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I have consistently heard rumors that the Orthodox and the Roman Catholics will be reconciling at some point (at least to the point of Catholics being able to receive Orthodox sacraments). Sometimes the rumors are that it will happen during a reigning patriarch, but other voices among the Orthodox have suggested that such a gesture is an impossibility*. So, which is it? Is reconciliation possible (and close), or will things continue as they have for nearly a millennium?
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As to the differences from a Catholic man's perspective:
So, is it likely that these two Churches will reunite? It is the hope and prayer of every Catholic person that they will. It should be the hope and prayer of every Christian that 'all [Christians] may be one', such as The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are. At the same time, both of these Churches do believe that a union without a consensus on the deep issues that divide them is artificial, and not a real union at all. Thus, they both believe that they need to work on these fundamental issues beforehand.
And herein lies one of the problems. For, while the Pope can speak for all Catholic Bishops, ratifying their declarations, there is no one in the Orthodox Church that can similarly speak for everyone. If, and when, reunification takes place, there will always be a substantial amount of Orthodox Bishops which will renounce the reunion as heretical and will refuse to reunite.
Another problem: there are some teachings that the Catholic Church deems as irrefutable, due to the dogma of infallibility. To go back on these teachings would amount to a declaration that the Catholic Church is not infallible, which I fear She cannot do. The best The Catholic Church can do is to recast (re-explain) those same infallible teachings on a new light, perhaps making it logically possible to come to a formulation of the teaching which is also acceptable to the Orthodox Church. Given that both Churches have very gifted and careful theologians who feel themselves in the right, it is very difficult to see how this might be possible.
THEREFORE, what are the chances that both Churches would unite? Very unlikely, if you ask me. History may force them to reunite (and force them to work out those differences), if a world-wide effective persecution of both Churches should occur, but other than that, all we can do is hope and pray.
The Catholic understanding is that the lack of reconciliation is due to a lack of love when Catholic and Orthodox share in full all doctrines that would make full communion appropriate.
The Orthodox position is that there is much more than the clause in the Creed and Catholics are saying, in effect, "Let us restore communion despite our unresolved differences."
It is my own experience that Catholics who seek reconciliation never seek to resolve the unreconciled differences or otherwise acknowledge what they have to repent of for any appropriate reconciliation to be possible. The Orthodox experience here is kind of like the Catholic experience when Anglicans or Baptists want to share the chalice without changing any of their doctrines.
(See my own Open Letter to Catholics on Orthodoxy and Ecumenism.)


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The Durango High School volleyball team�s Southwestern League reign of terror continued Tuesday night as it crushed the Montezuma-Cortez Panthers� hopes of another five-game insurrection, winning 3-0 (25-19, 25-15, 25-19) on the annual Pink Digs for the Cure night at Durango High School.
�In the pregame ... we talked about making a statement for the rest of the league,� DHS assistant coach Colleen Keresey said. �And I think winning in three against a good Cortez team made a statement.�
It was the Demons� 18th SWL win in a row over a span of nearly two years.
�That�s crazy,� Keresey said.
An iron fist, indeed.
After Cortez took Durango the distance in their last match two weeks ago, the Demons would abide no rebellion Tuesday on their home floor.
The Durango girls jumped to a 4-0 lead to start out Game 1, before the Panthers� tight and scrappy defense found its feet.
As would be the pattern for the next two games as well, the two teams battled through a point-for-point beginning and middle of the game, with the Durango hitters hammering their sets and the Cortez defense coming up with sprawling digs.
As often as not, it was Demons� errors rather than Panthers� hits that scored Cortez its points.
�Our typical Cortez game,� Keresey said.
But tied 19-19 it was the whirling arm of McKenna Franzen that, like a windmill, fed energy into the Demons attack with a gusty kill.
Franzen led the team with 12 kills on the night.
Then, Durango won the next six points for the first-game victory.
Defensive specialist Mikayla Montoya said the raucous and pink-clad crowd provided audible juice for the Demons to feed off of all night � an anti-cancer brigade that she said made the difference between five games and three.
�That energy ... made us want to win,� Montoya said.
Senior outside hitter Zoe Cutler scored the game-winning kill, her first of five in the match to go along with some key blocks throughout, as she stepped up from junior varsity to take the place of Hannah Quick, who missed the match with an ankle injury.
Cutler�s confident play provided a key weapon in Durango�s arsenal Tuesday, Keresey said.
�If one door closes, another door opens,� said Cutler, daughter of Charles and Christina Cutler.
That blocking, which Keresey said the team spent lots of time working on over the week, also was key in the Game 2 victory.
Cutler said the girls struggled with Cortez�s oddly timed sets in their last meeting, in addition to leaving open the corners of the court for the Panthers� hitters.
This time, the Demons rotated libero Kennedy Clark to better cover the corners and adjusted their middle blocking technique.
�We were good,� Cutler said. �We adjusted to (the Panthers) plays better.�
Still, the Demons had some trouble getting kills against Cortez libero Sarah Lawton until Durango started taking advantage of quick tips to find gaps in the defense and soften it up.
�Their libero is very good,� Cutler said. �We tried to keep the ball away from her.�
Once Durango did, the machine got churning.
Down 11-8, the Demons scored 17 of the final 21 points to win Game 2, aided by good passing from setter Natalie Bulen, who had 29 assists in the match.
�All six cylinders were running (Tuesday night),� the Demons� assistant coach said.
Any misfires in the motor?
�Honestly, no,� Keresey said.
And Game 3 was more of the same, but Montoya�s aces didn�t hurt, either.
Tied 8-8, Montoya rattled off two aces on three points to make it 13-8.
She got another one to make it 24-17 and finished with four aces before Berkeley Davis ended the match with a missile of a kill to Cortez�s far corner.
�It�s probably one of the best feelings that everyone should get to feel,� Montoya said of her service points.
But Montoya also credited her team�s �spirit� in what she called one of the Demons� �strongest games.� Everyone shared in her aces, she said.
�I think we�re a stronger team than we�ve ever been, and I really, really love it,� said Montoya, daughter of Frank and Stacie Montoya.
DHS (10-4, 6-0 SWL) will take to the road to play Grand Junction at 7 p.m. Friday, then Fruita Monument at 11:30 a.m. Saturday � potentially wins Nos. 19 and 20 in a row in the SWL.
�I think it sends a positive statement,� Montoya said of their archrivalry win against Montezuma-Cortez.
�I�m prepared for the next chapter in our season. I think we�re all prepared.�
That�s a few more SWL wins and a return trip to state.

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Also, I watched some parts of a History Channel series called "Ancient Aliens".
Those series were pretty bad. But I was impressed by some of these theories.
Here's a wiki for a quick overview. (not too informative and set in a very dull way)
So. Is this all a bunch of non-sence? Or could some of the old religions actually
be based on the same material?
Oh and not to be vaque. It's widely regarded as psuedo-science with very
little support from mainstream science!
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I was reading linear vector spaces. When doing some exercise to prove some statements based on the properties defined for linear vector spaces, i suddenly noticed, outside the things defined, i'm using a common notion without proof. This notion also surfaced when i was studying Group theory. After giving a thought i come to the conclusion that i've used it in all systems which are modeled after euclid. I mean first i give some postulates. Then i derive statements from those postulates. Euclid also has it as "common notion" :
If equals are added to equals, the wholes are equal.
So i started wondering that if anybody challenged this or attempted to build a system without this.


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My whole family will be staying at a hotel over shabbos and the hotel management says that we are not allowed to light fires in our rooms. Nobody will be in our home. How can we fulfill the mitzvah of chanuka candles?
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R' Eylashiv that in such a situation one shouldn't light, and if one did, he wouldn't be yotzei. Therefore, he advises people not to stay in such a place over Chanuka.
If one cannot light, then if one could see someone elses' lit candle, say "She'asah Nissim" and "Shehechiyanu".
If one is far from any Jews and can't see any candle, one shouldn't make any blessing as it's a sofek brochos lehakel (any blessing over which there is a doubt one doesn't say).
Did you ask the hotel management if there's some other place where you could light? My understanding is that second choice after wherever you're sleeping is wherever you're eating. Perhaps you could find a place (maybe even outside) where you could light your menora and monitor it while you eat your dinner.
Another possibility: Get yourself invited to someone's home for dinner, and light there.
I'm not 100% sure about the Halachic rules regarding lighting where you're going to eat but not sleep, so I'd recommend checking with your Rabbi before implementing these.
I've heard of people stuck in a hotel where the rabbi told them to just not light.
There are many Yeshivas that also do not allow lighting in the rooms due to Sakana. Maybe the hotel management would allow lighting if you remain with them or designate a safe area where they would allow it. Alternatively you can purchase an electric Menorah and use that B'Shaas Hadchak.


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6 Real Cyber Attacks Straight Out of a Bad Hacker Movie
Hollywood thinks that computers run on black magic and hackers are wizards. In movies, computers can blow up houses, shut down highways, release plagues and make Matthew Lillard appealing to women. However, our collective groaning about how laughably unrealistic these movies are may have been premature, because sometimes the real world of digital mayhem comes very close to sounding like the plot description of Swordfish 2: Travoltuna.
#6. A Logic Bomb Detonates Siberia
Remember how loud you shouted "bullshit" when the hackers in Live Free or Die Hard used their computer wizardry to ignite a bunch of natural gas pipelines? We do, too. Well, tuck your napkins into your collars and get ready to eat some exploding crow, because it turns out that that actually happened ... in 1982, six years before the Die Hard franchise was even a thing.
You see, the CIA under the Reagan administration found out that the KGB had been stealing technology from the West for years. In response, the CIA decided to feed the KGB a big, fat booby trap in what may be one of the first uses of a Trojan virus. They more or less had a list of things they knew the KGB was going to steal, so they added a special item to the mix: a piece of software used to help regulate gas pipelines. The CIA then dropped a "logic bomb" in the software and waited, trying not to laugh.
"Send a thousand large pizzas to Kamchatka. It'll be hilarious."
A logic bomb essentially makes a program switch to a different mode after running several million cycles (changing its "logic"). The pipeline software's logic bomb was set to go off after 10 million cycles. The KGB thieves weren't stupid -- they checked the stuff they were stealing -- but since the software appeared to be working fine, they brought it back to a pipeline in Siberia that extended into Western Europe, singing songs of their good fortune.
The program ran fine for a few months (the aforementioned 10 million cycles), but after that, it took the pipeline's pumps and compressors aside and told them, "Today is the day that we run a pressure test at dangerously high levels." After careful calculations, the CIA expected the pipeline to merely spring leaks all the way across Siberia. Clearly, they overestimated Soviet engineering.
"In Soviet Russia, pipes leak on YOU -- because of CIA meddling. Seriously."
In June 1982, American early warning satellites detected an extremely large blast in Siberia as the pipeline motherfucking exploded. The blast was 3 kilotons, or roughly one-fifth of the strength of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It was "the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space," a phrase that here means "the most brain-shittingly awesome spectacle ever witnessed by the endless folds of the universe."
#5. A Laptop Brings the Department of Defense to Its Knees
While we're picking on Live Free or Die Hard, there is another scene where Bruce Willis' grandfather finds out that the bad guy was able to shut down NORAD with a laptop. And while tech-savvy audiences everywhere shared a hearty chuckle at the idea, it turns out you can totally do that. Holy shit, Die Hard 4 was a goddamned documentary!
"Your methods better be technically accurate, motherfu-"
Intensely classified American military computer networks were penetrated by a worm (a self-perpetuating piece of code armed with evil intent) dubbed Agent.btz, and all it took was someone stationed in Afghanistan inserting an infected flash drive into a laptop that was connected to the military's Central Command. From there, Agent.btz worked its way through numerous networks used to relay secret materials for the U.S. State and Defense departments, beaming information back to its unknown master.
The U.S. scrambled together a response team called Operation Buckshot Yankee (after a spirited round of Mad Libs) to isolate and remove the malicious code from the top-secret networks. The problem was, Agent.btz had the ability to scan a computer to look for data, then open backdoors to let itself out and into other networks, transmitting both the data and the backdoors back to its mysterious creator. It's like that guy nobody invited but who is supposedly someone's cousin, just creeping from house party to house party, texting his friends which garage doors are unlocked so they can come by later and steal power tools.
"No, I totally got invited here. Didn't you see my hat?"
Furthermore, Agent.btz mutated constantly, downloading new code to change its "signature" and evade detection. Just as older versions were being removed, newer and more complex variants of Agent.btz were appearing around the network, compromising both confidential and nonconfidential documents a year and a half after it first started operating, even with the full force of the U.S. government dedicated to tracking it down. It wasn't finally defeated until hundreds of machines were taken offline and reformatted, and thousands of infected thumb drives had been confiscated. Ah, come on! What's the worst that can happen? Oh, right. Giant explosions.
#4. Hackers Encrypt Medical Records and Hold Them Hostage
We're guessing that no hacker outside of a made-for-Lifetime movie has ever broken into somebody's system, then sent them a note made of letters clipped from magazines saying "iF YoU WAnt 2 sEe ur DAtA aGaiN U wiLL pAy US $50,000." No, something that chilling yet cornball could only happen in real life.
For instance, in July 2012, a group of hackers got into the computer networks of a medical practice known as the Surgeons of Lake County, stuck a proverbial flag in the ground and encrypted all that shit down. The practice's entire database of patient medical records and other sensitive documents was no longer accessible to anyone, completely shutting down the business. Then the hackers posted a digital ransom note to the medical practice, demanding an undisclosed amount of money for the release of the hostage information.
The medical practice shut down the server, records be damned, then contacted the police and notified their clients that their information had been compromised, because fuck ransoms.
"You're doing great. Now, just extend the middle one all the way out and point it at this webcam."
And they weren't the first victims of this sort of thing -- in 2008, the prescription-drug benefits company Express Scripts was sent an email with the Social Security numbers and prescription records of 75 customers, demanding an unspecified sum to keep the information secure. Of course, Express Scripts decided to put their customers' interests first and refused to pay, then emailed all 700,000 of their clients (remember, that's 699,925 less than the hackers had actually compromised) to let them know that their information had probably been stolen. We guess that's better than just giving in, although ideally there'd be some kind of computer code Liam Neeson you could call to deal with this kind of thing.


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Kete Kesu is a quaint, traditional village concealed in the mountainous region of TanaToraja, South Sulawesi. It sits amidst a vast expanse of rice fields, and is the oldest village in the Sanggalangi district. The village is over 400 years old, and is said to have not changed at all in the last 400 years. KeteKusu functions as a sort of living museum, where one can experience first-hand the culture and traditions of the ancient Torajan people. Kete Kesu is probably most recognized for its fascination with death, as shown through their extravagant funeral ceremonies, hanging graves and decorative burial sites. The Ke'te Kesu' are said to have the most well-preserved megalithic culture and death-celebrating traditions in all of Toraja.
This timeless town is home to about 20 families. It is comprised of eight "Tongkonan", set in rows facing each other, complete with connected rice barns. The walls of the Tongkonan are adorned with beautiful carvings and buffalo horns, which serve as a mark of the homeowner's status. A Tongkonan is the traditional house of the Torajan people, distinguished by its oversized boat-shaped roof. The construction of Tongkonan is a laborious task, and usually requires the help of all family members. In the original Toraja Society, only those of noble blood were given the right to build Tongkonan, while the common people lived in smaller, less elaborate houses.
Not far behind the Tongkonan, menhirs rise from the rice fields, marking the way to the eerie hill of Bukit Buntu Ke'su. Bukit Buntu Ke'su is an ancient burial site, estimated at over 700 years old. The rocky hillside is scattered with human skulls and bones, some piled high into large canoe-shaped vessels. The face of the cliff is hollowed with caves, which are ancient crypts. The caves were carved by masters of their skill, and take many months to make.
According to tradition, those of noble status were buried in higher holes, while commoners rested at the foot of the hill. Torajans believe that the higher one is buried, the easier the pathway to Paradise. Haunting, life size tau-tau, which are effigies of the dead, perch high across face of the cliff. Built to resemble the deceased, they stand watch outside each tomb, as symbols of each cave's "inhabitants."Some of the tombs are secured with iron bars to prevent the theft of these. Coffins also hang from the walls of the hill, shaped in various forms of dragons, pigs, and buffalo. The wooden crates were engraved with great accuracy and beauty, but are now crumbling with age.
The people of Ke'te Kesu' are renowned as highly skilled craftsmen. Unique ornaments of bamboo and stone are carved in abstract and geometric patterns, seemingly without the use of mathematical calculations. Many souvenirs can be bought in and around the Ke'te Kesu' village including coasters, jewellery, wall hangings, tau-tau, and even traditional weapons. Coasters, bracelets and necklaces are sold for a few thousand rupiah, while intricate wall hangings and engraved paintings can be priced at a few million rupiah.
One of the Tongkonan has been converted into a museum, displaying strange, historic objects of ancient customs. Chinese ceramics, sculptures, daggers and machetes, and even a flag, said to be the first flag flown in Toraja. The Museum also conducts bamboo craft workshops for those who would like to try their hand at this skill.
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700 meters above sea level, the Toraja Heritage Hotel is modelled in the style of traditional Tongkonan houses. The 160 rooms and suites come with standard amenities, and have balconies facing the rice fields. Facilities include an outdoor pool, overlooking the mountains, mountain bikes available for rent, two restaurants, spa, fitness center, and Jacuzzi.
Toraja Heritage Hotel
Jl. Kete Kesu, P.O. Box 80
South Sulawesi
Telephone: 62 – 4232 1192
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.torajaheritage.com
Hotel MaranteToraja provides spacious guest rooms with private terraces overlooking the Torajan landscape. Tranditional Tongkonan Cottages offer a choice of two levels, and are tastefully furnished and equipped according to international standards. Room rates range from USD 100 – 300, and are valid for single or double occupancy.
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Jurusan Palopo, P.O. Box 52
Rantepao, North Toraja, South Sulawesi
Phone: 62 – 4232 1616
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.marantetoraja.com
Toraja Misiliana Hotel has been owned and run by a local Torajan family since 1980, providing a warm family atmosphere, and a "home away from home." The hotel is just 12 kilometers from Pongtiku airport, and is easily accessible by public transport. 101 Spacious rooms combine traditional Torajan culture with Western design, and are all complete with private shower, mini-bar, in house movies and satellite TV. Facilities include room service, laundry service, tennis court, swimming pool, conference and meeting rooms, ballroom with 750 person occupancy, and shopping arcade. Room rates from IDR 700,000 – 2,500,000.
Toraja Misiliana Hotel
Jl. Pontiku No. 27
Rantepao, Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi
Phone: 62 – 4232 1212 / 62 - 4232 1575
Website: www.torajamisiliana.com
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Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport is located 17km northeast of Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi and the largest city on Sulawesi island. International flights are available from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur on Garuda and Air Asia respectively, and domestically from Jakarta, Surabaya, Bali, Yogyakarta, Balikpapan and several other major cities in Indonesia.
The only way to Toraja from Makassar airport is overland. There are no flights between Makassar and Toraja.
•There are buses to Rantepao that leave Makassar daily. The journey takes around 8 hours and includes a meal stop. Tickets must be bought in town but coaches actually leave from DAYA bus terminal, 20 minutes out of town by bemo. Coaches typically leave in the morning (7 am), around noon ( 1 pm ) and in the evenng (at 7 pm).
•Several companies in Rantepao run buses back to Makassar. The number of buses each day depends on the number of passengers.
•It is best and easiest to contact an experienced travel agent to arrange and take care of your full itinerary to the Toraja highlands.
Once in Toraja, Ke'te Kesu' is about a half hour drive from Rantepao, Toraja's tourism center. Many hotels organize package tours or car rentals, but the city can also be explored via taxi, or the local public transportation like Bemo, (mini-van) or ojek, (motorbike-taxi.)


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WEIRTON - Twelve community groups are participating in the 2012 Christmas Tree Display at Millsop Community Center.
The fifth-annual tree display, located in the Weirton Room, helps raise money for the Legacy Trust Fund for future projects at the community center, said Deb Witkowski, a member of the park board.
The display officially opens at 2 p.m. Saturday. Throughout the day, she said area residents will be able to vote for their favorite for a $1 donation. The organization decorating the winning tree gets a trophy.
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HOLIDAY SPLENDOR — Angela McCumar, left, and Pat Barnett, employees of the Mary H. Weir Public Library, put the finishing touches to a Christmas tree in the Weirton Room at Millsop Community Center. This year, 12 community groups, including the library, are taking part in the fifth-annual Christmas Tree Display, designed to raise money for the Legacy Trust Fund for future projects at the community center. -- Linda Harris
Participating in the contest are the Weirton Woman's Club, Renaissance Weirton, Weirton Rotary, Top of West Virginia Convention & Visitor's Bureau, the City of Weirton and the mayor's office, Weirton Area Park Board/Millsop Community Center, the community center's maintenance department, Weirton Museum & Cultural Center, Weirton United Way, Hancock County Sheltered Workshop, Weirton Heights Rotary and Mary H. Weir Public Library.
Last year's winner was the Millsop maintenance department.
Witkowski said the tree display will be the backdrop for Weirton United Way's Pictures With Santa Saturday prior to the start of the Christmas parade at 6 p.m.


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WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Commission agreed to lease space in the Cross Law Office for the county's new prosecutor and set a new meeting time at its first meeting of the new year.
The commissioners on Wednesday agreed to lease space at the law office for Prosecutor Joseph Barki III for $2,076 per year.
The amount includes a share of utilities - gas, electricity, water, telephone and garbage collection services paid the law office.
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NEW COMMISSIONER — Jim Andreozzi, second from left, was welcomed as the newest Brooke County Commissioner by fellow commissioners and other county officials during his first commission meeting Wednesday. With him are, from left, commissioners Norma Tarr and Tim Ennis; county Clerk Sylvia Benzo; and behind her, Chuck Jackson, the county's new sheriff. - Warren Scott
It was requested by former Prosecutor David B. Cross, who worked out of his private office for many years and didn't charge the county. Prior to his election in November, Barki was one of two assistant prosecutors not employed by Cross who also worked there.
Tim Ennis, who was named the commission's president Wednesday, said either party may withdraw from the lease during the year and he hopes by next year to find another location for the prosecutor and his assistants.
"My goal is for the county not to be renting space from anybody by this time next year," Ennis said, noting the commission also rents space at the Progressive Bank building on Charles Street for the county's magistrate and family courts.
The commission pays about $1,700 per month for the space there.
Ennis said the commissioners have visited several potential locations for the the courts and the prosecutor and his staff but costs to renovate the sites is a concern.
The commission had made plans to relocate the courts to the former Brooke County Museum at Sixth and Main streets. That plan has been tabled because of concerns about the cost to renovate the former museum to meet conditions set by the state Supreme Court.
The courts were moved to the Progressive Bank building from the first floor of the county courthouse following the 2004 flood, But the commission has since learned the areas of the building occupied by the courts, which are separate from the bank's first floor lobby and offices, don't meet state fire codes.
The commission also set a new time for its weekly meetings, moving them from 5 p.m. to 10:30 a.m. each Tuesday.
Asked if the meetings will be accessible to the public, Ennis said that was considered and the commissioners are willing to meet with people at other times, if needed.
Jim Andreozzi, the commission's newest member, said if access for the public becomes an issue, the meeting time should be revisited.
In recent years, the commission held one meeting each month at 6 p.m., but the meetings received little turnout and the 5 p.m. meeting time was restored.
Also at Wednesday's meeting, which was moved because of the holiday, the commission:
Appointed Ennis president, and Andreozzi president pro-tem, which means he will preside over meetings in Ennis' absence.
Scheduled fiduciary hearings, at which matters involving estates are discussed, for the first Tuesday of each month at 10:30 a.m.
Observed a moment of silence for Terry Dick, former Brooke County constable and Wellsburg police chief, who died Saturday. Dick, who was 69, was involved most recently with city-style addressing efforts headed by former Sheriff Richard Ferguson.
The commission recently agreed to employ Dick's wife, Cheryl, on a full-time basis. She and Terry had begun the project as volunteers.
Sheriff Chuck Jackson said he will hire someone to fill Terry's part-time position on the effort, which he said is nearly complete.
Heard from Ruby Greathouse, secretary of the museum board, who said the first concert at the new Brooke County Museum and Cultural Center was attended by more than 100 and other events have been scheduled for the next several months.
Held Dec. 13, the concert featured the Brooke High School Madrigal Choir and a Christmas program featuring children under the direction of Carol Allman.
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I want to make a list of the projects and exercises I am supposed to do this semester to make a plan but every week, new projects and exercises should be added to this list. I wonder which is best to do, to plan a day, a week or a month in advance? I assume planning a month in advance would be a waste of time because everything will be different after two weeks or so and your priority list will most likely change to a totally different one. Am I right?
I think 90 days is the absolute most you can plan out in a single time period. And I mean in terms of a full project or to work on a bigger goal. 90 days is something our minds comprehend and we can logistically plan out very well too. But anything more becomes super hard.
But when it comes to accurate planning and "accuracy" is the big word here, planning specifics tasks and their priorities should only be done in 2 week increments. Anything outside of 2 weeks becomes inaccurate very quickly.
And I speak about these points from running a company of 6 team members + a very strong family life.
So to answer your question directly, here's what I would say:
This process is simple and doesn't require over planning. Just having some sort of schedule in front of you to hit your target.
this could be useful (it's part of GTD methodology)
Start by planning one day at a time. After you've mastered that, plan a week ahead...Make sure that you were able to complete what you've scheduled and then move on.
I'm a huge fan of the GTD methodology but in order to follow through with what you've planned you must start with bite sizes chunks and get momentum....after that check GTD's approach.
I agree with the GTD methodology on this: You can't really plan things. You can only list down what you're going to do next, and then do it. There will always be interruptions and changes.
You can plan ahead as long as you want, but review that list every week to make sure it's still relevant.
What do you mean by "plan"? Are you talking about a list of activities to be done or actions to take to complete a project? Or are you talking about a calendar, with time allocations noted on it? They're very different things.
I suggest you begin by using the GTD methodology (mentioned by other responders) to break down projects to the actions needed to accomplish them. You review these projects regularly (at least weekly) and add anything new that comes up (new assignments, for example).
Not strictly in compliance with GTD, I suggest you also use your calendar to reserve time for your highest priorities. That means things like scheduling 2 hours Thursday evening to review all of your class notes from the week, or an hour Wednesday for compiler class homework. Or even just scheduling "term papers" for a few hours on Friday, knowing you'll work on at least one of the papers due by the end of the term, but not worrying at this point about which one or ones. You will not be able to have an accurate plan for the semester, don't worry about it. You do this planning for two weeks into the future, and update it every week when you review your projects.
This rolling scheduling allows you to change your plans as needed, while still giving you some idea what you're doing for the next week and a half, plus or minus a couple of days. The trick is to review regularly, and don't be afraid to reschedule things on your calendar when that's what it makes sense to do.
Definitely plan a month ahead - it's totally OK for your plans to change - just amend them as they do.
Todays plan should be the most detailed - down to the hourly level - what are you working on each hour? It's very difficult to avoid interruptions these days, but your productivity will be better if you can start your day with 3 hours of 50-minute chunks of work before you even look at your email.
Don't forget to plan for the rest of your lifetime too - if you have ambitions of working for some great companies, maybe some great startups, remember that each one of them will suck up 5 - 10 years of your life. That means you have a limited number of great projects in you - so start thinking now about what you might want to do when you graduate so you can gravitate towards your first great project more quickly.
There's come pretty interesting research on this very question that concludes that the longer the horizon, the less likely the task will be done as planned.
The article shows how illogical we are in our thinking. Here are some details. 1. Researchers explain that we have a tendency to view things in terms of "present" and "future." When we categorize a deadline as being in the present, we're likely to start working on the goal. When we decide something falls into the "future" category, we simply file it in our "someday" archives and it's easy for those goals to be neglected.
For example, a task set more than 7 days in the future is less likely to get done because we think of that as "later."
Given this fact, it's better to work with your mind than against it and schedule a small portion of the activity within the week.
The same applies for calendar years. We are more likely to complete actions that are due this year than next, even when the length of hte project remains constant.
I hope this helps anyone coming after who might be looking for answers.


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Nothing in my nearly two years of using SO has given me the impression that SO seeks to monopolise the Q&A forum world to the extent that questions asked here may not be asked elsewhere.
I have posted a few questions here for which I have received no replies in the time that it normally takes to get a reply. They all deal with ASP.NET Dynamic Data, which in my experience is not a very well known or popular subject on SO. So, I went and asked them on Microsoft's ASP.NET forums, in the Dynamic Data section.
It has taken user XIII less time than it took me to duplicate them, to mark them all as duplicates on both SO and the ASP.NET forum. I find this behaviour akin to policing both forums for the wrong reasons, and would like to know whether I am allowed to repeat questions in forums unrelated to Stack Exchange or not, and if not, why not?


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We had an amazing 15 days of serving in the community from beautifying the local school to detailing police cars, 15 Days of Service provided outreach opportunities for everyone. Visiting local orphans to preparing "survival" kits for stressed-out teachers,sorting clothing at the Salvation Army to the interactive experience of serving meals to military families. CRB made a huge IMPACT by showing the love of Christ to people in our community and being an example of what it means to have an active faith.
We had 34 CRB leaders serving at 22 organizations/partners in our community. There were 625 volunteers from CRB and we served for a total of 1800 hours! In monetary terms, this equates to $18,000 if we paid the volunteers at $10 an hour. We spent $12,000 on the projects, for a total of $30,000 of donated time and resources!
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CADIZ - Post 34 had grown accustomed to swinging hot bats over the last few weeks.
That continued, for the most part, during the opening day of the Beast of the East on Thursday, but the dividends weren't realized as Cadiz dropped both of its games.
However, Post 34 returned to Mazeroski Field and posted its first victory of the four-day tournament Friday afternoon, unloading for a 10-2 victory against the Pittsburgh Crusaders Baseball Club.
"We've been hitting the ball pretty well, but this is a heck of a tournament, everyone's good and you've got to come ready to play every game," said Cadiz head coach Brandt Mazeroski. "It stunk to lose two (Thursday), but like I told the kids, it's the Beast. Today is a new day."
It actually took the Cadiz squad until the fourth inning before it got its bats going.
Post 34 exploded for 10 runs in its final three at-bats.
Bellaire High senior Spencer Badia had a big game at the plate and ignited the offense. He roped a two-run double in the fourth and then a run-scoring two-bagger in the fifth.
Chase Hopkins had a two-run double in the seventh.
Harrison Central product Dalton Rutter continued to make a living with infield singles. He dropped down two beautiful bunts and beat both out.
Martins Ferry graduate Andrew Chlon had a double, scored two runs and drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.
"We've only got a 13-man roster and it's tough to sit four guys because they're all good, but there's going to be a lot of baseball played this weekend," Mazeroski said.
The offense was plenty for recent Harrison Central graduate Nick Pelegreen, who was impressive on the mound in the complete-game effort.
"Nick had good stuff today and threw pretty well," Mazeroski said. "It's pretty impressive when a kid comes to you says, 'coach I want the ball.' Well, here you go."
At the dish, Pelegreen helped himself with a single, double and a RBI. He also scored two runs.
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HuffPo poster on Tony Snow: How could such a liar not have cancer? Update: Passage deleted
posted at 4:55 pm on March 27, 2007 by Allahpundit
Because lies make the cancer grooooooow!
I admit my bias shows with these stories. I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you. Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot? I know, it's terrible. I admit it. I don't wish anyone harm, even Tony Snow. And I do hope he recovers or at least does what he feels is best and surrounds himself with friends and family for his journey. But in the back of my head there's Justin Timberlake's "What goes around, goes around, comes around, comes all the way back around, ya.."…
Now, I've been brutally honest above, and may have offended some, and for that I'm sorry. Again, I don't want Tony Snow to suffer and die of cancer. But like many this morning, I had the thought.
Thanks to one of the Cornerites for spotting that. He rambles on for another 20 paragraphs or so about how we're "having our asses handed to us" in Iraq and how Sky News is doing a crackerjack job covering it, unlike that evil Rupert Murdoch outfit that gave Tony his tumors. Um, who wants to be the one to tell him?
The Malcontent's got a nifty thumbnail comparison of righty reaction to the news of Elizabeth Edwards's cancer and lefty reaction to Snow's. Frankly, given what they're capable of, the silence is golden. Our favorite Democrat (well, your favorite; my favorite, Jane Fleming, doesn't have a blog) has yet to weigh in on either, but her new co-blogger's got a Pretty Vicious Rant about his high hopes for chimpeachment, so you'll definitely check that out. No Important Action Alert issued yet; maybe he's leaving that to Powers.
Update: What do you know, Fleming does have a blog. And it's updated about as often as KP's is.
Update: Treach is thinking bad thoughts. And for that he's sorry.
Update: Hope you enjoyed the blockquote; you won't find that passage in the HuffPo post anymore.
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Lessons From Stevens Institute of Technology's Ecohabit
'Green' Home Will Compete in Solar Decathlon
If some group gave out awards for the least energy-efficient structures—the way those LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) designations for state-of-the-art "green" buildings are handed around—our home upstate would likely make it into at least the semifinals.
The furnace dates from the '60s and burns lots of oil. We have three large hot water heaters. Why three? Don't ask me. The insulation, to the extent there is insulation, includes horsehair from the 19th century—we believe the place was built around 1850, if not earlier—and some sort of foam my grandparents, who bought the place in the 1940s, had injected into the walls in the '70s.
There's also central air conditioning that my mother added as an afterthought when she renovated and enlarged the place in the early '80s. And a sunroom with lots of glass.
In short, the place is probably an energy sieve, and one I'd like to stanch as quickly as possible. I have no illusion that it can be turned into one of those net-zero structures that actually contributes more energy to the grid than it takes, but it would just be nice if it didn't bankrupt me.
In the hope of cleaning up the house's act, I paid a visit last week to a solar house conveniently situated in Hoboken that students and professors from Stevens Institute of Technology have just completed. Hoboken isn't its final destination. "Ecohabit," as it's called, will be disassembled and trucked to Irvine, Calif., where it will be reassembled for October's "Solar Decathlon." That's a biannual competition hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy where 20 energy-conscious schools, such as Stanford, the California Institute of Technology, Middlebury College and the University of Texas, compete in categories such as architecture, engineering, appliances, hot water efficiency, home entertainment and communications to create the most energy-efficient solar homes.
"Two years ago, we won affordability," explained Michael Bruno, the dean of Stevens's Schaefer School of Engineering and Science. "This year, we want to win the whole thing."
Let me state from the outset that I know nothing about electricity (solar or otherwise), plumbing, air conditioning, heating, construction, condensation, etc. I grew up in an apartment. Besides which, I'm mentally, physically and emotionally impaired when it comes to doing anything with my hands more advanced than replacing a light bulb.
My consciousness of such things is pretty much limited to having an intuitive sense of whether something is cool. So let's examine the house from that point of view. From a distance, situated in a parking lot overlooking the Hudson River, the $300,000, 980-square-foot home is way cool, and not just because the New York City skyline served as its backdrop.
The architecture reminded me of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses, an exercise in elegant simplicity.
The front of the house is covered in attractive red cedar. Other parts of the structure are clad in a paneling that I'm sure has some sort of futuristic purpose but that resembled sheetrock before it's painted, or wallpapered, and whose appearance I wasn't wild about.
However, my interest was genuinely piqued when I was shown one of the solar shingles—not panels, shingles—of which the roof was constructed. "This is one of the most innovative things and one of the easiest things somebody who already owns a house can do to make it more energy efficient," explained Claire Griffin, a Stevens sophomore studying mechanical engineering.
"They work like normal shingles but generate energy at the same time," added Liem Nguyen, a senior who is another member of the Ecohabit team.
These devices, donated by their manufacturer Dow Chemical, which include a fully integrated photovoltaic system to power the house, would certainly fall into the cool (bordering on awesome) category.
I mean, I assumed that if I wanted to solar-retrofit my house, I'd have to find a field somewhere or cut down a grove of trees to provide space for the array of solar panels required to power my dishwasher or dryer. It would obviously be a lot easier if I could simply slap a bunch of shingles on the house. The existing ones on the garage are starting to look pretty cruddy, as it is.
There's also a green wall. It wasn't green yet, but will eventually be hydrated by a rainwater-capture system and covered in plants and flowers native to Southern California. Once the Solar Decathlon is over, the house will be donated and turned into a veteran's center on the campus of California State University San Marcos.
I neglected to ask whether such a system of plants could survive a Northeast winter, since there's probably nothing quite as dour as dead plants decorating the outside of your home. On the other hand, it would be pretty cool to have your garden growing up the wall of your house. It would also serve as a thumb in the eye of destructive woodchucks and rascally chipmunks.
In any case, I doubt the concept will be integrated into our house, which seems to invite leaks. Our goal is generally to direct water away from the house rather than toward it.
The inside of Ecohabit seemed as cheerful and airy as the outside, though I was informed that its most novel elements are invisible. The walls include phase-changing materials, or PCMs, that store heat during the day and release it at night.
A recirculating heat pump keeps the water warm in the kitchen and bathroom, so you don't have to run it and waste water. And there are sensors in each room that monitor and send data about everything from temperature, weather patterns, power usage, lighting—even the number of occupants in the room—to a central control system.
"We hope to get to the point where [the system] can make suggestions," explained Mark Pollock, the project's manager and an industry assistant professor at Stevens. "'You've done three loads of laundry and it's kind of cloudy. You should wait until tomorrow,' when it's forecast to be sunny, "'and you won't have to pull as much energy from the grid.'"
More than 60 Stevens faculty members and students contributed to Ecohabit. "Doing this project is part of their curriculum," Dr. Bruno explained. "It draws from every discipline you can imagine and some you couldn't imagine: energy, management, computer science and the College of Arts and Letters."
Jesse House, a music and technology major and a philosophy minor, was fine-tuning a computer program that controls the house's sound system. It seemed to be playing some sort of series of tones. "The music program takes all the data the house is collecting and turns it into soothing background music," Mr. House explained, adding something about brainwaves and the theta state of consciousness.
I want to live in a smart house, but I'm not sure one whose music apprehends and reflects my mood. What if I'm depressed?
"You can put the Rolling Stones on, too," Dr. Bruno assured me.


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Saturday, June 8, 2002
8:30am to 11:30am
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7525 NW 88 Avenue
FREE CLUBS. The Broward Sheriff's Office will be offering free Club steering wheel locking devices to Tamarac residents this Saturday at City Hall. Simply bring your vehicle and registration papers.
FREE VIN ETCHING. BSO deputies will be etching vehicle identification numbers into the corner of car and truck windshields for free. This helps discourage auto theft and aids law enforcement in the apprehension of auto thieves.
FREE CAT REGISTRATION. Citizens interested in the Combat Auto Theft (CAT) program can also register for free. A CAT decal authorizes law enforcement to stop your vehicle and treat it as a stolen car if it is seen on the road between 1:00am and 5:00am. The sticker is an effective deterrent to nighttime auto theft.
For more information please call BSO Dist. 7 Sgt. Robert Logan or Dep. Brad Miller at 954-720-2225.
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I'm just a rookie when it comes to creating models in ArcGIS. I have two shapefiles from which I need to calculate an AVG and a MAX erosion rate for individual properties.
The two shapefiles are:
Coastal_Properties & Coastal_Change
Coastal_Properties has a Property ID (PID), and Coastal_Change has a Rate of erosion in metres per year (RChngMYr).
I'd like to retrieve an Average and a Max RChngMYr for each individual PID in the data-set.
I have no problem running this query using SQL select in MapInfo, but am unsure how to go about it in ArcGIS. It will be better in the long run to create a model in Arc as Property boundaries are dynamic, and it would be terrible to have to run the query in MapInfo everyday. I'd like to create a Geoprocess service from this model and use it in a web application where it would return a phrase such as "The Max erosion rate for PID 12345 is 3.1 m/yr".
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WHEELING - Wheeling attorney Robert McCoid is looking forward to defending Craig Tyler Peacock, who is accused of killing Wheeling Jesuit University student Kevin Figaniak.
Peacock, 22, of Clewiston, Fla., will go before an Ohio County jury on April 29 to answer a charge of murder for the Sept. 1 death of Figaniak.
During docket day proceedings Thursday, McCoid entered an innocent plea on behalf of his client before Ohio County Circuit Judge James Mazzone. A pre-trial hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. March 11.
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McCoid declined to comment on any potential defense strategy.
"Given the saturated pre-trial publicity the case has generated, its going to be difficult enough for us to pick a jury," he said. "It is not necessary for me to add anything other than we believe the allegations are unfounded and we look forward to bringing the case to a fair jury."
An Ohio County grand jury on Jan. 13 indicted Peacock for murder in the Sept. 1 death of 21-year-old Figaniak, who died of head injuries suffered during an altercation in which Peacock and Jarrett Mathis Chandler are accused.
Prosecutor Scott Smith said Chandler, 24, of Winnfield, La., was charged with misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter on Jan. 13 in Ohio County Circuit Court.
A police detective testified that Figaniak and another WJU student were returning to campus from a Carmel Road bar late Aug. 31 when they encountered Peacock, Chandler and a third man, who has not been charged, on Edgington Lane.
According to court documents, a verbal argument ensued, leading Peacock, Chandler and the other man to follow Figaniak and his friend onto Locust Avenue where a physical altercation occurred. Figaniak's friend, who police said was intoxicated and provided a short, barely legible written statement, reportedly told investigators he was either punched or thrown to the ground.
During a Sept. 13 preliminary hearing before Ohio County Magistrate Joe Roxby, McCoid called the murder charge "outrageous" and "ludicrous."
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"I would suggest that there's a plethora of evidence to show that they had other-than-good intentions when they followed these two young men to the point where the attack took place - where Kevin Figaniak received the blows that took his life," he said.
Peacock remains in the Northern Regional Jail in Moundsville, where he has been held under $1 million bond since being arrested shortly after the alleged fight in which Figaniak died.


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Sonic: Generations isn't swept up in the HD remake craze we're seeing with other franchises of a similar age. It's a different tour of its titular hedgehog's greatest moments, giving some classic 2D levels from the series a 3D interpretation, and vice versa. Fans have shouted for an end to the gimmicks, and for Sega to just give them what made the game great in the first place. This is Sega's response. Should you pick it up?
Owen Good, who may be the sports writer, but can still handle a D-Pad and hum the Green Hill Zone theme, thank you: Sonic sits at the exit door of my first console gaming era, in my late teens and early 20s. I think I last played it in a fraternity brother's garbage-strewn room with an iguana (which I would later kill) perched on my shoulder. It says a lot that those vivid memories come to life, 20 years later, after hearing Sonic's distinctive Vegas slot-room cacophony of collecting rings to a chiptune calliope.
As much as I disliked being along for the ride in the Sonic series' many set pieces (which says a lot for a platformer), there is an obvious brilliance to this game's level design, and branching paths that pose the game's basic question: Go explore, or finish as fast as you can? Sonic Generations has littered its experience with unlockables and skill upgrades and, of course, a coveted Sega Genesis Controller to play the original game, to make the levels well worth a replay after that first speedrun.
The perspective shifts are the game's real sell, between Acts 1 (2D) and 2 (3D, with some 2D platforming) that reimagine Sonic's best levels (as "memories" Hedgehog) in alternative forms. Some sidescrolling levels get a 3D warp; some levels from 3D-era Sonic get the side-scrolling treatment. It's a lot for me to keep track of, all I know is in the Act 2 stage of things, I keep my upgraded 3D controls, such as quick direction-shifting on the bumpers or a home-in spin attack.
I can't speak as a Sonic expert, and the disparagement of the series, especially in its 3D iterations, has become an Internet meme. I've yet to have that a-ha moment sieze me where all I want to do is play the game. But if, as an outlier to the Sonic community, I find Generations to be enough of an invitation to get reacquainted, then I can't help but feel true fans will get an even greater payoff in their high-speed trips down memory lane. Yes.
So you can keep your two generations of Sonic. Stuff your compelling mix of old school 2D gameplay with tightened up 3D levels. I care not for the return of classic villains and rivals from games past, or levels that pay homage to ones in all the games I've loved or loathed before. Not this time, my Japanese friends. This time I have the power.
Yes, dammit.
I like the construction of Generations, the presentation of two different designs for each level (to say nothing of the sight of old Sonic meeting new Sonic and friends). I like the trimming of the playable roster, the clean interface and the presence of lots of unlockables to discover. But I also think of modern Sonic games as disposable, since they make at least one new one a year and none of them reach the echelon of elite games. I wouldn't plan to keep this game, but I recommend picking it up to experience one of the best Sonic experiences than I've played in my Dreamcast-and-beyond Sonic ownership. You're going to have to care about playing a Sonic games to enjoy this, of course. I don't think this one is transcendent beyond that (large) crowd. Should you buy the new one? Yes.


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I shoot a Canon 5D Mark ii at the highest quality setting. RAW files on this camera are supposed to be 14 bit, but when I save them on my computer, they are all being converted somehow to 8 bit. I use a kingston card reader. I'm simply copying the images into a file without altering anything. What's going on? How can I save the files at the higher quality that the camera is supposed to be recording them?
You probably need to analyze things step-by-step as your question makes little sense.
If you shoot RAW, then your card will contain RAW files. They should have an extension other than JPG. You should be able to confirm this simply by browsing to your card using the operating system file manager. If you see a RAW file (.CRW, .CR2, etc) than you have a RAW file. Period.
When you more or copy these files to your computer they are still RAW files. And therefore they are still 14-bit per-component, as opposed to JPEG images which are 8-bits per component. Now, a RAW file is NOT an image.
The computer must convert a RAW file into an image before showing it you. This is where you are likely getting confused, depending on the software you use. Most preview software simply display and embedded JPEG preview which is stored inside RAW files. Some will produce an on-the-fly preview based on default conversion parameters. In this case, the preview always has 8-bits per component. This is probably what you are checking and tricking you into thinking you have 8-bit files.
When you open a RAW file into a RAW converter, the converted reads the 14-bit and converts it according to the parameters you choose. At this point, it is up to you what you store the processes files as but if you store them as JPEG, only 8-bits per component will be stored since that is all JPEG can handle. Instead you have to choose a higher-bit-depth file-format like TIFF, PNG (16-bit option), OpenEXR, etc.
If you are shooting JPEGs, they are by the definition of JPEG, 8-bit images. To get higher bit depth (i.e., to take advantage of the extra detail your A/D converters give you), shoot RAW images. Then, you can import them into a 16-bit per channel color space.
Apart from what Bridge says, once you do upgrade Adobe Camera Raw and open your files, you can set the workflow bit depth along with resolution and color space. There is a link at the bottom of the ACR screen. Clicking on it will allow you to change the default. It should be 16 bit by default, but something to check once you've got a version that will read your RAW files.
If you go to photoshop edit/preferences/camera raw / 'save image settings in' - choose sidecar xmp files.
I don't know why it works, it just does. My cs4 was driving me nuts as everything I opened was 8 bit, even though I'd previously opened the same raw file a few months ago and it was 16 bit.
I couldn't find the ACR screen by the way in cs4 or bridge - where is it?


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5 Horrific Disasters That Made Human Life Possible
We believe it was Carl Sagan who said, "Every atom in your asshole was forged in the heart of a dying star." It's another way of saying that the life of the universe is one long story of things exploding and then re-forming into other things, only to explode later and have it all happen again.
So while we spend our lives worrying about some sort of Earth-shaking cataclysm like an asteroid strike or an earthquake, the truth is that we wouldn't be here without disasters even bigger than that. Life as we know it was only able to form because the universe likes to slap us around every few billion years. It's a form of tough love, we suppose.
For example ...
#5. A Cataclysmic Impact Gave Us the Moon (Which Made Life Possible)
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Even tiny meteors can make for some spectacular videos, and it doesn't take a very big one to wreck the Earth. So when you imagine an entire other planet slamming into us, well, you've got a disaster scenario they don't even bother making movies about. But it happened, a long time ago.
About 40 million years after the sun was born, the inner solar system became the scene of a turf war between giant piles of rocks. Just as baby Earth was figuring out how to poop in a toilet, a planetoid five times the size of fucking Mars slammed straight into us. That runaway planet even had a name -- Theia.
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And it was a dick.
Once Theia hit the Earth, the shit hit the fan. The planet's iron core smacked us so hard that it eventually melded with our own core. Chunks of both planets catapulted into space. Yeah, Bruce Willis couldn't have saved us from that shit.
The Upside
Those orbiting chunks of Theia and Earth eventually made sweet love to each other and never got unglued. And that's how we got the moon. Some scientists speculate that it only took a month after the initial impact for the moon to come together. When it's right, it's right, you know?
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You can't see it, but there's a boombox orbiting the moon and blasting Peter Gabriel.
And besides being pretty to look at and the source of our favorite werewolf lore, the moon's large mass is a huge part of why we're here today. For example, without it, we wouldn't have tides. As sea levels change, organisms are exposed to both water and air over a short period of time, forcing them to evolve and adapt. It could have been those changes that gave some animals the push to move from sea to land.
But the moon has another important effect: Its massive size stabilized the rotation speed and tilt of the Earth. Thanks to this, the overall climate of the planet has remained very diverse and incredibly stable over large periods of time, allowing life the necessary time to spread, evolve, and diversify and setting the stage for the rise of mammals and, eventually, us. All because of this random planetary collision that just so happened to create exactly the right chunk of debris.
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Some people make much better neighbors than roommates.
#4. The Iron Catastrophe Gave Us a Core
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When scientists talk about the disastrous effects of "global warming," they're referring to a temperature rise of just a few degrees -- that's all it takes to throw everything completely out of whack. Droughts, floods, extreme weather -- all because things are on average just a little warmer than they are now. Yet there was a period in Earth's history when things got hot enough on the surface to melt fucking iron.
And once again, that hell-on-Earth scenario set the stage for people to arrive later.
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Australians call this a "hot tub."
You know that the Earth today has layers -- molten core, then rock, then the nice cool surface we live on, with flowing water and green jungles and such. But in the early days, it wasn't like that: It was one big solid mass with elements distributed throughout. After 500 million years, everything started to heat up. Pretty soon the evenly distributed iron and nickel melted and started flowing. As you know, gravity has this adorable way of drawing the heaviest elements toward itself -- it's like the local Walmart in that respect. The heavy stuff sank to the core of the Earth, setting everything else on liquid fire as it moved. For half a billion years, everything -- the surface, the core, the middle bits -- was hot magma. It was kind of like the irritating "lava level" every video game has.
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"Jump. Dude, jump. MOTHERFUCKER, JUMP!"
The Upside
While the heavy elements like iron and nickel were sinking to the core of the Earth, the lighter ones like silicon and oxygen were forced to the surface. Usually we're not fans of segregation based on lightness, but in this case, things kind of worked out for us. Once everything cooled down, we ended up with a nice airy crust, a medium-density mantle, a liquid metal outer core, and a solid, spinning inner core that is as hot as the sun.
So that's one benefit. The other is that this hell of an epoch created a giant spinning ball of iron that generates a powerful magnetic force field around the entire planet. This force field deflects solar winds and all kinds of other space radiation away from the Earth. Without it, our atmosphere would slowly be blown away, turning our environment cold and dead, like Mars.
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Look at that asshole. Fuck that place.
All of that changed due to this nightmarish phenomenon scientists awesomely refer to as "the iron catastrophe."
#3. Our Oceans May Be the Result of Massive Comet Strikes
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Go outside and look at the moon. Even with the naked eye, on a clear night you can see that it's absolutely covered with craters caused by projectiles that have been punching the shit out of it for millions of years. What you may not realize is that, while our planet has enough tectonic activity to cover up our biggest scars, it has taken just as much abuse. And it's a good thing, too -- the Earth might be completely dry otherwise.
Scientists theorize that the orbits of the planets shifted about 4 billion years ago, creating a gravitational kick that pushed Neptune outward, smashing it into the ring of comets surrounding our solar system. Millions of comets were scattered in all directions, literally bombarding Earth, Mercury, Venus, and Mars nonstop for about 100 million years. They call this the Late Heavy Bombardment, and it was kind of like Deep Impact times a thousand.
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It's why the scientific community refers to them as "astrenemas."
The Upside
There's evidence that points to our run-ins with comets and asteroids as a source of water on Earth. Specifically, scientists have discovered a water-carrying comet that originated from the exact same belt that beat the crap out of us 4 billion years ago. Comets are, after all, just dirty snowballs, so the idea is that if your planet gets hit with enough of them, soon it'll be covered in oceans. And by "soon" we mean in tens of millions of years.
But, like everything else in history that we didn't see with our own eyes, not everyone is convinced that the Great Beat-Up Session was how we got water. Even if not, we can still thank the Late Heavy Bombardment for our existence, because Jupiter redeemed itself by becoming our personal bodyguard. After knocking Neptune around, Jupiter took a new position in the middle of our solar system. So for the last few billion years, we've had a big fat gas giant blocking our path from would-be planet killers.
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Where Tebow Actually Fits
FLORHAM PARK, N.J.—That Tim Tebow won't be a Jet next season is a fait accompli. The team, according to multiple reports, will either trade him or cut him, and the fun of watching him sprint on the field four or five times a game to replace Mark Sanchez soon will be replaced by a new parlor game: speculating about which team he'll join next.
Complicating that question, of course, is Tebow's brief tenure with the Jets, which saw his career as a quarterback travel a steep downward arc.
Once the NFL's most popular player, Tebow went from possibly usurping Sanchez to spending more time on the bench than a Washington Square Park chess hustler. To those who have been critical of Tebow's unorthodox playing style, this season has validated their view that he was never a viable starting quarterback in the first place.
"You know what you're going to get now," ESPN analyst Merril Hoge said. "There's enough evidence there to know what he is. He couldn't even be a below-average quarterback in this league."
Hoge is one of Tebow's sharpest critics, and his analysis gets to the heart of the uncertainty surrounding Tebow's future. Will he be a starter again? A backup? Will he have to change positions? He doesn't want to. "I would love to have more of an opportunity to just play quarterback," Tebow said last week. "Obviously, that's my goal."
So what destinations would be most advantageous for him? There are four that leap to mind:
Jacksonville Jaguars
From Tebow's perspective, Jacksonville would be ideal. The 2-13 Jaguars haven't had a winning season since 2007. They are desperate to be relevant, and they likely would do whatever is necessary to contour their offense to Tebow's style of play.
And as a rash of media reports over the last two weeks have made plain, the Jaguars want him. Badly. They are his hometown team. They need a new quarterback. They need to sell tickets. This move just makes too much sense, for both parties, not to happen.
Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs (2-13) are about as bad as the Jaguars, and it is possible that they will cut quarterback Matt Cassel, who is due to earn $16.5 million over the next two years, once the season ends. They also have had to deal with the atrocity of linebacker Jovan Belcher's murder of his girlfriend and his subsequent suicide earlier this month.
This is a franchise in need of a positive story, any positive story, and Tebow could provide one.
Washington Redskins
What? The Redskins? The Redskins…for Tebow? The Redskins have Robert Griffin III. The Redskins are going to dominate the NFC East for a good long while. You, my friend, are a dope.
All true, but the Redskins and Griffin also run a variation of the read option—an offensive system with which Tebow is familiar. And they have Kirk Cousins, Griffin's promising rookie backup, who might command a healthy return if Washington were willing to trade him. There would be worse places for Tebow—who said this season that he has an interest in politics—than the District.
New England Patriots
What? The Patriots? The Patriots…for Tebow? The Patriots have Tom Brady. The Patriots have dominated the AFC East for a good long while and will continue to do so as long as Brady is around. You, my friend, remain a dope.
But if Tebow were to decide that quarterback isn't where his future is at after all, would anyone bet against Bill Belichick developing him into an All-Pro tight end? Or an All-Pro fullback? Or creating a new position for him? No, no one would.
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I have a rails app that uses facebook connect to enable user registration/login (using devise and omniauth). After reading several articles on Firesheep i decided to force ssl communications for my entire app.
I followed this tutorial to force my rails 3.0.x app to communicate only via ssl: http://www.simonecarletti.com/blog/2011/05/configuring-rails-3-https-ssl/
And I followed this tutorial so that I could test the app locally using webrick on locahost:3001: http://blog.readypulse.com/2012/01/19/setup-webrick-to-serve-ssl-https-as-well-as-non-ssl-http-traffic-side-by-side/
So far so good. My app forces ssl communications throughout while running on
localhost:3000. My problem occurs when trying to communicate with facebook connect
If I change my facebook development app's site url to
https://localhost:3001, fb graph responds with
"error": {
"message": "Invalid redirect_uri: Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration.",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 191
However, if I change the site url to
http:localhost:3001 I get an error from my server saying that the connection was reset while loading the page. My browser URL bar shows that the url it tried to load was
localhost:3001/auth/facebook/callback?code=MYCODEHERE, and if I simply add, "https://" in front of that URL and reload, the page loads as expected.
Maybe my issue stems from my very basic knowledge of SSL. but i would greatly appreciate it if someone can explain to me how to setup a facebook development app to support my local testing of facebook connect over ssl?


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At what age should a child be introduced to the TV?
According to the AAP not until two.
The reality though is that this can vary. While recommendations exist; reality also exists. If under the age of two limit exposure as much as possible.
Why do you assume that TV is a given? My wife & I don't own one (well, except for the retro TV I use as a monitor for my Atari 2600). When we were growing up, neither of us had a TV in the home until we were older than 10.
My suggestion would be to junk your TV, & see how you get along without it. Bored? Learn to play an instrument, read a book, build a cool project, cook some delicious food, brew some beer or mead, paint, draw, sing, ...
We ditched TV as a form of entertainment three years ago, and haven't regretted it for a moment. It's jarring to walk into someone else's home & hear the TV blaring out content that seems to be either crap, advertising, or some unholy combination of the two. It's shocking to see just how bad most of the content is.
IMO, you'd be doing your children a serious favour by teaching them, by example, how one can survive without TV in the first place.
Edited to add: check out these Television viewing statistics. People in the US and UK will spend nearly a quarter of their waking lives watching TV.
So to put it another way: if someone told you your kids could live 25% longer lives, at the cost of never watching TV, what would you choose?
Ideally, never. Imagine if children could not watch television until adulthood, but instead had to entertain themselves, go outside to play, etc.
Of course, that's impossible to accomplish in reality. And let's face it, television can be quite a useful tool to entertain a young child while you focus on some pressing task. But as Aaron noted, ideally you'd avoid all screen time until the child is at least two.
I don't believe there is a single, universal "right" age to introduce children to television.
There are a couple of factors that you need to consider when making that decision:
Developmental impact on your child
There's a lot of material out there about the impact of television on a child's development. Much of it is contradictory.
In this answer, I have detailed a number of potential developmental hazards identified by research.
As mentioned in an earlier answer here, as well as in my answer on that other question, the American Academy of Pediatrics, a non-profit and independently operated organization of over 60,000 pediatricians which evaluates pediatric research and makes recommendations of best-practices based upon that research, feels that there is sufficient risk to advise against any exposure to television prior to the age of 2. They also cite lack of any evidence of beneficial effect on learning or development from watching television at early stages of development as justification for this recommendation.
They recommend a restricted access to television to a maximum of 1-2 hours of quality programming a day.
The "quality programming" caveat is a bit subjective, but there have been studies that indicate that certain types of programming (particularly shows that rapidly change scenery and which are generally fast paced) can be detrimental to short term cognitive ability.
This brings us to the next factor to consider:
The programming that the child would be exposed to
What will the child's options be during the times they will be watching?
If you expect them to be watching relatively educational programs (and your definition can range anywhere from "Sesame Street" to "Mythbusters", but there are some good suggestions in this thread), I would say you can start them earlier than if you intended to let them use television for pure "mindless" entertainment (cartoons, etc.) without negative effect. Indeed, while there's no evidence to indicate that educational television has any benefit before the age of 2, I believe once language skills are developed, children can learn some things from television at an older age. This New York Times article, for instance, cites research that shows that viewers of the children's show "Blues Clues" ages 3 to 5 score better on tests of problem solving than those who haven't watched the show.
Then again, if you expect your child to sit down and watch a couple of hours of Spongebob each day (much as I hate to pick on Spongebob, this study was pretty damning), you might want to consider waiting until their older, and focus on getting them up to speed on social interactions, family obligations, and responsibilities.
This ties in with the next factor:
Expected outcome of television viewing
Do you have specific shows that you want to share with your child? Or are you just looking for some opportunities for some "me" time, or time to spend with your significant other? Or maybe you need a distraction for when an even younger child needs care?
These expectations will certainly impact when you introduce your child to television. If there's nothing you plan to accomplish by having your child watch television, then delay it as long as you can. If, however, it is crucial that you keep the kid distracted and quiet while you try to catch an hour's nap because your infant is still waking up every 2-3 hours to feed, then you should certainly give that consideration.
Just don't forget that there may be alternatives to television, depending upon what you wish to accomplish. Toys like LEGO blocks can, for some children, provide periods of quiet, creative play. Coloring and drawing is also a good option (if you can rely on your child to not draw on the walls!).
Generally, the longer you can put off television, the better off you probably are, but there is always a need to balance with reasons that might make putting it off difficult.
The most significant reason to avoid putting off television too long will be, for many, the last factor to consider:
Peer pressure
For children, social interaction is a major tool for development. Playtime with friends and peers can build a host of valuable skills, plus it is fun, too!
However, it also means that your child will be exposed to the values, expectations, and decisions of other parents.
It can be much harder to shelter your child from television when all of their friends are going on and on about their favorite show or movie.
Stores that expect children, either as the target audience or accompanying their parents, also contribute to this. My son has never seen the movie "Cars", but he already has a number of toys related to the franchise.
I've noticed that children, particularly toddlers, can be extremely obsessive about whatever their latest favorite is. Whether its trains, dinosaurs, princesses, or Darth Vader, many toddlers seem to go through phases where there is only one thing they want to talk about.
If your child's friends are watching television more than your child, and it forms a major part of their interests, you run the risk of your child feeling left out (or, perhaps worse, bypassing your rules to watch shows that you haven't given permission for at a friend's house). So this, too, should play a factor in determining when you should introduce your child to television.
Kids are different, families are different, don't stress on it too much.
Since you are asking the question, you are clearly aware that using the TV as a babysitter, letting your child watch inappropriate material, or failing to provide your child with real-world interaction (and lots of it) would be very bad for him or her. Once you've avoided those pitfalls, what to watch, how often, etc. is a matter of taste.
Here's how it's worked in my house:
When my son was an infant, the TV was almost always on in our house. My then-husband was deployed, and I'm used to a full house, so I needed the background noise. I didn't really bother with kid movies -- other than passing on my aversion to total silence, what I watched wasn't making an impression on him anyway.
When my son was a toddler, we still used the TV mainly as a source of background noise, though in the mornings we'd often cuddle and watch a kid movie on DVD (we did NOT have any regular TV coming into the house at all).
Aside from that, there are great things you can do with a TV -- we've hooked up my digital camera to it so the little one can watch himself, shown photos of his father during absences, mirrored my computer screen when I need to make it easy for my son to follow along, and more.
It's just a thing. Its influence in your child's life can be positive, neutral, or negative, depending 100% on what you choose to do with it.
TV programming is generally not suitable for small children. (Often it's hardly palatable for adults, too, but that's another question.) Images on a big screen still can play a positive role. Masaru Ibuka wrote that watching and listening to talking heads definitely helps small children learn language: they hear the sounds and see the mimics, which is important to acquire correct articulation.
Chosen watching material can be introduced pretty early; my daughter started to watch certain cartoons at about 9 months. She's 2y 4m now, and she learned quite a lot from watching: words, counting to ten in two languages, notion of many animals and their typical behavior, etc. But it's not TV proper, it's rather DVD or other recorded media.
TV proper could be introduced to children when they're mature enough to see it with a critical eye, and are able to control themselves well enough — probably at school age. Hiding the existence of TV is hardly wise, for it's easy to discover from contacts with other children, in public places, etc. Not having a TV in the house helps enormously :)
We've stayed away from TV (5.5yo and 2.5yo) pretty much. DVDs, though since age 2 - lots of Disney (my eldest loves Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings and I've introduced StarWars to the youngest). But they only get to watch them for a certain amount of time or as treats or in long car journeys.
We kept our first son from watching TV as much as possible until he was about two. After that it was mostly DVDs and whatever content we could find on the internet.
All bets were off for the second kid though, because there's not much for a 4 year old to do when it's cold and raining outside all winter. And of course, he wanted nothing more than to watch Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, and Ni Hao Kai Lan (too bad all his Chinese friends speak Cantonese).
So of course your mileage may vary.
Coincidentally, the 14-month old seems little affected by it. If anything, having a big brother means that he's better coordinated, plays more in the real world, and runs faster. Kids engage other kids to play in ways that adults never can.
This is a good question. It depends. IMHO, the later the better. The more time your child spends doing something other than watching TV the better.
When our kids were younger, we could control it more, manage how much TV they watched and watch they watched, but as a wise man once said, you have to teach them why they should not watch too much TV and to be discerning about what they are watching. At some point, your child will be making their own decisions about how much and what to watch.
Teach them well and filter for them while you can.
I have always heard its a bad idea until they're two. However, I did use some baby signing videos before that (the pictures are slower moving and I wanted her to learn sign language) Then, when she turned two, we still monitored the content and amount that she watched. My rule of thumb was, if she's watching I have to watch with her. That way the TV didn't become a baby sitter and I knew that what she was watching was of true quality (For example, Dora teaches numbers and colors etc in much the same way as many other shows, but she doesn't really teach much Spanish as a lot of parents are convinced she does - its often the same sets of words from one episode to the next).
You might try some other activities to keep them busy. For example, if you are working in the kitchen, give them a sensory activity to do instead. When she turned three we actually shut our cable off so TV viewing is a pretty rare thing. We do watch videos though.