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* In our May 19 story headlined "Cross to bear: Heated debate over Mall access," we called Councilor Kevin Lynch Kevin Cox. Sorry, Kevins!
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Toys, not magic; too young; wrong U; EC prescriptions; land-holding; Blackacre's name Published on Apr 7th, 2005 0 comments
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Lawyer's last name, Schiavo's first name, photog's progress, story byline, tunnel's cost Published on Mar 31st, 2005 0 comments
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* Bryan Smith's first name was misspelled in last week's news story, "Acquitted: It's Schaub, not Schwab."
Lappa's pic, Fenton's pic, Senior's size Published on Feb 24th, 2005 0 comments
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We will examine how a DBA can take advantage of the Database Admin System to solve a real life problem. The problem we are going to exploreis to how to remove users who have been idle for more than a specified length of time, onlyduring work hours. Prior to the database admin system a DBA would utilize several different operating system tools,such as, shell scripting and cron. In addition, if this is pre-packaged system these new scripts and cron entries will have to be integrated intoan installed script. Lastly this needs tobe portable across all supported platforms.
If you are to utilize the database Admin system youonly have to add a few lines to your schema file andyou are done. Since this is only SQL you will havethe advantage of being portable across different flavors of UNIX and Windows.
The components we are going to utilize are:
- Database Scheduler
- Alert System
- User Configurable Thresholds
- SQL Admin API
We are going to break the above problem into three separate parts.
- Creating a tunable threshold for the idle time out
- Develop a stored procedure to terminate the idle users
- Schedule this procedure to run at regular intervals
Lastly we are going to view screen shots of the completed work in the OpenAdmin Tool for IDS. This will graphically depict all the tasks in the system and allow users to drill down and see the scheduling details and parameters of a specific task.
Creating a Idle Timeout Threshold
To create a threshold which can be easily changed we insert a rowinto the ph_threshold table in the sysadmin database. Thistable stores all the threshold or configuration values used by thescheduler. When creating a threshold we must supply the followinginformation:Column | Description |
name | The Parameter name |
task_name | The name of the task in the ph_task table associated with this threshold |
value | The value associated with the parameter |
value_type | The data type of this paramater, (STRING or NUMERIC) |
description | A description of what this threshold does. |
/* * Insert a new parameter that can be updated to * reflect the current idle timeout period * saving the work of having to re-write the * stored procedure if conditions change. * Allow the OpenAdmin tool to display * this as a configurable item for the task. */INSERT INTO ph_threshold(name,task_name,value,value_type,description)VALUES("IDLE TIMEOUT", "Idle Timeout","60","NUMERIC","Maximum amount of time in minutes for non-informix users to be idle.");
Developing a stored procedure to terminate idle users
When creating a stored procedure to be called by the schedulerit can optionally take in two parameters which lets the procedureknow when it was invoked and what is this procedure'sunique task id. This is often useful when passing information on to other parts of the Database Admin System, such as, the Alert System.
CREATE FUNCTION idle_timeout( task_id INT, task_seq INT)
Next we need to retrieve the thresholds from the ph_threshold table. This isdone using a simple select and casting the result into our desired data type (an integer).
SELECT value::integer INTO time_allowed FROM ph_threshold WHERE name = "IDLE TIMEOUT"The main part of our stored procedure is the select statement to findall users who have been idle for more than a specified number of minutes. We select from the systcblst table the last time a thread hasexecuted on a virtual processor. If this time is longer than our predetermined idle threshold and this thread is an sqlexec thread (i.e. not a system thread) then we pass the session id (sid) tothe SQL Admin API call admin(). The admin function has beensetup to call onmode -z to terminate a session.
SELECT admin("onmode","z",A.sid), A.username, A.sid, hostname INTO rc, sys_username, sys_sid, sys_hostname FROM sysmaster:sysrstcb A , sysmaster:systcblst B, sysmaster:sysscblst C WHERE A.tid = B.tid AND C.sid = A.sid AND lower(name) in ("sqlexec") AND CURRENT - DBINFO("utc_to_datetime",last_run_time) > time_allowed UNITS MINUTE AND lower(A.username) NOT IN( "informix", "root")
The last piece of the stored procedure checks the return code of the admin() procedure to see if the session was successfully terminated. If the session was terminated successfully then an alert is inserted, logging the termination of an idle user.The optional arguments to the stored procedures which are used to uniquely identify the task and the task sequence are required by the alert system. This allows the alert system to know who generated this alert and when this alert was generated.Several other items are required by the alert system, such as the alert_type (ERROR, WARNING, INFO) or the alert_color (ERROR, WARNING, INFO) and a message indicating what has happened.
INSERT INTO ph_alert ( ID, alert_task_id,alert_task_seq, alert_type, alert_color, alert_state, alert_object_type, alert_object_name, alert_message, alert_action ) VALUES ( 0,task_id, task_seq, "INFO", "GREEN", "ADDRESSED", "USER","TIMEOUT", "User "||TRIM(sys_username)||"@"||TRIM(sys_hostname)|| " sid("||sys_sid||")"|| " terminated due to idle timeout.", NULL );
Once an alert is created, theOpenAdmin Tool for IDSwill display it under the Health Center menu option, Show Alerts. If you do not see this alert at first, make sure that you have the ADDRESSED checkbox checked.
Complete Stored Procedure
Below you will find the complete code for the idle_timeout stored procedure./* ************************************************************** * Create a function which will find all users that have * been idle for the specified time. Call the SQL admin API to * terminate those users. Create an alert so we can track which * users have been terminated. ************************************************************** */CREATE FUNCTION idle_timeout( task_id INT, task_seq INT)RETURNING INTEGER
DEFINE time_allowed INTEGER;DEFINE sys_hostname CHAR(16);DEFINE sys_username CHAR(257);DEFINE sys_sid INTEGER;DEFINE rc INTEGER;
{*** Get the maximum amount of time to be idle ***} SELECT value::integer INTO time_allowed FROM ph_threshold WHERE name = "IDLE TIMEOUT";
{*** Find all users who are idle longer than the threshold ***} FOREACH SELECT admin("onmode","z",A.sid), A.username, A.sid, hostname INTO rc, sys_username, sys_sid, sys_hostname FROM sysmaster:sysrstcb A , sysmaster:systcblst B, sysmaster:sysscblst C WHERE A.tid = B.tid AND C.sid = A.sid AND lower(name) in ("sqlexec") AND CURRENT - DBINFO("utc_to_datetime",last_run_time) > time_allowed UNITS MINUTE AND lower(A.username) NOT IN( "informix", "root")
{*** If we sucessfully terminated a user log ***} {*** the information into the alert table ***} IF rc > 0 THEN INSERT INTO ph_alert ( ID, alert_task_id,alert_task_seq, alert_type, alert_color, alert_state, alert_object_type, alert_object_name, alert_message, alert_action ) VALUES ( 0,task_id, task_seq, "INFO", "GREEN", "ADDRESSED", "USER","TIMEOUT", "User "||TRIM(sys_username)||"@"||TRIM(sys_hostname)|| " sid("||sys_sid||")"|| " terminated due to idle timeout.", NULL ); END IF
Scheduling a Procedure to Run at Regular Intervals
The last piece is to schedule the idle_timeout stored procedure above to runat regular intervals. This is accomplished by inserting a rowinto the ph_task table in the sysadmin database. While thereare many scheduling options we are going to keep it simple.In this example, the idle_timeout procedure is set to run every day between the hours of 6AM and 6PM at 10 minute intervals. While most of the insert statement below looks straightforward, the one key point tohighlight is the tk_execute column is receiving the name of the storedprocedure to run.Column | Description |
tk_name | The name of the task, must be a unique name |
tk_type | The type of task (TASK, SENSOR, STARTUP TASK, STARTUP SENSOR) |
tk_group | The name of the group to associate the task with, for organization purposes, see the tk_group table for more details |
tk_description | A comment to describe what this task is doing |
tk_execute | A function name or SQL statement to execute |
tk_start_time | Time of day to start executing this task |
tk_stop_time | Time of day to stop executing this task |
tk_frequency | How often to execute this task |
/* ************************************************************** * Create a task which will schedule the idle_timeout SPL * to be run between 6 AM and 6 PM. ************************************************************** */INSERT INTO ph_task(tk_name,tk_type,tk_group,tk_description,tk_execute,tk_start_time,tk_stop_time,tk_frequency)VALUES("Idle Timeout","TASK","USER","Remove all idle users from the system.","idle_timeout",DATETIME(06:00:00) HOUR TO SECOND,DATETIME(18:00:00) HOUR TO SECOND,INTERVAL ( 10 ) MINUTE TO MINUTE);
Viewing the Task in OpenAdmin Tool for IDS
Once we have built these three components we can view how the OpenAdmin Tool for IDS will display the tasks. If we look at the current overview of the task, the task we added, Idle Timeout is displayed in the overview.If you drill down into the details of the Idle Timeout task you willsee a complete list of scheduling details along with any associated parameters. In this example we have one parameter called IDLE TIMEOUT .
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From "Square Pegs" to "Sex and the City" to a line of shoes for Nordstrom, Sarah Jessica Parker has been a part of fashion for decades. On the occasion of SJP's 49th birthday, we look back at some of her funky and classic styles.
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henkwijnholds needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 234 designs submitted by 58 freelance designers.
1. CA-ICT is a foundation (Stichting in Dutch) that helps ICT companies in The Netherlands to collect governmental (European Union) subventions for educating their employees. Collecting these subventions is usually a lot of paperwork, especially for companies who are not used to do this.
2. All the money that comes in (fee) is invested in promising ICT projects in order to support entrepreneurship and employment in the ICT sector of The Netherlands.
The complete text inside the logo would ideally be 'Stichting CA-ICT' of which the CA-ICT part is most important so perhaps you'd keep Stichting small or at least less emphasized.
Feel free to let go of the '-' between CA and ICT as long as it is clear that it are two separate words (perhaps use different colors or other solutions).
We'd really like to keep this logo simple and robust. Therefore we'd like you to use as few designy details as possible (abstract marks are okay, unless they really add something that matches the design criteria). Feel free to play around with all kinds of fonts so we get a broad vision of the possibilities.


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Congressional efforts to derail microradio stations for churches and other nonprofit groups threaten an innovative effort to put such groups on the air in their neighborhoods.
With strong backing from the UCC Office of Communication, in January the Federal Communications Commission set up a process allowing educational, religious, health and community groups to operate low power non-commercial FM radio stations. The purpose was to give "voice to the voiceless," according to Commission chairperson William E. Kennard.
In anticipation of such community radio, OC received a two-year $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to equip community-based groups wishing to bid on a license. It then hired Andrea Cano Vargas, a former Common Global Ministries Board (Disciples/UCC) missionary with years of communications experience, to run the program.
Low power radio is now endangered because of bipartisan legislation introduced into both houses of Congress to kill it on the grounds that signal interference would hurt established broadcasters.
The broadcasters blanketed Capitol Hill with compact discs that purport to show what kind of interference there would be. But the disc was a simulation and FCC engineers call it fraudulent lab.
In protest, the Rev. Robert Chase, executive director of the Office of Communication, released a statement supporting the FCC.
"Microradio is being portrayed by some as a misguided endeavor," he says, that will "choke the airwaves with a cacophony of babble. This is unfair and inaccurate."
"Significant technical studies demonstrate otherwise," he adds, "as conservative safeguards for current station operators have been built into the FCC guidelines."
The Commission, which sets engineering standards, denies there will be any interference. But the National Association of Broadcasters has rallied its member stations to seek relief from Congress.
Commissioner Kennard says the real reason for the attack is fear that new stations will take listeners away from existing broadcasters. But microradio's power is limited, just enough to send a signal 10 blocks in the city and 3.5 miles in the country.
As of this writing (March 28), the legislation has not been reported out of committee, but is attached as a rider to an appropriations bill, making it harder for President Clinton to veto it. Both the president and Vice-President Al Gore support microradio.
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text: Jalopnik, GenCoupe Forum Help Enthusiast Beat The Man, Buy A HyundaiMatt Hardigree1/20/10 9:00pmFiled to: ExclusiveHyundai GenesiseBay MotorsGenesis CoupeGenesisGenCoupeGlenn HyundaiBuyer BewareTop1631EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink After attempting to deny an eBay bidder his Hyundai Genesis Coupe and then threatening to sue him for complaining, pressure from Jalopnik, forum members and others encouraged the Hyundai dealership to rectify the situation. UPDATE: We've got an update on the ongoing discussions. Things aren't going well. Whether or not the dealership — Glenn Hyundai in Lexington, Kentucky — actually meant to place the car for a "Buy It Now" only auction or not is probably moot for now. They have agreed to work out a deal with the buyer that he will hopefully find amenable. For his part, the eBay bidder hopes this is the case and has expressed his gratitude, saying: Advertisement Advertisement "Thanks so much for all the help that you've all given me. I'd like to give a special thanks to [Jalopnik and forum members]."Like him, we hope this will all be resolved and the dealership follows through on their promise.Reply163 repliesLeave a reply


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Last year France's success in subduing the fly-half played a big part in their 20-15 victory in Paris which denied England the Grand Slam.
But Laporte said: "We know Jonny is a dangerous player but there is no special plan against him. We must concentrate on him because we know he's very dangerous but there is no anti-Wilkinson plan.
"We know we have to be careful when he has the ball and get in quickly because he can put us under pressure but there are other players we also need to watch."
Laporte also welcomed the new international rugby board directive to referees instructing them to hand out yellow cards and sin bin for 10 minutes players who do not roll away and allow the ball to be played quickly after tackles.
France will work on it with Joel Dume, the French Rugby Federation national director of referees, who is part of their backroom team as refereeing consultant.
"We have a top international referee working with us and this is a good decision," said Laporte.
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Durable Good Orders Surge
Durable goods orders rose 1.1% in April, more than the 0.4% expected by the market. A 12% jump in auto manufacturer orders offset a 37.1% drop in aircraft orders. In addition, the March data was revised higher to a 0.2% gain from a decline of 0.6% originally.
Excluding transportation, durable orders rose 2.9%. Defense orders plunged 33.3% after rising 117% in the previous two months. Nondefense capital goods orders, the key indicator for future investment, rose 1.9%, but shipments fell 0.1%.
Durable shipments rose 3.5% (1.5% excluding transportation), confirming strong second-quarter growth. Inventories fell for the 15th consecutive month, down 0.3%.
The data suggest that the manufacturing sector recovery is becoming established, even outside of defense, and should suggest to the Federal Reserve that interest rate hikes are becoming safe. Nevertheless, S&P expects the Fed to wait until September to move.


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Audeo Phonak PFE112 Revision II Earphones
" From my point of view these are excellent, both in terms of sound and isolation, plus they look extremely elegant. I am not a 'golden ear' and can't really say much about the harmonics and sound spectrum as I'm really a complete noob here. However even for me I think I'd like a bit more punchy and powerful bass. Nevertheless the sound is basically music to the ears. I..." --iXpertMan
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The mechanical properties of metals which is Hardness is the resistance to deformation, penetration, abrasion, cutting or distortion.
The hardness of metals can be measured using standard tests where a ball is pressed against the material and the size of the dent is the measurement. The different tests are:
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Anyone who has visited White Sands can't help marveling at the sparse, still beauty of the place. On Maquiladora's album named after that area of New Mexico it seems that, at some level, they have sought to render the sensorial impact and the psychic resonance of the geography of White Sands within a purely aural medium. With a view to capturing the feel of that landscape's timeless expanse they opt, logically enough, for spare and stark musical textures.
But such a precise geographical grounding in the Southwest tells only part of the story of White Sands. The loose, wandering textures of Maquiladora's songs are also littered with idiosyncratic ingredients that suggest an attempt to provide a musical translation of a broader affective landscape—a pastiche geography of America(na) that stretches from the Southwest to the Appalachians, and beyond. In terms of its execution and its effect, much of White Sands suggests the kind of aesthetic central to art naif. Traditional song form, as well as polished performance and production, is for the most part abandoned or resisted here. In place of these, Maquiladora display a preference for loose-knit, unmelodic—at times dissonant—structures, fashioned with unorthodox, sometimes "found" instrumentation (e.g. golf ball, frying pan, and saw) and subjected to minimal technological finessing.
Ironically, however, the better tracks on White Sands are those that are the least experimental, tracks that rely on more traditional elements such as harmony, fluidity, linear progression and coherence. Two of the standouts in this regard are "So Far Away" and "Mr. Grey." The ebbs and flows of the downbeat "So Far Away," with its vaguely menacing, whispered vocals, are broken up momentarily by controlled guitar intensity, while the similarly understated "Mr. Grey" drifts along adorned with haunting flute and perfectly integrated female backing vocals.
The beautifully rendered, sorrowful ambience of "Bueno Mis Amigos" is the most compelling interlude on White Sands. Crucial to the success of this extended track is the interplay of three simple elements that come together to near sublime effect: the grounded melancholy of the lead vocal melody, the ethereal, Eastern flavored female vocal flourishes and the subtle insistence of the tabla.
Nevertheless, White Sands is a considerably difficult album for the listener to find his/her way into and it takes a while to recognize such exceptional cuts. This is due mainly to the fact that, rather than draw you in, the more complex, almost abstruse material simply throws up obstacles in the way of the listening experience.
Structural fragmentation, stasis as opposed to development, odd vocal stylings, deliberately out-of-whack performance, off-key melodies and dragging off-the-beat rhythms all feature prominently in what other reviewers have lauded as Maquiladora's "deconstruction" (presumably meant in the popular sense of the word) and "reconstruction" of musical formulae.
While Maquiladora are certainly adept in their utilization of a variety of strategies to break down the conventional song format, they don't then do anything interesting with the components that they've prised apart and dismantled. Rather, the song's remains are simply left rusting like auto parts and assorted junk in some high-desert front-yard of their imagined America.
Consequently, much of Maquiladora's material is utterly lacking in pleasure. I'm not referring here to a simple model of enjoyment but, rather, to pleasure as the involvement and participation of the viewer or listener with a text. Historically, within the broad realm of pop and rock, numerous bands have crafted difficult and challenging music that has nonetheless engaged listeners. Maquiladora is not one of those bands.
From the very first track, Maquiladora seem bent on driving the listener away as "Prostitute Song" limps along in 3/4 time, its warped fairground feel made all the more nightmarish by a nails-on-the-chalkboard falsetto. If this parody of Neil Young doesn't do the job, then subsequent tracks like "Julian," "Little Miss RC," and "Itchy" surely will. The purposeful undermining of conventional musicality seems to be their only end and these tracks collapse in on themselves under the self-important weight of their meandering, scattered structures.
The listener's patience is stretched to the limit on the interminable (and it's only 4 minutes long) "Termez 1936." This track finds Maquiladora's sound at its most heady and experimental, hopelessly mired in mumbling and noodling.
The element that really brings the proceedings down on the side of empty pretense, however, is the highly mannered, husky and cracking Tom Waits imitation that runs throughout several of the tracks, most notably "Julian." While Waits's musical vision has sufficient strength and depth to support such a vocal performance, Maquiladora's, unfortunately, does not. Moreover, while Waits's music communicates the notion that he is, perhaps, a genuinely eccentric individual, much of White Sands smacks of a band trying just a little too hard to be weird.
This is a hugely uneven CD. There are moments of unquestionable beauty and of near genius on White Sands, but they're all but lost amid a general tendency toward studied eccentricity, contrived idiosyncrasy and crypto-artistic incoherence. Listening to the more problematic tracks on White Sands, one gets the sense that, while Maquiladora have a wealth of ideas, they're not entirely sure of how to render them in this medium. The kind of cerebral experimentation that makes up much of this album might be well-suited to the context of a film score but the band hasn't fully realized how to translate it to song format.
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"Philip Glass, the artistic director of the Tibet House benefits, celebrated his 80th birthday at this year's annual benefit with performances from Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Brittany Howard, Sufjan Stevens and more.
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'Arbre de Vie' box clutch
Black Swarovski studded box clutch from Sylvia Toledano featuring a gold-tone chain link shoulder strap, a multicoloured 'tree' motif at the front and rear, a crystal studded clasp fastening and a black lining with an embossed logo plaque. The clutch comes with a crystal encrusted ball point pen with a gold-tone hanging logo fob.
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LAUREL, Md. (WJZ) — The Maryland Jockey Club (MJC) and Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association (MTHA) reached an agreement in principal Saturday to apply and race 146 days at Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course in 2012.
"I am glad we got this resolved," said Richard Hoffberger, MTHA president. "This means running the same amount of live days as this year which was important to the horsemen to maintain a year-round program."
The groups will continue to meet on a regular basis to develop a long-term plan for thoroughbred racing in the state with a goal of a proposal in place by July 1, 2012.
"The Maryland Jockey Club is pleased that the parties have come together for the betterment of the industry," said MJC president Tom Chuckas. "And our management team looks forward to working with the other industry participants in creating a long-term plan for sustainability in Maryland."
The agreement reached needs to be ratified by the MTHA board. The parties will then take the agreement to the Maryland Racing Commission on Tuesday for final approval.
"What we are looking for is a sustainable business model for the future," said Maryland Racing Commissioner John McDaniel, who along with commissioner Bruce Quade has been part of the process. "The Maryland Racing Commission will actively spearhead the process and we are looking forward to working with the parties with frequent meetings. We are also working with the Governor's office, and his emissary Joe Bryce, to make sure we are conforming to the intent from the legislature for the long-term plan of the racing industry."
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Seriously, isn't the point of watching a movie being that you WATCH it? I mean, I barely watch TV, I watch everything online with the highest possible resolution. I would never imagine watching anything with a fog filter intentionally.
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It depends.. sometimes the fog filter creates an artistic or emotional effect that ultra-sharpness simply can't. Sometimes black and white *is* the best way (Kansas in Wizard of Oz).
Personally, I get annoyed at the "we're having a huge battle but we're going to stand too close so its all just confusing and defocus the camera slightly". LOTR did this occasionally so it wasn't so bad but some movies used it all the time to the point I think it just substituted for good stunt work.
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I just don't understand. The complaint is that TV technology has surpassed movies, and that's why mentally some people associate inferior frame rate as movies and higher frame rates as tv shows. But as someone who stares at a monitor for fun, I don't see the argument. What's the point of the HD Blu Ray and the crazy prices we pay for them, if we intentionally nerf the video quality? This is purely psychological. Guess I get easily excited when something that seemed illegal pop up at me. Sorry for the outburst.
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TV movies and TV dramas are made at a higher frame rate than movies because filming equipment stagnated. Some people psychologically then associate superior video quality to TV shows, and thus decided that higher video quality is a sign of an inferior product. People are insane.
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The best of both worlds is 70mm of course, but due to cost and the sparsity of theatres that can show it 70mm is almost never used these days. "The Master" was shot in 70, and supposedly looks unbelievably great.
2012-09-24, 13:25 | Link #192 |
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Of course it is,old habbits die hard The limitation has pretty much defined the medium until now,it's similar to how if an anime came out with full 24fps animation (instead of something like 12) then you'd have people saying it doesn't look like anime.
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I just knoowww this is what you were actually thinking. In other news I was quite delighted to see that someone I assume to be Radagast the Brown will be showing up in the Hobbit trilogy. Good call imo....
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Actually, I have yet to see any novel being incapable of fitting multiple films. Most film adaptations of books are condensed and stripped to bare bones.
For example, TLotR Trilogy really could be 4 films, or even five, if you put all the existing extended scenes into account. Nevermind the fact that the final battle in Hobbiton was never actually filmed. I guess my point is there had never been a movie adaptation of a book that was too long.
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If I don't miss my guess, we will have:
Film One: Shire to Mirkwood Forest Film Two: Dale to the Lonely Mountain Film Three: Battle of the Five Armies, back to the Shire and some of what happened to lead up to the Lord of the Rings. They are adapting more than just one novel. They are also adapting materials of the surrounding events of that novel that are only mentioned in passing. Details of what Gandalf was doing for most of the novel are from other sources, and would be very entertaining to watch. In the Hobbit, Gandalf mostly just evades questions about what he was doing, or sums them up quickly. Radagast the Brown for example was from the Fellowship of the Ring, but only there to give Gandalf a message. There is more stuff on him, but it is from other source than the Hobbit. The whole story about what the White Council did during the events of the Hobbit and the Necromancer, were barely covered in the Hobbit, but have major importance to the setup for Lord of the Rings.
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Kevin Kuster is a veteran photographer — he has been taking photos for over 20 years and spent 18 years with Playboy magazine, leaving as its Senior Photo Editor. When he was first exposed to the concept of mobile photography, he wasn't convinced.
"At first, I didn't get it," Kuster told Connect. "I thought it was silly. I was a professional snob – I looked down on it."
After watching a few instructional videos, Kuster decided to buy an iPhone 4S and has been hooked on shooting with his smartphone ever since. The longtime career photographer says that his iPhone has reinvigorated his passion for photography.
Kuster, who lives in Chicago, was recently approached by the charity Watts of Love to help with an interesting photography project that seemed a perfect opportunity to make use of his newfound love of mobile photography.
Watts of Love raises money to send solar-powered lighting to remote locations around the world. By providing people with safe and sustainable lighting, Watts of Love hopes to reduce the number of deaths caused by dangerous kerosene lamps and boost local economies by enabling children to advance in their studies through being able to do schoolwork at night.
Kuster explained his interest in Watts of Love: "Photographers are all about using light and these people don't have light."
Watts of Love's first mission is to the island of Ilin in the Philippines. On top of lacking a reliable, sustainable source of light for the majority of its inhabitants, the remote island has not had a pastor or priest visit the island in quite some time. As a result, there are at least 50 couples that are waiting to tie the knot.
Watts of Love's partner, Missionaries of Mother Mary of the Poor, asked a pastor to come to the region to preach and perform the ceremonies.
When Kuster discovered that his visit coincided with an upcoming visit from the pastor, he couldn't turn down the idea of shooting the event. But instead of just photographing the service for Watts of Love, Kuster wanted to give the couples something to hold on to.
"Most of these people have never owned a photo of themselves," Kuster said. "This will be an amazing wedding gift."
Kuster will be taking portraits with his iPhone, printing the photos from a Canon Pixma mobile printer and placing them in acrylic frames.
When asked why he will be using his iPhone instead of one of his DSLRs, Kuster explained that a large DSLR camera can build a barrier between the subject and photographer.
"(Subjects) let more personality come out in front of an iPhone," Kuster said. "Instead of staring into a DSLR lens, they can look at my face. I feel like it's more personal."
At recent photo shoot of Civil War reinactors, Kuster primarily used his DSLR but also took some shots with his iPhone just for kicks. At a photo conference, he showed an audience the DSLR/iPhone photos side by side and they overwhelmingly preferred the iPhone images.
"It's never about the quality/grain structure," Kuster explained. "Technical was out of the way, it was about the aesthetic."
Kuster leaves on Februrary 8th and will try to update his Instagram (@kevinkuster) throughout the trip. Those interested in donating to Watts of Love can do so here: $10 buys a solar-powered light for a person in the dark.
We will be talking to Kevin Kuster again after he returns from the Philippines and can't wait to hear about his 50-wedding iPhone photo shoot.


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Funeral Services were held Saturday, Jan. 13, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Burial was at the Bruneau Cemetery in Bruneau. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home.
Tony was born on Nov. 1, 1928, in Bruneau, one of nine children born to Matt and Lottie Ramsey.
Tony grew up on a ranch in Bruneau. He bought his first cattle truck as a teenager and started a life-long career hauling for the local ranchers.
Tony spent two years in the Army, then returned to Mountain Home.
Tony married Arlene Eichholz on June 12, 1971, in Elko, Nev., and immediately became a father to LeeAnne, Shirley, Joe and Toni. In 1972, his daughter, Jimmie Lee, was born.
"Tony was a wonderful father and husband, but his world became even brighter when his two grandchildren, Mattie and Jace, were born and then he became 'Poppy'," his family said.
Tony is survived by: his wife, Arlene; his daughter, Jimmie, and her husband, Aron Bennett, of Mountain Home; his daughter Leanne Kearby, of Mountain Home; his daughter, Toni, and her husband, Randy Sevy, of Boise; his daughter, Shirley, and her husband, Keith Prickett, of Nampa; his son, Joe, and his wife, Sandy Carrico, of Indiana; five sisters; 12 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and one sister.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made in Tony's honor to one of the following: The Bruneau Cemetery, P.O. Box 152, Bruneau, ID 83604; The Bruneau American Legion, c/o Bill McBride, 29776 Davis Rd., Bruneau, ID 83604, or The Bruneau Booster Club, c/o Judy McBride, 29776 Davis Rd., Bruneau, ID 83604.


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You parents with young children: There's no reason to get bent out of shape about the college-affordability crisis. Nor is there any rationale for President Barack Obama to butt in. The free market already is addressing the problem of soaring tuition costs, primarily via the Internet. Just as the 'Net profoundly changed the business dynamics of the newspaper industry, the retail industry, and countless other industries, it is rapidly altering higher education, bending the cost curve downward. Obama wants the government to create a cost-benefit analysis of colleges and universities, which would take years of bureaucratic head-scratching, if it ever happens at all.
The average new college grad holds $26,500 in student-loan debt versus about $15,000 in 2004. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, this is the only form of consumer obligation that has grown since consumer debt peaked in 2008. "Balances of student loans," it says, "have eclipsed both auto loans and credit cards, making student-loan debt the largest form of consumer debt outside of mortgages." Outstanding debt is close to $1 trillion, versus $350 billion in 2004.
Enter Internet entrepreneurs. At the University of Maryland University College, which offers online undergraduate programs, a four-year degree costs $30,000 for in-state residents and $60,000 for out-of-staters. That's a steal, compared with most not-for-profit four-year colleges and universities where costs easily can exceed $100,000. Currently, total enrollment is 95,000 students. Last week, Georgia Tech, along with Udacity and AT&T T 0.4294330518697226% AT&T Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD41.628 0.178 0.4294330518697226% /Date(1490896387379-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8899098 P/E Ratio 19.863961813842483 Market Cap 254568073899.513 Dividend Yield 4.7098402018502945% Rev. per Employee 611142 More quote details and news » (ticker: T), announced creation of an online master's degree program at the bargain-basement price of $6,600.
Despite abuses that Barron's has chronicled over the years—including the recruitment of unqualified students by some publicly traded Internet schools merely to boost revenue and profits—online education is booming. According to the U.S. Department of Education, from 1999-00, 8% of undergrads were enrolled in a "distance" course. That doubled to 16% in 2003-04 and hit 20% in 2007-08. The number of Internet users worldwide rose from 248 million to 1.8 billion during this period. The Department of Education will update the data this year; presumably, the percentages will be higher.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord!
Aboard any ship there are certain levels of authority. Unless a commodore or admiral was on board, the captain was always at the top.The levels beneath him depended on what type of ship it was. If it was a navy ship, there were first, second and third lieutenants, the midshipmen, master's mates, boatswains, pursers, chaplains, surgeons, gunners and then ordinary seaman. Every person had certain skills, talents and were assigned duties and responsibilities. When everyone obeyed and preformed their job, the ship sailed magnificently. But if not. . .
Well, it became much like a pirate ship. You see by nature pirates were greedy fellows who craved not only gold but power. Exhibiting human nature at it's basest, they hated it when someone else had more of either. Fights often broke out on board pirate ships over power and wealth and more often than not mutinies were staged against the captain.
For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made Psalm 139: 13-14
God gave each of us specific talents. Before we were even born, he infused them in our being for a purpose, a plan he had devised for our lives. Some of us have a talent for acting, singing, writing. Some for managing, cleaning, organizing, caring, comforting, helping, analyzing, creating, fixing. The thing is, no one talent is more important the the other. It is the world and our culture which glamorizes certain talents. A person with a talent for acting or sports is highly esteemed in our culture, while someone with a talent for caring for the elderly and poor never gets any recognition.
In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul noted that some of them were thinking more highly of themselves than they should have. They were bragging about their knowledge and who they studied the Scriptures under and who was better than who. They were becoming pirates! And Paul had to put a stop to it. He had to give them a huge dose of reality. And that reality was. Whatever talents or knowledge you have, it was given to you by God. You didn't get any of it on your own. So how can you brag about something someone else gave you?
Have you ever thought about that? That famous Hollywood star was given her talent for acting. That famous football hero was given his talent for sports. Yes, they worked hard to perfect it, but it was a gift from God. How sad that most of them use the talents God gave them to make millions and promote themselves as being above others!
And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability. Matt 25:15
You may not think God gave you very many talents. In fact, you may be wondering if He gave you any at all! But He did. If you don't know what they are, ask Him to reveal them to you. Maybe your talent is simply to be a good Mom and raise Godly children. Maybe you have a talent for knitting, computers, baking cookies! Whatever it is, work hard to perfect it and then use it for God's glory! Thank God everyday for your talents and always remember that they were given to you. You didn't earn them. You didn't deserve them. And never let your talents go to your head. Never start boasting about them and looking down on others.
Because in the end. we will all be called to give an account to God of what we did with our talents. You may be standing beside that movie star who did nothing but glorify herself, but God will turn to you and smile and place a crown of jewels upon your head and tell you, "Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord." Matt 25:21
Therefore, as it is written: "Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord." 1 Corinthians 1:31
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"Morning, MaryLu."
Another excellent post ! Especially in light of 'the Oscars', of last night. I am NO movie star, nor would I want to be !
Whatever giftings I have ... I totally realize and understand they are from the Lord. (Just have to learn how to best use them.)
Thanks again for this great reminder.
Take care, and, God Bless,
In Him,
Brenda HurleyGreat post! Just what I needed to hear! We all need to boast in God only, rather than ourselves. Besides, without him, we're nothing anyway, so what's there to boast about? From now on I'm going to pay special attention to whether or not I'm using my talents humbly and for the glory of God! Thanks for the reminder! :)
ReplyDeleteYou're speaking my heart's message, MaryLu!
Who you are was proceeded by God's need to have something done, specifically by you. He created your strengths and weaknesses, your personality, your passions, your abilities, to fit an exact need that He needs you to do. Yes, you are needed. Yes, you have a purpose. Yes, "before (God) formed you in the womb (he) knew you, before you were born (he) set you apart" Jeremiah 1:5. Isn't that cool?! Before he made who you are, he had a plan for who you would be, what you could do; giving you a gift set to reach His people as only YOU can.
Love it!MaryLu, I love all of your posts, but this one is especially good! :) I have always thought it wrong that the athletes and actors get all the recognition and earn lots of money while pastors, nurses, vets, firemen, police, military, etc... all the "helpful" occupations, get close to nothing! But it's great that they will be recognized in Heaven! I guess this is just an example of how the world is as opposed to how it should be.
LifeDance - love what you said!! I'm going to remember that :)


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Neuroangiogenesis (NAG) provides a vascular basis for understanding Alzheimer's disease, senile dementias and cognitive decline with aging
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Research on cerebral microvascularity began in the early 1920s with Edward Horne Craigie (1894–1989), a biologist at the University of Toronto, who examined male albino rats from their birth to 13 months of age (day 364). He measured cerebral capillary density in various parts of their brains by counting certain structural features of the capillaries in thinly cut slices (2–6 micrometers thick), where obviously only segments of vessels remain. He used the sum of the lengths of fragments visible in a fixed area of each brain slice over a fixed number of slices, to yield a composite value, Lv in micrometers per cubic micrometer. To exclude arterioles, only vessel fragments with diameters generally smaller than 12 micrometers were included in his measurements. Later investigators employed other indices of capillary morphometry, as outlined in my Journal of Alzheimer's Disease paper. Below are summarized CCD findings for the four periods outlined previously.
Postnatal period. In young rats Craigie examined the five laminae (Brodmann's layers) in each of five cortical areas for Lv and found that vascularity in all areas rose rapidly from birth (average of 306) to day 21 (average of 862) but only slowly thereafter.
In the human brain the most rapid growth occurs between ages 3 to 6 years in the frontal lobes and from 6 to 15 years in the temporo-parietal region. Diemer compared the capillary density in the frontal cortex of newborn infants and adults and found the former to be 98.4 capillaries per square millimeter and the latter to be 290 per square millimeter.
Maturity. After the brain's full development, the functional status of the cerebral microcirculation depends on the maintenance and replacement of capillary endothelial cells. The turnover rates for these cells in animal or human brains have not been reported, but such values for endothelial cells elsewhere in the bodies of various animals are available from studies which employed thymidine labeling of capillary endothelium and autoradiographs of tissue sections. For example, in 1967 Engerman and co-workers found that 0.01 percent of the capillary endothelial cells in the adult mouse retina were labeled after a single injection of tritiated thymidine and interpreted this as a turnover time of three or more years. More recently, based on the "mean of 14 studies" mainly in mice by numerous investigators, Denekamp concluded that the "potential turnover time" of capillaries of "normal tissues" is 60 days. Accepting Denekamp's mean value of six times per year as a possible turnover number in the human brain and assuming an average life span of 60 years after puberty, I calculate that cells in the cerebral capillary bed undergo replacement 360 times during the average adult's life. On the other hand, if one adopts Engerman's three-year estimate of capillary endothelial turnover, then these cerebral capillaries would undergo regeneration 20 times during an average adult lifetime. Whatever the true value, replenishment occurs and is mediated by angiogenic factors in the brain.
Senescence in rats. Craigie found that average value of cerebral capillary density in aged rats rose to a maximum by month 13 in three cortical regions but declined in the two others after month 3 or 5. In regio temporalis CCD rose to 958 micrometers in month 3 but was 880 micrometers by month 13. And in the regio insularis CCD peaked at 856 micrometers during month 5 but fell to 638 micrometers by month 13. Buchweitz-Milton and Weiss recorded values for Lv (sum of capillary lengths in millimeters per cubic millimeter) in the cerebral cortex of "young" rats (8–10 months) as 830 and of senescent rats (28–33 months) as 577. A similar decline in Lv was reported in all other brain areas of the older rats. Klein and Michel measured various neocortical components (neurons, glial cells, vascular tissue) in the frontal and occipital neocortex of young adult rats (6–8 months old) and aged ones (25–27 months old) and found that combined component counts were 448 in the young adult group and 314 for the old rats.
Senescence in people devoid of recognized dementia. Impairment of cerebral capillaries in older persons was observed by Stewart and colleagues. They obtained biopsy specimens from the neocortex and underlying white matter in patients ranging from 20 to 80 years in age who had undergone surgery for glial tumors or corticectomy for intractable epilepsy. As measured by electron microscopy, the wall thickness of capillaries in both gray and white matter was thinner in older subjects than younger ones. The authors interpreted this age-related thinning as due to "a net loss of endothelial cells, with resultant elongation of the remaining cells."
A deceased cerebral capillary density was reported by William B. Abernethy and colleagues in the paraventricular nuclei of 19 older human subjects, who ranged in age from 30 to 85 years and had no history of psychiatric treatment. Somewhat related is an earlier study by Kuwabara and Cogan, who had noted a decline in the number of endothelial cells "in the capillaries of the peripheral retina in persons past middle life (50 years)."
Senile dementias, mainly Alzheimer's disease. Bell and Ball measured microvascular densities of capillaries and arterioles in the hippocampus of three groups: normal young persons (mean age of 38 years), normal old (74 years) and Alzheimer's patients (78 years) and recorded the overall mean values as 129, 108 and 107 millimeters per cubic millimeter, respectively. Fischer et al. examined four areas in normal versus AD brains and found average vascular density indices (rounded off) as follows: basal forebrain, 87 versus 43; hippocampus, 82 versus 50; pre-frontal, 95 versus 75; and motor/sensory, 94 versus 83. And finally, Buée et al. reported the "percentage of the ratio capillary surface area/cortical … field area" for three groups: young controls, 26.32 percent; elderly controls, 18.95 percent; and AD patients, 16.50 percent. This subject has also been extensively reviewed elsewhere.
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The National Weather Service in Riverton released its initial Wyoming Water Supply Outlook for January last week, and watersheds for the Tongue and Powder Basins in north-central Wyoming are holding up the state average.
Jim Fahey, hydrologist with the NOAA in Riverton, says as of Thursday the Powder and Tongue watersheds hold the highest averages in the state at 100% to 108% of normal.
Fahey explains that this early report still can shift before it starts to indicate summer runoff.
Precipitation and snow-pack are still well below last year when the state saw record numbers and severe flooding into July.
The first meaningful snow-pack reports should be released in the next two weeks from statewide SNOWTEL sites.
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Tapatio-Flavored Fritos Making Nationwide Debut IN TWO WEEKS!!!
See that bag of Tapatío-flavored Fritos? It's now half-gone because I've limited myself to a daily fistful of the manna ever since we broke the news earlier this month they were debuting. It wasn't Lenten denial, but rather not knowing when they'd appear on store shelves outside random Costcos.
Now, I know the answer--they'll be rolled out nationwide (or at least Mexi-heavy areas) IN TWO WEEKS.
A source with Frito-Lay confirmed the company's plan, adding they recently held a tasting party for employees so they could try the Fritos and the four other brands (Doritos, Lays, Ruffles and another the source wouldn't identify), and they "went nuts." Stores, meanwhile "are foaming at the mouth"--just like I have for the past two weeks for that sweet, sweet . . . YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Seriously.
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It has happened! RuPaul's Drag Race has crowned a new "America's Next Drag Superstar"! So, now that we all know, are you happy? Surprised? Amused? Appalled? Sad for the not-winners?
This week's recap episode of RuPaul's Drag Race was all about looking back at Season 6, so for Extra Lap Recap it's time to gush about some of the season's best unsung moments! Let's hear it for Trinity, Vivacious, Gia, Joslyn, and Milk (who pops by for a pants-free cameo!).
Cher's family, Paula Abdul and a bunch of jungle creatures invaded RuPaul's Drag Race this week. Let's discuss the shenanigans, chickens!
This week life got Rupersized as we got two RuPaul's Drag Race episodes in one night. So we've got two Extra Lap Recaps for you too!
With legendary lady rappers Eve and Trina in the house, our queens were asked to put their thing down, flip it and reverse it! And they did -- with varying results! Were you feeling Team Panty Hos? Or were all about the Ru Tang Clan?
Yes, this week featured guest appearances by such stars as Judge Judy, Dame Maggie Smith, Paula Deen, and Kim Kardashian -- not to mention the late Anna Nicole Smith and Julia Child. Who scored? Who bored? Watch and find out!
Hey, scaredy-cats! Colby Keller joins me this week as Extra Lap Recap gives you all the gory details about the latest horror-ific episode of RuPaul's Drag Race!
Got Milk? How about Bianca Del Rio? Or maybe a big ol' drink of Darienne Lake? Yes, the second batch of queens arrived on RuPaul's Drag Race this week, so let's recap!
So what did you think of the premiere? Did you like getting to know the first seven queens? Are you pissed off that you have to wait until next Monday to spook the rest? Or do you agree that two big openings are better than one?
This week's RuPaul's Drag Race episode was the source of a lot of tears, my dears! And I'm not even talking about the big weepy "Crying Game" mini-challenge that kicked things off.
Brace yourself for a big whiff of manic perfume ads, guest judge Aubrey O'Day's big eyes and harsh critiques (though, dang, she makes for fun TV), and about 22 studly guys in their undies.
I hope you're hungry... Because it's time to snack on some fresh hot steamin' ROAST! Yep, chickens... Last night saw the queens of RuPaul's Drag Race season 5 sink their pearly whites into the first-ever "RuPaul Roast" and it was... extra juicy!
"Where my people at?" Well, if you mean our queens on RuPaul's Drag Race this week, they're all up in the recording studio getting their benefit anthem on, "We Are the World"-style. And, the results, IMHO, are brilliant and drag-spiring!
This week it was time for the annual rite of draggage that is the celeb-impersonation fest known as "Snatch Game." You have to be funny, transcend expectations and crack Ru's ass up! How'd it go? Extra Lap Recap breaks it down.
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Episcopal Church: I've Got 99 Problems but a Priest Shortage Ain't One
By Jeffrey Walton
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The Falls Church (Episcopal) recently hosted a service for the Diocese of Virginia in which nine new priests were ordained. (photo: Falls Church Episcopal)
On a Saturday morning earlier this month a gathering of 900 supporters from across the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia crowded into the main sanctuary of the Falls Church Episcopal (won from departing Anglicans in May through a court verdict). The special service celebrated nine transitional deacons ordained to the Episcopal priesthood by Bishop Shannon Johnston.
The service partly filled the role of using the reclaimed church campus for diocesan purposes (the diocese recently relocated its Northern Virginia office from Goodwin House in Alexandria to the Falls Church.) The service also showed how a diocese that has suffered a significant drop in attendance over the past decade is not lacking for new priests.
Unlike steep declines in membership, finances, and number of parishes that have negatively impacted the life of the Episcopal Church, the denomination has seen a more gradual decline in priests, maintaining - in some areas like Virginia and Texas - more than enough to meet its needs. While rural congregations do struggle to attract or support full-time paid clergy, an overall ample supply of priests is surprising, given that a recent report on the state of the clergy in the Episcopal denomination identified a 26 percent drop in ordinations over the past six years.
The Roman Catholic Church, in contrast, has faced a sharp decline in vocations for much longer. It would be tempting to link the Episcopal clergy abundance to a larger pool from which to draw: the Episcopal Church does not require its clergy to practice the discipline of celibacy, opening the priesthood to more men. But the number of new male priests has actually dropped by over half since the early 1970s. Probably a more likely explanation for surplus priests is that women and - increasingly - openly gay candidates for the priesthood are either commonplace or swiftly becoming so.
All of the Episcopal Church's 11 accredited seminaries enroll women, and many have had majority-female graduating classes for years, often filled with second career aspiring clergy (the average age of Episcopal priests has steadily increased every year, with the typical woman ordained now in her 50s). As for gay clergy, some liberal dioceses of the church have openly ordained them since the mid-1980s, and once-moderate dioceses like Virginia have even begun doing so (the December ordination service at the Falls Church included one openly lesbian priest, Jo Belser, who is the first openly homosexual candidate to be ordained by the diocese).
The average age at ordination is now 44 (up from the early 30s in 1970) and the average age of active Episcopal clergy is 58.
In 2011, the neighboring Episcopal Diocese of Washington temporarily suspended the diocesan discernment process for those seeking ordination, citing an overabundance of priests. In January of 2012, Bishop Maryann Budde extended the suspension through December 2012 "and longer, if necessary."
"Given the number of relatively healthy congregations and the appeal of our location, the Diocese of Washington has far more people interested in pursuing ordination than can reasonably hope to find employment in the Church," Budde wrote in January 2012. "There are currently almost 30 people in the ordination process, a number that well surpasses the diocese's current need for clergy for traditional parish positions. In addition, there is a significant number of unemployed and underemployed priests in the diocese who are seeking to be called to stipendiary ministries."
To date, the diocese has not announced plans to resume discernment for ordination.
Even with declining numbers of new ordinations nationally and a corresponding increase in the average age of active Episcopal clergy, fears from 10-15 years ago that the church would suffer a clergy shortage seem unfounded. The overall decline in Episcopal Church attendance (down 23 percent in the past decade) has, quite simply, reduced a need for new priests. As Bishop Budde candidly wrote in her letter explaining discernment suspension: "A Roman Catholic colleague once asked me if the Episcopal Church was also experiencing a clergy shortage. 'No,' I said. 'What we have is a shortage of lay people.'"
Jeff Walton writes on Anglican issues for the Institue on Religion and Democracy (IRD)
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The National Science Board Announces Recipient of the 2011 Vannevar Bush AwardDr. Charles Vest will receive award for distinguished public service leadership in science and technology
Charles Vest will receive the National Science Board's (NSB) 2011 Vannevar Bush Award for his distinguished public service leadership in science and technology, the NSB recently announced. Each year, the NSB presents the Vannevar Bush Award to an individual who, through public service activities in science and technology, has made an outstanding "contribution toward the welfare of mankind and the nation." This year, the NSB members agreed Vest is uniquely deserving of the Vannevar Bush Award for his outstanding contributions to both his scientific field and to the scientific community at large. Vest currently serves as president of the National Academy of Engineering, having been elected to a 6-year term in 2007. He is also president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected to that position in 1990 and served until 2004. "Charles Vest has been a dynamic force in science policy for a number of years, and we're very pleased to honor him with the Vannevar Bush award," said NSB Chairman Ray Bowen. "He joins a long list of distinguished citizens to be honored by this award." Vest was a director of DuPont for 14 years and of IBM for 13 years, vice chairman of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness for eight years and served on various federal committees and commissions, including the Presidents Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology during the Clinton and Bush administrations, the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, among others. He authored a book on holographic interferometry and two books on higher education. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from 14 universities and was awarded the 2006 National Medal of Technology by President George W. Bush. He currently serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations and foundations devoted to education, science and technology. Vest received his undergraduate education at West Virginia University, earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1963. He then earned a master's of software engineering and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1964 and 1967 respectively. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1968 and became an associate professor in 1972 and a full professor in 1977. He also served as associate dean of Engineering there from 1981 to 1986 and as dean of Engineering from 1986 to 1989, when he became provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. Vest will receive the Vannevar Bush medal at a black-tie dinner and ceremony on May 10 at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, along with recipients of the NSB's Public Service Award for an individual and the recipient the NSB's public service award for a group, which will be announced within the next week. The National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Awardee Casey Dunn of Brown University will be honored that evening with his award, as well. The NSB is the 25-member policymaking body for the National Science Foundation and advisory body to the president and Congress on science and engineering issues. Drawn from universities and industry, and representing a variety of science and engineering disciplines and geographic areas, NSB members are selected for their eminence in research, education or public service and records of distinguished service. The NSB has 24 members that serve six-year terms. The 25th member is the NSF director, an ex officio member of the NSB. -NSF-
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Robert Taylor knows what's in a name.
The Australian actor — who begins his second season playing a highly traditional American character when he returns as the title Wyoming sheriff in "Longmire" Monday, May 27, on A&E — shares the name of a performer who was a popular member of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's stable of stars from the 1930s through the 1950s.
"There haven't been any complications from that at all," the "Longmire" Taylor tells Zap2it, "but when I was a kid, people used to mention it to me all the time. Not as many people have heard of him these days. You ask kids who are 20 who he is, and their eyes glaze over. They never heard of him … but they probably couldn't tell you who the President of the United States is, either."
Films such as "Waterloo Bridge," "Ivanhoe" and "A Yank at Oxford" have kept the earlier Taylor, who died in 1969 (and was the second husband of screen legend Barbara Stanwyck), a frequent presence on Turner Classic Movies. "He was a big star," acknowledges the current Taylor, "and he made some great movies."
That Taylor played a lawman on television, too, in ABC's 1959-62 show "The Detectives." The actor who portrays the typically silent-but-strong Sheriff Walt Longmire says he would like to become as well-known for his work, "hopefully."
The contemporary Taylor and America are far from strangers, and he likens the setting of "Longmire" to the land where he grew up and worked in movies and series including Australia's longest-running serial, "Home and Away." He reflects, 'The similarities between the two places are far more striking than the differences, with the histories and the people's attitudes and the open spaces.
"Australia is the same size as the U.S., but it's much smaller in terms of population," Taylor notes. "I've been working in the States off and on since the '80s, and the first time I played a lead here was in '91, I think. I've always loved New Mexico — I've been there a bunch of times — and when this job came up, it woke me from my slumber. I thought, 'I'm going to give this one a shot.'"


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On Tuesday, barring unforeseen obstacles, Michigan will become the nation's 24th Right to Work state, a turning point in American labor history. It won't happen quietly: hundreds and perhaps even thousands of union members are descending on the state capitol in Lansing, Mich., to stage a protest that's expected to close streets and schools.
Members of the United Auto Workers union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Steelworkers, teachers unions and others planned to board buses, joined by even some protestors from rival neighboring state Ohio. Many will be wearing red to show solidarity.
The scene is likely to conjure up memories of the 2011 protests that shook Madison, Wis., when Gov. Scott Walker successfully went after collective bargaining rights for state employees. But there's a sharp contrast between what's happening in Lansing and what went on in Madison, namely because of the stealth tactics used by Republicans and Gov. Rick Snyder.
In Wisconsin, the protests dragged on for weeks, as Democrats left the state rather than face a vote on collective bargaining. The state capitol became a spot for sit-ins and network correspondent stand-ups, and the situation eventually culminated in an unsuccessful drive earlier this year to unseat Walker.
Michigan, by comparison, has moved much more swiftly. Although the issue has been the subject of discussion throughout 2011 and 2012, Snyder was still insisting a week ago that Right to Work was not part of his agenda for the troubled state, a stand he maintained throughout the first two years of his tenure.
Then, last Thursday, he swiftly changed his tune. In just hours, Snyder went from neutrality to support for Right to Work, and the provision was attached to two pieces of legislation already making their way through the Michigan House and Senate.Snyder chose his moment carefully, and with the knowledge that state voters, at least for now, are sanguine with a Right to Work law.
His last second shift followed voters' defeat during the November election of a constitutional amendment that would have banned Right to Work laws from being enacted. Republican lawmakers have since taken steps to make sure another ballot drive won't be successful, by tying appropriations to the Right to Work law. (I spoke about the tactics Monday on the public radio program Here and Now.)
The action clearly caught union members off guard. While there was a loud protest on Thursday outside the capitol that spilled inside the building, the numbers were modest, and clearly not organized. The capitol building was briefly closed after protestors tried to storm the state Senate chamber, something that no experienced group would attempt. (Anyone who works in Lansing knows that the floors are legislative chambers are pretty much off limits to all but lawmakers and staff, and the sergeants at arms will cart anyone away who dares to trespass.)
There was also no concerted effort by Democrats to get in the way when the legislature moves took place, at least nothing like the Wisconsin walkout. It was almost as if Snyder caught the opposition napping, though journalists who've been tracking the story knew something big was going to happen last week.
And while the Capitol will be flooded Tuesday, the significant action on Right to Work has already taken place with only minimal union opposition, at least when measured by the duration of the protests. Even in emails encouraging union members to show up, labor officials acknowledged that the spotlight will soon be on 2014.
The fact that this can happen at all is a reflection of the weakened state in which the state's unions, and the union movement nationally, find themselves. They can still bring large numbers of people together, as expected on Tuesday. And they still have plenty of clout with Democrats, including Barack Obama, who put saving General Motors and Chrysler atop his to-do list in part because of his support for labor.
Obama spoke out strongly against Right to Work legislation when he appeared in suburban Detroit on Monday. But there is nothing the president can do about a state matter. Nor is there an avenue open to Congressional Democrats, who met with Snyder on Monday.
Even as he promised to sign what is the ultimate in anti-union legislation, Snyder said he did not oppose unions per se. His rationale: let union members convince people to support them, and to pay dues voluntarily. He maintains he won't get in the way of organizing drives or other union movements. Unions say that without a closed shop, which requires employees to join or pay dues anyway, the quality of jobs and income will swiftly deteriorate in Michigan.
In keeping his cards close to his vest, and in switching only when he knew he had political cover, Snyder showed that stealth tactics could win the battle (assuming the outcome goes as he wants on Tuesday). Whether he wins the war, namely re-election in 2014, should he decide to run, will reflect how Michiganians really feel about what transpired in Lansing in December, 2012.


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Today the "Great British Fashion Stamp Set" was launched by The Royal Mail service in honor of 10 fashion houses from England. Designer collections from Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, and Paul Smith are showcased on the limited edition stamps sold online, and locally around Britain.
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