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Note: This article was first published the April 2008 issue of Python Magazine
By: Mark Mruss
GUI programming, like many other types of programming, can sometimes prove exhausting because you must repeat yourself over and over again. AVC is one tool available to Python GUI programmers that attempts to simplify things by synchronizing application data and GUI widgets.
Every once in a while I find myself browsing the Internet trying to find out what's new and exciting in the Python world. Sometimes I browse to find topics for this article; other times mere curiosity draws me across the web. While I was browsing the other day, I stumbled across AVC: the Application View Controller [1]. I was immediately intrigued by it because its' name is so similar to the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. Being familiar with the Model View Controller pattern, and admittedly having struggles with it in the past, I decided to check out AVC to determine if it might be a viable alternative.
After reading about AVC I was intrigued for several reasons. The main reason was the promise of "a multiplatform, fully automatic, live connection among graphical interface widgets and application variables." [2] This means that graphical widgets can be connected to variables and automatically synchronized. One of the (many?) problems with Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming is that you often find yourself doing the same thing over and over again. One of the things that you end of doing over and over again is setting the contents of a widget based on the value of a variable, and then subsequently, setting that variable's value based on the current state of the widget. Whenever someone promises me an automatic connection between GUI widgets and my variables, I'm interested.


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This first card is for Challenge 13 at the Everything But The Kitchen Sink blog. And it has pink & aqua mixed with kraft....an even better color combo! Yum!
This first card is for Challenge 13 at the Everything But The Kitchen Sink blog. And it has pink & aqua mixed with kraft....an even better color combo! Yum!
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GORGEOUS!!! No surprises there!! :) Loooove the color combos! <3ReplyDelete
oooh I'm in love with that 'just for you' card. So CAS and elegant.ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh Lea, you just keep on amazing me!ReplyDelete
holy gorgeousness lea rae ;)ReplyDelete
LOVE what you've done here!!
Girl..you are sooo rocking these stamps...every single card is GORGEOUS!!!ReplyDelete
lovely cards....great take on the 365 Cards sunday sketch!ReplyDelete
Sweet cards Lea! They are all beautiful:)ReplyDelete
These are all beautiful Lea!!!ReplyDelete
Wow, I can't even say which one is my favorite! I am madly in love with the colors on each and every card but that black/white/turquoise is pretty amazing.ReplyDelete
Very pretty cards, love them all :) Great colors!!ReplyDelete
Oh wow, amazing cards! I think I'm drooling on my keyboard:)ReplyDelete
all three are BEAUTIFUL! Love them all:) Thanks for playing along with us at the PDCC!ReplyDelete
Lea, I love your style...the pink one really a lovely one..I also love the other two cards...so elegant..ReplyDelete
Wow! I am blown away by these cards and your blog is terrific! You have some gorgeous creations throughout! So much inspiration. I am definately hooked! Thanks for the sweet comment on my blog!
Wow lea, these are so gorgeous!!! love themReplyDelete
Ooops, this is a stunning colour splash card but this week's play date colours are black, white and a splash of orange. thanks for playing along thoughReplyDelete
They're all gorgeous Lea!ReplyDelete
they are all gorgeous and love your take on the sketch :)ReplyDelete
These are all just beautiful, Lea!!ReplyDelete
Gracious girlie, couldn't you just make ONE card I don't love?!? I think NOT! ;o)ReplyDelete
I'm speechless...and the damask stamp... Wow! ♥♥ Kay
Absolutely stunning cards! I seriously love your blog! Thanks so much for playing along with EbtKS!ReplyDelete
Such amazingly beautiful cards, Lea. I love aqua and pink, too, and am thinking of painting one of our rooms in that combo.ReplyDelete
Beautiful cards Lea!ReplyDelete
Love your works. Thank you for posting.ReplyDelete
WOW! Beautiful cards! Thanks for playing with us in the EBTKS challenge! :)ReplyDelete
Whoo Hoo, Lea, you won the Sweet Sunday Sketch draw this week with this beauty :D Congrats :DReplyDelete
Absolutely stunning!ReplyDelete
Want to see more..... = )
Congratulations on your win,it is certainly a stunning card.xReplyDelete
I always love popping over to your blog...such gorgeous cards!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! Congrat on winning the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.ReplyDelete

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Arts & Entertainment
Habitot Children's Museum "Back to the Farm" An interactive exhibit gives children the chance to wiggle through tunnels, look into a mirrored fish pond, don farm animal costumes, ride on a John Deere tractor and more. "Recycling Center" Lets the kids crank the conveyor belt to sort cans, plastic bottles and newspaper bundles into dumpster bins. $4 adults; $6 children age 7 and under; $3 for each additional child age 7 and under. Monday and Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Tuesday and Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed Sundays, Memorial Day through Labor Day) Kittredge Street and Shattuck Avenue 647-1111 or www.habitot.org
Judah L. Magnes Museum "Telling Time: To Everything There Is A Season" through May 2002. An exhibit structured around the seasons of the year and the seasons of life with objects ranging from the sacred and the secular, to the provocative and the whimsical. 2911 Russell St. 549-6950
The Asian Galleries "Art of the Sung: Court and Monastery." A display of early Chinese works from the permanent collection. "Chinese Ceramics and Bronzes: The First 3,000 Years," open-ended. "Works on Extended Loan from Warren King," open-ended. "Three Towers of Han," open-ended. $6 general; $4 seniors and students age 12 to 18; free children age 12 and under; free Thursday, 11 a.m. to noon and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. 642-0808
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Lobby, Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley "Tyrannosaurus Rex," ongoing. A 20 by 40-foot replica of the fearsome dinosaur made from casts of bones of the most complete T. Rex skeleton yet excavated. When unearthed in Montana, the bones were all lying in place with only a small piece of the tailbone missing. "Pteranodon" A suspended skeleton of a flying reptile with a wingspan of 22-23 feet. The Pteranodon lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. Free. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 642-1821
UC Berkeley Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology "Approaching a Century of Anthropology: The Phoebe Hearst Museum," open-ended. This new permanent installation will introduce visitors to major topics in the museum's history. "Ishi and the Invention of Yahi Culture," ongoing. This exhibit documents the culture of the Yahi Indians of California as described and demonstrated from 1911 to 1916 by Ishi, the last surviving member of the tribe. $2 general; $1 seniors; $.50 children age 17 and under; free on Thursdays. Wednesday, Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Kroeber Hall, Bancroft Way and College Ave. 643-7648
Lawrence Hall of Science "Math Rules!" A math exhibit of hands-on problem-solving stations, each with a different mathematical challenge. "Within the Human Brain," ongoing. Visitors test their cranial nerves, play skeeball, master mazes, match musical tones and construct stories inside a simulated "rat cage" of learning experiments. "Saturday Night Stargazing," First and third Saturdays each month. 8 - 10 p.m., LHS plaza. Computer Lab, Saturdays 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. $7 for adults; $5 for children 5-18; $3 for children 3-4. 642-5132
Holt Planetarium Programs are recommended for age 8 and up; children under age 6 will not be admitted. $2 in addition to regular museum admission. "Constellations Tonight" Ongoing. Using a simple star map, learn to identify the most prominent constellations for the season in the planetarium sky. Daily, 3:30 p.m. $7 general; $5 seniors, students, disabled, and youths age 7 to 18; $3 children age 3 to 5 ; free children age 2 and younger. Daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Centennial Drive, UC Berkeley 642-5132 or www.lhs.berkeley.edu
924 Gilman St. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless noted $5; $2 for year membership. All ages. June 16: Nerve Agents, American Nightmare, Fields of Fire, Affront, Scissorhands. June 22 Hoods, Fall Silent, Clenched Fist, Osiva, Hellcrew; June 23 The Hellbillies, The Fartz, The Tossers, Ruodp, The Fightbacks; June 29 Barfeeders, Pac-Men, Hell After Dark, A.K.A. Nothing, Maurice's Little Bastards; June 30 The Cost, Pg. 99, Majority Rule, 7 Days of Samsara, Since by Man, Creation is Crucifixion 525-9926
Albatross Pub Music at 9 p.m. unless noted otherwise. June 19: pickPocket Ensemble; June 20: Whiskey Brothers; June 21/28: Keni "El Lebrijano"; June 26 Mad & eddie Duran Jazz Duo; June 30: Larry Stefl Jazz Quartet 1822 San Pablo Ave. 843-2473
Anna's Music at 8 p.m. June 16: Robin Gregory & Bliss Rodriguez; Aleph Null; June 18,25: The Renegade Sidemen; June 19 Jason Martinwau; June 20,27: Bob Schoen Jazz Quartet; June 21: The Jazz Singers Collective; June 23:The maestro Rich Kalman & His Jazz Trio; June 24 The Joe Livotti Sound; June 26: Tangria; June 28: ConFusion. $2 weeknights, $3 weekends. 1801 University Ave. 849-ANNA
Ashkenaz June 16: 9:30 p.m., Amandla Poets; June 17, 6 p.m.: Ray Cepeda and the Neo Maya Experience; June 19, 9 p.m.: Brass Menagerie; June 20, 9 p.m.: Gator Beat; June 21, 10 p.m.: Digital Dave; June 24, 8 p.m.: Babatunde Olantunji; June 26, 9 p.m.: DP & The Rhythem Riders; June 27, 8 p.m.: Fling Ding/Circle R Boys/Dark Hollow; June 28, 9 p.m.: Monkey/Stiff Richards/ Go Jimmy Go.1370 San Pablo Ave. 525-5054 or www.ashkenaz.com
Blakes June 17, 9 p.m.: Third Eye Movement's Straight Buldin Tour 2001 featuring Red, Guard, Renaissance, Bored Stiff, Deuce Eclipse, Gazzi and SoulSistaSoul. Hosted by Rob Jamal of nommo; 2367 Telegraph; for more info call 238-8080 x310
Freight & Salvage All music at 8 p.m. June 16: Rova Saxophone Quartet. $17.50; June 17: Sean Tyrrell and Tommy Peoples; June 19: Toshi Reardon; June 20 Cliff Eberhardt; June 21 Rachel Garlin, $15.00 advance, $16.50 door; June 22: Sourdough Slim w/ Blackwood Tom; June 23: Lara & Reyes; June 24; Darryl Purpose, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammar; June 26; Freight 33rd Anniversary Revue; June 27: Dilema, Hookslide; June 28: Jim Campilongo; june 29: Don't Look Back; June 30: Jim Hurst & Missy Raines, Due West. 1111 Addison St. www.freightandsalvage.org; 548-1761
Jupiter All shows at 8 p.m. June 16: Nucleus; June 19: Mas Cabeza; June 20: Wavelord; June 21: Beatdown w/ DJ's Delon, Yamu & Addi; June 22: Realistic; June 23: Wayside; June 26: Bruno Pelletier Trio; June 27: O Maya; June 28: Beatdown w/ DJ's Delon, Yamu & Addi; June 29: Zoe Ellis Quartet; June 30: Go Van Gogh 2881 Shattuck Ave 843-8277
Live Oaks Concerts Berkeley Art Center, June 24: 7:30 p.m., Stephen Bell. Admission $10 (BACA members $8, students and seniors $9, children under 12 free)
Jazzschool Recitals June 17: 4 p.m., Jazz Combos; June 19: 4 p.m., Jazz Groups; June 20: 4 p.m., Jazz Ensembles; June 21: 4 p.m., Jazz Combos. Free. The Jazzschool/La Note 2377 Shattuck Ave. 845-5373
Celebrating Um Kulthoum June 17, 7 p.m. A benefit concert for Palestinian Refugees, the Lammam Ensemble will perform some of legendary Arabic vocalist Um Kulthoum's most cherished songs. $20. International House Auditorium 2299 Piedmont Ave. at Bancroft 415-648-1353
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Season Finale June 21, 8 p.m. Works by Shostakovich, Brahms, and Rohde. $19 - $35 Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley 841-2800
"More Matters of Life and Death" June 16 & 17, 8 p.m. The newest cycle of this series, "Iris, Blue, Each Spring," tackles the joys and sorrows of growing older and is set to "Six Japanese Songs" by Margaret Garwood. Presented by The Ruch Botchan Dance Company in concert with The Mirage Ensemble. $12 - $15 Western Sky Studio 2525 Eighth St. 848-4878
"Dance Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity" June 16, 8 p.m. and June 17, 2 p.m. The annual repertory concert for the Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance features over 100 performers of dance and music from the South Pacific, India, Africa and the Middle East. $5 - $15 Juia Morgan Center for the Arts 2640 Collage Ave. 925-798-1300
Kalanjali in Concert June 22, 7 p.m. Kalanjali concludes its celebration of its 25th year in Berkeley with a special recital. Experienced dancers and young students, with guests from India including dancer K. P. Yesoda and the musicians of Bharatakalanjali. $6 - $8 Juia Morgan Center for the Arts 2640 Collage Ave. 925-798-1300
"Cymbeline" Through June 24, Tues. - Thur. 7:30 p.m., Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sun. 4 p.m. Opening of the California Shakespeare Festival features one of Shakespeare's first romances, directed by Daniel Fish. $12 - $146. Bruns Memorial Amphitheater off Highway 24 at the Shakespeare Festival Way/Gateway Exit. 548-9666 or www.calshakes.org
"The Laramie Project" Through July 8: Weds. 7 p.m., Tues. and Thur. -Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Written by Moises Kaufmen and members of Tectonic Theater Project, directed by Moises Kaufman. Moises Kaufman and Tectonic members traveled to Laramie, Wyo., after the murder of openly gay student Matthew Shepherd. The play is about the community and the impact Shepherd's death had on its members. $10 - $50. The Roda Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2015 Addison St. 647-2949 www.berkeleyrep.org
"Kid Kaleidoscope and the Puppet Players" June 24: 2 p.m., Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. The Puppet Players are a multi-media musical theatre group. Their shows are masterfully produced to thrill people of all ages with handmadesets and puppets. Adults $10, Children $5, 2640 College 867-7199
"Romeo and Juliet" Through July 14, Thurs. - Sat. 8 p.m. Set in early 1930s just before the rise of Hitler in the Kit Kat Klub, Juliet is torn between ties to the Nazi party and Romeo's Jewish heritage. $8 - $10. La Val's Subterranean Theater 1834 Euclid 234-6046
"A Life In the Theatre" Runs through July 15. Wed. - Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. David Mamet play about the lives of two actors, considered a metaphor for life itself. Directed by Nancy Carlin. $30-$35. $26 preview nights. Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant 843-4822
Berkeley Film Festival, June 23, 1 p.m. Berkeley Arts Festival Gallery. Presnetation of Six films: The Good War, and Those Who Refused to Fight it (Judith Ehrlich and Rick Tejada Flores), Just Crazy About Horses (Tim Lovejoy and Joe Wemple), Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar (L. John Harris and Bill Hayes), In Between the Notes (William Farley and Sandra Sharpe) and KPFA On The Air (Veronica Selver and Sharon Wood). 2220 Shattuck 486-0411
Pacific Film Archive Jun 16: 7 and 9 p.m.: Beau Travail; June 17, 5:30 p.m.: The Face of Another; June 19 7:30 p.m.: Los; June 20 7:30 p.m.: filial Fixations; June 21 Days of the Eclipse 7 p.m. & A Spring for the Thirsty 9:30 p.m.; June 22 Three by Aurthur Peleshian 7:30 p.m., Ivan's childhood 9 p.m.; June 23 7 & 9:10 p.m. I can't Sleep; June 24 The Ruined Map 5:30 p.m. & Summer Soldiers 7:50 p.m.; June 26 7:30 p.m. San Francisco Cinematheque: 40 Years in Focus; June 27 7:30 p.m. Nature vs. Nurture; June 28 7:30 p.m. The Beginning of an Unknown Era; June 29 Molba 7:30, Shadows od Our Forgotten Ancestors 9:10; June 30 7, 9:10 p.m. Nenette and Boni. Pacific Film Archive Theater 2575 Bancroft Way (at Bowditch) 642-1412
Constitutional Shift, Through July 13, tuesdays - fridays, noon - 5 p.m. Kala Art Institute. Permanence and personal journey link Hee Jae Suh, Ursula Neubauer and Marci Tackett. Korean-born Suh explores an inner psychological world with a dramatic series of self-portraits. Neubauer explores self-portraiture as a travel map of identity with multiple points of view. Tackett explores Antarctica's other-worldly landscape in a series of stunning digital photographs. 1060 Heinz Ave. 549-2977
East Bay Open Studios June 16 & 17, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Jennifer Foxly: Oil paintings and 2-d mixed media works 3206 Boise St.; Lewis Suzuki: Scenes from California to the Philippines, florals to nudes 2240 Grant St.; Guy Colwell: Painted replicas and recent original work 2028 9th St. (open until 7 p.m.)
PASSING: The Re-Definition of Sex and Gender Through the Personal Re-Presentation of Self Through June 16, Mon. - Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Black and white photographs by Ann P. Meredith. Free. Reception with the artist June 7, 6 - 8 p.m. Photolab Gallery 2235 Fifth St.
Ledger drawings of Michael and Sandra Horse Exhibit runs through June 18. Gathering Tribes Gallery 1573 Solano Ave. 528-9038 www.gatheringtribes.com
"Alive in Her: Icons of the Goddess" Through June 19, Tuesday - Thursday, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Photography, collage, and paintings by Joan Beth Clair. Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic Ave. 848-0528
Tyler James Hoare Sculpture and Collage Through June 27, call for hours. Party June 9, 5-9 p.m. with music by Sauce Piquante. The Albatross Pub 1822 San Pablo Ave. 843-2473
Ako Castuera, Ryohei Tanaka, Rob Sato Through June 30, Tues. - Sat. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Group exhibition, recent paintings. Artist's reception June 9, 6:30 - 9 p.m. with music by Knewman and Espia. !hey! Gallery 4920 B Telegraph Ave., Oakland 428-2349
"Watershed 2001" Through July 14, Wednesday - Sunday Noon - 5 p.m. Exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture and installation that explore images and issues about our watershed. Berkeley Art Center 1275 Walnut St. 644-6893
Rachel Davis and Benicia Gantner Works on Paper Through July 14, Tues. - Sat., 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Watercolors by Davis, mixed-media by Gantner. Opening reception June 13, 6 - 8 p.m. Traywick Gallery 1316 Tenth St. 527-1214 www.traywick.com
"The Trip to Here: Paintings and Ghosts by Marty Brooks" Through July 31, Tues. - Sun. 11 a.m. - 1 a.m. View Brooks' first California show at Bison Brewing Company 2598 Telegraph Ave. 841-7734
Bernard Maisner: Illuminated Manuscripts and Paintings. Through Aug. 8 Maisner works in miniature as well as in large scales, combining his mastery of medieval illumination, gold leafing, and modern painting techniques. Flora Lamson Hewlett Library 2400 Ridge Rd. 849-2541
"Musee des Hommages," Masterworks by Guy Colwell Faithful copies of several artists from the pasts, including Titian's "The Venus of Urbino," Cezanne's "Still Life," Picasso's "Woman at a Mirror," and Boticelli's "Primavera" Ongoing. Call ahead for hours 2028 Ninth St. (at Addison) 841-4210 or visit www.atelier9.com
"Geographies of My Heart" Collage paintings by Jennifer Colby through August 24; Flora Lamson Hewlett Library 2400 Ridge Rd. 649-2541
Images of Portugal Paintings by Sofia Berto Villas-Boas of her native land. Open after 5 p.m. Voulez-Vous 2930 College Ave. (at Elmwood)
"Queens of Ethiopia: Intuitive Inspirations," the exceptional art of Esete-Miriam A. Menkir. Through July 11. Women's Cancer Resource Center Gallery 3023 Shattuck Ave. 548-9286 ext 307
"The Decade of Change: 1900 - 1910" chronicles the transformation of the city of Berkeley in this 10 year period. Thursday through Saturday, 1 - 4 p.m. Berkeley History Center, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St. Wheelchair accessible. 848-0181. Free.
Cody's Books 1730 Fourth St. All events at 7 p.m. unless noted otherwise. June 16, 4 p.m.: Chris Raschka presents a talk and demontration for children, and paints the store front window; June 18 Sherman Alexie- The Toughest Indian in the world. 559-9500
Freight & Salvage, June 23, 10 a.m.-noon Diane di Prima, beat poet and author of "recollections of My Life as a Woman".
Simone Martel June 16, 2 p.m. Martel will read from her book "The Expectant Gardener: A Wise and Fun Guide to the Adventure of Backyard Growing" Barnes and Noble 2352 Shattuck Ave. 644-0861
Weekly Poetry Nitro Mondays 6:30 p.m. sign up, 7 - 9 p.m. reading. Performing poets in a dinner atmosphere. Featured poets: June 18: Katie Daley; June 25 Steve ArntsenCafe de la Paz 1600 Shattuck Ave. 843-0662
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Free. University of California, Berkeley. 486-4387
Berkeley City Club Tours 2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley. The fourth Sunday of every month, Noon - 4 p.m. $2 848-7800
Golden Gate Live Steamers Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size. Trains run Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. 486-0623


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Baylor, Texas A&M land on least LGBT-friendly school list
The Princeton Review comes out with annual rankings of colleges and universities using categories such as "Most Beautiful Campus," "Party Schools" and "Best-Run Colleges" as a way to help students decide on where to go to after high school. But two Texas schools have made a not-so-friendly list: Most LGBT-unfriendly.
Texas A&M University in College Station and Baylor University in Waco are no stranger to the list, having appeared on it last year at numbers 11 and 12, respectively. For the rankings, the Princeton Review surveys 130,000 students at 379 top colleges on campus topics.
The University of Houston also received attention from the Princeton Review, being ranked one of the most sober schools. Texas A&M was ranked highest for most conservative students and Rice University placed second for best quality of life.
Click through to see what other institutions of higher education made the list.


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I wish I had a thousand-yen note for every journalist who, over the past decade, has asked me whether Japan is still as futurologically sexy as it seemed to be in the '80s. If I did, I'd take one of these spotlessly lace-upholstered taxis over to the Ginza and buy my wife a small box of the most expensive Belgian chocolates in the universe.
I'm back to Tokyo tonight to refresh my sense of place, check out the post-Bubble city, professionally resharpen that handy Japanese edge. If you believe, as I do, that all cultural change is essentially technology-driven, you pay attention to Japan. There are reasons for that, and they run deep.
Dining late, in a plastic-draped gypsy noodle stall in Shinjuku, the classic cliché better-than-Blade Runner Tokyo street set, I scope my neighbor's phone as he checks his text messages. Wafer-thin, Kandy Kolor pearlescent white, complexly curvilinear, totally ephemeral looking, its screen seethes with a miniature version of Shinjuku's neon light show. He's got the rosary-like anticancer charm attached; most people here do, believing it deflects microwaves, grounding them away from the brain. It looks great, in terms of a novelist's need for props, but it may not actually be that next-generation in terms of what I'm used to back home.
Tokyo has been my handiest prop shop for as long as I've been writing: sheer eye candy. You can see more chronological strata of futuristic design in a Tokyo streetscape than anywhere else in the world. Like successive layers of Tomorrowlands, older ones showing through when the newer ones start to peel.
__The world's second-richest economy, after a decade of stagflation, still looks like the world's richest place, but the global lea lines of money and hustle have invisibly realigned. It feels to me as though all that crazy momentum has finally arrived. __
So the pearlescent phone with the cancer thingy gets drafted straight into props, but what about Japan itself? The Bubble's gone, successive economic plans sputter and wobble to the same halt, one political scandal follows another ... Is that the future?
Yes. Part of it, and not necessarily ours, but definitely yes. The Japanese love "futuristic" things precisely because they've been living in the future for such a very long time now. History, that other form of speculative fiction, explains why.
The Japanese, you see, have been repeatedly drop-kicked, ever further down the timeline, by serial national traumata of quite unthinkable weirdness, by 150 years of deep, almost constant, change. The 20th century, for Japan, was like a ride on a rocket sled, with successive bundles of fuel igniting spontaneously, one after another.
They have had one strange ride, the Japanese, and we tend to forget that.
In 1854, with Commodore Perry's second landing, gunboat diplomacy ended 200 years of self-imposed isolation, a deliberate stretching out of the feudal dreamtime. The Japanese knew that America, not to be denied, had come knocking with the future in its hip pocket. This was the quintessential cargo-cult moment for Japan: the arrival of alien tech.
The people who ran Japan - the emperor, the lords and ladies of his court, the nobles, and the very wealthy - were entranced. It must have seemed as though these visitors emerged from some rip in the fabric of reality. Imagine the Roswell Incident as a trade mission, a successful one; imagine us buying all the Gray technology we could afford, no reverse engineering required. This was a cargo cult where the cargo actually did what it claimed to do.
They must all have gone briefly but thoroughly mad, then pulled it together somehow and plunged on. The Industrial Revolution came whole, in kit form: steamships, railroads, telegraphy, factories, Western medicine, the division of labor - not to mention a mechanized military and the political will to use it. Then those Americans returned to whack Asia's first industrial society with the light of a thousand suns - twice, and very hard - and thus the War ended.
At which point the aliens arrived in force, this time with briefcases and plans, bent on a cultural retrofit from the scorched earth up. Certain central aspects of the feudal-industrial core were left intact, while other areas of the nation's political and business culture were heavily grafted with American tissue, resulting in hybrid forms ...
Here in my Akasaka hotel, I can't sleep. I get dressed and walk to Roppongi, through a not-unpleasantly humid night in the shadows of an exhaust-stained multilevel expressway that feels like the oldest thing in town.
Roppongi is an interzone, the land of gaijin bars, always up late. I'm waiting at a pedestrian crossing when I see her. She's probably Australian, young and quite serviceably beautiful. She wears very expensive, very sheer black undergarments, and little else, save for some black outer layer - equally sheer, skintight, and microshort - and some gold and diamonds to give potential clients the right idea. She steps past me, into four lanes of traffic, conversing on her phone in urgent Japanese. Traffic halts obediently for this triumphantly jaywalking gaijin in her black suede spikes. I watch her make the opposite curb, the brain-cancer deflector on her slender little phone swaying in counterpoint to her hips. When the light changes, I cross, and watch her high-five a bouncer who looks like Oddjob in a Paul Smith suit, his skinny lip beard razored with micrometer precision. There's a flash of white as their palms meet. Folded paper. Junkie origami.
This ghost of the Bubble, this reminder of Tokyo from when it was the lodestar for every hustler on the face of the planet, strolls on and then ducks into a doorway near the Sugar Heel Bondage Bar. I last came here right on the cusp of that era, just before the downturn, when her kind were legion. She's old-school, this girl: fin de siècle Tokyo decadence. A nostalgia piece.
The Bubble, I think, walking back to the hotel with a box of sushi from a high-end liquor store and a bottle of Bikkle, that was their next-to-last kick. That transplanted postwar American industrial tissue took awhile, and in the '80s it finally did the trick, but the economic jet fuel couldn't be sustained.
The world's second-richest economy, after nearly a decade of stagflation (the century's final kick), still looks like the world's richest place, but energies have shifted, global lea lines of money and hustle have invisibly realigned, yet it feels to me as though all that crazy momentum has finally arrived. Somewhere. Here. Under the expressway Andrei Tarkovsky used for a sci-fi set when he shot Solaris.
Next day, I run into fellow Vancouverite Douglas Coupland in the Shibuya branch of Tokyu Hands, an eight-floor DIY emporium where doing it yourself includes things like serious diamond cutting. He introduces me to Michael Stipe. Coupland is as jet-lagged as I am, but Stipe indicates that he's actually club-lagged, having stayed up till 2 in the morning the night before. And how does he like Tokyo? "It rocks," says Stipe.
Later, having headed for Harajuku and Kiddy Land, another eight floors - these devoted to toys that definitely aren't us - I find myself distracted outside Harajuku Station by a bevy of teenage manga nurses, rocker girls kitted out in knee-high black platform boots, black jodhpurs, black Lara Croft tops, and open, carefully starched lab coats, stethoscopes around their necks.
The look clearly isn't happening without a stethoscope.
They're doing the Harajuku hang - smoking cigarettes, talking on their little phones, and being seen. I circle them for a while, hoping one will have a colostomy bag or a Texas catheter worked into her outfit, but the look, like most looks here or anywhere, is rigidly delineated. They all have the same black lipstick, worn away to pink at the center.
I think about the nurses on my way back to the hotel. Something about dreams, about the interface between the private and the consensual. You can do that here, in Tokyo: be a teenage girl on the street in a bondage-nurse outfit. You can dream in public. And the reason you can do it is that this is one of the safest cities in the world, and a special zone, Harajuku, has already been set aside for you. That was true during the Bubble, and remains true today, in the face of drugs and slackers and a notable local increase in globalization. The Japanese, in the course of being booted down the timeline, have learned to keep it together in ways that we're only just starting to imagine. They don't really worry, not the way we do. The manga nurses don't threaten anything; there's a place for them, and for whatever replaces them.
I spend my last night in Shinjuku with Coupland and a friend. It's hard to beat, these nameless neon streets swarming with every known form of electronic advertising, under a misting rain that softens the commercials playing on façade screens of quite surreal width and clarity. The Japanese know this about television: Make it big enough and anything looks cool.
Those French Situationists, going on about the Society of the Spectacle, they didn't have a clue. This is it, right here, and I love it. Shinjuku at night is one of the most deliriously beautiful places in the world, and somehow the silliest of all beautiful places - and the combination is sheer delight.
And tonight, watching the Japanese do what they do here, amid all this electric kitsch, all this randomly overlapped media, this chaotically stable neon storm of marketing hoopla, I've got my answer: Japan is still the future, and if the vertigo is gone, it really only means that they've made it out the far end of that tunnel of prematurely accelerated change. Here, in the first city to have this firmly and this comfortably arrived in this new century - the most truly contemporary city on earth - the center is holding.
In a world of technologically driven exponential change, the Japanese have an acquired edge: They know how to live with it. Nobody legislates that kind of change into being, it just comes, and keeps coming, and the Japanese have been experiencing it for more than a hundred years.
I see them poised here tonight, hanging out, life going on, in the glow of these very big televisions. Postgraduates at all of this.
Home at last, in the 21st century.


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Q. Elephants have been known to gorge themselves on fermented fruits, parrots become more talkative after sipping alcoholic beverages, and one dog that lived near a brewery would often drink beer instead of eating. If your cat were inclined to take a "nip" every now and then, what might be its drug of choice? –J. Fariello
A. Catnip, naturally, an herb in the mint family and long famous for its appeal to cats, says Amanda O'Neill in Cat Biz. It contains the chemical nepetalactone, which makes many cats react as if intoxicated: They roll in the catnip, rub up against and chew the leaves. It has been described as "a non-addictive, legal recreational drug for cats," with the "high" lasting from a few minutes to an hour or more.
Not all cats are crazy about catnip, however, with some 20 percent of them lacking the receptive gene for it. It is also thought that the chemical mimics excitement pheromones appealing mostly to cats of reproductive age, leaving out kittens and elderly felines. Moreover, the herb can vary depending on growing conditions and thus will appeal to different cats. Overexposure to catnip reduces a cat's sensitivity, so for maximum effect offer it to Fluffy only at intervals of maybe every two or three weeks.
Q. When are diamonds not "a girl's best friend"? –M. Monroe
A. When they're "phony diamonds," artificial crystals of "cubic zirconia" that have a higher dispersion than diamonds, breaking white light into the colors of the rainbow, says Richard Muller in The Instant Physicist. Diamonds were once valued because of how they sparkle, cut in a complex way to send out many different colors in different directions.
Of course diamonds were once rare, making them expensive, so you would buy one as a present only for someone you truly loved (or wanted to impress). But now with cubic zirconia crystals, the colors are more beautiful for a cheaper price. So if you give one to a loved one, what does it prove? Intelligence? Good taste?
"Does it prove love if it's cheap?" Many people apparently think the price is more important than the beauty. So diamond jewelry is no longer expensive because it's beautiful, but "because the diamonds cost a lot." Diamonds are not really rare either, except to the extent that the diamond cartels try to keep them off the market to keep the price high.
A tipoff with a cubic zirconia is it's so much prettier that it's easy to tell it isn't a diamond. "Physicists are working hard to reduce the beauty of cubic zirconia stones so they will look more like the expensive ones," says Muller.
Q. Driving through a one-way tunnel, you suddenly realize a car is headed the wrong way– right at you! To minimize your risk from the impending collision, you should a) try to match your speed to the other car b) go even faster c) make a quick stop. –P. Diana
A. A head-on collision is the most dangerous type, so your best advice is to stop (c) and, if possible, put your car in reverse, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics. This way you can reduce the closing speed between the cars before any impact. The situation here is unlike football where one player may choose to speed up right before running head-on into another player.
"The difference is that the player may want the collision to be violent, and by properly orienting his body, he can shift the collision to his opponent's vulnerable area or cause him to become unbalanced and slam into the field," Walker writes.
Surprisingly, data show that, everything else being the same, an 80 kg (176 lb.) passenger in your car reduces your risk of fatality by nearly 10 percent because the additional mass lessens the sudden change in your body's acceleration and velocity. That's your risk reduction; your passenger would be far better off spending the time at the movies.
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My grandmother, lovingly known by her grandchildren and almost everyone else in her final years as simply "Atoo," died at Christmas. My husband and I had driven through the night with our 6-month-old son, hoping to make it to my hometown before she passed. My mother, Atoo's caretaker for the past 10 years, thought Atoo was waiting for us to get there. She had been drifting in and out of consciousness for days and had wanted to meet our son, her newest great-grandchild. A few days earlier, in a moment of clarity she had said: "I don't want to die. I'll miss seeing all these beautiful babies." Atoo loved being a grandmother.
When we walked into her hospital room weary from 20 hours in the car, her face was drawn, her mouth agape; she was unconscious and fighting for every ragged breath but surrounded by people who loved her. I was shocked by her altered appearance and assumed the sights and sounds of imminent death would frighten my child. But my son, so new to the world and full of love, did not know to be afraid and happily laid his head on her chest. He touched her face and hugged her neck. Later that night with my aunt by her side telling her, "It's okay Mother, you can go now," Atoo died.
Three days later my husband and I saw a building in my hometown where we could have our handmade furniture studio on the first floor and live on the second. Despite the fact that our clients are mostly on the coasts, and our life and friends are in the Midwest, we purchased the building and began making plans to uproot our lives and move closer to a permanent community.
We had not really been looking to move before my grandmother's passing. For the past 10 years I had lived away from home and more or less liked it that way. I saw my family in a couple of intense bursts each year. Those visits were often stressful, as we traveled long distances and attempted to catch up with lots of people in a whirlwind of nonstop activity. We would arrive back in the Midwest exhausted and happy to be home. And yet after my son was born, I saw how content he was in a room full of people, who despite having just met him, already loved him. I longed for him to grow up with his grandparents close by, the way I had grown up with my Atoo.
Moving closer to one's extended family is not something to celebrate among upwardly mobile Americans. Few will think better of you because you live closer to your parents. In fact, some will think you are unwell. Most homes in the United States are zoned as single-family units, and even living across town from one another is often parodied in popular culture as a form of torture. American politicians often speak of "family values." What they usually mean by family is one or two parents raising one or two children. They do not mean a large group of people who are descendents of a common ancestor or other types of intentional communities, which lend support to nuclear families. There is no big "family values" push to reinstate the role of elders or wisdom figures in children's lives, though many were pleasantly surprised and intrigued when the Obamas moved into the White House with their children's grandmother in tow.
In contrast to a spouse or friends, people do not choose their family, and they do not choose you. These nonelective relationships among diverse people can be difficult to navigate. Yet family members regularly go to great lengths to help each other, as my family did—despite the 1,200 miles between us—when my newborn was sick. That experience was life-changing. Inspired by their support, this summer I am moving my little nuclear family to a city where my son will be able to be loved by not one but two sets of grandparents. The way I see it, the more good people who love your child, the better. More is more in the love department.
At Atoo's wake, in my parent's living room, the priest asked all the friends and relatives present, including all of us grandchildren, to bring to mind what it was about Atoo that we most wanted to live out in our own lives. I thought of how she loved her grandchildren and encouraged our dreams. If you told her you wanted to be an astronaut, she would never dismiss that or ask if you knew how much schooling that would require. She thought you and your dreams were, as she would say in her smooth Southern drawl, "just wonderful." In fact, to hear her tell it, we had already arrived. My brother, a first-year medical student, was already a doctor. My cousin in a school play "was just the star of the show."
The love of a parent is total and all-encompassing, but it can also be complicated and demanding. Parents have the difficult task of equipping their children with the skills they will need as adults, and perhaps this is as it must be. You have to answer to those you live with daily in a household: Is your plan realistic? Why haven't you done your chores?
If the love of a parent is all-encompassing and at the same time demanding, the love of a grandparent can be simply enfolding. My Atoo did not have to raise me. She never asked me what my major was going to be or how I was going to make a living. She just loved me. When I repeatedly lost my house key in middle school, she would drive over and unlock the front door. It was not her primary responsibility to discipline me or make sure I was not developing bad habits. At her house we were allowed little indulgences like watching cartoons or eating homemade éclairs, things that would not be ideal as daily fare but were fun and harmless in small doses. The same is now true for my son. After trying to rock him to sleep I will often put him in his crib and let him cry for a few minutes before he falls asleep on his own. I know he must learn to deal with some frustration, to soothe himself, and he does—but not at his Grandma Ceci's house. She will rock him for as long as it takes.
A few weeks back my Atoo visited me in a dream so real it was like spending time with her. That week my husband and I were getting ready for a business trip, a design show in New York. As in life, my Atoo was just tickled with us. She was not concerned with the pragmatics of the trip, not fearful for our safety on the road or worried about how we were going to pay for gas. She just clapped her hands as my son crawled around at her feet and said, "Well, I think it's just wonderful!" And then, like a true lady from Texas, exclaimed, "But what are ya'll gonna wear?"
However, a grandparent has wisdom to share that should also be part of their portfolio. Recognizing that the parents have the primary privilege of raising their child, the grandparent can, and I believe should, contribute to the learning experiences wherein the child develops into an adult. It does take a village!


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ASU retains Thompson to run top defense in the Sun Belt
JONESBORO - Arkansas State head football coach Bryan Harsin announced Thursday that John Thompson, who served as the Red Wolves' defensive coordinator in 2012 and will act as interim head coach during their Jan. 6 game against Kent State in the GoDaddy.com Bowl, will remain in his defensive coordinator position as part of Harsin's staff.
Thompson, a coaching veteran with more than 30 years experience at the collegiate level as both an assistant and head coach, oversaw Arkansas State's 2012 defense that ranked first in the Sun Belt Conference in scoring defense and third in total defense. The Red Wolves had four defensive players named All-Sun Belt Conference this year, including first-team choices Nathan Herrold at linebacker and Ryan Carrethers on the defensive line.
The Red Wolves shut out two opponents this season, including an 8-4 Middle Tennessee squad in the regular-season finale, for the first time since 1987. Under Thompson's direction, A-State also ranked third in the Sun Belt in turnovers gained, picking up 10 fumble recoveries and 12 interceptions. A-State had eight players post an interception to tie for the 15th most in the nation.
Thompson's defensive unit improved as the season progressed. Against Sun Belt Conference opponents only, the Red Wolves ranked first in the league in rushing defense (119.9 yards per game) and second in pass defense efficiency (132.6). The defense allowed just 396 rushing yards over the last five games for an average of just 79.2 yards per contest and also recorded 11 interceptions over the last nine games.
As linebackers coach, Thompson's position group combined to record 260 tackles, 17 tackles for loss, 10 pass break-ups, four interceptions, five forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. Herrold and fellow linebacker Qushaun Lee both posted the best numbers of their career and ended the regular season as A-State's top two tacklers. ?In fact, Herrold posted a career-best 109 tackles for the most by an ASU player since former safety and Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Year Tyrell Johnson recorded 112 in 2005. Both Herrold and Lee were named all-conference at the end of the regular season.
"I am excited about working with one of the top defensive coordinators in the country in John Thompson," said Harsin, named ASU's 29th all-time head coach on Dec. 12. "He has done an outstanding job with our defense, and this will be a great opportunity for him to continue what he's already accomplished in molding a championship-caliber defense here at Arkansas State."
Thompson has worked 26 seasons as a coordinator and was also the head coach at East Carolina for two years. Recognized as a top defensive mind, Thompson has worked as defensive coordinator or co-coordinator at Southeastern Conference schools Mississippi, Florida, Arkansas, South Carolina and LSU, as well as at Memphis, Southern Mississippi, Louisiana Tech and Northwestern State.
As a defensive coordinator, Thompson has seen more than 40 of his defensive players drafted by, or sign with, National Football League teams. Forty-four of his defenders earned all-conference honors, five were named all-America, and one, former Northwestern State linebacker Gary Reasons, has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Thompson came to A-State after serving as Georgia State's assistant head coach for scheduling and strategic planning and defensive coordinator. Thompson also coached inside linebackers at Georgia State, where he spent the previous four seasons.
Thompson went to Georgia State in July 2008 after spending the 2007 season as defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Ole Miss. That followed a one-year stint as athletics director at his alma mater, the University of Central Arkansas, which he guided in its move to NCAA Division I. He served as co-defensive coordinator at South Carolina in 2005.
As the head coach at East Carolina in 2003-04, he coached three first-team all-conference players and seven all-freshman selections.
Thompson was the defensive coordinator at Florida in 2002, when the Gators' pass defense was ranked seventh in the nation, allowing just 162.4 yards per game. He also spent two years at Arkansas, serving as co-defensive coordinator in 2000 and then defensive coordinator in 2001. In 2000, the Razorbacks were second in the nation in pass defense while leading the SEC in pass defense and total defense. The following year, Thompson helped lead Arkansas to the Cotton Bowl.
Thompson's first position as a defensive coordinator came at Northwestern State, where he served from 1983-86, and again from 1988-89 after spending the 1987 season as linebackers coach at Alabama.
In 1990, he became the defensive coordinator at Louisiana Tech for two seasons before moving to Southern Miss as defensive coordinator in 1992. He was given additional responsibility as assistant head coach in 1993. In Thompson's seven seasons at Southern Miss (1992-98), the Golden Eagles won or shared two Conference USA titles, twice ranked among the top 25 nationally in scoring defense and made two bowl appearances.
In one season at Memphis in 1999, his Tiger defense ranked 11th in the nation in scoring defense and 23rd in total defense.
A native of Forrest City, Ark., Thompson began as a high school coach in 1977 while pursuing his bachelor's degree at UCA. He continued to coach prep football until moving to the college ranks in 1982 as a graduate assistant at Arkansas, where he worked under Lou Holtz.
A high school quarterback, Thompson was inducted into the Forrest City High School Hall of Fame in 2006. His playing career also includes two seasons as a defensive back at Central Arkansas. He earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from UCA in 1978.


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Re: FFT of a noisy image with weak periodic information
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 05:16:13 -0400 (EDT)
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I would suggest that you might wish to use a low pass filter that is a little "softer" so that you avoid any ringing. In any event, here is a simple way to threshold as you describe: data = Table[i j, {i, -5, 5}, {j, -5, 5}]; data // MatrixForm thresh=0; dataThresh = Map[(If[(# < thresh), thresh, #] &), data, {2}]; dataThresh // MatrixForm Kevin On 6/6/2012 4:48 AM, Dave Martin wrote: > I'm trying to accomplish what should be a relatively simple frequency > domain filtering of a noisy input image with with some weak, periodic > signals (a low dose transmission electron microscope image of some > organic crystals). Using the commands below, I've been able to input > the image (x), convert it to data (xi), and calculate the FFT (fx). > Now what I want to do is to set the FFT to zero for all values below > some threshold, and then inverse transform back to a filtered image. > My stumbling block is a simple means to set the values of the array fx > to zero below some threshold, before I perform InverseFourier. > > x=Import["data.tif"] (*import the file as an image*) > xi=ImageData[x]; (*convert image to array data*) > x1=xi[[All,All,1]]; (*extract one of the three color channels from > the RGB image*) > fx=Fourier[x1]; (*calculate the FFT of x1*) > > Some other commands I've found useful... > > pfx=fx*Conjugate[fx]; (*calculate power spectrum = fx^2*) > n=Length[pfx] (*determine size of arrays*) > pxr=RotateRight[pfx, {n/2,n/2}]; (*put origin in center of PS > image*) > pi = Image[pxr] (*convert PS to image for display*) > > Inverse transforming... > > rx=Chop[InverseFourier[fx]]; (*convert fx back to a real space data > set rx*) > ri=Image[rx] (*convert rx to an image ri for > display*) > >


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Combat Ban for Women to End
The Pentagon is dropping the last vestiges of rules barring American women from serving in combat, paving the way for the largest expansion ever of their role on the front lines.
Women in the military already are allowed to serve on most Navy ships, as combat pilots and in hundreds of support jobs, including those in war zones. But they have been historically excluded from direct combat roles, by federal law in earlier times and more recently by military policy.
That will change Thursday when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta rescinds the 1994 Pentagon policy that bans women, who now make up about 14% of active-duty military personnel, from combat. The new measure will allow women to serve in combat roles—but, importantly, allow the military services to establish exceptions.
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The change is an acknowledgment that women on modern battlefields already are in the fight—152 women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan—and that military rules need to be updated to reflect realities of the current-day war zones. At the same time, the shift establishes a process that could take years to complete.
The new policy should allow women to serve alongside infantry troops as battlefield medics, special-operations pilots and in other dangerous roles, officials said. But officials are divided about whether women will ultimately serve as infantry troops or in elite special-operations units. Some military officials, citing the difficulty of completing infantry training courses, believe that most women would be unable to meet the physical requirements.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that President Barack Obama believes the move to end the combat exclusion is "appropriate." He discussed the plan with Mr. Panetta and supports removing "unnecessary gender-based barriers," Mr. Carney said.
Army Staff Sgt. Jennifer Hunt, who was injured in 2007 by a roadside bomb in Iraq, said in an interview Wednesday that the current ban on women in combat is "a legal fiction." She said women have long faced the same front-line dangers from militants and improvised explosive devises as men.
"Right before the IED went off, it didn't ask me how many push-ups or sit-ups I could do," said Ms. Hunt, one of the women who filed a lawsuit last year to challenge the ban. "Right now the women who are serving are being engaged in combat, so their physical restrictions aren't a barrier."
U.S. military services over the next two years will examine all 230,000 positions women currently are excluded from. They also will be required to establish gender-neutral requirements for admission and decide whether women can serve alongside men. "The goal is to make all roles available so long as we can meet the standards of the war fighter," said a defense official.
The policy shift follows a study by the Joint Chiefs of Staff that determined the military could become much more aggressive at allowing women into excluded roles. "The time has come to rescind the direct combat exclusion rule for women and eliminate all unnecessary gender-based barriers to service," Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in a Jan. 9 memo to Mr. Panetta.
"Does that mean that women are going to be full-up Navy SEALs? Probably not," said Maren Leed, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who served until last year as a senior adviser to the U.S. Army chief of staff. "It probably means there will be sub-specialties within the SEALs for which they are eligible."
Women regularly have found themselves in battle in Iraq and Afghanistan, whether in supply convoys or in military police units.
A number of other countries allow women in some combat roles, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Last February, Mr. Panetta ordered U.S. military service chiefs to find ways to expand the role of women. Under that decision, approximately 14,300 new positions were opened to women.
The shift was hailed by both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R., N.H.) said she was pleased by the announcement and Sen. Jack Reed (D., R.I.) said that on the current battlefield "all who serve are in combat."
Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.), a former Army pilot who lost both her legs in Iraq when her helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, said the decision will allow the "best man or woman on the front line."
Added Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii), an Army National Guard member who deployed to Iraq as a medical specialist and was elected to Congress in November: "Female service members have contributed on the battlefield as far back as the Civil War, when some disguised themselves as men just to have the opportunity to serve their nation." She said the decision "is an overdue, yet welcome change, which I strongly support."
But some lawmakers criticized the Pentagon's move and questioned whether physical requirements would permit women to enter combat duty in large numbers.
"The focus of our military needs to be maximizing combat effectiveness," said Rep. Duncan Hunter (R., Calif.). "The question here is whether this change will actually make our military better at operating in combat and killing the enemy, since that will be their job, too."
Last year, two women tried to complete the Marine Corps' 13-week infantry officer's training course at Quantico, Va. One did well, but eventually had to drop out because of stress fractures. Marine Corps officials plan to try again this year.
Under the new rules, the services must establish the gender-neutral standards for all military specialties by September 2015. In his memo, Gen. Dempsey also ordered U.S. Special Operations Command, along with the military services, to examine a "responsible way to assign women to currently closed" military specialties.
Beginning later this year, under Gen. Dempsey's memo, the service chiefs must provide regular progress reports on their efforts to expand the positions women may hold. A defense official said that after Thursday, any restriction sought by the services on women's service roles must be approved by the secretary of defense.
Twenty years ago, Congress lifted the ban on women flying in attack aircraft, and now the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force all have women pilots—although women don't serve as special-operations pilots.
Female officers now serve on large submarines, and the Navy has plans to add female enlisted personnel on those vessels. The Navy also will allow women to serve on smaller classes of submarines. As the military considers sweeping changes for women, a senior Air Force leader told a House panel examining a sexual-abuse scandal at a Texas base on Wednesday that his branch of the military needs to improve its culture to root out problems, such as binge drinking and vulgar images, that can be conducive to sexual harassment.
Obscene images, songs and stories "will not be accepted as part of our culture," Gen. Mark Welsh III, the Air Force chief of staff, told the House Armed Services Committee, which is investigating allegations of widespread sexual misconduct at the Air Force's facility for basic military training in San Antonio, where enlisted members begin their service.
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Recently I was given the opportunity to try the NARLOA Jasmine & Neroli Body Oil RRP £15* (see here). NARLOA is a recently started entrepreneur led brand, that provides vegan, cruelty-free, plant-powered skincare. So far, they have three products in the range: the body oil, an oil based cleanser and a facial oil.
I've actually never tried a body oil before (although I do have the Nuxe one somewhere unopened), so I was super excited to give this a go! Also, I quite liked the idea of trying a natural brand. NARLOA infact make their products in small batches to ensure freshness, and their products are free from preservatives, parabens and alcohol.
Due to having never tried a body oil before, I was slightly worried that it might be a bit greasy or it might look too shimmery on the skin (which is fine if you're on holiday, but obviously if you're heading off to work you don't want your clothes to have a greasy residue).
However, I needn't have worried, as this isn't greasy in the slightest. The formula is very light, and slightly runny, meaning that it is absorbed instantly. To be honest, I did think that due to it being an oil, it would be more richer. The only way I can describe this is that it's like a serum. So you know how a serum works in dehydrated skin to replenish and hydrate the skin, but you would generally still go over with a moisturiser for dry skin. Well, the NARLOA Body Oil* is similar, I find that it does a good job at re hydrating my skin, but it's not overly thick like a body butter. So people with dry skin might want to use this say out of the bath, and then go in with a body moisturiser to finish off. Or you could just apply a few more layers where your skin is dryer, so I apply a bit more on my elbows, knees etc (and don't worry because it still doesn't look greasy).
The cons of the products, however, are that because it's so light you will end up using quite a bit, especially if you use it regularly all over your body. So the 125ml of product might not last you very long. This might work out a bit pricey as the body oil costs £15. In my opinion, I would say this is more of a premium product, since the brand is focused on organic skincare.
Due to it's main ingredients being Jasmine and Neroli oil, the body oil definitely does have a Jasmine scent. It's hard to describe an oil, but I sometimes use the Jasmine oil you can buy off the supermarket shelf to do a hair massage, and it's definitely not as strong as those ones, but it does come across when you first apply it. However, once it's absorbed in, you can't really smell it unless you give it a good sniff haha!
Overall, I enjoyed using the NARLOA body oil*, a lot more than I was expecting to infact. It's light and hydrating, and really easy to massage in and go, especially for the Summer. In Winter, with my dry skin I might need to pair this with a moisturiser, but I quite liked the edition of an oil in my routine.


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The Red Sox wasted no time locking up American League MVP Dustin Pedroia with a six-year, $40.5 million contract, with an option for 2015, that takes them through three arbitration and two free-agent seasons. ...Even though Pedroia is not eligible for free agency until after the 2012 season -- four years from now -- I love this deal. FY gets some financial security and if he continues to produce as he has over the last two years, Boston will be getting an obscene bargain for nearly a decade.
The 25-year-old second baseman will receive a signing bonus of $1.5 million and a salary of $1.5 million in 2009, followed by salaries of $3.5 million, $5.5 million and $8 million in what would have been his three years of arbitration eligibility. Pedroia would earn $10 million salaries in 2013 and 2014.
The deal, negotiated by agents Sam and Seth Levinson, also includes a team option to pay him $11 million in 2015 or buy him out for $500,000. If Pedroia is traded, the option would be voided.
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During Antique Weekend you will see tents lining the usually lonely road between Roundtop and Warrenton.
From field to flea market.
It is so hard not to just jump out of the car at this point...
The cool thing is that to get to the parking area, you have to drive right down the roads by the tents. Preview shopping from the luxury of your own car.
Not too shabby.
I think I need to take a golf cart next time and cruise around. Well, maybe not. It would leave less room in the car for my good buys.


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About paul
These municipalities are missing an opportunity here. Rather than waste time, money, and breath fighting Verizon, they should instead pour those resources into a municipal broadband offering and cut Verizon out of the loop entirely.
This kind of keen analysis of the internet ecosystem shows pretty well the reason for her track record at HP.
The problem with this strategy in this case is that the folks to whom they are lying have dealt with Comcast, Time Warner, et al., for far too long. Everyone is so used to their ISP lying to them that even if the ISP told the truth (hey, it could happen!) no one would believe them anyway.
The MPAA and their ilk must be truly out of touch if they think that anyone in this country can switch ISPs.
If only they employed this level of creativity in devising new business models, or, heaven forbid, their movies...
I refer the court to the case of "Finders-Keepers v. Losers-Weepers."
Seriously though, isn't this analogous to someone losing control of their car and having it wind up on your lawn? You don't get to take possession of the vehicle (although that would be sweet). Although I do wonder if you can bar someone from trespassing on your property to reclaim it. Any lawyer-folk want to weigh in on that question?
If you were right, I could share your car whether you liked it or not.
Leaving aside the physical-vs-imaginary property issue, the closer analogy in this instance is that if I want to share my car with you I can do so whether Volkswagon likes it or not.
I think one key difference is that many astronomers have had a life-long love of astronomy. They were studying the heavens long before any thought of doing so professionally even occurred to them. If they lost their jobs, they would still study astronomy. So perhaps they see a certain kindred spirit with the amateurs.
Professional journalism seems to be more focused on the "professional" then the "journalism." Why that's the case I can't say, but the effect is to set up an antagonism between the "professionals" and the "amateurs."
Given the UK's very strict libel laws, should Facebook be suing them?
The whole hearing is of course pointless grandstanding as only Congress can do it. But we also need to remember that lay people understand the concept of "duplicating the problem" a lot differently than those in the engineering fields. This congressperson is not the only one who was thinking that, I can assure you.
His choice of words was not suitable for his audience. Sadly, there ARE people who are not scientists or engineers, and these things need to be explained to them.
To be fair, who could have predicted that a server might crash?
The word "privacy" may not appear, but the concept most certainly does. The Fourth Amendment is pretty clear: "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..." If you want to argue that "secure" is not synonymous with "privacy" in this context, you'll need a mighty sharp blade to split that hair.
Moreover, you even contradict your own point: "ven legal wiretappers MUST discontinue listening if the conversation does not pertain to the reason for the wire tap." Why must they? Because there is a right to privacy.


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I wanted to introduced myself: so basically my experience with role playing games is almost zero. I never had the opportunity before, but a couple of months ago there was advertisement of a local group looking for people. At the end, nothing came out of there and the group wasn't successful. Hobbies? SF, fantasy, Horror books+comics+films
So I guess, it will be easier for me to do it by post in a forum like this.
I hope I can jump in RP and I hope as well that I do not end up in the "Graveyard"
Greetings from Madrid.


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Interview: Bobby Gruenewald Reveals Plans for More Video on Bible App
NASHVILLE – Innovation leader Bobby Gruenewald of LifeChurch.tv, who is co-creator of the highly successful Bible app YouVersion, told those attending the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) convention that incorporating more video, such as footage from "The Bible" TV series, is the next phase for the application.
Gruenewald spoke with The Christian Post during the first day of the 4-day convention in Nashville on Saturday and said that he is excited to see how the pairing of YouVersion with the content of the 10-week docudrama will help further the Gospel. The series is created by producers Mark Burnett and his wife, Roma Downey,
Our interview with the pastor from LifeChurch.tv is below.
CP: Tell us a little bit about the partnering with "The Bible" TV series.
Gruenewald: We are privileged to be a partner with "The Bible" series and in particular we are the official Bible app of the series. That means that we will be incorporating content from the series into our app. We are trying to encourage all of our community to watch the series because we really feel it's a great visualization of the Bible and really help people engage in God's word. They (producers of "The Bible") are also going to try to help people connect to the app who are watching the series because we think it's a natural outcome of people that are curious and maybe come across the History Channel and see this. They may want to have an app on their phone or their tablet that gives them access to God's word. Our partnership is a mutual promotion, but we're really excited about promoting the series as well as incorporating some content from the series.
CP: How closely do you work with the tech industry, including big companies like Google and Appple?
Gruenewald: For the first few years of the Bible app we really didn't have a lot of [tech company] relationships, especially in Silicon Valley. In some ways that's God showing that it's really something that he's doing and not necessarily just the result of just a bunch of smart people because it's clearly been a work of God. In recent years, and in recent months, we have developed some great relationships with people in Silicon Valley that are Christians who are excited to help us, they use the Bible app every day, and some of them work for Google and some of them work for Apple. So, although we don't have formal relationships with all of those companies, we definitely have relationships with people who are a part of those and they are very, very helpful.
CP: Is 'The Bible' series YouVersion's first venture into video?
Gruenewald: The feature that we are adding to the app is brand new with video. It will incorporate other video content besides "The Bible" video, including the The "Jesus" Film video, but it's our first effort to really help people see the Bible in a visual form. We've had other things like video devotionals and things of that nature, but not a major feature of the app that is designed for people to watch video and then see the related passages.
CP: During your talk this morning at NRB you mentioned that (hopefully) YouVersion will change before it becomes obsolete. Can you elaborate more?
Gruenewald: I think it's important for any of the particular tools that we are using to try to engage people in the Bible to recognize that those will need to change over time. So, if we are simply relying on the way that we engage with people for the last four years then we will probably very much become obsolete. We have to continue to take a look at how people are using their mobile devices, if they are even using their mobile devices or using some other device, or how they are connecting with information – what's the best format for us to make the Bible a part of people's everyday life? We are always evaluating that and that's why we continue to support more phone platforms and always look at what people are doing not only in the U.S., but internationally, and trying to do our best to learn where we should be investing our resources to continue to grow. We want to make sure that we are connecting with people right where they are.
CP: What else do you plan to do in regards to integrating other media?
Gruenewald: We currently have a couple different ways we integrate media. One is through our devotionals and reading plans. We have several Christian music artists, for example, that have done video devotionals and it allows them each day to have something they say on video to the people that follow that reading plan or devotional that's become really popular. What we are doing now with this Bible content is allowing people to experience the visualization of scripture via The Bible series or The "Jesus" Film, and when people are watching this then we have the related scripture that they can go and read after. So, it's more of a video to text type of approach verses a text to video approach and that is something we are really excited to see what God does with it and how people use it.
CP: What do you look forward most in 2013?
Gruenewald: We are definitely looking forward to "The Bible" series and how that does over the next several weeks and how that does over the next several weeks and beyond. We also will have several new features, including features that focus on the ability for you to experience the Bible with other people that you trust within the context of trusted relationships. There will be a lot of features that focus on that type of interaction, that type of engagement. It will not be something that happens all at once. It will be something that happens throughout the year. It will be a progressive set of features in that direction.
CP: Anything else you would like to add?
Gruenewald: Our passion is very simply to engage people in God's word. We are grateful for all the partners we have in that effort. We are also grateful for people like the Christian Post who inform people what our efforts are with our ministry and help connect more people to God's word.


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It's not enough that this architect-designed home is in Nuuanu, overlooking the fifth hole of Oahu Country Club. The estate is almost an acre, which means you could do some of your own practice golf swings and probably not bother anyone. (Click here for details.)
This listing, located down a private lane off Pali Highway, features beautifully manicured tropical gardens on a 42,472-square-foot lot. The landscaping, in fact, helps provide a layer of privacy, especially around the pool area.
The two-story residence, built in 1983, was designed by architect Ed Sullam—a protege of Vladimir Ossipoff—with five bedrooms and three bathrooms. One of Sullam's signature details is having screened lanais, which are found throughout the home—a nice touch to help residents enjoy the views and cool valley breezes.
The second-floor bedroom is one of the spots with such a screened lanai, which is used as an office nook. I'm not sure how one can concentrate on work, though, since that office has a view of the Koolau mountains and the golf course.
The classic design has timeless finishes, in keeping with many kamaaina homes in the area. The living room, for example, has ohia wood floors, coffered ceilings, and a fireplace. (You may not think you need a fireplace in Hawaii, but many Nuuanu residents do use theirs during the winter months.)
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That tropical fish one is very good. Will there be another, and if so, when?
I don't beleave there is anything planned as the current one is still pretty darn good
Why would we need anotherone ?
If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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Good point. I just enjoyed reading it and I thought they should write more on other topics like specific types of fish or something.
You can find that info in a few different spots in in the fourm such as: the stickies that are in different sections of the fourm, and in the fish profile sections ( found in the menus to the far left of your computer screen)
ok. thanks!
Actually there is another one in the works. It has been written but needs to be edited before it becomes avilable. That one will be about plants.
Do as I say. Not as I do.
sweet thank you!
That's great news William
I would love to see a good e-book on plants here
Great!! I can't wait to read the one on plants. :)
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(Pocket-lint) - Though an attractive brushed metal faceplate and solid build distracts from its otherwise boxy dimensions, Panasonic's latest Lumix FX550 point and shoot is certainly one of the more conventionally styled yet premium priced compacts (at £294 SRP) we've seen of late. Especially coming after Sony's slim-line Cyber-shot T90 and Canon IXUS 110 IS rivals. That said, at a width of just 21.9mm with lens retracted, it still slips comfortably into any trouser pocket or handbag.
Given that its traditional design carries over to the FX550's back plate, where we find a familiar smattering of disappointingly plastic buttons ranged right of its 3-inch, 230k dot LCD, it's a surprise to find said screen incorporates touch operation. The camera's shooting and review modes are revealed as reactive lozenge-shaped icons on-screen with a press of the "mode" button alongside it.
Other features of note include a 12.1-megapixel effective resolution, a Leica-branded wide-angle 5x optical zoom lens with a focal range stretching from 25-125mm in 35mm terms, a manually selectable light sensitivity range of ISO 80-1600, with an ISO 6400 setting accessible when shooting in High Sensitivity scene mode, plus the ability to capture 1280 x 720 high-def movies.
Whilst far from the worst we've seen, we discovered image noise starts to intrude at ISO 400, detail noticeably softening by ISO 800, while at ISO 1600 results look painting-like, suggesting Panasonic was right to halt proceedings there.
Action fans meanwhile can take advantage of up to 10 frames per second continuous stills capture mode thanks to a 2.4x faster Venus Engine V processor, though with the compromise of resolution dropping to just 3 megapixels. Otherwise it's a respectable 2.3fps at top resolution, 4:3 image ratio. Response times are likewise pretty good. With a flick of the on/off switch on the top plate the camera powers up for action in 2 seconds, the rear LCD blinking into life a fraction later.
Go on to take a picture and there's no discernable shutter delay (well, officially it's .007 seconds); a full resolution JPEG format image committed to memory – a 40MB internal cache or optional SD or SDHC media – in a further 2 seconds.
As expected the camera, like other Panasonics in the Lumix family, features intelligent auto (iA) functionality – actually the camera's default setting. In this mode the FX550 analyses and recognises the subject the user is pointing it at and adjusts its contrast and exposure settings to suit. It's not all fully auto though; if desired, by pressing the AF/AE icon that hovers on screen users can direct the camera's focus to an area of the subject by simply tapping at that point on the screen. A yellow square then appears on the LCD hovering over your intended subject as you re-compose the shot.
The model's other talking point is obviously its inclusion of HD movies, here of the 1280 x 720 pixels variety rather than the preferable Full HD 1920 x 1080. Still, at least it means users can fit longer clips on their cards, with further options to downgrade to 848 x 480, 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 pixels if space is an issue or the higher quality simply isn't required.
As with its compact rivals, an optional component cable is required for hooking the camera up to an HD TV, though regular AV and USB leads are included in the box, along with wrist strap and plastic stylus. Disappointingly though, the Panasonic's optical zoom cannot be accessed when shooting movies; it simply stays put in the position it was in before recording commenced.
Though of course you do get a zoom switch encircling the shutter release button for incrementally adjusting the position of the lens, there's an additional small button on the FX550 marked "E.Zoom" or Eazy Zoom. Press this and in a swift transition the camera jumps from maximum wideangle to telephoto setting.
Press it once more and it will zoom to an equivalent 9.8x. If this sounds too good to be true, it is. Since only the central part of the sensor is now being utilised, resolution drops to 3 megapixels again.
Battery life is good for 350 shots from a single charge, which is fair given that the rear screen is in constant use. Bit of a shame though that alternating between capture and playback modes means physically flicking a switch in the top right hand corner of the back plate; we found ourselves occasionally missing a shot because a half press of the shutter button wouldn't automatically throw us back into shooting mode.
If conditions are sufficiently clement the Panasonic FX550 proves itself a reliable performer, consistently delivering colourful even exposures. However it's not immune to pixel fringing on close inspection and white balance occasionally biasing whatever colour is dominant in the scene to the expense of others.
More positively the Leica lens ensures that detail is sharp and crisp too.
The overall impression is that once again it's a case of maximum return from minimal user effort with little if any post processing required via image editing software.
For the occasional traveller looking for a sturdily built pocket snapper that will withstand the odd knock and scratch the Lumix DMC-FX550 therefore comes recommended.


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im making a program a class file with two method a check in and a checkout method. the program calls for this: the balance on your account is 0 then you check out 10 books and then check in 6 the balance should be printed after each situation. after my object i made goes through the checked out method how do i take that number and use it as the balance for the next method? Im stuck!! heres my code:
public class LibraryAccount { private int bookBal; private int bookIn;// books checked in variable private int bookOut;// books checked out variable // constructor public LibraryAccount(int bookBal, int bookIn, int bookOut) { this.bookBal=bookBal; this.bookIn=bookIn; this.bookOut=bookOut; } // Get bookBal public int getBookBal(){ return bookBal; } // Set bookBal public void setBookBal(int tempBookBal){ bookBal = tempBookBal; } // Get bookIn public int getBookIn(){ return bookIn; } // Set bookIn public void setBookIn(int tempBookIn){ bookIn = tempBookIn; } // Get bookOut public int getBookOut(){ return bookOut; } // Set bookOut public void setBookOut(int tempBookOut){ bookOut = tempBookOut; } public int checkIn(){ int yourBal=this.bookBal+this.bookIn; return yourBal; } public int checkOut(){ int yourBal2=bookBal-bookOut; return yourBal2; }}
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public class LibraryAccountDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { int bookBal=0; int bookIn=6;// books checked in variable int bookOut=10;// books checked out variable LibraryAccount myAccount = new LibraryAccount(bookBal,bookIn, bookOut); System.out.println("Your initially have a balance of " + bookBal); System.out.println("After checking out "+ bookOut+ " books you have " + myAccount.checkOut()); System.out.println("After checking in "+ bookIn+ " books you have " + (myAccount.checkOut()+myAccount.checkIn())); } }


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Adimec provided the high-resolution cameras for the orbital boom sensor system of the Discovery Space Shuttle mission STS-121, July 4-17, 2006, which succeeded in testing shuttle safety improvements and produced never-before-seen, detailed images of the shuttle during and after launch. Multiple cameras were coupled to a Pleora iPort IP engine, enabling the crew to control them while inspecting the shuttle's thermal protection system. The images were analyzed for details such as filler between tiles, to assess potential damage. Selection of the cameras required that the products be COTS, and have enough durability and performance to provide flawless images in the void of space and on the space shuttle, the most complex machine ever built.


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Let me preface this by saying I am more or less an incompetent noob when it comes to this arena of things, and thus my learning my way around it includes such brilliant methods such as stumbling around blindly pretending to know what I'm doing. Every now and then it actually works. :P
Anywho, here's my problemo:
I'm trying to upgrade the forums (PHPBB2) on my site www.jameswebsite.net to PHPBB3. I have successfully installed PHPBB3 to http://jameswebsite.net/phpbb3/install/. So now I'm just trying to convert my old forums.
Here's where I'm stuck. For the board path, it says "This is the relative path on disk to your former board from the root of this phpBB3 installation." Relative to /phpbb3/install, got that part.
So to attempt to point it at my old forum, which exists in the root directory, I entered ../../../ for the path. Sadly, it gives me the error "Could not find path to your former board. Please check your settings and try again.
» ../../.. was specified as the source path."
Just for kicks I've tried under- and over-counting paths just in case, so I tried "../../" and "../../../../". No dice, of course.
So, not sure what I'm doing wrong here?
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Top 5 Favorite Performances#1
There was a lot of great acting work done on The Sopranos and I thought it might be interesting to see everyone's favorite performances on the show. James and Edie don't count they were so good. So look beyond them and come up with your five most favorite acting jobs done by anyone on the show. It can be for their body of work, or for a certain period of time on the show. What we are looking for here is their work as an actor embodying the role given all the ups and downs of their character and their work at bringing it to life. I'll add mine once I can give it some real thought. Watching the series again recently, I've understood yet again, what great work was done by so many people. So who were your favorites?
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