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DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago-Alsip
193 Rooms. Full service hotel located near Midway Airport in the Chicago Southland area.
Grand Geneva
100 rooms. Seven suites. Valet. Business center. Exercise facilities. Complimentary breakfast. Special amenities incluse microwave and refrigerator in all rooms, 33cable stations. Located eight miles south of Midway Airport.
Baymont Inn & Suites - Alsip
The Baymont Inn is pleased to provide our guests with exceptional service. We are an incorridor property with 3 floors. Whether you are here for business or leisure, we have many amenities at an affordable price.
Days Inn - Alsip
Limited-service hotel - entertainment and shopping nearby - continental breakfast - Free local phone calls - 30 minutes from airports and downtown Chicago. Many discounts offered.
Budget Lodge - Alsip
Nice, clean, newly decorated rooms. Cable TV and very low rates. Easy access to highway and restaurants nearby.
Presidential Inn & Suites Motel - Alsip
This inn offers spacious standard, double, queen and king guestrooms. Non-smoking rooms available.
Key Motel
This property has 20 guest rooms that include free parking, Wi-Fi access as well as microwave and refrigerator availability.
New Relax Inn
This property has 31 guest rooms and 1 suite. Amenities include free parking, WiFi, microwave & refriferator availability, non-smoking rooms and rollaway beds.
Motel 6 - Bridgeview
Newly Renovated Hotel! Offers complimentary breakfast, wireless internet, business center, fitness center, local calls, and USA Today newspaper to all guests! Call now and book your stay!
Super 8 - Bridgeview
Clean and quiet rooms. Restaurants nearby. Friendly staff, free super start breakfast, wireless Internet and bus or truck parking.
Bridgeview Inn Motel
This property has 60 guest rooms as well as 2 suites. Other amenities include a business center, data ports (in rooms), entertainment, fitness center, free parking, hair dryers (in rooms), Wi-Fi, interior corridors, microwave and refrigerator availability, handicapped accessibility and rollaway beds. This is a non-smoking facility.
Clayton Motel
This property has 18 guest rooms and 1 suite. Other amenities include free parking, Wi-Fi access, microwave availability, non-smoking rooms, and rollaway beds.
Cloud 9 Motel
This 22-room property has whirlpool suites available and free cable TV. Conviently located in the South Suburbs, this motel makes it easy to get to all area attractions via the highway. This is a great property for corporate guests and families.
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Best Western Inn And Suites - Midway Airport
The Best Western Inn and Suites- Midway Airport is located in Burbank only 2 1/2 miles south of Midway Airport. Enjoy our indoor pool, whirlpool, exercise room, and breakfast room.
Best Western Midway Airport
Nice clean newer hotel with many upgrades. Offers free interenet service and a friendly and caring staff.
Budget Inn - Burbank
This property has 30 guest rooms as well as 1 suite. Other amenities include free parking, handicapped accessibility, Wi-Fi access, microwave and refrigerator availability, rollaway beds and a spa/sauna. This is a non-smoking facility.
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SpringHill Suites Burr Ridge
128-room, all-suite hotel. Complimentary hi-speed wireless Internet, breakfast, laundry facility, indoor heated pool, fitness center, business center, dataport telephones. Free shuttle service. Conveniently located at I-55 & County Line Road.
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Quality Inn & Conference Center - Burr Ridge
122 room hotel. Indoor pool/whirlpool, exercise room, restaurant, lounge, guest laundry, local/airport shuttle & 7000 sq. ft. meeting/banquet space. Amenities: in-room coffee, iron/ironing board, hair dryer, voicemail/dataport phones & VCR.
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SpringHill Suites by Marriott Chicago Southwest at Burr Ridge/Hinsdale
The perfect choice for a fresh, restful stay. Newly renovated top to bottom, this all-suites hotel offers complimentary local shuttle service, hi-speed wireless, breakfast, indoor pool, fitness center, business center and more. Convenient access to I-55.
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Kohler Water Spa
Relax and unwind at Kohler Waters Spa at Burr Ridge – recently named the #1 Day Spa in Chicago by Chicago magazine.
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Baymont Inn & Suites - Calumet City
Newly removated rooms, jacuzzi suites, 2 room suites, with kitchenet, exercise room, guest laundry, room service. Bus and truck parking, very friendly staff, indoor pool & spa, delux free breakfast.
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M Star - Calumet Park
91 Rooms, 40+ television channels, within 15 minutes of downtown Chicago. Located at the last lodging exit before downtown.
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One College Drive
Bennington, VT 05201-6003
By Susan Green, Burlington Free Press
About 165 years after Ethan Allen gathered his militia to plan an armed revolution, their little southern Vermont hamlet experienced a major cultural revolution.
In 1934, Bennington was hopping. And, luckily, dancing.
Four of America's most prominent choreographers — Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Hanya Holm and Charles Weidman — helped launch the Bennington School of the Dance at the fledgling college there. It quickly attracted 103 students and many celebrated creative spirits of the era.
The Green Mountain Boys were pioneers on a New England frontier, but Graham and her colleagues pioneered new frontiers in an ancient art form. Self-expression eclipsed the more rigid rules of classical ballet and individual recitals gave way to concerts as modern dance, first championed earlier in the 20th century by the likes of Isadora Duncan, gained respect.
This transformation took root in Vermont eight decades ago, the beginning of a substantial terpsichorean presence that continues to flourish in one of the country's most rural states.
In her 1991 autobiography, "Blood Memory," Graham described what became a regular summer sojourn of teaching and performing at Bennington, "a wonderful place where we were given the freedom and possibility to make our dance."
It also gave her the freedom to drive around town "in a little Model-T Ford with no license and no fear."
Wild behavior in an automobile may have been contagious. In 1935, Alexander Calder came to Bennington by car "wearing nothing but his undershorts," recalled Graham, who incorporated the sculptor's acclaimed mobiles into her work. They collaborated on "Panorama," which premiered at the college, as did their joint venture a few years later titled "Horizons."
The controversial Graham, dubbed "the Picasso of Dance," often tapped into a variety of other artistic fields. "We were all experimenting," she explained in the memoir.
William Carlos Williams, whose poetry inspired Graham's "American Document" in 1938, was another influential figure at Bennington.
Graham's desire to feature original music drew avant-garde composer John Cage, whose "Credo in Us" debuted at the school in 1942. That's also the year his partner Merce Cunningham's first choreographed piece was unfurled on the Vermont campus; he had joined the Martha Graham Dance Company while studying at Bennington's short-lived California satellite program in 1939.
This bohemian aspect of academia shocked local folks, who reportedly suspected the Vermont college was operating a nudist colony when dancers were spotted in flesh-colored leotards.
Mimicking a mobile
Alexander Calder also popped up in the career of Sharry Underwood of South Burlington. She remembers that one of her lucky breaks was an opportunity to choreograph performances based on three of his mobiles when he was a guest artist on "The Gloria Swanson Hour." The television talk show was broadcast on New York's WPIX in 1949, the same year that the Hollywood actress filmed her most famous role as a fading movie star in "Sunset Boulevard."
But how does a dancer mimic a mobile? "I watched the way they moved and tried to move with them," Underwood said.
As a youngster who wanted nothing more than to move, she could not convince her parents of its importance. "I was forbidden to be a dancer, not allowed to have any lessons," Underwood lamented. "In the 1920s and '30s, most people equated dancing with vaudeville or the follies."
She defied them by spending three weeks in 1942 at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, launched by instructor Ted Shawn in the Berkshires. His Denishawn Company, formed with Ruth St. Denis, had once employed many of the dancers who later wound up at Bennington.
During her first summer in the festival, Shawn gave Underwood a full scholarship for the 1943 session and said, "I have great expectations for you."
Although there would be numerous disappointments before she could fulfill his prediction, Underwood finally realized her dream of going to Manhattan. In 1947, she was hired for "Bloomer Girl," a Broadway musical choreographed by the legendary Agnes de Mille about women left behind when their men fought in the Civil War.
While teaching dance at a Vermont summer camp, Underwood met her future husband. They settled in Middlebury for 22 years and raised five kids. She organized the Vermont Dance Company, which toured schools.
In 1979, Underwood relocated to Burlington, where she was a freelance dance critic for the Burlington Free Press and began contributing articles to the prestigious Dance Magazine. Its editor, Wendy Perron, is a 1969 Bennington alum.
Underwood got a grant in 2000 to revive 27 lost Denishawn dances, a task made possible because she had kept careful notes while still at Jacob's Pillow. The pieces were performed there and at Burlington's Flynn Center, which had a history of supporting local dance largely thanks to then-executive director Andrea Rogers.
To mark how much Underwood has achieved despite her family's disapproval, this spring she'll self-publish a 500-page memoir, "No Daughter of Mine is Going to be a Dancer."
From modern to postmodern
By 1968, when Judith Dunn came to Bennington to teach collaboratively with trumpet virtuoso and composer Bill Dixon, modern dance was evolving into postmodern dance. She had been with the Merce Cunningham troupe — which eschewed many of Martha Graham's notions — and co-founded the collective Judson Dance Theater in Greenwich Village, from 1962 through 1964.
Vermont's lackluster diversity began to improve with the arrival of Dixon, an African-American who rejected the word "jazz" in favor of "advanced black music" and remained as a Bennington professor for 26 years.
Dunn and Dixon apparently sparked enthusiasm. "Oh, baby! It was the new way," suggested Penny Campbell, a 1970 graduate. "When Judy danced with Bill playing, I could not believe what I was seeing. I thought, 'Are you allowed to do that?' They were both so brilliant, charismatic and politically engaged that they scared me, but it was like a moth to flame. I decided, 'This is it. This is liberation.'"
On the Middlebury College dance faculty since 1985, as a Bennington undergraduate Campbell witnessed a democratization in the Dunn-Dixon period. "Martha Graham was like the diva queen," she said. "Even after her reign, students made dances and had to do them for the faculty, who would choose which ones could be performed and then 'fix' them. Judy pushed for everyone's work to be showcased."
The results were much more adventurous. "It was the sixties, for godsakes! And Bennington was the mecca for dance and music," mused Campbell, whose incoming students now are generally under the influence of digital technology and hip-hop.
At Middlebury, she corralled a range of musicians — former Bennington teacher Arthur Brooks on trumpet and Michael Chorney on sax — who collaborate with dancers much the way Dixon had with Dunn. To reflect the improvisational nature of the dance, Campbell said, "the idea is to create original music in the moment."
The laws that govern motion
Dunn recruited Steve Paxton, a dancer friend from both her Cunningham and Judson days, to Bennington from 1972 through 1976. He'd already been living in Vermont for a year and still calls the Northeast Kingdom home.
The village of East Charleston seems far from the epicenter of postmodern dance for the guy who developed Contact Improvisation, an edgy process that became a worldwide sensation. The Massachusetts-based Contact Quarterly describes it as a "spontaneous physical dialogue between dancers that ranges from stillness to highly energetic exchanges," exploring the laws that govern their motion: gravity, momentum and inertia.
Raised in bone-dry Arizona, Saxton wrote in a recent email that he perceived his new surroundings as Eden "when I saw the water of Vermont in lakes and streams, tasted it, swam in it."
A former gymnast and martial-arts aficionado, his initial Bennington methods flopped. "I tried to teach Aikido principles but within a year the students were rebelling. Many wanted to have conventional techniques, so I stopped and began to teach what became Contact Improvisation in a not-for-credit workshop."
Susan Sgorbati, a Pennsylvania resident, enrolled at Bennington in 1969. She studied with Dunn and Paxton: "It was a very exciting time. I remember improvisation sessions lasting late into the night."
For Sgorbati, herself a dance educator at Bennington since 1983, the place has always been forward-thinking. "It was the first college with a dance major in the U.S. and the first to give dance an equal footing with literature and science," she noted. "From the start, the basic tenet was: We're not looking back. It was about the creation of new work, which is still our mission."
With that in mind, Sgorbati started to fashion her own innovation, Emergent Improvisation, about 20 years ago. Paxton introduced physics into the mix; she has been investigating neurological systems to understand forces that make order out of what could be chaos — but also with an eye on water.
After observing minnows swim in a lake near her house, Sgorbati wrote in a 2005 essay: "They create endless swirling patterns, sustaining a coherence that is striking, with no apparent guidance." In extrapolating the concept, she learned that neurons in the human brain "are self-organizing, and their patterns are emergent phenomena."
To go deeper into this topic, in April Sgorbati will commute to a six-week creative research fellowship at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
'We're here to dance'
"Judy's aesthetic was, Take us as we are,'" surmised the man Dunn had married in 1975, Peter Lackowski of Jericho. "It was a feminist attitude: We're real women. This is how we look. We're not here to be beautiful. We're here to dance."
Diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1977, she asked Sgorbati to take over some of her Bennington responsibilities and moved to Burlington for treatment. Judith Dunn died in 1983 at age 50.
The inevitable arc of existence is implicit in Cradle to Grave Arts, the non-profit Hannah Dennison began in 1991. The Chelsea choreographer's approach is sociological and anthropological for work that tends to be almost cinematic in scope. She has presented large groups dancing in immense abdandoned factories or entire sections of a metropolis, instead of on a single stage.
A 1995 production, "The Mill Project," examined the industrial legacy of Winooski's defunct textile manufacturers. In 1999, for two segments of Dennison's "The Neighborhood Project," she even took over the so-called Sister Streets of the Queen City's South End and the shopping mall that had replaced most of Burlington's residential downtown in the name of urban renewal.
"That piece was about home when homelessness was on the rise," Dennison said of the latter site-specific event, which was done in partnership with the Burlington Community Land Trust. "I like putting art in out-of-the-ordinary spaces."
So much so that, in late June, she'll bring 30 dancers to the Breeding Barn at Shelburne Farms to participate in "Dear Pina." It's an homage to Pina Bausch, the German neo-expressionist choreographer who succumbed to lung cancer in 2009.
To benefit the Dennison effort, the Flynn Center will co-sponsor a Thursday screening at Williston's Majestic 10 of "Pina," an Oscar-nominated 3D documentary by Wim Wenders.
Dennison had traveled to Germany in 1983 specifically to see Bausch's ensemble. "I was emotionally drawn to her work and felt I also could make pieces that fell under the umbrella of dance theater," she said.
With a hint of poetic justice, non-dancers Peter Lackowski and his second wife, Sharyl Green, will appear in "Dear Pina," as "a tall, dignified couple."
Another member of the cast is Paul Besaw, in his sixth year at the University of Vermont as an associate professor and dance coordinator. At the moment, his program is in the Department of Music, which will be rechristened as the Department of Music and Dance come September.
Two weeks ago, UVM, Middlebury and Marlboro were among 10 regional schools — out of 45 hopefuls — selected as finalists in the American College Dance Festival. Consequently, in May, a piece devised in Besaw's choreography class will compete in Washington, DC: English major and December 2011 UVM grad Dan Yablonsky is slated to perform his seven-minute solo, titled "Non-Mechanical Tools of Human Advancement," at the Kennedy Center.
"I'm on Cloud Nine," acknowledged Besaw, who marvels at the state's wealth of talent as new generations savor its heritage. "The hills of Vermont are filled with significant dance artists."
Susan Green is a contributor to ARTSbtv.


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Given a set S of size n, what is the minimum number of subsets of S of size k s.t. each pair of elements of S occurs in the same subset at least once?
This question came up in a practical situation at work...
Given a set S of size n, what is the minimum number of subsets of S of size k s.t. each pair of elements of S occurs in the same subset at least once?
If you want each $l$-tuple of elements to occur at least once then you can do this with $(1 + o(1))\binom{n}{l}/\binom{k}{l}$ sets, which is within $1 + o(1)$ of optimal by a simple counting argument. This is proven using something called the R\"odl Nibble. Most likely when $l = 2$, which is the situation you're interested in, there is a direct construction. The problem is perhaps more naturally formulated in terms of graphs: you're looking for a covering of all the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ by copies of $K_k$.
In terms of explicit constructions, this paper seems relevant. I'm led to understand that one of the authors takes a passing interest in Math Overflow; perhaps he will comment further.
MR1333298 (96e:05043) Gordon, Daniel M.(1-CCR); Patashnik, Oren(1-CCR); Kuperberg, Greg(1-CHI) New constructions for covering designs. (English summary) J. Combin. Des. 3 (1995), no. 4, 269–284.
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The more general problem, as Ben Green says, is to cover every $t$-tuple by subsets of size $k$ in a set of size $v$. (These are more standard variables.) This is called a covering design. (It's not the same as a $(v,k,t)-\lambda$-design, because in those each tuple is covered the same number of times, rather than at least once.) Although there is no theorem to this effect, finding covering designs looks like an open-ended problem that will never be completely solved, even though there are many good ideas and it can be solved in some cases. In this respect it is like the problem of finding sphere packings, error-correcting codes, graphs with various properties, etc. Non-rigorously the La Jolla covering repository shows you that it looks that way, because many of the competitive covering designs, even for $t=2$, were found by methods such as simulated annealing and even "private tools".
As Ben also mentions, if $k$ and $t$ are fixed, then Rodl showed that the covering density converges to 1 as $v \to \infty$. In this limit covering designs are equivalent to packing designs up to an $o(1)$ fraction of slop. Rodl's technique is the "Rodl nibble", in which small clusters of blocks are added incrementally. However, it was discovered (see [arXiv:math/9511224]) that you might as well let a Rodl nibble be just a single block. This simplifies Rodl's construction to the random greedy algorithm. There is also a non-rigorous model that correctly predicts the rate at which the random greedy algorithm converges to density 1. There has been a lot of interesting work to close the gap between rigorous bounds on the random greedy algorithm, and the non-rigorous model of the algorithm.
If $k$ grows along with $v$, then there is no known asymptotic $1+o(1)$ bound even for $t=2$. (Unless $k$ grows so slowly that the arguments for $k$ fixed still work.) The volume lower bound, just the fact that the covering density is at least 1, can be improved to the Schonheim bound. (If $k$ is fixed then the Schonheim bound is the same as the volume bound up to $1+o(1)$.) It's easy to believe that the Schonheim bound is close to the truth for a wide range of parameters, but no such thing is proven except for the smallest values of $k$. For instance, when $k=3$, the Schonheim bound is always sharp.


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Inspired by the concept of a postgraduate program for new lawyers that was recently promoted by Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. in the New York Times, the Young Alumni Committee of the Rutgers School of Law–Newark Alumni Association has organized a wine tasting to help launch such a program at Rutgers–Newark.
"An Evening of Wine, Paired With Food and Rutgers Friends" will take place at 7 pm on Thursday, June 20, 2013 at the Jersey City waterfront restaurant Michael Anthony's. All proceeds will go to a fund to support the Rutgers School of Law–Newark Postgraduate Fellowship Program.
In "To Practice Law, Apprentice First," a February 17 Times op-ed that garnered national attention, Dean Farmer addressed the disconnect between a job market that finds close to 50 percent of new law school graduates unable to find full-time, long-term work as lawyers and the inability of much of the public, especially the middle-class, to afford representation. One way out of this predicament, he wrote, is for law schools and the legal profession to establish the equivalent of a medical residency.
Rutgers–Newark Law School, Dean Farmer said in the Times, would soon start a postgraduate program staffed by recent graduates who, under supervision, would represent lower middle-class clients.
In announcing the wine-tasting fundraiser, the Young Alumni Committee said: "As recent alumni both acutely aware of the challenging job market and very enthusiastic about the law school's Postgraduate Fellowship Program for providing new graduates with real practice skills and business experience, we encourage alumni from all years to join us for An Evening of Wine on June 20th."
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The Sudanese Eastern Front appears to have been created by a merger of The Beja Congress and the Free Lions Movement in 2004.
The Beja Congress was founded in 1957 (and banned three years later), while the Free Lions were founded in 1999.


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So I read this story over on another forum....This guy was telling his experience about living in a yurt...and how a rat kept bothering them.He told of how the rat ate an entire box of Decon...and it didn't kill him...the rat returned the next night....
I'm not sure many will get the reference immediately, but it's pretty funny - for a weird metric of funny.Shoot him, stab him, poison him, drown him, and he keeps right on running. He's the Energizer Villain!
I remember my dad talking about how he'd go to the dump with his friends to shoot rats with their .22s....
Probably accounts for your fondness for shotguns, eh?
Although think of the damage....
Not entirely, but it is more difficult to shoot yourself with a shotgun. Though I saw a guy nearly do it once. We were shooting skeet on my friend's father's farm. Young eager, but inexperienced, young man with 12ga semi-auto shotgun. I was about 10 feet away. He forgot to place the gun on safe. Let the forearm drop from his left hand such that he only held the gun in his right hand. The drop of fore end of the gun weight shifted the gun forward and down. His finger was in the trigger guard. Missed his foot by about 6 inches. I told my friend if that guy was ever invited again, let me know, as I wouldn't attend. I nearly got to see it. I would hate to be in the same zip code as that fool if he had a handgun.
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PENTAGON (CNN) -- A few pilots have told the Air Force they won't fly their expensive F-22 Raptor stealth jets because no cause has been found for oxygen deprivation incidents in the cockpit, the head of Air Combat Command for the U.S. Air Force told reporters.
The Air Force has been looking for the cause of about a dozen unexplained incidents related to hypoxia, or oxygen deficiency, with pilots, but so far has been unable to pinpoint it, Gen. Mike Hostage with Air Combat Command said in a media briefing.
Hostage noted it was a very small group of pilots who opposed flying the Raptors. Pilots began experiencing problems starting four years ago.
"For some reason, the on-board oxygen generating system and the environmental control system that feeds it may be inputting some contaminant," Gen. Gregory Martin, a retired Air Force veteran, told CNN affiliate WAVY in Virginia.
Hostage said if a contaminant is not the problem, there may be something else hindering pilots from getting enough oxygen.
Hostage spoke at length with reporters about the issue, which has plagued the fleet since problems with the F-22's oxygen supply system were first reported in 2008. The jets have previously been grounded to examine the issue , but one year ago the Raptors were again cleared and allowed to fly. In January 2011, the jets were limited to altitudes under 25,000 feet during an ongoing investigation into a November 2010 crash. Flying above that altitude could cause a pilot to black out from lack of oxygen and lose control.
"We are diligently pursuing a variety of hypotheses to try and understand and characterize the exact circumstances we've been experiencing," he said.
The Air Combat Command said it still has not identified the "root cause" of the oxygen issue, but is making progress with its investigation and hopes to soon determine the exact cause of the problem.
"The smoking gun is disassembled in a mosaic in front of us. ... At some point we're going to have the smoking gun assembled," Maj. Gen. Charles Lyon, the director of operations for ACC, told the Air Force Times.
While Hostage said that there was certainly a concern about the group of incidents, he didn't think it was necessary to pull the entire group of jets, which have had 12,000 deployments and a total of 15,000 flight hours since September 11 and only a handful of problems. The Air Force has also made sure to add new emergency oxygen deployment handles, should a pilot encounter any issues.
And the F-22s are still being used when needed, including a recent deployment by the Air Force of a squadron of the Raptors to southwest Asia.
"I fully expect we'll get to a solution," Hostage said. "I won't give you a timetable, but we have made great progress to that effect and am confident we'll put this behind, we'll be able to explain it, and we'll retool the airplane to make this problem go away."


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"One of the goals of the Center for Anglican Communion Studies is education," Markham said. "This remarkable book is a significant contribution to meeting that goal. It is a reference work which will help individuals to understand the Communion. I am delighted this is coming out from VTS."
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"The Anglican Communion is home to the third largest family in Christendom," Hawkins said. "This book with its many voices is a map of sorts, exposing the Communion's diverse and global geography of faith."
The comprehensive reference was a project of CACS, which works to support theological education; the engagement of Anglican leaders and scholars in study, research and conversation; and interreligious dynamics across the Communion. The four editors also served as contributors, along with several other leading Anglican commentators from around the world.
Among the local contributors in this book are Ms. Katherine L. Wood, current associate director of CACS, and the Rev. Robert S. Heaney, Ph.D., who this fall will join the seminary faculty as the Center's director and assistant professor of Christian mission at VTS. Additional contributors include VTS faculty members the Rev. Robert W. Prichard, Ph.D., Arthur Lee Kinsolver Professor of Christianity, and the Rev. William Bradley Roberts, D.M.A., professor of church music, as well as the Rev. William L. Sachs, Ph.D., visiting professor of church history for 2013-14. Articles from VTS students Ms. Cameron J. Soulis of the Diocese of Washington and the Rev. Jane L. Dogue-is of the Diocese of North Central Philippines are also included in this impressive work.
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I've looked at this question and gotten some ideas from it. Assume I want something that runs quietly with raid support. I see the choices as being buy a home NAS solution most of which appear to be $400 or more, or build my own low powered PC and install a Linux or BSD distro on it with software raid. Any comparisons of the price I can expect to pay for hardware in the buy verses build choice would be appreciated. I have some Linux and BSD experience and to much free time since I'm a student so setup difficulty isn't an issue. all other things being equal I'd like to build my own for the experience assuming reliability won't suffer.
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The main advantages I see in building your own server / NAS:
Some differences between using a full PC and a dedicated NAS:
The full PC is going to use a lot more electricity (it's on 24/7), and have a lot more points of failure. This goes double if you try using some old desktop - you'll get a large, power hungry (100-200w, compared to 15-25w) box that probably isn't well designed to operate for long stretches of time without a lot of heat build up (bad for harddrives).
A full PC is much more noisy then a dedicated NAS, especially when the NAS goes idle (many dedicated NAS have near silent cooling even when active, it's the harddrive you'll hear).
Further, with a NAS you have a choice between a consumer grade NAS, of which a descent one (like the DLink DNS-323) starts at about $150, or server solution, which is your $400+. The server solution provides faster speeds (even over a gigabyte network a consumer NAS won't give you full transfer speed, though if you are on 10/100 it doesn't matter) and can often provide more harddrive options.
However this really comes down to what you want to use it for. The tags say you want to use this for home backup - what about just buying a SATA harddrive case (do some research and get one that doesn't require you to format the device inside the device) for about $50, and then drop in a harddrive of your choice. You'll have a full speed solution without any of the drawbacks.
The only question you have that isn't answered in the question you linked to is the cost difference. You can build your own home server with any hardware you'd like to pick up. Generally with NAS distros of Linux, older hardware is better because it's more likely to have drivers built in already. You can pick up something like an HP D530 off Ebay for under $100 and get started pretty easily.
One other advantage to rolling your own is that it's easier to get iSCSI support. Generally in the off-the-shelf NAS devices, you have to spend over $400 to get iSCSI support.
Update - the other posters are talking about noise of a PC, which is why I suggested the HP D530. They're really quiet - just about as quiet as anything you'd build yourself. Use silicone isolation grommets to mount the hard drives and get yourself a cheap, quiet fan, and it can be silent.
have you looked at openfiler? it's an appliance based server that offers NFS, CIFS (samba), FTP, and iSCSI support so it's both SAN and NAS. I use it to Vmotion VMs between ESX machines. Also I boot Linux and windows guests over iSCSI (any iSCSI storage server supports that of course). Look at drobo HW appliance, SVsan (free), and obviously ZFS is the best because it supports thin provisioning...just like the Virtual Windows XP. ESXi mmemory overcommit and ZFS storage overcommit a natural fit?
But really, if you were just going to backup some windows boxes, the HP solution is amazing because it's a 4 drive NAS and a (partially limited) windows server in the size of a very large book. You can have 8TB in the box and use it as an iTunes and media server...not so bad for a ~$500 box. How much value is there in the knowledge gained by making your own storage server? (huge, i'd say) A $99 silent low-power KPC-K45 shuttle box makes a great platform or an SG31G2 and both have integrated gigE lan. Don't forget a gigE jumbo frame ethernet switch! 8 ports only $50 from SMC. I'm not affiliated with VMware, Sun, SVSAN, Openfiler, Linux, Apple, HP, Microsoft, Shuttle, or SMC.
Rolling your own NAS device has it's pros and it's cons. When I built my server, it came down to having the ability to add features that you need easier than an off-the-shelf box, and I liked the ability of modifying some of the things myself. Kara also mentioned a big plus for me, learning the functionality and construction of this box is a great thing to have later on rather than just having another black box in the corner.
It depends on what you want to do. I tend to like building versus buying because with building I get:
The downside of building is that you're probably going to have a bigger case, more noise and probably more power consumption, unless you're really take those issues into account and are willing to spend money to address them.
The biggest question IMO is "what do you need?". If you're just looking to backup a computer or dump a bunch of big files, a home NAS or consumer product is probably fine. For the shared home iMac and my wife's MacBook, I bought an Apple time capsule because it just works.
I would suggest the HP Media Smart Windows Home Server if you want minimal time investment, or building your own Windows Home Server.
Drive Extender > Raid as far as home use concerns go in my opinion.
Windows Home Server allows for automating backups and restores of your windows based machines. You can ensure that the files that you really want redundant are stored on multiple disks with drive extender. Also if you'd like it provides a nice easy web interface to access your files remotely if the need arises.
I was hesitant to buy it, but its probably my favorite software purchase I've personally made.
I'd say that building your own is worth its weight in learning value - but for something that runs quietly, you may have to do some research on gaming/overclocking sites to find the best options in quiet fans and power supplies.
pricewatch.com is a great way to tally up costs once you know which parts you're picking up.
Take a look at Netgear NAS systems. They are pretty expensive but have a real hardware raid inside so the benchmarks should be very nice. Also, according to the reviews they are quiet. I would buy this one for home use but I have a 19" rack and it doesn't fit :)
Take a look at the Data Robotics (Drobo) products which have some very nice features at a reasonable price point (IMHO).


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I stumbled upon this answer, which currently reads (not counting the screenshot):
Well here is the screenshot for it, there is htmleditor in radgrid and this time i got this screen. Can't write anything in it because there is no line. I have this problem on development and live server.
So what can i do for it?
My first instinct is to flag this post for deletion as "Not an answer", but then smartcaveman awarded it a 50-point bounty!
Was this just an accident or is there some kind of code, or something else, I missed?
Should this answer be flagged as "Not an answer", even though it has a bounty award?


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I use AES encryption on a website. At the moment, the key is stored in the source of the PHP script that does the encryption/decryption process thanks to openssl. I know that it isn't secure, so I want to put parts of the key in different places:
- first part in PHP source
- second part as server environment variable
- third part as htaccess env var
- other places in case I remind them
I know that this proceeding doesn't add, at the end, to security, but it makes the cracking a little more difficult (considering that I can't use hardware devices), because the blackhat needs to get all the parts, not only the source of a script.
The question is about the safest way to do it.
- splitting password in 3 parts, putting them in the different places mentioned and join the pieces when I need the complete key
- combining them in other ways, like:
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LORENA (January 15, 2013)--A ribbon-cutting will be held Thursday to celebrate the first full day of operation for the Enchanted Cedar, a store that promotes healthy living and healing herbs.
The store hosts events like story-time and date night and will be offering free samples of chocolate and other goodies on Thursday.
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First of all, this is NOT my doing. Someone has one-upped me, haha! But that's just great.
He's found a way of extracting the samples with both loop points and attack/sustain parameters (if the original patch have them).
To download each disk in full go to "database", under column "library/disk" click the link to the desired disk and a box will appear. Choose "Convert" and you get to download that whole disk folder with samples and SFZ (or akai s-900 if you desire) presets containing all parameters, and even a html page (screenshot) of Fairlights Page-7 for each patch. Neat!
On his site he even has an online program that can convert your disk images straight to the above, so if you are an IIx owner and have floppys with your own custom sounds this is golden! You can even convert wavs to CMI disk image, and there is an app to upload a .co file and view it on Page-7 style.
There are some patches that are great with original loop points, but there are a lot of bad ones too. And for some samples I have found seamless loops with Extreme Sample Converter whereas the original loop pops like h**l. But at least this appears to be the closest we have come to the original library on PC with most parameters intact.
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Nebraska City Crime Stoppers are offering a reward for information regarding vandalism.
- A window was reported broken at an apartment on the 600 block of Fourth Corso on May 4.
- A window was reported broken at the Nebraska City Middle School on Sunday, May 5.
- A window was reported broken in a van in the alley near the 900 block of Central Avenue on Monday, May 6.
A reward is also offered for a theft.
A Droid Razor Max HD cell phone and I-pod Touch were taken from a car at Walmart on April 29.
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What to Expect in a C-Section
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The surgery, continuedSurgery
Next, the doctor makes the incision in the skin. Typically, it's called a Pfannenstiel skin incision (otherwise known as a bikini cut), which is a horizontal incision just above the pubic hairline. Several layers of tissue are cut before the surgeon is inside reaching the uterus.
From the patient's perspective, all she should feel is a little bit of pressure or tugging and pulling, but she shouldn't feel any sharpness or pain.
After the surgeon reaches the uterus, he will study the anatomy to decide where the baby is lying and where to make the cut to optimize getting the baby out. There will be some gentle dissection behind the bladder in order to create a space to expose the incision site on the uterus. The reason the surgeon takes so much care is that he is trying to preserve the mother's option of having a baby vaginally in the future.
The physician will make a low-transverse uterine incision. The incision will be large enough to pull the baby out, possibly 8-10 centimeters (the doctor can stretch it more with his hands). The surgeon will go slowly before the next cut, with the assistant suctioning away the blood that obscures the surgeon's vision. There is lots of blood pouring into the hole he is cutting, so he must trust his tactile feel to reduce injury to the baby. Once the doctor feels that he is inside the uterus, he will stretch open the incision and put one hand inside to protect and deliver the baby's head. Usually, he will be aided by an assistant who is applying pressure on the top of the uterus to push the baby forward.
The baby's head can't be pulled out until it's actually peeking out. The surgeon will use a little force to push the mother's uterus down, thereby squeezing the baby out of the incision.
From the mother's perspective, she'll feel tugging and a lot of pressure. She will not be asked to push, but she will definitely be aware of the tugging and pulling.
The Baby Delivered by C-Section
When the baby is delivered, there tends to be a lot of amniotic fluid that comes out, so the doctor will suction the baby's mouth and nose to aid the baby's breathing efforts. He'll clamp the umbilical cord, cut the cord between two clamps, and one of the doctors will hand the baby to a nurse so that the baby can go immediately to a warmer. (The doctor might show you the baby briefly, but don't count on it. The immediate concern is to get the baby evaluated.) After the baby is on the warmer, the neonatal resuscitative team (NNR) will work on the baby and make sure that it is progressing as it should.
The way the staff handles a baby delivered by Cesarean is different than the way they handle a vaginal birth because of the increased risk to both mother and baby in a C-section. For example, the baby may have more of an adjustment or transition period from intrauterine to extrauterine life by being delivered from a C-section. In a vaginal delivery, the squeezing of going through the birth canal pushes the fluid in the baby's lungs out and can facilitate breathing of the baby once it's delivered. However, in a C-section, depending upon whether labor occurred or not, much of this fluid may still remain in the baby's lungs, so the baby is often given oxygen and the baby's back is massaged (palpation) to increase the expulsion of fluid.
The Surgery Continues...
Once the baby is out, the OB will focus his attention back on the mother (his primary patient) because she is still bleeding from the uterus, which must be controlled immediately. The placenta is delivered next. The surgeon places his hand inside the uterus and peels the placenta off the uterine wall. Simultaneously, the anesthesiologist administers Pitocin, which will help the uterus squeeze down upon itself to cut down on the blood loss. Typically, if the patient hasn't received antibiotics up to this point, she will receive them now. Antibiotics are a key factor because they will reduce the chances of infection, since virtually all the contents of the uterus have spilled into the patient's abdominal cavity , including lots of bacteria (not to be too graphic here, but yeech I'm beginning to notice that doctors get a kick out of describing gross stuff).
Once the placenta is out, the doctor focuses on closing the incision he made. There tends to be a lot of bleeding at this juncture, so visualization is a challenge. The team uses a combination of suction and gauze sponges to find out where they need to sew. They start at one end of the uterine incision and work across to the other side, closing the incision site. Often, the OB will perform a second layer of closure on top of the first one. Some doctors feel that this is helpful to prevent a uterine rupture in the future.
Next, the surgeon will look for any signs of bleeding that haven't been addressed yet and cauterize those areas. The pelvic region may be irrigated with sterile water or saline. The doctor will remove any large clots and begin the closure of the various layers of incisions that were previously incised, including the skin. The skin may be closed with suture materials or staples.
From the Doctor's Perspective...
Studies show that the healing rates from using either staples or suture material are the same. Dr. John, however, likes sutures better because they are dissolvable. "With staples, you have to remove them in three days, say the morning of going home. Sutures don't have to be removed since they dissolve on their own. Some doctors think it's faster to work with staples, but I still prefer sutures."
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Hi Guys,
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I have a NN5 and a Canon XTi kit (EF-S 18-55mm Lens) Would love any pointers on how I should setup
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(CNN) -- Kenyan legislators voted to give themselves send-off bonuses of $110,000 each, despite the president's veto of their earlier attempt at another hefty payoff.
Members of parliament approved the retirement package in a late-night vote this week, this time adding extra perks such as diplomatic passports, a state funeral and VIP access to the nation's airports.
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Kibaki blocked their earlier attempt to award themselves bonuses in October, calling it unconstitutional and unaffordable.
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Kenyan torture victims demand apology The proposal has sparked an outcry among citizens, who demanded that the president block the bill's passage.
"I'm disgusted," said Warothe Kiru, a blogger who lives in the capital of Nairobi.
"They really don't care. The thing that's making it worse is what's happening in Tana," he said. In the same news reports about women being attacked with machetes, "you're seeing ... MPs getting bonuses."
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Read more: Renewed violence kills 19 in southeast Kenya
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"You can see we are dealing with selfish people," said Edward Mburu, 38. "People are angry. ... I hope it translates into conscious voting."
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It's finally over! As most had been predicting, the looming NFL season proved too much pressure for Time Warner Cable, as they indeed caved today and granted CBS the large increase in carriage fees it wanted from the beginning. In return, TWC retained most of the digital programming rights it sought, plus gained access to the Showtime Anytime service.
Similar to the online HBOGo and MaxGo services, Showtime Anytime allows subscribers to watch programming on computers, smartphones, and other compatible devices on demand. We'll see if Time Warner/Bright House customers feel that this new service is worth the inevitable rate hike all customers will be hit with, including non-Showtime subscribers.
On the bright side, those previously affected by the CBS/Showtime blackout will regain their channels just in time for the final episodes of 'Under the Dome's first season. Too bad those same people have had to resort to "questionable" means to view the final season of 'Dexter' as it has aired. Thanks a lot, incredibly-petty-argument-between-two multi-billion-dollar-corporate-giants; I'm sure you'll gladly reimburse customers for the month of Showtime that they didn't receive.
Such is the power of football. TWC and CBS both knew Americans would have their executives' heads on pikes if they were forced to miss the opening kick-off. Stay tuned to TVRage, as you never know when a bunch of guys in a boardroom will again decide that you can't watch the channels you pay for.


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Its arcades offer you shelter and distraction despite the bad weather. Here, at the popular and traditional bars, you can try one of the famous calamari baguette; or find the stamp, coin or medal you were looking for at the old fashioned shops. And at Casa de la Panadería (Plaza Mayor, 27) is the Madrid Tourism Centre and the Madrid Shop where you can get hold of all types of souvenirs.
The San Miguel market is one of the leading places for local delicatessen products and is, being a traditional point of sale, the perfect place to enjoy some tapas and a drink.
There is a special place that you really should visit–a place where you will always find Caribbean temperatures. It is the green house at the Atocha station, which has more than4,000 square metres of tropical gardens with more than 250 botanical species, turtles and tropical fish.
If you like football, then don't miss out on this tour of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. Sit on the bench that has been occupied by some of the greatest coaches in the history of world football, wander around the locker rooms where players spend the last few minutes before each match or go through the tunnel leading to the pitch itself and step onto the grass where so many important matches have been played.
There is a golden triangle whose vertices are the three most important museums in the capital: the Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofia. You cannot leave our city without visiting them and on a rainy day they are ideal.
The Wax Museum is great especially if travelling with children. There is a direct entrance from the metro, so you don't even have to go outside, and waiting for you are hundreds of different characters ready to help explain history in an interesting and amusing way.
If you are looking for something a little quieter, stop by the Fine Arts Circle and sit in its café and watch the world go by through its enormous windows. Its large columns and the three frescoes by José Ramón Zaragoza on the ceiling remind us that we are in one of the most interesting cultural centres in the city.
The theatre is always a good option and especially if you can go for half-price. Go to Plaza del Carmen and get yourself a ticket to one of the city's theatres. Two hours before the show is to start buy tickets here with up to 50% discount at theatres such as the Albéniz, the Alcázar, the Infanta Isabel or the Gran Via, and up to 30 function rooms.


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The history of Travellers in Britain - whether Romany or Irish - extends back over 400 years. People of Traveller descent have made many contributions to our life and culture, whether they be real people such as Charlie Chaplin and Michael Caine, or fictional characters inspired by the Traveller lifestyle such as Roald Dahl's Danny, the Champion of the World or the boat-dwelling Gyptians in Philip Pullman's Northern Lights.
The Gypsy Traveller way of life means they travel the country staying for various periods of time in different locations in order to earn a living. This has been their way of life for many generations.
One outcome of the Traveller way of life is that they find it more difficult to access the services the rest of us use with comparative ease. Anything which needs an address is very difficult for them and they also have problems with medical & dental care, postal deliveries, children's education and steady employment. In many ways, Travellers are a lower cost to the taxpayer than other forms of social provision such as housing or temporary bed & breakfast accommodation.
The aim of the information set out here is to inform you how the council and other official agencies work to balance the rights of Travellers with the rights of house-dwellers, and the rights of the council itself.
Gypsies and Travellers - like all peoples who are bound together by a particular culture, language, or values - are protected from discrimination by the Race Relations Act 1976, the Human Rights Act 1998, and the Equality Act 2010.
Useful contact information for travelling families
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I'm using
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The variable
$my_time is in
HH:mm:ss 24h format pulled from the database.
I'm setting the time but I don't know what date is being produced. For this reason I'm trying to set a fixed date. I tried the followng but I'm getting wrong results in my calculations.
strtotime('2007-12-21', $my_time);
strtotime( '+1 day', strtotime('2007-12-21', $my_time); //should produce 2007-12-21 00:00:00 ?
Please help me understand how to set a fixed date in
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Mildred J. Tighe, age 91 of Pinckneyville, formerly of New Boston and Aledo, died Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 at Pinckneyville Nursing and Health Care Center.
Visitation will be Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. at Dennison Funeral Home, Aledo. Graveside services will be private. Memorials may be made to the New Boston Cemetery or New Boston Volunteer Fire Department.
Mrs. Tighe was born Nov. 29, 1922 in Joy, daughter of James and Florence Dixon Brashears. She was raised by her aunt Estelle and Loren Willits of New Boston. She graduated from New Boston High School. She married Dru Tighe on May 6, 1943 in Dallas, Texas. He died in 1971.
Mrs. Tighe is survived by daughters Deborah Brewer of Cape Girardeau, Mo. and Sharon (Don) Feldhake of North Redington Beach, Fla. Three grandchildren Andrea (Donovan) Shovan, Joe (Sarah) Feldhake, and Rob Feldhake. Two greatgrandchildren Alex Shovan and Hannah Shovan, niece Amy Cavanagh and nephew Craig Cavanagh and several cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and infant daughter, her sister Marjorie Cavanagh and a niece Cara Cavanagh.
Online condolences may be left at www.dennisonfuneralhome.com.
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Third Thursday After-Work Party: Napa River Grill
The Voice-Tribune held its June Third Thursday party at the Napa River Grill in Westport Village.
The July party will be held at BBC on Fourth Street.
With The Voice-Tribune's Photographer John Harralson
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Kickoff 4 Kids Gala
The Kickoff 4 Kids Gala was held July 13 inside the PNC Club at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.
The event was held in celebration of Amobi Okoye's "Kickoff 4 Kids Foundation" and its partnership with Big Brothers, Big Sisters Club of Louisville.
Unlimited Show Bands and DJ Chaos performed while guests enjoyed a full-course dinner and cocktails.
Photos By JAMES EATON | Contributing Photographer
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Forecastle Festival 2012
Both Louisvillians and visitors from all over the country gathered together at the Waterfront July 13 through 15 to see their favorite bands (and a few new ones) play at Forecastle Festival 2012. The music festival, themed, "Music, Art, and Activism," boasted an incredible lineup of 68 groups and artists that included Louisville's own My Morning Jacket, Bassnectar, Wilco, Neko Case and Sleigh Bells.
Despite a schedule delay on Saturday because of the rain, festival-goers had a blast enjoying the music, diverse crowd and on-site activities such as living art exhibitions and a live marching band.
Photos By TIM VALENTINO | Contributing Photographer
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"Big Brother" Watch Party
A viewing party in support of Louisville native Wil Heuser's debut performance on "Big Brother" took place July 12 at Big Bar, 1202 Bardstown Road.
Heuser survived the first round of competition. He can be seen on CBS's "Big Brother" on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sunday nights this summer.
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Carmichael's Bookstore hosted a talk and book signing July 12 with popular television journalist Barry Bernson to celebrate the publication of his new book, Bernson's Corner: A Reporter's Notebook. The book, which comes with a DVD of some of Bernson's best television segments, is a warm and often-hilarious account of a life spent in the news business. Bernson's Corner is published by Louisville's Butler Books and features an introduction by Byron Crawford.
Barry Bernson began his career as a radio news anchor and has been on the air most recently in roles with both WHAS and WDRB. He retired as co-anchor of "WDRB in the Morning" in 2011. Bernson was voted "Best Morning Host" multiple times by Louisville Magazine and has won many awards including several Midwest EMMYs and Metro Louisville Journalism Awards.
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Swan Lake Suite works for me, as does "Swan Lake" (or better, Swan Lake in Quotes, as the actual quote marks may be too subtle to make the point).
(If MCB is wrong to call this Swan Lake Act II, as Alistair Macaulay says in the Times, what then would be a better title? "Swan Lake"? I think MCB renamed Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 as Ballet Imperialwhole Swan Lake? Should they have called it Swan Lake Acts I, II, & IV? Now, there's a title! Maybe Swan Lake Suite? Hmm.
I don't think there's such a ballet named Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #2 any more, except maybe at NYCB. Even as Ballet Imperial, it seems to be universally danced in chiffon dresses. Must be some decision by The Trust.


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Bristol Toyota plans to invest $5 million in the project, which will include a 40,000-square-foot building with 25 service bays.
The dealership is moving from its current location at 706 Metacom Ave., Bristol, R.I., in order to expand its facility.
The dealership will serve Fall River, Somerset and Swansea, along with Bristol and Warren, R.I.
Bristol Toyota is part of a realignment of the Fall River market since the closure of Fiore Toyota, 1480 S. Main St., Fall River, late last year.
Bristol Toyota currently employs 45 people. It has plans to employ 60 to 80 people at its new facility.
The Planning Board hammered out traffic pattern plans and addressed residential concerns at its meeting.
Town Planner Steven Antinelli said Bristol Toyota will use dimmer lighting where it faces residential properties, and will plant arborvitaes to create a buffer zone.
Bristol Toyota will next acquire building permits.
It will take six to eight months to build the facility.
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It's the perfect gift for someone you like, but also view as a sexual rival.
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You just know this woman uses the word "glutes" on an hourly basis.
Sitting on an exercise ball may not be the most comfortable thing in the world, but it's good for you -- it works your abs and it's really good for your lower back. It forces your core muscles to keep working as you type (to keep you from tumbling onto the floor while your "chair" bounces into the hall where the boss trips over it and breaks his neck).
Thus we have the Balance Ball Chair, created with the help of chiropractors and designed to help you maintain a better posture and such. We've talked about the importance of sitting properly and how "active sitting" could save your life -- but let's face it, chances are this will never catch on simply because it makes you look like at any moment you're going to grab onto a pair of handles and go bouncing across the parking lot.
Which actually might be pretty awesome.
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"... and the Least Dignified Packaging award goes to ..."
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Roughly 16 percent of you are turned on right now.
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What would be the proper way to explode a COM object for debugging? I have a 3rd party function that returns a multilevel object. The documentation is non existant, so I'd like to be able to echo everything out of the object or debug it in Komodo IDE.
Komodo just says Object and nothing else. Maybe convert to array?
I know some of the existing options such as
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There are several words that seem to be related to playing musical instruments (specifically 演奏, 弹 and 奏), and I would appreciate an elaboration on the nuances between them. Are some used in specific cases where others do not apply?
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演奏 (yǎn zòu) to play a musical instrument in a performance
弹 (tan1) to play sth by hand, sometimes roughly equivalent to "pluck"
弹钢琴 (tan1 gang1qin2) to play the piano
弹琵琶 (tan1 pi2pa) to play the pi2pa
拉 (la1) to pull; to play an instrument, usually with a bow
拉二胡 (la1 er4hu2) to play the er4hu2
拉小提琴 (la1 xiao3ti2qin2) to play the violin
吹 (chui1) to play sth by mouth
吹小号 (chui1 xiao3hao4) to play the trumpet
Unrelated but funny:
吹牛 (chui1 niu2) lit. "to blow the cow"; to brag/boast/talk big
奏乐 play music for the padshah in ancient times,but not now
奏 a team( or one) play a musical instrument in a performance On formal occasions
演奏 tends to be used in English as the equivalent of 'perform'. If you were practicing in a room by yourself, you wouldn't use it. While English only uses the word 'play' to refer to playing an instrument, in Chinese, 'play' changes depending on the type of instrument. 弹 would be used for the piano. I'm not 100% sure, but I think 弹 is also used for plucked string instruments such as the zither. Instruments you blow through (eg clarinet, flute) would use 吹, literally, to blow. String instruments you play with a bow like a violin or the 二胡 would use 拉 (to pull), referring to pulling the bow. For instruments you strike such as a drum, you would use 敲.
I think a simple way to distinguish the three is that 演奏 can be intransitive and transitive. and when transitive, its object is normally 'a piece of music', e.g 演奏乐曲, whereas 弹 and 奏 in the sense of playing and performing, they are transitive. The objects of 弹 are usually instruments such as piano, e.g. 弹琴 but one can also say 弹一首歌, which implicates play a song with piano (so I suppose 弹 is strongly associated with keyboard instrument). 奏 often has pieces of music or melody as objects, e.g. 奏乐,奏曲. Also regarding register, 奏 sounds more literary and has a feeling of antiquity.


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- Is it true that individuals often regret recent actions (i.e., last few months) but when they look back on their lives, they tend to regret things that they have not done (or lack of actions) ?
- If so, what causes this?
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The classic reference for exactly what you are describing is Gilovich & Medvec, 1995 (LINK), the primary thesis of which is that "Actions, or errors of commission, generate more regret in the short term; but inactions, or errors of omission, produce more regret in the long run" (from the abstract). The authors explain that there are many factors that contribute to this general pattern; these factors are actually summarized quite nicely in their Table 3 below:
For a more complete description of these factors and a discussion of the relevant evidence, see the link I posted above to the Gilovich & Medvec paper.


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What is the significance of the horn of an Ox that the Greeks made the Jews write (Midrash Rabbah 2:5 and other places) We have no Part in the God of Israel on it (even thought in his Epistle to Yemen the Rambam says they wrote on their Clothes)? What is the Significance of the ox in this context?
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Both contemporary historians and hasidic thinkers have suggested that an ox horn was used as a baby bottle. So "feed them this message from infancy!"
I always thought it was just because oxen were commonly used as draft animals. So your average Jew would then see this message in front of him throughout his workday, and (the Greeks evidently hoped) would eventually internalize this message, G-d forbid.
Vedibarta Bam - Chanukah brings three reasons why the Greeks specifically told them to write it on the horn of the ox:
See here and here for explanations connecting the horn to Yosef, who is called "B'chor Shor" (a firstborn ox).
Correction to my original answer:
The idea was to enforce the idea that the Jews abandoned Hashem when they made the egel hazahav. (Rashi Breshis Rabbah 2:4)


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I am trying to add an image to the scene, but it should just be added to the scene invisible, FadeIn and then be deleted when the effect finishes.
My problem is that the images blink once when they are added to the scene, then they do the intended effect. My best guess is that when they are added they show on the scene for a split second before starting the animation. I though of making them invisible for a split second before activating them, but I am not sure how to code it.
const bool Sunbeams::add()
const CCSize kSceenSize = CCDirector::sharedDirector()->getWinSize();
const int nRayType = random( m_kRays.size());
const CCPoint kPosition( random( static_cast < int >( kSceenSize.width)),
const float fDuration = random( m_fDurationVariance) + m_fDurationMin;
CCSprite* pkLightBeam = CCSprite::spriteWithTexture( m_kRays[nRayType]);
if ( !pkLightBeam)
msg::debug( "Sunbeams::add",
"Failed to create sprite from ray '%d'!\n",
return false;
pkLightBeam->setAnchorPoint( CCPointZero);
pkLightBeam->setPosition( kPosition);
m_kActiveBeams.push_back( pkLightBeam);
CCDirector::sharedDirector()->getRunningScene()->addChild( pkLightBeam);
CCActionInterval* pkAction = CCFadeIn::actionWithDuration( fDuration);
CCActionInterval* pkActionBack = pkAction->reverse();
pkLightBeam->runAction( CCSequence::actions( pkAction,
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Wait, no. This is the laziest costume. It's a damned blue jumpsuit with a "CSI" patch glued to it. And while we don't want to sound like a broken record, who is it that has sex fantasies about the team of people who collect your hair and semen to test for DNA? Once again: serial killers.
We're telling you, half of the sexy costume industry is either run by or intended for that demographic.
#12. Sexy Gothic Woman
Wait, no. This is the laziest one. We like to call it, "Regular Goth Dress While Grabbing Your Own Ass." We can't tell you the number of times we showed up to the Cracked Halloween party to find four other people dressed the same way. It's very hard to drink in this outfit, because when you remove your hands, the costume loses its meaning.
#11. Sexy Hermione Granger
Stay classy, costume industry! Here's a character who is between 11 and 17 years old, depending on which Harry Potter book you're fantasizing about. Though we like how the costume makers offset that by putting it on a 58-year-old model.
Oh, wait. Maybe this costume isn't Hermione -- it's Hermione's mom, putting on her daughter's schoolgirl costume to spice things up in the bedroom, because she knows her husband has incest fantasies. See! Not creepy at all.
And while we're on the subject ...
#10. Sexy Small Child
Just to be clear, if you go to a party, and a woman is dressed in this outfit, do not invite her back to your place. There are police in that van across the street, and they will follow you, shovels at the ready to unearth your terrible, terrible secrets.
We understand there's a thin line between "sexy and innocent" and "pedophile bait," but seriously. Teddy bear. Though we suppose she could just be portraying a very girlish and naive adult. After all, it's not like the costume specifically says, "Sexy eight-year-old" ...
#9. Sexy Cindy Brady
This one does! Yes, that's a Cindy Brady costume. A character who was eight or nine years old when that outfit was in style on The Brady Bunch. Again, if you ever see this costume, look closely, because there's a tiny little FBI camera hidden in the wig.
OK, no more creepy pedophile stuff.
#8. Sexy Pebbles Flintstone
WHAT? GAH! Pebbles is an infant. Nobody in the history of humankind has ever had a fetish that involved Pebbles whose story didn't end with the sound of a gavel banging and the words, "... mercy on your soul."
#7. Sexy Pregnant Raggedy Ann
We considered just writing an entire article about all of the questions raised by this costume, portraying the classic children's toy that is somehow eight months pregnant with ... what? It'd have to be a demonic sentient toy fetus spawned by some kind of unholy voodoo ritual, we suppose. Maybe we'll stretch it out into a book.
#6. Sexy Football-Playing Whore
In case you didn't catch it, it's supposed to be sexy because it says "SEXY" on it. Notice the costume makes far more sense if you take away the little toy football and give her a stripper pole.
Honestly, guys, you really can't grasp how demeaning a costume like this is for a woman, unless you were to, we don't know, see the equivalent on a guy or something.
#5. Sexy Male Nurse
Here we go! One of you guys out there, preferably one in your 40s and weighing in the 250-pound range, put this on and go trick-or-treating. Let's see how long you last before you see the red and blue lights behind you.
Wait, is that Dane Cook? Don't answer that. We're going to keep believing that's Dane Cook.
#4. Sexy Bull
Some commenter is going to point out that those bull horns are just sloppily photoshopped onto what is clearly a photo from a clothing catalog, but you can blame the costume makers for that, not us. If you pan down, you find no hooves or tail, just some nice slacks and dress shoes. The point being, this costume was so stupid they couldn't convince a model to put it on long enough to snap a photo.
#3. Sexy Poseidon
We're not sure how that picture made it in here. That actually is pretty sexy. Also we love how it's not possible to actually walk in it.
#2. Sexy Papa Smurf Knockoff
They couldn't get the license to use the name "Papa Smurf," so they called this one "Blue Daddy." We're not sure which one makes it creepier. Wait, why is there a Smurf in the background getting launched out of a catapult?
#1. Sexy Male Sex Doll
Funny? Yeah, we can see that. But this cockless blow-up sex doll was listed under the "sexy" section, for whoever dreams of fucking the mouth of a dickless Mario.
Also, we will utilize every method available, no matter how immoral or illegal, to never see the back of this costume.
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We were very pleased to welcome the author of Birmingham's Big City Read, SJ Watson, to the Library Theatre to talk about his book
Before I Go To Sleep.
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BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP by SJ Watson
"Quite simply the best debut I've ever read" ‐ TESS GERRITSEN
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"An unsettling, compulsive thriller...A truly gripping read" ‐ MARIE CLAIRE
The book: BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP is the story of Christine, a forty‐seven‐year‐old writer who, following a catastrophic accident in her mid‐twenties, is incapable of forming and maintaining new memories for more than a day. Trapped in an existence in which she wakes every day believing herself to be single and with a whole lifetime of choice ahead of her she discovers instead that she lives with her husband, Ben, with most decisions already made. The novel charts her attempts to make sense of her world. When Christine learns that she has been meeting with a doctor who is helping her to recover her memory ‐ and that following his suggestion she has been keeping a journal in order to record her fragmentary recollections and piece together her past ‐ she is hopeful that she may be cured. But the story that emerges is to set in motion a terrifying voyage of discovery that will ultimately have startling consequences for her and all who love her, leading her to question whether the truth is sometimes better left forgotten.
Before I Go to Sleep is the stunning debut novel from British newcomer SJ Watson and was the winner of both the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for best debut novel of 2011 and the Galaxy National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year 2011. The book has attracted world wide acclaim and has been sold to over 30 territories around the world and translated into over 30 languages. Before I Go to Sleep has been also been acquired for film by Ridley Scott's production company, Scott Free, with Rowan Joffe (28 Weeks Later; The American) to direct. The novel has been acclaimed by some of the most respected and bestselling contemporary authors and SJ Watson has since been widely recognised as one of the most exciting new authors of 2011 by national newspapers and magazines.
2012 has already seen Before I Go To Sleep as the number one selling book in the Sunday Times bestseller list. It has also been selected for The TV Book Club and is featured in Richard & Judy 2012 Book Club.
The writer: S J Watson was born in the Midlands, lives in London and worked in the NHS for a number of years. In 2009 Watson was accepted into the first Faber Academy 'Writing a Novel' Course, a programme that covers all aspects of the novel‐writing process. Before I Go to Sleep is the result. For more information about Steve and his work, please visit: www.sjwatson‐books.com
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