important points along the continuum of on-going conversations and sometimes even collaborations which begin long before the "events" and which often last long after.
We asked our guests to tell us what they learned from planning and presenting together -- both from each other as well as the extended network -- for their Writing Project sites as well as their classrooms.


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I'll Believe It When I Read It: Les Misérables on Stage, Screen, and Page
It's true, books are better than movies. If you dispute this, then slap yourself. I say, again, books are better than movies. That's why, when last year's Les Misérables was theatrically released, I said to myself: "Don't do it. Now is the time. Read the book." So I did. Well, I started it anyway. As it turns out, Les Misérables is really long. It boasts some 530,982 words depending on the translation, but, and I say this in all honesty, not a word is misspent. Victor Hugo is a master. Still, Les Misérables is long, and a reader should know what he or she is in for when embarking on such a long journey.
Les Misérables is broken into five volumes. Each volume is somewhere between eight and 15 books. A book can host anywhere between four to 24 chapters, but, for the most part, each chapter is short and quickly consumed. The language, though published in 1862, is easily digested, but, of course, this depends on your translation. I am reading the Hapgood translation, translated in 1887, because Hapgood's version is unabridged. While there are many Les Misérables translations, there aren't too many that are unabridged.
You might be asking: "Why read the unabridged version?" Well, Hugo was known for his digressions. At one point, he spends some 40 pages recounting the Battle of Waterloo. Yet, too me, this is what makes Les Misérables such an engrossing novel. Hugo, with all his intellectual ability, thrusts his reader into 19th-century France. Here is history, social critique, philosophy, and theology writ on a grand scale and wrapped in an engrossing narrative. If, however, you are not interested in Hugo's lengthy digressions, then buy yourself the abridged version. Though, for this reader, you'll be sacrificing excellence.
While understanding the structure of Les Misérables' length is important, it is paramount to know its worth. And, trust me, it is worth it. Les Misérables is gripping. Its 530,982 words will not bore you. Hugo's digressions are offset by a beating narrative that chronicles the life of Jean Valjean, a character written with supreme depth and clarity. I feel that I know Valjean. His life, thoughts, and actions are inspiring, so much so that I asked my wife if I might tattoo, "I am Jean Valjean" on my chest. Surprisingly, she said, "No." But, here too, all of Hugo's characters are absorbing: Javert, Thénardier, Bishop Myriel, to name a few. Each, in his or her own right, are studies in characterization-they breathe, they eat, they sleep, they live. In my mind's eye, I know them and I see them. While Les Misérables is lengthy, it is neither monotonous nor dull. It is a masterpiece-lesser mortals can only hope to mimic its long-cast shadow.
I hope to finish Les Misérables soon, so that I can watch its latest iteration in the theater. But, if it should slip through and I should miss it, I'm not sure that I'll be losing anything. For Les Misérables, the novel, is a divine incarnation-living and moving, instructing and guiding-available and accessible to all.
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If you're thinking about simply foregoing health-care coverage this year and paying the Obamacare penalty, you might want to consider exactly what the penalty will be, says one insurance broker.
John DiVito, president of Flexible Benefit, a Chicago-based insurance wholesaler, points out the penalty for not having a health policy can be $95 but it won't be that simple for the vast majority of the heretofore uninsured. The rule in the Affordable Care Act states that the first year for those going without coverage is either $95 OR 1% of income, whichever is greater.
That means a recent college graduate making somewhere around $40,000 a year could end up paying $400. Given the subsidies that are available, it might be worth looking into coverage, he adds. For those whose income puts their penalty at $95 or less, it still might be worth looking into getting coverage.
"If it's $95 or less, you're practically at the Medicaid level," he said. In 2015, that minimum penalty jumps to $695, or 2% of income. For 2016, it's 2.5%.
DiVito says consumers need to consider a number of options when shopping for insurance, not just the public exchanges. While public exchanges are necessary for those seeking subsidies, private exchanges or dealing directly with insurers themselves can save more on premiums and deductibles. He points out in Illinois, there are 20 carriers on the public exchange but 35 on private exchanges.
"I think people need to shop both on and off the exchanges," he said.
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Digital computers are built out of circuits that have definite, discrete states: on or off, zero or one, high voltage or low voltage. Engineers go to great lengths to make sure these circuits never settle into some intermediate condition. Quantum-mechanical systems, as it happens, offer a guarantee of discreteness without any engineering effort at all. When you measure the spin orientation of an electron, for example, it is always either "up" or "down," never in between. Likewise an atom gains or loses energy by making a "quantum jump" between specific energy states, without passing through intermediate energy levels. So why not build a digital computer out of quantum-mechanical devices, letting particle spins or the energy levels of atoms stand for binary units of information?
One answer to this "Why not?" question is that you can't avoid building a quantum-mechanical computer even if you try. Since quantum mechanics appears to be a true theory of nature, it governs all physical systems, including the transistors and other components of the computer on your desk. All the same, quantum effects are seldom evident in electronic devices; components and circuits are designed so that the quantum states of many millions of electrons are averaged together, blurring their discreteness.
In a quantum computer, the basic working parts would probably have to be individual electrons or atoms, and so another answer to the "Why not?" question is that building such a machine is simply beyond our skills. And even apart from the challenges of atomic-scale fabrication, there are some ticklish conceptual issues. Quantum systems have some famously weird behavior, such as the phenomenon called quantum interference. Two nearby transistors can switch on and off independently, but two adjacent quantum objects (such as two electrons) are inextricably coupled, so that the future state of one electron cannot be predicted without taking into account the surrounding electrons. Indeed, an isolated electron can interfere with itself!
A third answer to the "Why not?" question is "Why bother?" Until recently there was no reason to believe that a quantum computer could do anything a classical computer couldn't. This situation has now changed dramatically. The exact place of quantum technology in the overall hierarchy of computing machines is still not settled, but a few recently discovered algorithms offer intriguing hints. It turns out that a program written for a quantum computer can factor large numbers faster than any known algorithm for a classical machine. The quantum factoring algorithm makes essential use of interference effects, which become a source of parallelism, allowing the computer to explore all possible solutions to a problem simultaneously. Factoring is a task of much theoretical interest, and it also has practical applications in cryptography, so these discoveries have attracted considerable notice.
Feynman's Question
An early investigator of quantum computing was the physicist Richard P. Feynman (1), although he looked at the issue mainly through the other end of the telescope, asking not what quantum mechanics could do for computing but what computing could contribute to the understanding of quantum physics. A classical computer bogs down when it is made to simulate a quantum system; Feynman suggested that a quantum computer might be better suited to the task.
At about the same time, Paul Benioff of the Argonne National Laboratory devised an elaborate quantum-mechanical simulation of a Turing machine, the standard benchmark of classical computing (2). Then in 1985 David Deutsch of the University of Oxford published another conceptual model of a quantum computer, one relying directly on the interference of quantum states (3). In 1992 Deutsch and Richard Jozsa, also of Oxford, formulated a few problems that could be solved faster with such a quantum computer than with a conventional Turing machine (4). This was the first direct evidence that quantum computers might be superior to classical ones.
There followed a sequence of papers reporting further developments and refinements in quantum computing (5, 6, 7), but the most arresting news was the announcement of a quantum-mechanical algorithm for factoring, devised by Peter W. Shor of AT&T Bell Laboratories (8). In all known classical factoring algorithms, the amount of time needed to find the prime factors of a number grows as an exponential function of the size of the number, making the algorithms impractical for very large numbers. (The factoring record at the moment is less than 150 decimal digits.) With Shor's quantum algorithm, the time needed grows as a polynomial function of the number's size. For example, factoring an n-digit number by classical methods might require 2n steps (an exponential function) whereas the quantum algorithm could find the factors in n2 steps (a polynomial). (The actual functions are different from these, but for any choice of functions, there is always a value of n beyond which the exponential function is larger than the polynomial one.)
Logic Gates
Conventional computers are built out of Boolean logic gates, notably those that implement the logic functions AND, OR and NOT. What are the corresponding primitive elements of a quantum computer? These building blocks too can be conceived as logic gates, but they operate on a very different kind of logic, in which probabilities play a crucial role. What follows is a sketch of the ideas underlying the construction of quantum logic gates. It is based on a lucid expository article by Gilles Brassard of the Université de Montreal (9) and on a talk that Shor delivered in March at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
The simplest classical Boolean device is the NOT gate, which accepts a single bit of input and produces a single bit of output; the action of the gate is to negate or invert the input. In other words, if the input is a 0, the output is a 1; if the input is a 1, the output is a 0. Two NOT gates connected in series restore the input to its original state: An initial 0 is changed to a 1 by the first gate and then changed back to a 0 by the second gate. Thus a double negative is equivalent to the identity function.
The NOT gate is wholly deterministic: Once the input is known, the output is determined with absolute certainty. Suppose we relax this standard of determinism somewhat, creating a probabilistic logic gate that usually inverts its input--say 90 percent of the time--but occasionally passes the input through unchanged. This transformation can be represented by a probability matrix, as follows:
Here the numbers along the left edge, labeling the rows of the matrix, are the inputs to the gate, and the column labels at the top are the outputs. To find the probability that an input of 0 produces an output of 1, you read along the 0 row to where it intersects the 1 column. Note that even though the entries in the matrix are fractional values, this "probably NOT" gate is still a binary device whose inputs and outputs are always either 0 or 1. Also note that the probabilities in each column and each row sum to 1, indicating that every possible combination of input and output has been accounted for.
The operation of the simple deterministic NOT gate can be represented in the same matrix notation. Here is the transformation matrix:
In this case the probability of getting a 0 output from a 0 input is 0 (it will never happen) whereas the probability of transforming a 0 into a 1 is 1 (certainty).
At the opposite pole from a completely deterministic logic gate is one that completely randomizes its input, producing a 0 or 1 output with equal probability. The transformation matrix for this function is:
In effect, the gate models a fair coin flip, and so it is designated CF. (A gate of this kind may seem totally useless, but in fact randomness is an important resource in certain algorithms.)
Quantum Logic Gates
Both the ordinary Boolean NOT gate and the probabilistic versions of it are still constructions of classical physics. A quantum-mechanical gate is far stranger. The strangeness goes to the very root of the quantum-computational process, to the bits themselves, which to emphasize their unconventional nature are sometimes called qubits. Whereas classical bits have the value 0 or 1 at all moments, qubits can occupy a "superposition" of the 0 and 1 states during certain stages of a computation. This is not to say that the qubit has some intermediate value between 0 and 1. Rather, the qubit is in both the 0 state and the 1 state at the same time, to varying extents. When the state of the qubit is eventually observed or measured, it is invariably either 0 or 1.
Quantum states and their superpositions are represented by means of a notational device called a ket, written "| >." The state of a qubit is given as a|0>+b|1>, where the coefficients a and b are the "amplitudes" of each state. In general the amplitudes are complex numbers (with both a real and an imaginary part), but the examples considered here will be confined to positive and negative real numbers. The amplitude associated with a state determines the probability that the qubit will be found in that state; specifically, the probability is equal to the square of the absolute value of the corresponding amplitude.
The relation between amplitude and probability can be made clearer with an example. A quantum gate that Brassard designates QCF (for "quantum coin flip") has the following matrix of amplitudes:
To find the probability of each of these transitions, take the absolute value of the corresponding amplitude and square it: |1/square root of 2|2 is equal to 1/2, and so is |-1/square root of 2|2. Thus all the entries in the probability matrix are 1/2, and the quantum-mechanical QCF gate appears on first examination to be identical to the classical CF gate. Either a 0 or a 1 signal passing through the QCF gate has an equal chance of coming out a 0 or a 1.
Under the surface, however, the CF and QCF gates are not at all alike. A way to see the difference is to link two gates in series. As noted above, two NOT gates in sequence compose the identity function. Two CF gates are also easy to analyze. Whatever the value of the initial input, the first CF gate produces a 0 or a 1 at random, and the second gate randomizes this value again. Hence any number of CF gates in sequence are equivalent in function to a single CF gate.
Two QCF gates in series work very differently. In a quantum-mechanical system it is not possible to assign a definite value to the unobserved intermediate signal between the two gates. The output of the first QCF gate is not a 0 or a 1 but a superposition of |0> and |1> states. Specifically, if the input to the first gate is a 1, the output of that gate is the superposition 1/square root of 2|0> +1/square root of 2|1>, as indicated by the matrix of amplitudes. Now this superposition of states becomes the input to the second QCF gate, which acts on it according to the same amplitude matrix. The 0 part of the superposition gets transformed into 1/square root of 2(1/square root of 2|0>-1/square root of 2|1>), while the 1 part becomes 1/square root of 2(1/square root of 2|0>+1/square root of 2|1>). Thus the entire state of the system becomes
Multiplying out the various factors of 1/square root of 2 yields 1/2(|0>-|1> + |0>+ |1>); now the +|1> and -|1> components cancel, leaving 1/2(|0>+ |0>), or simply |0>. A similar analysis shows that when the input to the first gate is a 0, the output observed at the second gate is a 1. The two gates implement the NOT function: (QCF)2 = NOT. Accordingly, a single QCF gate is said to calculate "the square root of NOT."
There is something decidedly counterintuitive about these results. Passing a signal through one QCF gate randomizes it, yet putting two QCF gates in a row yields a deterministic result. It is as if we had invented a machine that first scrambles eggs and then unscrambles them. There is no analogue of this machine in the more familiar world of classical physics.
The source of these odd effects is the phenomenon of quantum interference. The superposition of states can be thought of as a superposition of waves, which either reinforce or cancel depending on their amplitude and phase. Just as two coherent light sources combine to produce a pattern of light and dark "fringes," two quantum states interfere either constructively or destructively according to the sign of their amplitudes.
Consider again what happens when two CF gates or two QCF gates are wired in series. In the classical case, there are four possible sequences of events, which can be imagined as paths through the branches of a tree. Suppose the initial state, at the root of the tree, is a 1, and the first CF gate happens to produce a 0; the probability of this event is 1/2. Now if the second CF gate also emits a 0, again with probability 1/2, the overall probability of the entire 1-->0-->0 path is 1/2 x1/2, or 1/4. The other three paths, 1-->0-->1, 1-->1-->0 and 1-->1-->1, have the same probability of 1/4. Since two paths yield a 0 as the final state and two paths end in a 1, each of these outcomes has probability 1/2.
For QCF gates the analysis is framed in terms of amplitudes instead of probabilities. The first QCF gate transforms the initial |1> state into a |0> state with an amplitude of 1/square root of 2, then the second QCF gate produces a final |0> state with a further amplitude of 1/square root of 2. Multiplying these component amplitudes (just as one would multiply probabilities) yields an overall amplitude of 1/2 for the computational path |1> --> |0> --> |0>. The amplitude is the same for the paths |1> --> |1> --> |0> and |1> --> |1> --> |1>. In the case of the path |1> --> |0> --> |1>, however, the result is different; because the transition from |0> to |1> has an amplitude of -1/square root of 2, the total amplitude for this path is -1/2. In the absence of interference, this change of sign would still have no effect on the outcome of an experiment: Squaring the absolute value of each amplitude would yield four path probabilities of 1/4, which would sum to a probability of 1/2 for the |0> final state and 1/2 for the |1> final state. Because of interference, however, the two paths leading to the |1> state, with amplitudes of 1/2 and -1/2, cancel each other out, whereas the |0> paths, both with amplitudes of 1/2, sum to yield a total amplitude (and also a total probability) of 1.
Reversible Logic
The QCF gate demonstrates some principles of quantum computation, but it is not enough to build a complete quantum computer, any more than NOT gates are enough to build a classical computer. Performing useful calculations requires gates that process more than one bit (or qubit) at a time. For example, conventional computers make extensive use of and gates that accept two input bits and have a single output bit; the output is a 1 only if both input bits are 1's.
In designing gates for a quantum computer, certain constraints must be satisfied. In particular, the matrix of transition amplitudes must be unitary, which implies, roughly speaking, that it conserves probability: The sum of the probabilities of all possible outcomes must be exactly 1. A consequence of this requirement is that any quantum computing operation must be reversible: You must be able to take the results of an operation and put them back through the machine in the opposite direction to recover the original inputs. and gates do not obey this rule, since information is irretrievably lost when two input bits are condensed into a single output bit. Reversible gates must have the same number of inputs and outputs.
As it happens, the study of reversible computing has gotten a lot of attention lately, largely because of the discovery by Charles H. Bennett and Rolf Landauer of IBM that a reversible computer can perform any computation and can do so with arbitrarily low energy consumption (10). A reversible gate devised by Tommaso Toffoli of MIT is a "universal" classical gate: A computer could be built out of copies of this gate alone (11). Deutsch has shown that a similar gate is universal for quantum computers (12). Both the Toffoli and the Deutsch gates have three inputs and three outputs, but more recently two-qubit gates have also proved universal for quantum computations (13).
Practical quantum technologies are surely years or decades away, and yet a few implementation schemes are already under discussion. The idea closest to existing electronic technology relies on "quantum dots," which are isolated conductive regions within a semiconductor substrate (14). Each quantum dot can hold a single electron, whose presence or absence represents one qubit of information. Another proposal is based on a hypothetical polymeric molecule in which the individual subunits could be toggled between the ground state and an excited state (15). And David P. DiVincenzo of IBM has described a mechanism by which isolated nuclear spins would interact--and thereby compute--when they are brought together by the meshing of microscopic gears (13).
Quantum Parallelism
The extraordinary power of quantum computing comes from exploiting superposition and interference. Consider what happens when a classical computer is asked to search among all possible patterns of n bits for a particular pattern that satisfies some stated condition. With a single processor, the computer must examine each pattern sequentially, and since there are 2n such patterns, the task is intractable for large values of n. With parallel processing the search can be completed in a single step, but only if you can build 2n processors, which again becomes impractical as n grows large. A quantum computer might break the logjam, at least for some problems. After setting up the right initial superposition of states, and allowing it to evolve according to the right unitary transition matrix, a single quantum processor could sift through all the qubit patterns simultaneously. Destructive interference would suppress those patterns that were not of interest, while constructive interference would enhance those that met the stated conditions.
Factoring an integer can be formulated as such a search problem. The aim is to find a pattern of n/2 or fewer bits that evenly divides a given n-bit number. The simplest classical algorithm (albeit not the best one) searches for a factor by trial division, requiring either 2n/2 steps on a single processor or 2n/2 processors. In principle, a quantum computer might be designed to perform the search directly in a single step, by starting with a superposition of all 2n/2 qubit patterns and allowing them to interfere with one another according to some carefully crafted unitary transition matrix. When the computer halted, it would be in a state representing a factor of the number. Unfortunately, no one has any idea how to create the appropriate transition matrix or how to build a machine that would implement it.
Shor's quantum factoring algorithm is less direct, but it still relies on quantum interference to identify one special qubit pattern out of many. Quantum computation is used to solve the congruence xr = 1 modulo N, where N is the number to be factored and x is a random integer. Having found the least value of r that satisfies this relation, a straightforward classical calculation yields a factor of N.
If a quantum factoring algorithm is faster than any known classical algorithm, does that mean quantum computers are more powerful than classical ones? Curiously, the answer to this question is still unclear. Part of the difficulty of resolving it is that the computational status of factoring itself is uncertain. No classical polynomial-time factoring algorithm is known, but no one has proved that such an algorithm cannot exist. Thus factoring could yet turn out to be an "easy" problem, in which case the quantum computer's prowess in this special realm will not have much general significance. Far more convincing would be an efficient quantum method for a problem with better credentials attesting to its intractability, such as the traveling-salesman problem; but such a discovery is considered unlikely (16).
Whatever the theoretical standing of the factoring problem, its practical importance is unquestioned. "Public-key" cryptography depends for its security on the difficulty of factoring large integers. If it appears possible to build quantum computers, or even special-purpose quantum factoring engines, the secrecy of encrypted messages will be in jeopardy. But if quantum mechanics undermines one form of cryptography, it could also supply a replacement. Standing alongside the new study of quantum computing is the equally novel field of quantum cryptography, which derives its strength from the same mysterious physical laws.
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2. Paul Benioff. 1980. The computer as a physical system: A microscopic quantum mechanical Hamiltonian model of computers as represented by Turing machines. Journal of Statistical Physics 22:563-591.
3. David Deutsch. 1985. Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universal quantum computer. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A400:97-117.
4. David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa. 1992. Rapid solution of problems by quantum computation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A439:553-558.
5. Andr Berthiaume and Gilles Brassard. 1994. Oracle quantum computing. Journal of Modern Optics 41:2521-2535.
6. Ethan Bernstein and Umesh Vazirani. 1993. Quantum complexity theory. Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, pp. 11-20.
7. Daniel R. Simon. 1994. On the power of quantum computation. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pp. 116-123.
8. Peter W. Shor. 1994. Algorithms for quantum computation: discrete logarithms and factoring. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pp. 124-134.
9. Gilles Brassard. 1994. Cryptology column--Quantum computing: The end of classical cryptography? SIGACT News 25(4):15-21.
10. Charles H. Bennett and Rolf Landauer. 1985. The fundamental physical limits of computation. Scientific American 253(1):48-56.
11. Tommaso Toffoli. 1980. Reversible computing. In Seventh Colloqium on Automata, Languages and Programming, J. W. de Bakker and J. van Leeuwen, eds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. pp. 632-644.
12. David Deutsch. 1989. Quantum computational networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A425:73-90.
13. David P. DiVincenzo. 1995. Two-bit gates are universal for quantum computation. Physical Review A 50:1015.
14. Craig S. Lent, Douglas Tougaw and Wolfgang Porod. 1994. Quantum cellular automata: The physics of computing with arrays of quantum dot molecules. Proceedings of the Workshop on Physics and Computation--Physcomp `94, pp. 5-13.
15. Seth Lloyd. 1993. A potentially realizable quantum computer. Science 261:1569-1571.
16. Charles H. Bennett, Ethan Bernstein, Gilles Brassard and Umesh V. Vazirani. 1994. Strengths and weaknesses of quantum computing. Preprint.
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San Jose, CA – Once again, the San Jose Sharks used home ice to their benefit to get back into their series with the Los Angeles Kings.
Logan Couture scored the deciding goal on the power play 1:29 into overtime as the resilient Sharks bounced back from a potentially deflating defeat two nights prior with a 2-1 victory in Game 3 of this Western Conference semifinal.
The Sharks fell into an 0-2 hole against the defending Stanley Cup champion Kings after Los Angeles put up two power-play goals within a 22-second span over the final two minutes to pull out a 4-3 triumph in Thursday's Game 2, but regained their own scoring touch on the man advantage while feeding off the crowd at HP Pavilion, where San Jose went 17-2-5 during the regular season.
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Game 4 of this best-of-seven set will take place Tuesday at HP Pavilion.
With both netminders stingy throughout, the contest headed into extra time mired in a 1-1 deadlock, though the score didn't remain that way for long due to the Kings' inability to stay out of the box.
Robyn Regehr was sent off with 41.7 seconds remaining in regulation for hooking the Sharks' Tommy Wingels, and Trevor Lewis was whistled for charging into Niemi with 5.2 seconds on the clock with Los Angeles on a shorthanded rush.
"I'm disappointed that the refs had enough confidence to make a gutsy call like that in the last 30 seconds of the period," Kings forward Dustin Penner said of Lewis' penalty.
The Kings were able to kill off Regehr's penalty, but San Jose worked the puck to Patrick Marleau in the right slot on the resulting 5-on-4. Marleau's quick feed to Couture was then ripped over Quick's glove to give the Sharks the win -- and some new life as well.
Fueled by Thursday's heartbreaking loss and the urgency of the situation, the Sharks came out determined and capitalized on the game's first break, a penalty on Kings defenseman Jake Muzzin for shooting the puck over the glass just 1:31 in.
It took San Jose a mere four seconds to convert, as Boyle rocketed home a one- timer following a faceoff win from Joe Pavelski to claim a quick 1-0 lead.
Los Angeles drew even just past the midway mark of the opening period with the aid of a San Jose turnover. Toffoli intercepted a bad clearing attempt from defenseman Brad Stuart in the Sharks' zone, then fired in a backhander with Niemi caught out of position for the rookie's first career playoff goal.
San Jose continued to control much of the action in the second period, outshooting the Kings by a 14-7 count despite not having the dangerous Couture available for the majority of the frame due to an apparent leg injury. He returned to the ice just prior to the intermission.
"I thought when [Couture] came [back] in it gave our team a lift," said McLellan.
Quick kept it a 1-1 game heading into the third, however, with several strong stops that included back-to-back turnbacks of Andrew Desjardins and Pavelski from in close with around five minutes left in the middle session.
Both goaltenders continued to stand tall in the third period, with neither team gaining an edge until the Kings' late wave of penalties.
Game Notes
Marleau assisted on both San Jose goals ... The NHL announced on Saturday that the Sharks have been fined $100,000 for general manager Doug Wilson's comments critical of the league's decision to suspend wing Raffi Torres the entire series for a hit to the head to Los Angeles' Jarrett Stoll in Game 1. Stoll missed a second straight game as a result of the incident ... Forward Martin Havlat returned to the San Jose lineup for the first time since sustaining a lower-body injury in the team's playoff opener at Vancouver, but played less than five minutes before exiting in the first period ... Forward Tanner Pearson, the Kings' first-round pick in the 2012 draft, made his NHL debut on the team's fourth line ... The Sharks improved to 4-0 in these playoffs when scoring first.


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the ads from that era where really neat.like the ones for the "stormer" thanks for posting SMKZ28 ! now is my mind playing tricks ? I remember the "sunoco" add with mark and his son which said, my dad can beat your dad. showing them in the camaro. question, was there a follow up ad that stated " my dad can beat your dad ! and has ! " mike in canada


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PhantomJB93 wrote:I say Pop, although down here at school at dining halls/restaurants I force myself to say "soda" because most of the time they have no idea what I mean by "pop" and I get tired of explaining it.
My roommates know that if I ever find non-Heinz ketchup in our fridge it will literally be thrown away with no questions asked.
Nearly my entire wardrobe consists of either Steelers, Pens, or Pirates t-shirts/jerseys or Virginia Tech gear. I pretty much live by the sports t-shirt and shorts look.
If I get a burger/sandwich with fries I put the fries on it.
I don't have the accent and rarely say yinz but I will say things like jagger-bush, gumband, slippy, leave out "to be," and as I already said pop.
May sound stupid but I drink Rolling Rock a lot because my dad got it a lot back home before it was a national brand and it reminds me of home.
I say "jagger bush" and "jagoff." I think jagoff is a fabulous word. I never said "slippy" or "gumband" ever, even back home, although my grandma said "slippy."
A good bit of the U.S. says "pop." All of my friends from Canada and Chicago (and elsewhere in the Midwest) all say "pop."


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Role Reversal: Man Pulls Over Cop For Speeding! (This Guy Got Some Cohones For This)
The guy who pulled over this cop reports " I am just trying to prove a point that there is a select FEW of cops that take advantage of the power they have. "
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Reviewed by Jordan S. (age 9)
Alexander is my favorite character because he conquered Asia. I like the book because it has lots of action and Alexander conquers. I like the pictures because they tell a lot about what's happening.
I think a history lover would love the book. I recommend that people who like history should read this book. I also think third through sixth grades should definitely read this book.


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The new Canada Periodical Fund (replacing the Publications Assistance Program/Canada Magazine Fund) will exclude any Canadian print magazines without 5000 copies sold per year.
It means that most of the French literary magazines that published my first efforts will be excluded! Among those, Solaris, Virages and Ciel Variable, all running at less than 5000 copies a year.
I guess I can safely add the SF magazine On Spec to this list.
Although this number is aberrant for the French publication, who get the same minimum floor as the English ones, even if their readership is way less, (the ratio anglo/franco is 3 to 1. Meaning, a fair requirement would have been of 1250 copies for the pour the French magazines. (Thanks to Jean Pettigrew, publisher of Alire, and the magazines Alibis and Solaris, for this precision).
This text (in French) on the Devoir website, by Jean Larose, explains the consequences of those new restrictions. After making away with the literary broadcasts and gutting Radio-Canada, for being "elitist" (that is a sin to educate people), it's the turn of cultural magazines to taste the conservative medicine.
By transforming culture as a big-buck entertainment industry, by uniformizing the product, the government cut the next generation af writers and artists from a well of creativity, that precious resource helping humanity to cope with the challenges coming our way. And the more for Science-fiction. SF is a patchwork of ideas, thought-provoking scenarios, unlocking the reader's imagination.
Author of Life of Pi, Yann Martel, explained how his literary career began with a small Vancouver fanzine who published his first efforts. This humble publication pronged him to persevere in writing. He also appreciated his first writer's grant, on the website http://www.whatisstephenharperreading.ca/about/ :
I, for example, represented 1991, the year I received a Canada Council B grant that allowed me to write my first novel. I was 27 years old and the money was manna from heaven. I made those $18,000 last a year and a half (and compared to the income tax I have paid since then, an exponential return on Canadian taxpayers' investment, I assure you).
In the same way, Solaris and Ciel Variable, then Saisons littéraires and Virages published my first efforts.
In 1987, I had a poetry and a text published in number 2 and 5 of Ciel Variable. There, I met Hélène Monette, who also had her first poems published. Now, more thant 20 years later, Hélène's work, provocative, full of intellectual dynamite, was recognized by a GG award, (mine by a GG nomination the same year).
I take this occasion to thank warmly Solaris. In ten years, I passed through the entire cycle: a beginner, I received rejection letters. But those letters came with explications and commentaries that helped me to improve my writing. Solaris' editors, Yves Meynard, then Joel Champetier, did that work, mostly on a volunteer basis.
Their advice led me to have nearly 10 novels published, six to eight literary Award and countless nominations (among them, the Trillium and GG awards) . The Jules-Verne Saga were a by product of a short-story initially refused by Solaris.
I would like to tell you that since those days, I have become a successful author with a large following of millions worldwide. That would be the only form of achievement that the Conservative government would respect, of course. Nevertheless, I am proud of writing my books and giving my lectures and workshops, dispensing encouragements to the young generation. The results are less tangible but, as with plants, they grow in silence.
I owe all this to the small publishers. If their -very modest – grants are cut, they will have more difficulties to survive. The next generation of creators will be starved, denied the sunlight necessary for their growth. The competition will be fiercer for less publishing space, where official recognition will go to more popular and more vapid entertainers… Overall creativity will suffer and dwindle, leaving less space for thinking. (see my other post there).
I leave the conclusion to Yann Martel, a citation from the same source
I was thinking that to have a bare-bones approach to arts funding, as the present Conservative government has, to think of the arts as mere entertainment to be indulged in after the serious business of life, that—in conjunction with retooling education so that it centres on the teaching of employable skills rather than the creating of thinking citizens—is to engineer souls that are post-historical, post-literate and pre-robotic; that is, blank souls wired to be unfulfilled and susceptible to conformism at its worst—intolerance and totalitarianism—because incapable of thinking for themselves and vowed to a life of frustrated serfdom at the service of the feudal lords of profit.


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Affective and Moral Roots of Environmental Stewardship: The Role of Obligation, Gratitude and Compassion
Markowitz, Ezra
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Environmental issues such as climate change and habitat loss pose significant challenges to existing political, legal and financial institutions. As these challenges have become clearer in recent years, interest in understanding the psychological, cultural and moral motivators of environmental stewardship has grown. Recent research within the social sciences--particularly psychology, sociology and communications--has revealed numerous intra- and interpersonal processes and mechanisms that shape whether, how and to what extent individuals and communities engage with the environmental problems they face. In this dissertation, I integrate research from these and other fields to examine the role that affect, identity and morality play in driving individual-level concern about and response to environmental challenges. Across three chapters (which present results from eight empirical studies), I attempt to answer a series of core research questions, including: (1) What is the role of affect in motivating active engagement with environmental issues? (2) What factors shape recognition of problems such as climate change as morally relevant? (3) What can we learn by studying the interaction of affect and morality in the context of environmental conservation? (4) What are the limits of the affective and moral judgment systems in motivating environmental concern and action? In Chapter II (`Is climate change an ethical issue?'), I show that relatively few people identify climate change as a moral issue, that such perceptions are shaped in part by individuals' beliefs about the causes of the problem, and that perceived moral obligation predicts behavioral intentions. In Chapter III (`Who cares about the future?'), I further examine the affective roots of environmental moral beliefs and demonstrate that feelings of gratitude towards past generations enhance individuals' perceptions of responsibility towards future generations. Finally, in Chapter IV (`Are pandas like people?'), I find limits to the role of affect in motivating beneficent action on behalf of non-human others. Together, these three chapters provide novel and actionable insights into some of the factors that shape individual-level environmental stewardship. This dissertation includes both previously published sole-authored (Chapter II) and unpublished co-authored (Chapter IV) material.


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Yukon Quest 2013 – Wrap Up
You know that Allen Moore took home the first place money with trail time of 8 days, 18 hours, and 57 minutes.
Dyan Bergen had 13 days, 6 hours, and 3 minutes of trail time as the final finisher and won the Red Lantern.
Fifth place was good enough for Scott Smith to pick up the Rookie of the Year Award for his run.
For being first into Pelly Crossing, Allen Moore won a pair of traditional beaver gauntlets from the Selkirk First Nation.
For being first into Dawson and finishing the race, Hugh Neff received four ounces of gold.
Normand Casavant received the Vet's Choice Award for his care of his team.
Darrin Lee was chosen for the Challenge of the North Award which is given for dedication and perseverance during the race.
For the third time Brent Sass received the Sportsmanship Award. This time it is for helping Jake Berkowitz on Eagle Summit.
Quito won the Golden Harness Award for 'top dog', [includes a steak dinner]. She is a leader on Allen Moore's team.
Hugh Neff announced that he was heading to Norway for a while as part of a sled dog promotion. He also mentioned that this was the last 1000 mile event that Walter, a lead dog, would run. Walter is retiring at age 9.
Twenty-six teams left Whitehorse and twenty finished. There were 364 dogs at the start, and 199 reached the finish line. Unfortunately one of the dogs that didn't finish was General, on Jake Berkowitz's team. General died as the result of a twisted intestine that caused a blockage. He died while being transported to Whitehorse for emergency care.
Many of those who were at this banquet will be at the starting line for the Iditarod on March 2nd.
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Aaron Mason
Aaron Mason, age 15 of Marietta, formerly of Canton, Ga., passed in Cherokee, N.C. Monday, July 21, 2008.
Survivors include his father and step-mother, Gabriel and Beth Mason, Marietta; mother and step-father, Jennifer Lamanac and Aaron Eriquezzo, Canton; grandparents, Linda Lamanac, Jasper, and Sandra Smith, Canton; and brothers, Mark and Matthew Eriquezzo, both of Canton.
The funeral service was held Thursday, July 24 at 2 p.m. from Huey Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Vernie Worley officiating. Interment was in Lake Forest Memorial Park in Jasper. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Aaron Mason Fund at Regions Bank.
Roy Keener
Mr. Roy Lee Keener, age 58 of Dallas, Ga., passed away Sunday, July 27, 2008 at Tranquility Hospice in Austell, Ga.
He is survived by his mother, Mary Keener, Jasper; brothers, Leroy Keener, Raleigh, N.C., Larry Keener, Talking Rock, and Harold Keener, Jasper; sisters, Betty Raines, Calhoun, Julia Mooney, Ellijay, and Sherry Green, Jasper. Roy Lee was preceded in death by his father, Harvey Keener; brothers, Michael, Rodney and Harry Keener; and sister, Wanda McTaggart.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 30 from Flat Creek Baptist Church in Gilmer County with the Revs. Clifford Nelson and Junior McTaggart officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery with local Chapter 47 DAV in charge of the military graveside service. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Bryan Grubbs
Mr. Bryan Grubbs, age 36 of Jasper, Ga., passed suddenly Friday morning, July 25, 2008 at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Lisa Grubbs, Jasper; sons, Jakob, Blake and Riley Grubbs, all of Jasper, and Jansen Bryan Grubbs, who is to be born in November; father and step-mother, Gary and Holly Grubbs, Ball Ground; grandfather, Joe H. Grubbs, Smyrna, Ga.; father- and mother-in-law, Simon and Michel Villanacci, Jasper; uncle and aunt, Mike and Denise Grubbs, Bremen, Ga.; and sister, Jeanette Harrington Grubbs, Thompson, Ga.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, August 2 at 3 p.m. from the Chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with Min. Peter Dove officiating. The family will accept flowers; however, these should be house-type arrangements. The family does suggest that memorials be made to a memorial fund being established for the children at a local bank, to be designated by the family. A reception will follow the memorial service.
John Hendrix, Sr.
John W. Hendrix, Sr., age 76, died peacefully at home on Thursday, July 24, 2008. The Jasper, Ga. native had lived in Savannah since 1960.
He graduated from the University of Georgia prior to joining the US Army during the Korean Conflict. Mr. Hendrix served in the Judge Advocate General?s office while serving in Germany and after his discharge he graduated from the University of Georgia Law School in 1958. He was a member of the Georgia Bar Association and practiced law in Savannah since 1960. He was a member of St. John?s Episcopal Church, Clinton Lodge, F&AM, the Scottish Rite Bodies and Alee Temple. Mr. Hendrix was an avid saltwater fisherman.
Survivors include his son, John W. Hendrix, Jr., Savannah; daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hendrix Fulbright, Lincolnton, N.C.; brother, Harry Hendrix, San Antonio, Tx.; sister, Mary Hendrix Boden, Coral Springs, Fl.; and grandchildren, Harold Lowren Fulbright III and Wesley Hunter Fulbright, both of Lincolnton, and Krystina Ann and John William McWhorter Hendrix, both of Savannah. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
A memorial service was held at 10 a.m. Monday, July 28 from St. John?s Episcopal Church. Interment followed in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens. Remembrances may be made to St. John?s Episcopal Church, 1 W Macon St., Savannah, Ga. 31401.
Anthony Holguin
Mr. Anthony ?Pablo? Holguin, age 37 of Jasper, died Sunday July 27, 2008.
Mr. Holguin was born on April 1, 1971 in Gilmer County. He was a truck driver and a member of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by a son, Justin Holguin; and grandparents J.T. and Georgia Stanley.
Survivors include his wife, Kimberly Holguin of the home; children, Carmon and Cortney Holguin, both of Jasper, and Michael Seagers, Demorest, Ga.; parents, Pete and Wilma Stanley Holguin, Jasper; brothers, Shane Holguin, Acworth, and Joseph Holguin, Snoraville; sisters, Tina Self, Calhoun, and Barriana Morris, Jasper. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held Wednesday July 30 at 2 p.m. from the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Bartow County with the Revs. Cory Rich and Jerry Cowart officiating. Pallbearers were: Cecil Lee, Billy Lock, Jason Ray, Richard Daves, Eric Duncan and Randy Hughes. Honorary Pallbearers were: Ronnie Gravitt and Charlie Daves. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Online condolences maybe made at www.bernhardtfh.com. Bernhardt Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Barbara Lance
Mrs. Barbara Gennell Lance, age 73 of Nelson, passed away on Sunday, July 27, 2008 at the Northside-Cherokee Hospital.
Mrs. Lance was a homemaker, member of the Eastern Star, former president of Rebekah?s, member of the Lady?s Auxiliary of VFW and a member of Philadelphia Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, W. Dennis Lance, Nelson; son, Donald J. Lance, Nelson; and brother, Ernest W. Baker, Jr., Marietta. Five grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren also survive.
The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 31 from Philadelphia Baptist Church with the Revs. Joey Dubois, Gene Childers, Calvin Ball and Marvin Chattam officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery under the direction of Sosebee Funeral Home, Canton.
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mikecorrales needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
This website will be a community hub for sharing about Green (Carbon-less) and Eco-Adventure travel and a place to rate cites, tours, cruises, hotels, etc. on their eco-friendliness.
Think tripadvisor.com meets hereorthere.com.
This site will be a blend of rating places (cities and countries), experiences (people's own descriptions of their travel experiences), and things (accomodations, airlines, cruise lines, and tour operators) based on their value AND their earth friendliness.
Think tripadvisor.com meets hereorthere.com, but green.
The logo can be downloaded from here:
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just launched a store for programmers to sell software, games, tools, and applications designed for the foundation's tiny computers. For those unfamiliar, Raspberry Pi is a computer the size of a credit card that the founders want to use for teaching kids programming. The computer is little more than a USB port, RAM chip, and ports for video, audio, and HDMI. Just hook up a keyboard, mouse, and montior and you're off.
The founders of the foundation, members of the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, realized that compared with the dot-com age of the 1990s, students in the 2000s were unlikely to have serious programming knowledge as computers got more advanced and more expensive. They wanted to create an inexpensive PC that could boot into a programming environment easily and wouldn't break the bank. Raspberry Pi now has two models, one that costs just $25 and one that costs $35.
According to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, "the Pi Store will, we hope, become a one-stop shop for all your Raspberry Pi needs; it's also an easier way into the Raspberry Pi experience for total beginners, who will find everything they need to get going in one place, for free." IndiCity and Velocix assisted with the Pi Store, which is offering 23 free titles at launch.
There is an active programmer community that has grown up around Raspberry Pi, and the charity's leaders said they hope the Pi Store will offer a place for those people to share their creations with a broad audience. In fact, they are encouraging the winners of the Summer Programming Contest to put their creations up on the store to earn a little pocket change. Developers can put their work up for free or as paid downloads, but even the free works will have a tip jar where fans of a particular piece can give a donation to the creator. The store could also make it easier for new programmers to dive into using the pint-sized computer.
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