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The tragic news of a 10-year-old's abduction and murder in Springfield, Missouri may have you hugging your children or grandchildren or siblings or nieces and nephews a little bit tighter tonight. Authorities do not know why a man decided to grab Hailey Owens off the street as she walked to a friend's house, but they do credit observant, involved citizens with being able to quickly apprehend a suspect. Though Hailey's life, ultimately, was not saved, Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams said, at least are able to take steps toward finding answers.
Authorities say it appears this is a true stranger abduction. It's the type of situation that strikes fear into the hearts of many parents. While what happened in Springfield may be a push to remind children of the danger strangers may present, it also should be kept in perspective that stranger abductions are the exception, rather than the rule.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, in 1999, the most recent comprehensive nationl study on missing children, more than 200,000 children were abducted by family members with more than 58,000 taken by non-family members. However, only 115 children were victims of kidnappings where the abductor was someone unknown to the child. The word "only" is not used to make light of what is a very grave danger, but to illustrate that it is a much smaller number than the other situations.
For this reason, we must educate our children -- and our teens and college students -- on how to lessen the risk that we will become one of those 115. Remind them to stay with a group or walk with a friend whenever possible and educate them on the appropriate reaction if they are approached or followed. Tell them to trust their instincts -- if something doesn't feel right, it's okay to be impolite and walk away or say no. The Center for Missing and Exploited Children has a simple tip sheet when you click here.
I would ask you to keep this in mind - what happened to Hailey is not her fault and what has happened to other children who have been abducted is not their fault, either. The only person to blame is the perpetrator of the crime. A person who wants to find a victim will search until their are successful. We must do what we can to lower the chances we or someone we love will become that victim. But we can't be at all places at every single moment of the day. We should be able to live with a reasonable expectation that we can walk a couple blocks to a friend's house in safety. Let us use what happened to Hailey to strengthen our resolve to work together to keep our communities and our children safe.


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Let $C$ be a curve embedded in ${\mathbb P}^n$ by a full linear system (I am particularly interested in the case of an elliptic curve but it seems natural to ask the question in more generality). Let $S_k$ be the $k$-th secant variety, i.e. the union of all $k$ planes intersecting $C$ at (at least) $k+1$ points. Construct $X_k$ inductively: $X_1$ is the blow-up of ${\mathbb P}^n$ along $C$, $X_2$ is the blow-up of $X_1$ along the proper preimage of $S_1$ in $X_1$ etc. Is there a reasonable moduli interpretation for $X_i$, especially for the last one $X_d$, $d=[(n-3)/2]$? For a particular value of $n$ Bertram identified $X_d$ (or something similar) with the moduli space of semi-stable rank 2 vector bundles on $C$; but I am interested in the case of an arbitrary $n$.
You can probaly describe your space as some kind of fibration in $\mathcal{M}_{0,m}$ over the dual linear system $\mathbb{P}^{n*}$, via Kapranov's blow-up construction of $\overline{\mathcal{M}_{0,m}}$ . This is done in
for some of the Bertram's cases but it should hold in general. Your space may have an interpretation in terms of moduli of vector bunldes (or sheaves).

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Makita created the 18V Lithium-Ion cordless tool category in 2005 with its groundbreaking 18V LXT® Series, and today offers the world's largest 18V Lithium-Ion cordless tool line-up (slide-style battery). For Makita, a long-time partner in battery recycling efforts, it is the second straight year of recognition.
"Leaders in Sustainability demonstrate how organizations can have a positive environmental impact," said Sean Burchill, Western Account Manager, Call2Recycle. "Thanks to dedicated organizations like Makita, over 11 million pounds of batteries were diverted from landfills through the Call2Recycle program in 2013."
A Leader in Sustainability
Since the mid-1990's, Makita has worked with Call2Recycle to develop new ways to collect, package and ship used batteries at the end of their life cycle to recycling centers.
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Police: Miami Correctional Officer Shot, Killed
Published: Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 10:02 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 10:02 a.m.
MIAMI | Miami-Dade Police say a correctional officer was shot and killed in his own driveway, but a motive for the shooting is not yet known.
Authorities say 46-year-old Andrew Johnson was a 10-year veteran of the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department. He was found shot and killed Saturday evening.
Police have not yet many any arrests.
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Recently Tony, Alfred and Aaron were invited to attend the season finale Filming of Celebrity Apprentice . They were milling around the auditorium when our very own Linda L. motioned for the three to come up on stage because she wanted to take a picture of them "Behind Donald Trump's chair and the Boardroom table".They didn't want to come up on stage…thinking they weren't allowed and the producer said "of course your allowed up here with Linda…" Still hesitant, Linda demanded "Get up there"! Thanks to Linda's determination and not to mention impeccable photography skills, we get to see the remnants of this fun photo op!
P.S. After our Bald and Blue event last wednesday, some of you may have forgetten what 2 of these guys look like with hair !!!!!!


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For predicting genes from a sequenced genome, you need to set a maximum intron length. How long can introns get in animals? Is there some limit?
I think the above values (500-750 kb) are wrong. http://www.bioinfo.de/isb/2004040032/ shows that most introns are less than about 10 kb (and personal experience in Drosophila confirms that - I've rarely seen an intron bigger than about 5 kb). There are some very large ones, but since it's nearly impossible to detect the splicing reaction, particularly if they're very large, it's not clear whether they are spliced as one BIG intron or are instead recursively spliced (in little steps, as in http://www.genetics.org/content/170/2/661.full.pdf+html). I think its safe to say that we don't know how long the biggest introns can be.
If you examine the human genome ~99% of the introns are under 500 kb. I would assume that a limit between 250 kb - 500 kb is reasonable for gene prediction. You may incorrectly predict the proper structure of a small number of genes that have these very large introns but this should be a small number. Furthermore, most popular sequence aligners tend to set an intron length limit between 500 kb and 750 kb.
Just keep in mind that you may increase the number of false positive introns you detect if you set this limit to high. Therefore, it may be worthwhile to try a few settings and evaluate the results.
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6 Places You'll Recognize from the Background of Every Movie
We rarely pay attention to the locations in a film, unless the landscapes are unusually breathtaking (probably CGI) or, like, literally wallpapered in genitals. However, if you think back to your favorite films, you might notice that many of them used the same locations. Just like with actors, there is an elite group of places that tend to show up in hit and/or classic movies.
Here are six locations with more robust IMDb pages (and better managers, apparently) than 80 percent of Hollywood.
#6. Quality Cafe -- Basically Every Cafe in Every Movie Ever
If you live in Los Angeles, you may have seen the Quality Cafe once or twice -- and if you own a television, you've probably seen it hundreds of times. Seriously, the same place has been featured in a ton of TV shows and movies:
Sometimes in the exact same spot:
And with the exact same coffee mugs:
Denzel and Ethan win the award for cutest couple to sit in that booth.
Remember the awkward scene in the first season of Mad Men when Don Draper talks with his half-brother? That was also the Quality Cafe, only with '60s hairdos and indoor smoking allowed.
"We even made a Colored entrance for some of the crew members. That didn't go over well."
Gary Sinise investigated a crime that was committed inside the Quality Cafe in an episode of CSI: NY, even though Los Angeles is a little outside a New York cop's jurisdiction:
Strange ... usually CSI is so firmly grounded in reality.
The Quality Cafe doesn't even function as a real diner anymore. It stopped serving meals in 2006, but it's been doing pretty well for itself as a film location over the past few decades, as demonstrated by this two-and-a-half-minute mashup video of different scenes shot there. For example, here's Hilary Swank taking some advice and/or exposition from Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby:
"Hey, how'd you like to be God? No? Guess it's time for Plan B, then ..."
Here's Morgan Freeman talking to Gwyneth Paltrow about Brad Pitt in Se7en:
He's a regular.
And here's Brad Pitt discussing some serious stuff with ... Vince Vaughn in Mr. and Mrs. Smith:
The really, really poor man's Morgan Freeman.
Meanwhile, here are Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch making fun of Steve Buscemi's face in Ghost World:
And here's Tom Hanks looking exasperated in the same booth in Catch Me if You Can:
Do they at least wash those mugs?
How about a bleached Nicolas Cage staring at a lady in Gone in 60 Seconds? Sure thing, we got that, too:
Screw washing. If Cage drinks here, they'd better use an autoclave.
And there's more. So now you know: If you ever get the feeling that all the diners used in Hollywood movies look the same, that's because they probably are.
#5. Vasquez Rocks -- The Slanting Rock Formation in Sci-Fi Movies
If this particular formation of rocks looks familiar to you, congratulations on being a nerd. These are the Vasquez Rocks located in Agua Dulce, California, and they are most famous for being used as the backdrop of several Star Trek scenes, from the famous showdown between Captain Kirk and the Gorn in the original series ...
Notice its position relative to Kirk's crotch. That's subtext, baby.
... to the scenes set on planet Vulcan in Star Trek IV and in the 2009 J.J. Abrams reboot:
So what these movies are trying to tell us is that God isn't very creative.
That's right -- like many actors in the Star Trek universe, these rocks have played multiple parts. They even showed up in animated form in the Star Trek-themed episode of Futurama:
The real rocks weren't available to do voice work, so Michael Winslow filled in.
But unlike most actors involved with Star Trek, the rocks went on to have a long and varied career. Besides appearing in shows like Bones, The New Girl, and Friends ...
... the Vasquez Rocks have also appeared in over 40 films. Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, for example, was filmed almost entirely at Agua Dulce, which is appropriate because the rocks are actually named after a real bandit from the Old West, Tiburcio Vasquez.
Who may or may not have been involved in anachronistic musical numbers in real life.
For more-recent stuff, the rocks also show up in 127 Hours, Little Miss Sunshine, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. And speaking of films starring duos of immature slackers, the rocks actually play a double role in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Bill and Ted first see them while watching an episode of Star Trek, and then they get killed by their robot doubles at those very same rocks:
Just one Wayne's World movie short of the slacker trifecta.
#4. Hatfield House -- The Home of Rich Superheroes
Hatfield House in England was built in 1611 and has a long and proud association with the country's royal family. But fuck that: The only reason we're talking about it here is that it's also Batman's house. And Tarzan's. And Lara Croft's. Basically, any action hero whose superpowers include "having insanely rich parents" lives there.
Fortunately, most of their parents are dead, otherwise it'd get pretty crowded.
That's Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft crossing the house's famous Long Hall in the first Tomb Raider movie -- the scene lasts like 10 seconds, but it serves to establish that she could buy half of South America if she wanted to. Meanwhile, in Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes, the legendary detective has a meeting with a very rich person in that same hallway:
*British mumbling*
And of course, one of the house's most memorable roles was doubling for Wayne Manor in Tim Burton's Batman movies. Here's the Long Hallway acting as a game room for the likes of Bruce Wayne, Commissioner Gordon, and Harvey Dent, back when he had a full face and was black (note the ceiling and the chimney on the right):
"Sure, Billy Dee, just a couple more background scenes and you can play Two-Face in the next movie. I promise."
Besides the two Burton movies, the grounds outside Hatfield House were also used for some exterior shots in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins -- that's right, this place has been in more Batman movies than Michael Keaton.
Another favorite spot for Hollywood films is the house's library: It's been used in Batman ...
... Tomb Raider ...
... and the film Orlando with Tilda Swinton, who is the only one who actually knows how to read.
Then there's the room known as Marble Hall, which is easily recognizable due to its checkered floor. It acted as Tarzan's family castle in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, starring Christopher Lambert from Highlander:
And it's also the room where Bruce Wayne meets Vicki Vale for the first time in Batman:
"So I've kinda got this fetish ..."
These are just some of the 30 different credits to the house's name, which include V for Vendetta, Shakespeare in Love, and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Tim Burton actually returned here for a scene in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- knowing him, he'd probably shoot every movie there if he could afford it.


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Know Thy Quantified Self
Want to unlock the power of a fitness-tracking gizmo? Follow this five-step plan
WHEN GEOFF BARTAKOVICS, CEO of the food-and-drink e-newsletter Tasting Table, decided he wanted to bulk up his "skinny-guy" physique, he approached the challenge the same way he would a business decision: with gobs of data.
Along with implementing a workout regimen, he started using a high-tech scale called the Fitbit Aria to keep tabs on his weight and body mass index; he tracked his physical activity with the Jawbone UP, a popular motion-sensing bracelet; and, at his trainer's urging, he ordered an Omegawave, a clinical-grade ECG monitor that tells him how strenuous of a workout he should undertake on any given day.
What appeals to Mr. Bartakovics (who has added 2 pounds of muscle and brought his body fat down to 10% in the past month) is how effortless the process is. "I wear the bracelet during the day and step on the scale in the morning. The apps do all the tracking," he said. "Once a week, I spend a few minutes looking at the metrics to determine whether what I'm doing is working."
Mr. Bartakovics isn't unique in his data-driven approach; he's a fairly typical member of the "Quantified Self" movement, which has been growing at a steady clip since the term was popularized by writer Gary Wolf back in 2007. (The term might be new, but the practice is not; Benjamin Franklin famously charted his life for decades.) Quantified Selfers now organize meetups in over 80 cities around the world.
As health-tracking gadgets get less expensive and better looking, more people are jumping on board. The Pew Research Center estimates that nearly 70% of adult Americans now track some aspect of their health or that of a loved one, whether using an old-fashioned notebook or a cutting-edge gizmo. In fact, collecting data is now the easy part; what's difficult is making sense of it.
No matter what gadget you use, the basic approach is the same. Here are five key steps to ensure you get the most traction with your trackers.
1. Zero in on a goal
Self-improvement is best approached with a goal, not a gadget, according to Buster Benson, a dedicated quantified selfer and creator of the popular goal-setting site 43things.com. "What most people get wrong is that they start tracking steps, calories or sleep before they come up with a question that they're trying to answer or a problem that they're trying to solve."
2. Find the tool
No matter how specific the health-related metric, odds are there's a device or app to track it. Check out quantifiedself.com/guide for a comprehensive list (it has a dizzying 505 entries). While trackers work well solo, integrating the data from multiple devices can be especially revealing. The trio pictured in the interactive, for example, will give you a read on everything from sleep quality to body mass index to what days of the week you tend to be happiest.
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3. Establish a base line
So you've got your fancy new tracker and are ready to embark on your healthier lifestyle. Hold your horses. "I usually advise patients to not change anything for the first few weeks they're tracking," advises Paul Abramson, a San Francisco-based physician who goes by the moniker "The Quantified Doctor." Establishing a base line sets a marker against which you can measure future progress.
4. Make incremental change
Resist the temptation to tweak too many aspects of your lifestyle once you start tracking, suggests Dr. Abramson. Instead, conduct controlled experiments. If you're trying to improve your sleep, don't institute pre-bedtime yoga while also dropping carbs from your diet—at least not if you want to be able to tell which is having the most effect. Mr. Benson advocates setting manageable objectives (for example, splitting a goal to lose 20 pounds into two 5-pound projects, then a 10) and tracking for 30 to 60 days at a time—enough to figure out if a lifestyle change is working, but not so long that you'll get demoralized if it isn't.
5. Aggregate the data
Here's where it gets interesting. Most devices encourage you to view the data they collect using their proprietary apps or websites; while these can be helpful for goal setting, they aren't ideal for figuring out how the more disparate aspects of your lifestyle affect each other. A single, unified dashboard has long been the holy grail for Quantified Selfers, which is why Tictrac ( tictrac.com ), a free Web service, has been getting so much buzz. It not only pulls info from your scale and various activity trackers but can also loop in stats from your email inbox, calendar, social-media accounts and about 50 other data streams. Most important, it lets you compare metrics by dragging and dropping your data, which the website then assembles in beautifully rendered charts and graphs. Does tweeting late at night affect your sleep quality? What effect does your email volume have on your weight? Tictrac makes uncovering trends—and relationships among them—easier and more intuitive than ever.
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MONTICELLO, Fla. (AP) -- Two members of the National Guard are dead after stopping to help a motorist on Interstate 10.
The crash happened Sunday night in north Florida.
The Florida Times-Union reports Captain Tecarie Czarnecki and Tech Sgt. David Stone were in a military convoy heading west on the interstate, from Camp Blanding to Quincy.
The National Guard says a vehicle in the convoy had a tire blow out and they all pulled over to the side of the road.
When another vehicle swerved into the median to avoid debris, the two guard members walked over to see if the driver needed help. The Florida Highway Patrol says the driver of a Nissan Sentra hit the brakes, swerved off the road to avoid slowing traffic and hit the pair, killing them.


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Area briefs: Miller tosses no-hitter as Upstate softball sweeps DH
Published: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 12:59 a.m.
In Spartanburg, Anna Miller tossed a five-inning, run-rule shortened no-hitter to lead the USC Upstate softball team to an 8-0 victory over George Mason. Upstate cruised to a 6-0 victory over George Washington in the nightcap.
Upstate improved to 6-0 on the year with the wins Friday. With poor weather forecasted for today, the Spartans will not play today, but will return to action in the Firehouse Subs Spartan Invitational Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. against Samford.
SOUTH CAROLINA: The softball team defeated Stetson 8-3 at the UCF Holiday Inn Select Tournament. Kristen Struett led the Gamecocks going 2-for-3 with a three-run homer.
LIMESTONE: The men's and women's swim teams both sit in fifth place at the BMC Championships in Charlotte, N.C.
... The men's tennis team fell 8-1 to Lander.
... The softball team (2-4) earned a split with Lincoln Memorial (5-7) in a doubleheader. After dropping the first game 8-7, the Saints bounced back with a 5-2 victory.
... The women's lacrosse team defeated Converse 22-1. Chelsea Treat led the Saints with four goals and an assist.
... The men's lacrosse team defeated Tampa 17-5. Riley Loewen led the Saints with three goals and three assists.
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Women's Health
FDA OKs New Bacterial Vaginosis Drug
May 24, 2007 -- The FDA has approved the antibacterial drug Tindamax to treat bacterial vaginosis, the most common vaginal infection in women of childbearing age.
Bacterial vaginosis is linked to an imbalance in vaginal bacteria, with an overgrowth of "bad" bacteria vs. "good" bacteria, notes the CDC.
Tindamax is the first new oral treatment for bacterial vaginosis in a decade, according to a news release issued today by Mission Pharmacal, which makes Tindamax.
The FDA first approved Tindamax in 2004 for treating three other infections:
- Trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease (STD)
- Giardiasis, an intestinal infection
- Amebiasis, an intestinal infection that may also affect the liver
According to Mission Pharmacal, the FDA approved Tindamax for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis based on a clinical trial of 235 women with bacterial vaginosis.
The researchers split the women into three groups. One group took four Tindamax tablets daily for two days. Another group took two Tindamax pills daily for five days. The third group took an inactive pill (placebo).
Both Tindamax doses were superior to the placebo, with cure rates of 27% for the two-day Tindamax treatment, 37% for the five-day Tindamax treatment, and 5% for the placebo.
The FDA approved both Tindamax doses for bacterial vaginosis treatment.
Mission Pharmacal notes "minimal" side effects in Tindamax trials, including metallic taste and nausea.
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7 Silver Linings Now That You've Lost Your Job
#3. Catch Up On Your Video Games
You know who will care that you beat all five Halo games on Legendary? No one. But you'll know. During every job interview, first date and pope-interview you go on for the rest of your life, you'll know how good you are at Halo, and that confidence will ... come to nothing, in all honesty. But still. It'd look good on your Xbox Live profile. That must surely count for ... hmmm. Yeah, maybe steer clear from video games.
It will also decrease the chances of saying "for the win" in face-to-face conversations.
What You Can Do Now:
Do not play video games. You will wake up eight months later with no job, a thousand new insults for people who suck at video games and profound sadness.
#2. Self Improvement
This sounds like pretty trite advice, but hear us out for a second. Imagine you dedicate the time you were working -- 40 hours a week or so -- to making yourself a better person. By following a regime like this, after a few months of unemployment, you'll transform from your previously grim, sticky body into a glowing ball of pure energy, and become a beacon that guides the rest of humanity to a better future.
Hopefully a future that wipes off its sweaty workbench after a session.
What You Can Do Now:
You're the best judge of your strengths (occupying space, blinking) and weaknesses (adequate performance of job-related duties), so you'll be in the best position to decide which areas of yourself deserve potential improvement. But you may also be an unimaginative simpleton. If that's so, here are some ideas for you to get started:
- Go to the gym.
- Teach yourself a new skill, like magic or fortune telling.
- Get your simpleton friends to pay you $50 to tell their fortune.
- One wise guy will probably say, "If you're psychic, how come you're unemployed?" At this point, you should wave that $50 in his face. Who's unemployed now?
Not Madame LaGrange.
- They'll probably want their money back, but it's a good story to tell at the gym anyways.
#1. Change Careers
A period of unemployment is a good time to reevaluate what you've been doing and what you'd like to do. Having a career which lines up with your interests is an excellent way to feel more satisfied with life. Not that you weren't feeling satisfied with life before -- after all, having enough money to eat was certainly satisfying, at least on a strictly biological level. But with the right career you can have psychic satisfaction, which has got to be worth ... something? Those hippies never seem to starve to death, so they can't be too far off track.
Maybe they sell their dreadlocks to wigmakers.
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For example, let's say you always wanted to work with animals. You might naively assume that you should then look for a career with animals, when in reality, you should just give it up. Come on man. There's just no money there.
You think that fox will contribute to your 401k? Well he will, but not reliably or generously.
Instead, trick yourself into thinking you always wanted to work with tax forms. Find a mirror, stand in front of it and tell yourself that you want to process tax forms. Do this 800 times an hour, three times a day. That might sound insane, but when you do the math, it turns out to only be about 14 times a minute, which is easily doable.
Once that's done, it's a simple matter of finding out where all your pants went (check in the cushion fort), hitting some job interviews and hey presto* you're back in society!
Welcome to the long, painful rest of your life.
*presto may take four to 18 months, depending on quality and completeness of pants.
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There was a show/movie(which had a sort of lifetime'esk feel to it), that featured a character which was destined to write an inspirational book code named The Cookbook. The book had nothing to do with cooking, rather it was a book that in the future would inspire many in a humanitarian effort. But the author would be martyred for his work before it's true impact ever started.
I saw the movie/show back in 2009, so it likely aired in the mid to late 2000's. The author was African American and was living with his parents. I don't think he was the lead character from what I could tell(but then I could be wrong).
They found out that his book would inspire people later on in the future from an angel. Not the big wings and feathers kind, just one in street clothes. I think it could have been an angel of death but again uncertain about it.


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Chuck Norris Counters Jean-Claude Van Damme With His Own Epic Split
Earlier this year, Jean-Claude Van Damme created one of the most buzzed about commercials for Volvo when he performed an "epic split" between two moving trucks all without, according to the company, the aid of special effects. Now veteran action star Chuck Norris–with the help of CGI–is generating some attention with his own advertising stunt.
In a video posted on YouTube titled "Greetings from Chuck (The epic Christmas split)," and featuring what appears to be a CGI image of the actor, Norris straddles two airplanes and balances 11 men while speaking lines by Shakespeare. The men form a Christmas tree before the words "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" appear on the screen.
The spoof, which has already been viewed more 18 million times, was created by the Hungarian company Delov Digital, which defines its process as "blurring the boundaries between commercials and art, oil paintings and CG graphics, animation and moving image; and of course design in any channel." A representative for Norris didn't return a request for comment.
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Arrested: Nicole Stewart, 21, Apartment 11, 230 Hallock Ave., domestic violence, Wednesday.
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An expert in geriatric care and elder abuse, a respected author and leader in interdisciplinary education, Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, was honored by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation as the 2010 Nurse Leader in Aging at the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) Leadership Conference on Nov. 17 in New Orleans.
Established in 2007, the award acknowledges the critical importance of gerontological nursing in meeting the health and health care needs of the U.S. population. Each year, nominations are open to both Academy Fellows and non-Fellows who hold or have retired from positions of leadership in gerontological nursing, including health care, research, education, politics and public service.
"Dr. Fulmer has distinguished herself through advancing new areas of knowledge and in improving the quality of life for the aging at risk for abuse and neglect," said AAN Chief Executive Officer Cheryl G. Sullivan.
"I would like to thank the American Academy of Nursing for this honor and award," says Terry Fulmer, Dean, NYU College of Nursing. "As the need for elder care continues to increase, it is our duty as nursing educators to develop exceptional leaders in the nursing profession."
Fulmer joins a line of esteemed colleagues who have previously received the award through their accomplishments representing unique and outstanding leadership in nursing education, research and practice, including Jeanie Kayser-Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN; May L. Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA; and Barbara M. Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN.
Fulmer is the The Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and Dean, College of Nursing, at the College of Dentistry, New York University. As a champion for care of older adults, Fulmer has served on the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans, and was recently elected to the IOM Committee on an Oral Health Initiative. She has approximately 146 publications and has overseen the adoption of geriatric nursing programs in numerous institutions, nationally and internationally.
The American Academy of Nursing (www.aannet.org) anticipates and tracks national and international trends in health care, while addressing resulting issues of health care knowledge and policy. The Academy's mission is to serve the public and nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis, and dissemination of nursing knowledge
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7 Classic Star Wars Characters Who Totally Dropped the Ball
#3. Tarkin Parks The Death Star, Waits to Shoot The Moon
Meanwhile, when the Empire does arrive to bring the hammer down on the Rebellion, Tarkin stops the Death Star on the other side of Yavin, the gas planet the Rebel moon is orbiting. There he waits for the moon itself to pop into view.
It's like interstellar whack-a-mole with a huge, population-melting laser, and it gives the rebellion time to mount their counter-attack.Why It Was a Bad Call:
First, we already know the Death Star is perfectly capable of destroying a planet. That's all it does. Second, if you're trying to destroy a moon, you know what's really effective? Blasting the tits off of the planet that it orbits, which will send it careening off into space like Gary Busey on a motorcycle. So why wait?
Anybody not killed by flaming debris from the planet-slaughtering explosion will quickly freeze to death or suffocate in the sudden lack of atmosphere, and any ships that manage to escape would be vaporized by the Death Star. This is a fantastic plan and it would've brought the house down like Whitesnake.
Seeing as how no one in the Star Wars universe ever succumbs to making sense, Tarkin instead elects to throw the parking brake on the Death Star and just wait for the moon to come to him, which would've been a good idea if A) the Rebels didn't already know he was coming, and B) space was a jungle and the Death Star was Rambo.
This decision ultimately results in his death, the destruction of the Death Star and a massive Imperial Job Fair due to the sudden loss of about 500,000 employees.
"We feel it's only fair to tell you that you may be exploded by lasers."
#2. The Empire Outsources Their Most Important Project to the Worst Location Possible
After not even putting so much as a pair of mittens on the first Death Star, the Empire makes the perfectly reasonable decision to encase the new model in a formidable defensive shield, the power core of which is nestled in a wooded glen many thousands of miles away, for absolutely no reason.Why It Was a Bad Call:
OK, we get that this was presumably a temporary measure while the Death Star was under construction. But one would think getting the on-board shields running would be higher on the "to do" list, since the whole operation is vulnerable without them. Couldn't one of the Death Star's barbershops or a newsstands have been delayed until this was taken care of, especially when the whole grand plan involved tricking the rebels into attacking.
Priority: 1
Instead the crucial shield generator is stashed behind one locked door on a moon full of hostile natives, inside a small building that seems like it could have been pretty easily bombed from orbit by the rebels (and the shield generator's shields didn't protect the generator itself, obviously).
It didn't help that to support the absolutely vital shield generator protecting their superweapon, the Empire decides against building anything that resembles, say, infrastructure or a road, instead asking their crack troops to weave through a maze of redwoods at 200 miles per hour on the backs of oversized divining rods. It's like outfitting loggers in the Pacific Northwest with Kawasaki Ninjas.
Also, Ewoks.
#1. The Empire Doesn't Fire on an Escape Pod That Might Have Death Star Plans Inside
It's one of the first scenes most of us ever saw in the franchise, and boy does it set the tone for all the bad decisions to come.
Seeing as how he chases down the Blockade Runner and dispatches a violent boarding party to commandeer the ship for the Empire, Darth Vader seems pretty fucking confident that the stolen Death Star plans are somewhere inside. He even forgoes his normal practice of choking people with his mind to choke a dude for real.
"Yeah, I've been working out, no big deal."
When an escape pod is launched from the ship and goes rocketing past Vader's Star Destroyer (a pod we know contains C-3PO and R2-D2), the Commander on board lets it slide because there aren't any life forms on board.Why It Was a Bad Call:
Stolen parcels of data do not register as life forms.
Forget about the droids for a moment; assuming Vader has seen at least one episode of Miami Vice, you would think he'd be aware that the first thing people do during a raid is dump the evidence, be it flushing cocaine down a toilet or tossing sensitive information into an escape pod and kicking it the fuck into space (knowing it could be recovered later when it crash lands on the planet below).
OK, so maybe the Empire figured if that was the plan, at worst they could go down and retrieve the files themselves from the pod. But then we have the droid problem.
The shiny, gay problem
Saying the pod has no life forms is an utterly meaningless statement in a universe where sentient droids are as common as cell phones are on Earth. It'd be like declaring that a criminal couldn't possibly contact his accomplice because you didn't see him put any letters in his mailbox.
So why were there not standing orders to obliterate or intercept anything that launched out of the captured ship? Hell, with the technology they had in that galaxy, the pod itself could have been programmed with a thinking brain, with its own agenda to transport the plans and fuck the Empire.
This baffling error in judgment brings the two droids to Luke, who takes them to Obi-Wan, who teaches Luke to be a Jedi and leads him to Yoda, who trains Luke to be a master, which gives him the power to defeat Darth Vader and bring him back to the Light Side of the Force, which leads to the death of the Emperor and the fall of the Empire.
Hopefully somebody lost their job over that one.
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People are Manado's best asset. Manadonese are extroverts, warm and happy-go-lucky, drawing visitors naturally into the big family circle. Aptly, the city's slogan is "Torang Samua Basudara", meaning:" we are all one family". No one here is allowed to feel lonely.
Manado is the largest, most-northerly city in Indonesia, capital of the province of North Sulawesi. It is better known for its breathtaking underwater life at Bunaken, an island that directly faces this city. But Manado has much more to offer, and you will miss much if you do not explore this part of the Indonesian archipelago. For Manado spells fantastic diving, adventures through the wild and cultural heritage attractions.
Located on a long promontory, Manado is backed by a number of active volcanoes, while facing the open sea. Its wide Pierre Tendean Boulevard bordering the water edge is lined with top class hotels and restaurants serving typical Manado cuisine. Having recently hosted the World Ocean Conference, Manado is fast growing into a favourite venue for international meetings and conventions.
From the Boulevard you can see the perfectly cone-shaped mountain of Manado Tua, which, together with the islands of Bunaken, Mantehage, Siladen and Nain form the Bunaken-Manado Tua National Park, world famous among divers for its steep walls and fantastic underwater life. A deep trench separates this National Park from the city, preventing pollution of the park. Regular ferries take visitors to Bunaken.
Behind Manado are a number of active volcanoes called Lokon, Soputan, and Dua Saudara whose lush green tropical terrain are ideal for trekking, eco-tours, bird watching and white water rafting. The Tangkoko National Park is habitat to the world's smallest monkeys called tarsiers, cute little animals with saucer-large eyes. And all around you will see coconut trees and plantations. For, the region of Minahasa is also known as the land of the waving coconut trees or" Nyiur melambai".
The majority population being Christians and Catholics, you will find Manado dotted with churches. Christmas is a particular good time to visit when the city and the surrounding hills come alight with Christmas decorations. A huge statue of Jesus Christ rises above the city, blessing its inhabitants.
There is also a sizable Chinese population here, so that Chinese New Year and Cap Goh Meh festivities are held in grand scale, especially around Chinatown and the Ban Hin Kiong Temple.
Manado's cuisine is particularly tasty. Try the rice porridge, called Bubur Manado, and the fresh seafood served with cut green tomatoes and special chili sauce. Many of Manado's cuisine are cooked in bamboo tubes, then baked over an open fire, giving it that particular zesty taste. Do not miss "klappertaart", a special cake filled with large slivers of fresh young coconut.
To view some of the finest images of Kalasey beach, at the outskirts of Manado, visit oru photo essay: The Deep Water Paradise of Kalasey Seas off Manado
Manado offers a wide variety of choices, from the 5 star Novotel Manado Golf Resort and Convention Centre, and the Sintesa Peninsula Hotel, to the Ritzy Manado, Hotel Quality Manado, the Travello Hotel, Puri Manado and many more. Standard and Budget hotels are also available. (See Directory)
There are taxis available, which are best taken from the hotels. The "mikrolet" mini buses are your best bet. They have fixed routes and are not as crowded and are better organized compared to those in Jakarta.
The Sam Ratulangi International Airport of Manado is able to receive wide-bodied aircrafts. SilkAir was the first international airline that flew Singapore-Manado directly. The airline now serves Singapore- Manado four times weekly.
Domestically, there are daily flights to Manado from Jakarta, Surabaya, Bali, Makassar, Papua and Balikpapan. Airlines flying to Manado include Garuda Indonesia, Lion Air, Batavia Air, Mandala and Merpati Airlines.


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I am a freshman in high school who is planning to build his own recumbent tricycle. However, I would be very disappointed if my creation was illegal to ride on bike paths and sidewalks. I have already perused the Wisconsin State Statutes, and there is nothing that would apply to even a store-bought tricycle. Is anybody aware of laws from other states covering tricycles, so that I may be aware of them before I start building?
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These are the Wisconsin State Bicycling Laws:
340.01(5) defines a bicycle thusly: "Bicycle" means every vehicle propelled by the feet acting upon pedals and having wheels any 2 of which are not less than 14 inches in diameter.
As it makes no mention of where or how the machine was manufactured, it sounds like your tricycle (and its rider) will be held to the same legal standard as any other bicycle. The wheel size requirement means that if two wheels are larger than 14 inches, it's a bicycle. My guess is that this is intended to rule out kids' "Big Wheels" and the types of tricycles that a 5 year old might ride.
That said, it's worth reading the entire document. I didn't bother because I don't live in Wisconsin.
It's also worth noting that local municipalities can pass further laws defining or restricting bicycles as long as they don't conflict with the state laws. So you'll want to check those as well. Those are sometimes hard to locate on the internet. If you have can't find them online, check out your public library. They usually try to archive local information like that.
Finally, as others have mentioned, the sidewalks are often illegal and even more often dangerous places to ride. If you do so, do so with great caution.
In California a tricycle is a 'bicycle'. For day time operations the only real requirement is that one wheel can skid.
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In New York State you have to have a bell or similar device on your bike.
I would think the real question to ask yourself is "will a Police Officer think it is legal?". If they think your tricycle is unsafe they will stop you whether it is legal or not, as they, most likely, should.


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Backlogs are dreaded things. They accumulate if you let them, on any setting where a list is present, be it one you make yourself (to-do) or things that just pop in to say hi (email).
Not thinking about specific systems (like Inbox Zero and GTD), are there agnostic methodologies or systems that can be adapted to any kind of backlog processing? Triage concepts, frequency of hitting the backlog vs. dealing with new stuff, any kind of structuring of how you should tackle it, and perhaps systems/software that can receive any text list backlog for working with (or integrate with stuff like email clients and todo apps). As an example, SuperFocus has some hard and fast rules on turning parts of lists into backlog.


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Recovery -- Dedicated to Maxine mixed media 50 x 48 inches 1985
Panacea mixed media 59 x 35 inches 1989
Since 1980, I have been making constructions out of traditional art supplies (canvas, paints, and India inks) along with medical supplies (x-rays, tapes, suturing materials). Some of the processes used, such as taping, cutting, and suturing, are shared with the physician. Through my "Healing Figures," a large body of artwork to which "Recovery" and "Panacea" belong, I hope to provide imagery that can act as a possible window to the unconscious and a potential restorer of psychic equilibrium that connects viewers with their inner selves.
My dear friend Maxine fought with breast cancer at 40. For now she seems to have won her battle. Jim was a junior in high school when his cancerous tumor was diagnosed. I gave him a "Healing Figure" drawing, which he hung in his hospital room throughout his long course of treatment. This drawing followed him to his undergraduate dormitory at the University of Pennsylvania and now is in his New York apartment.
How have I been touched by cancer? These people I love, in their contest with death, have made me ever mindful of the transience of life. Their experiences have made me appreciate the value of each day.


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When a creature has the poison special ability, an inhaled poison is listed, and none of their attacks list poison as an effect, when must a creature save vs the poison?
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Well, it depends on the monster, the answer is probably somewhere in its stat block.
Take the fungal lizardman's inhaled poison - it's listed as an Aura on the fourth line of the statblock. In this case, the standard inhaled poison rules apply, you have to save the second you enter the area (though you can attempt to hold your breath). As opposed to the Tatzlwyrm's inhaled poison, where it's listed as a special breath-type thing that requires an action, in which case you'd save when it breathes it on you.
EDIT: Based on your further comment you mean the Ascomoid. That's pretty straight forward, it says straight out how its spore-poof works and you only have to save against the spores' poison if you fail the nausea save from the spores attack. You'd save immediately and then of course each turn thereafter until you shake it off (2 saves or 6 rounds, whichever comes first).


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Is anybody having any luck using Ext.browser.is.Standalone to see if the application has been launched from the home screen?
I'm working on an install to home screen plugin for my company and the Android piece isn't working. iOS works great (as expected), but Android is not (go figure.
What are you guys seeing?
I wasn't aware that Android you can install to the home screen, thought you could just have a shortcut to the page.
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Correct. Droid doesn't respect all the rules that iOS does, but, I have seen this work with Cynogen mods for android. Was just wishing somebody had came up with a solution for standard droid. I really should have stated the question different so it wasn't an install web app but launch from bookmark in standalone mode.


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What's the efficiency of hub gears compared to derailleurs. I know that hub gears are not as efficient, a part from being heavier, how much will I loose in performance if I use hub gear?
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A lot depends on the rider and what you mean by efficiency.
It is easy to keep a hub gear running well for years, but an unmaintained derailleur will become inefficient very quickly. A hub gear allows the chain to be fully enclosed, for all but the most dedicated cyclist; an enclosed chain will be more efficient as it will be cleaner and better oiled.
An enclose chain allows you to arrive at work, with clean cloths and no need to change, this can save lots of time. Not having to spend time adjusting a derailleur or cleaning your chain also increase the efficiency of your life. However it takes longer to remove the wheel if you have hub gears and an enclosed chain.
Personally I think on a road bike:
(I also like hub brakes for the same reason)
In 2001, Kyle and Berto published a comparison of the mechanical efficiency of several configurations of derailleur and internally-geared hubs in Human Power, which you can find here. Among the systems tested were a Shimano MTB derailleur system, a Sturmey-Archer 3-speed hub, the Shimano 7-speed Nexus hub, and the 14-speed Rohloff hub. MTB derailleur systems are (now) known to be less efficient (more lossy) in terms of power transmission than "road bike" derailleur systems. In particular, note fig. 12 in the cited link, which compares average efficiency at three different levels of power for the internally-geared and MTB derailleur system. Spicer (2000) has measured the power transmission efficiency of an ideal chain driven system at about 98%, so that is what you would expect the maximum efficiency to be.
It depends on the model you get, but the efficiency is generally comparable. Derailleurs that are in really good condition and properly lubed will be more efficient, but marginally, and will often be less efficient due to real world conditions.
At least that's what the wiki says:
I have one road bike with a 3x9 derailleur, a smaller bike with a 7 speed nexus, and a brompton that actually has a hub AND a derailleur for a low/high gear. The other considerations (tire size, pressure, etc) probably matter far more than the gear. For easy shifting and maintenance, hubs, no question.
Newer hubs are generally considered more efficient (Shimano Alfine vs Nexus, that sort of thing). Also, Shimano has an 11 speed coming out that has a different type of lube than usual, and is supposed to have improved efficiency, but I don't think we'll know much till its out.
Then there's the Rohloff. Way too expensive to buy, but shows what a good hub can pull off:
In general, it depends on the hub and the cyclist. My gut and my experience with the two 3-speed hub geared bikes I own (SRAM and Nexus hubs) suggests to me that not much in the way of pedaling energy is sacrificed.
Let's say, in The Netherlands were the majority of bikes are used as a means of personal transportation the vast majority of gears are hub gears. The main reason is their very low maintenance, and of course the fact that you get a proper chain cover. For use as means of transportat
I can only compare the basic Shimano Acera and Deore (3x8) deraileurs to the Rohloff 14-speed hub, but these are my observations relating to efficiency. There's a distinction here between pedalling efficiency and gear-shifting efficiency. I'm going to mention both as I don't know which one you meant.
On the Rohloff hub
On a derailer
YMMV, but I find the Rohloff to be efficient and simple to use. We use it on a tandem, so it may be that the pause needed when shifting is less distruptive on a solo bike.
However, I also expect that an experienced racer would be able to shift their high-spec gears much more quickly and efficiently than any hub gears and that this might mean that deraileurs are the only option for racing. That and the fact that you can't seem to connect them to brifters.
In my ~1 month experience with the Deore (11 speed?) internally geared hub compared with well-maintained derailleur systems of comparable quality and newness, the internally geared hub has a noticeable amount of internal loss. Note that this test was carried out about a year ago. I ended up returning the bike.
First test (idle loss): turn the crank a few times and get the wheel to spin, see how long it continues to spin. This will tell you how much energy is lost in the hub. In my experience the loss is noticeable.
Second test (loss under power): using a similar gear ratio, turn the crank at a fixed speed for about a minute, you will get an idea of how much energy input is needed to keep the wheels turning at a fast, steady pace. Compare the two energy inputs.


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How do you edit a snippet that's been previously saved in Clipboard, one that's been saved after the highlighter box is done?
Saved some lyrics using Clipboard, but it appears to contain a chunk of highlighted text when the cursor had a lazy eye. Not only that, a social network share button got caught in the mix. Don't want either of these artefacts in the clip.
From the interface it seems that you can bin it or trash the clip and start all over again.
This can't be the only way.


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Sometimes I want to download programs that are not proposed in the Software Center but only on the developer's website, like for example World of Goo Demo. But the website proposes only one .deb download link usable by Ubuntu.
Is it possible for me to use this file, even if I use an old version of Ubuntu or an architecture that still remains more or less exotic, as a 64-bit one? If yes, can I encounter any difficulties running the program, once installed?


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Is it possible to bridge the divide between two NYC subway platforms?
The question has been asked far more often than answered, and with good reason: Attempting to jump over subway tracks is dumb and dangerous.
But when has that ever stopped anyone from doing something?
Case in point: Two "wild & crazy guys" who recently attempted to hurl themselves from one platform to the next at the Ninth Avenue D train stop, and filmed the result.
To copycats thinking about emulating these makeshift stuntmen, consider this: Don't.
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I've got an old house with some asbestos tape on the heating vents, and some old floor tiles which are asbestos suspects as well; duct cleaning firms won't do cleaning on the vents with the tape present. Do I really need to call in the space suit guys to get rid of it? If I just cover it with new foil tape, will that encapsulate it safely? Should I just rip it off myself?
It's not really that serious in most cases. In tile or siding, it isn't a hazard unless it is broken down, generating dust that you are breathing. Even then, a lot of tile is like 1% asbestos. If you can get it up without breaking it too much, you're basically fine.
Pipe insulation that is soft is more of a problem. You can probably do it yourself if it's a small amount. It may very well be illegal though. Get a respirator like this http://www.amazon.com/MSA-Safety-Works-817664-Respirator/dp/B0009XW3ZS, take a heavy plastic bag, tape it around the insulation so it's mostly sealed, and then spray it down with water so it's saturated and won't generate dust. Then remove it, dousing with water as needed. Seal it up in the bag and dispose of it lawfully.
I was an asbestos abatement hygienist for 3 summers, and I took airborne fiber readings of thousands of hours of removal being done. Although negative air containment systems were in place on those jobs, I had probably 10 concerning readings out of thousands.
Asbestos is like smoking cigarettes in my opinion. One day isn't going to hurt you. Every day for 5 years will hurt you.
Get a professional. Asbestos dust is a real killer, and frankly it's not worth the risk of residual dust - especially if you have young childeren.
In Australia the Queensland government even have a "Dob in a neighbour" program if you think that someone is doing DIY asbestos handeling. That's how serious it is.


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Nobel Prize to Tomas Tranströmer
Posted 06 October 2011 - 03:46 AM
and I think everybody in this country will join me in the applause. Mr. Tranströmer is 80 years old and suffered a stroke some years ago, since then he has speech difficulties, but there is nothing wrong with his brain capacity. He is a much loved poet - translated into more than 50 languages - and very easy to read. I really do recommend him!
But weird things happen. I saw the live broadcast from the Swedish Academy as it was announced. Yet, a few minutes before switching on the TV, I read the Guardian
(which is a highly respected newspaper) and they said that the prize would go to Serbian writer Dobrica Cosic. I do not claim that I know of every author on this planet, but the name was completely new to me. There was even a link to Nobelprize org. which I clicked and they said the same thing Now what is going on? Was Nobelprize org. hacked by someone or what? Very weird.
At any rate, we cannot doubt the live broadcast and the speech made by the constant secretary, Mr. Peter Englund. As for myself, I am very pleased and happy. That was all for now from your special Nobel reporter.
Posted 06 October 2011 - 03:01 PM
The Swedish papers and blogs are full of comments, 99% in favor. One foreign paper (as yet anonymous) had it that the prize had been awarded to - wait for it -
Tomas Transformer
Posted 06 October 2011 - 04:06 PM
Pamela, can you give us an idea of the kind of poetry Transtromer writes?
To be well-known and much-loved in one's own country and to be translated into 50 languages is quite an achievement. I'll bet I am not the only non-Swede who is a bit embarrassed not to have heard of him before now.
Here's the NY Times story. It's fascinating, but has no examples of his work. That will come, I'm sure.
Posted 07 October 2011 - 01:09 AM
I'm expecting a middle eastern winner for the Peace prize, due to the Arab Spring. However, nominations are due in February, with the announcement in October. So I anticipate one of the early Arab Spring countries to produce a winner, perhaps Tunisia.
Posted 07 October 2011 - 07:47 AM
"The land of the brothers" it was called, partition was in 1905, and since then there are two separate countries, but they share the Nobel Prizes this way.
Anyway, recipients of Peace Prize to be divided equally between the following three ladies:
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia
Leymah Gbowee, also of Liberia
Tawakul Karman of Yemen.
Bart: have some stuff to attend to now, but hope I will be able to return this evening and say something about Tranströmer's poems.
Posted 07 October 2011 - 03:01 PM
In the meantime, here is an aphorism by Tranströmer: It is called "Two truths".
"Two truths approach each other
One comes from within
one comes from the outside
And where they meet one has a chance to see oneself".
Well, something to think about---
Posted 07 October 2011 - 11:12 PM
Posted 09 October 2011 - 10:59 AM
"Swedish abodes in solitary places." From Secrets on the road 1958.
A tangle of black fir trees and smoking moonbeams.
Here the cottage lies sunken
and it seems without life.
Until the morning dew murmurs and an old man opens - with trembling hand -
the window and lets out an owl.
And in another direction the estate is steaming with butterflies
of laundry sheets flapping by the corner
in the middle of a dying forest where the decay is read through glasses of sap,
the protocol of the bark beetles.
Summer with flaxen rain
or a single thunder cloud
over a barking dog.
The seed is kicking in the soil.
Excited voices. Faces flying in the telephone wires
on stunted quick wings
over the miles of marshland-
The house on an island in the river
brooding its foundations.
A constant smoke the secret papers of the forest are burning.
The rain turns in heaven. The light meanders in the river.
The house on the slope watches over the white oxen of the waterfall.
Autumn, with a gang of starlings
keeping the dawn in check.
The people move stiffly
on the stage of the lamplight.
Let them feel without anxiety
the camouflaged wings
and the energy of God
rolled up in the dark.
Posted 09 October 2011 - 12:15 PM
But this "solitary place" is crammed with activity. A kind of rural Times Square, actually. Except it returns to life when night ends.. I love it and will pursue some of Transtromer's books.
P.S. Especially love this:
Then the surprise.
Here the cottage lies sunken
and it seems without life.
Until the morning dew murmurs and an old man opens - with trembling hand -
the window and[ ... ]
You could write several poems about just how that owl got there and what is his relationship to the man.
[ ... ] lets out an owl.
It is a great setup for the poem's serious conclusion
Let them feel without anxiety
the camouflaged wings
and the energy of God
rolled up in the dark.
I hope that kfw is reading this.
Posted 09 October 2011 - 01:59 PM
Well, you could begin with speaking to your local librarian. A librarian worth his or her salt should be able to guide the prospective reader and suggest works, which might not be in the library, but could be on order from some larger and more well stocked central library. I have always found librarians very helpful when challenged to get hold of something more unusual. A friend of mine is a librarian and she says she is fed up to the gills with requests for, well, wont mention any names here, but you surely see what I mean.
Whatever might be said about my translation, at least I think I managed to capture some of that mystic feel of the original. However, Tomas Tranströmer is very
readable and not what I would call a "difficult" poet.
Posted 09 October 2011 - 02:47 PM
Link to article
Posted 09 October 2011 - 05:53 PM
Me too.
Thank you so much, Pamela. I confess to being a sucker for those Scandinavian movies involving solitary houses, deserted landscapes, and one or two silent people moving slowly. An endless buildup to a climax that never comes.
It is a great setup for the poem's serious conclusion
Let them feel without anxiety
the camouflaged wings
and the energy of God
rolled up in the dark.
[Insert smilie here] I think I may take your meaning, bart, but let me play completely dense and ask you to explain.
I hope that kfw is reading this.
Thanks Pamela and innopac.
Posted 09 October 2011 - 08:47 PM
Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer, in translation (Los Angeles Times) October 7, 2011
Link to article
Nice article, innopac, thank you.
Pamela, when you were doing your translation, what aspects of his poetry were you trying hardest to convey? Was it the "feel" as you wrote? Is your meter close to his, for example?
Posted 10 October 2011 - 06:34 AM
The House of Headache
I woke up inside the headache. The headache is a room where I have to stay as I cannot afford to pay rent anywhere else. Every hair aches to the point of turning gray. There is an ache inside that Gordian knot, the brain, which wants to do so much in so many directions. The ache is also a half-moon hanging down in the light-blue sky; the color disappears from my face; my nose is pointing downward; the entire divining rod is turning down toward the subterranean current. I moved into a house built in the wrong place; there is a magnetic pole just under the bed, just under my pillow, and when the weather chops around above the bed I am charged. Time and again I try to imagine that a celestial bonesetter is pinching me through a miraculous grip on my cervical vertebrae, a grip that will put life right once and for all. But the house of headache is not ready to be written off just yet. First I have to live inside it for an hour, two hours, half a day. If at first I said it was a room, change that to a house. But the question now is this: Is it not an entire city? Traffic is unbearably slow. The breaking news is out. And somewhere a telephone is ringing.
(Translated, from the Swedish, by John Matthias and Lars-Hakan Svensson.)
Posted 10 October 2011 - 02:10 PM
Well, Dirac, it pleases me that you found my translation readable. The method I adopted was the following: First I did it line by line, word by word. Some of it became gibberish of course, so with a very light hand I tried to make sense of it. Swedish and English differ in fundamental ways: Swedish for a start does not by a long chalk have such a splendid vocabulary as English. One could say that English with very subtle nuances has three words for every Swedish word. I will just take one example: For different ways of walking you have so many words in English that exactly describes the manner of walking. In Swedish you mainly have "walk" and then you have to add an adjective to describe the manner of walking. As Swedish people generally are very fond of nature, I find the vocabulary fairly rich in that field. But to hit just the right word which will describe an item economically can be quite hard. They say the inuits have over forty words to describe snow, probably necessary for them.
Anyway, I wanted to convey Tranström himself and not impose something like my "interpretation" of his work. Translating is hard work, I cannot say I like it very much and I find it preferable to read an author in the original language. It would never occur to me to read a book written in English translated into Swedish.
But with the Turkish laureate a few years ago, Orhan Pamuk, of course I had no choice. What is most annoying though, and where I feel that you lose very much is when a work has to be translated first into English and then into Swedish. Is there indeed much left of the author's intention in such cases?
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I can't understand why max min of a function is less than equal to min max of that function i.e
Why $$\underset{x}{\text{max}}\:\underset{y}{\text{min}} f(x,y) \leq \underset{y}{\text{min}}\:\underset{x}{\text{max}}f(x,y)$$
Here $x,y \in \mathbb{R}$ and $f(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}$
Moreover, I don't understand intuitively what is the effect of just changing the order of max and min.
Suppose $(\hat{x},\hat{y})$ is the solution of $\underset{x}{\text{max}}\:\underset{y}{\text{min}} f(x,y)$, then why this is not the same solution for $\underset{y}{\text{min}}\:\underset{x}{\text{max}}f(x,y)$.
One more thing I want to know is do we evaluate inner optimization first or outer ? i.e in $\underset{x}{\text{max}}\:\underset{y}{\text{min}} f(x,y)$, do we evaluate $\underset{y}{\text{min}}$ first or $\underset{x}{\text{max}}$ first ?
I can't understand why max min of a function is less than equal to min max of that function i.e
Perhaps a simple example will help. Let $f(x,y) = \sin(x+y)$. Then
$\underset{y}{\text{min}} f(x,y) = -1$ for all $x$; and
$\underset{x}{\text{max}} f(x,y) = +1$ for all $y$.
So $\underset{x}{\text{max}}\:\underset{y}{\text{min}} f(x,y) = \underset{x}{\text{max}} (-1) = -1$; but $\underset{y}{\text{min}}\:\underset{x}{\text{max}} f(x,y) = \underset{y}{\text{min}} (+1) = +1\,$.
One asks that $$ \max\limits_x\left(\min\limits_sf(x,s)\right)\leqslant\min\limits_y\left(\max\limits_tf(t,y)\right). $$ The assertion is equivalent to the fact that, for every $x$ and $y$, $$ \min\limits_sf(x,s)\leqslant\max\limits_tf(t,y). $$ Since $\min\limits_sf(x,s)\leqslant f(x,y)\leqslant\max\limits_tf(t,y)$ by definition, this holds.
Let $\hat x,\hat y$ be the arguments responsible for the value $\underset{x}{\text{max}}\:\underset{y}{\text{min}} f(x,y)$. Then $f(\hat x,y)\ge f(\hat x,\hat y)$ for all $y$. For every $y$, the maximization $\underset{x}{\text{max}}f(x,y)$ extends over one of these values, and thus $\underset{x}{\text{max}}f(x,y)\ge f(\hat x,\hat y)$ for all $y$, and thus also $\underset{y}{\text{min}}\:\underset{x}{\text{max}}f(x,y)\ge f(\hat x,\hat y)=\underset{x}{\text{max}}\:\underset{y}{\text{min}} f(x,y)$.
I personally found this question in ML class of mine and went down to solve it myself at home as the teacher did not give any proof. Here it is:
The inequality should be $\sup_x\inf_yf(x,y)\leq \inf_y\sup_x f(x,y)$. Consider $f(x,y)= x^2y^2$.
I had to prove this for an assignment the other day and I came up with a fairly clean proof that I thought I should share:
We define a' and b' as follows:
$$a'\triangleq\underset{a\in A}{argmin}\left\{ \underset{b\in B}{\max}f(a,b)\right\} \\ b'\triangleq\underset{b\in B}{argmax}\left\{ \underset{a\in A}{\min}f(a,b)\right\} $$
a' is the point in A where the MinMax is reached, whereas b' is the point in B where the MaxMin is reached.
Consider f(a',b'). We can bound it from above and below as follows:
$$\underset{a\in A}{\min}f(a,b')\leq f(a',b')\leq\underset{b\in B}{\max}f(a',b)$$
Now we can plug in a' and b' according to their definitions and get:
$$\underset{b\in B}{max}\left\{ \underset{a\in A}{\min}f(a,b)\right\} =\underset{a\in A}{\min}f(a,b')\leq f(a',b')\leq\underset{b\in B}{\max}f(a',b)=\underset{a\in A}{min}\left\{ \underset{b\in B}{\max}f(a,b)\right\} $$
Note that this proof works for discrete A,B and as well as for infinite yet compact A,B (with continuous f).


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I have created an employee webpage with a lot of company info, links, etc., but I want to protect the page because it contains some confidential company information.
I am running IIS7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, and I already have the site setup as a normal, non-protected site. I want all active directory users to have access to the site. This is not an intranet site, it is exposed to the internet.
I tried setting it up using Windows Authentication, but I had problems with multiple login prompts, etc. I just want a simple form for users to enter their credentials and have access to the site, and I need it to query the AD for login.
I've searched the web for a guide on this, but I can't seem to find one that fits my situation. This is not a Web App. It is just a simple html site.
Does anyone have any suggestions or a link to a guide on this?
Thanks so much! -LB


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That said, if you can't or don't want to use the beta this bug can be corrected by dropping the "sencha.exe" from Cmd v4 in to your Cmd v3.x install folder. This shim did not change much at all except for the error code return.Don Griffin
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