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Galois categories are introduced (for the first time?) in SGA1, but here's an English introduction that's available online: http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/VIGRE/VIGRE2009/REUPapers/Lynn.pdf
It seems that Galois Categories are a way of axiomatizing all the Galois correspondences in the various fields: Galois theory for fields, Galois theory for covers, Galois theory tame covers and so forth.
What is the benefit, if at all, of this formalism? Is it just to outline the commonalities of these seemingly different topics, or is there some applicable virtue to this language?

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Whitney from Shanty 2 Chic added a set of bookcases to the list of furniture items she has constructed for her daughters' shared bedroom. Whitney followed plans by Ana White but built on the functionality by creating a cubby storage space on the bottom. The simple addition of the boards will keep toys contained on the shelves and is cheaper and easier than hunting down baskets that fit perfectly.
The original inspiration came from the Madison Large Bookcase from Pottery Barn Kids.
Go to Shanty 2 Chic for the details.


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We are quite certain that,
if and when aliens invade, they will manifest themselves in the form of an 8-bit nightmare. Row upon countless row of UFOs will move in a simple pattern across the sky, back and forth, dropping bombs. Governments from around the world will begin recruiting our top gamers out of retro arcades. The future of the galaxy will rest in their nimble hands. For a detailed account of this inevitable course of events, please rent 'The Last Starfighter' or read 'Ender's Game'.


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'European Football Weekends is a perennial source of pleasure' The Guardian
Sunday, 3 July 2011
13 comments:
- Carlos Pérez said...
Great blog, great book. Awesome. Ask me when you are planning a trip to a match in Murcia or Pamplona!
- 3 July 2011 at 11:51
- Ollers said...
Clarke is a great photographer and for years I've admired his work, which now has a home at the National Football Museum in Manchester.
- 3 July 2011 at 13:41
- Reynard The Fox said...
Visited the Home of Football in Ambleside last year. Well worth the visit and it was nice to see the pictures I have in his books in large print.
- 3 July 2011 at 17:16
- Will Obeney said...
I never knew about Clarke's website, there are some wonderful pictures. Even a couple of Sutton United peaches! The classic photos of grounds no longer standing are also impressive.
- 3 July 2011 at 17:27
- CementeroFC said...
hey yo quiero mi libro! jaja
- 3 July 2011 at 20:41
- Brucki said...
Some of Clarke's pics are the best photos I've ever seen.
- 4 July 2011 at 12:19
- Danny Last said...
@Carlos - Thanks mate, I'm in Spain for two weeks in September, but I'm down south. I'm hoping to see Real Betis as well as a couple of other games.
@Ollers, @Reynard The Fox, @Will Obeney and @Brucki - I agree with all of that.
@CementeroFC Voy a poner tu nombre para participar en el sorteo del libro. ;)
- 4 July 2011 at 12:34
- Jonathan Nebel said...
I've heard this is a fantastic book from many places. Love this blog, too. Lots of great stories.
- 5 July 2011 at 03:11
I think it's probably only fair if this is the comment you pick out at , if you will , random to win the book.
Cheers old chap.
You know where to send it.
- 6 July 2011 at 04:09
- Simon said...
Win this book? What are the chances of that? One in ten? Great blog!
- 8 July 2011 at 05:23
- Mac said...
Ooooh I definitely am putting my name into this hat.
- 12 July 2011 at 06:03
- Tom Moore said...
Consider my name into the hat. Presumably David Davies or Graham Kelly will be presiding over the draw.
- 15 July 2011 at 12:37
- Danny Last said...
I did the draw for the book this morning, and the first name out of the hat was Sebastiaan Weel. Great news for him, not so good for me as I now have to send a book that weighs about 50 kilos to Almelo in The Netherlands.
All the names from here, and lots of others that entered on the new EFW forum (http://efwchat.co.uk) went into the hat.
Hopefully, there will be more competitions in the coming weeks. Thanks to all those who took part.
- 17 July 2011 at 10:40


text: Hi,I'm doing another bargello and also an African table topper which has lots of black in it. I can only work onthe table topper for a short time because it's so hard on the eyes.So, I then go back to the bargello. I now have a choice to make and just can't make up my mind. Will it be number 1 or ,by turning it around and removing the last row, will it be number two?.( I am an expert at unpicking so this will not be a problem lol). Which one would you choose? Thanks


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Sikorsky research program aims at autonomy for any vertical-lift vehicle, manned or unmanned
Autonomy does not have to mean unmanned, and the potential to increase safety, reliability and capability across a range of missions and platforms—including manned and optionally piloted—is behind Sikorsky's launch of a multi-year research program to develop autonomous technology for vertical flight in demanding environments.
The Matrix Technology program is modeled on Sikorsky's X2 Technology demonstration, a $50 million internally funded effort that culminated in 2010 with a coaxial-rotor compound helicopter achieving 250 kt. in level flight, and led to industry-funded development of the S-97 Raider light tactical helicopter. As with the X2, the Matrix program has key performance parameters (KPP), milestones and deliverables—including the first flight last week of an S-76 demonstrator in autonomous mode. This is to be followed in the fourth quarter by an unmanned cargo mission with a UH-60MU fly-by-wire (FBW) Black Hawk.
"This is not 'me too' autonomy," says Mark Miller, vice president for research and engineering. "We are addressing the specific and unique needs of rotorcraft and vertical lift, where we see the biggest untapped potential for autonomy." Sikorsky sees in autonomy the ability to fly more missions, less limited by pilot availability, adverse weather or restricted visibility; fly missions more effectively, by eliminating sources of pilot and operator error; enable new missions in dangerous environments or with long durations; and reduce ownership cost by increasing reliability, reducing crewing and improving safety.
On one level, Sikorsky is catching up with the unmanned industry, but while high-altitude surveillance aircraft are automated, they do not fly in a stressing environment. And though small UAS fly missions autonomously, operators can afford to lose them. The autonomous rotorcraft Sikorsky envisions have significant value and operate at low altitude, so they require manned levels of reliability.
"Autonomy has been around a long time, with high-flying UAVs," says Miller. "It is coming to vertical lift, but at a lower level, with dual redundancy, minimal contingency management and low control authority. We are targeting high redundancy, high bandwidth, full authority—and FAA certification." To achieve this, Matrix will build on Sikorsky's "sound, solid" experience with FBW and advanced control laws for the RAH-66 Comanche, CH-148 Cyclone, UH-60MU, X2, CH-53K and Raider programs.
"Fly-by-wire is a third or half step to autonomy," says Igor Cherepinsky, chief engineer for autonomy. "There is a human on board, but they are directing the vehicle, not managing the low-level control." The goal with Matrix is to increase onboard system intelligence to a level where "the human operating the vehicle is an expert who understands the mission better than the aircraft itself," he says.
"The mission expert may be miles away, or in the vehicle doing tasks other than basic pilotage," says Teresa Carleton, vice president for mission system integration. "It is not just about moving the operator from the aircraft to a remote ground-control station," she says. "It's about providing more capability in the vehicle, increasing the system intelligence to enable true autonomy and reduce the overall footprint." Using high-level commands enabled by the onboard autonomy, an operator on the ground will be able to manage multiple aircraft to reduce system cost.
"It is all about operating cost. It has to come down," says Chris Van Buiten, vice president for technology and innovation. Typical loss rates for unmanned aircraft today are 1/1,000 flight hours. At $12 million a copy for an unmanned Black Hawk or Radier, that means replacement cost of $12,000 per hour: "Lose two, and the program is terminated," he says. Even a loss rate of 1/10,000 hr., for a replacement cost of $1,200/hr. "is still not acceptable. The floor is 1/100,000 hr., which is what we see in combat with the Black Hawk, for a $120/hr. replacement cost."
The company's approach is not to develop an autonomous vehicle, but an autonomy architecture that is platform-agnostic and can be used in manned, optionally piloted and unmanned vehicles; inserted into the existing fleet and designed into future products; and incorporated into aircraft built by Sikorsky or its competitors, as a system or an "app." "This is as much about the process as the product," says Van Buiten. "We are getting into the world of software apps and upgrades with products that are truly vehicle-agnostic and platform-independent."
To certify an autonomous system, the definition of flight-critical functions must be expanded to include perception, path planning and decision making, says Cherepinsky. It requires an approach that permits some level of emergent—and not predetermined or "deterministic"—behavior not allowed by today's airworthiness rules. Sikorsky's architecture deterministically bounds the emergent behavior so the autonomous system can be certified by current methods.
Within Matrix, the perception block includes all the algorithms to process data from onboard and offboard sensors. Processed data are passed to the world model, which contains not only a terrain database to orient the vehicle, but information on its mission objectives. Next come the path-planning and decision-making algorithms, which determine how the vehicle behaves. These are divided into simple, deterministic low-level intelligence (LLI) algorithms, and high-level intelligence (HLI) algorithms that are the source of emergent behavior. "We will start with low-level algorithms that are predictable, as the basis of the core intelligence, then work up to emergent behavior bounded by algorithms. The FAA is receptive to this," says Cherepinksy.
Low-level algorithms have the authority to override any high-level commands, and provide a safe envelope within which the high-level intelligence operates. "The HLI algorithms contain the bulk of the true intelligence of the vehicle. Since these algorithms are not flight-critical, they can contain complex and/or nondeterministic behavior," Cherepinksy says.
The HLI block is bounded by low-level intelligence algorithms "that understand what is happening," he says. "As long as the high-level intelligence operates within bounds, its behavior is allowed," he says. "If it goes out of bounds, the low-level intelligence block takes over. If the aircraft is flying low and fast and it sees the HLI pushing the limits, LLI takes over and saves the aircraft."
A key is robust contingency management. "Unlike previous flight control systems, where if an actuator fails you abort the mission, here you do not have to do that. The autonomous mission manager evaluates the state of the vehicle and adjusts the mission," says Cherepinsky. "Today's control systems lack software to tell them what to do when something goes wrong. Fault detection is great—it can tell when a sensor has failed, but lacks the next step: what to do about it and what to do without it."
Current unmanned aircraft are painstakingly preprogrammed. "The key is not to attempt to program every contingency, but to allow some emergent behavior," he says. "You need enough robustness in the autonomy that it will do something; you don't know exactly what, but you can bound it and be comfortable with it. That's hard to do, but is where we are headed."
Sikorsky is taking a step-by-step approach. "As we move into this future with less-deterministic processes, the system software will evolve over time," says Miller. "We are moving away from determinism is a slow manner, and trying not to take a leap." Autonomy starts as an "insurance policy to deal with the latency and intermittency of communication with the aircraft. As it evolves, more capability moves to the autonomous side and the certification challenges become more critical," he says.
"Matrix will evolve and adapt over time. Once the architecture is in place, it allows the incorporation of apps from Sikorsky and its partners that expand the capability," says Carleton. "We have been developing the technology for a number of years, including the participation of United Technologies Research Center in algorithm development. We have a full hardware-in-the-loop simulation capability to carry out a significant amount of testing on software we take to flight, so we can move rapidly through flight test."
The S-67 Matrix testbed, or Sikorsky Autonomous Research Aircraft, has been equipped with an FBW flight control system. "We have interfaced with the aircraft in a cost-conscious way, to dispel the notion that full-authority fly-by-wire has to be expensive," says Cherepinsky. High-performance computers run the autonomous mission management framework—an open system architecture that includes the world model, sensor interfaces and the application programming interface that allows apps to be developed to add capability to the vehicle.
Based at Sikorsky's test center in West Palm Beach, Fla., the S-76 retains its original flight-control system for safety, and pilots will be able to move back and forth between autonomous, manual and full-authority FBW as algorithms are developed and tested. "We call it our crewed flight termination system," says Miller.
The S-76 will be equipped with a multi-spectral perception suite, intended to be portable to other platforms, but other sensor systems can be used. "Matrix is scalable. We will add autonomy to the UH-60MU, which does not have as robust sensors," says Carleton. "What is critical is that the aircraft is equipped with the sensors that give it information on the environment where it operates. The closer to the ground, the more sensors are needed," says Miller.
The S-76 and the UH-60MU, acquired from the U.S. Army, and one of two fly-by-wire Black Hawk prototypes will demonstrate the Matrix program KPPs. These are structured as "specific attributes that are meaningful in the helicopter domain," says Miller, and include low-level autonomous flight, landing on unprepared surfaces and ships, operation in degraded visual environments, man-rated reliability and—with an eye toward fielding—reduced life-cycle cost.


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Jan 1, 2014. The big highlight in Kitzbuehels year always takes place on New Year's Eve. The Rasmusleiten brings tens of thousands of spectators to an event in extra class: Torch skiing the ski schools "Red Devils" and "Element3", fire jumping, music, and of course the spectacular fireworks of the world famous Pyro professionals Armin Lukasser. Beginning: 17.30 hr. Free admission! Moreover, with Reith it is on 30.12. and in Jochberg on the 31.12. A total 3 fireworks displays in 3 days- this is unique to the region!
The ski instructors of "Red Devils" and "Element3" welcome the year 2014 with a traditional torch journey. Then demonstrate the bravest among them daring jumps over the fire. The international guests are welcomed in Kitzbuehel accordingly, with the New Year's greetings given in many languages with brief speeches.
For the highlight of the event ensures fireworks champion Armin Lukasser the main spectacle of the evening. The pyrotechnica is a professional master of his craft, and in this area has international recognition. His career began in Kitzbuehel – with Armin's first big show on 01.01.1997 at Rasmusleiten. Since then he has remained faithful to Kitzbuehel. With pyrotechnics he manages time and again to create fascinating images and arouse strong emotions.
The New Year celebrations in 2013 were followed by over 30,000 spectators. Due to the large visitor onslaught from near and far are strongly advised to arrive well in advance and if possible to use public transport.
"Fireworks are the most perfect form of art, as the image at the moment it's most perfect again deprives the viewer." Theodor W. Adorno (1903 – 1969)
Reith, 30.12. at 18.00 h
Ski & Fun Party with a display by the children of the Ski School, after which, is the large firework display on the ski piste.
Jochberg, 31.12. at 17.00 h
New years party with torches and Fireworks. Then a concert by the local band in the Wagstättparkplatz in Jochberg.
Kitzbuehel, 01.01. at 17.30 h
Ski show with the Ski School 'Die Roten Teufel' und Element 3, After a noisy firework show with the a theme.
On 01.01. at 16:30 hr in the Kitzbuehel City Centre you can hear 'Musik aus Tirol'.
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It seems the default behavior of the AIX print queue is to report queue errors to the user that submitted the print job. We have several hundred queues used by unattended scripts and cron jobs running under system accounts that are not intended to recieve mail.
What I would like to do, and have tried unsuccessfully to do, is to stop these error reports from being directed to the users that submit jobs, and instead direct them to another address. This is what I have tried, with no effect:
chque -q'queue_name' -a"recovery_type = sendmail "'email@example.com'
This added the expected configuration to /etc/qconfig. I restarted lpd, but error messages are still being sent to users. Furthermore, error messages are not delivered to email@example.com.
This is on AIX 5.3. A typical error that I'd like to redirect:
Message from queueing system:
Queue hs-3841:@print went down, job is still queued:
Backend: /usr/lib/lpd/rembak -S print.example.com -P hs-3841 -N \
/usr/lib/lpd/aixshort /var/spool/lpd/dfA731sub.sub.example.com.1280424810.1028194
Backend Exit Value: EXITFATAL (0100)
Job Submit Time: Mar 21 03:33:30 2011, Current Time: Mar 21 12:00:51 2011
Use local problem reporting procedures.
I know I can adjust rembak to try to avoid errors due intermittent remote queue downtime, but how can I configure lpd in such a way as to direct queue errors to an address other than the user's?


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60-Second Window #300 : Junk Mail Names
You know you've made it when Google recognizes ghost names you made up a decade ago. But there's more to this story -- as I discovered one of my pseudo names from the past is a real live person! Yikes!!! July 24, 2013


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Jan. 28, 2006
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - On Jan. 28, the Bulldogs celebrated the 30th anniversary of women's hockey at Yale with a special banquet that included the announcement of a new endowment for the program. Yale captain Lisa Jacque '06 spoke on behalf of the team to thank all of the Bulldogs' supporters. Here is an excerpt of her speech:
It seems that it was just a few months ago that I was walking to the Schley Room on a Tuesday night in September of 2002 for my first ever meeting at Ingalls Rink. There were seven of us, nervous freshmen, making the walk to meet our new team that day and I had no idea how quickly the time would pass. Three and a half years later, I stand before you as a senior, and a captain, looking with pride, but also poignant sorrow, at only a handful of weeks remaining before me as a Yale Hockey player.
My time with Yale Hockey has been an amazing journey -- it has had its ups and downs, its great successes and its heartbreaking defeats. I have had the unique privilege of being on this team during its time of most radical change. When I was recruited our program was 3-12-1 in league play. Harry and Hilary had a vision of what this program could be, a vision that they passionately detailed for their recruits during our senior years in high school. Our class was told that we would be the face of a new Yale Hockey program, that we would be the players that would start the arduous and formidable task of turning a losing program around. We were told there would be difficult times, hard weekends and long road trips. And there truly were - the seven of us experienced what life was like on a team that had no expectations for itself or its success except from each other and our coaches.
When my class began here, losing 6-1 to Harvard meant we hadn't done too badly, and squeaking past Dartmouth and Brown without a terribly lopsided score meant it had been a good weekend. We went 5-11 in league play during my freshman campaign of 2002-2003, with an overall record of 9-20-2. That first season we experienced some extremely trying times, which ultimately would see us lose four of our classmates, but we stuck it out, believing that this program could be turned around. There are only three of us left now -- Sarah Love, Deena Caplette and I, who truly believed that we could persevere and be a winning program. Through those freshman and sophomore years a lot of the successes our team worked feverishly for were small achievements that weren't big enough for record books or newspapers, but baby steps, that proved that we, as a small, closely-knit program, were pushing hard enough to make changes and pull this team into new territory.
Last season, a lot of that hard work culminated, for the first time, in achievements that made the newspapers; that even made the record books. We broke the record for wins in a season, not only won a playoff game but won a series, hosted a playoff series, and went to the league's final four. We beat Harvard for the first time in 20 years. We were voted Team of the Year by the Yale Daily News, and voted as having the Game of the Year with our overtime win against Princeton to clinch our historic spot in the ECACHL Final Four.
We are currently standing on the brink of a new era for Yale Women's Hockey. This is an extremely exciting time for our program because as of right now, with the talent, drive and resources that we have available, as well as the support from those around us, the possibilities are endless. My classmates and I have been fortunate enough to watch and be a part of the creation of a new reputation and a new tradition of winning for Yale Hockey. I am immensely proud to have been here through some of the hardest and most trying times, the times that defined our character as individuals and as a team, the times that tested us as athletes, teammates and people but ultimately moved us forward to the successes we are now enjoying and will continue to enjoy. Our senior class has also had the pleasure of seeing three amazing and talented classes come in after our own, groups of women who have all individually and collectively raised the bar and our team's own expectations for what we were, and are, capable of achieving. Though looking back I feel great pride in what my classmates and I helped begin and what our whole team has augmented, I am terribly jealous that I won't get to be here for what I am sure will be the beginning of consistent and persistent success.
Being a part of Yale Women's Hockey from my freshman year to today, when we expect to beat teams like Harvard and Dartmouth because we are a more gifted program, has truly been a privilege. But the greatest benefit to being a Yale athlete was getting to be a member of one of the most extraordinary groups of females, with the best team chemistry, that I have ever encountered. Practices, road trips, and the locker-room are the scenes of some of my best memories at Yale. I will certainly miss many things at Yale when I graduate, but I will miss most getting to play my favorite sport alongside four classes of my best friends and teammates, and getting to be a part of a team that each day strives to exceed its own expectations and to make itself the best program in the nation.


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A recent decision to start California's high-speed-rail line in Central Valley has prompted Caltrain to reconsider its seven-year-old partnership with the agency overseeing the controversial rail project, Caltrain officials said at a Town Hall meeting in Palo Alto Tuesday morning (May 17).
Santa Clara Supervisor Liz Kniss, who sits on Caltrain's governing board, hosted the meeting in Palo Alto City Hall to update the community about Caltrain's ongoing financial struggles and its efforts to electrify the financially troubled train system. But the discussion also touched on California's controversial high-speed-rail project, a sore subject in Palo Alto and around the Peninsula.
The high-speed-rail line is slated to stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles and to pass through the Peninsula along the Caltrain corridor. In 2004, four years before California voters approved a $9 billion bond for the new rail line, the rail authority and Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (JPB), which oversees Caltrain, entered into an agreement to work together on the new rail line. The parties amended the agreement in 2009, after the bond's passage.
The arrangement seemed like a win-win situation. The rail authority needed Caltrain's right-of-way to make the system work, while Caltrain officials saw the rail project as a possible way to electrify the popular but cash-strapped system. But with high-speed rail facing its own financial challenges, as well as increasing skepticism from Peninsula residents, Caltrain is giving this partnership a second thought.
At Tuesday's meeting, several audience members questioned Caltrain's partnership with the rail authority and encouraged the JPB to take a more assertive stance. Palo Alto resident Hinda Sack said Caltrain should have a greater say in its partnership with the rail authority.
Kniss, a former Palo Alto mayor, said the relationship between the agencies has always been tentative and subject to changes.
"It's like many arrangements," Kniss said. "I'd call it, maybe they were in the engagement phase.
"Caltrain got the ring but never got a wedding band."
Mark Simon, Caltrain's executive officer for public affairs, said his agency entered into a partnership with the rail authority because it felt the high-speed-rail project could help it achieve the ultimate goal of electrifying the Caltrain system, a goal that he and Kniss say is necessary to ensure the long-term viability of the popular commuter service.
He also said Caltrain has been "rethinking our relationship with high-speed rail" since the rail authority approved a plan to start the line in Central Valley. The plan has prompted many legislators, watchdogs and concerned citizens to wonder whether the Peninsula segment will ever get built. On the bright side, the plan created a welcome reprieve for many Peninsula officials, including the Palo Alto City Council, who felt the project is moving too fast and in the wrong direction.
"I think we all breathed a sigh of relief when the money went to Central Valley and we had ourselves a little more time to reach these decisions and think about what we can do," Simon told the audience Tuesday morning.
Some on the Peninsula still hope the high-speed-rail line and Caltrain can work together. Last month, state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, and state Assemblyman Rich Gordon, D-Menlo Park, proposed a plan in which high-speed rail and Caltrain would "blend" on the Peninsula. The plan calls for an electrified Caltrain system that would serve high-speed-rail passengers on the San Jose-to-San Francisco segment of the line.
The plan met a cool reception at the most recent meeting of the rail authority's board of directors. Several members, including board Chair Curt Pringle, suggested that the proposal could be little more than an attempt by Peninsula legislators to take money from the high-speed rail and use it for Caltrain's needs.
For Caltrain, the uncertainty over the Peninsula segment means it has to look for other ways to raise the roughly $1.5 billion needed to electrify the system. The three partnering agencies have already set aside $269 million for the project and expect to receive about $350 million more in grants. Even so, Caltrain is still looking for about $640 million to make electrification possible, said Marian Lee, Caltrain's executive officer for planning and development.
The capital project is one of two major funding challenges the agency is wrestling with. Caltrain, which has no permanent, dedicated funding sources, is facing a structural budget gap of about $30 million. The shortfall can be attributed largely to decreases in voluntary contributions from the three partner agencies that support the commuter service -- the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, the San Mateo County Transit District and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
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Putting Jason Cammisa on an auto show floor is roughly the same as sending an email in this era of NSA snooping: he hears everything. And he overheard a lot at the BMW stand in Detroit. For instance, the meek need not apply for the new BMW M3/M4.
"The M3/M4 won't tolerate sloppy throttle inputs. It's without a doubt the highest-performance road car M has built, but it also requires a LOT of talent to drive ... at least BMW has a network of driver's schools to help there, starting with the teen driving program up through the BMW CCA race schools."
- A BMW employee who's driven the new M3
There's plenty more in his BMW "Overheard in Detroit" piece, like the ballpark weight reduction in the new M3 compared to the E9X cars, why the M235i will be like a snowmobile, the only upside to the 3 Series GT's looks, and why we got an X5M, but not the M7 we really want.
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Law School Admissions / Re: A couple LSAC questions. . .« on: November 13, 2012, 05:03:47 PM »
All three of your questions can be answered at the same time. Every course you have taken for a grade (doesn't matter if it won't transfer to UC) counts. The 2 F's will count for your LSAC gpa and thus will be lower than your school GPA.
I learned that the hard way. I went to school in 2000-2002 while working full time. My last semester I stopped attending classes in October and did not withdrawal. 4 F's tore down my GPA that I built up upon my return to school in 2007
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After nearly two years of research, testing and developers-only access, Google announced Wednesday that consumers would finally be next to view the world through Glass, the company's augmented-reality glasses project.
Those users can participate, however, only if they are the winners of a social media-based contest. In the meantime -- perhaps in order to whet consumer appetites for "Glass," as it is now called -- Google also released a video that shows Glass capabilities as seen from a user's point of view. Those capabilities include voice activation for video recording, photos, image sharing, text messaging, navigation and weather updates.
Up until now, Glass has only been eyes-only for developers who were working on apps and functions for it. "Very few developers," Jeremiah Owyang, industry analyst at the Altimeter Group told TechNewsWorld. "The developer program hasn't fully kicked off yet."
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"To me the video was a much more polished demo of what we saw at the Google IO conference," Chris Silva, industry analyst at the Altimeter Group told TechNewsWorld.
At Google IO, the main feature demonstrated was the camera. "Here we thought we could do all these great things with Glass, then it ended up being an extension of our smartphone camera," Silva said.
The video released by Google shows a few more functions that Glass is able to perform. "It seems like there is a lot of user invocation services," Silva added. Many of the functions shown were reactive technology with users giving voice commands: "Take a picture," "Look up directions," etc.
The new video, however, falls short of Silva's expectations that Glass might be more autonomous. "I would have expected a little bit less of the demo invoking user behavior vs. Google Glass doing autonomous actions," Silva said, using an example of the glasses reminding users of an upcoming appointment and then giving driving or walking directions to get there.
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Google is not saying how many pairs of Glass the company is offering in its contest. "That's more of a marketing play. You have to plus-one on Google," said Owyang.Google' s plan is to get the product in the hands of early adopters and build a test audience. "There are groups of folks who love to be the first to have something, like to brag about it, and become advocates," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group told TechNewsWorld. "They have people paying to be beta testers."
Early adopters are the target market for Glass at this stage, but Silva said there may not be a specific user in mind once it's available to everyone.
"Looking at the way I see marketing this, Google wants anybody who wants to be connected," he said. "This is the next step for what connectivity looks like. There is no demographic, aside from people who want to part with $1,500 for an accessory."
Those who are willing to pay that sum to take part in what Google is calling the Glass Explorer program will also have to pay to visit a company office in New York or the Bay Area.
"I'm guessing that has something to do with hands-on training. Sort of like picking up your Tesla. Setting up your experience as positive as it could be," said Silva.
Even with a high price tag of $1500, "I think it's safe to assume that Google doesn't need a lot of money from us," Owyang noted. "It's really about trying to insure there's commitment."
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Google on Wednesday also introduced the available colors for Glass. The augmented reality lenses will be in charcoal, tangerine, shale, cotton and sky.
Bright colors may play into the coolness quotient, said Owyang, but that doesn't mean that people will think someone wearing Glass is cool. "Take a look at the marketing of this. They're trying to make it really hip and not dorky," he said. "The crowd that's going to be on the street, the developers, are not the hip model."
Glass will not suffer, however, from a few dorky users. "This product will be so popular that people will want to bid it up on eBay. Celebrities will want it," Owyang said. "This product will be so hyped that people will want it."


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Four Questions with McAfee VP Brian Foster
Last Week McAfee invited a select handful of journalists to what they called a "Consumer Journalist Day" at McAfee headquarters in Santa Clara. During the course of the event, we toured the high-tech briefing center, absorbed briefings on McAfee's present and future, and even attacked an innocent virtual PC using real-world hacking tools.
At the end of the day I caught Brian Foster, McAfee Senior Vice President of Product Management, for a mini-interview before braving the horrendous Silicon Valley rush-hour traffic.
Rubenking: You've been talking about what McAfee will be doing three to five years down the road. Just what kind of threats do you think you'll be fighting five years down the road? Do you have thoughts about what we'll be worried about in five years?
Foster: I think people will be worried about privacy and identity. I think the more open we are, the more we store things in the cloud (which seems to be the trend with consumers), well how do you protect that? How do you prove I am who I am, who I say I am, who I really am, to the five nines, to some cloud provider, or to validate a transaction with an online company like banks, health care, government entities, and so on. So I think that as we access more of our lives online, that identity and privacy is where I see the biggest threats.
Rubenking: More so than specific attacks of some kind?
Foster: Well, for consumers. I think if I was an enterprise user, targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats would be my biggest concern. And they are today their biggest concern. That doesn't show signs of changing. The sophisticated attacks that we're seeing here for political reasons or for geopolitical type of things, those are amazing. And you've seen attacks going after a company's intellectual property, right? But while enterprise has got to worry about APTs and so forth, I don't think consumers even know what APTs are.
Rubenking: We talked about this earlier, and interestingly I already had it on my list of questions. Do you think a hack-proof operating system is possible? Can you think how it might be possible?
Foster: Let me answer it one way and then another. I think as long as there's going to be applications running on the operating system and a user behind those applications, unless you're guaranteeing hack-proof applications as well, somewhere along the stack there's going to be a vulnerability. I do think operating systems are going to be better secured, so my first thought is that attacks move to the applications, just like we see with Microsoft and Adobe today.
The other part is human nature. It's humans that are writing the operating system, and a lot of these vulnerabilities that hackers take advantage of represent mistakes that humans made in their programming. Humans aren't perfect, so I personally don't believe that you'll see a completely hack-proof operating system. I think there will always be something there to attack. You can try to minimize it as much as possible, but ultimately I'm not a believer that you can make it hack-proof.
Rubenking: I've never met anyone who is a believer, but it's an interesting question. So, the human factor is there even if you could make a hack-proof operating system. If someone sends you an email that says "Oh, please transfer money to me" and you do it, nobody can help you with that. This my question, then: Is there anything we can do to work on the psychology and the understanding of the users? Is there anything a software company can do about that?
Foster: Some of what we do is interaction design, solving problems for the users and trying to do it in an intuitive way. I also get a little bit philosophical sometimes on these things. We've had to learn in our society where's the safer places to walk and where's the not-so-safe places to walk. People need to learn the same type of behavior on the Internet. If you're going to live on the Internet safely, you've got to learn the right places to live.
Security companies like McAfee can come along and help, and our mission is to try to help in a way that's as unobtrusive and transparent to the user as possible. Still, there some onus on the user to make the right choice. If there are two paths in front of me and this one looks really safe and protected, I should just take that path. We can't do it all for them, but we need to try to make it transparent and easy for them to follow that safe path.
Rubenking: That seems good. One more question! Do you have any embarrassing stories about being hacked or compromised yourself? Anything that you would care to share?
Foster: That I'd care to share with PC Magazine?
Rubenking: Yeah, and see them posted in Security Watch. You can say no...
Foster: No. I'm tempted, but I'd get made fun of.
Rubenking: Fair enough. Thank you, Brian.
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They were running late and were supposed to be headed out on vacation. Instead, Michael and Sandy Baldwin of Wausau happened upon an accident on County Road E last Tuesday morning in the town of Scott and, acting without regard to their own safety, saved the life of Justin P. Carstensen, 17, Merrill. Lincoln County Sheriff's Department reports indicate Carstensen had pulled out into the path of a southbound pickup truck and was struck on the driver's side. A fire ensued.
Other bystanders had determined Carstensen, who was unconscious, might have neck injuries and had opted to leave him in place, but the Baldwins assessed the situation as otherwise. They tore away the driver's side door, borrowed a cutting instrument from an unknown person and cut his entangled seatbelt, and pulled Justin to safety, all while trying to bring a growing fire under control. Michael suffered mino
The Baldwin's instincts were correct. Within 30 seconds, Justin's vehicle was totally engulfed.
A registered nurse, Sandy then tended to Justin until emergency services personnel arrived. Initially in critical condition, Justin was listed in fair condition as of Sunday night at University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.
For their selfless act, Lincoln County Sheriff Jeff Jaeger presented the couple with the department's first-ever "Star of Valor Award," the highest citation that can be bestowed upon a citizen by law enforcement. It recognizes "their conspicuous bravery, initiative and self-reliance in the face of grave danger.
"These extraordinary people acted quickly" in "an act which certainly saved a life," Jaeger and the award note. "This remarkable show of devotion to a fellow citizen, ignoring great personal risk and without hope of reward, is the basis of all human morality."
Sandy noted during the award ceremony last week that she lost a 17-year-old brother in a vehicle crash and fire, and she wasn't about to let that happen to someone else.
Jaeger says the Baldwins attempted to downplay their actions and said they did what anyone else would have done. But we all know otherwise. "God was looking over the Carstensen boy" when the Baldwins happened by, the sheriff says.
We can't think of better representatives of what the award stands for.
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Wendy Collier's heart sank when she saw the amount of snow that had drifted in front of her door.
"I didn't think I could get out," she said. "Luckily, when I pushed on the door, the snow moved and I could sort of dig my way out."
Collier was just one of the Marion residents caught unaware in this past week's two storms. While many knew enough to stockpile food, few felt they knew how to prepare their houses for bad winter weather. Collier said it never occurred to her that she would need a shovel. So, in a spirit of determination, she went to her front door and starting scooping snow with a coffee mug. Then when she could get open her door a little wider, she started scooping the snow with a 12-inch skillet.
"I'm glad I had it," she said. "My husband told me he didn't know why we had cookware if I burned everything, but now we both know. It's a handy tool in the middle of the snowstorm."
She said wishes she had paid more attention to friends and family members, living in Northern states, who told her to prepare her house for the snowstorms. She said she plans to purchase a shovel in the near future, if for no other reason than to get all the snow off her roof.
"It just wasn't made for this kind of weather," she said. "The snow is getting really heavy up there and I don't want anything to happen to my roof. It could collapse if we get any more or if the wind blows more up there — and one thing is for sure, in this weather, I don't want to be without a roof over my head."
Collier plans to sit on the couch with 10 blankets over her head, and hope summer weather comes quickly.
"The cold wind whips through the house pretty good," she said. "I have six windows in my living room and it gets mighty cold. I would put more caulk around my windows, but I honestly really hate to. It is nice to have the breeze blowing through in the June and July. I think if I just hunker down and get a nice steaming cup of hot chocolate, I'll be just fine."
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Happy Birthday, Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. You're looking awfully good for your age.
Happy Birthday, Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. You're looking awfully good for your age.
What's that, you say? Getting a little worn around the edges and a little heavier in the middle?
Yeah, we've seen the erosion and the unexpected sandbars. But you're flirting with the big 1-0-0. Cut yourself some slack.
In 1913, the Corps of Engineers was finally granted the funding to extend the Intracoastal south from Beaufort, past Topsail, Wrightsville, Shallotte and Calabash, on its way to Florida.
The AIWW had actually entered the northern tip of North Carolina well before then, when George Washington, father of the country and a smart businessman, backed the digging to carry commerce, his included, down the coast to the Albemarle Sound and Edenton, then North Carolina's capital.
But today, recreational boaters and landlubbers throughout the region are getting the most enjoyment out of its scenery, serenity and splendor – not the commercial shippers for whom the big ditch was intended. They, instead, are left bemoaning the shifting shoaling and inconsistent depths that can send them aground.
Recreationally, it soars. Access to the waterway's sandy shores and ubiquitous docks is indiscriminate, reducing us all to an even-keel collection of friends and neighbors. Please check your title and/or stock portfolio at the pier. All AIWW celebrants need have only this in common: a boat of some sort (kayaks, jet skis and johnboats acceptable)and the ability to pack a cooler. Even those without benefit, as restaurants along its path burst at the seams during the summer months.
"We have gotten so used to our wonderful waterway," says Jim Leutze, an avid Wrightsville Beach boater and chairman emeritus of the University of North Carolina Wilmington. "We just can't imagine what it would be like without it. Without it, as a fisherman, I'd be sunk."
Spencer Rogers, an engineer specializing in coastal construction and shoreline erosion, praises what the hydrodynamics of the waterway have done for the quality of life along the coast in Pender, New Hanover and Brunswick counties.
"The AIWW," he says, "has been a major interconnector of water for people going from Carolina Beach to Wrightsville to Topsail, for instance. Before, creeks were connected to one inlet. Now they are interconnected, allowing access to ocean from places like Masonboro Inlet and Topsail Inlet.
"Also, the quality of water is greatly improved. Most of the creeks we enjoy today would have been denigrated without the circulation promoted by the interconnectivity. It allows fishermen to use the smaller inlets to get out to the ocean to catch the fish. So we have better seafood. And we have cleaner creeks."
The waterway around Wilmington also produces something in abundance: cash.
Chris Dumas, a professor of economics at UNCW, did a study in 2007-08 that focused on the for-hire charter industry in the coastal region of North Carolina, and its economic impacts and recreation benefits.
Dumas' conclusion: The value of current AIWW recreational activity is half a billion dollars annually from the South Carolina to Virginia border.
"The North Carolina for-hire ocean fishery," the study found, "consists of approximately 750 charter boat vessels and head boat vessels operating year-round. ... (Of those, 262 vessels were from the four-county Southeastern North Carolina coastal region: New Hanover 109; Brunswick 91; Pender 36; Onslow 26.)
"For-hire fishing passengers spend about $380 million per year, including both on- and off-vessel spending, in coastal North Carolina, spending that supports about $667.4 million in economic output (sales) along the coast, about 10,200 jobs, $261.4 million in wages and salaries, and $49.3 million in local/state sales and excise (such as fuel and cigarette) taxes."
One hundred years ago, everything had been running fairly smoothly when the Intracoastal reached Beaufort. But as the ditch got to Morehead City, the landscape started to change. The AIWW was intended to be 12 feet deep and 90 feet wide.
"The southern portion, starting at Morehead City, had wide rivers and sounds and marshes as part of its waterway," says Howard Varnam, who has worked in operations for the Corps of Engineers' Wilmington district since 1970. "More of the southern North Carolina piece needed to be manmade. In fact, there would be no marinas at Wrightsville or Carolina Beach without the waterway."
The AIWW travels 308 miles through North Carolina, lazily cruising the sounds, bay and marshes above Morehead City. But then the ditch diggers suddenly had to battle inlets and narrow passages that shot cross currents across the waterway into ocean, and vice versa.
Finding funding
Consistent funding was needed to dig southward. But once dug, maintenance required even more funding for the dreaded D word. Dredging.
Congressional resources continued, though, through the middle hunk of the 20th century for one reason: safety. From Morehead City south to South Carolina and beyond, the waterway provided boaters a safe, protective harbor from the compromising currents of the Atlantic, and the military a safe haven from German U-Boats in World War II.
By the end of the century, though, Congress had reduced drastically its funding for dredging and maintenance along the North Carolina coast, from about $10 million in today's dollars in 1980, to $3.8 million in 2011. The need for consistent dredging along the state's southern coast is caused by shoaling, when sand races to fill in any hole it finds underwater.
"That's particularly true in the inlets where there is a cross-current across the waterway to the ocean," says Joseph Edge, CWO4, Section N.C. Waterway Management Chief for the U.S. Coast Guard. "It's an absolute daily challenge to keep the channels marked and make the waterway viable everywhere. The sand moves so quick.
"The Corps maintains the six southern connector inlets south of Morehead City from the waterway to the ocean: Bogue, New River, Topsail, Masonboro, Carolina Beach and Lockwood Folly, and also pays close attention to the Shallotte River inlet."
Says Varnam: "Funding for dredging is divided between north and south. The southern portion, starting at Morehead City, requires more dredging than the north because of the inlets."
And even though the north channels are more protected from shoaling, they get more dredge funding because there is more commercial tonnage moving there, enjoying a greater load capacity in navigable waters.
So, despite the overall economic impact via recreational use of the waterway, funding for dredging is down because commercial shipping is down.
"The dredging issue is a Catch-22, and, to be blunt, stupid," fumes Leutze. "The Commerce Department provides funding for the dredging, but the funding is based on barge and commercial traffic. But without dredging, those boats can't use it. So they don't approve the funding to dredge.
"They don't take into consideration the recreational traffic. But it has grown tremendously as the commercial has declined. And the money being generated by recreational activities is not an inconsiderate amount."
So as the AIWW, at least in our area, turns 100, it has less commercial shipping and less funding for dredging, but more recreational boaters and admirers.
"We all take it for granted – the use of the waterway and its inlets," Rogers says. "But life on the water as we know it could change radically in our lifetime. Without consistent dredging, soon you're going to have a waterway unable to hold anything larger than a 16-foot boat. It'll mostly be kayaks and canoes."
Responds Varnam: "Well, that's just absurd. That's too extreme."
But Dr. Rob Hart, an historian who has studied the waterway at UNCW, isn't particularly put off by Rogers' assessment.
"I'm an historian, not a forecaster," says Hart. "But that doesn't sound so bad to me. I'm a kayaker."
Happy Birthday, Waterway. Let the party begin.


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Have stayed here twice before on business and always been happy with my stay.
poor stay
Bed most uncomfortable, two single mattresses on a double frame, different height levels and a gap in-between which didn't rectify even pushing them back together, horrendous nights sleep and aching back.
Were stood waiting 20 minutes waiting for a member of staff at the restaurant. Food was very nice. And staff in bar and cleaner very nice, polite etc.
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The worst weekend break ever ?
This hotel is just awful-as well as being a rip-off.
Check in is impossible as "computer says no" if you have 2 rooms to book. Half of our party couldn't sleep due to a raucous wedding party. Rooms awful with poor lighting (good showers though). Food luke-warm and overpriced. Location 3 miles from anything other than the local A and E (actually I have stayed in comfier hospitals). Worst of all, my daughters were left in tears when they wanted to go for a swim, having been told the pool opened until 10 to then be told it had closed at 8. Clearly they have staffing issues. £460!!!!
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Perfect little gem
Bank holiday weekend, found the village by sheer fluke and wow what a find, 55 inch flat screen in the room pukka coffee machine also the best shower known to mankind, and I'm a plumber so I should know.
The room rate for bank holiday and this class of hotel was cheap as B and Bs where just fleecing everyone. We used the pool sauna and steam pub and restaurant all just perfect, the staff are also fantastic, as a family and business we stay in a lot of hotels, will be 101% staying at the village again and again. If you choose the village you will not be disappointed just pleasently surprised
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Excellent hotel clean and tidy with great facilities.
Will definitely stay again
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Food in hotel was good however had to wait 50 minutes for a burger!
Great check in one of the most genuine .
Unfortunately replaced corridor carpet and underlay during stay so smalel was unpleasant. Rubber clear seal under shower glass door needs to be replaced /cleaned ( a tubular seal where dirt congregates. Leisure facilities excellent. Bar area friendly good staff how'ever a few rowdies who where requested to refrain from swearing (twice) while watching a football game was an unpleasant experience.
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Stay at Bournmouth Village was pretty much like any other village I have stayed in and I do stay in a few for business (not any more) this one wasn't the best, bar staff were slow, even though the bar wasn't busy, didn't help that about 6 workmen turned up at 8.00 on Sunday morning to work on the rooms adjacent to mine on the 4th Floor, did mention it when checking out but reception not that interested.
I am sure the rooms will be lovely when finished, might be a good idea not to put guests in rooms next door to a work site.
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Lovely hotel & excellent facilities.
Paid a little bit extra for the upgrade & well worth it - biggest TV I've ever seen in a hotel room. So modern & very chic feel to the décor. Customer service was also excellent, very helpful - only issue was that we paid for late check out, but this was not communicated to housekeeping. So we were woken up abrubtly to a phonecall asking if we were leaving - not a major issue, but there should be better communication between staff.
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Book Report: Ya betcha, Wisconsinites are distinctive
"Throw the bull over the fence some hay."
"You thrash me and I'll plow you back."
"I'll drive by and toot you out."
The above three locutions were common among folks in my hometown, hangovers from their immigrant parents.
"Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State," edited by Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin Press, $24.95, paper) reveals something lots of Badgerland denizens take for granted: Wisconsin is one of the most linguistically rich places in North America.
According to the authors it has the greatest diversity of American Indian languages east of the Mississippi, including Ojibwe and Menominee from the Algonquian language family, Ho-Chunk from the Siouan family and Oneda from the Iroquoian family.
The state is peppered with names brought over from the old country: Scandinavia, Berlin, Potosi and Pulaski to name a few.
One of the most interesting chapters in this scholarly but at times very funny book is by Wisconsin transplant Luanne von Schneidemesser. She tells of her first day in Madison and seeing a sign pointing to The BratHaus on State Street, a venerable sandwich joint.
Unacquainted with what Wisconsinites call a "Brat," she figured it was an institution that housed unruly children.
From there she takes off on a mission to acquaint readers with how you can tell you're in Wisconsin by the words you hear.
Words like: Uff Da, Sissu, parking ramp, and bubbler. The last one means drinking fountain and author Schneidemesser discovered it was coined in the 19th century by a small Wisconsin company that manufactured faucets — Kohler.
One of my favorites comes from southern Wisconsin. You're hosting a dinner party at a supper club. Everyone is ready to order except you, so you tell the waitstaff: "Start with me last."
And of course that's not the end of it with new infusions from faraway places like Somalia, Mexico and elsewhere.
Our niece has advanced degrees in Spanish, but has trouble finding jobs in California, which is full of Spanish-speaking people.
I'm tempted to tell her to move to Wisconsin and supervise the thousands of Mexicans who milk our cows, but have some trouble with the English language.
I told a friend and he added that he'd just seen an ad in a Twin Cities newspaper inserted by a large construction company advertising for Spanish-speaking people to work with their Mexican employees on remodeling projects in the upper Midwest.
Dan Brown, author of "The DaVinci Code" and "Angels and Demons" has constructed a new novel for those bold souls who wander into Florence, Italy, as my friends and I did last summer, where we were flummoxed by traffic, hurly-burly crowded passageways crammed with tourists.
Not so for Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon, the star of Brown's new book, "Inferno" (Doubleday, $29.95).
If you're not a Florentophobe, as I have become, you'll like to gambol with the professor as he races through the Palazzo Vecchio, the Boboli Gardens and the city's magnificent Duomo to unravel the mysteries of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for Dante Alighieri's masterful poem, "The Inferno."
But if you're being a Florentophobia makes that impossible, just book a cabin in the north country and bring along Brown's book, so you can still enjoy — yes, you guessed it — the Palazzo Vecchio, the Boboli Gardens and the Duomo.
Forego the Spumante and swordfish for a filet of walleye and a Leinenkugel. You'll save lots of money.
Dave Wood is a past vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle and former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Phone him at 715-426-9554.


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changing current working dir with a script
I am trying to create few scripts that would change the working directory of the main shell/terminal. Not able to do so. I tried the following
File p1.sh
cd /home/mtk/work/project1
File code.sh
cd /home/mtk/templates/resusable/sampleCodes
But I am aware that the above would change it only for itself i.e. the one running currently, which would be
p1.sh or
code.sh in this case.
Please let me know, how would I be able to change the current working directory for the parent calling shell.
Example Run and expectation:
$ pwd
$ p1.sh
$ pwd
/home/mtk ### --> Expected /home/mtk/work/project1
My use case is: I would like to do some processing and then place the prompt to a pre-defined directory.
I see why it would not work. And
alias seems to be the solution for such case. But I would like to expand, my question:
I need to create a script that would change the working dir of the parent shell dynamically. The script will be say
mycd.sh . It would have command line arguments as
mycd.sh -c/-p1/-p2/ or some other user defined arguments.
-c would switch the shell working dir to the respective dir. File
mycd.sh would look like
.. some processing
# parameter parsing
if [ $param1 -eq "c" ]; then
# change working dir of parent here
... other conditions
I guess, there must be some way to change the shell working directory.
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This article originally appeared in the November 2013 issue of Architectural Digest.
Every house tells a story, and in Los Cabos, on the southern tip of Mexico's Baja peninsula, a pair of vacation homes stand side by side as a testament to a remarkable friendship—the one that George Clooney shares with Rande Gerber and his wife, Cindy Crawford. The name of this compound, Casamigos—or House of Friends—says it all. "We've been hanging out for 20-something years," says Gerber, a nightlife entrepreneur who now focuses on his tequila-and-rum company, Gerber Spirits. "Long before the houses were built, we would travel to Baja together, staying at different hotels and drinking tequila."
The idea of planting a flag in Los Cabos came several years ago while the two men were there on vacation with a few friends. "We saw this oceanfront lot and thought maybe it made sense to build something," Gerber says. It was a desire fueled by wanting a place where family and friends could come together comfortably. "Once we had kids, we would go on vacation at Christmas," says Crawford. "But you'd have to book hotels a year in advance, and then you'd get there and they never quite lived up to expectations." Plus, Los Cabos is a short flight from Los Angeles, making it a convenient getaway for Clooney, whose primary home is in Studio City, and for Crawford and Gerber, who live in Malibu most of the year with their school-age son and daughter.
Initially the trio thought of creating one house large enough for everyone, but that concept was eventually nixed in favor of two independent structures. "It's just nice at the end of the night to have your own place to go back to," Gerber says. Even so, the houses are basically used as a single home, with overflow from one accommodated by the other, and meals and other activities frequently split between the two. "Our lives go back and forth," Crawford says. "We'll have cocktails at our place and dinner at George's, and vice versa."
The two homes were designed and built in tandem, and Clooney happily allowed Gerber and Crawford to take the lead on the project, knowing he could trust their taste implicitly. "Rande has this amazing eye for houses and style," says Clooney, who nonetheless was a regular presence at meetings and traveled to the site every couple of weeks to give input. "I wanted something that would blend in," he notes, "something indigenous that would feel in harmony with the setting."
Another priority, all agreed from the outset, was to avoid the type of hacienda-style villa commonly found along this coast and aim for something more distinctive. The group decided to approach the firm of Ricardo Legorreta, one of Mexico's preeminent architects, and his son, Víctor, a star in his own right. (Ricardo died in December 2011, two years after the project's completion, and Víctor maintains the practice.) "A friend of ours had used Ricardo in California and loved working with him," Gerber says. Adds Crawford, "That property was the first modern house I thought I could live in."
Like his celebrated mentor Luis Barragán, the elder Legorreta was known for crafting muscular geometric volumes where the interplay of light and shadow is created by large windows and doorways, as well as open-air courtyards. All of those elements are present in the Crawford-Gerber and Clooney houses, which the Legorretas tailored to suit the trio's relaxed, social lifestyle. "They wanted houses that were very elegant and almost like an art piece," says Víctor, "but where you would still be comfortable walking around barefoot and in a swimsuit."
Each structure is entered via a long hallway that flows gracefully into a dramatic double-height central courtyard, which connects to a series of sitting areas, dining spaces, an open kitchen, and, of course, a bar—an especially roomy one at Clooney's, where the friends often assemble to watch sports on the wide-screen TV. And fronting the beach, each house has its own sizable swimming pool and terrace, as well as ample outdoor seating and dining areas. To soften and contrast with the houses' expanses of cement plaster, many of the spaces feature wood ceilings, beams, and brise-soleils. "Using wood was something we pushed for," Crawford says. "It's not the material the Legorretas are best known for, but we wanted the warmth."
Tucked away off broad corridors on the second stories are most of the homes' generously scaled bedrooms—enough to accommodate the numerous guests. "There's nothing more depressing than being in a big old house by yourself," remarks Clooney. "You want it filled with friends and family because that's what makes a home."
For the most part, the dwellings keep to a palette of neutrals, with Clooney's being the darker and clubbier of the two. The tone of his house starts with the sand-hued Brazilian quartzite that clads portions of the structure, and it's a vibe that carries through to the courtyard, where wood slats and a forest of dangling lanterns overhead cast moody shadows across the space, as well as to the terrace enclosed by privacy-ensuring vegetation. "If my house were truly open it would present too many opportunities for people to take pictures," says Clooney (who stars in the new sci-fi thriller Gravity and the upcoming World War II drama The Monuments Men, which he directed).
The Crawford-Gerber home, meanwhile, is brighter, thanks to a pale Spanish limestone and a courtyard that's fully exposed to the sky. So while the houses share a similar shape and aesthetic, each is its own unique creation. As Crawford puts it, "They're not twins, but more like sisters or cousins."
A fair amount of the furniture is built in, as designed by the architects. Integrated tables and seating in the alfresco spaces are made from the same stones as the walls and floors, while bedroom cabinetry, closets, and desks are made from local parota wood. As for the freestanding pieces, Crawford and Gerber didn't hesitate to seek advice from interior decorators they know. "Fortunately we have a lot of great friends in the design world," Crawford says. "We just called on them to help fill things out."
While many items—the upholstered seating in the living areas, the director's chairs surrounding Crawford and Gerber's outdoor dining table—were sourced in the U.S., certain key pieces were custom crafted locally, including Clooney's living room cocktail table and dining room table. The latter, incorporating a large lazy Susan, is a particular favorite of the actor's since, as he notes, "you don't want to have to work too hard when you're down here."
As a kind of coda to the project, a year ago Clooney and Gerber, along with another friend, real-estate developer Mike Meldman, launched a premium tequila brand they call, appropriately, Casamigos. "We didn't just slap our names onto some glue and try to talk people into drinking it," Clooney says of Casamigos, which produces a blanco and a reposado and has already won a variety of awards. "It's what we drink whenever we're at the house." Or as Gerber puts it, "The best times are when all the bedrooms are filled with guests and everyone's by the pool with a Casamigos in their hand." It's an image that perfectly captures the open-armed spirit of this pair of breezy, sun-kissed getaways.
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