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Some comedian/actors are given creative freedom and improvise at times when producing a new film. Is there any evidence that Vince Vaughn or Owen Wilson improvised in any scenes, diverging from the script, in the film Wedding Crashers?
@LaurentPireyn highlights a good example of their improvisation in the "lock it up!" banter over on IMDb, but there is more out there.
There are a number of sources in which Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson speak to their methods of improvisation and their freedom to do so. One mentions how they "rehearsed improvisational lines over games of backgammon or ping-pong." Another includes co-star Isla Fisher in the improvisational mix. Still another provides this quote providing more detail about how they prepared (or didn't prepare) for deviating from the script in scenes:
Additionally, Isla Fisher mentions that Vince Vaughn encouraged her to improvise and was very supportive of her efforts when sharing a scene together here.
An expansive document including a film synopsis, actor bios and interviews with members of the production team at Hollywood Jesus (a .pdf-- questionable source, but interesting info contained within) speaks further to the improvisational environment during filming. According to Owen Wilson,
Producer Andrew Panay:
Director of photography Julio Macat adds a note from his perspective:
Director David Dobkin is "...a strong believer in script develeopment," continuing "Owen and Vince always make significant and substantial contributions to story and character."
Finally, after comparing a handful of quotes mentioned in the IMDb 'Memorable Quotes' page for the movie to the script located here, many popular lines are not present in the script (though naturally, there are a few exceptions).
Some Examples:
Some Exceptions:
I concede that discrepancies between this script and the actual film do not necessarily indicate heavy improvisation, but they may -- and that possibility is worth considering in this case, given the quotes above.
So to answer your questions @SethRogers: yes, they improvised and yes they deviated from the script-- heavily at times.
According to the trivia on IMDb, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn improvised the "Lock it up!" banter. As I understand it, that also means the other scenes did not - or only slightly - diverge from the script.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Riley County police say $2400 worth of merchandise was taken from a Manhattan pharmacy during a weekend break-in.
Officers were called to Kellstrom Pharmacy on Claflin road at 10:25 PM on Saturday, September 22, 2012.
Officials say the suspect broke a window at the business and stole a number of items but police could not list exactly what was taken.
Meanwhile, police are investigating a break-in at Kansas State University's student health center located close to Kellstrom Pharmacy after several thousand dollars worth of prescription pills were stolen.
On Saturday, September 15, 2012, K-State police officers responded to a lapsed burglary at the Lafene Health Center on Sunset Avenue, adjacent to the west side of campus.
Officials say $3,000 worth of various prescription drugs were taken from the pharmacy, located inside the health center. The suspect or suspects forced their way into the pharmacy, police said.
Anyone with information regarding this crime is asked to contact Detective Andy Moeller at 785-532-6412. Anonymous tips can be sent to www.ksu.edu/poice/silent .
It's not clear if the burglary at the student health center is connected to another recent break-in at the medical facility.
At 1:30 AM on September 5, 2012, Riley County police say two men shattered a front window in an effort to burglarize a pain clinic, part of Mercy Regional Health Center's Sunset Campus. Once inside the hospital building, officials say the suspects were unable to get into the main pain clinic and ended up leaving the area. The incident is being investigated as an aggravated burglary.

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Gordon's Bay
Gordon's Bay is a harbour town with excellent beaches, which lies against the Helderberg.
Gordon's Bay, about 45 minutes' drive away from Cape Town, is named after Robert Jacob Gordon, a Dutch colonel, explorer and acting governor of the Cape.
A visitor's paradise, the town boasts long Blue Flag status beaches and a good climate.
Along the beachfront lies a stretch of pubs, cafés, shopping malls and restaurants, where visitors can enjoy a variety of meals or just relax and watch the sun set.
Apart from bustling beach life, visitors can also enjoy the nearby Helderberg wine route, with over 25 wineries and cellars.
If you are looking for some quiet time with nature then the Nederburg Nature Reserve is the place to be. The Steenbras River Gorge Hiking Trail is suited to energetic people. From the Steenbras Dam there are views over False Bay.
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Cango Caves
29km from Oudtshoorn, at the head of the picturesque Cango Valley, lies the spectacular underground wonder of the Klein Karoo - the Cango Caves. Situated in a limestone ridge parallel to the well-known Swartberg Mountains, you will find the finest dripstone caverns, with their vast halls and towering formations.
Southern Suburbs
The Southern Suburbs are a tourist's delight. The area, which stretches from the slopes of the Table Mountain range to the False Bay coast, offers natural attractions and a vibrant nightlife.
St James
Just a little further on from Cape Town's well-known Muizenberg beach is St James. Home to a cluster of well-known and oft-photographed bathing boxes on the beach, St James is a picturesque area that offers beachgoers respite from the westerly wind.
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Only 18km from the Cape Town city centre, an arc of fine white sand gives away the secluded location of one of Cape Town's most beautiful beaches, Llandudno.
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Did you know you can use the Find My Local application to find allotment sites near you or to find the name of the site that you need.
Birmingham has the largest provision of allotments of any Local Authority in the UK with 115 sites and nearly 7,000 plots. Allotment sites are located throughout the city and range in size and facilities Over 80% of our allotment sites are managed through allotment associations. The Birmingham and District Allotments Council website has a wealth of information.
Allotment gardening is vey popular and demand for plots is at its highest for several years. There is a real growth in new tenants, particularly women and those in the 20-35 age group and there is a new sense of energy and vitality out there on the plots.
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13 Aug 2012 5:12 PM #11
Not able to get MultiSelect example ported over by Loiane working
First I would like to say thank you so much for taking time to do this. Your examples for MVC were the first I was really able to understand when I was a newbie and now I feel much more confident using MVC within the framework, thank to your efforts. Your book is also very refreshing. I agree Jay Garcia's book, "ExtJS in Action" is a VERY good book for newbies. I am still looking forward to the new revised "EXT in Action" for version 4.
Anyway, I have been working on a project where I need a multi-select which has a checkbox in the list to the left of each entry in the list for the combo, that is retrieved from a DB call. I have found one that works, using a store with API and proxy, but the trouble I am having is I am not able to figure out how to get the entries that I "pick" in the list to send back to the server as a CSV list instead of as an array. I am passing back static values as well as items from the combobox that I will "pick" from the list to send back to the server and store in the database. I was hoping to get your multi-select to work, since you are also using a MySQL database for your source. Is there something I am missing? I also notice that you call a DB called blog, with cities and states listings and the SQL to create these tabels is not in your ZIP for the multi-select. Can you help me to get thsi working or help me to get the multi-select working to send CSV to the server instead of array?
Thanks again
3 Sep 2012 1:52 AM #12
Nice WORK
Hello Loiane,
Very nice work about examples,
Can you implement extjs4-mvc-json-crud-php-mysql to Sencha Project ?
This will be best example for most of the people here.
6 Sep 2012 1:48 AM #13
6 Sep 2012 11:02 AM #14Sencha/Java evangelist
Author of ExtJS 4 First Look and Mastering Ext JS books
English blog: http://loianegroner.com
Portuguese blog: http://loiane.com
Sencha Examples: https://github.com/loiane
6 Sep 2012 11:05 AM #15
Here is the sql script: https://github.com/loiane/extjs-link...ter/sql/scriptSencha/Java evangelist
Author of ExtJS 4 First Look and Mastering Ext JS books
English blog: http://loianegroner.com
Portuguese blog: http://loiane.com
Sencha Examples: https://github.com/loiane
7 Sep 2012 5:59 PM #16
request on livesearch using MVC
Should have tried bit harder.. I got it working. I guess i was missing the Ext.require + something else.. Anyway, posting for benefit of some other newbies.
can you convert this example to MVC
Iam using Extjs4.1.0
I tried, but getting name is undefined. (error at bottom)
0) my html file
<title>Live Search</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../framework/extjs-4.1.0/resources/css/ext-all.css">

1) my top level js file(app_liveSearch.js) is like this:
name: 'AM',
appFolder: 'app',
controllers: [
launch: function() {
Ext.create('Ext.container.Viewport', {
layout: 'fit',
items: {
xtype: 'liveSearchView'
2) under app/controller I have LiveSearchCtrl.js
Ext.define('AM.controller.LiveSearchCtrl', {
extend: 'Ext.app.Controller',
stores: [ 'LiveSearchStore'],
models: ['LiveSearchModel'],
views: [
init: function() {
'viewport > liveSearchView' : {
click: alert('loaded ')
'liveSearchView button' : {
click: this.popitup
popitup: function() {
alert('u clicked button');
3) My model is in model subdir named LiveSearchModel.js
Ext.define('AM.model.LiveSearchModel', {
extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
proxy: {
type: 'jsonp',
url : 'http://www.sencha.com/forum/topics-remote.php',
reader: {
type: 'json',
root: 'topics',
totalProperty: 'totalCount'
fields: [
{name: 'id', mapping: 'post_id'},
{name: 'title', mapping: 'topic_title'},
{name: 'topicId', mapping: 'topic_id'},
{name: 'author', mapping: 'author'},
{name: 'lastPost', mapping: 'post_time', type: 'date', dateFormat: 'timestamp'},
{name: 'excerpt', mapping: 'post_text'}
4) My store is in store subdir as LiveSearchStore.js
Ext.define('AM.store.LiveSearchStore', {
extend: 'Ext.data.Store',
model: 'AM.model.LiveSearchModel',
pageSize: 10
5) My view file is under view/lsearch as LiveSearchView.js
Ext.define('AM.view.lsearch.LiveSearchView' ,{
extend: 'Ext.panel.Panel',
alias : 'widget.liveSearchView',
renderTo: Ext.getBody(),
title: 'Search the Ext Forums',
width: 80,
bodyPadding: 10,
layout: 'anchor',
items: [
xtype: 'combo',
labelField: 'Select Meter',
store: 'LiveSearchStore',
anchor: '50%',
typeAhead: false,
//hideLabel: false,
listConfig: {
loadingText: 'Searching...',
emptyText: 'No matching posts found.',
// Custom rendering template for each item
getInnerTpl: function() {
return '
' +
'
{[Ext.Date.format(values.lastPost, "M j, Y")]}
by {author}{title}
' + '{excerpt}' + '
';
pageSize: 10,
listeners: {
select: function(combo, selection) {
var post = selection[0];
if (post) {
window.location =
Ext.String.format('http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?t={0}&p={1}', post.get('topicId'), post.get('id'));
xtype: 'component',
style: 'margin-top:10px',
html: 'Live search requires a minimum of 4 characters.'
Last edited by madmax797; 7 Sep 2012 at 6:28 PM. Reason: problem resolved
11 Sep 2012 3:19 AM #17
Hi Loiane,
At this moment I have your book in my desktop.
I found it interesting, I am still reading, but it is not very useful for learning with no previous knowledge (I am new to Sencha ExtJS and I am using SenchaArchitect), but that is expected according to you.
I see there is a lot of examples of graphics,etc. Always simple stuff, but when things starts to be more complicated, realistic, etc. You cannot find good documentation and complete examples.
In your book, the most interesting part about Models, Associations and MVC architecture has a few pages. There is no information about authentication using the framework.
I think this would be nice for people that is trying to learn Ext JS 4 with no previous knowledge of Ext JS 3. Even for experienced users is useful.
11 Sep 2012 4:47 AM #18
Thanks iplanit!
I am planing to write some posts about the topic you suggested.Sencha/Java evangelist
Author of ExtJS 4 First Look and Mastering Ext JS books
English blog: http://loianegroner.com
Portuguese blog: http://loiane.com
Sencha Examples: https://github.com/loiane
11 Sep 2012 4:48 AM #19
ExtJS 4 CRUD MVC app with Sencha Architect 2
As requested, following is the link to the code of my ExtJS 4 CRUD MVC sample application using Sencha Architect 2.
Hope it helps you.
Soon I will post a video on my blog also showing how to do it step by step:
https://github.com/loiane/extjs4-crud-mvc-architectSencha/Java evangelist
Author of ExtJS 4 First Look and Mastering Ext JS books
English blog: http://loianegroner.com
Portuguese blog: http://loiane.com
Sencha Examples: https://github.com/loiane
11 Sep 2012 5:34 AM #20
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Once upon a time, perhaps a bygone time, there lived a set of norms which formal authors and speakers fit about their expressions. That was apparently long ago.
Today I read with some delight and more incredulity from Software Language Engineering: Creating Domain Specific Languages (purchased --30% off-- at RSC 2009, Thanks digitalguru!). The work itself seems well thought and adequately researched, but the swamp of contemporary idiomatic muck one need wade through in the first chapter is unnerving. Certainly by the third chapter things have settled down to a professional tone.
Were this the only datum, I would ascribe it to idiosyncrasy, but instead too readily recall a presentation at RSC where the presenter spoke glibly of her education, her feelings, and her latest project experience ... rather than the topic of the session: features and use of a new IBM tool. And the choice of terms was what I may expect of some Hollywood actor who dropped out of high school, not the person who eventually demonstrated proficiency with both the tool and its usage.
These are not idiots, they only created the impression of cluelessness by poor discipline of indirect beginnings. Both are from locales not my own; this is The South, where place more emphasis on the relationship than the product or service, but we seldom try to hide our intelligence behind meaningless banter unless distrustful of our hearers. ... perhaps that it why I felt somewhat offended by greeting by idioms vice ideas. Trust me, share what you think; be direct; "it's okay."
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We know this is true for commutative ring, but if $S\subset R$ is a left and right Ore set, and $S^{-1}R$ its localization by this Ore set, is this always a flat $R$-module?
This is Proposition 2.1.16 in McConnel+Robson's book on Noncommutative Noetherian Rings.
As I mentioned in a prior post here there is a wealth of information on noncommutative localizations in Ranicki, A.(ed). Noncommutative localization in algebra and topology. ICMS 2002. In particular, there you will find an interesting paper on this very topic by Beachy: "On flatness and the Ore condition". Below is general reference information for flatness in the commutative case.
There is a very nice treatment of flatness in Bourbaki's "Commutative Algebra" - which begins with an excellent chapter on flat modules before turning to localizations in Chapter 2 (see Theorem 2.41. p. 68 for the result you seek). Also perhaps of interest is the following motivational remark from the introduction
See also Atiyah and Macdonald, Corollary 3.6 and Proposition 3.10 pp. 40-41.


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Sabatier 6.5 Quart Round Cast Iron Dutch Oven for $43
Shipping: $4.95
This Sabatier 6-1/2 Quart Cast Iron Dutch Oven is perfect for going from oven-to-table. The cast iron heats evenly and spreads it gently while cooking. It is compatible with gas, electric, induction, and ceramic top ranges. Oven safe up to 500 degrees F. The white porcelain enamel interior and green porcelain enamel exterior allow for easy cleanup and offer a cooking surface that doesn't react with food. Hand wash only. Dutch oven holds 6-1/2 quarts.
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Not only am I in for one (you know, for the braising of tough meat) I also picked up a pheasant gravy boat for $12.00! I have always wanted a traditional gravy boat, in the shape of a colorful ring neck pheasant. That bad boy is going to take a place of honor at the dinner table; breakfast, lunch and dinner. AWESOME!
In my life experience, the phrase "Dutch Oven" has a much different and far more unpleasant meaning.


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STEUBENVILLLE - What others have given for freedom was the focus of a speech Sunday by Air Force veteran Wes Hudson during Veterans Day services at the Louis and Sandra Berkman Amphitheater in Historic Fort Steuben Park.
Hudson of Burgettstown was in Air Force security police during his service from 1982 to 2003, retiring as a chief master sergeant.
The ceremony also included the traditional laying of the wreaths by AMVETS Post 275, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 80 and American Legion Posts 33 and 274 to honor veterans and the playing of taps.
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MARKING VETERANS DAY — Linda Lancia played taps Sunday during Veterans Day services at the Louis and Sandra Berkman Amphitheater in Historic Fort Steuben Park. The ceremony included Air Force veteran Wes Hudson as the guest speaker and the traditional laying of wreaths to remember veterans. - Mark Law
"As I like to say, our country was founded by people who left or were forced to leave perfectly good countries," Hudson said. "The driving force behind the earliest immigrants was the desire to be free. Freedom from dictators, freedom from religious persecution, freedom from economic oppression and freedom from slavery, to mention a few."
Hudson said the earliest immigrants risked their lives on a long ocean voyage in which many died.
"Rarely did they have a full and complete knowledge of what they would be required to give for this chance at freedom. But they valued it so highly, that they were ready to face the unknown to achieve their goal, and, in doing so. founded a nation that would coalesce diverse cultures under a unifying banner we know as freedom, and lead a nation which valued freedom above all else," Hudson said.
He said the country's leaders wrote the Declaration of Independence.
"Like all good writing, the declaration has an introduction that explains the reason for the declaration, and also begins to define our American views of freedom," he said, including the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "The declaration then lists the many specifics which the colonies have found to be objectionable. Most of which define the freedoms and rights which were later embodied in the Constitution."
Hudson said after winning their independence, the colonies crafted a Constitution, which he believes embodies three guiding principles that both define and provide the guidance to maintain what the country knows as freedom.
A strong military under civilian control is needed to protect the country and its interests.
A strong and free economy is needed for a country to prosper, and to maintain military strength.
A balanced system of government is needed to both maintain its legitimacy and protect the freedom of its citizens.
Hudson said understanding these principles is what led Abraham Lincoln to prosecute the war between the states.
"Although many people contend the war was fought to free the slaves or the war was a battle of states versus federal rights, the truth was much simpler. Lincoln realized that a fractured union would no longer be able to face future challenges because it would have neither the economic strength, military power or political will to do so. Lincoln endured great political disfavor, personal hardship and ultimately gave his life in support of his principles and freedom," Hudson said.
Hudson said the country is much more aware of recent conflicts from World War II to the war on terror, and the sacrifices made in the name of freedom by the country's brave men and women.
"Millions of Americans sacrificed during World War II, from the soldiers who fought, to the women who worked the factories, to the people that simply did without because of rationing. They realized that the Nazi threat to freedom, as ultimately a threat to all freedom, and acted accordingly," he said.
In Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War, Americans once again sacrificed for the freedom of others, Hudson said.
"And in all conflicts since the Vietnam War, the sacrifices made by our soldiers have been entirely voluntary. And although many of these conflicts have been smaller or casualties lower, the risk was still there. So what do the people in all these examples have in common? They understood the meaning of freedom. They valued freedom, either their own or others, more than their own comfort or safety. They had no idea what they ultimately would be faced with. They did what was asked of them," Hudson said.


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Yankees' Rivera Announces Retirement
TAMPA, Fla.—Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera, considered the greatest closer of all time, officially announced at a news conference Saturday what many had long expected: 2013 will be his final season.
As he took his seat at the dais, he smiled as he saw his longtime teammates and friends, Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte, enter the room in full pinstriped uniform. Then his smile grew as he saw that the two veterans were leading a procession of every Yankee in spring training, young and old, minor leaguers and 20-year vets.
The entire team crammed into the side of the room, as Rivera, he later said, nearly broke down in tears.
"I would love to tell you guys that after this year, I will be retired. I'm retiring from the game that I love, that I have passion for and have enjoyed for so many years," Rivera said.
The Daily Fix
Baseball's all-time saves leader will step aside with his skills intact but his desire waning. Rivera said that the mental grind of preparation, travel, and being away from his family has become too much for him.
"I have given everything and the time is almost ending. The thing that I have, the little gas I have left is everything for this year. After that, I'll empty everything. There's nothing left," Rivera said.
Rivera heads into his final year with statistics that place him above every other reliever—and most pitchers—in baseball history. His career 2.21 ERA is unmatched in modern times, and his strikeout, walk, and home-run rates are as good or better than any pitcher, ever. His 608 career saves are a record, and by advanced metrics, his production looks even better. His regular-season greatness is exceeded by only his remarkable postseason numbers, where his 42 saves, 0.70 ERA, and 0.759 WHIP were essential in carrying the Yankees to five World Series titles.
"He's irreplaceable. He is the greatest of all time," said general manager Brian Cashman, who had to talk then-team owner George Steinbrenner out of trading a young Rivera in the 1990s.
Rivera is coming off a season-ending knee injury, suffered during batting practice in Kansas City May 4. He said Saturday that he would have retired after last season if he had not hurt himself but that he would not let the image of his crumpled body curled up on an outfield warning track be his final scene.
"If I would have finished the season last year, I would have retired last year. Definitely. I didn't want to leave like that," Rivera said.
Instead, Rivera arrived at spring training quietly confident that this would be his final season. He went to each of his longtime teammates one by one, and told them of his plans. They had heard this spiel before, but this time they knew it was real.
"Mo has been saying he's going to retire, seriously, for a good five years. But I knew he was serious," Jeter said.
Jeter and Pettitte were afforded seats near team owner Hal Steinbrenner, while the rest of the team stood behind them. After 20 years in professional baseball alongside Rivera and Jorge Posada as members of the "Core Four" that were the key to so much Yankee success, Pettitte and Jeter both stressed how odd and empty it will be to see the Yankees without Rivera.
"There's no doubt it's going to be sad, because you're not going to see him put the uniform on anymore after this season," Pettitte said. "If you're a New York Yankee fan, he's went out there an awful lot of times and made it look easy. We've been able to have so much success over the past few decades because of him, and what he's been able to do is incredible."
Rivera still has one more year on the mound, and it's likely to be a farewell tour on par with anything baseball has ever seen. There are sure to be presentations and moments in his honor, which Rivera said he would try his best to embrace. Meanwhile, Rivera must prove that he can return from his knee injury without missing a beat and help the injury-ravaged Yankees try to reach the playoffs.
Coincidentally, Saturday marked Rivera's first appearance in a game of any sort since the surgery last year. He took the mound to thunderous applause, induced a pop-up from the first batter, and then struck out the next two men looking, walking off the mound to another standing ovation, the first two of what are sure to be dozens this year.
Rivera said he would try to savor them all. He is walking away on his own terms, as the greatest closer in baseball history, with no regrets.
"I'm not sad, to tell you the truth. I'm just happy that I was able to do this thing again. I don't want no one, fans or no members of my family, to be sad," he said.
"It's not so easy when you come to a decision like this, but I would love to say that it has been a privilege and honor to wear the pinstriped uniform that I have proudly worn for so many years in good times, great times. It has been wonderful," Rivera said.


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I think this app is a part of HTC Sense. When i check weather, i get usual report:
But if i swipe down, i get "current" report:
From pictures you can see that reports differ by 2 degrees Celcius, however i once had not only difference in degrees but in day and night i.e usual report showed day while "current" report showed night (or vice versa..? can't recall).
Why there is a difference between both?


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The Alumni Association of Rutgers School of Law–Newark will celebrate the achievements of the Hon. Louis J. Freeh, Justin P. Walder, Joseph A. Hayden, Jr., and Sara Manzano-Diaz at its Annual Alumni Recognition Dinner, to be held on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at Nanina's in the Park, Belleville. Freeh, Walder and Hayden will receive a Distinguished Alumni Award and Manzano-Diaz will be honored with the Fannie Bear Besser Award for Public Service.
Freeh, a former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and former Director of the FBI, is founder and senior managing partner of Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP. Walder and Hayden are members of the firm at Walder, Hayden & Brogan, P.A. Both Walder and Hayden have received numerous awards for professional excellence and have been recognized in New Jersey Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America. Manzano-Diaz, who has spent her career in public service advocating on behalf of working class families, women and girls, is Director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor.
|2011 Rutgers School of Law–Newark Alumni Association Annual Recognition Dinner
|Distinguished Alumni Award recipients Hon. Louis J. Freeh '74, Justin P. Walder '61, and Joseph A. Hayden, Jr. '69, and Fannie Bear Besser Award for Public Service recipient Sara Manzano-Diaz '84
|6 pm, Thursday, October 20, 2011
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WACO (December 4, 2012)--The Waco Mammoth Site will open its newest exhibit Wednesday featuring a Columbian mammoth wrist bone and lower back molar from a Camelops.
The bones were discovered on city property at the site.
"Site officials have yet to determine whether the wrist bone is from a previously identified mammoth. However, the tooth represents a newly discovered animal," a city spokesperson said.
The exhibit is open during regular business hours from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday.
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I need to do frame-by-frame analysis of videos. I can import the video files I need, but each file is too large to import at once. I can use the
Import[fn, "Frames",{n}] command to import images one-by-one, but this takes a long time once
n gets large. For example, the first frame it takes 0.14 sec, but the 200th frame takes 2.2 sec. Mathematica seems to be reading from the start of the file each time I do this. Obviously, this will not work.
Is there some way to speed this up. E.g. using streams? Or tricking Mathematica to use
ImageCapture to get images from a video file instead of a webcam?
I need to do frame-by-frame analysis of videos. I can import the video files I need, but each file is too large to import at once. I can use the
This is my second answer. After playing with Mathematica's video import I have noticed that it makes import mistakes (duplicated frames + artifacts) and thus developed
The speed of this package is as follows on moderate computer:
I am switching to
Mimicking Mathematica's
gives first frame (slow way).
gives first 1000 frames (fast)
To test status of
More information about
The performance can be improved by loading more than 100 frames at a time. To test this we can run:
One can see that in Mathematica there is a penalty for loading only few frames. We can improve the performance by preloading the video and storing it in a buffer. For instance:
The method uses a lot of memory, therefore, for large videos you will need to load parts of the video. I also typically cut the region of interest before putting it o the buffer.
If you only want to read it linearly you can tell ffmpeg to dump the video to stdout and then read width*height*bytes-per-pixel bytes at a time to get the video frame-by-frame:
Here's an example:
For some reason Mathematica seems to read through the entire video when doing
For a 720x404 h264 mp4 video on a modest laptop it takes 13s to skip 200 frames and 0.07s to read a frame. The skipping could possibly be sped up by starting a new ffmpeg process that begins at desired frame. I would compare speeds to
If using Windows you can try my MathMF package (see here) which loads video frames sequentially using the Media Foundation platform via LibraryLink.
The speed is pretty good. Exact timings will vary according to CPU speed and the performance of the decoder, but as an example my PC here can read a 1280x720 WMV file at 25 frames per second and a 760x554 AVI file at 73 frames per second.


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Yes this is a solution only if you take outdoor pano not when you need a tripod
I use a Manfrotto 055XPROB (http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000...ef=oss_product)
What tripod is better (in your mind)
experiment on your own. This means, take shots around at 0°. Stitch. And have a look. Using PTGui I use "create Panorama" set to .mov file. You will be able to have a look with Quick time Player 7. I like this for quick view to the pano.
This will give you an impression about the "holes" in zenith and nadir.
Take a set of all + and - settings of the combo, mingle around with stitching, and try to find out what set fills the zenith or the nadir at its best. + settings might fill the zenith. D3 with shaved 10.5 at 0° does not need a zenith shot for example.
Then fill the nadir by either handheld shot, viewpoint correction shot or use a horizontal arm. Think you using R1.
Dare to experiment on your own. You won't be send to prison if something goes wrong
Important is that you try to understand the basics. If you do not know to give right commands to a horse and you think this is a bad horse I and you should buy a new one to be excellent, you will stay with your own faults and pay a lot of money for nothing.
First get the footprint of the manfrotto, try to cover with nadir shots. This tripod worked fine for me for a long time. Just test around, and when you have problems, ask us and send pics.


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Before joining KTXS in 1992, McCormick served as news director and news anchor at KREX-TV in Grand Junction, Colorado. In the early '90s he worked as news director and news anchor at a TV station in Sterling, Colorado. From 1984 - 1988, he was general manager of KSMT-FM in Breckenridge, Colorado.
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Jeff commented in my question about superuser being a dumping ground, that wordpress quesitons don't belong on super user
"I disagree; that question is not really computer related. It's wordpress website support related."
Just now a "is there a blogging engine that handles code highlighting well" question that got migrated to superuser.com from serverfault.com.
So does the ping pong now commence?
Where should these questions live SU or SF?
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5 Iconic Characters That Were Only Supposed to Be Bit Parts
Every so often, television brings us such an iconic character that we have to marvel at the genius of the writing staff. But these characters don't always spring fully formed from the minds of producers as they high-five each other. Occasionally it's just a happy accident, as is dramatically proven by the fact that ...
#5. Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files Was Just an Extra
The X-Files was one of those shows where side characters came and went whenever a good plot twist was needed. But fans knew that there would always be one reliable constant -- Cigarette Smoking Man, the primary villain and a character who in the course of the series was killed off and resurrected more times than a comic book superhero.
He'd always come back because cigarettes contain the spark of life.
The show was always vague about who he was -- his name may have been Spender, he may have been Mulder's father, and he may have killed JFK, but all we know for sure is that he was one evil dude. You can tell from the cigarette.
Why We Almost Didn't Get Him:
It's true that he was there from the beginning -- the Smoking Man appeared in the first scene of the pilot episode -- but he didn't appear again until the last scene of the Season 1 finale. In neither scene does he have a speaking role. That's some ominous-as-shit foreshadowing!
That's why we've shivered at every job interview since '93.
Except that it wasn't. The Smoking Man was an extra, known in the script only as, you know, "the Smoking Man." His entire purpose was just to stand around in the background whenever the writers wanted to remind the audience that Mulder and Scully were being watched by somebody. If you don't know what we mean, go look at the IMDb page of the actor, William B. Davis. Before his 1993 casting in The X-Files, he was playing roles that didn't even get actual names -- he played "Judge" in an episode of MacGuyver, "Doctor" in one episode of Nightmare Cafe, and "Lawyer" in the TV movie Omen IV: The Awakening. And who could forget his work as "Inspector #2" in that one episode of Wiseguy?
So why would the producers of The X-Files declare this random background actor to be the central villain of the show's overarching storyline involving alien beings, government coverups, and unresolved subplots? They even did an entire episode joking that Cigarette Smoking Man was behind pretty much every terrible world event of the last 40 years. The answer is that the writers never intended for that to happen at all.
Another conspiracy sadly debunked.
As we've pointed out in the past, the central plot of the show was more or less made up as it went along. It was only when Gillian Anderson got pregnant and took a partial hiatus from the second season that the writers needed to introduce new characters to make up for her absence. Davis was given a speaking role for the first time, and that's when the creators of the show suddenly realized, holy shit, he can actually act. They had stumbled across an iconic Hollywood villain by getting lucky with their extras casting.
Likewise ...
#4. Ben Linus from Lost Was Only Signed for Three Episodes
It could be argued that Ben Linus was the single reason Lost fans didn't just throw up their hands and say "Fuck this show!" in Season 2. The enigmatic Linus was the closest thing Lost had to a main villain (we still can't agree on what the "Man in Black" was, and we're pretty sure Damon Lindelof can't, either), and his creepy-ass work in the role got him nominated for an Emmy pretty much every single year he played the character (nominated four times, winning once). In a show that up to then had been a series of seemingly pointless twists and turns, fans finally had an antagonist to root against.
One time, he murdered a benevolent god. That was his most sympathetic scene.
Why We Almost Didn't Get Him:
The character was introduced to the show in typical Lost fashion, mysteriously appearing on the island out of nowhere halfway through Season 2, telling a highly implausible story about how he had crashed while on a round-the-world hot air balloon trip. By the end of his three-episode story arc, everything he said was revealed to be a lie, and he ended the season having taken three of the main characters hostage. Come Season 3, he's the scheming villain the audience is tuning in to see.
Will he kill your favorite character? Will he kill your favorite bunny? Stay tuned to find out!
But those few episodes in Season 2 were supposed to be it -- that's all the actor was signed up for. Like The X-Files, the twists in Lost were pretty much invented as the writers went along, and at that stage the producers just wanted a creepy-looking guy to show up on the island and set up the cliffhanger for next year. They kept him around because they liked how Michael Emerson played Ben, and Emerson originally agreed to do it because, well, we'll just quote the DVD commentary:
Lost Writer Carlton Cuse: "I remember we got on the phone with Michael, and it was funny, because it was ... a sort of slushy day in New York. And he was walking along the street, and we were, like, 'Want to go to Hawaii for a couple of episodes?'"
Michael Emerson: "Yes."
Carlton Cuse: "There wasn't even a pause. There wasn't even a hesitation. It was like, 'Absolutely.'"
Michael Emerson: "Yeah, it was snowing in New York."
Damon Lindelof: "It was the easy sell."
They showed him a still from the pilot. He says he didn't notice any plane wreckage.
So there you go: Ben Linus would never have become a Big Bad on the show if he'd been played by somebody who didn't bring the "creepy genius" vibe like Emerson, and Emerson may not have done it if it had been a nicer day in New York.
And as with Cigarette Smoking Man, he took a pretty one-dimensional stock villain and elevated him with a creepy "What is this fucker going to do next?" energy that viewers couldn't stop watching. Without them, both shows probably couldn't have stumbled ahead for so long after they jumped the shark.
#3. Elmo from Sesame Street Was a Random Discarded Puppet
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If we ask you to name some characters from Sesame Street, you're likely to say Big Bird, Kermit, and Elmo. And of the three, Elmo is both the newest character and the most popular. Since exploding onto the scene, he has testified before Congress, and his Tickle Me Elmo doll was so popular that adults paid thousands and gave each other concussions to get their hands on it. In 1998, the show's producers finally surrendered to him and cut 15 minutes from each episode to give Elmo his own closing segment. They kept making the segment for more than a decade, until they decided to phase it out ... in favor of an Elmo musical.
Sesame Workshop
Chicks dig a pimpin' singing voice.
People can't get fucking enough of Elmo, is what we're saying.
Why We Almost Didn't Get Him:
Elmo didn't start out as a character at all. He was one of dozens of random, nameless "monster" Muppets that Sesame Street kept lying around in case they needed a crowd scene. Here he is in an early appearance, with the voice he had before he gave up his three-pack-a-day smoking habit.
He wasn't enough of a character back then to even have a name or a fixed voice, but he was colloquially referred to as "Baby Monster." Later he appeared with the voice of an aging female casting agent in a sketch that we're sure is hilarious to 5-year-olds.
Even a career stuck in the background would have been fine compared to what the next puppeteer, Richard Hunt, wanted for him. Hunt put his own spin on the character -- this time, a gruff caveman voice -- but he hated Elmo. He'd drag the Muppet around like a mop, and he'd literally shout, "I hate this damn puppet! I'm suffering with it."
Then, one day, he physically threw the puppet into the lap of a random junior performer -- Kevin Clash, who voiced such memorable characters as, uh, Dr. Nobel Price and Ferlinghetti Donizetti. But when Clash stuck his hand into Elmo, it was like Frodo putting on the One Ring. Avoiding the various deep, throaty growls that people had been trying to force on Elmo, Clash tried an ear-shattering falsetto and immediately struck gold.
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He uses the same voice when he's angry at traffic.
Unfortunately, in 2012, Clash wound up the subject of a Michael Jackson-esque series of child sex allegations that, while thrown out of court, led to Clash's resignation from the show. In seeking to replace the puppeteer, Sesame Street wisely found someone who could replicate the voice instead of taking the opportunity to reinvent Elmo as a rapping pirate or something.


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What's the Best Exercise for Your Age?
If your typical workout routine never changes, you're missing out. Here's what you should be doing at the gym, based on your goals and your age
Your fitness fix: Get in a routine.
Most recent college graduates are more worried about finding a job and living on their own than they are about their metabolism. But the experts we talked to stressed how important it is to start now. "You want to redefine your quality of life," says Pagano. "Exercise and nutrition should become part of the structure of every day." If you don't have the money or desire to join a gym, there are plenty of other ways to get fit. Pagano suggests going back to physical activities you enjoyed in high school and college -- like organized sports.
Because you're young, you can pack a lot of calorie burn into a short period of time and it will keep your metabolism up for the rest of the day. If you want to drop weight, Trink suggests high-intensity metabolic circuits where you move from station to station doing exercises that combine strength and cardio.
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Resistance bands & mini weights here I come! I need to maintain, not minimize, &/or maximize. Great ideas.
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I'm in my 20's and I think it's really important to vary your routine and only do things that you enjoy, then you're more likely to stick with it. Also changing up your routine confuses your body and you are less likely to get used to doing the same exercise over and over, then you hit a plateau and have to change your routine. Some days I do Zumba, walk my dog, cardio kick-boxing or a more intense strength training workout. Even if I'm super lazy I'll still fit in a short walk or yoga, once you get going you almost always want to continue. It's good to have a workout buddy, if you know someone is depending on you to show up, you're more likely to follow through. Also check your local parks and recreation. Often they have free classes. Mine offers free yoga and Zumba. They also have great hiking trails which are free, so no need to pay for a gym membership.
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Eh. I'll be 30 in a month (not working like crazy and DEFINITELY not planning to get pregnant) and the only tip I found helpful was the reminder to work on my posture.
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Making new heads (modeling)
Original Thread
Okay, here we go. First ever tutorial. Mods feel free to move it to the tutorial section if they like.
BTW : This does not contain typos. It contains 'English spelling.':xp:
Tutorial Modeling a new head
What youll need :
- KOTOR tool (see here http://www.starwarsknights.com/tools.php)
- GMax with NWmax plugin. (gmax : http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax, NWmax : http://nwmax.dladventures.com/)
- Photoshop or Gimp (You'll have to buy PS, but gimp is here : http://www.gimp.org/)
- Mdlops (here again : http://www.starwarsknights.com/tools.php)
- Tainas replacer tool
Edit: Now you can download Taina's Replacer from here.
- Kgff editor (This page again : http://www.starwarsknights.com/tools.php)
- Notepad & pen are handy
Part 1 Getting ready/extracting everything you need
Note that I here describe the long way of doing it to help all first timers. Once you do this a few times, you probably wont need to go through every stage.
First of all, just create a new folder on your desktop and call it new head, or something similar that youll remember. Inside this folder, create another one, and call it output.
Now, hopefully youll have a vague idea of what you want your head to look like, or even better a design. Since its kinda impossible to model a head from scratch, youll have to rack your brains and try to think of a character in KOTOR2 which looks sort of similar. For this example, I will take the ever popular Bastila.
All heads are divided into three parts ; the mdl, the mdx, and the tga. Thats two model files and one texture. To find these, first open KOTOR tool, and go to : KotorII > BIFs > templates > Blueprint, character. Here you will see a long list of all the various characters in the game. Look through the entire list until you find the character whos head you wish to manipulate. In this case, its near the bottom of the list and named p_bastila.
(Another way of doing this bit is to extract the character template from the individual module. Go to : KOTOR II > RIMs > Modules > whichever module > Blueprint, characters. This method may be better if you wish to convert the head of a more minor chapter. Replace whichever module with wherever the person can be found. PER=pergaus/TEL=Telos and so on. )
Click on the template file, click extract file, and save it to the folder on your desktop.
Open kgff editor, and open the file you just extracted. At the very top, it should have a row named Appearance_Type, followed by a number. Make a note of the number, in this case 4. Close Kgff.
In KOTOR tool, go to : Kotor II > BIFs > 2da.bif > 2D array. Find the file appearence.2da, and double click. To the far left, you will see that each row is numbered. Find the row number you just made a note of, 4. Move along the row until you come to a column named normal head, and make a note of the number there. In Bastilas case, 1. Close the file.
In KOTOR tool again, go to Kotor II > BIFs > 2da.bif > 2D array. This time find heads.2da & double click. Find the row you just made a note of, 1. Under the head column, find whats written, in this case P_BastillaH. This is the name of all the files you want. Make a note of it.
In KOTOR tool, go : KotorII > BIFs > models.bif > Aurora model. Scroll through this exceptionally long list until you find P_BastillaH. Extract/save it to the folder on your desktop.
In KOTOR tool, go : KotorII > BIFs > models.bif > Aurora model extension. Find P_BastilaH again, but with the mdx on the end. Save to desktop folder.
Finally, go : KotorII > ERFs > TexturePacks > swpc_tex_tpa.erf > P. Find P_BastilaH and save to desktop folder. It may have a number, such as 04, but save it anyway.
Thats everything you need. Onto part 2.
Part 2 Editing the head.
Open up Mdlops. Make sure Kotor2 is highlighted, as opposed to Kotor1, click select file, then open the head file ending with a mdl extension. Make sure extract animations is ticked. Make sure convert skin to trimesh isnt. Click read and write model.
Watch the big black window until it says Finished processing model. You have just created a new file ending in ascii. Close Mdlops.
Now open up Gmax using the green NWmax icon. This wont work if you just open it normally.
It should look something like this.
Click MDL loading in the left toolbar (red circle), and a little sub section should drop down. Click Browse (green circle), select the model file from your folder with the acsii extension. Just below, make sure import Geom+anims is selected. Click the big import button. As the file imports, you might get a few errors. This is normal, just keep clicking OK.
It should look something like this. In order to modify the head, select the modify tab in the right toolbar (red circle). Click on the select and move tool (green circle). Click somewhere on the actual head in any window. The right toolbar should change a bit.
Click editable mesh (light blue circle). Now click Vertex (orange circle). Little blue dots should appear all over the place. Moving these blue dots (vertices) around are what creates a different shaped head. Important! : To move them, dont just click and drag. Click and drag your mouse over it (or a few of them), they should turn red, then use the X, Y and Z axis that appear to shift them.
- The heads are actually divided into several sections. If you want to move a part of the head, but cant see a blue dot by which to do it, unclick vertex in the right toolbar, click on another section of the head, then click vertex again.
- In the far bottom right are a set of eight useful buttons. The little hand, pan, will allow you to move the four views around. The magnifying glass is zoom, as is your mouse wheel if you have one. Arc rotate, looking a bit like a pie chart, will allow you to rotate the 3D view to get a better look.
- NEVER, EVER delete a little blue dot. The model will fail.
- Try not to overlap any of the lines connecting the blue dots. The model may still work, but things may go a little weird.
- You can save this project with Gmax anytime and come back to it, Just make sure you dont move the desktop folder.
Part 3 - Compiling the head for use in game.
When you have the head in the shape you want, use the select and move icon/cursor to click on the blue box under the model. This is a little complicated to explain, but you must click the side of the box, and an actual line, not between (red circle). When you get it right, the right toolbar should change to how it looks above (blue circle).
Click browse, and select the Output folder inside your desktop folder. Now, click Export model+anim. If sanity check fails, just click yes and ignore it. Now this is the complicated bit :
1 Go into the output folder and change P_BastilaH to P_BastilaH-ascii_new. If its a different file name, add ascii_new to the end.
2 Highlight the original mdl and mdx files in your desktop folder, P_BastilaH.mdl & P_BastilaH.mdx. Copy and paste them into the output folder. Also copy and paste over the file with the ascii extension.
3 Open Tainas replacer tool. Click open ASCII Models.
4 First, find and open P_BastilaH-ascii. In the second box, click and open P_BastilaH-ascii_new. The first time you do this, you might get an error. Just try it again. Should work the second time.
5 There should be two columns full of boxes now, the left one full of ticks. Untick all of these apart from the ones that apply to the part of the head you altered. Leave all of them ticke dif you want. If you can find a general head one, I find this is often all that needs to be selected. In this case, head_g.
6 Click start replacing. Select the original mdl file, ie P_BastilaH.mdl, from output. On the next box, save as p_bastilah_new. Name it exactly like that, dont use anything other than '_new'.
7 Click start replacing again. From the bottom drop down box, change Files of type to mdx. Open p_bastilah.mdx. In the next box, save as p_bastilah_new.mdx. Save exactly like this, including manually typing in the mdx extension.
8 Close the replacer tool. Go into your output folder. Find p_bastilah_new.mdl and p_bastilah_new.mdx. THESE ARE YOUR NEW HEAD! Put them somewhere safe and rename them something else if you fancy. Feel free now to delete everything else apart from P_BastilaH04.tga.
Part 4 Texturing the head aka 'colouring in'.
Essentially what you've created so far is the physical head without the skin. The game will register it in a certain way, but it won't visually show up.
Open P_BastilaH04.tga in Photoshop or Gimp. You can probably see already sort of how this works. The flat picture folds around the frame of the model you just made, creating the skin. It should be obvious where the hair and skin is. Obviously, this part of the tutorial will vary on what exactly how you want the character to look, so I will instead go through some quick handy tips and commonly used functions. Since I use it, I will describe these in relation to photoshop.
4a Recolouring hair. In photoshop, go to the left hand toolbar. The 'colour replacement tool' shares the same icon space as the brush and pencil tool. Once you select the tool, use the colour box lower down to select a shade of yellow. Click and drag the cursor over the hair and it should change to a shade of blonde. If you want to change the skin tone, same principal applies, just move the cursor over the skin area instead.
4b In the right hand toolbar, there is what looks like a rubber stamp icon. This is the clone stamp. It can copy parts of an image onto another.
Another way to get, say, blonde hair would be to use it. Find an image of blonde hair online that you want to copy. Open it in photoshop. On the Internet image, hold the ALT button and click on the part of the image you want to copy. Let go of ALT.
On your skin image, normal click and drag over the area you want to replace.
For a much more thorough tutorial on photoshop functions, I highly recommend this thread : http://www.lucasforums.com/showthrea...47#post2515747
When you are done, place it with your mdl and mdx files from before and make sure they are all named the same, whatever you want to call them.
Part5 Placing your head into the game.
If you want to use this as a new PC and for your own amusement, the easiest way to do this is to override on of the existing ones. In Kotor tool, go to Kotor II > BIFs > 2da.bif > heads.2da. The rows named PFH are the female player characters and the PMH the males. Name your three files the same as one of these, say PFHC01, then place them all in your game override directory. When starting a new game, your new head should come up as one of the options.
For a more thorough description of creating a new PC head, I highly recommend this tutorial : http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=149992
Think that's it. Any questions, feel free to PM me.
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- Guidance on Innovative and Voluntary Air Pollution Control Strategies
- Transportation-Related Documents
- Stationary Source-Related Documents
Topic-specific guidance documents that outline EPA policies for crediting programs (e.g., commuter programs, heavy duty retrofit, and fuels) that can help reduce transportation-related air pollution and emissions.
- Accelerated Retirement of Vehicles
- Airports
- Commuter Programs
- Idling
- Intelligent Transportation Systems Management
- Land Use
- Retrofits
- Transportation Control Measures
- Transportation Pricing
- Guidance on Fulfilling Clean Air Act Section 182(d)(1)(A) Requirements
Accelerated Retirement of Vehicles
- Guidance for the Implementation of Accelerated Retirement of Vehicles Programs (PDF) (29 pp, 69K, EPA420-R-93-018, February 1993)
Guidance that illustrates a methodology for calculating benefits and an administrative framework targeting vehicles that have been identified as high emitters.
- Guidance on Airport Emissions and Emission Reductions
These documents and links provide guidance for establishing strategies to reduce airport emissions, including emissions from airport ground support equipment (GSE) and ground access vehicles. These documents were developed for regional, state, and local agencies, airports, airlines, and other organizations that want to reduce airport pollution.
- Guidance on Airport Emission Reductions Credits for Early Measures through Voluntary Airport Low Emission Programs (PDF) (45 pp, 312K)
Joint guidance issued by EPA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) outlining the process for crediting voluntary airport emission reductions in a State Implementation Plan (SIP).
- Emissions and Dispersion Modeling System (EDMS)
An FAA air quality assessment tool designed to assess the air quality impacts of airport emission sources, including aircraft, GSE, ground access vehicles, and other sources.
- Technical Support for the Development of Airport Ground Support Equipment Reductions (PDF) (144 pp, 734K, EPA420-R-99-007, May 1999)
A study that discusses program design and the potential for achieving emission reductions from GSE.
- Airport GSE Model (XLS, 492K)
A spreadsheet tool that provides users with a quick analysis of the emission benefits and cost-effectiveness of controlling GSE emissions.
- Airport GSE Model Directions (PDF) (17 pp, 107K)
Directions for operating the Airport GSE Model.
- Guidance on Airport Emission Reductions Credits for Early Measures through Voluntary Airport Low Emission Programs (PDF) (45 pp, 312K)
Commuter Programs
- Guidance on Emissions and Emission Reductions from Commuter Programs
The document below provides guidance for crediting emission reductions from commuter programs when the program successfully reduces pollution from vehicle sources.
- Commuter Programs: Quantifying and Using Their Emission Benefits in SIPs and Conformity (PDF) (13 pp, 498K, EPA-420-B-14-004, February 2014) (supersedes EPA-420-B-07-015, October 2007)
Guidance describing how to credit commuter benefit programs in a SIP or transportation conformity determination.
- Commuter Programs: Quantifying and Using Their Emission Benefits in SIPs and Conformity (PDF) (13 pp, 498K, EPA-420-B-14-004, February 2014) (supersedes EPA-420-B-07-015, October 2007)
- Locomotive Idling Guidance (PDF) (24 pp, 312K, EPA-420-B-09-037, October 2009)
Guidance for quantifying and using long duration switch yard locomotive idling emission control programs in State Implementation Plans and conformity. Update of June 2013: The default locomotive emission factors included in this guidance have since been updated; consult www.epa.gov/otaq/locomotives.htm for the most recent emission factors. In addition, Appendix I to EPA's Transportation Conformity Guidance for Quantitative Hot-spot Analyses in PM2.5; and PM10 Nonattainment and Maintenance Areas describes how to estimate locomotive emissions at the project level and may be a useful resource when quantifying locomotive emission reductions.
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- Assessing the Emissions and Fuel Consumption Impacts of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) (PDF) (70 pp, 506K, EPA 231-R-98-007, December 1998)
This study describes the types of modeling approaches needed to capture the short- and long-term transportation, emissions, and fuel consumption impacts of ITS deployment.
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This report summarizes efforts by states to take SIP credit for land use strategies and areas where additional policies are needed to support effective land use SIP policies.
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This EPA-sponsored report addresses the relationship between land use, mobility, and vehicle miles traveled; provides an assessment of various travel demand and land use modeling tools.
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Guidance to assist air quality and transportation planners in accounting for the air quality impacts of voluntary land use policies and projects.
- Guidance for Mobile Emission Credit Generation by Urban Buses
Guidance documents that outline federal policies supporting urban bus retrofit/clean fuel use in large metropolitan areas.
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Transportation Control Measures
- Applying TEAM in Regional Sketch Planning: Three Case Studies in Atlanta, Orlando, St. Louis (PDF) (81 pp, 888 KB, EPA-420-R-16-009, July 2016)
This report documents 3 case studies of the application of TEAM (Travel Efficiency Assessment Method) to estimate the travel activity and emissions impacts of potential travel efficiency scenarios. EPA partnered with Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Atlanta, Orlando and St. Louis to apply the TEAM approach. TEAM uses a transportation sketch model, regionally derived travel activity data and EPA's MOVES emissions model to estimate potential emission reductions from combinations of travel efficiency strategies. The case studies provide a useful planning resource for modeling and estimating greenhouse gas and criteria air pollutant emission reductions resulting from travel efficiency strategies.
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- Estimating Emission Reductions from Travel Efficiency Strategies: Three Sketch Modeling Case Studies (PDF) (76 pp, 2.5M, EPA-420-R-14-003a, June 2014)
This report documents 3 case studies of the application of TEAM (Travel Efficiency Assessment Method) to assess the potential regional emission reductions from travel efficiency strategies. TEAM is an analytical approach that uses local travel activity information, sketch-planning travel activity analysis, and MOVES emissions modeling to estimate potential emission reductions from combinations of travel efficiency strategies. The case studies offered an opportunity for EPA to provide technical support to 3 areas interested in exploring tools to assess travel efficiency strategies, to demonstrate the capabilities of the TEAM approach, and to evaluate its usefulness at the regional scale. The resulting report documents the process, modeling and analyses performed in partnership with regional planners from Boston, Kansas City and Tucson.
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- Analyzing Emission Reductions From Travel Efficiency Strategies: A Guide to The TEAM Approach (PDF) (46 pp, 2M, EPA-420-R-11-025, December2011)
This document provides information and guidance for using the Travel Efficiency Assessment Method (TEAM) approach for assessing the potential of travel efficiency strategies for reducing criteria and greenhouse gas emissions. The guide supports a preliminary evaluation of emission reductions for several travel efficiency strategies and combinations of strategies. TEAM uses regionally derived travel model data and other travel activity information, sketch-planning analysis and EPA's Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator (MOVES) to estimate emission reductions.
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- Potential Changes in Emissions Due To Improvements In Travel Efficiency (PDF) (84 pp, 2.5M, EPA-420-R-11-003, March 2011)
This report provides information on the effectiveness of travel efficiency measures for reducing criteria and greenhouse gas emissions at the national scale. The report describes an approach that uses regionally derived travel model data and other travel activity information, and sketch-planning analysis to estimate potential emission reductions from urban areas of varying size and characteristics. The results are applied to other urban areas in the U.S. of similar characteristic to estimate national emission reductions.
- Potential Changes in Emissions Due To Improvements in Travel Efficiency - Supplemental Report: Analysis of Potential Co-Benefits (PDF) (21pp, 1.7M, EPA-420-R-11-014 November 2011)
In this supplemental report, several co-benefits resulting from the implementation of the travel efficiency strategies or combinations of strategies (referred to as scenarios) analyzed in the March 2011 primary report are evaluated. The co-benefits from implementation of these scenarios include a reduction in health impacts associated with air pollution, reduced traffic congestion, reduced user operating costs, improved energy security, and reduction in traffic accidents.
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- Potential Changes in Emissions Due To Improvements in Travel Efficiency - Supplemental Report: Analysis of Potential Co-Benefits (PDF) (21pp, 1.7M, EPA-420-R-11-014 November 2011)
- Transportation Control Measures: An Information Document for Developing and Implementing Emission Reduction Programs (PDF) (42 pp, 6.6M, EPA-430-R-09-040, March 2011)
This document provides information on transportation control measures that have been implemented across the country for a variety of purposes, including reducing criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases. The document describes the processes used to develop and implement the strategies and, where available, their effectiveness.
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- Benefits Estimates for Selected Transportation Control Measure (TCM) Programs (PDF) (95 pp, 677K, EPA420-R-98-002, March 1999)
This report quantifies TCMs that have been implemented, and outlines the methodologies used for estimating their emission and travel activity effects.
- Methodologies for Estimating Emission and Travel Activity Effects of TCMs (EPA420-R-94-002, July 1994)
This is an overview of several different methodologies available for assessing the potential emission reductions associated with transportation control measures.
- Transportation Control Measure: State Implementation Plan Guidance (PDF) (243 pp, 11.2M, EPA 450/2-89-020, September 1998)
This document lists approval criteria that needs to be met so that a transportation control measure (TCM) may be incorporated into a SIP. The guidance also directs states to use additional TCM-specific guidance where available.
- Index of Transportation Measure Quantification Efforts: Methodology Matrix (PDF) (156 pp, 1M, September 1998)
This is a list of summaries of a broad range of studies that have been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of transportation control measures.
- Transportation Control Measure Information Documents (EPA400-R-92-006, March 1992)
This report describes variations in implementation, examples, expected transportation and emission impacts, and other important considerations for the 16 broad categories of TCMs as required and described under Section 108(f) of the Clean Air Act. (All of the following are PDF files)
- Executive Summary (34 pp, 2.1M)
- Transportation/Air Quality Background Information (43 pp, 2.8M)
- Accelerated Retirement of Vehicles (17 pp, 1M)
- Activity Centers (44 pp, 2.8M)
- Area-Wide Rideshare Incentives (29 pp, 2.2M)
- Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs (22 pp, 1.7M)
- Employer-Based Transportation Management Programs (27 pp, 2.1M)
- Extended Vehicle Idling (9 pp, 471K)
- Extreme Low-Temperature Cold Starts (9 pp, 538K)
- High Occupancy Vehicle Lanes (21 pp, 1.3M)
- Improved Public Transit (35 pp, 2.4M)
- Park-and-Ride/Fringe Parking (22 pp, 1.6M)
- Parking Management (22 pp, 1.6M)
- Special Events (28 pp, 1.9M)
- Traffic Flow Improvements (23 pp, 1.6M)
- Trip Reduction Ordinances (48 pp, 3.6M)
- Vehicle Use Limitations/Restrictions (27 pp, 1.9M)
- Work Schedule Changes (23 pp, 1.7M)
Transportation Pricing
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In the 1st few seasons in the Premier division I was going into games against maybe 12th place or lower thinking I had a chance of winning and every other game I thought I had no hope. Now, bar a few teams, I feel I have a decent chance of beating anyone.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Our nation's highest ranking military officer focused on America's relationship with men and woman in uniform during a visit to the Flint Hills Monday.
General Martin Dempsey, the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered the 161st prestigious Landon Lecture at Kansas State University, speaking to students, faculty and some 750 1st Infantry Division soldiers from Fort Riley at McCain Auditorium. Dempsey serves as the principal military adviser to the President, the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Council.
Dempsey says our country's relationship with veterans and service members is "good but could be better; could be deeper" and he went on to talk about the adaptability, resilience and sense of purpose that soldiers have gained as they've served in the longest conflict in our nation's history, some completing multiple deployments.
He told the crowd he wants to "turn the volume up" on the conversation about war veterans and how they're viewed and treated in society. With the Army downsizing and the war in Afghanistan, Dempsey says more veterans are going to be entering the civilian world and "coming back into the "uncertainty of a difficult economic situation; a difficult economic environment and the uncertainty of employment."
"Each in their own way has served heroically but they're not all heroes. Many have experienced real horrors of war but they're not all victims. All have served America and want to continue to serve Her as they transition into your civilian communities.. It's in our shared interest, you and I, in and out of uniform, that we allow this generation of veterans to contribute, to bring the strengths that they bring… To the extent that we should agree that we all want a stronger America, then we ought to find a way to make sure that these veterans are part of it and we ought to work together with them, not for them, with them," he said.
General Dempsey also made his way to Fort Riley Monday afternoon and held a town hall meeting with soldiers and their families to discuss a variety of issues.