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Mrs. Marie Spencer
Perfectly coifed and dressed to the nines
Mrs. Spencer was born on March 12, 1934, in Waterbury, daughter of the late Saverio and Raffelina (Petrucci) Cappella. She was a 1953 graduate of Waterbury Catholic High School and a parishioner of Our Lady of Loreto Church. Marie worked as a sales consultant for LeClair's Salon for Brides for over 15 years. She also worked at Whally's Fine Gifts, and for the City of Waterbury as a disabilities coordinator. After her retirement, she was a familiar face as the front cashier for Bunker Hill Pharmacy for over nine years.
Gifted with a beautiful voice, Marie was a member of the Ambrosians at Waterbury Catholic High School, sang on the "Uncle Louie Show" on WBRY AM radio and performed at many weddings and proms over the years. Always the epitome of style and grace, Marie was always perfectly dressed, made up, and her hair was done. She was a past president of the "Y" Wives club at the Waterbury YWCA where she was a member for over seven years. In her later years, she enjoyed watching her "shows", Hawaii Five-O, Blue Bloods and Law & Order.
Marie is survived by her daughter, Beth Chmielewski and her husband, John, of Waterbury; her granddog, Tyler, and grandcat, Fluffernutter. She also leaves an extended family and many friends, including her longtime friends, Mary Kennedy Simpson of York, Maine, Carol and John Pappanikou of Waterbury and Joyce Gallon of Waterbury. In addition to her husband, Arthur, Marie is predeceased by her grandaunt, Madeline Alleva, who raised her like a daughter; her brother, Fred Cappella; her sister, Teresa Teach; as well as many members of the Alleva family with whom she grew up.
Marie's family would like to thank the nurses and staff of the Critical Care Unit and VITAS team at Saint Mary's Hospital and everyone at Aurora Senior Living for their exceptional and compassionate care shown to Marie during her time at each.
The funeral will be held on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013, at 9 a.m. from Maiorano Funeral Home, 95 Willow St., Waterbury, to Our Lady of Loreto Church for a Mass at 10 a.m. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Monday evening, Dec. 23, 2013, from 5 to 7 p.m. Memorial contributions in Marie's name may be made to: Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center at Hartford Hospital, 85 Retreat Ave., Suite 2, Hartford, CT 06106; or to CT Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 321 Research Pkwy., Suite 212, Meriden, CT 06540.
For more information and online condolences visit www.maioranofuneralhome.com.
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Many college students are uncertain about how to eat right while at school. For some, food and eating become a constant, daily struggle. For these students, every minute represents a painstaking decision to eat, or not to eat. People with eating disorders feel controlled by food and by fears of becoming fat and losing control of their lives. Contrary to stereotype, people with eating disorders are not weird or strange. In fact, recent estimates suggest that one in five college women struggles with an eating disorder. She could be your roommate, your sister, your girlfriend, or even you. More and more, men find that they too are struggling with eating disorders. There are several types of eating disorders that students find themselves struggling with.
Bulimia nervosa is a cycle of uncontrolled eating, called binging, followed by purging through vomiting or the use of laxatives. Bulimics may also exercise to excess in an attempt to purge calories. People with bulimia are often of a normal weight, or may be slightly overweight. It usually begins as an attempt to control one's weight, but people find that they soon become out of control of the binge-purge cycle. Bulimia can range from infrequent bingeing and purging episodes to daily episodes that can absorb all of a person's time, emotions, and energy. Physical effects of bulimia can be quite serious, including damage to tooth enamel and the stomach and esophagus, kidney problems, and seizures. Electrolyte imbalances can result in sudden cardiac failure and even death.
Anorexia nervosa is an attempt to control one's weight and body by restricting the amount of food that he or she eats. It usually is caused by a tremendous fear of becoming fat, and tends to begin during high school or college years with a normal attempt to diet. As the anorexic becomes thinner and thinner, she loses her perspective, and her body image becomes distorted. She continues to see herself as fat, even if she is literally starving. Anorexics may lose their menstrual periods, find themselves constantly cold, suffer from dry skin and hair, low blood pressure, and heart difficulties, but continue to deny that they are too thin. Concentration also becomes diminished, and their ability to learn becomes impaired.
Compulsive overeating is an eating disorder in which people binge on large numbers of calories at one time, but do not purge. These individuals are often somewhat overweight and may be obese. Compulsive overeaters feel out of control of their eating habits, and suffer from low self-esteem and body image. They may eat when they feel stressed, or may binge after attempting to eat normally for a period of time. Because of the secretive nature of their eating, compulsive overeaters often feel isolated, but they fear being ostracized if others were to find out.
Although the causes of eating disorders are not entirely known, several contributors are thought to increase the likelihood that they will develop. Not much is known about possible biological factors, though some evidence suggests that eating disorders may arise as a secondary expression of genetically inherited depression and other mood disorders. Psychological factors seem to include low self-esteem, difficulties in family or origin including families with high achievement expectations for their children, and a tendency toward perfectionism. People with anorexia are often described as model children who are highly intelligent and perfectionistic. It has been suggested that controlling food intake is one means for an anorexic to gain control when he or she has felt out of control for much of their lives. Social contributors to eating disorders include the cultural emphasis on thinness. It is a cultural value to be thin at any expense, and this message is clear in all forms of the media, including popular movies, books, and magazines. Increasingly, adolescents turn to impossibly restrictive diets in an attempt to comply with these impossible standards of thinness.
An eating disorder is disruptive for the person who suffers from it, and for her family and friends. Signs that may indicate an eating disorder include preoccupation with food and thinness, excessive exercise, refusal to eat or refusal to eat in the presence of others, noticeable and extreme loss of weight, persistent depressed mood, and/or unusual eating habits. You may also notice a strong striving for perfection, withdrawal from friends, and/or persistent low self- esteem and negative body image.
If you think a friend has an eating disorder, be frank, but supportive. Express your concern to your friend, and let them know that you are available to talk. Don't nag them about food or their eating, as this will only make them feel more self-conscious. Don't comment about their physical appearance, even if you think you are paying them a compliment. Seek confidential consultation from the Counseling Center to help you learn how to talk to your friend about this problem, and to help him or her seek help.
Help is available. Counseling for eating disorders may include individual and/or group interventions, and can be quite effective. The aim of counseling is to help the person with an eating disorder unlearn destructive eating or purging patterns, as well as to learn more effective patterns. In addition, counseling aims to help the person feel more in control of their lives, and to find new ways to cope with difficulties and stress in their lives.
These links provide information about understanding the causes of your loved one's eating problems and what your role could be in helping them improve their health.
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When both が and に are acceptable, what is their difference in meaning and practical usage?
Consider these sentences:
When both が and に are acceptable, what is their difference in meaning and practical usage?
This is a great question, and one of which I'm not sure I fully understand the nuances. But here goes:
What I learned in my first Japanese class was the
Then I heard some people start using
My understanding is that with the
As for your question, both が and に are equally common for だれ{が・に}これが出来るか while が is more common for だれ{が・に}日本語が分からないか.
Because できる or わかる were originally intransitive verbs that meant 'appear' or 'split' respectively, they take a structure below.
私にこれができること = that this appears to me → that I can do this
私に日本語がわかること= that Japanese splits (itself) to me → that I can understand Japanese
(Since the likes of 私にこれが出来る is not a valid sentence without conditions, I use clauses instead)
However, as these verbs started to be used as a kind of transitive verbs, particle が started to be used as a marker for the agent of possible action. As a result, 私がこれができること or 私が日本語がわかること has been accepted.
When は is attatched to 私が, it changes to 私は and 私に changes to 私には. Through those manipulations, you can get sentences like 私はこれが出来る or 私にはこれが出来る.


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Today was all about the ice! A drive from Banff National Park into Jasper National Park gave us a look at beautiful glacier-fed lakes, culminating with stepping onto an actual glacier!
The awesome blue color you see in glacier-fed lakes comes from what's called "rock flour." As the ice comes down the mountain, it brings with it fine sediment from the rocks, which plays with the light's rays to give you the awesome shades of turquoise.
Walking onto an actual glacier, though, was an incredible experience. The ice beneath your feet is quarter-mile think, with pure water flowing from the melting going on around you. Leading up to the glacier are piles of dirt and rock, evidence of the glacier's recession. We were told the Athabasca glacier recedes about 30 feet a year. Seeing up-close how it has sculpted the land is an awesome testament to this force of nature.
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I have a pineapple-orange cake recipe that is very good, but is from a relative - I didn't develop it. I am curious how to adjust a typical cake recipe or even a box cake mix so that I can add fruit (pineapple, peaches, cherries, apples, oranges, mango, etc...)? Do I need to adjust the baking soda, oil, flour, sugar, etc...? Thanks.
Adding fruit will change the ratio of dry to liquid, so it may require more flour. It would also add some sweetness, so you may want to reduce the sugar a tad. But citrus fruits in particular are acidic, which might affect the leavening. I suspect it would depend on the type of fruit and how it's prepared.
For something simple answering the box cake mix portion of the question, you might want to consider variations on the "dump cake." Fruit, usually canned but sometimes fresh and sometimes mixed with gelatin, is placed under a box cake mix with melted butter or butter and water on top and baked. This allows you to do a variety of fruit flavors with one cake.


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ok this is a good one.... I just got my new camera the Canon Rebel T2i with the 18mm - 135mm lens
I have figured out autobracketing in manual mode and all good there. Don't laugh at this question but this is the first time I have had chance to work with different lenses and a camera like this.
So... I am planning on taking bracketed panos and need to be sure to lock the focus. How do I do this? especially to keep all the image in sharp focus?
For instance I have the camera lens at 18mm w F/8.0 and bracketing the shutter speed at 1/250 for normal exposure with a -2 and +2 EV
The thing I DO NOT want to happen is have the camera refocus on subjects at every 30 degree turn a rock here a tree there etc.. haha
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Cashman Returns Fire at Rodriguez
BOSTON—On the field, the tension surrounding Alex Rodriguez was palpable. Fans at Fenway Park on Sunday night taunted him by chanting, "You're a cheater!" Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster delighted them by plunking Rodriguez with a 92-mph fastball in the second inning. Benches emptied. A near-melee ensued.
And yet, that drama paled in comparison to the one that continues to escalate between Rodriguez and his own team.
On a day when the saga of Rodriguez veered further into the realm of the surreal, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman spent 28 minutes before Sunday's 9-6 win essentially calling his star third baseman a liar.
Cashman's comments came in response to allegations made by Rodriguez's attorney Saturday that the Yankees hid a hip injury from Rodriguez during the 2012 playoffs in an attempt to precipitate the end of his career.
"No one has hid anything from this guy," Cashman said. "I see Alex's comments, saying, 'I never should have been out there,' which contradicts his own comments. I see his attorney talking about how we're running him out there 'like an invalid.' Well, I guess he's also lumping Alex in that."
As Cashman spoke to reporters in the Yankees' dugout, Rodriguez played catch with a coaching assistant in left field—about 50 yards away—seemingly oblivious to the latest shots fired in the war between him and team executives.
Cashman was still talking about Rodriguez, his allegations and their deteriorating relationship when Rodriguez walked off the field. Sipping from a Styrofoam Dunkin' Donuts cup, Rodriguez glanced at Cashman briefly as he passed before disappearing down the dugout steps. No words were exchanged.
The two are barely on speaking terms. Cashman said he feels uncomfortable exchanging more than pleasantries with his highest-paid player. "Hello, goodbye, and that's it," Cashman said. "Because anything else, I don't want to be distorted, to be quite honest."
He added, "I'm not comfortable talking to Alex on this stuff because I feel like we're in a litigious environment."
After finishing with three hits and a home run, Rodriguez said he stood by his lawyer's allegations. He also said he was in the process of filing a related grievance against the Yankees. "I'd rather have the lawyers do all the talking and I'm going to try to do all the playing," he said.
On Aug. 5, Major League Baseball suspended Rodriguez for 211 games for allegedly taking banned performance-enhancing drugs during multiple seasons. The league, which suspended 12 other major leaguers for drug violations that day, also alleges that he tried to obstruct its investigation into Biogenesis, the defunct Florida antiaging clinic that purportedly distributed the drugs.
Rodriguez, who has declined to confirm or deny the allegations, is appealing the suspension. With a hearing unlikely to occur before the off-season, he will be eligible to play for the Yankees at least through the end of the 2013 season.
On the field, he has proved to be an asset—at a position where the Yankees desperately need the help. Entering Sunday, he was batting .279 with one home run and four runs batted in in 11 games.
Off the field, though, his coexistence with the Yankees resembles that of a match and a tank of gasoline.
Earlier this month, Rodriguez implied the Yankees and MLB were conspiring to keep him out of baseball for good. In a weekend interview with the New York Times, his attorney, Joseph Tacopina, was far more blunt about those allegations, which both Yankees and MLB officials have denied.
"We've never had anything like this," Cashman said. "This is my 16th year. I've never seen anything like this."
The latest dispute is about the hip injury Rodriguez suffered last fall, which eventually required surgery and sidelined him for most of this season.
During the American League Division Series against Baltimore, Rodriguez complained of right hip discomfort, but an MRI taken by Yankees doctors revealed no damage. Rodriguez's personal doctor later discovered damage to his left hip.
Cashman said the team had no indication of any issue with his left hip until Rodriguez's doctor discovered it.
"I know that our medical staff, as with every player in our clubhouse, has done everything they can to try to assist Alex and help Alex and diagnose Alex and have given him the best proper medical care," Cashman said.
Cashman also said that just last month, Rodriguez called him and denied rumors that he no longer trusted the Yankees' medical staff. "He told me directly, 'It's not true, I trust your medical judgment, I trust your people's medical judgment,'" Cashman said. "I know at that moment in time, I was lied to."
Cashman said he felt like Katie Couric, the television journalist whom Rodriguez infamously told in 2007 that he had never used performance-enhancing drugs, only to later admit that he had.
When asked if all the drama was counterproductive for Rodriguez, Cashman said, "Listen, none of this stuff is productive. Being involved with Biogenesis isn't productive."
The Yankees don't have to keep Rodriguez on their team. They could release him at any time. But they would remain on the hook for the four years and $86 million left on his contract after this season.
The distraction Rodriguez creates has yet to prompt the Yankees to simply eat the remainder of the deal. And Cashman said that is unlikely to change.
"That's not something for me," he said. "I wouldn't think that that's—I don't think that's something that would be considered, personally."
As a result, the Yankees versus Alex Rodriguez will continue to be the main event, reducing what's left of a disappointing season to a mere sideshow. And as Sunday showed, even within that sideshow, otherwise known as baseball games, Rodriguez is the center of attention.
In the second inning, Dempster nearly hit Rodriguez with the first pitch, bringing fans to their feet. Dempster's fourth pitch—on a 3-0 count—appeared to strike the back of Rodriguez's left elbow. Home-plate umpire Brian O'Nora issued warnings to both benches. Yankees manager Joe Girardi bolted from the dugout and berated O'Nora, earning an ejection, while also appearing to shout at Dempster.
Girardi said Dempster should have been ejected and deserves to be suspended. "Everyone knows it was intentional," Girardi said, though Dempster denied it.
"Whether you like me or hate me, what's wrong is wrong, and that was unprofessional and silly," Rodriguez said.
Yet Rodriguez avoided a direct confrontation with Dempster. Four innings later, he exacted revenge in the form of a towering home run over the center-field wall. He shouted to no one in particular as he rounded the bases. And as he stepped on home plate, he stopped for a moment and pointed with both hands toward the sky.
While the storm around him raged on, Rodriguez emerged triumphant.
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I've got the eSpeak TTS system up and running, and I like it quite a bit.
I'm wondering, is there a way to pipe EVERYTHING that gets printed to STDOUT to espeak? I'm trying to set up a system without a monitor that would speak the terminal output to me.
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I'm planning to shoot star trails with My Nikon D90. I'm going to use a Nikkor 18-105 VR lens. I'd like to know the ideal settings for shooting star trails, including what type of white balance and metering to use.
I've not done star trails but I've done a few moon shots.
Specific things for the D90 are that you need a very solid tripod as the D90 has no mirror lockup for shooting to prevent movement/vibration. Turn off the Long Exposure NR, VR on the lens autofocus and auto-iso. If you have a remote release like the ML3 then use that otherwise use the self timer.
If it's cold / frosty and you plan to be a while then try & insulate the back of the camera to keep the battery warm, ni-mh batteries don't appreciate the cold very much.
And have fun!
Star Trail Photograph is one of the most challenging activity, I've learned it from here: http://www.jamesvernacotola.com/Resources/How-To-Photograph-Star-Trails/12233655_V7cX4D http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Learn-And-Explore/Article/h0ndzhvw/photographing-the-night-sky-star-trails.html


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To clarify, I am wanting to dual boot Windows and a Linux distribution. I already know how to set my laptop up to do that. However, I don't want the grub menu to display on boot. I would like for it to automatically boot Windows by default, unless a modifier key is pressed on boot (ctrl for instance). If the modifier key is pressed, it will boot the Linux distro.
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Holiday Bash is more than just auction items, great food, and live music, it's a chance for the community to give back to seventeen area charities, and one musician put it best.
"If it was one charity that would be one thing, and it would be good too, but there's so many charities, and when it branches out to so many people by the numbers are going to receive something from this event," said musician Steve Cropper.
Tonight hundreds of people made that their mission, and they weren't the only ones showing their support. You may remember his performance earlier this month, well he didn't stop there, Ronnie Dunn auctioned off an opportunity to have dinner with his family.
"the concert... the opportunity to have folks come to his home for dinner...that he's providing and offering those couples to truly have a once in a lifetime experience, you don't do that if you're only halfway committed to an event, you do it if you're fully committed, and Ronnie has been fabulous," said Commonwealth Broadcasting President Steve Newberry.
His concert earlier this month was the result of Newberry and Dunn talking about lyrics to a new song.
"We started talking about lyrics... and he said tell me about believe...what were you thinking about when you write that, and red dirt road and several things... and by the end of the night I was doing a charity in Bowling Green," said country music artist Ronnie Dunn.
"Believe" isn't just the name of his song, he says this event is something he believes in.
"You need to be involved in stuff like that every now and then... to bring you down to earth and see what's really going on in the real world, and it's a good thing," said Dunn.
Dunn surprised hundreds when he came to tonight's event, and the impact made by tonight's auctions will benefit these organizations all year.
This year's event sold out with hundreds in attendance, we'll have more on the impact it made tomorrow night on WBKO at 10.


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Pittsburgh International Airport
PO Box 12370, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15231, USA
Telefon: (412) 472 3525.
Website: http://www.flypittsburgh.com
Pittsburgh International Airport is situated 22km (14 miles) west of Pittsburgh.
How to get there
From central Pittsburgh, drive through Fort Pitt tunnels then take SR279 South and follow signs for the airport. The airport access road is at junction 6 of SR60 (SR22/30 for a part of its stretch).
Pittsburgh International Airport
Access by public transport
The 28X Airport Flyer bus (tel: (412) 442 2000; www.portauthority.org/PAAC) runs to central Pittsburgh and Oakland, approximately every 20 minutes. The fare is US$2.60. Numerous shuttle and limousine services are available to destinations all over the region. General transport enquiries can be contacted on: (412) 472 5538.
Taxi companies at the airport are Checker Cab (tel: (412) 664 5600) and Yellow Cab Co. of Pittsburgh (tel: (412) 321 8100).
The airport has many shuttle services to nearby centres, and many of the local hotels operate a courtesy shuttle service.
Information desk
Airport information desks (tel: (412) 472 3525) can be found in the central areas of both terminals; blue courtesy information phones are located throughout the airport. The Travelers Aid desk (tel: (412) 472 3599), located on the baggage reclaim level of the Landside Terminal, offers general travel assistance and information in emergency situations. Ambassadors are also on hand to provide assistance (tel: (412) 472 5690).
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We are preparing to shellac-prime all of the walls on a rental house due to nicotine odors. Is it best to apply this product with a roller or airless sprayer?
Shellac/alcohol based primers like Bulls Eye work great for sealing stains and odors in many applications, however they do put out a lot of alcohol fumes. Spraying increases the amount of volatile gases in the air and should only be used in a very well ventilated area and with proper protective respirators. You can actually get very intoxicated, legally drunk from hours of exposure. There is always a risk of fire or explosion if a large concentration of alcohol fumes are exposed to an open flame or hot spark, so be very careful.
I have dealt with the identical problem of neutralizing smoking odors in an apartment. I believe you will have equal success using a good latex/water based primer. A water based primer is easier and safer to use, and I'm sure you will see good results. Because to the large areas you need to seal, I'd recommend avoiding shellac and go with latex.
Water-based primers just don't always do the trick, but when using a Shellac based primer such as Rustoleum BIN primer, I suggest rolling it on. I sprayed a full interior the other day (which I regret 100%). It was awful, and I was extremely intoxicated for longer than just that day due to the fumes. My boss sent me in with this product and had no knowledge of the Shellac base. I guess I was over trusting. It is an unsafe to spray this product without extreme ventilation and proper respiratory gear. All I was wearing was a NIOSH N95 respirator and consequently breathed a lot of it in. As well, the filters on the respirator are permanently saturated with ethanol.


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A bright, ethereal spring garden inspired this crafty collection. Completely handmade of soft cotton percale prints and solids, the quilt features appliqués of butterflies and flowers on a striped ground that's accented with ripple and channel hand stitching.
- Crib sheet is 200-thread-count pure cotton percale.
- Quilt is pure cotton percale and voile pieced with printed and solid fabrics and detailed with hand-filled satin-stitching and French knots.
- Expertly quilted by hand; cotton fill.
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I understand that "bokeh" refers to out-of-focus areas of an image — but there is obviously more to it than that. What does the term mean exactly? How well is bokeh really understood? Is it purely subjective, or can it be evaluated, measured, classified? And how can bokeh be compared and contrasted in different lenses?
Most importantly: It's not just the disks rendered from a point source, even though that's the simplest way to describe it and see it. The disk is just a shorthand; the lens characteristics that produce these disks are always present; they're what determines the look of the out-of-focus areas in every photo you take!
On the one hand, it's quite well-understood in that cause and effect are fairly well known. On the other hand, what makes one type "good" or "bad" is (as with so many things) extremely subjective and sensitive to context. The general consensus is that good bokeh renders a smooth background without artifacts, but like so many other things, it's possible to make a good picture with "bad" bokeh; it might even be a good picture because of 'bad' bokeh, like the examples with shaped apertures.
Shape: The shape of the disk is determined by the shape of the aperture, and is well-described in other answers (though see also the note on 'distortion' below).
Brightness: The brightness across the disk is influenced by other aspects of the lens, primarily its degree of spherical aberration. There are three basic situations, simulated here:
In the centre is what you get from a perfectly-corrected lens (or close to it): a disk evenly lit from edge to edge – this is the situation in a large number of modern lenses.
On the left is "smooth" bokeh: a bright centre with a gradual fall-off towards the edge. This is what's generally considered to be desirable, as it blends smoothly and eliminates hard edges in the background.
On the right is what I call "bright-line" bokeh; a bright exterior that fades towards the centre. I'll emphasise that while you get a similar "doughnut" shape from catadioptric lenses, you can see this bright-line effect in many other lenses as well to a lesser degree. Classicaly, this is the less-desirable kind of bokeh, as it will emphasise edges in the background, sometimes to the extent of rendering them as parallel lines.
When you get each type depends largely on spherical aberration, with the background rendering being most important:
Distortion: Ideally, all disks would be round and a similar shape, but various other aspects of the lens will stretch them to ovals (astigmatism, field curvature), create small tails (coma), or there may even be mechanical obstructions that cut off edges. All of these tend to be much more obvious as you move towards the edge of the frame.
Color: Chromatic aberrations will colour the disk; lateral chromatic aberrations will create the familiar magenta/green fringing, and longitudinal chromatic aberration will cause a slight colour cast over the entire area of the disk, which will be a different colour in front of the plane of focus than behind.
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I think the best way to describe Bokeh is to show Bokeh:
Reference: In the Spotlight by Healzo
The blurry background "circles" are what we normally refer to as Bokeh, however in general it more simply refers to the quality of background blur. The picture above has some truly excellent bokeh, as the circles are truly round, generally evenly shaded across the whole circle, present and visible, but not overly distracting from the foreground subject. Less desirable bokeh may show a polygonal shape, if the aperture of the lens is stopped down enough. "Good" bokeh generally only occurs at the the maximum aperture, or very nearly so.
Ultimately, its up to you to decide what kind of bokeh you want in your shot. Some artists prefer that their bokeh be smooth and creamy, without any apparent circles. I personally love this effect for bird shots, as it really brings out the subject. Other artists like to take shots where the polygonal shape of point light sources in the background are part of the key subject of the shot. Bokeh comes in a wide variety, from soft edged circles, to full, solid circles, to circles with a bright ring (or two) around them, to various shapes. Fundamentally, the kind and quality of background blur in a photograph is an artistic tool, one which you can use any way that you believe benefits your shot.
Not all lenses are capable of producing good-quality background bokeh. Generally speaking, a shorter depth of field allows a larger area out of focus, so wider apertures usually help, particularly for shorter focal lengths. Any macro lens worth its name will have an f/2.8 aperture at the very least. Telephoto lenses generally do not need quite as wide an aperture to create great bokeh as they compress depth better to start with. The type of aperture blades used, and the total number of them, will also affect bokeh. More blades generally produce better bokeh, however more than 8 and you get diminishing returns. Circular blades are designed in such a way that they have curved edges around their tips, which helps keep the aperture opening round at wider apertures (however as you stop down, you may still end up with polygonal shapes). It is also possible to use non-standard apertures in artistic shapes to create interesting bokeh effects. Lensbaby offers a Creative Aperture Kit with a variety of shaped apertures.
Bokeh, in its most technical definition, is the shape produced by taking an out of focus picture of a single point of light. The overlapping bokeh from all the myriad points of light that make up a scene creates the blur in out-of-focus areas.
People may have different preferences, but there are really just a few different measurable qualities of bokeh.
The areas which are out of focus are blurred in a shape matching that of the lens opening. The final shape is usually circular when shooting wide open, but when stopped down, the aperture blades modify the shape, for instance, with 6 blades, the bokeh would probably be hexagonal.
One example of circular bokeh:
To really show this effect, you can use a technique to create "shaped bokeh". In doing so, you can even make the areas show as well recognized shapes, like Christmas trees or stars.
Here is one example of shaped Bokeh.
Technically, Bokeh (or blur) is related to the circle of confusion of a lens/sensor combination.
Bokeh is a bit like evaluating wine, there's some technical evaluation and some subjective evaluation of it.
From the purely subjective, it's going to be whether or not it pleases you and the viewer, and that's a subtle thing to many. The success of the bokeh will depend on how well the subject pops from the background and whether or not you even really see the background as part of the image.
However, there are some technical sides to it as well, that can be measured, to determine if the lens is even going to achieve good bokeh. Mirror lenses, for example, are often accused of having poor bokeh because of the resulting donut shape to the light, people find this distracting. For regular lenses, the ability to deliver good bokeh will depend on the quality of the lens. Out of focus light will take on the shape of the aperture, usually round and, depending on the spherical aberrations of the lens, light distribution may be uniform, to the edge, or to the center. You may also see it behave different in front of the focal plane or behind.
I mentioned the shape of the aperture. In a traditional sense, the rounder the aperture, the softer the bokeh. If the aperture takes on a more hexagonal look, it can create hard edges which are seen as less pleasing. However, this feature has been put to use by photographers who shape their aperture using kits or DIY filters. Basically, you cut a small shape, say a heart, and place it in front of the lens. The bokeh will take the shape of the heart and, potentially, create an interesting effect. Mind you, it can be over done and take over the image, essentially ceasing to be bokeh.
Final thing to mention is depth of field. The depth of field is influenced by both the lens and the sensor. Telephoto and macro lenses have very shallow depths of field and so typically have the greater background blur. Wide angle lenses tend to deep depths of field and so often have less blur, or even none at all at hyperfocal. For sensor, the size matters, the tiny sensors of a point and shoot will struggle to create bokeh, dSLR crop sensors can be good at, but the full frame sensors will be the best in class. Partly this is photosite density and angle of view, but it's also lenses, most point and shoots just can't open the aperture enough.
Anyways, Wikipedia provides a nice description, but I summarized the technical aspects here already.
The good people at Zeiss managed to write an excellent paper of no less than 45 pages on the topic. (granted, it talks about DoF too)
Bokeh is a word we use to describe the appearance of out-of-focus blur.
The technical answers already here go into more detail (and are excellent) but perhaps this diagram will clear up some confusion for others by showing many different types of blur which may occur in an image and how they are grouped together.
Of course items like "anti-aliasing filter" have further properties as well, but the chart was getting complicated enough as is; take the ones that do have more detail as examples.
Note that some users of the word "bokeh" actually mean all aspects of out-of-focus blur, including quality, leading to comments like "that photo has a lot of bokeh"; this is Technically Wrong*, since strictly speaking bokeh can be more or less visible (depending on the amount of background blur) but isn't itself something that has a quantity — it just is. It's probably not worth arguing with this, but in communicating, be aware that many people will have different definitions in mind.
On the other side of that, I have (although not recently) heard people say that bokeh should strictly be taken to mean only the quality of the foreground blur, not background blur. But I don't think that this distinction is widespread at all; I think it's safe to say that it would be a step too, uh, focused.


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I want to use the Network Suite Wizard. So I go to "Test" - "Create Distributed Test...". Then I press "Add Hosts...". My problem is that not all hosts are listed here. What can I do about this? I can ping the desired host that is not in the list.
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Windows API methods are used to get the computers list. There may be network policy restrictions or issues that prevent some nodes to appear on the list Windows returns. What I would check is whether the unavailable nodes appear under the Network node in Windows Explorer. If they are there, but not visible in TC's dialogs, this would be strange.
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Go to the Hosts editor, add a new Host. After that, you can specify the needed computer's IP address or a network name in the inline editor of the Address field (without opening the PC selection dialog).
I hopes this helps!
This depends on two things: first, TestComplete8 or TestExecute8 must be installed on each system you're planning to use as a host (as described on the SmartBear help site - this requirement has not changed between TestComplete8 and TestComplete9)
Second, your network configuration and firewall setup must permit TestComplete to communicate through its own dedicated ports.


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Re-carve your spirit
Turn, O Lord, and deliver my soul (Ps 6:5). Turning himself, the Psalmist prays that the Lord will also turn toward him, as is said elsewhere: Turn to me, and I will turn to you, says the Lord (Zech 1:3). Or should we understand that phrase, Turn, Lord, to mean: Make me turn, since the Psalmist feels the difficulty and labor in his own turn-about? For our perfect turn-about finds the Lord ready, as the prophet says: At dawn we shall find him ready (Hos 6:3, lxx). For its our turning away, not the absence of him who is present everywhere, that causes us to lose him. ... But when we turn ourselves around, that is, when we re-carve our spirit by changing our former life, we find how hard and laborious it is to be turned back from the fog of our earthly desires to the serenity and tranquility of the divine light. And in that difficulty we say, Turn, O Lord, that is, help us to complete the turn-about that finds you ready to give yourself for the enjoyment of those who love you. And so, after saying, Turn, O Lord, he added, And rescue my soul clinging as it is to the obscurity of this world and torn during its turn-about by the thorns of its desires. Save me, he goes on, for your mercys sake. He understands that his healing is not a matter of his merits, since a just punishment was due to him in his sinful neglect of Gods commands. Heal me, then, he says, not for my merits sake but for your mercys sake. (Augustine, EnPs 6, 5; PL 36, 92-93)
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Which word does "recarve" translate? "
The Latin verb is resculpo, with sculpo the root word, which means to carve, to sculpt, to engrave, etc. This appears to be the only place in all of Augustine's writings where he uses the word--resculpimus spiritum nostrum.Augustine's comment reminded me of an injunction of some early Christian writer: "Never stop sculpting your life." I guess the statue's only finished when we surrender ourselves into death.
Thanks, JAK. I can see why he used it only once. Not an appealing metaphor. Yes, it makes his point clearly, but it also turns me away.
Ann: Trying to track down the Christian writer who used the metaphor, I find that it's in Plotinus, where Augustine may have found it:
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
I rather like the metaphor. Why does it repel you?
It repels me because a soul is a living thing, and to carve up a soul would be to carve a living reality. Call me an anti-vivisectionist :-)
Oh, Ann, you can be such a literalist at times that I despair of you!Here is St. Irenaeus making use of a similar metaphor, and this before Plotinus, asking us to remain malleable clay in the hands of God:
You do not make God; God makes you. If then you are the work of God, then wait for the hand of your Artist who does all things at their proper times, proper, that is, with respect to you who are being made. But give him a soft and malleable heart and maintain the shape in which the Artist shaped you; keep some moisture in you, lest, hardened, you cannot receive the imprint of his fingers. By maintaining this shape, you will mount towards perfection, for it was God's artistry that hid the clay in you. His hand created your substance, and it will clothe you, inside and outside, with pure gold and silver and he will so adorn you that the King himself will desire your beauty (see Ps. 44:12). But if you become hardened and reject his artistry and become ungrateful to him because you were made a man, then, ungrateful to God, you have rejected at once his artistry and life. For to make something is proper to God's kindness, while to be made something is proper to man's nature. If you hand over to him what you have, that is, faith in him and submission, you will know his artistry and you will be the perfect work of God. But if you do not believe him and flee from his hand, the fault for your imperfection will lie in you who did not obey and not in him who called you. For he sent people to invite others to the marriage feast; it was those who refused to hear who deprived themselves of the king's feast.It is not God's artistry, then, that fails, since from stones he is able to raise up children of Abraham. It is the one who does not submit to his artistry that is the cause of his own imperfection. The light has not failed because some people have blinded themselves; it shines on even while those whose own fault it is that they are blind are plunged into darkness. The light does not subjugate anyone by force; neither does God force anyone who does not wish it to receive his artistry. Those therefore who have removed themselves from the Father's light and have transgressed the law of freedom have removed themselves by their own fault, for they were made free and masters of their own acts. (Adv.Haer., IV, 39:2-4)
I don't have problems with this second text -- it's about bodies. It's in the ancient tradition of Pygmalion and the sculpting of a body-cum-soul. But the first text is all about slicing up a soul, to which I say, "AWWWWWWK!!!!"
Do you really think that any of these texts is about reshaping the body? They're all about reshaping, resculpting, recarving the spirit or the soul. You seem to take "re-carving" to mean something like re-carving the Thanksgiving turkey. The metaphor, as the verb itself suggests, is taken from sculpting.
Uh-uh. It was *you/Augustine" who used the verb "carve", as in carving a turkey, only what you *really* talking about is slicing up the potentially virtuous part, the soul. Lord deliver us!
I suppose "carving" is in the eye of the beholder. In response to your question, I gave you the basic meaning that Augustine intended and I meant too: "to carve, to sculpt, to engrave, etc"--notice there's not a word about turkeys. I'd bet that Augustine got the image from Plotinus who also says nothing about Thanksgiving carving. His translator gives "rechiseling", but the meaning is the same as my "recarving."
I have no doubt that your translation is superior. Now consider this image, from the T. S.Eliot "East Coker" poem that Eduardo quotes in a thread above:"The wounded surgeon plies the steel"No, not the same metaphor, but analogous. The "plies the steel" is similar to Augustine's carving metaphor. (Shudder, shudder, cringe, cringe.)


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Caffeine, Alcohol, and Pregnancy
The great debate over whether or not moderate use of alcohol is bad for the developing fetus rages on. Some physicians still recommend an alcoholic drink to calm Braxton Hicks contractions and to "relax"; others forbid even a sip. The fact is that too much alcohol is definitely bad for the fetus. No one argues with that, but defining the line between some alcohol and too much alcohol is an ongoing subject of debate.
Consider first what we know about drinking too much alcohol during pregnancy:
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If your partner makes the decision to give up alcohol for the sake of your baby, guess what? That's right—you should, too. Watching you unwind with an evening cocktail will not only break down your partner's determination to do what's best for the baby, but it will also paint you as a selfish, insensitive you-know-what. Parenting is a partnership. Support your partner's decision to abstain by doing the same (when you are in her presence, at the very least!).
Women who abuse alcohol during pregnancy by drinking three or more ounces of absolute alcohol a day (eight beers, one pint of whiskey, or one bottle of wine) have a 40 percent chance of giving birth to a baby afflicted with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). This is a condition that causes gross malformation, growth retardation, and permanent intellectual and psychomotor defects. FAS babies wear their mother's alcohol abuse in their appearance. They have a small head circumference, underdeveloped jawbones, low-set ears, abnormalities of the eyelids, and an underdeveloped bridge of the nose. In addition to these obvious signs, the majority of these babies also have bone and joint abnormalities, abnormal creases in the palms, cardiac defects, kidney abnormalities, and female genital abnormalities. One study found that children affected by FAS had an average IQ of 65, low enough to cause learning and psychological disorders throughout their lifetime.
Birth defects that are related to the mother's intake of alcohol but are not as severe as those seen in FAS, are called fetal alcohol effects (FAE). These include mental retardation and minor congenital abnormalities of the skin, heart, urinary tract, and musculoskeletal system.
Even moderate drinking has been connected to birth problems. Researchers tell us that women who drink during pregnancy are much more likely to have a miscarriage, a stillbirth, or babies with a low birthweight. One study found that women who consumed as little as one drink twice a week had a significantly higher rate of miscarriage. Other new research shows that drinking in the last six months of pregnancy can increase the risk of leukemia in the baby. What a tragedy for these children when all of this heartache can be prevented.
If you think you've found the perfect solution to the alcohol problem in nonalcoholic beers and wines, think again. These beverages are not alcohol-free. They all contain some level of alcohol, and that alcohol will go straight to your baby. If you are in the habit of having a drink each day, you might be able to safely "trick" your senses by drinking an alcohol-free substitute in your favorite glass at the usual time. Try a virgin Bloody Mary (without the alcohol), sparkling cider or grape juice, or a juice spritzer (half juice, half seltzer). Get creative and enjoy.
Hey Mom!
Alcohol use is the major cause of mental retardation and a leading cause of birth defects in the United States. If you have a problem giving up alcohol during your pregnancy, talk to your health-care provider right away. Now is a very good time to get the help you need.
No matter how you define "heavy," "moderate," or "light" drinking, the fact is that alcohol is a drug that is toxic to the fetus. When you drink, the alcohol enters the baby's bloodstream in about the same concentrations present in your own, but the fetus doesn't have the enzymes necessary to metabolize it. So your baby gets more alcohol out of every drink than you do. Because no safe level of alcohol intake has been established for pregnant women, the surgeon general advises that pregnant women should avoid all beverages, foods, and drugs that contain alcohol. (However, you do not have to avoid foods cooked with alcohol because the alcohol content evaporates when heated. Any alcohol left over is present in such a small amount it will not harm you or a fetus.)
Creating a healthful pregnancy diet that stays away from empty calories and foods that contain chemicals and drugs could be the best thing that ever happens to you. Not only will it make you feel good about giving your baby only the best, but it might also change your eating habits for the better forever.
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I've only ever used side chain triggering for compressors acting on drums. Where a kick signal compresses snare and toms. I'm trying to figure out some interesting use cases for side chain compression on a guitar or bass signal. What would a typical side chain trigger be for these instruments? What context would I use this kind of side chain triggered compression on guitar or bass under?
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There are a few scenarios that spring immediately to mind:
You can also use it for making simple guitar-synth effects as well - use a heavy compressor with a long release time to make the sound ramp up, and use a controller to trigger a drum sample that isn't in the mix, but is used as a control for the compressor. You can strum a chord at the same time as one of these triggers, and you'll hear the chord rise in volume as the compressor releases. This technique generalizes to many kinds of instruments, although it's definitely an "effect" rather than a natural sound.
If you have a bass line that is closely (or exactly) mirroring the kick drum, triggering the bass compression with the much sharper attack of the kick can tighten up the line. Even if you push it to the point where it sounds unnatural, it can still be very musical.
For both guitar and bass, it's fun to trigger a gate with a different signal. The last time I did this, which was years ago, I had a washy guitar sound with tons of delay playing chords, and the bass was opening and closing an extremely tight gate. It sounded a bit unpleasant dry, but with a little overall reverb softening, it was striking and effective.


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I like official TED app which allows me to download videos for later offline viewing. I've downloaded many videos & watched all of them. Now, I want to remove them from my device to regain my storage space. But, I am unable to find option in app for this. I've looked in file system, but unable to find downloaded videos. Please, help.
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When I run MD5 algorithm I am getting an output in numeric and a few lower case letters. Obviously it uses all numeric digits and rarely i saw some lower case alphabet letter. I need to understand what all the lower case values are in the MD5 output....
MD5 produces an output of 16 bytes, i.e. 16 values between 0 and 255. What you see is probably an hexadecimal representation of those bytes: each byte is encoded as two characters taken among the digits ('0' to '9') and the first lowercase letters ('a' to 'f'). Each character is to be interpreted as having a numerical value between 0 and 15 ('a' is 10, 'b' is 11,... and 'f' is 15). In a pair of characters corresponding to a given byte, the first character has sixteenfold value. E.g., a byte of value 92 is represented as '5c' because 92 is equal to 5*16+12, and 'c' represents 12.
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STEUBENVILLE - Any other day, John-Paul Duff wouldn't be so enthused walking on the same field as Beaver Local's DeShawn Parker or Steubenville Central's Leo Herrman.
"They're the two who have scored the most goals on me during high school games," said Duff, Big Red's goaltender.
But on Sunday, the trio and 16 others, wore the same red jersey to represent Ohio in the 18th annual OVAC Senior All-Star Classic.
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HEADS UP — Linsly's Weston?Mead, left, reacts after Russell Ratcliffe of Edison heads a ball in the first half of the OVAC All-Star soccer game at Harding Stadium on Sunday. The game ended in a 2-2 tie.
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"It was great to have those guys on my team this time around," Duff said.
Herrmann and Parker each scored a goal at Harding Stadium Stadium and, coincidentally, assisted on each other's score.
"It was great playing with DeShawn," Herrmann said. "I believe we were both among the top scorers in Ohio this past fall.
"I felt very comfortable playing alongside DeShawn, we work well together and I wish we could play together again."
The game ended in a 2-2 tie.
Oak Glen's Cullen Bennett and Brett Watson of Parkersburg South each scored a goal for West Virginia.
"With it being just a recreational game, it's OK that it was a tie," Bennett said. "Both teams were really skilled and it was a lot of fun. I'm not going to get to go on to play soccer in college. I'm just glad I could finish out strong."
Parker, the Ohio offensive MVP, opened the scoring with just 32 second left before halftime. Herrmann attempted two shots close to the net before dishing a quick pass to the left and finding Parker, who tapped it in the net.
"When you put the two of us together there will always be chances, but I got to give a lot of credit to our midfield for getting us the ball especially John-Paul McNamara," Herrmann said.
McNamara was also a soccer player for the Crusaders. The Ohio team's head coach was Steve Kopcha, also from Central.
"I'm real proud of my guys," Kopcha said. "They played a nice game.
"It is weird that the soccer season has been over for a long time for these guys. It's a good chance for them to experience high school soccer one last time. It's an enjoyable day for all of them."
Bennett tied the score at 1 just 46 seconds after halftime. He launched a kick nearly 20 yards out from the far right side.
"I saw that the goalie was pushed up real far," said Bennett, who is attending college at West Virginia University. "I figured if I hit that back corner I would be able to put it in. I got lucky and it went in."
Bennett was one of seven seniors who helped lead the Golden Bears to the Class AA-A regional final with a record of 13-8 - one of the best seasons in program history.
Oak Glen's Chris Bailey and Devin Polen were also selected to the West Virginia team.
"Watching those three for one more time was pretty special," said Aaron Bennett, Cullen's father and Bears' head coach who assisted in the all-star game. "You always hope to do something you love for one more time.
"It was a pleasure watching the best and the brightest in the OVAC.
"It was nice, considering I've only been head coach for two and a half years. It's nice to get here already."
At the 8:47 mark of the second half, Parkersburg South's Dillon Dowler found West Virginia and Patriot teammate Brett Matson, who scored for a 2-1 advantage.
"You regret a goal like that," Duff said. "But it happens. You just hit yourself in the face for it and bounce back.
"You can't let that lie in your conscience. You put it behind you and learn from it."
Duff, who will play at Cuyahoga County Community College next year, made six saves the rest of the way - finishing with 11. He earned Ohio Defensive Player MVP.
Less than five minutes after Matson's goal, Herrmann, a Franciscan University recruit, tied it and capped the scoring.
At the final buzzer, Russell Ratcliffe of Indian Creek attempted a shot that rolled just two feet left of the goal.


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A student is going to sit for an exam on Calculus. If he studies the night before the exam, he is got 0.99 probability to pass it.
But, instead if he choose to go to his friend's party , he is got 0.5 probability to pass it.
In order to decide what to do , he tosses a coin.
Finally , the next day he succesfully passes the exam. What is the probability that he gone to the party ?
I used conditional probability and i am getting 0.335
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With its "look of real" quality and appearance, BeJe Designs has become a staple at Dovecote and in most of our own jewelry boxes! Since the company's inception in 1991, Bea Jaffee has been producing designer inspired fashion jewelry for women of all ages and styles. Her jeweled pieces are known for having the luxe and brilliance of real diamonds without the costly price tag. Perfect for travel when you don't want to take along the real thing.


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Children's Health
Gene Therapy May Help Muscular Dystrophy Patients
July 25, 2011 -- Scientists say they have successfully tested a new treatment that may one day help children with a severe form of muscular dystrophy.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by the absence of a protein that helps keep muscle cells intact. It affects about one in every 3,500 newborns and causes progressive muscle weakness and early death.
Children with the disease, who are usually boys, typically lose the ability to walk by age 12 and often die before age 25, usually from heart and lung problems.
Treatments aim to slow the gradual decline and manage symptoms. There's no cure.
Fixing a Flawed Gene
The new therapy uses a clever bit of genetic sleight-of-hand to repair an inherited defect in the blueprints the body uses to make the muscle protein dystrophin.
The treatment uses artificially created nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA and RNA, to mask the defect, helping cells to skip over the flawed part of the protein's instructions.
The end result is a shortened but functional protein.
To understand what the treatment does, Andrian R. Krainer, PhD, a professor molecular genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, says it helps to think of the protein as a long spring.
"If it's missing one of the ends, it cannot be anchored at both ends. But if it's missing some coils in the middle, it can still work reasonably well," says Krainer, who is testing this approach to treat a different disease, but was not involved in the research.
The treatment isn't a cure, but it may help people live longer with less disability.
"You're essentially converting a very severe patient to a Becker patient," says study researcher Ryszard Kole, PhD. Becker muscular dystrophy is a milder form of the disease.
Kole developed the theory behind the treatment while a professor of pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is now a senior vice president at AVI BioPharma, the company that's developing the treatment.
First Human Tests
The study, which is published in The Lancet, tested increasing doses of the artificial nucleotides in 19 Duchenne patients, who ranged in age from 5 to 15.


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As the hot, dry winds and summertime temperatures continue to help this year's wheat crop ready for harvest, it is time for Ford County producers to start thinking about entering the Ford County Market Wheat Show. This annual event at the Ford County Fair gives producers to show off their best wheat varieties.
Entering is easy. While on the scales at your local co-op, just inform them that you would like to enter this load in the Market Wheat Show. They will collect the sample and give you an information card to complete. Samples will be collected and tested by the Kansas Grain Inspection Service. After harvest, an official crop data card will be mailed to you. Complete it and mail it back, and you are entered.
Samples will be judged on the following criteria: variety, protein, test weight, dockage, shrunken or broken kernels, and the crop data card.
All wheat samples should be produced during the current year and should be combine run only. Each farmer is limited to one entry for each variety.
Completed data cards must be received by the Ford County Extension Office by 5:00 p.m. on July 8th.
The winners will be announced on Sunday, July 21st at the Ford County Fair. For more information on the market wheat show, contact your local co-op or the Ford County Extension Office.
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I want to make video posts redirect to the next video post in it's category after it's over. I use both youtube videos and directly uploaded videos both of which I already know how to pull the duration in seconds. How can I use them to accomplish my goal?
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What you're asking for is a highly complex thing:
The problem is not the redirect 1), but more how you want to know how & when to load the next post.
1) Which in fact(/imho) should be an ajax load & replace of the current post.
YouTube API
You can check if the video is finished with a simply javascript listener
Available Return values:
Link to Google-YouTubeAPI function here
As an easy start: You need to a) have a listener that catches the player state when it changes and b) fires of the ajax call.
The ajax call would be a simple wordpress default call to reload the content of (for example) the parent div of the player. Just search through the ajax archives here on the page if you don't know how WP handles ajax requests.
Internal (your personally hosted) videos
Here's the real problem. You need a player that offers the same as the YouTube player: A possibility to retrieve a status change when the video playback was finished. This highly depends on the player and I've no recommendation at this point.
Your chance!
There's the »JavaScript API for a chromeless player«. A quote from the YouTube API:
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CHESTER - The Business Development Corp. of the Northern Panhandle, owner of the old Taylor, Smith & Taylor Pottery, is planning a community celebration for Dec. 5 to mark completion of the demolition and remediation of the site.
The century-old factory, considered a health and safety hazard, had been idled since 1981. It sat empty for more than three decades before being acquired by the BDC in July 2011 for $125,000.
The event, which will include lunch as well as an opportunity for residents to inspect artifacts salvaged from the site during the demolition project, will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the multi-purpose room at Chester City Hall. Those who wish will also be able to visit the site.
Residents are encouraged to bring their favorite photo of the old pottery site or the factory itself to the luncheon. The owner of the most interesting photo, as judged by the event organizers, will receive a framed artifact from the excavation.
BDC Executive Director Pat Ford, meanwhile, said crews are completing some last-minute detailing, "but all the buildings are down."
"They're balancing the site," he said, explaining that as the business grew over the years, the expansion was done in "tiers." While the tiers make it easy for prospects to visualize how the site would look subdivided, he said leveling the site is perhaps even more valuable - allowing prospects to see the potential of the site as a whole.
"We asked them to level the site so prospects can see its value in its entirety, in addition to looking at opportunities to possibly subdivide the site," he said. "They're using existing materials (such as crushed brick and earth mounds from other parts of the property) in combination with fill material they're bringing in from off-site."
Ford said they continue to field inquiries for the site's re-use, though he declined to say who is interested, saying only that "we can't share that information."
"Generally speaking, the inquiries are related to the energy field," he said. "We don't want to get any more specific than that; the prospects are all related to energy and transportation logistics."
Ford also said the state will be adding the Taylor, Smith & Taylor site to its property inventory in the very near future.
"They have a team that they dispatch throughout the state to photograph and inventory sites, put them on the state website and keep inventories for national and international prospects," he said. "Now that the site is almost clean, we're going to schedule them to come up to Chester to photograph and collect data on the site so they can profile it and get it in their inventory (listing)."
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"Dinosaur Train" is an animated series for 3-to-6 year olds. The series features a curious young T-rex named Buddy who, together with his adopted Pteranodon family, takes the Dinosaur Train to meet, explore, and have adventures with all kinds of dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures.
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Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC Macro (not the previous non-macro version. HSM is only on Nikon fit)
Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 SP XR Di II LD VC Lens (not the cheaper one without vibration control)
Currently the Sigma is slightly cheaper and offers a macro ability but this question is only concerned with sharpness.
I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm only really interested in the Canon fit versions.
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In today's Tweet Beat: Juicy J's take on the Woods divorce, the benefits of marrying a chef; the dangers of working with Joey Lawrence; the perils of small planes; and Marlon Wayans' beef with Montana Fishburne!
Special birthday breakfast for Tana's b'day this morning - eggs benedict for all of us. Perfect!
Moms bd is tomorrow. Let the planning begin!
Somebody please tell @tanatrump she's dead like her porn career. Like her daddy's dreams 4 her.
My apologies to the real montana fishburne for having to set fire to her alter ego @tanatrump. Thought it was u
I don't really understand why FatBooth is so popular. Don't you think it's more fun getting a fat face on your own?
Luv the choice of casting Robert Morse in MadMen. Having played JP Finch in How to Succeed.. -he's the original on 60's Madison Ave.
Just got a lesson on the proper way to slap a mans ass on @ABCFmelissajoey. More of a swat then a scoop!
I'm looking forward to this book about Isabella Blow that comes out in Sept. She was—still is— a huge style inspiration for me.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
(COLUMBIA, Mo.) -- The Department of Defense (DoD) has established a tuition assistance program for spouses of active duty personnel serving in the regular forces and for spouses of activated National Guard and Reserve members. Called the My Career Advancement Account (MyCAA), the program provides up to $6,000 in tuition assistance (TA) for spouses to pursue degree programs, certifications, licensure and credentials. The $6,000 can be used all at once or incrementally. All Columbia College degree programs have been approved for financial assistance through the MyCAA program. Nearly 70 Columbia College military spouses have already received tuition assistance through this program.
To receive this special funding, military spouses must follow these steps:
1. Apply for admission to Columbia College.
2. Apply for the MyCAA program.
3. Make an appointment with a Columbia College advisor to discuss education and career goals.
4. When registering for courses, provide the TA authorization letter previously obtained through the MyCAA Web site.
5. Columbia College will post the TA as a credit to the student's account.
Demand for the program is high and applicants should allow up to two weeks for requests to be processed.
"For more than 12 years, I've been dreaming of a federally sponsored tuition assistance program for military spouses. MyCAA is a dream come true," said Ramona McAfee, assistant dean for military and federal programs at Columbia College. "We are honored to be a part of MyCAA and are excited to add this program to our current selection of financial benefits for military spouses. This is yet another way Columbia College supports military spouses via DoD programs and is further testament to the college's reputation as one of the top military-friendly institutions in the world," she said.
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Also on-hand will be leather crafters, a farrier and an antique tool specialist. Rolfe encourages anyone else that would like to come out and do their craft to do so.
"We just want people to come out and do their creative thing," he said.
The blacksmiths will be making a variety of wares, including a boot rescue hook. Requests are taken and items are available for purchase at a nominal fee.
"These people can make anything from a dinner bell to a bottle opener," Rolfe continued.
Lunch will consist of chicken and sausage gumbo, which will be sold for a small donation, and admission is $5 for adults and children over the age of 12.
Starr Homeplace is located at 5317 La. Hwy. 133 (Mer Rouge/Oak Ridge Rd.; US. Hwy 425) and is nine acres of property with 19 museums, each with a focus on a certain time or subject related to the rural South in the 20th century.
During the spring and early summer the Starr Homeplace is open the second Saturday of every month.
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[LNG export]
[India process safety]
[David Cameron]
[Shell Australia]
[refinery sale ]
Centrica has an agreement with Cheniere Energy Partners to
purchase 89 billion cubic feet of annual liquefied natural gas
(LNG) volumes for export from Chenieres Sabine Pass
liquefaction plant in Louisiana. This amounts to approximately
1.75 MM metric tpy, and is the equivalent of the annual gas
demand of around 1.8 MM UK homes. The contract is for an
initial 20-year period, with the option for a 10-year
extension, and the target date for first commercial delivery is
September 2018. Under the terms of the agreement, Centrica will
purchase LNG on a free on board (FOB) basis, giving it
destination rights for the cargoes, for a purchase price
indexed to the Henry Hub natural gas price plus a fixed
component. Centrica will export gas from the fifth LNG train at
Sabine Pass, on which preliminary engineering work has already
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Who Do You See?
- Small plastic mirror
- Box with lid
- Glue
- Colorful contact paper, construction paper, or gift-wrap (optional)
- Glue a small mirror inside a box.
- If you like, decorate the outside of the box and lid with colorful contact paper, construction paper, or gift-wrap.
- Place the lid on top of the box. When your child opens the box, she will see someone special!
- If you don't have a small plastic mirror and don't want your child playing with something breakable, try gluing photographs or other pictures to the inside of the box.
- Use photos of your child, her friends, and her family or pictures of people, animals, or other objects cut from magazines or greeting cards.
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Way to go graduates!
High school seniors from around the region will graduate in the next few days. In photo, 2011 Colville High School Valedictorian Dana Thompson (center) and Salutatorians Alyssa Heggenberger and Tiffany Wilks will lead their CHS class through commencement exercises on Saturday, June 4 at 11 a.m. Kettle Falls High School commencement exercises will be held June 4 at 6 p.m. At Republic, Selkirk and at Columbia River Christian Academy, seniors will receive their diplomas in ceremonies on Saturday at 1 p.m. At Columbia (Hunters) and at Springdale (Mary Walker), the graduating classes will go through commencement exercises at 11 a.m. on Saturday. Inchelium High School's graduating class will receive their diplomas on Saturday at 2 p.m. Northport High School's class of 2011 will graduate June 11 in noon ceremonies. Curlew High School seniors will receive their diplomas on June 10 at 7 p.m.


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Candice Brown earned her B.A. from New Mexico State University and her M.F.A. from University of Pittsburgh. She also complete special studies at the Animate Theatre of Mime in London.
Brown has been professionally directing and teaching for over 15 years. Some of her directing credits include: The Man Who Came to Dinner by Kauffman and Hart (The Boston Conservatory); Twilight, Los Angeles by Anna Devere Smith, The Laramie Project by Moises Kauffman (Brandeis University); and Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, Shakespeare's Othello, Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill and Tissue by Louise Page (State University of New York at Fredonia).
Brown is also a choreographer and vocal coach. Some of these credits include choreography and movement direction for Oliver!, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A Midsummer Nights Dream and Antigone. She has done vocal coaching for Shakespeare on the Commons productions of Hamlet and The Tempest. Among her most favorite stage performances are as the mother in the world premiere and Pulitzer Prize nominated play, Nocturne, by Adam Rapp (American Repertory Company and New York Theatre Workshop); Moira in Brian Friel's Translations, Alexandra in On The Verge (Cap-In-Hand Productions, Pittsburgh); Phoebe in As You Like It, Katherine in Love's Labour's Lost, the Duchess of York in Richard III (Utah Shakespearean Company); and Olivia in Twelfth Night, Ophelia in Ophelia, a Japanese Noh adaptation, and Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (Three Rivers Shakespeare Company).
Brown earned her tenure in the B.F.A. acting and musical theatre departments of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia in 1999. She moved to Boston later that year to teach at Brandeis University in the M.F.A. actor training program. Brown served as head of the voice and movement division at Wheaton College from 2001–2003 and joined the theater faculty of The Boston Conservatory in the fall of 2004.
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By BEN LEFEBVRE
US companies that refine oil increasingly doubt that the
controversial Keystone XL pipeline expansion will ever be built, and
now they don't particularly
Railroads are carrying soaring amounts of crude from Canada
down to refineries along the US Gulf Coast, reducing the need
for the TransCanada project, which is still awaiting approval
from the US government after two years of delays.
Meanwhile, rival Enbridge is expanding existing pipes to
carry Canadian crude south -- and it doesn't need federal
permission because it's using existing pipeline rights of way.
In addition, so much oil is sloshing around the US from its own
wells that refiners don't need lots more heavy crude from the
north to keep busy.
"Keystone XL has been back-burnered for so long that any
relevant parties have been able to make plans as though the project never even existed in the
first place," says Sam Margolin, an analyst at Cowen &
TransCanada designed the proposed conduit to ship 830,000
bpd of heavy crude from western Canada, as well as
lighter-grade oil from North Dakota shale fields, to the US refining complex along the Gulf of
The cross-border Keystone project, billed as a way to reduce
heavy oil imports from Venezuela and Mexico, requires a permit
from the US State Department.
Concerns about the pipeline's possible environmental impact and legal
skirmishes over the company's use of eminent domain to acquire
land along the pipeline's proposed route have also bogged down
the project.
TransCanada says that the case for building Keystone XL
remains strong and that it hopes the US State Department will
decide whether to grant the construction permits by the end of
this year .
But refiners are moving ahead with other plans. Valero
Energy had signed to receive oil from Keystone XL when the project was first announced and
spent billions of dollars upgrading some of its US Gulf Coast
refineries to turn heavy Canadian crude into gasoline and
But it says it no longer considers the pipeline critical to
its business. The company is now expanding rail terminals at
its refineries in Benicia, Calif.; St. James, La.; and Quebec
to receive more crude oil shipments, including heavy Canadian
crude. Part of the reason is the long wait for Keystone.
"If we just sat around and waited for Washington, we'd never
get anything done," Valero spokesman Bill Day said.
Nearly 200,000 rail cars in Canada carried crude oil or fuel
during the first seven months of 2013, up 20% from the year
before, according to the latest data from the American
Association of Railroads.
Refiners along the US Gulf Coast are also taking advantage
of the boom in light, sweet crude coming out of Texas and North
Dakota. That oil is easier to process than heavy oil from
Canada, Venezuela and Mexico, and as the supply has increased,
the demand for heavy crudes at many refineries has
Enbridge, TransCanada's cross-town rival, plans to spend
$2.4 billion to expand several pipelines in its Lakehead system
by 2014. Such an expansion would bring 1.2 million
bpd of crude oil from Canada and North Dakota to the Midwest,
where it could then be shipped to the Gulf Coast via the Seaway
pipeline that Enbridge owns with Enterprise Products.
Oil producers in Canada are still pushing for Keystone.
Imperial Oil, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, and other companies
have argued that they need the pipeline to give them more
access to the US Gulf Coast, which is one of the few places in
the world able to handle large volumes of heavy crude oil. The
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says that without
the pipeline, production from oil sands will exceed shipping
capacity by 2016.
But even as they hope for the project's approval, some producers
in Canada are making other plans. Cenovus Energy Inc. has
signed contracts to send 200,000 bpd to Canada's east coast via
TransCanada's Energy East pipeline and 175,000 bpd to the
country's west coast on a Kinder Morgan pipeline, spokeswoman
Rhona DelFrari said.
"The long wait for the Keystone XL decision has created
uncertainty for the oil industry," Ms. DelFrari added. "We're
not putting all our eggs in one basket."
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So I'm covering material for my upcoming final exam, and I have a sneaking suspicion that my teacher will ask us to prove the following theorem:
A subset $G$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ is open iff the complement of $G$ is closed.
He's hinted at it a couple times, and honestly, I don't know where to start. Thanks for the help.
Definitions (copied from comments): A set is open if every point of the set is an interior point, meaning that the set contains some ball of positive radius at any one of the interior points. A closed set is one that contains all of its accumulation points.


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