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Oh, God: Say it With Laughter
Many years ago (1976), my first job in the film industry was as the assistant to a legendary film producer named Ray Stark. Ray produced such classics as "Funny Girl," "The Way We Were," and "The Goodbye Girl." Even though I went out on my own in 1980 to produce "Somewhere in Time," Ray and I stayed in touch and, from time to time, he would invite me to his home to watch films with him in his projection room. One night, in 1984, he invited me over to see a new film called "Splash." Ray was particularly interested in "Splash" because, for years, he had been developing a remake to a dramatic film from the 1940's entitled "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid," in which a man found a mermaid, put her in a pond near him, and fell in love with her. When we had finished watching "Splash," Ray turned to me and said. "Well, that's the end of developing "Peabody." There are some issues that audiences just respond better to when they're presented in comedies than when drama is involved. An audience will give you a lot more leeway in a comedy with their willingness to suspend disbelief than they will in a drama."
My dear friend Bruce Joel Rubin, the genius writer of "Ghost," told me that the whole notion of the Whoopi Goldberg character in the film being comedic was a major key to making the overall film work as it did. Audiences love to laugh and it just makes the story more easily digestible when laughter is present.
Wise men. Wise words.
Some of the great spiritual films are comedies because they indeed give us that chance as an audience to look more comfortably at certain subject matter that could otherwise be very daunting if presented in drama; moreover, these films allow us to look at ourselves in very human, but humorous ways. "Groundhog Day" presents a brilliant metaphor for how we evolve from lifetime to lifetime. "Defending Your Life" looks at how we examine our lives after we transition and become aware of the issues that we chose to deal with in life. "Heaven Can Wait" shows us how destiny and love can combine to completely alter who we are and how we see ourselves. (All of those films are available on DVD and I highly recommend them.)
Another perfect case in point to look at in more depth is the wonderful 1977 film "Oh, God" in which God appears in the form of George Burns to deliver some important messages to the world via a meek grocery clerk played with innocent sweetness by John Denver. By actually believing that he is indeed talking to God, Denver loses his job, and also becomes an object of derision until God actually makes a dramatic courtroom appearance on Denver's behalf. In a drama, I don't believe that audiences would have been receptive to such a premise but, in this charming, witty, and gentle film, some beautiful and empowering messages about our humanity were slipped in between the laughter and the fun of the plot:
"Even non-believers want what you have here to work. I set the world up so it can work."
"Religion is easy. I'm talking about faith."
"Men and women's existence means what you think it means. Nothing more, nothing less."
"I'm God only for the big picture. I don't get into details. I gave you a world and everything in it. It's all up to you."
"You have free will. All the choices are yours."
"Young people can't fall from my grace. They're my best things."
"You want a miracle? You make a fish from scratch. You can't. And when the last one's gone, eighty-six on the fishes, good-bye sky, so long world. It's over."
"Sure, I make mistakes. Tobacco. Ostriches, silly-looking things. Avocadoes, made the pit too big. But, hey, you try."
In the courtroom scene at the end of the film, Burns delivers one of the most poignant lines of the film: "If you find it hard to believe in me, know that I believe in you."
Laughter and tears of joy and recognition. Now THAT'S Spiritual Cinema.


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Former La Plata County resident Paul William Peterson died Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in Bloomfield, N.M. He was one month shy of his 92nd birthday.
Mr. Peterson was born to John Victor and Goldie Peterson on Sept. 7, 1920, in Pagosa Springs. He was one of six children. He graduated from eighth grade in Pagosa Springs before going to work during the Depression.
During World War II, he served as a paratrooper, jumping into many battles, including D-Day on Normandy Beach in France.
On June 1, 1946, he married Mary Margaret �Margy� Grimes in Pagosa Springs.
Mr. Peterson was a former resident of Durango, Bayfield, Ignacio and Pagosa Springs. He enjoyed being a rancher and a ranch foreman for all of his working life and was one of the last �real cowboys,� his family said. He worked on several ranches in the area, including for the Cugninis and Ludwigs and above Vallecito Reservoir.
Until about three years ago, he worked at the sale barns in Breen, Aztec and Kirtland, N.M.
Mr. Peterson was a member of Disabled Veterans of America. He enjoyed hunting and fishing.
�His family as well as many other Americans thank him for keeping us free and safe,� his family said. �His patriotism and love of family and friends will be greatly missed.�
Mr. Peterson was preceded in death by his wife of 52 years, Mary Margaret Peterson; and son Dean Peterson.
He is survived by his son Dale Peterson of Bloomfield; brother Jack Peterson of Wickenburg, Ariz.; five grandchildren; one great-grandson; and numerous nieces, nephews and extended family members.
A celebration of life will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at Bloomfield First Baptist Church Chapel, 200 W. Sycamore Ave. The Rev. Lamar Morin will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to Guardian Angels Home Health and Hospice, 4801 N. Butler Ave., Suite 2000, Farmington, NM 87401.

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WEIRTON - Oak Glen blew open a close game in the third quarter Friday night to defeat Weir High 33-12 and get the first leg on a new Carl Hamill Trophy at the new Jimmy Carey Stadium.
Weir High, losers of six straight games, surprisingly hung around but were unable to capitalize on several opportunities. The Red Riders trailed by just 7-0 at the half, but yielded two third-quarter touchdowns before finally getting on the scoreboard.
The victory snapped a three-game Golden Bears losing streak and gave them four straight wins in the annual clash of the Hancock County rivals..
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GETTING YARDS — Oak Glen's Tyler Steed, who just misses being tackled by Weir's Jaquan Ware and is being chased by Weir's Matthew Thompson, runs for a 38-yard touchdown in the first quarter of Friday's 33-12 victory over the Red Riders at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
-- Mike Mathison
"This win was something we really needed," said first-year Oak Glen coach Ian Whittington. "We needed it to get our confidence back up and try to get on a roll."
Whittington noted that his Golden Bears kept shooting themselves in the foot in the first half.
"Every time we got something going, we committed a penalty and we've been doing that a lot this season," said Whittington, whose team was flagged eight times for 66 yards. "At halftime we adjusted our offense a little bit. We thought it was best to just line up in the I-formation and run at them, run some clock and take control of the game.
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Oak Glen 33, Weir 12
Oak Glen 7 0 14 12 - 33
Weir 0 0 0 12 - 12
OG: Steed 38 run (Weltner kick)
OG: Haddox 15 run (Weltner kick)
OG: Haddox 1 run (Weltner kick)
W: Rice 69 pass from Larch (kick failed)
OG: Steed 5 run (kick failed)
W: Rice 82 pass from Larch (run failed)
OG: Haddox 2 run (pass failed)
RUSHING: Oak Glen 39-261-5td (Steed 17-157-2, Haddox 12-53-3, Smith 2-30, Flowers 4-14, Campbell 3-7, Staley 1-0). Weir: 34-minus-22 (Larch 14-(-20), DiGirolamo 11-14, D. Baldwin 3-6, Davis 6-(-22).
PASSING: Oak Glen (3-7-25-0-0, all by Haddox), Weir 6-16-2-2 (Larch 5-14-2-1x, Wypasek 1-2-14-0-1x).
RECEIVING: Oak Glen: Flowers 1-12, Campbell 1-9, Steed 1-4; Weir Rice 3-151-2, Davis 1-14, DiGirolamo 2-(-2).
FIRST DOWNS: Oak Glen 10, Weir 3.
PENALTIES: Oak Glen 8-66, Weir 6-30.
FUMMBLES: Oak Glen 1-0, Weir 2-1.
"This is a big rivalry game and no matter what the teams' records are they always end up being close games. We knew they would be coming out tough and wanting to win this game. We wanted to score early and we did that, but those penalties really hurt. But we did accomplish our goal when we came out in the second half and scored early."
Weir High kicked off to the Golden Bears to open the second half and senior Trey Smith ran the kickoff from his 17 to the 43. Then, senior Tyler Steed took over running the ball five straight times down to the Red Rider 10 yard-line.
After an illegal substitution penalty put the ball back to the Weir High 15, junior quarterback Bub Haddox threw an incomplete pass and then took the ball himself around right end on a keeper for a touchdown. Josh Weltner's kick made the score 14-0 to give the Golden Bears some breathing room.
The Golden Bears had also scored on its first possession of the first half with Steed going up the middle from 38 yards out. Weltner's kick was the last score of the first half.
Red Rider coach, Tony Filberto, said he was proud of his kids.
"I told you guys we had a lot of pride at Weir High," he said. "We turned the ball over a couple of times, but we started five freshmen on defense and hung in there."
In addition to playing the youngsters, three Red Rider upper classmen were injured in the second half and were unable to finish the contest.
"We also started three sophomores and I'll tell you this, if they continue to play like they did tonight they have to be the proudest bunch in the Ohio Valley," he continued. "If they had played like this previously, I think we would have some wins right now. I think this will give us some momentum for the remainder of our season."
Right before the first half ended, the Red Riders had an opportunity to score. The Weir High defense had Oak Glen's back to the wall and faced with a fourth and 15 at their own five, junior punter, Colton Speece, could only kick the ball out to his own 26.
On first down, Red Rider quarterback, William Larch, lofted a pass to the left corner near the end zone, but junior receiver, Jaquan Ware, dropped the football at the Oak Glen two yard line. On third down, Larch's pass was intercepted at the Golden Bear five by Cody Howell.
Larch, a sophomore, finished the game connecting on five of 13 passes for 149 yards and two touchdowns.
The two touchdown passes came on spectacular plays and both times he found sophomore wide receiver, Jonathan Rice, open, hitting him in full stride down the right sideline. One went for a 69-yard touchdown, the other was for 82 yards.
However, by this time the Golden Bears were in command by 21-0 on a one-yard quarterback keeper by Haddox, who scored three rushing touchdowns in the game.
"We were playing a lot of man coverage and occasionally the receiver will get behind the defense," Whittington said of Rice's catches. "That kid is a heck of a ballplayer and really fast. He went over our kid's shoulder and caught it and that will happen when you play man coverage all game."
The Golden Bears quickly answered Rice's first touchdown catch with a six-play 47-yard scoring drive.
After a shanked kickoff, the Golden Bears recovered the ball at the Weir High 47 to set up the march, which ended with Steed blasting through the middle from five yards out for his second touchdown of the night.
Steed wound up with 17 carries and rushed for 148 yards to lead all ball cariers. Haddox added another 51 yards on the ground with 10 carries.
Rice's second touchdown narrowed the Oak Glen lead to 27-12.
The Riders gallantly marched to the Oak Glen 39 in seven plays, but freshman quarterback, Jake Wypasek, had his pass intercepted by Nathan Bebout.
Wypasek took over for Larch, who was injured during the drive.
Steed again was the workhorse carrying the ball four straight times to the Red Rider three from where Haddox swept left end for his third touchdown of the game.


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Hi, in differential geometry or in complex geometry one of basic stuff to prove something is to do it on the local charts and then to check that the construction glues with the others charts. Which is the anologous of local charts (ball in $C^n$) in algebraic geometry (not only complex algebraic geometry) which are "more small" or more local then the affine schemes?
The question arise from the fact that many time I see that something is proved assuming that these local charts are Spec of some complete ring.
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8 Mind-Blowing Realities of Our Future Full of Old People
#4. Governments Will Pay You to Bone
Have you ever dreamed that the government would pay you to have babies? You know, like the opposite of what China does? If you're the ghost of Ronald Reagan, you'll argue that the government already tried that project and called it "welfare." If you're the ghost of Rush Limbaugh, you'll say "Good one, sir!" and have an existential crisis, since you shouldn't exist yet. But the whole fundamental problem with an aging population is a drought of young, able-bodied workers. So at some point, they'll have to start providing incentives to get busy making more.
You see, when Social Security got up and running in the United States, there were 42 workers for every retiree, but because fewer people are having kids and old people are living longer, by 2030 that number is expected to be two. That's two workers trudging into the daily grind and putting in their share of taxes to help one retiree get by. And Europe is looking at the same numbers.
Germany came up with a final solution (sorry) -- "reasonable incentive," paying women up to $35,000 for a year of child care leave. Australia straight up gives out cash money for new babies -- up to $6,000. Newly re-elected Russian president Vladimir Putin pledged to give $221 a month and housing priorities to Russian moms who were willing to have a third kidsinzki. And with good reason -- after suffering through two world wars, the Cold War and the rule of a genocidal maniac, Russia is now suffering through its worst population decline ever, with the U.N. predicting that they'll lose 31 million people by 2050.
"OK, it's all come down to Pyotr."
In other words, in the future Russia might be nothing more than a vodka-soaked wasteland where our greatest enemies used to be. Because in countries where new working humans can't be spawned fast enough ...
#3. We'll Desperately Need Foreigners to Do Our Work
True story: In 2011, Georgia farmers were forced to let millions of dollars' worth of food rot in the fields because they didn't have enough laborers to harvest it. The same thing happened in Alabama and Washington and in the 1984 Sally Field tearjerker Places in the Heart.
The reason for the labor shortage was an illegal-immigration law that spooked migrant workers from showing up to work the fields. So why didn't native-born Americans looking for work offer to pick crops? Ha ha. Stop being hilarious with that knee-slapper. Because native-born Americans aren't used to doing physical labor for the wages it takes to keep a farm going.
"And you can't make tortillas for shit, either."
What does this have to do with the surreal future of living among the walking not-yet-dead? Elderly, decrepit nations need young bodies to keep the wheels of society turning, and until we start harvesting octopi to do our bidding, facilitating the movements of both skilled and unskilled immigrants is going to be in everyone's interests.
Maybe it sounds harsh to our First World ears: "Oh hey, let's import unwhites to do our labor! Why don't we bring back slavery and dial-up Internet service while we're at it?" But chances are your ancestors took a very similar opportunity to get you to a place where you can feel bad about the fact that you'd rather stand on a sidewalk wearing a Statue of Liberty costume than pick blueberries off a farm. Are you embarrassed that your great-great-grandparents sold their good china and doctor diplomas for a chance to slop pig innards in the slaughterhouses of Chicago? No way -- that very specific story is part of your narrative, you probably wrote an essay about it in school.
Or at the very least, did a prop speech that really freaked everyone out.
And ultimately all this people movement is a good thing, because it speeds up globalization, which eventually extends life expectancies and global wealth all around. Remember, even now we live in a world where there are more elderly citizens than there are people to take care of them. Which is why one German state started training sex workers to fill nursing home positions. As they put it:
The retraining of prostitutes is an obvious move since prostitutes possess good people skills, aren't easily disgusted and have zero fear of physical contact.
"Hey, baby, how much for an enema?"
Plus, everybody gets a happy ending.
#2. Everything Will Be Engineered for the Old
You didn't think Google's driverless cars were just for drunks, did you? Trust us, you don't want to be on the interstate a few decades from now when the average driver can't go over 45 without everything turning into a confusing blur, the line of their creeping cars one long string of ever-blinking turn signals.
But that's just the start. Have you ever had to childproof your home? Plugs have to be covered, gates erected, breakables moved, cabinets locked, knives dulled, bullets replaced with blanks, etc. Fifty years from now you'll find yourself living in a world where that process has been reversed to keep the world accessible not for babies, but for the elderly. Most of us are going to be walking around in bodies that are slowly failing us. We'll have backs hunched by osteoporosis and spinal compression, arms that can't fully extend, legs that can't carry the weight of our own bones longer than a few minutes, eyes that have yellowed and dulled and can no longer differentiate between James Franco and James Marsden, no matter how hard they try.
"Get that gun out of my face, Stinkeye, or I'll feed it to you."
We'll have to rethink everything -- every appliance and piece of furniture and lawnmower will need to be built to be operated by people with limited mobility. But how do you test the stuff without capturing hundreds of old people and forcing them to use your invention until they injure themselves? Well, one way is with tools like MIT's AGNES suit.
Via Topnews.ae
It really bunches in the crotch.
AGNES stands for Age Gain Now Empathy System, presumably because Me Be Old One Day was already taken by Harvard's aging department. AGNES is a suit that helps young people feel old, not by hiking their pants teats-high and making them eat at a buffet, but by physically limiting their bodies with the same limitations that the elderly experience.
One German car maker is using AGNES to figure out how to make their cars easier to get in and out of, retail manufacturers are using the suit to make their packaging more accessible and one grocery chain is using AGNES to make their stores safer for future customers. It's like babyproofing the world -- but the babies will be us.
"Dare me to ramp it?"
#1. Oldness Could Lead to World Peace
War is a young man's game. Not just in the sense that you rarely see old guys tearing it up on the battlefield outside of Stallone movies, but because armies need money to operate. And there will likely come a time when nations will have to spend so much money on the upkeep of their elderly population that sending soldiers out to do war will fall way down on the list of national priorities. If you don't know what we mean, look at the United States federal budget:
Via Usgovernmentspending.com
Mmmmm ... pie.
See that whole bottom half that says "Health Care" and "Pensions"? That's Medicare and Social Security, aka Programs for Old People. As the population ages, those wedges only get bigger and bigger. Leaving less room for things like "Defense." We'd have to start borrowing money or something.
It's not just the U.S. -- according to researcher Mark L. Haas, the world is heading into a perfect storm of peace and good times, thanks to governments so overwhelmed with the cost of keeping Grandma alive that they won't have money or political willpower to mess with their neighbors.
And Canadians did rejoice.
The exceptions are the underdeveloped countries, where the birth rates are high and lifespans are low, so we can't rule out all conflict. But, according to Haas, the U.S. "will be less able to realize key international objectives, including preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, funding nation building and engaging in military humanitarian interventions." That really does seem to eliminate a lot of the reasons the U.S. has had to go to war for the past 100 years or so.
Haas calls it a "geriatric peace," and it might be the closest thing we ever get to teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony and buying them a Coke. Ooooor history's greatest atrocities are yet to come, because the U.S. will be so focused on getting Grandma to her bonsai classes that we don't notice that an entire hemisphere has taken up arms against each other. It could go either way, really. Keep your fingers crossed!
And Canadians did prepare.
Kristi Harrison is all about the future on Twitter, and all about the past on Tumblr.
For more things you need to know about old people, check out 6 Obnoxious Old People Habits (Explained by Science) and 19 Things Old People Suspect About Modern Culture.
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Can a father and son take karate or kung-fu lessons together if part of the training involves sparring? Is there a problem with the son hitting the father?
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The main question here, I believe, is whether a father has it within his authority to allow his son to strike him, which would otherwise be a terrible sin for the son.
In Y"D (240:19) the Shulhan 'Aruch writes that a father may not insist on being honored, because if the son fails, the father has effectively placed a stumbling block before him. Instead, writes the Shulhan 'Aruch:
I doubt that there is a published opinion directly on point, however, the Star-K website includes an article on a similar question. There the issue concerns whether a son, who is a dentist, may do dental work on his father in order to save the father a substantial amount of money. The article includes numerous sources which speak to the general halacha, which asserts that: (a) it is forbidden to hit or wound any Jew -- more so if you cause him to bleed, with the exception being that a doctor can cause his patient to bleed for medical purposes; and (b) there is a separate commandment that prevents a son from hitting his parent and causing the parent to bleed. (See רמ"א יו"ד סי' רמא סעי') The article cites the Chidah and others for the position that if there is another doctor available, then it is forbidden for the child to do so.
However, the Minchas Chinuch (מנחת חינוך מצוה מח), rules that if the parent gives his or her permission, then the child could even hit the parent and cause bleeding! The article cites former Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzhok HaLevi Herzog and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, among others, who would follow the Minchas Chinuch in medical situations.
It is possible that the opinion of the Minchas Chinuch might open the door for a rabbinic ruling that a father and son could practice martial arts together, even if that meant that the child could cause his father to bleed. If I were to take this question to my local Orthodox rabbi, I might stipulate that both father and son will be fully padded, to make bleeding less likely. Still, local Orthodox rabbi might ask whether there is anyone else who can practice with father and son. Also, local Orthodox rabbi might very well decide that the opinion of the Minchas Chinuch is limited to medical necessity issues and that the father cannot give permission to son to hit him -- at least not hard enough to cause bleeding.
The Gemara in Sanhedrin 84b relates that several Amaroim did not let their sons to let their blood (a common cure in those days) even for the benefit of the father because if the Issur of making a father bleed.
The Rema in Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah, Simun 241, sif 3 says that if there is no one else then it is permissible to do it.
Now, bruising someone on Shabbos is considered the same as blood letting because the blood leaves the main flow. In Karate, there is probably at least some bruising.
Seeing as this is not a case of Bdi-eved where no else can help because the whole Karate is unneeded, it follows that it is Ossur in accordance with the Shulchan Aruch.


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Do you know of any software out there that will allow me to play in different musical temperaments (e.g. Well temperament and Meantone temperament)? I'm especially interested in software that accepts MIDI input.
Logic Pro has built-in controls for using different temperaments. Check out the link below:
It allows you to either select a pre-configured tuning system, or customize your own. MAX/MSP is another solution, but if you don't have programming experience, using this as an option might be significantly more trouble than it's worth. However, you could
Here are some other links I found, but cannot personally vouch for:
http://www.cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=7392 (If you have MAX, you could use this file to convert MIDI input to specific frequencies).
http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_playing_cracks/ (article describing various software programs suited for alternate tunings)
Midi actually has a 20-year old ratified specification extension just for this. Any synth that supports that extensions should support those temperaments (although you might need an appropriate midi interface too).
The wikipedia page for the extension page lists a number of soft-synths that support the extension.
The MIDI program Timidity can be adjusted to any tuning you want, though it requires a little bit of work.
Timidity supports playing just intonation very easily:
To make your own, arbitrary tunings, see this.
Mutabor allows you to use arbitrary tunings and works on a couple of platforms. It accepts MIDI input from keyboards and files. On Mac I've had some trouble getting it set up, and the translation to English is not done yet, but it has great potential...
Pianoteq. You should really look at this physical-modeling piano virtual instrument plugin . Not only does it support all the historical temperaments, it models many kinds of harpsichords, fortepianos, pianos, and other instruments. It sounds excellent and is light on system requirements, and it's available for Mac, PC and Linux.
Korg and Yamaha synths each support a fairly large number of different temperaments. Other makes may as well, these are just the ones I have owned. I'm surprised the companies don't advertise this feature.
Alt-tuner is a midi effect for your DAW, very powerful. You can sweep the whole spectrum of meantone (1/3 comma, 2/7 comma, 1/4 comma, 1/5 comma, 1/11 comma = 12-ET, 0 comma = pythagorean) and you can even do this with a foot pedal as you are playing, via midi learn. It also does well-temperament, any kind. It does just intonation with commatic shifts, called tapnotes. It does ADAPTIVE just intonation, which adjusts all the pitches very slightly (2-3¢) as you play, for a better sound than quarter-comma meantone, which has fifths flat by 5.5¢, and min 7ths and maj 9ths flat by 11¢.
You can also switch back and forth between all these tunings with foot pedals as you play - as to Monica Cellio's comment above - no need for mp3s, just play and listen!
Every virtual organ software that I know of can handle multiple temperaments:
According to wikipedia, "A microtuner or microtonal tuner is an electronic device or software program designed to modify and test the tuning of musical instruments (in particular synthesizers) with microtonal precision, allowing for the design and construction of microtonal scales and just intonation scales, and for tuning intervals that differ (or not) from those of common Western equal temperament." See:
"Hardware microtuners" listed there includes "ORIENTAL / WORLD SCALE MIDI CONVERTER", "FSU Dynamic Microtuning Box", and "H-Pi Instruments Tuning Box TBX1".
"Software microtuners" listed there includes "chelles et Modes (Mac & PC)", "alt-tuner", "L'il Miss' Scale Oven (Mac)", "microtuner Max/MSP object", "Scala (Windows, Linux, Mac)", "Tobybear MicroTuner VST plugin (Windows)". "Tune Smithy (Windows)", and "Mutabor".
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Now that entertainment for the Fans. I have feeling peppers will be rejuvenated and lead this D.
10 million per year. Same as Shields.Hide replies
Look only at the guaranteed money. Nothing else is relevant.
Look at the cap...that is the relevant part...just $3.5 million stated in the article...that is very good!
8 mil and 3.5 on a washed up defensive end is very good! Are you crazy? This guy is toast.
8 mil and 3.5 on a washed up defensive end is very good! Are you crazy? This guy is toast.
Holy Crap...I knew it was a cold winter, but I didn't know hell hath frozen over! OK everybody, let's give credit where credit is due. Good job TT!Hide replies
He is a washed up defensive end! This is the best TT can do? NOT!
Yes, but after all he is a former Bear...[and Panther] which should help us because those two teams are just two of the teams the Packers will have to contend with. First in our division and then in the Conference for Supremacy.
WOW 34 years old. Hope he still has something left. If he is used only in passing situations that is a lot of pesos per down played.Hide replies
How long did Reggie White play? Was he 36? Peppers has some years left. This is one of the several "open window" deals the Packers needed to make. There is a 3-5 year Super Bowl window now. Lets seize it and hope Julius can help us next year. Period. Stop complaining. Great signing.
Observing him at length last year, I don't think he's got anything left in the tank. Why not Allen instead? At least he's got a pulse.
I remember you Jose, you were a fine clay court tennis player, but couldn't really handle hard courts or grass. Nadal has proven that a classic clay court ace can be a brilliant all court champion! But I think Peppers has a couple years left. He did look a little worn down last year, but could be wrong.
This makes no sense, at all. Has Ted Thompson been abducted?Hide replies
How does it not make sense? Most likely he will not see all three years of the contract. It is the way of the NFL.
That guaranteed money could have been used to sign someone else who is younger and fits the scheme, on offense or defense.
He's too talented not to 'fit' any defense. He's strong enough to put his hand down and he's a good enough athlete to play off the line and not get gashed. Like Tom said, the only issue will be giving him enough rushes to keep him happy and motivated.
He's still a very good to occasionally great player and hasn't missed a game in six years.
Yes! Great signing
Great signing? A washed up 34 year old defensive end. Get real!
Facetious Tom, facetious.
Old, but low long term risk with good upside on being a badly needed pass rush upgrade. Number of Packers with 8 sacks last year… zero. (Clay 7.5, Daniels 6.5)
Did you watch him last year? What upside is there? If its veteran presence you're looking for, I can live with it. But he'll be nothing more than a decoy to open up the rest of the pass rush, and believe me, teams will run right at this guy.
I assume all of the TT haters will not be posting on this article. How in the hell can anyone be that critical of a guy with a SB ring?!?! Hope peppers has something left in the tank.Hide replies
He doesn't have anything left in the tank! Horrible signing!
thats the problem the goals is multiple rings
The goal is to make the playoffs every year - with the 16 game pass happy league - there's bound to be a ton of injuries - hot and cold streaks, it's about getting to the dance and hoping you're on a hot streak.
A solid value on a truly impactful player. That's how FA is done!
This is an early April Fool's joke....right? RIGHT??!! LOL.....
If Peppers is p*ssed off and motivated, that is a very good signing.Hide replies
Motivated??? He is washed up!
If Peppers is p*ssed off and motivated, that is a very good signing.Hide replies
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Christmas Eve, and the Lee family's reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.
When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man....
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The Stack Exchange team are very transparent and open. Have they considered adding a humans.txt to the Stack Exchange websites?
What is meta?
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- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
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It's not called
There are also "Welcome Stack Overflow Valued Associate #000X blog posts for most of the team, available by searching for that phrase or filtering the announcements category on the blog.
humanstxt.org states:
In this case, Jeff and Joel take time to blog about each employee, and give them a face on a set of pages specially designed to show off the team. This is, IMO, better than a humans.txt, and 'about' is linked in the top of every page rather than being hidden behind a secret URL.
I might support redirecting humans.txt to the /about/team page, but the current setup is better.
They kinda do, http://stackexchange.com/about/team.
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I don't see any payoff for implementing this. It would basically reproduce our existing user list unless you propose some sort of criteria where users would be featured in that file.
If you needed to do something exceptional and difficult to game like modem whistling an answer to the server that gets 100 up votes in order to get your name in that file along with geek code, I can see it becoming a source of nerdish pride unlike any gold badge we've seen.
Implementing it just for the sake of implementing it seems like a bit of a waste to me.
"All the cool kids are doing it" seems to be the only argument for doing this, really. As pointed out before, we already have a better organised list of contributors to the site, so a humans.txt would be redundant.


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Having graduated from the Naval Academy 44 years ago I have seen a number of Academy traditions live on in the Brigade while others have been consigned to the dustbin of history. One tradition that seems to have gone the way of June Week (we now have Commissioning Week in May) is supporting the other service academies in sporting events when they are not playing Navy. It is a shame midshipmen do not cheer for the other academies because one day their lives actually may depend on a comrade-in-arms from another service.
During a Navy-Tulane home football game a few years back, I was all smiles watching Navy running over an opponent when the scoreboard flashed a score: Army was winning their game 3 to 0. I jumped up, cheering at the thought of another classic Army-Navy battle for the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy if the Woops could keep the lead. Then I noticed that very few others were cheering for Army-least of all members of the Brigade. I thought back over the many seasons since graduation I had spent in the upper deck of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium and found that I could not recall ever seeing the Brigade cheer for one of the other academies when that school's score appeared on the scoreboard.
When my wife asked why I was cheering for Army, I asked her why we cheer for Navy. "Navy is our team," she replied. Well, the Army and Air Force academies are my teams, too, as I learned only too well on the battlefields of Vietnam and in the concrete jungle of the Pentagon, at least when I was not competing with their graduates. Today's midshipmen do not seem to get it that life as a commissioned officer often involves close interaction with members of the other services. And sometimes your life depends on them.
During my Plebe year, my firsties, the Class of 1959, taught me to cheer for Army except when they played Navy. An unscientific survey of ten of my classmates revealed nine continued to cheer for Army and Air Force unless they were pitted against Navy. A friend in the Class of '64 felt the same and recalled being taught to do that. The same survey of ten current midshipmen and recent graduates disclosed that all but one never cheered for the other service academies, and among those who didn't, some actually wanted to see our future comrades lose.
The camaraderie among all services that I had been taught seems to no longer exist-and I find that disappointing. What happened to the tradition drilled into me so many years ago? Did an over-eager upperclassman take "Beat Army" way too seriously and change it to "Hate Army?" At least, that was the reason a member of '03 gave me when he told me why he never cheered for the Cadets. Indeed, he was encouraged to hate them. Regardless of what caused it, the tradition I was taught has disappeared, and it is time to bring it back. Respect for the other services is more important now then ever. Joint operations are a way of life among today's warriors. Midshipmen will find that when they hit the Fleet and take part in joint operations-or are sentenced to a tour in the Pentagon-interservice cooperation is key to an officer's ability to get something done.
Let nothing I have said be taken to disparage other commissioning sources from such great schools as Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Maryland, and other worthy opponents. These universities continue to produce outstanding officers. However, none of these institutions has a complete student body dedicated from the first day of college to serving our nation in one of the armed forces.
We have witnessed the loss of a fine tradition that I believe should be revived. Midshipmen and grads should be cheering for West Point, the Air Force Academy, and the Coast Guard Academy except when we play them. Joint thinking should begin during Plebe Summer, with a healthy dose of respect for their future comrades. Midshipmen should be taught, as I was, to root for the other academies. If we start building a joint tradition early in the professional lives of our future naval and Marine Corps officers, I am confident that it will pay dividends in the years ahead.
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After completing the game with standard settings, I started a Hardcore game. After playing for a while I have still not leveled up. Is there a certain way to do this?
I am playing hardcore and have reached level 14 just by questing, killing and challenges.
I have not played the other mode, but so far it seems the same as Fallout 3, just a tad slower leveling.
Do you see your xp bar? Do you play the PC or Xbox version?
Try opening your pip boy on the Stats tab and have a look at the top right corner. This shows your XP points in the form of current points /next level. So for example, if it shows 1023/1500 then you need to earn a further 477 XP points to reach the next level.
If you use Right stick (on xbox) to flip through the categories at the bottom, it should also display your current level on the General tab.
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Nearly two weeks after superstorm Sandy slammed into the New York region, about a third of the city's financial district remains crippled, with no quick fixes in sight.
As life in much of the rest of Manhattan returns to normal, dozens of downtown office and apartment buildings remain dark, stores and restaurants are empty and the few signs of life on the streets are repair workers and the hum of generators and water pumps.
Thousands of workers and residents have had to find temporary quarters in an exodus that to some is painfully reminiscent of the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Sandy swamped Lower Manhattan with a 14-foot storm surge that flooded streets and basements in a business district that remains the center of U.S. finance industry. The storm, which hit just a few years after the district had bounced back from Sept. 11 attacks, raises questions about its vulnerability to storm surges.
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Some experts estimate that the cost to property owners of repairing damaged office buildings will be $5 million to $30 million each. Landlords of office buildings, retailers, restaurateurs and other small businesses also are suffering tens of millions of dollars in lost business and rent.
About 40 buildings, with about one-third of the district's 100 million square feet of office space, were closed as of Friday, according to Jones Lang LaSalle, JLL 0.06 % a real-estate brokerage. The businesses that have had to relocate operations reads like a who's-who list in the world of Wall Street, including law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, brokerage firm Morgan Stanley MS -0.45 % and insurance giant American International Group Inc. AIG -0.64 %
Citigroup Inc. C -0.61 % relocated 1,800 workers from leased office space at 111 Wall Street. Fitch Ratings split its 650 downtown workers between Midtown Manhattan and Westchester County, and is having some employees work remotely from home.
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, which had about 230 attorneys at 180 Maiden Lane, moved its attorneys to temporary space in Midtown made available by a Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a law firm that has tangled with Stroock on some cases.
Most large landlords are protected by insurance and big law firms and banks have relied on disaster recovery sites designed to keep them operating. For example, a backup server outside of the city enabled Sullivan & Cromwell to keep working on Stifel Financial Corp.'s SF 0.88 % planned acquisition of KBW Inc., which was announced Monday.
But it hasn't been easy. A few employees of FTI Consulting had to climb 32 floors to retrieve laptop computers at a powerless building. Some tenants are bracing for the possibility that buildings could remain closed for months or longer. "Right now it's really just one day at a time," said Margaret Chin, the City Council member who represents the area.
The cleanup is complicated by environmental issues, adding to recovery costs and delaying building owners from reopening their properties. Some flooded downtown buildings can't pump out water from their basements because the water has been contaminated from gas and oil in boilers.
New York requires landlords to report the spill and, in some cases, dispose of the water by pumping it into trucks and hauling it away. "Anyone down there with a boiler probably got hit," says Tom Elghanayan, chairman of real-estate developer TF Cornerstone, which owns residential buildings downtown.
To be sure, the destruction from Sandy doesn't come close to the devastation caused by the 2001 terrorist attacks that toppled the World Trade Center. The entire financial district was closed for weeks and some tenants didn't ever return. New York City lost about $21.8 billion from costs related to destroyed buildings, infrastructure and tenants who departed, according to a report from the New York City Comptroller.
In Sandy's wake, executives at many of the displaced businesses say they plan to return. Downtown civic leaders predict that the area will bounce back quickly once its buildings get pumped out. "New York is a far more resilient place than people give it credit for," says Seth Pinsky, president of the city's Economic Development Corp.
But as downtown struggles to recover, some businesses have begun to question whether they may need to move some operations out of the area to protect them from events such as storm surges in an era of climate change.
"It definitely made me think that potentially we might need to have a second location for customer care and sales people. I'm talking about a second location in North Carolina or Florida," said Jason Richelson, founder and chief executive of ShopKeep, a technology startup that employs 33 people and was displaced from its offices at 55 Broad St.
Some residents also voiced long-term concerns about the neighborhood. Steve Liebowitz, a 35-year-old philanthropic adviser, and his wife had to climb 22 flights of stairs at their downtown apartment building. Their lease is currently up for renewal and moving elsewhere "is definitely something that is at the forefront of minds" he says.
A TF Cornerstone apartment building on Gold Street, which was still emptying water on Friday, has allowed some of its 700 displaced tenants to break their leases because the landlord can't say when they will be able to return. "I don't see how we can make them stay," says Mr. Elghanayan.
Many retailers, restaurants and other small businesses risk being put out of business if it takes months for downtown tenants to return.
Café Hanover reopened Tuesday night, but as of 8:30 Wednesday morning, it had just two customers and 11 employees inside. "There would normally have been 30 or more people in here by now," said Paul Lee, the owner.
—-Erik Holm and Joshua Dawsey contributed to this article.
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Are there any verses in the Bible besides 1 Thessalonians 4:17 that support the doctrine of the rapture?
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There's also Matthew 24:40-42
and it's friend Luke 17:34-35
so long as you leave off the next verse
Which rapture folks might be likely to do.
It kind of leaves you thinking that the lucky one is the one who is left, not the one who was taken and eaten by a vulture. If this were pointing to a rapture, the one who was left would be the one eaten by a vulture.
Matthew 13:30 and the book of Joel. Search for the word harvest in the Bible. Many references to harvest in the Bible are referring to the separation of weeds and the wheat which represents the difference between the unsaved and the saved during the Lord's Day.
I have yet to find a difference in events that take place in 1 Thess. 4:17 and events that other scripture speaks of when referring to Christ's 2nd coming (as in Matt. 24) (if anyone can point any differences out, please do), so I'm not certain about that verse.
However, I think that this verse might:
Jesus tells us this after telling us about end-times 7 year tribulation events. I would say He could've meant to have the strength to escape the desolation of Jerusalem, but what He says to escape from is coming upon on the entire earth. Perhaps by strength, He means the strength to endure our sinful carnal urges (as in Rev. 3:10).
"[Be careful because that day will come upon you like a trap, for it will come upon the entire earth.]" We will/would be trapped with nowhere to escape to..except into His presence.
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5 Insane Early Drafts of Famous Movie Characters
#2. Mr. Magoo: Commie Hunter
You Know Him As:
Created in 1949, the cartoon character Mr. Magoo is a stubborn but kindly older man who constantly gets into trouble because of his poor eyesight. Kind of a one-joke premise, we suppose, but he has remained famous enough to have been portrayed by Leslie Nielsen in the 1997 Mr. Magoo live-action movie that, despite protests from the National Federation of the Blind, made almost three times its budget.
Oh, Magoo, you've done it again! And by "it," we mean "insulted handicapped people for cash!"
But You Almost Knew Him As:
The whole thing was supposed to be a political statement about paranoid red hunters like Joseph McCarthy. The creators wanted Mr. Magoo to be a bitter, mean-spirited asshole, constantly spouting off as many misanthropic political rants as they could get away with. Even his nearsightedness was part of the joke, a metaphor for fanatics who saw only what they wanted to see, without regarding the facts.
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To understand the weird-ass early version of the character, you have to know the dark story behind his creation. Mr. Magoo was created by Millard Kaufman and John Hubley near the end of the 1940s, right when the Red Scare was gaining momentum ... and the House Un-American Activities Committee had blacklisted both men. Hubley actually was an ex-communist who participated in labor strikes.
Their McCarthy-like Magoo was a protest of the paranoid politics of the era that turned neighbors and friends against one another. We assume that's also why his head looks like a giant scrotum.
Cutting political commentary.
Eventually, though, Kaufman and Hubley decided their involvement in the project would most likely get it shut down, so they backed away. The production was then handed over completely to Pete Burness, who got rid of all the political stuff and concentrated on making fun of Magoo's failing eyesight and senility, which of course means instant hilarity. The cartoon then won two Academy Awards, in 1955 and 1956.
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#1. The Alien: Quite the Talker
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The unstoppable extraterrestrial killing machine from Ridley Scott's Alien franchise and one of the most iconic movie monsters of the modern age. Also, a space rapist.
"You have purty eyes."
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The unstoppable extraterrestrial killing machine from Ridley Scott's Alien and one of the most iconic movie monsters of the modern age ... that can freaking talk.
Once again, Mel Brooks was right on the money.
This rumor has persisted on the Internet for some time now and goes back to an alleged Ridley Scott quote where the director discusses his early idea for the first movie's ending. In the version you know, the story ends with the alien creature dead and Ripley putting herself in stasis (and in tiny panties). The original plan, however, was for the alien to bite off Ripley's head, sit in her chair, and record a final entry in the ship's log, imitating Ripley's voice. Then, we assume, lie back as scary music plays and the camera slowly pans to the alien's growing smile right before the end credits roll.
Co-directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Some of you may think that would be just an awesome ending, and some of you probably feel like that would be the most unintentionally hilarious climax outside of Darth Vader's "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" at the end of Revenge of the Sith. All we can say is that it's kind of hard to imagine what the subsequent films would have looked like with talking xenomorphs. (If you're not sure what we mean, picture the first huge action scene in Alien, only instead of the aliens creeping silently out of the walls, imagine them talking shit the whole time. With, let's say, thick Wisconsin accents.)
The producers purportedly rejected the ending, not so much because of the talking alien but because they wanted Ripley to survive and take out the alien for the happy ending (and leaving the door open for sequels).
It's too bad Ridley Scott has dropped plans for an Alien prequel/reboot (it will be an original sci-fi film instead). Maybe he was intending to go back to his original vision.
"Ow! That burns! You bitch!"
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