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Friday's letters: Two Churchills
Published: Friday, October 19, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 7:22 p.m.
To the editor: For clarification regarding the outrage over the return of the bust of Winston Churchill, there were two busts of Churchill produced by the same artist. One was presented to President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. That one remains in the White House on display with its art collection. The other was loaned to President George W. Bush in 2001 and returned to the British when he left office. It now resides in the residence of the current British ambassador in Washington, D.C.
A little bit of research would have proven helpful to all those individuals who believe in yet another conspiracy regarding our current president. The bust of President Abraham Lincoln is now on display in the Oval Office. I believe it is the right of the sitting president to choose which art objects he would like to display in the Oval Office.
K.D. McCabe
Socialist utopia
To the editor: It is my studied observation that America has been lured toward socialism since the 1920s and that Obamacare is the surest and fastest way to get us fully there. Fidel Castro called its passage a miracle. Like the candy house in the story of Hansel and Gretel, it looks sweet on the outside, but inside it is a cage and theres someone wanting to eat you.
Thomas Jefferson described liberty as a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
Yet it seems that far too many Americans despise our birthright, just as Esau, and are willing to give it up for a socialist utopian bowl of pottage.
But there is no need to accept the new normal. Many have sued the federal government on the grounds that Obamacare represents an unprecedented infringement upon free exercise of religion. Seven states are resisting it on the grounds of the 10th Amendment. And every citizen has a choice in the upcoming elections. Join the resistance!
Janice Parker
Fixing Congress
To the editor: Warren Buffett, in a recent interview, offers advice on reining in Congress: I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3 percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.
The Congressional Reform Act of 2012 would establish:
1. No tenure, no pension for members of Congress.
2. Congress (past, present and future) participates in Social Security, not the Congressional Retirement Fund.
3. Congress can purchase its own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote itself a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3 percent.
5. Congress loses its current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws it imposes on the American people.
Congress made all these contracts for itself. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their terms, then go home and back to work.
This is how you fix Congress!
Amy Stamey
Job well done
To the editor: Im a new subscriber to the Times-News, having defected from a Buncombe County daily that shall remain nameless. That paper was so bad in every respect bias in so-called news stories, sloppy writing and editing, lame headlines that it caused me to give up a lifelong habit of having a paper delivered each morning. So now I get the Times-News by mail. It comes a little later in the day, but its worth the wait.
The trigger for this letter is Emily Weavers story from Sept. 28: Head-on crash injures 2 drivers. This little story is a model of good news writing.
The lead is packed with action verbs and key information. The unfolding of the crash is written so the reader can actually understand what happened, which is not always the case in this type of story. And the makes and models of the cars are reported, which is something readers want to know but some reporters dont bother with.
Keep up the good work.
Jim Grodnik
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One plate or two.
That is a question the Ohio House of Representatives will be voting on once the legislative body returns to session sometime later this year.
A bill stipulating that Ohio residents need display only one, rear-facing license plate on their vehicles, as opposed to the current two-plate requirement, will be up for a vote.
Rep. Terry Johnson, a Republican from Scioto County who is supporting the bill, claims the state could save more than $1 million per year because of the change.
Law enforcement officials, both locally and across the state, are vocalizing their opposition to the bill.
"We like the two license plates in vehicles because it makes it easier for us to identify people when you can read either the front or back plate it makes things more convenient, not only for us but also for witnesses," said John McFarland, Martins Ferry Police Chief.
This is especially true in border counties.
West Virginia and Pennsylvania both utilize one license plate. So when an officer or witness needs to quickly read a plate, noticing a front license plated quickly narrows down where the vehicle is from.
Ohio State Rep. Jack Cera still hasn't made up his mind on which side of this debate he'll cast his vote. But he's already heard from both officers and other groups who've expressed their concerns about the legislation.
"Law enforcement wants to keep the two plates and I'm always concerned then the police departments believe (a bill) is going to be a problem," Cera said. "Especially with some of the crimes issues we're having if it's not going to help them, I am concerned with that."
Cera noted he's also heard from regular citizens who own antique and classic vehicles stating they believe they should be exempt from the law.
The main positive being listed as a direct result of this legislation is savings.
Those savings, however, will be felt most on the state's end, not the end of the individual Ohio driver.
"The dollar amount, in terms of savings, isn't what people think it is," Cera said. "It's minimal savings and the average individual really isn't going to be saving anything.
"When you weight that against the law enforcement issues anything that lessens law enforcements ability to capture people, I'll have to come down on the side of law enforcement."
Cera admitted he's leaning toward a no vote, but is open to hearing from all his constituents and their opinions on the matter. He noted that cost savings for the individual citizen is usually a big factor that plays a role in his decision making. But Cera believes in this case, it isn't really there.
"If there was a major cost savings, I'd be more willing to go (down) to one plate, but again, it's not going to save the individual money," Cera said.
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Bowling Green Police's Cram the Cruiser and the Bowling Green Junior Women's Club's Coats for Kids are still taking coat donations.
A group of students from Holy Trinity Lutheran School made a donation today. They have been gathering coats for kids, and today they were able to cram them in the cruiser.
"I asked them when we got down here, what would you do on a cold day like this if you didn't have a coat? They agreed it would be sad if they didn't have a coast, so they wanted to help other kids have coats this year for winter," said Holy Trinity Lutheran School Preschool Coordinator Dianne Martin.
Martin says the school was able to cram the cruiser with at least 40 coats.
It's not to late for you to help cram the cruiser too. the Coats for Kids drive ends Dec. 1.


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Nobody cares.
i actually care.
While I've never quite heard "Nobody Cares" from Gatsby, it's something I tell myself every once in awhile. Some of the realest shit I've heard in awhile. Why did I felt the need to say that? I dunno, does it matter?
It's always a shame to see a DTOIDer go though. :/
It'll nuke them.
I don't get why you have to nuke your account at all. I like ya Gatsby and just because there's some shitty characters here in your POV or nonsense occurring, doesn't mean it's a reason to leave (while I do understand that sometimes just disconnecting saves yourself grief) but yeah there's assholes everywhere, so just ignore them and post in threads you like and with folks that you get on with.
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All I can really say is what I already told you; That sucks, but you've got to do what you feel is right.
People should take note of the threads he started. There will need to be replacements when the nuke drops.
It's probably also kind of dead, but the Destructoid Writers thread was another good idea. From my perspective as a complete outsider to all the NARPs, inside-jokes, and apathetic gaiety (or oftentimes gayness) that pervades this forum, it's a bummer to see one of its more outwardly intelligent and entertaining posters taking a dive. Oh well. So it goes.
Good luck dude. Sucks to see a more confrontational user leave. Soon I'll be surrounded by nothing but kittens and rainbows.


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Janiva Magness has always delivered music that was more than just blues, with hefty soul content, lyrical and musical sophistication generally found in the best jazz, yet still with the sort of raw energy most rock groups covet.
And of course Magness' own story only heightened the emotional wallop behind her music, as the former Detroit native raised in a series of foster homes had found some kind of redemption in her music. Years of toil in the rock and blues world had culminated finally in a contract with Chicago's Alligator Records, the legendary label where most of today's top acts record. With Alligator's support, Magness' long years of dues-paying seemed to be paying off in high-profile gigs, steady work on the summer festival circuit, and a series of increasingly compelling albums.
But this spring's big news is that Magness, who headlines the Narrows Center in Fall River�on Thursday (May 15) has a brand new album out, which is NOT on Alligator.� "Original," which contains seven songs Magness wrote�pure blues.�
It's not a huge turn, and songs like "Let Me Breathe," "Twice As Strong," and "Badass," deliver the same feisty, independent resilience that always characterized Magness' music. "When You Were My King" brings that soul quotient into new territory, while some�other songs might evoke tinges of pop or even country. If the new version of Janiva Magness is being presented as Americana, it's not because she's abandoned her blues base, but just expanded it and developed her own style even further.
"Leaving Alligator wasn't really initially planned," said Magness from her California home. "But it has, in the final analysis, been the best move for me. It was a great five years, recording on Alligator, and there is no bad blood, and we're all still friends--everything was great."
"But on my last album for them, "Stronger For It," I noticed that when we toured, the most popular material, which people connected with the most, was my three original songs," said Magness. "As reluctant as I have been to start writing more, the direction I had to go in seemed pretty loud and clear. The next indicated action was that I should go deeper into the songwriting arena."
Magness had always resisted the urge to write her own tunes, become a facile interpreter of other people's work, and�felt almost unprepared to go full scale into songwriting. Ironically, her divorce in 2010 spurred her to start exploring the writing side more. Producer Dave Darling had encouraged that aspect on the previous album, and by the time they began planning this CD, he was ready to push Magness towards the idea of performing mainly her own tunes.
"To do the kind of album I wanted to do, I had to be fully independent," said Magness. "There was no room to do this with anybody else, but my own label. I needed the freedom to do it, and not be navigating outside influences."
Of course, Alligator tends to suggest music for its artists, but they do have a stellar track record in that regard, so Magness had to consider that too.
"Suggestions are part of the package with Alligator," Magness agreed. "But they have a really experienced team, want to be involved in song selection, and pride themselves in being that sort of 'old school' blues label. So, my doing an all-original record was not going to happen there. But I am not a young artist, and this is my 11th release overall. As grateful as I�am for the help they, and the total infrastructure of that label provided, it was time for me to take a leap. It is terrifying--but exciting too."
Just making the big decision didn't automatically erase Magness' anxietites about doing the actual songwriting.
"I found it all challenging," she laughed. "I'm still a nervous Nellie about songwriting. It brings you to a different level of vulnerability than interpreting someone else's song. With my own material, there's no interpretation involved-it is really me. So that's a new level to attain, and it can be pretty raw."
"Collaborating on seven of the songs made it a little easier," Magness noted. "First of all, my producer Dave Darling, wrote five of the co-writes with me. We had co-written some songs on my last album, and realized we work really well together."
The other two co-writes were done with an Australian songwriting duo, who had been in Nashville to work with some other artists. Darling sprung Lauren Bliss and Andrew Morin on the singer one day in the�studio, when she had no chance to get cold feet about writing with strangers.
"Dave tricked me into working with them," Magness chuckled. "He knows I'm just not the type of person who comes to he party thinking I have it all together. I'm nervous, and always questioning what I'm doing. Songwriting is a very different sense than what I am like on a bandstand, almost a complete opposite, but that's what makes me a full human being I guess. Anyway, Dave got me to the studio, introduced me to these two strangers from Australia, and said�'Start writing." He totally bushwhacked me, because he knew if he told me in advance, I'd have been backing out like Sylvester the Cat."
"Lauren and Andrew had an idea for me, it turned out," Magness added. "I couldn't believe they had hit on something so close to the bone. I felt like they had been spying on me, and I'm sure they had done their research. But we ended up writing four songs together that day, and two of them are on the album, "Standing" and "When You Were My King." They just had an intuitive connection to me and my music. Now�I love them, we stay in touch, and I hope the songwriting collaborating with them continues--I keep emailing them and asking them when they're coming back."
Magness used her usual road band on the album, with a few guests, but the Narrows Center show will essentially include the�same band as on the album, with Zach Zunis on guitar, Jim Alfredson on keyboards, Gary Davenport on bass, and Matt Tecu on drums.
Magness�admits some blues purists may not like her widening her style, but the market for pure blues is also limited, and getting more limited.
"Somebody will always be mad when you make a move like this," said Magness. "But I also needed to broaden my demographics. The list of places to play the blues keeps getting shorter. And some top level rock acts can't fill sheds anymore, so you see people like the Spin Doctors, or the Doobie Brothers--both awesome bands which I love--headlining blues festivals now. That just makes it harder for some of the rest of us to get those gigs on blues festivals, shrinking the pie. So it makes sense for me to�take this next step, and as an artist and a writer, I am very happy and satisfied with what we've done, and what we're going to be doing."
"The Narrows Center is one of our favorite venues anywhere," Magness added. "The people there are real music fans, the folks at the venue are so cool, and the sound is always killer. I'm hoping people will come out and embrace the new music."


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The current study addresses an important question in the optimal treatment of rectal cancer. Previously, two studies in the United States attempted to address this exact issue; however, both were closed due to lack of patient accrual. This study shows that in patients who are judged to require postoperative CTRT by preoperative staging, the use of preoperative therapy results in improved local control and decreased rates of complications compared to postoperative therapy. This study utilized chemotherapy and radiation that is widely used in the United States and should be widely applicable to treatment of these patients.
Two important caveats should be considered when interpreting the results of this study. First, the study was not analyzed in an intent-to-treat manner. Instead, patients were allowed to switch treatment groups after being informed of the treatment arm to which they were randomized. The analysis was performed by the actual treatment received, rather than by the group to which they were randomized. This introduces a potential bias in the results as an uneven distribution of patients may switch from one group to the other. Second, almost one-fifth of patients in the postoperative CTRT group were found to have either stage I disease or distant metastatic disease at the time of surgery. This indicates that a similar percentage of patients underwent CTRT in the preoperative therapy arm that otherwise may not have if their pathologic stage had been available. The potential for overtreating a number of patients clearly exists when treating patients with preoperative CTRT. Despite this fact, the relatively low rates of complications with preoperative treatment, the improvement in sphincter-preservation in patients deemed to need an APR, and the improvement in local control would indicate that preoperative CTRT would be preferred in these patients, particularly for those with low-lying tumors who are at risk for requiring an APR.


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Nobel Prize in Economics for asset-pricers
This year's prize goes to three economists who made contributions to the pricing of speculative assets such as stocks. Eugene Fama, of the University of Chicago, and the oldest of the three, is best known for his development of the efficient markets hypothesis. Lars Peter Hansen, also of the University of Chicago, and the youngest of the three, for exploring the "boundedness" of market processes, both in theory and in empirical estimation. Robert Shiller, of Yale University, has explored the behavioral underpinnings of price determination, arguing that market prices often over-react to changes in fundamental value.
Fama's efficient market hypothesis is today a textbook standard. It negates the profitability of "technical analysis." Market prices reflect all past, publicly-available information, and perhaps even private information, and certainly reflects any potential information in stock market patterns (such as "triple bottom," said to be a prediction of a "breakout" and a "buy" signal). But, doesn't the efficient market hypothesis disprove itself, as who, if nobody can profit from buying or selling stocks based on information, impounds information into stock prices? To more precisely say that, at the margin, market prices reflect all past, publicly-available information is almost to admit that there are times when stock prices don't; i.e., when stock prices are "infra-marginal;" or, when the capital available to those who rationally-value stocks is insufficient for them to bring price to value. In his later years, Fama himself seemed to challenge his earlier work in his collaboration with Kenneth French, with the "three-factor" model. In the three-factor model, small cap stocks and stocks with exceptionally high ratios of market to book value, along with systematic risk, are shown to affect stock prices. To be sure, the three-factor model might reflect an underlying multi-factor model of stock price determination, and have nothing to do with information-efficiency.
Shiller's work is both more recent and on-going, and part of a broad line of inquiry concerning the impact of psychological factors, even irrationality, on stock prices. Why, for example, do we observe "booms" and "busts" in markets in speculative assets, including real estate as well as stock markets; or, "balloons" or "bubbles," followed by their "bursting." Even more so, why is the bursting of a bubble in real estate and in stocks so often followed by a recession, or even by a long period of depressed economic conditions? In some early work, he appeared to challenge the efficient market hypothesis head on, arguing that stock prices were more volatile than could be justified. The Crash of '87 seemed to validate his argument and instigated concerns for "behavioral foundations" and "market microstructure" and such. Shiller's book "Irrational Exuberance," taking off on an expression coined by Alan Greenspan, connected that gyration of the stock market to a long history of stock market behavior. Then came the calamitous collapse of the stock and real estate markets during 2008.
Hansen's contributions to our understanding of financial markets seems to just be getting started. Beginning with technical issues of econometric estimation, he has moved on to the more philosophical issue of the difference between risk and uncertainty. Risk, we might say, is something measurable. It comes from frequencies of occurrence in repeated trials. With sufficiently many trials, we can estimate risk. Uncertainty comes from not knowing the model out of which are coming the outcomes we observe. In a world that is changing, uncertainty can never be resolved. The question, in prudent decision-making, is robustness, as Hansen puts it in his recent book coauthored with Thomas Sargent. By robustness, I mean surviving what otherwise would be catastrophic. What doesn't kill you, makes it stronger. But, you have to avoid getting killed.
The contributions of this year's triplet of economists involve advances in the utilization of data, as well as the development of theory. Fama cut his teeth with the analysis of daily stock market data, involving hundreds of stocks, over long periods of time. For example, he tracked the evolution of stock prices relative to "events" such as increases in dividends. This was the "big data" of his time. Shiller constructed and analyzed very long histories of stock market prices, and - more recently - developed of indices of real estate prices (the Case-Shiller index). Hansen is a developer of "agent models," in which computer models simulate thousands or even millions of persons organized into so many households and companies. Agent models, like climate models, have to be seeded with "parameters," and checked against observation and "intuitive validity." They're not so much proofs, but explanations. They become evidence when validated against data unknown at the time of their construction.


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Trouble translating good intentions into actions
|A close-up view of some of the healthful vending-machine options that are offered in city-run neighborhood recreation centers in Seattle, Washington. (Greg Gilbert/Seattle Times/MCT)
Most people are going for the chips, finds David Laibson, a Harvard economist who presented some of his work on how people make choices at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston last week.
Laibson's research consistently finds that people have a terrible time turning their good intentions into action.
And conventional interventions, such as providing education and even financial incentives, don't necessarily help. For example, Laibson counted only a 0.1 percent increase in employees saving in a 401(k) plan even when study subjects were paid to listen to presentations about the benefits. "So financial incentives and education don't do it," Laibson said.
In another study, he gave subjects the choice between eating a piece of fruit and chocolate. He learned if the subjects were promised the food in a week, they would choose the fruit. But if it was a reward to be delivered the same day, they invariably chose the chocolate.
"The problem is the difference between good intentions for the future, and the reward today. If you get the reward today, you give it full weight. A reward in the future gets half the weight."
In the domain of exercise, this translates into people eagerly paying money for memberships they will rarely use. "If you ask me how many times I will exercise in the coming year I will say 364 times. Just not today.
"The story with our diet, our savings, our exercise is we have terrible follow-through. So what do we do?"
The good news is that his experiments also showed taking even small concrete steps toward a goal significantly increased the chances of meeting it. Even better was to start out in the right place, and have to undo it in order to fail.
Consider the 401(k) savings plan choice again. Laibson found that by putting the study subjects in a retirement plan on an opt-out basis, such that the employees had to sign a form to drop out, suddenly participation rates of those not already enrolled zoomed above 90 percent - and stayed there. Even two years later, rates were above 88 percent. "It makes all the difference if you start out in the right place," Laibson said.
In another experiment, study subjects were mailed letters encouraging them to have colonoscopy screenings. Just 33 percent of those who received the letter made an appointment. But the researchers found that if they included a sticky note with blanks for a date and time to be filled in by the subject, screening appointments increased to 37 percent.
"Not a huge difference, but all we did was add a few drops of ink to the mailer and it drove participation up by about 10 percent," the study said. "Using nudges, we can transform good intentions into taking actions."
Which gets us back to the vending machine. Seattle City Councilmember Richard Conlin said he is optimistic that if customers see better choices they will make them. He uses a little of this psychology on himself, keeping salad mix and cut up vegetables in the refrigerator to make it easier to be good when he comes home tired and late from work.
"That is the hardest part, not doing whatever is quickest," said Conlin, who admitted his downfall is the tasty cheese tucked away in the fridge - no doubt behind the vegetables.
Conlin has introduced a bill that would replace half the junk food in vending machines in city offices and buildings with healthier choices, such as nonfat milk instead of soda.
"It is important that people have the option to make healthy choices," said Conlin.
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To help with the Haiti relief efforts, the college is partnering with a local humanitarian organization, Livingston CARES, which focuses on disaster relief and recovery efforts around the globe. Livingston CARES has established a Haiti Relief Fund to assist the people suffering the effects of the earthquake. The fund will be administered in collaboration with Professor Rosemarie Chierici, chair of Geneseo's anthropology department and a native of Haiti, who has been developing - with assistance from our students, alumni, and many Rochester/Geneseo community members - a comprehensive health care system in one of the most impoverished regions of that country. Professor Chierici will help direct donations to organizations that give the most effective support to earthquake survivors.
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Title: Eliza Tanner Dies at 79
Reference URL: http://northbaydigital.sonoma.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Lebaron/id/3108
Eliza Tanner Dies at 79
Eliza Ann Tanner, 79, who owned and operated the former Eliza Tanner Hospital, died Tuesday in a Santa Rosa hospital after a long illness.
Miss Tanner was born in Toledo, Wash., and was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James F. Tanner. She came to Santa Rosa in 1899.
After attending Santa Rosa High School, she enrolled in
Stanford Nursing school, graduated in 1911 and became a nurse in World War I, going overseas with a Stanford unit in 1917.
She took over Mary Jesse Hospital in 1929 and changed it
to the Eliza Tanner Hospital, completely remodeling it in
1935. It was located at the corner of 5th and King sts.
A member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary and the American Legion, Miss Tanner was also affiliated with the Maccabee and Rebekah Lodges, Stanford Alumni Association, the California Nurses' Association
and the National Nurses' Association.
The only known survivor is an adopted daughter, Elizabeth Sherman.
Service arrangements are being made at Eggen and Lance Mortuary.
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spoiler:I already read a synopsis and it is ****. Nothing in Star Wars is meaningful anymore with this **** behind the scenes story grafted on it. Thanks for making this garbage into movie level canon George.
spoiler:Boba Fett pulling Juno out into space and merely slapping a breathing mask on her. Surviving in space has to do with more than just breathing! Space has no pressure, whereas your body does, so you would come fairly close to exploding; not to mention that you would freeze instantly.
spoiler:capture of Darth Vader by the Rebel Alliance.
spoiler:Oh hey Luke, sorry about not mentioning that we had an unstoppable behemoth on our side during the Galactic Civil War, sorry about your hand, and that old you hung around with. The ending is absolute ****, the EU is already pretty awful but this just ****ed it up even worse
spoiler:Starkiller gets trained by Yoda, Leia's role model is Juno, Starkiller created the rebellion. Nothing in the original trilogy means anything because Starkiller did everything.
spoiler:And Starkiller was hardly "trained" by Yoda. The little guy had a cameo wherein he imparted a few words of wisdom.
spoiler:Doesn't sound stupider than in TESB where Han, Leia, and Chewbacca were inside the space slug's gut with only what appear to be masks.


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How does one cancel out extra light while clicking a photo? Is decreasing the aperture a better option, or using a faster shutter speed? What are other options we could try?
Exposure is essentially controlled by Aperture, Shutter speed and ISO. You need to balance these to get correct exposure. Assuming you are shooting manual (M on the left top dial).
The delicate balance between aperture, speed and iso depends on the image you are trying to capture. I usually ask myself questions before taking a picture.
If i can answer the above questions then it fixes aperture for me.
This fixes speed for me.
Once one of speed and aperture is fixed then look at your light meter. Change the other till the meter indicates correct exposure. There are limitations to be considered. Like you don't want speed to be very low etc. And then ISO comes into picture. A
Usually you control your exposure using aperture, shutter speed, and ISO; too much light is not usually a problem, because you can find an acceptable combination of the above to give the proper exposure even in the most intense sunlight. Most people have the opposite problem, too little light.
Sometimes for artistic reasons you can't adjust one of those parameters into submission. One common example is using a very long shutter time to get a smooth water effect for a waterfall. In that case you can use a neutral density filter to cut the amount of light coming into the camera.
If I understand your question properly, there are a few ways to account for too much light when exposing a scene. First off, you can always try increasing shutter speed, or reducing aperture. Additionally, you should choose the lowest ISO setting (or film) that you can.
There may be occasions, however, when reducing shutter speed or tightening aperture will not serve your needs. Such cases may be when you need a very thin depth of field, or need a longer shutter speed to allow objects in motion to blur, etc. When you have limits on what settings you can use for aperture and/or shutter, you can always try some neutral density filtration. A neutral density filter is a semi-translucent filter that reduces the amount of light entering the lens. They usually come in various grades, anywhere from 1 stop to as much as 10 stops or so. This grading is how much light they reduce...so a 1-stop ND filter will allow you to expose one stop greater (wider aperture or longer shutter). With more expensive filtration systems, you can often stack multiple ND filters to add a LOT of filtration...one could, say, stack a 1-, 2-, and 3-stop filter for a total of 6 stops of filtration total.
Better filtration systems also provide the ability to use graduated ND filters...or filters that are rectangular, fully translucent on one end, and partially opaque on the other end, with a gradient transition in the middle. Such filters also come in various stops like their solid ND cousins. They are often very helpful in re-balancing the amount of light in a divided scene, such as a landscape. When the sky is particularly bright and the landscape is shaded, the total dynamic range of a scene may be far greater than a camera is capable of capturing in a single shot. With graduated ND filtration, you can filter the sky, without affecting the landscape, thereby reducing the dynamic range of the scene such that a camera CAN capture it without overexposure.
I highly recommend looking into Lee and Cokin filtration systems. Both offer advanced filtration systems with an extensive variety of neutral and colored solid and graduated filters.
To reduce the amount of light, you can:
Try (1) first, then (2) or (3), and if that fails try (4).


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Wilmington City Council took the final step toward the annexation of the Monkey Junction area on May 5 by voting for the annexation.
Two public information meetings were held on March 26 and April 2, giving the public the opportunity to come out and meet staff from various city departments and ask questions one-on-one. The Public Hearing for the annexation of the Monkey Junction area took place on April 7.
The annexation is scheduled to take effect in June 2010.
The process began when Council approved a "resolution of intent" on February 3. This is the legal term indicating the city's intent to investigate an annexation and is the first step needed to start a possible annexation process.
Annexation is the process which legally allows a city or town to expand its boundaries. State law recognizes that annexation is necessary for the long-term growth and vitality of cities.


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Yogurt-Berry Dessert
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Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Here's a very sweet way to serve healthy strawberries.
Serves: Serves: 6
- .3-ounce package sugar-free strawberry-flavored gelatin mix
- 1 cup boiling water
- 3/4 cup cold water
- 1/2 cup vanilla nonfat yogurt
- 1 cup diced strawberries
- 6 tablespoons nonfat Cool Whip, thawed
- 6 whole strawberries, stemmed and hulled
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- Place gelatin mix in medium bowl; pour boiling water over top. Stir mixture until gelatin mix is completely dissolved.
- Add cold water; stir until mixed.
- Refrigerate gelatin mixture 1 hour, until it begins to thicken.
- Add yogurt and mix with electric mixer until fluffy; fold in strawberries.
- Divide gelatin mixture into individual serving dishes.
- Just before serving, top each dish with 1 tablespoon Cool Whip. Garnish with whole strawberry.
- Strawberries are a good source of pectin, a fiber that helps the body eliminate cholesterol, reducing the risk of coronary artery disease.
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Can please someone help me with the following problem.
Say we have a sequence $nx \; \mathrm{mod} \; 1$, where $n$ is a whole number and $x$ is irrational.
Now I need to solve the inequality $nx \; \mathrm{mod} \; 1 < v$ with respect to $n$, for some given small $v$.
According to Equidistribution Theorem, this sequence is uniformly distributed on (0,1). And thus we definitely know that there is an infinite number of those $n$'s. But what can we say about these solutions themselves? In particular, I need to know if the distance between two consequtive solutions is limited or not.
It seems to be true to me, but maybe I'm missing something... and can't figure out a hard proof.


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Is there symbolism (or even a name) for groups of statements in which any fixed-number of them imply all the rest?
For example, in linear algebra, a basis is sometimes defined as a set of n-dimensional vectors which:
- Is linearly independent
- Spans the vector space
- Contains exactly n elements
However, it is then shown that any TWO of these statements being true implies the third is true. How would you write this symbolically? (other than $A \wedge B \Rightarrow C, A \wedge C \Rightarrow B, B \wedge C \Rightarrow A$, which does not scale well...)


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Most of my training has been for blade work, and now I'm working with sticks with a friend to get some of the differences down. The basic stuff (more force, direct strikes, any point can become a handle, etc.) I can work through pretty easily, but the stuff that's more intriguing is I'm looking at ways sticks can be used as levers for grapples, locks, breaks and takedowns.
We're working with mostly escrima sized sticks, but I'd also be interested in smaller flashlight/kubotan sized weapons as well.
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#2. Hire Someone to Write Your Biography
Chances are that if you're reading this and you're not, like, George Clooney or something, no one's going to offer to write a book about you any time soon. Typically you need to have done something remarkable or transcendental with your life before getting to the point where people will be interested in reading your biography.
Or you can just, you know, exist.
Unless you're willing to fork out $10,000 to $30,000, that is -- then you can head over to the Remembering Site, where you can hire someone to write down the details of your life and make an actual book out of them. In this case, the one notable accomplishment that made you worthy of a biography was having $10,000 to $30,000 to spend on a biography.
The site offers two methods. The cheaper option involves answering a long series of questions about yourself, including hardballs like "Did you eat lunch at school or go home? Did you bring your own lunch? Did you have a lunchbox? If so, what did it look like?"
At this point most clients break down and confess a murder.
The other method consists of hooking you up with a professional writer who will work with you to ensure the most loyal biographical account of your life possible. Or, at least, the most loyal account you choose to give them. So, when you get to the part about your most valued family heirlooms, what's to stop you from saying that your grandfather left you a pair of his glasses that hold the location of the great and powerful AllSpark? Also, that you're dating Megan Fox.
And you're Zorro.
To be fair, the site is mostly geared toward senior citizens who might want to leave their families something to remember them by or simply have fun doing the questions, but it's also the perfect opportunity for the kind of person who honestly thinks they need a book written about their life -- apparently their youngest author is only 21, and we can't imagine how she would fill a whole book about herself unless it included detailed recaps of every Smallville episode she ever saw. But hey, if you're using this service to stroke your ego, at least the answer to "What's the saddest moment of your life?" is already answered.
The only problem with this is that, well, nobody reads books anymore. No, if you really want to be famous you should be looking at a different medium ...
#1. Pay to Be Treated Like a Celebrity
As annoying as reality TV stars can be, even we have to admit that there's usually a discernible reason, albeit shaky, why those people have their own shows: maybe they were legitimately famous in the '80s, or they're filthy rich and made a porn video, or they are Dog the Bounty Hunter. Are these good reasons? No. But they are reasons.
"He's a bounty hunter named Dog and --" "SOLD!"
Unfortunately, not every individual who craves being the center of attention at all times can be a celebrity -- but that doesn't mean they can't be treated like one. That's why there are companies like Reality Producers that will shoot your completely normal wedding, bar mitzvah or boring event of any type and "[edit] it down to a reality-TV-like show complete with graphics, music, characters and a story line."
And an intoxicated Verne Troyer.
Their crew will follow you around as you get ready for the event and will stay on you after everyone else has left. That's right, this isn't just some guy with a Handycam: there will be up to five professional cameramen recording your cat's birthday or whatever, using HD equipment. Ten wireless microphones will be placed on the main players (you, your cat, your cat's friends) so that not one word of dialogue is lost. A normal wedding videographer will typically record two or three hours of material at most -- these guys will get close to 60 hours on a one-day event, which is then edited down to a fast-paced single hour program worthy of VH1. Except for the part where anyone would watch it.
But what if you honestly think this stuff is way too interesting to end up buried in the back of a closet? Well, you can also hire the same company to produce your own reality show pilot, which you are then free to pitch to a network.
"Gettysburg Address Cat" is already being developed by A&E, though.
And they aren't even the only ones in the business of making delusional people feel like celebrities: We've told you about the company that made the infamous "Friday" viral video, which that Rebecca Black girl (that is, her parents) actually paid to have made. ARK Music Factory charges between $2,000 and $4,000 for a professional-looking music video including feasibly idiotic pop lyrics and vocals that have been autotuned to shit -- the song was available for sale on iTunes even before it became famous (for being so bad) because that's part of the service. A small price to pay for worldwide scorn!
"Yeah, we 'discovered' you were shit, but we're too busy vomiting money to care."
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My days seem to be filled with quick stops at home to fix something to eat, walk the dog and coax Lamont to come with me somewhere to do a story or go to a benefit I feel is important. If he tires of all the running, I give him a kiss and hurry out the door, leaving him to tend to Ozzie.
He didn't come with me to the food preservation workshop, hosted by the Jefferson County Farm Bureau at the Old Banatam Ridge School, where county offices are housed. There is a large gymnasium that is excellent for holding parties and seminars. And Indian Creek holds bingo there.
The canning seminar by Kate Shumaker was very informative, and I left the proud owner of six 100-year anniversary blue-tint Mason canning jars manufactured by Ball and a Blue Book guide to preserving.
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VERY GOOD — Delia Wetherell, 3, daughter of Monica and Duayne Wetherell of New Alexandria, should receive a star for good behavior at the Canning Basics seminar sponsored by the Jefferson County Farm Bureau Promotion and Education Committee. She looks happy to have a kabob of mixed fruits from the refreshment table.
-- Esther McCoy
STOMPING BOOTS — "These boots were made for stomping out breast cancer" pink T-shirts were seen in abundance at the Kelly Eddy Breast Cancer Event held at the Richmond United Methodist Church. Two young ladies, Raelyn Marker and Cylene Wood, started the ball rolling on the benefit, and members of the Purple Circle 4-H Club were serving spaghetti, refilling glasses and getting more bread trays out for the dinner. From left, Kelly Eddy, with invasive metastic breast cancer; Cylene Wood; Lisa Marker, who has recovered from ovarian cancer; and Raelyn Marker, who planned the event with Cylene.
-- Esther McCoy
HE'S A BROWN FANS — Donnie Smith doesn't look a bit happy over winning a large basket of Steelers merchandise at the Kelly Eddy benefit. His friends played a joke on the Browns fan so that he would be the winner.
-- Esther McCoy
FRIENDS — Friends Terri Griffith and Cheryl Lightfritz attended the canning basics event together. Cheryl is the friendly voice on the telephone when calling the Ohio State University Extension office.
-- Esther McCoy
AT CANNING SEMINAR — Erica Cline takes a break from answering test questions after the canning seminar given by Kate Shumaker, Ohio State University Extension family and consumer sciences. She seems to be saying, "This is just like school."
-- Esther McCoy
Shumaker went through a PowerPoint presentation on how preserving food at home can be rewarding, such as saving money if the vegetable, fruit or meat is plentiful; knowing what goes into the canning, such as amount of salt and sugar; cleanliness; for the pride of accomplishing something; and to share with others.
She cautioned there is a need to handle food safely and preserve within 24 hours of harvest. The vegetables or fruit should be picked early in the morning, kept in the shade, kept moist, stored where air can circulate, handled gently and the damaged product discarded.
Before preserving any food, consider the types of foods your family enjoys and the usefulness of the preserved product in your lifestyle, cautioned Shumaker. "If you have tomatoes left at the end of the year, you have canned too much. If you run out in mid-March, you have not canned enough."
"Methods of food preservation consist of canning, freezing, drying and fermentation. The advantages of food preservation is year-round availability, less spoilage, to eliminate or reduce microbial hazards and increased convenience," she said.
Three-year-old Delia Wetherell sat through the entire seminar without fussing. She had her coloring book and toys to keep busy and was interested in the goodies from the refreshment table, such as fruit kabobs, cheese cubes and pretzels. She was with her grandmother, Joyce Wetherell, and mom, Monica.
Regarding the refreshment table, Mary Ellen Grafton, our fearless leader, had some cider that tasted better than the processed kind. Irene Sabo and her daughter, Lisa Cline, had goodies made from bread dough, my favorite. Irene had hot dogs in the blanket, and Lisa had pepperoni pinwheels.
Jeanne Roberts made a candy that sends Jennifer Barnett, office administrator, into sugar bliss. It is made by melting corn candy - the orange and yellow variety - and adding a jar of peanut butter. This is spread in a flat pan and covered with melted semi-sweet chocolate chips. Yummy. They taste like Babe Ruth candy bars.
My tiny buddy, Dawna Kale, was there wearing her master gardener T-shirt. We formed a friendship during the Jefferson County Fair when my Herald-Star tent was next to the 7th and 8th department building. She helped me carry my table and chairs that were stored in their building overnight back to the tent, and when it got slow, we passed the time by gabbing.
Cheryl Lightfritz didn't have to go far for the canning lesson. Her office with the Ohio State University Extension is in the same building as the farm bureau. Her friend, Terri Griffith, was with her.
We went to the Kelly Eddy Breast Cancer benefit at the Richmond United Methodist Church, and the social hall was packed with her friends, relatives and concerned people.
The Purple Circle 4-H Club, where Payton Wood, husband of Cylene Smith Wood, is a member, was evident at every turn. There were Purple Circle ladies spooning out the pasta, members refilling drinks, clearing the tables and filling bread trays. And in the midst of it all, there were the two young ladies who started it all, Cylene Wood and Raelyn Marker, wearing pink shirts with a picture of cowboy boots reading "These boots were made for stomping out breast cancer," along with lots of helpers wearing the same shirts.
I met Kelly Eddy, a brave young lady who gave me a hug even though she was not supposed to have direct contact with people.
Raelyn has seen the toll that cancer can take on a family as her mother, Lisa, and dad, Ray, have had cancer.
Donnie Smith had a big win in the Chinese auction but wasn't smiling about it. One of his friends put a bid in for him for a large basket of Steelers merchandise, and it was a winner. But Donnie wasn't overjoyed. He is an avid Browns fan.
I won a bird feeder and a bag of bird seed for Lamont and got Darin a plastic carrier filled with sports books. He will have time to read them when he is recovering from surgery on Oct. 15. Keep him your prayers.
I spoke with Craig and Debbie Smith who had two of their grandchildren at the spaghetti dinner. I also saw John Boleigh and Wendee Zadansky, young people I got to know through the Soil and Water Conservation District. John was telling how he and our son, Larry, got to know each other through fishing and looking for new species of lizards. The outdoors was Larry's kind of life.
The next day, I went to the Fort Steuben Mall to take part in the Ramsey family benefit for Jim Ramsey's deceased wife, Lois, who died with ovarian cancer on Sept. 21.
They are avid fans of the Buckeyes and had many Ohio State items in the auction. Danica and Jake Ramsey drew tickets for the winners. I wasn't lucky enough to win, but the money was spent for a good cause, and I admire the family for their work to spread the word on ovarian cancer since it isn't always found until it reaches a serious stage.
Mary Urban of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition was there and handed me a card telling about the major symptoms, such as bloating, trouble eating, feeling full quickly, pelvic or abdominal pain and the need to urinate urgently. Other symptoms can include fatigue, upset stomach, heartburn, back pain, constipation and menstrural changes. If symptoms persist daily for more than two weeks, ask a physician for a combination pelvic/rectal exam, transvaginal ultrasound and a CA-125 blood test.
A Pap smear does not detect ovarian cancer. Early detection is necessary to increase the survival rate, Urban noted.
Misty Martin, a Kays Jewelers employee, asked Urban why the teal-color ribbon pins, with teal being the color for ovarian cancer, had plastic-looking tips. It was explained that they resemble shoe laces for the many walking benefits held to fund ovarian cancer research.
(McCoy, a resident of Smithfield, is a staff columnist and food editor for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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WACO (February 27, 2013)—A man convicted in January of robbery is set to be back in court today for a punishment re-trial.
On January 31, Alexis Bo Perez was convicted of robbing a Dominoes Pizza during a one-man crime spree that began September 3, 2011.
But when jurors began to consider punishment, they deadlocked and Judge Ralph Strother declared a mistrial.
Punishment testimony presentation is set to begin again at 9 a.m. Wednesday in Strother's 19th District Court.
It took the jury just an hour to find Perez, 19, guilty of the September 2011 armed robbery of a Dominoes Pizza in the 1400 block of Wooded Acres Drive.
It was one of four robberies that prosecutors say Perez did in a 24-hour period on Sept. 3, 2011, but Perez was being tried only for the Dominoes hold up, prosecutors said.
The other three cases are pending and include the robberies of the Papa John's Pizza, 5900 Bosque Blvd., the Skinny's convenience store on Sanger Avenue and the Chesalon store on North 19th Street.
Perez is eligible for probation but he could be sentenced to 99 years or life in prison.


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Ex-Obama Aide Makes Bid in N.J.
In the world of New Jersey politics, the unseen hand of the so-called party boss still plays an outsize role in picking who gets the financial support and voter-turnout help needed to win a local election. This year, the system is being put to the test by a tall, thin law professor who once worked for President Barack Obama.
Mark Alexander, the president's former campaign strategist and policy adviser, has rankled the northern New Jersey establishment by running in a Democratic primary against state Sen. Nia Gill, a lawmaker since 1994. The race has drawn an unusual amount of national interest for a seat representing Montclair and its surrounding areas, as Mr. Alexander draws on his Washington Rolodex to raise money. Next week, U.S. Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, is hosting a fundraiser for him in Washington next week, as will former White House counsel, Greg Craig.
Mr. Alexander already has $124,566 in his campaign account for the June 4 primary, nearly three times as much as Ms. Gill and a large amount for a local intraparty contest. Comedian Bill Cosby and U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy were among his contributors, and much of his money comes from outside the state. "There's an entrenched power structure that I'm pushing against," said Mr. Alexander, a 48-year-old father.
Mr. Alexander worked for Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign and served on the president's transition team, and friends see similarities between two men who campaign as outsiders after building deep contacts within the political system.
"Obviously there is a lot in the Obama legacy and formula that Mark shares," Mr. Craig said. "He believes in the system profoundly. You can achieve change within the system."
Mr. Alexander has sought the support of the Essex County Democratic Committee, but no decision has been made. He said he didn't expect to get the powerful organization's endorsement.
Political observers say he upset local leaders by jumping into the race before working his way up in the party organization.
The Essex organization—run by County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo—is the northern half of what is known as New Jersey's Democratic Party-boss system. In the south, George Norcross, an insurance executive in Camden County, holds sway.
New Jersey's system of powerful local leaders dates back to the 19th century, when the state's spheres of influence were spread out. The dynamics changed in 1947, when the state revised its Constitution, creating a strong governor and stripping county bosses of their power over the judiciary. They maintained the ability to make local government appointments, and their endorsements are coveted. "Those things are so embedded in custom," said Ingrid Reed, the former director of the Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics.
Ms. Gill has also run against the party establishment and won. A lawyer who has long worked in politics, Ms. Gill was a four-term assemblywoman when she ran for state Senate in 2002 against a Democratic opponent with county support and more money. Ms. Gill stressed her independence and won. "The party is actually the constituents. They've always returned me to office no matter where I am on the ballot," said Ms. Gill, a 64-year-old grandmother.
Ms. Gill said the race with Mr. Alexander would come down to issues and her record. She pointed to her Democratic stance on policies such as gay marriage and education funding. "I have a record that speaks for itself," she said.
The 34th legislative district's 134,000 registered voters are liberal, with 48% registered Democrats and 8% Republican. The winner of the Democratic primary in June will face no serious challenge in the November general election.
On paper, Mr. Alexander and Ms. Gill share many views. His campaign platform includes expanding mass transit, opposing hydraulic fracturing, increasing funding of education and passing gay-marriage legislation. Mr. Alexander said he would offer a stylistic difference, saying Ms. Gill hadn't played a visible role in her district and accepted campaign donations from special interests such as check-cashing companies and political action committees. "The incumbent is part of an entrenched status quo that's not changing things," he said.
Mr. Alexander has put an emphasis on retail politics, hitting grocery stores and train stations. His campaign donors are mostly individuals as opposed to political action committees.
In about two dozen interviews in Montclair last week, most people interviewed hadn't heard of the race, or vaguely knew of Ms. Gill.
Sarah Wolman, a 42-year-old Montclair resident and nonprofit consultant, said she had "heard great things" about Mr. Alexander but also had a favorable opinion of Ms. Gill. "They are clearly two strong candidates," she said.
Mr. Alexander grew up in Washington and his father, Clifford, was the first African-American to serve as secretary of the U.S. Army during the Carter administration. Mr. Alexander worked as Bill Bradley's policy director for his presidential bid in 2000, for former U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy and as Newark Mayor Cory Booker's counsel in 2006. He currently is a tenured law professor at Seton Hall University.
While the Essex County Democratic Party hasn't made an endorsement, Passaic County Chairman John Currie said he has been impressed by Mr. Alexander and thinks Ms. Gill could be more "active" in her service to Clifton.
In New Jersey, support from Washington counts less than the backing of local leaders who can turn out the vote, said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Mr. Murray believes Mr. Alexander has a shot at winning, but said that Ms. Gill has honed a base in her district that her challenger lacks. Get out the vote operations will make or break the race, he said. "These things are won on the streets," he said.
—Sharon Adarlo contributed to this article.
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Nick Bilton
Nick Bilton is an award-winning technology columnist, reporter and author of the Disruptions column. Mr. Bilton writes on a range of technology topics, including the future of technology and the social impact of the Web on our culture and media. Prior to becoming a columnist, he was the lead writer for the Bits blog on NYTimes.com and has been with The Times since 2003, both as a design editor in the newsroom and a researcher in the research and development labs.
Mr. Bilton is author of two books, including "I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works," and The New York Times best-selling investigative book, "Hatching Twitter," which tells the story of the internal struggles inside Twitter as the company grew from a failing start-up to a multi-billion public company.
Mr. Bilton's articles and columns for The Times have brought about massive change in the technology industry. In 2011 he took on the F.A.A. questioning the ban of devices on airplanes. His reporting helped overturn the rule in 2013. Mr. Bilton's reporting on privacy in Silicon Valley has also contributed to government investigations with major companies, including Apple, Facebook and other start-ups.
In addition to The Times, Mr. Bilton's work has appeared in Wired, Engadget, Scientific America, CNet, O'Reilly Radar and AlleyInsider. He was also an adjunct professor at New York University in the Interactive Telecommunications Program.
The Upside to Technology? It's Personal
In his final column, Nick Bilton reflects on the pros and cons of things like social networks and driverless cars, as well as their human side.
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Why Vinyl Records and Other 'Old' Technologies Die Hard
We may be obsessed with new gadgets, but we still cling to outdated items like turntables, film cameras and books.
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The Risks in Hoverboards and Other Lithium-Ion Gadgets
Inexpensive battery-powered devices are catching fire and exploding, but there are ways to protect yourself.
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A Robot That Has Fun at Telemarketers' Expense
After being harassed by spam calls, a telephone geek took matters into his own hands and devised a way to keep the person on the other end of the line engaged endlessly.
February 25, 2016, Thursday
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WICHITA—Kolton Schenker was happy just to get to play in the prestigious invite-only Under Armour baseball tryouts at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on a blistering hot Monday.
But that wasn't the only honor he'd get. Schenker performed well enough to merit making the Under Armour National Team and earn a trip to Florida in August. He made one of six National Teams that will compete in a tournament in Pirate City, Fla., August 6 through 10.
Getting named to the National Team for baseball is like being named a McDonald's All-American in basketball. Schenker and the rest of the high school athletes will get to play and practice at the Pittsburgh Pirates training facility, where college and pro scouts will be in full force to scrutinize the players.
Though not fully substantiated, of the players who earn invites to this national tournament, more than half eventually get drafted into the pros, and nearly 100 percent of them will earn Division-I scholarships.
Schenker perhaps was most impressive with his speed, where he ran the fastest 60 time of the entire tryouts (60 yards from first to third base, a key stat for outfielders). At the national tournament, he likely will pitch, possibly play some first and play in the outfield, as well. Scouts liked his hitting, speed in the outfield and athletic ability.
Schenker, an All-League pitcher for the Augusta Orioles during the high school season, also is playing in a showcase tournament this weekend in Missouri with his traveling team, the DeMarini Force.
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Question. Is there an example of a compact $3$-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold with finite fundamental group $G$ that does not admit a free action on $S^3$?
This question is motivated by the following: it is known that many simply-connected Clabi-Yau 3-folds admit a singular Lagrangian torus fibration over $S^3$. I don't know if there are exceptions. On the other hand, if $\pi_1$ is finite and we still have a lagrangean torus fibration, one can expect that the base is a lens space. But in this case probably $\pi_1$ of the CY-manifold will be equal to $\pi_1$ of the base.
PS. As Tony Pantev explains, the answer to this question is YES -- there are such examples. On the other hand, if we assume that a finite group $G$ is acting freely on a CY 3-manifold preserving the volume form and preserving a Lagrangian torus fibration, this should impose some very strong restrictions on $G$. I wonder if anyone bothered to work out what is the restriction :).


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OWSM Mobile Agent for ADF Mobile
By Prakash Yamuna-Oracle on Apr 03, 2013
Oracle released Mobile Application development framework - called Oracle ADF Mobile sometime back. More details about the Oracle ADF Mobile framework can be found here.
In order to secure the REST/SOAP communication b/w the ADF Mobile App and the backend services - OWSM team has developed an OWSM Mobile Agent.
The capabilities right now are fairly limited - especially when you consider what is supported in the Non-Mobile case! The OWSM Mobile Agent only supports Basic Auth and Basic Auth over SSL and WS-Security Username Token and WS-Security Username Token over SSL policies.
More details about the policies supported can be found here. The good news is building a Mobile client to backend REST/SOAP web service is very similar to how you do in the "Big ADF" world i.e. you use Web Service Data Controls!
Here is the revised layered Service security diagram that I discussed initially in this post:
P.S:I didn't see an example of how to build a Mobile App that can make Web Service calls on the Oracle ADF Mobile page; if time permits - I will post some How To's on this front...
Update: Some folks pointed me to this blog post on ADF Mobile Introduction that actually covers how to build and secure web service clients. There is also an official ADF Mobile blog for more details...


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Neuroscientists Identify Protein Linked to Alzheimer's-Like Afflictions
Aug 11, 2013
A team of neuroscientists has identified a modification to a protein in laboratory mice linked to conditions associated with Alzheimer's Disease. Their findings also point to a potential therapeutic intervention for alleviating memory-related disorders.
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Possible Duplicate:
Check if user likes page via Graph API
I know this probably has been asked already a few time, however, since I'm a newbie of the new Facebook SDK, I'm having some difficulties.
Basically, what I want to do is very simple. I've got a whole web page that I want to show only if an user likes my Facebook page. Otherwise, he gets asked to like the page first.
I would like to know what differences there are between the Javascript or PHP methods, and if it's possible to achieve this only if the user gives the authorization to my Facebook application first.
I don't think to obtain something so simple should be that difficult, so I would love if someone could post me an easy-to start, updated guide or some example code.
Thanks in advance everyone.


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Top 10: Reasons Women Love VampiresVampires are everywhere -- in books like Twilight and in the recently released New Moon trailer, in magazines and newspapers and now on television in the second season of True Blood on HBO. Vampires are stealing our women, but not by the usual force and trickery. Woman love the stupid bloodsuckers!
There is something about these Gothic symbols of manhood that make every woman weak in the neck. Is it their style, their power or just their flair for the romantic? It might be a combination of all of the above that makes these thousand-year-old walking corpses so damn appealing to the opposite sex.
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I have put in quite a bit of effort to solve this question, mainly by adding comments to existing answers for further clarification. A bad thing that could happen (and actually happened with one of the earlier answers to that question by user Blauohr), was that the answer suddenly gets deleted by the poster.
Is there a better way to collaborate with people giving answers which are (initially) incomplete and require further discussion?
Or am I missing the point completely and should (for that question) rather just file a bug in one (or both) of the "competing" packages?


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I have a problem with a sentence "A list of items grouped by category". There are two possible ways to understand this sentence:
- (A list of items) that is grouped by category
- A list of (items that are grouped by category)
How to write it correctly?
I have a problem with a sentence "A list of items grouped by category". There are two possible ways to understand this sentence:
How to write it correctly?
I don't think "is" in 1 would be a good choice: if you are grouping a whole, you mean you are grouping its parts; and if those parts are explicitly mentioned, it seems odd to stick the grouping to the whole instead of the parts. If you did this, the fact that "that" comes right after "items" and that the two would be a great fit together would make the sentence awkward.
In 2, are you thinking of a list of items that only includes those items that are grouped by category, which thus leaves out those items that are not grouped by category? That is what the brackets and the that-clause seem to indicate. I find it hard to imagine a situation where you would want to say this.
I'd choose 2, but the type of relative clause is odd. Why not add a comma and change "that" to "which"? The relative clause sounds better as a non-defining clause, since the fact that they are categorised does not limit or define the items for me: it is rather extra information. Whether a participle is defining or not cannot be seen if there is no full clause: that is why you could not see it in "a list of items grouped by category". The comma of a non-defining relative clause is not compulsory with a non-defining participle (I think I am right here, right?).
Let's take Vorrtex's second example:
(I added "was destroyed by the fire" to put it into a real context.) In this case, "drawn" could belong to either "part" or "picture", so the sentence is ambiguous. There is no way to clear this up without changing the sentence so that "drawn" can only point to one noun:
In terms of meaning, whether it is the list that is being grouped or the items that are being grouped, the meaning is the same - grouping the objects written on a piece of paper.
In terms of word choice, the second option seems better, as it is more natural to think in terms of grouping the multiple distinct objects and not the list.


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For the month of May I will be running this column on Wednesdays. The idea of this column is to discuss a reason that I believe Star Wars still matters in our community.
There are many reasons that Star Wars still matters in our world today and while I will only discuss a few of them please feel free to let us know the reasons you think it still matters.
Reason #1: Bullying


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iTunes is showing this "Connecting to Store" alert. I know this is caused by the cover-search when I add new songs. But sometimes it happens when starting the app, it stucks and says "Connecting to Store" again and again. Most of the time I have to close the App.
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Somewhere nestled in Downtown Bryan there's a place that's been around for almost a three quarters of a century. It's a place where time stands still and is reminiscent of a nostalgic era when a good haircut, a shave, a shoe-shine and good conversation is what drew men to the barber shop.
These days, you'll find Nap Cole running The City Barber Shop and it isn't just shear luck that makes him a cut above some of the others. Those who know Nap will tell you he's a man of few words who believes listening is a better quality to have, but when he does speak, you're sure to learn all about him.
Nap Cole says, "I've been to Athens, Greece; Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid, Spain; Naples, Italy; Hong Kong a gillion times...Japan, Manila, Hawaii twice, Guam, been to Australia, been to South Africa twice."
Alton Cole or Nap as his friends call him, may have been around the world twice, but when you walk into his barber shop, you would swear you're stepping back in time and one would probably never believe he's ever left the Brazos Valley. And just like in Downtown Bryan, inside his shop, there are signs of days gone-by, signs of simpler times and signs that time hasn't stood still at all. The City Barber Shop has been in the heart of downtown for 72 years and even though Nap himself hasn't been there that long, he holds onto the old ways of doing business. For instance, Nap knows his customers and knows what they like.
John Rowan, one of Nap's patrons says, "One of the things I like about coming here is I've only had to tell him once how I like my haircut and he remembers."
John's father, Neil Rowan says, "This is still like I was 15-years-old and finally getting my haircut in town, you know. It's the atmosphere as much as anything else."
Inside the barbershop you won't hear any trendy music and you certainly won't find any fancy furniture. Instead, all you'll find is good old-fashioned service followed by one of Nap's smile's, hearty laughs and maybe a piece of good advice.
"He does a lot more listening," Neil Rowan emphasizes.
Nap Cole chimes in that for him "It's like being a psychiatrist."
Cole's ability to listen and his skill with the scissors has made him a hit not just in Downtown Bryan but all over the Brazos Valley, with some of his customers traveling from miles and miles away just to have him cut their hair and even share some of those special moments with their family. So, what exactly are those special moments? The answer is simple, he shares their joy and is honored that people have chosen them to give that oh so important first haircut. But there is one other reason he's such a favorite and through laughter, he points out that he's the shop's favorite because he's the only one who works there.
All joking aside, the secret to Nap's success is simple, he gets to work about 4:30 every morning, makes coffee and once he unlocks the front door before 6 a.m. he starts cutting hair and just keeps on cutting all day long.


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Do the creatures I summon—like the flame atronach—get stronger when I level up, or do they remain the same regardless of my level or the level of my enemies?
No, the other answer is wrong. The summoned creatures from conjuration are not based on the caster level at all.
All summoned creatures have the same stats (health, damage, etc) regardless of what level you summon them at. The only thing that improves the strength of the summoned creature is the Elemental Potency perk, which boosts all your atronach summons.
If you want a stronger summon, use a higher level spell (such as storm atronach).