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Monterey, CA. – Downtown Monterey is now open following an attempted robbery at the Bank of America and related bomb threat.
A suspect is in custody and being interviewed by police. The Monterey County Bomb Squad investigated and detonated two suspicious packages at Munras and Webster and Pearl and Washington streets. All downtown areas are now clear and open.
The suspect's vehicle was inspected in the Calle Principal Parking Garage. No suspicious items were found. The garage was cleared and is now being reopened.
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Christmas Tree lots are preparing for customers to purchase their fresh trees tomorrow.
Morgan's Trees in Bowling Green says it expects a lot of customers tomorrow, but the crowd gets bigger as Christmas gets closer.
One worker says they are prepared for the rush each season.
"We'll have several people here to help and we have the ability to get trees out quick. So, if we have a big rush it's not a big deal," Paxx Burk says.
Morgan's Trees is open daily, starting tomorrow from 9 AM through at least 8 PM.
The business says it may stay open later depending on the crowd each night.

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I'm not an astronomer, but I've been considering getting a telescope and learning. Would this be a decent choice for a starter telescope?
@nb109: Yes. That's basically what this is good for.
I'd recommend learning some stars, planets, and constellations first. The Stellarium software is free, and it has a night mode for running on a laptop outside. For a guided audio tour, get the Celestron Skyscout. Next, use a pair of binoculars for a couple of nights. The book Turn Left at Orion will give you plenty of things to find. Finally, get a telescope, but beware of Christmas Trash scopes sold this time of year. A star party can be found on Criagslist or MeetUp.


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What areas, if any, of graphic design could a person with color blindness be active in? Can a person who has problems differentiating colours actually work in such a field?
This is not an experts opinion, it's just based on my experience and thoughts.
When I read your question, I instantly thought of a fantasy painter called Ciruelo ( http://www.dac-editions.com/ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciruelo_Cabral). He is color blind and he has been working on illustration and design for years:
I imagine he had to find an equilibrium between what he thought was aesthetically pleasing and what other people did, or maybe in his case it was closely related. It might even be that the fact that he was color blind was what made him so famous: his color combinations were not expected or were outside the comfort zone.
You could start by doing some research on color blind artists and theory, and then maybe producing some work and show it to professionals and people in general (I'm sure everyone in here will be more than pleased to make a nice thread about it, and it could be very useful for other people) to see what they think. It could help you develop a "safe combinations" palette and reinforce what you already know.
Now, about he area.. I work in digital design so I'm not sure about print. I feel websites and apps (and interface in general) has more artistic freedom, but it's up to you, really, if you are determined I think you could work in any area.
Ignore the results of a test based on poor scans of printed cards shown on a screen, and go to an optometrist for a proper test if you are concerned.
I have some some colour differentiation issues. I worked as a graphic designer for quite a few years and I can't say it was ever an issue. But there's not going to be an absolute answer to this; there are many types and degrees of "colour-blindness".
My friend is an artist and he's color-blind. He has trained himself to be able to paint so that people who are not color-blind see it perfectly. So it may look funny to him, but to every one else it looks good. He's acquired that skill through just trial and error or painting and asking people on what to change to make it look more natural.
Don't let it limit you. If anything, use it as an advantage.
Being color-blind, you have the "advantage" of seeing things through the eyes of someone who is color-blind. So you can most certainly work in places that try to make their designs more accessible to different types of people. If that doesn't make sense: You can basically design color-blind friendly interfaces or advertisements (or anything else) because you are color-blind.
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Here is the problem I'm trying to solve:
In order to send spam, a spammer generates fake nicknames, by picking random girl names (and appending a random number to it). I suppose it randomly and fairly picks names from a fixed list, and I get to observe the outcome. Over time, names eventually start repeating.
From the distribution of the repetition count of every distinct name, is there a way to estimate the size of the fixed list ?
Intuitively, if there was no repetition among the names I have observed, I would have no information about the size of the list, but the minimum bound given by the actual distinct names observed.
On the other hand, if the distribution of the repeat counts is far away from zero, I can be reasonably confident that the sample size is much larger than the word list, and that I probably have observed the full list already.
The problem lies in the middle zone. So far the distribution of repeat counts looks like this:
$$ \begin{matrix} n & k \\ 114 & 1 \\ 66 & 2 \\ 30 & 3 \\ 4 & 4 \\ 2 & 5 \\ 1 & 6 \end{matrix} $$
Here $n$ is the count of distinct names appearing $k$ times in the sample.
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2 Dec 2010 1:28 PM #1
Difficulty setting $active-color (for active list elements) in sass theme
I've been working on a simple custom theme using the sass/compass theming process, and I'm running into difficulty setting the color of active list elements. As far as I can tell this is set via the $active-color variable, but I don't seem to be able to override it. Here's my scss file:
// import the framework and base components @import 'sencha-touch/default/all'; // Trying to set variables here $base-color: #333333; $active-color: #DDDDDD; $base-gradient: 'glossy'; // Include sencha styles @include sencha-panel; @include sencha-buttons; @include sencha-sheet; @include sencha-picker; @include sencha-tabs; @include sencha-toolbar; @include sencha-toolbar-forms; @include sencha-carousel; @include sencha-indexbar; @include sencha-list; @include sencha-layout; @include sencha-form; @include sencha-msgbox; @include sencha-loading-spinner;
I would appreciate any insight or help! I'm using sencha-touch 1.0
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you can set the color over following two variables
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$list-pressed-color: #dcdcdc;
$list-active-color: #dcdcdc;
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I keep getting this error when I try to install Gloobus preview in Natty :
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Like the title, does God love forever, unconditionally? I can't think of a being who is supposed to be more loving than God, so this is kind of a big question for me.
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No, God does not love unconditionally. In fact, God hates the wicked.
However, those who have faith in Christ and accept him as their savior are loved unconditionally for eternity.
Remeber that 1 John 4:8 tells us that God is love. I'll just give you all of 1 Corinthians 13 (NIV) with some highlights.
The Bible presents God as One who does not merely choose to love, but One who is love (1 John 4:16). It is a defining attribute of His.
It follows, then, that God always loves. He loved those about whom the Scriptures say, "every inclination of their hearts was only evil all the time." That's why it grieved God--because He loved them. If He hadn't loved those people, then we are left to wonder how they could grieve Him.
At the same time, God hates wickedness, and it's appropriate for God to hate that which hurts those He loves.
Now, this is not to say that God's love makes God unjust. He is simultaneously both just and loving. His justice demands that all sin be punished, while His love compelled Him to offer Himself as a substitute to pay the penalty of those sins. For those who accept His offer, God credits the meritorious payment of Christ to their accounts. For those who reject this, He is left to administer justice on those He loves.
God's love for us, is a purest form of all love and though it is seems to be conditional, whereby we have to be right with Him, it is at the same time forever unchanging in His nature, even when we are not right with Him in this world. So the door is always open for us to come back and be right with God, when we tread our journey here.
To know this deeper: our love towards God is basically conditional meaning we love God for our well being, for our needs, for our security etc. We love Him because we depend on Him and so it is not unconditional. When we have a cosy life we tend to side track God sensing the needlessness for Him. But God's love for us, is not of this form. We our self experience and give such a pure form of love: the love that we have towards our children. This is the closest replica of God's love for us. This love that we shower on our children is a pure form of love expecting nothing in return except the righteousness from our children. In fact this is not a condition as such, but a requirement for our own good.
The love that we bestow on our pets is similar to this. We get only satisfaction and happiness to be with them and expect nothing in return expect their wellbeing so that they remain with us.
So God loves us because we are His children, just like parents love their children. Though parents may at times falter in this but not God, for He said:


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Aptly named, Shop Girlz boutique features gifts for "girlz" of all ages.
The shop hosts the largest selection of Vera Bradley handbags and accessories in Louisville and carries the popular Beatriz Ball metal-ware and Trapp candles, in addition to luxury baby items, Crane stationery and wine accessories. Take a look.
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Walter L. Yost, 88, died Thursday, March 21, 2013 at Bethel Home, Inc. in Montezuma. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 24, 2013 at Scott City Mennonite Church, Scott City with Ministers Richard Koehn, Charles Nightengale, and Franklin Koehn presiding. Burial will follow at Scott City Mennonite Church Cemetery. Swaim Funeral Chapel of Montezuma is in charge of arrangements.
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June 24, 2014
The 5 Best Apps for Exploring Cape Town
Hey there explorer. Are you ready to take fate into your own hands?
Get connected with Cape Town when you pick up these 5 free apps and begin your adventure that much more adeptly:
1. EveryTrail
Using GPS, EveryTrail creates an easy-to-read map as you explore, providing street names, a compass, audio guides and useful Points of Information. Over 400,000 people have tracked their adventures on EveryTrail, so using these guides (e.g. A Photographers Tour of Cape Town), you can follow in their footsteps through Cape Town's most beautiful locations and local secrets.
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1 or later. Android 1.6 and up.
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2. Photosynth
Photosynth meshes your photos together to create astonishing 360 degree, 3 dimensional landscapes. Check out this panorama of Chapmans Peak for example, or how about this beach shot of the Twelve Apostles or this 360 view of the tip of Africa? With it's immense natural beauty, Cape Town and Photosynth are made for each other! BONUS: Here's a fun 3D version of the Palais Garnier, Paris' famous opera house, to give you an idea of what's possible.
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G. Requires iOS 4.0 or later. Android users can download Panorama 360.
More: http://photosynth.net
3. Walking Tour of Central Cape Town
Explore the city on your own terms and get your walk on! With zero data charges (it's permanently available once downloaded) the app offers more than 60 points of interest with sound clips that play automatically as you near your destination. It's got a handy search function and it's content is periodically updated. A Walking Tour of Central Cape Town also provides contact info, pictures and audio clips for the Mother City's most beloved restaurants, museums and historical attractions.
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Optimized for iPhone 5.
More: https://itunes.apple.com/za/app/walking-tour-central-cape/id557533717?mt=8
4. Instagram
The immensely popular Instagram uses a variety of easy-to-use filters to make ordinary photos look artistic. It's a one stop shop for making your Capetonian discoveries even more spectacular and your friends super-jealous of how ridiculously good looking you are. Instagram is also one of the world's largest social media networks, allowing you to follow the photo-feeds of your favourite people and brands. Don't forget to follow Cape Town Tourism whilst you're at it!
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.2 or later. Android 2.2 and up.
More: http://instagram.com
5. WhatsApp
You can find most of Cape Town on WhatsApp, an internet based messenging service that allows you to send pics, text or videos to anyone in the world. Just add their number to your contacts! It also allows you stay in touch with international friends and family, with near-instantaneous communications and the ability to set up group conversations. Whatsapp is a great place to stay in touch with your fellow adventurers and the amazing people you meet on your journey,
Cost: Free
Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1 or later. Android 1.6 and up.
More: www.whatsapp.com
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Okay, let's get right down to it:
Just a week following Trinity's impressive nationally-televised victory on an NFL field and just days before the annual St. Xavier-Trinity game, this question has to be asked:
How good is Trinity?
Your humble servant has seen all of the great Louisville high school teams since 1950. I did NOT see the storied duPont Manual team that won the mythical national championship by beating New Britain, Conn., for the mythical national championship in the late 1930s.
I did see the Flaget team that was powered by Notre Dame and NFL great Paul Hornung. I covered the Recreation Bowl in Mt. Sterling in the early 1950s when the Braves scored so much in a rout of Lexington Lafayette, and Hornung kicked so many footballs out of the field that coach Paulie Miller had to get a manager to scrounge in a ball bag for an old ball.
Impressing the Bear
"It was one that I could kick a mile," said Hornung. "I really got into one and people sitting with the immortal coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant stood up and said, 'Good God Almighty!'"
Bryant was at the game to scout Hornung, but the Bear lost him to Notre Dame because Hornung's mother insisted that he go to "a good Catholic school."
I would rate Tom Harper's 1959 Manual team as the strongest and with the most great players, including Michigan State All-American running back Sherman Lewis. Four of the Crimsons captained their college teams. When Michigan State played Purdue, both teams were led by captains from Manual (Pete Dudgeon was Purdue's leader and Lewis led Michigan State). Huge tackle Steve Wright surely was the only player to get the best of two all-time great coaches, Bryant at Alabama and Vince Lombardi at Green Bay. They simply couldn't break his spirit. They would pound on him and he would just laugh.
Rocks' defense tough
Now for this year's Trinity team. If the Shamrocks finish undefeated and waltz to another state title, I would have to rank them with the '59 Manual squad, maybe better.
For a final answer, we will have to see what players from this team do in college and maybe the pros.
Trinity has no evident weaknesses. What the Rocks do have is game-breaking and breath-taking speed, led by Kentucky's finest prep athlete, James Quick, who snared a pass from star quarterback Travis Wright for the 72-yard touchdown that ensured Trinity's 24-16 victory over Indianapolis Cathedral. The game was played at Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts.
Don't overlook Trinity's defense. It is just as outstanding as the Rocks' offense and makes sure Trinity never has too big of a deficit to overcome.
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In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.
This translation, the Jehovah's Witnesses New World Translation is, I think, unique in using the phrase "a god". All other translations use, "God", e.g., the text in the NASB, the NIV and the KJV is identical:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
So, is there any justification in the original text for making Jesus merely, "a god"?


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Hi Malek - Could be - with the Internet and Huffington Post one never knows. BUt I can't find anything and it is not published on April 1st. If I find that it is fake I will delete it.
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I rarely find myself on the same side of an argument with Michael Coren. I adhere to an idea that Jesus was often embedded with people who lived on the margins of his world. What does that mean in today's society? It means he would find it problematic to disenfranchise and other humans because of gender and sexuality.
When I read and hear that Catholic schools have to come up with a policy about gay support groups, I wonder why? If they open the Bible and read the New Testament, they would find Jesus's teachings provide them with insights on how to treat students and others with unconditional love.


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I asked a similar question on English Language & Usage site, but no one seems to come up with a good answer for me. I have decided to give our Chinese site a try.
Bonus: how will you describe the idiom 有缘无分?
I asked a similar question on English Language & Usage site, but no one seems to come up with a good answer for me. I have decided to give our Chinese site a try.
Bonus: how will you describe the idiom 有缘无分?
The CEDICT definition is:
I'm not familiar with the Chinese term, but the translation sounds similar to "Karma".
As for 有缘无分, the CEDICT definition is:
The closest English phrase I can think of is "star-crossed lovers". Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed lovers.
Wikipedia has a very good explanation of the concept of 缘分:
and 有缘无分:
Other than the above, I would like to add my own interpretation as follows:
In modern day practice, 缘分 is used more seriously to describe a relationship between lovers, whereas 缘 is used more casually to describe the chanced encounter between friends. For example:
The character "分" is originally written as "份" and is still very much in use today. "份" has the meaning of a share or a portion, e.g. "股份", "名份", "福份". Therefore, 有缘无分 (expanded as 有缘相爱,无份相守) can be taken to mean two persons having the fate (inevitable turn of events) to meet and become lovers, but not having the destiny (destination, the end result) to share the rest of their lives together as husband and wife.
缘 has the meaning reason, cause, it means some kind of causality. 缘 as in 缘分 it means luck which brought people together. It also has some sense of determinism. the two lovers were brought together by fate, then you can say they have 缘分.
as in 有缘无分, it usually refers to two lovers who have the luck to know and love each other, but has no luck to stay together(like marriage) by some reason.
缘: serendipity, as described in the movie of the same name
有缘无分: IMHO, describes a feeling of powerlessness at the relinquish of love/affair in compromising to life's interventions, be it societal or natural...a good example is the story describe in the movie Waterloo Bridge
I'm sure you've heard the expression in English: "we were meant to be together". When applied to a romantic relationship, that's 缘分. Note, though, that Chinese apply 缘分 not just to romance, but also to friendship, especially friendships which result from a chance meeting. If the two of you have 缘分, then your meeting and becoming friends was "meant to be".
It can be interesting to ask Chinese people if they actually believe in 缘分 -- is it a real force which exerts influence on things? Most of them do believe in it, even if they are not generally religious or superstitious.
缘分 is actually two words in ancient Chinese, and this word came from ancient Chinese.
This word clearly clarified the marriage system in ancient China.
缘 means boy meets girl. 分 means what the status the boy/man could give to the girl/woman.
In present China, Chinese abandon that old marriage system but the term remains. 有缘无分 is another way of saying we cannot get married.


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We provide a number of opportunities to help you assimilate into and succeed at Hunter College. After you have confirmed your admission and your commitment deposit clears our systems, we will issue you a new portal page and e-mail account to help you manage your next steps.
- The portal page is MyHunter.
- Your @MyHunter e-mail account is your new e-mail address.
We will send you notices and post announcements about your next steps which will include completing an online tutorial, advising and registration. We will only use your @MyHunter e-mail address for messages and MyHunter portal page for announcements.
When we are working with you in advising, we discuss how your transfer credits and previous college-level work applies to Hunter's curriculum, especially the Hunter Core Requirement. We also cover registration, developing an academic plan, placement assessments for math and/or foreign language, faculty advising as well as critical policies. After you finish the online tutorial, you will be able to meet with your assigned academic advisor to go over your registration plans.
In addition, your assigned advisor will expect to meet with you within the first six weeks of the Fall Semester to help you with issues needing immediate attention as well as formulate a long-term academic plan for reaching your academic goals. Your assigned advisor's information and instructions for booking an appointment will be listed in your MyHunter portal page.
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text: You guys do realize that the fun isn't going to end until my last lesson is submitted right? Here is another easy based tut on a popular face that almost everyone loves. Up next, we will be drawing Stitch easy, step by step. I cannot express how much I love Stitch. He is one of my all time favorite characters, and he will always put a smile on my face when I see his. I have made lessons in the past on Stitch, but that was so long ago. It's hard to believe that Lilo & Stitch came out in 2002, which was only eleven years ago. Anyways, have fun with the task of learning "how to draw Stitch easy". I will return like I've said in the past. Adios people and enjoy.


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We're looking to backup about 100gb+ of data containing small files (10kb+) each. The backup needs to be done as fast as possible to another harddrive weekly. Which is the better (especially speed wise) way to backup in such scenario? Rsync, or tar?
The advantage of rsync is that it will copy only the files which have changed.
If you have 100GB+ of relatively small files, you don't want to copy them all each time.
Note: the first backup with
Be sure to familiarise yourself with all the options of
Tar is an archive utility. You could conceivably create a tar file for the entire 100GB+, but you don't want to transfer it all, each time.
rsync can be somewhat painful if you have a very large number of files - especially if your rsync version is lower than 3. On the other hand: if you use tar, you would generate a very big resulting tar-file (unless the data may be compressed a lot). Personally, I would look at rdiff-backup, but make sure that you test your restore situation: rdiff-backup can be very memory demanding when restoring.
I would like to add that, although in general I agree with pavium's reply and I would choose rsync, there are options in tar for incremental backups. From man:
if your files do not change much - i would vote for rsync.
Do you need history (multiple backups) or just a plain copy of your data to some other disk? Backing up 100GB of 10KB files would take ages if you don't use a block level backup. Think about making block level snapshots or some other block level based solution, if you really need a fast solution.
Take a look at rsnapshot, it's just a script that you can use as front for rsync. It will only backup stuff that has changed and rotate your backups.
Consider just using the RAID1 capabilities of your controller, a linux softraid that you mount in that directory (can even be done on imagefiles with loopback devices) or use btrfs on files (has the added beauty of COW Snapshots, but is still to be considered experimental). This link should give you some ideas. This way you create your backups as you go.
EDIT: Ok, before I get more (somewhat angry) downvotes I need to clarify: The idea is to swap out one of the discs in the RAID 1 with a blank one.
The one you yanked out is your backup, (done in constant amortized time), the other one should be happily hot-syncing. In linux I can do that completely automated in software and it works. RAID hot-sync might just be the slowest discussed backup method, but it happens concurrently, and easily within one week. This answer fits the requirements of the OP perfectly, so I do not see a reason for the downvotes.
I have to admit though, yanking a disk out of a hot (meaning heavily trafficked) array feels somewhat risky, it should work fine though, since all components are just doing what they were built to be doing. If RAID wouldn't resync, you could just as well not use it at all.
One could argue that this is abuse of a one-time fail-safe mechanism for regular use. Tell that to professional parachuters. We live in the digital age, if this wouldn't work, it would be broken.


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The man who allegedly robbed the Nashville Rd. South Central Bank was arraigned in court this morning.
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A Warren District Court Judge set Russell's bond at $25,000 cash.
The purpose of today's arraignment was to set a date for a preliminary hearing.
It was two Crime Stopper's tips that led police to the alleged robber, but it was ultimately those much closer to Russell who helped get him arrested.
"Several family members watched the surveillance footage and positively identified James Russell as the suspect," said Judge John Brown in Warren District Court Friday morning.
"After the preliminary hearing we expect the cases to be bound over to the Warren County Grand Jury. At that point in time, we do expect the case to proceed to Warren Circuit Court. And then we'll see if a resolution will be made and if not at that point in time a trial date will be set sometime in the middle of next year," said Warren County Commonwealth Attorney, Chris Cohron.
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Jonathan M. Hyman, Professor of Law and Alfred C. Clapp Public Service Scholar at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has been named one of New Jersey's "Legends of ADR" by the Dispute Resolution Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He was honored on April 12 at ADR Day X, a 10th anniversary conference presented by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the NJSBA Dispute Resolution Section, the Justice Garibaldi Inn of Court, the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association, the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators, and the American Arbitration Association.
Professor Hyman specializes in litigation and alternative dispute resolution. An active arbitrator and mediator, he has lectured and written extensively in the field of alternative dispute resolution, with a particular focus on how lawyers settle cases and on the relationship between mediation and justice. He was actively involved in the recent adoption of the Uniform Mediation Act in New Jersey.
Professor Hyman received his A.B. from Harvard and his LL.B. from Yale. Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 1975, he was co-director of the legal clinic at Northwestern Law School. He has devoted much of his teaching at Rutgers to the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, where he has litigated civil rights and civil liberties cases, including cases that corrected discriminatory hiring and promotion practices in police and fire departments. He teaches in the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, and courses in Negotiation, Mediation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Contracts.
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Plug in your social accounts > links are collected > links are filtered > summary arrives!
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The Summify algorithms use dozens of signals, but in general news that has been shared, liked and retweeted a lot by your friends is considered more important. However, not all of your friends are equal and we pay special attention to those who you interact with more. Global popularity signals such as the total number of times a link is tweeted, or liked and shared on Facebook are also considered, but are less important than the sharing activity of the people closest to you.
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I'm looking for help with building a bomb-slinging alchemist at level 10. Assume 25 point buy for initial generation. The focus is getting the most effective bomb usage possible. Fast bombs is clearly desired the moment it becomes a legal choice allowing for multiple attacks due to BAB progression, rapid shot feat, and possibly other options. Source options are Core, Advanced Players Guide, Ultimate Magic, and Ultimate Combat. Which class-related options should I be considering? I do not need a complete character build.
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It's important to note that (with Fast Bombs) you can throw bombs with both hands if you get the Two Weapon Fighting feats, and this stacks with Rapid Shot. This lets a 10th level alchemist throw five bombs a round at +3/+3/+3/-2/-2 (before adding Dex or point-blank). Not very high, but you don't need that high a bonus. Personally I'd go this route before going for Rapid Shot, simply because you can continue gaining more attacks as you spend more feats.
You're also likely to want dispelling bombs for the sheer utility.
I have a player who is doing just this kind of build, so I think I can help you a little.
You don't have a lot of options when related to combat feats. The following you should consider your main focus:
(Important to note, Deadly Aim does not work with bombs)
Arguably, Alchemists are a 1 attribute class. This is Intelligence. Your bombs per day and additional bomb damage are based off of this. Bump it fairly high at the beginning and then put a little into Dex, so you can reliably hit Touch AC and a little into Con, so you're not super-squishy.
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You'll be aiming for Touch AC most of the time, so you don't need to worry too much about whether or not you're going to hit them. Plus if they have a touch AC which is too high to hit, you can simply target a grid intersection (AC 5) and just do splash damage to your foes.
Additionally, get some means of Flight, so that you can drop bombs on your enemies from above, and laugh when they only have melee weapons.
Alchemists don't get to throw extra bombs by taking two weapon fighting, it is listed as a standard action to create making the most you can throw per round 3 via Rapid Shot and the Fast Bombs discovery unless under the affect of a Haste spell or something similar. To maximize damage I suggest Clustered Shots + Targeted Bomb Admixture + Cognatogen. As a lvl 12 Elf Mindchemist I deal 6d6+20+1d6 acid from Acid Bombs per bomb throwing at 15/15/15/10 with their DR being added after all 4 bombs.
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This morning Bus E headed to their host shul and davened shacharit there. Then the group spent the day at Universal Studios Island of Adventure. In the park the wheelniks had tons of fun in the Harry Potter World section. Many of the wheelniks also visited the Dr. Seuss themed section of the park and rode the roller coasters at Superhero Island. The group is having a great time at the theme parks in the Orlando area.


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On November 25, 2014, seven finalists will take to the mainstage of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts for the Ensemble Studio Competition, the feature event of Centre Stage gala. The event will be hosted by world-renowned Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, and the singers will be accompanied by the internationally acclaimed COC Orchestra conducted by COC Music Director Johannes Debus. To watch the competition and see Canada's rising opera stars, visit our Centre Stage website and buy your tickets today! Over the next two weeks, follow along on Parlando as we introduce you to each of our finalists.
Raised in Stratford, Ont., performing is in Eliza Johnson's blood. The daughter of brass musicians who played in all of the Stratford Festival musicals, she was "quite literally raised at the theatre" and she credits being surrounded by such world-class performances as some of her most formative dramatic training.
From a young age, Eliza was also heavily involved in the arts, taking piano lessons and dancing competitively. She also performed in community theatre productions and sang in the chorus of various musicals at the Huron Country Playhouse.
Eliza also expresses her artistic side through visual art. In elementary school, she designed costumes for Shakespeare productions in the hobby fair and even considered a career as an artist in high school, before deciding to focus on opera.
"It was during my time with the Saint Mary's Children's Choir that I found my voice, discovered the joy of musical collaboration, and truly fell in love with singing," says Eliza. She began private lessons and competed as a soloist in the Kiwanis Music Festival. By the age of 10, she realized that she wanted to be an opera singer.
She moved to Toronto to earn her bachelor of music in voice performance and a master of music in opera from the University of Toronto (UofT), where her roles included Governess in The Turn of the Screw, Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Despina in Così fan tutte, Rob Ford's Mother in Rob Ford: The Opera and Lucy in The Telephone. Recently, she appeared as Pamina in The Magic Flute (Opera Lyra's Opera Studio) and Soeur Valentine in Dialogues des Carmélites (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis/OTSL). In 2014, Eliza was also part of the COC Chorus for the company's productions of Così fan tutte and A Masked Ball.
After Centre Stage, you'll be able to see Eliza at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Berta in The Barber of Seville. And if she had it her way, you'd someday see Eliza singing her dream role: Violetta in La Traviata. "It would be pretty darn cool," Eliza admits. "To me, she is the quintessential diva."
In addition to opera, Eliza is interested in arts education and outreach programs for children from underprivileged communities. "I would love to work to some capacity developing programs that nurture budding creativity in a variety of artistic mediums," she says.
When she's not singing, she enjoys live music and theatre, visiting galleries and museums, yoga, cycling, picnics and boardgames. One of the more unusual hobbies she's pick up recently is fermentation and pickling. "Yes, I am a bit of a Flower Child."
As Eliza's operatic career takes off, she knows she's lucky to have such a strong support base. "I was very privileged to have been born into a household that was so artistically nurturing," she says. "I am so grateful to my many teachers and mentors who have helped me along the way, and especially to my parents for always supporting me."
To learn more about Eliza, follow her on Twitter!
The Ensemble Studio Competition is Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Tickets to the Ensemble Studio Competition and Centre Stage cocktail celebration are $100. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit COCCentrestage.ca. You can buy tickets here,
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Mezzo-soprano Michelle Siemens caught the performing bug early. When she was just four years old, she took part in a youth musical theatre program and "no one has been able to drag me off [the stage] since!"
Born in Calgary, her family moved around quite a bit; first to Oakville, Ont., then Saskatoon, Sask., before settling in Victoria, B.C., where Michelle spent her teen years. It was in Victoria that Michelle met her first operatic mentor, baritone and teacher Bernard Turgeon. That's when she realized that opera was definitely in her future.
Michelle completed her bachelor of music at the University of Toronto (UofT) and is currently completing her master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music. Her recent roles include Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream and La Suora Infermiera in Suor Angelica (Opera on the Avalon); Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Yorkshire Opera Workshop); Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Ocypete in The Harpies and A Woman in Riders to the Sea (Halifax Summer Opera Workshop). She has also trained at the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute, the Centre for Opera Studies in Italy (COSI) and NUOVA Opera Intensive. As a chorus member, Michelle has appeared in productions with UofT and COSI.
Of all the roles in the mezzo repertoire, Michelle's long had her sights set on singing Carmen. Her parents even gave her the opera's score for Christmas when she was 16. However, "Delilah and Azucena are in close competition for second place on my role wish list."
When she's not singing opera, Michelle loves experimenting with baking and cooking. "My fellow singers can count on me to come to rehearsal with a new batch of cookies for them to try." She also loves exploring whatever city she is living in, trying new things and going on weekend adventures. "And, like any city girl, I spend far too much time shopping."
You can learn more about Michelle on her website!
The Ensemble Studio Competition is Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Tickets to the Ensemble Studio Competition and Centre Stage cocktail celebration are $100. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit COCCentrestage.ca. You can buy tickets here, call COC Ticket Services at 416-363-8231 or go to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Box Office (145 Queen St. W.). You can also chat about the event with us on Twitter using #COCCentrestage.
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by Wayne Gooding
This season, the staging of opera takes the focus in our series of Opera Talks under the banner: First Nights, Faux Traditions and Fresh Starts - An introduction to Director's Theatre in opera through three dysfunctional families. Opera Canada editor Wayne Gooding examines three of our season's productions, paying special attention to the specific visions of the directors who will bring them to our stage.
Here's what Wayne has to say about Dmitri Tcherniakov's Don Giovanni which will premiere at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on January 24, 2015.
This production is perfect to launch a discussion of Director's Theatre since Tcherniakov's imprint is all over it. The music is Mozart's, the words are Da Ponte's, but everything else is the brainchild of this production's creative team. Quite apart from the now-familiar trope of updating the action to modern times (for example, Robert Carsen's Falstaff), the scenography is totally changed so that the action all unfolds in the dining room of the Commendatore's house; the time frame is considerably extended from 24 hours to a couple of months; the original dramatic layout is recast with the addition of many new scenes; and, perhaps most importantly, the characters are reconstituted in new relationships to turn the piece, literally, into a family drama.
This is a wholesale deconstruction that forces us to leave what we think we know and love about this venerable icon of opera history at the theatre door, and look with totally fresh eyes at the characters and their motivations even as we hear the familiar music and words.
I think Tcherniakov and his collaborators have done a brilliant job of transforming a Baroque classic into a contemporary comedy of sexual mores and manners. One of the things I particularly like in this production, which is shot through with irony and contradictions, is that the putative womanizing hero loses his libido while the other characters around him are driven by theirs. Talk about role reversals, since usually the characters are all defined by their passive reactions to the more active Don (well, except for Ottavio, who is more defined by his reactions to Anna). It doesn't all work, to be sure, and there are some elements that seem gratuitously out of sync (Don Ottavio's physical approach to Masetto, for example), but the production overall makes a very strong case that there's considerably more substance embedded in Don Giovanni than Da Ponte's wry depiction of late 18th-century social life and Mozart's charming music.
This is certainly a disorienting production in many ways because it works very hard to break away from the familiar, but the payoff is a much more vivid, and even visceral, engagement with the original drama. Far from showing what's wrong with Director's Theatre, I would present it as a prime example of why opera needs strong creative teams.
Join us on November 19 for an in-depth preview of what promises to be one of the theatrical highlights of the COC's 14-15 season.
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Canadian Opera Company/Teatro Real Madrid (TRM)/Festival d'Aix-en-Provence/Bolshoi Theatre co-production of Don Giovanni, 2013, TRM. Photo: Javier del Real.
Ainhoa Arteta as Donna Elvira, Mojca Erdmann as Zerlina, and Russell Braun as Don Giovanni in the Canadian Opera Company/Teatro Real Madrid (TRM)/Festival d'Aix-en-Provence/Bolshoi Theatre co-production of Don Giovanni, 2013, TRM. Photo: Javier del Real.
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I'm trying to make a try, similar to the one visible here.
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Bag 1 $4W, 3B$ and got it in two different lines. I don't want that; I want the lines to be complete (I'm having my growing direction upwards, so it's okay). How do I do that?


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I have a '07 Chevy Malibu and would like to know how to program the key. I lost the original, but was able to get a spare from the dealership. I do not want to pay the locksmith $150 to program the key. What is the procedure for doing this?
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Here it the procedure for 're-learning' the master key for my Chevy Malibu. I assume that most Chevy's that have a transponder work this way well:
WARNING: all other keys you may have previously had will no longer work, and must be re-programmed as well.
In order to reprogram additional keys:
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Do minions get critical damage, assuming they met the criteria, i.e. the roll is a 20, and the result would hit the players defence ?
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Yes, they do.
But, because of they deal plain damage (no damage roll) their "maximized" damage is equal to their base damage.
However, they could have traits or powers that trigger on a critical hit, or they could receive such properties by a nearby leader monster. For example, the Ankheg BroodlingDDI's mandibles (from Monster Manual 2) work this way:
Tulgar SavageDDI (from Monster Manual 3) has this trait.
Sherrok, Firbolg Moon SeerDDI (Dungeon Magazine 189) has an encounter power that makes the target more susceptible to critical hits.
If Sherrok's attack hits, all his minions have increased chance of scoring a critical hit, and their critical hits deal additional necrotic damage.
Also, some Player Character's features or powers can trigger when a monster critically hit (and they also do when a minion hit with a natural 20).
For example the Psion utility power Telekinetic ScreenDDI (Player's Handbook 3) could be activated if a minion rolls a natural 20 (but not if he rolls a 19):


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I put a simple echo command in a CLI tty by user1 expecting it to reach user2 who is logged in a separate tty.
echo "Hello, world!" >> /dev/tty5
I expected user2 to get the echo message but nothing shows up.
Does each user get his/her own "set" of tty[1-7]?
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Help me please with some ideas to find number of integer solutions.
$x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = N$
Time limit - $1$ second, $N \leq 10^9$.
My wrong algorithm:
1) Calculate prime numbers on $(0,\sqrt{N})$
2) Compute $\sqrt{N}$ numbers $A_i = N-z^2, z = \sqrt{N}$.
3) For all $A_i$ check that it not include primes $4k+3$ in odd powers.
4)Find answer for each $A_i$ with brute force.
Running time of algorithm $\approx 1.7$ seconds but it is bad.


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I've got a few things in my Amazon wishlist that I'd like, but are too expensive right now. The prices tend to fluctuate, and I'd like to buy it once it's below a certain price. Can this be done?
You can sign up at http://camelcamelcamel.com to get email alerts when prices drop at Amazon.
Yes, this can be done.
First, you need to create a way to check the product's price. You could use Amazon's Product Advertising API, or another method (e.g. web scraping with PhantomJS). If this is all you need, you could use prebuilt tools like camelcamelcamel or thetracktor.com.
Next, you need a way to complete the purchase. The Zinc API will allow you to place an order to Amazon on your account using a couple of API calls. Your script could make these calls when the price drops below your threshold to complete the purchase.


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I have a setting in one of my stories where a character has to describe a very long series of events, giving the history of an object so that others know more about it. This not only provides the reader with the background information they need, but also sets up other characters in the scene for something major that is yet to come. What can I do to break up this back story to keep it from becoming a long, rambling speech?
It sounds like you're describing an infodump (warning: TV Tropes), and that's a phenomenon best avoided.
The issue is this: by your own description, the explanation is not interesting enough to hold the reader's attention at length; its purpose and significance will only be clear to the reader later in the story; and in this particular instance, it's also long. You can see why this doesn't make for a great reader experience. It's as though you've got a brilliant, hilarious joke, that only makes sense if you read the first 3 pages of the phone book - and you can't tell your friends why they need to read the pages until they're already through them.
Here's the key: Avoid writing scenes which the reader has no immediate, compelling reason to want to read. So if you're determined to write up a history lesson, you'd damn well better make sure that, at that point, the reader is dying to hear that lecture. Your other main option is to avoid the lecture entirely by conveying the backstory in other, more compelling ways, usually intertwined with the story and the action. I'll touch on both these options.
Prepping the reader for exposition
The idea here is to give the reader a strong interest in the details you want to expose. Then they're perfectly happy to listen attentively - they know exactly why they should be interested.
In The Matrix, Morpheus explains to Neo what the Matrix is. This is straight-out exposition and backstory, but it's one of the coolest, most memorable scenes in the movie. Observe how well the movie establishes that this infodump will solve a question we want answered ("What is the Matrix?"), and that this question is crucially important and monumental (observe all the effort and intrigue and escapades that all sides expended to get Neo this information or to keep it from him). The scene itself is also beautifully presented - Morpheus doesn't just explain; he demonstrates, he brings in cool, colorful stuff, he makes the explanation fast-paced and action-like even when there's nothing actually going on.
One proviso is this: differentiate between the reader's interest in the exposition, and a character's interest. For example, you might have a pupil-mentor dynamic between two characters, with the pupil desperately eager to win the mentor's respect by learning well. The reader will be invested in the pupil's goal - but that goal is pleasing the mentor, not learning the material. That's the means; the details themselves don't interest the reader. If you want the reader invested in the details, then you've got to give him a reason to care about them.
Weaving exposition into plot
The Turkey City Lexicon refers to this as "Heinleining." The idea is that you avoid the need for a long lecture, by having the details you want to expose show up as significant details in the plot without ever stopping the action. How do you do this? Well, if the details are really that significant, unique, and world-changing, then they probably affect the world in more ways than one. If the Goddess Fifthemia is locked in eternal conflict with the Thermal Demigod Extrynius, then that might well have resulted in the Mythaline Cult creating the Gem of Hypothermia, which is the focus of your story - but probably some other people have noticed and been affected by the issue too, hmmm? So you could portray Fifthemites being bigoted against Extryites, or one of the characters could be an atheist whose farm is declared as holy ground by both gods, and he needs to decide which priest to sell it to. And those are scenes which justify exposition immediately, as you go along - often, trickled in bit by bit, so the reader doesn't even notice he's being exposed to.
Whichever option you choose, I think you'll have found the answer to your question, because the explanation will no longer be a monologue that needs to be broken up into pieces. It will be a scene, with conflict and emotion and goals and reaction; those are constantly present and keep the explanation from turning into a lecture. As a scene, intertwined into the larger story, it might also be taking place in the middle of some larger event - in the middle of a battlefield or a football game or a demonic convent or a snowy hidey-hole in which the characters are waiting for Santa Claus, and all those also serve to keep the explanation from becoming monotonous.
Bottom line: the best way to avoid boring the reader is to write scenes, not explanations. The good part of this is that, with a bit of planning and creativity, explanations can be made part of scenes - and twisted into something much more interesting and compelling than they could ever be on their own.
Interrupt the character.
Have you read The Hobbit? Gandalf had to make a lengthy explanation, which he didn't want to get boring, so he set up the dwarves and Bilbo to interrupt him from time to time. From a cat flashing by to another character getting in, there is much you can do.
Having the character unwilling to talk, but being coaxed into telling the story little by little is another way to achieve this.
Phil Farrand of The Nitpicker's Guide to Star Trek called this "being the cabbagehead." Certain information had to be revealed to the audience, but it was information which the characters would reasonably already know.
So the writers picked someone in the room to be the "cabbagehead," meaning someone developed the I.Q. of a cabbage and everything had to be explained to him or her as though s/he had never gone through Starfleet training and years of spaceflight experience. (Counselor Troi got this role a lot on TNG.)
Practically speaking, you set things up so one or more of your characters is woefully uninformed about whatever it is, and the more informed character(s) have to enlighten the cabbageheads. As far as technique, Kate and iajrz both have excellent suggestions.
Are you planning to use dialogue or narrative for the description?
If dialogue, and assuming that you've been careful to avoid the 'he exposited' syndrome, in which one character tells another character something that they both know very well as an awkward way for the author to get the information across... I'd try to break up the speech with reactions from others. We have to assume they care about this, right? So have them be involved. They can ask questions, make comments, react emotionally, etc.
If you're planning to use narrative... I'd try to break it up if possible, to avoid having an info. dump, but I truly believe there are times when you've just got to get the information out there, and sometimes dumping it is the only way. But if possible, you could give us the information in little bits, only as needed. Or you could bring in some dialogue or characterization to help break it up.
Maybe you could go back in time for a chapter or prelude and tell this object's story from a tense that is closer to the important part of it's history. Then when it comes time for the character to describe the history of the object, the reader already knows the story and you can just skip over the part where this character is doing the explaining ("He explained to them the story of the _").
first off, i have two words...small sentences. these provide dramatic effect and engage the reader. on top of that, it's helpful if another character interrupts to ask questions or comment. then you can show how the two are reacting to the story as well as explaining what the reader needs to know.


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NOTE: Starting times are approximate.
All routes and stops are subject to change as needed.
Route 13
Starts at 8:10 A.M.
Bus Route:
West on Main; right on Milford; right on Fisher; left on Clark, left on Milford; right on Little Tree; right on Summer; left on Main to McGovern School.
Designated Stops:
Corner of Fisher and Cedar Farms
Corner of Fisher and Ledgewood
Corner of Fisher and Shady Lane
Corner of Fisher and Stone End
In front of 31 Clark
Inside Little Tree
In front of 29 Summer
In front of 256 Main
In front of 249 Main
In front of 241 Main
In front of 213 Main
McGovern School
Route 2
Starts at 8:10 A.M.
Bus Route:
West on Village; right on Franklin; straight on Milford; right on Highland; left on Summer; right on Milford; left on West; left on Main; right on Village; left on Lincoln to McGovern.
Designated Stops:
In front of 22 Franklin
Corner of Highland and Oak
Corner of Milford and Grey Squirrel
Corner of Milford and Rainbow
Corner of West and Alder
Corner of West and Granite
Corner of West and Holbrook
In front of 401 Village
Corner of Village and Waterview
Corner of Village and Sherwood
Corner of Lincoln and Mann
McGovern School
Route 3
Starts at 8:15 A.M.
Bus Route:
Start on Cottage, left on Main, left on High, left on Village, left on Holliston, left on Kelly, left on Holliston to McGovern school
Designated Stops:
Corner of Cottage and Williams
Corner of Cottage and Richardson
Corner of Cottage and Royal Heights Drive
Corner of Cottage and Evergreen
In front of 148 Main
Corner of Main and Mechanic
Corner of Main and Slocumb
In front 19 High
In front of 312 Village
Corner of Village and Shaw
Corner of Village and Charles River
Corner of Holliston and Cassidy
Corner of Kelley and Crestview
Corner of Holliston and Henry
McGovern School
Route 6
Starts at 8:15 A.M.
Bus Route:
Start on Holliston, right on Coffee, left on Ellis, right on Saddle Hill, right on Spruce, left on Green Valley, left on Saddle Hill, right on Broken Tree, right on Birch Bark, right on Puddingstone, left on Causeway, right on Holliston, left on Curtis (turn around), right on Holliston to McGovern School
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Corner of Ellis and Coffee
Corner of Ellis and Goldenrod
Corner of Ellis and Sun Valley
Corner of Spruce and Green Valley
Corner of Broken Tree and Hickory
Corner of Broken Tree and Birch Bark
Corner of Causeway and Hunter
Corner of Causeway and Puddingstone
In front of 7 Causeway
In front of 170 Holliston
Corner of Holliston and Skyline
Corner of Holliston and Fairway
Corner of Holliston and Woodland
In front of 149 Holliston
Corner of Holliston and Redgate
McGovern School
Route 7
Starts at 8:15 A.M.
Bus Route:
East on Village; left on Farm; left on Candlewood (turn around); right on Farm; right on Village; right on School; right on North; left on Oakland; left on Main; right on Holliston to McGovern School
Designated Stops:
Corner of Village and Legion
Corner of Village and Lovers Lane
Corner of Village and Church parking lot
Corner of Village and Walker
Inside Candlewood
Corner of Village and School
Corner of North and Crooks
Corner of Oakland and Grapevine
Corner of Oakland and Oakview
Corner of Oakland and Vernon
McGovern School
Route 8
Starts at 8:15 A.M.
Bus Route:
North on Pond to Lovering, left on Winthrop, right on Adams,right on Summer, left on Stanley, left on Summer Hill, right on Summer, left on Milford, left on Main, left on Winthrop, right on Maple to McGovern School.
Designated Stops:
Corner of Lovering and Howe
In front of 70 Winthrop
In front of 50 Adams
Corner of Stanley and Spring
Corner of Stanley and Nobscott
Corner of Summer Hill and Mallard
Corner of Spring and Summer Hill
In front of 90 Summer
In front of 191 Main
Corner of Maple and Grove
Corner of Maple and Maple Lane
Corner of Maple and Priscilla
Corner of Lovering and Sunset
McGovern School
Route 10
Starts at 8:15 A.M.
Bus Route:
North on Carole; left on Gorwin; right on Holliston; left on Hill; right on Winthrop (turn around Rolling Meadow); left on Lovering to McGovern School
Designated Stops:
Corner of Carole and Gorwin
Corner of Holliston and Juniper
Corner of Hill and Cider Mill
In front of 134 Winthrop
In front of 140 Winthrop
Corner of Winthrop and Alexsandria
Page 3 of 3 - Corner of Winthrop and Colonial
Corner of Winthrop and Diane
Corner of Winthrop and Winchester
Corner of Winthrop and Partridge
Corner of Lovering/Buttercup/Ohlson.
Corner of Lovering and Ash
McGovern School
Route 12
Starts at 8:15 A.M.
Bus Route:
Start on Winthrop; left on Lovering; right on Summer; left on Wildbrook; right on Summer; right on Claybrook; left on Olde Surrey; right on Stable Way; left on Broad Acres; right on Summer; right on Azalea; left on Dogwood; left on Quail; left on Pheasant Run; right on Summer; left on Main; left on Pond to McGovern School
Designated Stops:
In front of 128 Lovering
Corner of Lovering and Iarussi
Corner of Lovering and Longmeadow
In front of 163 Lovering
Corner of Summer and Thayer
Inside Wildbrook
Corner of Olde Surrey and Carriage House
Corner of Stable Way and Broad Acres
In front of 17 Broad Acres
Corner of Azalea and Dogwood
Corner of Quail and Pheasant Run
In front of 5 Pheasant Run
Corner of Summer and Independence
Corner of Pond and Meadow
McGovern School
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All routes and stops are subject to change as needed.
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The head of the Three Rivers Wastewater Treatment Plant said the sanitary sewer river crossing at Broadway Street became overwhelmed due to flooding and began discharging sewage at a rate of 900 gallons per hour since 10 a.m. Sunday.
James Baker said the 10-inch diameter line that conveys sewage under the river to the Constantine Street pump station is taking on water from the St. Joseph River.
Wastewater treatment plant staff has been unable to stop the discharge, Baker said.
The local Health Department has issued a no-contact advisory for the St. Joseph River from Broadway Street south to the Constantine Street bridge.
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K2 Trend Not Slowing Down
"Dude, I honestly think I'm dying."
David, a 19-year-old college student from Atlanta, said this to a friend after trying synthetic marijuana last winter. Just minutes after smoking it, David's vision blurred. He collapsed to the ground. His heart rate sped up, and he felt intense panic and paranoia.
"I thought it'd be safer than regular marijuana," says David, who asked that his last name not be used. "But it wasn't."
The synthetic marijuana David tried is one of several new designer drugs gaining popularity, often sold under names such as K2 and Spice. The active ingredients in the drug are synthetic cannabinoids: compounds made in labs to mimic the effects of marijuana.
Statistics show that more people like David are experimenting with these drugs. Poison control centers are getting more calls about these drugs. Lawmakers are taking action. And yet, it's a multi-billion dollar industry that shows no signs of slowing down.
Rising Trend
More than 100 different synthetic cannabinoid compounds are in circulation, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The drugs are sold online and at some convenience stores, gas stations, and head shops, often labeled as incense, potpourri, or herbal supplements. These packets of herbs are sprayed with synthetic chemicals and may have labels that say, "Not for Human Consumption."
Synthetic marijuana products are usually smoked with pipes or joints. Some people make tea with it. Other street names include Black Mamba, Bombay Blue, Fake Weed, Genie, and Zohai.
In 2011, the synthetic herbal incense trade was a $7.6 billion industry, and it's growing, says Rick Broider, president of the North American Herbal Incense Trade Association. Broider says people are using these products outside of their intended purpose, which means they are taking a personal risk.
From 2010 to 2011, calls to poison control centers nationwide about synthetic marijuana more than doubled from 3,000 to 7,000 and are on track to increase this year, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers. In the first half of 2012, about 3,400 calls were reported.


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The Springdale Lady Bulldogs got off to a quick start on Wednesday in the first round of pool play at the 58th annual Neosho Holiday Classic at Neosho Middle School.
Seven players scored points for the Lady Bulldogs in the first quarter as they went on a 15-4 run through the period. The Lady Indians fought back in the second quarter, knocking down eight-of-14 free throw attempts, but still trailed 26-14 at the half.
The Lady Bulldogs then went on a 16-5 run in the third quarter to grab a 42-19 lead and never looked back.
Jayvonda Daniels led Springdale with 14 points.
Bailey Skelton and Annie Howard each paced the Lady Indians with five points.
Seneca takes on Carthage at 2 p.m. today while Springdale sees Forrest City (Ark.) at 9 p.m.
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Full lyric soprano Kerry Deal is a versatile performer in the greater Boston area. As a frequent interpreter of oratorio, she has been especially heard in the sacred works of Mozart, including his Requiem, Coronation Mass, Solemn Vespers, and the Grand Mass in C Minor, but her performances also encompass a variety of other sacred works, ranging from baroque oratorio such as Handel's Messiah, to the more romantic religious works of Fauré and Gounod. Also a champion of new music, Ms. Deal often features 20th and 21st century music in recital and has premiered and recorded new works with St. Cecilia Music, and has sung the world premier of work by American composer Gloria Coates at Rubinstein Hall in the Munich Steinway Haus. As a young artist at Opera in the Ozarks, Ms. Deal sang the role of Mimi in La Bohème. More locally, she has sung with Longwood Opera, Opera Aperta, and with New York Opera Forum as Nedda in I Pagliacci.
Ms. Deal earned her BA magna cum laude in languages and literature at the College of William and Mary in Virginia before pursuing her graduate studies in music, with a MM in Opera Performance from the Boston Conservatory and a DMA in Voice Performance from Boston University. Ms. Deal has been a member of the voice faculty at the Boston Conservatory for the past ten years, where she teaches a combined studio of music theater and vocal performance majors. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at Boston Conservatory, she has been featured in several faculty recital series and as a guest soloist in both Haydn's The Creation and Mozart's Regina Coeli (K. 108) with the Conservatory's Chorale and Orchestra. Most recently, she was heard in Bernstein's "Kaddish" Symphony #3. Ms. Deal also holds an affiliate faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she instructs recipients of the prestigious Emerson vocal fellowship award.
Ms. Deal gives regular masterclasses for both singers and teachers, and in 2010, she joined the faculty of the International Performing Arts Institute in Germany. Based in Kiefersfelden and with "intensives" held in Hamburg and Munich, this unique summer program provides comprehensive training to both classical and musical theater singers and audition exposure to German agents for both classical and theatrical singers.
Former students of Ms. Deal have found success in both operatic and music theater mediums, with acceptance to important young artist programs and contracts in regional opera and theater, as well as on Broadway, at Carnegie Hall, and in national touring companies.
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This problem first came to me in high school, and a couple times since, and I even assigned it for extra credit in one of my calculus classes after I became a teacher. So I know the solution. What I am looking for is other WAYS to obtain the solution. I've been told there exists a solution using only arithmetic, but have never figured it out. Other solutions using ordinary calculus, trigonometry, algebra of conic sections, and so on are also possible.
The problem is usually stated in the form of a letter from an Aunt and Uncle:
Dear niece/nephew, How are things going for you and your folks? We hear you are doing quite well it school. Keep it up! Given this success, we were hoping you could help us figure out a little dilemma. As you know, our home is heated by fuel oil, and we have a big tank buried in the side yard. The tank is a cylinder, 20 feet long and 10 feet in diameter, lying on its side five feet deep, with a narrow tube coming to a fill cap at ground level. Your uncle has a 15 foot length of old pipe that we'd like to utilize as a dip stick in order to know when we are getting close to needing a fill-up. We know that 0 feet is empty, 5 feet is half full, and 10 feet is completely full. Trouble is, we don't know how to mark any other points. We are pretty sure they will not be uniformly spaced. What we really want is to know, within the nearest 0.01 foot, where to mark the dip stick for every multiple of 10% from 0% to 100%. Can you figure this out for us? Of course, we will want to see details of your solution and check it ourselves, and it would especially help if you could draw us a scale model of the dip stick. Love, Auntie Flo and Uncle Jim
That last sentence shows the teacher influence on the problem. So, my challenge to this community is not to find any old solution, but to find the solution at the lowest possible grade level, so to speak.
UPDATE: To those who are focusing in on the .01 feet accuracy, I apologize. The intent was merely to state, it is acceptable to estimate. If the exact answer is sqrt(2)*pi/2 or some other silly thing, go ahead and just write 2.22 feet, for example.


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I edited the question extensively. The comments helped me to phrase it to reflect more what I really wanted to ask.
I don't have perfect pitch and badly trained and imprecise relative pitch. I only started two years ago to learn musical notation as a hobby and writing little stuff for myself and friends (For example). I said this just to give a context that I am not a musician and that I certainly ignore many basic things about notation, terminology, and the capabilities of the different musical instruments. .....................
The question.
I imagine there are ways to get a recorded natural occurring sound and somehow make the sound into a MIDI file, for example, and then open the MIDI, let's say in Sibelius and that should give an approximation for how its transcription into the score should look like.
Some composers manage to write down parts for an instrument that makes it resemble a particular natural occurring sound (horse whinnying, bird songs, rain, ...). My aim is to have a technical procedure to help myself in the process of doing that. Something that gives me a first approximation of notes that I can afterwards, by hand, tweak to make it more like the natural sound I wanted, or make it more playable, and then be able to elaborate them into a larger composition.
Does anyone know ways in which this can be done? Suggestions?
Edit: Also if someone knows of a collection, or a place to find transcriptions into musical notation of a few naturally occurring sounds that helps a little bit too?
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My MacBook somehow stuck on Mountain Lion Developer Preview 4 (Build 12A256). I downloaded the Golden Master as well as the retail .dmg and tried to install them. The computer does stuff, restarts, but is still on 12A256. I also don't get the 10.8.1 Update in the App Store and if I download it manually and try to install it all I get is:
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(NOTE: A version of this story first appeared online at www.voice-tribune.com shortly after several tornadoes struck Kentucky and Southern Indiana on March 2.)
Hours after a massive tornado leveled Henryville, Ind., Rich Cheek was smiling. You could tell from his voice.
On a cell phone he kept charging in his car because there was no longer a steady source of electricity, the Henryville Community Church senior pastor smiled and then paused, trying to stave off the swell of emotions.
Cheek quickly described the shock of enduring the catastrophic storm that unleashed a deadly tornado on the second day of March. He tried to find words to explain how life had changed in an instant in the small town. He stumbled recalling how he hadn't been able to locate church members who were teachers and students at the town's now-leveled high school.
Everyone got out alive at the school, said Cheek, the immediate concern now how to continue the church's mission of helping those in need. The congregation feeds nearly 2,000 people every month. After the storm, they had next to nothing to give and the addition of widespread damage with which to contend.
Cheek listened intently as he was told Louisville-based Wick's Pizza and The McMahan Group had $10,000 worth of food to donate. "Yesterday was distribution day (at the church) and we have nothing left," he said. And then, taking in the news of the impending delivery, he smiled.
"A lot of the people who come to us (to be fed) don't have stoves to begin with and now they don't have houses," he said.
Henryville Community Church relies on Louisville's Dare to Care for assistance feeding those who are hungry. The charity has made a long-term commitment, but immediate aid from others will fill – has to fill – what is a serious, desperate need. "We have generators and will fire up the grill and feed as many as we can," Cheek said early, early Saturday morning more hopeful than optimistic.
Not quite a week later, he's overwhelmed by how the support from strangers seems to have no end. Wick's continues to deliver pizzas to Henryville and surrounding areas. Earlier this week, staff from Famous Dave's served up lunch to hundreds. So did Jeffersontown Fire Capt. Matt Keith and the crew he brought to grill hot dogs and hamburgers for what has turned into a daily crowd of 1,200 hungry people.
"The volunteers just keep coming," said Cheek, not that the Jeffersontown, Ky., resident and his Indiana flock aren't familiar with serving others, too.
In the past year, members of Henryville Community Church have fed thousands of their fellow community members. They drove to Alabama to help those affected by the 2011 Super Outbreak of tornadoes. And, more recently, they crossed The Ohio and traveled into Eastern Kentucky to minister to and feed nearly 22,000 people.
"All these things, God has allowed us to build," Cheek said. "We are the ones who are always going (wherever needed) to help and now we are in need. We need help."
Those words, uttered just before midnight last Friday, prompted The Voice-Tribune to organize a donation drive for the folks in Henryville.
It started as a few posts on Facebook and Twitter announcing we would collect supplies for three hours the day after the storm at our office on Main Street. Then, a handful of people volunteered to drive and help sort and pack. Some offered up the use of their vehicles. Others dropped off refreshments for the hard-working volunteers who had answered when we'd asked for help.
Early Saturday morning, our phones began to ring and our email inboxes started to fill up with questions from people who wanted to know more about what had become a community endeavor.
And then they came.
Residents from all over Jefferson and Oldham counties and Southern Indiana arrived at The Voice-Tribune with supplies Cheek continues to say have been "life-changing."
The donations of food, water, clothing and necessities were so numerous they filled four box trucks, three SUVs, one pick-up truck and an 18-wheel semi truck.
Henryville Community Church Senior Pastor Rich Cheek was moved to tears by the outpouring of kindness. He often is as the generosity seems to magnify and multiply daily. But he smiles far more.
"Please tell everyone thank you. You were the first (group) to offer help, and you haven't left," Cheek said. "Thank you. Thank you."
Southern Indiana Tornado Relief Concert
The Louisville Crashers will host – and headline – the Southern Indiana Tornado Relief Concert 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 11, at Silver Creek High School in Sellersburg, Ind.
More than 30 bands will perform on three stages. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for ages 12 and under.
Proceeds will benefit the Clark County Red Cross, which is aiding storm victims throughout the community.
Helping Henryville and Beyond
Wick's Pizza Parlor & Pub in New Albany, Ind. will host "Helping Henryville & Beyond: A Benefit for All of Southern Indiana" on Friday, March 9. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Admission is $20, which will go to local families affected by the recent disaster.
Bands slated to perform include Jefferson Tarc Bus, Eight Inch Elvis, 2nd Day Romans, Lindsay Lane & Axis, Black Magic Marker, Midnight Radio, Lucky 13, C.M.N., Tom & Phil, Indiana Joe & The Congas of Arrow and The Moon Dogs.
There are lots of ways you can help Henryville and the Kentucky and Indiana cities affected by the recent catastrophe: Donate to the Red Cross at www.redcross.org. Drop off non-perishable foods, cleaning supplies, clothing, blankets and basic essentials at area ValuMarket stores and other locations. Find out how you can donate your time to Henryville Community Church with The Voice-Tribune and our friends by going to www.voice-tribune.com, www.facebook.com/TheVoiceTribune or following @TheVoiceTribune on Twitter. We post continuous updates about those needing relief.
Working In Tandem
On March 2, deadly tornadoes ripped through parts of Kentucky and Indiana. Hours later, dozens of people from the Kentuckiana area heeded a cry for help from Henryville, Ind. and gathered up much needed supplies, dropping them at The Voice-Tribune's Main Street office.
Together, they filled an 18-wheel semi truck, four box trucks, three SUV's and one pick-up truck with donations that were immediately taken to the Southern Indiana town with the hopes of helping the residents start to rebuild their lives. According to Henryville Community Church Senior Pastor Rich Cheek, that's exactly what happened – is happening – thanks to those who continue to ask, "How can I help?" and then do.
To find out how you can help, follow @TheVoiceTribune on Twitter and keep an eye out for tweets with the hashtag #HelpingHenryville.
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