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Student' robots fly, roll, talk and learn to be useful
By Bill Steele |
Someday you may have a personal robot to help around the house. It will move smoothly from room to room, avoiding obstacles, people and pets. It will pack your suitcases, clear the table and do the dishes. It might even be programmed to assign chores to the kids or wait for the cable guy. We might see such appliances first as assistants for the disabled and elderly.
Students at Cornell are figuring out how to make robots do all these tasks and more. Their work was on display May 17 in the Duffield Atrium as a final exercise in the course Robot Learning, taught by Ashutosh Saxena, assistant professor of computer science.
The students presented an array of small projects, each demonstrating the ability to perform one special task. But eventually all the programming could be combined into one robot, Saxena said. He pointed to a device about the size of a dorm refrigerator with a robot arm mounted on top, rolling across the Duffield floor on a base taken from a Segway. "It could all go on that platform, which we call Polar [for PersOnaL Assistant Robot]" he said. Since Cornell's mascot is a bear, three of the recent robots have been named Polar, Panda and Blue.
Industrial robots can be programmed to do just one thing and do it perfectly over and over, Saxena explained, but a personal robot needs to be able to learn about its environment and adapt to changes. The underlying technology is what computer scientists call "machine learning," in which a computer program takes note of events and in effect reprograms itself in response.
With that in mind, some teams of students connected computers to a standard industrial robot to manipulate objects that are not always the same size and shape or in exactly the same place. Using a camera cannibalized from a Microsoft game console, the computer builds a 3D image of its working area. Students train it by showing it how to manipulate a few basic shapes, such as a plate, a bowl, a cup or a wine glass. Then it learns the right way to pick up and handle objects, picking up a plate by its edge, for example, and sliding it on an angle into the plate holder in a dish rack, or picking up a wine glass by its stem and inverting it before setting it in the rack. From there, the robot can generalize to even unfamiliar objects.
Another program lets the robot manipulate an object with bendable parts, in order to place objects in a cardboard box and then close the flaps of the box. One application described as a primitive construction worker finds blocks wherever they are on the table and stacks them in a prearranged order.
Microsoft Kinect cameras, designed to control video games by observing body movements, are a feature of many projects. (There's a pile of leftover video game parts in a corner of the lab.) Students use them for object avoidance, mapping an unfamiliar area, following a human and controlling a robot with hand gestures. One project enables a robot to identify human activity -- to discern, for instance, if a person is standing, sitting, lying down or perhaps drinking coffee.
A whimsical but slightly ominous project has a robot delegating tasks to humans. Give it something to do and it will try to find a human to perform the action. In a demonstration it was asked to "Find Susie." Rolling up to people, it would ask them, using synthesized speech, to point to Susie. If the person didn't know Susie, the robot would ask for directions to someone who might know. Ask it to bring you a cup of coffee and it will go to the coffee machine and try to find a human who can pour one.
Some projects are aimed at search and rescue applications. Several student teams modified Quadrotors -- a flying toy you can buy for about $300 -- to avoid objects, follow humans, go to predetermined GPS coordinates or act as sentries, checking the ID of anyone who approaches. One flyer has been taught to escape from a building by flying through hallways looking for exit signs and open doors.
A personal robot integrating all these capabilities could be made inexpensively, selling for perhaps $2,000 to $20,000, Saxena said, depending on whether it has a robot arm. "While the hardware is getting there, we need software that can make these robots truly smart," he said.


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The Miss USA pageant took place on Sunday night, and you may have heard that "history" was made when Miss Michigan, Rima Fakih, was crowned the winner and given sovereign authority over the 50 states and all U.S. foreign territories and military outposts. Fakih is the second Arab-American to claim the Miss USA title, and she told pageant officials that her family is both Muslim and Christian.
There was also this report, which details Fakih entering a stripping contest for a local Detroit radio station. Fakih won that contest without actually taking off any clothing, which tells you just how attractive she must be.
While Fakih is not the first Arab American to win the Miss USA prize, she is the first to do so in the post-9/11 era, when being an Arab American means you get funny looks whenever you bring more than 3 oz. of fluid through an airport security line. Look around hard enough, and you'll find any number of nutjobs online telling you what this victory supposedly means. For example, conservative commentator and world's worst Midwestern accent record holder Debbie Schlussel said Fakih has terrorist ties and her victory means that, like, we're not America anymore or something.
Barack Obama will exploit this as propaganda for Islam. Mark my word. Hezbollah is laughing at us, tonight.
Well, okay. If you say so. Anyway, that kind of right wing ire in turn has inflamed the left, who were themselves outraged that Miss Oklahoma Morgan Elizabeth Woolard said she was "just fine" with Arizona's controversial new immigration law. And all this comes after last year's initial Miss USA, Carrie Prejean, was denounced for her stance on gay marriage and stripped of her crown for starring in a sex tape.
So what does this all mean? Is Fakih's victory a symbol of increasing tolerance in American pop culture? Is it a bold salvo against radical Islam countries where women aren't even allowed to show their faces in public? Or does it mean that Fakih is a Hezbollah double agent who will use her new powers to nuke Disneyworld?
Well, I'll tell you precisely what it means: Nothing. At all. It doesn't mean anything. It's a contest owned by Donald Trump and aimed at finding hot chicks. Fakih won because she's way hot and that's the beginning and end of it. If she's lucky, she'll end up on a syndicated reboot of "She Spies," and then follow the rest of her predecessors directly into oblivion.
Anyone who thinks this really matters is lying, and just looking for a political argument. These people are annoying and virtually certain to never win a beauty pageant. Don't look for meaning in this victory. It isn't there. Just appreciate it for what it is: a really hot girl winning a really hot girl contest. That's what a real American would do.

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I'm the mother of three boys!
I've always wanted kids. In fact, growing up as the youngest of five kids (six when foster brother Ferlando lived with us) I compensated for not having a younger sibling by babysitting every chance I got. My life aspiration was to have 10 kids and own a daycare center. As I got older, the number of kids got lower and the daycare plans went out the window. While babysitting all five of my sister's kids for her one week, I started to wonder if I liked kids at all. (My mom had to reassure me that I did.)
Aside from that week, (and maybe one other babysitting my brother's six kids for him) there has never been a time I didn't want to be a full time mom for a living. (Which reminds me, I need to put in for a raise.)
That said, I never envisioned my home full of boys. If anything, I'm sure I planned for equal numbers of girls and boys (I'm anal like that) or figured the boys would be out numbered by girls--like in my house growing up. I just never figured I'd be the sole member of the minority party. (Is THIS how liberals feel in Utah??)
That is why lately I've been re-evaluating my parenting techniques and working on increasing my PATIENCE with--and understanding of--the male species!!! Here are a few things I'm coming to grips with:
To be a successful mother of sons you must: (and by "you" I mean "I")
Quit ogling (and sometimes buying for the future) tea sets, doll houses, and pink clothes every time you shop.
Learn to play with action figures. This means you have to think like a boy. Captain Jack and Will Turner want to FIGHT. They do NOT want to garden, have a tea party, or be nice Daddies who do the dishes. They want to dismember each other.
Quit hating sports. You have very athletic children and years of spectating before you. Just accept that your Saturday mornings will never ever be free ever again and invest in a good lawn chair and cooler.
Accept that your boys will come inside from playing completely filthy and smelling of wet dog. And furthermore, they will NOT stop digging in the dirt and will NEVER wipe their feet adequately before entering the house.
Potty words are here to stay. Just like the bodily functions they represent, they will never cease being a large part of your life.
Instead of being offended at being brutally stabbed, shot, and/or impaled in all pretend battles, be flattered that you were worthy enough to be chosen as an adversary.
Keep lots of Febreze Air Effects, Lysol Wipes, Hand Sanitizer, and snacks (for bribery and personal fortification) on-hand at all times.
Check the toilet seat before sitting down.
So far, that's all I've come up with. If you have any suggestions, comments, or tips, please let me know. I need all the help I can get.


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Sentencing set: Reid pleads for W-2s
As the clock ticks down to Friday, April 23, the day John Reid will be sentenced for his role in a check-kiting scheme that sparked the collapse of the company he ran, a new hassle has arisen for some already reeling former employees. The tax refunds of some Ivy Industries employees could be delayed because they can't get official earnings information.
A leading national manufacturer of picture frame moldings, Ivy Industries fell apart in March 2003 after Reid, under pressure from federal investigators, confessed to a massive check-kiting scheme.
The sudden collapse of the company put about 150 company employees in Charlottesville and Beverly, West Virginia, out of work and left many creditors unpaid. The payroll company Ceridian was one to which Ivy owed money, says Harris Haynie, Ivy's former sales director.
Haynie says that in January, Reid, despite his legal maelstrom, made an effort to extract employee W-2 forms from Ceridian.
"John Reid asked me to find out how much it would cost and said he would find a way, if possible, to cover the expense," says Haynie. "He said either he or his wife, an accountant, would fill out the forms."
Ceridian, however, never indicated how much Ivy was in arrears or quoted a price to release the forms.
Haynie says Ceridian would only release the W-2 forms to the employer. "Clearly, there is no employer," says a frustrated Haynie. "I told them I would take responsibility for the data. But I got nowhere."
In January, scrambling to get the forms in time for tax season, Haynie thought he had a chance to help the former employees when he reached a Ceridian national account manager. Then he received her January 26 email:
"After reviewing this issue with appropriate management at Ceridian, we conclude that this is an issue that is an employer responsibility. Therefore, we are unable to assist further. Please contact your former employer for any further inquiries."
Haynie says many of the former employees– some still unemployed– were relying on a refund from the IRS to pay bills including, buying food.
"Tax day has come and gone, and employees were on their own," says Haynie.
"I was lucky," says former customer service director Joyce Wright. "I had my last pay stub."
Others, however, were left to file complaints with the IRS. "They think it's not fair," says Wright, "and the IRS can't help them."
Haynie says that even a letter from a local attorney has not budged Ceridian. As for Ceridian's view, "We do not discuss anything about our customers," says Candy Patron, a Ceridian spokesperson.
On April 23, former Ivy Industries CEO Reid and his co-conspirator, company comptroller Bro Pinkerton, will learn their sentences from federal judge James H. Michael Jr. The two offered guilty pleas and voluntarily reported to jail after their hearings on February 11.
In statements via his lawyer, Francis McQ. Lawrence, Reid has described himself as "extremely sorry" for his actions and insisted that he was merely trying to prop up the hemorrhaging finances of Ivy Industries.
His actions allegedly caused a $2.4 million loss at Albemarle First Bank when SunTrust– which had also been duped– suddenly spotted the kite in March 2003 and refused to cover Reid's bad checks.
In the plea hearing in February, FBI special agent James B. Lamb told the court that another bank suffered over $2 million in loan losses in the debacle. Lamb said Reid cooperated with the investigation.
Reid, 48, told Judge Michael he was nervous– but "fine otherwise"– shortly before pleading guilty to a single felony count of bank fraud. He later removed his sport coat and surrendered to a sheriff's deputy for transfer to the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
"This was a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions," Lawrence said after the February hearing. While Reid has denied pocketing a penny of the lost funds, Lawrence readily admits that everyone involved was hurt.
The employees lost their jobs, the investors lost their company, two local banks suffered million-plus losses. And now, says Lawrence, a husband and father of children ages 8, 12, and 19– someone considered a pillar of the community– faces "not months, years" in jail.
Lawrence describes co-defendant Pinkerton as a "classic soccer coach dad" and notes that the only benefit of Reid's scheme– short term, obviously– was holding his "over $100,000" job for a little longer than if he had simply told the investors that Ivy Industries was unprofitable.
Still at issue is just where the money went. On August 17, 2001, Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw bought the Ivy Industries building for $4.975 million. That, says one banking insider, erased the balance of the check kite and might have been a good opportunity for Reid to reveal the scheme. He didn't.
What's known is that Reid and Pinkerton continued to juggle non-existent funds.
How is this kite different from the more benign and more common practice of an individual who writes a check on a skimpy bank account and then rushes to the bank with a "covering" deposit? Size and frequency.
For one thing, the "covering" payments, drawn from three local banks, were as bogus as the bouncing checks they were supposed to cover.
Another difference was the size. In a lawsuit, Ivy Industries owners Troost Parker and Corwith "Mike" Davis portray Albemarle First, the bank that suffered the biggest loss, as incompetent– at best.
As evidence, they submitted reams of photocopies of round-numbered checks. And as a sort of Rosetta stone, they emphasized the October 2000 statement of Ivy Industries' real estate arm, RPD Properties LLC. That statement begins and ends with the same piddling balance: $857.25– while 21 credits totaled $890,000 and 21 debits totaled $890,000. That sort of high-volume, low-balance legerdemain "would have been readily apparent to even the most casual observer," says the lawsuit.
Parker and Davis don't reserve all their scorn for Albemarle First; they're also upset with Guaranty Bank.
According to court filings, Parker and Davis had personally guaranteed loans made by Guaranty Bank to Ivy Industries. When Ivy stopped paying, Guaranty stepped in and took over the company– ultimately choosing to auction off its assets rather than operate it as a going concern.
Why did Ivy Industries, a company with customers all over the country ultimately shut down? Susan Payne, spokesperson for Parker and Davis, says, "Because Guaranty came in and put a padlock on the door. They're the ones who did it– not Troost Parker and Mike Davis."
"That's not correct," responds Guaranty's president Bill Doyle. Because of ongoing litigation, Doyle declined to be specific about his objections, but one banker familiar with the case defends Guaranty.
"Once you have fraud, you don't know how deep it goes. It poisons everything," says the banker, speaking on condition of anonymity.
In an October 6, 2003 civil filing, Parker contended that Guaranty botched the auction. A well-managed auction could have "fully paid" the loans with a surplus, Parker charged.
But selling the company as a going concern was "not feasible," Guaranty responded in a filing. "It would have been necessary," the document asserts, "to transfer the leases of the plants in West Virginia and Charlottesville to a new owner."
How hard could that have been? It's a moot point in Charlottesville now. Capshaw has revealed that he plans to convert the facility into the new downtown location of Atlantic Coast Athletic Club.
The mammoth site occupies about half of an over-sized city block on Monticello Avenue, 2.7 acres with about 70,000 square feet– or five Charlottesville Ice Parks– under roof.
While the upcoming civil trial set to begin May 17 is supposed to focus on Guaranty's quest to get Parker to pay the loans he guaranteed, the question of who killed Ivy Industries may be the issue that grabs the headlines.
Coran Capshaw wants the former frame factory to become a health club.


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This is an experiment. I finally wrote something xhamster won't let me post. I don't know which rule I broke. It will be hard to read so many words will be bleeped out. But I will try to post it.DimJandy: I dare you to find a better blog. I don't write about kittens and shoes.
Good one. No you don't. You're stories are kinda scary because they're real. You're real. I'm real. I don't see how you survived your earlier years. I would have had a nervous breakdown once a week, or hurt someone and ended up in jail. Somehow you have the disposition to keep trying where others would have collapsed in a mindless puddle of tears.
My response: Dimjandy, I love when men quote which part of a blog they like. For some reason that gets me off like a great orgasm. I have looked for a decent blog. I never found one. I quit looking. I only look for male writers. Bitches will blog about kittens and shoes. I read those blogs. Boring. Lame. Waste of time. I want to read the good shit. That's why I give it out in my blog. If you read my work on facebook you would know I break every rule in the book. I get slammed for using the words jesus christ, cunt, motherfucker, cocksucker, faggot, nigger, retard, mongoloid and more.
I love it. I had one bitch freak out because I do call my cousins mongoloids. If I could post pictures you would crack the fuck up. I'm not ragging on people with down's syndrome. I do not mock people with an illness. I didn't even think mongoloid was offensive. Apparently, it is. But my cousins all have that slightly bloated, eye drooping, jaw slaking and slow witted demeanor. If I can't describe it as mongoloid then what word is there. Pictures prove it. One of my biggest horror stories is a f****y joke. A boy tried to **** me. He couldn't get my pants off. I was stuck in the woods with no ride home. He f***ed me to give him head to get back to school. It wasn't head. I got my throat fucked. It was sheer terror.
In some ways it would've been better if he ****d my pussy and not my face. Afterwards he decided to show me pictures in his wallet like I was his new girlfriend. I saw one and said 'that's my cousin.' He said 'no it's not.' I had to tell him I know my fucking cousins. He turned out to be my cousin's first cousin on their mother's side of the family. We were both mortified. I was only fourteen. I will kill that cocksucker one day. He told my cousins he took my virginity and I was an easy slut. None of my cousins call me lynn. They all call me 'cousin fucker.' I'm being sweet just to call them mongoloids. I had a terror of dicks after that rape. I couldn't suck dick for love or money until I was sixteen. You are absolutely right most women would breakdown, hurt someone or end up in jail if they lived my life. It's the familyy joke to be the first cousin to enrage me to the point I hit. They brawl all the time. For instance my cousin thomas was a fat fucker. He won the strawberry shortcake eating competition every year so long it was legend. He got his stomach stapled and it broke his dick. His younger twin brothers are steroid junkies. They stole his steroid jammed dick cream and lathered in it. When thomas found out they used all his dick cream they had a wrestling match in the yard of a gated community all pumped up on steroids and rage. They can't make it through a holiday without a yard fight.
Those son's of bitches will taunt me to extremes. Then they laugh. They dare me to touch them so they can be the one to give me a record and jail time. I am convinced that I will do hard time. Shit hits the fan when my grandma dies. We have to split the famiy land. Someone gets the swamp. Our mission to fuck each other over with the swamp is nonstop. One of my cousins threatened to blow my mom's brains out if he gets it. My brother hates him so bad he actually needed a gun in his pants just to sit through our aunt's funeral in case it was time to kill him.
I will do hard time if my family gets the swamp. I have already warned them I will shoot them all in the kneecaps and balls. I am trying to avoid the electric chair and not kill them all. However, the urge to burn down their trailer haunts me. I have yet to commit arson. It is only a matter of time. I have dealt with enough bullshit eventually cars or houses will burn.
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7 days ago
I cant figure out this Xham censorship? there is no consistency. However I hope nothing happens to these folks because there is all kind of reason to make you a prime suspect you life and freedom is to valuable to get tied up in that kind of mess…..be good to yourself….All this negativity will harm you inside…
1 month ago
it's a damn deep swamp. There is a rumor my grandfather was really active in the klu klux klan. Apparently, black men were hung in our trees and bodies got put in that swamp. It wouldn't shock me at all to find all kinds of human and animal bones in the deepest part. Parts of it are true quicksand. You should see my mongoloid cousins trying to wrestle cows out of the deepest parts when they get stuck in quicksand.
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1 month ago
how deep is that swamp?????
2 months ago
oh that's wonderful my sweet. I am so happy. I will find out tomorrow how expensive it will be to ship. I will find out all your options. Sorry i missed you if you sent me a skype message. I lose track of skype when I am on xham. I am so excited. You will be the first person to buy my work. I will figure out a way to cover the signed profile pic to honor you. I don't feel good but I will be up in the day tomorrow and I'll have more info for you. love you to pieces. muahhhh huge kiss
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2 months ago
It is a riddle I can not solve. It must have been the precise combo of childhood rape, incest, arson and a murder plot. that makes me invalid. giggle.
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2 months ago
sweetie..maybe you misunderstood…I still want to buy your artwork
2 months ago
I love it. I hit something that made me invalid. I woke up convinced it was the word rape. Nope that's not it. This comment will post with no bleeps. It is a riddle I can't solve. It had to be the twisted combo of rape, arson and a murder plot. It is a never ending challenge to write a blog on a censored forum. If I can't use the words family, brother, animal, scrap and force then I can't tell my life story without so many f****n bleeps it becomes a crossword puzzle. You have to give me credit for having a great story. When you have mongoloid cousins that brawl in the yard over stolen dick cream you enter my realm.
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2 months ago
I know what it was. They don't bleep out things in a comment. It is odd they caught me. I don't even think it was killing and arson. The biggest no-no word is rape. I assumed they saw the word rape and declared it invalid. I was wrong. They will let me post the word rape in a comment. I don't know what invalidated me. It makes me smile. I love talking about my mongoloid cousins. I know you love the visual of three fat fucks in the front yard lathered in dick cream brawling. I shall enjoy this time free from prison before I slay them all and burn down the town. That is an issue I have warned them makes me a serious threat. I have absolutely no fear of a life sentence in jail. I am a writer and an artist. I need medical care. Prison doesn't scare me. I can live in a cage. I will get mail and have access to all kinds of reading material. I am prepared for hard time if killing is needed.
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2 months ago
I need you as my mother. I feel like shit but I know I have a great pm to answer from my new mother from another brother. I think I have a whole new since of devotion to the word nigger. I am a huge nigger fucking whore slut. I can't think of anything I want more than a good nigger man and his huge nigger cock. Somethings never change. Nigger Nigger Nigger
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2 months ago
pretty sure it was because i used the word rape
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2 months ago
Why would they not allow you to blog this there's nothing wrong with it that I can see
2 months ago
Gee, I wonder what the f**k those f****n bleeped out words really f****n are? Are you kidding me? That's f****n hilarious!!
2 months ago
Hmmm, perhaps the bits about killing? Seems that you should be free to write anything in a blog as a matter of artistic expression…. Bizarre they censored you.
2 months ago
I honestly can't find anything wrong with anything you've said here. I think you're a very intelligent and brave young lady. I personally think it's wonderful that you, like myself can use the word nigger the way it's meant to be used, and that YOU are as much a nigger whore and slut as me. I would be proud to call you my daughter.
2 months ago
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One man tonight in a pm basically told me no man would read a word much less chapters for a woman. He's wrong. I encourage you to enjoy my early sex stories. The true test is when I get personal. The title is Real blog. 'Part one. Read this if you contact me' In that blog I begin to tell my story. When I started I was seeking donations towards a new computer and asking men to leave comments to prove I am real a not a manipulative cunt. I had a hundred missed skype messages and I hit them with a message seeking help and support. None of the men on my skype list would read a blog. 95 percent of them will be eliminated. The next blog is short and it warns what I do if a man fucks with my reputation after I help him.
Chapter two describes the trials and tribulations I faced seeking help. It is a total reversal of my first blog. I plan to do this on my own. I am starting over. I don't need money of feedback. I have so much respect for men who read chapter two I won't accept money if they try to pay me. I can mix money with sex. I can't mix money with friendship. Feedback from writing means more to me than money. I can't wait to pawn my prize possession and be able to cam for those men. I explain how to get my skype ID.
Even if the man who considers me a textbook is right. Even if men won't read to learn about me nothing changes. The only reason I ask for a comment is to learn new names. All you have to do is say one word. On chapter one a man did it with ease. Any woman can be beautiful. My writing left him speechless. Since so few men read it I can guarantee you get a damn good reply to any comment you make. Yes it earns cam sex. Appearances don't mean shit. I want your fucking brain. Then I will focus on your dick. This profile will be up a long time. Jump in and play.


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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Consumer spending grew in July by 0.8 percent, the largest amount in five months. That followed a decline in June and helped ease fears that the U.S. economy is on the verge of another recession.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer spending grew in July by 0.8 percent, the largest amount in five months. That followed a decline in June and helped ease fears that the U.S. economy is on the verge of another recession.
Personal incomes increased 0.3 percent last month, the Commerce Department said. That's slightly higher than the modest 0.2 percent in June, the weakest in seven months.
The first look at spending in the second half of the year gave Wall Street an early lift. Stock futures rose after its release. It added to positive reports that Hurricane Irene didn't do as much damage as feared.
Consumer spending is important because it accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.
Economists said the report was a strong sign that the economy rebounded in July after anemic growth in the first half of the year.
July's spending and income figures "significantly alter the outlook for third-quarter GDP growth," said Paul Dales, a senior U.S. economist for Capital Economics. Dales said growth for the July-September quarter is on track for an annual rate of 2.5 percent.
, up from his previous estimate of 1.5 percent.
The government on Friday lowered its growth estimate for the April-June quarter to an annual rate of just 1 percent. Through the first six months of the year, the economy grew just 0.7 percent — the weakest in the two years since the recession official ended.
A number of reports show the economy improved last month. The economy added 117,000 net jobs in July, twice the number added in each of the previous two months. Spending on retail goods rose faster last month than in any month since March. U.S. automakers rebounded last month to boost factory production by the most since the Japan crisis.
In July, consumer spending rose at a faster pace than income. That means Americans saved less. The savings rate fell to a four-month low of 5 percent, down from 5.5 percent in June.
The increase in spending was led by a 1.9 percent jump in purchases of durable goods, products such as autos and appliances that are expected to last at least three years. Spending on non-durable goods rose 0.7 percent. However, the purchase of services, the biggest spending category, fell 0.7 percent. Services include everything from haircuts to airline tickets.
In a speech Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke proposed no new steps to boost the economy. But he did say the Fed would expand its September meeting to two days to allow a fuller discussion.
Investors hope the Fed will announce another round of Treasury purchases after that meeting. But economists said interest rates are already so low that there is little more the Fed can do to boost the economy.


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My goal is not to replace the Cruel Angel's Thesis in its entirety but to show what an opening sequence that has more reflection of the source material and themes is capable of.
As I require some help of the people outside of my discord group and facebook friends, Im asking for some scrutiny and assistance with several facets of the project. I will sort the topic accordingly when i find suggestions and criticism that I seek to address and I will create multiple sections noting what has been suggested, what has been addressed and what is being worked on.
--Known Problems--
-There are a few moments where the credits do not show on screen for long enough to be read.
-Some stills are in need of camera vibration and proper dissolve effects to make it appear as if they were camera shot instead of digitally edited in
-Several camera effects can be used to greater exaggerate the lighting as the blast beats are used
-The use of less color intense effects to make it appear as if more traditional editing methods were used.
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-Using Capture2Text to grab the screen Kanji for the opening credits to create a text document for overlay use.
-Tweaking some transitions and color effects to make it appear as if traditional editing and exposure adjustments were used.
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-Implemented text-less op to allow use of credits text in better places.
-Implemented fast clips to align with the fourth drum fill.
-Finished functional version of the intro, v1,0.
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-For me this fits all the criteria so far that i am interested in and i believe it fits quite well.
Choirs, Strings, Bells, Guitars, Drums, Organic cathedral reverb, Orthodox Russian Christianity, Metal.
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Grains rallied sharply today after Rueters reported that Calstrs (California State Teachers Retirement System) might be investing $2.5 billion in commodities over the next 3 years. December corn finished 22 ½ cents higher at $5.21 ¾. November beans finished up 32 ½ cents and December wheat finished up 22 ¾.
This strength was also attributed to strong outside markets after a strong manufacturing report which came out this morning before the open. Crude oil was up over a dollar higher and the US dollar hit new lows for the move. The trend still remains bullish for corn/soybeans and with new money flow coming in like this it is going to be hard for the market to find resistance.
I have included a crush chart below. The price falling illustrates that demand for the products isn't keeping pace with the soybean futures. This is probably a reflection of the huge inflows of investment money flowing into our markets. The 2011 corn strategy we had put in place a couple of days ago will help catch upside potential for these types of rallies.
Quantitative easing, selling of the dollar, and buying of treasuries and commodities have really been the main driving factor behind this rally. It is just money chasing money at this point. It makes grains more volatile and at the same time less likely to be sustainable at these prices.
Open interest continues to climb, we still haven't hit record levels yet but we are close. Next week we will be at the end of the month/end of the quarter. Many technical support levels still remain well below current prices so we recommend staying adequately hedged. If you would like to get more protected please call your broker to discuss current strategies.
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Kubricks / Re: Show me Your Kubes!« on: June 15, 2013, 11:08 AM »
Ha ha, I meant the guys I just sent to you...I hope they made it into the case display.
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my new Kubrick display case. Hope it comes out ok.
Highly recommended seller! Thanks again.
I wish those were Kubricks and not Bearbricks.
Picked up the 2007 Darth Maul Speeder bike box set for $85 with shipping. Looks like they are coming down in prices not like the sky high costs they was asking when released
Noticed there was two on sale on eBay
Highly recommended seller! Thanks again.
I received a dx3 sandtrooper in the mail today, and it was completely sealed. I was hoping I had won the brick lottery, but no dice- probably came from a box that had owen, so the person knew the sandtrooper was a sandtrooper. Still, if it had been me, I would have double checked just in case...
I thought I'd bought the 2007 box set today but I got an email saying he'd put the wrong price up so he refunded me. Totally gutted.


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If Katie Holmes ever guests on "Saturday Night Live," is there a chance she'll spoof Anne Hathaway for revenge?
On last night's "SNL," host Hathaway portrayed Holmes on "The Miley Cyrus Show" and did an impression of the actress down to Holmes' voice and actions. She endured a barrage of questions, including ones about her film roles, Tom Cruise and Scientology from exuberant host Miley Cyrus (Vanessa Bayer).
Hathaway appeared very excited about returning to "SNL" and it showed in the sketches she appeared in. She played newly-engaged Kate Middleton who meets a highly confrontational Queen Elizabeth II (Fred Armisen) and Prince Philip (Bill Hader). The highlight of that skit was when Phillip remarked, "This ain't 'The Princess Diaries,'" a reference to Hathaway's early movie.
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The actress also played Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz," whose supposedly deleted scenes featured the character the Weather Vane (Armisen), whose goal is to look for an apartment. Hathaway also played an annoyed soup kitchen coordinator in one skit, and in another she belted out a rock tune as a convincing Alanis Morissette.
In her opening monologue, Hathaway said that her upcoming movie, "Love and Other Drugs," has garnered buzz because of the nude scenes, and supported an actress' right to be naked if it preserves the intergrity of the movie. That prompted some of "SNL"'s eager male cast members to tell Hathaway that changes in the sketches will require her to be nude, to which she consented. (She was kidding, of course).
Other notable moments on the program included a sexy commercial featuring male TSA workers. On Weekend Update, Food Network's Guy Fieri (Bobby Moynihan) dropped by to talk about Thanksgiving food; Four Loko creator Chris Hunter (Jason Sudeikis) addressed the beverage's controversy and introduced a new drink called the Amy Winehouse; and "SNL" cast member Jay Pharaoh performed several Thanksgiving hip-hop songs in the voices of Jay-Z, Drake and the Notorious B.I.G.
The musical guest last night was British act Florence and the Machine.
"Saturday Night Live" will return on Dec. 4 with Robert De Niro as host and musical act Diddy-Dirty Money.


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Astronaut visits Center for Imaging Science
Peter A. Blacksberg '75
NASA astronaut Donald Pettit visited RIT's Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science on Thursday, Jan. 9, while in town to give a lecture at the George Eastman House on his space photography.
Peter Blacksberg, a 1975 alumnus from the School of Photography, introduced Pettit to key members of the center: Stefi Baum, director; Joe Pow, associate director; and David Messinger, director of the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory.
"Knowing that taking photos from space posed some unique problems, Peter suggested that Don connect with our researchers here, thinking we might be able to help address some of these challenges," Pow said.
Pettit asked specific questions about imaging the sun from the space station.
"He posed for us an interesting question on what useful filtered photography of the sun might he do," said Baum. "We are investigating that and will be getting back to him soon."
Pettit has logged more than 370 days on the International Space Station and more than 13 spacewalking hours during his three times in space.


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I was having a number of serious problems with WPC hanging in the middle of a category synchronization operation. After a large amount of detective work (I could really use better error reporting and progress reporting during the synchronization task so I can isolate where the problem lies), I found a directory in the search path that had a large number of Real Audio and Real Media files (.ra and .rm). I'm not sure why it was hanging instead of simply reporting an unknown file type, but you might want to check that out.
I've worked around the problem by adding .ra and .rm to the list of ignored extensions. You might want to consider adding those for the distribution version.


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Mozilla Helped To Stop SOPA In January, Now It's Worried About WCIT
from the must-be-important deptMike wrote how both Vint Cerf and Sir Tim Berners-Lee were concerned about the outcome of the WCIT talks currently taking place in Dubai. Those aren't the only important voices being raised. Here, for example, is the Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox browser and many other free software projects:
The Web lets us speak out, share, and connect around the things that matter. It creates new opportunities, holds governments to account, breaks through barriers, and makes cats famous. This isn't a coincidence. It's because the Web belongs to all of us: We all get a say in how it's built.As you can see, the Mozilla Foundation isn't just moaning about WCIT, it's giving people tools to help them engage with it -- despite the best efforts of the ITU to shut out the public. As a blog post about Mozilla's position on WCIT explains:
Mozilla has made it our mission to keep the power of the web in people's hands. But all this could change on December 3.
Our governments are going to meet in Dubai to decide whether an old treaty, the International Telecommunication Union, can be expanded to regulate -- to control -- the Internet.
The issue isn't whether our governments, the UN, or even the ITU should play a role in shaping the Web. The problem is that they are trying to do it behind closed doors, in secret, without us.
We believe everyone should have a voice. And this site is to help you be heard in Dubai.
The resources we are making available today will give you everything you need to learn about the upcoming meeting and why it matters, craft an effective message to get your government to listen, and engage in the global conversation about how decisions about the future of the Web should be made.Aside from this very practical help, Mozilla's move is important for another reason. In the past, Mozilla has tended to avoid getting involved with issues that are as much political as technical. The big exception was SOPA, when it took part in the January 18 Blackout, with impressive results:
Approximately 30 million people in the US who use the default start page in Firefox received the blacked out page with our call to actionThe action that it is taking over WCIT isn't quite so drastic, and so is unlikely to have such a big impact. But the fact that Mozilla has once again cast aside it usual apolitical position to voice its concerns shows how great they are.
We sent messages out to almost 9 million people via Facebook, Twitter and our Firefox + You newsletter
Our messages were retweeted, shared and liked by over 20,000 people (not counting MC Hammer's tweet to his 2.4 million followers!)
1.8 million people came to mozilla.org/sopa to learn more and take action on the issue
600,000 went on to visit the Strike Against Censorship page, hosted by the EFF
Ultimately, 360,000 emails were sent by Mozillians to members of Congress, contributing a third of all the emails generated by EFF's campaign site.
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Road Nationals Preview Quebec City
The first event of the 2006 Road Nationals will be the time trial on Thursday. While the road race and criterium events will take place in the center of Quebec City, the time trial will be held approximately 20 kilometres west of Quebec, on the south shore of the St Lawrence.
The circuit offers few geographic challenges, such as climbs, but does feature the notorious bumpy roads that Quebec is known for. The full course is approximately 9.4 kilometres, in the shape of a square. Riders head north, then hang two lefts on the next legs before making a 180 turn in sight of the start line and retracing the route back to the finish. Shortened turn around points, and an added segment give the varying lengths required for the different categories. All do one lap with the exception of the elite men, who do two - meaning three 180 turns.
The roads are narrow, with riders going in both directions. This means the corners will be very tight (with loose gravel shoulders), so riders can get into trouble if they are carrying too much speed, or shave the corner - as Ryder Hesjedal (Phonak) did in a training session this evening.
The schedule is very spread out (see posted start lists), with the elite men not starting until 6:00 pm, and a winner unlikely to be declared until after 8:00 pm. This could be a problem for the last riders if it is overcast, since some wooded sections were already getting quite shadowy even in bright sunlight.
Hesjedal commented on the rough roads, and said "it is a course that you are just going to have to hammer on the whole way. The bumpy roads really throw off your rhythm."
(A few photos of Hesjedal testing out the course.)
Hesjedal and defending champion Svein Tuft (Symmetrics) are the favourites. Both have had strong rides recently, with Hesjedal finishing 19th in the Dauphine Libere and 4th in Catalunya, while Tuft was 4th in the time trial at Beauce two weekends ago.
The women's race is wide open. Two perennial favourites are gone - Lyne Bessette (retired) and Genevieve Jeanson (suspended and subsequently retired) - while two-time defending champion Sue Palmer-Komar (Colavita) crashed heavily last weekend, sustaining severe bruising to her right hip.
"I didn't think it was that bad when it happened" says Palmer-Komar "but then it swelled up; it was a huge hematoma. So, I definitely won't be at my best. I will ride and do my best - it doesn't bother me when I'm riding my bike, but I don't know if I have any power because I haven't stressed it too much so far."
Besides Palmer-Komar, other potential champions include Erinne Willock (Webcor Platinum) and last year's surprise bronze medalist Felicia Greer Gomez (Webcor Platinum).
Race Notes
- approximately 700 riders have signed up for the championships; nearly double the number of last year. This has led to long lines at registration, and the organizers ran out of numbers (they began hand writing them).
- Many of the elite women are upset about the back-to-back scheduling of their races - with the ITT Thursday and the road race the next day. The men race tomorrow and Saturday, giving them a an extra day to rest up after the ITT. One top rider said "to me this just says that the CCA considers the men as the whole show."
- Kevin Lacombe (Volkswagen Trek) will be racing the time trial - his first race back after dealing with a blood clot problem. Lacombe has been on blood-thinning medication, so riding in packs where crashes are possible is not a good idea. He is anxious to test his form.
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