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Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Paramount // 1981 // 115 Minutes // Rated PG
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
Paramount // 1984 // 118 Minutes // Rated PG
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Paramount // 1989 // 127 Minutes // Rated PG-13
Reviewed by Chief Counsel Rob Lineberger (Retired) // November 11th, 2003
The creators of Jaws and Star Wars now bring you the ultimate hero in the ultimate adventure.
My face is hidden behind my hands. I peek between my fingers at the shelf...there it is, the rusty-red, leather like box. There they are...the whip, the fedora, Harrison Ford's cocky grin, and the glorious yellow-orange words "Indiana Jones." I hide my eyes and peek again. It is still there. "This is really happening," I tell myself, "Indiana Jones is here on DVD!"
These three films detail the adventures of Dr. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), professor of archaeology and procurer of rare antiquities. We are first introduced to Indiana Jones in the field; instead of dusting off old bones and sifting through dirt, Indy is fending off attackers with a bullwhip and a glare. Not your average professor.
Soon he is asked to retrieve the lost Ark of the Covenant -- before the Nazis do. To accomplish this delicate task, Indiana must confront scads of Nazi soldiers, a pit full of snakes, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), and other treacherous obstacles. But the most dangerous thing in Indiana's way is the Ark itself.
The second film is a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. In The Temple of Doom, Indy strikes out against an evil Indian cult. Never fear...Indy is a seasoned professional with effective people to assist him. In this case, his allies are a four-foot high twelve-year-old named Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan) and prissy nightclub singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw). Together, these three intrepid warriors fend off the powers of voodoo, throngs of possessed Indians, and an ancient S and M deity.
Finally, Indiana takes part in The Last Crusade for the Holy Grail. Indy couldn't care less for religious hocus pocus, but the Nazis are back and they have Indy's dad (Sean Connery). To help his father, Indiana must do no less than locate and retrieve the holiest of cups. [Editor's Note: I think he may have also defeated a rabbit with nasty, big, pointy teeth, but I'm not too sure.]
There is simply no way to be objective: I'm "as giddy as a schoolboy," when I ran around the yard with a yarn whip and plastic pistol. As he did for many young movie buffs, Indiana Jones ignited my childhood imagination. This monumental DVD release does the same for my adult imagination. The Adventures of Indiana Jones has been the holy grail of DVD collectors since the inception of the format, and now it is finally here! The feeling of unquenchable euphoria alone makes the boxed set worth owning.
There is high potential for letdown with a release of this magnitude. Indiana Jones fans can breathe a sigh of relief: this boxed set is rock solid and shouldn't disappoint you.
The most vital aspect to any boxed set is the quality of the films themselves. Careful attention to detail is evident in these DVD transfers; massive cleanup and restoration makes them sparkle. I will nitpick momentarily, but rest assured the transfer is of exceptional quality.
Before we get into the technical nitty gritty, I'll say a few words about the films themselves. Indiana Jones is a familiar popular icon, and with good reason. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's homage to the pulp adventure genre is playful, energetic, creepy, and melodramatic. These films capture the essence of adventure, carefully balancing epic artifacts and outrageous action with humility and tongue-in-cheek barbs. Vital to this charismatic groundedness is the leading man: Harrison Ford's star power is well-earned. When the camera catches him in quiet moments of triumph (such as when he successfully grasps a life saving vine) we are privy to his anti-heroic humanity. How often do you see a film where the payoff for escalating romantic mood is a snoring hero and a frustrated woman?
Perhaps the greatest boon to this series is the traps avoided. The action is phenomenal, but it fits in believably with the storyline. Indy could have easily been too stoic, too skilled, or too boring. Fortunately, the filmmakers kept enough perspective to make Indy fresh and approachable throughout the series.
Raiders of the Lost Ark was as tense, funny, and absorbing as I remember. There are so many classic action moments in this film that it is difficult to name them all. The quiet moments work as well, such as Indy drowning his sorrows in the bar, or waking up because the engines have stopped, or boldly bringing his own digging crew into the center of a Nazi dig. Perhaps more vital to the film is the tenor of respect for the Ark of the Covenant, a spiritual center that elevates the stakes. Roger Ebert believes that Raiders is young Spielberg's F.U. to the Nazis. It is obvious that heart and soul fuel the action set pieces.
The Last Crusade recaptures some of the magic of the original film. The action is once again nicely integrated with a good story. Sean Connery is brought aboard to add a little father-son rivalry. The Nazis are back and as bad as ever. The romantic interest is both stunning and interesting. The film takes some poorly-guided swipes at Marcus Brody and Sallah, perhaps in an attempt to take the edge off of The Temple of Doom. It also bogs down a bit in the search for the Grail valley. Otherwise, The Last Crusade is a worthy entry into the series.
You've probably already formulated your own opinions of the series. The real question before the jury: does the boxed set do Indy justice? I'm pleased to say yes.
First of all, we finally get to watch this thing in the intended widescreen aspect ratio. No more Pan-and-Scam to ruin the picture. Aside from the giddy thrill of it all, aspect ratio is the second best reason to get the boxed set. Compositions which full screen cropping destroyed are back in full force.
The Indiana Jones franchise has gathered its fair share of blooper watchers over the years. Perhaps the most famous is Harrison's reflection in the glass when he is confronted by the fanged maw of a cobra. Less well-known are various supports used to pull off stunts like the truck chase and the temple boulder. These gaffes have been digitally removed from the films. Both Lucas and Spielberg have been guilty of greater revisionist transgressions; I hardly noticed these missing blunders. And Paul Freeman still swallows a fly. Yummy!
The picture is amazing, clear, and detailed. They spent an inordinate amount of time and energy excising the print of dust and scratches. You may think that a given, but rest assured it is not. Spielberg, Lucas, and Paramount are all aware that this trilogy will sell like hot cakes regardless of the care they put into it. Fortunately, they put their good names on the line and delivered a great transfer.
The image quality is not perfect. There is some edge enhancement, but it is neither assertive nor detrimental to the enjoyment of the films. The detail is impressive. There are instances of oversaturated color, most noticeably blues in The Last Crusade and red in The Temple of Doom.
The two biggest flaws in the image (most noticeable in Raiders) are crushed blacks and 3:2 pulldown errors. The crushed blacks render the image too dark, so that you must strain to catch shadow detail. This leads me to question whether Raiders was supposed to be darker than we're accustomed to seeing it. In any case, the over dark scenes are watchable and brief, so this does not negatively affect the experience. Perhaps more distracting are the incorrect flags that lead to 3:2 pulldown errors. Incorrect flags make it seem like the camera is moving in and out of focus, or make people transform from normal to skinny and back. The misflags seem to be worst in the tarantula nest in Raiders, making Alfred Molina oscillate. Every studio is guilty of incorrect flags, and most people will not notice them because new DVD players correct for improper flags. Those such as myself who watch movies via home theater PC will notice many more problems.
Those issues aside, the set is impressive in visual clarity. Flesh tones are healthy and vibrant, perhaps slightly reddish but natural. You can watch individual beads of sweat pour down Indy's face, see the wrinkles in his leather jacket. Both contrast and color are nicely rendered. Viewers can look forward to an impressive theatrical experience.
The same is true of audio clarity. Purists may rue the missing original audio mix, but I found the 5.1 mix to be quite faithful to the distinct audio footprint of the original. The sounds of Raiders and The Last Crusade have been burned into my brain through repeated viewings over the years, and this mix sounded very familiar. The thrum of the zeppelin engines sounded right, as did the crowd cheers and snake slithers. Indy's authoritative whip cracks and gunshots are enhanced. I was pleased that some effects retained their 2.0 flavor, such as Marion's disorienting echoes in the basket game. Overall I appreciated that the mix had punchier bass while retaining the clarity and dynamic quality of the original audio.
The three DVDs are pretty close in technical quality when contrasted with each other. Raiders has the aforementioned crushed blacks (or purposful dark tone...hard to say which). Raiders and The Last Crusade both suffer from bad flags that make the focus seem to shift. The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade have minor oversaturation issues. The Temple of Doom suffers from hokey blue screen work that impacts the visual score. These annoyances aside, the image quality is better than you could hope for! The audio is of consistently high quality on all three discs.
Williams' score shines in this mix. The score to Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my all time favorites. The playful antics of the winds in the bazaar sequence imbue peppy menace into the action. I love the brassy thrill of Indy's theme as well as the gentle swell of Marion's. The crowning jewel (aside from those obvious triumphs) is "The Map Room at Dawn," a haunting piece that builds a sense of mystery and excitement.
I've read and heard complaints that neither Spielberg nor Lucas provide feature commentaries. After viewing the thorough featurettes included here, I cannot understand the complaining. Both Spielberg and Lucas give succinct, meaningful new comments regarding all three films (along with many other cast and crew members). Archival footage of the filming and auditions is shown, including a reading between Tom Selleck and Sean Young. I was dreading a rehash of the '80s media onslaught detailing the effects behind the film. I was pleased to find an almost completely fresh retrospective look at the films.
The extras all reside on one DVD, anchored by a lengthy three-part featurette describing the production of each film. Each part feels like a self-contained documentary, but all three together give satisfyingly whole insight into the trilogy. I love Raiders of the Lost Ark the most, so I enjoyed learning things I didn't know about the film. It was refreshing to hear the apologetic tone in the second part, and to learn some of the creative challenges confronting the team. The highlight of the third part was watching Ford, Connery, Lucas, and Spielberg clown around.
The other featurettes focus on certain aspects of the production. You will recognize the production values: these featurettes are done in precisely the same way as the main featurettes, including the same mix of old footage and new interviews. I enjoyed the "stunts" one the most, but all are of high quality and worth watching. Williams' fans will appreciate hearing his take on the scores. The neatest tidbit on the sound effects featurette was learning the critical role that a Honda Civic played in the soundtrack of Raiders. (Spoiler: Every time I hop in my Civic, I'm going to pretend I'm driving a giant boulder.)
Aside from the "exclusive web content," which I never count as an extra, we have a surprisingly complete and varied stable of teasers and trailers. One of them was based solely on the technical aspects of producing an Indiana Jones film.
The menus are interesting. Each film has a different opening animation couched in a desaturated, Photoshop-esque blur. These animations fade to an animated map. The neat thing about these menus is that the options are available to you at any time. You can choose to watch the animations, or just hit play.
I'd hoped to never watch The Temple of Doom again, but of course I had to for this review. I distinctly remember a pervasive sense of frustration and overkill from seeing it in the theaters. Unfortunately, most of the negative qualities I remember from childhood are still there. The Temple of Doom shouldn't offend you, unless you happen to be Chinese, Indian, or female. (Small demographics, all.) After seeing the 1000th "skinny Indian in a loincloth with bulging eyes" and hearing the 1000th stapes-shattering shriek from Kate Capshaw, I'd had my fill and more. Everything that was refined, honed, realistic and subtle about Raiders was coarse, disingenuous, and unbelievable in The Temple of Doom. In Raiders, Indy walked through a tarantula nest in an abandoned temple. Fine. In The Temple of Doom, Indy walks through a chamber filled with mantises, beetles, worms, millipedes, moths, slugs, snails, and puppy dog tails. It makes no sense at all, and is there to say "look, we can be even more creepy, even at the expense of believability!" How about "Short Round, the 10 second mystic healer" who thwarts the sway of a thousand-year old deity with a well-placed torch? "Snap out of it Indy!" Well okay, if you say so. (Incidentally, thousands of Nazi soldiers being goaded by the Fuhrer's priority mission are threatening. Twenty Indians chanting under a red light and screwing up their eyeballs is not.)
The Temple of Doom exhibits the worst symptoms of sequel syndrome. It borrows phrases and riffs from the original that lack any spark. It tries too hard to outdo Raiders while simultaneously trying to be Raiders. The effects didn't play well either. The blue screen work is way obvious. Lighting is used as a pedantic mood hammer. Was that a rubber chest? Is it really that easy to pry someone's heart out of their ribcage?
I will say this: the opening sequence is more thrilling that I remember. As a self-contained action vehicle it works. Kate Capshaw is alluring when she is allowed to act.
Fear not, I perceive the flaws in my beloved Raiders as well. Let's take weight for example. Does a bag of sand outweigh a solid gold idol? According to the periodic chart of elements, gold is some heavy stuff. If so, how can Indy and Sallah lift the Ark out in the first place...even if you buy them lifting the heavy stone covering it? It must be Indy's superhuman strength, because later we see him kick out one of the temple bricks, a piece of sandstone about as big as Indy himself.
Four DVDs...four annoying popups of Interactual spyware. I do not want this program on my PC! Please stop auto invoking the installation every time I put in the DVD! Would it be too hard to create a "NEVER INSTALL" option?
As judge of these proceedings, I have strained to maintain composure and provide an objective view of this boxed set. However, in my personal opinion this set is a must own. If you call yourself a DVD collector and don't have this set, I'd have to look askance at you. If you don't buy it for yourself, do it for the children. Think of the children.
For unleashing these films upon the public,
doing so in a conscientious and scrupulous manner,
rekindling a sense of adventure in movies,
proving that some blockbusters have a heart,
this court finds The Adventures of Indiana Jones...
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Scales of Justice, Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Video: 94
Audio: 98
Extras: 93
Acting: 94
Story: 100
Judgment: 100
Perp Profile, Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Video Formats:
* 2.35:1 Anamorphic
Audio Formats:
* Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (English)
* Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (French)
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround (Spanish)
* English
* French
* Spanish
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Release Year: 1981
MPAA Rating: Rated PG
Distinguishing Marks, Raiders Of The Lost Ark
* Feature-Length Documentary of the Making of the Trilogy
* The Stunts of Indiana Jones
* The Sound of Indiana Jones
* The Music of Indiana Jones
* The Light and Magic of Indiana Jones
* Original Trailers
* Weblink to Exclusive Content
Scales of Justice, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
Video: 91
Audio: 92
Extras: 93
Acting: 71
Story: 66
Judgment: 70
Perp Profile, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
Video Formats:
* 2.35:1 Anamorphic
Audio Formats:
* Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (English)
* Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (French)
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround (Spanish)
* English
* French
* Spanish
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Release Year: 1984
MPAA Rating: Rated PG
Distinguishing Marks, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
* None
Scales of Justice, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Video: 93
Audio: 95
Extras: 93
Acting: 92
Story: 88
Judgment: 93
Perp Profile, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Video Formats:
* 2.35:1 Anamorphic
Audio Formats:
* Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (English)
* Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (French)
* Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround (Spanish)
* English
* French
* Spanish
Running Time: 127 Minutes
Release Year: 1989
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13
Distinguishing Marks, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
* None
* IMDb: Raiders of the Lost Ark
* IMDb: Temple of Doom
* IMDb: The Last Crusade
* IMDb: Indiana Jones 4
* Official Site


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59 are (usually) the number of days in two consecutive Jewish months, since mostly they alternate between 29 and 30 days.
For halachic purposes, too, the 59th day can count as the last one of a two-month period. Thus, if one accepts on himself two consecutive periods of naziriteship, he may end them respectively on the 30th and 59th days (although it's preferable to keep 30 full days of naziriteship each time, and thus to bring his offerings on the 31st and 61st). (Rambam, Hil. Nezirus 4:2)
Fifty-nine are the minimum parts (by volume) of kosher food into which one part non-kosher food can be added, leaving the mixture kosher, in the following limited cases:
I think I just realized why Shach and others write 60 as ס׳ but spell out 59 as חמשים ותשע (besides the fact that 60 occurs far more often in hilchos kashrus than 59) -- because נ״ט would be too easily confused for another term in hilchos kashrus, נותן טעם.

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Hello! My name's Naomi.
I became a Noisebridge member on August 25, 2009.
I have an unhealthy fixation on streaming radio. Here are some radios I host.
Some (like Mutiny Radio) come from live studios and some (like Feliz Navidad Forever and Radio Loki) are algorithmically generated.
I use liquidsoap to sculpt the station, Python to wrap it, and icecast to stream it.
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Rickie Swink of Durango unwraps "Barn Shadows," one of her submissions for "SHADOW," the Open Shutter Gallery's annual community show. The exhibition features photographs on the theme submitted by amateur and professional photographers from Durango and the surrounding area. This year's show includes more than 45 photographers, most of whom submitted two photos each.
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Meeting Notes 2012 09 18
From Noisebridge
The 234th Meeting of Noisebridge
Note-taker: Snail
Moderator Tyrant / British Monarch?: malaclyps
Introduction and Names
- malaclyps: just had a drink
- Tom: building a phone with just a web
- Trip: building a better life for one-handed people
- Rayc: hacking ginger
- Snail: I am.
- mischeif: likes operating systems
- Ari: jquery ??
- Mct!
- Leif: is interested in kleptography
- Brandon: working on an android app to play music for REM sleep
- Myra: works at EFF!
- Rev. Mik: worldbuilding and hacking social issues
Short Announcements
- Stanford Cryptography class study group! We're meeting this Friday and meet periodically at noisebridge.
- Thursday, EFF Pioneer Awards, Saturday TOR hacking session!
- Thursdays are Tahoe LAFS meetup! @ 6:30 p.m.
- RevMik is planning a world-building workshop. Anyone interested should get in touch with him.
New or Stale Events
- Stanford Cryptography class study group! We're meeting this Friday and meet periodically at noisebridge.
- Thursday, EFF Pioneer Awards, Saturday TOR hacking session!
- Thursdays are Tahoe LAFS meetup! @ 6:30 p.m.
- Lazorcutting back on Thursday evenings!
- Health hacking on Sundays at 7 o'clock! p.m.
Membership Binder
- No new members this week.
Financial Report
- Funds in bank: $abilijillionitydollas
- Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):
- There are $89.61 earmarked NoiseTor funds
- Colo service has been paid through Oct 7, 2012
- An additional $697.39 needs to be raised to pay for another month of service
- This information was updated at Tue Sep 18 21:30:02 2012
Consensus items
- CONSENSED!: Special additional order of t-shirts in women's sizes which have run out. $250 of Noisebridge general funds.
- Shirt sizes will not be dog-sized.
- Snail will collect donations for the Noisebridge dog-shirt fund.
Proposals from last week
Proposals for next week
- Tom proposed a lol I mean real cat for the space.
- Met with many people who want to block immediately. Tabled for offline discussion.
Discussion Items
- Dogs. gquery! My g-dog. My gquery.
End of Meeting
- PGP Key Signing could happen now, check the list to see who wants in on the action.
- Return the membership binder to it's rightful location.
- Clean and tidy the meeting notes, then save them to the wiki.
- Send a summary of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
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August 24, 2009
Table Bay – Flickr pic of the day
This beautiful image of a sunset over Table Bay and Table Mountain was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Grea Wessels aka Grieks.
Grea says, "This pic is a composite of seven photos stitched together showing the beautiful clouds over Cape Town on August 14, 2009.
"It was taken with a Canon 400D DSLR with a Canon EF-S 17-85mm USM IS lens," she continues.
The west side of Table Bay is the place to take picture-postcard shots of Cape Town and Table Mountain – not to mention a great place to go kite-surfing.
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!
Image © Grea Wessels aka Grieks 2009


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Roach resigns as Pomperaug head coach
A diehard Washington Redskins fan, Pomperaug High football coach David Roach received an essential and meaningful Christmas gift Thursday from his wife, Jessica -- a Washington Redskins diaper bag.
"That put things into perspective," said Roach. "She knows I love football."
Jessica also knows her husband will put the family first. The couple is expecting their first child in February, which prompted Roach to step aside from his high school football coaching responsibilities.
Roach's resignation letter was dated Dec. 19, and the vacancy has already been posted internally in the Region 15 school district.
A 1997 Pomperaug graduate and longtime assistant to predecessor Chuck Drury, Roach compiled a 16-15 overall record, including a 4-7 record in 2013.
"My decision was never based on our won-loss record," said Roach, 34. "It was solely based on my family. I always tell my players that they must have priorities in life, and football should be a priority. However, your family must be your top priority, followed by your faith and then your schoolwork.
"I can no longer commit the time and energy that a football program needs year-round," said Roach. "I have devoted 13 years to the football program, which never has an off-season. This was a decision I made myself and one I do not regret. I care about the program. I just can't make the commitment that is needed. I'm not leaving the program, just the head coaching responsibilities. I want to come back as the offensive line coach if (athletic director Joe Velardi wants me to."
A social studies teacher at Pomperaug, Roach holds a degree in history from Western New England, where he was an All-New England left tackle. He earned a master's degree in special education from Western Connecticut State University and a sixth-year degree in administration from the University of Bridgeport.
Roach was an assistant coach at Pomperaug from 2001-07 before becoming the athletic director at Housatonic for the 2007-08 academic year. He returned to Pomperaug in the fall of 2009.
When longtime Panthers head coach Chuck Drury stepped down after the 2010 season, Roach was elevated to head coach.
The Panthers graduated 13 seniors and should have 33 returning players next fall.
"As a coach, I've won a state championship (2004 Class MM) and a few SWC championships (2002, 2004, 2009) that are all memorable," said Roach. "But the things I cherish more are the relationships I have made with the players and coaches over the past 13 years."
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How to generate SPAlert from some list to specific user with c# who doesn't subscribe that list? User cannot be added to list subscribers.
Once you have written your own implementation of OnNotification() you can send the email to whomever you would like. Alert customization
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Here are the properties of an alert. The SPAlert item is a store of a few specific properties and then a reference to 3 other records solving the many:many:many problem by turning them into one:many. See the starred items below:
The whole basis for the alerts system is to match up a list : alert template : Site Collection User. Your question asks if you can make a stool with only 2 legs. Naturally, the answer is yes, well kind of... You could make one with your service account as a user and catch that in your event receiver and then replace the email address
I would look at the requirements closely and see if this is a code solution to a people problem and consider drawing the line between people and code in a different place.
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Who can speak for the dead?
Last week is ages ago in blog time, I know, but I just came across a passage in Wendell Berry's Hannah Coulter that speaks to a ridiculous pseudo-controversy that engulfed the Internets early last week. Chris Hayes, an editor at The Nation and host of a program on MSNBC (full disclosure: I don't have cable, and have never watched it), made what should have been some uncontroversial remarks about his discomfort with using the word "heroes" to describe Americans who have died in war, since in our dominant political discourse such language "is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war". (I once wrote something similar.) My onetime editor Conor Friedersdorf has penned a nice critical analysis of the idiocy that ensued, but instead of more meta-idiocy let me give you Berry's narrator, speaking of life after her husband Virgil went missing in World War II:
Grieved as I was, half destroyed as I sometimes felt myself to be, I didn't get mad about Virgil's death. Who was there to get mad at? It would be like getting mad at the world, or at God. What made me mad, and still does, were the people who took it on themselves to speak for him after he was dead. I dislike for the dead to be made to agree with whatever some powerful living person wants to say. Was Virgil a hero? In his dying was he willing to die, or glad to sacrifice his life? Is the life and freedom of the living a satisfactory payment to the dead in war for their living? Would Virgil think so? I have imagined that he would. But I don't know. Who can speak for the dead? Who can speak for the dead whose bodies are never found, who are forever "missing"? Who can speak for a young man gone clean out of the world, whose body was maybe blown all to nothing, in the midst of terrible fear or pain, in the midst of his last prayer?
What I did know is this. Virgil loved his life. He loved me. He loved his family. He did not want to die. He wanted to come home and live with me and raise a family, and farm with his dad. He knew we were going to have a baby. He never knew he had a daughter. He never knew her name.
I don't mean to be quarrelsome, but the dead are helpless. I was the mother of a helpless baby, and the wife of a dead man who was just as helpless. The living must protect the dead. Their lives made the meaning of their deaths, and that is the meaning their deaths ought to have. I hated for Virgil's death to be made official. I hated for it to be a government property or a public thing. I felt my grief for him made his death his own. My grief was the last meaning of his life in this world. And so I kept my grief. For a long time I couldn't give it up.
Who can speak for the dead? Surely not those whose main political priorities seem to center on making more of them.
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John Schwenkler is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Florida State University.
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"Americans who have died"Just about every word of that is wrong. They are not Americans. They are soldiers. Servicemen and women. Emphasis on service. And they have not died. They have given, their lives. You don't even have the voice right--it's active. Just as others are actively risking theirs. Whether or not you think it's for a valid cause does not matter. And if you cannot come to terms with the magnitude of their sacrifice next to the puniness of ours, the least you can do is resist the urge to minimize their gift to us by wanting them to be seen as merely Americans who have died.
No, Mark, John has the voice exactly right. With few exceptions, those who have died in battle did not choose to die; they chose to put themselves at risk of death in service to their country and were killed. That is brave enough. And, yes, they were Americans: Americans first, soldiers second. Please don't get self-righteous on their behalf. Veterans can speak for themselves, and, as Hannah Coulter says, no one can speak for the dead.
Does the holiday not also commemorate those who died serving in harm's way as medical personnel? In any event, the soldiers (and others) in question are Americans, and they have died -- phrases like "gave their lives" are often just ways of skirting this cold truth. The validity of the cause is irrelevant, as you say, and has nothing to do with my argument; what worries me are the invalid causes, and unnecessary deaths, which their deaths are frequently used to justify in the present day. And I am not the one unable to recognize the sacrifice that our dead soldiers have made, or trying to minimize their gift; that is what is done by people who use terminological quibbling and faux-patriotic slogans as a way to shout down attempts to think seriously about what it means to honor our war dead.
It seems as if Memorial Day has become -- or at least it can become -- a celebration of war, whether or not it was initially conceived that way. How do we conduct Memorial Day in a manner that does not glorify war?
@Timothy R. Bauman (6/5,9:12 am) Great question; thanks for raising it.I have a couple of tentative thoughts:1 - Re-read Logan's General Orders #11 (which initiated what has become Memorial Day). http://www.usmemorialday.org/order11.htmlA couple of excerpts stand out to me. "Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms." A worthy reminder that the purpose for and results of waging war are not separate from our remembrances of war."...let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation's gratitude, the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan." A reminder of the ongoing cost of war, of the ongoing obligation---stretching out before us for decades---the entire nation has incurred as a result of waging war.2. Most Civil War deaths did not occur on the battlefield as a result of glorious or heroic courage. They were the result of illness---particularly infectious diseases like malaria and yellow fever. General Logan and the vast majority of Americans living in the 1860s and 70s knew that. Their understanding of martial heroism was tempered by their intimate experience of the hundreds of thousands of casualties that were utterly random, and disconnected from any heroism (or lack thereof) displayed by an individual soldier or sailor.
As a Viet Nam veteran, this raises a lot of mixed emotions. But I never met a single serviceman who wanted to sacrifice his life for his country. Willing, perhaps, but wanting? None. And then I'm reminded of the quote attributed to George Patton: "We don't want you to give your life for your country; We want the other poor bastard to give his life for HIS country."
Mark said: "Just about every word of that is wrong. They are not Americans. They are soldiers.'Since when are the 2 statuses incompatible?Mark, have you served in any branch of the US military? I suspect not or you wouldn't have made such a woefully uninformed statement.
Jimmy--I thought it was self-evident that the sentence was to be read as, they are not merely Americans. John Wilkes Booth and Al Capone are Americans who have died. Ted Bundy and the Boston strangler are Americans who have died. To describe our service men and women, who have given their lives to defend us, in a fashion that does not distinguish them from these other Americans dishonors them. To do so because according them their due honor does not comport with one's political agenda is despicable.
Yes, that's right, Mark: John wrote "Americans" instead of "soldiers" because he did not want to distinguish them from John Wilkes Booth and Al Capone -- and he didn't want to do this because honoring the war dead is incompatible with his "political agenda," according to which dead soldiers have the same moral standing as assassins, gangsters, and serial killers. Come off it.
Mark: are you a veteran .... yes or no, please.
Matthew--I am sure you are right. Certainly someone who accuses those who have different political views of wanting more dead American servicemen and women would not say something despicable, twice.
John Wilkes Booth and Al Capone are Americans who have died. Ted Bundy and the Boston strangler are Americans who have died. And did they die in war? That was the phrase I used, which you have selectively edited ...
Wow. Talk about over-thinking something as poignant as a soldier dying in battle...Just go to a military cemetery, and gaze quietly at the rows of crosses, spiced by stars of David and maybe a few crescents. Say a little prayer of thanks and be on your way, but be careful: your eyes may be so limned with tears that you may stumble. I did it, and I'll be forever grateful...God Bless
Years ago, I spent a long night in a smelly shed on a pier in Beirut beside a box just like the ones in the picture above. The US Naval Aviator beside me was due to fly home for his last time the next morning. Like many Americans before and after him, he had done his duty as ordered and was killed in the process. Neither geopolitics nor nitpicking terminology occupied my thoughts that night.
If ever a picture said a thousand words, the one at the top of this page does.Bob Schwartz, thanks for your much needed reminder.
As an Army veteran and the father of a solder who served two combat tours in Iraq, thank you for this post. Who speaks for the dead? Their families, those who knew and loved them perhaps, but no one else. And certainly not the chickenhawks, cheerleaders and politicians who were so extravagant with their lives.
Mark - your silence in response to my question speaks volumes.Bob - be sure, however, to NOT look at the American flags flying there. According to Mark, these dead are soldiers, not Americans. "They are not Americans. They are soldiers."
Jimmy Mac:And your point is...?
I think we honor our dead by doing our very best to make sure as few as possible die in wars unworthy of that sacrifice. And we honor our dead by taking very good care of all of the people they left behind.
Irene--I agree very much with your comment. The tricky part is what we should say, publicly and privately, about a war that we do not think is worthy of the sacrifice, recognizing and respecting others feel differently and in fact have made great sacrifices that they believe were worthy. That is a tightrope, by the grace of God, I've not had to walk.
I don't find that tricky. Surely we should say that the war is unjust and unworthy of the sacrifice, lest others should fight and die, and their loved ones suffer, for no good reason.
I dont find that tricky.No, John, I can see that you don't. I wish you did.
I guess I don't think it's tricky either. I think we have an affirmative duty, if we believe a war is unjust, to let our elected officials know that and to urge them to bring our soldiers home. I can understand how it might be uncomfortable to do that in a war that has popular support, though.Much easier, I think is publicly supporting our veterans and their families. There is a significant number of homeless veterans, which is a national disgrace, and there are a lot of servicemembers' families here in America struggling to get by. We may not be able to speak for the dead, but we can try to look after the living.
Jimmy Mac: And your point is?Hubris sucks.
Jimmy Mac:Whose hubris?


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Has Unemployment Fallen For The Wrong Reason?
In this E21 posting, Scott Winship writes about the current jobs numbers. Everyone agrees the August 2013 jobs numbers were lousy. Despite the fact that the unemployment rate fell for the second month in a row, continuing a march downward that started in late 2009, journalists and analysts left, right, and center believe that the decline has been illusory. The Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog declared, "Unemployment Rate Drops for Wrong Reasons." The Washington Post's Wonkblog upped the ante, saying unemployment dropped "for the worst reason." According to liberal economist and blogger Jared Bernstein, "of the two ways you can reduce unemployment, we got the bad one." Conservative American Enterprise Institute blogger, James Pethokoukis concurred, as did Brookings economist and blogger Justin Wolfers, as did libertarian Reason writer Peter Suderman.
But in fact, while changes in the official unemployment rate have sometimes given too rosy a picture of the state of the recovery, joblessness really has declined and continues to do so (just not as quickly as we'd like).


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8 Oct 2012 10:03 AM #1
Sencha Touch meets TYPO3 CMS
My talk at T3CON:
How to build mobile web applications with the JavaScript Framework Sencha Touch and feed it with content from TYPO3.
After a introduction to Sencha Touch we will showcase some apps we builded.
On a example we will talk about how to develop Sencha Touch applications. See how we can feed the app with content from TYPO3 and use a cloud service to optimize content images for mobile devices.
Slidestrainings / workshops / consulting: Sencha Touch / Ext JS
Profile on SenchaDevs
www: http://www.nils-dehl.de
twitter: nilsdehl
meetup: Sencha Touch / Ext JS Meetup Frankfurt
videos: http://vimeo.com/album/1621422
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To the editor:
I met Billy Petrella when he was graduating from high school, and I was instantly l impressed with his outgoing personality, positive attitude and maturity beyond his 18 years. I was working at (the then) Jefferson Community College as a coordinator of campus activities when I realized he had enrolled and immediately encouraged him to join Student Senate and run for president, which he did. I saw his leadership skills blossom and was quite amazed when he single-handedly organized an educational forum on campus. He invited then-Gov. Bob Taft and other state and local dignitaries to discuss the reasons why it was so important to keep the funding for two-year colleges. There I was, impressed again.
He went on to college and has degrees in leadership and development and financing. Now, he is running for Jefferson County commissioner, and, once again, I am impressed. The leadership skills that he obtained in college, and as a board member for several local organizations, as well as his business and financial investment expertise, will help him succeed in making Jefferson County a business-friendly place where investors will want to come.
He wants to invest money obtained from the oil and gas industry to assist in our economic development and offer diversity to Jefferson County. We have never really invested or had enough money to invest in economic development in a large way. This is our chance. Again, I'm very impressed. He deserves a chance and your vote.
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Virtual Tour
Welcome to De Pree Art Center and Gallery. The Art Department moved into De Pree, a remodeled furniture factory, in 1982, so you're getting the advantages of a modern, well-equipped facility combined with the history of craftsmanship found in an older building.
Tour designed by Chris Van Pelt.


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4 Jun 2007 3:27 PM #1
[Ext 1.1b1] Form file upload response appearing in new window under IE
Anyone else experiencing this? When I use Ext 1.1b1's ability to upload files by posting the form in a dynamically-created IFRAME, in IE only the response from the POST appears in a new window (instead of in the hidden IFRAME). My fix, taken from this helpful thread, is as follows (inside Ext.data.Connection):
doFormUpload : function(o, ps, url){ var id = Ext.id(); var frame = document.createElement('iframe'); frame.id = id; frame.name = id; frame.className = 'x-hidden'; if(Ext.isIE){ frame.src = Ext.SSL_SECURE_URL; } document.body.appendChild(frame); + + if(Ext.isIE){ + document.frames[id].name = id; + } var form = Ext.getDom(o.form); form.target = id; form.method = 'POST'; form.enctype = form.encoding = 'multipart/form-data'; if(url){ form.action = url; } ...
4 Jun 2007 5:00 PM #2
Thanks for findng a fix. I will add it in!Jack Slocum
Sencha Co-Founder, Ext JS Founder
Original author of Ext JS 1, 2 & 3.
Twitter: @jackslocum
12 Jun 2007 5:58 AM #3
21 Jun 2007 8:14 AM #4
I guess I better try the latest svn update. I just reverted back to 1.01a and everything fixed. Glad I found your post before I posted my own. Might have gotten beaten by the forum bruiser.
EDIT: I don't see this in the latest release of 1.1 svn.
EDIT: I do see it in the latest release of 2.0 svn. Could we get it put in 1.1 also please.
21 Jun 2007 6:10 PM #5
22 Jun 2007 5:08 AM #6Jack Slocum
Sencha Co-Founder, Ext JS Founder
Original author of Ext JS 1, 2 & 3.
Twitter: @jackslocum
22 Mar 2009 11:06 AM #7
Do I get this right?
Hi people,
Do I get this right? I am not using Ext so I like to you use it to... but have to implement it differently.. I just create a dynamic iframe? Is this fooling IE so it posts to an iframe after all??


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Is there any quality difference between ImageMagick and Lightroom, when converting CR2 to JPEG in 100% quality?
There are two aspects to your question, because "converting" from RAW to JPEG isn't a simple thing — it's an interpretive process.
So, your results are likely be significantly different. ImageMagick just uses the rudimentary raw conversion from
The second question is whether "100% jpeg" means the same thing in both of these programs, and the answer there is "no, it doesn't". But, at that level, I'll be shocked if anyone can tell the difference visually even with very careful inspection. The filesize may vary, but there won't be any really meaningful difference.


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6 Mind-Blowingly Huge Versions of Things You Loved as a Kid
Believe it or not, there was a time not too long ago when playing video games, watching animated shows and worshiping Batman were things that only children could do, or were interested in doing. Think about that for a second: If Arkham City had come out 30 years ago, you'd have only noticed when you showed up at your nephew's birthday party.
Well, if we have so transformed the world that our childhood obsessions are now perfectly acceptable at age 30 and beyond, we have a few other things we'd like to bring back. Luckily, some other adults have gotten a head start with ...
#6. The Giant Hot Wheels Track
Part of the appeal of those Hot Wheels tracks that 99.98 percent of the males reading this article played with as a kid is that there's no way they could exist in real life. Those insane twists and loops you sent tiny die-cast model vehicles whipping around looked like something resulting from M.C. Escher's brief stint with NASCAR. And even if they did exist, any race car driver would have to be certifiably insane to agree to ride on even the tamest of these things ...
Hot Wheels Media
"You've taken out an insurance policy on me, haven't you?"
All right, we stand corrected.
That's a life-sized version of Mattel's V-Drop Hot Wheels set, a toy track that is designed to be suspended from the top of a child's bedroom door -- so naturally, they had to build a 10-story-high giant door in order to use it. The bizarre monolith was constructed at the infield of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the 2011 Indy 500, as part of a publicity stunt aimed at recapturing the attention of lapsed Hot Wheels fans and insane people in general.
Toys 'R' Us
The stunt ended in tragedy when a giant parent walked through the door and stepped on the car while barefoot.
While, sadly, they did not include the ring of fire at the middle (because that would be too dangerous), they did recreate the awesomest part of the set: the 332-foot jump across the infield, which actually broke the previous car-jumping world record by 31 feet of distance and 57 points of sheer holyshitness. You can watch a video of the whole thing here.
AP, via Daily Mail
If they're anything like us, they went through 10 stunt drivers before getting this to work.
It took more than 100 tons of steel and 500 gallons of orange paint to complete the 45-degree ramp, and instead of a little Hot Wheels car, a masked driver drove a specially designed Pro2-style truck, which hit the ramp at over 100 mph. The mystery driver turned out to be X-Games gold medalist and Top Gear co-host Tanner Foust, who said he said he was fulfilling a childhood fantasy: "As a kid playing with Hot Wheels I could only dream of experiencing something as outrageous as a life-sized V-Drop track set, and today it became reality."
Mototrend's Truck Trend
"For my next stunt, I will melt the face of a real-life G.I. Joe."
#5. Insanely Huge Lego Projects
Judging by the number of Star Wars-based Lego kits we've seen lately, we have a sneaking suspicion that most Lego users today are a few decades over the recommended age on the box. And some of them have a lot of time on their hands, apparently: We've told you about the British TV presenter who commissioned a house made out of Lego, but how about the college professor who built a detailed replica of the Ohio Stadium completely by himself?
Fred Squillante, The Columbus Dispatch
He has to live there now.
It took Paul Janssen a million Lego pieces and two years of planning, building, tearing down and rebuilding to complete the stadium, and he didn't even like football when he started it. He just really, really likes Lego.
Something similar happened to Malle Hawking from Munich, Germany, who saw a documentary on aircraft carriers one day and decided to make himself one out of 300,000 tiny plastic bricks.
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"Each Lego stands for a time I didn't have sex."
The model is actually a replica of the USS Harry S. Truman, one of the largest ships in the world, which he says he copied down to the tiniest detail, including 85 warplanes and more than 5,000 Lego crew members. Hawking and his aircraft carrier attended a Brickworld convention in Chicago in 2007, in which they conquered Lego Poland.
But not all Lego replicas are built to scale -- some of them are full-sized, like the Lego Jesus that stands in a church in Vasteras, Sweden (which probably cost them as much as buying an actual statue).
Lego Jesus
It's either Jesus or Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Not inspiring enough for you? How about an actual-size Lego car? This Lego Ford Explorer, unveiled at Ford's Chicago assembly plan, was created by 22 Legoland experts and took over 2,500 hours to complete.
And it took those children five minutes to tear it apart.
The crazy part: it's not even the only one they've done. The Legoland California staff created an exact replica of a Volvo XC60, and then proceeded to replace their general manager's Volvo at the parking lot as an elaborate practical joke.
That night they did the same prank with his wife.
These cars aren't completely accurate, though, because obviously there isn't a reconstructed Lego motor and Lego seats in there -- that would be crazy. Apparently no one told that to the next guy, though ...
#4. An Entire Car Made From Folded Paper -- Inside and Out
Jonathan Brand from Brooklyn, New York, spent five years restoring a 1969 Mustang, only to sell it so he could buy a diamond engagement ring for his girlfriend. While this decision may baffle some, it makes perfect sense when you think about it: You can't just grab a computer and print yourself a new girlfriend, but you can do that with a 1969 Mustang, apparently ... because that's exactly what Jonathan Brand did. This faithful replica of his old car is made entirely out of folded paper, putting every single paper plane you ever made at school to shame.
Image/photos by Laura DeSantis-Olsson.
He saved a lot of money by printing in fast draft mode.
The whole thing was drawn up as a digital blueprint on a computer, then printed out as numbered and labeled shapes on a large-format inkjet printer. From there it was just a simple matter of folding and gluing the myriad of shapes together, like a huge 3-D jigsaw puzzle. Our point is, the dude printed an entire car and then assembled it. And we mean the whole thing, right down to the (literal) nuts and bolts:
In addition to the body, Brand crafted replicas of the motor:
Image/photo by Laura DeSantis-Olsson.
Image/photo by Laura DeSantis-Olsson.
The entire thing is a crumple zone.
Image/photo by Laura DeSantis-Olsson.
They're probably tougher than Firestone.
And the seats, plus other auto parts we do not know the names of:
Image/photo by Laura DeSantis-Olsson.
Great effort went into making sure the mysterious stains in here looked just right.
The replica was constructed for an art show entitled "One Piece at a Time," inspired by a Johnny Cash song about an auto worker who can't afford to buy one of the cars he assembles and so steals one, piece by piece, in his lunchbox and puts it together at his house. Which wouldn't have been necessary, if only he had a printer.


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Hot Sheet: Really Scary Mommies
10. MUSIC: Donna Summer, Love to Love You Donna
In honor of Donna's 2013 induction into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame, Verve Music is releasing this remix album of her greatest hits. Contemporary artists like Hot Chip and Afrojack put their spin on classics like "I Feel Love" and "Sunset People." Highlight: original producer Giorgio Moroder's entirely reimagined version of "Love to Love You Baby." Out Tuesday. Check out the video below for "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)," remixed by Chromeo & Oliver. — Neal Broverman
9. THEATER: Trial of Joseph McCarthy
Sen. Joseph McCarthy, known for hunting supposed Communists and others he sees as a threat, and two colleagues go on trial for criminal conspiracy and blackmail charges in the death of Sen. Lester Hunt, who killed himself in 1954 after his son was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex from an undercover policeman. Think you've climbed into a time machine? Actually, this is alternative history presented as theater by the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., which has revived the name of that historical gay rights group and undertaken a mission of "archive activism," telling the unknown stories of LGBT Americans. Hunt really did commit suicide after his son's arrest, but McCarthy never paid for his complicity in the matter. The mock trial, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at All Souls Church Unitarian in the nation's capital, will be introduced by former U.S. senator Alan Simpson and will feature several other political and media luminaries, including lawyer and activist Mindy Daniels, former Barney Frank aide Robert Raben, journalist Jamie Kirchick (whose work has appeared in The Advocate), and, as McCarthy, lobbyist Ed Senn. Admission is free; more info here. — Trudy Ring
7. MUSIC: Simon Curtis, WWW
Out independent music star Simon Curtis caught our attention after he offered his debut album, 8Bit Heart, as a free digital download in 2010. Since then, the singer-songwriter has gained an army of followers eager to consume more of his signature sound. His sophomore album, RA, followed a year later, showcasing more of the artist's distinctive combination of driving beats, edgy lyrics, and heavy electronic style. Now Curtis is offering fans another serving with the album WWW, a collection of previously unreleased songs available as a free download on Muumuse.com. WWW contains several standout, high-energy tracks, including "Diamonds on the Dance Floor," "Satellite," and "Do I Have to Dance." — Jase Peeples
6. THEATER: Sidewinders
Two friends are lost and disoriented on America's Western frontier, in a journey that causes them to question their ideas about gender and who they really are. San Francisco's Cutting Ball Theater presents the world premiere of Basil Kreimendahl's play, which won him this year's Rella Lossy Playwright Award from the San Francisco Foundation. An "absurdist-Western romp through gender-queerness," the show "owes as much to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as it does to SF Pride," according to Cutting Ball's website. M. Graham Smith directs; performances begin tonight and continue through November 17. And Cutting Ball is providing free student rush tickets to LGBT youth and their allies. Click here for more information. — Trudy Ring
4. TV: Queer Eye Reunion: 10 Years Later
It's been a decade since the fab five — Ted Allen, Carson Kressley, Thom Filicia, Kyan Douglas, and Jai Rodriguez — changed television and pop culture perspectives on gay men by essentially giving straight guys makeovers on Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Now the guys are back together for this reunion to celebrate their impact, the completely changed political landscape (10 years ago what they did was revolutionary; now it's kind of quaint), and their own changed positions in pop culture. Allen hosts Chopped and is a food expert on numerous shows; Kressley has hosted two shows of his own and was a fan favorite on Dancing with the Stars; Filicia owns a renowned design firm; Douglas has been a fixture on Rachael Ray; and Rodriguez starred on last year's Malibu Country. It's a must-see. — Diane Anderson-Minshall
5. FILM: Truth
Truth, a psychological thriller starring former porn star Sean Paul Lockhart (a.k.a. Brent Corrigan), screens Saturday at the film festival FilmOut San Diego. The plot follows Caleb (Lockhart) as he pursues a romance with Jeremy (Rob Moretti), whom he met online. As they begin to fall for each nother, it soon becomes clear that there is more to Caleb than meets the eye. A troubled past and a mentally ill mother are among the dark secrets he tries to conceal from his new lover, who finds himself tangled in Caleb's web of lies. Steamy and suspenseful, Truth is a cautionary tale of romance in the digital age that also features a stellar performance from Emmy-winner Blanche Baker, of Sixteen Candles fame. Truth, screening at 8:15 p.m. at the Birch Park Theatre, is part of the festival's "Love Gone Wrong" series, which includes films such as Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which will be shown earlier in the day. Watch the trailer for Truth below. — Daniel Reynolds
3. VIDEO: Hi Fashion, "Pupusa"
This crazy duo with queer sensibilities and a gay member have a new video for "Pupusa," a single off their EP, You Are Gorgeous. Just like the doughy Latin American dish, the video is a delicious treat. With bright colors, spastic dancing, and buckets of face paint, "Pupusa" continues Hi Fashion's tradition of ebullient and hilarious videos. — Neal Broverman
2. FILM: Carrie
Stephen King's original manuscript for Carrie was rejected 30 times before he gave up and canned it. His wife, Tabitha, saw such potential in the story of a bullied and sheltered teen with telekinetic powers that she fished it out of the trash, and eventually, in 1974, it became King's first published book. Many agreed that the novel clearly reflected the struggle between feminists and antifeminists in the 1970s as well as the contemporary male concern with women's rising power, and though director Brian De Palma's male gaze produced some unexpected slo-mo locker room scenes, his 1976 film version was still a pretty forward-thinking flick. Now lesbian filmmaker Kimberly Peirce (of Boys Don't Cry and Stop-Loss fame) has remade the horror classic 40 years after women's lib inspired King. Under Peirce's lesbian lens, it's still the girls that root Carrie, which comes out today, including Julianne Moore as Carrie's Christian fundamentalist mother, Margaret, and Chloë Grace Moretz as the title character. "A teen playing a teen," Peirce says, adding, "The central character is a woman, the central relationships are between women — between a mother and a daughter and between a girl and all these other girls." And yes, there's still a hell of a lot of blood. — Diane Anderson-Minshall
1. TELEVISION: Ari South on Project Runway All Stars
Andy South, a finalist and fan favorite on season 8 of Project Runway, is back for season 3 of Project Runway All Stars, with a new name, Ari South, and a newly revealed gender identity. South has already had success in the fashion industry, with designs picked up by Neiman Marcus right after season 8, and she shares the following on the Project Runway website: "In the windstorm that my life has become since the show, I have also decided to live my life as a woman, transitioning to my core-identified gender. I hid it while I was on season 8, but after garnering immediate success as a new business owner, I knew that I needed to be completely happy, and that meant making my transition. I have changed my legal name to Ariyaphon, a name given to me by my own mother; Ari for short. I realized that it would be a life lived in the public eye, and I like that I can change people's perception of what it means to be transgender." The new All Stars season starts Wednesday on Lifetime; more info here. — Trudy Ring


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What is the conjugate prior distribution of the Dirichlet distribution?
Neil sent me an email asking:
I read your post at http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/04/conjugate_prior.html and I was wondering if you could expand on how to update the Dirichlet conjugate prior that you provided in your paper:
S. Lefkimmiatis, P. Maragos, and G. Papandreou, Bayesian Inference on Multiscale Models for Poisson Intensity Estimation: Applications to Photon-Limited Image Denoising, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1724-1741, Aug. 2009
In other words, given in your paper's notation the prior hyper-parameters (vector $\mathbf{v}$, and scalar $\eta$), and $N$ Dirichlet observations (vectors $\mathbf{\theta}_n, n=1,\dots,N$), how do you update $\mathbf{v}$ and $\eta$?
Here is my response:
Conjugate pairs are so convenient because there is a standard and simple way to incorporate new data by just modifying the parameters of the prior density. One just multiplies the likelihood with its conjugate prior; the result has the same parametric form as the prior, and the new parameters can be readily "read-off" by comparing the likelihood-prior product with the prior parametric form. This is described in detail in all standard texts in Bayesian statistics such as Gelman et al. (2003) or Bernardo and Smith (2000).
In the case of the Dirichlet and its conjugate prior described in our paper and using its notation, after observing $N$ Dirichlet vectors $\mathbf{\theta}_n$, $n=1,\dots,N$, where each vector $\mathbf{\theta}_n$ is $D$ dimensional with elements $\theta_n[t]$, $t=1,\dots,D$, the $D+1$ hyper-parameters should be updated as follows:
You can verify this in a few lines of equations by following the previously described general rule.
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I've been explained that a vector field, when seen as "arrows" in the plane, has 0 divergence when its magnitude doesn't change, i.e. when the "arrows" keep same length. But the following examples puzzle me:
$F(x)=x/|x|$ has always norm 1 but its divergence is not 0
$F(x)=x/|x|^2$ has not constant norm but its divergence is 0
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Amy Welin is priest-in-charge at church on Waterbury Green
|The Rev. Amy Welin blesses children's backpacks at St. John's Episcopal Church on the Waterbury Green. Ana María Arellano / Republican-American
Welin became priest-in-charge at St. John's on Sept. 1. She had been working as interim rector of Trinity Church in Torrington and says she thought her Spanish was not good enough to apply at St. John's, which was looking for a bilingual priest. She said Bishop James Curry, one of the two suffragan Episcopal bishops of Connecticut, encouraged her to consider St. John's.
"Amy Welin is the ideal priest for this parish because of her urban experience, her ability to speak Spanish, and her tremendous enthusiasm for including people of all backgrounds and needs," Curry said.
Welin, 55, of Seymour has faced struggles before. A New Jersey native who was raised Catholic, Welin has held a number of jobs, including that of a pastoral associate at a suburban Roman Catholic Church near Detroit. She says she loved her job, but " was frustrated by the stained glass ceiling that affected me because of my sex." Welin was received into the Episcopal Church, which ordains women as priests, in 1997. In 2004, the Fordham University graduate was ordained an Episcopal priest and served as an associate priest at St. Paul's, Riverside in Greenwich from 2004-2006, before leading Christ Church, Ansonia from 2006-2011, and then becoming the interim priest at Trinity.
In 1999, two years after joining the Episcopal church to pursue her dream of becoming a priest, her first husband, John Koch, died of a brain tumor, leaving her with four young children. She put herself through Divinity School while raising the children, graduating in 2004. "I don't believe in things being simple and rosy. I believe that it's when we're in the middle of suffering, we are closest to God," says Welin, "Experiences like these are part of me when I minister to others."
St. John's on the Green has a long history of ministering to the people of Waterbury. Founded in the beginning of the 18th century, more recently it was the home of many wealthy manufacturers during Waterbury's industrial heyday. As manufacturing left the city, so did the industrialists who were members of St. John's. The parish struggled for a new identity as the city lost its wealthy industrial base.
In 2006, responding to the growth of Hispanics in the city, the church began offering a Eucharist service entirely in Spanish at noon on Sundays. The priest who first led the service, Rev. Armando González, was a fluent in Spanish, but wasn't confident in his English. He retired last December, and none of the interim rectors who led the Eucharist knew Spanish. They depended on deacon Michael Carroll, who is fluent, to lead most of the service. However, as a deacon, he may not lead the consecration. There had not yet been a rector regularly officiating at all the services at St. John's that spoke English and Spanish.
Welin now leads all the services, with about 210 people attending each Sunday. Between 30 and 40 attend at the Spanish service. She says she is determined to improve her Spanish.
Amantina Urbano, who regularly attends the service in Spanish, says, "Since I speak no English, Amy Welin is difficult for me to understand. Yet I can sense the joy that she has in leading Eucharist. And I can tell she loves the church, and a great feeling for us."
Ana González, who is a bilingual parishioner as well as the parish administrator, says, "Rev. Welin wants us to correct her Spanish, whether at work or at the service, so that she will learn more." Pagán observes "she uses a word here and there that we have to correct, but the same thing happens to us (Spanish speakers) as we are learning English."
Welin inaugurated her ministry by holding a single Sunday Eucharist in both languages followed by a community potluck.
"It's one thing to believe (the importance) of welcome as a priest; another thing to have an opportunity to be in a parish where that really is how it envisions itself and lives out its life," says Welin.
The Rev. Sandy Stayner, now rector at St. Peter's in nearby Cheshire, who was Rector at the Yale Divinity School when Welinwas a student, says "One thing I know for sure. Amy is led by the Spirit."
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5 Classic Movies That Ruined Their Makers' Careers
The dream of every artist is to create something that touches the lives of people for generations to come, and to become disgustingly rich in the process. Unfortunately, this second part doesn't always work out so well in show business -- in fact, sometimes the same successful movies that the artists worked so hard to make end up ruining their lives.
So before you quit your day job and move to LA, let us tell you about the filmmakers who put their blood, sweat, and tears into something great, only to be rewarded with nothing but a middle finger.
#5. Life of Pi Bankrupted the Special Effects Studio
Rhythm & Hues/Fox 2000 Pictures/20th Century Fox
Life of Pi is the philosophical journey of a teenager stranded in the middle of the ocean with a tiger. It's not hard to see why, for a long time, the novel was considered unfilmable -- obviously, director Ang Lee couldn't just put a real tiger on a boat with an actor, and the last time he did a movie with an all-digital character, it didn't go so well.
Against all odds, Life of Pi was released in 2012 and turned out to be critically and commercially successful. A huge part of that was thanks to the work of visual effects company Rhythm & Hues, who animated the fully digital tiger and, well, everything else. Without them, Life of Pi would be the story of a half-naked guy standing in the middle of a water tank.
Rhythm & Hues/Fox 2000 Pictures/20th Century Fox
Still looks better than Hulk.
The Damage:
Even though the movie grossed over $600 million and won four Academy Awards (including special effects), Rhythm & Hues went bankrupt shortly after its release. Remember during the Oscars ceremony when that one guy tried to say something but got cut off by the theme from Jaws, and everyone laughed? Yeah, he was trying to tell you that the same company that created those impressive visuals is now in the gutter.
Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images
Probably should have started with that part.
How is this possible? Well, it's mainly because visual effects is a flawed industry with a business model that is impossible to succeed in. In order to save money, movie studios tend to contract VFX companies on a "fixed fee," meaning that after a certain amount of takes, the VFX guys are forced to cover the costs. So, when an unfilmable picture like Life of Pi requires extra work, the visual companies end up "paying for the movie." In the end, Rhythm & Hues didn't see a penny from those $600 million.
Rhythm & Hues/Fox 2000 Pictures/20th Century Fox
"No, no, do it again! What part of 'whiskers that flow like air from the shrubs' don't you get?"
R&H isn't the only company in this situation -- remember how the Hologram Tupac company went under? This is an ongoing trend. Working at a visual effects company is apparently one of the worst jobs in Hollywood, slightly behind the guy who shaves Adam Sandler's pubes. The working conditions are grueling, the teams are forced to work several all-nighters and never earn overtime, the jobs have no benefits or retirement plans. On top of that, they have to compete with foreign studios subsidized by their governments.
So why does anyone still work in visual effects, then? According to VFX veteran Scott Ross, many of these guys aren't doing it for the money, but because they're geeked out about getting to work on Star Wars or Avatar.
Lucasfilm/20th Century Fox
"Yep, this was worth it."
#4. Charlie Chaplin's Greatest Film Got Him Kicked Out of the Country
Charles Chaplin Film Corporation/United Artists
In The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin was making fun of Hitler before making fun of Hitler was cool (that's what Adolf gets for stealing Chaplin's mustache). The movie was a huge financial success, and it's been said that it even "helped shape American public opinion in favor of the war." Today it's widely considered to be Chaplin's masterpiece -- the epic four-minute speech at the end still sounds relevant 70 years later.
The Damage:
Sure, the film gained Chaplin the acclaim of most of the public, but it also got him the attention of the FBI, who labeled him a "premature anti-fascist" for daring to rally people up against the Nazis. History would side with Chaplin on that one, but at the time, this was the beginning of the end for his career -- he was called to testify in front of a Senate subcommittee, and once his left-wing views became known, conservative journalists started calling him an anti-American commie. His next movie, Monsieur Verdoux, was a commercial flop, and was actually booed on its opening night.
First National/Warner Home Video
They couldn't prove he actually ate babies, but they couldn't prove he didn't, either.
Meanwhile, Chaplin was being investigated by the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee, and his sex scandals didn't help his reputation a whole lot. When Chaplin went to London for the premiere of his next film, Limelight, the U.S. kindly invited him to stay in Europe indefinitely by revoking his passport, effectively exiling him from the country. Limelight was heavily boycotted by the American public and pulled from most movie theaters before people could actually see if there was any commie propaganda in it. America wanted nothing to do with Chaplin, and at this point, the feeling was mutual: He vowed never to return and continued making movies in Europe.
Attica Film Company
Original title: Giant Chaplin Farts on New York.
Chaplin did win an Academy Award for Limelight ... in 1973, when the government was too busy beating up hippies and breaking into hotels to give a crap if some retired comedian came back to the country. Because of the boycott, the movie never played for longer than a week in Los Angeles back when it first came out, so the Academy was able to put it up for consideration on a technicality and gave Chaplin his apology Oscar, plus a record-breaking 12-minute "We're really, really sorry" standing ovation.
#3. It's a Wonderful Life Destroyed the Director's Career
Liberty Films/RKO Radio Pictures
It's a Wonderful Life is one of the most watched movies ever -- it was seen by 5.6 million viewers last Christmas Eve alone, because watching the damned thing for the 20th time is still better than looking at your drunk uncle arguing politics with a lamp. It's also by far the best known film in the career of one of the most respected directors in classic Hollywood, Frank Capra.
See? IMDb wouldn't lie to us.
The Damage:
Too bad the film destroyed Capra's career. Before It's a Wonderful Life, Capra was one of the biggest names in Hollywood, and people "flocked to the theaters" to see his movies. Capra had so much influence that in 1945, he and other directors founded one of the first independent studios ever, Liberty Films. It's a Wonderful Life was the first movie Capra released through Liberty ... and the last, because the "beloved holiday classic" actually bankrupted the studio.
Liberty Films/RKO Radio Pictures
And that's why you've never seen this logo in any other movie.
We've pointed out before that the movie was originally a box office disappointment and only became a Christmas tradition by accident (someone forgot to renew the copyright and it went into the public domain). The film was expensive as hell to make, and when it didn't even make back its budget, it crippled Liberty Films and forced it to be sold off or face bank foreclosure. Capra called it "fatal to my professional career," as most of his future films would be low budget or on TV.
According to one of Jimmy Stewart's biographers, studios learned through It's a Wonderful Life "that Capra was no longer capable of turning out the kind of populist features that made his films the must-see money-making events they once were." Sure, his idealistic films had helped Americans pull through the Great Depression, but now that that was over, those things seemed corny as hell (even to 1940s audiences).
As if that wasn't bad enough, the film also got Capra in trouble with the FBI -- they sent out a memo calling it communist, and, like Charlie Chaplin, Capra was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee, because apparently back then everything else ran so smoothly that the feds had nothing better to do than complain about movies and call everyone a communist.


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Toni Morrison (1993)
Toni Morrison is an American writer. Her fiction is noted for its poetic language, lush detail, emotional intensity, and sensitive observation of American life as viewed from a variety of African-American perspectives. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), is the story of a girl ruined by a racist society and its violence. Song of Solomon (1977; National Book Award) established her as one of America's leading novelists. It concerns a middle-class man who achieves self-knowledge through the discovery of his rural black heritage. Her later fiction includes Beloved (1987; Pulitzer Prize), a powerful account of mother love, murder, and the legacy of slavery.
Fun Fact: Morrison was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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We'll keep it for now CP
Woohoo 1st edit
I don't think he edited anything. I couldn't find anything anyway.
No, where was it, Im useless at this wiki stuff
Never mind, I found it. It's in the Steam article.
Well done Dean, good stuff... good to see more users taking part.
Cool, this could be succesful at this rate
Should be added to the links thread imo
PM Neji, he will sort it out
Ok, you can see more updates to the MLS page, like a few more pictures to make it colourful and all.
I've added articles on Sports Interactive & Football Manager 2009. Feel free to add to them.
I will write some more articles todasy and then, post them up tonight.
Any ideas for articles would be helpful.
I will do one on:
Wonderkids(Already Done)
CA(Already Done)
PA(Already Done)
Third-Party Programs
CM01/02 - Brief History etc.
Preston North End Team Guide
Shakhtar Team Guide
Redditch Team Guide
Could someone tell me the criteria for a wonderkid?
I think I know what it is but I would like it verified.
More suggestions would be welcome.
Can someone give me the URL for the website as i am about to start doing a L2 guide. Aslo, is anyone willing to help me do this.
Cheers in advance
Football Manager wiki
I can't help you hamilton, I don't have a clue when it comes to League 2.
Don't worry, i can do it by myself, but it will just take time. Anyone else willing/able to help and please state what you can help me with.
Cheers for the URL though ahmufcwafc
How do you link articles to the front page? I've just done one on how to solve .xml passing errors when the game launches.
Edit this page > In the editor thing that pops up, click the insert link icon > select you article in 'page name'. It should pop up on the screen. Now you just have to put it in it's appropriate area.
I don't see your xml article anywhere.
Cheers ahmufcwafc
No problem. I can't see it anywhere, have you put it up yet?
Yeah, just put it up now
Do you mind if I add a little to your xml parsing error article? Copying & pasting what you said won't work for non-Steam users. Thanks again
No problem ahmufcwafc, feel free to add useful info to it. The site is supposed to give the best instructions around
Yeah, I actually had a lot less to add than I thought. It was only one line
Hahaha, oh well, any extra info is great. I will see if i can spot the edit
If you didn't use Steam: "C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\fm.exe" --reset_preferences
That's what you added isn't it?
Looks like a great idea.
Can you help me out with any League 2 info moj? Help is needed URGENTLY!! Tell me which clubs you can help with
Cheers in advance to everyone who helps
I have.
I can't actually find anywhere that says "the correct term is now FREDs"- there was one in the old GPTG FAQs, but it's gone
Little bit off-topic, but what is the difference between newgens & FRED's?
A FRED is a player that is generated randomly by the game at the start of every season. A newgen is a player that was created by the game to replace an old player who had retired in the older versions of the game. Hope that helps ahmufcwafc
No problem ahmufcwafc. What does your name stand for anyway. I got the Witton Albion bit, but what is the rest?
Good to see it is all growing and thank you all for putting things in the Wiki
Cheers Alan. Nice Witton Albion joke. How do you change your location, i can't seem to be able to do it?
User CP > Edit your details
Just been reading through the following;
Near the bottom is;
That isn't right, is it? I thought that if you are buying the player and include a friendly in the deal, you have no responsility over organising this friendly - it is up to them to organise it, it's just that you have to accept it.Arrange Friendly
You must arrange a friendly with the club you are buying from.
Correct me if I'm wrong
Regarding team guides, there are quite a few team guides in the GPTG. If you like, I can get in contact with as many of the posters of them as I can, and ask for permission to use their guides for this. Could save quite a lot of time making something that is already made
Ok then, I'll ask HoPeY or purefun permission to make a thread there asking for permission, as it would be quicker than PM'ing them. If they say no, I will PM the posters.
Thanks mate, appreciated.
K, I've PM'ed HoPeY asking for permission, hoping he says yes but I would understand if he doesn't want a thread about it.
Will let you know what he says.
hey jod me and you can team up and make a few irish articles
Yeah, can you find a few League 2 Articles. I can do Wycombe Wanderers as i support them fanatically, but help with the others would be much appreciated.
HoPeY has given me permission to make a thread there, asking for permission. Am going to make it now, and hopefully there should be a lot of people who are alright with it.
I don't know if anything from the GPTG FAQ could be used, theres a couple of things in there that could be useful in this I think;
Work Permits, CA/PA, Affiliated clubs, key attributes for players, and possibly accronyms
would all be perfect in my opinion.
I've added a "Premiership Club" section under the "leagues" heading so we can put all the prem club threads there.
Dumbass question here, how do I add a page to a certain section?
jod, you like my location?
Hamilton robbed my location... grr
Technically, it isn't the same though Peter
I win I win
No, I WIN, I WIN
Be careful lads, the last thing we want is for this thread to be closed.
My location owns yours all day, every day
Wiki is doing great, would even link it at the top of GD, all the links there are out of date.
Changed it peter Better than yours now I win, i win
I beat you jod, how does it feel to lose
Here is the Arsenal one, is it alright?;
Could you guys get back to the topic in hand please? Like Alan says that last thing we want is that this thread gets closed because of off topic rubbish
Unless you mean you have managed to help a person when I was busy doing an exam.
EDIT: Anyway as ftg said above, let's forget about it in this thread. Glad you beat me.
Fair enough ftg, just having a bit of friendly banter
I've put it up, can someone check it for me to see if it works please?
Yeah, it works all right arsenal 2111
Added some info into the screenshots thread, hope it is helpful.
Yeah, I made the EPL club things for the club threads.
Yep, put it in the Premiership section as the site needs to be organised properly so people can access it