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HANNIBAL - State tax breaks could be part of a plan to keep the Ormet Corp. Primary Aluminum Reduction Plant operational beyond this year, as the company faces electric bills that may increase by about $20 million per year.
"The last thing this area needs is to lose more jobs," said Tom Byers, president of United Steelworkers Local 5724 at Ormet, confirming that 102 union workers received layoff notices last month.
He said 10 of these workers have since returned to the job, but a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice the company filed this summer states Ormet may lay off nearly 1,000 employees by the end of this year. Declining market conditions are part of the reason Ormet may need to cease operations, but the main problem seems to be the recent ruling by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that will allow American Electric Power to increase Ormet's electric bills by about $20 million per year.
"We are doing everything we can to make sure people know how important it is to keep this plant going," Byers said. "We are reaching out to (Ohio) Gov. John Kasich to see if there is anything he can do."
Byers said he collected more than 2,500 signatures for a petition and accompanying letter that he mailed to Kasich in seeking the governor's help to find a solution for Ormet.
"Ormet is by far the largest employer and tax contributor in rural Monroe County. To lose these jobs would be devastating. Please get involved and do all you can to preserve our jobs and our communities," the letter to Kasich reads.
Kasich's representative directed questions concerning Ormet to JobsOhio, a private, non-profit entity created by Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly last year to "lead the state's economic development efforts." It lists the desire to "attract and retain" jobs as some of its business.
"Ormet sent us a proposal earlier in the year with some ideas, but we did not feel we could go along with that at the time," said JobsOhio spokeswoman Laura Jones. "They have sent in a new proposal, and we are reviewing that proposal."
Though Jones said she could not discuss the specifics of the Ormet plan, Jones said tax breaks and "incentives" could be part of such a proposal.
PUCO spokesman Jason Gilham said the electric rate matter is resolved at this point, but said any change in the power costs for Ormet would have to be approved by his office.
Ormet Chief Executive Office Mike Tanchuk could not be reached for comment regarding the status of the plant Tuesday.
Last month, Ormet issued an additional WARN notice for 250 employees at the company's Burnside, La., aluminum refinery. These reductions come primarily because of the shutdown of two of the six potlines at Hannibal.
As Ormet moves forward, the aluminum producer has hired Evercore Partners to help determine its long-term course of action. According to the firm's website, Evercore handles "mergers and acquisitions; divestitures and restructurings." A potential divestiture would involve selling some of the company's assets. As part of Ormet's 2004 bankruptcy filing, the company closed and sold its former rolling mill to the south of the reduction plant.
"We are just hoping for the best," Byers said. "You are always going to have fluctuations in the aluminum market, but the electricity costs are a bigger issue."


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From that day, KBTX was broadcasting at full power on a 400-foot antenna located behind the station. Our studios and business offices are still located at the original location, but things on East 29th Street have changed dramatically. The building has gone through multiple additions, and that small dead-in dirt road has changed into a major corridor for traffic linking Bryan and College Station. Engineering work was done on the creek (now known as Carter Creek), and where there was a dead end now is a bridge connecting Bryan and College Station. Where once our studios stood alone, we now have major retail and business development surrounding us as business neighbors. In our 50-year history, KBTX-TV has remained the Brazos Valley's television news leader.
Network Affiliation & The Brand
KBTX-TV has been a CBS affiliate since its debut in 1957. In fact, in the early years, KBTX was a duel CBS and ABC affiliate selecting the best shows from both networks. When we expanded our coverage area, we had to choose between the two networks. In 1984, KBTX became an exclusive CBS affiliate.
From the very first day the station began broadcasting, the importance of news in the lives of Brazos Valley viewers became clear. The station's commitment and dedication to responsible reporting and community involvement became a core part of our mission statement and continues today. Our long history of reporting fair and accurate local news, weather and sports is echoed today in our slogan: "The People You Know, The News You Trust."
A Leader In Broadcasting for the Brazos Valley
Not only was KBTX the first television station in the Brazos Valley, but KBTX was the first television station capable of color transmission and use of videotape, and was the first television station in the Brazos Valley to use color news film. KBTX was the first to cover live news, sports and weather, as well as community events using remote live trucks with cameras and out-of-studio editing equipment.
To bring more in-depth coverage of community events, benefits and newsmakers, KBTX developed and produced the first magazine show called "Town Talk". In addition, the first Doppler radar, the first 24-hour television station, and the first to broadcast digital HDTV are also among the impressive list of firsts in the Brazos Valley from KBTX.
Knowing how important weather information is to the Brazos Valley, KBTX made a commitment to provide important weather information fast. In 1992, Doppler radar technology came to KBTX, showing viewers where it was raining, wind velocity, and the projected path of severe storms. Since then, the KBTX meteorologists use FastTrack to provide the most accurate weather forecasting in the Brazos Valley.
The KBTX news team has also received prestigious awards for news that includes: AP Award "Best Spot News Reporting" for Aggie Bonfire Collapse 1999, and a Telly Award for Aggie Game Day in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
A More Powerful Television Signal
On Thursday, October 14, 1983 at 6 p.m., KBTX turned on its new transmitter to provide clearer reception for a larger portion of the Brazos Valley. Installation of a new antenna and 1,700-foot tower was completed in mid-August in Carlos, TX., about 16 miles southeast of Bryan-College Station. The original date to have the new equipment in operation was September 1, but was delayed because Hurricane Alicia took aim at the upper Texas Coast and the eye moved over the tower on August 18, 1983. Other than delaying start-up, the tower weathered the storm with no problems. The new tower and antenna nearly doubled the coverage area for KBTX, going from approximately 89,000 homes to 179,000 homes.
The People, The Programs, The History
Many former employees still call KBTX home because of the memories made here and the friendships that were developed. KBTX is proud to have launched many successful careers in broadcasting.
While today's technological advancements have made the creation and airing of commercials easy, it was not always the case. In the beginning there was no tape, editing, or post-production. All commercials were done live from the studio. Some of the original advertisers on KBTX were Orrs Supermarket, Conlee Moving Company, and Joe Faulk's Auto Parts.
Over the last 50 years, many memorable moments have occurred at KBTX and on the air. A youngster playing with a B.B. gun shot our transmitter relay in Calvert, taking the station off the air during our very first televised college football game on New Years Day. Many celebrities and politicians (including Robert F. Kennedy) have been interviewed in our studios. The past also brings sadness when we remember the early morning of November 18, 1999 when Aggie Bonfire collapsed, killing 12. KBTX became a hub for information during those long hours of confusion and disbelief.
The people that were a part of the many events that happened during our 50 years of broadcasting will forever be remembered.
Community Outreach
From the beginning in 1957, KBTX took the initiative to make a commitment to the community and to public service. It has been an on-going campaign to help charitable organizations, no matter how big or small. From public affairs programs and public service advertising to employees making a commitment of their time, KBTX has made helping others a priority. Many public service campaigns have been developed to raise awareness for issues ranging from health care and culture to diversity and civic issues. Among the many programs and initiatives that KBTX has been a part of over the last 50 years are:
The Web
In 1996, KBTX purchased the web address KBTX.com. With the growth of on-line commerce, information, and entertainment, KBTX.com has become the #1 source for local news, weather and sports in the Brazos Valley. Streaming video content, access to community events and information, interactive content, and station promotions continue to be the driving force of the success of KBTX.com. In 2006, KBTX purchased the rights to CWBCS.com for the new digital channel CW-BCS.
The New Age of Television: High Definition
KBTX is proud to be the first commercial television station in the Brazos Valley to broadcast in High Definition Television (HDTV). KBTX-DT first went on the air on Thursday, August 28, 2003. HDTV is a digital signaled sent over the airwaves to be received in your home with a digital television or a digital receiver that will convert the output to be displayed on your current television. KBTX-DT is broadcast on channel 50 but will be displayed as channel 3.1 on your television. This broadcast can be divided into multiple sub-channels, such as 3.1 and 3.2. This is a much clearer and more detailed picture than what you have been accustomed to watching.
Launch of a New Digital Station
On January 23, 2006, KBTX launched a brand new digital television station in the market. It is known officially as KBTX-DT 50-2. This is broadcast over the air along with our CBS signal from our 1,700 foot tower in Carlos. The network affiliation began as UPN, but only 18 hours after launch, the network announced the folding of UPN and its competitor, The WB. CBS and Warner Brother-Tribune merged the two networks and announced the formation of a brand new network with a new name: the CW Network. After re-applying, KBTX was granted the new affiliation and we officially launched CW-Bryan College Station on September 18, 2006.
CW-Bryan-College Station is programmed locally with classic television until 1 p.m. and a mix of syndicated programming throughout the afternoon and late evening. Prime time programming comes from The CW Network, and the popular syndicated franchise "Oprah" is repeated at 9 p.m. to finish out the prime time line up. In its first year, CW-BCS acquired the rights to Big 12 Basketball, Houston Astros and Texas Rangers games, and Dallas Mavericks basketball. We also negotiated prime cable channel placement on Suddenlink Cable Channel 8 in Bryan-College Station, as well as other cable channel carriage in Robertson, Madison, and Burleson counties.
KBTX has only had two owners in its 50 years on the air. Originally, KBTX was owned by Brazos Broadcasting Inc. This corporation was made up of local investors (Frank Seale, Brazos Varisco, John M. Lawrence III, Harry Gillam, W.C. "Scrip" Mitchell, and M.N. "Buddy" Bostick), as well as a group of investors in KWTX Broadcasting from Waco. The founding investor in KWTX and KBTX was M.N. "Buddy" Bostick, who handpicked Harry Gillam to become the first General Manager of KBTX. Before coming to Bryan, Gillam was an advertising sales executive at KWTX-TV in Waco. Gillam remained as General Manager until his death in November 1986.
In 1999, Gray Television purchased KBTX and continues to own and operate this station, as well as 34 other broadcast operations totaling 70 television stations throughout the United States.

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New Blood, Actual Hope
American tennis fans are likely feeling a lot of emotions after Sloane Stephens beat Serena Williams at the Australian Open and became the first American teen to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since Williams was 19. Surprise. Excitement. Intrigue. And most of all, relief.
It's amazing—mind boggling, really—that it took 11-plus years and 45 Grand Slam tournaments for another American teen to reach this stage. Until now, no young American could even challenge Williams.
Before the 19-year-old Stephens's victory Wednesday, Williams had played 13 matches against younger Americans in her career and had won them all, losing just one set.
As much as that says about Williams's prolonged greatness—she won her first major in 1999, at age 17—it says more about the failings of every American player since. Those 13 matches came against nine different players, and only one of them has broken into the Top 20 (Varvara Lepchenko, whose highest rank is No. 19). Five of them never even cracked the Top 60.
"No one has been able to fill [Serena's] shoes," said Tracy Austin, who ended Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay in 1979 when she was 16, and beat Evert in the U.S. Open final the same year. "I think finally—wow!—we can talk about the upside for women's tennis in the United States."
And there's more to the story than Stephens. Madison Keys, just 17, reached the third round in Australia and held her own against Angelique Kerber, ranked No. 5 in the world. Christina McHale, a scrappy 20-year-old who doesn't have the firepower of Stephens or Keys, has five wins against top 10 players, including one against Caroline Wozniacki when she was ranked No. 1 in the world. Last year, Taylor Townsend finished the season as the top-ranked junior in the world and led the U.S. to a victory in the junior Fed Cup team competition.
It gets better: All four of these players are personable, likable and have very different styles of play, from Stephen's defensive-minded power to Keys's offense to McHale's consistency to Townsend's volleys, touch and spins.
Now for the hard part for American fans: A bit more patience. As good as Stephens is now, she's not ready to take charge of the tennis world, no matter what happens in Australia.
Yes, she's powerful and incredibly fast, but she doesn't yet have the sort of dominating strokes that other young American stars had in their early years on the tour (Serena and Venus Williams, Lindsay Davenport and Jennifer Capriati were all superior attacking players at this age). Her forehand, excellent though it is, needs refinement. So does her serve.
Austin, who has watched Stephens closely and hit with her on occasion, has noticed that Stephens has started to make smarter tactical decisions in the past year, but says she could still do better.
"I still think that Sloane is raw and that there's a lot of room for improvement, and that's a compliment," Austin said. "She's thirsty for knowledge, she wants to learn."
Keys, of course, is young, and Townsend is younger than that. There's also the problem of everyone else in the world.
For the first time in years, women's tennis seems to be on the rise as a whole, not just in the U.S. There were 18 teenagers in the Australian Open draw this year, the most since Wimbledon in 2009, and there could be eight teens in the Top 100 after this tournament, up from a low of two at one point last year. Some of those youngsters look like they can't miss, especially Laura Robson, the 19-year-old Brit, and 16-year-old Donna Vekic from Croatia, the youngest player in the Australian Open field. (She lost in the second round.)
So for now, savor Stephens's moment—and try not to get too excited about when she'll do this again, because it could be a while. Unlike so many other American players in the last decade, at least she has a chance for greatness.


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What are some exercises or tips to help singers improve their breath support?
Here are three exercises I use with students:
Two excellent exercises involving making fricative sounds and feeling what's going on with belly muscles are on Jenevora Williams' page at: http://www.stephengoss.net/Jenevora/documents/Vocal_exercises.pdf (Linked as I can't pass them off as my own!)
As an aside, the 'accent method' (a process which originated from speech therapy exercises) has been appropriated by various singing teachers to help with breath support. I haven't trained in this myself, but I see there is a course available from the City Lit in London. A summary, with some exercises, is described in 'Singing and Teaching Singing: A Holistic Approach to Classical Voice' (Janice L. Chapman).
One "game" is to get a piece of paper and place it against a wall. You then have to keep it up for as long as possible using only your breath. Without any support, you just can't keep it there.
If you make this competitive - against other singers, or just against the clock - it could be a way to encourage improving support.
There are 2 devices that can be used to help exercise one's diaphragm. In alphabetical order, Expandalung and PowerLung. The Expandalung is aimed more at athletes and comes with 1 resistance range. The PowerLung comes in several different models with different ranges aimed at different activities (sports for one series, music/singing for another). The Expandalung is less expensive, but the PowerLung has versions aimed at folks who are not peak athletes.
Disclaimer: I own 2 PowerLungs. I thought I'd only get the most manly/strong one, but it turns out to be too much resistance, so I quit using it and got the one I should have got the first time. I live in Denver and with the altitude, I can get out of breath going up a few flights of stairs - which I am trying to change.


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EAST LIVERPOOL - Despite a slow start to the season, the East Liverpool football team found a way to go out on top.
The Potters capped a remarkable second half with their third straight victory on Friday, 41-12, against Weir High at Patterson Field.
The win finishes East Liverpool's season at 4-6 with the Potters taking claim to a 4-1 mark at home.
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FINALE — Weir High's JoJo Rice gains yardage during Friday's 41-12 loss at East Liverpool as the Red Riders finished 0-10. Rice scored Weir's final touchdown on a 98-yard kickoff return.
"The commitment we saw from our senior leaders was amazing," East Liverpool coach Rick Prescott said. "They have no idea what kind of impact they've made on me, the coaching staff and the entire team. We're moving in the right direction and it's because of them. They've sacrificed so much. Every single thing that we've asked of them, they've done. I couldn't be any prouder of them."
For the Red Riders, their season comes to an end without a win.
"Our guys could've packed it in any night," Weir coach Tony Filberto said. "I'm proud of them because they stayed in there and battled. It didn't convert into wins, but in the future they'll be able to look back and know they gave it their all."
The Potters controlled the game from the opening possession.
East Liverpool's Jimmy Beaver recovered a fumble on Weir's first drive of the game.
On the very next play - the Potters' first offensive snap of the night - senior quarterback Payton Newlun launched a 34-yard scoring strike to D.J. Austin to give his team a 6-0 lead in the game's first minute.
After a three-and-out for the Red Riders, the Potters would strike again.
This time it was senior tailback Stefan Yoho finding the end zone from three yards out to give East Liverpool a 13-0 advantage with four minutes left in the opening frame.
Yoho led all rushers with 128 yards and two touchdowns. He finishes the season with 918 yards rushing with 14 touchdowns.
"We've turned into a family this season," Prescott said. "They play so hard and they do it for each other. It speaks volumes to their character. It's made our jobs as coaches so much easier and more enjoyable. Attitude is everything and this group of guys, through thick and thin, good and bad, shows up to work every day."
The game stayed 13-0 in favor of the Potters until halftime neared.
That's when Yoho grabbed a punt at midfield and took it to the house to give his team a 20-0 lead with just under two minutes left.
Weir was not going to go quietly,however.
The Red Riders turned to Kameron Davis who found a seam and broke free for a 72-yard run down to the Potters' 4-yard line.
It took three tries, but eventually Eric Piatt found paydirt for Weir to put the score at 20-6 at the break.
"I feel bad for our seniors for their career that they never got to experience winning on a regular basis," Filberto said. "But, I think they'll be able to look back in a few years and realized that they set a good foundation here to build upon."
The first score of the second half came near the end of the third quarter when East Liverpool's John Miscuk pounded his way into the end zone from three yards out to give his squad a comfortable 27-6 lead with one minute left in the frame.
It wouldn't take long for the Potters to celebrate in the end zone again.
Kade Reynolds intercepted a Jake Wypsek pass and ran it to the Red Riders' 3-yard line. Newlun would cash in from a yard out and the Potters led 34-6 with 11 minutes left in the game.
Yoho would score East Liverpool's final points of the season on a 15-yard run.
On the ensuing kickoff, Weir's Jo Jo Rice found the sideline and was gone. A return of 95 yards for a touchdown put the game to its final score, 41-12.
The Red Riders had more than half of the 22 starting positions filled by freshmen and sophomores. Filberto, in his first year back with Weir, said the future is bright for his young team.
"I don't know what all of this playing time for them will equate to," Filberto said. "I don't know because (Oak Glen's) Preston Murray was the only freshman I've ever started before this year in my 35 years of coaching.
"We hope this experience for these young guys will convert into something positive."


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"One of the best books of the year"— Amazon editors
"If Julia Child Had a Korean Cousin"— The New York Times
Where do you buy your Korean cooking ingredients?
Add your local store to the Korean grocery store directory and help others find good places to shop!
We have shops in many countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, UAE, the UK, the USA and online.


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I remember about a photography documentary seen some time ago. The photographer published a book containing an entire road/boulevard. I can't remember the name of the artist. Do you know about such a work?
The book is called Twentysix Gasoline Stations and it was done by Ed Ruscha. It contains 2,5 miles from a Sunset Boulevard area called The Strip. This was done with a automatic camera mounted on a truck. All these were shown in the documentary called "The Genius of Photography".
Perhaps it was Biscayne Boulevard "A Moment in Time" by Andrew Kaufman.


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An Indian participates in a candle-lit vigil to mourn the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. Indian police charged six men with murder on Saturday, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped the woman on a New Delhi bus nearly two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country. The murder charges were laid after the woman died earlier Saturday in a Singapore hospital where she has been flown for treatment. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)


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As a web designer building a shopping cart for the iPad, I find the lack of down and click states difficult.
What's a good way without raising a confirmation pop up or something terrible and ugly to convey to an iPad user that he has clicked something?
The buttons are not INPUT elements, but are styled DIV's with background images.


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WOONSOCKET, R.I. - CVS Caremark Corp. said Friday it will pay $1.25 billion to buy Universal American Corp.'s Medicare prescription drug services unit. The deal will more than double the size of the chain's Medicare drug business.
CVS said it pursued the deal because with the country's population aging, a growing percentage of Americans will get their prescription drug coverage from Medicare.
Universal American serves about 1.9 million people in the Medicare Part D federally subsidized prescription benefit program for Medicare recipients, while CVS serves 1.2 million.
CVS said the deal is expected to close in second quarter 2011 and will add to its earnings per share within a year. The agreement is contingent on approval by Universal American shareholders.


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5 Insane Pop Culture Crossovers That Almost Happened
While The Avengers might have had the most characters from other franchises all converging in one place, fictional crossovers are hardly anything new. But it's a tricky business -- even if two franchises share the same fans, that doesn't mean it makes any goddamned sense for the characters to show up in the same universe. Still, some absolutely insane crossovers came extremely close to happening. Like ...
#5. Ghost Rider Was to Switch Places With Casper the Friendly Ghost
That is not a parody headline.
Casper the Friendly Ghost was a mild-mannered little sprite with enough innocuous charm to go around. In his Harvey Comics series, he would get into harmless adventures without any real consequences, like finding a lost dog or some goddamned thing like that. This is not to be confused with Ghost Rider, the Marvel Comics character and Nicolas Cage charity, which is a demon with a flaming skull that feeds on the souls of evil men and screams through the night on a haunted motorcycle.
Wait, the character or Nic Cage?
For some insane reason, comic book writer Ivan Velez Jr. pitched the idea of a Casper/Ghost Rider crossover to both Marvel and the makers of Casper with a full outline, possibly to silence the howling banshees in his mind. Velez imagined a scenario in which an evil villain replaces Richie Rich's father and shakes up the Harvey Comics universe so badly that Wendy the Witch casts a spell to bolster Casper's powers (what powers he possesses beyond being a joyless specter of our own mortality remains unclear).
At any rate, Wendy apparently casts too much magic and accidentally summons Ghost Rider, transporting Casper to a heroin-soaked puddle in Hell's Kitchen in his place. Casper somehow manages to thwart a bank robber, while Ghost Rider presumably rules the Harvey universe until the two finally switch places again, leaving behind a legion of young Casper fans with a literary shell-shocking usually reserved for Watership Down and Old Yeller.
"Wendy ... the shit I've seen ... the shit I've done ..."
How We Were Spared
Marvel signed off on Velez's pitch, because as the fire-peeing scene in the latest Ghost Rider movie clearly demonstrated, they do not give one single shit about making the character look ridiculous. Harvey, perhaps fearful of how fans of Casper and Richie Rich would react to a tortured servant of the devil suddenly appearing in the pages of their comics, decided to pass.
We should mention that this wasn't far removed from another batshit insane crossover premise that actually made it to print, when Archie of Archie Comics crossed paths with the Punisher, who sticks an Uzi in Archie's face while they both lament their current situation.
Frank Castle's lament takes the form of unprovoked murder.
#4. Rocky Balboa Almost Joined G.I. Joe
In 1986, Hasbro decided that Rocky Balboa would be a perfect addition to the G.I. Joe universe, despite the fact that Rocky is a palsy-stricken boxer who seemed to have just enough brains to get punched in the face, and G.I. Joe is a fictional military force populated by what were essentially superheroes with billion-dollar weapon systems.
The G.I. Joe movie compromised by casting Channing Tatum.
G.I. Joe had done celebrity crossovers before, with the likes of wrestler Sergeant Slaughter and NFL lineman William "The Refrigerator" Perry (however, unlike those undulating piles of Man Jell-O, Stallone is one of the few human beings built exactly like an action figure). Talks apparently went well enough that Balboa popped up in a Marvel G.I. Joe comic, getting a dossier card complete with "facts" that include a clever mention of being the Joes' boxing instructor (which is bizarre, considering that most hand-to-hand combat doesn't seem all that useful when G.I. Joe battles were fought in vehicles so dense with laser cannons that there was barely room for a driver).
The promotional art for the Rocky Balboa figure even depicted him wielding his planned signature weapon: a stick with two boxing gloves attached to it, a weapon that virtually guarantees that Adrian will be receiving a tightly folded American flag.
"I ... shouldn't I have a gun? I feel like I should have a gun."
How We Were Spared
After a prototype action figure had been sculpted, Stallone's reps came to Hasbro demanding more money, citing the superstar's white-hot 1980s marketability (the arm wrestling vehicle Over the Top hadn't come out yet). Having grown accustomed to compensating Sergeant Slaughter and the Fridge with chocolate pies and insulin, Hasbro backed out of the deal.
#3. Quantum Leap Was to Leap into Magnum, P.I.
For those of you too young to remember the '80s and '90s, Quantum Leap starred Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett, a physicist who time traveled by occupying different people's bodies throughout history, correcting mistakes or otherwise preventing disasters to change their future for the better.
As seen here.
Magnum, P.I. was a show about Tom Selleck solving mysteries while wearing Bermuda shorts and a mustache.
Or, more commonly, just a mustache.
Quantum Leap was best described as a "cult hit," a phrase which here means "financial liability." In an effort to try to gain viewers before NBC replaced it with a Golden Girls spinoff, Donald P. Bellisario, the producer responsible for both shows, hatched a plan to have Sam Beckett quantum leap into Magnum's body. Magnum, P.I. had been an enormously popular show throughout the '80s but had ended its run a few years prior, so the idea (despite being terrible) was completely doable, and might bring in old Magnum fans and convert them into Leap viewers.
The problem here is that the fans of Quantum Leap and the fans of Magnum, P.I. sat on opposite ends of the proverbial high school lunchroom. Leap was a science fiction show about a handsome nerd that frequently dressed its main character up like a woman and occasionally bridged over into the paranormal. Magnum was a show about an awesome dude who drove a sports car, beat the shit out of people and had sex with all of the vaginas in Hawaii. It would be hard to convince Magnum, P.I. fans to tune in to watch some geek in a Tom Selleck costume parade around on the corpse of their favorite television show.
"You think you put on the mustache and suddenly you're Magnum? You have to earn that mustache!"
Also, unless the episode was about Sam Beckett leaping into Magnum's mustache (which we would watch forever), we have to believe that the first five minutes would be devoted entirely to Scott Bakula in a Tommy Bahama shirt violently punching himself in the head as Magnum rebelled against having his body controlled by a time-shifting dweeb.
How We Were Spared
Despite promises from NBC that Quantum Leap would end its fourth season in 1992 with Sam Beckett jumping into Magnum, P.I., apparently no one bothered to inform Tom Selleck -- his publicist denied any knowledge of the deal. Additionally, Bellisario scrapped the idea when he realized that there was studio interest in a Magnum feature film (although the subsequent two and half decades of no Magnum movie seem to suggest that nobody told Tom Selleck about that one, either).
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The Geneseo Environmental Organization (GEO) is sponsoring a Regenerative Energy Symposion on Saturday, April 21. The event is free and open to the public.
Morning Session - Wadsworth Auditorium
8:00-9:30 AM: Registration
Coffee, tea and light pastries will be available
8:30 - 9:30 AM: Jordan Kleiman: - Fracking: What it is, Where it came from, and Why we Should be Concerned
Dr. Kleiman will give a brief history of hydrofracking, debunk its industry promoted truths, discuss its environmental and public health impacts, regulation & a brief history of federal exemptions for its industries - placing regulatory responsibility on the states. He also may discuss the economic impacts of hydrofracking. Dr. Kleiman is one of our very own history professors at SUNY Geneseo.
10:30 - 11:30 AM: Peter Bardaglio - Community Engagement in the Age of Climate Change
Dr. Bardaglio will discuss how higher education can partner with the community to take a stand for renewable/regenerative energy. Peter Bardaglio is a senior fellow at Second Nature, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing sustainability in higher education. Co‐author of Boldly Sustainable: Hope and Opportunity for Higher Education in the Age of Climate Change (2009), he is the coordinator of the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative, a multisector effort in the Ithaca, NY area to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
11:30 AM -12:30 PM: Lunch
Sponsored by CAS
Afternoon Session - Welles 24 and 26
12:30 - 1:30 PM: Martin Casstevens - Entrepreneurship as it Applies to Solving Energy or Sustainability Challenges
Mr. Casstevens is the Business Formation and Commercialization Manager at the University of Buffalo. He also has been and is the director of Directed Energy, a NYSERDA funded organization facilitating the emergence and growth of an alternative energy technology and business cluster in Western NY. His talk is focused on empowering students to innovate and build careers within the green energy market.
1:30 - 2:30 PM: John McCreery - Passive Housing; How to Bring Sustainability Home
Mr. McCreary, the founder of What Art, will be speaking about Passive House (PH) Institute US metrics and design methodology. PH metrics are redefining building energy consumption performance standards the world over and offer an alternative strategy to our dependence on fossil fuel generated electrical power for building heating and cooling. He will show the potential impact of adopting PH metrics on our fuel use. As such a large population, homeowners have an incredibly large carbon footprint; this can be decreased greatly if the homeowners of America implement such practices.


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I'm going nuts.
All I have is a simple loop on the home page of the site (which is a static page), and it should show the most recent (1) post of a certain category. The trouble is no matter what i do, it seems including category parameter makes sorting by date not work.
This is the loop I am using:
$announcements = new WP_Query();
while ( $announcements->have_posts() ) : $announcements->the_post();
The oldest post always shows up when using this. I have tried adding
&orderby=date and
&order=DESC, but nothing works until I remove the
&cat=4, at which point things are sorted by date just fine.
Am I missing something, or is sorting a single category by date not possible?


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Unanswered: Webservice calls stuck up - network unavailability
am developing mobile solution using sencha touch 1.1. the app is designed to work in offline mode as well. am facing an issue in the webservice calls when the network goes down before i get the response from the webservice. say for example i have initiated 5 different webservice calls ,before i get response from those calls if network goes down, the app gets stuck up ( i mean its showing inprogress message only). i have used document.addeventlistner("offline") handler as well to detect the network unavailability. But that method is also not getting called in the above mentioned scenario.Otherwise this handler works fine.
could you pls clarify , whether the web service failure handler will be called or not during sudden network drop? or what could be the way to handle this.
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In the Video options there's a setting for Nvidia PhysX effects on PC. What are the effects of each setting on visual/physics effects? Are any aspects of gameplay itself effected?
PhysX started at Low on PC and I enabled Medium and I started to notice blood/acid pools from enemies that had physics effects. Are these enabled by this option?


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7 Famous Movie Flaws That Were Explained in Deleted Scenes
#4. Happy Gilmore
Adam Sandler is angry and kind of dumb. This is literally the heart of every one of his films: Punch-Drunk Love, Waterboy, Anger Management, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore all relied on his unrestrained, over-the-top violence.
This image represents the single most significant achievement of the 1990s.
That's why it's so puzzling that, in what would have been the most satisfying possible use of this device, Madison strangely reined it in and let the bad guy get away. Of course we're talking about Happy Gilmore, and the fact that, in the movie, the nanny-beating mustachioed Ben Stiller goes all Buffalo Bill on Happy's grandma and gets no come-uppance. It's the single most despicable character in the movie, and he gets away with everything.
His mustache would go on to have a successful career as a pedophile.
Even Bob Barker got punched in the face in this movie. But they didn't just forget about him, the deleted scene has Happy hurling him out of a window...
So why did it get cut from the theater release? We can only cite the controversial anti-grandma slant of the MPAA.
This scene remained in the movie, and will linger in our nightmares for decades to come.
#3. T2: Judgment Day
In Terminator 2, we learn that the Terminators suffer from a fatal programming flaw: Their love of squeaky voiced teenagers and embarrassing early 90s slang. In the span of a few days, an emotionless killing machine learns "why [we] cry" and the heart-wrenching power of a well-timed thumbs up. If it's that easy to teach a Terminator to love, why isn't the resistance entirely made up of Hugging Squads?
It's an odd, unbelievable, unexplainable reaction by the "cold-hearted" machines in the theater release, but it was actually explained:
In this deleted scene, Arnold is scalped and the inner-workings of his metal skull are tinkered with. We learn that Skynet set his brain to read-only before they sent him off on his Electric Time-nificent Kill Adventure. Not wanting a hulking mechanical guardian with a learning deficiency, John and Sarah Connor crack open his head, and remove the block, allowing him to learn freely outside of his programming.
Although, come to think of it, My Friend the Retarded Robot would have made a rather excellent film in its own right.
Oh wait, they already tried that.
#2. Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity was supposed to be the next Blair Witch Project. And unfortunately, it succeeded: It was a low-budget horror flick with a simple, interesting hook, a handful of amateur actors, an emphasis on a kind of subtle horror that didn't rely on makeup, special effects or big breasted sexpots getting "impaled" for their naughty sins. And then, just when you were about to impressed with it, it fucked it all up right at the end.
This isn't the first time we've been lied to by a movie poster.
Take note, because we are about to spoil the shit out of this movie (as if it needs the help): The girlfriend gets possessed by the demon in question, who then throws the dead boyfriend's body at the camera. She approaches the corpse, and comes up really, really close to the screen, and then BOO! Her deformed face jumps out at you. The end. Seriously.
So the whole film was essentially a 10 dollar, hour and a half setup to one of those stupid "screamer" videos your dickhead "funny-guy" friend keeps sending to you. But if you've seen the DVD, you may have noticed it includes like 20 alternate endings, including this one:
This arguably way, way better alternate ending suggests that the "possessed" girl ended up stabbing her boyfriend off camera, and eventually ends up shot down by police when she runs out of the room still holding the knife. This accomplished two things: It made you question what you've really seen - was it, in fact, paranormal activity, or mere psychosis? And it killed all chances at the derivative sequel that they are, of course, filming right now.
Or, alternatively, avoid seeing it altogether.
#1. Star Trek '09
Cracked has already went into frothing pedantic detail about Captain Kirk's absurd luck in finding himself in the one ice cave on the entire desolate planet of Delta Vega where Future Spock happened to living in. But there's a bigger gaping plot hole in the new Star Trek: It happens when Future Spock tells Kirk that Nero's ship, Narada, just happened to fall into the one random black hole that would send him a tribble's throw away from the Kelvin; the very ship in which Kirk was born, at the very moment of his birth, thus explaining how all this shit got started (all over again) in the first place (the second first place).
Purists argue that Kirk should have been born balls deep in several prostitute/princesses.
So that raises the question: What the fuck was Nero up to from the moment Kirk was born, all the way until his reappearance 25 years later to fight with adult Kirk? If he was suffering such a vengeance hard-on, Nero could have easily picked off the future captain while he was a stupid, useless baby. Why wait until he's developed combat skills, a stunning James Dean-like countenance, kickin' abs and a Starfleet post? The answer, according to the theater release: Nero's kind of dumb, but really patient.
He held this position for 25 years, moving only to tinkle in a coffee can.
But this scene shows that Nero wasn't a complete, blithering idiot flying a space-ship by benefit of precisely-timed prat-falls.
If, for some reason, you're reading an article about deleted scenes but not watching said scenes, we'll recap: Nero didn't emerge into Federation space; he was captured and held prisoner on board a Klingon ship, until he escaped 25ish years later. This further explains his confusion, his unstable nature (Klingon jail is probably the outer space equivalent of Turkish prison) and his long absence. While it doesn't explain all the details, this scene at least shows that the filmmakers were both aware and fearful of the many, many nasal-toned diatribes they would no doubt receive for leaving plot-holes where Trekkies could find them.
But hey, who cares what nerds think? This is a Star Trek movie.
For more scenes that could've bettered their respective films, check out 5 Superhero Movie Scenes They'll Never Let You See. Or check out some scenes that actually made porn better, in "I Have Brain Cancer": 6 Amazing Non-Sex Scenes from Porn.


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Customs Then and Now Collection - 2011 Grand National Roadster ShowWritten by Chuck Vranas on June 1, 2011 A historical collection of vehicles surrounding a specific theme.
Every year the Grand National Roadster Show staff puts forth an exhaustive effort to assemble a historical collection of vehicles surrounding a specific theme. This year the team's efforts were dedicated to Customs: Then and Now housed in Building 9.
To accurately capture how customs have evolved through the years, cars were placed referencing the decades in which they were built, starting with the '40s era gracefully flowing rearward capturing the essence of the '50s and '60s and beyond, culminating with more recent builds of the last decade.
By taking fresh steel from Detroit as a base and adding their own unique flair for design restyling, custom builders illustrate how creative sculpting can take factory forms to a whole new level. It's obvious that as the decades passed both custom builders and automakers were influenced by each other's creative efforts.
Working your way though the exhibition you were treated to restyling from countless historical designers beginning in the '40s with flowing lines from Westergard and Coach Craft to Barris. There were a number of custom competition coupes on display, including the Pierson Brothers' '36 Ford and Doug Rice's '39 Ford, proving that you could possess both stylish looks while also being competitive at the racetrack. Along with the '50s and '60s came larger bodied cars allowing builders like Winfield, the A-Brothers, Hines, Starbird, Watson, Jeffries, Valley Custom, and Wilhelm to let their creativity flow. Then add in a formal meet-and-greet session, which gave you the chance to talk with many of the custom world's legends. This, combined with a well-designed tribute to Larry Watson, and you could have spent the entire day in Building 9.
The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a chance to see everything from the Skylane Motor Special, to the Hirohata Merc, the Aztec, Alcorn Merc, and Calori coupe under one roof was worth the price of admission alone. The amount of work taken to locate and assemble this breathtaking group of historical customs deserves a heavy tip of the hat to all those involved, including Alex Axle Idzardi, Rik Hoving, Jeff Neppl, and Luke Karosi, who worked tirelessly with the GNRS staff to make it all happen.
We can't wait to see what's in store for Building 9 come the 2012 GNRS.
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Jack Calori's '36 Ford coupe (owned by Jorge Zaragoza) showcased updates, including a 3-inch chop, '39 LaSalle grille, and Buick teardrop rear skirts.From the October '49 cover of Motor Trend, Norman E. Timbs' Special (owned by Gary and Diane Cerveny) featured a dramatic two-piece aluminum body with groundbreaking style.Kurt McCormick's '41 Buick Roadmaster convertible restyled by the Pisano Brothers/Barris for Herb Ogden, looked like it was going 100 mph standing still.On the cover of Hot Rod in April 1952, Glen Johnson's '37 Ford coupe (from the Bortz collection) looked great with its chop, channel, and custom frontend.The Dick Fowler '38 Ford coupe owned by Vicki and Chris Idzardi is a true survivor car that was originally built by Sam and George Barris in 1946.Duane "Speedy" Pedroza proudly displayed the wicked Carson-topped '39 Ford his Grandfather Bill Pearce started customizing from the early '40s through the '50s.The custom-bodied Skylane Motor Special (owned by John and Angela Crego) created by Leroy J. Viersen Jr., graced the cover of Motor Trend in June 1951.Jack Walker's recreation of the Barris-built '52 Buick known as the "Blue Danube" was a knock-out with its glamorous paint, and dedication to the original design.
With killer looks, Doug Rice's '39 Ford coupe, now owned by Don Richardson, made itself known on the streets as well as the salt and the drags.One of the highlights of the weekend was the chance to meet with many of the custom world's legends, including Gene Winfield (left) and Bill Hines.Restyled by Bill Bowman for George Kilger, the Gator '51 Chevy coupe incorporated plenty of custom touches combined with pale gold vibe making it a standout.Without a doubt Bob Hirohata's legendary Barris-built '51 Merc owned by Jim McNeil, captures '50s-era customizing at its finest.Larry Watson's groundbreaking '58 T-bird (owned by Roger O'Dell) combined his exquisite panel paint style with restyling by Barris.Bill Carr's mind-blowing Barris-built Aztec '55 Chevy, restored and owned by Barry Mazza, set the custom car world on fire with its radical restyling.The soul infused by Jerry Daman into the recreation of Junior Conway's memorable '50 Ford coupe is evident at every corner of the car from its modifications to its color.With absolutely perfect proportions at every angle, Jeff Neppl's '50 Merc is the last one chopped and customized by the legendary Dick Dean.


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I'm a very amateur photographer who enjoys taking HDR and Panorama photos. My biggest problem right now is that I don't have a tripod. Many will tell me $75 is too cheap for a tripod, but I really don't photograph too often and don't want to invest too much. I would like one that is full height (rather than those ones with the bendy legs that wrap around stuff, like the GorillaPods).
For HDRs you don't need anything special, just any tripod that can sustain the weight of your camera will do. So select by price, weight, robustness (choose any two). If you want to take panoramas too, consider buying a tripod with interchangeable heads.
Regarding the head. I find ball heads easier to use in most situations, you can compose quicker. But ball heads are less precise, and they are definitely not good for panoramas, because it's difficult to rotate around the same axis.
For panoramas you can use the same tripod, but you better use a two- or three-axis head or any head + rotator. And if you have more money to spend, the best you can do is to by a specialized panoramic head (e.g. one of the Nodal Ninja heads). They allow to adjust your camera's position in such a way, that the rotation axis passes through the pivot point.
See this article to learn about the pivot point: The proper pivot point for panoramic photography [PDF].
Definitely, panoramic heads are beyond your current budget ($75), but there are some decent tripods with interchangeable heads (see, for example, this question). So you may buy a good tripod now, and buy a panoramic head later if you really want it (Or maybe you'll be satisfied with the standard head). Or you may save more and buy a lightweight tripod with a non-interchangeable head. In this case prefer three-axis heads if you are going to shoot panoramas. I used such a tripod (≈ $30) with a compact camera, it was usable but not perfect.
I've got to point out this almost-classic article by Thom Hogan on how to save $700 on a tripod. It specifically mentions the $75 tripod as the first wasted money. :)
I don't really think that everyone needs the $1000 tripod that he suggests, but I do think that if you're planning to use the tripod for more than the occasional family-christmas shot, it's worth budgeting $200-300 to start. The plus side is that this will last a lot longer than any electronic gear.
You definitely can get a tripod for $75 - it wouldn't be a good tripod but it's better than nothing.
It will usually be an aluminum tripod with a built in 3-way head, you can those tripods in any photo store (and usually in non-photo electronic stores), just make sure it can hold your camera's weight.
Those cheap tripods are better than nothing - but you should know in advance what you are getting:
My current tripod is one of those cheap ones and it cost me less than $75, it works (under it's limitations) and I love it's weight and folded size - but it sure has it's limitations and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who needs a tripod more than once in a while or to anyone who needs to work quickly.
$75 really is too little for a reasonable full-size tripod, but not by a huge amount - you can probably do OK for under $100 or $150. This question comes up a fair amount; search on "tripod" to see others.
I sometimes use our company tripod, which is Velbon CX series (I think it is CX-640) - simple, full sized tripod for a good price. I use it with my Pentax K-x with kit lens, so relatively light combination, but also with Samyang 8mm fisheye (for panoramas), which is little bit heavier.
OK, it is hobby use, I shoot few HDR and panorama photos per year (less then 10-20) and in my case the tripod is enough. I only added DIY mount from L-shaped piece of metal and few other parts to mount the camera vertically and in the nodal point.
In order to get something cheap and stable, I would go for a small tripod and mount it on a stable surface (a table, bench, car, ...)
A Joby GorillaPod would be a great example.
This will work find for HDR (using auto-bracketing on the camera and a remote shutter release of some kind), but will be tricky for Panos, because keeping the mount level is not the easiest thing in the world. For this reason, I would consider using the Joby Gorillapod Ball Head as well.
... just a suggestion.
If you don't want to get a quality tripod because all you need is for HDR, then skip the tripod. Seriously. I do a lot of HDR, hand held. The alignment algorithms are very good in Photomatix.
If you want a tripod, read the Thom Hogan article that's already linked.


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Sarah Dzara, a senior biology major at Geneseo, and Tom Matthews, director of leadership education, development and training at the college, pause outside the Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., where they were meeting with other colleges involved in the president's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge.
GENESEO, N.Y. - The State University of New York at Geneseo is preparing a year of interfaith service programming on campus as part of an initiative by President Obama to engage college campuses in building understanding among communities and contributing to the common good.
The year-long Geneseo Interfaith Service Project (GISP) will include programs to advance religious tolerance and a series of service projects, lectures, reflections and social activities surrounding the theme of energy and the environment. GISP is Geneseo's response to the president's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge.
"Our campus has been committed to environmental and sustainability issues for several years and many students, faculty and staff have expressed interest in supporting initiatives related to this topic," said Tom Mathews, director of leadership education, development and training at Geneseo. "Involving faith-based groups on campus is a perfect fit for sustainability projects plus it reinforces Geneseo's emphasis on building a diverse, inclusive community."
Matthews and Geneseo student Sarah Dzara attended a White House gathering in early August where they networked with other colleges and universities to share programming ideas to support the initiative. Dzara, a senior biology major from Springville, N.Y., will organize and promote GISP activities and be part of Geneseo's new Interfaith Council, composed of representatives from the college's eight faith-based groups, cultural groups and other interested students.
"Visiting with representatives from colleges across the country in Washington reminded me that as daunting as interfaith cooperation can sometimes seem, Geneseo's project is a small part of a much larger program," said Dzara. "The small steps we take this year and in the coming years can result in real progress toward the president's goal. There is a shared passion and excitement behind this initiative that transcends college and religious affiliations."
Among GISP events scheduled for the year:
• The college's 100 Volunteers Day of Service is set for Sept. 10, which is scheduled annually on the Saturday closest to 9/11. Students involved in the event will participate in numerous community projects in Livingston County related to the theme, "Caring for the Earth."
• The interactive theater production "Under the Veil: Being Muslim [and non-Muslim] in America Since 9/11" is scheduled Sept. 16-17 in the Alice Austin Theatre. The production, performed by the Theater, Engagement & Action Project in New York City, was brought to Geneseo by Randy Kaplan, professor of theater at Geneseo and artistic director of GENseng, the college's Asian-American performance ensemble. The project uses interactive theater to encourage young people to cross barriers of race, class, culture and religion in America's communities.
• A second annual Day of Service, Geneseo CARES, is scheduled Oct. 15. Volunteers will participate in community service projects related to energy and the environment.
• On Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Leadership and Service Jan. 16, students will engage with area senior citizens from the Livingston County Office of the Aging to prepare packages of dry soup mixes, greeting card messages and personal care packages for 400 home-bound seniors in the meals-on-wheels program.
• Another Day of Service opportunity, Geneseo Goes to Town, is scheduled April 14, 2012. Students will focus attention on needs of local communities in Livingston County in addition to the college's volunteer works trips to Biloxi, Miss., in cooperation with Livingston CARES, a collaborative effort between the college and the Livingston County community to provide relief assistance to those impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
GISP also will offer a volunteer environmental work project through the college's Upstate Escapes travel grant program. Past environmental projects through the program have been successful, such as the maintenance and expansion of the Finger Lakes Trail. Also scheduled are public forums, residence hall programming and the endowed MacVittie Theological Lecture, which will bring a speaker to campus to address "Caring for the Earth."
Concurrent activities related to GISP are workshops offered in the college's GOLD (Geneseo Opportunities for Leadership Development), which will include a new leadership certificate for 2011-12 focused on environmental sustainability.
More information is available on the Geneseo Interfaith Service Project by calling (585) 245-5857.
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On Friday my Rotary Club (Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club) had a speaker in to cover the pro side of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) issue that has everyone buzzing locally. The presenter was excellent, his slide deck full of facts/data, and the argument was sound. When he was done the club members (mostly very successful community leaders in both business and volunteerism) took on mainly the facts and figures. They were right to do so, facts have been warped by all sides of this debate and the arguments have become about unimportant things (yes even the cost is not important, more later).
However, even these community leaders got caught up in the details of community growth projections, cost, hypothetical increases in property value (has anyone noticed the hockey stick growth curve on prices locally?), and the obvious but ignored issue by the province that the hwy 401 corridor is holding us back — we need better rail to Toronto. Why are we arguing about guesses on growth or ridership or value when this is really about what type of community you want my kids to grow up in.
What does Waterloo Region in 2026 look like?
The Light Rail discussion should be about what kind of community do we want to live in. What should the downtown cores look like? How do we connect the amazing architecture of Galt to the growing tech hub of Kitchener and the youthful energy of Waterloo's two exciting uni campuses? Do we want to? What are our values as a community? A committee isn't going to come up with that in this generation btw. Our community leaders should be defining it and leading this vision from thought to execution.
Who is leading or defining a vision? Certainly not the Mayor of Waterloo. Her opinion is as fluid as the Grand River — the people that complain seem to influence her the most and she doesn't seem to have any vision for the future. Mayor of Kitchener? Well maybe. You can certainly see a vision coming together for the downtown there and where Waterloo is loosing Kitchener is winning. How about Cambridge? There is a mayor with an opinion and a backbone. Sadly he is mayor of urban sprawl land but he has some gems to work with.
This is a Region though — where is our leadership? Who is standing up for what they believe in and not getting into silly arguments about details that don't matter? The Three mayoral musketeers make up a committee on this (ignoring regional council because relatively they don't matter)… leadership by committee is the path to mediocrity.
Why is this about my kids?
I have three amazing kids with the oldest only starting school next year. What we debate now is the community that will help shape their view on the world. My wife and I bought a house near the schools we wanted them to go to before we knew we were having kids and our thinking is a long term commitment to this area even with cars arriving upside down into my garage. I will likely not get to enjoy the lifestyle I would like to see in Waterloo as we don't have reliable transit, our downtown cores are just starting to be rebuilt, and condos that I would have loved just 10 years ago are now starting to go up.
My life has changed. I don't need LRT, I could use a fast train back and forth to Toronto and an airport that flew to Boston, New York, and San Francisco. This isn't about me. Even at the age of 35 I see I am living in the present Waterloo and I must make do with what we have now. However, I look at the future of Waterloo (my kids or even the students I work with every day) and I want them to live in a modern city with dense modern core with a ton of culture and no need for a car. Sure I want a gentrified city that I too can enjoy, the more things that contribute to that the better, but again I know that if I want one at an age that I can really enjoy it (now) I need to move somewhere else.
Will LRT represent gentrification of medium sized town? Maybe. What I really want is to know where this community is heading and what the core values are that driving this. The really talented people (not saying that is me) don't need to live anywhere specific. They are attracted to work in cities by both opportunity and environment. Risk takers that like novel things don't like communities that fail to plan and develop with an eye on the future. If we don't modernize our environment we stand to be left behind by more hungry cities that are desperate and have yet to shift out of a manufacturing economy (London, Hamilton, St Catherines — with 2/3 having a much better core to redevelopment). I think this debate is only a debate because "we have it good now, why change it" thinking.
The LRT debate is out of control, expensive, and disheartening
I applaud the folks over at snapsnort for the excellent infographraphic. Kudos for doing that. However I still think it misses the point. The numbers don't matter, the stats to support or shoot down LRT don't matter, what matters to me is this debate is bordering on asinine:
- The Region won't grow that fast, we don't need it now (Population growth shouldn't be in the argument for LRT)
- What about Cambridge? (seriously my Cambridge friends, the distance and the rail cost would make it a $1.5Billion or larger project to start but I am with you on the coolness factor, you need to let it go or move if you want a less sprawlish area to live in)
- My taxes will go up. (taxes will always go up)
- You will make a bigger traffic problem on King st. (argument carries as much weight as the ridership reducing traffic… strong economy, lots of cars. Rails or no rails the traffic is going to suck more and more)
- It will cost more than what you say it will. (yes it will but that money is being spent locally so that is $1billion or so being injected into the local economy through taxes or other ways, that won't be a bad thing)
- All those facts are wrong and here is why… (I don't care, the facts don't matter.)
Yes I said that. The facts don't matter. Do we invest in the core of our city or not…? that is the question. Investment in the core requires transit to move a more dense population across a spread out core. No one can argue that. Is it rails disrupting our core or is it the Ottawa style mess of buses? If cost were no object what would you choose?
I keep hoping a leader will emerge that is dynamic and inspiring to put a character to a vision of the city and region I might want to live in. I am tired of the "never let go of power" baby boomers, more tired of their parents grumping up the coffee shop (generalization here, but it only takes a few), just as they are tired of this lazy younger entitled and immature generation that have no respect. Lets do things better than our parents, think outside of the next election cycle, and stop arguing about things that just feed arguments. If not, I may just need to extend the stone wall to my front yard sooner than I wanted to.


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Regard $K=\mathbb{R}-\lbrace{0\rbrace}$ as a multiplication group. Let $f:K\to K$ be a multiplication homormorphism.
Question 1. Whether that $f$ is surjective implies that $f$ is injective?
Question 2. Whether that $f$ is injective implies that $f$ is surjective?
Question 3. $g: x\to x^b$ is a multiplication homormorphism of $K$ where $b=n/m, (n,m)=1$,$n\in\mathbb{Z}$ and $m$ is an odd integer. How to find any other multiplication homormorphism of $K$ than this form. Any example?
Edit. Emil Jeřábek gave other explicit examples: $h: x\to |x|^r$ or $x\to sgn(x)|x|^r.$ Of course, $hg$ is also ok.
Any other explicit ones?
Perhaps, these questions look like homework, but not easy to me to answer (my major is not in algebraic theory).


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Notes from a debate on mobility
By Isabel F. Pe�uelas-Oracle on Feb 18, 2013
Can you foresee a time when you won't need a browser to do the things you do online? This is the smart question that starts with the article of Scott M. Fulton about The Web vs. the Cloud.
In a recent debate sponsored by Oracle in Madrid, Pepe Cerezo - digital business strategy expert- highlighted that Internet has now become an Internet of Services, what is called the Business of Data: the combination of M2M technologies with mobile will provide new services that we can´t predict now, and we may see soon firms as Nike selling shirts with sensors that will help us to monitor our sport activity based on data analysis.
The actual explosion of mobile technologies and the widespread of mobile connectivity is enabling companies to leapfrog some stages and launch digital mobile business without passing through the Web. One of the reasons of the mobile revolution is that mobile is sticky: with an increasing number of internauts permanently connected, in the media sector it has found that the average duration of the visit from the mobile readers is longer than the browser readers.
But what technology companies are embracing to keep with the momentum? The apps vs web is as a false dichotomy, the decision on whether to offer an app to download, or to serve services through a mobile browser, largely depends on the desired functionality, and on the particular state of the customer life cycle.
It is not a black and white question, a native app is sometimes better than a native app, but mobile web technology is winning the race for both apps and Web experience –as it was pointed by Enrique Martín –Middleware Presales Manager of Oracle Iberia- Gartner predicts that by 2015 80% of all mobile applications developed will be hybrid or mobile web oriented.


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Unanswered: Combine Sencha Touch with iOS Native Application
Hi, I'm looking at the situation where integration existing iOS native application with the sencha touch charting features.
However, there are several challenges as below:
by having a webview on the iOS native, and viewing the embedded HTML/javascript in the iOS native application, it's possible to show the chart, however, consider the following two issues arise:
1- Interaction from Native code to Sencha Touch (Objective-C to Javascript/HTML5)
how to update and sending data to the sencha touch chart? My thought is create a 'dynamic string of those HTMLs, and substitute the value part with variables, each time, updating the variable, update the value, and reload the webview in the iOS to show and update chart.
2. Interaction from Sencha Touch to Native Code ? (Javascript/HTML trigger/callback the objective c code?)
for an instance, click on the bar chart in the Sencha Touch, I would like to obtain the value of the bar that I clicked on, or some relevant information such as 'category', chart name, bar name, value.. etc.. what I could think of maybe using the Sencha Touch, 'write json' class to create any Json file, to be picked up and read by the objective-c native code part.. However, even with that, this is unable to trigger any function of the native code. thus.. any comment or suggestion on this hybrid approach development- native code to javascript/ html5 and vice-versa?
appreciates, thanks..
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The 5 Most Insane Modern Medical Procedures That Work
Medicine is unique in that every radical advance is simultaneously exciting and terrifying. When they tell you that they may be able to repair your liver by implanting one grown in a sheep, you'll be half tempted to say, "Nah, I'm just gonna try to ride this one out."
Those same mixed emotions surely run through every patient who hears their doctor suggest ...
#5. Shoving Human Feces Up Your Nose
The Insanity:
So, you've got some stomach problems. Maybe you have inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome or chronic constipation -- whatever, there's no need for us to make jokes about "too many enchiladas" here. Gut problems are no laughing matter. Well, until your doctor looks you dead in the eye and in a somber tone says, "I'm afraid that you're going to need a shit transplant. And no, this is not a euphemism."
"Eat shit and live."
The Science:
How in the hell could that possibly be a real thing? Well, it has to do with bacteria. As much as we think of bacteria as being the stuff that makes us sick (isn't that why people use smelly antibacterial hand lotions all the time?), your body is actually full of the stuff. Especially in the intestines, there are all sorts of "natural human flora" that make normal food digestion possible.
But, if the bacteria go wrong, then digestion goes wrong. Which means the reverse is true: You can fix a lot of intestinal problems by fixing the bacteria. So for a while, science has known that isolated bacteria from human feces could be used to treat gastrointestinal disorders. But then finally somebody said, "Why not just get somebody's healthy shits and cram it all into the sick person? Then we'd know they have the right bacteria, right?"
And then they went and had a party to celebrate, because scientists are different from us.
They call it "fecal bacteriotherapy" (also known as a fecal transplant or transfusion), and we know what you're thinking: "So does this mean the donor has to come to the hospital and poop into my butt? Or do they have some kind of hose that shoves the poop into my butt?" It's neither. The human digestive tract runs one-way. If they're going to cram donor turds into you, it has to go in the other end.
This is why a lot of porn stars have incredibly healthy intestines.
Luckily, to avoid having to eat poop, they have figured out that they can simply run a tube through your nose, down your throat, through your stomach and into your duodenum. Then they have somebody shit into it. Or maybe they have a bag of shit sitting there already, we're not reading any more about this.
#4. Removing Half of Your Brain
The Insanity:
Seizures and epilepsy affect an unacceptably high portion of the population. There is medication, of course, and other treatments that may or may not work, or may have varying awful side effects.
And, when things get really bad, you're probably willing to listen to any options. And that's good, because there's a chance your doctor will stroke his chin and say, "Well, all of the seizures are coming from the left side of your brain. Probably best just to take that sucker out."
Jon Callas
"No, this jar is for the important brains. Yours will go into that bowl with a bone on it."
The Science:
Understanding why they would remove half of your brain to stop seizures involves understanding a bit about what a seizure is. It's basically a sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain, and the problem is that it usually originates in one spot and then radiates across the rest (kind of the way a short circuit can send a jolt across anything made of metal that's touching it). So maybe it makes sense that some primitive doctor way back when decided to just hack that half of the brain out. The shocking part is that A) it worked, B) they still do it and C) you can totally survive it.
They do have to stick another elbow onto your brainless side to balance you out, though.
The procedure is called a hemispherectomy, and you can absolutely live a normal life after the half-brain removal, especially if you have it done as a child, since the brain is still growing, and the remaining half can adapt to carry the load. Of course there are tons of risks, and it is a last resort (only considered when "the alternatives are worse"), but more than 75 percent of patients are completely or nearly completely seizure-free after that.
Wait, so once it's done, the other half of your skull is just empty space? What keeps the remaining half of your brain from sliding around in there? Well, like any empty pocket in your body, it eventually fills with fluid. Though, yeah, there have been cases of patients' remaining half-brains sliding around and causing problems.
You'd think they'd at least stuff a couple of hand towels in there.
Of course, there are less severe options, such as corpus callosotomy, where they merely go in and cut your brain in half, but leave both halves in your skull. That way you might still get seizures, but they can't spread to the rest of the brain because, well, it's completely cut off. Science!
You wouldn't leave us with an independently murderous limb, though, would you, science? S-science?
#3. Freezing You from the Inside Out
The Insanity:
We hate to break it to you, but there is no evidence that cryogenics (the science of freezing a person after death so that they can be resurrected later) works at all, or that it will ever work. Unfreeze a caveman, and all you have is a well-preserved dead guy who thousands of years ago got caught in an avalanche and froze to death.
But, if one day all of the Big Macs catch up to you and you wind up having a heart attack, you might find yourself in an ambulance, hearing the crew shout about how there isn't enough time, and you're not going to make it if they don't "chill" you. That's when one guy will lean over and say, "Have you ever seen The Empire Strikes Back? We're about to do a Han Solo thing here."
"To warm her back up I'll need a Tauntaun and a light saber."
The Science:
OK, they're not actually going to freeze you carbonite-solid. But the process is almost weirder than that. They're going to basically chill you from the inside out, to slow everything down. Ambulances have begun using this body-chilling therapy on cardiac arrest patients by administering a chilled saline solution intravenously.
The solution is kept at about 50 degrees Fahrenheit, a little warmer than the cola in your refrigerator. That probably doesn't seem all that cold, until you have it coursing into your veins that are used to being 49 degrees warmer.
Unless you take vodka intravenously, like 66 percent of our readers.
The lowered body temperature decreases the brain's need for oxygen, which provides further time for the patient to reach the hospital, where the cardiac arrest can be dealt with accordingly. One cardiac arrest victim, Jill Finley, is certain that without the treatment she'd be much worse off. As she so elegantly puts it: "If they wouldn't have used the 'the big chill' on me, honestly, I'd be laying in a nursing home with diapers."
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KATIE COURIC: On 'Close-Up' this morning, the bombings in Saudi Arabia. Eight Americans were among the more than two dozen killed in the suicide attacks earlier this week. Prince Saud Al-Faisal is Saudi Arabia's foreign minister. Prince Saud, good morning to you, sir.
PRINCE SAUD: Good morning, Katie. And you always make it difficult for me, making me follow Marilyn Monroe.
MS. COURIC: (Laughs) Oh, sorry, Prince Saud. We apologize for that. We want to mention, too, there's a pretty significant audio delay. So we'll try to deal with that as best we can. Can you confirm for us the latest death toll from these suicide bombs?
PRINCE SAUD: Indeed I can. The injured are 194 and the dead are 34 --
MS. COURIC: Thirty-four.
PRINCE SAUD: -- of whom seven are American, not eight --
MS. COURIC: Seven Americans.
PRINCE SAUD: -- and one British and one Irish.
MS. COURIC: Do you believe, Prince Saud, that this is the work of al-Qaeda?
PRINCE SAUD: It has the markings of that, certainly. And this is the group - and, by the way, I heard the wrong number about the attackers. They said 50. It is 15 that attacked these sites in Saudi Arabia. And they mentioned that the police or the guards were not armed. Indeed, one of the cars was stopped by the resistance of the guards of the compound.
MS. COURIC: I know, Prince Saud, that you met yesterday with Secretary of State Colin Powell. What kind of assurances did you give him …[inaudible]… that you are, in fact, cracking down on terrorists in your country and terrorism?
PRINCE SAUD: Well, that's not assurance that we give to the Secretary of State…… I think if there is one mistake that … [inaudible] … have done is to do this attack, because it now has a united country in front of it in resisting and confronting the work that they are doing … [inaudible]. And His Royal Highness [Crown Prince Abdullah] made a speech yesterday to the public in Saudi Arabia committing the country, people and government, to an everlasting war to rid not only our country but the world of this scourge.
MS. COURIC: Can you confirm, Prince Saud, that there were strong indications that Islamic militants were, in fact, planning this attack? Were you picking up much intelligence that made you quite nervous that this was being planned?
PRINCE SAUD: There was news everywhere, coming from everywhere, that they were planning a major attack. And we had established a committee with the United States to oversee what we can do, both of us, in order to prevent this attack from happening. We came close. We came indeed very close to doing that. But unfortunately they were able to do their damage. But as I say again, whatever success they think they have achieved, they will be sorry for, because this country now is united against them in every way.
MS. COURIC: The State Department, as you know, Prince Saud, has ordered all non-emergency personnel to leave Saudi Arabia. How concerned are you that these attacks will further strain the relationship between the United States and your country?
PRINCE SAUD: I don't think it will strain it at all. It will reinforce the commonality between our two countries. If you count the capabilities of Saudi Arabia and the number of citizens here and in America, this is the equivalent to us to the New York bombings. So it is something of that level for us …… [inaudible]. And it will bring us closer together rather than distance us from each other.
MS. COURIC: How concerned are you, though, that these attacks may ignite some of the sensibilities and the motivations of Islamic fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia itself?
PRINCE SAUD: This will ignite something. It is going to ignite the whole nation against those who perpetrate these actions and those who support them. This is the mistake that they have made.
MS. COURIC: Prince Saud Al-Faisal in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prince Saud, thanks again for your time. It's nice to see you again.
PRINCE SAUD: Good of you to have me, Katie.