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Chicago is all about the World Series this weekend. This 46 year drought of any Chicago team participating in a World Series has created so much excitement and interest in the Sox quest for a World Championship.
This morning, Eli's Cheesecake and Lou Malanati's Pizza were invited by the morning team at ABC7 Chicago, Hosea Sanders and Judy Hsu, to participate in a wager with their counterparts at ABC13 in Houston.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) An attorney for Matt Bush, a former pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization, says the baseball player is expected to agree to a plea deal in a DUI crash that injured a motorcyclist.
Bush was being held Saturday in the Charlotte County jail on $440,000 bail. He faces multiple DUI-related charges, along with charges of leaving the scene of the March 22 accident that seriously injured 72-year-old Tony Tufano.
Bush was released by the Rays in October. His father tells the Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/Ujn4VR ) that Bush will agree to a plea deal that involves a prison sentence of at least three more years.
Bush's attorney, Russell Kirshy, says a plea deal had been reached and a hearing was scheduled Tuesday. He declined to disclose the deal's terms.

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The Moderne was the other guitar in the trilogy that included the Explorer and the Flying V but the evidence is that it never made it into production. It's been claimed that a handful were made and either destroyed or somehow "lost". That makes a great story and one that will probably never be truly authenticated as it was fifty odd years ago and most of the people involved are now pushing up daisies. A quick look at the article linked in this sellers text reveals that a few copies have been made, notably Ibanez's recreation of the trilogy in 1975 and Epiphone's (re)issue in 2000. Even this Gibson example at just over £3000 (BIN) is one of just 183 made (that number isn't verified either so even the reissue is continuing the tradition of vagueness and speculation).
The article also talks about Glenn Miller (not the famous bandleader) and his reconstructions of the '82 Modernes at Wrona's House of Violins in New York, from a stock of parts he bought from Gibson in 1984. It seems he is still producing them today from those Gibson parts though it's not clear if they're 100% original. These "made from Gibson parts but not BY Gibson" Modernes are certainly going to cloud the already muddy waters for the future and further enhance the mythology of the Moderne.
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Spiders Ledge is a good place to see sharks at Lady Elliot Island. The reef at this site slopes from 8 metres to 25 metres and is cut by a series of gutters and ledges.
Pretty corals and abundant reef fish are found at the site, as are turtles and schools of pelagic fish. However, this area is best known for its sharks. While the odd tasselled wobbegong and leopard shark can be seen resting on the bottom, this is also a good place to see whitetip reef sharks and grey reef sharks. These sharks patrol the reef edge, and are often joined by larger blacktip sharks and bull sharks.
In the shallows behind Spiders Ledge is an area of dead coral, but with lots of caves and gutters. This is also a good place to find resting sharks as whitetip reef sharks and tawny nurse sharks use this area for a nap.
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Pembrokeshire has some of the most beautiful beaches in the whole of the UK and perhaps even the whole of Europe. You'll find nothing less than soft clean sands surrounded by rugged cliff tops, mythical islands with almost tropical wildlife that range from puffins to dolphins and seals. There are hidden bays, rolling sand dunes and surfer's paradises. Freshwater West has featured in more than one Hollywood blockbuster and even starlet Cate Blanchett was once quoted as saying that perhaps our beaches are where the name 'New South Wales' originated as she compared the beaches of Pembrokeshire to the coastal beaches of Australia.
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Time-Lapse and Urban-Mapping: An Infographics and Visualization Exploration
I'm using this platform as an archive for a conversation with Kayla. A PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne; who's doing urban mapping or in her own words:
The course I'm doing is under School of Arch & Design. My main background is Landscape Architecture and for the PhD, I look into temporary markets. I would say it's a mix of landscape architecture + urban/city + and "the everyday" things that go in between. And yes, I've never thought maps and mapping could be this fascinating too. It's amazing to see a place/city differently once they are mapped in different ways.
She's also the sister of Nadirah who's a photographer in New York, whom I met last month at the Work Presentation session at The Republik Studio. I still owe her the editing of last bootleg video.
Now I'm committing my passion for time-lapse with another passion of mine: infographics.
My Del.icio.us account is populated with the infographics, information visualization, information design, infosthetics, statistics and timeline analysis. I'm used to bookmark tag with Del.icio.us, now I'm in semi-comatose mode ever since the news of Yahoo going to shutdown Del.icio.us. There's even category for del.icio.us that I use in this blog with the help of xmlrpc.php.
Before I knew of Kayla work. I'm already set off on cataloguing the urbanscape of the city and the littoral space of my hometown — demarcated space of white sand and the blue sea, with sparkling stars above.
Her work on urban mapping is a great interest of mine, as the work-in-progress that I do for month long personal project of mine, involves with night market/temporary market (pasar malam) in urban city.
It's an exciting notion that my work could be used for someone in their intellectual pursuit in the academia world of urban planning.
I'm pretty much an accomplished motion-control time-lapse photographer/videographer, but I need help with visualizing the soundscapes of the city into some form of waveform infographics.
The visual and interface design of Mark Coleran is the best place to start for inspiration. The time-lapse footage with the visualisation of soundscape, time countdown and sun dial would be an exquisite final product.
Lovely interface design, but I'm looking for more simplistic interface.
Now to the urban-mapping conversation:
Time & Space: Lorong TAR Night Market, Kuala Lumpur
Fieldwork, 2009
I just realised that my personal project on urban time-lapse with the Kessler Crane Elektra/Oracle system have greater impact in urbanscape mapping not just in time-lapsing per se.
What's the traffic condition, the flow of pedestrians & vehicles, the light pollution source, the hygiene indicator, the environment controller & the of course the aesthetic aspect of the light play itself on low shutter speed.
All this from a simple time-lapse. Wow.
fezr replied to your photo: Time & Space: Lorong TAR Night Market, Kuala…
I'm doing personal motion control time-lapse with Kessler Crane Elektra/Oracle system at Cheras' (or M'sia even) longest night market, every Wednesday at Taman Connaught. This is called urban mapping?
I just realised that my personal project on urban time-lapse with the Kessler Crane Elektra/Oracle system have greater impact in urbanscape mapping not just in time-lapsing per se.
What's the traffic condition, the flow of pedestrians & vehicles, the light pollution source, the hygiene indicator, the environment controller & the of course the aesthetic aspect of the light play itself on low shutter speed.
All this from a simple time-lapse. Wow.
Yes, I would say time-lapse photograph can be a kind of mapping when we specifically know what we want to document, or "reveal". And the best part, sometimes what we find stuff that we did not expect.
In the Lorong TAR Night Market project, I wanted to understand how the back lane is occupied across time, just like you posted: changes in how the space is utilized, flow of pedestrians & vehicles, etc. We did the same for Petaling Street and it's amazing to see how vendors bring in their kit-of-parts to set up night stalls in the middle of the street market. It almost seemed like a choreography of some kind: they come in, they install, they vend, people come. When the market closed, they uninstall, they go out, and by midnight, the garbage collection service comes and cleans the street. By morning, everything was back to normal.
For my project, we had to do the shooting manually every half hour to every hour (thanks to my husband for shooting most of it!). If you want to shoot Lorong TAR, start shooting from the morning because the vendors start setting up their stalls as early as 10 or 11 am (we only started in the afternoon and by that time the lane was pretty much filled with tents already). And yeah, Taman Connaught Night Market is definitely the longest night market – stretching about 1km if I'm not mistaken! If you have time-lapse photos of this, hope you won't mind sharing with me. Would love to see how the super-long night market becomes a pop-up city over the night!
By the way, I recently found some works by Olafur Eliasson that also uses time-lapse.
I would love to. I'll be more "industrious" with my time-lapse editing this upcoming month. I'm juggling between two jobs, offshore engineering & cinematography, and time-lapse as my past-time passion.
Check my flickr and Tom Lowe's Timescapes.org for the kind of work that I'm doing. For the flickr there's only one time-lapse video. I'm not much a zealous uploader. I will soon, in my Vimeo account.
Thanks for the pointer. I'm cataloging a couple of night market. Taman Connaught is the hardest due to the length. And I could only make one time-lapse per week, with different perspective (usually on the elevated pathway).
I'll try to post one of the perspective soon.
Thanks for sharing your thought. I'm very keen in architecture, urban planning and design too. I hope the time-lapse work that I done could show something about the need for better gentrification project for the Malaysian community.
Mapping Number of Night Market Stalls in Kuala Lumpur = 31,652 stalls
The data was sourced from the city council. As in the previous map, each colour represents each day. In this map, the tallest bar represents the highest number of stalls, which marks the largest or longest night market. Now that I'm taking a second look at this, Pasar Malam Taman Sri Petaling on Tuesday nights actually has 900 stalls – marked by the tallest blue bar. Pasar Malam Taman Connaught comes in second with 702 stalls. Now that we've seen temporary markets as an amazing phenomenon in the country, we should be able to anticipate this in our future city planning (read: phd contribution, hopefully!)
Sri Petaling (Tuesday) is near my Oil & Gas office. Taman Connaught (Wednesday) is near my apartment. The infographics and the statistics are useful in order to get the best of the time-lapse exposure. The larger the traffic, the better the flow of the time-lapse can be captured.
I agreed with the urban planning to redesign more public space i.e. temporary markets and gardens for the community. We're choked with the concrete and the asphalt, we forget how lush the empty space are.
I'm supposed to be in Vietnam for backpacking holiday. Missed the flight today. Yeah, fickle traveler me.
Now I know what I'm looking forward to this week. That, and all the the delayed editing of past videography work, and one of them is the bootleg video of your New Yorker sister last Work Presentation at The Republik. The one I uploaded at the youtube is a raw file. Grainy — should have use faster prime lens. Oh, well.
Last night I was at the Vincent Moon & Efterklang, An Island screening at Eightyfourcube Studio. Even though it's an acoustic short film yet soundscape of the landscape plays a vital part in the film.
Since I'll be at the place for hours. I might as well capture the soundscape of the place and translated it into infographics of peak wave form.
There'll be mash of time-lapse and wave-form graph. Like some wicked sci-fi movie. Hahaha. I'm just being optimistic. Is there an apps for capturing the waveform into infographics other than me just print screen the Final Cut Pro's sound bar?
I'm scouring www.artofthetitle.com, www.informationisbeautiful.net,www.visualcomplexity.com & infosthetics.com for inspiration.
Another amazing mapping. This one is called MOUNT FEAR East London Police Statistics for violent crimes 2002-3 (2003) by Abigail Reynolds.
I thought fezr might find this an interesting example to "capture the soundscape of the place and translated it into infographics of peak wave form".
I came to know about a lot of these mapping and artists from Katharine Harmon's "The map as art: contemporary artists explore cartography"
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Police looking for 'persons of interest' in El Rey fire
Milwaukee police are looking for a "person of interest" in the fire that damaged the El Rey grocery store overnight on the city's southwest side.
Police said two men were seen loitering around the outside of the store at 51st Street and West Oklahoma Avenue overnight just before the fire started at about 11:30 p.m Thursday.
The video shows two people, who police believed to be men, seemingly casing the store, which was closed at the time, peering in the windows and then later turning around and walking back towards the entrance.
In the final frame, it appears that a glow can be seen outside the front doors. In another angle, the pair can be seen knocking something over, and then running off.
Anyone with information about the identity of the men in the surveillance video are asked to call Milwaukee police at 414-935-7360.
"It's heartbreaking. There's no sense to it," said owner Olivia Villarreal.
"Everything in the store has to be completely discarded. You could have fed a third world country with as much food as we had to throw out," said Villarreal.
Friday morning, employees such as Lidia Martinez showed up even though the store was closed.
"I know I'm devastated to hear about this. This is our job. This is our job," Martinez said.
Investigators said they believe the fire started on the outside of the building, but are still trying to determine the cause.
The fire then worked its way inside. Firefighters said there was $300,000 damage, most of it to the items inside.
People could be seen driving up throughout the morning.
"I was just walking in and seen the truck and wondered, 'What's going on here?'" customer Daryl Johnson said.
Johnson is a loyal customer at the store, even though it has been operating as an El Rey for just a year.
"It's very important, especially since they opened the restaurant. Me and my wife come here and eat once, or twice a week, very convenient," Johnson said.
"It worries all of us who work here. We love what we do here," Martinez said.
The next step is cleaning up and getting back to work.
The Milwaukee Fire Department said no one was injured. The store was closed when the fire started.
Milwaukee's mayor surveyed the damage late Friday afternoon.
"They really are an important part of this community. When I heard the news, I wanted to see the damage myself, " Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said.


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There are a million and one reasons why you might need your window replaced or fixed, hopefully you don't wake up to a smashed rear window with a rock thrown through it, as was my frustrating recent experience. Regardless of your story if you need some glasswork done, from the smallest chip to an entire window replacement, there is a lot more to it than meets the eye as I found at Safelite AutoGlass.
The thing about a broken window is that it can't wait. Not only is there frustration and many other thoughts that will be racing through your mind as you clean up broken glass after finding your window broken, but your life can literally be placed on hold. Safelite has a great mobile service that can get to you at almost any location in the United States and they also have an in-shop service team if that fits your needs.
A broken window is as obvious as the wind hitting you in face if you decide to drive with that broken window. The hidden problem that isn't quite as obvious is that chip in your window. That little pebble that flies up from the road and hits your window or something that comes flying out of the back of a truck and just puts that ever so tiny ding into your windshield. So small and insignificant there is probably nothing to worry about, right?
Of course there is something to worry about. The windshield it turns out is part of the structural strength of the roof. The windshield provides up to 45 percent of the structural integrity of the vehicle's cabin in a front collision and up to 60 percent in a rollover. Those are pretty staggering numbers and should make you realize that you don't want to take any chances when it comes to your windows. If you catch the chip early enough you can get it repaired, which is important because according to research from Swansea Metropolitan University, 90 percent of windshield chips will crack within three years. Not everyone does a chip repair the same and that is why you are best served going with the quality and safety of Safelite. Safelite uses a state-of-the art patented resin injected into the chip. You can take your car into one of their shops or have the mobile service come to you, either way you will get the same quality job. The amazing part is that not only do they repair the chip, but you almost have no sign of damage ever being done to the window when they are done. As an added bonus and this is with any service from Safelite, the technician cleans your windows and I don't know how they do it but I guarantee they will have never looked so clear since the day you walked out of the showroom.
There are a number of great points about Safelite, but the one that made me feel the most secure was that all of their technicians must pass an 8-week training program before they even go out on an actual job.
"We replaced 3 million windshields last year in the United States, we're exclusively focused on this and we have a relentless focus on improving and perfecting the technical and customer side of the business," Californian Safelite division manager Clayton Frech stated. "When we bring in a tech, it might be a year before they do there own job, four-to-six months minimum before they are touching a car on their own. They go through rigorous training, they do ride alongs and they have to pass all our certifications and tests, which are the toughest in the industry. They really have to prove themselves."
It isn't very hard to find someone to repair or replace your window, there are plenty of different options, but do you know what you are getting with that repair? The question you have to ask is how well is this person trained, where are they getting their glass from and will they stand by their work? With Safelite you know exactly what you are getting, with someone else, well you might be left with some not so high quality work. Safelite also will give you expert advice before doing the job and they have a national warranty that is valid as long as you own or lease the vehicle. To show how they take service the extra step, if you have any problem, Safelite will credit the cost of your repair toward a replacement window.
"The warranty is essentially a lifetime warranty as long as you own the vehicle, we will stand by our work and there is no reason our work should be defective, the warranty is also valid anywhere you drive the car because we are in all fifty states and I've never been in a company that takes customer complaints more seriously than Safelite," French added.
The glass that Safelite puts in your car or the window that they repair will get you back on the road again, but it is the quailtiy of the company and the high standards that they have set that will give you piece of mind each time you get into your car.
For more information on Safelite AutoGlass, visit: www.safelite.com or call (877) 800-2727.
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The latest installment in my series that I am now calling "Holy Crap, Science Fiction is Finally Here!" involves NASA's announcement that they will be working on tractor beams.
Yes, you read that right – NASA is actually trying to figure out how to make a working tractor beam. My fellow sci-fi fans may need to use the facilities right about now. Don't worry, I'll wait.
Long has the tractor beam – the ability to move objects using only laser beams – been a staple of science fiction. Both the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" universes have them, and it has been featured in literature as early as the late 1920s. Real-life scientists have been theorizing about its potential development since the 1960s. But only recently has any headway been made into bringing them closer to reality.
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Now NASA has set aside money for a team to study various methods by which tractor beams might be developed for practical use. Likely one of the first uses a working prototype would be put to collect particle and molecular samples from things such as comet tails more efficiently than current methods.
One process uses two overlapping pulsating beams that use changes in air temperature so particles would be pulled up between them with a sort of light-based peristalsis. Another uses solenoid beams whose waves spiral around an axis and can suck up particles like a straw.
A third method, one that has never been developed beyond the theory stage, involves a beam of light whose cross-section looks like ripples in a pond, and which can induce magnetic fields in the path of an object.
Once put into use with current technology, these methods will only be effective on matter at the molecular level. So, unfortunately, you won't be able to use lasers to move your sleeper sofa into the house any time soon. For that you'll still have to rely on the current technology — a pick-up truck, three friends who owe you a favor and a couple six packs of beer.
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|Mineral Species: Volborthite.
Location of mineral deposit: Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico.
Description: Lustrous translucent dark olive-green bladed volborthite crystals on both side of white dickite-coated matrix. Volborthite is a rare hydrated copper vanadate and not commonly available in large crystals - until this pocket was encountered from Milpillas. Collected in 2015.
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History of City Catch
He was a city kid. When he was nine years old his family moved from Pulaski Street in the inner city to Edmondson Village. He could walk to the Edmondson Village Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and he had read every book in the Pratt Library on trout and salmon fishing and rivers, but he had never been to a trout stream. He could also walk into Leakin Park. Leakin Park is the largest city park of any eastern city in the United States. Much of it was mature forest following the Gwynns Falls stream valley. In about ten minutes he could walk to a tributary to Gwynns Falls named Dead Run.
Growing up, he spent most of his outdoor time in Leakin Park. First he collected rocks and minerals. Then it was butterflies and moths, then snakes. But during all this time there was fishing. He had no fly rod but he cast flies with a casting rod. He caught black nosed dace and rosy side dace. In his childhood fantasies the black nosed dace were brown trout and the rosy sides were his rainbows. Strategically placed on telephone poles and some sycamore trees, were red and white signs stating "Danger Typhoid Fever Polluted Water – Keep Out." The problem was that sewer lines were installed in the stream valley as they are in most cities. Sewer lines leaked and sewage could enter adjacent streams. Later, as a grown-up, he often thought that it was a shame that city children didn't have a chance to fish for trout.
In 1972, he was one of twelve people that formed the Maryland Chapter of Trout Unlimited. (MDTU) One of his first discussions with the Director of the Trout Program in the Maryland Fisheries Service was about city streams. "Why can't you stock trout in city streams in Baltimore?" he asked. He was told, "Because there is raw sewage discharging into them and it could create a serious health hazard to attract people to those streams when they are polluted with human sewage."
Several years later, Baltimore City announced a federal grant which would pay for sealing the leaking sewer lines that ran down the stream valleys in Baltimore. MDTU again approached the Director of the Trout Program, who said he needed evidence that the water was safe. Charter MDTU member, Bud Sinor, a high school science teacher, set up a bacteriology laboratory. Volunteers collected water samples from Herring Run and Dead Run for about a year. We presented results of fecal coliform and fecal streptococci bacteria analyses to the state and convinced them that the problem had been solved. The following year trout were stocked into Herring Run near Morgan State College. The return of trout fishing to Baltimore City was such a big deal that Mayor William Donald Schaeffer was on Good Morning America when he stocked the first trout into Herring Run. The next year trout were stocked in Herring Run and Dead Run.
In the second year there was some bad press for the city stocking program. The outdoor writer for the News American wrote a story about children chasing trout with baseball bats immediately after they were stocked. He opined in the article that we should not be wasting trout on city children that had no appreciation for them. MDTU was concerned that the program could end over this incident. There was quite a debate over it. Some people said the state shouldn't be stocking our trout in their streams.
MDTU discussed the fact that these children had never been exposed to sport fishing and had no idea of what was appropriate behavior. We approached the mayor and told him that we wanted to conduct a fishing clinic for city children. We wanted them to learn how to catch trout ethically and legally. Furthermore we hoped that they would develop an appreciation for streams and good water quality. With help from Mayor Schaeffer we raised enough money to buy the kids fishing outfits that they could keep. The idea was if they had the tackle they were more likely to go fishing again after the event. We also bought the fish that were stocked so as to avoid the concern over using fish that fishermen had paid for with their trout stamp purchases. (Children don't have to buy licenses or stamps.)
Pam Kelly, Schaeffer's aide, helped design the program. Recreation and Parks held a contest with two winners from each of the 125 Recreation Centers in the City. Thus we had 250 children of ages from about 8 to 14 learning to fish each year in Leakin Park.
The program disappeared when we could not get any cooperation from Mayor Schmoke. We were able to start it again under Mayor O'Malley. It has been going strong since then. This year, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake joined us and brought her niece, who caught her first fish, a nice rainbow trout.
If we are committed to the protection, restoration and reconnection of cold water habitats we need to continue to reach out to the younger generation. What motivates most of us to care about water quality and aquatic habitat is the love of our sport and the beautiful places we pursue it. We need to pass this on to young people if we want the next generation to care also.
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Bizarre Trend: Journalism Professors Using Klout Scores As Part Of Students' Grades
from the bad-metrics deptWe've raised questions in the past about the relevance of "Klout" scores. If you don't know, Klout is one of a few companies that try to measure "influence" online by looking at your social media activity. The whole process seems kind of silly, but for whatever reason, once you put a number on things, people take it seriously, no matter how bogus the number might be. Lots of companies now use Klout scores to determine who they should give special perks to, leading to plenty of people just trying to game their scores. However, should Klout scores count towards your grade as a student? Adam Singer sent over examples of two separate journalism professors who think so.
In both cases, the professors admit that Klout scores may not be particularly accurate, but both have interesting defenses for including the score as part of the grades that students get. Todd Bacile, from Florida State University, argues that even if people think Klout is inaccurate or silly, since others are taking it seriously, students need to take it seriously too. Even if it's a problem-perpetuating situation, he argues that he's being something of a realist and merely preparing his students for the real world, where they'll be judged by their Klout scores whether they like it or not -- and thus one project (but not the entire grade for the course) will be graded based on Klout scores:
Most people seem to either love or hate Klout, so the notion of assigning a portion of a student's grade to their respective Klout score may cause some to react … what's a good word to use here … fretfully. Yet, as an educator teaching electronic marketing at the collegiate level I owe it to my students to introduce them to every and any concept that will help them land an internship or fulltime job. Klout matters to employersFor whatever it's worth, he notes that his students have massively increased their Klout scores because of this. He also claims that by having them focus on Klout scores -- something that could constantly be measured -- it actually kept students more engaged:
And here is an inescapable fact. Many firms are sizing up college student's Klout scores as a quantitative metric to use for job applicant screening. Therefore, I decided to create a class project in which the final grade earned is solely determined by a student's Klout score.
An experiential project like this proved to be enjoyable for the students and maintained their attention and enthusiasm throughout the semester. Many students would compare scores and discuss different techniques used to engage with powerful opinion leaders within the social world. Which students had higher scores became a friendly competition causing students to work even harder at engaging others. Imagine that: students wanting to work more to develop skills that current marketing employers are searching for!Bacile has since noted that when he presented this idea at a conference, other professors told him they were going to do the same thing.
The second story Singer sent over is from Ryan Thornburg, who teaches journalism at UNC, and who is also using Klout as part of the grade (in this case, counting as 20% of it). Thornburg also admits, quite directly, that Klout is probably "overly simplistic." So why is he doing this? Because he thinks that it forces students to do actual experiments in which they can all learn how Klout works, and see if they can improve it.
How is that possibly fair to students who are struggling to raise this arbitrary number that's contrived inside a black box? It's fair because it transforms the class from a workshop on button-pushing to an exercise in hypothesis testing, strategy and critical thinking. Students -- who often approach grades with calculating economy of effort -- don't know what they have to do to boost their Klout scores, so they are forced to design simple experiments, isolate variables, and generalize their findings.In the end, he notes that perhaps his best students will actually be able to build a better Klout.
I'll admit that my initial reaction to these stories was horror. The idea of basing grades on a silly system like Klout certainly feels very, very wrong. However, the explanations and defenses from both professors have me rethinking that stance somewhat. Is it really all that different from "teaching to the test", as some teachers do for standardized testing? An SAT score may not really tell us much of anything, but it is important for many colleges, so is it a surprise that teachers help their students optimize for it? While we can quite reasonably worry that focusing on Klout has students optimizing less useful skills, from an experimental standpoint, perhaps it's not such a crazy idea.
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We'll start by taking a good look at disk-oriented aspects of Gentoo Linux and Linux in general, including Linux filesystems, partitions and block devices. Then, once you're familiar with the ins and outs of disks and filesystems, you'll be guided through the process of setting up partitions and filesystems for your Gentoo Linux installation.
To begin, we'll introduce
The block devices above represent an abstract interface to the disk. User programs can use these block devices to interact with the disk without worrying about whether the drives are IDE, SCSI or something else. The program can simply address the storage on the disk as a bunch of contiguous, randomly-accessible 512-byte blocks.
Although it is theoretically possible to use a full disk to house your Linux
system, this is almost never done in practice. Instead, full disk block devices
are split up in smaller, more manageable block devices. On most systems,
these are called
If you are not interested in drawing up a partitioning scheme for your system, you can use the partitioning scheme we use throughout this book. Choose the filesystem layout that best matches the type of PowerPC system you are installing on.
Apple New World machines are fairly straightforward to configure. The first
partition is always an
Apple Old World machines are a bit more complicated to configure. The first
partition is always an
The Pegasos partition layout is quite simple compared to the Apple layouts. The first partition is a Boot Partition, which contains kernels to be booted, along with an Open Firmware script that presents a menu on boot. After the boot partition, the usual Linux filesystems are placed, according to the scheme below. The swap partition is a temporary storage place for when your system runs out of physical memory. The root partition will contain the filesystem that Gentoo is installed on.
The IBM PowerPC Reference Platform (PReP) requires a small PReP boot partition on the disk's first partition, followed by the swap and root partitions.
If you are interested in knowing how big a partition should be, or even how many
partitions you need, read on. Otherwise continue now with
The number of partitions is highly dependent on your environment. For instance,
if you have lots of users, you will most likely want to have your
As you can see, it very much depends on what you want to achieve. Separate partitions or volumes have the following advantages:
However, multiple partitions have one big disadvantage: if not configured properly, you might result in having a system with lots of free space on one partition and none on another. There is also a 15-partition limit for SCSI and SATA.
At this point, create your partitions using
# mac-fdisk /dev/hda
If you used Apple's Disk Utility to leave space for Linux, first delete the
partitions you have created previously to make room for your new install. Use
Second, create an
Now create a swap partition by pressing
To create the root partition, enter
To finish up, write the partition to the disk using
Now that your partitions are created, you can continue with
To begin let's fire up
# parted /dev/hda
If the drive is unpartitioned, run
You can type
If you intend to also install MorphOS on your Pegasos create an affs1 filesystem
at the start of the drive. 32MB should be more than enough to store the MorphOS
kernel. If you have a Pegasos I or intend to use any filesystem besides ext2 or
ext3, you will also have to store your Linux kernel on this partition (the
Pegasos II can only boot from ext2/ext3 or affs1 partitions). To create the
partition run
You will need to create two partitions for Linux, one root filesystem and one
swap partition. Run
It is generally recommended that you create a swap partition that is two times
bigger than the amount of RAM in your computer, but at least 512Mb is
recommended. To create the swap partition, run
When you are done in parted simply type
Now that your partitions are created, it is time to place a filesystem on them.
If you're not sure which filesystems to choose and are happy with our defaults,
continue with
Several filesystems are available for use on the PowerPC architecture including ext2, ext3, ReiserFS and XFS, each with their strengths and faults.
ext2 is the tried and true Linux filesystem but doesn't have metadata journaling, which means that routine ext2 filesystem checks at startup time can be quite time-consuming. There is now quite a selection of journaled filesystems that can be checked for consistency very quickly and are thus generally preferred over their non-journaled counterparts.
ext3 is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like full data and ordered data journaling. It uses an HTree index that enables high performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very good and reliable filesystem.
ReiserFS is a B+tree-based filesystem that has very good overall performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x-15x. ReiserFS also scales extremely well and has metadata journaling. ReiserFS is solid and usable as both general-purpose filesystem and for extreme cases such as the creation of large filesystems, very large files and directories containing tens of thousands of small files.
XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling which comes with a robust feature-set and is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on Linux systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and an uninterruptible power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data in RAM, improperly designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions when writing files to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly.
# mkswap /dev/hda3
To activate the swap partition, use
# swapon /dev/hda3
Create and activate the swap now before creating other filesystems.
To create a filesystem on a partition or volume, there are tools available for each possible filesystem:
|Creation Command
For instance, to make an ext3 filesystem on the root partition
# mke2fs -j /dev/hda4
Now create the filesystems on your newly created partitions (or logical volumes).
Now that your partitions are initialized and are housing a filesystem, it is
time to mount those partitions. Use the
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Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2009, 13:24
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New Puppy based on the best parts of many distros
Subject description: Debian, Puppy, woof, Tiny Core and others
Here is my basic overview of the plan I have come up with.
Start a very minimal desktop that is Lenny compatible... try to get it down to about 5-10MB using Kernel 2.6.29+, busybox, minimal X, JWM
Use parts of Barry's woof scripts to build sfs modules for each package (or set of packages). Up to 255 are supported now (Certain packages will need a small modification that I will explain in a minute)
For programs with executables we would need to set up a small script that mounts its sfs and any dependencies, then executes the program. This can be done by giving the mount/run script the same name as the executable, but putting it in the lowest level of the "PATH" so that it is only mounted on first run. (If we wanted to get really inventive with resources we could even unmount the sfs when the program closes, but this may cause problems with shared library sfs when multiple programs are running that require it)
For packages without executables (libraries, docs...) we would simply need to add a script with the same name as its loader script to the sfs that does nothing, but is higher in the hierachy of "PATH"
I would recommend shifting the order of execution of many things to background after jwm (in XVESA) is loaded and use an sfs module that contains xorg to mount and run the xorg wizard from the desktop if one so chooses.
Much of the sfs loading could be integrated into a build script that would make basic assumptions based on the package name ... lib* *DEV, *DOC and *NLS would get the non executable treatment and others would assume that the base package name was the same as the executable (for building the sfs and mount script) and each mount script would be based on dependencies.
A compromise alternative would be to have an extra couple of sfs files that would make up the traditional default puppy packages that would be loaded after JWM. Then use the build scripts to make sfs modules other packages and dependencies not contained in the default sfs modules after referencing a "packages.list" type of file to exclude already installed packages.
This would give us the boot speed of TCL, the package base of Debian (or Slackware, Ubuntu or Arch), the flexibility of woof, the modularity of Puppy and expandability of SLAX
This is just a rough idea at the moment. I am undecided on doing each package as a module (maybe 255 is not enough)
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Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2009, 15:12
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Hi Techno
Sounds cool
I sometimes wonder if my brain has a few less connections than yours
You seem to consistently come up with some very imaginative projects
How long before we see a totally independent, TechnoOS, I wonder?
Good luck with it....
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Posted: Thu 26 Mar 2009, 23:24
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also on the drawing board is to bring back the zdrv.sfs and come up with a script that will cut down the zdrv to only include the modules needed by the user's hardware (Mandriva started doing this in 2009.0) If memory serves me correctly Barry played around with this in 4.1 development
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Posted: Fri 27 Mar 2009, 08:30
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Sounds a flexible build, which I like very much.
As far as I can tell, the problem with zdrv.sfs is that it has to be mounted before use, and this imposes limitations. What is not yet done is a script to remove unneeded drivers from pup.sfs.
Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice?
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Posted: Fri 27 Mar 2009, 09:56
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I've already started on a version a few days back using woof and debian, My idea is make a min version and build a regular puppy non-debian around it, I don't like the extra libs etc, I fine the new package manager unstable, its crashed a few times, etc. I'll just rip apart a pet package manager in 4 series maybe 3, remove the repo parts, and have it so it installs, uninstalls, checks/rechecks for missing libs and thats about it. Packages I can compile and advertise in the forum, most don't use the repo much because puppy comes this 70% of it anyways.
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Posted: Fri 27 Mar 2009, 10:06
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If this is a dumb idea, please just say so, I won't feel insulted. What if apps were compiled statically? One could have a completely self-contained gimp.sfs, firefox.sfs, openoffice.sfs (now that's a scary one), etc...
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Posted: Fri 27 Mar 2009, 13:48
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Its not dumb at all - I have been playing with static builds quite a bit lately. I am compiling a lot of things static these days - especially those stubborn packages that have dependencies that almost nothing else requires. It actually decreases the total size when you dont have to include the shared libraries. For other programs though that use pretty standard/common libraries its better to compile shared.
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Update: ... been thinking about static builds and woof... if we did a static build of the basic X + jwm using uclibc we could also use the woof scripts to download a package and all of its dependencies into a single sfs so that extra packages would include all dependencies and could therefore be from a variety of supported distros
other distro of interest is gobo linux where each package goes in its own package directory and uses symlinks to /usr/... etc
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Posted: Tue 07 Apr 2009, 19:28
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Hey techno,
Im actually building somethign similiar, but still am learning along the way. If you have the commitment, im looking for a core group to work with. This is not exactly what you talked about, but more. I've made mention to barry and others about the endeavor, but have not had any serious commitments to help, this is not puppy, nor woof, nor anything else out there actually. (although Many aspects of BarryK and others within the linux community's work will be included...and recognized to the best of my and my teams abilty.)
Your suggestion is one facet of a much larger project im now working on. Let me know if you might feel fearless.
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Posted: Sun 26 Apr 2009, 18:47
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i posted about a project called PdaXrom-ng
i believe it uses uclibc and is ported to x86, ppc, pcc 64, arm, mips. and is a 60meg distro, based on debain. might help get puppy/woof on different architectures, and still keep it lightweight. might be worth looking at.
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Posted: Thu 30 Apr 2009, 12:22
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Thanks for the link, have posted it here, for Puppy's PPC developer, Powerpup
Techno, [or ttuuxxx, anyone else?] powerpup needs help with static builds, if you can give any tips?
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Posted: Sun 22 May 2011, 10:10
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ooops this one is old but the text is as if from the future. This still is a good thing is it not?
original thread Posted: Thu 30 Apr 2009
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not an ideal solution though
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Posted: Sun 22 May 2011, 15:15
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nooby wrote:
This still is a good thing is it not?
I thought so, nooby, and hoped it might be part of techno's input to saluki or 5.3 or whatever
however the attention seems to be in egos at the moment, with puppyite/bernie and jonyo vying for the title....'most posts with no real substance for puppy's future'
glad you gave it a bump, nooby
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Posted: Sun 22 May 2011, 15:31
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might consider keeping your inane thoughts to yourself
substance? gimme a break
Aitch wrote:
nooby wrote:
This still is a good thing is it not?
I thought so, nooby, and hoped it might be part of techno's input to saluki or 5.3 or whatever
however the attention seems to be in egos at the moment, with puppyite/bernie and jonyo vying for the title....'most posts with no real substance for puppy's future'
glad you gave it a bump, nooby
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Posted: Tue 24 May 2011, 22:13
Post subject: It's still a good idea
Subject description: Agree with nooby & Aitch
So I'll bump it again.
Puppy -- a light weight user-friendly distro, having security because its "core" functions are initiated from a compressed file, --compromised SaveFile: delete it and create another in 5 minutes or less-- that will boot from any medium, CD, DVD, USB-Key, SD Card. In short, having a combination of advantages like no other distro.
Add Amigo's recommendation that it be a T2 Build and/or that packages be built using his Src2pkg
Add my recommendation that its included apps be limited to a few apps everyone needs for daily use, such as Abiword with spell check and thesaurus, a text editor, mtpaintsnapshot or equivalent, a "Quick Pet Routine" to install the user's choice of web-browser, and PPM to download pets, SFSes and compressed "Program Folders.".. All other applications are Static Build SFS, loaded or unloaded as wanted and needed; or static built "Program Folders" --therefore portables-- whose necessary libs, and the cache they use are outside the SaveFile, brought into "play" via pets which just install into the SaveFile the necessary symlinks, scripts, icons and desktop files needed for menu entries..
The apps from other distros -- only when retro-fitting them for Puppy is easier than building them via Src2pkg. Ideas from other distros: anytime.
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The recent measures also suggest that things may get worse before they get better.
The Manatee School District limited the spending ability of administrators with district credit cards by 20 percent and the use of heating and cooling systems during off-hours.
Non-contracted hourly spending that covers programs such as Saturday School and extra hours for guidance counselors and specialists will be eliminated unless deemed critical.
Interim Superintendent David Gayler said the measures will lead to severe scrutiny of spending decisions. Vacancies will be filled with temporary employees and demands for supplies and equipment will be reviewed by the administration.
"You can't collapse classrooms this late in the school year," Gayler said. "But people are going to feel a pinch, there is no doubt about it."
District officials say that the new processes put in place to avoid financial meltdowns like the one in September are not yet developed enough to give a complete picture of the district's financial status.
Former superintendent Tim McGonegal resigned over past budget blunders, which at one time were so bad that district coffers went from a nearly $18 million surplus to a $15 million deficit in one month.
Michael Boyer, the district's chief financial officer, has said he will have an idea of whether the district has allocated enough money to cover teacher salaries by the March 25 board meeting. He did not return calls seeking comment on Tuesday.
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Another point of discrepancy is the district reserves, which some say may be too low.
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Carpenter said the measures were simply preventive, and not for the board to "micro-manage."
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"We're trying to hold harmless the teachers and the schools," Carpenter said. "I don't think it's going to affect the classroom level."
Vogel said he and others looked at other ways to generate money for next year's budget.
One solution may be realigning classroom allocations to fit the Class Size Amendment, which could generate as much as $6 million, Vogel said.
Incoming superintendent Rick Mills, who is traveling to Manatee County this week to speak at the EdVantage Awards and meet with school officials, may have other ideas for how to move forward. He is scheduled to start on March 20.
"This district has been in budget turmoil," Gayler said. "People don't like it and I don't expect them to."


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The distinctive Greek Revival building known both as the Barrow Mansion and the Ionic House is a stately reminder of classical architecture popular in the mid-nineteenth century. The wood structure has five Ionic columns gracing a two-story portico. The columns divide the building into four equal bays, effecting an offset center hall. The interior of late Federal-early Greek Revival style with some Victorian décor features a ballroom, carved Italian marble fireplaces and twelve-foot ceilings.
It was owned by Dr. William Barrow, a New York City physician, probably between 1835 and 1837, and was one of two similar homes constructed on Wayne Street by the second Cornelius Van Vorst. He was one of the founders of the Township of Van Vorst and mayor of Jersey City from 1860-to-1861. Dr. Barrow purchased the 83 Wayne Street property after he married Van Vorst's sister Eliza. Van Vorst himself resided at 89 Wayne Street. The twin mansions were separated by a lawn and stood near the site of an early Van Vorst family farmhouse. In 1874, Van Vorst sold his home to Dr. Benjamin Edge, a descendent of one of Jersey City's early businessmen, Isaac Edge. The Van Vorst mansion was demolished in the 1920s and replaced by an apartment house.
After the demise of Barrow and his wife, the mansion was sold to the YMCA in 1890 and was modified with a gymnasium and rifle range. St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church purchased the former Barrow residence in 1897 as a parish house. The pistol range was later converted to a two-lane bowling alley in the basement. The following year St. Matthew's Church was built on the lawn between the Barrow and Van Vorst mansions. The church flourished until the 1920s and the former mansion and parish house became a lively and popular social center. Dances in the ballroom as well as card parties and bazaars supplied leisure-time activities for parishioners.
Over the years the Barrow Mansion had suffered from neglect until St. Matthew's congregation successfully applied for it to be placed on the state and national registers of historic places. It allowed for the founding of the Barrow Mansion Development Corporation in 1984 that received grants in 1992 and 1995 from the New Jersey Historic Trust and other grantors for building restoration. The mansion is currently used as a community center and is the home of the Attic Ensemble, a resident theater company. The building also serves as the venue for the monthly meetings of the Van Vorst Park Neighborhood Association.
Lynwander, Linda. "Restoring a Mansion in Hopes of Higher Rents." New York Times 24 July 1994.
National Register of Historic Places Inventory. "Ionic House." 1977. Joan D. Lovero Collection, New Jersey Room, Jersey City Free Public Library.
Mansion Development Corporation. "Fact Sheet." April 1993. Joan D. Lovero Collection, New Jersey Room, Jersey City Free Public Library.


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If You Light Up the Darkness…
By Sergio 'ente per ente' Palumbo
Heddwen didn't remember much, truth be told, and everything around her was a bit confusing. What was not clear in her mind was why she was there and where 'there' was exactly.
However, she held an oil lamp, which could make the difference. It was an Argand-type lamp and had a large fuel reservoir in a tank as high as the object itself that forced fuel into the wick. Since a Swiss chemist had invented it at the end of 1700s, it had allowed people to stop using candles or shallow bowls with a small rag floating in animal fats, which frequently gave off more smoke than light. She was capable of switching it on and off, though she was a woman who was mainly used to prepare food, cleaning the house and doing gardening.
In the 1800s, lamps like that were used as much for ornamentation in rooms of typical British houses, than as a source of light, and her home wasn't any different. Heddwen remembered she had seven of them throughout her two-story house in Cardiff, Wales. She was aware that the main disadvantage of such Argand lamps was that the oil reservoir needed to be above the level of the burner because the heavy, sticky vegetable oil would not rise far up the wick.
Heddwen knew that object was the key to knowing much more about that place, though she was afraid to use it - with good reason.
Turning back to the question of where she was now, she simply didn't know. There was darkness all around her, apart from a feeble luminescence coming through the slits in the shutter that covered the window on her left. She knew what that brilliance was: the dim light from the Moon that shone outside. But it wasn't enough to light-up the entire space she was in. There was only one way to get a better look – to light the lamp and look at what stood nearby. But the last time she had tried, what she had seen before her eyes had deeply scared her.
However, there was no other way. She wanted to know the truth and for that she had to turn the lamp on.
Slowly the woman remembered that this was not the first night she had found herself here, even though she didn't know how many nights had gone by, and she still lacked a sense about where 'here' truly was.
Heddwen had to move, she knew that. She got up the courage and stretched her slim, pale fingers towards the wick. The glass chimney of the lamp allowed light to be thrown in all directions but the glow only lit up a short distance. That wasn't what worried her, as even a small peek was too much.
Then it happened again! As soon as the lamp spread its faint brilliance around, the woman started hearing those strange whispers.
At first, the woman thought that those might be coming from thin air but then she noticed the pale shades associated with the words and a great fear took over her. There were always those pale ghosts! They stood in the room, just a few steps away. Slowly, the grayish, noiseless figures started walking towards her, saying something unclear.
"Follllloooow usss…listen to usss…" and the strange words went on and on.
"Leave me alone…Go away!" Heddwen replied.
As those words and the slow moves of those shadowy figures continued, the only thought that came to her mind was running away. But it was exactly what she had done the night before – or on all the previous nights? She was not so sure by now... She decided to run to the farthest corner of the room - which was when she stumbled into the armchair that stood next to the wall.
As soon as the woman reached it, she recognized the shape of the armchair and also noticed that there was something on it. Or somebody…
A slim figure sat there, a silent expression on her emaciated face. The body itself looked old, slender, motionless, and stuck in a strange position. Then Heddwen's eyes met the unmoving pupils of the figure and she saw that it was a woman. A dead woman.
How long had she been here?
And then, another thought seized her mind because Heddwen recognized her features and she remembered the clothes the corpse wore. This was when a great sadness filled her. The dead figure was herself, there was no uncertainty about that fact: she looked at the traits although they were much skinnier than she remembered. This was her in the parlor, the place where Heddwen stayed during the long evenings before she fixed dinner for herself.
Since the day the last of her lovers had died, she had lived alone in that house. She had never had any children or any next of kin who lived in Wales who might have come to visit. So Heddwen had stayed there alone until she died of a stroke. It was obvious that her dead body had been sitting there alone for a long time, though she couldn't be sure about how long.
Now she recognized what those whispers were: the calling of her dead lovers who had died in that same house and whose souls must have gotten stuck there after their deaths.
As she heard those words again, calling her name, she knew why she was so scared and sad. And so, once again, her fingers went back to the Argand lamp and switched it off.
Soon darkness filled everything again. Here she wanted to remain in silence, in the dark, without being able to see her corpse that lay nearby. The pale figure wanted to rest for a while and force all of that out of her mind. Perhaps it would simply be better to forget all about her demise.
But was it, really?
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Many investors are of the mind that housing is back. But is owning really worth it or is renting the smarter move? From a financial point of view, the answer depends on how rents stack up against purchase prices in your area.
Consider the interesting case of the five-bedroom, 6,800-square-foot palace at 6257 Murphy Way in Malibu, Calif. You could jump out of the pool at this abode, pull on your shorts and flip-flops and be in downtown Beverly Hills in 40 minutes (traffic permitting). It so happens that the property comes up for lease occasionally. If it came on the market today, you'd have to scrounge up $156,000 a year to rent it. Buying the property, on the other hand, would cost you 28 times that amount, or $4.4 million, based on price for comparable properties in the area. To us prices hovering around 28 times annual rent indicate that Malibu is a friendly place to be a tenant.
We think renting is a far better deal, especially when you compare this Malibu situation to that offered by another far-away property that commands a similar rent. Some 2,260 miles distant, in Atlanta's swanky Sandy Springs enclave, at 220 North Chambord Drive, there is a six-bedroom house with an atrium-style foyer and a pool. The right tenant could rent this home for about $120,000 a year. The property is currently for sale. Based on what comparable homes have been selling for in the area, a reasonable bid for this home would come in under $2.1 million. That's well under the asking price and just 17 times the fair-market rent. Sandy Springs, in other words, is the sort of place where it's smart to buy.
In Pictures: Best Cities To Rent And Own
Forbes set out to learn how the numbers add up in some of the toniest neighborhoods in 10 big U.S. cities. It turns out that renting makes a lot of financial sense for Los Angeles residents. It's not as savvy in Atlanta. All told, renting looks like a bargain in 7 of the 10 cities in our survey.
How did we determine whether buying or renting is the better deal? By calculating investment yields on local homes. An investment yield on a home, in case you're wondering, is how much you can earn buying it and renting it out. This income is calculated by taking the rent you could fetch renting out the home, or one exactly like it, minus upkeep. By upkeep we mean fixed costs, like property taxes, insurance, homeowner fees and maintenance.
This income is then expressed as a percentage of what you'd plunk down to buy the home. If rent minus expenses comes to, say, 2% a year, buying looks like a pretty lousy deal, even after factoring in the tax advantages. After all, you could earn 3.6% for far less risk putting your cash into 10-year Treasury bonds. If, on the other hand, rent minus expenses generates a 7% annual yield, buying looks pretty nifty.
Realtors aren't usually keen on answering questions about renting vs. owning. That's why we struck up some relationships with agents who specialize in high-end rentals. They include the famous (our man in Los Angeles is Madison Hildebrand), who costars on the reality realty TV show Million Dollar Listing) and the powerful (our enormous crew in Manhattan is led by Stephen Kotler, head of New York's Prudential Douglas Elliman rental office). Each of our partners understands what houses in their local markets would fetch in an outright sale and as a rental. Our agents gathered detailed data about 10 or more properties in each city that rent for between $4,000 and $24,000 a month and have fair-market values of $700,000 to $7.5 million.
In Depth: Cities With The Most Discounted Homes
We were sufficiently intrigued by what we discovered to launch a new index of high-end rental homes that we've dubbed Flurry, for Forbes Luxury Residence Rental Index. To update the index monthly, we've turned to the math whizzes at housing data firm Zillow.com in Seattle, Wash. Our aim is to expand our list to 20 cities later this year.
For our initial entries, we ranked the 10 cities in our survey in order of how many times annual rent you'd have to pay to buy a home in a given location. The higher the multiple of sales prices to annual rents, the worse the deal is for buyers--and the better for renters. By this measure, three of the most coveted real estate markets in the country are perfectly dreadful places to buy a home now but great places to rent: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. If you own a home in one of these cities and are thinking of leasing it out, you'll be disappointed by the results. Consider selling instead.
A luxury home in high-rent New York City neighborhoods, like Manhattan's Chelsea or the West Village, is likely to cost 23 times what you'd earn in annual rent on that home. In Los Angeles' coveted Venice and in Malibu, buying will cost you 27 times annual rent. In San Francisco's Presidio Heights and Russian Hill, the multiple is 31.
That's all great news for renters.
Things are very different at the other end of the rankings. Data from our agents in Atlanta, Dallas and Houston suggest renters are getting rather crummy deals. A plum house in Atlanta's Buckhead district or Dallas' Preston Hollow neighborhood costs just 16 times annual rent. You can buy in Houston's Tanglewood neighborhood for 15 times rent. If you're renting in these areas, or thinking of doing so, you'd do well to consider scrounging together enough savings to buy instead.
For beleaguered Miami the news is mixed. Hardest hit of all the big housing markets in the U.S., logic would have it that Miami is a buyer's paradise. In truth, it's often cushier to be a renter there. Condo investors have dumped their homes onto the rental market, creating a glut. That has constrained the supply of for-sale homes, and the cost of buying a luxury home in Miami Beach can still top 20 times annual rent. In other cases, rents remain stubbornly high. The two agents we're working with in Miami each report that some homes can be purchased for as little as 12 times annual rent--a bummer if you're renting.
Our agents in Boston, Washington and Chicago are tenant-friendly, too. Houses tend to trade for 18 to 20 times annual rent, implying that if you bought the home you're renting in these cities, you'd garner a meager investment yield in the 3% to 4% range. That's awfully skinny, unless you plan to stay put and are willing to gamble that rents will eventually rise rapidly. The sooner rents go up, the sooner the math tilts in favor of owners.
We wouldn't count on that in in most cities. There are legions of regretful real estate investors eager to have you as a tenant. "We're still feeling the effects of the speculative boom," says our Chicago partner, Susan Miner. "A lot of investors are leasing out their units at a loss of $1,000 a month [over their carrying costs] now and hoping to make a big return in two years when the market improves and they sell."
If you're looking to rent, for now their loss is your gain.


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What's Wrong With The WBC?
Sorry I haven't gotten on I a while to make a post, I've been busy being absorbed my March Madness, which is exactly what's wrong with the World baseball Classic. Jayson Stark:
What happened to the Americans who should love the WBC most? They aren't watching. That's what. Not enough of them are, anyhow. Either they've been way too preoccupied with how to handicap Wake Forest-Cleveland State, or the folks locked in on baseball are more focused on their teams. Understandably, too. Why wouldn't Yankees fans care more about who their center fielder is going to be than who's going to close for Team USA? Sure, it's possible to care about both, I guess. But why is baseball so intent on competing against itself? What kind of business sense does that make?
But in the end, here's what I want to see happen:
I want this event to be everything it should be. I want to see Roy Halladay dueling Johan Santana, with Josh Hamilton at the plate, Ryan Howard on deck and Jonathan Papelbon warming up in the bullpen.
I want the night of the WBC finals to feel like baseball's version of Super Sunday. I want it to be one of the most momentous nights on the entire sports calendar.
And I want spring training to feel like spring training again — not the background noise for the WBC.
Speaking of which I had Wake Forest in the final four and my bracket is officially busted but that is besides the point. The World Baseball Classic is trying to compete against one of the premier events in all of sports. March Madness falls behind maybe only the Super Bowl in sporting significance in the United States. So why do it then? No one is in shape, everyone is getting hurt, and no one wants to do it. What other time is there to do it you ask?
I heard this proposal from the always-incisive Buck Martinez, who managed Team USA in the 2006 WBC. Here's his idea:
Bag the All Star Game every four years and play the whole WBC during what would otherwise be All Star Week in July.
The sites would be the three metropolises with two ballparks — New York, Chicago and L.A./Anaheim. No off days in each round for any team still alive. Finish the entire tournament in one week in July. And hold the finals on a Sunday, in prime time, when there isn't another sporting event in America to serve as competition. But, most of all, play this event when "players are ready," Martinez said.
"In July, players are ready to go," he said. "Players are in optimum shape. You'd take extra starters, so you'd have one starter start a game and that's it. And you'd give the rest of baseball a week's vacation in the middle of the summer. I think it would be a great thing for baseball.
"Then everybody's in shape. Nobody's concerned. Then you might get the Roy Halladays and Brandon Webbs and Jon Lesters and Josh Becketts. But if you hold it in March, then I understand why they won't do it."
What's the down side: Excellent idea. But there are two reasons owners would balk: (1) No interest in abandoning tradition by not holding the All-Star Game and (2) forcing half the clubs in baseball to give up a weekend worth of gates in July. To me, the positives take a unanimous decision over the negatives. But it would be a tough sell.
Outside of the United States, the WBC is a huge success. In Japan, TV ratings are said to rival the Super Bowl. Buck Martinez' plan would be a hit in the United States. The All-Star game is not what it was to earlier generations. No one would mind if they canned it once every three or four years in favor of a tournament that would fall behind only the Olympics and World Cup in sporting significance on this planet.
Per capita, the Dominican Republic may be the best, and internationally Cuba may be the most successful, but no matter how you look at it the United States is the best baseball country in the world and without us on board then the credibility of the tournament becomes drastically diminished.
The length of the tournament could easily be shrunk down to a week. One option would be to have a single elimination tournament which would be over in four days. The other would be to leave it as is in a double elimination format, but take away the championship games for each pool which seem to be very unnecessary. That version would be over within four days. Maybe they could even play the first round in spring training and just send the final eight to the new "Midsummer Classic."
This would allow us to finally move past the ridiculous rule that the winner of the All-Star game wins home field advantage in the play-offs. It should be whichever league wins the interleague series during the regular season anyway. As for the money issue, last time I checked, Major League Baseball was in no financial danger. And why would a tournament like this not make money. There is nothing else going on around this time. Baseball has a monopoly on the summer. The possibilities are astronomical.


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Apparently whirlwind romances happen just before a soldier leaves for the battlefield. "The London Advertiser" has a piece dated November 12, 1914 on a wedding in London, Ontario of Private Sydney Wetherell Bryant to Elizabeth Drouillard. Both were from Windsor.
"About 1000 people went to the barracks this morning to see a military wedding, in which the 1,100 soldiers of the Eighteenth Battalion participated, when Re. Arthur Carlisle, chaplain of the battalion, in his fall Episcopal robes, married Miss Elizabeth Drouillard and Private Sydney Wetherell Bryant, of "D" Company.
Lieut.-Col. E.S. Wigle and his full provisional staff of officers of the first militia division headquarters, were present at the ceremony. The soldiers were drawn up in an open square on the parade ground just outside the fence around the barrack's building. This arrangement was largely due to the fact that a moving picture man from Detroit had to have the sun at his back to get a good picture of the affair(I wonder if the film is still around or destroyed?).
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The boys of "D" and "C" Companies all of Windsor, under the command of Captain A.B. Lang, left nothing undone to see that Private Sidney Wetherell Randall did not forget the day of his wedding. Hardley had he reached the fence, through which he made his exit with his bride to reach the officers' mess, when a detail of men showered them with rice.
The boys also turned over to Captain Laing the sum of $47.42, which was given to the bride as the donation of the fellow soldiers of Private Bryant. Another gift from the battalion contained a check, but the amount of it was not given out.
As quartermaster of the battalion Captain Parkinson took a long blank form over to the bridegroom after the ceremony, and he was compelled to sign his name beneath a line, which read:
"Issued, One Bride"
photo: The London Advertiser, November 12, 1914


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DAMASCUS, Suyria - Three humanitarian workers have been killed in the southern Syrian Idlib province in yet another attack on healthcare workers in the country.
A paramedic, an ambulance driver and a rescue worker all died in an airstrike.
Their deaths add to the more than 500 civilians that have died in similar attacks across the war-ravaged country in the past 3 1/2 months.
"The civilian death toll is rising every day as the fighting continues in Idleb and northern Hama", Mark Cutts, Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis said Friday.
Most of the deaths were a result of the "relentless campaign of airstrikes" by the government and its allies, he said.
The official painted a picture of humanitarians and rescue workers risking their lives every day to "to help civilians trapped in this area", including women and children, along with sick, elderly and disabled people.
"They dig people out from under the rubble, rush wounded civilians to hospital, provide medical services and help those fleeing the area", he said. "But no one is safe".
On the contrary, those who risk everything to help some of the most vulnerable people in the world are themselves coming under attack.
"Yesterday a series of airstrikes in the Ma'arat Humeh area in southern Idleb resulted in the death of two more of our humanitarian colleagues, a paramedic and an ambulance driver", Mr Cutts said. "Their ambulance was totally destroyed and a rescue worker was also killed".
Wednesday's attack highlights again the horror of what's going on in Idleb – the last rebel-controlled part of Syria - and northern Hama, said Mr. Cutts, where three million civilians remain trapped by the fighting, with nowhere else to flee to, and where humanitarians, medical staff and rescue workers continue to pay with their lives in their efforts to help others.
Since the end of April, there have been at least 42 attacks on healthcare facilities reported, he added, affecting 36 health facilities and seven ambulances. Of these incidents, 11 were in Hama Governorate, 28 in Idleb and three in Aleppo Governorate.
"In total at least 17 health workers and patients have been killed", he lamented, condemning this latest attack "and all attacks on civilians and civilian objects in the strongest terms".
"I continue to call on all parties to the conflict to respect and protect medical and humanitarian personnel, their means of transport and equipment and property, as well as hospitals and other medical facilities, in accordance with international humanitarian law and in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2286 which relates specifically to the protection of civilians in armed conflict and to the protection of medical and humanitarian personnel in conflict zones" he said.
Since March 2011, Syria has been in the throes of a conflict that has forced more than half of all Syrians to leave their homes. With 5.6 million Syrian refugees and 6.6 million internally displaced, the crisis, described as the worst humanitarian disaster of modern times, with more than 12 million people in need of assistance.
(File photo. Credit: ICRC | S. Tarabishi).


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Julia Usher
Sometimes the pull of the kitchen, the love and memories of one's childhood, and a desire to do what you love is so strong that it lures you away from a successful career, complete with graduate degrees and status. I write these words, not about me BUT of Julia Usher, baker and author of Cookie Swap.
Spend an hour hearing Julia share her story....how the influences of her Mom, grandmother and great grandmother, and of her Dad's work ethic, all combine to provide Julia with a varied and interesting life full of family, cooking, education, engineering, consulting, wedding cake making and now inspiring others to bake and share through her gorgeous book, Cookie Swap: Creative Treats to Share Throughout the Year.
I can't wait to have a cookie swap party!! Thank you Julia and I look forward to your cake and cookie decorating book.