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Hotels in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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- Most bookedBest Western Plus Chocolate Lake Hotel
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"Got into the city early and they let us check in. Breakfast in the morning was awesome "
A Traveller, Jun 2016, CA
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"Fantastic singer Friday Evenings, helpful staff, Plenty of Historical things to see and do good local places to eat and drink"
A Traveller, Jun 2016, GB
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"I stayed at Welcome Inn Manor B&B for four nights. I really enjoyed the owners, Mell and Angie. Enjoyed the different styles of breakfast. Enjoyed the hospitality that Mell and Angie gave to their guests. They have done beyond what I expected. Mell drove me to the conference website every morning..."
A Traveller, May 2016, CA
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"We enjoyed our stay at the hotel. The staff was great and the room worked very well for us."
A Traveller, Jun 2016, US
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"This was my second time staying here within the last 3 months. I had fun celebrating my birthday here, down on the town. I will definitely stay again!! "
K, Jun 2016, CA
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"Enjoyable stay overall There was a graduation party at the hotel the first night, our room was at the very end of the corridor, so we did not hear too much noise The overnight parking is a bit too expensive, so we parked on the streets Nice pool area"
A Traveller, May 2016, CA
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"We wish our one night stay could have been longer. Room was comfortable, clean with real cream left in the fridge for our coffee. Upon check in the front desk was very helpful with restaurant recommendations and suggested things to see and do nearby. I casually mentioned we were in Nova Scotia to..."
A Traveller, May 2016, US
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"Thoroughly enjoyed the hotel suite. It was clean, modern and thoughtful in both design and function (e.g., rain head shower, lighted shaving mirror). Two televisions, one in the living area and one in the room, provided options for family viewing. The kitchen area was amply supplied with coffee m..."
A Traveller, Jun 2016, CA
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"Didn't have to move our rental car. Jump in the car the next morning and we're off. "
A Traveller, Jun 2016, US
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"Great hotel close to airport so we could pick up and get car rental with use of free shuttle. Good breakfast. Quick in and out nice clean beds."
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Map of Halifax hotels
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- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
- Casino Nova Scotia
- Dartmouth Crossing
- St. Mary's University
- Halifax Citadel
- Pier 21 National Historic Site
- Public Gardens Park
- Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre
- Scotiabank Centre
- Halifax Shopping Centre
- Lawrencetown Beach
- Mic Mac Mall
- Mount Saint Vincent University
- Spring Garden Road Memorial Public Library
- Peggy's Point Lighthouse
- Exhibition Park
- Shore Club Dance Hall
- Ferry Terminal Park
- Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
Best hotels in Halifax
If you are looking for Halifax hotels in a particular area, you can use the search feature at the top of the page to search by neighborhood, landmark, address or zip code, or you can search by using the built-in map feature. You can also browse hotels in Halifax by type, amenities, and star-rating so that you can find the best hotel. Currently, top rated hotels in Halifax are:
- Blue Forest Lane Bed and Breakfast
- SeaWatch Bed and Breakfast
- Larinda's Landing Oceanfront Cottages
- Star of The Sea Bed and Breakfast
- Salmon River Country Inn
The location of your Halifax hotel is important. If you are traveling to Halifax, &StateorCountry for business, you may want to consider getting a hotel close to the airport or near your meeting venue. By doing so, you can really cut down on transportation costs and time. You may also want to book a hotel that offers free wifi just in case you need to get some work done.
If you are traveling for vacation, figure out which attractions or landmarks you want to see and book a hotel that is within close proximity. Although hotels near attractions might cost a little more, you may find that spending those extra few dollars is worth the convenience. You can even find hotels that align with your interests. For example, if you are looking for a relaxing vacation, a spa hotel may be the perfect choice for you.
You'll also want to determine which type of accommodations will suit your needs before booking a hotel in Halifax. If you're traveling with the kiddos, a family friendly hotel will offer larger rooms and more sleeping arrangements. For those traveling for an extended period of time, booking a hotel suite with a kitchenette is a smart move and will feel a little more like home. If you are budget conscience and just need a place to rest your head, a hostel or motel may be all you need.
If you are looking to score the best discounts and deals, use the filter to sort by price from low to high. You can book a hotel in Halifax for as low as $24 per night. If you are looking to cut down on expenses, look for hotels that include free breakfast and parking. Some hotels even offer free shuttle service to and from nearby places. You can also sort by star rating, proximity, and guest rating.
Before you book, check out user reviews. Hotels.com has 14233 reviews in Halifax. We show reviews from Expedia and TripAdvisor so you know that you are reading genuine, reliable reviews. Be sure to download the Hotels.com app so you can book your reservations on the go, view amenities, and save the hotels you want to view and compare later.
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This summer's film schedule @ your public library has great films.
Monday, August 3, at 2:00pm Kingsman: The Secret Service (©20th Century Fox, rated R, 129 minutes)Thursday, August 6, at 6:00pm Chappie (©2015 Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., rated: R 120 minutes)Monday, August 17, at 2:00pm The Second Best Marigold Hotel (©Fox Searchlight, rated PG, 122 min.)Wednesday, August 26, at 1:30pm Home, (©Dreamworks Animation, Rated G, 94 minutes)
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KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia — Raising the stakes in Ukraine's conflict, a Russian aid convoy of more than 200 trucks pushed up to the border on Thursday but then stopped, provocatively poised to cross into rebel-held territory.
The Ukrainian government threatened to use all means available to block the convoy if the Red Cross was not allowed to inspect the cargo. Such an inspection would ease concerns that Russia could use the aid shipment as cover for a military incursion in support of the separatists, who have come under growing pressure from government troops.
Ukraine also announced it was organizing its own aid shipment to the war-wracked separatist region of Luhansk.
Complicating the dispute over the dueling missions, Ukraine said Thursday it has gained control over a key town near Luhansk city, thereby giving it the means to block the presumed route that the Russian convoy would take to the city.
The town, Novosvitlivka, lies about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border, so if the Russian trucks did enter the country, they potentially could unload somewhere other than city itself.
The Russian convoy set out Thursday morning from a military depot in the southern Russian city of Voronezh where it had been parked since late Tuesday. Moscow says the convoy has 262 vehicles, including about 200 trucks carrying aid.
The white-tarped trucks, some flying the red flag of Moscow and escorted by military vehicles, drove down a winding highway through sunflower fields and then turned west toward the rebel-held border crossing of Izvaryne.
But about 28 kilometers (17 miles) from the border, the trucks pulled off and parked in a large field where dozens of beige tents had been set up. Drivers in matching khaki shorts and shirts piled out and appeared to be stopping for the night.
The route suggested Russia has decided not abide by a tentative agreement to deliver aid to a government-controlled border checkpoint in the Kharkiv region, where it could more easily be inspected by Ukraine and the Red Cross.
Taking Novosvitlivka "disrupted the last opportunity for movement between Luhansk and other territories controlled by Russian mercenaries," Ukrainian security council spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters.
Lysenko also said that if the Russians refused to let the Red Cross inspect its cargo "the movement of the convoy will be blocked with all the forces available."
Ukraine suspects the convoy could be a pretext for a Russian military invasion or further support for the pro-Russian rebels it has been fighting since April.
After a clumsy and ineffectual start, Ukraine's forces have taken back much of the territory once held by rebels.
As the circle around the separatists tightens, two of their top figures have resigned in the past week. On Thursday, the rebel Donetsk People's Republic said its defense minister Igor Girkin had resigned.
Both Girkin and former rebel prime minister Alexander Borodai, who was replaced last week, are Russians and both were replaced by Ukrainians. Those moves could indicate an attempt by the separatists to distance themselves from allegations by Kiev and the West that Russia supports or directs the insurgency, charges that Russia denies.
The Russian convoy had been parked at a military depot in the southern Russian city of Voronezh amid disagreement over how and where the aid could be delivered to eastern Ukraine.
Moscow has insisted it coordinated the dispatch of the goods — which it says range from baby food and canned meat to portable generators and sleeping bags — with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
ICRC spokeswoman Anastasia Isyuk said talks were continuing but she could not confirm where the Russian convoy was headed.
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Home> FY2017 Budget > Task Force
In anticipation of a significant budget deficit in FY 2017 (2016-17 school year), potentially more than $100 million, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is taking proactive steps to examine the options available to the school system during the next budget year. FCPS is establishing a Budget Task Force, comprised of community and employee stakeholders, to advise Superintendent Karen K. Garza in developing the FY 2017 budget.
The Budget Task Force will be comprised of representatives identified by each School Board member; the Chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors; FCPS teacher, principal, and employee organizations; and community, business, and parent organizations.
The Task Force will be charged with identifying potential programs and services to reduce, eliminate, or redesign, beginning with the 2016-17 school year. As they make their recommendations, members of the Task Force will take into consideration the annual cuts the system has already made since 2008 that total nearly half a billion dollars, including the elimination of more than 2,100 positions while experiencing an enrollment growth of more than 22,000 students.
Budget Task Force Recommendations (pdf)
Help inform the FCPS Budget Task Force's work by sharing your ideas for cost savings, increased fees, or other revenues for FY 2017 (school year 2016-17).
Two community meetings were held in early September. Information was presented about the budget process as well as a demonstration of the Budget Proposal Tool.
The proposals submitted via the Budget Proposal Tool will be shared with the Budget Task Force for their review prior to making a recommendation to the Superintendent in October. The information will also be shared with the Superintendent and School Board.
Superintendent Garza Discusses the Budget Task Force
Share your ideas for cost savings, increased fees, or other revenues for FY 2017
Nancy Moy
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1. Jurassic World (2015)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A new theme park is built on the original site of Jurassic Park. Everything is going well until the park's newest attraction--a genetically modified giant stealth killing machine--escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.
Writers: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly, Michael Crichton | Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Judy Greer
Votes: 415,320 | Gross: $652.18M
2. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified advertisement seeking a companion for time travel.
Writer: Derek Connolly | Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni
Votes: 100,983 | Gross: $4.01M
3. Home Base (2002)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A bitter ex-boyfriend exacts sweet revenge by actively pursuing a sexual relationship with his former girlfriend's mother.
Writer: Colin Trevorrow | Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Kristoffer Polaha, Bridget Nelson, Dolores Moloney
Votes: 409
4. HBO First Look (1992– )
13 min | Documentary
Behind-the-scenes look at upcoming feature films, featuring interview commentary with their casts and crews.
Stars: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Will Smith, Matt Damon
Votes: 290
5. Made in Hollywood (2005– )
60 min | Talk-Show
"MADE IN HOLLYWOOD", is an inventive behind-the-screen entertainment news, headline; magazine-styled series, featuring exclusive celebrity interviews with Hollywood's premiere talent. There... See full summary »
Creator: Cleveland O'Neal III | Stars: Kylie Erica Mar, Julie L. Harkness, Patrick Stinson, Rahsan-Rahsan Lindsay
Votes: 174
6. Janela Indiscreta (2010– )
30 min | News
A portuguese show where Mario Augusto presents the new films of the week and interviews actors, actresses and directors.
Stars: Mário Augusto, Paulo Branco, Nicolau Breyner, Afonso Pimentel
Votes: 135
7. Making Revolution (2003)
88 min | Comedy
In August of 2001, a group of disillusioned college students calls a world summit to counter apathy of their privileged generation and unite a splintered activist front. Lured by the ... See full summary »
Writers: Daniel Klein, Brandon Krueger, Colin Trevorrow | Director: Daniel Klein | Stars: Mahershala Ali, Alexander Bilu, Drew Cortese, Jeremy Dubin
Votes: 28
8. Reality Show (2004)
55 min | Documentary
In an effort to achieve instant celebrity an eccentric millionaire bankrolls his own reality show and brings 10 girls to Mexico to find "America's craziest party girl" but the millionaires ... See full summary »
Writers: Daniel Klein, Colin Trevorrow | Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Dan Sherbondy, Greg Garcia, Joe Gnoffo, Justin Lee
Votes: 27
9. Gary: Under Crisis (2005 TV Movie)
22 min | Comedy
A young cartoonist's life is covered by a 24-hour news network in his own mind.
Writers: Derek Connolly, Daniel Klein, Colin Trevorrow | Directors: Daniel Klein, Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Joshua Funk, Amy Grabow, Dorian Brown Pham, Amy Procacci
Votes: 26
10. The 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards (2013 TV Special)
Writers: Erik Weiner, Wayne Federman, Andy Samberg, Michael Patrick O'Brien, John Solomon | Director: Chris Donovan | Stars: Andy Samberg, Kerry Washington, Rama Burshtein, Derek Connolly
Votes: 23
11. Untitled Jurassic World Sequel (2018)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced
Plot unknown.
Writers: Derek Connolly, Michael Crichton, Colin Trevorrow | Director: J.A. Bayona | Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt
12. The Book of Henry (2016)
PG-13 | Drama | Completed
A drama about a single mother raising a child genius.
Writer: Gregg Hurwitz | Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Naomi Watts, Lee Pace, Jacob Tremblay, Sarah Silverman
13. Star Wars: Episode IX (2019)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
Plot is unknown.
Writers: Derek Connolly, Rian Johnson, George Lucas, Colin Trevorrow | Director: Colin Trevorrow
14. Intelligent Life (2017)
Comedy, Sci-Fi | Pre-production
An employee at a department of the United Nation that monitors Outer Space inadvertently makes contact with a beautiful woman, who may be an alien.
Writers: Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow | Star: Lupita Nyong'o
15. World War X
Action | Announced
The government recruits a man to prevent a terrorist from the future who is using time travel in order to reshape history.
Writer: Colin Trevorrow
16. Powerhouse
Action, Family | Announced
Plot unknown. Described as a family action film.
Writers: Emily Carmichael, Colin Trevorrow | Director: Emily Carmichael
17. Flight of the Navigator
Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | Announced
A child returns after disappearing for over a decade - and the world has aged without him.
Writers: Derek Connolly, Brad Copeland, Colin Trevorrow
18. Welcome to 'Jurassic World' (2015 Video)
30 min | Documentary
A broad and detailed piece in which the cast and crew look back on core story ideas, the film's themes, photography, costumes and design, casting and performances, sets and shooting ... See full summary »
Stars: Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton, Colin Trevorrow, Frank Marshall
19. Tester
Action, Thriller | Announced
A young war vet who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder opts to participate in top-secret clinical experiment designed to cure PTSD. With a chip now implanted in his brain, he ... See full summary »
Writer: Colin Trevorrow
20. Jurassic World: All-Access Pass (2015 Video)
10 min | Short
Chris Pratt and Colin Trevorrow take a look at several key points in the movie, including the gyrosphere, motorcycle riding, the video game inspirations behind one sequence, and the crafting a few of the key sequences.
Stars: Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow
21. Jurassic World: Dinosaurs Roam Once Again (2015 Video)
16 min | Documentary, Short
A detailed look at crafting the visual effects, the importance of the actors in selling the illusion, the specifics that are required beyond the computer screen, new technologies utilized ... See full summary »
Stars: Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow, Dennis Muren, Chris F. Moore
22. Stealing Time
Drama | Announced
Writers: Colin Trevorrow, Timothy Dowling, Jeff Phillips
23. Cocked and Loaded
Action | Announced
Writers: Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow
24. Jurassic World: Innovation Center Tour with Chris Pratt (2015 Video)
2 min | Short
A short tour of set highlights that reveal some of the fun details that viewers might not catch on a first watch.
Stars: Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow, Ed Verreaux
25. Your Host for Jurassic World... Jimmy Fallon! (2015 Video)
3 min | Short
The making of the Jimmy Fallon instructional video on using the Gyrosphere.
Stars: Jimmy Fallon, Colin Trevorrow
26. Jurassic World: The Experts (2015 Video)
5 min | Short
Scientists and experts discusses the science behind and explore throughout the Jurassic Park films.
Stars: Derek Connolly, Anthony Feliciano, Jack Horner, Frank Marshall
27. Jurassic World: Classic Jurassic (2015 Video)
7 min | Short
Jurassic World cast and crew discusses Jurassic Park
Stars: Derek Connolly, Vincent D'Onofrio, Frank Marshall, Chris Pratt
28. Jurassic World: Jurassic Props (2015 Video)
9 min | Short
Jurassic World prop masters discusses Jurassic Park props.
Stars: Derek Connolly, Guillaume DeLouche, Jeffrey Lombardi, Josh Roth
29. Chris & Colin Take on the World (2015 Video)
9 min | Short
Stars: Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow
30. Jurassic World: Chris & Colin Take on the World (2015 Video)
9 min | Short
Actor Chris Pratt and Director Colin Trevorrow ask one another various questions, including about memories from the first film, Pratt's precognition about starring in the movie, creating ... See full summary »
Stars: Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow
Janela Indiscreta (2010– )
Episode #1.276
Writers: Mário Augusto, Ana Churro, Marta Curado, Miguel Monteiro | Stars: Mário Augusto, Paul Feig, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney
Made in Hollywood (2005– )
Episode #10.34
Director: Cleveland O'Neal III | Stars: Blake Anderson, Elizabeth Banks, Quincy Brown, Kiersey Clemons
HBO First Look (1992– )
Jurassic World
Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Jake Johnson, Chris Pratt, Steven Spielberg


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What is the Illinois State Health Improvement Plan?
As mandated by statute, the state of Illinois regularly produces a State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) that outlines priorities and strategies for health status and public health system improvement, with a focus on prevention. The SHIP also addresses reducing racial, ethnic, geographic, age and socioeconomic health disparities. The plan is produced by a team of public, private and voluntary sector stakeholders appointed by the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health. The current version of the SHIP is from 2010. In 2011, the Illinois governor appointed members to the SHIP Implementation Coordination Council (ICC), which released its preliminary action plan in January 2013. The ICC's plan, Aligning Illinois for Health Improvement and Equity, outlines a strategic approach to achieving the goals outlined in the SHIP through policy alignment, outreach, monitoring, and state agency coordination. In 2015 a new SHIP Planning Team was appointed to produce a new SHIP in 2016. The draft of the SHIP is available and open for public comment now. Visit dph.illinois.gov to learn about public hearings.
O.K., but what does that really mean?
In essence, the SHIP exists to meet two broad objectives:
- To highlight specific targets for improvements within the healthcare and public health systems.
- To highlight the importance of health factors as a consideration outside of healthcare and public health settings, such as in the activities of other state agencies, in schools, in the workplace, in public spaces, and virtually everywhere else.
SHIP implementation offers resources to help existing community stakeholders work better on their own and with each other. At the same time, SHIP implementation also brings new stakeholders to the table to grow and strengthen these efforts.
Whether you represent a health-related organization, a non-health related organization, a government agency, or just yourself and your family, you are a stakeholder. The state of Illinois makes the information and resources on this site available to you to help you get more involved in building a healthier Illinois.
talk about SHIP at your organization?
Complete a Speaker Request Form.
Visit our page about SHIP and State Government
Find tools, training, and more to help make your communities and organizations healthier on the Resources page.
Discover how projects related to the SHIP are making a difference across Illinois on the Impact page.
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The PPTA will formulate prefeasibility proposals for all physical and non-physical investments in 9 towns. For Batch 1 towns, it will also (a) screen all viable technical options, (b) complete basic engineering designs for selected infrastructure subprojects, and (c) incorporate climate-proofing and water sensitive urban development elements.
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(i) Governance assessment of the EA and proposed IAs covering financial management, anticorruption, policy and legal, capacity and other institutional issues and mechanisms.
(ii) Poverty reduction and social Impacts assessment, including identification of gender benefits and developing a Gender Action Plan (GAP) for the project.
(iii) Safeguards assessment and development of frameworks and plans for environmental, involuntary resettlement and indigenous people (if applicable).
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Why do you need logarithms? In what situations do you use them?
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Logarithms are defined as the solutions to exponential equations and so are practically useful in any situation where one needs to solve such equations (such as finding how long it will take for a population to double or for a bank balance to reach a given value with compound interest).
Historically, they were also useful because of the fact that the logarithm of a product is the sum of the logarithms and sums are easier to calculate by hand (or to estimate by overlapping rulers as in a slide rule). In addition to providing a computational "trick", this property is the basis of the mapping property described in Christian Blatter's answer and generalizes to the concept of self-adjoint generators of unitary groups, which has many mathematical applications and relates physical observables to symmetry properties in quantum mechanics.
You can "undo" addition by performing subtraction. You can "undo" multiplication by performing division.
When it comes to exponents, $x^y \not= y^x$, so you need two different "undo" functions.
Suppose that you know the value of $v$, and you know that this value was calculated by $v = x^n$.
So that's what the logarithm function does. Why is that useful? Well, for the same reason that being able to undo an addition or a multiplication is useful. It lets you work backwards through a calculation. It lets you undo exponential effects.
Beyond just being an inverse operation, logarithms have a few specific properties that are quite useful in their own right:
I'm sure there are lots of other examples.
See this.
In the geometric view of real numbers there are two basic forms of "movements", namely (a) shifts: each point $x\in{\mathbb R}$ is shifted a given amount $a$ to the right and (b) scalings: all distances between points are enlarged by the same factor $b>0$. In some instances (e.g. sizes of adults) the first notion is appropriate for comparison of different sizes, in other instances (e.g. distances between various celestial objects) the second notion. The logarithm provides a natural means to transform one view into the other: The sum of two shifts corresponds to the composition of two scalings.
Logarithms are primarily used for two thing:
i) Representation of large numbers. For example pH(the number of hydrogen atoms present) is too large (up to 10 digits). To allow easier representation of these numbers, logarithms are used.
For example let's say the pH of the substance is $10000000000$. This can written as $10^{10}$.
Or let the pH of another substance be $1000000$. This can be written as $10^6$. Note the base is always the same, but the exponent is unique. Therefore the log of the substance can be used to identify the substance. For example the first substance can be represented as $log$ $10000000000$ or $10$ and the second substance can be represented as $log$ $1000000$ or $6$. Note $6$ and $10$ are much easier to deal with.
But what if you're not a chemist? How would you use logs?
ii) Algebra.
Let's say you have the equation $316 = 10^x$. How would you solve for $x$? You could find the log of $316$ which is approximately $2.5$. The equation would then be $10^{2.5} = 10^x$. Therefore $x$ is $2.5$. Logs are therefore extremely useful when solving for exponents.
Note that although I have restricted my examples to log base 10 for simplicity, logs can exist in other bases. For example $\log_2 32$ (log to the base 2 of 32) is $5$ since $2^5= 32$. Other important log bases include the the natural log, which is commonly used in advanced mathematics.
What other appliances do logs have? Logs have a variety of real life applications such as calculating half lives and exponential growth/decay. In fact the inverse of an exponential function is a logarithmic function!


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After nearly 1,400 ballots were cast, YOU the reader ranked your favorite comic book characters of all-time from 1-10. I assigned point totals to each ranking and then tabulated it all into a Top 50 list. We're now revealing that list throughout September. Here is the master list of all the characters revealed so far. The countdown continues…
4. Joker – 2667 points (18 first place votes)
Created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson, the Joker made his debut in the very first issue of Batman, and soon became a mainstay Batman villain, being one of the few Bat-villains to continue fighting Batman from the Golden Age through to the Silver Age.
It was actually in the Silver Age, when Julie Schwartz took over, that Joker basically vanished from the Bat-titles, only to be brought back by Denny O'Neil a number of years later. In the 50s and early 60s, the Joker had lessened from a murderer to basically being an annoyance, but O'Neil brought him back as an insane sociopath, the characterization that has, for the most part, persisted to this day.
In the 1980s, Joker achieved his two greatest blows to Batman, when he both murdered Batman's partner, Robin (Jason Todd) and crippled the daugher of Commissioner Gordon, Barbara (who was, unbeknown to the Joker, the hero Batgirl). He then later murdered Commissioner Gordon's wife, as well!
The Joker continues to make routine appearances, showing up to fight Batman from time to time. He maintains his position as the most prominent Batman villain there is. In the first Batman story in the new DC reboot, Detective Comics #1, Joker is featured prominently and goes to some drastic measures by the end of the issue. Time will tell how much of Joker's history has remained the same in the reboot.
figured when the joker showed up on the list he would be in the top five.
The Joker is definitely DC's most iconic villain, and definitely deserves a place in the Top 5.
And yet, I left him off of my list. Definitely an oversight on my part. He's one of about a dozen characters that I'm kicking myself for forgetting when putting my lists together.
(And I definitely used "definitely" a little too much in that last post. Definitely.)
So, does Dick Grayson pull the upset over Superman? Wally West almost did last time.
Wow. Dick Grayson over Joker? Good job, Dicky!
I think you may want to correct your comment about Julius Schwartz. The Joker was a regular of the "New Look" Batman, with several iconographic cover appearances. For example, Detective issues 332, 341, 365, 388, Batman 186. It is true he wasn't used as often as in the Jack Schiff, but even back then he only showed up around once a year or so.
Joker was on my list. Easily my favorite bad guy in comics. That said, I do think he has been way too overexposed in the last decade or so, though. It seems like every new writer on Batman wants to make sure they get to play with all the cool toys, so they throw in pretty much every iconic villain Batman has ever faced. It's definitely diluted the appeal of the character, in my opinion. I think they need to have at least a 1 year moratorium on the Joker showing up in any stories.
Joker used to be my favourite DC villain, but the above-mentioned overexposure combined with the fact that he's committing more and more horrible murders with every appearance just makes him not much fun to read about anymore and also makes Batman's "if I kill you I'm just like you" mantra ring more and more hollow and sappy and plain stupid nowadays…
Still enjoy him in the odd Elseworlds-type appearance and loved him on Batman: The Animated Series where he was still dangerous and funny and formidable but without leaving the huge misery in his wake that seems mandatory in the comics.
Brian, I'm sooo glad you mentioned Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson as co-creators. Well done.
Joker would have been on my shortlist.
It looks like my votes for Herr Starr, Ambush Bug, Alfred Pennyworth, Jim Gordon, Two Face and Mr Zsasz came to nothing then
@ Rebis: was Bob Kane even involved in the creation of the Joker? I know that for legal reasons his name has to be mentioned, but did he really have anything to do with it?
@The Crazed Spruce: you forgot to put the Joker on the list? I wouldn't answer any knocks on your door in the near future.
Didn't expect Joker to make the list – I don't know why, guess I was just thinking of heroes.
For me Lex is the best DC villian (did he make the top 50?)
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Me and my uncle
Me and my uncle went ridin' down,
South Colorado, West Texas bound.
We stopped over in Santa Fe,
That bein' the point just about half way,
And you know it was the hottest part of the day.
I took the horses up to the stall,
Went to the barroom, ordered drinks for all.
Three days in the saddle, you know my body hurt,
It bein' summer, I took off my shirt,
And I tried to wash off some of that dusty dirt.
West Texas cowboys, they's all around,
With liquor and money, they're loaded down.
So soon after payday, know it seemed a shame;
You know my uncle, he starts a friendly game,
High-low jack and the winner take the hand.
My uncle starts winnin'; cowboys got sore.
One of them called him, and then two more,
Accused him of cheatin'; Oh no, it couldn't be.
I know my uncle, he's as honest as me,
And I'm as honest as a Denver man can be.
One of them cowboys, he starts to draw,
And I shot him down, Lord he never saw.
Shot me another, oh damn he won't grow old.
In the confusion, my uncle grabbed the gold,
And we high-tailed it down to Mexico.
I love those cowboys, I love their gold,
I loved my uncle, God rest his soul,
Taught me good, Lord, Taught me all I know
Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold
And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road.
This is the song the Grateful Dead played more than any other, cover or original, all the way from 1966 to 1995.
"Me and My Uncle", often also written "Me & My Uncle", is a song composed by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and popularized by the Grateful Dead and Judy Collins.


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Today, I was taking a nap. Apparently, my two year old daughter decided to crawl on top of the covers on my bed because she was scared since there was a thunder storm. I thought she was one of our cats so I kicked her off. She hit the wall. FML
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Today, I decided to give blood for the second time. I felt excrutiating pain when she stuck the needle in my arm. Another nurse came running over in a panic. Apparently my inexperienced nurse had put it in my tendon instead of my vein. FML
by Anonymous / 05/28/2009 at 12:19am / United States (Oregon) / Health
Today, I wanted revenge on the rabbit who ate my garden's plants. When he returned, he was standing next to my brand new above-ground swimming pool. I pull out my 22. rifle and shot at it, but the bullet missed and popped a hole in my pool. 15,000 gallons of water flooded my basement. FML
by Jerrrr / 05/26/2009 at 8:22pm / United States (New York) / Miscellaneous
Today, my football club gave us all jerseys with our last names on them. My last name is 'Flicker'. The letters are all in uppercase. And the 'L' and the 'I' are joined together at the bottom. My jersey reads 'FUCKER'. FML
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Today, my friend had to take my cat who has a tumor to be put down when I wasn't home since I couldn't bear to take him myself. I have two cats. He took the wrong one. FML
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Today, after leaving a bar I fell asleep on the Q train heading home. I awoke at 5am in Coney Island, end of the line, to a cop poking me with his baton. He gave me a ticket for "Subway Vagrancy" even though I have a job and an apartment. He didn't ticket the homeless man next to me covered in piss. FML
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Today, I ordered take out, and paid with a credit card. The cute cashier gave me the receipt to sign, and under 'tip' I gave a couple of dollars. I realized that I had given too much, crossed it out, and changed it. Unaware she was watching, She then responded, "Did you just lower the tip by $1?" FML
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Today, I met my girlfriend's very religious parents for dinner. Somehow we got to talking about her groin hernias that were repaired as a baby. I never knew she had hernias repaired and said, "But she doesn't have any scars down there." There was a long awkward silence. FML
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Tuesday Jul 07, 2015
Friday Mar 16, 2012
Great Solaris 10 features paving the way to Solaris 11
By Larry Wake -Oracle on Mar 16, 2012
Karoly Vegh writes on the Oracle Systems Blog Austria about what you can do with Solaris 10 today that will get you ready for Solaris 11.
Even today, many people still use Solaris 10 as if it were a patch update to Solaris 8 or 9, missing out on the power behind Live Upgrade, Zones, resource management, and ZFS. Learning more about these will help set your feet on the road to the even more sophisticated capabilities of Oracle Solaris 11.
Friday Aug 19, 2011
Replacing the system HDD by a larger one on Solaris 11 X86
By Christophe Pauliat-Oracle on Aug 19, 2011
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2010
Upgrading ZFS
By Brian Leonard on Nov 30, 2010
Upgrading to the latest release of Solaris doesn't automatically upgrade your existing ZFS pools and datasets. So if you're trying to take advantage of cool new features like dedup and crypto on those datasets, you'll have to update ZFS first.
Upgrading Your ZFS Pools
Beware - upgrading your root ZFS pool will essentially invalidate your prior boot environments as you will no longer be able to boot into them.
The version property will tell where you're currently at:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ zpool get version rpool NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool version 14 local
And the -v (lower case) option will tell you what's available:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ zpool upgrade -v This system is currently running ZFS pool version 31. The following versions are supported: VER DESCRIPTION --- -------------------------------------------------------- 1 Initial ZFS version 2 Ditto blocks (replicated metadata) 3 Hot spares and double parity RAID-Z 4 zpool history 5 Compression using the gzip algorithm 6 bootfs pool property 7 Separate intent log devices 8 Delegated administration 9 refquota and refreservation properties 10 Cache devices 11 Improved scrub performance 12 Snapshot properties 13 snapused property 14 passthrough-x aclinherit 15 user/group space accounting 16 stmf property support 17 Triple-parity RAID-Z 18 Snapshot user holds 19 Log device removal 20 Compression using zle (zero-length encoding) 21 Deduplication 22 Received properties 23 Slim ZIL 24 System attributes 25 Improved scrub stats 26 Improved snapshot deletion performance 27 Improved snapshot creation performance 28 Multiple vdev replacements 29 RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator 30 Encryption 31 Improved 'zfs list' performance For more information on a particular version, including supported releases, see the ZFS Administration Guide.
You can move to any version you'd like using the -V (upper case) option, however, I'm just going to move the the latest and greatest:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ pfexec zpool upgrade rpool This system is currently running ZFS pool version 31. Successfully upgraded 'rpool' from version 14 to version 31
Just to verify the upgrade:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ zpool get version rpool NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool version 31 default
Upgrading Your ZFS Datasets
The process is very similar. First, if you're interested in the version you're current at:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ zfs get version rpool NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool version 3 -
Then to see what's available:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ zfs upgrade -v The following filesystem versions are supported: VER DESCRIPTION --- -------------------------------------------------------- 1 Initial ZFS filesystem version 2 Enhanced directory entries 3 Case insensitive and File system unique identifier (FUID) 4 userquota, groupquota properties 5 System attributes For more information on a particular version, including supported releases, see the ZFS Administration Guide.
I'm going to upgrade all the file systems at once. However, there is the option to upgrade just a particular file system, for example:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ pfexec zfs upgrade rpool/export/home 1 filesystems upgraded
Or a file system and its descendants:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ pfexec zfs upgrade -r rpool/export 1 filesystems upgraded 1 filesystems already at this version
But to simply upgrade all:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ pfexec zfs upgrade -a 25 filesystems upgraded 2 filesystems already at this version
This process may take several minutes to complete, depending of the number file systems that need to be upgraded.
Wednesday Nov 03, 2010
By Brian Leonard on Nov 03, 2010
I was about to write a new blog on Solaris' Fault Management Architecture when I realized my friend Bob Netherton has beaten to it by almost 3 years.
We like to tout the benefits of FMA a lot, but it's often hard to demonstrate because you don't want to go around destroying CPUs and memory modules just to see FMA in action. However, by creating a ZFS pool with files as disks, it's quite easy to demonstrate and that's exactly what Bob does in his blog ZFS and FMA - Two great tastes ......
Note, there's also an FMA Demo Kit that you can use to simulate faults to other hardware components, but I haven't played with that myself yet. Other resources I found helpful:
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Understanding the Space Used by ZFS
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ZFS Compression - A Win-Win
By Brian Leonard on Apr 28, 2009
This may sound counterintuitive, but turning on ZFS compression not only saves space, but also improves performance. This is because the time it takes to compress and decompress the data is quicker than then time it takes to read and write the uncompressed data to disk (at least on newer laptops with multi-core chips).
To turn on compression simply run:
pfexec zfs set compression=on rpool
All the child datasets of rpool will inherit this setting. For example:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ zfs get compression rpool/export/home NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool/export/home compression on inherited from rpool/export
Note, only new data written after turning on compression is effected. Your existing data is left in its uncompressed state.
To check the compression you're achieving on a dataset, use the compressratio property:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ zfs get compressratio rpool/export/home NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool/export/home compressratio 1.00x
I'm seeing 1.00x because I just enabled compression. Over time, as I write new data, this number will increase.
An Example
This part is optional but will give you a better feeling for how compression works.
Start by creating a new (therefore, empty) file system, ensuring compression is off (otherwise it will inherit the setting from rpool):
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ pfexec zfs create -o compression=off rpool/test bleonard@opensolaris:~$ cd /rpool/test
Copy a file into the test file system, turn on compression, and copy it again:
bleonard@opensolaris:/rpool/test$ pfexec cp /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix unix1 bleonard@opensolaris:/rpool/test$ pfexec zfs set compression=on rpool/test bleonard@opensolaris:/rpool/test$ pfexec cp /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix unix2
Check the compression ratio:
bleonard@opensolaris:/rpool/test$ pfexec zfs get compressratio rpool/test NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool/test compressratio 1.28x -
Check the difference in file size:
bleonard@opensolaris:/rpool/test$ du -hs u\* 1.7M unix1 936K unix2
Also note the difference between using du and ls:
bleonard@opensolaris:/rpool/test$ ls -lh total 2.6M -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6M 2009-04-28 13:32 unix1\* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6M 2009-04-28 13:33 unix2\*
ls does not show the compressed file size! See ZFS Compression, whcn du and ls appear to disagree for a great explanation of this.
Finally, delete unix1, which was not compressed, and notice how the compression ratio for the file system rises accordingly:
bleonard@opensolaris:/rpool/test$ pfexec rm unix1 bleonard@opensolaris:/rpool/test$ pfexec zfs get compressratio rpool/test NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool/test compressratio 1.77x -
Finally, clean up:
bleonard@opensolaris:/rpool/test$ cd bleonard@opensolaris:~$ pfexec zfs destroy rpool/test
Saturday Apr 11, 2009
Another OpenSolaris presentation from Community One
By Roman Strobl on Apr 11, 2009
Nick Solter and Dave Miner (authors of OpenSolaris Bible) presented a session called Becoming an OpenSolaris Power User, which covers topics such as ZFS, DTrace and networking at Community One. Source: Nick Solter's blog.
Tuesday Mar 03, 2009
OpenSolaris 2008.11 Training in Brno
By Roman Strobl on Mar 03, 2009
Tuesday Feb 03, 2009
Allowing ZFS Snapshots
By Brian Leonard on Feb 03, 2009
pfexec zfs rollback rpool/vbox@clean
Fortunately, it is possible to delegate the permission to run ZFS commands to my user account using zfs allow. For example:
pfexec zfs allow bleonard snapshot,rollback,mount rpool/vbox
Note, the ability to 'mount' is required in order to create and rollback snapshots. See the zfs man page for details.
To see the permissions assigned to a file system:
bleonard@opensolaris:~$ zfs allow rpool/vbox ------------------------------------------------------------- Local+Descendent permissions on (rpool/vbox) user bleonard mount,rollback,snapshot -------------------------------------------------------------
Now rollbacks are a bit easier:
zfs rollback rpool/vbox@clean
You can delegate any of the zfs commands, including allow. For more details see Delegating ZFS Permissions.
Thursday Jan 08, 2009
A Hands on Introduction to ZFS Pools
By Brian Leonard on Jan 08, 2009
If you have a USB hub and some spare USB sticks, Stefan Schneider, has an excellent 3 part tutorial on working with ZFS pools:
- Part 1: Getting Started (Pool Creation, Export, Import)
- Part 2: Mirrors, Disk Failure and Spare Disks
- Part 3: RAIDZ2
Tuesday Nov 04, 2008
Screencast: ZFS Basics
By Roman Strobl on Nov 04, 2008
I started to record various screencasts for OpenSolaris to evangelize different features of Solaris/OpenSolaris and make it easier for people to discover how to use these features. The first demo I created shows the basics of using ZFS. The screencast requires Flash player and contains audio as well. Enjoy!
Thursday Oct 23, 2008
VirtualBox Rollback
By Brian Leonard on Oct 23, 2008
As a software developer, I use VirtualBox to test how my applications look, feel and behave across different operating systems and/or browser combinations.
However, how do you keep the virtual machine clean? Over time it will become as friendly to your application as your host operating system. VirtualBox does have a Snapshot feature. However, if you have multiple machines, it could be tedious to roll them back individually. A better option in this case is to use a ZFS snapshot. By putting VirtualBox in its own ZFS file system, you can take a snapshot whenever you like, and then roll back to your clean slate once testing is complete. Here's how I set it up:[Read More]
Tuesday Jul 15, 2008
Increasing Storage Capacity
By Brian Leonard on Jul 15, 2008
One of the ways I run OpenSolaris is under VirtualBox. The virtual disk image I initially created was only 8 GB and yesterday I found myself out of space. Running out of disk space is a situation we've all found ourselves in before - regardless if whether we're running virtualized or not. Initially I just thought I could add another disk to the pool, but it turns out that it is not possible to boot OpenSolaris from a striped disk (see: OpenSolaris will not boot after adding to the ZFS pool). So my options are to upgrade the entire disk or to move one or more of my file systems onto a new disk. For this entry I'm going to cover the latter, by moving /export off of the boot disk.
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Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown and Natalie Cole will be among the top artists performing at a Sept. 26 Michael Jackson tribute concert in Vienna, organizers said Tuesday.
Jackson's brother Jermaine told reporters that up to 25 performers are expected to perform outside a 17th-century palace in the Austrian capital. More names will be unveiled later this week in London and Berlin, he said.
Photos: Chris Brown
Photos: Mary J. Blige
Sister Sledge, Akon, Angela Bassett, and the Germany-based boy band US5 are also among the 13 artists confirmed so far, Jackson and event promoter Georg Kindel said. Jackson's original band and dancers will also perform.
All the artists will play some of Jackson's greatest hits at the concert, including "Thriller," "Billie Jean" and "Black or White."
Organizers are billing the event as the main global tribute to Jackson, who died June 25 in Los Angeles. Jackson's family and children will be in Vienna, and 65,000 fans are expected to attend, Kindel said.
Photos: Jackson's Children
Organizers say the tribute will be held on a large crown-shaped stage to be built in front of Vienna's former imperial Schoenbrunn Palace, one of the Austrian capital's top tourist attractions.
Jermaine Jackson has said Vienna was chosen as the venue because his brother "loved castles," and because Jermaine was impressed with how a smaller tribute held in July outside a mothballed nuclear power plant was organized.
Negotiations are ongoing to select a broadcaster to show the event live to an estimated 1 billion fans worldwide, Jackson said.
Tickets went on sale last month.
Blige, Brown To Perform At MJ Tribute
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Not too long after the divorce papers were signed between Katy Perry and Russell Brand, a leaked Katy Perry demo has surfaced called "Bullet". It was actually a song she co-wrote with and for country singer, Jessie James and it was featured on James' last album, "Wanted". I loved the album and "Bullet" is actually one of my favorite songs on it. "I'm a bullet and headed straight for your heart," sings Perry in the chorus. Sidenote: I also had the chance to interview Jessie James when the album was released. I hope she comes out with a new album this year!
Perhaps the twangy song was leaked on purpose as a message to Russell Brand? The first verse goes as follows: "My mama warned me about boys like you. It's the reason I wear these high heel boots, yeah. And let me give you a little piece of advice, my papa packs heat and he won't think twice, yeah". It's an empowering country/pop song and I highly recommend you listen to it!


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It's hard not to see Tempting Faith DiNapoli as a response to Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women. Both books recount the youth and adolescence of girls growing up in southwestern Ontario: their familial troubles, cultural awakenings, and tentative encounters with sex. While Munro's Del Jordan is a sprightly, liberated, intellectual postwar teenager, though, Gabriele's Faith DiNapoli is morose and troubled. Faith is the third of four children in a struggling working-class family, and she lives a sad, disjointed sort of life. The DiNapolis are uneasy about nearly everything--their marriage, their children, their Catholicism, their bank statements. Faith embraces all of her parents' worries and embellishes them with troubles of her own: a shoplifting habit, a fondness for booze and soft drugs, a painfully low sense of herself, a series of crises of faith, and, worst of all, a morbid redneck sexuality in which intercourse is synonymous with date rape.
Gabriele's account of Faith's childhood is the strongest part of Tempting Faith DiNapoli--she has a keen eye for the kind of cultural detritus that can perfectly encapsulate a character. Once she moves into Faith's teenage years, however, the novel loses much of its momentum. That may be inevitable, since Faith leads a chaotic, aimless, almost shapeless life, and Gabriele's only fault lies in following this form too closely, leaving readers longing for the directed teenage rage of a book like Mary-Lou Zeitoun's 13. Tempting Faith DiNapoli is a promising debut, but Gabriele hasn't quite mastered the trick of keeping her readers enthralled by a life that even her protagonist isn't too crazy about. --Jack Illingworth
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Faith DiNapoli is the well-meaning eldest daughter of a dysfunctional Italian family living in 1970s Canada. With an absent father, three rambunctious siblings, and a mother who's trying to make the best of the life she's got instead of focusing on the life she wanted, young Faith takes it upon herself to assume religious responsibility and tries to be "good enough" to make up for the flaws of her whole family. She struggles between the person she is and the perfect one she wants to be, and it ultimately takes a test of faith for her to find self-acceptance and her place in the world. Gabriele, a Canadian Lifesize TV executive producer whose work has been published in the Washington Post and Nerve magazine, has written a poignant, memoir-style debut novel that is emotionally intense and ultimately satisfying. Recommended for public libraries. Amy Brozio-Andrews, Albany P.L., NY
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We had a rough start to our week. It definitely was a Monday! On days like these, I have to remind myself to be happy. It takes effort, but I find that there are small things to enjoy, even on hectic days. Recently, Oprah did a show on happiness and I can't think of a better way to start the week than focusing on happiness.
Do you consider yourself a happy person? According to the Gallup study, 57% of Americans are happy, 40% are trying to be happy and 3% are suffering. Which group do you belong to?
Do you think happiness is genetic? According to University of California, Berkeley, 50% of happiness is determined by genetics and 40% of happiness can be learned.
Do you make time in your day for complete silence? According to Harvard University, spending just 10 minutes a day, sitting and breathing, can increase happiness. I can attest to this. Especially if you are home with your children all day. Silence is calming and introspective. It can work wonders in your life. Try it.
How often do you have sex? The more sex you have, the happier you will be (Princeton University). It's a biological hormone thing, but Oprah joked that this study was created by a man. :) I have to agree. LOL.
Does having children make you happier? Dan Buettner, who is a happiness researcher and author, says having children does not necessarily make you happier. He says it adds stress to your life and it's actually harder on women than men. I agree and disagree with his opinion. I have been the most happy and the most frustrated since becoming a parent, but the extreme highs easily outweighs the lows.
How well do you know your neighbors? The more neighbors you know, the safer and happier you feel and having happy neighbors increases your happiness by 34% (Harvard University & University of California, San Diego). I've always known that the people I'm around influence my outlook on life. I try to surround myself with happy people and couples in happy, healthy relationships. It makes a huge difference.
How do you increase your happiness?
Find a job close to where you live. You need to make an additional $40,000 per year to make up for an hour commute. And, when you are looking for a job, focus on what gives you bliss, not what gives you bucks.
Join a club. Joining a club that requires you to show up once a month can have the same effect as doubling your income. I'm going to start attending the Dallas Quilting Guild with my dear friend Alli. Alli, call me next time they meet! :)
Remember…it's the basics that bring you happiness. Did I marry the right person? Do I volunteer in a way that I feel like I'm giving back? Do I like where I live? Do I have meaningful connections with people?
{Here are a few of the people who bring happiness to my life, my family.}
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Tories lose control of Oxfordshire County Council
- 3 May 2013
- From the section Oxford
The Conservatives have failed to retain control of Oxfordshire County Council in the local elections.
The party was one seat short of a majority on the authority after gains by Labour, Liberal Democrats and independents.
With all results in, the Tories remain the largest party with 31 seats. They previously held 52.
Labour won 15 seats and the Liberal Democrats 11. Independents won four and the Greens held their two seats.
UKIP failed to win in any Oxfordshire wards.
Labour took three seats in Banbury, with a candidate from its sister group Labour and Co-operative taking the fourth seat in the town. The Conservatives previously held all four.
In Prime Minister David Cameron's constituency, the new Witney South and Central ward was won by the Labour and Co-operative candidate.
The Tories who won both the former Witney East and West wards in 2009, won the new Witney West and Bampton, and Witney North and East wards.
Conservative leader Ian Hudspeth said he was "disappointed" and would look at the options for a coalition administration.
"I expect there will be a lot of phone calls over the course of the weekend,
"People wanted a protest vote and we've seen the result nationally. We have to live with that and make sure we put the Conservative manifesto across," he said.
'Ruled the roost'
Liberal Democrat Zoe Patrick said: "For too long the Conservatives have ruled the roost, meaning that many people haven't had a voice. Others will now have a chance to hold them to account."
Liz Brighouse, Labour group leader, said: "It's a really good result for us, we've taken seats across the county.
"We welcome the fact UKIP haven't won any seats as they are a party of protest."
Boundary changes mean the number of county councillors is being cut from 74 to 63. Turnout was 31.87%.
In a local referendum also held on Thursday, residents of Thame voted to adopt the town council's plan for future development.
Turnout was just under 40% with 2,779 voting in favour and 855 against.


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Understanding how the mating system varies with population size in plant populations is critical for understanding their genetic and demographic fates. We examined how the mating system, characterized by outcrossing rate, biparental inbreeding rate, and inbreeding coefficient, and genetic diversity varied with population size in natural populations of the biennial Sabatia angularis. We found a significant, positive relationship between outcrossing and population size. Selfing was as high as 40% in one small population but was only 7% in the largest population. Despite this pattern, observed heterozygosity did not vary with population size, and we suggest that selection against inbred individuals maintains observed heterozygosity in small populations. Consistent with this hypothesis, we found a trend of lower inbreeding coefficients in the maternal than progeny generation in all of the populations, and half of the populations exhibited significant excesses of adult heterozygosity. Moreover, genetic diversity was not related to population size and was similar across all populations examined. Our results suggest that the consequences of increased selfing for population fitness in S. angularis, a species that experiences significant inbreeding depression, will depend on the relative magnitude and consistency of inbreeding depression and the demographic cost of selection for outcrossed progeny in small populations.
KeywordsGenetic diversity Inbreeding coefficient Heterozygosity Mating system Outcrossing rate Population size
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- Increased inbreeding but not homozygosity in small populations of Sabatia angularis (Gentianaceae)
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Plant Systematics and Evolution
Volume 284, Issue 3-4 , pp 131-140
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- 2010-02
- 10.1007/s00606-009-0245-x
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- Shu-Mei Chang (1)
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- 1. Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, 2502 Miller Plant Sciences, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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I'm sure they have i just don"t know about it yet
Please don't do that.

Don't act all tough and get your friends to solve your problems. Maybe your just a bad basketball pla<x>yer?

And even if she did indeed "betray" you by not selecting you for something as unimportant as a basketball team, what about taking the high road and be the better person?

You retaliate, they retaliate, you retaliate even worse and they retaliate even worse. Don't be a waste of space and air. Be a better person.
Your right. Every year 15 million children die of hunger. One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. And to top it off, every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger.
But yeah, your middle school basketball situation is the important one.
Rise above it, my friend. It gets so much worse later.
Isn't "living life in the present" just an excuse for not caring?
Not lately. Did you ask your friend why you weren't included? Are you any good at the game?
I understand, but try to give her a chance sometime to tell the reason. There's a chance she had a decent reason and wasn't doing it just to be mean to you.
Get it straight from her. It's better, because you never know what gets lost in secondhand information.
Maybe I'm not really sure but she's not there when I need her and that disturbs me x
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This same article was posted earlier and caused a debate that forced me to move the thread to Politics:http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,9925.0.htmlI'll do it again in a heartbeat if the same debate re-occurs.
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According to court documents, Switzer and Abel - along with former Oklahoma wrestler Mozaffar Jahanguiri - were investors in The Lighthouse Restaurant on Lake Hefner's East Wharf, which failed to become profitable enough for the group and was eventually closed.
The lawsuit claims that Abel and Jahanguiri were promised their money back "on numerous occasions" over the years, but Switzer never paid up.
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AUSTIN - Someone has stolen numerous significant pieces of Texas' past.
What happened inside an innocuous-looking building at the University of Texas' Balcones Research Center last summer was not terrorism, but to Texas archaeologists and Caddo Indians in Oklahoma the effect has been almost the same.
Sometime prior to the morning of July 28, someone stole a collection of prehistoric Caddoan pottery from the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory's North Austin facility.
Still missing are 24 perfect or near-perfect vessels, most of them vintage Caddoan artifacts. (A few were modern reproductions.)
"This is a profound loss to archaeology, to art and to the Caddo," said Mark Parsons, East Texas regional archaeologist for the Texas Historical Commission.
The University of Texas, Austin police, the state and the FBI are investigating the burglary, but so far no arrests have been made and the ancient artifacts still are missing.
"While the motive behind this was not to terrorize, it is an emotional issue with the Caddos still living in Oklahoma," Parsons said. "It is a sad state of affairs, one of the largest cases of artifact theft that I know of."
The Indians are upset, Parsons said, because Caddo pottery generally is associated with a Caddoan burial. To them, the theft is an affront to their ancestors.
To the thieves, of course, it is only a matter of money.
Parsons said he fears the pottery has made its way to the underground Indian artifact black market.
"Pot hunters have been robbing Caddo cemeteries for years," he said. "I've heard stories of them tunneling under roads and even houses to get to graves. It's a tremendous problem in East Texas."
The missing pots were kept in a wired bin on the second floor of the TARL facility. The theft was discovered when someone found that one of the locks on the bin had been severed with bolt cutters.
"Someone got the outside door open without leaving any signs and then went upstairs and cut the locks on the bins," Parsons said. "They even brought replacement locks for some of the bins."
University archaeologists collected some of the stolen vessels in the 1930s, Parsons said.
The pots are invaluable to archaeologists because they are used to identify other vessels.
"They are used for study and comparison," he said. "They are really invaluable, because they are the basis of classification."
To the thieves, however, the pots have a definite monetary value. They are sold to collectors for big prices, he said.
Parsons said one hope for recovery is that the thieves will try to peddle their stolen goods to a conscientious dealer willing to report their effort to police.
"You can help by keeping your eyes and ears open," Parsons said in an e-mail to Texas' archaeology community. "If you happen to know collectors who buy artifacts, especially Caddo pottery, please notify them of the theft."
Take your kid hunting
Whitetail deer season starts Nov. 3, but Texas children can get a head start Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.
This will be the state's second annual youth-only hunting season. Kids younger than 16 hunting with a supervising adult can take deer, quail and Rio Grande turkey. A special $6 resident hunting license is required for a child to take part in the hunt.
Mike Cox can be contacted in care of the Texas Press Association, 718 W. Fifth St., Austin, Texas 78701. His column appears on Mondays.
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