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The 5 Weirdest Things That Control the Global Economy
#2. The Day of the Week
A disdain for Mondays goes beyond cubicle jobs and comic strips about a miserable cat. There is genuinely something awful about the first day of a workweek, and it takes its toll on productivity around the world. The stock market is no exception.
"Oh, sweet Garfield, only you know my pain."
Researchers from Turkey and Texas (no, we're not sure how they met) got together and studied the S&P 500 market index between 1973 and 1997 and found that days of the week can influence how much money you make trading stocks. Like we said before, Mondays are absolutely the worst. Wednesdays yield the highest returns. Fridays, on the other hand, were the drunken college girls of the group, in that they were most likely to go both ways.
And on Thursdays, Goldman Sachs gives free vodka to every broker on the floor.
Now there's a reason for the Friday phenomenon -- most economic reports are announced at the end of a workweek, so traders will have Friday to react (or overreact) to whether or not the news is good or bad.
As for Monday and Wednesday, there are a couple of explanations. Part of it is due to short sellers who freak out about their risk exposure over the weekend and close out everything they can, causing the market to drop on Monday. But the much bigger culprit is likely just simple psychology. In fact, whole heaps of studies have tried to understand the "weekend effect" on the stock market, and the majority of them contend the same thing: Investors aren't any more in the mood to do their jobs after the weekend than you are.
Just because you handle billions of dollars of other people's money doesn't mean you don't spend every weekend blackout drunk.
They are less likely to take risks, or yield nearly as much productivity, on Monday as they do later in the week. By Wednesday, however, traders settle back into their routine and are ready to trade the shit out of some textiles, or whatever people are buying these days.
#1. The Yakuza
The Japanese economy is currently the third largest in the world, which means everything that happens in the Japanese market has a ripple effect through the rest of the world. Essentially, whoever controls the Japanese economy inadvertently affects the economy of the entire planet.
Enter the Japanese mafia.
No, not literally. Jesus, put some pants on.
The Yakuza are likely the biggest criminal organization on Earth, consisting of over 100,000 members whose job is apparently to stroll around Japan, poking at financial institutions with sticks just to see what happens. Their influence has such a huge impact on Japan's economy that many economists agree that Yakuza activities, like stock speculation and loan sharking, were one of the main factors behind the massive Japanese recession of the 1990s. To this day, the country still hasn't fully recovered.
Even the rape-tentacles are underemployed.
So how did the Japanese mob hijack the economy of an entire country? The same way most businessmen rise to the top: they earned it. The group started out as a bunch of small-time thugs for hire, then slowly moved up to controlling the country's land deals and finally blackmailing huge corporations. That last practice, called "sokaiya," is so widespread today that most Japanese firms have to put that blackmail money into their annual budgets.
"Pay up, or we'll do whatever the hell this is to you."
The Yakuza are so immersed in the world of business that in 1984 the Japanese Ministry of Finance actually asked one Yakuza group for help in chasing away some other gangsters from a chain of Sogo banks. The Yakuza were happy to oblige, and then immediately took over those banks for themselves. They sold them off in 1986 to the Sumitomo Group, creating one of the biggest Japanese banks to date, which they still partially control.
Even today, following the massive earthquake in Japan, the Yakuza have been eager to help in the rebuilding of major cities, and in the process sticking their fingers in yet another fiscal pie.
With the enormous amounts of money the United States currently owes Japan, we'd like to suggest that no one start their cars any time soon.
Cezary Jan Strusiewicz is a freelance online writer and Japanese-English-Polish translator. If you pay him, he will write words for you. Contact him at email@example.com
For more on our economy, check out 5 Bad Economic Indicators for the Criminally Insane. Or learn about some wussy groups that are actually awesome, in 6 Organizations You Didn't Know Were Secretly Badass.


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In the great revelation of The Dark Knight Rises, we are shown it was Talia that escaped from The Pit, then brought her father back to rescue her savior, Bane.
However, considering the fact that Talia was born and raised in the prison, how did she know where to find her father or who he was?
One can assume that her mother instructed her on her father's name and nature of his profession, but it is reasonable to believe that her mother didn't know where Ra's was since her incarceration.

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coupon code: FALL15
Free shipping on all orders? Time to invest the retirement money in tiny rings.
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I've placed a few orders with this company and always had a good experience, not sure what's up with all the downvoting.
I agree.
Wooters be hating on jewelry deals...(unless it's cubic zirconia yesterday apparently)
I've never understood why but, there it is.
Even with the 15% off from this site, I can get a better deal from a local jewelry store, even with having to pay taxes. That's why it's getting my downvote.
@lane7505: Thanks for posting an explanation.
Junk Jewelry at a price that isn't a bargain


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I must say I am really disappointed with the Nodal Ninja arca plate. The only markings are on the top of the plate and this immediately gets covered when you put your camera on it. There are no markings on the bottom of the plate to use with the upper arm markings on the NN5. If your thinking about the Arca Plate, I would say don't and just go with what comes with the system.
If there would be marking on the bottom like the CP-2, it might be better but the way it comes is horrible!!! :'(
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Q&A is a series on the Business Intelligence from the Swamp Blog that interviews key members of the Pentaho team to learn more about their focus at Pentaho and outlook on the Business Intelligence industry.
Our Q&A today is with Jonathan Seper, a Customer Success Manager at Pentaho. When he's not on the phone making sure Pentaho customers are happy and on-track with their deployment, you can find the Vancouver native fly fishing in and around Central Florida! To learn more about Jonathan's role at Pentaho and view on Business Intelligence we asked him five questions:
1. What is your role at Pentaho?
I am a Customer Success Manager. A successful Business Intelligence deployment requires not only a full product, but also investment of your people's time and effort. Our team is comprised of seasoned Pentaho veterans to help our customers get the most out of Pentaho software and extensive services.
2. Why was it important for Pentaho to introduce the Customer Success team?
As a commercial open source subscription model, we rely on superior support to ensure our customers renew each year, i.e. we must make sure our customers are wildly successful with their Pentaho projects. BI's inherent complexity and support/mentoring/environmental/integration requirements create the need for significant time with customers to help them figure it all out. Not to mention every customer's use case and environment is unique. Pentaho's growth was increasing the load on the regular sales team, reducing their ability to spend extensive time with customers. This team is all about ensuring customer satisfaction and success.
3. How do you ensure that Pentaho customers are successful?
For each customer it is important to understand their internal resources available, requirements, timelines and appropriate phases to help guide them through a successful implementation. Pentaho customers also need to understand Pentaho software, which parts of it they need and our unique services to enable their team. Examples of ways that I work with customers:
- Refresher webinars, on navigating Pentaho software and resources including: Service Levels, the Support Portal, Knowledge Base, Engineering Sandbox, and JIRA Site where customers can request and vote for enhancements/fixes.
- Visioning exercises – so customers can see what is possible with the tools and expand on their successes. We have some very interesting demo examples built out, that I can share. We are always interested in new use cases and applications that our customers come up with.
- Review training paths and consulting options. There are remote consulting sessions bundled into some of our packages, so I can help find appropriate topics and scope/schedule those.
- Any other questions or concerns… if I do not know the answer I will find out! Having been with Pentaho for over five years, I understand how customers succeed with us.
4. What is the typical lifecycle with customers who work with the Customer Success team?
So much depends on how much work the customer did presale. For example, some customers take training first and almost have their BI Build in production; others are very new to the tool and are starting from the beginning. While the role of Pentaho is to make a customer's team Pentaho experts, sometimes we give them a jumpstart via consulting. A huge milestone is when business users are actually making business decisions based on the software. Sometime there can be substantial time/effort to get to this important milestone, other times very fast. Successful customers usually continuously iterate (see Agile BI), and continue to build and expand their success with Pentaho.
5. Being the first sales rep at Pentaho, what memories stand out over the past five years?
There are a few things that stand out:
- Exponential growth and interest in Pentaho every year!
- The excitement of organizations as they see that Pentaho can provide real time access to data for their business users, allowing them to figure out what is working, or not, in time to do something about it, (without overburdening IT with special one-off data requests).
- Our stable and experienced management team – and their great parties.
- Seeing alligators on the drive home to work (I live in downtown Orlando and am originally from Vancouver, Canada).
Do you have additional questions for Jonathan or the CSM team? Is there someone or a certain role at Pentaho you would like us to interview? Leave your questions and feedback in the comments section below. We'd love to hear from you.


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What is wrong in code. or its results, illustrating that clustered index is evil [1]?
and how to de-debunk, i.e. to return to customary myths and best practices?
Debunking myths about clustered indexes - part 3 (example script)
Edit by gbn, Jan 2012
The dead link used to have a script that "proved" clustered indexes were bad.
Similar SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4034076/reasons-not-to-have-a-clustered-index-in-sql-server-2005


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besides being a GIS use I'm a big computer game fan.
Games like Civilization, Minecraft, World at War and many others have a very powerfull engine to display huge maps in a beutifull way. I was wondering if there is any experience in using game engines to display GIS data for a better comprehension or visualization of the environment?
besides being a GIS use I'm a big computer game fan.
SimCity actually has the inbuilt ability to import USGS DEM data into it to use as a real-life terrain.
Of course if you use FME then you can create a USGS DEM out of almost anything, so you could get a custom SimCity landscape using any terrain data you have lying around.
When I worked at Microsoft Aces Studios (the makers of MS Flight Simulator and Train Simulator) we had a huge GIS pipeline that drove all of the content. You would be surprised how good some content looked after you dropped decent elevation data. I was personally surprised to find out how many people sold GIS data as Flightsim extensions.
Polylines classified as roads rendered as actual traffic with a real road, urban area polygons would render as autogen-buildings, railroad polylines would be drivable railroads, lake polygons would render as water bodies, traffic signs would be points features... it was all pretty crazy cool IMHO. If you look at the Trainsim 2 video demos on youtube (a project that got canned), it is amazing to think that all the items in this scenery are driven by real-world gis data, down to the traffic signs.
And yes, editing content sometimes involved some sprinkles of ArcMap :)
If you feel like trying some of this stuff out, but you don't want to use MS Flight Sim, there is an open source project that aims to do the same thing: FlightGear. You can download Openstreetmap data and load it! Heck, even GDAL, the famous GIS data swiss army knife supports flightgear as a readonly datasource, so you can grab the scenary and export it to your PostGIS, FileGDB or whatever other vector geospatial format it supports.
I love the Chinese equivalnt of Google Maps - http://map.baidu.com/
It certainly looks like Sim City.. Have a look at some Shanghai skyscrapers
Also path finding algorithms for games and GIS work in the same way.
I saw a demonstration of the TopoMC program for MineCraft at the OSGEO-PDX conference back in April. It is a loose collection of Python programs that will import USGS data into Minecraft.
Here is a thread describing the project:
And here is the Git-Hub page where you can download the code: https://github.com/mathuin/TopoMC
Further thought: I think that this project shows that it can be a challenge to bring GIS data into a game. You often need to bring the data into whatever terrain system the game uses. Games which just act as viewers of data are rather rare, and tend to be boring to boot.
Historical 'TOCA Touring Car Championship' (Playstation 1) was the first game to use real 3D (and geo-related) GIS data (Landline dataset back then) for landscaping the tracks from GB Ordnance Survey. So every bump and turn was more real than fictional based tracks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOCA_Touring_Car_Championship [but NOT Lavaland (bonus track)]
Recently Google Maps API is becoming more useful for game developers....
Travel Game using Google Maps API http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/05/travel-game-google-earth-is-your.html
The digitalurban blog written by the guys at University College London regularly mentions visualisation of geo data with game engines e.g. CryEngine used in Crysis.
Gaming engines are a very popular platform to obtain appealing visuals for military simulation. For example:
There is a (totally unofficial for obvious reasons) plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator using Google Maps data for terrain rendering.
There also is Ovi Racer for Nokia handsets. It uses ovi maps data to "race" through "real" streets. You can create tracks anywhere ovi has data about.
Linked to the subject:
With XNA support, it Looks like Silverlight 5 will be more like a game platform.
The GIS in XML blog has a good writeup on this.
Stuart Eve is experimenting with using game engines to display archaeological GIS data. He coined the term of embodied GIS (see this paper for more details) and has an upcoming (hopefully) series of blog posts on:
to explore archaeological landscapes. Part I is here:
Embodied GIS HowTo: Part 1 – Loading Archaeological Landscapes into Unity3D (via Blender)
UK's Ordnance Survey has:
More information at http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraft-map-britain.html
The transport/urban planning simulator OpenTTD uses heightmaps (DEMs) to generate its game levels/maps. There is a substantial library of premade heightmaps for many parts of the world here.
A model for real Sim City
The famous game of Sim City is definitely what is meant when we talk about land use planning. The GIS is a system for designing a real Sim City. This technique is hardly used in practice, because it includes a series of operations that affect professionals in land use planning. I have imposed in order to create a template to apply logic to the towns of Sim City, in line with several exercises that can be found on the web, refer to the most virtuous citizens, but also related to projects of various universities around the world. My daily work involves the application of practical solutions to solve the most common procedures for the technical administration, but the management of these procedures implemented without a model on which to build, makes it difficult for the modeling of a Sim City. In this forum I hope to open a discussion on how to build a model part Sim City starting immediately with the most elementary basics like when you start playing the famous game. I am not a programmer, but I am a land use planner that uses the most popular tools available on the web. I think it is opportune to start with a mashup of GoogleMaps, then you must then create interfaces in PHP and automate the calculation of the indicators, and finally build a database like Postgres. I think that all this is achievable and start an open source-style project is ambitious and, above all, curious. Do not you think?
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Colorado State Overview
State Facts
Colorado used to be a moderately conservative state, but it has moved left over the last 12 years. Its freedom score is one of the "most worsened" in the country over the 2001 to 2011 period.
Still, Colorado scores better than average for its fiscal policies and is the second most fiscally decentralized state in the country, with localities raising 50.7 percent of all state and local revenues. However, its state and local debt burden is high, at 23.6 percent of personal income, an increase of 3.6 percent in four years. From FY 2006 to FY 2010, Colorado's measured tax burden increased from 8.3 percent to 9.2 percent.
Colorado's local zoning laws are strict, there are no state-level limitations on regulatory takings, and even eminent domain reform has been halfhearted. Colorado's labor laws are subpar, with a minimum wage and no right-to-work law. Colorado now has some of the most expensive health insurance benefit mandates in the country, adding 55.9 percent to the cost of a policy with no mandated coverages, a dramatic increase from year-end 2008. In other respects, too, Colorado scores poorly on health insurance freedom, especially because of community rating and "prior approval" price controls in the nongroup and small-group markets. Cable franchising and telecom regulation are unreformed. Colorado is the top state in the nation for occupational freedom—it especially stands out on health professionals' scope of practice. The court system is better than average, and there is no certificate-of-need (CON) law.
The state has resisted somewhat the temptation of "sin taxes," with moderate levies on beer, wine, spirits, and cigarettes. Colorado has decriminalized low-level marijuana possession (after the closing date of this study, a ballot initiative went further and legalized recreational marijuana cultivation, possession, and sale, within regulatory limits). Arrests for drug offenses, relative to state usage, are a standard deviation better (lower) than the national average, but the crime rate—adjusted incarceration rate is nearly three-quarters of a standard deviation worse (higher) than the national average. On private school regulation, the state has a light touch but falls short with its fairly detailed curriculum requirements. Its home school laws are only about average, with recordkeeping requirements particularly onerous.
Policy Recommendations
- Reduce government spending on parks (a category that excludes conservation lands), where the state spends more than twice the national average. Allow TABOR (the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights), as amended, to take full effect once more.
- Allow full competition in telecom and cable services, and enact statewide video franchising.
- Reform the sentencing of nonviolent offenders to reduce the incarceration rate to what would be expected given the state's crime rate. It is possible that marijuana legalization will accomplish this on its own.


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Michael Tsang - What language/tool did you use to write the Tablet PC's drivers?
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It could be a bad idea (I don't think so), but that won't be able to be determined until it actually happens.
The hypothesis here goes something like this:
The vector of software abstraction in advanced operating systems will continue pointing in the positive direction as time increases (meaning more and more managed code can accomplish more and more tasks that once required writing unmanaged code). The average speed with which these new concepts are made concrete will not decrease over time. Win32 to WinFX is a good example of this type of advancement in software abstraction in Windows.
I see no good reason why this abstraction cannot be applied to the kernel (except that it will be really hard to do and will require innovation on the hardware level). Things like GC memory management and guaranteed type safety in the kernel will increase system stability and reliability without incurring too severe of a performance penalty (though of course there will be a cost. Nothing is free...).
I'm looking forward to seeing how deep the CLR will go into Windows in the future (it's pretty deep in Longhorn, but there's still plenty of room for expansion).
Charles wrote:There will come a day when the CLR will find it's way into kernel mode. It's inevitable.
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Total Enrollment: 27,600
Institution Size: 20,000 and above
Campus Setting: Urban
Religious Affiliation: Not applicable
Highest Degree Offered: Doctoral
School Calendar Type: Semester
Total Undergrad Enrollment: 10,200
Total Grad Enrollment: 17,400
Admissions Requirements:
Accepted Credit:
Advanced Placement
Excellent academic reputation. Probably the most prestigious name of any university in the world. I would definitely hire students from there. Also very large with lots of class options.
Cambridge is very expensive to live in, and very few scholarship options are available so it will cost quite a bit. Although this is one of the few places where the high price is probably worth it.
Access to the best professors and minds of our time.
The student motivation and ambition on campus is contagious.
The opportunity to pursue literally any interest you might have. Alumni are eager...
It's tough to pick a "best" part about Harvard, but I'd say my top three parts were the House/Residential Life communities, the location (perfect mix of urban accessibility and green spaces on...
I think the school could work on advising--the resources are certainly there for students, but the advisors and departments need to reach out to students more so they are better able to utilize the...
A feature on Harvard being #1 Top Social Media College in spring 2011.
Parent, Harvard
Alum, Harvard
Student, Harvard
I wish I knew Neat.
Every student at this school needs Ability to take initiative--they might get lost in the shuffle if they aren't prepared to make their own way
Every student at this school needs Freedom.
Another awesome thing is Dreams.


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Pharmacy broken into and drugs stolen
STEUBENVILLE - City Police reported an undetermined amount of narcotics was taken from A&B Pharmacy, 4201 Sunset Blvd., during a break-in around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Police reported the glass on the front door was broken. The alarm was activated, but the thief was gone when police arrived. The police department reported the thief had about three minutes to enter the store, take the drugs and leave.
A police detective was called to the store to check for evidence.
Suspicious fire under investigation
STEUBENVILLE - City fire and police departments are investigating a suspicious fire Wednesday morning at a house in the 200 block of Kingston Avenue.
The fire department was called around 10:35 a.m. about a fire on the exterior of the house. The fire was located around a dryer vent, but the fire department reported there was no evidence to support the fire was associated with the dryer, the fire department reported. The fire did not spread to the interior of the house, the fire department reported.
Victim of fatal accident released
WELLSBURG - Rosemarie Pareso, 82, of Wellsburg has been identified as the woman who died following a two-vehicle collision on state Route 27 Tuesday afternoon.
The Brooke County Sheriff's Department confirmed Pareso died after being transported by medical helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital.
The sheriff's department also reported the other driver, Thomas Morrisette, was transported by ambulance for treatment of nonlife-threatening injuries at Ohio Valley Medical Center.
The accident, which occurred at a dip in the road near Painter Run, remains under investigation.
Highway patrol probes fatal accident
CADIZ - A truck driver from Texas was killed in a wreck around 11:50 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. Route 250 outside Cadiz, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported.
Rudolf G. Fichtner, 71, of Corpus Christi, Texas, was driving a 2007 Freightliner hauling refrigerated liquid oxygen eastbound on U.S. Route 250 when it failed to negotiate a left curve, driving off the right side of the road, the patrol reported. The truck overturned sliding over an embankment, the patrol reported. Fichtner was trapped in the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene, a trooper reported.
The accident remains under investigation.
Parade parking limited Saturday
STEUBENVILLE - Organizers of the city's annual Christimas parade said no parking will be allowed from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday on Fourth Street from Clinton to Adams streets.
The organizers also are asking for no vehicles to be parked on Dock or Logan streets during the same time period Saturday.
The Eastern Gateway Community College Christmas parade will be organized Saturday morning in the vicinity of Steubenville High School and officially will start at noon.
The parade will proceed south on Fourth Street to Adams Street.


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Lee Mindel
The globe-trotting architect designs for Sting, worships Louis Kahn and pines for more sleep
EVEN THOUGH HE has a near-photographic memory, architect Lee Mindel navigates the world with a case full of cameras, determined to capture a life that's been crammed with twists and turns thanks to the global practice he established in 1978 with partner Peter Shelton. The New York-based firm Shelton, Mindel & Associates is a quiet leader in patron-driven architecture—with commissions ranging from Ralph Lauren's Manhattan headquarters to Sting's and Trudie Styler's London townhouse, spaces that are borderline minimalist yet welcoming, with precisely curated furnishings, often from midcentury masters such as Alvar Aalto and Charlotte Perriand.
Educated at boarding schools (and later at Harvard, where he earned a master's), Mr. Mindel, 59, comes from a cultured, political family that hosted Eleanor Roosevelt in their New Jersey home. He was a precocious kid—bold enough to introduce himself to Elizabeth Taylor at Grossinger's Catskill Resort in 1959. "She was wearing a tulip dress and had violet eyes," he recalled. "I didn't know who she was at first, but I quickly figured it out."
Mr. Mindel would go on to encounter more boldface names: Architects like Louis Kahn, whom Mr. Mindel considers the "poet laureate of Modernism," and Norman Foster, who would become a collaborator. Mr. Mindel's greatest partner, of course, was Mr. Shelton himself, who died last year. His legacy, however, lives on in the first-ever monograph of Shelton, Mindel & Associates's work, out this month from Rizzoli—along with projects such as the Marquand, a century-old Manhattan residential building, reopening this fall after a complete overhaul. Over eggs benedict on Manhattan's Upper East Side, we spoke with Mr. Mindel about Scandinavian cemeteries, his frequent-flier strategies and buildings that move him to tears.
I've long collected furniture by Danish designer Poul Kjaerholm. Unlike most Scandinavian designers, Kjaerholm often worked in metal rather than wood. I love how he made new materials like stainless steel feel organic by combining them with the humility of string or linen. My favorite piece is his pk91 folding stool.
I like restaurants that have earned their stripes through the test of time, like Zurich's Kronenhalle—designed by Giacometti with walls covered with original works by Matisse and Miró. I love their beef stroganoff and veal sausage.
Rome is one of my favorite cities because you can see where it all began. I always stay at the Hotel Hassler, just above the Spanish Steps between the Via Veneto and Villa Borghese, and I make sure to take in the view from the Palatine Hill, 120 feet above the city. It offers a great window onto where much of modern civilization got its start.
America does not have great cemeteries because of our fascination with youth culture. But places like Sweden do. Every year I travel to Stockholm's Skogskyrkogården, which was designed to focus on death, but it's really about nature and life. Spread over 250 pine-covered acres, it's now a Unesco World Heritage Site owing to its modernist chapels by architect Gunnar Asplund. Greta Garbo is buried there.
I live in Manhattan's Flatiron district almost by default because it's close to my office. But I love how my loft receives light from four sides, and I love the Ridgeway Diner near 21st Street, which has a small-town feel. I don't even need to order—they automatically bring me three eggs over well with bacon and rye toast.
One of my favorite things in Manhattan is the rooftop water towers that define much of the skyline. Only a complex city like New York could still rely on such a primitive-looking system.
I always take a day flight to Europe. After 30 years of trial and error, I realize I'd rather lose a day and gain a night, which is far more helpful when getting work done.
My favorite hotel in Stockholm is the new Ett Hem, a tiny, 12-room guesthouse designed by my dear friend Ilse Crawford and set in an Arts and Crafts mansion built back in 1910. Crawford has filled it with a mix of classic Modernist touches, like Eero Saarinen tables, and her own designs, such as elegant brass-covered cocktail cabinets.
I'm not a formally trained photographer, but I always travel with at least four cameras. Early on I realized I'm not so good at changing lenses so I just decided to change cameras. I've got a clunker of an old Canon along with a range of 35mm point-and-shoot Leicas. For me, Leicas are the most precise cameras around.
Central Park is the most brilliantly designed room in the world. It has four defined walls and is open to anyone who needs relief from New York City. I love to walk past the grand allee of American Elms near the Bethesda Fountain.
I'll freely admit that I've wept in front of buildings by Louis Kahn. I'm so moved by their simplicity, their rigor and restraint. I've visited most of Kahn's major works—the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, the Yale Center for British Art—but I've yet to see those he designed in Bangladesh just before he died, like the National Assembly Building in Dhaka.
One of my earliest memories is of Eleanor Roosevelt. My father was very involved with the State of Israel Bonds movement, and Mrs. Roosevelt came to our home for a fundraising event. I'll never forget what she was wearing—a purple dress and a purple orchid corsage.
You'll never see me in major fashion labels. I usually have my clothing made bespoke. Nick Tentis on Savile Row creates well-fitted pieces without too much construction that feel free and easy.
My greatest indulgence is sleep—which I never seem to get enough of. I could lie in bed for hours just thinking and creating on my computer.
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Carmelo Anthony Takes the Wheel
Deep into that crummy boring college-football championship in Florida, word began to emerge that, 1,200 miles north, there'd been a bizarre sort-of-almost confrontation in the underbelly of Madison Square Garden after the Knicks-Celtics game. Something about Carmelo Anthony. Something about Kevin Garnett. Something about words being exchanged. Bad words. Words Anthony would later characterize to Knicks reporters as "certain things that you just don't say to men." Then: something weird about a bus.
Not long after, a video epilogue arrived, courtesy of a Boston television outlet—Anthony in the Garden garage, dressed in street clothes and a merry red winter cap, waiting outside the Celtics bus. That's all it seemed to depict: A man waiting for a bus. The same kind of thrilling human drama that occurs a few blocks away inside the glamorous Eighth Wonder of the Natural World, the Port Authority.
Now Anthony was probably not there to tell the Celtics bus driver to take the West Side Highway to the Henry Hudson to the Saw Mill. He was probably not there to tell his opponents they could still get to Veselka and order the latkes. Anthony was miffed at the Celtics' virtuoso antagonizer Kevin Garnett, with whom he tangled repeatedly during the game. Anthony said Tuesday that he wanted to talk to Garnett again. That's why he went to the bus. To talk.
That Garnett gets under an opponent's skin is never a surprise; he's made a spectacular career out of getting under opponent skin while becoming one of the best defensive players of his era. Anthony apparently took exception and wanted to continue the conversation after the heated game. After the game their coaches swerved away from the topic, not wanting to goose the drama.
Now you can look at this odd dust-up a couple of ways. The first is just the obvious tsk-tsk reaction: Anthony shouldn't have sought out Garnett after the game. It's just not the type of thing you're supposed to do. Settle battles on the court; keep your composure; be a leader and so on. Don't let Kevin Garnett be Kevin Garnett! The aging forward is probably thrilled he's now subletted a nice one-bedroom in Anthony's head. Coach Mike Woodson said Tuesday that it was important for players to be "professional." Yes, yes, yes! All of these observations are totally valid and well-reasoned. We are in hearty agreement that we are all responsible adults striving to be civil and decorous and should not do things like look for Kevin Garnett on a bus.
Can we leave detention now?
Here's the truth: I suspect that Knicks fans secretly love The Bus Story. Maybe not even secretly. This is Anthony's third season in New York, and he is playing what many believe to be the best basketball of his career. Monday afternoon, Anthony was named the NBA's Eastern Conference Player of the Week and he's a contender—a legitimate contender, not just one of those New York-loves-the-sound-of-its-own-voice contenders—in the league MVP race. The Knicks are an imperfect team but they are in the thick of it, and the motivated play of Anthony is the principal reason why.
And yet, throughout his time in the league, there's been this lurking concern that Anthony, while one of the league's finest scorers, was not equipped with the mettle of a champion like, well, Garnett. And though Monday night's postgame action was irrational and probably foolish (and possibly finable and suspendable)—there's also the fact that the Knicks lost, which seems to have been forgotten—it was exactly the kind of signal that Knicks fans have been hoping for. Anthony is here for business.
There's also this: The fact that it came against Boston—and Garnett—makes it a little better, richer, tantalizing. Anthony furious at the Bobcats? Yawn; you could not care less. Anthony furious at the Celtics? New York eats that up. This city is chemically drawn to any kind of Boston agitation. The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry has been zombified in recent years. Jets-Patriots feels like a sitcom. There's room for the Knicks and the Celtics to make Northeast clatter here.
Boston's bus will be back. The Knicks travel up to Massachusetts in a couple of weeks and again in March before the Celtics wheel into the Garden for a showdown March 31. We'll know a lot more about these Knicks by then—how resilient they are; how resistant to injury they can be; how Amar'e Stoudemire has progressed in his return from injury. We should have a good sense if this team is ready to make noise in the playoffs. But it feels like we already know what's going on with Carmelo Anthony. He's in. He wants to drive this bus.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Nordstrom welcomes Chantecaille!
Anyway, without further ado: I've just received official confirmation from the store manager at the Nordstrom in Bellevue, WA that the rumors quietly circulating the last few months are true...
Nordstrom is going to begin carrying Chantecaille in Spring 2010.
He says that the initial roll-out phase will include approximately 15 stores. I don't know which 15 they will be, though for those of you in the Seattle area, he did confirm that the Bellevue store will start selling Chantecaille sometime this February. I would also presume that the downtown Seattle store will, since that one is Nordstrom's flagship store. GET EXCITED, PEOPLE! :)
P.S. I know some of you limit yourselves to drugstore cosmetics, and I respect that. That's why I try to provide some balance between higher- and lower-end brands in my swatches and reviews. But I must confess... Chantecaille is definitely one of my top brands, in that it very rarely disappoints and nearly always amazes me!
P.P.S. The picture above is from Chantecaille's website and depicts three shades of Lip Chics. I chose that picture to support this post in honor of my all-time favorite lipstick formulation (... which is the Lip Chic, in case that wasn't immediately apparent). :)
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I've never heard of that brand before but I am mostly a drugstore kind of gal.ReplyDelete
I'm happy as long as they have it on nordstrom.com :D:D:DReplyDelete
Scientific Housewife (great username, by the way!), I've posted a little bit on them before - if you click the "Chantecaille" label on the blog, it'll pull up my previous post regarding their products (Brilliant Glosses). They're definitely more expensive than what you'll find in the drugstore, but they're worth it, in my honest opinion!ReplyDelete
Shiya, I've never seen anything in Nordstrom stores that wasn't also on their website, so I'm sure it'll end up there eventually! :)
Please--I'd love a list of the Chantecaille products you think are worth the dough. Will you enlighten me? xoReplyDelete
I'd love to, M :) Definitely the Lip Chics and Brilliant Glosses. I adore (and own) many of their eyeshadows and blushes too, but I wouldn't argue as vehemently that they're "worth the dough" as much as the lip products are, since there are a lot of great eyeshadows and blushes out there but few lip products that are really comparable to the quality of Chantecaille's Lip Chics and Brilliant Glosses (in my opinion, of course).ReplyDelete
With that said, I find the quality is very consistent with Chantecaille's eyeshadows. With low-end and high-end cosmetics alike, I find that there are a lot of hits and misses (in terms of quality/texture/pigmentation/etc., not how well colors work for me). However, I have never found a Chante eyeshadow to be chalky or any of those other things. (I feel I should add here that I've heard similar things about Rock & Republic eyeshadows, which you can see swatches of at http://karlasugar.blogspot.com, but I have not yet tried those myself.)
I have similar comments about the blushes, though I feel strongly that they are a product potential consumers should try before buying (each shade!) because they have a tendency to work strangely with body chemistry; I know of a few that turn orange on me (though most don't oxidize at all), a different few that turn orange on someone else I know, etc. (Charming Aquablush does seem to be one of the more universally flattering and unique products they make, though.)
The other thing I would add is that you can often get good prices on a lot of these things on eBay. Email me if you want some seller recommendations!
Whoops, I meant to say "With low-end and high-end cosmetic BRANDS alike, I find that there are a lot of hits and misses..."ReplyDelete
Wish I could edit my comments like I can edit my posts, without having to delete and repost them!
Oh gosh, here I am failing again. I also forgot to mention the Just Skin tinted moisturizer. So expensive, but I LOVE that stuff! Future Skin foundation is nice too, but I don't know if I'd repurchase it or not. And the Compact Makeup powder foundation is also very pretty, but I'd be hypocritical if I said it's "worth the money" since I haven't bought one for myself yet. I want to, though!ReplyDelete
I just started a new beauty and fasion blog and Youtube channel. I would love if you would check it out!ReplyDelete
Hey, I'm a new viewer :D Please check out my blog and follow me! Tell your friends, cuz I only have 3 followers :(ReplyDelete
Ive never heard of this brand but the colors on the photo look amazing!ReplyDelete
Oohh interesting brand. :) I like the color on the leftReplyDelete
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Matcha LatteWhether you prefer sweetened, unsweetened, dairy milk, or non dairy milk, Aiya's Matcha makes the perfect warming Matcha Latte! These recipes are very easy to make, completely fulfilling, and perfect for a cold winter day.
[Makes 8 oz Serving]
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I installed Sharepoint 2010 in farm mode on two instances. The installation was successful. I then tried to create a new web application , the web application was also created successfully. I could see the new web application on both the instances central admin. But I only see the site in on of the instances IIS , and it does not show up in other instances IIS.
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I'd like to disable all notification sounds whenever there is a current event in Calendar. How can I do this automatically?
Llama will let you do this, and it is free (Tasker costs money). It has many of the features as Tasker and Locale, and it can even use Locale plugins. I have grown fond of this app and have set up many automated events.
To do this in Llama, you create two events and two profiles.
The developer of Llama is still working on it and adding new features, and you can get details here.
Tasker will do this for you. It allows you to automate tasks when certain conditions are met (and is a truly awesome app). Tasker works by monitoring Contexts and then performing Tasks when those contexts match the conditions you set. Contexts and Tasks are grouped together to create Profiles.
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You can try Silent!. It's a very easy app to put your phone insilent mode.
It has a schedule plus a white list (to prevent you from losing important calls). It also has a location option; so it turns your phone to silent mode only if you're in a specified place. It's very simple to use and doesn't need a lot of configurations to work.
I wrote an app, Free Busy Silent Mode which will be useful. Very minimal configuration needed, you just need to pick which calendar account to sync, that's it.
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First off, anyone picking a naming scheme should read RFC 1178 - "Choosing a Name for Your Computer". People have been talking about this issue for as long as computers have been given names, so read up on what others have said before re-inventing the wheel.
My own thoughts - I tend to break up naming policies into themes and schemes.
Using a theme (e.g. greek gods, characters from Dr. Who, brands of vodka) works well in a small network. If you have less than 20 hosts then chances are you have multiple hardware configurations - possibly every host has a unique configuration. In such cases it's good to be able to think of each machine as having a unique personality, because - chances are - it does.
Using a scheme (e.g. a name constructed from elements of the geographical location, rack position, hardware ID, etc) works well when you have large numbers of machines with identical hardware and/or software configurations. It also works well if you'll need to be communicating about the machine with people who don't deal with it on a day to day basis. For example if you need to tell NOC staff to reset a machine, a name which helps them locate it in the rack can be better than having them search through the racks for a machine with a particular label.
Using a functional name (e.g. mail, web, fileserver) is a good idea for virtual machines, but a bad idea for physical hosts in my experience. Physical hosts will often end up performing multiple functions (even when this is not ideal), and individual functions will change in resource usage and requirements over time, such that they will be migrated to other hosts.
The problems with themes include:
The problems with schemes include:
In the real world you find both systems in use, sometimes side by side. For example, in my experience high performance computing clusters always have names. The name is often assigned to a head node (which is used interactively), while the various cluster nodes will have names such as compute-01, highmem-01, storage-01, etc.
And, as mentioned earlier, it's common (and useful) for virtual machines and physical hosts to have different naming schemes.
Under the interesting category, there's one from the Stack Overflow answer
I'm a VERY strong believer in naming physical servers by their location (i.e. country-code/city-code/data-centre-code/floor/rack/rack-U-height) and software/VM servers by their function only (platform/function/cluster/iterance). I know this can make names longer than naming them after the seven dwarves or whatever but it's a great way of ensuring that you're more 'future-proof' and deals with virtualisation in a structured manner.
As an example we have VMWare servers called 044LONTH72G216 (this locates a server exactly in the world) with guest server VMs such as NESQLC11S08. You can always create short names for them for internal IT team work each referring back to these longer, more organised, names.
Hope this helps.
We began by naming our servers with a particular theme (books of the Bible), but as our IT team (and the number of servers) grew and became more specialized - and as we had more staff turnover, we discovered that any naming system that didn't somehow relate to the function (or location) of the server became confusing.
People knew the servers they worked on regularly, but when working on a new project, cross-training, or trying to help another admin with something, things would get missed because "nobody knew that psalms was a mail server" or the like.
We have now switched back to a more descriptive naming scheme.
We give all our servers names according to their role, i.e. what they do.
So our servers have names like
In my experience, servers with non-human-readable names (i.e. the scheme method) are not manageable. I've often seen mistyped characters resulting in the wrong server having operation xyz applied to it, sometimes with disasterous results.
A human readable name with associated metadata stored in a description field or similar seems to be less prone to PEBKAC issues.
Well, some perennial favorites include:
We started with Bert and Ernie back in the days when a cluster of 2 microVAX 3400s was a big deal for the company. We stuck with Sesame Street for a while - Bigbird, Elmo, Grover, thecount (financial system), but eventually had to go with a scheme. Exactly what elements are in the scheme depend on the size of your company, we had to include:
Location (2-letter abbreviation for the city) Division (company was formed by merging 4 co.s, so we had 3-letter abbrev. for those) Function (PDC, mail, print, www, etc.) Serial number (I've always liked having year and month as part of a serial number)
Simpsons characters :)
Had a client once who named servers after Playboy bunnies. That was not widely publicized outside of IT, however. ;-)
I liked naming them after large cats, but then OS X came along and ruined that for me.
Another fave is types of alcohol. JimBeam, Beefeater, Stoli, etc. Different classes of alcohol were different classes of server. Gin for mail servers, whiskeys for databases, the PDC was always Moonshine.
Starting with any new systems this year, we'll start using boring descriptive names (mail, print, etc.), but until now we used animals - with different types of animals for different purposes: birds, fish, jungle animals, etc.
Musicians in the top 40.
They change often enough to keep providing fresh new ones, but more importantly, they'll be sufficiently cryptic to anyone over the age of 12.
We tend to have company initials followed by its task, followed by its number, i.e.
We use this, which works quite well.
In the jobs I've had, I've seen the following trends other than the classic server01, server02, etc.:
At the university where I'm studying they use the names of different characters from the Asterix and Obelix stories. Such as miraculix, astmatix etc.
Our servers are all named after pets. with a slight breakdown by type. All domain controllers are named after birds. Dogs for file and print. Cats for application servers.


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Do you brown bag or go out for lunch?
I packed my lunch today but that is atypical for me as of late. It seems that I have spurts of packing my lunch for weeks, then weeks of dining out. Just wondering what everyone else is doing during their lunch breaks at work?
I've also noticed that during the winter I crave more hot foods, those that you can't convincingly microwave and still be edible. Also there's a limit to the number of turkey sandwiches you can eat in a month. :-)
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I bring a lunch usually. If not a sandwich, some leftovers. Saves big money and is healthier for you.
I bring frozen dinners for lunch. Usually pick them up at the grocery store for $1 each. Definitely saves on the minimum of $5 that I'd pay if I went out everyday. That means more money for woot-offs!
I try to bring at least 4 times a week. Sitting on my butt all day + greasy lunch food was not doing well for, well, my butt. Especially since I'm not great about making healthy dinners, either.
I bring my lunch 98% of the time.
Well over a decade ago I used to eat out every day. As others said, it wasn't great on the wallet and horrible on the waistline.
I make our lunches for the week on Sunday (all home-made meals). My husband, daughter, and I never eat out for lunch. We save that for the weekends.
I end up going out for lunch mostly. Usually it's because I need to get away from that place. It never fails if I'm in the break room, someone will hunt me down to ask me some super urgent question that just couldn't wait 30 minutes.
I agree with you too, there's only so many cold sandwiches I can stand before going nuts.
I live less than a mile from where I work, so I usually go home and eat leftovers.
both, depends on if we have leftovers in the fridge to take to work or not
@pxb006: Never though about it that way. ;-)
I bring a lunch and have for the past 4 years.sometimes I wish I could eat lunch in the school cafeteria but done have time.
@embhorn: Oh, sigh, to work close to home. I can only wish....
I bring my lunch 99% of the time. It usually consists of leftovers, a protein drink and veggies.
Five Guys Burgers and Fries.....I get Both!
I normally bring my own lunch. It normally consists of a turkey sandwich, some cookies and water. I'm not big on lunch.
For like a week I did eat at my company's cafe, but it was slightly expensive (about equivalent to fast food pricing, but was good).
I spend too much
I always tell myself the night before that I'll make a lunch but half the time I end up just buying lunch.
My goal is to average less than $5 per workday on lunch (really, "food at work not counting coffee").
Generally, I have a "lean cuisine type" frozen thing or tabachnick soup, plus an apple or other fruit plus some kind of snack (nuts or kashi bar, etc.) over the course of the day. (I pay no more than $3 for the the frozen things and there are two servings of soup in each tabatchnick package). I take in leftovers one or twice a week and eat out (Subway or diner or pizza/italian, etc. about once every two weeks.
(Our college cafeteria makes horrible food that costs about $7-$10 for lunch. I feel sorry for the kids that live on campus, though I guess I was willing to eat crap that tastes bad when I was a kid too.)
I cook a hot lunch from scratch at home every day.
Yeah, I know. I'm hard to take sometimes.
I go home for lunch to feed my dog and eat there. Although it's a crap shoot whether that will be a freshly made sandwich or salad, or leftovers of a meal I prepared, or leftovers from a restaurant meal. I eat out a lot on the weekends and always have food left to bring home.
I bring a sandwich or salad daily. Saves quite a bit of money, but sometimes I end up craving the junk food. I really only go out if I forget to grab it on the way out or have plans ahead of time.
My office is sort of isolated. At least 15 minute drive and park to any eatery. We have a cafe in the building but it sucks so bad I refuse to eat there, even if it's free. I used to not mind bringing leftovers and sandwiches when I also had the option of eating out, but that stuff gets boring fast. So now I just make a weekly run to Trader Joe's and pretty much cook meals at work each day that are better than leftovers or any of the overpriced garbage they make downstairs.
Mondays and Fridays I grab lunch from wherever I have a coupon for.
Tuesdays and Thursdays we have lunch catered into the office, so I have whatever everyone else is having.
Wednesdays I grab a bowl of O'Charley's chicken tortilla soup, and use their rolls and 2 chicken strips from Chick-fil-A (plus sauces) to make a couple mini-sandwiches.
I'm a creature of habit =P
Mom packs my lunch, and I'm not ashamed of that.
Anybody who has considered buying a Mr. Bento should go through with it. It has easily been one of my best purchases ever.
When I did work, I had a half-hour for lunch most days; unless I was attending a business lunch or was on the road, I brought a sandwich and a cold drink.
Both. I go home to eat most of the time as I live 10 mins away. I go out and have lunch with people here from work at times, usually once a week.
I eat in our cafeteria - sure it's more than a frozen dinner, but it's pretty decent food. A frozen dinner or lunch meat would carry me through the day.
I've been meaning (for the last two years) to start bringing a lunch more often...I used to at least bring one 2-3 times a week, but lately it's been maybe once a week...
We have a cafeteria in the building next to me at work, so I generally just go there, otherwise during the summer months, they run a grill as well.
The food is good, but it does get kind of expensive.
What I've gotten into lately is buying snacks, drinks, chips, cookies, etc. and leaving them in a drawer at work that way all I have to do is buy the "meat" portion of my lunch...better than nothing, I guess.
Brown Bag 99% of the time.
Depends on how lazy I feel, but usually brown bag.
I'm single, so it's easy for me to make too much for dinner every night and then bring the leftovers for lunch the next day. A little boring eating the same thing twice or a few times in a row, but it sure is cheap!
I'm not surprised that nearly everyone is saying that they brown bag it or do the frozen dinners thing--we are all on deals.woot after all! :)
I work in a busy shopping center, so i used to eat a lot of crappy take out for lunch. But as of late, i've been sticking with either subway or the $5 select vons deli sandwiches, which are better.
dining hall :( i hate meal plans. they made me have one because of where i lived
Last place I worked, I brought lunch most every day. I didn't bother going out for lunch myself, just the occasional meetup with friends and whatnot.
This place, there's actually a decent cafeteria with decent prices and an employee discount, so I almost always eat here.
I like to go to lunch with @agingdragqueen when I am in the office. True story.
My office has a kitchen with some frozen options available for free, so I either bring a lunch, or eat those. If I feel the need to get out of the office I just eat it outside, and usually other people want to sit outside as well. It's a small office so every couple of weeks we all go out to eat at one of the local restaurants.


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PNB Giselle Works&Process presentationlive video stream
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For over 25 years and in over 300 productions, Works & Process has offered audiences unprecedented access to our generation's leading creators and performers. Each 80-minute performance uniquely combines artistic creation and stimulating conversation and takes place in the Guggenheim's intimate Frank Lloyd Wright-designed 285-seat Peter B. Lewis Theater. With performances often sold out, Works & Process on Sunday, January 9, 7:30 pm, for the first time, will live stream the sold out performance Pacific Northwest Ballet – Giselle Revisited. In this program Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers will perform excerpts from Peter Boal's new staging of Giselle, prior to the production's June 2011 premiere at McCaw Hall in Seattle. Giselle, widely acknowledged as the greatest ballet of the Romantic era, will feature reconstructed choreography utilizing Stepanov notation circa 1899-1903 and French sources from the 1840s and 1860s. Artistic Director Peter Boal will discuss the production with dance scholars Doug Fullington and Marian Smith. Excerpts will be performed by PNB dancers Carrie Imler, Carla Körbes, James Moore, and Seth Orza.
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To see the performance live online visit http://www.ustream.t...worksandprocess
Peter Boal
Doug Fullington
Marian Smith
Carrie Imler, Principal
Carla Körbes, Principal
James Moore, Soloist
Seth Orza, Principal
More About the Production
The sources utilized for PNB's Giselle include a repetiteur believed to have been prepared in Paris, circa 1842, to assist in the staging of Giselle in St. Petersburg that year. The repetiteur includes detailed information relating to the action of the ballet and how it relates to the score by French composer Adolphe Adam. Another primary French source is a complete notation of Giselle likely made in 1860s Paris by Henri Justamant. This elaborate notation recently surfaced in a private collection in Germany and has now been published. The other important source is a choreographic notation made in St. Petersburg, circa 1899-1903. This notation was made using the Stepanov notation system developed in St. Petersburg in the early 1890s. The production represents French choreographer Marius Petipa's version of Giselle that was based on the original Paris production, choreographed by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The Stepanov notation of Giselle was used in the West for historic stagings by Paris Opéra Ballet and the Vic-Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet). The notation is now housed at the Harvard Theatre Collection.
In collaboration with Peter Boal, who will oversee the entire staging, Marian Smith will focus on the French sources and their use for the action of the ballet, and Doug Fullington will reconstruct choreography using the Stepanov notations. This production marks the first time an American ballet company will base a production on Stepanov notation as well as the first use in modern times of the rare French sources for Giselle.
Pacific Northwest Ballet, one of the largest and most highly regarded ballet companies in the United States, was founded in 1972. In July 2005, Peter Boal became Artistic Director, succeeding Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, Co-Artistic Directors since 1977. The Company of forty-six dancers presents more than 100 performances each year of full-length and mixed repertory ballets at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall and on tour. The Company has toured to Europe, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada and throughout the United States, with celebrated appearances at Jacob's Pillow and in New York City and Washington, DC. Under the direction of Mr. Boal, PNB has continued to expand and diversify its repertory to include works by Ulysses Dove, Jiri Kylian, Susan Marshall, Benjamin Millepied, Mark Morris, Victor Quijada, Susan Stroman, Twyla Tharp, Christopher Wheeldon and others. Founded in 1974, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, under the direction of Francia Russell since 1977 and now under Mr. Boal's direction, is nationally recognized as setting the standard for ballet training and offers a complete professional curriculum to over 950 students. PNB and PNBS also provide comprehensive dance education to the greater Seattle area and reach over 10,000 adults and children each year through DanceChance, Discover Dance and other outreach programs and activities.
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Carla Korbes, Seth Orza, James Moore, and Carrie Imler danced and mimed beautifully in studio conditions. I don't want to post spoilers. I'll say only that the performance highlight among many, many high points was Carrie Imler's Mother's Mime.
Posted 07 January 2011 - 02:04 PM
Among the other many high points was closest to the floor (i.e., the lowest point of the body); namely, Carrie Imler's feet doing moves no modern ballerina ought to be able to do.
Add to that the powerful drama ever present in Carla Korbes dancing, Seth Orza's strength and use of space, and Jim Moore's commitment, and I think one will conclude that the illustrative dance demonstrations alone were worth the price of admission. Bottom line, I learned a lot -- especially about mime......thanks Doug!
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All you have to do is go to their website at 7:30 and it will begin streaming by itself. I happened to have the site up so I wouldn't forget tonight, and discovered the stream from the 3 pm event when I turned my speakers on to stream something else.
Sorry if my question sounds sort of silly, but being sort of like in the middle ages about computerized stuff and the like...do I have to sign up any special account on that website, or download a program or have any special device or do anything to watch Giselle...?
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Just lovely! Worth watching even in low resolution! Would like to know if the live streaming comes through in higher resolution.
Particularly liked seeing the bits about what was originally notated... Myrtha's coupé jeté manage makes such musical sense with the small jetés.
Who is the very sensitive accompanist?
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All you have to do is go to their website at 7:30 and it will begin streaming by itself. I happened to have the site up so I wouldn't forget tonight, and discovered the stream from the 3 pm event when I turned my speakers on to stream something else.
Sorry if my question sounds sort of silly, but being sort of like in the middle ages about computerized stuff and the like...do I have to sign up any special account on that website, or download a program or have any special device or do anything to watch Giselle...?
Beautiful! Will be watching...thanks!!
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If I took a picture of a windmill on the horizon — given that I know the sensor size and the focal length of the lens and other factors to do with the shot — could I calculate how far away an object is from the photographer?
The only other factor you need is the height of the object in real life (otherwise you could be photographing a model which is much closer to the camera).
The maths isn't actually that complex, the ratio of the size of the object on the sensor and the size of the object in real life is the same as the ratio between the focal length and distance to the object.
To work out the size of the object on the sensor, work out it's height in pixels, divide by the image height in pixels and multiply by the physical height of the sensor.
So the whole sum is:
Let's sanity check this equation.
If we keep everything else constant and increase the focal length then the distance increases (as focal length is on the numerator). This is what you would expect, if you have to zoom your lens to make one object the size another equally sized object used to be, the first object must be further away.
If we keep everything else constant and increase the real height of the object then again the distance increases as if two objects of different real heights appear the same height in the image the taller one must be further away.
If we keep everything else constant and increase the image height, then the distance increases, as if two objects (of the same size, remember we're keeping everything else constant) appear the same pixel size in a cropped and uncropped image then the object in the uncropped image must be further away.
If we keep everything else constant and increase the object height in pixels then the distance decreases (we're on the denominator now): two equally sized objects, one takes up more pixels, it must be closer.
Finally if we keep everything else constant and increase sensor size, then distance decreases: two equally sized objects have the same height in pixels when shot with a compact (small sensor, where 20mm is a long lens) and shot with a DSLR (large sensor where 20mm is a wide lens), then the object in the DSLR image must be further away (because it appeared the same size but with a wide lens).
As noted @matt-grum, the most simple formula to estimate distance to the object is pinhole projection formula:
where x is the size of the object on the sensor, f is focal length of the lens, X is the size of the object, and d is distance from nodal point to the object. x and f, and X and d are measured in the same units, e.g. mm and m respetively (to calculate x you'll need to estimate pixel size for your sensor; for example, for Pentax K20D it is 23.4 mm/4672 px ≈ 5.008e-3 mm/px, i.e. an image 100 px long corresponds to x = 50.08e-3 mm).
In the following I assume that the size of the object (X) is unknown, and the only known parameters are x (image size) and f (focal length).
The problem is that we cannot tell from one photo if is a small object very close to the camera or a big object far away, because the depth of field in landscape shots is usually very big (and that's why pinhole formula is applicable).
To solve this problem we may use two or more images to measure the distance. Provided you can measure all angles and distance between two camera positions, you can also calculate distance to the remote object. But measuring all angles is not an easy task.
An easier approach is to take two photos which stay on the same line with the object, with object in the center of the image. Let distance to the object on the first photo be d₁, and image size be x₁:
Then if we move the camera s meters directly towards the object, then on the second photo we have image size x₂ slightly bigger than x₁:
Which gives us
Evidently, if s is not big enogh to affect image size significantly, you cannot estimate distance reliably, and need to use more complicated methods. The bigger is difference x₂ - x₁, the better.
Rather than trying to use formulas if you investigate the nautical methods of estimating distances which involve some basic " rules of thumb" for example if you are standing 1 foot above water hight you are 3 nautical miles from the horizon if you hold up your thumb at arms length them the object you look at is covered it is 100 ft high ( I think ) I have forgotten most of these these as I no longer use them but they do work and once learned and used regularly are remarkably accurate.
I know it's an old thread, but this question seems to come up now and then. FWIW, I added a calculator to compute an object distance in an image.
You will still have to know your values to make it work, one of which is approximate real height of the object. Discussed there.
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If a Human is in desperate need to run away from a monster and he decides to use three Move actions (Standard, Move, Action Point) on his turn to run, how fast is he running?
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Assuming speed 6:
A square is 5'. Running gives him two extra squares of movement per move action, so he'll move 8 squares per action. He gets three actions in your scenario; thus, he's moved 24 squares. 24 squares is 120 feet.
A round is six seconds. Therefore, the human is moving 120 feet in six seconds, or 20 feet per second. That's 72,000 feet per hour, or about 13.6 miles per hour, although he can't sustain that speed for more than one round.
I've already done the math for this, so I just posted it in case anyone else was interested.
A few things need to be factored in, here. First, we need to establish the presumption that the Human in question is not using any equipment or feats that enhance or restrict his speed. Then, we have our first important value:
Human's Speed = 6 squares (PHB, p. 46)
Next, how many squares does the Human move in total? First, add two squares to his speed for Running (PHB, p.291), then multiply by the number of actions he's used to run.
Human's Running Speed = 6+2 = 8; Actions Used = 3; 3*8 = 24
Now that we know how far in squares he's run, we need to translate that to real-world metrics.
1 Square = 5 feet (PHB, p. 266); Squares Traveled = 24; 24*5 = 120 feet
The next question is, how long did it take the Human in question to travel that far? This will eventually lead to a measure of his real-world speed.
1 Round = 6 seconds (PHB, p. 26); 120 ft./6 s. = 20 ft./s.
Now, let's extrapolate that to a more common measure to give us something more easily recognized.
1 ft./s. = approx. 0.6818181818 MPH; 20 ft./s. = approx. 13.63636364 MPH
So, without any feat or equipment bonuses, a Human's top speed in D&D 4.0 is a little over 13 MPH.
Also, for those interested, here's a conversion rate I came up with that can be used for other calculations.
1 square per round = approx. 0.5681818182 MPH
I don't think you can count the AP speed boost outside of sprints.
World class sprinters are hitting 100m in under 10s
Using an AP ... running for 1.5 rounds (9s) so getting 3 actions in round 1 and 1 action in round 2, gives 32 squares = 160 ft = ~50m .... so pretty poor for a sprint
Middle distance runners are doing 1500m in 4 min
So 40 rounds x 2 actions / round + 1 AP = 81 actions x 8 sq / actions = 648 sq = 3240 ft = ~1000m .... again pretty slow.


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Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:34 PM
I purchased a Remington 770 in .30-06 today. I filled out the paperwork and after they ran it through the system they gave me the pick up reciept for it. I get to pick it up on October 14th. I'm hoping to take it out and sight it in. I'm looking forward to shooting it and my future hunts with it.
Do any of you out there own one? If so, what ammo seems to work best in it?
Well, that's all for now. I told the wife and she said "I don't even want to know about it". So I guess I'm in the clear.
Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:55 PM
My 06 likes the Hornady Superformance GMX and SST ammo in 150gr and 165gr. I dont own a rifle that doesnt like Hornady ammo.
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One thing to think about before you sight it in, is where are you going to do most of your hunting. Living in So Cal like you, many of the prime hunting areas nearby fall into the damn no lead zone. I agree with Dirty Dave that 150 - 160gr bullets will more than suffice for both deer and pigs. Once you select a bullet weight buy some lead and leadless ammo that has the same bullet weights. When you go to the range to sight it in, use the lead ammo to get on the paper and zero it in. Once you are zero'd in with the lead ammo, switch to the leadless ammo and rezero it in with that. I think you will find that you save yourself about $10- 20 bucks by using up the cheaper lead ammo to get you on the paper before switching over and fine tuning with your leadless ammo.
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I been looking at that rifle and think I'll end up buying it. seen many good reviews. Just one thing that worries me. Some complaint about the bold being too hard. please let me know how it works out for you.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 11:19 AM
Unlicensed Hunter, Once I get out to shoot the rifle (roughly in two or three weeks) I'll let you know if the bolt/action is sticky or if it has a hard, heavy pull. When I tried the 7mm they had out on the rack it seemed to cycle fairly easily and the bolt wasn't anywhere near as sloppy as the bolt in the Mossberg I looked at. It seemed like it had a decent cycling to it. It may need a little fine tuning down the line, but they are supposed to be bore sighted and ready to shoot right out of the box. Like I mentioned though, I'll report back once I get a chance to fire off a few rounds.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 02:04 PM
The 30-06 is a very good caliber.
I think you will like it.
Unlicenced Hunter,
Welcome to the forum.
Posted 10 October 2012 - 07:03 AM
Congratulations ARH,
The 30-06 is a very good caliber.
I think you will like it.
Thanks Tom. I took all the good advice when I asked about calibers (take down power, ammo availability and cost, etc.) quite a while back (approx. 4 to 6 months back) and went with the .30-06. I'm sure I'll be happy with my choice off caliber for sure.
I've heard with this particular model though, that I shouldn't shoot more than 4 or so rounds through it in a row. From what I understand, it has a "light" barrel and therefore will warp if you shoot too many shots in rapid succession. That's not a problem for me because once I sight it in I'll only really use it for hunting large game or when I take it to the range before specific seasons start in order to double check the zero of the scope.
Now I'm thinking I also might get an inbetween caliber (between my .22LR and my .30.06) for Coyotes, Bobcats and any other inbetween size game/predators. That won't be for at least a year though since I may be going on a hog hunt around the end of January in Texas at a friends 900 acre property. That trip will easily cost me around $700 (gas, food and miscellaneous) if I get to go. If I don't get to go, I might do a guided hunt for a hog.
However all will depend on if my leg heals before that time. Yesterday I had to go to the doctor and have X-Rays taken on my leg because something snapped in my leg (the lower back/calf area of the leg) and it caused me to take a tumble onto the floor at work. The doctor said it was a tendon rupture of the Plantaris Muscle (basically the tendon tore away from the muscle). He said there really isn't anything they can do for it. It will get black and blue in a couple of days and will take about 6 to 10 weeks to heal. I have to wear a compression wrap/bandage on it for as long as it takes to heal. I think that the doctor is a bit optimistic on the healing time since I had someting similar happen to my left leg and it took that long just to start walking normally and then another 2 to 3 months before I could run normally again. I'm bummed because I was really hoping to get out in the next couple of weeks when Quail Season opens. Now I'll be Hop-along Cassidy as I limp around everywhere. I guess it will give the critters a better chance of evading me.
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For a caliber in between your 22lr and 06, I suggest a .223
Yep... And just like your 30/06, as long as it's a Remington. Ok, fine then! Some just might claim I'm a bit prejudice.
Posted 10 October 2012 - 06:29 PM
I also suggest a .223 as a good in between caliber gun.
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Unlicenced Hunter,
Welcome to the forum.
Thank you Tom been finding alot of useful info the Forum. I just started hunting this year and have much to learn.
ARH you getting the riffle this weekend right. Hope your leg gets better soon man.
Posted 11 October 2012 - 01:08 PM
ARH you getting the riffle this weekend right. Hope your leg gets better soon man.
Yep. I get to pick it up Sunday. I probably won't get to shoot if for at least a couple more weeks though. My schedule just won't allow me to get to a range (or field for that matter) to try it out. No worries though. I'll make sure to post here after I've shot it and I'll let you know about the fluidity of the action/bolt and how the accuracy seems to hold up.
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ARH you getting the riffle this weekend right. Hope your leg gets better soon man.
Thanks UNLICENSE_HUNTER. The leg is feeling a little better. Good enough for me to hobble around and get out scouting a little this past weekend.
Concerning the Remington 770 .30-06... I picked it up on Sunday and went to the desert with a couple of buddies that hunt also. They were kind enough to spend a little time with me since this was my first time firing a rifle of this caliber (before this the largest caliber I'd shot was a .22 rifle and a .410 shotgun (and my air rifles which seem much easier to shoot now that I've shot the .30-06)).
Anyway, for an entry level rifle with no bells or whistles it is just what I needed. At first the bolt did seem a little bit "sticky" but I put a small amount of the proper lubricant on it and it started to smooth out. It helps if you keep your point of pressure on the bolt more towards the bolt than on the end of the bolt handle. One you figure out the best way to slide the bolt it works without any hitches and is fairly smooth. I didn't have any problems cycling the bolt while shooting.
Firing the rifle is going to take me a little time and practice to get used to. I am used to the 2-Stage triggers that my air rifles have and my 770 only has a single stage trigger. It will take time to get used to that trigger. The rifle "kicks" pretty good too, though much less than I had anticipated, and it is loud. The two guys that were with me said they could feel the sound wave from the shots. I took (12) shots total Sunday with the 770, letting it rest about 10 to 15 minutes between every four shots. My first shot I didn't try to hit the target. It was mainly to get a feel for the recoil of the rifle. After that, using my shooting sticks my next couple of shots were just right of my target at 100 yards (the target was about 12" in diameter) my fourth shot hit my target at the bottom , but was centered pefectly.
My next set of (3) shots hit the target low but were still centered on the targets. Then on my fourth shot of my second set I realized I was tensing up while pulling the trigger. So I took a deep breath and relaxed. I held the rifle firmly on my shooting sticks and against the meaty part of my shoulder/chest, and eased back on the trigger after planting my crosshairs on the bullseye. BOOM! I hit the bullseye! I was pretty happy at that point. My third set of four shots I did two at 100 yards and two at 200 yards. I hit the target with my second shot at 100 yards (it hit centered but a little low) and then for my last two shots I turned to the 200 yard target. My first shot at the 200 yard target was just to the right of the 12" target, but centered well. So I adjusted for windage by putting the crosshairs on the left edge of the target and fired. I hit the target and it spun sideways.
All in all, I'd have to say I am very happy with the rifle and it seems to be very accurate (I was shooting Remington Core-Lokt 150 grain rounds). Once I get comfortable shooting the rifle I know my accuracy will become much better and more consistant to the point where I will be ready to take it into the field for hog this year and then deer come next years season (this year there aren't any tags left in my area of D16).
Posted 15 October 2012 - 08:52 AM
I will be ready to take it into the field for hog this year and then deer come next years season (this year there aren't any tags left in my area of D16).
Get a pig tag and a bobcat tag and get out there. After D16 closes there wont be many people out there. Nothing wrong with the remington core-lokt's, be glad you dont have to use Un-Leaded ammo in SD
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I'm hoping to get out this weekend with my air rifle for Quail, Cottontails and Jack Rabbits while I'm scouting for deer locations for my hunting buddy who has to go out of town this upcoming weekend.
Thanks again for the helpful information.
Posted 16 October 2012 - 02:27 PM
I'll be stopping by a couple of gun shops this weekend and check out the prices on the 770. Just abit undecided about the cal but i'll let the price on ammunition do the thinking for me.
Posted 17 October 2012 - 08:32 AM
One of the main points mentioned was that .30-06 ammo is usually available at almost any place that carries ammo, due to it's popularity. Also, the cost is typically lower than many of the other comparable calibers and it seems to go on sale quite often at places like Wally World, Big 5 and even online. It comes in three basic grain weights (150, 165 and 180) and if I'm not mistaken, can also be purchase in a lower 125 grain weight with a lower powder quantity for less recoil (I think it was a Hornady brand of ammo that I saw like that).
I had originally been looking into the .270 caliber, but noticed that the ammo was usually more expensive (not always, but most times a little bit more expensive) and allot of places I went into when looking at rifles didn't carry a wide selection of .270's but usually had a good selection of .30-06 rifles.
Anyway, as it was brought to my attention, in the end you are the one using the rifle and need to be happy with it, so purchase what feels good to you and will accommodate your needs. I wish you the best in your quest to get your hunting rifle.
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The main reason we don't have more solar power is that oil companies don't own the sun.
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study the European experience with wind and solar. Look at the costs, subsidy required, and the ultimate need for consist and stable flow of electricity. Let us truly be realistic About where And how wind and solar fit into our energy strategy. Please lay aside politics and emotion and let reason and intellect prevail..
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Love it or hate it, the Big Model (and the GNS theory that is the root of the model) has become a part of the RPG landscape. As a frequent GM, I actually find the model useful for thinking through questions of what I may be neglecting or over-emphasizing in my own games. However, there has been some discussion of how these theories apply to the mechanics of a game and it seems clear to me that the mechanics of some games released over the last five years are at least influenced by the Big Model.
That said, I've not seen any RPG that explicitly stated it was trying to establish a set of mechanics that reflected the Big Model. Have there been any RPGs that were created with a stated design goal of incorporating the dynamic described by the Big Model?