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SISTERSVILLE - The Oak Glen football team kept its West Virginia Class AA playoff hopes alive with a 26-20 overtime victory at Tyler Consolidated Friday.
The Golden Bears are 4-3, winners of two straight, and visit East Liverpool Friday before their mandated bye.
Junior quarterback Bub Haddox ran for two touchdowns and threw for a third, while defense lineman Preston Murray recovered a fumble for a score.
Haddox was 12 for 23 for 168 yards and the score to Cole Holloway, who finished with two catches for 75 yards. Clayton Flowers totaled three receptions for 46 yards.
Tyler Consolidated knotted the game at 20 in the fourth quarter to force the extra session.
Haddox scored from the 20 on the first play of overtime and the Bears missed the extra point.
But, Oak Glen's Trey Smith ended the game when he picked off a Silver Knights pass on their first play during the extra frame, setting off a nice celebration.
The Golden Bears ran the ball 41 times for 194 yards, led by Haddox (11-53), Zack Staley (9-46), Flowers (3-35) and David Campbell (10-38).
Dons blanks Bobcats
CAMBRIDGE - The Madonna girls soccer team received a pair of goals from Rachel Grubbs for a 2-0 win at Cambridge Saturday.
Her first score came 17 minutes into the game when she took an Amy Davis goal kick and found the back of the net. Twenty-four minutes into the second half she scored again, this time off a Shelby Kirk assist.
Davis finished with six saves.
Cambridge goalie Liz Mitchell had 21 saves.
Lady Riders earn a win
WEIRTON - Stephanie Pennacchio scored three times as the Weir High girls soccer team earned a 7-0 victory over visiting Tyler Consolidated Saturday at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
Alyssa Shingle scored twice and Morgan Cassels and Mikayla Zias once. Monica Burdette, Francesca Rock, Raegan Stead and Shingle all collected assists.
Weir goalkeepers Alyssa Kelly and Nicole Pellegrino split zero saves.
Sophie Kinnard had 16 saves and Lacy Seckman one for the Silver Knights.
Weir boys victorious
WEIRTON - The Weir High boys soccer team beat visiting Ravenswood 5-1 Saturday at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
Shane Davis scored twice and added an assist for the Red Riders, who are 13-2-2 and secured coach Joe Pepe's 250th victory. Kenny Muhart added two goals and Alex Hannah one.
Ryan Dragonir, Chad Hensley and Ryan Duke all had assists. Matt Tenaglio totaled five saves and Michael Ceraolo two saves for the Red Riders, who host University Tuesday.
Dalton Gandbe scored for Ravenswood (11-4-1) from Nick Ballard. James Carmichael had 13 saves.
Bears tied by Monarchs
NEW MANCHESTER - Oak Glen senior standout Megan Collins scored goal No. 100 for her career, but it was not enough to lift the Golden Bears to victory. John Marshall scored two goals in the second half to come away with a 2-2 tie Saturday afternoon at the Bears Den.
"We just couldn't hold on," first-year Oak Glen girls head coach Sam Paletta said. "We are still learning to finish. We are still learning to put teams away. That is not an easy thing to do. The other teams starts taking more chances and risk. It's not easy to finish games."
Collins collected a goal and an assist in the first half as Oak Glen (6-8-1) took a 2-0 lead into halftime. Collins' assisted on senior speedster's Alex Burch's goal. There was no assist on the goal by Collins.
Collins was presented with the game ball for scoring her historic goal.
"I think that's a compliment to her consistency," Paletta said about Collins reaching the goal-scoring mark. "It's just not one year. You have to be good for four years. She has has had four different teams in her four years. You have to adapt every year.
"She is a solid player. I can move her around the field, and she does it. It is just a lot of consistency on her part."
For Collins, reaching the 100-goal plateau came down to a lot of hard work.
"I have worked hard for four years," Collins said. "It has been a goal of my since my sophomore year. That is when I realized I was capable of doing it.
"I have to give my team all of the credit. They push me at practice. They get me the ball so I can score. I wouldn't be anywhere without them."
Casey Highfield made eight saves in goal for the Golden Bears.
Torie Derrow and Hailee McClelland each delivered goals in the second half for the Monarchs (6-9-1).
Pink Out at Big Red
STEUBENVILLE - The Steubenville Big Red boys and girls soccer team, Keyclub, and Football Moms will sponsor a Breast Cancer Awareness doubleheader Thursday, hosting Carrollton High School at Harding Stadium.
They will be collecting donations at the front gate as well as holding a 50/50 drawing at halftime of the second game. The Big Red Football moms will also donate a portion of the concession stand proceeds.
The Big Red Keyclub, along with the Target Shop of Steubenville, has provided special T-shirts for the teams to wear during the game. The boys game will begin at 6 p.m. and the girls game will immediately follow.


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Get down and dirty in the garden
by Patsy Bell Hobson
Spinach, Patsy Bell Hobson, Giveaway, Burpee, Salad
Patsy Bell Hobson is a freelance writer. Read Oh Grow Up! for garden treasures. Her travel adventures can be read around the world at Striped Pot Travel with the world's best writers. When not in the garden or on the road, find her in southern Missouri.She is counting the days until the next gardening season. Find more garden, travel and random rants on her Facebook page.
I am growing a vegetable I used to hate: spinach. If your introduction to spinach was from a can of that salty gray-green plant matter, you understand. Not even Popeye could change my mind.
In 2006, an Escherichia coli bacterium (E. coli) outbreak in spinach was followed by more food contamination incidents. In 2007 a company recalled bags of its spinach after finding salmonella during testing. And in 2010, spinach potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes was recalled. Seed sales tell us that record numbers of people are purchasing vegetable seeds. More and more, we want to know where our food comes from. Food contamination is rarely a problem if the food comes from our own backyard. You can supplement a lot of family meals by growing spring greens, like spinach, beets, turnips and lettuce.
I'm growing spinach (Spinacia oleracea 'Bloomsdale Long-Standing') this spring. In fact, those first few leaves of these glossy greens never made it to the kitchen last year. I ate them in the garden. (They were that good.) A fan of heirlooms or not, this is a good spring greens choice that has been around for more than 100 years.
Grow spinach this year for fresh, uncontaminated salad greens.Photo by faria!/Courtesy Flickr
For this cool-season crop, save a few seeds from your spring planting and sow again for a fall crop. Expect a heavy, continuous yield of thick-textured, glossy dark green leaves. If you grow lettuce, you can grow spinach; its soil and light requirements are similar. Greens are a cool-season crop that love full or partial sun. Put a few radishes in with the spinach to serve as row markers. Gardening Tip: Try a couple of spinach varieties to possibly extend the season and see which one grows best for you. It might not be the same choice every year.
'Bloomsdale Long Standing' spinach is slow-growing, slow to bolt and has better-than-average heat and drought resistance. It will usually grow a week or two longer than other spinach varieties. It grows more upright than most spinach, keeping the leaves cleaner or less gritty.
Try This: Let your kids or grandkids help you plant a container of salad greens. Spinach, served fresh in salads or cooked in quiches and souffles, is a delightfully different thing than canned spinach. It supplies vitamins A, C and the B-complex, calcium, and proteins. Try this easy Spinach Souffle Recipe from Burpee.
(Click here to plant a spinach bowl garden.)
Use your home-grown fresh spinach in salads, quiches and souffles.Photo by Nami-nami/Courtesy Flickr
If chives are up, use it in your spinach salad. I suggest that you use spikey chive leaves instead of green onions, or break apart blossoms and sprinkle the flower petals on the salad.
Seed Packet Giveaway!
Burpee has agreed to give a package of spinach 'Bloomsdale Long-Standing' to three Herb Companion blog readers.
• Post a comment below: Tell me how you will prepare the spinach you grow.
• End date: February 10, 2011 (12:00 AM, Central Time) UPDATE: Time's up!
And the winners are ...
Barbara Allen in Highland, Utah: "I would love to win the seeds so that I could grow them with my grandchlldren and then make individual pizzas with them. I like to introduce them to vegetables in fun ways. I don't want them to grow up as I did,not liking their "greens". Hope everyone has a great time growing their spinach."
Candi Baker in Antlers, Oklahoma: "I plant spinach and lettuce all around the house in the windows for my salads but my chickens love it! And when all my friends' chickens have stopped laying, mine are still producing eggs..the only difference is that I feed them "greens" every day.. "
Kristi in Winston-Salem, North Carolina: "We love spinach on our pizza and in smoothies with carrot juice! Thanks!"
Winners were chosen using www.random.org. Thanks to everyone who entered my Garden Giveaway! Watch out for even more giveaways.
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June 12, 2013
Conn-Selmer is proud to announce this year's recipient of the Centerstage Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Fred Hemke. Dr. Hemke has been one of the most significant educators in saxophones, retiring this past year from Northwestern University after 50 years of service. He has played and been a partner with Conn-Selmer and Henri Selmer Paris saxophones and mouthpieces throughout his career.
Dr. Hemke received this honor at the Conn-Selmer Institute ceremony on June 10th 2013. The presentation was held at Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana. Dr. Hemke was emotional and overjoyed with his win. He commented, "When I was ten years old, I began to play my Dad's old alto saxophone. At eleven, my parents bought me a new Conn Constellation alto. At seventeen I received my first Selmer saxophone and have played a Selmer ever since. Conn and Selmer have shaped my entire musical career for the best part of the past sixty-seven years. I am absolutely thrilled, honored and grateful to have been selected to receive this very special award from Conn-Selmer." Dr. Hemke continues to play a Selmer saxophone.
Centerstage is the department that manages all Band and Orchestral Artist Clinicians and Endorsing Artists under the Conn-Selmer brand of instruments. With a stable of hundreds of artists in a wide array of genres, instrumentation and skills we strive to help connect industry with music education. Nominations are submitted throughout the year at the Conn-Selmer Centerstage website. To qualify the artist must be affiliated for more than 25 years with a Conn-Selmer instrument. The final winner is determined by votes of the public.
For more on Conn-Selmer, Dr. Fred Hemke and the entire family of endorsing artists and clinicians or a video of the award ceremony, visit www.conn-selmer.com.
Conn-Selmer is the leading manufacturer and distributor of musical instruments for student, amateur and professional use under the brand portfolio of Vincent Bach, CG Conn, King, Holton, Selmer, Armstrong, Leblanc, Ludwig, Musser, Prelude, Galway, Glaesel, Soloist, William & Lewis, Scherl & Roth. With a focus on quality craftsmanship, innovation and superior musical performance, Conn-Selmer operates U.S.A. production facilities.
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The unitary dual (unitary irreducible represenations) is determined for every connected noncompact semisimple Lie group of real rank one. I would like to have a reference for the particular case $SO_0(n,1)$. I know the paper of Baldoni Silva-Barbasch ("The unitary spectrum for real rank one", Invent. math. 72) and the reference therein, but I would like to have a more comprehensive presentation, for example in a book. Thanks in advance.-.
Though the notes by Collingwood aren't aimed directly at the unitarity question for groups of real rank one, his survey 9.1 toward the end fills in some of the ideas with a lot of references to the literature up to then. In this treatment your group occurs in the framework of its 2-fold universal covering $\mathrm{Spin}(n,1)$. One 1974 paper The unitary representations of the generalized Lorentz groups by Ernest Thieleker is cited by Collingwood but is not included in the references of Baldoni-Silva and Barbasch, which lists instead a slightly earlier one. The later paper in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 199, 327-367, is freely available online at www.ams.org/journals/ and might (or might not) help to fill in more details.
What you get from any of the sources may be slanted more toward pure mathematics or towards physics, but my understanding is that the details about your special case haven't been essentially improved on since Collingwood's monograph appeared. In any case, that's likely to be the only extended exposition focusing on the real rank one case. The unitary dual is unavoidably complicated to arrive at, even in your special example, so the general theory in the background gets heavy at times.
I am told that the first person who classified all the unitary reps of $O(n,1)$ is T.Hirai: On Irreducible Representations of the Lorentz Group of $n$-th order, Proc.Japan Acad {\bf 38} (1962),258-262.


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Please help me find a nice card for cheap!
Would like it to be at least class 6, 4gb (8 is preferred, but don't need more), and less than $30.
Bonus if it's Sandisk Extreme
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By the way, this is for a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3. I'll mostly be using it for photographs, but will also be taking some HD video. This is for a summer bike trip, so I won't have tons of opportunities to dump photos/vid from the card.
@duckcake: That deal is now $19.79 + $4.88 shipping ($24.67).
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Assuming that this is the correct one, how many bonus points do I get?
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@catbertthegreat: Well done. 10 bonus points for you...unless someone can beat it!
@lordwoot: That's a nice price for 8gb...any experience with PQI cards?
@oo7slice: 8 GB and oh so slightly over budget, http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/01722dd5-b158-4cab-bc49-737c8f00b2f8/sandisk-8gb-extreme-iii-sdhc-class-6-sdhc-card
@catbertthegreat: Nice! 5 bonus points for you...would've been 15 if it were under 30..now it's up to 31.50, but I might still jump on it...I think the extra 4gb will be nice.
@oo7slice: Now it's down ti $29.29. The price won't stop changing.
@oo7slice: I have not had any personally, but I have a friend who purchased about 3 of their flash drives many years ago(3-4?), and they all still work. The benchmarks I read awhile back for flash drives say they are in general slower than the good fast ones (sorry for not being specific, it has been awhile). That probably doesn't help much for SD cards though.
I have also heard that not all classed cards reflect their actual speed. i.e.: a class 2 has a rare chance of being better than some class 6's and vice versa (by model/brand not individual cards). But they are generally correct I think.
As a side note, I have the same camera and love it.
@lordwoot: Good to know..also good to know that you like the camera. It seemed to have great reviews..I haven't had it long enough to tell for sure, but so far I like it.
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I am a third year undergraduate who has just learnt the rudimentals of category theory. My specialization is computer science, not mathematics. As part of my course work I want to write an essay on Topos theory. My professor says that it is possible to do so with my level (very little) of mathematical maturity, but I am not able to find any sources that treat this theory at anywhere near my level. Any suggestions?
Sheaves in Geometry and Logic, by MacLane and Moerdijk, is a beautifully written book on the subject. It's one of the rare texts on such formal material that is fun to read, and is relatively easy from start to finish.
I'm not sure how appropriate this question is for MO, but a clear candidate would be:
Topoi: A Categorial Approach to Logic, by Goldblatt.
It's free for download online, and it is pretty much perfect for what you're describing.
Another option could be Awodey's book.
Have you seen the article An informal introduction to topos theory by Tom Leinster?
The abstract says:
"This short expository text is for readers who are confident in basic category theory but know little or nothing about toposes. It is based on some impromptu talks given to a small group of category theorists."
Introduction to Higher Order Categorical Logic by Joachim Lambek and P. J. Scott. Try Google Books for this. The point of view is much more suitable for the functional programming aspects, even though the words "computer science" may never appear in the book. (Historically it is quite impossible to understand where toposes came from without sheaves, but technically starting from cartesian closed categories and adding bells and whistles is a shortcut.)
Along the lines of "Sheaves in Geometry in Logic", Ieke Moerdijk (co-author of that book) also wrote these lecture notes with Jaap van Oosten:
I found them very good when I was first learning.
Many people would say this is a terrible suggestion, I think, but depending on your tastes and style, Peter Johnstone's 1971 book "Topos Theory" might be good.
…true, it's exceedingly dry, and has been described as "famously impenetrable", and I certainly wouldn't recommend it as an only text to try to learn about toposes from. But I actually found it very helpful when I was first learning Topos Theory — first and foremost because it has really, really excellent exercises, with a big range of subjects and difficulties. Secondarily, I also found that once I'd struggled tooth and nail to understand a construction elsewhere, I could come back to Johnstone and appreciate a really clear, neat, perfectly tuned presentation — albeit one I wouldn't have been able to get anywhere with on its own.
Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes by Colin McLarty seems like it is what you want.
Ncat has a bunch of links: http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/topos
In particular an outline of Johnstone's book is here: http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Elephant
I've been wanting to read it...


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All Rise...
Babes, bombs, and, uh, more babes. Judge Harold Gervais had a very good time indeed reviewing this TV show redux.
Editor's Note
Our reviews of Charlie's Angels: Superbit Deluxe Edition (published July 24th, 2003), Charlie's Angels: The Complete First Season (published June 23rd, 2003), Charlie's Angels: The Complete Second Season (published May 28th, 2004), Charlie's Angels: The Complete Third Season (published June 28th, 2006), and Charlie's Angels: The Complete Fourth Season (published July 27th, 2009) are also available.
The Charge
Once upon a time there were three very different little girls who grew up to be three very different women with three things in common: they're bright, they're beautiful, and they work for me. My name is Charlie.
Opening Statement
Based on the television series of the same name comes the film version of Charlie's Angels. This is one of those movies that proves the film going public is often more perceptive than the ones paid to sit in judgment. Charlie's Angels was roundly trashed by the press, but did killer box office. To put it simply and to use a word you will read a lot of in this review; Charlie's Angels is fun. Pure and simple.
For their part, Columbia offers up a DVD version that is well stacked on all counts. Beautiful picture, at the proper levels enough sound to terrorize the neighbors, and a bevy of well produced extra features make Charlie's Angels one of my favorite discs so far in 2001.
Facts of the Case
Brilliant, beautiful and mistresses of disguise, the detectives of the Charles Townsend Agency are on the case of kidnapped computer genius Eric Knox (Sam Rockwell). Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore) and Alex Mundy (Lucy Liu), along with their trusty sidekick Bosley (Bill Murray) soon find the missing tycoon, but his reappearance ends up posing more questions than it answered. Questions that place the Angels and their mysterious employer in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Questions that beg to be answered, such as who is the silent but deadly killer known only as The Thin Man (Crispin Glover) and who is he really working for? Was Knox's enemy in business, Roger Corwin (Tim Curry), behind the kidnapping, and does he now posses a technical breakthrough that could become one of the world's greatest weapons? What is the record for the most amount of hair flips in a movie? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop? Am I insane for asking these questions or do I just really hate doing plot summaries?
The answers to some of these questions are locked within the thighs of Charlie's Angels, while others may be found at your local newsstand in that "special section." Please don't tell them I sent you.
The Evidence
Wading through film versions of old television series is kind of like sitting through movie adaptations of "Saturday Night Live" skits. For every Wayne's World there are several The Ladies Mans and Superstars to contend with and endure. Well, I happy to report to you that Charlie's Angels is firmly in the Wayne's World camp.
Simply put, Charlie's Angels wants for the audience to have nothing but escapist fun. It is also the kind of movie that is not afraid to beg, borrow or steal whatever it needs to achieve its goal. There are strains of several television shows and movies all throughout Charlie's Angels. Certainly the Bond films are an influence, but then so is Austin Powers. The wirework action scenes bring The Matrix to mind, with the movie also dipping into the warehouse of the best of Hong Kong cinema to achieve its spectacular fight sequences. Throw into the mix several of the movie's best moments come courtesy of Mission Impossible, both the series and the movies, and you have a pretty healthy cinematic stew.
Edited within an inch of its life, Director McG (AKA Joseph McGinty Nichol), brings his music video honed skills to the fore as he never lets Charlie's Angels slow down. He just wants to tell a good story in an exciting fashion and to hell with the critics. On a pretty basic level, this movie knows it will never win any deep thoughts awards but dammit, it moves! Operating in its own little reality or Angel World as McG refers to it, the movie truly is the sum total of all its many parts. As typified by stars Diaz, Barrymore and Liu, those parts are pretty impressive.
This is a movie that generates a lot of good will in its earnest nature to please, but it would all be for naught if not for the performances of its three angels. Of the trio Cameron Diaz probably comes off best, giving her role of Natalie Cook a giddy kind of charm that is totally infectious. One of the best of all contemporary actresses, anyone only has to look at her work in such diverse movies as There's Something About Mary or Being John Malkovich to see she is an actress of great range and skill and something very special. Here she takes to the role of action star like a fish to water, and it doesn't hurt she looks really good wet as well. Diaz moves with such a graceful, fluid elegance that all of the difficulty of the stunt work is tossed aside and we see nothing but her flying through the air, landing with perfect extension and a smile beaming on her face. In a movie featuring three very strong women, Diaz is the one who shoulders most of the film and carries it forward.
If Cameron Diaz comes off like the graceful ballerina soaring through the air, then co-star and co-producer Drew Barrymore (E.T., Batman Returns) is more the bad girl/street fighter. Tough as nails, but with a wounded nature and a heart of gold she tries to hide, Barrymore's Dylan Sanders is the most human of the three angels. It is this grounding in reality, at least the reality of Angel World, that causes her work to be the one that really doesn't fit in with the rest. Barrymore is obviously having fun with the role, but somehow her performance just never meshes with that of the project. She never brings the movie down, but often her solo scenes tend to slow things down a bit. One very odd note worth mentioning as it regards Drew Barrymore. There is a sequence in the film where Diaz and Barrymore go undercover and in disguise as men. Look at it and tell me Barrymore does not look a lot like actor James Spader. As always, I notice these things so you don't have to.
Somewhere in the middle of Diaz and Barrymore is Lucy Liu (Shanghai Noon, "Ally McBeal"), as the third angel, Alex Munday. Hmm, an angel named after television's greatest thief in a film adaptation of another television series? Nope, can't be. But I digress. Liu proves herself worthy of the mantle of angel and while she is not quite as friendly as Diaz's Natalie Cook nor as street smart as Barrymore's Dylan Sanders, Liu does strike the films chilliest, if necessary, pose. The woman truly wanted but unattainable. More dominatrix than angel, Liu looks great in black leather and cracks a mean riding crop. Its funny to realize that in a bygone, less politically correct era all the attributes that make her such a formidable force for good would automatically have cast her in the role of exotic and erotic villain. You know the role. A willing female to provide some male lead with the information he needs only to later have her tossed aside or killed. Wait a minute. That bygone era ended this morning. Or…did…it? Once more, dear reader, I digress. Let me just say this, of all the performances, I was the most surprised by Lucy Liu's and I look forward to seeing more of her in the future.
There are other performances worth noting. Bill Murray (Wild Things, Tootsie) is present and for a change even credited. His presence is welcome but the movie never affords him to opportunity to really cut loose. In a film with as naughty a sense of humor as Charlie's Angels, it would have been that much better to let Murray bring his brand of on-the-edge humor to the proceedings. As it stands he is, as always, very watchable. Chalk it more up to a lost chance but not a disaster.
Sam Rockwell (Galaxy Quest, The Green Mile) is very good as the as the man who brings the Charles Townsend Agency into play. Hiding a past and a secret agenda, Rockwell brings to the project a great sense of humor and a distinct dark side. In the process, he proves once more why he should be on most filmgoers' up and comers list.
Kelly Lynch (Drugstore Cowboy) turns up buffed and ready to dance as Rockwell's right hand girl. Basically acting as the opposite to the Diaz character; she shows what happens when an Angel-type strays from the path and becomes a very, very bad girl.
Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue) is also here as the movie's red herring villain, Roger Corwin. All I can say about Curry is if every screen credit had Tim Curry in it, the world would be a happier place. The scene he shares with Bill Murray is one of the film's best and the two, if left to their own devices, could have easily carried the movie all on their own. Probably would not have been called Charlie's Angels but still.
I have but one final acting note and it consists of only two words. Crispin Glover (Back To The Future, Rivers Edge). One of the world's strangest actors is here known only as The Thin Man. It is a role devoid of any dialogue but his is a performance that certainly stands out. Using nothing but body language and facial expressions, Glover is one of the most interesting screen villains in recent memory. Seeing him makes me remember just how truly whacked out, and annoying he was on those David Letterman appearances.
On thing I can say about Columbia is that I almost never fear when I see a movie being released by them on DVD. The disc of Charlie's Angels is no exception.
It almost goes without saying that the film will be presented in its original aspect ratio, in this case 2.35:1 and be given an anamorphic transfer. Sure enough, both statements are true and it is beautiful work. Colors simply pop off the screen with great saturation and not the slightest hint of edge enhancement. Flesh tones—and we do see quite a bit of flesh—are dead on. Blacks are deep and rich, showing great detail with no evidence of pixel breakup or shimmer rearing their unstable heads. Being a brand new movie, the source material used was pristine and the presentation is free of any kind of distractions.
On the sound end, things are also quite good. The mix is Dolby Digital 5.1, and it certainly rocks its way around the house. Directional effects are very good and dialogue is both well recorded and mixed with a great fullness to it. Background distortion is nonexistent and everything is clearly heard no matter what volume setting is your pleasure. If the mix has a weak point, it is with the lack of depth to the .1 channel. I was expecting a lot more low-end work, especially with the movie's big three explosions but its just not there. This is far from being a bad mix, it just lacks the last bit of pizzazz to push it over the top.
Well, it is Columbia after all, and the movie was a hit so it stands to reason that the disc version would come loaded with a boatload of goodies; once more Columbia does not disappoint. First up is a screen specific commentary track with Director McG and cinematographer Russell Carpenter. I have had some pretty good luck lately with commentary tracks, and the one here on Charlie's Angels is a continuation of such good fortune. It is a lively and informative track that features lots of good stories and very few breaks. McG is a very enthusiastic person and he conveys the excitement he feels over this film. Carpenter interjects with some technical information from time to time, and for those of you wondering, yes, he does refer to the director as McG. It is an excellent track and one well worth listening to. As much as I enjoyed this alternate audio track I also wished for an actor's track to hear Bill Murray and the girls talk for an hour and a half. Well, maybe Bill Murray with Tim Curry and the girls could have stayed home. Am I the only one that finds this obsession with Tim Curry a little odd?
Next up are several featurettes that each run in length anywhere from five to seven minutes. While I would have preferred to have them all as one interlocked feature, working that finger on the remote takes time, each are at the very least entertaining and at best informative. First up is "Getting G'd Up" and it is a piece telling the boundless energy Director McG brought to the project. Then we have "The Master and the Angels." This deals in limited fashion with fighting instructor Cheung-Yan Yuen and what put the stars of the movie through to get them in fighting shape for filming. These actors worked four months for eight hours a day to prepare themselves for the exhaustive fight sequences and I was pretty impressed by their level of commitment. Then there are two featurettes dealing with production and costume design titles respectively "Welcome to Angel World" and "Angelic Attire." Technical aspects of the movie are discussed in two featurettes, "Angelic Effects" and "Wired Angels." These were the main two sections where I wished more time and detail had been spent. Like the movie and its mild T&A, these two areas were more tease than anything else and like Chinese food I wanted for more.
The disc also includes some deleted scenes with introductions and some commentary by Director McG and as is usually the case it was easy to see why they were removed.
An outtake and blooper reel is present and it is basically a waste of time. The teaser and the theatrical trailer are presented, in anamorphic widescreen and 5.1 no less as well as a pair of music videos from the movie featuring Destiny's Child and Apollo Four Forty. The package is closed out by some talent files, production notes and a direct weblink to the movie's official website.
The only thing that could have made this a better package would have been nude photos of the stars but for that I always have the Internet. God bless the information superhighway.
The Rebuttal Witnesses
All of the above praise is not to say that Charlie's Angels is a perfect film. For one thing, Director McG has not learned how to finish off a sequence; rather he just ends it as he quick cuts to the next one. I fully understand that a rapid fire pace is what this movie strives for but there are several times doing the course of Charlie's Angels that I wish he had lingered a little longer. The movie moves so quickly and is so consumed with trying to top itself, that there is often very little time for anything to breathe or relax.
If Charlie's Angels commits any real sin however it is the way Bill Murray is underused by it. One of the funniest men on the planet, all of Murray's scenes come off as restrained and forced. Its as if the screenwriters, all 17 of them from what I have read, were saying, "Okay we have Murray. Now what do we do with him?" It is a question they never managed to answer. As a performer Murray brings a subversive, impish charm to the table and it is this kind of energy the movie could have really used to truly push it over the top.
I have another concern that has very little to do with either Charlie's Angels the movie or the DVD. Instead I found it interesting in going back reading other reviews and seeing just how badly almost everyone missed the point of this movie. These reviews are from the same critical, male dominated press that is quick to praise, or at least accept the latest James Bond movie or the current Willis/Stallone/Schwarzenegger action opus, yet was all too eager to dog or make fun of this female version of the big action movie. It smacks of a double standard to say the least, or at worst, out and out hypocrisy. Are these keepers of critical reportage so jaded that they cannot see a movie that exists only to entertain and just so happens to feature three very strong female leads? Come on Roger Ebert, you give a pretentious piece of crap like The Cell four stars but Charlie's Angels only rates a half a star? What was the big guy thinking? There is more honestly in one frame of Charlie's Angels then there is in the entire running length of that other movie. Come on Roger and all you other guys, lighten up a little, snicker at some sexual innuendo and have some fun.
Closing Statement
If you like action movies that move like a bat-out-of-hell and have their tongue firmly planted in their collective cheek, then do yourself a favor and make a beeline to Charlie's Angels. It is a fun filled action movie that makes no apologies about what it wants to be and stands on the strength of its convictions. Well, to that end I say mission accomplished and here is hoping for an equally speedy sequel. Columbia can add a notch to its belt for another well produced and fully armed disc that is well designed and executed. Along with a couple of Criterion discs—Do The Right Thing and The Rock—Charlie's Angels is one of my favorite discs of the still new year and I highly recommend you check it out.
The Verdict
With minor reservations, Charlie's Angels is acquitted of all charges and is free to crack the whip in any and all ways they see fit.
This judge is feeling rather flushed so I declare this courtroom to now be in recess.
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I use NFS to share media to computers around my house. Unfortunately one of the machines is on a slow wireless link, is there a way to cache network shares on the local disk for performance?
Stefan led me down the right track. This will work on any system 12.04 and newer.
Your filesystem will also need extended attribute support. If you're using EXT4 you're fine, if you're using EXT3 you'll need to ensure your filesystem is mounted with the
Here's how I set it up on the client machine, you don't need to do anything on the server side.
Configuration of the cache is done in
I'm not sure if there is any way to do this currently with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
However, the newer versions of the Linux kernel include a feature called FS-Cache & CacheFS, which sounds exactly like what you (and I) want.
Also see Local Caching For Network Filesystems.
It's not exactly an answer to your question, but...
The best solution for this kind of stuff that I know is using dropbox. You will need an internet connection to upload the md5 hashes to the dropbox server, but after that files will sync over the LAN.
UbuntuOne could be another possibility, but it lacks LAN sync, so changes have to go up using internet and down again.


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Undergraduate Physics Labs
Spring 2016
Lab Start Dates
PHYS 101: January 28
PHYS 102: January 29
PHYS 150: January 19
PHYS 151: January 22
PHYS 151 Case Study: January 25
PHYS 171: January 26
PHYS 050: January 25
PHYS 051: February 3
PHYS 250: January 26
Check the Lab Schedule for more details.
Lab Procedure
Students will work in small groups of about 3 students and complete an experiment during each lab meeting. There will be 10 labs total. Procedures for each lab can be accessed via your Lab Schedule or in the Experiments section. Please obey the following guidelines for each lab:
- Leave the lab exactly how you found it! Other sections use the same rooms and equipment. Be considerate to students and lab staff by taking care of the equipment.
- Report all problems/breakages immediately! Don't try to fix something yourself. You may not repair it correctly, which may result in taking data using broken or uncalibrated equipment.
- Come to the lab prepared! Read the Lab Procedure ahead of time and complete the pre-lab exercises. Bring a scientific calculator and a notebook to each lab.
- A lab writeup for each group is due at the end of the lab session. It should be submitted electronically to your TA.
Grading Policy
Labs are taken pass-fail. Students must complete each lab in order to pass the course. Absence from a lab without permission could lead to an F or incomplete in the course. The following grading scheme will be used for each lab:
Excellent (E), Passing (P), Needs Improvement (NI), Fail (F)
If two NI grades are received, the third NI will turn into F. Successful completion of the lab ALSO includes handing in a pre-lab exercise for EACH lab. The above grades will be based on the following aspects each lab writeup.
- Presentation (3 points)
The report should be clear, organized and readable. Consult the Graphing Guide for guidelines on making graphs.
- Questions (4 points)
Correct answers to the questions listed in the lab procedure will receive full credit.
- Results and Conclusions (3 points)
Must include a summary of the data, graphs (clearly labelled) and conclusions. Should also include a comparison of actual results with expected results and a discussion of sources of error with numerical estimates
Note: Points will NOT be deducted because of "bad data" (i.e. results that deviate from an expected data due to experimental error) as long as you provided a thorough examination of your error in the "Discussion, Sources of Error and Conclusions" section.
9-10 points = Excellent
7-8 points = Passing
6 = Needs Improvement
5 or lower= Failing
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Doug Glanville
Doug Glanville played outfield for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers from 1996 to 2004. He is the author of "The Game From Where I Stand," and wrote the online column "Heading Home" for The Times from 2008-2010. Currently an analyst for ESPN, he writes occasionally for The Times on baseball and other sports.
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Who's on First? Who Knows?
In the age of the shift, no one on the baseball field is where he's supposed to be anymore.
June 11, 2016, Saturday
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In baseball, when you are the commodity, it's easy to forget why exactly some of these deals are being made.
August 6, 2015, Thursday
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Baseball is deep into an analytics period, but there is still charm to the game, and a lot of it can be found in an unprecedented wave of raw talent.
July 18, 2015, Saturday
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Even when 10 of them are chasing a ball that was called foul and has long since come to rest, I realize they are truly having fun.
May 9, 2015, Saturday
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The start of the season marks a transition, a time to put the lessons of the year before into practice.
April 11, 2015, Saturday
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The talent of exceptional players rubs off on those around them: teammates and opponents.
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Stationed in a small town of 100 people on an island located within the Federated States of Micronesia, Peace Corps volunteer Nicholas Canfield is the only white American in a three-mile radius. A third of the way into his two-year service, he slowly is becoming accepted by his villagers and is starting to fit perfectly within his community.
"As time goes on I suspect that soon I won't be 'ohl en wai' [white man] to my community, but rather "Nick" who is just another one of us," Canfield says. "Although we're very different in some ways, we share a lot in common. I get invited to play volleyball, go work in the forest and do regular things that locals do."
Canfield spends his days teaching English, music, math and physical education to fifth through eighth-grade students. When he is not teaching, he runs the school library and reads English stories to excited first through fourth-graders. After school, he conducts a running club which contains about 10 students. The children love to run, he says, despite having limited footwear (most run in flip-flops or barefoot). He also has introduced his community to different foods which includes pasta, stir-fry and -- their favorite -- s'mores.
Canfield's highlight of his service has been teaching music to his students.
"Music really has made a good connection between us because it is something that we can all understand regardless of culture," he says.
Nick has felt the extreme challenges felt by many Peace Corps volunteers, but has faced them head-on. The greatest challenge he has faced is getting to know himself, he says.
"You get to see if you have the heart to fully dedicate yourself to helping others no matter where or what the project," he says. "Overall though, I'd say that I'm happy and overjoyed to be changing kid's lives on a daily basis."
For more information about the Peace Corps at CU-Boulder visit http://www.colorado.edu/peacecorps/.


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Wherever you choose to work it-in the gym, on the court, or on the track, the Nike Workin' It Women's Tee Shirt will make a style statement and keep you comfortable. Sassy yet sweet, this V-neck tee shows off your fun attitude as you work up a sweat.
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When the nineteenth--century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the middle of the night, Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation -- and not just from the knife at her throat, either. In life, Maria was the fiancee of Jesse -- the same Jesse who was murdered a hundred and fifty years before. The same Jesse Suze is in love with.
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El33t's Question of the Day: How would you refresh your favourite games?Written by: / / 12 Comments
Welcome to the latest Question of the Day!
If you have a Question of the Day that you would like to put to the community, mail it to oliver[@]el33tonline.com and we'll send it out, with credit of course!
Inspired by a conversation today with Pieter and Mat, this Question of the Day asks how you would go about helping to freshen up your favourite games, either in a dormant series or a regular and active franchise.
Pieter suggested that a future Call of Duty could benefit from using the storyline of Call of Duty: Ghosts' Extinction game mode, which now in its second episode of content continues to deal with aliens and what looks like peculiar experiments aboard a ship cruising out at sea.
Which games do you think could do with a refresh – even if it was for one game – and what would you do to change things up?
Mass Effect? Resident Evil? Uncharted? Mario or Zelda? Call of Duty or Battlefield? Would you throw out the original characters and set the new stars in a different location?
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Today in Tweet Beat, Kanye is self-aware, Erykah Badu is not pregnant, and Justin Bieber has finally earned some street cred.
Man I love Kanye. Nothin he does surprises me, but still I never get tired of seeing what he's gonna say & do next!! The guy's special...
still breast feeding MARS.i would b so excited 4 a new lil boy tho soon;-) ...@questlove started this rumor
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Idea to avoid asteroid: every human quickly gains fifty pounds, thus changing our planet's mass just enough to alter our orbit.
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This circular pattern has baffled me:
Question asked on Super User with +118 upvotes:
Does email address obfuscation actually work?
The Accepted answer got an hilarious +187 upvotes.
The same question was asked one year ago on Stack Overflow with +14 upvotes:
Does e-mail obfuscation really make automatic harvesting harder?
The accepted answer was worth +21 upvotes posting the same link reposted on the accepted answer on Super User
Asked again today on Stack Overflow with +16 upvotes:
What's the best way to present an e-mail address on my website without being attacked by spammers?
The top voted answers got +17 upvotes by simply linking the above question on Super User
this closes the circle.
Any thought about that?
I'd also like to see the removal of reputation earned from answering a question that is later closed as a duplicate


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TOPEKA -- Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed House Bill 2019 into law Wednesday during a signing ceremony at the Kansas Capitol. The new law reforms how judges for the Kansas Court of Appeals are appointed.
"The guiding principle of our American democracy must be that every citizen stands equal before the law, with an equal voice in this long running American experiment in self-government," Gov. Brownback said. "Kansans expect and are entitled to a government that is not beholden to any special interest group. Unfortunately in Kansas, our current system of selecting our appellate judges fails the democracy test."
Brownback continued, "Rather than providing an equal voice to all Kansans in the selection of our Appeals and Supreme Court judges, Kansas is the only state in the union that allows a special interest group – to control the process of choosing who will be judges for the rest of us."
Currently, Appeals Court judges are nominated by the Supreme Court Nominating Commission which is made five members elected by the Kansas Bar, and four members appointed by the governor.
HB 2019 allows the governor to appoint a qualified person to fill any vacancy of the Appeals Court who is subject to approval by the Kansas Senate. Known as the federal process, this procedure is similar to how justices for the United States Supreme Court are appointed.
"This is not about controlling judges. Judicial independence is vital and necessary for fair and just rulings from our courts. But judicial independence must rest firmly on the consent of the people. Public confidence is the best and only hedge around the independent judgments of our courts," Brownback said. "I want to thank the Kansas Legislature for taking this important step towards reforming our system of judicial selection and restoring public confidence in our judiciary. We must give all Kansans an equal voice, whether directly or indirectly through elected representatives, in choosing our judicial leaders."
House Speaker Ray Merrick, and Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce as well as Senators Steve Fizgerald, Mitch Holmes, Julia Lynn and Greg Smith and Representatives Steve Brunk, Willie Dove, Keith Esau, Shanti Gandhi, Jerry Lunn, Mark Kahrs, Charles Macheers, Allan Rothilsberg, John Rubin, and Troy Waymaster were among those who joined the Governor for the bill signing. Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Court of Appeals Judge Tony Powell also attended the bill signing.
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The north African country has been investigating since April protective measures and anti-dumping fees imposed on Saudi imports due to claims that they are damaging its industry, Prince Salman said. The investigation discovered that the damage was caused by other factors.
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DUBAI -- Egypt has decided to lift anti-dumping fees on
polypropylene imports from Saudi Arabia as the measure was
against its public interest, Saudi Arabia's deputy oil minister
Prince Abdul-Aziz bin Salman said in remarks published
The north African country has been investigating since April
protective measures and anti-dumping fees imposed on Saudi
imports due to claims that they are damaging its industry,
Prince Salman said, according to state-run Saudi Press
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Prep Time: 45M
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- 2 1/4 lb ( 1kg) beef tenderloin, cut from the thick end, well trimmed
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp butter
- 2 shallots, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 9oz ( 250g) cremini mushrooms, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp brandy or Madeira
- one 17.3oz ( 484g) box thawed frozen puff pastry
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- Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C). Season the meat with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a frying pan over high heat. Add the beef and cook, turning often, about 5 minutes. Place the beef on a rack in a roasting pan. Roast for 10 minutes. Let cool.
- Meanwhile, melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Add the shallots and garlic and cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes, until just softened. Add the mushrooms and cook 4-5 minutes more, stirring occasionally, until the juices have evaporated. Add the brandy and boil for 30 seconds. Let cool.
- Roll one pastry sheet and trim into a rectangle 2in (5cm) larger than the beef fillet. Place on a baking sheet and prick well with a fork. Bake 12-15 minutes, or until crisp and golden. Let cool, then trim any uneven edges with a serrated knife.
- Place the pastry rectangle on a baking sheet. Spread 1/3 of the mushroom mixture down the center. Place the beef on top and spread the remaining mushroom mixture on top. Roll out the remaining pastry sheet large enough to cover the beef. Brush the exposed edge of the pastry with beaten egg. Place the rolled dough over the beef, tucking and pressing the dough to the baked pastry base to adhere.
- Brush with beaten egg. Decorate with pastry trimmings, and brush again. Make a slit in the center. Bake about 30 minutes, until 130°F for rare. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
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The Research Project in Economics is designed to be a capstone research experience for senior Economics majors. This senior-level research project is designed to fulfill these learning goals of researching, writing, and presenting a paper addressing a significant economic question or issue. Each student develops an economic question, which is then analyzed using an appropriate economic framework and evidentiary support. Students are asked to respond to criticisms to make this a wholesome research experience. In a nutshell, you will be "doing economics."!!!
Other upper-level Economics courses were offered to expose students to research opportunities to begin this process. Guided by the professor of record as well as the entire Economics department, students apply their knowledge from previous coursework as they "do economics". The small class size is purposefully kept small so that it permits greater interaction between the professor and each student, as well as more interaction among students.
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Students planning to write an Honors thesis should register for HONR 398 in the fall of their senior year.
Students are also expected to attend the class meetings of the ECON 384 course in the fall of their senior year. The ECON 384 models the research process in economics and provides useful deadlines for completing the research project. In addition, if circumstances prevent a student from completing an honors thesis, the student will have completed the work for ECON 384, a necessary requirement for graduating with an economics major.
The department chair will accept the substitution of HONR 398 for ECON 384 when auditing the student's application for degree.
The course prerequisites are:
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"An economic model of crime can help policy makers understand how income inequality and population density relate to crime on the Census Tract level. Higher levels of income inequality suggest more social tension and higher returns to crime while population density influences the probability of recognition and apprehension of criminals. My cross-sectional Poisson analysis of Los Angeles Census Tracts uses tract-level demographic data comes from the National Neighborhood Crime Study and PUMA-level income data from International Public Use MicroSample database. I find that income inequality, as measured by a Gini Coefficient, and population density both relate negatively and significantly with crime rates." Andrew Hovel (Fall 2013).
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"This research paper attempts to estimate the demand for housing services across the United States. More specifically, the research paper examines the price and income elasticity of demand and compare the results between a single market and multiple markets. An empirical analysis on 32 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the year 2005 suggests that the price elasticity of demand for multiple markets is inelastic; and the price elasticity of demand has relatively smaller magnitude in multiple markets compared to corresponding elasticity in a single market. In addition, the income elasticity of demand has a relatively larger magnitude than the price elasticity of demand for multiple markets." By Nhu Nguyen (Fall 2013)
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The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 2200 with only a 45gb hard-drive. It had Windows XP but I chose to replace it with Ubuntu. I installed it from CD created by download and then by use of Infra Recorder to produce the bootable disc.
The install gave messages suggesting that the cd drive was faulty or dirty or that the cd needed to be created at a slower speed. Despite this the install produced a ubuntu desk top screen with icons including one for Firefox. I selected Firefox and successfully navigated the internet to the BBC Website.
I also looked around other components of the desktop.
I concluded that I had a successful install and so shut down the system and the laptop.
When I subsequently switched on the laptop again the first screen to appear was, as always, a message advising that Battery Recalibration was needed and that it would run for 3-5 hours. F1 to continue or ESC to cancel. As always, in response to this I pressed ESC but this time with no result. I cannot now get past this screen.
This is an oldish laptop recently inherited from my daughter and so of minimum value but I had seen it as my chance to try Ubuntu without impacting my regular desktop PC. Can the laptop be rescued for another go at Ubuntu? Any help would be much appreciated.


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Portland State University is hosting its first annual collegiate tournament on Saturday, May 15th. Read the following document for more information. [gview file="http://uoregon.edu/~badmin/wp-content/documents/2010%20PSU%20Spring%20Tournament%20Entry%20Form.pdf"] UO Badminton Club will provide transportation and entry fees to its team members. If you are uncertain of your team membership status come and talk to us.
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Lucy Carr is the Specialist for Entertainment Memorabilia at Bonhams in Los Angeles, responsible for acquiring property, appraising entertainment and celebrity memorabilia, and managing the day-to-day business of the department. She joined the company in 2007, was promoted to Business Manager of the Fine Books and Manuscripts and Entertainment Memorabilia departments in 2010 and Specialist in 2012. She has worked on collections including the Estate of Norma Shearer, the Estate of Jennifer Jones, and the Estate of Charles Williamson and Tucker Fleming.
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How do I know whether or not to use a game engine? I want to make a relatively complex 2D game for Android. What factors should I weigh to decide whether to find, install and learn a game engine or just do everything manually?
Don't let the fact that the list of disadvantages is longer: when the time spent coding and testing all the systems you need is too long for your production cycle, or if you have more skill with art than code, using a game engine is definitely a good idea.
A comparison of game engines is in the works in this question: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/351/pros-and-cons-of-various-3d-game-engines
In my case, I spent a lot of time (months) floundering around getting nothing done because of game engines. I now typically avoid them like the plague, though I understand they should be used wisely and in moderation.
For me, I'd get obsessed over all the possibilities! Looking at a long list of features in engine X, it's like "Wow I could do all this! My game could be great!" So I'd download it, run the demos and be dazzled by those features in action, etc. Then I'd create a new project in my IDE and wouldn't know where to start. I'd write some code, I might learn from and base it off of the demo projects, but those were just demos.
I didn't know how to start from nothing and make something. I didn't know the first step. I loved the idea of an engine, it impressed me and got me motivated to make something, but my knowledge of actual development was so limited that even after knowing how to add the engine to the build path, and maybe writing a few lines to start the engine and then shut it down again, beyond that I never made anything worthwhile.
I'm much more of a baby step kind of person. I'd rather make my own game one step at a time, refactoring out useful functions and collecting those functions into a library which one day I might consider an "engine". So for now, I avoid the engine hype and just stick with the low-level stuff.
And engines do have their place. If you find an engine and think to yourself, "This is exactly what I would write! They've already done the work for me, I don't have to reinvent the wheel, and I know exactly how to hook it into the game that I've already started [or at least fully planned and am ready to start]" then it's probably a good fit. You'll know exactly how to use it, and how to write your own code to use the engine to create something useful. But if you get an engine just cause it has everything but the kitchen sink and you think you're standing on the shoulders of giants, you're very mistaken. You have a giant standing in front of you, and you need to climb up to its shoulders.
So the huge disadvantage for me: don't get caught up in all the things you could do. Whatever engine you might choose, it will have tons of potential. But if you don't know how to actually harness the potential, if it doesn't make your live easier or help you get your work done, then why are you using it?
The biggest disadvantage of a game engine is that you have to learn it. If you're new to programming in general, that may still be faster than learning to write code to do all the stuff that an engine handles for you out of the box, but if you're experienced then it costs you no time to sit down and start coding, but a fair amount of up-front time to learn your way around an unfamiliar engine.
Biggest thing to look for is support, because game engines are not perfect and they do not read your mind, and you WILL get stuck on SOMETHING at some point. So:
You need to detail what you mean by "complex". A good game engine takes care of all the following:
Think to yourself, do I know how to code each of these? How long will I take to program each, and how long will I take to learn how to make an engine do each of these?
As somebody who has a lot of software development experience and who only really tried to develop a game from scratch recently, here is my 2 cents.
The answers so far have provided long lists of pros and cons. I will provide what for me is the most important reason NOT to use a game engine. As I took on the task of learning to write a game purely for challenge and reward I decided to do it from scratch with no engine, just OpenGL and SDL, because I wanted to learn everything above that level of abstraction. At no stage have I regretted that decision. My game is a nice scrolling version of 2D Asteroids, basic but smooth. I am not trying to compete with vastly superior games, but I do distribute my game and people have enjoyed playing it. I will take the same approach in making the game multi player. This is a huge challenge and using libraries might make it easier, but I my goal is not to make it easy. My goal is to learn, and for me it is a part time activity, so I do not have a lot of time and progress is slow. But I have my reasons for this approach. Call it "higher learning".
So, answer your own question, do you want to learn how to do the things that the game engine instead does for you for the benefits that this learning might bring? If so, do not use a game engine.
The biggest advantage: a lot of things are done for you. You don't have to keep re-inventing the wheel.
Another advantage: The game engine might also be cross-platform (Unity).
Disadvantages? Control? The engine is taking care of some things for you (such as rendering) so if it has bugs or performance issues, then you can't simply fix it yourself.


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Here is what I would call the transgression theorem. Let $X$ be a pointed space and $\Omega X$ its loop space. There are two maps $H_{p}(\Omega X) \to H_{p+1}(X)$ which should be the same. I am looking for an easy proof.
The first map is by the following procedure:
$$ H_{p}(\Omega X) \cong H_{p+1}(\Sigma \Omega X) \to H_{p+1}(X); $$
the first is the suspension isomorphism (o.k., I should assume $p>0$), the second is given by the evaluation $\Sigma \Omega X \to X$. The other map is given in terms of the homological Leray-Serre spectral sequence for the path-loop fibration $\Omega X \to PX \to X$ ($PX$=path space, $PX \simeq pt$). Note that the differential $d^{p+1}:E^{p+1}_{0,p}\to E^{p+1}_{p+1,0}$ is an isomorphism because $E^{p+2}_{0,p}= E^{p+2}_{p+1,0}=0$.
Now consider the composition
$$H_{p}(\Omega X) \to H_{0}(X, H_p (\Omega X))=E^{2}_{0,p} \to \ldots \to E^{p+1}_{0,p} \stackrel{(d^{p+1})^{-1}}{\to} E^{p+1}_{p+1,0} \subset E^{2}_{p+1,0}$$ $$= H_{p+1} (X, H_0(\Omega X)) \to H_{p+1}(X).$$
(everything makes perfect sense for nonsimply connected $X$, using local coefficient systems).
Here is my question:
are these maps indeed equal (up to sign)?
is there a proof of this, which does not involve chasing differentials in the spectral sequence and the Hurewicz theorem?


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December 2007 e-Learning Newsletter
Vol. 2, Issue 4, December 2007
Assessment Is Sexy?
by Sue Pieper
What makes assessment sexy? I'm using "sexy" here in the slang sense of the word, meaning "highly appealing," "interesting," or "attractive." Clearly, these are not terms we usually use to describe assessment. Let's face it. Assessment, for many faculty, staff, and students, is far from appealing. Why? Part of the reason might be all of the different, confusing ways we use the word "assessment."
I'm sure you've heard of at least some of the ways we talk about assessment in higher education. We speak about formative and summative assessment, direct and indirect assessment, local and external assessment, high stakes and low stakes assessment, assessment for accountability, and assessment for improvement. The list goes on and on. To add to the uncertainty, it seems that even experts in the field can't agree on a basic definition of assessment.
In all of this confusion, however, one common thread exists. Assessment is about student learning or, as a report from the National Research Council put it, "knowing what students know." Bernard Madison wisely pointed out that faculty have always asked their students, "Do you see? Is that clear?" These are, in essence, assessment questions. Today, we have formalized these questions with an assessment process. The process of designing student learning outcomes, creating opportunities for them to learn these outcomes, measuring the outcomes, and analyzing and interpreting results helps us to improve teaching and learning.
At the e-Learning Center, we can help you incorporate the assessment process into your online, hybrid, or web-enhanced course. We can also show you how you can use technology to enhance the assessment process. As a result, you will know more about what your students know and how well they know it. Our ultimate goal is to help you to improve student learning in your course. What can be sexier than that?
Madison, B. (2001). Assessment: The burden of a name. Retrieved October 1, 2007, from http://www.pkal.org/documents/AssessmentTheBurdenOfAName.cfm.
National Research Council. (2001). Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational assessment. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
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New workshops
The e-Learning Center is now offering a variety of new workshops, such as Google Docs, iPod and iTunes, Podcasting, Wireless Internet, Blogs, Digital Photography, and Social Network Software. Visit our training schedule on the website to register.
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Director's Note
In preparation for the spring semester, I would like to mention a few things that will help you communicate with your students. Each course will now have a designated class email listserv which is specifically tied to the enrollments in that Bb Vista course section. The advantage of a class listserv is that you will now be able to send a welcome message and essential correspondence to your students outside of Bb Vista. Everyone, including instructors, teaching assistants, other course designers, and students whom have been manually enrolled to satisfy incompletes, will be notified (unlike the current LOUIE mail feature which only notifies enrolled students). In addition, the class preview page is a great way to inform students before your class starts about basic class information (textbooks, contact information, basic schedule, etc.). We look forward to another exciting and engaging semester!
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Each semester, when you set up your Bb Vista class, you have different options on what to do with this new "shell." If you have taught a class in Bb Vista previously, you can copy that course content into your new class shell.
To learn more about setting up copying course content, visit the tutorials on our website.
What's New
New faces at the e-Learning Center!
Sue Pieper, New Assessment Coordinator
Dr. Suzanne (Sue) Pieper reported to duty as the e-Learning Center's Coordinator of Academic Assessment in September. Prior to coming to NAU, Sue served as the Assessment Specialist in Academic Affairs at Truman State University. Sue plans to focus on assessing learning outcomes in online, hybrid, and web-enhanced in-person courses. She will consult and collaborate with faculty who want to develop and implement creative and meaningful assessments in their courses.
John Doherty, New Instructional Designer
Dr. John Doherty joined the e-Learning Center as an Instructional Designer in late November. John's recent experience as the Resource Specialist Leader for the College of Arts & Letters library team, a recent doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the NAU College of Education, and online and in-person teaching experience will bring great value to the Instructional Design team. John states, "I am excited at the opportunity to learn from the e-Learning Center team, especially as the University has such ambitious plans for its online learning initiative. I look forward to continuing to work with faculty and staff in my new role."
During 2007, Jay Thompson, Support Systems Analyst, Sr., encouraged the use of Class Preview Pages for every course and introduced the use of recorded seminar series using Camtasia in the School of Forestry. Students from the School of Forestry can now view recorded lectures, while prospective students can peruse basic information about School of Forestry courses. The School of Forestry models how technology can better serve current and future students.
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Class Mailing Lists Now Available
Instructors may now use class mailing lists to contact all students enrolled in a course via NAU email. Instructors may even set up a "welcome message" that will be emailed to new students as they enroll; this might be used to communicate textbook and other basic syllabus information to students before a term begins. The mailing list enrollment is updated automatically and is "one-way" (in other words, students cannot send to it). To activate your Class Mailing List, or for more information, please visit classlists.nau.edu/faculty.
Course Preview Page
You can create a document or web page and set it as a Course Preview Page to present information about your course, making it available to all current and potential students at NAU. This allows students to find out more about your course before enrolling or starting the class. Students can view the Course Preview Pages at classes.nau.edu, which captures information about all NAU classes and links to any Course Preview Pages used in Bb Vista classes. To learn more about setting up a Course Preview Page, visit the tutorials on our website.
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