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Students Search for 'Authenticity' Over J-Term
Students in Dr. Harry Thompson's J-Term course, "The Search for Authenticity," spent Interim studying the concept of authenticity as it relates to the process of writing history. Thanks to their work, the stories of influential-yet-unknown figures of the Northern Plains are finally seeing the light of day.
In the News: 'Augie Grad Joins Physics Elite'
Read the Argus Leader story on Bethany Jochim, class of 2011, a recipient of the prestigious Leroy Apker Award, the top undergraduate honor awarded by the American Physical Society (APS).
In the News: 'Boe Speaker Gem of Ireland'
They've studied Ireland extensively, including its history, culture and political structure. Dr. Peg Preston (history); Dr. Patrick Hicks (English); and Dr. Bill Swart (sociology), spoke with the Argus Leader about why this year's Boe Forum speaker is such an influential world leader and how her work changed Ireland.
Q&A With President, Human Rights Advocate Mary Robinson
Before she addressed a crowd of 2,100 at the Elmen Center for the 2011 Boe Forum on Public Affairs, Robinson spoke with students and Augustana officials about her role as the first female president of Ireland and her efforts to address world hunger and poverty.
This Week at Augustana: Nov. 14-18
From opera and a charity basketball game on Tuesday, to an internationally known photographer on Wednesday, to a laugh-a-minute theatric comedy; a thought-provoking discussion on immigration and border control; a new art exhibit and more – it's an action-packed week at Augustana.
Students, Donors Connect at Scholarship Recognition Program
Sunday's scholarship recognition program paired Augustana donors with the students and families their gifts impact. The event was a chance for Russ and Carol Greenfield to meet senior Wadie Mahauad-Fernandez, the 2011-12 recipient of the Thomas Russell Greenfield Memorial Scholarship, an endowed scholarship the Greenfields established to honor the memory of their son.
Seven Inducted into German Honor Society
Seven Augustana students have been inducted into the Eta Delta chapter of Delta Phi Alpha, the German National Honor Society, for excellence and achievement in the German language, and in Germanic culture and literature.
Internationally Known Arab Musician Simon Shaheen to Speak, Perform on Campus
Internationally known Arab musician, performer and composer Simon Shaheen will discuss his experiences as a musician and perform pieces on the 'oud (Middle Eastern Lute/Guitar) at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 18, in Kresge Recital Hall.
NATIONAL CHAMPS! Viking Women Earn NCAA DII National Cross Country Championship
Saturday's stellar performance in Spokane, Wash., earned Augustana its first national title in cross country and the second overall team national championship in College history.
Oliver: S.D. Must Invest in K-12 Education
"... we need to invest in education in order to invest in the future of South Dakota. It is the best and most lasting stimulus for building our economy and developing a civil society." Read the op-ed by Augustana President Rob Oliver, published in the Argus Leader.


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I'm the first to admit that I'm a huge fan of Land Rover 4×4's. I grew up being driven around in one and when I got my license the first thing I did was buy one of my own and set to work building it into a beast of an offroader. So you can imagine how happy I was when Land Rover recently announced that they, together with Jaguar, have decided to invest $800 million into environmentally friendly vehicles and the first fruits of that investment will be the concept SUV codenamed land_e due to hit the streets in Lanjut →

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Saskatoon: Data Insights with Python for Beginners on April 9th
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We're a Canada wide not-for-profit organization providing women, *men and youth the opportunity to learn beginner-friendly technical skills in a social and collaborative way. We're all about showing people that learning to code can be fun!
*Men are welcome to attend (and they do!), but we encourage you to bring an additional female learner where possible
Why Python?
Python is a great language for beginners. It's beautiful and clean-looking syntax means you'll spend less time being confused (it looks sort of like English!), and more time understanding and applying the fundamentals of programming. Python has a wide variety of uses from creating web applications to hardware programming to data analysis and scientific computing.
In this workshop, you'll learn the fundamental concepts of programming and how you can use this powerful tool to analyze data. You will learn how to read data from a file and extract useful insights for marketing and data analysis.
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WONG, Kevin, CHRISTMANN, Kris, MEADOWS, Linda, ALBERTSON, Katherine and SENIOR, Paul (2013). Hate crime in Suffolk : understanding prevalence and support needs. Project Report. Hallam Centre for Community Justice, Sheffield Hallam University.
WONG, Kevin, MEADOWS, Linda, WARBURTON, Frank, WEBB, Sarah, YOUNG, Helen and BARRACLOUGH, Nicola (2013). The development and year one implementation of the Local Justice Reinvestment Pilot. Project Report. London, Ministry of Justice.
MEADOWS, Linda, ALBERTSON, Katherine, ELLINGWORTH, Daniel and SENIOR, Paul (2012). Evaluation of the South Yorkshire Restorative Justice programme (SYRJP). Project Report. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University.
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MEADOWS, Linda, CLAMP, Kerry, CULSHAW, Alex, CADET, Nichola, WILKINSON, Katherine and DAVIDSON, Joanna (2010). Evaluation of Sheffield City Council's Community Justice Panels Project. Project Report. Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University.
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I finished the last two ax hammers.
I did it with black granite originating in the Republic of South Africa.
The larger is 15 cm long and weighs 400 g,17 mm hole.
Second, smaller,220 grams and 15.05 cm in length, it has a hole of about 17 mm.
Now I bought the so-called Swedish granite" Vanga" is red and I will try to do more.
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Grit and Grind: 10 Principles for Living an Extraordinary Life
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Mabel will be three weeks old on Monday. These early days go so quickly! I am not getting quite enough sleep, though Mae is still pretty easygoing and hasn't had any major night/day confusion like newborns often do. I had forgotten how difficult blogging with a new baby is as well! I've been working on this post all week. A little here, a little there. I can't compose anything particularly cohesive.
I drove for the first time since my C-section yesterday, to a postpartum appointment with my doctor. I took him a small jar of our honey as a gift and then felt horribly stingy when he thanked me and said that he takes a spoonful of local raw honey every day for his allergies. I'll take him more! He says that I have healed well, and it's time to start slowly entering the world again. Okay.
My sister, Abby, and her son, Andrew, have been in town since mid-week. Abby is helping me with some small organizational tasks around the house with the goal of making my life easier (I'm a disaster, house is a disaster, etc.) She's also reading lots of books to Silas and Job, and gave them much needed haircuts. I usually cut their hair, but I am not good at it, and hate doing it. I'm kind of grossed out by hair, so that's a problem. This is why my kids are typically a little (or a lot) shaggy.
Seth made his first quadruple batch of quickest pickles from Canning for a New Generation this week. He didn't process them. We like eating them as refrigerator dills all summer. They should be ready to eat in a couple days, and then will only last for a couple. I'm so glad that I have a big kid motivated to take care of the pickling for me!
Everyone is staying up too late at night, and every day I declare that this is the last day of late bedtimes for the younger kids. But so far nothing has changed, and I'm just trying to be flexible. We've had more company in the last few weeks than we have in the last few years. It's been really good, and it's natural for routines to be thrown out the window for a little while. Right now the evenings are full of games. Last night it was Bird Bingo.
I finished Mae's Violet Bonnet last week, but can't remember if I posted it here, or only on Instagram. It's a sweet little hat! I put the linen scarf I am working on now on hold for a day or so as I received a bunch of samples from a new fiber mill that I am working with. From here on out I will only be dyeing and offering in my shop eco-friendly yarns that are produced entirely in the U.S. This has always been my goal and I am excited to be making it happen. The only yarn I have offered previously that I will still be working with (though not till the fall) is the heavy worsted U.S. sourced Columbia Targhee that is milled here in Virginia. Everything else will be brand new in the next shop update. I've chosen two fingering weight bases, two sport, a dk, and a worsted, and I LOVE them!! I have dye plants in my garden nearly ready to go, and I am hoping to have a small yarn update by end of the month. It's going to be good!
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There's so much more to leafy greens than lettuce. Here, they're tossed with a light vinaigrette and spooned over sliced stone fruit, nuts, and blue cheese.
- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons minced shallot
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup (or more) olive oil
- 3 nectarines, plums, or peaches, halved, pitted, thinly sliced
- 1 cup (scant) almonds, pistachios, or hazelnuts (about 4 ounces), toasted, chopped
- 1 cup crumbled blue cheese (about 4 ounces)
- 8 cups mixed leafy greens (such as purslane, mâche, baby kale, watercress, and tatsoi)
- 1 1/2 cups chervil sprigs
- 1 cup (packed) assorted tender herb leaves (such as anise hyssop, tarragon, and mint)
- Mix lemon juice and shallot in a small bowl and season with salt and pepper. Let macerate for 30 minutes. Whisk in 1/4 cup oil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Whisk in more oil if dressing is too tart.
- Arrange nectarine slices on a serving platter. Scatter almonds and blue cheese over. Combine all greens and herbs in a large bowl. Add dressing to coat (amount needed will vary depending on greens used). Season to taste with salt and pepper. Toss greens and arrange over nectarine mixture.


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CHICO — Magician Wayne Houchin is back in Chico with his family, recovering from shock and physical pain from a bizarre incident that sent him to the hospital with severe burns in the Dominican Republic.
The latest development is that the television guest host who applied flammable liquid to Houchin"s head and then set him on fire has turned himself in to police officials. Franklin Barazarte was arrested Monday after returning from travel to the United States.
On Nov. 26, Houchin appeared on the program "Closer to the Stars" in the Dominican Republic. At the end of the interview, TV host Barazarte asked Houchin"s wife to pour some liquid into his hands for a blessing. The liquid was Aqua de Florida, a flammable cologne.
"At this point we had no clue what he was planning," Houchin said this afternoon from Chico.
Houchin"s wife poured the liquid and Barazarte said "more, more, more …" and she poured more, the magician said.
"Then he turned to BJ (another magician friend) and asked him to light the liquid. Barazarte immediately dropped the flaming liquid on the magician"s head, Houchin said.
"He"s a professional television host. We trusted him and had no reason" not to.
Houchin said once it was ignited, Barazarte "immediately turned to me, dropped it on my head and rubbed it into my face." A video clip of the incident, http://goo.gl/oDFpm, shows Houchin putting out the flames with his hands and dropping to the floor as other people gathered around, dazed.
Soon after, Houchin was taken to the hospital in the Dominican Republic where he was treated for first- and second-degree burns.
In retrospect, Houchin said the television host did appear strange, not appearing to pay attention during the interview.
"You know when you talk to someone and they"re not really listening," Houchin said. "It was clear he was wanting to move on to do his thing.
"When we first got to the studio, (Barazarte) tried to convince us to take a needle and pierce his face with it on television.
"We said that"s not what this is about," and that they were not comfortable with the idea.
After his head was in flames, he was taken to the hospital quickly.
"My staff did tell me Mr. Barazarte said something like "he"ll be fine. He just needs some cream.""
The television host has since said he intended the blessing to "cleanse me of evil spirits," Houchin said.
Houchin praised the medical care he received in the Dominican Republic.
The "excruciating process," involved treatment every other day where the doctor peeled away and scrubbed his skin to help with healing.
He has been told he should heal fully, without scars.
Houchin was touring with the 15 other magicians as part of "Curiosities 2012" tour. Over the past four years he has appeared in about 50 television programs, and never had anything bizarre like this occur.
He said he won"t let the trauma keep him from the country.
"In cabs on the way to the hospital (for follow-up treatment) people would recognize us and express how embarrassed they were," that this happened, he said.
The goal of the tour is to bring joy, illusion and love to people, Houchin said, which makes the events that much more disheartening.
He would have returned to Chico sooner, but Barazarte was not yet in custody, but was traveling in the United States.
"Our lawyers advised us to start putting out press releases to get international pressure," for Barazarte"s return. Barazarte is from Venezuela, Houchin said.
Barazarte"s attorney was in contact with the judge in the Dominican Republic, and Houchin was able to give his statement to the judge, and thus return to Chico.
Houchin"s attorneys have asked for travel restrictions for Barazarte, in case he wanted to leave the country again before the case is resolved.
In statements to the Associated Press, Barazarte has said he did not intend for the blessing to go badly, and that he had performed numerous blessings in the past.
Monica Pena, a spokeswoman for the Dominican prosecutors" office, said prosecutors will request that a judge impose a bond, bar Barazarte from leaving the country and order periodic court appearances before the trial.
A judge has until today to issue a ruling, the Associated Press reported.
Houchin grew up in Chico and graduated from Pleasant Valley High School in 2001. As a teen, he performed in downtown Chico, including a dramatic stunt where he escaped from a straight jacket while dangling from a crane downtown.
Now age 30, Houchin"s career has progressed, including international performances. Last month the Discovery Channel began airing episodes of "Breaking Magic," in which Houchin is one of the magician hosts. He also appeared on the Today Show in New York.
After the injury, Houchin has had to cancel his appearance both overseas and in the United States, he said.


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Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Trickle-Up Effect
More on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The announcement of a royal wedding is a cause for excitement among loyal subjects, but it's also an opportunity for assorted tea-towel vendors, commemorative plate makers and many other people to make a great deal of money off the back of it.It's not unusual for a software release to trigger a hardware refresh. With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, many OEMs are counting on it.
And so it is with enterprise server operating systems. Last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 generated much excitement from its loyal customers. Many of Red Hat's partners are hoping the release will provide them with an opportunity to make a great deal of money off the back of it, too. Although the RHEL 6.0 server OS includes numerous significant new features -- a new hybrid 2.6.32 kernel; support for more cores and memory; better reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities; the ext4 file system by default; and so more -- it was hard to discern that from the clamor of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) hardware partners preparing to make money by selling more of their lovely server boxes and associated services.
HP for one certainly sees RHEL 6.0 as an opportunity to boost its sales, both to existing customers and to "UNIX defectors" -- companies looking to ditch their existing UNIX setups and move to open source software. Most of those are likely to be disgruntled ex-Sun customers, said Scott Farrand, HP's VP Infrastructure Severs and Software. "There is definitely a march from UNIX to Linux, and a preference to use x86-based hardware. Given that, and the 'situation' at Sun/Oracle, most are coming from Solaris/SPARC," he said.
HP (NYSE: HPQ), naturally, is ready to welcome Oracle's Solaris customers into its corporate fold, and it has set up its market stall with UNIX-to-Linux migration services, programs that help convert the UNIX source code of proprietary programs to Linux, and of course its Proliant server range on which to run all of this software. "In the Linux world people are used to buying hardware, system code and services from one system provider. They want one throat to choke," Farrand explained. He said defectors will get the benefit of HP's Proliant server management tools for Linux, including the iLO3 coprocessor (which can be used to help reduce energy consumption by 20W-30W per server), Virtual Connect fast failover, HP's own YUM repository of server utilities and device drivers, the SmartStart scripting toolkit, HP's Insight Control for Linux management tool, and cloud-related tools like HP's Cloud Maps which can be used to specify the cpu requirements, network connections and other variables needed for a given workload to be rolled out in a private cloud on HP hardware. (Of course Solaris users could just migrate to Oracle Enterprise Linux, but Farrand doesn't see that as much of a risk: "We are not seeing Oracle showing up as a Linux competitor," he added.)
The situation is pretty odd, when you think about it. One one hand, HP is trying to tempt Sun/Oracle's UNIX customers to abandon UNIX and defect to Linux, while on the other hand it extols the benefits of its own HP-UX UNIX to its existing UNIX customers. You can't help thinking that if HP's Red Hat 6.0-based Proliant offerings are really as good as it says they are, then it's going to be increasingly hard for HP to keep a straight face while selling expensive HP-UX solutions to its UNIX customers.
It seems HP wants the best of both worlds -- not unlike a Royal Wedding tea-towel vendor who tries to make an additional buck or two by selling "Down with the monarchy" buttons on the side.
Paul Rubens is a journalist based in Marlow on Thames, England. He has been programming, tinkering and generally sitting in front of computer screens since his first encounter with a DEC PDP-11 in 1979.


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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
we need to work on that . . .
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Chocolate Pudding Cake. . .
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Saturday, August 23, 2008
The Bracken Files
I have been bugging my sister for months to start blogging and she finally took the plunge! This is her beautiful family. This is her blog . Other people I am going to bug until they start a blog: my mom and my good friend Laura. Get blogging girls!
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Ladies and Gentlemen
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
This one is for you Aileen
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Friday, August 15, 2008
The things they say
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
What's for dinner
Found a great new recipe. I made it tonight and it was a hit with everyone. Click here if you want the recipe for chicken with zucchini and muchrooms. Yum Yum. It's a keeper.
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20 minute pick up
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Hangin' Out
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James: You are the best mom in the world.
Me: Oh, thank you.
James: No, really. I am SERIOUS. You are the best mom EVER!
I am going to call the news.
Me: The news, Why?
James: Because everyone needs to know this. Actually, I don't know how to call the news. I am going to have dad call. Tomorrow.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
There's too many kids in this tub
There's too many elbows to scrub
I just washed a behind that I'm sure wasn't mine
There's too many kids in this tub.
-Shel Silverstein
After a long and eventful day we wanted the fastest way to get 7 kids bathed and into bed so we threw a swimming suit on James and this is what we had. Of couse there was no getting to bed fast, afterall, it was a cousin slumber party.
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Yahoo Finance had a good service that allowed you to download share prices. Unfortunately, it seems to have been acting up lately, and is going the way of all things Yahoo, namely downhill.
The good news is that Mathematica can download share prices. If anyone is interested in learning how Mathematica can be used as a portfolio tracker, then let me know, and I'll do a write-up on it.
I'm very happy that Mathematica is included in the Raspberry Pi distro. I hope it continues!


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A book by Dr. Daniel Woolsey of the Hope College Spanish faculty explores a new way of determining how well students understand two common verbs that often prove uncommonly difficult for native English speakers to grasp.
It's an approach that puts pop culture to work, relying on students' familiarity with well-known celebrities like Harrison Ford, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Britney Spears to help show whether or not they grasp the nuances in two words that when translated to English seem to have the same meaning.
Woolsey's focus is on the verbs "estar" and "ser," which in Spanish both mean "to be," although with sometimes subtle differences. He notes that the verbs present a particular challenge to native English speakers because they've grown up with only one word to express the idea and must learn how to determine which to use.
Woolsey's book "Development of Learner Use of 'Estar + Adjective' in Contexts of Comparison within an Individual Frame of Reference: An Exploration of Contexts of Comparison and Immediate Experience" was published by LINCOM Europa of Munich, Germany, in the fall. In it, he reviews different ways the two verbs are used and presents an overview of the way that they have been taught, and then shares his celebrity-based way of assessing students' understanding.
According to Woolsey, though traditional instruction generally teaches that "ser" is used to describe permanent characteristics while "estar" is used to describe temporary conditions, the reality is that a number of other contextual variables also play important roles in choosing between the two verbs. In fact, categorizing adjectives as characteristics or conditions sets up a false dichotomy since the majority of adjectives may be used correctly with both verbs.
"'Feliz' [happy] can be used appropriately with either 'ser' or 'estar,' though to most native speakers they are not interchangeable, that is they communicate slightly different meanings," Woolsey said. "Furthermore, many of those meanings are contextual meanings, unrelated to linguistic features but rather tied to the situation and the speaker's intent."
"It is understandable, therefore, why deciphering those contextual meanings is one of the biggest challenges that second language learners face when acquiring 'ser' and 'estar,'" he said.
A challenge facing educators, Woolsey noted, is how to decipher whether or not their students grasp the difference. For example, either verb could be correct in response to a question like "Is your friend happy?" depending on both the friend and the student's perception.
The approach that Woolsey highlights in his book, which he developed while pursuing his doctorate at IndianaUniversity, was a PowerPoint exercise featuring a series of questions related to well-known celebrities. The students were first asked to describe the celebrity's appearance and disposition in a general sense, and then were asked to provide answers based on specific comparison questions and photographs. He chose the specific mix--Harrison Ford, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Britney Spears--so that the students would respond based on people with whom they were familiar and who they shared in common, the better to create situations calculated to use "ser" or "estar."
"The progression of slides was always the same: (1) no pictures, no comparison; (2) no pictures, comparing life stages; (3) one picture, no comparison; and (4) two pictures, comparison prompted," he said. "These methods, along with the use of an English repeat-aloud component, help confirm speaker intent."
Woolsey applied the study to 111 undergraduate Spanish students at four different levels of proficiency while at IndianaUniversity. He found that while the results in the comparisons were mixed, the upper-level students were consistent in using "estar" more frequently when reacting to the pictures of the celebrity. While he feels that the methodology is a work in progress, he believes that it shows promise for future research by instructors seeking to more effectively teach and measure what students understand.
Woolsey's doctorate from Indiana University is in foreign language education, with an emphasis on second-language acquisition and critical literacy. He has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2005.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Sickles' painting style
You've heard the expression, "He's got a great face for radio"? If one transposed the concept behind that expression over to illustration, perhaps one might say of Noel Sickles, "When it comes to full-on painting, he makes a great line art illustrator". I mean "line art" in the broader sense, because Sickles' chiaroscuro inking technique gave his black and white art an incredible range of tonality as well as a painterly quality.
Sickles' colour work was most successful when it was transparent colour over black and white art. When the artist attempted to work with opaque paints, the results were less than spectacular. The fact that Sickles is so rarely represented in magazines like the Saturday Evening Post compared to the likes of say, Fred Ludekens or Bruce Bomberger (when it comes to the kind of fully painted adventure assignments for which he seems so perfect) might confirm my suspicions that the ADs also did not consider him as their first choice.
But not to disparage Sickles; because underneath those paintings was a fabulously strong composition and rock solid drawing. I messed around in Photoshop with these two pieces in an attempt to get across what I mean.
Here one can almost imagine what Sickles' initial pencil and ink treatment might have looked like. Sickles once said, "Rather than work in minute detail all over my drawing, I have found that if I take pain to use careful and exact detail in the right places... I can handle the balance of my drawing in a broad fashion. The eye will infer a complete statement from such indication." This was the essence of what made Sickles' work so brilliant. Even in his less successful painted work, that quality shines through.
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Sickles' technique has been related to impressionism because he broke everything down into light and shade. Many great oil painters, such as John Singer Sargent, have stressed the importance of simplifying a picture's values into two or three ranges (shadow, midtone, highlight). Sickles perfected this approach in his black and white work.ReplyDelete
His only flaw seems to be that he just couldn't get rid of the black. I wonder how much knowledge he possessed on color theory?
Still any colorist could take some lessons from his mastery of value simplification.
Well put, Jacob. I find Sickles, like Fawcett, could not escape his deep roots in b/w comic strip art (or perhaps didn't care too). As you know from reading the Comics Journal interview, Sickles was self-taught and enjoyed experimenting - but I don't get the sense that he would have sat down to study tried and true art course colour theory. Perhaps that speaks to why his paintings (at least the few I've seen) leave something to be desired.ReplyDelete


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Readers of the Postcards column offered lots of feedback about last week's column on my favorite roadside stops.
Most of the letters were friendly, equipped with plenty of suggestions about other homegrown eateries and attractions worth taking the long way on a future road trip.
For instance, the next time I'm in South Florida, I'm pretty sure I'll find a way to swing by Shorty's Bar-B-Q (9200 S. Dixie Highway, Miami), which comes highly recommended from Postcards reader Bill Read, who reports that reading last week's column made him hungry.
There were other recommendations for barbecue restaurants as well as a shout-out for Chamblin Bookmine (chamblinbookmine.com), a mammoth used bookstore in Jacksonville. Reader Alan Becker favors the Chamblin store south of the city, rather than the smaller one downtown.
I'll be reporting on some of these spots in future columns.
Not all the responses were so positive:
"Your roadside stops column in yesterday's paper was at least right about one thing," writes Al Varasdi of Kissimmee about my endorsement of Buddy Freddy's buffet in Plant City. "Buddy Freddy's is not even the best restaurant you can find at that I-4 exit. I realize we all have different opinions, but Buddy Freddy's is bad."
As I mentioned, it's more of a sentimental attachment, Al.
Quirks go a long way with me. In that spirit, here are a few more unlikely blips to add to the roadside radar.
In Port Orange, intrepid barhoppers will want to experience The Last Resort (5812 S. Ridgewood Ave.), the biker bar made famous after serial killer Aileen Wuornos was arrested there in 1991. That notoriety resulted in a face-lift for the bar, which was used as a location for "Monster," the 2003 movie about the case that starred Charlize Theron.
It's still plenty earthy inside, so I'd recommend taking your beer out to the grassy yard behind the bar, decorated with motorcycle parts dangling from the trees on my visit a few years back.
I like unmarked historic landmarks. The Derry Down, the Winter Haven coffeehouse where country singer Gram Parsons first performed, is now a warehouse across Avenue D from Carlton's Music Center. Nearby, his name is etched in the driveway of his childhood home at 941 Piedmont Drive. Take his music along.
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Random Walk: In the Operating Room
At 6 a.m. one Wednesday in May, students entered an operating room at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to try their hand at robot-assisted surgery. Professor Ryan Halter Th'06 wanted his ENGS 57/169: "Intermediate Biomedical Engineering" class to literally get the feel of a da Vinci surgical system, using handles in a console to control robotic arms set above an operating table on the other side of the room. "It was incredibly rewarding to sit behind the actual instrument where, just a few weeks prior, we saw a prostatectomy being performed—and actually use the same device as the surgeon used," says Alex Engler '12. "Within five minutes I was successfully 'suturing' a rubber ring to a foam-core base. It gave a real sense of appreciation for the engineering that went into creating this device." The experience aided students in developing solutions to real clinical needs: an LED-based technique to guide ultrasound during robot-assisted kidney surgery, a probe for sensing surgical margins during robot-assisted prostate surgery, a fixation system for jaw surgery, and a vacuum-attachment device for use in laser ablative skin procedures. According to Halter, the groups that worked on the jaw and vacuum devices are pursuing patent protection.
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Annual Adrift Comp 2013
It took a little while (sorry about that) but the Annual Adrift Competition has hereby been officially launched.
I hope that we can make this an ongoing thing, so please put your doubts aside and join the competition.
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Fairway is Committed to VeteransNovember 11, 2015 12:00 am
Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation is passionate about giving back to those who sacrifice for the freedom of the people who live in and love this great country. It is our honor to help military families purchase homes throughout the United States each and every day. We take the time to explain all of the loan options available, including VA loans.
Our commitment to veterans runs deeper than making sure that they have the best possible experience when buying a home. Fairway employees contribute directly to the American Warrior Initiative. AWI's mission is to educate Realtors across the country about how to best assist military families in buying homes. Louise Thaxton and Sean Parnell, co-founders of the American Warrior Initiative, presented to the crowd of real estate agents and Fairway employees. Sean Parnell is a decorated U.S. Army Captain and Airborne Ranger, and author of New York Times bestselling book Outlaw Platoon.
But AWI goes much further than that – our initiative changes lives of U.S. veterans. Yesterday, at an event in Charlotte, North Carolina, Fairway and the American Warrior Initiative honored two veterans who served our country. In front of hundreds of people, decorated Charlotte-area veteran Lewis Hunt was presented with a service dog through Saving Grace K9's.
Also honored was Jorge Sanchez, a disabled veteran and a single father of five. Due to the cost of his medical bills, Sanchez was not going to be able to attend his youngest son's graduation from Air Force Basic Training on Thanksgiving Day in San Antonio, TX. Sanchez was surprised with a $10,000 check for an all-expenses-paid trip for his whole family to San Antonio. He is able to use any remaining money for his medical bills.
The opportunity to give back to those who have sacrificed so much for our country is something that we never take for granted at Fairway. We feel honored to have been able help two worthy veterans in need. I am proud that I work for a company that gives back to the military community in many ways.
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Having recently wrapped up three weeks of guiding Big Mountain Bike Adventures trips in Switzerland, my mind is alight with multiple moments of adventure, almost too many to distill singular experiences. It's probably easier to just summarize an entire trip as a whole. While tempted to do this, there was one particular day that stood out amongst all the others.
The stark contrast of this day is not so much about the riding itself. The ride does feature some spectacular singletrack, but the uniqueness of the day is more about how it allowed us to travel with our bikes. Travel in the sense of moving through terrain; achieving numerous objectives over the course of a day while focused on a final destination, one very different from the beginning of the adventure.
The day started cold and clear in Lourtier, our sleepy little homebase tucked into the postcard-perfect Val de Bagnes, Switzerland. I had made the executive decision to postpone this particular outing a couple days due to a low freezing level and poor weather, and looking out the window at a splitter blue sky, I felt very self congratulatory and guide-like. Taking advantage of this perfect weather window, our group powered back a Swiss breakfast (mostly bread, cheese and meat) and headed out.
The climb begins as quintessentially as a Swiss climb should: in a tunnel. The tunnel bores up through the mountainside next to the Mauvoisin Dam, at 250 metres tall it is the highest arched dam in Europe. The tunnel is faintly lit, water seeping through the ceiling. We climb up the narrow dirt track, sporadically sniping sights of the dam and lake below us through small ports in the rock. Finally, the tunnel ends, and we emerge, blinking, into blinding sunlight on the other side, a fantastic view of mountains and water and glaciers and rivers spilling out in front of us. Inspired by the sight we bend into a grinding road climb that eventually gives way to a even more oppressive hike-a-bike that finally relents to a merely painful climb, all getting us closer to the Fenetre du Durand, a 2800m col that marks the border between Switzerland and Italy.
As we climb the air becomes sharper, distilled by the last few days of freezing temperatures. The crisp air seems to bring out our surroundings in flawless relief. Snow-capped peaks tower above the distinct singletrack that stretches out in front of our tires, and as we crest the col, Italy beckons below, a different landscape perhaps only in perspective, but beckoning us onwards in perfect detail.
The ride down is a glorious amalgamation of flowy trail, technical rock features, and everything in between. While down is the general direction, we traverse through the valley for a long distance on a perfectly graded "bisse", or ancient waterway designed to re-direct water from the glaciers to mid-mountain fields and towns. As we descend the air becomes warmer, as one would imagine it would, descending into Italy. It all seems so perfect.
The final descent is long and winding, on a rarely visited trail that recently revealed itself thanks to some keen map reading and some valuable local knowledge. We revel in the secrecy of the spot, shredding down the rolling singletrack. At one point the trail points down through a perfectly-spaced group of larch trees, the forest floor nothing but knee-high vibrant green grasses, the trail cutting a straight line through. The afternoon sun dapples the grass, as a light wind creates a wild kaleidoscope of light in front of our tires. Minds blown, we rocket through the trees and exit out on the road far below, coasting down to the Italian town of Aosta for eagerly awaited beers.
After spending the day bundled up in the high mountains, it is an abrupt change to find ourselves in the old town of Aosta. The sun is warm, and as we relax and drink beers we witness a perfect slice of Italian life unfold around us. The striking differences between our morning's departure and where we are now help to gel the unique experiences of the day together, and we celebrate two-wheeled travel, Italian style.


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A few things combined prompted this.
- Dave Moulton had a nice rant.
- St. Charles county wants to ban bicycles on certain roads.
- People want to debate about bikes on roads and where they should ride.
- I posted about "Gutter Bunnies" on BikeCommuters.com
- Someone in Johnson County got injured badly by riding into an under-construction gutter seam.
- Eric points out this awesome animation about the perils of a shy, cowardly curb-hugger vs. a savvy, confident cyclist.


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A newcomer into the photo printing sector, Samsung has recently launched two compact photo printers based on dye-sub technology, of which the SPP-2040 is the more up-market. With a considerably larger footprint than some competing models, especially when in use, the Samsung isn't much of a travelling companion either, as there's no optional battery pack that you can power it from.
Back on the desk, the SPP-2040 does at least include a card reader and LCD screen, along with fairly basic standalone print controls. Print speeds are a little on the slow side for single photos but, if you print a number of shots in one batch, the speed increases noticeably after the first print.
Of more permanent interest, print quality is pretty good all round, with a nice level of sharpness and fairly accurate colour rendition. In this respect, the Samsung came out ahead of the Canon dye-sub printers in our tests.
Consumables are purchased in packs of 120 glossy photo pages, along with the requisite dye-sub cartridge for that many prints, the average cost working out at a low 21p per print. As with other dye-sub printers, you can print a lot of photos which have heavy dye usage, such as night scenes for example, without worrying that you're going to run out of ink supplies prematurely. Matthew Richards


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Last fall, I met a terrific woman from the Mediterranean who may be "the one." She's beautiful and has a great body that she likes to show off, but she is also very hairy. She never shaved back home, and having now been steeped in years of women's studies in the United States, she has become militant about not conforming to the ideal of hairless womanhood. She can't wait to spend lots of time at my parents' beach house this summer. She has bought a tiny bikini that she plans on wearing, so lots of her pubic hair is guaranteed to be on display. My mom and dad are going to faint. Hair in the armpits? European. Hair on the legs? Granola. But pubic hair all over the place? I've told her she may want to "trim up a bit," but she refuses. What to do, besides hide her from my mom and dad?
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If she feels about you the way you feel about her, surely she wants to snatch this opportunity to make a good impression on your parents. Appeal to her vanity: Tell her that if she refuses to trim her undergrowth, your parents' embarrassment will keep them from appreciating her great mind and beautiful figure. Appeal to her sophistication: Since she's lived a cross-cultural life, she knows that making a small gesture can be all that's needed to keep from muffing a sensitive encounter. Appeal to her affection for you: Explain that if her pubic hair is also her public hair, you're going to want to hide in the bushes. Emphasize that you are not asking for permanent defoliation, just for an application of depilatory so that when beach time comes around and your neither European nor granola parents see her itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny bikini, their hair won't stand on end.
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I am a college sophomore living in a dormitory. The majority of us engage in small, college-type debauchery (e.g., underage drinking, loud music, minor drug use) that the resident director more or less ignores. The problem is a nosy girl who lives across the hall. She appears to have the entire college rule book memorized and takes a special thrill in reporting people for infractions. Recently, after hearing that a freshman was selling drugs, she went directly to the police. The boy's room was raided, narcotics were found, and he was expelled. He was popular, and now animosity toward her has reached a fever pitch. In response, she has started complaining about individuals in Facebook posts, yelling from her open door about the horrible people in our hall, etc. Her obsession with school code and inability to get along is frightening, and even though I don't smoke or drink, I feel what she's doing is over the line. Do I have justification to complain to the RD, or should I simply try to ignore her and hope that she doesn't decide to watch me too intently?
—Utterly Confused
Dear Utterly Confused,
Some students are pre-med, some are pre-law, and your dorm mate is pre-internal affairs. Although she's wreaking havoc, she also sounds like a sad case with an emotional disorder who may be destined to go through life alienating people—unless she manages to get ahold of power and goes through life destroying people. However, while she may be obsessed with those who violate the rules, surely your campus code has something to say about screaming abuse at people or making ad hominem online attacks. You should go to your resident director to discuss this. You might want to take someone else from the dorm with you so it doesn't sound like a personal vendetta, but don't bring a big group because you don't want to sound like a mob. Describe specific incidents as dispassionately as possible, and explain how this student has created an atmosphere of hostility and fear. You can express sympathy about what an unhappy person she must be, but explain something needs to be done because her unhappiness is making everyone else miserable.
Dear Prudence,
I am a photographer and was asked by a friend of my mother's to do a photo project. She asked me whether I could take pictures of her demonstrating various ways of committing suicide in black and white, then paint red blood on the prints afterward. I know that this woman has had problems with depression in the past. My mom is her very close friend, and she asked me not to tell my mother about the project. She said this project is to help her work through some issues. Do I do it? Do I tell my mother about this in case her friend is seriously contemplating suicide? Do you think presenting her with images of her own fake suicide will encourage or discourage suicidal thoughts?
—To Shoot or Not To Shoot
Dear To Shoot,
This woman could have gone to a photographer she doesn't know and explained she's taking a conceptual art class on taboo breaking. Instead, she came to the child of her close friend with this macabre project. This is what's known as "a cry for help." It is a sign of how confused her psychological state is that she would involve a young person toward whom she should have some motherly feelings in this disturbing enterprise. If a chronically depressed person wants to rehearse and record various methods of killing herself, then she needs immediate intervention, because her actions are shrieking that she's a suicide risk. You must tell your mother, and your mother should call her friend's therapist. If her friend doesn't have one, your mother should call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-TALK) for advice on getting her friend some help. Do not feel guilty about telling this secret—that's a burden you should not keep.
Dear Prudie,
I had been dating the man I thought I would spend the rest of my life with for almost two years when his ex-wife told him she was dying of cancer and that he should come back to be with her and their son. She put so much guilt on him that he would hardly talk to me. Then one day she called to tell me they were getting back together! He never had the nerve to tell me. I was devastated and could hardly function for months. It takes too much effort to be mad, so I told him that I forgave him and I hoped he and his son were happy. A month ago, I encountered someone I had known 20 years ago in high school. He is a wonderful person, and I can imagine a future with him. We have been inseparable. The kicker is that now the man who dumped me realizes that he made a huge mistake because he found out that the ex is not dying—it's just more of her lies and manipulation. I love him more than anything, but I just don't know if I can risk being hurt like that again. Do I go back to him or stay with the new man, who is not the type ever to hurt anyone?
—Back or Forth
Dear Back,
You might want to consider sending a big bouquet to your ex's ex, since she saved you from life with a weak weasel. It is possible to have some sympathy for someone who breaks off a current relationship to go back to a dying former wife, but if she's a well-known manipulator, it would be a good idea to see an x-ray of the tumor before heading home. Every time you consider resuming a relationship with this guy, try recalling the miserable, cowardly way he treated you. You, however, behaved magnanimously, and maybe that's why the gods of romance have shined down on you and brought you this lovely man from your past. You're still emotionally vulnerable, so I suggest you take it slow and steady with your high-school guy—he may be everything you say, but you may be prone to idealizing your beaux. And when your ex begs your forgiveness, remind him you've already forgiven him once, and once was enough.


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A culinary experience held just three times a yearGourmet Evenings at Chapter One.
DATESMonday 2nd November
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Join Chapter One for a Champagne reception with canapés, followed by a seven-course formal dinner with each course being specially matched with a particular wine and get the opportunity to meet the wine producer as well as the Chapter One Chef and team.
All for the very special price of only £105.00 per person inclusive of all food and wine.
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SAMPLE GOURMET MENU7-courses with wines - £105.00 per person (full deposit required)
Hot & Cold Canapés
Champagne Bernard Remy Brut
Velouté of Mussels with Pernod Sabayon
Organic Sauvignon Blanc Reserva, 2018, Viña Emiliana, Casablanca Valley, Chile
Ceviche of Halibut, Lime and Chilli Dressing, Pomelo & Coriander
Pinot Gris, 2017, The Crossings Estate, Marlborough, New Zealand
Strozzapreti with Morel Mushrooms & Wild Garlic
Minervois, 2015, Château Agnel, Languedoc, France
Roast Saddle of Lamb, Crispy Fondant Sweetbreads,
Roasted Carrot, Cumin Purée & Lamb Jus
Château Durand Laplagne "Terres Rouge", 2014, Puisseguin St Emilion, France
Manjari Chocolate Panna Cotta,
Blood Orange Espuma & Mini Doughnuts
Stem Ginger and Mascarpone Mousse,
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) - Little League began 75 years ago with three teams and a big dream: to teach boys the fundamentals of baseball along with values like teamwork and sportsmanship.
Today it's a global enterprise with 2.1 million baseball players and a long-running TV contract for its signature event, the 10-day Little League World Series, played each August in South Williamsport.
Little League is marking its 75th anniversary with a new PBS documentary, a partnership with Major League Baseball and a website that's collecting players' memories and photos.
With thousands of local leagues in 50 states and more than 80 countries, Little League's appeal remains little changed from June 6, 1939, when the eager boys of Lycoming Dairy and Lundy Lumber met in the inaugural game.


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In Part One I examined some myths about hardware and software appliances and showed appliances are mainly packaged software components.In Part Two I described why hardware appliances became so successful in the last years and where.
In this part I'll try to show how virtual appliances combine the best of both worlds.They combine the benefits of both software and hardware appliances with the extreme flexibility of virtualized computing.
Looking back to 2002, Check Point released SecurePlatform – an appliance on a CD, also known internally by the cool name "Black CD". At the time, Check Point "real" hardware offering was not very successful and it relied on Nokia appliances to compete with Cisco and NetScreen appliances.
NetScreen appliances and appliances in general became more and more successful . Nokia produced excellent appliances as well, but they were typcalliy sold at a very high premium , chiefly for the brand.
SecurePlatform was invented in order to offer the customers a cheaper option. SecurePaltform is a basically a bootable CD that one inserts into any x86 servers that formats the hard drive and installs a secure, shrunk down, Linux operating system with all of Check Point software products pre-installed.
The idea is to get most of the "real" appliance advantages (ease of install, drivers, secure OS, fast boot time,optimized performance) with the advantages of sofwatre ( flexibility, modularity, familiar shell and interfaces) at a very cheap hardware price (customer can choose his box and use x86 agreements and discounts).It also allows the customer to grow capcity easily without complex upgrades.
Overtime SecurePlatform became very successful and turned in to the customers' favorite deployment choice. While in 2003 it still lacked a lot of appliance features ( image management, backup and recovery, web based interface), those were added along the years.
It is important to note that SecurePlatform based appliances, like other CD appliances, still had some gaps from other appliances.
1. The form factor is still of a standard PC. With 1U servers becoming the norm it was less of an issue, but the number of network interfaces was still a problem in some cases.
2. Keeping up with driver computability with all the x86 vendors was very hard. When Dell\HP\Lenovo release a new firmware\driver they don't bother to update anyone and back porting Linux based device drivers is not fun at all. The implications are that the appliance is not as generic as would seem.
3. There is no single point of support for hardware+software.
4. There is no "real" hardware acceleration, if it is really needed.
To overcome some of these, in 2005, Check Point started selling hardware appliances, based on SecurePlatform as another alternative.
Virtual Appliances are the next generation in the same concept.
Because the hypervisor presents a standard "hardware" API to the operating system, most of the compatibility issues are solved by the hypervisor manufacturers. Because the appliance is packed as a standard virtual machines, there is no need for the reboot\format\install procedure.
Of course, since the appliane is a virtual machine the customer enjoys great flexibility, not found in regular appliances or even "CD Appliances"
- High Availability and load balancing across physical server (e.g Vmotion)
- Full control over memory and CPU allocation in real time
- Easy provisioning , tracking and backup which are appliance independent
- Consolidating many appliances to one physical server while maintaining modular design and software independence
- The appliance can be used "inside" hypervisors, so there is no need to move traffic from the bus to the network
- Form factor and port density are less of an issue , since the switches and routers are virtual as well
To make the creation of virtual appliances easier, companies like Rpath, are providing an easy to use software to handle a lot of the work Check Point, NetScreen and other vendors and to redo to create their own appliances.
Some problems still remain open, mainly the lack of standard central management to control appliances from different vendors. I'm guessing one start-up or another is working on the problem.Hardware acceleration is lacking, but it would be probably be solved by future developments in the core virtualization companies.And no one needs hardware acceleration anyway 🙂
To summarize, it seems that virtual appliances turn software into the king again.They combine software advantages and overcome its shortcomings.
In a cloud based world, there is a good chance it will become the favorite deployment vehicle.


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I have a program that I need to finish before tomorrow and here are the instructions:
To draw two circles plus a line connecting their centers and then print a few facts about the circles. The (x, y) coordinates and radii of the circles must be accepted from the user.
The applet's algorithm is as follows:
1. Ask the user for the x-coordinate for the location of a circle.
2. Ask the user for the y-coordinate for the location of a circle.
3. Ask the user for the x-coordinate for the location of another circle.
4. Ask the user for the y-coordinate for the location of another circle.
5. Ask the user for the radius of a circle.
6. Ask the user for the radius of another circle.
7. Draw both circles using the x, y coordinates and radii given by the user.
8. Draw a line connecting both centers.
9. Write the following facts about the circles:
a. Each circle's area
b. Each circle's circumference
c. Whether or not the circles touch each other.
•This program must extend a JFrame.
•Set the size of the program to 500x500 using the setSize(500, 500); function.
•Remember that when you draw the circles, you must use the drawOval() function, but it will NOT use the center of the circle as the x,y coordinate, it will use the upper-left corner of the shape. So you must adjust the ends of the line segment so that it connects the circles by their centers (add the radius to the x and y coordinates of the circles to do this).
•Use the drawString() function to display the messages about the circles. The numbers for the area and circumference should be formatted using %1.3f. This can be done by using the String class's format() function for example:
drawstring(String.format("area = %1.3f", circle1Area));
•Your program class should contain private double variables to store the circle data.
•Use Math.PI to get the value of Pi (3.14159…) for calculating the area and circumference.
•To find out if the circles overlap, you can use the Distance Formula (look it up) to find the distance between their centers, then compare that distance to the sum of the two circles' radii. If the distance is less than or equal to the sum of the radii, they overlap.
The problems I'm having is basically Steps 7-9 and A, B and C. I don't know how I'm supposed to do the string formatting, drawing the circles, drawing a line connecting their centers and how to calculate the area and circumference. So when I run this, it does the first 6 steps and then the window shows up blank because I don't have the rest of the information. I have included a picture of what its supposed to look like, sorry that the circles got cut off, but that's what it kind of is supposed show. You can kind of see that the line connects the centers.
Image.jpgHere is the code I have so far:
import javax.swing.JFrame; import java.awt.Graphics; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; import java.lang.Math; import java.util.Scanner; /** * * @author Nate */ public class Program1 extends JFrame { private static final int FRAME_SIZE = 500; private static final double PI =3.14159; private static final double X1 = 100; private static final double X2 = 100; private static final double Y1 = 150; private static final double Y2 = 200; private static final double R1 = 50; private static final double R2 = 60; public void paintComponent(Graphics canvas) { super.paintComponents(canvas); } @Override public void paint(Graphics g) { super.paint(g); Graphics canvas = (Graphics)g; } public static void main(String[] args) { String circle1XcoordinateString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the X-Coordinate of circle #1"); int circle1X = Integer.parseInt(circle1XcoordinateString); String circle2XcoordinateString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the X-Coordinate of circle #2"); int circle2X = Integer.parseInt(circle2XcoordinateString); String circle1YcoordinateString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the Y-Coordinate of circle #1"); int circle1Y = Integer.parseInt(circle1YcoordinateString); String circle2YcoordinateString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the Y-Coordinate of circle #2"); int circle2Y = Integer.parseInt(circle2YcoordinateString); String radius1String = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the radius of circle #1"); int radius1 = Integer.parseInt(radius1String); String radius2String = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the radius of circle #2"); int radius2 = Integer.parseInt(radius2String); JFrame guiWindow = new JFrame(); guiWindow.setVisible(true); guiWindow.setSize(500, 500); guiWindow.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); } }


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I broke my eyeglasses a few months ago. While loading a toolbox into the back of the car, my eyeglasses slipped off my face and landed on the concrete driveway. One lens shattered.
Luckily, I also have prescription sunglasses that happened to be in the front seat console of the auto. I put the sunglasses on and had full vision but I wouldn't want to wear them around the house and especially not at night.
I should also mention that I was in Florida at the time but I purchased the glasses a bit more than a year earlier from a big-name optical franchise in Massachusetts. I drove to a local franchisee in Orlando of the same chain, hoping they would have my prescription on file in their computers and could make new glasses for me quickly. Alas, it was not that easy. It seems the local store's computers could not access prescription information from another store.
A very helpful clerk suggested I call the office of the ophthalmologist that wrote the prescription and ask someone at that office to FAX the prescription to the local store. I had a better idea.
I remembered that I had taken a picture of the prescription within a few minutes after I received it last year, using my cell phone's camera, and then had saved the picture in Dropbox. I also remembered that the picture had been very clear and the text of the prescription was easily readable in the picture. While still in the store in Florida, I pulled the cell phone out of my pocket, pressed the Dropbox icon, and retrieved the prescription from the Dropbox servers. A few seconds later, a crystal clear image of the prescription appeared on my cellphone screen.
Of course, an optician cannot easily make new glasses while looking at a prescription displayed on a tiny screen. I also did not have a printer with me. I asked the store clerk, "Does the store have an email address?" He said they did have email and gave me the address.
While still displaying the prescription on the screen, I pressed the "forward" icon in the lower left corner of the screen, pressed EMAIL, and then entered the email address of the store that the clerk had given me. I then pressed SEND. The clerk went out to the back room and re-appeared about a minute later with a piece of paper in his hand: my prescription. It was much clearer and easier to read than the typical FAX document.
The total time consumed was less than five minutes. That certainly is much faster than calling an ophthalmologist's office in another state (especially if it was after office hours), asking them to FAX the document, and then waiting for it to arrive.
My glasses were ready a few hours later.
Between Dropbox and Evernote, I have thousands of documents filed away, including prescriptions, insurance policies, travel itineraries, bills, automobile titles and registrations, all sorts of receipts, and notes to myself that I used to write on yellow "sticky notes." In effect, I am carrying the equivalent of a large filing cabinet in my pocket at all times.
I also save backup copies of all my genealogy data in Dropbox. The copies include the latest update of my genealogy database (and several earlier versions as well), all text notes I have written, all email messages I have sent or received concerning my own family tree, and scanned images of all the old family photographs. Even if I have a fire or a burst water pipe in my home, I know my data is safe on servers in well-managed data centers that are professionally maintained and backed up often. Of course, I always keep copies on my own computers as well.
You can easily do the same. I use both Dropbox and Evernote. Several other, competitive services are also available. I find Dropbox to be better at keeping documents, pictures, and larger computer files. I especially like the quick and easy method of uploading pictures from a camera. I typically upload the photos every week or two and then delete them from the camera in order to make room for new pictures. However, I prefer Evernote for "notes to myself" as well as many smaller things I wish to save by copying-and-pasting from information displayed on the computer screen.
You might have different preferences. You might find images created by a smartphone's camera are perfectly acceptable. Then again, you might prefer to scan various pieces of paper using a desktop or handheld scanner. Evernote and Dropbox don't care; they will accept either method.
NOTE: Almost all the companies I deal with, including my bank, offer paperless billing or paperless banking. I select that option whenever possible. The mailman delivers very little paper to me these days, except for junk mail and I don't scan that. Almost all my bills now arrive in email where I can quickly save them in Dropbox or in any other cloud-based file storage service. (I tend to use Dropbox but almost all the other cloud-based file storage services will do the same thing.) Bank statements and even canceled checks for the past several years are now available in my Dropbox account. I don't keep any of that on paper.
Security? Much, much better than keeping pieces of paper at the house, where those documents would be available to thieves or to visitors to the house or subject to mold or mildew. Also, I can find those receipts and even canceled checks much faster in Dropbox than in a filing cabinet, especially when on vacation or just traveling down to the local mall to visit an optician.
Both Dropbox and Evernote are available FREE of charge, up to some reasonable amount of data (two gigabytes of storage space for Dropbox, 60 megabytes of data transfer per month for Evernote). Those limits will hold a LOT of documents. More storage space and data transfers are available for reasonable fees.
Both Dropbox and Evernote can retrieve your data to Windows or Macintosh systems as well as most of the popular handheld devices of today. Assuming you carry a smartphone or tablet with you, your "filing cabinet" is available to you wherever you are.
Stop running around! Make your life easier! Store your data in the cloud with Dropbox and/or Evernote or some other cloud-based file storage service. There are dozens to choose from: Google Drive, Tresorit, OneDrive, SugarSync, SpiderOak, Box, Mega.co.nz, iCloud, NextCloud, and more.
For more information, look at http://www.dropbox.com and at http://www.evernote.com


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Removing Emulsified Oils from Cleaner
After installing a new electrocoating system, we are having problems with the presence of emulsified oils in our alkaline cleaner which messes up the finish on our products. How can we remove the emulsified oils?
Q. We manufacture shelving for retail outlets and painted them on a spray paint line for years with no problems. We recently installed an electrocoating system where everything is new, including the cleaner stages, chemicals, type of paint and curing ovens. Now we are having problems with the presence of emulsified oils in our alkaline cleaner which messes up the finish on our products. How can we remove the emulsified oils? W.D.
A. Chemically, you can either change the stamping lubricant or change the cleaning solution chemicals. Physically, you can remove emulsified oils from the alkaline cleaner solution by ultrafiltration. Ultrafilters separate particles from solutions by using selective membranes. This often is done in the pretreatment stages of high-volume finishing lines. With ultrafiltration, the oil is essentially removed as concentrated emulsion from the cleaner solution, and the cleaned solution is then returned to the cleaner stage. This not only makes disposal of emulsified oil concentrate simpler, it also extends the life of the cleaner solution. Ultrafiltration can be done batch-wise or on a continuous basis, depending on the size of the unit and the rate of production.
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Hi guys! There were only 3 people who commented/entered the contest for the Mary's Gone Crackers & coupon. I still used the Random Integer Generator for fairness and the result was:
#1 ~ Erin! Erin said not the most creative answer to your question but I would like to win because I have never tried the black pepper variety or the sticks/twigs!
Congrats Erin!!! I will ship your crackers & coupons out early this week!
Thanks to all who entered & keep checking back this week. I have another fun contest going up Monday morning and yet another towards the end of the week! If you like cereal and yogurt, you are in for a treat! 😉
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All I can say is that it's very cool that ONC now has a blog. This is probably right up there with when I found past HHS secretary Mike Leavitt's blog. Ok, yes I am a complete blog nerd. At least I'm able to admit it up front.
Basically, Judy Sparrow has just done an introduction post where she talks about the Federal Advisory Committees and their role at ONC. She's the ONC liason for these committees and so hopefully she'll keep us updated on progress with these two very important committees. She also provides this explanation about the committees in her first ONC blog post:
"FACAs" get their name from the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which lays out the guidelines for such committees. FACAs are advisory and intended to provide external guidance to the government. Typically members of the group are not federal employees. They are also very open committees – meetings are held in public, information on the meetings is posted in the Federal Register, and all FACA records are readily available. At the very root of the FACA mandate is transparency and collaboration.
ONC has two FACAs – the HIT Policy Committee and the HIT Standards Committee. These committees were established to obtain outside advice or recommendations on key health information technology topics from leaders who represent various stakeholder groups.
I think we generally knew this, but it was nice to have a bit more background. This would have been really useful 6 or so months ago when these committees were a new thing (at least for me).
I hope that Judy is able to keep the blog up to date and that it won't just turn into an announcement site. I hope Judy will provide real content about the process, timelines and perspectives of ONC. If she does that, then it will be really interesting and a great part of the EMR conversation which is already happening on blogs like this one.


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