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Crossville United Methodist Church will be hosting its annual BBQ and Gospel Concert Saturday, Aug. 10. The BBQ Dinner includes BBQ chicken or pork (provided by the Green Onion of Crossville), bread or bun, potato salad, baked beans, cole slaw, pickles, onion, tomato, dessert, and a cold drink or coffee. Take-outs will start at 4:30 p.m., and dinner will be served at the church from 5-7 p.m.
Tickets for adults will be $8. Tickets for children ages six-12 will be $4 and tickets for children ages five and under will be free. The price of dinner also includes the concert, which will start at 6:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary. Proceeds from the dinner this year are going to support the Crossville Community Block Party, which is going to be held in Crossville on Sunday, Aug. 25.
This year the gospel concert will be provided by the Varner Family. The Varner Family has been singing the praises of God for almost 50 years. They started singing after their first child was born. Then as the family grew, each daughter started singing with them. In 1974 their little wooden-headed boy, Corkey, joined the group, and he has traveled with them continuously since.
Chuck and Judy, along with two of their daughters, Meredith and Jaime, sing close harmony. Their grandchildren, John, Zach, Hannah, Jason, and Isaiah sing several songs with them. Judy and Zach play piano and bass on many songs.
The family has a variety of musical styles and comedy. Come and share the Gospel of Christ with them.
The concert will start at 6:30 p.m. at the Crossville United Methodist Church located at the corner of Second and Goodman Streets in Crossville. For more information, call 966-3410.
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[2.2] Ext.Viewport.getOrientation() reports wrong value on BlackBerry 10
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- Components like dataview don't listen to events like "orientationchange", so we're relying on the resize event to be able to trigger a test that will determine the device's orientation.
Unfortunately, the value reported by Ext.Viewport.getOrientation() is not accurate on BlackBerry 10. It could be because the value is defined too late or because using resize is not the proper way of doing it.
- Catch the resize event inside a dataview and print the value of Ext.Viewport.getOrientation() on-screen
- The message on screen should show the value matching the device's orientation
- It seems the value is always one step behind.
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Also, what specific device was it for?
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I see the same behaviour on 2.2b1.
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I need some help with the follwing: Lets suppose that the sentence $\forall x: x\in I \rightarrow P(x)$ is false. Now consider the sentence $$\forall x: x\in I \rightarrow (P(x) \ \& \ Q(x) ) \ \ \quad (1)$$ for any property $Q(x)$, which is also obviously false. But now I can define a set $I'=\left\{ x \in I| P(x) \right\}$. So the sentence (1) should be equivalent to the sentence $$\forall x: x\in I' \rightarrow Q(x) $$ But since sentence is now true, since there aren't any $x$ such that $x \in I'$, because the first sentence was supposed to be false.
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1967 Barracuda Convertible - A Solid Foundation On Suspension - TechWritten by on July 1, 2008 We Start From The Ground Up As Our Latest Project Gets "The Works" From Just Suspension
Whether you work for a magazine or not, chances are your project vehicles are like ours and never reach a state of being truly finished. Even after they're complete enough to drive, take to a show, or to the track, there always seems to be another part we want to try, or another piece that will give us a little more power, or . . . well, we're sure you know the feeling. So although our projects never really seem to get completely finished, we still get excited about starting a new project. Deciding where to start, however, can be a perplexing proposition in itself. Since we all want a car that looks good, it may be appealing to start fixing the car up with a trip to the paint shop. Performance is also important, so maybe building that hot big-block is a good starting point. While we've been tempted to begin a project by painting it or installing a new engine, the reality is that most projects, whether they'll be driven during the restoration or not, can benefit from the solid foundation of a good suspension and brakes.
You may recognize our latest project from our Rare Finds department of several months ago. We scored a deal on this '67 Barracuda convertible and have decided to build it into something Plymouth never offered in 1967-a big-block Formula S convertible. Given that this car was originally equipped with a Slant Six engine, and the spongy suspension and inadequate brakes that came were standard issue with the Slant Six, we decided that it just made sense to upgrade the suspension of this vehicle before we went any further. Also, since we plan to drive this car regularly, we wanted to be sure the car would handle and stop well enough that we wouldn't be afraid to drive it in heavy traffic. It's simply no fun to have to panic stop behind a new vehicle that has four-wheel disc brakes and ABS if your car is equipped with 9-inch factory drum brakes and a worn-out original suspension, so we felt an upgrade was in order.
We know that spending money on your car's suspension generally doesn't reward you with a better looking or better accelerating car. Most people who see your car at a cruise night will notice the paint, interior, and engine before they notice the tubular upper control arms, but the rewards for upgrading the suspension aren't intended to impress people at a car show or cruise night. Suspension improvements are more for the driver of the car, the people in the car, and the drivers and passengers in the cars on the road around yours. Today's cars are lighter, more nimble, and have far better brakes than most musclecars from the '60s and '70s, so we see suspension upgrades as simply keeping up with the times. Driving a big-block-equipped anything these days with worn suspension components and factory drum brakes isn't just no fun, it's unsafe.
Since our car didn't just need replacement parts, but needed heavier torsion bars and springs and new brakes, we didn't want to piecemeal our suspension by replacing one part at a time. We needed a comprehensive kit that would give us all the standard suspension rebuild components, as well as the upgraded parts we'd need to make our car safe when the big-block is installed. Our research led us to a new kit offered by Just Suspension called "The Works" kit. Offered as a standard front-to-rear suspension kit for Mopar A-, B-, C-, and E-bodies, with customizable options and upgrades, this kit seemed to fit our purposes perfectly. It contains everything we'll need to complete our car's suspension, while upgrading it with modern components as well.
When we ordered our kit, the folks at Just Suspension asked specific questions about our car and its intended use, then offered options when it came to springs and torsion bars to best suit our vehicle. Additionally, we upgraded our suspension kit with the optional Wilwood four-wheel disc-brake kit, complete with new hard and soft brake lines, brake booster and master cylinder, tubular upper-control arms, aluminum strut-rods, and front and rear sway bars for improved handling. We also had them throw in their handy tool kit that contains all the specialty tools needed to change suspension components yourself. If you're thinking this kit is all-inclusive, you're right. We've been building cars for many years, but we're not sure we'd have thought of all the parts Just Suspension includes in The Works kit. And if you're worrying about cost, Just Suspension has done all they can to alleviate your concerns by supplying quality parts at a competitive price. Also, knowing that the cost of a complete suspension kit can be hard on your bank account if you have to purchase it in one lump sum, Just Suspension offers interest-free financing for twelve months. As working stiffs with families to feed, we appreciated the option of spreading the cost of our suspension out over a year.
As we've experienced before when dealing with Just Suspension, they had everything for our project in stock, so we received our parts quickly and were able to get to work. All the parts were high quality and were exactly as-ordered, giving us peace of mind that we wouldn't be making any unexpected trips to the parts store during the installation. The tool kit offered by Just Suspension was especially handy, giving us the convenience of a torsion bar installer/remover, and offering options other than an expensive shop press to install and remove bushings.
All told, we found The Works by Just Suspension to be one of the most comprehensive kits on the market today, and we'll feel comfortable driving our car knowing the suspension and brakes have been rebuilt and upgraded for better performance than these cars had when new.
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Knowing our car's factory 7 1/4-inch rearend would never hold up to a big-block, we found another A-body to donate its 8 3/4 rear to our project. If you plan a swap like this, be sure to inform your customer service representative when ordering your suspension kit.In addition to our suspension and brake parts, we ordered Just Suspension's "Six-Pack" of suspension tools. This kit includes tools to remove and install control arm bushings and ball joints, as well as a handy torsion bar tool.Starting in the rear, we simply unbolted the leaf-spring forward and rear mounting brackets and rolled the 71/4 rear out from under the car, springs and all.We upgraded our kit with the optional Wilwood rear disc brake kit. This kit is easy to install, bolting directly to the axle retainer hardware on the rearend, and will greatly improve the braking of our Barracuda.Since our new suspension with heavier springs, torsion bars, and sway bars will put more pressure on the car's chassis, we decided to stiffen our car up with a set of Competition Engineering framerail connectors.Since we're installing a big-block in this project, we ordered stiffer rear leaf springs with our kit. A nice feature of this suspension kit is that it is fully customizable to your specifications.With the new leaf springs in place, we cleaned up our donor 8 3/4 housing and bolted it in. The rear sway bar kit can now be installed with the supplied hardware. This is an easy upgrade and only requires drilling four holes in the car's rear framerails.Up front, we started by taking the tension off the torsion bars, then removing them with this tool from Just Suspension. This tool is a slick piece and won't mar up the torsion bar like the pipe-wrench method does.
We found the front suspension kit to be as complete as the rear, providing all the pieces and hardware necessary for a full rebuild. We chose to upgrade our front suspension with a sway bar, aluminum strut-rods, heavier torsion bars, and tubular upper control arms.The tubular upper-control arms are nice pieces and will flex less than the factory units for better handling and all-around drivability. The side-by-side difference is dramatic.To eliminate tie-rod flex, Just Suspension includes heavy-duty tie rods as a standard feature in The Works kit.While those of you lucky enough to have a press can use it to press in the control arm bushings, Just Suspension's tool kit includes a tool to install the bushings just as easily without a press. If you plan on doing any suspension work on your car, this kit will be a nice addition to your toolbox.Also included in our suspension kit is a new steering box. Since we feel a true performance car shouldn't have power-robbing accessories like power steering, we're converting our car to a manual steering box.Along with the new torsion bars, new torsion-bar adjustors are included with the kit. This is a big convenience as decades old factory adjustors can be rusty and hard to turn.
Like most Mopars with original suspension components, our lower control-arm bushings were shot. Luckily, new ones are included with the kit, and they're easily pressed into place with one of the tools in our suspension tool kit.Upper ball-joint threads are cut with a slight interference so it's easiest to bolt the control arm in place before installing the ball joint. Alternatively, the upper control arm can be placed in a vice to accomplish this task.When all the new front suspension components are in place and tightened to the proper torque, don't forget to install the cotter pins.Now that our front suspension is installed, we can concentrate on our disc-brake conversion. The Wilwood brakes included in our Works kit bolt right to the factory drum brake spindles and will greatly reduce the stopping distance of our Barracuda.We're updating our car with new rear axles and changing to the larger Mopar lug bolt pattern. If you plan to stay with the standard 4-inch pattern, however, the front rotors are drilled to accommodate either.Front rotors must be bolted together, and the bolts are kept from backing out with aviation safety wire. Safety wire and safety wire pliers can be found at most aviation supply stores and some automotive performance stores.The key to properly installing aviation safety wire is to make sure that if the bolt tries to back out, the wire will get tighter.With the rotors assembled, the front brakes can now be installed on the car. While actually designed for racing, the Wilwood brakes are a dramatic improvement over the 9-inch drums our car came with and will be a major improvement to our street car.
Though we're eager to feel the handling, ride, braking, and drivability improvements that our new suspension will give us, we'll have to wait until the car is finished. We're sure, however, that the difference will be dramatic. For now, we'll just bolt some old wheels on it and take it to the paint shop with confidence that when this project hits the road, it will be riding on the solid foundation of a great suspension and brake package from Just Suspension.


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Do you have tricks or techniques to remember all the rules to the games you're playing? I would like to run my first game as a gamemaster, but I'm struggling with remembering all the feats and competency rules.
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For D20/D&D3.5 - things like grappling/sundering/size disparity/jumping I often get it wrong.. so I would often rely a lot on the collective mindshare of the other players. If I come to a point that I can't remembrance, I usually offer something like "I seem to remember that it works this way.." give my solution and if nobody objects, well, that's the way it works. So the first tier is "Proposed DM solution"- You have to make it clear that if your way is wrong, you'd be open to correction.
Usually/often I have had someone (sometimes two or three people) who was way more into the way the rules worked (perhaps because they had built charaters around those rules) and they would clarify the procedure before the dice roll. The second tier is "How Joe the expert is pretty sure it works"
Checking the rulebook at that point becomes the third option - only if everyone agrees that they don't know how it works, but that my proposed solution was wrong, and that the situation is serious enough that it warrants a rule vice a ruling.
I always hope never have to get to third tier.
First off: you don't need to remember them. It sounds like you've tried to commit them to memory, which means that you've read it all: good, that's the right place to start. That gives you the knowledge of where to look up things in the book, and be able to do it quickly. When you're in the middle of a game and you know exactly where to flip to answer a rules question, you can do it quickly without disrupting the flow of play, refresh your memory, and get back to the game.
Second, being able to rattle off statistics and details of complex rules will come with long experience using it. Your best study method for learning the game is playing and running it. Your players are going to be doing the same thing, so they will remember bits that are relevant to their own characters. With passing familiarity, you'll be able to say, "Oh yes, you're right. That's how it works," or say, "Hold on, I remember it differently. Let me look it up."
Sometimes you'll not be able to find something in the rules quickly enough. Then you should make a temporary ruling, and defer sorting it out until after the session has ended. Make a note to look it up after if that helps. Most of the time it won't make a huge (or any) difference in how the session went, and reviewing it after will cement in your mind for next time how it's supposed to work.
Occasionally, it will make a difference. Some players won't mind, other will. This is one of the hard parts of GMing: you'll have to either stand firm on how it all happened, or make up the difference to the player next time. Much like learning the rules, judging how to handle that will come with experience.
Good luck, and remember to enjoy yourself! You're a player too.
It's not the same with every other game. D20 and it's derivatives have lots of detailed special case rules (the Feats), and particularly detailed mechanics for combat movement. SW Saga is a D20 variant, and shares those traits.
Step 1: is to realize that you don't need to know them all right off. In many cases, you just need to know where to look, and your players will know how to use their feats.
Step 2: make a cheat sheet (using ye olde photocopier, or scanner and printer, or by retyping) with the feats your players' characters have. Keep it handy. The more they use them, the more you'll remember.
Step 3: as more and more feats come into play, add more cheat sheets; you'll be using the originals less, hopefully, so you're just really relying upon it for the new stuff.
A few common tools for memorization include:
Also, the more you run it, the easier it gets for any given game.
There are other games with fewer and simpler rules; there are also longer, harder and more complex games. So if you find it a problem to run SW with the special cases, find a simpler game that you can run it with. But try it first, with memorizing only what you need to: the core mechanic and the basic combat rules.
If you have read the rules, just play until you hit a road-block.
If you have the book nearby and you know where the rule should be, look it up.
If you have to look for more than a minute make a decision:
For the cheat sheets the Rules Compendium is my baby for DND3.5 but for other systems I built my own sheet. I have about 5 pages in my file with the WOD Vampire rules summarize on them in one place, same for ShadowRun, etc.
The other piece of advice I can give is don't try and summarize all the rules at once if you are making your own cheat sheets . If there is no one in your party with Mounted Combat feats, don't bother looking them up until someone starts taking them. I learned that the hard way...
Steer clear of digging through the rulebook during game.
If you've read the rules, you're doing good. There is no need to remember them all. The play is the thing, rules are just there to help keep everyone on the same page. Getting the rules perfect right out of the gate is not necessary.
Do your best, when you are unsure of a rule poll the players. If a few have glanced over the rules that would help. After the poll, make a ruling.
Within a few sessions, you'll have found most of the main areas of concern and should be down to a couple questions every session dealing with particular edge questions.
My group has been playing together now for 10 years. Thru DnD 3.0, 3.5 and we jumped into 4.0 upon release. We still come up with 0-2 questions a session. But we are a bunch of barely sociable rules lawyers :) If your group is a bit more easy going, you should reach a stable rules basis pretty quickly.
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You don't have to remember all the rules, simply must remember how to remember the rules.
This seems tautological but its not. The easiest way to make sure you get all the rules right is to have a quick and easy way of catagorizing and finding the rules. Personally i use a cheat sheet for 4th edition that answers most of the niggling questions on one page. In the past I would dog ear (or mark or have bookmarks ) to certain sections of the book (such as grappling).
The only problem with this method is that it requires you to know what you are going to need (and likely have forgotten ) before actually doing so. Its not for everyone, but often a little prep can pay off 10x its weight in results.
Don't try to remember ALL the rules, just try to remember the core rules you'll use all the time. The rest of the rules? Make referencing them easy:
What I like to do for games, is set up a "quicksheet". I look at the rules that I end up having to reference the most or tend to slip my mind the easiest - charts, weird exceptions, and I type/copy them up into a 2 page document - so I can print it front and back and have it at the table to play with.
The nice thing is that you can have a few copies of this, and it works to help the players during play, or when you are first teaching the rules, give you a basic run down to go through.
This will cover the general stuff that you use/reference all the time.
Tabbed Pages
You can go grab little colored sticky flags or cut up Post-It notes and put them in the book at sections you may reference often. Try to pick at most 5-7 sections, otherwise you'll be dealing with enough tabs it won't be useful. Different colors at different heights also helps.
If there are multiple copies of the rules sitting around, have them all open or bookmarked to different sections. "Pass me the magic book" "Ok, I'm done, you can look at the combat book" "It's page 152" etc. It makes it easy to either find one section or have someone call out the appropriate page.
Player Responsibility
If a player has weird rules pertaining to their character that most of the party doesn't have (usually magic in a game), I make the player have to be able to regularly pull it up in the book. Usually this isn't an issue - the players are usually on top of their own abilities and can just tell me, but if they sound unsure or it sounds too good to be true, "Hey, what page is that on? Can you show me?" and they look it up.
Player Rules Packs
If the game is somewhat ridiculous in the exceptions/specifics of rules and characters are high maintainance, I might have photocopied specific power sections or copy/pasted them on a page or two for that player. Then it's right there for both you and them.
Whenever I start a game I reread the rule book. Any important rules I don't know get written down in the first few pages of my rule book. Now I have a quick reference for things I know I've had trouble remembering.
When I write a game session that includes weird rules (ie underwater movement) I lookup the rules during prep time and make a note with the book and page number. I'll probably remember the rule, but it's nice to have a reference ready in my back pocket.
I play in a group where we all alternate the DM role and vary the game based on who is the current DM (for example, George runs Shadowurn, Sally runs Vampire, I run Pathfinder, etc.). Some tips:


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The once-stodgy awards are finding and honoring new artists faster than ever. What their choices tell us about the turbulent music business.
Forty million people tuned in to the Grammy Awards last year, the most viewers since Michael Jackson triumphed with "Thriller." But that Oscars-size audience was due to the drawing power of a young singer ( Adele) and the death of an older one ( Whitney Houston) the day before the telecast. This Sunday, without those klieg-light factors, the Grammy Awards are set to be a more accurate mirror of today's music business, a volatile industry where both sales and stardom are spread more thinly than ever.
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But as a result, Grammy viewers will get a better look at how new media and technology are reshaping pop music today.
The overseers of the awards were slow to recognize rock 'n' roll in the 1960s, and later infamously snubbed seminal albums by Eminem and Radiohead in favor of one released by Steely Dan 20 years past the jazz-rockers' prime. In recent years, however, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has stepped up efforts to make its ranks more young and diverse. The result is a voting membership that—despite some glaring snubs and blind spots—seems more attuned to the artists setting the pace of music culture.
Consider the top category, album of the year, where the five nominees are made up entirely of young acts. There's not a household name among them (as CBS has no doubt noticed; Justin Timberlake will perform on the show, though he isn't nominated), but each represents the different gears driving music careers now.
Mumford & Sons is a group of folk-rock harmonizers from England who climbed gradually on the strength of live shows and word-of-mouth. Frank Ocean is a hip-hop singer who harnessed an innovative sound and online buzz. The rock band Fun. ("fun." in the band's parlance) demonstrates the enduring power of radio, television and catchy hit singles. And the elder statesmen of the bunch ( Jack White and the Black Keys duo) straddle the old school and new, yet they're all under 40 years old.
It's a sign that industry shifts are accelerating the life cycle of young artists. Three out of the five nominees were tapped for just their second release, including the one narrowly favored to win, Mumford & Sons. That follows three years in a row in which the best-album Grammy was taken by acts on their second or third release: Adele (2012), Arcade Fire ('11) and Taylor Swift ('10). That's the longest winning streak by early-career acts in the 54-year history of the Grammys. This suggests that Grammy voters are more open to honoring relative newcomers over lifers for the flagship award. For an organization that's been derided as the "Grannies," that's a significant course correction.
Or an overcorrection, some argue. Veterans who many industry insiders considered strong contenders for best-album nominations— Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen—were relegated to the genre categories of blues, Americana and rock. Other legends with new albums in 2012, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Lionel Richie, were shut out of the nominations completely. Then again, so was Justin Bieber, along with fellow pop stars One Direction and Nicki Minaj.
All this points to the leveling effect of digital technology, social media and everything else that blew up the old industry. Revenue from recorded music in the U.S. amounted to $7 billion in 2011, less than half for the industry at its peak in 1999, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. In 2012, the compact disc continued its long decline, with sales down 13% from last year, and down 70% from 10 years before, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Apple said this week that its iTunes store had sold its 25 billionth song.
But change is not just a matter of downloads gradually killing CDs. As record stores closed, a wilderness of other music sources have sprouted up. Nearly two-thirds of teens use YouTube as their primary music source, according to Nielsen. As an alternative to downloads, streaming music is gaining, served up in various styles by services like Pandora and Spotify. Even Myspace is back, having recently relaunched with a clean interface and a mandate to siphon music fans' loyalty from Facebook. FB -0.85 %
Countless acts who came out with a hot debut have encountered sophomore slumps. So why has album No. 2 been a charm for so many Grammy nominees lately? "The career arc has shrunk dramatically," says Jeff Rabhan, chairman of New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. The Internet can conjure new stars almost overnight. But when things move at a viral pace, a breakout act can get set aside just as rapidly.
For the past few years, the sales charts have been dominated by two women, Adele and Taylor Swift, whose most recent albums have sold 10.3 million and 3.3 million copies, respectively. In the shadow of these giants, this year's nominees for album of the year offer a more realistic snapshot of what success looks like today. They're artists with core constituencies and strong sales, but whose impact is better measured across the many different channels that listeners shuffle through. When it came to conventional album sales, Frank Ocean's debut, "Channel Orange," didn't crack the top 50 of 2012's best sellers. Yet it was No. 4 among albums that got the most coverage by music blogs, a ranking driven by its placement on many best-of-the-year roundups as calculated by the website Hype Machine.
"In addition to the sales of their records, these nominees all moved the needle, whether you're looking at Spotify, or YouTube, or all the other things that are intertwined with the new media [outlets] of our business. It's a validation of how the filters have changed," says Daniel Glass, founder of Glassnote Records, Mumford & Sons' North American label.
After moving to Los Angeles from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Mr. Ocean made connections and started writing songs for other singers, including Justin Bieber. That led to a contract in 2009 with the Def Jam label, but not much came of it initially, and Mr. Ocean turned his attention to working with an underground rap collective known as Odd Future. Recording as a group or as individuals, they released a torrent of music free, often on their Tumblr sites, and rapidly became an online cause celebre because of a raw style and graphic lyrics.
In early 2011, Mr. Ocean released his own free album-length "mixtape" called "Nostalgia, Ultra." Recorded without the participation of his label, the music had intentionally ragged edges, and the singer's introspective ballads ran counter to the slickness of commercial R&B. In the song "American Wedding," he sang over instrumentals lifted from "Hotel California." (Online mixtapes occupy a gray area of copyright law because they're generally released free online.) When Mr. Ocean performed the song in concert, he played the Eagles track by triggering a "Guitar Hero" videogame controller.
"Nostalgia, Ultra" made a big splash online, reinvigorating Def Jam's interest in Mr. Ocean and leading to his contribution of vocals for an album by Kanye West and Jay-Z. Two weeks before the scheduled release of his first retail album, "Channel Orange," the singer published a message online that described a "first love" he had with a man. The impact was amplified by the fact that the hip-hop world had never had a star come out as gay or bisexual. Nearly two-thirds of teens use YouTube as their primary music source, according to a Nielsen survey. Since the release last July, Mr. Ocean has performed less than 20 times.
By contrast, Mumford & Sons have done about 75 concerts since last March, when the group started laying groundwork for the release of its second album, "Babel," in September. The band was formed by four friends (not family members) in London in late 2007. Among a new wave of British folk acts, Mumford & Sons defined themselves with galloping rhythms, hearty group harmonies and an attacking spirit to their acoustic music and lyrics, as represented by the F-bomb in the chorus of the breakout song "Little Lion Man."
The group kicked off a change in radio programming, as so-called alternative stations have put them and other folk bands into rotation next to hard-rock acts. That was a byproduct of the road work that has always been a linchpin for Mumford & Sons. Since its first concert in America in 2008, the group is on its 12th U.S. tour. For one tour, they traveled by rail with three other bands through the West, a jaunt chronicled in a documentary film. And last summer the group organized seven of its own mini festivals, each including a half dozen like-minded acts on the bill. Five more of these "Gentlemen of the Road" events are scheduled for next summer.
As the band's team marked their progress in the incremental growth of ticket sales, debut album "Sigh No More" was growing in step. It took one year from release for the album to reach a high of No. 2 on the Billboard chart. Once it got there (boosted by a performance on the 2011 Grammy Awards), "Sigh No More" held its ground in the top 10 for 20 weeks.
"Babel" stunned the industry by selling 600,000 copies in its first week. The success of Mumford & Sons, combined with their songwriting and the toe they have in folk tradition, has Grammy prognosticators predicting a best-album win. Others favor the Black Keys or Jack White, as much for the strong albums they made as the respect they've accrued during their own hard-fought ascents.
There is a history of upsets at the Grammys. Mr. Glass, a former executive at Chrysalis Records, recalls being in the audience in 1989 when one of the label's ancient acts, Jethro Tull, a flute-driven classic-rock group, won a Grammy for best hard-rock/metal album, beating out stalwarts like Metallica. It was a farcical moment that still gets dragged out whenever Grammy voters make choices that suggest they're clueless about contemporary music. This year, for instance, an obscure DJ from Lichtenstein, Al Walser, is nominated for best dance recording next to heavyweights such as Avicii and Skrillex, after he made lobbying efforts on a private website for Academy members.
Despite such gaffes, people inside the industry say that in recent years the Academy has aggressively recruited young performers, songwriters and producers. Neil Portnow, the president of the Recording Academy wouldn't disclose evidence to prove the membership is skewing younger. Instead, he points to efforts such as Grammy U, a four-year-old program on college campuses to create a "farm team" of students on a path into the music industry.
Says Mr. Portnow: "Nobody can point a finger at this Academy and say, 'They're out of touch.' "
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When a group of recent Columbia Law School graduates gathered for a friendly game of poker back in 1952, little did they know that they were starting a tradition that would span six decades.
The original cast of players in those early years included Dan Berkson '52, George Dwight '52, William Karatz '52, Al Feinstein '52, Art Steinberg '52, Jim Fletcher '52, Peter Kenton '52, Donald Robinson '52, and Bill Sharpless '52. The initial ensemble was later joined by Robert Green '52, Gene Rossides '52, Shirley Brinsfield '52, and Russell Fairbanks '52.
"In the beginning, nobody had any money," Green says. "It was just nickels and dimes, and everyone chipped in for sandwiches and beer. As everyone became a little more affluent, we began rotating hosts and providing cocktails, and the game became more of an interesting dinner and mutual support group."
Fellow classmates E. Allan Farnsworth '52, Alan Rosenberg '52, Thomas Farrell '52, and Dan Stack '52 made occasional appearances at the gatherings, as well.
The game continues to this day. Berkson, Green and Karatz are the only members of the original class still playing, and they take pride in the fact that there has never been a significant disruption in their monthly meetings.
"I have a feeling that if the Guinness Book of World Records knew about us, they'd include us as the longest continuing poker group," says Berkson. "Certainly from the Law School, and I bet probably in the whole world."
Generally the low-stakes gamblers take a break in July and August, and occasionally they miss another month during the year, Green says. "But there has never been a single significant break," he adds. Over the years, they have boosted numbers by bringing in players from other law schools. Theodore I. Botter '48 and Green's son, Peter—who attended Columbia's Graduate Schools of Business and of Journalism—have joined in the fun as well.
For some participants, the game served as a career networking night, and as a forum for verbal sparring over politics and dissecting one another's casework, the players say. But regardless of differences of opinion, the atmosphere has always remained cordial "This may sound hard to believe because we're talking about poker, but I can't recall a single serious argument or disagreement that we've ever had," Berskon says.
The game is always dealer's choice, and the financial stakes still remain low despite a 100 percent increase in the value of the blue chip since the game was launched. (That chip is now worth 50 cents compared to 25 cents in the beginning).
"Some of our players are very well off and very successful, but it doesn't matter," Green says. "You can't lose more than 10 or 15 dollars on a given night."
The games, Green adds, have never been about the money.
"Poker is presumed to be a zero-sum game," he says. "But not in our group. Every one of us is a winner."


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By Pilar Abuin
November 6, 2012
By now, you have probably heard that Blackboard is being replaced by NYU Classes, and that the entire University will be switched over to the new learning management system by August 15, 2013. With such a major change, you may have questions about how this transition will affect your work, where your existing course data will live, and what you'll need to do in preparation. Students, faculty, and staff are going to be impacted in different ways by this change, and this article will help explain which services you will need to access to get through this transition period.
In preparation for this transition, the NYU Classes team collected feature requests and usability feedback from pilot users throughout the spring and summer. Based on this input, we made adjustments to improve the interface and added requested functionality. This fall, over 6,500 faculty and students began using the improved NYU Classes service in over 700 courses, primarily from the Liberal Studies program, the Silver School of Social Work, and the recently-opened NYU Academic Centers in Sydney, Australia, and Washington, D.C.
Megan Carrigy, the Assistant Director of Academics from NYU Sydney, has been helping her faculty hit the ground running with NYU Classes for the past few months:
So far, I have found NYU Classes very simple and easy to use, especially in terms of creating and organising resources for students. We put all of our course readings on NYU Classes rather than collate printed Course Readers. Faculty have also been using the Announcements function regularly for sending out e-mails to their students. Faculty have been able to learn how to use these functions very easily, and some have started using other areas, such as the Forum, for students to share information and class work among themselves.
Carrigy also mentioned that NYU Sydney had only begun to explore the new features of the Assignments tool. One new enhancement is the integration of the "originality reporting" capability of TurnItIn, allowing faculty to easily check assignments submitted through TurnItIn for signs of plagiarism. In addition, pilot participant feedback has led to new organizational and collaborative functionality for the Lessons and Blogs tools, which will be available for spring 2013:
To access NYU Classes, visit the NYUHome Academics tab (home.nyu.edu/academics). In the "Course Sites" channel, you'll see a button to log into NYU Classes. Faculty interested in using these new features can create their own course site for spring 2013 in NYU Classes. In just three steps, course sites can be created and ready to use, with course ID, title, and description automatically pulled from Albert. Note that faculty who will be teaching with NYU Classes in the spring and want to create a course site for a January term course will need to activate a Blackboard course site one last time (see the Course Site Request Form).
We recognize that many University community members have been using Blackboard for years and have important data stored there that they would like to retain. For faculty, NYU Blackboard course sites from summer 2011 through fall 2012 will automatically be archived and imported into NYU Classes. If faculty have course sites from the spring 2011 semester or earlier that they wish to bring into the new system, they can also request to have those sites migrated before Blackboard is retired on August 15, 2013. To do so, e-mail email@example.com with the complete course IDs (including term) of the sites you are requesting. Faculty or staff using Blackboard Organizational Sites can also migrate their content into NYU Classes as "Project Sites." To do so, please send the course ID of the Blackboard Organizational Site you wish to have transitioned to the IT Service Desk at firstname.lastname@example.com.
After logging in, instructors should see their transitioned content from course sites from 2011 and 2012 listed under "My Active Sites." These sites contain the resources, tests, and quizzes from previous Blackboard course sites. Anyone with the "instructor" role in the Blackboard course site will also have access to these resources in NYU Classes. However, the enrollment data for these sites will not be included, so students and TAs will not automatically have access to the site. Additionally, students will need to log into Blackboard to view any of their past content, such as discussion board posts and graded materials. Faculty will have the option to publish and add additional participants to these sites if they wish to share access with other people. These sites will also remain in Blackboard until August 15, 2013.
For many students, fall 2012 courses will be in Blackboard, and spring 2013 courses will be in NYU Classes. While you will have access to your past courses in Blackboard until August 15, 2013, any prior content submitted to Blackboard sites will not be migrated to NYU Classes. This means you will need to log into Blackboard to get access to your past submitted assignments, completed tests and quizzes, unofficial grades in the Grade Center, and discussion posts. It also means that your access to the materials posted by instructors (e.g., syllabi, posted readings, and lecture notes) will only be available from within Blackboard. If you wish to download and save any of these materials, you must do so before Blackboard becomes unavailable on August 15, 2013.
We understand that switching to NYU Classes is a major change for the NYU community. Tazuko Shibusawa, Associate Dean & Director of the MSW Program, shared her thoughts on the process after participating in the Silver School of Social Work's transition this fall semester:
A change of this significance is no easy matter, and there's always cause for concern, especially as an early adopter of any new technology. (The NYU Classes Project Team) were consummate professionals during this process, and with their guidance, this transition was a success. Our support staff, faculty members, and students were well prepared thanks to the excellent training and resources (they) provided. During the process, it was clear that our concerns and feedback were being heard.
Rest assured that there are resources available to make this process as smooth as possible. Review the NYU Classes Training and Support Wiki for details about self-paced online training modules, instructor-led workshops and consultations, and support documentation (as well as additional information for faculty and staff at Global locations). You can also find solutions to many questions regarding NYU Classes by searching the Ask ITS knowledgebase. In-person assistance is also available at the Digital Studio in New York (Bobst Library, fifth floor) and in the Digital Studio in Ahu Dhabi (NYUAD Library, second floor). If you experience any problems or have any questions, please send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Pilar Abuin is a Senior Academic Technology Specialist within ITS Academic Technology Services.
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From Weil conjecture we know the relation between the zeta-function and the cohomology of the variety, however it appears that there are certainly more information containing in the zeta-function, and the question remains whether they can be used to compute some more geometric invariants of the variety, such as the Chern classes. For instance, can one spot a Calabi-Yau manifold just by looking at the zeta-function? Is the zeta-function a birational invariant, or stronger?
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A situation that often happens to me is that I hire a bunch of staff at once in Theme Hospital either at the start of the hospital or during a major expansion, and from that point on, they all go for their staff breaks en masse as their tiredness values are in sync. This devastates the hospital as they leave many rooms vacant, and further staff rush out of their rooms to replace the missing staff, before rushing back to another room after treating just one or two patients, grinding my hospital to a halt.
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The fate of President Obama's signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is in the hands of the nine Supreme Court justices.
People began lining up Friday for their chance to be in be inside the courtroom for the opportunity to see history unfold.
Justices are expected to kick off arguments Monday by questioning whether it is too soon to even be hearing the case, as the key part of the law actually under fire--the individual mandate, which requires all Americans purchase insurance or pay a fine--does not take effect until 2014. A lower court previously ruled that the lawsuits filed by 26 states should wait until then.
Justices will continue to hear arguments throughout the week even if they do determine the lower court was correct.
The Supreme Court is in particular focusing on two important questions: does Congress have the power to force people to buy something; and if the answer is no, and the individual mandate is struck down, does it unravel the entire health care law?
Lower courts have had mixed rulings on the individual mandate, with some ruling in favor of the mandate and others striking it down. One lower court rejected the mandate, but ruled that the rest of the law could stand.
The administration says the requirement that all citizens who can afford insurance purchase it is needed in order to implement a critical component of the ACA: that insurers cannot drop people with pre-existing conditions or raise premiums based on medical history.
The reasoning is that uninsured raise health care costs on everybody else, since they typically only seek care in emergencies. If they can't pay the cost of the treatment they receive, hospitals absorb the costs, then raise the costs of their services on those who are insured. This leads insurance companies to raise their premiums to cover their higher health care costs.
If compelled to do so, as they would be if the individual mandate stands, healthy individuals who might otherwise opt to remain uninsured would purchase insurance, allowing insurance companies to keep premiums low for everyone.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services say Americans making very low income who cannot afford insurance or those whose religious beliefs conflict with the mandate would not have to comply.
Opponents of the mandate say that if the law stands, Congress would be granted greater authority to dictate what Americans do with their lives.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers likened the mandate to giving the government the authority to force citizens to buy energy-saving cars.
Legal experts have called the case the most critical since FDR's New Deal program went under review decades ago.
A ruling is expected in June.


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Optic atrophy 1
Other Names for this Disease
- Optic atrophy, juvenile
- Kjer-type optic atrophy
- Optic atrophy, Kjer type
Related Diseases
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optic nerve. Additional, less common abnormalities may include sensorineural hearing loss, ataxia, myopathy (muscle disease) and other neurological findings.[1] It is usually caused by mutations in the OPA1 gene, although some individuals with optic atrophy 1 do not have identified mutations in this gene, in which case the cause of the condition is unknown. This condition is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern but some cases result from a new mutation in the gene and occur in people with no history of the disorder in their family.[2] Treatment focuses on individual symptoms when possible.[1]Optic atrophy 1 is a condition that mainly affects vision, but may include other features. Vision loss typically begins within the first decade of life; severity varies widely among affected people (from nearly normal vision to complete blindness), even among members of the same family. Vision problems may include difficulty distinguishing colors, progressive narrowing of the field of vision (tunnel vision) and an abnormally pale appearance (pallor) of the
Last updated: 12/22/2010
- Cécile Delettre-Cribaillet, Christian P Hamel, Guy Lenaers. Optic Atrophy Type 1. GeneReviews. July 20, 2010; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1248/. Accessed 12/22/2010.
- Optic atrophy type 1. Genetics Home Reference. June 2009; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/optic-atrophy-type-1. Accessed 12/22/2010.
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- Genetics Home Reference (GHR) contains information on Optic atrophy 1. This website is maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
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- The Monarch Initiative brings together data about this condition from humans and other species to help physicians and biomedical researchers. Monarch's tools are designed to make it easier to compare the signs and symptoms (phenotypes) of different diseases and discover common features. This initiative is a collaboration between several academic institutions across the world and is funded by the National Institutes of Health. Visit the website to explore the biology of this condition.
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Each entry has a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
- Orphanet is a European reference portal for information on rare diseases and orphan drugs. Access to this database is free of charge.
- PubMed is a searchable database of medical literature and lists journal articles that discuss Optic atrophy 1. Click on the link to view a sample search on this topic.
Other Names for this Disease
- Optic atrophy, juvenile
- Kjer-type optic atrophy
- Optic atrophy, Kjer type
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I have an Belgian sour that has been in it's secondary for 18 months. With a terminal gravity of 1010 for over the last year, what is the best way to bottle condition this beer? New yeast? Blend?
If by bottle condition you mean to carbonate, I'd add some fresh yeast. Preferably a neutral ale yeast strain like WLP001. I'd recommend using just a 1/3rd to 1/2 a vial of WLP001. Add it to your bottling bucket along with your priming sugar prior to racking over from fermentor to bucket. This should ensure more than enough healthy yeast at bottling.
T-58 is a dry yeast that is supposedly the same strain as WLP500 and is designed for bottling big/old Belgians. Sprinkle in a packet of that stuff into your carboy the day before bottling and you should be good to go.


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Lets $f:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R} $, where $f$ is harmonic, continuous and non-constant. How do I go about showing that the level curves of $f$ are smooth?
Lets $f:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R} $, where $f$ is harmonic, continuous and non-constant. How do I go about showing that the level curves of $f$ are smooth?
Hint: The level curves are perpendicular to the gradient of a function. What condition on $f$ or $\nabla f$ might insure that the direction of $\nabla f$ is smooth?
This isn't actually true... let $f(x,y) = x^2 - y^2$ for example. Then the level set $f(x,y) = 0$ consists of two lines which isn't a smooth curve at the origin. The issue is that $\nabla f$ is zero at the origin.
In general a harmonic function $f(x,y)$ can be written locally as $Re(F(z))$ where $F(z) = f(x,y) + ig(x,y)$ is analytic. Suppose $\nabla f(x_0,y_0)$ is nonzero. Then in a neighborhood of $(x_0,y_0)$, you can look at $F(x,y) = (f(x,y), g(x,y))$ as a function from a region in ${\bf R}^2$ to ${\bf R}^2$. The Jacobian determinant of $F$ is given by $$ {\partial f \over \partial x}{\partial g \over \partial y} - {\partial f \over \partial y}{\partial g \over \partial x}$$ By the Cauchy-Riemann equations this is ${\displaystyle \left(\partial f \over \partial x\right)^2 + \left(\partial f \over \partial y\right)^2} = ||\nabla f||^2$ which is assumed to be nonzero. So by the inverse function theorem, the level sets of $f(x,y)$, which are just the inverse images of sets $x = c$ under the map $F(x,y)$, are smooth near $(x_0,y_0)$.
It is also true that if $\nabla f(x_0,y_0) = 0$ (and $f$ is not a constant function), then locally the level set of $f(x,y)$ containing $(x_0,y_0)$ is the union of finitely many smooth curves; to show this you use the fact that locally $F(z) = c + g(z)^n$ for some constant $c$, some positive integer $n$, and some analytic $g(z)$ with $g'(x_0 + iy_0) \neq 0$.


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They say life is what happens when you are busy making plans.
In Fredel Thomas' case, life is precisely what happened because she was happy with her current plan.
"I was perfectly happy where I was in my career," says Thomas, executive director of the Kelley Center for Entrepreneurship at Dakota Wesleyan University (DWU).
She did not seek out promotions at CHR Solutions -- the telecommunications company where she worked for a decade first as an intern, then programmer, sales and quality assurance and finally as the director of project management -- but they were presented anyway.
"It was not something I ever looked to leave," says Thomas, who applied for an adjunct position at DWU, but ended up joining the university's entrepreneurial center as a resource for the community and full-time faculty member.
"I didn't even know a job like that existed," she says. "When they started to talk to me about the job, everything kind of changed. I just thought 'Oh my goodness, I can be passionate about my faith here,' I get to go into the classroom. I get to tell them what it means to me."
Just more than a year after joining the faculty at DWU, Fredel is back in the classroom in another way, too. This time it is a virtual one. She is a full-time student in DWU's online strategic leadership M.B.A. program.
Getting her M.B.A. wasn't part of the plan either.
Throughout her career she had watched co-workers and friends struggle to pursue their master's degrees while juggling families and full-time jobs.
"I thought, I am so glad that I'm never going to do that," she says.
"Two factors changed Thomas' mind: DWU's fully online courses and the option to complete the program in one year.
Because the courses are 100 percent online, she can complete assignments at night and on the weekends, with her kids coloring next to her at the kitchen table. There is no commute to classes or set time to log on and listen to live lectures.
"It is a huge benefit to be able to sit down and do my studies when it works best for my entire family," she says.
And because she opted to go back to school full time, taking two classes each session, she'll be done in one year.
Thomas says she debated going part-time, taking just one class each session. Knowing that she could scale back at any point helped her decide to jump in feet first.
"I was not sure when I started the program. I'm glad I went full time," she says. "I can do this. The second eight weeks, I thought, 'Oh dear, can I really do this?' But I made it through. The one year really does keep me motivated."
That's not to say there haven't been challenges. The first few weeks of each eight-week session have been rough.
"It is a lot of work and it is hard work," she says. "I know the first two weeks of each course are going to be stressful while I'm trying to figure out the flow of the class and balance the workload. I sleep a little less. I read a lot."
There have been other challenges, too, like relearning how to write for class assignments.
"I've done a lot of writing in my professional career. Academic and professional writing are different styles," says Thomas.
Being part of a new program has its benefits as professors try new approaches to see what works the best.
Thomas, for example, has a professor this session who provides videos of recorded lectures. That approach has opened more of a dialog with students and allowed them to see their professor's facial expressions and to hear him crack jokes.
"Dialog is a different thing," she says. "There's something that it adds."
The relationships she's developed with classmates have enhanced her experience as well. Not only are they learning together, they are learning from each other. With 13 years in business behind her, Thomas has more experience than recent graduates enrolled in the M.B.A., but that's a good thing, she says.
Hearing from students in different industries and with different experience levels allows for a richer experience.
"One woman is an entrepreneur three times over; another student sells fruit. Some work for slightly larger businesses," she says. "It opens your eyes to other issues. I can learn from their industries and experiences."
"That was very important to me," she says. "It would be hard for me to separate that. I have a huge appreciation that they bring that into the classroom."
Now, halfway to graduation, she's glad she made the commitment to herself, her career and future.
"Everyone is benefiting," she says. "It comes into play every day of my life. We talk about a topic and all of a sudden in my board meeting, I can speak on that topic with more educated responses than the week before."
Sounds like a plan.
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Here is the top output which I gathered:
I noticed that top is showing vlc's cpu usage is > 100%.
Can anybody please justify me why it is showing like this, whether this is a bug in top application or something else.
You are in a multi-core/multi-CPU environment and "top" is working in Irix mode. That means that your process (vlc) is performing a computation that keeps 1.2 CPUs/cores busy. That could mean 100%+20%, 60%+60%, etc.
Press 'I' to switch to Solaris mode. You get the same value divided by the number of cores/CPUs.


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