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Aromatics products derived at the facility will help meet growing demand for plastics and synthetic fibers in the region, according to the company. The project, to be located in Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei Darussalam, is expected to be one of the largest aromatics complexes in the world.
Technology from Honeywell's UOP has been selected to
produce key petrochemicals in a new complex in
Brunei, officials said on Tuesday.
Brunei Hengyi Industries, a subsidiary of China's Zhejiang
Hengyi Group, will use several UOP technologies to produce
aromatics, which are key materials used in the production of
polymers, plastics, resins and synthetic fibers such as
polyester and nylon.
"As the demand for aromatics grows in the region, producers
are looking for ways to maximize product yields, while reducing
production costs and minimizing investment costs," said Pete
Piotrowski, senior vice president and general manager of UOP's
process technology and equipment
"UOP's integrated aromatics technology will provide the lowest
energy consumption, cost of production and overall investment
cost," he added.
Aromatics products derived at the facility will help meet
growing demand for plastics and synthetic fibers in the region,
according to the company.
The project, to be located in Pulau
Muara Besar, Brunei Darussalam, is expected to be one of the
largest aromatics complexes in the world.
The project will combine a 2.2
million tpy hydrocracking unit, utilizing the UOP
Unicracking process and catalysts; a 3.3 million
tpy UOP CCR Platforming unit; and a 1.5 million
tpy UOP Parex unit.
Additionally, the fully-integrated complex will
license UOP's Isomar process, its
Tatoray process and the ED Sulfolane
In addition to technology licensing, UOP says
it will provide engineering, training and technical
services, catalysts, adsorbents, and specialty equipment for
the project. Aromatics production is
expected to start up in 2015.
Further details on the aforementioned UOP processes can be
found in the news release at the company's website.
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Congratulations for brunei.That is good project that can help this country grow up..UOP also one of the famous technologies produce aromatic product.I also one of technician maintenance working before with this technologies in PETRONAS Malaysia Aromatic Complex around 8 years.Hopefully every planning become real hope..
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Congratulations to both parties. I had most of my info-rich years of industrial career when I worked with UOP engineers/technicians at Amerya Refinery, Alex, Egypt. To have a platformer is a gain but to add Aromatics extraction plant is much better utilization of the platformer's products than barely burning them as fuels. With deeper extraction for the Xylenes; Brunei can get the feed to its petrochemical plants right from its own Oils. It is a pleasure when one sees the technical achievements leave the surface of periodicals/textbooks and turn to reality on Land as refining/petrochemical plants.
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I am interested in finding a web app which maintains a "project blog" kind of thing (for more than a single project).
I'd like this app to have the following capabilities:
- wiki like editing, new page adding, etc. (I really like Wikimedia's style of wiki).
- being able to maintain certain authorization on pages (i.e. not anyone can access any page)
- being able to send directly a URL to someone so they can look at the page and edit it, if they want (or possibly, if I send the URL with a permission to do that).
Wikimedia would be excellent for 1, and I would use it, but it doesn't allow to do 2 and 3 quite easily, I think. Maybe 2, but definitely not 3. Any ideas about something else?

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STEUBENVILLE - He arrived in the fall of 2000 "a little nervous" about replacing the Rev. Michael Scanlan, TOR, as president of the Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Thirteen years later the Rev. Terence Henry, TOR, is preparing to step down as president and move to his next assignment as a friar in the Franciscan Friars, Third Order Regular, Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
"I was walking in large footsteps when I arrived. Father Mike was known nationally and internationally but very few people knew who I was. That's why I asked Father Mike to remain as the university chancellor. It was very important to me for the school to remain faithful to the teachings of the church," said Henry.
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The Rev. Terence Henry, TOR, president of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, sat at his desk in Starvaggi Hall on Monday. Henry will step down as the fifth president of the Catholic university at the end of the current academic year. -- Dave Gossett
"I look back at my time here with gratitude. It has been a privilege to have been entrusted with the mission of guiding the university," said Henry Monday afternoon.
The university announced the appointment of Henry in 2000 citing his educational background.
"Father Terence has all the qualifications necessary to lead Franciscan University to the next level of excellence. He has spent most of his life in teaching and administration and has a natural rapport with both students and faculty. Most importantly, he has a clear understanding and love for the educational and spiritual mission of Franciscan University," according to a university press release at the time.
"When I came here in 2000 to start the transition from Father Mike Scanlan, there may have been some people who wondered if Franciscan University would change. But we kept the mission of the church. It was why the Franciscan friars were originally invited here by Bishop (John King) Mussio to start a Catholic university. I am honored to have served as the fifth president of the university and to see the blessings I have received here," said Henry.
The Rev. Nicholas Polichnowski, TOR, chairman of Franciscan University's board of trustees, explained leaders are rotated periodically as a matter of course within religious life.
"Being a university president has become an increasingly difficult task. With presidents serving only six years on average, we are grateful to Father Henry for giving 13 years in generous service to Franciscan University," Polichnowski said.
Polichnowski, who also serves as minister provincial of the Franciscan Friars, TOR, Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, said the next president will be chosen from among the priests and brothers of the 139-member province.
"The board of trustees will begin the selection process immediately, and we expect the new president to start in June. Father Henry will receive his new assignment at that time," Polichnowski said.
"We joyfully take a vow of obedience. We go where served. The demand is always greater than the supply, so we don't know where our religious superior will assign us. I will miss the university and the people I have met here, but I look forward to whatever that new assignment may be. And the university will remain in my prayers," Henry stated.
One of the first issues Henry embraced as president was the creation of a commuter grant program for local students.
"The program offers a 50 percent tuition discount for local high school seniors who enroll directly to Franciscan University. The grant makes it possible for local students to get a four-year college degree while staying in the Ohio Valley," explained Terry.
He also oversaw the university's re-entry into intercollegiate sports in 2007, as the Barons joined the NCAA Division III and gained entry into the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference.
During the past 13 years the physical campus has more than doubled in size with the purchase of adjacent property, bringing the total acreage to 242, ensuring space for further growth.
Henry's personal passion as a priest has been confronting what he calls "the culture of death."
The university joined other Catholic schools and institutions last year in a legal challenge to the Obama Administration's health care mandate
Every year he leads hundreds of students, faculty and staff at the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Henry also enjoys the outdoors and often invites university students to join him on hiking and camping trips at national parks.
"I am planning a trip this summer to Yosemite National Park, which I consider the most beautiful place in America," Henry remarked.
And while the man who has been a Franciscan Friar since 1976 sits around a campfire he will probably mention his favorite author, G. K. Chesterton.
"I don't know what my next assignment will be but I will be ready to offer help to those I serve. Wherever I am I hope I can do my best to help others," added Henry.
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Someone knows who is Sara? :S
And I don't know D:
I think she is his girlfriend, but she looks so young...
Perhaps you're right, I thought so at first, but on the other hand, many would know about it ... hmm ... I'm in indignation ...
Your dog and the dog Billie Joe is very similar! Brody and Mojo, too, friends? : D
:-(.... I want to come back to sea!!!!!
Awesome, Doesnt your dog and Billie Joe Armstrong's dog look a little alike? A little??? Well even if it doesnt, its awesomely cute. :)


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Seems like https is becoming more and more popular these days. So my question is when is it appropriate to use https? What kind of advantages and disadvantages does it have?
Thank you!
I would argue it's always appropriate to use (or at least offer) SSL/https, and it's mandatory to use it when passwords, payment information, Social Security Numbers/other personally identifying information is being transmitted. It has an overhead, but in my eyes, the cost is always worth the benefit.
This is just my opinion, of course :-)
HTTPS usage is pretty much mandatory if you want to transfer anything sensitive, such as login information or other personally identifiable information (unless such data is your whole point to exist, like Facebook or LinkedIn).
More broadly, there are a variety of competing drivers for whether or not HTTPS is a good idea.
Depending on what you're planning on doing with your site, the above may or may not apply to you. It all depends on how far you plan to scale the site, and what your intended audience is.
This BizTech Magazine article looks like it covers all of the basics. Fundamentally:
It sounds like a tautology but you want to use https when you need to send data securely. This will be anything like payment details, bank statements etc. Anything you don't want 3rd parties reading.
Any time you are sending private information back and forth. If you don't use HTTPS, information is transmitted in plain text over the internet and is open to sniffing.
this is likely a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
but in short, when you want a secure connection.
HTTPS is used when you want to encrypt the data between your website and the user. HTTP by default sends data in plain text. This data can be sniffed by any attacker that's listening on the connection between the user and the website. Since this data is in plain text, the attacker can get hold of your credentials and other private information.
HTTPS is HTTP used in conjunction with SSL. With HTTPS, all the data in sent in encrypted form. Note that HTTPS doesn't prevent sniffing, it only makes sure that the sniffed data can't be read by an attacker.
So you'll want to use HTTPS whenever you want to encrypt data between your website and the users.
For more info. read the following wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Secure
I'd agree with Josh that encryption should be considered mandatory when transfering any data which could be used to facilitate identity theft. And for web access that almost inevitably means SSL.
I'm often surprised at the number of sites which go to appropriate lengths to protect credit card details and other private information, but fail to provide any protection for passwords - unfortunately a lot of users re-use the same password across lots of sites.
Similarly, you need to be careful and selective about surrogate identifiers such as cookies. Lots of people get this wrong. e.g. a lot of people think that setting cookies as SSL only protects against MITM attacks - but only if you also make sure that you're not vulnerable to session fixation. Having an SSL cerificate and HTTPS does not mean your site is secure. Most users can't tell the difference - however I can reading a study where they found that most users couldn't tell the difference in security between a site using HTTPS and one with a picture of a padlock on it.
There is a big overhead in response times and of course intermediate proxies cannot provide any caching. Load balancing is a PITA too.


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I spend too much time figuring out what to do next.
GTD helped me clarify incoming items and filter out "someday", "reference", "@errand", etc. so now I have a very nice list of about 80 "next actions at computer" that I'm ready, willing and able to do. The problem is there are 80 of them, and every morning I spend at least half an hour to pick 5-10 of them that I really intend to do "next". Worst of all, I don't have a good way to hold onto that thought process, so the next morning I inevitably spend another half hour re-picking items to do next.
David Allen writes: "You shouldn't bother to create some external structuring of the priorities on your lists that you'll then have to rearrange or rewrite as things change. ... You'll be prioritizing more intuitively as you see the whole list, against quite a number of shifting variables." (GTD p.141) But my problem is that I feel I can't "see the whole list" when it's 80 items long and ordered randomly.
Within "next actions at computer", what is the best way to organize next actions by "duration", "project", and (cough) "priority"? Or is there a completely different way I could arrange things to be able to "see the whole list" whenever I want to?
EDIT: My goal isn't to have a smaller list---I'm happy to have plenty of responsibilities---but I need better ways to arrange the list so I can return to it often and rapidly recall my past intuitions about the various items.


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I have this idea: attaching electric motor to clutch and then to a generator then computing when for example we 1kw give the motor how much generator will take back? now we have performance of generator and motor so we can compute clutch performance
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Huh? Baring that, as Rory stated, this really doesn't make sense, what do you intend to do?
Would this be a separate test unit outside of the vehicle, or would the electric motor be providing power along with the vehicles gas/diesel engine? Is the transmission still connected to the clutch, driving the wheels?
If it's outside the car (motor drives one clutch plate, other clutch plate drives generator) you still need to account for losses in the motor itself and in the generator. Remember, these are real devices, not theoretical ideal devices, so they will both produce heat lowering your efficiency.
That is, an electric motor drawing 1kW and connected directly to a generator will not produce 1kW of usable power. And the amount of losses will not be constant. At 1kW you might lose, say, 5% due to heat, whereas at 2kW you might lose 15%. You would need to characterize the system before it would even do anything meaningful.
The correct way to test a clutch's performance synthetically would be to use a pulley system and a system of counter weights to apply a frictional torque load to the clutch plate normally connected to the transmission. With a tachometer on both clutch plates, you could find the load that causes the clutch plates to start slipping (engine plate spinning faster than transmission plate). From there I suppose you could calculate the power lost under that particular load, but knowing the load where slipping begins is probably more useful than knowing the power lost. An engaged clutch should never slip under normal operating conditions.
You realise that a clutch, when engaged, will transmit 100% of the power it receives (barring minor friction losses) and when disengaged will transmit 0% (again, barring some minor friction drag)
So performance does not seem like something you will measure here.
You could measure slippage at a particular setting, but again this won't be useful in most cases, as that level will change.


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Heating your home during the winter can carry a heavy financial burden. With this in mind, the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) has started accepting applications for its Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP). "Although we're experiencing a comfortable January week, winter has just begun," DCF Secretary Phyllis Gilmore said in a news release. "The winter months can bring frigid temperatures and we want families to be able to escape the cold in the warmth of their homes." Applications became available starting Tuesday, Jan. 21. LIEAP allows an annual benefit for qualifying households to help pay their winter heating bills. Primary groups assisted are those with disabilities, families with children and older adults. In 2013, an average benefit of $489 went to nearly 48,000 households. There are several requirements to qualify for leap. Applicants must be responsible for direct payment of their heating bills. They must also show that they have made payments on their heating bills two out of the last three months. Those payments must be equal to or exceed $80 or the total balance due on their energy bills, whichever is less. To be eligible, individuals must have an income at 130 percent of the federal poverty level. The level of benefit varies according to the number of people living in the home, household income, type of heating fuel, type of residence and utility rates. Applications for LIEAP have been mailed to households that received assistance last year. Individuals can also find LIEAP applications at local DCF offices and through partnering agencies. They can also be requested by calling (800) 432 – 0043. To apply online, visit www.dcf.ks.gov. Applications will be accepted until March 31. Funding for LIEAP is provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Community Service through the Federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
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Midnight Feast
- Feast food
This activity has to be done on a weekend or vacation when the family doesn't have to wake up for school or work.
- Someone needs to be the organizer of the feast.
- Decide on a place to have the feast: a backyard under the stars, in a fort you've made, the basement, or you could drive somewhere special. The place doesn't matter as long as it's kept secret until the last minute. Midnight is a magical time and this will be an adventure to talk about and remember for a long time.
- Plan food for the feast that the family doesn't get to eat oftennothing messy or difficult to carry.
- Get blankets to sit on and set the alarm clock for 11:45 so everyone can be awake and ready to meet and eat at 12 midnight.
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The construction of tangent bundle on a $C^\infty$ manifold, as for example in the book of Warner, uses the existence of double derivatives. Of course the tangent space for a point is first constructed in case of an open set in a Euclidean space and then the whole setup is glued up. But then in the neighborhood of a point the second derivatives might be different for a different $C^1$-chart around the point. So I suppose the tangent space/tangent bundle construction is for $C^2$-manifolds.
Question is:
Since $C^2$ is apparently the minimum condition for existence of tangent bundle, is the tangent bundle just $C^1$, or it is again $C^2$?


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Noisebridge Lit Crawl event
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Lit Crawl at Noisebridge!
October 19, 2013, 7:15-8:15pm
The San Francisco Lit Crawl consists of dozens of literary events that occur on the same night in the Mission district. It's like a pub crawl, but instead, has hundreds of people who are part of LitQuake going from reading to reading.
An event will occur at Noisebridge during phase 2 of the Crawl, which is between 7.15 and 8.15 pm on October 19.
If you would be interested in participating in this event, please add this information here. Contact James Warner at james at jameswarner dot net if you have questions/suggestions/complaints relating to this event -- many thanks!
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There seem to be a glut of image sharing services geared for Twitter or the like, which of them should I stay away from if I care about the picture and which allow me to retain control over the photos?
The only reason that services which allow sharing option (TwitPic, imgur and even Dropbox) force you to share rights on your content is to allow the service to do its job, namely: publish this content.
Dropbox, for instance, had an incident when they changed the TOS: there was a big discussion, and Dropbox guys had to explain why they did that.
Here the citation from their explanation:
So in the copyright world services have to protect from copyright owners to not being sued.
The short answer: if you want to share copyrighted work and retain full control, you should accomplish this with your own server, the only way you set the rules. If you decide to trust publishing to the third parties, you have to compromise.
Taking info from the link in @Sathya's comment above, the answer is to use Mobypicture.
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7 Mar 2011 5:08 AM #1
Looking for a Contractor to work on our Sencha Touch App
We have an existing Sencha Touch project that needs your help!! It is an incredible project that has been in development for some time, but needs outside help by a fully skilled Sencha Touch expert to help get us out of BETA. Our preference is someone in the New York area, but we open to location. This is a short term position that could migrate into a long term one because all of the projects we have in queue.
So if you are a kick butt Sencha Touch developer and would like to work on what is one of the best mobile apps out there then please contact me at realutilities at gmail dot com.
7 Mar 2011 6:06 AM #2
I'm Andrea Cammarata and from 24 February 2011 I open my own company named SIMACS.
My company provide sofware, internet and mobile services and I'm already working on a couple of Sencha Touch projects for my customers. I'm from Italy, so it's no possibile for me to move in NY but I can develope the work from remote, like I'm already doing for my customers.
You can even see a personal work I'm working on called Aral CMS.
Take a look at this vimeo channel
I'm even an Apple developer and I'm able to integrate native Objective code in Sencha Touch applications.
Let me know if you are interested.
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Is it possible for a Jewish tourist? Is there anything important I should know?
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It is possible. You can get to Kiryat Arba by public transportation from Jerusalem (Egged central bus station, DO NOT take any Arab transportation from the old city), and you can get to the site in Hebron from Kiryat Arba, in an organized manner, under IDF/Police protection.
You may be able to find organized tours from Jerusalem or other central locations in Israel, ask the receptionist in the hotel you'd be staying at.
DO NOT go to Hebron on your own, especially if you're Jewish. While a "regular" tourist can probably go through the Palestinian areas without much trouble, Jews are known to have been extracted by the police (either the Israeli or the Palestinian, or both) due to them being in a life threatening situation in PA areas. For Israelis its illegal to enter the PA areas, for Jews who are not Israelis it may be legal, but definitely not safe.
The Wikitravel article is NOT a good source of information for traveling in the West Bank. It has no consideration whatsoever for the security threats in the area, for reasons far beyond me.
Yes, it is possible. There are companies that offer organized tours for a fee. One such company can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone in Israel at 052-431-7055.
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Join us as we kick off Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2013!
Each year during the month of April thousands of individuals around the United States work together to raise public awareness about sexual violence. Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) seeks to educate communities and individuals on how to prevent sexual violence.
Join the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA) for a 5K Walk on April 6th to kick off SAAM! We are walking together and working together to raise awareness and funds to support sexual assault services and prevention efforts throughout NJ. Our SAAM 5K Walk will be the first of many events around the state working towards the end of sexual violence.
NJCASA's 3rd Annual SAAM 5K Walk/Run
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Registration begins at 9 am
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2206 Kuser Road, Hamilton NJ 08690
Rain or Shine!
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I would like to change the amount of space that is added when I do Format → Line spacing → Add space before paragraph. It is possible to change this in Microsoft Word. Is there a way to do this in Google Docs?
There is currently an option to do exactly that. I don't know if it was there before, but it is now.
No. Currently Google Docs has no option to change that. You can only use the predefined spaces.
Update: It seems Google has added this option now. Look at @Zequez's answer.
Well Googledocs is pretty useless in this respect. Worst case is to introduce a line feed and then reduce the font size on that line. One useful thing is that if you're using a numbered paragraph you can turn off numbering for your intervening line..... whcih you can then reduce the font on.


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This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both truancy and attainment are measured as ordered responses requiring a bivariate ordered probit model to account for the potential endogeneity of truancy. Furthermore, we extent the 'naïve' bivariate ordered probit estimator to include mixed effects which allows us to estimate the distribution of the truancy effect on educational attainment. This estimator offers a more flexible parametric setting to recover the causal effect of truancy on education and results suggest that the impact of truancy on education is indeed more complex than implied by the naïve estimator.
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Shades Of U.S. Attorney Scandal: Top EPA Official Forced Out By Political Appointees
The Wonk Room has previously described Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson as "the environment's Alberto Gonzales." After years of scandal as White House Counsel and Attorney General, Gonzales finally resigned after it was revealed that numerous U.S. attorneys were fired without cause under his watch.
Now it seems the EPA is following the Department of Justice's efforts to rid itself of staffers who are not "loyal Bushies."
The Bush administration forced its top environmental regulator in the Midwest to quit Thursday after months of internal bickering about dioxin contamination downstream from Dow Chemical's world headquarters in Michigan.
In an interview with the Tribune, Mary Gade said two top political appointees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington stripped her of her powers as regional administrator and told her to quit or be fired by June 1.
As a congressional investigation revealed this week, the EPA's regulation of toxic chemicals like dioxin has been corrupted by interference by the White House. But this case is even more egregious:
For the past year, Gade has been locked in a heated dispute with Dow about long-delayed plans to clean up dioxin-saturated soil and sediment that extends 50 miles beyond its Midland, Mich., plant into Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron. [. . .]
Though regional EPA administrators typically have wide latitude to enforce environmental laws, Gade drew fire from officials in Washington last month after she sent contractors to test soil in a Saginaw neighborhood where Dow had found high dioxin levels.
She said top lieutenants to Stephen Johnson, the national EPA administrator, repeatedly questioned her aggressive action against Dow, which long ago acknowledged it is responsible for the dioxin contamination but has resisted federal and state involvement in cleanup plans.
Gade told the Chicago Tribune, "There's no question this is about Dow." When Johnson appointed Gade to her position in 2006, he praised "her impressive environmental career," saying, "Mary is well-prepared to lead the Agency's largest regional office."
UPDATE: In 2000, Mary Gade wrote optimistically about environmental policy in a Bush administration:
To the question of politics — or, I hope, the lack thereof. A successful twenty-first-century environmental policy will require a leader who can reach across partisan lines and bridge political differences on what should be the ultimate nonpartisan issue. It also will require a President who recognizes that environmental issues don't respect national borders and who can credibly address these complex issues on the international stage. I confess, I'm a Republican and a supporter of Texas Governor George W. Bush. I believe Governor Bush in two terms has put together a stronger bipartisan record on conservation and the environment than Al Gore has in twenty-plus years in Washington, D.C., precisely because Bush puts action and results above talk and posture.
UPDATE II: Via Daily Kos user LakeSuperior, Michigan Environmental Council President Lana Pollack calls Mary Gade "woman of unquestioned credentials and integrity who was doing her job enforcing our environmental laws":
If Mary Gade were indeed forced out because she was willing to enforce environmental laws against Dow Chemical, then it is a travesty.


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SONGS FROM NEWTON COUNTY collected by Brenda Jo Upton
Arkansas Folklore Spring 1962INTRODUCTION
In this course I have found that an interest in folklore, or old beliefs, customs, songs, and games, is common to all people. It seems as if in all the groups I have come in contact with this semester, when I said I was taking folklore the conservation became stuck on that topic. I have got material from college professors, fellow students, family, and older friends. I have found material in all age groups—from my cousin who is seven to my grandmother who is 85.
All the songs in this collection are sung by people from my home town because a tape recorder was only available there. I spent the entire Easter vacation getting these songs, and to my surprise it was fun. I worked hard all week but when I returned to school I felt as relaxed as if I had spent the week in leisure pursuits.
Let me tell you some of my experiences during that "Song Week". I don't own a tape recorder, so my mother had asked a fellow teacher if I could borrow his. He was most willing, but when I went to pick it up it was being repaired. He tried to help me think of somebody else to borrow one from, but we were unable to come up with a lender. I was very upset—
I had to have a tape recorder! The next day my daddy sent me to Harrison to get some supplies for the Cafe. I asked him if he thought I might rent a tape recorder in Harrison. He said "Go in and see Joe Keeling at the Home and School Supply.
He might have some used one's he'd let you rent." So I proceeded to plead my cause to Mr. Keeling. He didn't have a used one, but when I convinded him I was experienced in the operation of a tape recorder, he let me have a brand new one. When I told him that I was Brenda Upton,he asked if I was related to Ted Upton. I said, "He's my father." Mr. reeling said, "I guess you're all right then—take it on."
I hurried back home and my grandmother, Mrs. Montie Martin, sang me six songs that afternoon. The next morning bright and early, before I was ready to get up, she was ready to sing some more. I think she really enjoyed "helping Brenda with her lessons", as she described it. She would sing for awhile and then she would have to stop and catch her breath, so we would talk about old times. SheINTRODUCTION, page 2
would start reminiscening as to where and when she first heard that song. Some of the songs she learned from her mother (The House Carperter), some from a friend in Olkahoma (Silver Dagger), some from her husband (Bung a Lung), and some, "I've known that so long, honey, I can t remember where I first heard it."
My other grandmother, Mrs. Mary Upton, lives with us also. Of course, she had to sing some songs, too. One thing I noticed—my grandmother's songs (Mrs. Martin) were old love songs and story telling ballads. My granny's songs (Mrs. Upton) were silly songs that had lots of nonsense syllables. Does this have something do to with their personality or their early associates?
About four o'clock that afternoon I had recorded all the songs they could remember. I had about 10 minutes of tape left and I wanted to fill it up. I was going to a music party at Gene Waters' that night and I wanted to start with a new tape. My mother came in from school and she suggested I see Mrs. Lora. Moore, who might know some old songs. We carried the tape recorder up there and she sang two songs. My mother, Mrs. Elsie Upton, sang some play party songs at Mrs. Moore's house. We still had some tape left and Mrs. Moore suggested we go see Paul Raney. He was a good sin or and ought to know some good songs. We went down there and he sang three songs. He really liked to hear it played back and he was haveing a ball—as you can tell be his comments on the tape, She wasn't very interested in having his name put in a paper, however, so I wasn t able to get much information for his biography.
About 6:30 we left for the music arty. My mother and daddy went with me. We arrived at the Waters' late and Hr. Waters' greeted us at the door with, "We'd already give you out a'coming. The musicans were playing in the kitchen and the ladies were watching television in the living room. There were Mr. and Mrs. Horrace Wallace and their two son, Buddy and Eddie; Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Waters and Gene and Troy Lee and his daughter. Mr. Wallace and Mr. Lee took turns playing the fiddle. Eddie and Buddy Wallace played uitars, and Bene played a mandolin. They moved into the living room and I set up the recorder. From then on it was just music, music and laughter. Everyone had to have his favorite tune played and recorder. Of course they had toINTRODUCTION, page 3
hear each one played back to hear how it sounded. They had all sorts of suggestions as to where I should place the mike to get the best tones from the fiddle. When they got tired of fiddling, Gene and Waters sang for me. Mr. Waters'is the worlds worst, or best, cut-up and he just had more fun than anyone. About one o'clock the party began to break up.. My mother and daddy just had so much fun. They want to go again sometime and so do I.
I spent the remainder of the week transcribing the songs and letting people listen to them. The people who work in the Cafe had heard so much about my songs that I had to take the recorder down there and let t hem hear every one. All the people who were drinking coffee there came back in the kitchen and listened too. When I had heard those songs for the upteenth time and was still writing down the words—that was when I wished I had not recorded quite so many songs.
After all that work, I simply could not bear to turn in all those beautiful songs. I made another trip to Harrison and bought another tape and dubbed one tape full of the best songs. Now if I ever get a tape recorder the first thing I hear will be my grandmother singing "The Blind Girl".
When I started to come back to school my grandmothers asked if I would be getting more old songs when I came home again. They were all ready to try to remember some more songs. They seemed so disappointed when I said I would be interested in their songs just for myself and not for a class.
This week truly had been an experience—as much for them as for me. I'm sure that I will never forget the folklore Class at the University of Arkansas—especially my "Song Week".Mrs. Montie Martin Jasper, Arkansas
Mrs. Montie Martin was born Montie Jane Lawerence on December 7, 1881, at Woolum, Arkansas. That is on the Buffalo River not far from St. Joe. She lived in Searcy County, except for brief interludes, until she married a widower, A.Y. Martin in 1903. They honesteaded a farm outside of Western Grove and there she raised five children and two step-sons. They made two trips to Oregon and settled in Oklahoma for about a year. She learned some of the songs she knows from Dave Crews there. S^e said they used to go down to his house at night just to get him to sing songs for them. My grandfather died in 1939 and in 1943 my grandmother came to live with us. She has lived with us ever since. She sings a lot around the house and is continually saying, "I had a good voice when I was a young girl."Mrs. Mary Upton Jasper, Arkansas
Mrs. Mary Upton was born Mary Elizabeth Riggs near Jasper, She has lived near Jasper all her life except for several years in her early married life, when she lived in Little Rock. Her mother came from North Carolina as a child in a covered wagon. Mrs. Upton says her grandmother brought some of these songs she knows, for example the Sheep Song, from North Carolina. She says that traveler's used to spend the night at their house quite often and she learned some songs from them. Mrs. Upton married John Eldridge Upton, a carpenter from Nebraska who had been reared in New York. He was building a house for her father and stayed to marry the daughter. They had one daughter and adopted my father. Mr. Upton died about 1935 and Mrs.
Upton lived along until she came to live with us in 1960.Mrs. Elsie Upton Jasper, Arkansas
Mrs. Elsie Upton was born Elsie Vada Martin in Eufula, Oklahoma in 1908. They moved back to Western Grove when she was one year old and she was reared there. She knows a lot of the songs my grandmother knows. On the tape she sings play party songs. She says she used to go to play parties when she was a young girl.
She has taught school since she was 16 years old and graduated from Arkansas State Teachers College. She married Ted Upton in 1939 and they have two daughters.
She is a free lance writer and photographer and has written several articles on the Ozarks, especially Newton County.
At present she is teaching science and math at Jasper High School.Mr. Paul Raney Jasper , Arkansas
Mr. Raney didn't really want to have his name included, so I have very little about him. He is about 45 years old and his family has lived in Newton County for generations. His mother was a Kilgore and the Raney's and the Kilgore's are the old timers of Newton County. They are all good singers and you will find several in every church choir.
He lives in Jasper and works for Carrol Electric Co-Operative He has one son, three daughters and one granddaughter.
He had a good time singing and hearing the songs played back, as you can tell by the remarks he made on the tape.
His wife, Josephine, helped him sing "Froggy Went a Courting" He could remember part of the words and she could remember some more so they both sang and where one forgot the other would take the lead.AT THE MUSIC PARTY
Horrace Wallace Western Grove, Arkansas
Mr. Wallace is about 50. His family has lived in Newton County for generations and have all been music lovers. The fiddle he played was about 75 years old, and one could tell it had been taken care of with loving hands.
Buddy Wallace Western Grove, Arkansas
Buddy, the older son of Horrace Wallace, is about 21. He sang one song and played the guitar for all the fiddle tunes. You can surely see how the musical tradition of the Wallace's is being carried on by Buddy.
Eddie Wallace Western Grove, Arkansas
Eddie is about 15. He plays the guitar, too, for all the fiddle tunes. While they were playing he would set where he could watch Buddy and play as he did. He is learning to play an instrument as it seems as the Wallace s do.
Gene Waters
Western Grove, Arkansas
Gene is in this class and you have his auto-biography whish is probably better than anything I could say. He played the mandolin for the fiddle tunes, played a mandolin solo, and sang one song. None of his family plays an instrument and his father says he just picked it up.
J.V. Waters
Western Grove, Arkansas
Veattle Waters, as he is known in Jasper, is almost a legend in Newton County. He knows more tall tales and can tell more jokes and stories than anybody I ever knew. He is about 55 and works for the Soil Conservation Service. He has been the Nation Turkey Calling Champion for several years and lastwon the Champion Turkey Calling (A contest of all winners of previous years). I was over in his office one day and he showed me his medals and then he said, "This is one they gave me here in the office and I'm really proud of it."
He held it out for me to see, and it was a dime store button that said Champion Bull Shooter!
He is an ardent hunter and fisherman, as well as turkey caller and bull shooter.
He has lived at Yardelle all his life. He has two sons.Mrs. Lora Moore was formerly Lora Davis of Jasper, She has lived in Jasper all her life, but she wouldn't tell me how old she was. I believe she is somewhere near sixty.
In her youth she was an aspiring composer but the songs she sang me are old songs she learned fromher mother. She married Dr. 0. A. Moore late in life and they have no children. I went up to her house late one afternoon to see if she had a picture I could have for this biography. She got out two big boxes of pictures and looked and looked.
She showed me old pictured of people I knew for about two hours. They had on long dresses, high button shoes and floppy hats. She would tell me what the occasion was and who the people were. I think she enjoyed it and I surely did. This was the only picture she could find. She must think a lot of others, because all the pictures she had were of others. One interesting thing she told me was that Abraham Lincoln's own cousin named her. Dr. LeGrande delivered her and Mrs. LeGrande, President Lincoln's cousin, named her.
Mrs. Lora Moore Jasper, Arkansas
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STEUBENVILLE - Sondra Lee Antinone of Delaware, Ohio, and Joseph Patrick Petrelle of Steubenville were united in marriage at 1 p.m. on July 30 at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Mingo Junction with the Rev. James Dunfree officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Roberta Antinone of Mingo Junction and the late Charles Antinone Sr.
The groom is the son of Joe Petrelle Sr. of Steubenville and Cindy Scurti of Columbus.
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The bride was escorted to the altar by her brothers, Charles Jr. and Anthony. She wore a light ivory strapless gown featuring a sweetheart neckline. She carried a bouquet of fire and ice roses with stephanodis and a locket with a picture of her father.
Linda Antinone, sister of the bride, served as the matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Suzie Antinone, sister-in-law of the bride; Carla Antinone, sister-in-law of the bride; Jill Podolan; Becky Kelley; Marcy Shaffer; Victoria Doepker; Mia Antinone, niece of the bride; Gianna Antinone, niece of the bride; and Kathryn Antinone Russel, niece of the bride. Flower girls were Chloe Petrelle and Kenzy Petrelle, cousins of the groom.
Mark Petrelle served as his brother's best man. Groomsmen were Jeff Petrelle, cousin of the groom; Frank Fuscardo, cousin of the groom; Chris Murphy Sr.; Matthew Provenzano; Matthew Goodrick, son of the groom; Robert Scurti, brother of the groom; Jason Petrelle, brother of the groom; Jared Petrelle, brother of the groom; Charles Antinone Jr., brother of the bride; Anthony Antinone, brother of the bride; Corey Antinone, Anthony Antinone; Connor Antinone; Robert Antinone; Russell Call, nephew of the bride; and Christopher Murphy, godson of the groom.
A reception was held at the Serbian American Cultural Center. The couple honeymooned in Cancun, Mexico.
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The groom received a bachelor's degree in health and physical education from West Liberty University. He is a certified personal trainer and a substitute teacher.
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Today Bus G made their way up to Denali National Park. On the way the visited the Iditarod Headquarters where they learned about this famous race and saw some of the puppies who will one day compete. The group then stopped off for mincha and learned more about today's fast day. Next, the group saw an Alaskan memorial to American POWs. Bus G then visited the Denali educational center and learned about the park before finishing the day with an Israel program involving Israeli dancing.


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I need to access an SVN repo hosted on a Windows machine from Ubuntu. However, even if I supply the proper credentials, it denies me access, apparently because Windows does not allow Linux connections (as they told me); sure enough, I got in when I tried to checkout from my XP partition. While I have my box dual-booted, it is inconvenient to switch just for SVN.
So, does anyone know how I can access that SVN repo from Ubuntu? I've tried installing TortoiseSVN and Windows Subversion under Wine but I can't even get them to run; they were asking for some DLLs that I don't know how to supply. I've thought of installing a virtual XP just for SVN but I consider that too extreme and I'd be glad if anyone can advise a simpler workaround.
Hopefully-relevant note: When I access the repo on Windows, I use the prefix
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Recovering Passwords in Solaris 11
By Paul Johnson-Oracle on Feb 11, 2013
About once a year, I'll find a way to lock myself out of a Solaris system. Here's how to get out of this scenario. You'll need a Solaris 11 Live CD or Live USB stick.
Mount the solaris boot environment in a temporary directory
Edit the shadow file
Find your username and remove the password hash
Allow empty passwords at login
Update the boot archive
Reboot and remove the Live CD/USB from system
- Boot up from the Live CD/USB
- Select the 'Text Console' option from the GRUB menu
- Login to the solaris console using the username/password of jack/jack
- Switch to root
$ sudo su password jack
# beadm mount solaris /a
# vi /a/etc/shadow
Convert username:iEwei23SamPleHashonf0981:15746::::::17216 to username::15746::::::17216
$ vi /a/etc/default/login Switch this line PASSREQ=YES to PASSREQ=NO
# bootadm update-archive -R /a
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The tournament is open to the public.
The entry fee is $200 per team and includes lunch both days.
Tee-off is at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, and 1 p.m., on Sunday, Aug. 12.
For more information or to register, visit Frenchman's Bend or call 387.2363.
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Saturdays 6-8 am
Hosted by Thomas Weiss, the focus is keyboard music, solo or small ensemble in the classical music genre.
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Hosted by Thomas Weiss, the focus is keyboard music, solo or small ensemble in the classical music genre.
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Why might some sex education programs result in more teen pregnancies? Why did reading that self-help book make you feel less happy? What's the best way to recover from trauma? Can we actually improve our lives by redirecting our thinking?
We tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. These stories ultimately determine if we will lead healthy, productive lives or get into trouble. Renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson proposes a radical new view: although these stories can be very hard to change, they can change - surprisingly quickly - if tweaked in the right way. He considers a broad range of problems, exposes failed attempts to solve them, and reframes them with new stories. Scientifically tested, his practical advice and simple techniques have been found to bring about real results including enhanced happiness, personal meaning, and social progress.
©2011 Original material © 2011 Timothy D. Wilson. (P)2011 (p) 2011 HighBridge Company
"There are few academics who write with as much grace and wisdom as Timothy Wilson. Redirect is a masterpiece." (Malcolm Gladwell)
"May well be the single most important psychology book ever written." (Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, Harvard University, author of Stumbling on Happiness)
"Why programs fail."
Interesting book, but Wilson spends most the time describing educational intervention programs that don't work, why they don't work and why the government spends so much money on them.
I was hoping for more in-depth information on methods that are effective in changing behavior. These experiments are briefly described before moving on to the next popular program that doesn't work.
However, I would recommend it to parents, teachers, school board members, political leaders and anyone with a stake in the effectiveness of institutionalized education.
I focus on fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, science, history, politics and read a lot. I try to review everything I read.
"Unexciting but Interesting"
Redirect was not very exciting but it had a number of interesting tidbits. The narrator, Gover Gardner, was great as usual. Redirect tries to make it clear that we, as a society, should test ideas with experiments before spending millions on programs that ???make sense??? but may not actually be affective. Redirect also describes the interesting technique of ???Story Editing??? which, although not as magical as The Secret, would likely be more successful.
I really enjoyed this book. It was an interesting view into how psychology can help and hurt us. I listen when I drive, I found that I was making excuses to drive places just to listen.
"Not what I expected!"
I guess this book wouldn't have been so bad if I knew what I was getting. I was under the impression that it was about taking this "new science" and using it to make changes in my own life. It has nothing to do with that. It is strictly about how a lot of the programs that the government, schools, etc..use to direct children and adults into doing the "right" think don't actually work.
"In the top"
Together with Subliminal, this book is in my top and I listened to it a couple of times. The whole mechanism of how well intentioned actions have bad consequences, has fascinated me and this books opens the door to how the mechanism of reward and punishments, create the internal narrative that has the opposite effect. "I must really dislike broccoli, when I need to be punished/rewarded to make me eat it"
Lots of good examples, experiments and explanations. Unfortunately there is always a hidden solicitation for a central planning job for such authors, as the fallacy that the monopoly of violence can do good with stolen tax money is a bridge to far to be debunked. So the author shows all the government programs that should reduce drugs use and violence and actually increased it, but he unfortunately comes with a plan to fix them. Once money is taken by force, it will never do any good afterwards.
This is just the best, most intelligent, fact based approach to child rearing and education that I've ever read. Rather than legislating based on hope, our leaders would do well to follow the testing guidelines outlined in this book before committing millions to programs that don't work. Parents would do well to ignore the Dr. Spock of the moment and read this if they want a happy, well adjusted child.
"Redirect Contains Interesting Information"
I bought this book because I heard an interview on a podcast. I like this book because it has a lot of interesting concepts.
I consider this a self improvement book as it assists the readers with personal growth, yet it attacks all self improvement materials as lacking scientific evidence. It sets itself apart as being science based. But science is often difficult, especially when it comes to people's behaviors. The book confirms the myriads of factors that can skew a test, so it leads me to question the "scientific evidence."
No. I still love learning about human behavior.
I like the narrator. I've heard him before on different books.
The entire attack on self improvement "movement." There's no need to bash another line or reasoning. We all have different beliefs and we're motivated by various incentives.
No B.S. reviews. I'll never soft-pedal bad writing or inept narration.
"Grover Gardner turns a dry book into a good listen"
A fascinating look at human behavior and the intervention strategies we use to try to modify it. Grover Gardner's narration is, as always, top-notch and thoroughly professional. This book is a must read for sincere parents of children of any age.
I love AUDIBLE! I never get mad at traffic jams and can listen to many different books, despite of my short time.
I bought this book three months ago but I was not in a mood to listen to it. When I finally grabbed it, was sorry I didn't listen right away because it is an EXCELLENT book! I think REDIRECT is one of the greatest psychology books out there. If Carol Dweck's "Mindset" is the tip of the Iceberg, Redirect is the rest of the body from the same Iceberg.
Listen to it! I bet you will like it.
""But when we use the story editing approach...""
Repetitious. Story editing is the golden hammer, and the author trots it out again and again after dissing the competition. He may be right, but the idea gets stretched thin, and I was losing interest before the book was done.
"A great book"
Evidence based strategies for helping yourself, your loved ones and those you work with to do better and be better. Wilson delivers in a low key style and has a solid commitment to using well evidenced cases and arguments
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All Rise...
Judge Tom Becker believes all housewives should have a hobby, even if that hobby is other housewives.
The Charge
The tragedy of today's lonely housewife!
The Case
Denise (Elizabeth Plumb, The Psycho Lover) and Adria (Alisa Courtney) are bored middle-class housewives, neglected by their on-the-road, government-worker husbands. After a chance encounter with a pair of dewy-eyed lesbians at an outdoor café, our girls start looking at each other in a different light. After a sleepover turns Sapphic, our ladies are lonely no more, and they begin doing things that all lesbians do, like riding merry-go-rounds and playing miniature golf. Unfortunately, Adria's lust becomes wanderlust when she meets a hunky (in that '70's way) actor. But the dour Denise still has a thirst that needs to be quenched.
By 1975, lesbians were a provocative, but no longer really hot-button, topic for movies. Audiences had already been offered serious fare such as The Killing of Sister George and The Fox, and lesbians as punch lines in films such as X, Y, and Zee, Cleopatra Jones, and Once Is Not Enough. Ironically (or maybe, understandably), the soft-core antics by filmmakers like Radley Metzger and Joe Sarno, while more sensational, were far less judgmental than their more "respectable" counterparts.
"Respectable" is also not the word that leaps to mind when talking about Harry H. Novak, prolific producer of sleaze cinema. Although it's a Novak-produced film, Just the Two of Us is neither sleazy nor sick (unless you're offended by women in polyester muumuus sitting around garishly decorated homes—or if that whole infidelity thing bothers you). Compared to the typical Box Office International production, this one is positively chaste. There is a notable lack of nudity, and what is there is in service of the story. The acting is pretty good, and both the characters and the themes are treated sensitively. In an early scene, Denise, Adria, and two other lonely housewives meet for a bridge game. Adria wears a revealing dress that shocks her friends, but Denise finds it "wild." A discussion of lesbianism comes up when our heroines tell their friends about seeing the girls at the café. It's a good little scene, where characters weigh in with views that are not enlightened but sound right coming from suburban housewives in 1975. When one character refers to homosexuality as a mental illness, Denise explains that her college psychology professor didn't see it that way and there are a lot of behaviors that might not be considered "normal," all the while furtively glancing at Adria's heaving bosom. Later, when they "consummate" their relationship, the scene is played tender and romantic, bathed in shadows.
Clearly, this one was not made for the raincoat crowd, and a four-page glossy "press book" included with the disc shows us how far from the grindhouse Novak was aiming. The film was submitted to the MPAA for rating and received an R, meaning it was not limited as to where it was advertised and shown. There were two suggested ad campaigns, one playing up the steamy-erotic angle (featuring two actresses who aren't in the movie), the other more text-heavy and tasteful. It also lists a running time of 92 minutes (the DVD is 75 minutes) and hawks a trailer and radio and TV spots. The press book is a really neat addition.
Unfortunately, it's the only extra to be found. There is nothing on this disc other than the movie. I mean, nothing: no scene selections (though the film is broken into nine chapters), no stills, no trailer, no set-up options, zip, other than the film. I can understand that an obscure, low-budget movie made over 30 years ago might not yield a wealth of material, but is there no one who might want to say a few words? I believe Novak is still with us, and John Aprea (who plays Adria's boy toy) is still working, according to IMDb; plus the film was screened at Outfest a couple of years ago. Maybe they could have snagged a few words from the curator? And if the trailer for the film was gone, surely there are other Novak trailers. It's just somehow demoralizing to plunk down $19.99 for a DVD and be greeted by a menu screen that doesn't offer a menu. Why not just go straight to the movie and skip the menu screen altogether?
As far as the print, well, both the box and text at the beginning of the DVD warn us that it's pretty bad shape, and they're not kidding. Nicks and scratches abound, though in fairness, I've seen worse. Audio is Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, but with the overmodulating and scenes where the music makes the dialogue hard to hear, it doesn't seem that there was any restoration on this part either.
Speaking of the box, it makes no mention of Harry Novak, but does cite David Novak as the writer and David Nova as the producer; unfortunately, both those jobs were filled by David Novik. Jaques Deerson, the co-director and cinematographer, is listed as Jaque Beerson (a name he did use, but not here). Some cast members' names are also misspelled, and how this soapy tale of the suburbs can be called "A Pulp Fiction Novel Come to Life!" is beyond me.
(For better words than I can provide on Mr. Novak, check out some of the reviews by esteemed Judge Bill Gibron on Novak films from Something Weird Video, including The Dirty Mind of Young Sally, The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet, and Kiss Me Quick. When it comes to alternative cinema, Judge Gibron's knowledge puts me to shame.)
With its fleshed-out characters and story instead of fleshed-up sex and nudity, Just the Two of Us is not only not guilty, it's downright innocent. Wolfe Video, on the other hand, is guilty of giving us a sloppily packaged product with no extras on the disc, and is sentenced to six months of watching special editions from Something Weird, so they can learn how to put together a package worthy of the film.
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I am a novice photographer looking to get into DSLR photography. I have an old Maxxum 5 and a couple lenses for it: a 75-300 zoom and a 28-80 zoom. After reading this question, it is clear that these lenses will work with a Sony a57 (let me know if I'm confused on that point). My question is, is there any reason to buy the a57 with a new lens, or are my existing lenses just fine? It looks like I can purchase the Sony with an 18-55 lens for about $100 more than just the body. Other than the shorter focal length, which I don't care much about at the moment, will this lens perform better than the 28-80 I already have? It looks like the lens will cost me about $200 separately so if it is worth getting I am better off buying it with the body. But if it isn't better than my current lenses I'd rather save the $100.
The A57 - which got a DP Review Gold rating is a superb photo making system (as opposed to just being a camera) and you will be astounded at what it can achieve once you get used to it. The seamlessly integrated live view made possible by the Pellicle mirror, what-you-see-is-what-you-get EVF and constant phase type focusing transforms the overall taking experience compared to that from a "normal" DSLR. Note that more than for some cameras, the A57's RAW output is far better than JPEG*.
Overall, you will not regret buying the 18-55 lens in the circumstances.
The Sony 18-55 kit lens is better than may be expected with 78 user reviews giving it a 3.99/5 average rating. In this case it is superior to 3 of the 4 Minolta lenses in the 28-80 range so is worth having. Sharpness is good for an entry level lens, with "build" being what you'd expect in a modern plastic entry level lens.
While it is a matter of personal preference, when I am doing casual candid 'street photography, for general scenes I most usually use 18mm focal length on an APSC camera. The change from 18mm to 28mm gives you 18/28 = 64% of the width and angle of view and only 40% of the area. The difference is very substantial. 18mm on an APSC (equivalent to 27mm on a 35mm full frame) is on the upper end of what is classically accepted as "wide angle". 28mm APSC = 42mm FF is definitely not.
The following applies more genrally. In many cases my advice would be that the old Minolta lenses are good value for money and superior to kit alternatives. This casse is a welcome exception.
Quality wise the older Full Frame Minolta lenses are liable to be of equal to better quality than entry level "kit" Sony DX lenses.
You can find user reviews and discussion for all things Minolta, including much information re lenses at www.dyxum.com (aka Dynax + Maxum). DYXUM homme page here
Lens page here - accessed by tastefully small and easily overlooked top right menu entry on home page.
Use selector guide at right to narrow range.
There are 4 x 28-80mm lenses listed, with ratings of 3.44, 3.5, 4.22, 3.62
On the review page note where it says "total: 22 reviews". The "reviews" is a live link - click it and you get to read the 22 reviews.
Do I "need" an 18mm lens when I have a 28mm one?
An 18mm lens on an APSC camera with a 1.5 crop factor is the equivalent of a full frame 35mm camera with a 1.5 x 18 = 27mm lens. A 28mm lens on an APSC camera is the equivalenbt of a 42mm FF lens. The difference is extremely significant.
The 4 photos below were taken "while wandering around" using an APSC camera with 18mm fical length setting. The rectangles marked on each show the area would be covered if a 28mm lens had been used from the sam position. While "foot zoom" will allow you to obtain approximately the same result with a 28mm lens, circumstances and sheer physical constraints often make this completely impractical. Also, a 28mm lens shot covering the same area will change the perspective - for better or worse.
The top left shot has the camera held at arms length. MUCH longer arms would be needed to use a 28mm lens in this manner.
--> A number of photos all taken at 18mm can be found here.
Some have the 28mm effective area marked - in others it can be readily envisaged. Most of these are street scenes where a 28mm shot would have been limiting or impossible.
If you don't think you'll go wider than the full-frame equivalent of 42mm, save the $100.
I'd say you've got two things to consider:
First, field of view:
The sensor on an a57 is an APS-C size, which is smaller than the full 135 format frame that your Maxxum 5 would have used. So your lenses on the a57 will be effectively 'longer' than they were on the Maxxum. This is a dark rabbit hole to get sucked in to. For more, see What is the difference between focal length and crop factor? and What is "angle of view" in photography?.
With the 1.5x crop factor, your 28–80mm will have a field of view like a 42-120mm on film, and your 75–300mm will be effectively a 112.5-450mm lens. On the a57, the 18–55mm kit lens will have a near-identical field of view (27.5–82.5mm) as your 28–80mm did on film.
So if you liked shooting wider than 42mm (on film), you won't have that wider field of view available with your current lenses on the digital camera.
As for size and weight… well, typically I'd say that lenses for the smaller APS-C sensor can be smaller and lighter than lenses with the same field of view on larger formats, but according to Dyxum the 18-55 is actually slightly heavier than your 28-80. So I guess there's no weight savings to be had.
So, yeah, if you didn't ever use the 28–42mm range of your 28–80 zoom, save the $100.


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About 2/3 of veterans don't access the Department of Veterans Affairs, and one VA official said many veterans don't know about the benefits available to them.
"These benefits and broad and diverse," said Tommy Sowers, assistant secretary of the VA for public and intergovernmental affairs.
Sowers, who visited Leavenworth Tuesday, said he wants to the get the word out about services. He said VA officials want to reach all veterans.
He toured the Eisenhower VA Medical Center Tuesday. He met with representatives of American Indian tribes while at the VA.
Also while in Leavenworth, he visited the Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy, which dispenses prescriptions for veterans through the mail.
Sowers said he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth while serving in the Army.
"It's good to be back here," he said.
Sowers is an 11-year veteran of the Army. He became the assistant secretary for the VA last year.
"The VA has changed my life," he said, with services such as a home loan and health care.
Sowers said he encourages veterans to visit the website va.gov for more information about the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Sowers also was promoting an upcoming VA small business conference, scheduled for Aug. 6-8 in St. Louis. More information about that event can be found at nationalveteransconference.com.
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Like a magical secret, Rhinefield House is located deep within the New Forest National Park. Step inside and the aura of magic simply deepens – and nowhere more spectacularly than in the Alhambra Room, bedecked in glittering jewels.
With beautiful surroundings and a blend of Tudor and Gothic architecture, Rhinefield is the most perfect fairytale wedding venue. It is also the ideal setting for an indulgent break and an inspiring conference venue for meetings, team building or product launches. Downtime means the chance to take in the great outdoors we have on our doorstep, whether its pony trekking, long walks in the forest or a day trip to the sea.
The hotel has 50 bedrooms including three feature suites, an outdoor pool and a small health suite. The 2 AA Rosette fine dining Armada restaurant is perfect for romantic or celebratory meals and The Grill offers a less formal setting with views of our ornamental ponds. We also offer private dining options for special occasions, including our renowned room inspired by the Alhambra Palace in Spain.
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I'm developing a 2D platformer, although this question could probably apply to just about any 2D type physics; What is the equation for friction? I have sort of a hacky type of friction set up in my game currently, but I'm not satisfied with it because it doesn't account for all forces being applied to my character outside of whatever forces he's generating himself.
There's two types of friction, static friction and kinetic friction. Static friction is the friction that needs to be overcome to get something moving from rest. You'll notice when pushing a box across the floor, it can often take more force to get it moving than to keep it moving. Or you'll be applying force and it will jolt forward and you'll have to not push as hard. That jolt forward is the point when static friction is overcome and you're dealing with kinetic friction. Kinetic friction is almost always (always?) less then static friction.
Either way, friction is a force just like acceleration. It's calculated based on the normal force of the objects and coefficent of friction (µ).
This free body diagram shows a few forces.
So when the force of friction and the force being applied are equal, the object will not accelerate. So if it's stopped, it's not going anywhere and if it's moving it'll continue to move at that speed.
So you're going to want to collect some information to simulate friction.
Then you can simply calculate the force of friction with the following:
friction = µ • normalForce
When you're summing up your forces you include this force. If you have no other accelerations, then your friction is going to be the only force, and will slow your object down.


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Geometric group theory and 3-manifolds hand in hand: the fulfillment of Thurston's vision
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Abstract: In the late 1970s, Thurston revolutionized our understanding of 3-manifolds. He stated a far-reaching geometrization conjecture and proved it for a large class of manifolds, called Haken manifolds. He also posed 24 open problems, describing his vision of the structure of 3-manifolds.
Pieces of Thurston's vision have been confirmed in the subsequent years. In the meantime, Dani Wise developed a sophisticated program to study cube complexes and, in particular, to promote immersions to embeddings in a finite cover. Ian Agol completed Wise's program and, as a result, essentially all problems on Thurston's list are now solved. In these notes I will outline a proof that closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds are virtually Haken.
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The English word "wallet" (as in something you carry in your pocket to hold money, credit cards, etc.) can be translated into Spanish as cartera or billetera. Are the words synonyms that can be used interchangeably, or does each country generally use one word or the other? If it is a regional difference, what areas of the Spanish-speaking world generally use each word?
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It is a regional choice, as with many other nouns.
In Chile, billetera is the only translation of wallet (though we would understand the use of cartera from a foreign person), but cartera is actually purse, as in handbag: a bag a woman uses to carry stuff, which is usually much bigger than a wallet and does not fit in a pocket.
In other countries, words like bolsa and bolso are used for purse, while cartera is used for wallet.
My guess is that cartera is more widespread, because it is also the origin of carterista (pickpocket), which is more standard. If you intend to translate the word for a global audience, you should go for cartera.
In Colombia, the word
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I am almost certain that in other Latin American countries (Argentina comes to mind) the words