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The family of Leland "Fred" Kemp of Towanda will be honoring him with an 80th birthday celebration on Sunday, Oct. 7 at the El Dorado Train Depot, 430 N. Main.
The come-and-go reception is from 2 to 5 p.m. All friends, former students, fellow faculty members and co-workers are cordially invited to help celebrate Fred's special day. No gifts please.
Fred was a guidance counselor and teacher at Circle High School in Towanda from 1965 through 1977. From 1978 until his retirement in 1995, he worked for Texaco in El Dorado. In his retirement, he has remained an active member of the Towanda United Methodist Church, Lions Club, and several other local service organizations.
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[Saudi Aramco]
By BEN LEFEBVRE and ALISON
The biggest oil refinery in the US is largely out of service
after fires over the last two weeks damaged equipment at the
Motiva Enterprises plant in Port Arthur, Texas.
The fires are the latest in a series of mechanical failures
at the refinery, which doubled in size last
year after a $10 billion expansion paid for by the two
companies that own Motiva, Royal Dutch Shell and Saudi
The 600,000-bpd plant has turned into an economic
headache that analysts have said is costing the companies
hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs and lost fuel
After the fires, Motiva had to take offline its 325,000 bpd
crude-distillation unit, the first step in
fuel production, and various other units, according to
Genscape, an energy information service that uses flyovers and
infrared sensors to detect activity at refineries. Motiva
declined to comment on mechanical problems.
Accidents started occurring almost immediately after the May
2012 opening ceremony in Port Arthur, where the chief
executives of Shell and Saudi Aramco turned a ceremonial
pipeline spigot. A week later, an accidental chemical release
corroded the expanded refinery's new crude-distillation unit, forcing it to
suspend operations for the next six months, the company said at
the time.
In December, the same unit was shut down again for several
weeks after a small fire broke out and leaks were found,
according to regulatory filings and information provided by the
company at the time. Another leak forced the company to repair
key diesel-production equipment in June.
For Shell, the problems at the Port Arthur refinery have created "an economic
disaster," said Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Fadel Gheit.
"This thing started on the wrong foot and it continues to
really limp."
The refinery's poor performance adds to Shell's series of
setbacks in North America. The Anglo-Dutch oil giant was forced
in the second quarter to write down $2 billion of US shale gas
assets that hadn't been as profitable as the company hoped. In
February, it canceled its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic
this summer after special drilling rigs it planned to use for
the project were damaged.
Shell spokeswoman Destin Singleton said Motiva continued to
invest in the refinery but declined to comment on the specifics
of mechanical problems there. The company declined to say how
much gas, diesel and jet fuel the refinery is producing.
For Saudi Aramco, the expansion was meant as a way to help
Saudi Arabia increase its exports to the US. But the refinery
has imported only 1% more crude from that country over the last
12 months, or an average total of 200,000 bpd, according to an
analysis of data from the US Energy Information Administration.
Saudi Aramco didn't respond to requests for comment.
Although the refinery accounts for more than 3% of total US
refining capacity, according to EIA
figures, its extensive operational problems during the past 16
months have limited its impact on fuel markets, said
Morningstar analyst Allen Good.
Wholesale gasoline prices in the US Gulf Coast market have
risen 1% since the latest fire at the Port Arthur refinery, to $2.96/gal, according
to Platts, an energy-price information service.
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5 Days Undercover as a Justin Bieber Fan
Day Four - Your Soul is Mine, Bieber
No sooner than I find myself at a loss for how to go about really getting a feel for what it is about Justin Bieber that people are so enamored with, I'm reminded of something I saw in M.
Read his face, read his soul, you say? Well, the logical extension of that would obviously be draw his face, OWN HIS SOUL! Why I didn't think of this in the first place is beyond me. Unfortunately, I can't draw for shit. But that's what YouTube is for. There are dozens of videos promising to teach me how to draw Justin Bieber's face and ultimately possess his soul for my very own, but I settle on this one.
Why that one? Because it's 46 seconds long, that's why. I'm already dangerously close to being far too old to be writing an article about this kid. Who has time to wait nine minutes to learn anything? No, under a minute is more my speed.
Approximately 90 seconds later, I'm not sure what I'm looking at, I just know I want it dead.
Day Five - Road Trip!
Finding that nothing I could do from a distance was enough to help me see what it is about Justin Bieber that makes tweens tick, short of actually approaching a group of tweens and asking and subsequently being escorted to my car by mall security, I decided to take this show on the road. As luck would have it, Justin Bieber was LIVE! IN CONCERT! IN OMAHA! Awesome?
I hit the road and set up shop at a hotel across the street from the venue, where I had a perfect view of the "Justin Bieber VIP Experience" tent. Apparently, it's either a very exclusive club or a total rip-off, because that tent is tiny as shit.
Anyway, most of the down time prior to the show was spent power drinking because A) I take my job seriously and B) I was hugely concerned that they wouldn't be selling beer on account of all the kids in attendance.
Not wanting to stick out as the creepy dude who was way too drunk and old to be at a Justin Bieber concert alone, I tossed on my best disguise and hit the venue.
As you've probably noticed, I'm horrible at disguises. And my fears about no alcohol sales turned out to be completely unfounded. In fact, as concerts go, the access to booze at this one was unprecedented. Apparently, parents have reservations about getting trashed in the company of children, which meant even before the show started and the hallways were jam packed, the beer lines were practically non-existent. Also pleasantly devoid of lines: the men's room.
And I got the pictures to prove it!
But enough about my drinking problem, on to the show! One thing I learned right away is that children have no concept of how opening acts are supposed to be handled. By the time The Stunners, the first of two opening acts, hit the stage the arena is completely packed and complete pandemonium has ensued. Don't these kids realize that at this point you're still supposed to be dropping acid in your van and listening to Judas Priest on the cassette deck? The Priest is still playing arenas, right?
As for me, I haven't even made my way to my seat, instead opting to check things out from the handicap section which is delightfully free of screaming children. The Stunners were horrible, but I found myself oddly transfixed by their stage show for some reason nonetheless.
The Stunners: all over the age of 18 from the proper distance.
Awkward! Back to the hallway for awhile. Holy shit, is that a Microsoft Kinect set up? It is. Time to rock some dance moves. Only one question at this point: Lady GaGa or Bell Biv Devoe? Just joking, that's no contest, Poison wins by a landslide. Also winning by a landslide, my desire to get the fuck away from the Microsoft Kinect after about 30 seconds.
You can't see me on the dance floor! Seriously, you can't, that picture is way too blurry.
Sean Kingston takes the stage next and if you think for one damn second I'm sitting through that, you have another thing coming. That is not part of the arrangement. Instead I spend the next hour or so on the smoking deck until the Biebs commences to do whatever he does that passes for rocking.
Unfortunately, I make the mistake of not heading for my seat until he's actually on stage. See, in my experience, no matter how packed the show may be, the nose bleed seats are a pretty calm affair. Not so this time. By the time the music starts, the odds of me stumbling around and actually finding my lone upper stratosphere seat buried in a sea of screaming tweens is not in the cards. Instead, I just kind of find a place to stand where I can still see and proceed to try and figure out what all the hype is about. As evidenced by this picture, I'm standing pretty goddamned far away.
I can confirm that the ghostly apparition in white is the man himself, Justin Bieber. OMG you guyz! As for the show, it will probably come as no surprise that things sound suspiciously similar to the actual CD. I'm not accusing the kid of lip syncing; he's clearly singing most of the time. What I am saying is that he's either employed the tightest band this side of Purple Rain-era Prince and the Revolution or great lengths are being taken to make sure the CD player hidden safely backstage doesn't skip. But who am I to judge? I outsource the writing of all my articles to some guy in India for $3.50/month.
All of the typical pop star tricks are in play here. Tons of background dancers, lots of pleas for the crowd to SCREAMMMMM! and of course, plenty of flying out over the crowd on some platform contraption so everyone can update their Facebook status to say they were "like, THIS close to Justin Bieber last night!" Naturally, at some point the lights get dimmed and shit gets intimate.
It's all been done a million times before. Some of these kids have probably even seen it before but they're just still too young to know they should be annoyed by it.
So, I guess I get it, kids. Someday you'll look back on your Justin Bieber fandom and chuckle with embarrassment. Until then, scream your lungs out and buy your magazines and your temporary tattoos. A 35-year-old Justin Bieber's desire to not have to find a day job is counting on it. As for me, I'm too old for this shit. I hightail it back to the hotel bar before the encore and call it a night.
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LORENA (January 10, 2013)—A two-car collision Wednesday afternoon on an Interstate 35 access road in Lorena sent two drivers to local hospitals, one by helicopter.
The collision between a northbound Mazda and a southbound Honda Civic left a woman trapped in the Mazda.
She was flown to Scott & White Hospital in Temple after she was freed.
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Shrinking the College Bubble
If one reason best explains record government debt, and unfunded pension and entitlement liabilities, it's the ruling class' never-say-no-to-anyone philosophy. Decades ago, politicians figured out the more they gave people and the more income they redistributed, the more likely they would be re-elected. So when "the people" ask for something, they have a very good chance of getting it, typically in spare-no-expense fashion.
Examples abound. In beginning the process of creating a government health-insurance monopoly, President Obama in 2010 nationalized the college-loan industry. He argued eliminating "the middle man" — banks — would save taxpayers $6 billion a year in fees to Top 1 Percenters and leave the government with more money to lend. But now that potential college students are applying to the never-say-no-to-anyone government, few are being refused.
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Columbia College holds winter commencement ceremony
Dr. Martin (Marty) Nemko, one of the nations' most sought-after experts on career and education issues, addressed graduates at the Columbia College winter commencement ceremony Saturday, Dec. 20 in Southwell Complex on the college's historic campus.
More than 300 graduates participated in the ceremony. Of those, more than 115 graduates represented the college's Nationwide Campuses. Students from the college's campuses in Missouri, including Kansas City, Jefferson City, Christian County, St. Louis, Lake of the Ozarks, Fort Leonard Wood, Moberly and Rolla attended; and students from the Whidbey Island, Wash.; Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.; and Lake County and Crystal Lake, Ill. campuses. The college's Evening Campus and Online Campus also were represented at the ceremony with 104 and 41 graduates, respectively.
In total, 31 associate degrees in fields other than nursing were awarded, plus 22 associate degrees in nursing; 241 bachelor's degrees; three master's degrees in teaching; 12 master's degrees in business; and two master's degrees in criminal justice.
Graduates of the nursing program participated in the Nurses Pinning Ceremony at 10 a.m. in Launer Auditorium.
Students' hard work, individual sacrifice, intellectual development and personal growth is recognized annually by Columbia College at 25 graduation ceremonies around the country. To learn more, visit the commencement page.
About the speaker:
Dr. Marty Nemko has been a career coach to 2,900 clients with a 96 percent satisfaction rate, is a contributing editor for U.S. News and World Report, is a regular career and education expert on CNN Headline News' Comcast Local Edition in San Francisco and is a frequent guest on ABC, PBS, NPR and CNN. He will be the subject of a segment on ABC-TV's 20-20 in January 2009.
Nemko also has authored dozens of articles and several books, and appears frequently as an education expert on major radio and television shows. His articles on education have been published in the New York Times Syndicate, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Family Circle, and the New York Daily News Sunday Magazine. He has been a consultant to 15 college presidents and to such entities as Consumer Reports and the Educational Testing Service. In ABC-TV's Summit on Education, he was introduced as "the Ralph Nader of education."
Nemko earned a Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Berkeley, and subsequently was a member of its faculty. He is co-president of the National Organization for Men, which advocates fair treatment of men and women in the workplace, education, health care and divorce. His main sideline is acting and directing. In 2007, he directed Same Time Next Year, which won the Roar of the Crowd Award. That same year, he won the Chanticleers Best Director Award. In his spare time, he breeds roses; three of his varieties are now available commercially. He is also an accomplished pianist.
Nemko lives in Oakland, Calif., with his wife, Dr. Barbara Nemko, and his dog, Einstein. They have one daughter and are expecting their first grandchild in January.
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No. 14 Softball Takes Two From Clark AtlantaMarch 12, 2014
ATLANTA – Junior Jessica Neidigh and senior Danielle Swygert each pounded out four hits, while shortstop Abby Child belted a grand slam for her school-record 40th home run, as the No. 14 Anderson University softball team swept Clark Atlanta in nonconference action, 7-3 and 14-0, Tuesday afternoon at Lady Panther Field.
After suffering its first back-to-back losses of the season at Georgia Southwestern on Monday, Anderson (20-4) rebounded to win its fourth straight overall past Clark Atlanta, which had its two-game win streak snapped and fell to 8-8 on the season. The Trojans out-slugged CAU, 25-6 on the afternoon and recorded four home runs.
Game #1
Anderson 7, Clark Atlanta 3
Senior catcher Laura Jansky was 2-for-3 in the opener, with a single and scored what ultimately proved to be the winning run on her two-out, two-run homer in the third inning. Neidigh was 2-for-4, with a double and a triple and scored twice. Junior Rebecca Martin slammed her fifth home run of her season in the fourth inning.
Junior hurler Katelynn Howser (8-1) earned the win with six innings of relief, while striking out six Lady Panthers and walking just two. The right-hander scattered four hits and allowed just one runner to reach scoring position for CAU.
The Trojans jumped ahead early, as Neidigh led off the game with a triple and later scored. Clark Atlanta countered to take the lead in the bottom of the first on second baseman Alia Williams' one-out, two-run home run. AU starter Augie Pena struggled with her control through the first frame, walking the bases loaded with two outs, but held the Lady Panthers without another run in the inning.
Anderson briefly regained the lead, 3-2, with two more runs in the second inning, as Jansky led off with a single and scored on Courtney Czentnar's double. Czentnar later scored the go-ahead run with two outs.
The Lady Panthers evened the score with a solo run in the bottom of the second, but AU plated three runs in the third inning to take the lead for good. Neidigh led off with a double and scored when the CAU right fielder misplayed Molly Child's hard-hit ball. Child scored on Jansky's two-run homer with two outs, her third home run of the campaign. Martin's leadoff homer in the fourth gave the Trojans another insurance run and set the final score.
Game #2
Anderson 14, Clark Atlanta 0 (5 innings)
Swygert was a perfect 4-for-4 in the nightcap, with a solo home run, a pair of doubles and a single. She also drove in two runs and scored twice. Abby Child was 2-for-3 and belted a first-inning grand slam for her 40th career home run, which set a new school record, eclipsing former standout Kayla Williams' 39 round-trippers. Neidigh added a pair of singles and two RBI in three at-bats, while senior Charlotte Sieber was 2-for-4 at the plate. She tallied a pair of singles, two RBI and scored twice.
Freshman right-hander Lauren Rudesheim (9-2) struck out six, walked two and limited Clark Atlanta to just a single over five full innings of work.
The Trojans sent 13 batters to the plate in the first inning and scored 10 runs, with Child's two-out grand slam highlighting the outburst. Anderson capitalized on four singles to add three runs in the second frame.
Rudesheim lost her bid for a no-hitter in the third inning on Williams' two-out single, but the Columbus. Ga. native shut down the Lady Panthers the rest of the way, while the AU offense added another run in the top of the fifth on Swygert's third homer of the season.
The Trojans open South Atlantic Conference action by playing host to preseason league favorite Lenoir-Rhyne on Saturday. First-pitch versus the Bears is slated for 2 p.m.


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Why are lenses round in shape although the image sensor is not? Why they can not be square or something matching the shape of image sensor?
Sensors are rectangular by tradition, based on the historically traditional shape of image media.
But there is a technology/business decision that drives them to be rectangular, also. Sensors are rectangular because they are made using semiconductor fabrication techniques. These techniques call for "printing" multiple sensor circuits onto a silicon wafer. Today these wafers can be 300 mm in diameter and manufacturers are moving toward 450 mm diameter (see here). A lot of sensors can be printed on wafers that large.
Sensors are tiled onto the wafer to efficiently use the space available and in a way that makes them easy to cut apart into "dies" (or the individual sensors, in this case). The process is called dicing. The most cost effective shape for dies is rectangular. Usually a saw or scribe is used to cut the wafers in straight lines. Imagine if the dies (sensors in this case) were supposed to be round (a wasteful and costly use of the material) or hexagonal (efficient use of the material but the cuts are not straight across the whole wafer). (See here for more info.)
B) Lenses made of high quality glass are generally ground using lathes. (This can be seen in this video. Watch around the 7:00 minute mark in particular. Sorry, it's in Japanese, but the video is very fascinating and revealing.) It is easier to spin, grind, and polish a round lens in these machines because there are no edges to catch on the tooling as the lens spins around. It also is consistent with the optical symmetry they are trying to achieve in the finished lens.
Lenses that are not round would generally be cut from round lenses, a step that adds cost to the production of the lens assembly. Lenses don't need to be round. For heaven's sake, most eyeglasses are not round! When your eyeglasses are made, you must be aware that the lens maker isn't stocking a lens for every shape of eyeglass frame. He's cutting or grinding round lenses to fit the frame.
Once the lens manufacturer has his round lenses, what would motivate him to cut it into a different shape? As many people have pointed out in various forums, the lens shape does not determine the image shape or quality (apart from diffraction caused by edges, which can be mitigated, and some second order aberration effects, maybe), and for the most part, every point on the lens can gather light from every point on the object and focus each point on the image plane. I've already pointed out that changing the shape of the lens adds cost. There really isn't any practical reason (generally) for changing the shape.
There are a lot of reasons why a lens is produced round:
One more reason: The light gathering capability is largely governed by the area, whereas some of the optical quality goes down (or it is more expensive to correct to the same level) with the maximum dimension. A circle minimizes the maximum dimension for a particular area.
Despite that, manufacturing concerns are the overriding reason. Fortunately, a circular lens is what you want for other reasons anyway.
A funny point is that the shape of the aperture (thus of the lens) affects the apparent shape of an out-of-focus light source (often called "bokeh"). You can see that looking at the custom bokeh images (http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Custom-Bokeh).
Well, lenses are not always "round" in shape. However that has nothing to do with photography. Here are some examples:
there are several more esoteric types of lenses, (lenslet arrays, kinoform lenses, etc..) But what is important to remember is that a lens is used to bend light, and there are many ways to do that using "diffractive" optics or tranditional glass like material. The reason for the design is usually functionality and production cost.
Let's say you use a rectangular lens rather than a cylindrical one. First off, the shape of the lens won't matter at all unless you have the aperture all the way open; on any slower setting, the approximately circular shape of the diaphram will be the determining factor. Assuming that you do have the aperture all the way open, the main effect will be as follows. You will have a certain depth of field. If object point A is at the correct distance to produce a pointlike image, then this point is still a point regardless of the rectangular shape of the lens. However, if object point B is at some other distance, we get a blur as the image of that point. The blur occurs because there is a bundle of light rays, and the bundle has some finite size where it intersects the film or chip. Since the lens is rectangular, this bundle is pyramidal, and the blur will be a rectangular blur rather than the usual circular one. For example, say you're photographing someone's face with a starry sky in the background. You focus on the face. The stars will appear as little fuzzy rectangles.
At very high magnifications (maybe with a very long lens that's effectively a small telescope), it's possible that you would also see diffraction patterns. In the example of the face with the starry background, suppose that we change the focus to infinity, putting the face out of focus. Wave optics would now predict that (in the absence of aberrations), the diffraction pattern for a star would be a central (order 0) fringe surrounded by a ring (first-order fringe) if you used a circular aperture, but a rectangular aperture would give a different pattern (more like a rectangular grid of fringes). In practice, I don't think a camera would ever be diffraction-limited with the aperture all the way open. Diffraction decreases as the aperture gets wider, while ray-optical aberrations increase, so aberration would dominate diffraction under these conditions.
Lenses were always being produced as rounded because it fits the manufacturing process the best. Making them square would involve at least very precise cutting afterwards, so that would make them much more expensive. (However square lenses are being produced for some special purposes)
You could ask why the sensor is square rather then round?
The answer to that is that our screens, film and in the end our photo paper is square in shape. We do not need round sensor if we need square photos!
Lenses don't have to be round. Look at the variety of shapes in which eyeglass frames appear.
However, all those lenses are a section cut from a stock lens which has spherical surfaces (ignoring, for a moment, lenses which correct for astigmatism).
And there is basically the answer. Any sort of assymetry would give your camera astigmatism: the inability to bring a point into focus vertically and horizontally at the same time.
A lens must provide a consistent focus along any rotational axis. If two parallel beams of light that are one cm apart horizontally hit the lens, they must focus at the same distance as two parallel beams which are one cm apart vertically.
Surely the point is
but it's definitely not because it's easier to manufacture. Raindrops and glass-balls have a lense-effect. Windows don't. Cubes and boxes of refractive material just don't have that effect.
Aside from creating really odd Bokkeh, a rectangular lens would also worsen the lens's vignetting and create asymmetrical resolution over the image area amongst other negative optical aberration effects. The light that is hitting any particular point on the sensor has come from a wide swath of glass - the light that's hitting a corner of the sensor didn't travel exclusively through the corresponding corner area of the lens elements on its way to the sensor (unless you consistently choose such small aperture that diffraction itself is substantially degrading image quality). Lens manufacturers go to great lengths to ensure that everything is symmetrical for the purpose image quality, even including the diaphragm. Low quality lenses may have a few aperture blades with flat edges making a very angular pentagon or hexagon iris...this can have a measurably negative effect on a lens's MTF chart (a measure of a lenses resolving capability) even in the center of the image. Move to better quality lenses and you'll find much more symmetrically round diaphragm opening...the apertures on those higher end multi-thousand dollar lenses that Canon & Nikon put out have very round diaphragms - that's just the aperture...do that to the glass and you'll be degrading the image that much more. The truly high end ($ 5-digit) lenses in cinematography have circular. Lens elements. This is all for the image quality throughout whole image area from center to corner. Regardless of whether the sensor is square, rectangular, round, or even star or crescent shaped, the lens - at least a really good one - would continue to be symmetrical (aka circular). Yes, manufacturing ease/cost and structural concerns would be adversely affected and complicated by making rectangular lenses, but image quality, THAT is why lenses are circular.
It's difficult to explain without launching into a complete explanation of quantum electrodynamics, but all of the light that reaches the sensor "goes through" all of the lens, at least in a sense, even if we're just talking about a single photon. A photon doesn't take just one path (unless you make the mistake of trying to figure out which path it took), it takes all possible paths. Weird, but true.
That means that removing glass from a round lens to make a smaller rectangle isn't removing "extra" glass that isn't being used, it would actually be removing glass that is used for imaging (and light collection). By the same token, adding extra glass to make the lens rectangular for purely cosmetic reasons would not only involve a lot of extra expense, that "extra" glass would now also contribute to the imaging probability distribution, so it would need to be as accurately made and as well corrected as the circular lens you are extending. As I've explained here, the larger (faster) you make a lens, the more correction is needed, the more accuracy is required, and the more the price will rise.
Quite apart from that, though, the bokeh (the nature of the out-of-focus areas, particularly the highlights) would look really, really bad.
This is about the controversial idea that all parts of the image front will collect rays for every pixel.
Diffuse surfaces send ray into every direction, pretty much infinite rays within the small arc that hits the lens. These infinity rays must be directed from a point source to a single pixel. This is hard to do, which is why sharp lenses are hard to find. This is another story.
I shot 3 images wide open and then covered the unused parts with a cut paper rectangle and took 3 more, and saw that the center part was 15% darker when I covered the unused part. the top image is the uncovered one and below is the covered one and as you see the covering is not seen in the frame, it just makes the image 15% darker:
It can be explained in the simplest model of geometric optics. On the object occurs diffuse reflection which may be depicted as several light rays of different brightness in all directions. A larger lens diameter (instead of a smaller rect. shape) may result in a brighter picture.


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Podcast: The Vienna Philharmonic plays Haydn
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The Vienna Philharmonic was founded in 1842, only 33 years after the death of Franz Joseph Haydn. Since that time, they have given more than 7,000 concerts, surely a record among orchestras. In this special box set on the Vienna … Read More →


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The standard WP Themes Install is available in Appearance --> Theme Install nav-tab. There is a way to add a new nav-tab and browsing into a Custom Themes Repository? Thanx
Not exactly.
The existing system is set up as a 2-part integration between your individual blog and the API at WordPress.org. You enter a search term, and your blog retrieves information from WordPress.org. Then you can download themes from the same location. That kind of integration doesn't exist anywhere else because, well, no one's bothered to build it.
So even if you could add a tab that pointed somewhere else, you need a somewhere else to point it in the first place.
There's been discussion on the WP Hackers list and even on this site regarding standardizing an API for hosting your own repositories ... but if anyone's started, their efforts are still in the very early stages.
While there's not currently a way to add a new tab and browsing to a custom repository (mostly because there aren't custom repositories), anything is possible.


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In honor of Labor Day, here is Josef Pieper on the foundational value of leisure:
Leisure is not justified in making the functionary [i.e., the worker or laborer] as 'trouble-free' in operation as possible, with minimum 'downtime,' but rather in keeping the functionary human ... and this means that the human being does not disappear into function, but instead remains capable of taking in the world as a whole, and thereby to realize himself as a being who is oriented toward the whole of existence.
For Pieper, leisure is not mere idleness; it is "a form of stillness that is the necessary preparation for accepting reality; only the person who is still can hear, and whoever is not still, cannot hear." He goes on:
Leisure is not the attitude of the one who intervenes but of the one who opens himself; not of someone who seizes but of one who lets go, who lets himself go ... In such silent openness of the soul, it may be granted for only an instant to know 'what the world / holds in its innermost.'"
Pieper ends Leisure: the Basis of Culture (1948)with thishope for a mankind "'born to labor'": "to be taken from the toil of the work-day, to an endless day of celebration; to be rapt from the confines of the working environment into the very center of the world." What a beautiful--and, given our own culture's fetishization of work, timely--thought.
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There is always a need to humanize work, but there's also a need to re-think the dignity of labor. In fact, as we computerize and automate apace, humans at work are increasingly cogs in motion. There is little room for accommodation to human weakness in the designing or the building of an aircraft or in the development of a security system or the assembling of trading software. The machines with which humans do their work are ever less tolerant of faulty input. Which means that it's imperative that human input be taken out of the loop as much as possible. And it's increasingly possible. Which means that there'll be fewer jobs for more humans. Which means that "a job for every willing worker" is likely an outdated idea. I imagine that economists and engineers understand that, but it's time that the rest of begin to catch on, too.
"Leisure is not justified in making the functionary [i.e., the worker or laborer] as trouble-free in operation as possible, with minimum downtime, but rather in keeping the functionary human and this means that the human being does not disappear into function, but instead remains capable of taking in the world as a whole, and thereby to realize himself as a being who is oriented toward the whole of existence."A wonderful challenge to think about how we use our leisure time and whether it is making us more human in our dealings with ourselves and others. It would be nice if what we learned in our leisure time bled into our work. I spent part of my leisure time today re-watching Fritz Lang's silent classic, "Metropolis," which I think speaks to David Smith's comments about cogs and machinery. Clearly something people have shared his concerns since the 1920s--probably since the Industrial Revolution.
IMO Retirement leisure is different for different classes. My working class father and his blue collar cohort, who did hard manual labor from their middle teens on , loved the time for putting their feet up and telling each other stories. 'Suits' of my generation struggled more with finding meaningful lives, especially those from the bureaucratic structures who mostly found their identity in a title. The '"I could have been a contender' stories get old real fast.
How do we spend our leisure, and does it help us orient ourselves toward the whole of existence? Viewed in this way, such leisure pursuits as travel or going to a movie would seem to be worthwhile, as do cultivating personal relationships, spending time with family, prayer, and (it should always be said on dotCom) reading books and magazines. I mentioned film as worthwhile, but I'm not certain that watching television, hour after hour, evening after evening, is time well-spent. Not that I never spend it that way.
Jim, I think you bring up an interesting point. In periods of extreme work and home stress, I have indulged in "flat-liner TV viewing"--where you find the most boring thing you can on TV or DVD (for me it was always Bill Moyers, I'm sorry in advance) and fall asleep in front of it. I don't see this as leisure, but as mental self-preservation. True leisure is when you're able to focus, concentrate, and be mindful of how you're spending your time.
Jean, as a matter of fact, I frequently put a baseball or hockey game on television after dinner, and my wife, who has many emotionally grueling days in her job and whose interest in sporting fare is a small fraction of mine of mine, often falls asleep in front of it.
Jim, I hope you put the game on AFTER you've helped with the cooking and clean-up and keep the sound down so your wife can have a refreshing nap. If you really want to treat her right, turn on golf. Nothing more soporific than that.
Jean - thanks for that batting practice pitch down the middle - I do cook most days and clean up every day (not that I'm running for husband-of-the-year; I suspect she could provide a fairly lengthy list of things for which she wouldn't mind a little help). The only problem with putting on golf is that it puts me to sleep, too.
Ed G. --The nurses at my brother's nursing home told me that senile old men generally want to leave to go look for a job! Sad. I think American men define themselves by their work, and work well done can be satisfying. But where are the communal activities that culture depends on? Americans do have fine sports and an occasional great movie we can enjoy together, but too many movies are criminally violent. But what about communal religious celebrations? What has happened to, say, May crownings of the Virgin, St. Rosalie parades, jazz funerals, etc. I think part of the latter problem is that so many young Americans move far away from their native places, and so the smaller community links are automatically destroyed. (Is this typical of Canada too? It would be interesting to compare the effects of moving out in the two countries.) And, of course, there is the problem of education -- many people never learn, for instance, that the old poetry and music can speak deeply to them too, and history is interesting, even useful, when well taught. Unfortunately, a great deal of the new "poetry" is inane -- just series of random images strung together. Novels are all but dead. Art is trivial or crazy. The valuable is confused with the new. In other words, our contemporary arts are dying, if not dead, so they don't hold us together and add meaning to life. One good thing about the lack of priests, I think, is that the Liturgy of the Hours is now being celebrated in some parishes, led by lay people. Hey, maybe the teen-agers and young adults could invent their own communal prayer forms -- have all the guitars and poetry they want. Reserve Friday nights in church for them. They might even invent some good new hymns :-)
All life should be leisure. Perhaps we're very gradually engineering our way back to that. Work as creation and maintenance and leisure to think, recreate, let life flow over us. The subservience model of work is relatively new, isn't it? Something made necessary by the disappearance of slaves and servants. If our machines bring back the slaves and servants, we'll be in clover. But first we'll need to discard the notion that competition and accumulation are the summum bonum.
On re-reading the Pieper clips, I see that in those texts he is opposing not work and *culture* but work and leisure. I'm not sure what he means by "leisure". It seems to be more like "contemplation". Hmmm.
"I mentioned film as worthwhile, but Im not certain that watching television, hour after hour, evening after evening, is time well-spent. Not that I never spend it that way."And the hours some of us spend doing what we are doing here????
Of twittering. Of going on to Facebook. Or texting. Or ......
Well, Jimmy, that was a conversation killer :-)
But, Jean, it's true. There's a recent study which shows that dopamine is what incites us to pursue even trivial knowledge, and that's not the same thing as really wanting the knowledge. The theory explains a lot about everything from addiction, to Altzheimer's, to schizophrenia, to obesity and other stuff. Unfortunately, I lost the reference.
Ann, yes, I think I heard that on NPR not long ago. A very interesting "60 Minutes" segment on sugar, which triggers dopamine and makes you want more and more of it, seemed an interesting tie-in. I would be happy to let scientist study my brain (in my leisure time) to find out why I don't have much interest in sweet things, and why I have to eat desserts and high-sugar items sparingly or I feel rather ill.Coffee, now .... ummmm. That's a different story. I guess I gravitate toward the bitter. In so many ways.
Jean --I too often favor the bitter over the sugary, but I also seem to have an inclination to try to answer every question that my consciousness asks me. That's good in some circumstances in that it forces me to look ahead at consequences that a lot of people would just consider trivial or plain ignore (e.g., at the consequences of global warming or what will happen if x, y, or z), but it also wastes a lot of time. At any rate, the study is apparently a very important one. Google says it's already been referenced many, many times in the scientific literature.
Ann, of all the people I know "live" and "virtually," you're the one I'm most sure does not waste her leisure time!However, I may suggest to my students later this fall that learning trivial information (say, about restrictive clauses or the three types of argumentative appeals) will actually give them a natural high.
Jean --But the sad thing aboit that study is that it found that finding the answer isn't as satisfying as anticipating it:-(. I guess it just confirms What St. Augustine said, "Our hearts are restless, and they will not rest until they rest in Thee". And this makes me question what Pieper says aboit seeking calm in this life. Soounds a bit like self-hypnosis or certain Buddhist meditation techniques. Yes. There is such a thing as contemplative prayer which is peaceful. And that does seem to contradict the dopamine study. I wonder if the psychologists studied alternate states of consciousness. And does Pieper include contemPlation/meditation in leisure activities ?(But I do waste a lot of time!)
Ann, yes they have studied prayer and meditation viz a viz dopamine, and this article might give you a temporary buzz.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-schiffman/why-people-who-pray-are-...'s concern with this type of study is that it would seem to "explain away" prayer in terms of brain chemistry, ergo, a crutch. My response is that perhaps God gives us that temporary high when we pray to encourage us to do it more. In any case, I have difficulty reducing human experience, feeling, and mental states/illnesses in terms of chemical recipes.
Predictably, shopping gives some people a dopamine rush. http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500164_162-1103331.htmlBut is it a good leisure pursuit? (And to sustain the shopping theme: are leisure pursuits superior to leisure suits?)http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=leisure+suit+photos&oq=lei...
Jim, leisure suits cause cancer. I seen it on "Fernwood 2Night":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lISl8Qz9Z7I
Jean,Dr. Benson showed long ago that meditation can have strong physiological effects, and they're highly beneficial for most of us. I know from personalmexperience that this is true at least for me. But my problem with all of these studies is that they assume that there is only *one* kind of meditation and one kind of prayer. But there are a number of different kinds if one can believe the mystics from very differemt cultures. Yet most researchers such as Gazzinaga and Newberg make these totally general conclusions about "prayer" when it seems that they study only one kind of prayer. or if they are studying more tgan one knd, they lump tgem all together. That's like studying all the fish in one pond and then making generalizations about all fish. Bad science.
I should add that though I did a good bit of reading about this subject years ago, i haven't kept up with the new reasearch except to read a bit about it occasionlly in the general press. But nothing in the general press that I've read makes me think that the researchers now realize that their subject is a lot more diverse than they imagine. -- that there arr a number of knds of prayer with different states of mind and different psychological and physiological effects.The ignorance of some scientists of non-scientific scholarship is really appalling.
I have had a lot of unwanted "leisure time" hanging out in hospitals this summer as my mother's physical and mental health deteriorates. I was in the "quiet room" with my rosary when a fellow walked in to get a cup of coffee. He noticed the rosary and asked if it worked. I said, I dunno but right now it's all I've got. He asked me to pray for his mother, who had a pulmonary embolism and wasn't going to make it. I did, of course, and I hope it gave him some comfort. But it didn't do a thing for his mother; she died a few hours later. I have come to believe that prayer is largely a way to remove yourself from the stress of the immediate and connect yourself with the bigger picture so you can stand whatever you have to.I don't believe God ever gives you what you want because you've nagged him enough through prayer, and it irritates me to get prayer requests from friends who want me to pray for a miracle. I ask God to be with that person (or animal) whatever happens, and ask God to show me what I can do to offer practical assistance. I don't know what this does to the dopamine in my head, but I do sometimes see my way forward and am able, with God's help, to get off my fanny and actually do something useful by sending a card, making a hot dish, making a visit, or whatever. That's a prayer by the definition of the old Unitarian hymn "to worship rightly is to love each other, each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer." I think St. Teresa of Avila and St. Francis had that notion of prayer, too.There may be other kinds of prayer, but I don't know what they are.
JEan --There are prayers of petition, prayers of thanksgiving, prayers of worship, etc. in which we address the Lord in our minds and sometimes with words and/or actions. Most prayers involve words and images of various sorts, but there are also wordless and imageless prayers in which the prayor does other sorts of things. In Centering Prayer the whole object is to will to accept the presence and will of God. No images, no words, only that good intention. It's a kind of "contemplative prayer". That is, it directs the self towards God without words or images or actions. The mystics pray (ask) to be made aware of the presence of God within them, or at least hope they will be made aware. But such awareness is always a gift of God, it cannot be produced by our actions, words, etc. It can only be prepared for and then hoped for. It is always a loving union though sometimes the soul is so taken up with God she isn't even aware of herself. Different mystics seem to be aware of different aspects of God in these loving states. They are found in many different cultures, religions, times and places. Because it is not automatic and its occurrence cannot be predicted, I don't see how the scientists will ever study it -- they can't know when it's happening! There are also counterfeit mystical experiences in which the soul mistakes is own beautiful depths for God Himself, and also experiences in which the self identifies everything with everything (including itself) and mistakes itself for God. R. C. Zaehner's "Mysticism: Sacred and Profane" will tell you something about the counterfeit kind, including the kind Charles Manson (!) had. Protestants, as you probably known, downplay contemplative prayer, and the RCC has never tried to educate the laity about it very much. You usually have to go looking for it on your own or have a confessor who can help you with it. What I"ve said here is just the very briefest sort of sketch about the variety of prayer. The literature is ancient and vast. Which is why I think it's awful that the scientists have heard so little about it also. I should also add that the Hindus think you shouldn't do it without a guru -- some techniques can be dangerous and lead to mental problems. Maybe somebody on the blog could recommend some beginners' books to you. I'm afraid I can't, except for Fr. Thomas Keating's "Open Heart, Open Mind", which is about Centering Prayer, one sort of contemplative method that is becoming more and more popular with lay people. Very, very simple. No words, no images. Some people experience union with God when doing it, others not, but it's beneficial anyway. It at least will make you easier to live with :-) At least, that is what some family members sometimes say.Here's an 8 minute video of Fr. Keating telling you about it and how to do it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IKpFHfNdnE
Jean, I'm so sorry about your mom. I've never been able to draw a straight line between prayers and outcomes. My only thoughts - that the outcome may not be what we want but what God plans, for whatever reason - probably sound pretty trite. Yet Jesus exhorts us to pray, to knock, to ask, to beseech God for our daily bread. I know quite a few people who are convinced that "prayer works" and will offer examples. To me, it's in the realm of the mysterious. I think prayer is essential, but in my experience, it's not a reliable path to a directed outcome.
Ann, thanks so much for a starting place on contemplative prayer. I think it's fascinating how some prayers come unbidden. When Dad was dying, my mother and I took turns sitting by his bed, and the litany of the saints kept running through my head. I was bone tired and couldn't really put together much in the way of coherent thought. I don't know if such a thing is completely random, like an earbug (one of those songs you can't get out of your head) or something more profound. It certainly didn't feel like *I* was making it happen, but when you're exhausted, it's easy to feel fragmented. But I'm glad it wasn't "Hey, Jude" or "Surfin' Safari" stuck in there.Jim, my in-laws used to constantly ask me to pray for money because they were always behind in their bills (too many credit cards). They used to tell me idiotic stories about how my prayer "worked" because on the day they asked everybody to pray their furnace rebate check or tax refund arrived just ahead of the repo man. The only thing I got out of these experiences was an object lesson in credit cards. Hallelujah! Everything happens for a reason!
Jean --I don't doubt that ynbidden prayers are really our own. If the neuroscientists -- and the psychoanalysts -- have taught us anything it is that there are hidden parts of the self which operate even when we are not aware of what is going on subterranean, and some of the parts are extremely powerful. That's one of the fascinating things about studying mysticism in all its weird varieties -- so much of the unconscious speaks out to the mystics and sometimes the "mystics" even manage to "go there" without drugs. But, according to Catholic theology, the weird stuff isn't essentially religious, it's just very, very strange and if I'm not mistaken, mystical theologians (those who study mysticism) also think it's a good idea for the contemplative to have a guru/spiritual advisor. Sometimes some of these experiences can be psychologically damaging.There are a lot or reasons to think that there is a lot more to the human soul than most people even begin to imagine, and some of it is very, very strange, even frightening, according to Freud, at any rate. There is one sort of contemplation that some Hindus do called (as I remember) "nirodh". Many, many years ago (pre-Gazzinaga, et al) it was studied by neurologists. and it was found that the Hindu's mental activities slowed down to such an extent that it was "the next best thing to being dead" -- and this was the state those mystics strive for! We're weird, I tell you, weird :-) But this really isn't a laughing matter, though we laugh at some of it. Mystics of many stripes go to outlandish lengths to achieve such states. There must be something wonderful to them. So there.
Ann, speaking of mystics and the outlandish, Christina the Astonishing, who is listed by some scholars as a beguine but who perhaps became a nun later, was quite weird. Many people at the time thought she was just nuts, but ... http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-christina-the-astonishing/
Wow, Jean, she's about as crazy as Catholic saints get. But I do think there are a goodly number of saints among the crazy. They experience such terrible emotional pain so often. Schizophrenia, depression, and paranoia are terribly painful, and some crazy people bear the pain and don't kill themselves out of love of God and/or family. We had a neighbor like that. His psychiatrist said he would have killed himself, but it would have been terrible for his family, so he didn't. All the more reason to figure out just how the brain works and how it contributes to such illness.I just with the scientists didn't start their research with such simple-minded assumptions, such as th mind is also a machine.
The NYT Opinionator has an article by Gary Gutting on "What Work Is Really For". (Leisue, of course.)http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/work-good-or-bad/Gutting says "What, then, is work for? Aristotle has a striking answer: 'we work to have leisure, on which happiness depends'. He also critiques the sort of capitalism that holds that selling/profit are the main function of an economic system. Human flourishing must be the goal. But what is human flourishing?


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My opponent attacks me with say, a 6/6 trample generic Wyrm of some sort, and I block with a Whispering Specter, a 1/1 infect with flying. When damage is dealt the Specter will deal it in the form of a -1/-1 counter from its infect ability. Well, the Wyrm would normally deal me 5 leftover trample damage, so is this damage lowered by -1 from the counter given by the Specter?
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No, you would suffer up to 5 damage if the opponent choose to assign the trample damage to you.
When two creatures deal combat to each other, it's simultaneous. So, for example, a non-trampling 6/6 would deal 6 damage to your 1/1, causing 6 damage to become "marked" on it, while, concurrently, your 1/1 would deal 1 point of infect damage to the 6/6, causing a -1/-1 counter to be put on it. The counters are the damage.
Trample doesn't add an extra step to damage resolution, it just changes how damage is assigned. So, a trampling 6/6 allows its controller to assign 1 damage to your 1/1 (since that's enough to kill it) and as much of the remaining damage as he wants to you. You, your blocker, and the attacking creature all take damage simultaneously.
If you blocked the 6/6 trampler with a 1/1 creature that had both infect and first strike, then its infect damage would be applied first, giving the 6/6 a -1/-1 counter, and then you'd only take a maximum of 4 trample damage.


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In America you're almost required to both hate Wal-Mart, and shop there on a weekly basis. It's kind of an odd relationship. Television commercials can only do so much to combat the company's bad image. No matter how many cute smiley faces Wal-Mart's marketing department throws at us, we're still going to picture their stores as a place where, for customers and employees, dignity goes to die.
As proof, this is the very first GIS result for "walmart greeter."
So when Wal-Mart decided their reputation needed bolstering, they knew they had to come at it from a different angle. They needed to display proof that people loved their stores: real stories about the lives of everyday Americans, all of them made better thanks to the hard working and proud employees of Wal-Mart. But they couldn't find any of those, so they paid a married couple to manufacture some.
The result was a blog called Wal-Marting Across America, which chronicled the journey of the happily married Laura and Jim as they took their new RV around the country and told stories of the people they encountered. At first glance it was kind of cute in a dumb way, sort of like watching your grandma check her e-mail. But you only had to read a few entries before you noticed the excessive praise Wal-Mart and its employees were getting.
Pretty much the entire Internet noticed, actually. Perhaps tipped off by the fact that the blog included pictures of Wal-Mart workers who were happy and claimed to enjoy their job--an obvious red flag--people started to look into the details of the site.The Backfire
"Jim" was discovered to be James Thresher, a photographer for the Washington Post who apparently hadn't picked up on his employer's history of journalistic integrity.
Oh, James.
The funding for the entire trip (plus payment for every blog post) was revealed to have come from Wal-Mart's PR firm and the end result was huge backlash from both the Internet and the mainstream media.
How badly did it affect Wal-Mart? Well, it came during a year where the company was estimated to have lost up to eight percent of its customers because of negative press. Damn, worst PR firm ever.
#2. Nothing Promotes a Website Better Than Animal Cruelty
Picture the following: You're a top ranking employee at a Swedish ad agency, and they've just launched a new website. Your company is really excited about the change, and you've been put in charge of informing your many clients about how awesome and useful the new site is. How do you approach this task?
If you answered "sending doctored images depicting the gratuitous butchery of a live lamb," then congratulations, you're completely insane! You'll fit in great at clownshit ad agency Cole, Russell & Pryce!
The craziness started with an e-mail to all of their clients featuring a picture of a lamb and a message urging them to visit the new website for the animal's sake. OK, that's a little unorthodox; but whatever, baby animals are cute, we can roll with that.
That e-mail was followed up with a second one, this time featuring a picture of a lamb with its front hoof chopped off.
"Aawww- holy shit!"
But these mad men weren't done. Not content to merely provide Photoshopped butchery, the agency also mailed boxes containing real lamb hoofs to 90 clients. We'd like to emphasize that. A company that people pay to make products look good could think of no better way to advertise their website than to surprise people with the remains of slaughtered lambs.
The Backfire
So this might be a good time to mention that that one of Cole, Russell & Pryce's clients was an animal rights organization. Because we're like 90% sure that should have factored into their thought process at some point.
Also, they probably could have picked a less adorable animal.
Surprisingly, the company managed to keep their clients, but only after giving in to the demand that the founder, part owner and visionary behind this campaign be fired.
#1. Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Never Forget
It will go down as either the worst, or best, viral marketing stunt in history. We readily admit that the line is very thin sometimes.
Back in 2007, Aqua Teen Hunger Force had a movie coming out. Since the show is rather obscure and eccentric (as far as mainstream audiences are concerned anyway) it would have been tough to pack the theaters through traditional advertising alone, even if they had the budget for it (they didn't). So, a guerrilla marketing blitz was planned to get the word out.
Dozens of LED placards featuring a character from the show were placed around eight different American cities, presumably to remind people to go see the movie. Or to inspire child like nostalgia for dirty gestures created on childhood toys. We'll never know.
Given the source material, it may be both.
In seven of those cities the campaign went pretty well. In Boston, however, people freaked right the hell out.
The panic began when a transit passenger saw one of the signs and pointed it out to a policeman. You have to imagine it in context; it's this electronic device, with wires and shit coming out of the back, and on the front is a picture of a guy giving you the finger. There is no sane explanation for that object existing. It's actually more reasonable to assume "bomb."
OK, maybe "reasonable" isn't the best word to describe the reaction. The cop called in a fleet of squad cars, fire trucks, ambulances and the bomb squad to investigate. They eventually concluded that the device shared "some characteristics with improvised explosive devices."The Backfire
So the police shut down the nearby roads and blew the placard up. They then proceeded to shut down a pair of bridges to take down a second sign and the Coast Guard closed off part of the Charles River.
It was at this point that some presumably Irish Catholic Einstein figured out that this was not actually an act of terror, but a newfangled marketing campaign. So they arrested the two guys who had put the placards up on the charge of "placing a hoax device with the intent to panic the public," probably because there's no law in Boston against making the police look like idiots.
And do you realize how hard it is for a guy with hair like that to not look like the idiot?
Turner Broadcasting, the company that owns the show, had to pay one million dollars each to the Boston Police and the Department of Homeland Security. Meanwhile the incident made headlines around the world, earning the show and movie probably, oh, 10 times that amount in free publicity.
We hope they learned their lesson.
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Google sometimes come up with irrelevant links, not everything is available on SO, there are cases where the local documentation is also annoying to look through... Are there other efficient ways you use to search?
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Practise your Google-fu. Google is pretty awesome, but it's not magic. Sometimes you'll need to use search operators to get better answers, especially on some code phrases that can be difficult to search. Check out the Google Guide, for example.
If I know where the answer is, I might use the site: operator, or if I need something citable I often use inurl:edu. Google Code is handy for finding examples, and I use it to search for APIs sometimes.
One of the most useful pieces of advice I can give is to start using Google Bookmarks. These results will appear when you are searching Google. I really like how (unlike other bookmarking services) this is set and forget. The bookmark sharing could be improved however.
I honestly just use google with enough keywords to get the directly to the documentation without having to pull up giant RAM eating pages like the entire Java 6 class list.
For programming issues I tend to look at bookmark websites using tags for example - http://www.delicious.com/tag/programming
Another resource to check out are books, sometimes a good book about a topic can give you just what you are looking for. So Google Book Search is a good way to identify the books that might be of help.


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Friday, October 29, 2010
Spaguetti squash with tomato sauce
We start piercing the squash with a fork. We place it on an oven sheet for about 50 minutes, rotating it every 20 minutes so it cooks throughout.
After 50 minutes, make a vertical cut from the center of the stem down to the bottom and let it cool for at least 1 hour.
While we wait, we prepare a nice tomato sauce.
To peel our tomatoes, we make a cross with a knife where the stem was. We place them in a pot with hot water for only 30 seconds and immediately under cold water.
Once the tomatoes are cold it will be super easy to peel them, just using your hands. Cut the tomatoes in four pieces and remove the seeds.
We place them in a blender or food processor (if you use a blender try to use the "ice crusher" function - it gets the best texture out of our tomatoes).
After that we remove the excess of water with a drainer. This will make an excellent tomato juice! Enjoy it while you prepare the rest of the diss :)
We chop an onion, while heating up a sauce pan with olive oil. Once hot, we cook the onions until they are transparent. Then we add garlic and stir together until fragant (between 30 seconds and one minute).
Add the tomato puree and keep stirring constantly during the first couple of minutes. Season with salt an pepper to taste and add a tablespoon of brown sugar to balance acidity. If you like, you can add a half cup of a good red wine.
While we wait for the sauce, we make our vegetable "spaghetti". Using a fork we first remove the seeds and discard. We then separate the strands of squash. Place them on an oven pan and mix them with the tomato sauce.
To finish, cover them with our tomato sauce and shredded parmesan and orégano. Place it in the oven for a few minutes, until the cheese melts.
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I always say I am going to use spaghetti sauce on spaghetti night and always forget, well I have copied out your recipe and hung on the fridge for this weeks spaghetti Thursday dinner.ReplyDelete
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Pataki Calls RomneyCare 'Unconstitutional,' Joins Growing Conservative Opposition To Mass. Reform
Former Gov. George Pataki (R-NY), who is heading up an effort to petition the government to "repeal and replace" the new health care law, took a shot at Mitt Romney today, telling a Connecticut newspaper that Massachusetts' health care reform law contained an "unconstitutional" individual mandate:
Former New York Gov. George Pataki blasted the Bay State's health care reform created under former Gov. Mitt Romney today, telling the Herald it's "unconstitutional." He also conceded that Romney is "probably the (Republican) front runner" in the 2012 presidential election.
"I think the idea of what they call an individual mandate … is not just wrong, in all likelihood it's unconstitutional," Pataki told the Herald in a telephone interview today […] Pataki, who would not rule out a 2012 presidential run, is kicking off his push to repeal health care reform at the Paul Revere park on Sunday. He's started a non-profit called "RevereAmerica.org" and plans to tour campaign hot spots like Iowa and California. "We want to mobilize people who understand our freedom is at risk again and we have to wake up and reclaim our government," said Pataki. He's pushing to rake in $15 million for the campaign along with millions of signatures from congressional districts to show politicians where the average American stands.
Pataki's comments come as a growing number of conservatives are beginning to question Romney's ability to successfully distance himself from national health care reform, given its similarities to the Massachusetts plan. Since President Obama signed the reform bill, Romney moved quickly to condemn the new law as an abuse of federal power, arguing that health care reform is a right reserved for the states. He has also defended the success of his own, very similar, proposal. Many conservatives, however, don't believe that voters will make the distinction.
Early last month, The Club for Growth mocked Romney for calling his plan "the ultimate conservative plan" and the CATO Institute has now put together a video explaining the fundamental similarities between RomneyCare and ObamaCare.
The conservative American Spectator is also warning Republicans that a Romney presidential bid could undermine any effort to repeal the national law. "Romney would not be able to credibly campaign against the national health care law," Phillip Klein wrote today on the AmSpecBlog. "And as a result, were he the Republican nominee, it would kill the movement to repeal ObamaCare."
Romney himself may even agree with Pataki. He has repeatedly praised the individual mandate for insuring 98% of all Massachusetts residents, but has also argued that the measure violates the sovereignty of the states. "I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front," he said last week.


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(December 20, 2012)--Central Texas Veterans Health Care System hospitals in Temple and in Waco will welcome Christmas with holiday activities Friday.
VA volunteers and staff will deliver gifts and fruit to patients in the hospitals and clinics.
A folk string band, Lohman's Crossing, from Austin, will also perform for patients at the Temple VA Domiciliary.
Veterans will receive gifts listed on their wish list which often includes items like sweaters, socks, cologne and sweat suits.
Gifts were donated by individuals and veterans' organizations.
The fun will get underway in the afternoon.


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Hidden Lake Winery & Banquet Center
Welcome! Hidden Lake Winery and Banquet Center, located in rural Aviston, IL, is situated in "Silent Forest," a wooded parcel of land abounding in local lore. Our winemaking began in 2004 and is influenced by the German heritage of the farming families who settled this part of Illinois. At Hidden Lake Winery, our goal is to offer a variety of wines that will satisfy many different palates. Our wines are produced with locally-grown fruit and bottled here in our cellar. Guests can enjoy a glass of wine (or other beverage if desired) in a tranquil setting with old friends, or perhaps with new ones.
Bent Oak Golf Course
This par 9 course is located in Breese.
Kampground Okaw Valley
52 sites, electricity, dump station, showers, reservations.
Coles Creek Recreation Area
148 sites, electricity, shower, reservations
West Access Marina
A year-round facility for large and small boats located at the southwest end of Carlyle Lake. Suited for a complete variety of water sports.
Eldon Hazlet State Park
The largest campground in the Illinois State Park system. The park covers 3,000 acres on the west shore of Carlyle Lake. Every year more than 3/4 million visitors come here to hunt, fish, picnic, camp, boat, water ski, and hike.
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Carlyle Lake Sailing Association
CSA has docking for 380 boats, 3 electric jib cranes, 1,300 ft. of dock and 2 launching ramps. Special events feature annual regattas.
Tradewinds Marina
Able to accommodate boats up to 45 ft. in covered slips and 40 ft. in open slips, Trade Winds Marina is a great place to moor your boat. The new clubhouse features showers, restrooms, and a lounging area for members.
Governors Run Golf and Country Club
This championship 18-hole course has 13 lakes scattered throughout the par 72 layout. It boasts five sets of tees to accommodate all skill levels on exquisitely manicured greens.
Carlyle Lake
The largest man-made lake in Illinois (26,000 acres), is a premier location for outdoor sports. Known to sailors, it is one of the best and most challenging for sailboats. There is also boating, fishing, hunting, bird watching, sand beaches, and camping areas. Hotels, cabins and golf courses make the area a true outdoor lover's playground.
Racoon Lake
The park is open for boating and fishing year round and hosts a major drag boat racing event each year.
Flying M Ranch Golf Course
This public nine-hole, 32 par course also offers a driving range, rental carts and clubs. Miniature golf, camping and fishing are also available for a fee.
Greenview Golf Club
This public 18-hole, 72 par course offers rental clubs and carts, and a pro on site.
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Foundation Park
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Centralia Carillon
Centralia's resident carilloneur performs on the town's 65-bell carillon, one of the few in the country. The surrounding park also features a museum and tours of the 165-foot-tall tower.
Centralia Recreation Complex
Located in downtown Centralia, this 60,000-sq.-ft. building features an Olympic-size, six-lane competition pool with spectator seating. The main gymnasium has room for two full-size basketball or three volleyball courts with seating for 400.


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I am almost ready to submit my most recent paper, and I find myself in a problem that has already occurred multiple times in my short publishing career. In this paper, I wish to state a result which I consider 'well-known', but a skimming of all the likely textbooks and survey articles doesn't yield a nice statement that I can cite. For reference, the result in question is the following:
Let $X$ be a smooth, affine variety over $\mathbb{C}$, with coordinate ring $\mathcal{O}_X$. Then there is a natural isomorphism of $\mathcal{O}_X$-modules from the Kahler differentials $\Omega(\mathcal{O}_X)$ of $\mathcal{O}_X$ to the global 1-forms on $X$ with regular coefficients.
This is a result whose proof I know, and is homework-level difficulty, but including the proof in my short paper would require terminology and techniques I'd rather not introduce and consume precious space. It's also not a necessary result for the paper; I am including it to justify the study of Kahler differentials to an audience which might include differential geometers.
So what does one do in this situation? The lazy solution is to include some weasel words to avoid finding a citation ("it is a straight-forward exercise to show that..."), but this seems like a dangerous policy to employ in general. However, finding a citation is proving unreasonably time-consuming, since it's not in the books I know (Hartshorne, Eisenbud, Kunz), and each new book/article I skim has its own notation and assumptions.
Also, while I'd be extremely grateful for a citation for the specific result above, my question is about what to do in this kind of situation. I'm trying not to get the answers mixed up.


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I just bought a 32GB micro SD card to replace my 8GB micro SD card for my x10. I have some apps that I've downloaded online (paid APK) and not from the market. They are currently stored in my 8GB micro SD. I don't know how to transfer the files to the new 32GB card. I don't know in what folder they should be placed in. Again, my unit is an SE x10 (eclair).
It will be an exact mirror of what you had before.
You should be able to use the APK itself to reinstall the app. Create a temporary folder on your new SD card, you can call it anything you like (such as "APK-Install") and copy the APKs into there.
When you plug the new SD card, use a file manager (download something like "ASTRO File Manager" if you haven't got one already) and browse to that folder. Now if you run that APK file it should give you the option to install the app. (I assume that you've already enabled the "Allow install of non-Market applications" option as you say that you've loaded non-Market apps before).
You're running Eclair, so (unless you've rooted) I assume that you haven't moved any of your installed apps to the SD card, but if you have remember to move them back into internal memory before you swap cards.
I am assuming that you want to move the data from the old card to the new one...
Before you replace your old sdcard, connect your device to your computer via USB cable and mount the sdcard so your computer can access the data. Now copy all the data from the sdcard to your computer.
Once that is complete, put in the new sdcard and then mount the new sdcard. Now you can copy the data from your old sdcard (now stored on your desktop) to your new sdcard.
After you copy the data to the new sdcard, unmount it. Then you can use a file manager like Astro, to install them using the apk file as GAThrawn stated...


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Community Blood Center (CBC) is asking all eligible blood donors to make a life-saving blood donation during this week and throughout the next few weeks.
CBC saw a significant decline in blood donations during the last two weeks of August and an even more drastic reduction in collections over the holiday weekend. This, coupled with the demand for blood, by area hospitals has left the supply at a critically low level.
"We started to see a slight decline in mid-August, but the lack of donations from the holiday weekend has put the blood supply in an extremely critical state," said David Graham, Vice President, Donor and Hospital Services. "August is always a very tough month to collect blood, you have families taking final summer vacations and preparing for back-to-school events. Often times, blood donations get lost in the mix and people think that their one unit of blood won't make a difference, but in fact it does make a difference." Graham continued. "We are asking all eligible blood donors to visit any one of our Donation Centers or mobile blood drives and bring a friend or family member with them. Every single donation will help at least two hospital patients who rely on life-saving blood."
Donors can find a conveniently located blood drive by visiting the organization's web site www.savealifenow.org and clicking the "Schedule an appointment icon." Donors can also visit one of CBC's six Neighborhood Donation Centers.
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Eligible donors must be at least 16 years of age, weigh a minimum of 115 pounds and be in good health.
"A safe and adequate blood supply is essential to the health of any community," stated David Graham. "Therefore, we are asking all eligible donors to help replenish the blood supply by taking just an hour from their day to make that life-saving donation."
Community Blood Center is the local non-profit supplier of blood services for 70 hospitals throughout Kansas City, Jefferson City, St. Joseph, Lawrence and Topeka. Community Blood Center is a member of America's Blood Centers, a national network of independent blood centers that provides over half of the nation's blood supply; the AABB, and the Blood Centers of America.


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While investigating the murders of several young men Geralt follows the trail to a succubus. Using Dandelion as a lure he finally finds her lair. The succubus though denies any involvement in the murders, she claims her ex-lover Ele'yas killed them out of jealousy.
I confronted Ele'yas, but he too denied being the murderer. It is now word against word, and I don't know who to believe. Is there any way to gather more evidence to find out who truly murdered the young men?


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Mrs. Mary D. LoRusso
Registered nurse
Mary was born on May 30, 1927, in Waterbury, daughter of the late Frederick and Josephine (Payeur) Donahue. She grew up in Waterbury and was a graduate of St. Mary's Grammar School, Crosby High School, St. Francis School of Nursing in Hartford, in the Cadet Corp Nurse Program during World War II, and Mattatuck Community College. Later in life, she earned her bachelor's degree in general studies from the University of Connecticut in Waterbury.
Mary worked as a registered nurse for both Waterbury and Saint Mary's hospitals, Watertown VNA and Taft School. She, along with her husband, Jim, daughter, Eileen, and son-in-law, Mark Poulin, purchased J-C Pharmacy in Thomaston in 1982, Neal Pharmacy in Prospect in 1985, and a Nutmeg Pantry convenience store franchise with Jim and son Donald in 1990.
Along with Jim, Mary built their home in Watertown during the Flood of 1955. In 1956 they moved into their home, where they lived for 57 years and raised their family. While she was always looking to learn new things, she was also always the teacher. She was an avid reader of nonfiction and historical books, was a Cub Scout leader, a seamstress, enjoyed musicals and dancing and was very interested in genealogy. She loved to travel with her husband, both in the U.S. as well as internationally, on his business trips. They also traveled extensively with their family, exploring their heritage in Ireland, Canada and Italy. Family was her true love and she cherished the time spent with them. Some of her happiest memories were made at their cottage on Lake Winnemaug in Watertown.
Mary is survived by her sons, James K. LoRusso and his wife, Linda, of Thomaston, and Donald LoRusso and his wife, Marilyn, of Waterbury; and her daughters, Kathleen Gostanian and her husband, Gregory, of Windham, N.H., and Eileen Poulin and her husband, Mark, of Harwinton. She also leaves her grandchildren, Mark Poulin II, Donald Poulin, James K. LoRusso, Jr., Michael LoRusso, Bethany Gostanian and Kerensa Salvietti; her sister-in-law, Donna Sacco and her husband, Dr. John, of Norwalk, and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brother, Robert Saul LaChance of California, and her sisters, Anne McCarthy and Mary McCarthy, who passed away in 1916, both of Waterbury, as well as her nephew, David LaChance.
The LoRusso family would like to thank Irina, Mary's caregiver, for the love and patience she had for her while in her care.
The funeral service will be held 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, at Maiorano Funeral Home, 95 Willow St., Waterbury, with a prayer service to begin at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Monday morning from 10 to 11 a.m.
Memorial contributions in Mary's name may be made to the Shrine of St. Anne, 515 S. Main St., Waterbury, CT 06706.
For more information and online condolences, please visit www.maioranofuneralhome.com.
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