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A former city official in a Kansas City suburb said he didn't mean to offend anyone when he said having a Wal-Mart move into another nearby suburb would attract "a different class" of people who would not be concerned about maintaining their homes and would drive down property values.
Former Fairway City Councilman John Ridenour apologized after several citizens criticized him at a ward council meeting Tuesday for comments he made in a letter to his neighbors about the new Wal-Mart store, which is scheduled to move into Mission, Kan., about 2 miles from Fairway. Wal-Mart plans to close its current store in Roeland Park when the new store opens. All three small suburbs are just across the state line from Kansas City, Mo.
"When that happens all of their customers of the old store will shop at the new one," Ridenour wrote in the letter distributed over the weekend. "Our neighborhood will get noticed and some will want to move into it. BE HONEST with yourself. Most of them are of a different class in that they do not feel the desire of a beautiful neighborhood and maintaining property values. When they move in we will start to see junk cars in disrepair in front yards along with other trash, and down will go the property values. BIG TIME!!!"
Fairway Mayor Jerry Wiley said at the meeting that he wanted to be sure people knew that Ridenour, who was on the Fairway council for 17 years, did not speak for the city.
"This does not emanate from the city of Fairway," Wiley said. "We would never march down that road at all. That's not who we are or what we stand for."
Wal-Mart did not immediately return messages left Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Monica Rios, whose family has lived in Fairway for 22 years, said she felt Ridenour singled out Mexican-Americans who shop at the Roeland Park Wal-Mart.
"A lot of my family shop there. He has no idea what struggles people have," Rios said.
Ridenour denied his remarks were aimed at any racial or ethnic group.
"I thoroughly apologize to anybody who took exception to any of the verbiage in that letter," he told Rios and the rest of the audience. "I never ever intended to insult anybody."
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I want to generate an area of random pixels in Photoshop. By random, I mean the 24-bit RGB values of the pixels vary uniformly over the range
0x000000 -
0xffffff. The opacity should not vary. I've experimented with the Add Noise filter, but I can't get anything like the desired effect. Is this possible with Photoshop?
I want to generate an area of random pixels in Photoshop. By random, I mean the 24-bit RGB values of the pixels vary uniformly over the range
Photoshop isn't really meant for this kind of randomness as it is meant for control.
But here's a workaround without any scripting:
This will generate some random values. It won't be 100% random, but you can play around with it.
I've just used Add Noise, set to "Uniform" in an empty white document and it looks like a uniform distribution to me, with a mean of 127 as expected, when I look at the histogram (after refreshing it). I tried both default (RGB) and monochromatic.
Edits: The histogram shows a peak value at 255 when starting with a white document. I overlooked this -- difficult to see against the right hand edge of the histogram.
Further experimentaion showed:
It seems that Apply Noise returns 50% pixels at low (0) and/or high (255) ends of the range, dependent on the contents of the layer. The remaining 50% pixels appear to be uniformly distributed across the remaining range (0-254, 1-254, or 1-255 depending on input).
I don't think there is any way of easily fixing this output to give what you're looking for. I think layering clipped multiple versions of (1) and (2) above could reduce the peaks, but not eliminate them entirely. Probably time to roll your own code.
A 5 second google search found this:
Aside from a PS Script I would say you'd need to use Processing, OpenFrameworks or probably the easiest choice NodeBox.

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1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass - Readers' RidesWritten on January 1, 1999 Outstanding Oldsmobiles
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The '81-and-later Cutlass two-door was a sharp piece in its day. Check out Thomas Haley's rocketin', fully optioned '83 W40 Brougham. The Turbo 350 backing the 307 engine features a Fairbanks shift kit; the Olds was then treated to a 3.42:1 posi, 15x7/15x8 American Racing rims with 215/65R15 and 255/60R15 Firestone Firehawk rubber, DynoMax mufflers, and more. And dig the '70 442-style hoodscoops!
Vista Cruisin'
Clean wagons are hard to find: Chris Wolak of Scotland, Ontario, Canada, went to Arizona to find this '71 hauler. Though he had to freshen the original 455/4bbl/Turbo 400 drivetrain, this fully optioned car needed only a new coat of red paint and a set of IROC rims to be in the sparklin' shape you see it in here.
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Now this is hot rodding! Jack and Lilli Karamanos of Camano Island, Washington, picked up their '47 Olds 98 Custom Cruiser 11 years ago for just $1,200. Its 455 Olds motor is set back 14 inches in the chassis and is equipped with an Offy intake, Holley 750 carb, Isky cam, and 442 exhaust manifolds. Plenty of other pieces, like all-power 50/50 split bench seats out of a '78 Marquis and a keyless tilt column from a Chevy van, make for a smokin' one-of-a-kind package.
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For the last four years I've daily driven my '72 Cutlass to work, and then on weekends, I drive 125 miles to the nearest track and run 13s all day long," says Paul Dodd. This statement is double cool when you realize that Dodd lives in Epson, Surrey, England, and gas costs about $4 a gallon! The '69 455 pumps out more than 500 lb-ft of torque and cost him about a grand; the whole car only ran him $5,000.


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Tough decision between the Moment and the Contrail, but I finally went for the Moment. The end struts in the Moment are the biggest problem as far as bicycling goes, so that turned out to be the bulk of the conversation that I had with Henry Shires. He says that minor differences between batches seem to cause thet confusion over how easy or dificult they are to install after removal. Apparently, humidity can also affect it- he says the nylon tends to shrink up slightly when its very dry, so wetting the it down will usually help if they`re feeling stubborn. Since I was pretty confused over that whole idea, here`s how the system works.
The struts just slide into long pockets that look to be formed by sewing along the edge of one inch webbing folded lengthwise. The seam stops about an inch from the bottom end, leaving a small opening to push them in through. On my particular tent, they go in very easily until the last 1.5 inches or so, then I have to wiggle, push, and cuss to get the last part in. As of now, I`m going to say I doubt I`ll remove them every time I pack it up, but I have an idea that will hopefully simplify the process enough to make it worthwhile. The issue isn`t the length, as I had thought previously,but the diameter of the struts. It`s because the top end of each of those long pockets has a piece of velcro sewn on, and the extra stitching for that velcro slightly reduces the width of the pocket.
The ends of struts are cut flat. I suspect that just capping them with a bullet shaped end and trimming the bottom to the original OAL will help a lot. I`ll report back after I try that. I also considered replacing them with a slightly smaller diameter tube, but at 0.291 inches, the carbon tubing is already smaller than any aluminum tent pole sections I can find. I think it`s probably arrow shafting, and will run one by an archery shop to ask. My bullet ends might be as simple as installing arrow nochs and grinding them to a rounded end with a belt sander.
As is, the package is pretty long, but it will fit on my bike. I need to ride a while with it tied under the TT to see if it`s going to bug me by brushing my knees on each pedal stroke (guessing that`s a yes). Otherwise, it`ll have to share the rear rack with my sleeping bag. That won`t be a problem with a dry tent, but I don`t think I want to snuggle the two together like that after a wet packup. The two pics on my bike show the tent without the long pole, but with the struts installed. The long pole will go on the underside of my rack no matter where I put the rest of the tent.
The other tent pic (not on bike) is with struts removed. I can just barely squeeze it into the bag that came with my full length Insulated Air Core matress, leaving it 10 inches long x 5 inches diameter. Note that a packed Contrail is only slightly bigger without any messing around- it just rolls up and stuffs right into the shorter bag. Oh, another note on the Contrail- I did throw my sleeping mat into one and climb in after it. Yup, very easy, and I did NOT have to back in.
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There are always so many amazing links, I always love sitting down and going through to see them. Ya'll never disappoint when it comes to bringing great ideas, like these from last week….
Mandy at House of Rose got these lockers from her old high school (which is all kinds of cool in my book.) She brought them home and spruced them up, yet they still maintain that vintage vibe.
Nancy at Artsy Chicks Rule shared an easy way to update wood furniture. The dreamy dark brown woods looks soooo much better than the original.
But my favorite of the week was this home office makeover by Lindsay of Makely. Every thing, from the wood wall, to the vintage accessories, and even the {real} Tolix chair just makes my heart sing.
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Can I block certain users from showing in YouTube searches? There are some uploaders that have nothing but spam related videos.
Blocking them with the regular YouTube settings doesn't do this. I just want to search for product reviews without the Spam.
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Stargate (15th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray] for $5
If you don't own this already from a previous sale it's time to buy it.
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Personally, I just buy a copy every time it's on sale. You can never own too many copies. :)
@okham: Nerd coasters?
@gideonfrost: good idea. I was using them as dust collectors, like my onlive system :)
@okham: I clearly led you astray there. I actually plugged mine in recently and played for an hour or so.
Thanks! I love movie and for some reason haven't bought a copy of it yet. Well, until now. :)
Great, now I have the Stargate theme song stuck in my head.
@gideonfrost: nah, that was my own bad. I still think I might use it on my computer, or pick up a wifi bridge for the tv.


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Actually, I'm A Fresh CS graduate,who want to build a System for his Dad's Road Transport business. However,the issue is whenever I go to ask to him about : what are people involved in his business? whats their routine work? or how their business actually works? then he avoids my questions, and says, just give me system by utilizing your knowledge, to ease my transporting business,and rest all you think.
So, I had brainstormed about it, but I still feel the need of viewpoint of my dad,as he is actually in that business.
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I imagine Princess Leia got up early every morning.
As I watch A New Hope, I really can't help but wonder how Princess Leia got where she was, especially once you get to the scene where she is confronting Darth Vader on the Tantive IV. Basically she is standing there telling the evil dark lord, Darth Vader, "…only you could be so bold." with that trademark, snippy sarcasm. Princess Leia is laying it down, laying down the smack.


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when I make touch app with charts in Architect, preview is OK (in Mac -> Safari, win -> safari), but native IOS app and android app dont display charts, only axis with data from store, but no columns etc. (I have Trial). Where could be problem? Someone help?


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while in ES space i was in a battle with fo2man and sirvival, then then a level 7 ship came in and sirvival was able to shoot him. i thought there was a buffer between the levels like 15-25 are able each other but not anything lower.i pose this questions is that player or that fleet using a script or cheat that they created and or use within thiere fleet inside es space to keep all of es space to them selves or did they find a way into your server to tweek it to thier desire. this should be looked into and patched up asap.
i use to go in there in a level 3 ship and they (25) could not touch me, so what is going on, and when did the dynamics get changed if they did.
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| Bloch, H. P., Hydrocarbon Processing Staff,
[lubrication oil]
Last months column explained that all hydrocarbon processing (HP) facilities use machinery, and these
machines require lubrication. Periodically auditing ones
lubrication practices is part of a thoughtful reliability assessment routine. Such
reviews may uncover near-zero cost improvement opportunities
that can have paybacks measured in days. More important, such
improvements can rapidly move the plant to best-of-class
performance level.
An audit conducted by the authors at a US-based worldscale,
state-of-the-art, petrochemical plant proved rather
revealing conditions. This particular facility deserved
commendations for selecting appropriate lubricants for their
critical-operation equipment. While the origin of several
plastic drums of synthetic lube was clearly spelled out
(Fig. 1), there were deficiencies that needed
to be rectified.
Fig. 1. Water accumulation
on a
drum can jeopardizes 65 gallons
of a superior lubricant. There is
an even greater consequential
damage risk to rotating
equipment at plants that allow
this type of outdoor storage.
Source: Royal Purple Inc., Porter,
Plant management and the reliability group had thoughtfully
specified a high-quality lubricant to contain
less-than-traditional amounts of water for use at the facility.
Also, an oil analysis laboratory was on the facilitys
list of consultants, and all should have been aware of the
merits of sound lubrication management.
Missed communication and flawed practices.
But instructions and implementation strategies had not trickled
down to the field workforce. Indoor storage was sporatic; lube
transfer from five-gallon buckets (Fig. 2) to
smaller, more manageable transfer containers was cumbersome and
risky. This deficiency was later addressed by upgrading to the
storage system, as shown in Fig. 3.
It was evident that important lube-management rules had been
bypassed or possibly neglected at this facility. Storage drums
should be located and positioned so that water accumulation
(Fig. 1) is mitigated. The July issues
Reliability column illustrated how changes in ambient
temperature can cause rainwater laying on top of a storage drum
to be drawn into the drum by capillary action. In the case of
Fig. 1, an aggregate supply of lubrication oil
worth about $4,000 could have been rendered unserviceable. So,
while outdoor storage is feasible, the drums should never stand
Spills and more. Contamination and spillage
control of bulk storage containers are alluded to in
Figs. 2 and 3. In addition,
plants utilizing best lube practices should use both filters
and desiccant breathers to eliminate both airborne particulates
and atmospheric moisture intrusion in drums. There are
instances where installing only a vent cap is no longer deemed
acceptable by reliability-focused plants.
Not applying best available lubrication management practices
can be expensive. Good lubrication practices are described in
experience-based texts that recommend periodic
1 Bloch, H. P., Pump Wisdom, John Wiley
& Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2011.
All comments are subject to editorial review.
All fields are compulsory.
Garth Heer
For lubricants for use by op/maint personnel for regularly oil sump top ups, I recommend transferring lube oils to new, clean, well-marked, screw top, one-time-use, 1qt. bottles via appropriate filtration skid. This eliminates, contamination and exposure to contamination at several stages of lubrication use in the plant.
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Rips reg DVD's too. Like dvdfab.. worked for me :-)
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Acting Chief Jim Pugel says he is still deciding whether to enter the running as the permanent chief.
Like outgoing Chief Diaz, Pugel has come up through the ranks and isn't sure the political winds will favor a second internal candidate in a row.
"I thought it was quite a bit of an honor, but also an opportunity," Pugel said.
Pugel is a Seattle native and an officer for more than 30 years. He played decisive roles in the hunt for accused cop-killer Chris Monfort and a crime wave last year that plagued the city.
Pugel says his appointment as chief may be temporary, but the reforms he oversees must last.
"The mayor's made it crystal clear that I'm not to be just a caretaker, just a placeholder," Pugel said. "He wants this department to continue doing all the good things we're doing and to improve the things we are not doing well."
What's not going well is documented in Department of Justice findings of a pattern of excessive force by officers, and a failure by commanders to address misconduct.
Pugel, who heads up the detective division, says officers are going to make mistakes. But key reforms are underway through a federal monitor.
"I think what I'm more concerned about is a mistake of the heart, or a mistake of the mind," Pugel said.
Whatever shortcomings, Pugel believes in his department. Whether he can set clear expectations and directions about how he wants his officers to act will make all the difference in building and maintaining community trust.
"I think that one of the most important messages that I'm going to have during my interim period is make every contact count," he said.
Chief Diaz is coaching Pugel on day-to-day responsibilities and will hand over the job the first or second week in May.
Mayor Mike McGinn wants to look nationwide for a replacement, but given that he is up for re-election this November, the real search might not start until after the November vote.


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7 Artists Who Secretly Made Your Favorite Movies
There's a good reason credits come at the end of a movie -- no one wants to watch the names of best boys and personal assistants drift across the screen for 11 minutes. But if you've ever bothered to stick around through the scroll, you may have realized that some of the same names keep popping up in all your favorite movies, and they aren't next to jobs like "director" or "Indiana Jones." In fact, you've probably been a diehard fan of the following seven people your entire life without ever realizing it.
#7. Ralph McQuarrie Envisioned the Star Wars Universe
Quickly, what's your favorite scene from the original Star Wars trilogy? The first moment you see Darth Vader? When Luke loses his hand and finds out the truth about his father? The battle with Imperial Walkers on Hoth? Whatever it was, chances are it was conceived long before A New Hope was ever made, and not by George Lucas.
Ralph McQuarrie was the production illustrator -- basically, the guy whose job it is to get studios excited about the movie. He was supposed to sketch out a few ideas based on an incomplete script, just to give a hint of what direction the film might go. Here's what he came up with:
Looking at what he accomplished, it would be insulting to call his pictures "concept art"; they were Star Wars. Ironically, McQuarrie didn't have a lot of faith in the film, but that didn't stop him from illustrating the coolest universe he could think up, and Lucas was sold from the start. He even said after shooting the trilogy, "When words could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one of Ralph's fabulous illustrations and say, 'Do it like this.'"
But surely McQuarrie was just bringing George Lucas' ideas to life, right? There was, after all, some semblance of a story on which he built these worlds. Well, to get an idea of how pivotal McQuarrie was, take the most iconic character from the trilogy: Darth Vader. In the original script, Vader was only described as wearing long black robes; it was McQuarrie who decided he probably needed some kind of breathing mask to survive the vacuum of space.
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"Oh, and is it OK if I make him look awesome, too?"
Without McQuarrie, there wouldn't be a Darth Vader helmet, or a Boba Fett suit, or Storm Trooper armor, which means you would have spent an entire decade of your childhood dressing up each Halloween as a ghost or a skeleton or some bullshit. Unless you did do that, in which case, you should watch Star Wars, it's really good.
McQuarrie didn't just work on Star Wars. He also designed the mother ships for both Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. You can even see some of his original drawings in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones shows everyone the devastation the ark is capable of inflicting.
Ralph McQuarrie
The Bible wishes it was illustrated by McQuarrie.
In other words, from the time you were old enough to make gun fingers until you hit puberty, just about every one of your fantasies took place inside of a world designed by McQuarrie.
#6. Colleen Atwood Dressed All Your Favorite Characters
Tim Burton sure is good at making memorable-looking characters: Edward Scissorhands, in his bondage suit made of old seat belts; the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, dressed like a crazed, homeless clown; and the characters wearing sweet ape armor in Planet of the Apes, which may have been the most memorable part of the reboot.
But if you're wondering how he dreams up such remarkable and diverse attire for everyone in his movies, the answer is that he doesn't. Colleen Atwood does. She is the costume designer for nearly every single Tim Burton movie, and since that includes dressing Sweeney Todd and the alien prostitute in Mars Attacks! she's also served as the costume designer for at least 10 percent of every geek convention of the past 10 years.
Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg. The academy handed her three little golden T-1000 statues for her work on non-Burton films Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha, as well as Alice in Wonderland.
Her Etsy shop cleans up.
And she's been at it for decades. For instance, she's responsible for the terrifying look of one of the most memorable killers in modern film.
This guy.
Atwood designed Hannibal Lecter's mask and getup for Silence of the Lambs, as well as the lesser-known adaptation, Manhunter, making her Hannibal's exclusive go-to-gal for prison jumpsuits and terror masks. It's hard to really get a perspective on how awesome that Lecter mask is until you see just how stupid it could have looked:
Steve Buscemi, someone has wronged you terribly.
Behold, the Con Air version, also known as the loincloth Michael Bay happened to have in the back of his car the day that scene was shot.
#5. John Lasseter Is Pixar's Walt Disney
You may have noticed that every time you see the logo for Pixar, an adorable lamp trounces the "I" out of the company name and replaces it.
That lamp is there to remind everybody of two things: 1) Pixar can make you fall in love with a goddamn lamp and 2) Pixar and 3-D animation wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the man who created that lamp over 30 years ago.
John Lasseter, seen here tossing the boundaries of reality aside like empty soup cans.
While working as an animator for Disney in the '80s, John Lasseter wanted to create the first fully computer generated children's cartoon. He went over his bosses' heads and started work on a deal to adapt The Brave Little Toaster as a CG film. Studio heads at Disney, who at the time were trained like drug dogs to sniff out can-do attitudes and innovation, heard about his plans and promptly fired his ass.
Undeterred, Lasseter got a job in the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm. While there, he wrote and directed a short film that would set the tone for your favorite animated movies of the past 10 years. It was called "Luxo Jr.," and it starred this lamp:
He later went mad with fame and OD'd on phosphorescent bulbs packed with benzos.
That character is based on John Lasseter's real-life desk lamp, forever immortalizing what must have been Lasseter's worst day of writer's block ever. Then he went on to create another cute little short called "Tin Toy," which was about toys that came to life when no one was looking.
Sound familiar?
Shit, we just can't place it.
Toy Story was the first full length and exclusively computer animated film ever. John Lasseter created the story, co-wrote the script, directed it and probably swept up the recording booths when everyone was done. This wasn't just the first of a genre, but also the first of an entirely new animation method. To find an equally impressive flurry of creativity and technical innovation, you have to go back to when Snow White was made by a man who now has a Land and a World named after him.
John Lasseter went on to co-write and direct A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Cars -- and he was also a collaborator and executive producer on every single other Pixar film ever made. When Disney bought Pixar, they sheepishly gave him the position of chief creative officer for Pixar as well as Disney films, and presumably a letter of apology.
"I buried it underneath my star on the walk of fame."
Since then, Lasseter has been pretty much helping to design every animated film you've loved since 1995. Now you can thank him by name.
#4. Alan Silvestri Scored the '80s and '90s
Adding a score to a film is like equipping an audience with spider-sense; it lets everyone know whether that mysterious locked door has a Narnia world behind it or a pile of corpses. Yet, considering how crucial the music is for telling us how to feel in a film, we're surprisingly good at pretending that it doesn't exist.
Music is the difference between this scene being creepy and whimsical.
For instance, you probably know the whole melancholy, sobering score to Who Framed Roger Rabbit without even realizing it. Or the delicate, meandering piano-driven score from the beginning of Forrest Gump while that feather is being blown around by cars and farts and stuff. Even the scores that have been pounded into your consciousness seem like they were just there when you were born. Nobody thought "I wonder who made this music!" while watching Marty McFly leave flaming tire treads in the DeLorean, because that music has secretly been playing in the back of your head every time you did something awesome.
But your brain was not born with the ability to directly channel a complex emotion into keys and chords. Alan Silvestri's was. He wrote the music for all those movies and is most likely moping in an empty music hall right now, scoring the sound of your willful neglect on a slide whistle. Silvestri has been heightening the action, suspense and gloom in your favorite movies for the past 30 years. He did the score for The Abyss, Flight of the Navigator, Predator and even Maid in Manhattan (look, composers have to eat, too).
"Caviar from a Slurpee cup, and Chivas."
Robert Zemeckis called Silvestri his "creative soul mate," which makes sense, since the most iconic songs Silvestri created were for Zemeckis films. Of course, that's only to date. We're not exactly at the twilight of Silvestri's career. He just scored Captain America, as well as The Avengers. So when you're sitting in the theater watching superheroes crash through buildings, take a minute to appreciate the fact that Silvestri's score is keeping you from wondering about all the innocent people who are probably being crushed by debris on the streets below.


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The midfielder has struggled at the Ligue 1 side since his arrival in 2010, with injuries hampering his playing time, and reports that suggested that Arsene Wenger would offer him a fresh start.
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The Panama Canal Authority and Algeciras Bay Port Authority sign MOU
October 06, 2010 - LM Editorial
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and the Algeciras Bay Port Authority (APBA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) today to establish a strategic partnership to promote international commerce and logistic activities.
The news comes on the heels of last week's Council of Supply Chain Management Professional's annual conference in San Diego where the benefits of Spain's leading container gateway were explained. The Port of Algeciras is located on the Spanish border of the Bay of Gibraltar. According to port statisticans, Algeciras has an annual throughput of more than 70 million tons and 3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
"As you can see by our global network for 2014," said Rodolfo Sabonge, ACP's corporate planning and marketing director, Algeciras figures prominently in our plans."
Proof of that came in the in the MOU-signing in Panama City ceremony involving ACP Administrator/CEO Alberto Alemán Zubieta and APBA General Director José Luis Hormaechea Escós.
The MOU is renewable after two years and will allow for technological and data exchange between the two parties, as well as opportunities for joint marketing activities and modernization efforts. For example, the two entities will collaborate on joint training programs, promotion of the route from Europe to the West Coast of South America via the Panama Canal and the exchange of data regarding types of commodities, cargo tonnage, and liner services.
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I know there is a question regarding the longer break, but I want to know what should I be doing during the 5 minute break? Should I get away from the PC or just check email and facebook?
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"God's Not Dead": A Preview
It's good to be back.
I have been away from home for part of the summer, and during that time I came across a listing for the film "God's Not Dead." You've probably heard of this film already: released earlier this year, it doesn't exactly portray a young man's struggle with faith as it does his faithful struggle against (faithless) others. The film opens in a spirit of intellectual/spiritual combat, with a college professor (played by Kevin Sorbo) who assigns on the very first day an exercise in which students have to disavow the existence of God. I haven't yet seen the movie – I expect to go later this week – but I expect the same feeling of dread and embarrassment that I felt when I visited the Creation Museum years ago. What I found during that experience was a series of tableaux in which established scientific theories were attacked with the most specious of arguments, suggestion and innuendo replaced reason, and academic culture was pilloried. From everything I've read, "God's Not Dead" touches all these bases and more.
I have a theory about contemporary conservatism generally, and the religious right more specifically. They've studied the post-68 playbook of the center-left. They've appropriated the language of civil rights, the student movement and identity politics and turned it in a new direction: targeting "religious discrimination," cultural indifference and even aggression (the "War on Christmas"), and so on. Both then and now, many of these battles took place on college campuses. Kevin Sorbo's arrogant professor is surely a distortion, but the persona is meant to resonate with conservative viewers, especially young people who have been told repeatedly that the secular classroom is the place where faith commitments are deconstructed and stripped-away, often painfully. In God's Not Dead this myth becomes hyperbole: no philosophy professor requires – on the first day no less! – the disavowal of God. What the distortion discloses however is the cynical belief that the role of authority in the pursuit of knowledge and even wisdom is nothing more than a sham, a mere power trip, intellectual combat for its own sake. According to these terms, the young man in question doesn't really belong in a Philosophy class, since he already has all the wisdom he needs.
We have to strip away the image here to get at the reality. What parades as a liberating experience of "speaking truth to power" is in fact profoundly disingenuous. The position and situation of the young man in the film is merely one of nothing more than a mobilized series of stale tropes, tableaux that support a worldview in which evangelical Christians are an oppressed minority. That we know this isn't true is beside the point. Films like God's Not Dead are the ideological expression of this stance, of a piece with the Creation Museum and Fox News histrionics around the holiday season. What we see in films like this is the elaboration of a closed circuit, a symbolic gated community in which to live. No thanks. And it has to be said as well: the ideological edifice just isn't a very good one. So far, every overtly evangelical work of pop culture I've experienced is a transparent piece of unconscious self-parody and abysmal kitsch. I expect God's Not Dead to be more of the same, and I will enjoy it for precisely that reason: I will enjoy its failure.
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I almost signed up to rent it because of Kevin Sorbo ... Hercules :) ... but it did seem from the trailer to be about the demolition of a straw man.
And yet ... my son, who will start college this fall, was interested in this movie, and lame as you make it sound, it might be a conversation starter. He was taken with the premise.
FWIW, my 8th grade science teacher (ca. 1967) was required to teach a unit on evolution in our public middle school. In his opening lecture for the unit, he made us all write in our notebooks, "Evolution is a largely unsupported theory," and he came around to check that we had written it. When he saw that I had written, "Evolution is a largely unsupported theory, according to Mr. X," he was pretty ticked off and crossed off my addition with his red pen.
I see that Roger already has a pigeonhole to place the review of this film once he's viewed it. Although raised and educated in the Athens of America (AKA the Hub of the Universe), I have resided in Oklahoma for more than 40 years. I live in peace here with the few liberals who are able to endure the political climate and the more conservative folk who are often ridiculed as "rednecks". The auditorium where I saw this film was filled to overflowing by church groups who were eager to see it. I didn't know what to expect, but someone in my parish suggested it might by worth my while. While it was obviously a low budget flick, it had high production qualities so it did not come off as a sectarian piece. The character played by Kevin Sorbo was highly unlikeable and that of his young adversary a modern day David in both appearance and zeal. The college lad manages to best the professor when after being given class time to advocate for the existence of God, his classmates side with him. The film ends with a rousing rendition of "God's Not Dead" by a well known Christian pop group. Since God is not dead, spending a little more than an hour watching an entertaining film made by people who espouse that belief was a good use of my time. I spread it's message by texting a couple of people the words: God's Not Dead. If I knew the inticracies of texting I would have sent more.
I think the thing that's misleading about the film is that it assumes college is a placee hostile to God and that those who believe are a threatened minority there. But as this article states, there is probably a majority of students who believe in God, even if they aren't necessarily members of some disticnt church ... http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/26/college-students-go... ... I think too there's the idea that most teacher are atheists, but that's untrue also ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amarnath-amarasingam/how-religious-are-ame...
I probably won't see "God's Not Dead" (too many movies, too little time...) I tend not to like advocacy films which preach to the choir, even though I agree that "God's not dead". But hey, if you enjoy it, and it is meaningful to you, don't let me discourage you.
I do want, however, to acknowledge an unfortunate habit among a few teachers, instructors, and professors; especially at the college level, to use the classroom as a "bully pulpit". Case in point: in the middle 1980's I took some art and design classes at one of the state universities in Colorado. One of the classes was taught by a young instructor with a tendency to overshare. He told us that he was a former Catholic but had moved on from all that stuff; he had a troubled relationship with family, his parents didn't understand his wanting to study art, yada yada. Mostly I just tuned this out. Once in a while he would show a video or film during class, usually something predictably arty. One day, which happened to be Good Friday, he showed a Lenny Bruce film. It was over-the-top disrespectful of Jesus Christ, and I found it very offensive, especially given the timing. The sad part is that he was a talented instructor. I enjoyed the class and learned a lot from it, when he stuck to the subject he was there to teach. Things like the Good Friday episode just wasted his students time and their not-inexpensive tuition
I do want, however, to acknowledge an unfortunate habit among a few teachers, instructors, and professors; especially at the college level, to use the classroom as a "bully pulpit".
Katherine - my experience as a preacher is that people who like what I talked about tell me about it, whereas people who didn't like it don't say anything (most of the time :-)). Thus there is an asymmetry to the feedback, and the public speaker may be (mis)led to believe that everyone thinks his comments and opinions are wonderful. If anything, I'd think the tendency would be even more pronounced in college, where students believe they are dependent on the teacher's good opinion of them in order to advance in life.
Jim P., he handed out student evaluation forms at the end of the semester. I told him what I thought of Lenny Bruce on Good Friday. I also told him what I thought was good about the class, which was a lot. I noticed most of the other students wrote a sentence or two, or tossed them in the trash can. I was 35 at the time, which was "NTA", non-traditional age. I noticed the NTA's were a little more likely to give feedback.
While studying for my engineering degree, I was required to take a philosophy course; I chose Greek philsophy because I had read Plato's Republic and enjoyed it very much. At some point in one of the instructor's lectures, he (the instructor) asserted that it was an established fact that the whole Garden of Eden incident in the Bible was about...sex. I foolishly raised my hand and asked him a two-part question: When was this scenario established as a fact, and by whom? The instructor ramped up into a towering rage, concluding with the statement that "some people are not yet mature enough for college-level material."
Fifteen minutes later he was rhapsodizing about Socrates ambling around Greece buttonholing folks and challenging them with embarassing questions. But I got an 'A' in the course because I did some groveling and such, getting back in the instructors good graces. But in my mind I was cursing him. Well, nobody's perfect.
I was a philosophy major (and an art major) in college and the teachers seemed pretty much like those of other departments ... some were jerks and some were great and many were unremakable.
Arrogance, religious or otherwise, isn't confined to the academy, and I don't think it's any more rife there than in the "regular" workplace, though maybe it's less subtle. I've spent an equal number of years in company/corporate settings and teaching in higher education, and those at the top of companies certainly tend to push employees toward certain political notions that would be "good for the company, ergo good for you" so you should vote a certain way. I've worked for companies owned by prosperity gospel adherents, evangelicals, and those hostile to religion, and there was certainly religious tension in all these places.
There are lots of fit-pitchers and control freaks in the academy (recently I've been conducting passive-aggressive warfare with an administrator about her call for papers form at our yearly conference, not my finest moment). But I've seen CEOs and CFOs in the private sector throw pens, white board markers, lunge across tables, set up kangaroo courts of discipline, and yell at employees loud enough for everyone to hear.
One of the things that feeds my anarchist tendencies is that power, whether in the academy or the corporation, removes people from reality, from common humanity and courtesy. They're in power, it's because they're superior, ergo whatever they do or say is justified. We live in a democracy, but most of us work for tyrants.
Jean - I'm convinced that there is a Christian approach to leadership (not always fully modeled by Christian leaders). It is the servant model. I believe that Francis is modeling one manifestation of it at a very high level. When I taught, I tried to model it at a very modest and local level: what can I do to help students succeed in the classroom? My experience as a student is that some instructors embrace this, and some don't. I am sure that there are some college-level instructors who don't really feel a passion about teaching, don't see it as a vocation; it may be that teaching is part of the package that comes with doing whatever it is that they really want to do (e.g. research or writing, or, in the case of TAs, completing their own advanced degree).
Jim, commendable goal for teaching, of course. Do you think Christian leadership ideas translate to the non-academic workplace very often? Bosses serve stockholders, customers, members, and/or boards of directors. The notion of serving employees seems to be off the radar.
Research "Frederic Ozanam" to find a Catholic version of this film story.
Jean - I don't know if you are a Jon Stewart watcher, but earlier this week he had the president of Starbucks on, to promote their new employee benefit: free college tuition for their employees. In the course of the interview, he at least gave lip service to the notion that he sees the well-being of their employees as being closely related to the well-being of their customers. (And I suppose we could say that it is more than lip service, inasmuch as he has this new college benefit).
I've been very fortunate to have bosses recently in my career who tend to be sympathetic, understanding and supportive, who believe in work/life balance, and who will fight for the employees for whom they're responsible. I can't say that this approach is motivated in every case by explicit Christian faith, but I do think that a person who wishes to be both a Christian and a business leader could thrive in an enlightened corporate environment like that one. Naturally, not every corporate environment is like that one.
Frederic Ozanam, of course, founded the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
Jim, you know I'm one of those cynical damn liberals, and Starbucks' reimbursement plan looks to me like a way to stagnate employee wages (hey, we pay your college, and you want a RAISE??) and string them along so the trained ones don't go elsewhere and drive up turnover costs. What I do think is good about the program is that it applies to anyone who works more than 20 hours per week--and the majority of service workers are part-timers. And Starbucks employees rate the company 3.7 (on a five star scale) at Glassdoor.com (compared to the 2.8 rating my employer gets; maybe I should learn to be an elderly barista. "Now what did you say you wanted in that latte, hon? I didn't hear what you said.")
I'm glad you work for enlightened people.
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When I turn the key in to start all the lights on the dashboard go out completely and when I turn it back to the off position the dash lights back up. What could the problem be if the battery is okay?
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Have the battery load tested. I've had several batteries go dead in the same manner: dash lights working just find until you turn the key and it all dies.
Make sure all the connections are clean. Test the battery to ensure it really has 12volts. Use a voltmeter.
I've had a battery that worked fine, but couldn't start the car because the connections needed cleaning. Even if there isn't corrosion it could be an issue. Once I had those add-on connectors that go on the end of the battery cable get so rusted it stopped the connection from working.
The same thing happened with me ( Ford Focus - bad starter? ) when trying to "turn the car over". The current drawn "killed" the car for about 2 minutes, where nothing electrical worked at all.
Check that the battery terminals are clamped down correctly. You might need to remove the clamps and reseat them.
Make sure battery connections/post are clean and battery has at least 12.4 volts. Check and make sure wires to your starter are not making ground connection to any metal, and are exposed and not covered to anything metal. Also, could be the starter/alternator. Process of elimination -- more then likely it's electrical, not the motor. Hope this helps.
Immobiliser has kicked in cause you removed the battery, got the same problem, I've been told locking & unlocking the car with the key fob will do it!! Mine don't seem to work, the real answer is a 4 digit code you get when you buy the car from the dealer which I didn't, it not the radio code which is all I had it's the ecu or eka which is in the owners manual under security/safety, you use the code in the car door lock by turning the key whatever number of times one way then opposite way for next & so on, if you find any other way let me know


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The following is an equation describing the coupled phases of N oscillators according to the Kuramoto model:
$$ 1 = K \int_{-\pi/2}^{\pi/2}\cos^{2}\left(\theta\right)\, {\rm g}\left(KR\sin\left(\theta\right)\right)\,{\rm d}\theta $$
We assume that g is a symmetric distribution with zero mean, since the equation is written from the point of view of a reference frame rotating together with the oscillator.
I need to take the $\lim_{R \rightarrow0^+}$ to solve for the coupling strength Kc. This can't be solved with Wolfram Alpha since g is not read as a gaussian distribution but instead as a constant.
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I want to display my Google Apps mails on my website homepage, in a google gadget. So, I want to fetch all mails of my google apps account using javaScript. Is there any way to access mails ?
Google doesn't support any special API for the GMail. All you can do is to enable POP/IMAP from the settings and taking it over from there it whatever language you want.
I believe Google has a Gmail gadget for your iGoogle page available at this link - http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=builtin_gmail.xml&source=imag
you can also search for gadgets with the term "check email"
Be warned, that there might be some unscrupulous / malicious code out there.
Ideally, if it's only notification you want, use official notifiers from service providers or an offline client. Preferably, one that connects securely.
You could simply embed http://m.gmail.com in an iframe. Gmail also offers RSS feeds, but only for unread mail and it's a password-protected feed.


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There's a new user on Stack Overflow who keeps asking more or less the same exact question about Drupal user permissions:
- How to give access to users at page level in drupal?
- page created to be editable only by user owning that page
- How can I make a user's content private?
- Private module not making content private in Drupal
- How do I assign users to a particular group?
All of the questions are of pretty low quality, so it's not surprising he's not getting answers. Voting to close them as duplicates is the standard procedure, but is there any additional steps (like flagging to a moderator) one should take for users who don't seem to get it?


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Is it possible in wordpress,by editing theme functions.php, to stop user access for all pages except Home, about-us, contact-us until a user is logged in to the system? All buddypress and wordpress page and posts redirects user to a login page?
You could try the Members plugin to restrict access to certain pages, very handy.
In the menu section you can check if user is logged in, and show extra menu items if logged in by adding code similar to this in your template


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|Welcome to Pokémon Wiki, and thank you for your contributions! There's a lot to do around here, so I hope you'll stay with us and make many more improvements.
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Elma E. Schwartz
Elma E. Schwartz, 83, of Monroe died on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at Adams Memorial Hospital in Decatur. She was born on June 12, 1931 in Adams County to Peter and Emily (Schwartz) Hilty. She was married on October 21, 1951 to Chris R. Schwartz.
She was a homemaker and a member of the Old Order Amish.
She is survived by four daughters, Anne E. (Mark) Girod of Monroe; Emma E. (Manuel) Girod of New Haven; and Rosie E. Schwartz; and Elma E. Schwartz, both at home; three sons, Daniel E. (Sovilla) Schwartz; John E. (Adeline) Schwartz; and Sam E. (Edna) Schwartz, all of Monroe; three half-brothers, Amos E. Hilty of Bluffton; William E. Hilty of Berne; and Joni E. Hilty of Geneva; 50 grandchildren; and 137 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her step-mom, Elizabeth Schwartz; her husband on June 3, 1992; four brothers; four sisters; a step-brother; and two step-sisters.
Visitation was from 2:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 14 and will be from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, May 15 at the John E. Schwartz residence, 1717E 100S, Monroe. Funeral services will be at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 16 also at the John E. Schwartz residence. Officiating will be Bishop Joe L.D. Schwartz.
Arrangements provided by Haggard-Sefton & Hirschy Funeral Home in Decatur. To sign the guest book, click on www.hshfuneralhome.com.
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By GEORGE LINDSEY
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"I was 9 years old, and everything was gone. My world had literally spun out of control. I was walked into a classroom and a school that I didn't know. My friends had been split up and sent to schools all over town. I slid into a desk with nothing, not a pencil, not a note book, no crayons … I felt so alone."
That's not a child from the recent March 2 tornadoes, but my wife who lived through the 1974 tornadoes here in Louisville.
For a child, your world, your being is all wrapped up in your backpack. Is it a Hello Kitty bag? Or perhaps you have an X-Men pack. Whatever is on the outside, the contents inside are the most important. The pencil pouch, glue stick, Fiskar scissors and folders – god forbid you forget your folders.
Now, imagine being that child and everything in that backpack, everything inside your desk is gone. That's what some kids from Southern Indiana and Eastern Kentucky are dealing with today.
We all want to help. We all want our neighbors to know we care and are there for them. We have so many wonderful organizations, including The Voice-Tribune, handling clothing, food, housing – things that MUST be addressed first. But as we fielded call after call on The Lambert & Lindsey Radio Show, we heard from parents describing how the kids of the destroyed Henryville School complex lost everything. So, then and there we decided the little ones would be our big focus, and 102.3 The Max started "Crayons for Hope."
It's simple to help. We are collecting school supplies for children and teachers. You can bring crayons, pencils, notebooks, folders, and backpacks, to any of the nine Louisville-area Panera Bread locations. We have a semi-trailer from M&M Cartage that we are using to store and transport to the affected areas. For all the details about drop-off times and to get the suggested list of items, go to www.themaxfm.com – keyword: HOPE.
Won't you help us FILL THAT TRUCK?
George Lindsey is a much loved radio deejay whose voice can be heard on 102.3 The Max – and beyond.


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Bug hunt. (updated)
As you can see, we've redecorated. With the move to a new site comes the inevitable unforeseeable glitches. Will you give us a hand ferreting them out? Already you'll notice that blog comments are displaying e-mail addresses instead of registered usernames. That's a major problem, and we're on it. [Edit: that's been fixed.] But what else are you finding? Feel free to e-mail us at editors(at)commonwealmagazine(dot)org. (Please include your operating system and browser.)Update: If the blog page is not displaying correctly for you (e.g., the Commonweal logo at the top of the page has dipped down into the blog space), you should be able to fix the problem by clearing your cache. If you're on a Mac, press CTRL-R or OPEN APPLE/COMMAND-R. If you're on a Windows machine, my condolences: hold CTRL and click refresh in your browser window.
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No bugs as of yet, but I really like the new look.
Grant: I there is any chance of getting the text of replies to posts a little darker, perhaps the same as the posts themselves, that would be appreciated.
Er, that would be "If" there is any chance...
Hello Grant (and All),I just tried my hand at posting on another thread in the redecorated web log. I found that at first the window for inserting replies did not display properly. I was able to correct this problem because the web site prompted me to install Adobe Flash Player. Other participants here might find my experience helpful, particularly those (like me) who have recently made the transition to a brand new computer.
Hello again Grant (and All),I noticed that on the redecorated web site, my posts have appeared with my e-mail address as header rather than my name. The same appears to be true for some other participants. How do we correct this?
Hello again Grant, I'm sorry, I wrote in haste before I realized you are are well aware of the problem. (I should limit my posting when I am into finals week!) Thanks for your patience, ~P.
Kudos on the new look to your website. Very user friendly, and I'm sure the few bugs will soon be ironed out. I especially like the shades of blue for the background, and the history of each contributor's prior threads when one clicks on his or name in the margin of the blog.
When I attempted to post one comment, I got a weird message telling me to "slow down, you're posting too many comments".
Nice job on the new look. The new site is much easier to maneuver.
This is a test
If this had been an actual emergency, I would not know what to do because I only know how to run a test.
Apparently the system does not like names with apostrophes. I got a bid of an add-on.


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I'm a developer in the middle of the development of a medium-sized website. A requirement that we just received from the resident SEO person on the project is for all the URLs on the site be just off the root (e.g. /product-name, /small-keywords-separated-by-hyphens).
Here is an example (one of a few, both I think this is the one that would potentially favor his viewpoint the most):
- Solutions http://site.com/solutions/
- 1.1 Showcase http://site.com/showcase/
- 1.2 Healthcare http://site.com/healthcare/
- 1.3 Education http://site.com/education/
- 1.4 Residential http://site.com/residential/
- 1.5 Industrial http://site.com/industrial/
To be clear, I'm advocating a structure like: /solutions/showcase, /solutions/healthcare/, etc.
To me, there are clearly defined sections of the site- there are various parts of content which seem to deserve their own place in the structure of the site.
Here were his points:
Decreased keyword density for the words being targeted in the URL, the longer the URL the less emphasis is being placed on the keywords being targeted in the URL
Decreased emphasis on the importance of the page from a search engine standpoint, the further the page rests off of the root the less importance is attributed to that page
Decreased adaptability over time, for example when time comes to redesign the site again in the future, suppose the navigation changes, by incorporating the folder you have reduced your ability to re-use the URLs on the new site and minimize any slippage in the search results
Decreased usability for advertising the URL, suppose [company] wants to run a print campaign on a particular [product], the shorter URL would be more user friendly and more likely to lead to a conversion
The points I made in response were around user experience and based off this document from Google.
Personally I've never seen the structure he's proposing. Is this type of thing best practice for SEO?
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PAULIN, Gerald A., 66, of Burgettstown, died Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in his home.
He was born April 3, 1927, in Weirton, WV, a son of the late Abel and Louise Guymard Paulin.
Prior to retirement, Mr, Paulin was employed by Weirton Steel Corp. He was a U. S, Navy veteran during WW Il.
He was a member of the Paris Sportsmen's Club, a founding member of the Hanover Volunteer Fire Dept., served as a Hanover Twp, Supervisor and Police, and the Weirton Radio Watch. Mr. Paulin enjoyed hunting, golfing and wood carving.
Deceased is his wife, Janet K. Paulin, who died June 23, 2012.
Surviving are his son, Randall (Carol) Paulin of Paris; daughters, Lynn (Jim) Boling of Paris, and Dawn (Chris) Kramer of Bavington; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Friends will be received from 3-7 p.m. Monday, July 22, 2013, in the Taucher Funeral Home, 23 Erie Mine Road, Burgettstown.
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I've seen a couple papers (that I now can't find) that say that in his paper "On irreducible 3-manifolds which are sufficiently large" Waldhausen proved that the data $\pi_1(\partial (S^3\setminus K)) \to \pi_1(S^3\setminus K)$ is a complete knot invariant. However, the word "knot" doesn't appear in this paper (although the phrase "to avoid an orgy of notation" does :-). Is the claimed result a straightforward corollary of his main results? Or am I looking at the wrong paper?
As Ryan says, this follows from Waldhausen's paper, when appropriately interpreted. Sufficiently large 3-manifolds are usually called "Haken" in the literature, and as Ryan says, they are irreducible and contain an incompressible surface (which means that the surface is incompressible and boundary incompressible). An irreducible manifold with non-empty boundary and not a ball (ie no 2-sphere boundary components) is always sufficiently large, by a homology and surgery argument. By Alexander's Lemma, knot complements are irreducible, and therefore sufficiently large (the sphere theorem implies that they are aspherical).
Waldhausen's theorem implies that if one has two sufficiently large 3-manifolds $M_1, M_2$ with connected boundary components, and an isomorphism $\pi_1(M_1) \to \pi_1(M_2)$ inducing an isomorphism $\pi_1(\partial M_1) \to \pi_1(\partial M_2)$, then $M_1$ is homeomorphic to $M_2$. This is proven by first showing that there is a homotopy equivalence $M_1\simeq M_2$ which restricts to a homotopy equivalence $\partial M_1\simeq \partial M_2$. Then Waldhausen shows that this relative homotopy equivalence is homotopic to a homeomorphism by induction on a hierarchy. The peripheral data is necessary if the manifold has essential annuli, for example the square and granny knots have homotopy equivalent complements.
If $K_1, K_2\subset S^3$ are (tame) knots, and $M_1=S^3-\mathcal{N}(K_1), M_2=S^3-\mathcal{N}(K_2)$ are two knot complements, then Waldhausen's theorem applies. However, one must also cite the knot complement problem solved by Gordon and Luecke, in order to conclude that $K_1$ and $K_2$ are isotopic knots. Otherwise, one must also hypothesize that the isomorphism $\partial M_1 \to \partial M_2$ takes the meridian to the meridian (the longitudes are determined homologically). This extra data is necessary to solve the isotopy problem for knots in a general 3-manifold $M$, to guarantee that the homeomorphism $(M_1,\partial M_1)\to (M_2,\partial M_2)$ extends to a homeomorphism $(M,K_1)\to (M,K_2)$, since for example there are knots in lens spaces which have homeomorphic complements by a result of Bleiler-Hodgson-Weeks.
You're looking at the right paper. His results apply to a broad class of 3-manifolds, which knot complements happen to be a part of. I don't have the paper here with me but I believe the class was then called "sufficiently large". Which I believe in this case means irreducible and containing an incompressible surface.
edit: Technically what he's describing is a "complete 3-manifold invariant". To turn it into a complete knot invariant you need the following observation. Given a knot complement you can turn it into a knot (in some $3$-manifold) by filling in the boundary $S^1 \times S^1$ with a $S^1 \times D^2$. To do that you need a gluing map, which amounts to specifying the slope of the $D^2$-factor in $S^1 \times S^1$. Given a knot, the invariant of the knot is the knot complement together with the filling slope that recovers $S^3$. The knot complement together with this natural filling slope is the complete invariant of the knot (up to mirror inverse). Waldhausen's paper shows you how if you reduce that information to $\pi_1 \partial M \to \pi_1 M$ together with a the filling slope (thought of as an element of $\pi_1 \partial M$), that is also a complete invariant of the knot.
This topic is treated in G. Burde & H. Zieschang's book, Knots, 2nd edition, p. 40.


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In EM radiation, the magnetic field is $ 3*10^8$ times smaller than the electric field, but is it valid to say it's "weaker". These fields have different units, so I don't think you can compare them, but even so it seems like we only interact with the electric field of EM radiation, not the magnetic field. Why is this?
As you already indicated, physical units need to be considered. When working in SI units, the ratio of electric field strength over magnetic field strength in EM radiation equals 299 792 458 m/s, the speed of light $c$.
However, the numerical value for $c$ depends on the units used. When working in units in which the speed of light $c=1$, one would conclude that both fields are equal in magnitude.
A better way to look at this is to consider the energy carried by an electromagnetic wave. It turns out that the energy associated with the electric field is equal to the energy associated with the magnetic field. So in terms of energies electric and magnetic fields are equals.
It's a quirk of units: notice that the conversion between them is dimensionful, and has the value $3\times 10^8\,\mathrm{m/s}$, which is the speed of light. In the CGS system both fields have the same units, and field-squared is an energy density.
In SI units, the energy density for a configuration of fields is given by \begin{align} \frac{dU}{dV} &= \frac12\left( \epsilon_0 E^2 + \frac1{\mu_0} B^2 \right)\\ &= \frac{\epsilon_0}2 \left( E^2 + c^2 B^2 \right) \end{align} which tells you that, given the field strength ratio $c$ you have calculated for electromagnetic waves, the energy of an EM wave is shared equally between its electric and magnetic components.
We do tend to usually think about the interaction between EM waves and materials in terms of the electric field component, but that's a bias because it's relatively easy to liberate free electric charges, and magnetic interactions only occur at second order. Spend some time around folks thinking about plasma physics, or wrap your head around the behavior of the sun's magnetic field reversal cycle, for a very different perspective.


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Source: Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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I am using Stack Overflow since 7 months. Last week, I introduced Stack Overflow to some of my colleagues, and they showed great interest.
They started posting questions; after two/three questions posted by two of colleagues, all their questions were down-voted. They called me and showed their down-voted questions to me.
I told them that I even got down-votes, and then I decided to give tips to be considered while posting a question.
- Post the code you've tried.
- Read the FAQ.
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My friend purchased a MoP expansion. He said that Gamestop told him that the expanison comes with 1 free month of game play for World of Warcraft. I have been looking throughout every possible WoW site possiblee, but I am not seeing it anywhere. Is this true or just a rumor?
It's only a rumor. Though each vendor may give different pre-order bonuses for ordering from them (e.g., Amazon offers you a key to gain access to the MoP beta), Blizzard isn't actually offering any particular incentive themselves.
No. Mists of Pandaria does not include any "game time". No prior expansion (BC, WotLK, Cata) included "game time" with purchase.
You do get "game time" with the purchase of the base game, or with purchases that include the base game (such as Battle Chest offers).
No. WoW expansions do not come with game time.
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Let $$ \gamma = \frac{1}{\sum_{y}f(y)W(y)}, $$
$$ f(y) = 1 + e^{-|y|} $$
and $W(y)$ is a probability distribution (unknown) with $y \in \mathcal{Y}$ arbitrary but discrete, and $x \in \{0,1\}$. I want to calculate a lower bound on $\gamma$. I came up with one lower bound as follows: \begin{aligned} \gamma &= \frac{1}{\sum_{y}f(y)W(y)}\\ &\ge \frac{1}{\sum_{y}f(y)}, \because W(y) \le 1, \forall y \in \mathcal{Y}\\ \end{aligned} I wanted a tighter bond than this. Any ideas or references are appreciated. Thank you !


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What are you planning to give, or do for mom, this Mother's Day?
Mother's Day is coming up very soon, what are you planning to do for your Mom? Are you getting her face tattooed on your arm? Are you sending her a box of flying monkeys? Or are you the traditional type who is taking her out to brunch or spending the day with her?
What are you doing for your Mom?
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She says she just wants teh family to all go out and have dinner somewhere nice.
I want to get her something, just don't know what. Was thinking about this earlier this morning.
We're combining Mother's Day and Father's Day and taking both of them out to an outdoor play in June. It will be a surprise until Mother's Day, when I give her the tickets.
I honestly don't know. I may send her some things from Divvies. She likes them, and it allows her to have some sweets, which she otherwise can't.
We always go down to mom's, plant all her outdoor flower boxes, do some other yard work, and on Sunday take her out to dinner. For a gift, I usually bring her some sort of plant, corsage, or both.
@tsfisch: What a wonderful gift!!
@wickedd365: If she is anything like I am, your presence is the best present of all!
Clean her house and call her on skype "She's in Afghanistan right now."
We're combining the holidays, too, this year. My husband will spend the weekend with my father at my parents' house, fishing, drinking, watching movies, playing console games, etc. My mom will be spending the weekend at our place while we talk, sip champagne, watch movies, shop, etc.
for Gran'ma (that's how we spell it in our family), everyone (20 people or so) come together at her house, bringing food so she doesn't have to cook anything. We do work on her balcony plants, make sure her laptop is working well, help her do things around the house, and just have a generally good time. We normally also pitch in together for a gift of some kind - often a big purchase that she wouldn't necessarily buy for herself.
I'm leaning towards one of those fabric covered gazebos you can get at Target / Walmart for a few hundred bucks. I wonder if they actually survive out in the weather.
I'm getting my Mom DVDs, good chocolate and socks. I've gotten Mom socks for her birthday and Mother's Day every year for as long as I can remember. Her birthday is in October, so I get her funky striped knee socks. For Mother's Day I get her fun, often cartoon character, shorter socks. It's our little tradition and Mom rarely has to buy her own socks...except for more formal occasions when Snoopy socks aren't appropriate.
The DVDs are old seasons of tv shows that she didn't see or saw and really enjoyed. She watches them while doing things around the house or working on craft projects. And who doesn't like chocolate? I found a few of her favorites on sale recently and will add in some good European dark chocolate from Aldi (they don't have Aldi near them), which Mom really likes and Dad doesn't (so I don't have to worry about Dad eating half of Mom's candy).
I send a bunch of Yellow Tulips to the Cemetery with her site # on the card.
For her birthday every year she gets Dasies.
Sadly, this will be the first year I won't get to be near my mom on Mother's Day due to distance (400 miles worth), but she and my dad are coming to visit the following week. Also, her birthday is the week after that. So, that all said, I'm going to combine her gifts. I already got her a really pretty nightgown from Kohl's and the Les Mis 25th anniversary DVD. I'm hoping to put something creative together as a present from the kids too.


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I thought of this question yesterday and it turns out it's surprisingly hard to Google.
Hibernating bears have an ingeneous way of recycling their urine (urea) while they hibernate. Also turtles and frogs in the bottom of ponds deal in unique ways during hibernation.. This should get you started. recycling waste externally is done by rabbits who will pass pellets through their system twice, the firsttime to partially digest, the second time to extract nutrients.
All organisms recycle their waste internally. Every cell of every living organisms is constantly breaking things down and re-using the components so produced. But you're presumably wondering about things such as carbon dioxide, urine and faeces? These are not recycled because the benefits of doing so are not worth the costs.
Let's consider carbon dioxide as an example. We know that carbon dioxide can be usefully converted into energy-holding molecules using readily available sources of water, oxygen and sunlight. So why do animals** "wastefully" breathe it out? Because the energetic benefits of respiration are high compared to the energetic benefits of photosynthesis and so photosynthesis is unable to make a useful contribution to the overall energy balance of an animal while the costs of the effectively photosynthesising are quite high (e.g. having leaf-like protrusions, synthesizing chlorophyll and so on).
In fact, it must always be true that there are processes which are not energetically worthwhile because of entropy. An organism that could perpetually recycle its waste would be a perpetual motion machine.
** - and many microbes and, in fact, plants - although their intake of carbon dioxide is typically higher over the solar cycle.
If an organism recycles some material, by definition, it is not waste.
Though some animals will eat feces.(For eg.Rabbits) It's a way to double-digest something that was not fully broken down or absorbed the first round.
Bears recycle their urine while hibernating, unlike most other mammals.