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- Surviving the night: the making of The Purge - featuring exclusive interviews with Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey and more!
A family living in a gated community fight to defend their home against vicious attackers during the one night each year when all crime is legal in this high-concept thriller from writer/director James DeMonaco (Staten Island). In the not-too-distant future, rampant crime and prison overcrowding have inspired the U.S. government to implement a unique solution to restore the peace: Each year, for a 12-hour period, any and all crime becomes permissible as police put their jobs on hold, and hospitals close their doors. It's called the Purge, and remarkably, the annual event leads to drastically reduced crime and record-low unemployment levels throughout the rest of the year. But this year, as suburban parents James (Ethan Hawke) and Mary (Lena Headey) place their home on lockdown for the annual event, a desperate man finds his way into their neighborhood while fleeing a sadistic gang of masked killers. In a moment of compassion, James and Mary's adolescent son (Max Burkholder) unlocks the door, offering sanctuary to the frightened stranger. Unfortunately for the entire family, that act of kindness may also be their very last, because now the killers who were pursuing the man have surrounded the house, and have vowed to kill everyone inside unless they are willingly given the man they are hunting within an hour. As the clock begins to tick, the family face a difficult dilemma -- do they sacrifice the life of a stranger in hopes of saving themselves, or attempt to stand their ground until the Purge expires? ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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- Ethan Hawke - James Sandin
- Lena Headey - Mary Sandin
- Adelaide Kane - Zoey Sandin
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James Carroll
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Clarkson University
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Educational Background
B.S.E.E, Syracuse University (1989)
M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology (1990)
Ph.D., Clemson University (1993)
Teaching Interests Dr. Carroll helped found and has advised Clarkson's FIRST Robotics Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design (SPEED) team, Number 229: Division by Zero, since its inception in 1998. He has instructed the Robotics Module of the Horizons Program administered by Clarkson's Institutional Diversity Initiatives and Pipeline Programs for two weeks during each summer since 2000. He was the PI on a 1994 National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant funded for three years at $96,402 entitled "An Integrated Modular Design Laboratory for Electrical Engineers," that utilized Matlab/Simulink and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology to enhance the senior Electrical Engineering design experience. He is a Co-PI of the Clarkson Inventor's Institute, initially funded by a three year NCIIA grant in 2001, to promote and support innovative ideas and help spark job growth/creation in the North Country by allowing Clarkson University students to take on engineering design projects proposed by local residents, businesses, or community groups. He is currently a Co-PI on a 2003 National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant (DUE-0311075) funded for three years at $133,602 entitled "Hands-on Learning in Engineering, " designed to create a common Freshman year engineering laboratory experience within Clarkson's Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering. He is also the PI of a 2005 P&G Fund curriculum development grant funded for three years at $150,000 entitled "Multidisciplinary Projects Course in Virtual Product Development," which involve the use of Virtual Reality technology to experience products and packaging as a means of test marketing without having to produce actual prototypes and concurrent to the overall engineering design process.
He has taught the following courses at Clarkson:
ES100 – Freshman Introduction to the Engineering Use of the PC
EE 264 – Introduction to Digital Design
EE 311 – Electrical Engineering Lab II
EE 321 – Systems and Signal Processing
EE 324 – Dynamical Systems
EE 401/501 – Digital Signal Processing
EE 412 – Senior Design
EE 450/550 – Control Systems
EE 451/551 – Digital Control
EE 555 – Nonlinear Systems
EE 557 – Fundamentals of Robotics
EE 556 – Motion Control
EE 610 – ECE Seminar
MP 114-414 – Multidisciplinary Projects Course: FIRST Robotics Competition
Research Interests
Dr. Carroll is associated with the Mechatronic Systems Laboratory which conducts research in areas such as adaptive signal processing, nonlinear system identification, active noise control, RBF neural networks, real-time computing software and hardware systems, advanced modeling and control techniques, computer vision and image processing, system virtualization/prototyping and virtual environments, high-performance motion control and robotics that combines state-of-the-art computer hardware and software with recent advances in control theory and signal processing. In addition, he founded the Advanced Visualization Laboratory in summer 2002 which conducts research in visualization, immersive virtual reality/virtual environments, and information fusion conducted with a core theme of enhancing human-computer interaction and enabling information technology as an assistive partner in human activities. Research conducted in this laboratory currently targets two broad areas: rehabilitation engineering and homeland security.
Research and Development projects worked on include several contracts with GE Global Research and Development for work in ultrasonic NDE of plastics; ONR contract work in modeling and control of shipboard power systems; AFOSR contract work to develop an active dynamometer for testing electric actuators; ARO contract work to develop an auxiliary ground power unit for starting helicopters; subcontract from US ARMY-TACOM for capturing human motion in virtual environments. All of these projects involved some form of instrumentation and signal processing, data acquisition and control, computer modeling and simulation, visualization and/or system prototyping.
Current research areas include: design/control of assistive robotic devices, design/control of a virtual reality wheel chair simulator, human body modeling/tracking using 3D voxel data from infrared images, and virtual reality applications in physical therapy. More information on current research projects can be found on his research web site.
Recent Publications
PSonar, A.V., Carroll, J.J., Sabini, O., Issen, K.A., "Simulation of Bone Aging and Virtual Reality Visualiztion of Cancellous Bone Structure" IEEE CCECE '08: Symposium on Biomedial Engineering, Sheraton Fallsview, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, pp. 1317-1322, May 4-7, 2008.
Powers, S.E., Brydges, B., Turner, P. Gotham, G., Carroll, J. and Bohl, D.G., "Successful Institutionalization of a K-12 – University STEM Partnership Program, " Proceedings if the 115th Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA, CD# Session # AC 2008-1652, June 2008.

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Images of a city smoldering and a river clogged with pale, radioactive cadavers never left Keiji Nakazawa's mind.
The Japanese manga, or comic-book, artist used those images and other memories of surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, to create "Barefoot Gen," a gruesome, yet hope-driven comic about a boy, who like Nakazawa, survived the Aug. 6, 1945, attack.
Nakazawa was a first-grader standing outside of his school when the United States dropped the bomb that killed more than 100,000 people, including his father, brother and a sister. He survived, as did his mother, but radiation sent her into premature labor. His newborn sister died days after the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki that effectively ended World War II.
Nakazawa, who since the 1970s had used "Barefoot Gen" to make a case against nuclear proliferation, died Dec. 19 of lung cancer at a hospital in Hiroshima, according to Japanese news reports. He was 73.
"It touched nerves on both sides of the Pacific," animation critic and historian Charles Solomon said of "Barefoot Gen." "Not only for its subject matter, but for the idea that a comic book could present this type of material and present it very powerfully."
"I wanted to put down on paper the scenes engraved in my mind," Nakazawa told Tokyo's Daily Yomiuri newspaper in 2009. "Everybody says the atomic bomb was terrible, but I wanted to use manga to show people just how terrible it actually was."
His 10-volume magnum opus, which has been translated into several languages and adapted into films, cast blame for the bombing on both the United States and Japan and alluded to his longing for world peace.
In one scene, the title character Gen, who remains cheerfully optimistic amid his suffering, peers sanguinely at a rainbow arching over the sun. He daydreams of a peaceful world, "where people cross freely over those rainbow bridges and talk to each other as friends."
Like his comic alter ego, Nakazawa advocated for peace.
At a 2009 party celebrating a complete, revised translation of the manga into English, Nakazawa said: "We've translated Gen with the hope that a large number of English speakers will read it. I hope people will realize through Gen that nuclear weapons are folly."
Born about a mile from Hiroshima's city center on March 14, 1939, Nakazawa and his mother spent the years after the bombing in poverty. He worked as a sign painter's apprentice and dreamed of a life as a manga artist.
At 22, he packed up his sketches and moved to Tokyo, where he worked at various magazines. In 1973, at the urging of the editor of the Japanese magazine Boys' Jump Monthly, he started writing "Barefoot Gen."
Personally inspired story lines — not meticulous drawings — were the forte of the self-taught artist.
"The art style is very raw," Andrew Farago, curator of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, said in an interview with The Times. "His work was a little bit less polished than some of his contemporaries."
In that way, Farago said, "Barefoot Gen" is reminiscent of the underground comics that flooded the U.S. market in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
What differentiated the manga most, Farago said, was its subject matter.
"Barefoot Gen" painted a painful and true account of suffering during a post-World War II Japan that longed for escapism.
In 1976, when parts of the manga were translated and published in the United States, most readers viewed comics as a way to escape life's painful aspects, including still-raw memories of war.
"In comics, we expected super heroes or the jokes of the Walt Disney comics," Solomon said. "And here was someone using a comic book format to tell this very compelling, very personal, very powerful story of suffering, endurance, survival."
Nakazawa's other characters also bucked trends.
In "Hiroshima: The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen," the artist's 2010 autobiography translated by Richard H. Minear, Nakazawa said he once created a protagonist to contrast the macho male roles he often saw in manga.
"As a counter," Nakazawa wrote, "I thought, how about a nerdy, weak boy?"
Manga was his platform to challenge the norm and incite change.
"I'm a cartoonist, so cartoons are my only weapon," he wrote in his autobiography. "Doubt is extremely strong, but we have to feel that change is possible."
Images of a city smoldering and a river clogged with pale, radioactive cadavers never left Keiji Nakazawa's mind.


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Marsha is hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries and overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise with an interior decorator. To her ears, though, it sounds like they are planning to murder her! With the assistance of her next door neighbor she tries to turn the tables on them with a poisoned potion. When her own mother shows up for her birthday a day early, Marsha thinks she is in on the diabolical scheme. When her maid's date, a policeman, shows up to take the maid out, Marsha think he is on to her poisoning attempt. Well, finally, just when you would think all this would be cleared up, Marsha's intended victims discover what she has supposed, and decide to teach her a lesson.
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High-end style and performance arrives at Tennis Warehouse with the addition of TravisMathew apparel for men! Originally a golf apparel brand that represented the active and fun lifestyle of its roots in Southern California, they've now branched into the tennis world with two American tennis legends at the forefront. Former world #1 Andy Roddick is an investor and ambassador for the brand, and James Blake wore the apparel for his last year on tour and continues to represent the brand with class and style.
You might think, "Oh great, another high-end clothing company looking to tap into the tennis market. What's the difference with this one?" Not only does the TravisMathew apparel look great, it performs well and feels AMAZING! I'm not exaggerating…if I could buy bed sheets made of this stuff I would!


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Elegant & Unusual Flatware
Setting the table for holiday get togethers is easier and more fun when you have flatware that catches the eye and is a pleasure to dine with. Here are some examples of styles that suit table decor both colorful and modern or classic and elegant.
1. Multicolor 5-piece Flatware Set, MoMA, $60.00
2. 24 Piece Set Mepra Flatware, Yoox, $455.00
3. Kyoto Flatware, Crate & Barrel, $39.95
4. Pott 20 Five-Piece Place Setting, Table Art, $310.00
5. 12 Piece Pattern 291 Flatware Set, CB2, $14.95
6. Monogrammed Hotel Silver 5-Piece Flatware Set, Williams Sonoma, $129.00
7. John Pawson 24 Piece Cutlery Set, Matter, $575.00
8. Twig Flatware 5-PC. Set, West Elm, $39.00
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Take a look at some of Friday's midday movers:
Baxter rallied on a Wall Street Journal report that it's in talks to buy Sweden's medical equipment maker Gambro or $4 billion.
Research in Motion moved higher on continued optimism over its soon to be relaunched Blackberry 10.
Hasbro rose on optimism its new Furby doll will be a breakout toy this year.
Molycorp moved higher in the first day of trading since two company insiders increased their stake in the rare earth producer.
Illumina gained ground on continued takeover speculation.
Wal-Mart rallied after reporting its best Black Friday events ever. Other retailers, including Macy's, Nordstrom and Target moved higher as well.
Map Pharmaceuticals rose after the FDA accepted its resubmission of its migraine drug treatment.
Kit Digital plummeted after saying it would restate its earnings results from 2009 to 2012.
Orient Express Hotels moved higher on speculation Indian Hotels would raise its bid for the company.
BP gained ground. The oil company is planning to announce a reorganization of its oil and gas operations.
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Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, SA
You'll find all the delights of a seaside village and more in lively Glenelg, which sits in Holdfast Bay, a 25-minute tram ride from Adelaide's centre. There is a sandy white beach, charming heritage hotels and bustling shops, sidewalks cafes and summer entertainment. You can also swim with wild dolphins, go diving or snorkelling or join a fishing charter. Trace Glenelg's history in the galleries and museums, join in the fun of various festivals and meander along the coast to neighbouring beach towns.
To get to Glenelg, jump on the vintage tram that has been shuttling passengers from Adelaide's North Terrace since the 1920s. It drops you at Moseley Square, right behind the jetty. You can trace the historic changes in Holdfast Bay in Glenelg Town Hall's discovery centre.
The popularity of Glenelg as a seaside destination certainly hasn't waned over the years, as you'll see when you wander the buzzing dining and shopping strip of Jetty Road. Browse some of the hundreds of specialty stores or dine in an al fresco restaurant. For more stylish dining, head down to Holdfast Marina, a great place to enjoy Glenelg's magnificent sunsets.


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- There will not be voice acting in the game.
- Zelda & Ganon will be in it, though how they'll figure into the story isn't known.
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It's obvious that our gadgets are going to continue to get smaller, as ultraportability is what we are all about these days. Yesterday at WinHec, Bill Gates showed off a prototype of a new tablet PC which was only 7 inches diagonal. I am not too sure about this one, as tablet PC's haven't really taken off, and other ultraportable tiny PC's haven't really made a large dent in the market either. The thought behind this is that Microsoft thinks it would be nice to have a portable PC that would be able to act as a music/video player, email device, Internet browser, and also control different aspects of the home while including integrated WiFi and Bluetooth.
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Sony Europe announced today that the PSP will be released on September 1, 2005. Similarly to the United States release, the European PSP will only be available in a Value Pack bundle, however the Spider-Man 2 UMD will not be included in the box. Instead, Europeans will need to register their PSP online to score Spider-Man 2.
"PlayStation Portable will revolutionise portable entertainment, giving users the freedom to play full 3D games, watch movies, listen to music and connect wirelessly on their terms, wherever and whenever they wish to do so," said David Reeves, President of SCEE. "More than ever, today's consumer demands access to their personal entertainment outside the home, without compromising quality. With more than 100 PlayStation Portable game titles currently in development worldwide, and the ability to download and listen to music, and view feature films with breathtaking screen quality, PlayStation Portable lets users control their entertainment options, all in a single package."
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Ubisoft has announced today that Prince of Persia 3 is currently in development. The story of this release takes place after the Warrior Within, as the Prince returns home to find that his people are against him. It turns out that a being known as The Dark Prince has come into the story and will conflict with the real Prince.
"Prince of Persia 3 promises to be THE best installment in the legendary franchise," said John Parkes, Director Marketing at Ubisoft. "By combining two playable characters in a masterly balanced gameplay, with the perfect mix of acrobatic moves and a compelling storyline, the Prince of Persia will appeal to both Sands of Time and Warrior Within fans alike. The Prince is back to reclaim his kingdom, and he has a few surprises in store…"
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Mitchell will play Rose, who is desperately searching for her lost daughter in the mysterious, terrifying town of Silent Hill, where they are trapped. The screenplay was written by Roger Avary ("Pulp Fiction").
Actress Radha Mitchell has been in such films as Finding Neverland, Man on Fire, and Phone Booth. The budget is speculated to be around $45-50 Million. Lets see them create some creepy looking mannequins with this budget.
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Q: To keep track of customer details, I use a Microsoft Access database, which has grown to about 8.9MB. I wrote a batch file that uses Robocopy to run daily backups of the database, which is on the D drive of a domain controller (DC) running Windows Server 2003. The backups are stored on a NAS device.
The batch file uses some code (weekday.com) I found on the Web to return a day of the week. As Listing 1 shows, after the batch file finds the day of the week, it uses a series of If commands to jump to code that executes Robocopy and copies the backup file to a folder named after the day of the week. The batch file then uses another script (AnalyzeRobocopyLog.vbs) I found on the Web to go through the log files generated by Robocopy and return a consolidated version. Finally, the batch file uses the Blat utility to email the backup log file to the appropriate person.
This batch file is working okay, but it's a kludge. I want to go with a different approach. I'd like the new script to rename the backup file so that it includes the current date and do away with the weekday folders. That way, there is only one backup folder. I'd also like the script to monitor the amount of free space in the backup folder and overwrite the oldest file if the size of the backup folder is at the specified size limit. I'm trying to write this new script, but I'm just learning the art of scripting. I'm interested in seeing how a scripting pro would approach writing this script.
—Emile Mercier
A: To make your script less of a kludge, we suggest that you use Windows Script Host (WSH) as your scripting environment instead of Cmd.exe. Through WSH, you can use the FileSystemObject object, which is part of the Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library. This object has many methods and properties that let you easily work with files and folders. In addition, with WSH, you can more easily add code that handles errors and deals with exceptions (such as running the script twice in the same day, which would mean you'd have duplicate filenames). Your batch file calls a .vbs script, so your server must already have WSH installed.
Listing 2 shows an example of how you might create a .vbs script to back up your Access database. The BackupFile.vbs script backs up the specified file to a target folder, renaming the file to include the current date. To keep the target folder's size in check, the script monitors the folder size and deletes the oldest files until the folder size is less than the specified threshold or until there is only one file left in the folder.
Let's take a detailed look at BackupFile.vbs, which Listing 2 shows, so that you can learn how it works. The script begins with the Option Explicit statement, which means you must explicitly declare all the variables in a script, which the script does with Dim statements. Using a variable that isn't declared generates an error. Thus, including Option Explicit in your scripts is a good idea because it can help catch such scripting mistakes as misspelled variable names.
Besides declaring variables, the script declares three constants:
- SOURCE_FILE, which is the file to copy
- TARGET_DIR, which is the path to folder in which to copy file
- MAX_TARGET_DIR_SIZE, which is the maximum size (in megabytes) of the target folder
Before you use BackupFile.vbs, you'll need to customize the values of these constants. You don't need to make any other modifications to the code. However, you must use the CScript host when executing the script.
Next, the script creates an instance of the FileSystemObject object, which it assigns to the declared fso variable. As we mentioned previously, this object has many methods and properties that let you manipulate files and folders. In this instance, the script is using the object's FileExists method to check whether the file specified in the SOURCE_FILE constant exists. If the file doesn't exist, the script displays an error message and quits. If the file exists, the script uses the FileSystemObject object's FolderExists method to check whether the folder specified in the TARGET_DIR constant exists. If the folder doesn't exist, the script displays an error message and quits. If the folder exists, the script continues on. Like using Option Explicit, checking for the existence of specified files and folders is a good practice to follow because it's another way to help error-proof your scripts.
You mentioned that you want the script to rename the backup file so that the name includes the current date. The code at callout A in Listing 2 does just that. This code calls the GetNewFileName function into action. This function generates a new filename from a given filename by appending the current date in the format YYYYMMDD. So, the new filename will be old_filenameYYYYMMDD.ext. Note that the function takes two parameters. The first parameter specifies the filename to change—in this case, SOURCE_FILE. The second parameter is a suffix. Normally, the suffix parameter is set to 0, which means there isn't a suffix in the new filename. However, there's one exception (which we'll explain shortly) in which the new filename will have a suffix that's a non-zero numeric value. When this exception occurs, the filename follows the format old_filenameYYYYMMDD-Suffix.ext.
You'll find the code for the GetNewFileName function in callout D in Listing 2. Let's look at how the function gets the various pieces for the new filename. To get the name of the old file, GetNewFileName uses the FileSystemObject object's GetBaseName method to extract just the filename (not including the extension) from the pathname in the SOURCE_FILE constant.
To get the date to append to the old filename, GetNewFileName uses VBScript's Now, Day, Month, and Year functions. The Now function returns the current date and time. So, by using the Day function with the Now function as the parameter, you'll get the current day. Similarly, you can get the current month (in numerical format) and year by using the Now function as the parameter in the Month and Year functions, respectively. So, if the date is April 25, 2007, the statements
will return 4, 25, 2007, respectively. As we mentioned previously, the date appended to the filename is in the format YYYYMMDD . So, if either the month or day is less than 10, GetNewFileName prefixes that number with a 0 so that a two-digit month and a two-digit day are always used (e.g., uses 04 instead of just 4).
If the suffix parameter is a non-zero value, GetNewFileName obtains that value and prefixes it with a hyphen. If the suffix parameter is the default 0, the filename doesn't include a suffix. Finally, to get the file's extension, the GetNewFileName function uses the FileSystemObject object's GetExtensionName method to extract the extension from the pathname in the SOURCE_FILE constant.
After the GetNewFileName function creates the new filename, the script checks to see whether that filename already exists (e.g., you ran the script earlier in the day). As the code in callout A shows, if that filename exists, the script increments the i variable by 1, then again calls the GetNewFileName function into action. This time, it sets the suffix parameter to the i variable's value, which prompts the GetNewFileName function to create a filename that includes the -1 suffix.
For example, let's say the first run of the script creates the new filename myfile20070425.mdb. If you run the script a second time that day, the script discovers that the myfile20070425.mdb filename already exists, so it creates the new filename of myfile20070425-1.mdb. If you happen to run the script a third time that day, the i variable will increment to 2, so the newest filename will be myfile20070425-2.mdb.
After creating a unique filename, the script uses the FileSystemObject object's CopyFile method to perform the actual backup operation. The CopyFile method takes two mandatory parameters. The first parameter specifies the file to copy (in this case, SOURCE_FILE). The second parameter specifies the destination pathname (in this case, TARGET_DIR\strNewFileName, where strNewFileName is the new filename created by the GetNewFileName function).
The script's next task is check the amount of free space in the backup folder and delete files, if necessary, to get the folder to the desired size. The code at callout B in Listing 2 performs this important task. This code begins by using the FileSystemObject object's GetFolder method to create a Folder object (oFolder). Because information about the folder's files is needed, the code uses the Folder object's Files property to obtain a collection that contains all the files in that folder. One of the properties available to this collection is the Count property, which returns the number of items in that collection. So, the code
returns the number of files in the backup folder. If there is more than one file in the folder, the code uses the Folder object's Size property to obtain the combined size of all the files and subfolders in the folder. The number returned is in bytes, so the code divides that number by 1,048,576 (1024 * 1024) to get the size in megabytes.
When the folder's size is greater than the size specified in MAX_TARGET_DIR_SIZE, the code calls the FindOldestFile function into action. This function, which callout C in Listing 2 shows, finds the oldest file in the folder.
The FindOldestFile function begins by declaring and assigning values to the oldestFileName and oldestFileDate variables. The function sets the oldestFileName variable to the string UNKNOWN, whereas it sets the oldestFileDate variable to the current date via the Now function.
Next, the FindOldestFile function uses a For Each…Next statement to iterate through all the files in the backup folder. For each file, the function applies VBScript's DateDiff function. The DateDiff function calculates how much time has elapsed (in terms of seconds, minutes, hours, days, or some other time interval) between two given dates (date1 and date2). If date1 refers to a more recent point in time than date2, DateDiff returns a negative number.
In BackupFile.vbs, the FindOldestFile function uses DateDiff to calculate the number of seconds (specified by the "s" parameter) between a file's Last Modified date (which it obtains with the DateLastModified property) and the date in the oldestFileDate variable. If the difference is greater than zero, the function assign's the file's name to the oldestFileName variable and that file's Last Modified date to the oldestFileDate variable.
For example, suppose that the current date is April 25, 2007. Exactly 24, 48, and 72 hours ago, the myfile20070424.mdb, myfile20070423.mdb, and myfile20070422.mdb files were created, respectively, and stored in the backup folder. In the first loop through the For Each…Next statement, the FindOldestFile function calculates that the difference between myfile20070423.mdb's modification date and the date in the oldestFileDate variable (which, at this point, is the current date returned by the Now function) is 169,200 seconds. This number is greater than zero, so FindOldestFile assigns myfile20070423.mdb to the oldestFileName variable and that file's Last Modified date to the oldestFileDate variable.
In the second loop, FindOldestFile calculates that the difference between myfile20070422.mdb's Last Modified date and the date in the oldestFileDate variable (which, at this point, is myfile20070423.mdb's Last Modified date) is 86,400 seconds. Again, t his number is greater than zero, so the function assigns myfile20070422.mdb to the oldestFileName variable and that file's Last Modified date to the oldestFileDate variable.
In the last loop, FindOldestFile calculates that the difference between myfile20070424.mdb's Last Modified date and the date in the oldestFileDate variable (which, at this point, is myfile20070422.mdb's Last Modified date) is -169,200 seconds. This number isn't greater than zero, so the function doesn't change the values in the oldestFileName and oldestFileDate variables. As this example shows, the order in which the files are processed through the For Each…Next loop doesn't matter.
The value that's left remaining in the oldestFileName variable is returned to the code at callout B. This code then uses the FileSystemObject object's DeleteFile method to delete that file. After it's deleted, the code again checks the backup folder's size. If the folder's new size is still greater than the size specified in MAX_TARGET_DIR_SIZE, the code calls the FindOldestFile function back into action, assuming there's more than one file left in the folder. This process repeats until the folder size is less than the specified threshold or until there is only one file left in the folder.
That's basically how the BackupFile.vbs script works. To get more information about how any of the mentioned objects, methods, properties, and built-in functions work, you can check out the VBScript and WSH resources listed in the article "How to Get Started Writing Scripts" (September 2006, InstantDoc ID 92751) or the VBScript and WSH resources listed in the Microsoft TechNet Script Center (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx).


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Veterans Affairs Using RVs as Mobile Sites
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Lenny Richards' RV looks like a rock star ride with its cockpit-like driver's station, custom-painted exterior and satellite dish on the roof. But rather than parties, this motorhome is made for deeper stuff. The interior walls close. Chairs swivel to face each other.
Here, veterans can have an impromptu talk with a Department of Veterans Affairs' counselor. Or they might pick up information, the Lewiston, Maine, Sun Journal reported.
"Wherever the vets are at or wherever the vets might be, that's where we are," Richards, who works for the Veterans Administration, said. "We are all about outreach and education."
His hope is to reach somebody who might be enduring the invisible wounds of war: depression or anxiety, addiction or abuse.
He parks, sets up a table and hopes a veteran reads the giant Vet Center letters across the vehicle and wants to know more.
"The most popular question I get is, 'What does it get for mileage?'" Richards said. He has operated the 38-foot converted Winnebago for two years. "I still don't know its mileage."
But the question might lead to more questions. And questions can lead to help.
Across the country, vet centers operate as part of the mental health arm of the VA. The hospitals and clinics deal with veterans' medical problems. The centers and the RVs, 50 nationwide, specialize in readjustment issues. The vehicles act as a kind of sample for the aid that can be given at the centers.
Through the vehicle, someone might learn the address of one of the vet centers to pass on to a friend. Others might receive immediate help. Richards typically travels with a counselor.
"They can talk to someone right away," he said.
In 2010, Richards spent virtually all summer on the road. From May until September, he managed to spend a total of three weeks at home with his wife and children.
In the winter, the schedule slows. When it's not in use, it is housed behind the Maine National Guard Armory on the Alfred Plourde Parkway.
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Windows 7 Beta Review
We all know that just about every computer is different. Some are built for gaming, some for word processing, others are just designed for watching movies. However, there is one thing that all computers have in common; an operating system. It can make or break any computer. In fact, it is one of the reasons Apple does so well. They've managed to develop OSX, a simple and easy to use operating system that just about everyone enjoys. That and the exploitation of what some people will call Microsoft's weakness, Windows Vista. Some people love it and others, well they'd rather drop kick a cement block than touch the thing. One of the main reasons for this is because most of the computer users don't want to take the time to learn how it works. They don't want to have to fiddle with settings and download third party programs in order to make their desktop the way they want it. Most people want simplicity. On the other hand you have people like us - enthusiasts, power users, geeks, whatever you want to call us! Most of us don't mind playing around in the registry. In fact, most of us enjoy it. That's not to say we all liked Vista. Even some enthusiasts have various qualms with Vista; it uses too much memory, it runs too slow, or maybe the pop-up when trying to run a program was a bit irritating. I personally appreciated Vista, and hopefully Microsoft's new offering will be a step in the right direction to counter Vista's dwindling sales.
Many of you know that Microsoft's latest operating system is called Windows 7. Some of you may even have tried the beta, which has been available for download for a couple weeks now. Why Windows 7? Their have been many more versions of Windows than just seven. Maybe it's because there are seven letters in Windows. Who knows, and it doesn't really matter. What's important? How it performs. Is it another gold mine like XP or another step in the wrong direction? In this review Zertz and I will attempt to give you an accurate summary of how Microsoft's latest operating system performs, as well as how it stacks up to earlier versions. What kind of major flaws will there be and what genius ideas has Microsoft thought up? Let's find out.
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Because Windows 7 is currently in its beta form, you can legally download it off Microsoft's Windows 7 website. From there you can choose whether to download the beta in either 32- or 64-bit, mostly depending on how much memory you plan to use. This is also where the system requirements are found and, surprisingly enough in this quickly evolving computer world, they're the exact same as Vista. For those that need some extra help, Microsoft supplies some installation instructions and tips as well, but suggests you shouldn't upgrade your main computer to 7 just yet.
The three gigabyte file is an ISO, which is basically a CD/DVD image and can be burned to a DVD with proper software. Once you have successfully completed the download, you will need, shockingly enough, a blank DVD. Open your favorite burning software and let the burning begin. Recent operating systems have a way of being extremely easy to install. Simply drop the installation disc in and follow the on-screen instructions. The amount of time it takes to install varies depending on your hardware configuration. Just make sure the first boot device is your optical drive and follow the on-screen instructions. One can't argue that Vista's installation was not only pretty, especially compared to XP, and it was also very easy to go through. Windows 7 is no different and nothing has changed except slight tweaks to the interface.
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The man with eight pounds of methamphetamine in his carry-on bag stood in the snaking security line at Los Angeles International Airport's Terminal 4, inching toward the checkpoint, when a TSA screener approached.
But it wasn't to stop the contraband, according to prosecutors. It was to make sure it got through.
The screener, John Whitfield, allegedly told the man to get to the back of the line so he and his luggage would get to the X-ray machines when Whitfield's shift started. That way, he would be the one watching the meth show up on screen; and in exchange for $1,200, Whitfield allowed it through, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Authorities filed trafficking and bribery charges against Whitfield and three other current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners, alleging that they received thousands of dollars in cash bribes in exchange for turning a blind eye on drugs packed in suitcases.
The case represents a "significant breakdown of the screening system," U.S. Atty Andre Birotte Jr. said in a statement, adding that the accused screeners "placed greed above the nation's security needs."


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The Indiana Pacers threw open the NBA Eastern Conference finals on Friday, upsetting the Miami Heat with a 97-93 victory to level the best-of-seven series at 1-1.
LeBron James scored 36 points for Miami but gave up two crucial turnovers down the stretch that cost the Heat, while Roy Hibbert top-scored for the Pacers with 29 points and Paul George added 22 and produced some outstanding defensive work.
"That was a heck of a basketball game wasn't it?" said Pacers head coach Frank Vogel, whose team never looked intimidated in either of the opening games on the defending champions' home court.
"This team believe we can win this series and they are giving it all their might, playing with confidence and rising to the challenge," he added.
The Pacers took full advantage of a slow start from Miami, grabbing a 10-point lead midway through the first quarter and they were up 53-47 at halftime.
With James producing some outstanding play yet again, Miami fought back and led 88-84 with 6:09 on the clock but, as in Wednesday's Game One overtime thriller, the Pacers refused to buckle and came roaring back.
Indiana took the lead with 48 seconds remaining with two George Hill free throws and on the next possession, James' pass intended for Ray Allen was stolen by David West.
Miami had another chance though when a 24-second clock violation on the subsequent Indiana possession gave them the ball back with the game on the line.
James had grabbed the winning score with just 2.2 seconds left in overtime in Game One and he had 17.6 seconds to tie or win the game this time.
However, his misplaced pass was collected by Hill, who was then fouled by James.
Hill made the two free throws to secure victory and a split from Miami's first two home games.
"LeBron played one of the best basketball games I've ever seen anyone play," Vogel said. "We just were able to make a few plays at the end."
James though was in no mood to reflect on the great play that had come before his turnovers, describing them as "careless".
"The first thing I always look for on the stat sheet is my turnovers. I had two key ones at a big point in the game. I am very disappointed in my judgment and my plays down the stretch. But I'll make up for them," he said.
It was a poor night for Miami's bench, who managed just 19 points with Allen, Norris Cole and Shane Battier among those who struggled.
"We have to figure out a way to get our shooters into the game more instead of trying to get them the ball and make them make a tough one late in the game," James said.
The series continues in Indiana on Sunday while in the Western Conference, San Antonio will look to take a 3-0 lead against Memphis on Saturday.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler might have married a woman of Jewish descent, according to DNA analysis.
A new TV documentary will claim that Eva Braun, the lover whom the anti-Semitic fuhrer married shortly before they both killed themselves in 1945, was possibly of Jewish ancestry.
The Dead Famous DNA film - to be screened on Channel 4 Wednesday - tested hair samples which are said to have come from a hairbrush used by Braun and discovered at Hitler's mountain retreat.
The German leader, behind the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War, was 23 years older than his lover - who fell in love with him when she was a teenager - and worried the relationship would affect his image, he kept her largely hidden away at his Alpine residence, the Berghof.
A team of scientists examined the hair - which was sourced by presenter Mark Evans - and they found a particular sequence within the DNA, which had been passed down the maternal line - the haplogroup N1b1 - which the channel said was "strongly associated" with Ashkenazi Jews, who make up around 80% of the global Jewish population. Many Ashkenazi Jews in Germany converted to Catholicism in the 19th century.
Evans said: "This is a thought-provoking outcome - I never dreamt that I would find such a potentially extraordinary and profound result."
Although programme-makers said the provenance of the hair was strong, the only way to prove beyond doubt that it was from Braun would have been to take a DNA swab from one of her two surviving female descendants, but both refused when approached, so there is still an element of mystery.
The hairs came from a monogrammed hairbrush found at the Bavarian residence by American army intelligence officer Paul Baer, a US 7th Army captain, who had privileged access to the property and took a number of items from Braun's private apartment. Photographs taken at Berghof in 1945 show him with the hairbrush.
His son Alan Baer said: "In our basement I remember there was a duffel bag and in the duffel bag there were several Nazi ceremonial daggers, a human skull and this case with the initials in gold, E.B.
"We opened it up and there was a mirror and a hairbrush. It was just a cosmetic box in a duffel bag brought from Hitler's home."
He went on: "My father was a German-born Jew who came to America in 1929.
"Because of his background he was in the CIC, which was a forerunner of the CIA, and he was allowed to go to these places.
"When the concentration camps were liberated he was allowed to go into them. His mother and two sisters were taken to the camps. He never found them."
Following his father's death in the 1970s, Mr Baer sold the brush to a dealer who in turn passed the hair on to a dealer who specialised in hair, John Reznikoff. Mr Evans bought eight strands of the hair from Mr Reznikoff for 2,000 US dollars (£1,205).
The final programme of the Dead Famous DNA series will be screened on Wednesday at 9pm. Other famous figures whose DNA has been examined by the shows have included Elvis Presley, John F Kennedy and Napoleon.


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BRITISH COMICS: 2000AD Prog 1643: Judge Dredd & Zombies!
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Reviews, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Independent,
Whenever I'm in London, which is where I am this week, I like to check out the local comic books. And I don't mean the repackaged American comics that Marvel does, or the magazine-sized comic books like Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation that feature quizzes, puzzles and games inbetween a repackaged American comic. (Although the UK Star Trek comic does a very nice job of repackaging IDW's Star Trek comic with an assortment of photos and features on the new movie.) I'm talking about the stuff the Brits do for themselves, specifically for the newsstand. Stuff like…Judge Dredd.
I've been a casual Judge Dredd fan for years. Back in the 90s, I worked my way through the collections from Titan Books with all that great Brian Bolland and Mike McMahon artwork, I read the DC Comics mini-series and I saw the godawful Judge Dredd movie with Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider. So I have some familiarity with the Judge and his colleagues, which led me to pick up 2000 AD, Prog 1643 from July 8, 2009.
The cover is a nice zombie-baby horror from Leigh Gallagher, tying into this issue's final story.
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DC Comics Review: Red Robin #2
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, DC Comics,
Rating: ***
Another descent issue of Red Robin by writer Chris Yost. I'm not blown away here, but I am enjoying this new journey that Tim Wayne is on right now. Tim is alone. He feels betrayed by Dick Grayson his "older brother" so to speak and the bastard son of the Batman family Damian has taken over his job as Robin. As mentioned in the previous issue, Tim Wayne believes that his mentor and adopted father Bruce Wayne the original Batman is still alive and well and Tim has gone out into the world to search for clues as to his whereabouts.
He's currently in Paris and finds himself fighting a group of assassins. The assassins turn to be working for one of Batman's deadliest enemies: Ra's al Ghul. Ra's has an offer for Tim. He agrees with and he also believes that Bruce Wayne is really alive and wants to help him. How does Ra's know Bruce is alive? We don't know. Why does Ra's want to help Tim? We don't know this one either, but I'm assuming Ra's wants his revenge on Bruce and what better way to do it than use his son to get to him.
I've mentioned this before and I said that Tim seems to becoming more dark like his father Bruce. When he's fighting Ra's' assassins, he's thinking about how he needs to work on his voice in the same way Bruce put on his "Batman" voice when he was fighting. He's also pushing people away in the same Bruce has done so in the past. He deletes the messages of friends who are trying to contact him and he turns his back on Stephanie - the Spoiler who comes looking for him in this issue.
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Tom's Story Starts to Unravel in The Unwritten #3
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Reviews, DC Comics,
Being a literature-embracing nerd myself, it was no wonder that Mike Carey and Peter Gross hooked me into their latest Vertigo series, The Unwritten, in a whole of two issues. With that said, I can assure that you'll love these books just as much as I do, even if you absolutely detest the English language. I am that confident in the series. This is the team that gave us Lucifer, after all.
While issues #1 and #2 brazenly hook you into Tom Taylor's world (mind you, something this epic needs the two-issue start), The Unwritten #3 is the true beginning of his tale.
Tom travels to the legendary Villa Diodati, birthplace of both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and "Tommy Taylor." Interspersed through the issue, Carey and Gross provide us with Tom's childhood flashbacks from when he and his father spent time at the notorious manor. The connection between Pullman and his father becomes increasingly apparent as Pullman's lackey appears at the Villa with a penchant for havoc.
Carey's affinity for literature (astoundingly exemplified with Tom's geo-lit knowledge) heightens. The beautiful parallel between Frankenstein and Tom—not subtle per se, as they chose to embody this theme in the cover—proves that Carey has an eye for that which he admires. He does this all while maintaining the alarming critique of our society's fixation with celebrity figures. Moreover, he concurrently blurs the lines between fiction and reality in a way that said critique is made probable without coming off as overbearing.
Get to your local comic book store and pick up The Unwritten—there are only three issues, so it'll be quite easy to catch up.
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DC Comics Review: Batman #688
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, DC Comics,
Rating: ** !/2*
This month's issue of Batman is not as good as the previous issue. I can't put my finger on why that is, but I was left kind of with a whatever attitude after I read this story, where I was pumped after I finished reading Batman and Robin last week. I think maybe the reason I felt this way was because of the way Judd Winick wrote the character of Dick Grayson. He seemed weak. I still don't feel like he's confident that he can do the job when he's been fighting crime all his life. I know DC wants him to portray him as if he's not worthy, but he is worthy - more than worthy. Which is why I was a bit upset by two scenes in this particular issue.
One scene is the opening scene where we see Dick dressed as Batman fighting an unknown assailant in the Bat-Cave three weeks from now. The assailant knows he's not the real Batman and is telling him so as he kicks the crap out of him. Dick lays defeated at the foot of his mentor's cowl encased in glass with the assailant ready for the kill. This scene screams you're a loser and a pretender. The second scene is comical, but again it seems like what we have here in Dick is a pretender to the throne. Dick is talking to Alfred about the cape and cowl and how he can't see and the cape is too heavy to move around. I know that DC wanted to change the dynamic of Batman and Robin and have Robin be the dark figure while Batman is more light hearted, but it doesn't seem to work here in this issue, where it's been portrayed well over in Batman and Robin.
We've seen in the previous issue as well as in the Battle for the Cowl mini-series that the Penguin and Two-Face are both trying to take over the Gotham City underworld. On a side note, I wonder what happened to the Black Mask. Wasn't he supposed to be involved as well? Maybe he'll show up later. Anyway, Dick Grayson as Batman stops one of the Penguin's shipments and is caught on camera. Two-Face notices something is different about Batman. He finds it interesting that the Batman would even allow himself to get on camera in the first place. After watching the footage Two-Face says to his cohort that the man in the Batman costume is not Batman.
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DC Comics Review: Batman and Robin #2
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, DC Comics,
Rating: ****
Wow. I just can't believe how much I'm enjoying Batman and Robin. I know I've said this in my review for issue one, but after reading Batman: RIP and Final Crisis, I thought there is no way I would enjoy anything from Grant Morrison from here on out. Batman and Robin #2 is a big home run for DC Comics. I don't know what it is, but Grant is just rocking and rolling right now.
In the last issue we saw the Circus of Strange hit Gotham City with their own weird secret agenda and here in this issue the new Batman and Robin face off against them in Gotham Police Headquarters. The new dynamic duo also come face to face with Commissioner Gordon and he notices that this is not the old Batman and Robin that he's known over the past few years. He gives them a pass, but I'm not sure if he's going to do that again as Damian takes things a little too far.
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DC Comics Review: Detective Comics #854
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, DC Comics,
Rating: ***
Batman: Reborn continues in the pages of Detective Comics this week. Big changes have been happening in the world of Batman and one of those changes is that Batman will not be appearing in the pages of Detective Comics. Instead we have the new Batwoman Kate Kane flying solo in Detective Comics with Greg Rucka as writer and J.H. Williams as the new artist for the book. Batwoman is not a character that really grabbed me when she first appeared in the pages of 52.
According to Wikipedia, Barbara Gordon was originally supposed to return as Batgirl a while back, but wanting to be more diverse and continue to have a handicapped character, DC decided to bring back Batwoman instead. It seemed more like DC wanting to do a bunch of different things here: 1) Bring back a Silver Age character. 2) Bring in a new female character in the male dominated world of super-hero comics and 3) make her a lesbian to show even more diversity. I have no problem with any of these reasons, I just think DC mishandled her introduction to the DC Universe and didn't give me a reason to care about this character. However with this first issue of her in Detective Comics, they've taken a good first step in giving me a reason to read stories about Batwoman.
With the prices of comic books going up, and being the father of two children and a mortgage to pay, comic books can be an expensive hobby to continue. So I have the various titles I collect on a very short leash. If after an issue or two I don't find myself interested in the story anymore, the comic gets dropped from my pull list. This first story has a good beginning and its given me a reason to stick around.
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DC Comics Review: Batman Confidential # 30
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, DC Comics,
Rating: *** 1/2*
This month's issue of "Batman Confidential" is a big improvement from last month's issue. Last month we got part one of a two part story entitled "Bad Cop" by Andrew Kreisberg and Scott McDaniel. This was a sequel to Kreisberg's story which appeared in "Batman Confidential" earlier in the year. As I said, part one was a disappointment to me, but this issue ups the ante with a tense stand off between Jim Gordon and Bad Cop with Gordon's daughter Barbara caught in the middle.
Kreisberg is kind of creating his own separate Bat-Universe that I wouldn't mind seeing continue. In his first story he brilliantly told the story of the first time Batman brought the Joker into Gotham PD for booking. I'd like to see some other "first" stories that he could write. Has there been a Jason Todd Year One yet? I think Kreisberg could do some great stuff with Jason.
In the last issue the former police officer Geoff Shancoe had escaped from Arkham and assumed the identity of the villain Bad Cop. He's angry about the death of his wife at the hands of the Joker and takes it out on rookie cops at the Gotham Police Academy where Montoya is located. Both Batman and Shancoe's former partner confront him. Bad Cop wants to die. He's too distraught to want to live after everything that has happened and figured by committing a viscous crime he could get killed in the process. Neither Batman or Shancoe's former partner oblige him of his wishes. So Bad Cop goes another route.
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DC Comics Review: The Flash: Rebirth #3
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, DC Comics,
Rating: ***
Barry Allen is back from the dead. He's returned to his old life as the Flash, but just as he begins his new life, strange things have begun happening. In the last two issues we've seen that when ever Barry touches a speedster, they either die or are hit with excruciating pain. At the end of issue two, Barry has become the new Black Flash which is a sort of angel of death for the speedsters of the DC Universe. And that's where we are right now in the story of "The Flash: Rebirth".
I'm enjoying this series so far. It's not been the best Flash storyline I've ever read, but its a good story by Geoff Johns and amazing artwork by Ethan Van Sciver. I like that Johns is bringing in just about everything that has to do with the Flash. I love the Flash's history and think he has one of the best rogues gallery in comics. This issue opens up with a mysterious assailant going after the Flash villain Abra Kadabra. We don't see the assailant, but he or she says to Kadabra that, "There isn't room in this century for the both of us." The assailant then yells the phrase abra kadabra and then proceeds to burn Abra Kadabra himself.
We then see Liberty Belle and Hourman at the JSA headquarters discussing her parents Johnny Quick and the original Liberty Belle. An explosion happens and we see Johnny Quick calling out to Barry not to hurt Jesse (the current Liberty Belle). Why? Johnny is dead and was absorbed into the Speed Force. Does he think Barry will hurt Jesse and the others on purpose?
We then go to Barry who is being held in a containment field while the JLA and JSA try to help him. The Black Flash entity is taking over Barry and he asks Green Lantern to take him away from everyone as it seems that he can't control it. Barry decides to then give up and run back to the Speed Force to save everyone from himself. As he runs away we get the return of the classic plot line of the Superman/Flash race as Superman runs after Barry to try and convince him to stick around so they can help him. But Barry proves himself to be the fastest man alive and out runs Superman as he begins racing through time.
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DC Comics Review: Red Robin #1
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, DC Comics,
Rating: ***
When it was announced that there would be a new Batman and Robin, a guessing game began. When a teaser image was released, we all made the assumption that the new Batman would be Dick Grayson and that the new Robin would be Damian Wayne. DC tried to keep the guessing game going, but in the end, we were all right. When the announcement came that a "Red Robin" title would be launched, with a new person behind the mask we made the assumption it was Tim Drake aka Tim Wayne. Well, guess what, we were right again!
I've revealed that in my opening paragraph because I don't feel its worth it to continue teasing that information or say beware of spoilers. We knew it was coming and now Tim is Red Robin with the quest to find his presumed dead mentor: Bruce Wayne.
This was a good issue, but not a great start to the series. I think the reason why I'm interested in collecting this book is because of the character of Tim Wayne. Tim has developed into arguable the best character DC has created in over the past twenty years. He's developed from this young, intelligent, and innocent boy who discovered the identity of Batman, to this man who seems to be not only capable of taking over for Batman, but he could be an even be a better Batman than Bruce could ever be.
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DC Comics Review: Batman #687
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, DC Comics,
Rating: *** 1/2*
When DC announced the new direction they would be going with in the Batman books, I wasn't happy. With this new direction would come a new monthly book called "Batman and Robin" which would be written by Grant Morrison. I wasn't happy. Then came the news that Judd Winick would take over the "Batman" monthly title. Still not happy. I thought to myself, that I probably may end up not reading any of the Batman books that DC would be publishing for the foreseeable future or until Bruce Wayne returned as Batman. Well, if you read my review from last week, you know I was very surprised and absolutely enjoyed "Batman and Robin". So what about Judd's first issue of "Batman," well, DC is two-for-two in my book as I absolutely loved this week's issue of "Batman".
The story is an epilogue to "Batman: Battle for the Cowl" and it shows some of the events that lead up to where Grant Morrison's story begins in "Batman and Robin". The issue shows various moments where members of the Batman family and the super hero community deal with the news of Bruce's death. Some very moving scenes were done here, particularly the one in the cave with Alfred. I'm not a huge fan of Ed Benes's art work, but he does a good job here with some moving visual images that set the tone of everyone's feelings concerning Bruce.
As I said, there are some powerful moments in this book as we see Dick Grayson breakdown and cry over the death of Bruce Wayne, but the most moving scene come from Alfred. Superman and Wonder Woman return Bruce's cape and cowl to give to Dick and Tim in the Batcave. As they discuss Bruce's death, Alfred enters the cave with some refreshments for everyone. Superman asks him if he's alright and Alfred's response is, "Am I all right? No, sir. I am not. My son has just died." I'm not sure if this sentiment was ever expressed by Alfred in any other comic, but for Alfred to say that about Bruce was dead on. Thank you, Mr. Winick. Bruce Wayne was orphaned, but he gained a father in Alfred from a very early age and Alfred has watched his "son" grow up to be a great man. I was happy to see that moment expressed here.
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Residents are about to feel the impact of tax bills that could be 20 percent, 30 percent, or as much as 70 percent more than in 2011
For most of us, the news of what we will owe in property taxes this year came with no surprises.
The annual TRIM notices (an acronym for "Truth in Millage") arrived last week from the property appraiser's office, which determined that property values, upon which the taxes are based, went down about 1 percent overall in Sarasota County.
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Rafferty was upset when he learned the property appraiser had increased Bay Indies' estimated land value by 21.7 percent per lot.
As it turns out, Bay Indies was one of the "lucky" ones.
At nearby Ridgewood and Venice Ranch, per lot valuation rose 54.6 percent and 61 percent, respectively. And at Camelot Lakes in Sarasota, value for tax purposes rose 66.9 percent per lot.
Rafferty hopes to repeat a 2010 appeal when he and officers of the Bay Indies homeowners association persuaded the property appraiser's office to revise downward a similar increase in valuation.
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Twenty–eight years ago, Val (Al Pacino) chose to protect the identity of his close associates and has been in prison ever since. Now Val is a free man, and his best friend Doc (Christopher Walken) is there to take him in. The trouble is mob-boss, Mr. Claphands, holds a grudge against Val and has secretly ordered Doc to kill Val now that he is out of prison— or Doc will be killed. While Doc conceals his conundrum from Val, he convinces Claphands to let Val live through the night delaying his duties until morning. For one night they can revel in Val's newfound freedom pursuing mayhem.
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Citation Analysis and Research Assessment in the United Kingdom
Julian Warner serves as international liaison to the ASIS&T Board of Directors. He is affiliated with the School of Management and Economics at The Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com
Evaluation of publicly funded university research in the United Kingdom has been conducted through a series of Research Assessment Exercises (RAEs) in 1992, 1996 and 2001. The results of the RAEs have been used as a factor in the calculation of public funds for distribution to universities for research. The primary mechanism used for the research evaluation has been direct peer review of submissions and publications from university departments. The conduct of the RAEs, the public debate generated and a recent central government report of future research evaluation has generated issues relevant to other jurisdictions and to the interest in research evaluation within information science. In particular, a crucial transformation in the value of citation analysis in research evaluation can be detected.
Two antithetical viewpoints on the appropriate relation of citation analysis to the RAEs have coexisted within information science, developing since the mid-1990s. The dominant approach established strong correlations between rankings of entities for research assessment derived from citation analyses and from RAE grades. Replacement of the process of peer review embodied in RAE procedures by an ordering (and conversion of the ordering into grades) determined by the results of citation analyses was then advocated on the grounds of broad equivalence of results and lower relative costs.
An alternative perspective (articulated by the current author) acknowledged the correlations established but argued that citation analysis may be used to inform, rather than to determine, judgment and does not even have to be used for this purpose. Advocacy of the use of citation analysis to determine grades has been strongest within information science as reflected in the number of authors and publications advocating it, the status of journals for publication and in numbers of citations received although citations have been made predominantly from within information science rather than from other disciplinary literatures. Dialogue between the two viewpoints has been apparent but has not resulted in an accepted synthesis.
The dialogue could be regarded as occurring between incommensurable paradigms or at least as not being fully resolvable from a Kuhnian perspective by the participants from either paradigm. Resolution by an external observer, acknowledged to have cognitive authority for this purpose and concerned not only with the internal or logical coherence of each approach but with their real world effects and value, would then be welcome. An analogy could be made with court judgments between disputants and further with the process of referral to higher courts.
The recent central government report, Review of Research Assessment, was conducted by privileged observers credited with cognitive authority and concerned with real world implementation. The report does not directly engage with the literature of information science (and is free from a scholarly apparatus of citations and bibliography), but was informed by submissions, the understandings of participants in workshops and published literature on the RAEs.
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The congruence between the position developed by the critique of citation analysis and the recommendations of the report for future research assessment is striking. The critique had concluded
citation analysis can be employed as one element used to inform judgment of research quality, with judgment underdetermined by any single element.
Similarly, the first recommendation of the report insists:
Recommendation 1. Any system of research assessment designed to identify the best research must be based upon the judgment of experts, who may, if they choose, employ performance indicators to inform their judgment.
Performance indicators should be understood to include the results of citation analyses. There are indications of movement over time in the understandings of some of the members of the steering group of the review, from a determining to an informing use of performance indicators.
Some of us believed, at the outset of the process, that there might be some scope for assessing research on the basis of performance indicators we are now convinced that the only system that will enjoy both the confidence and the consent of the academic community is one based ultimately upon expert review.
The preference for peer review over the determining use of performance indicators is based principally on its ability to resist behavioral distortions and does acknowledge the contrasting levels of labor and costs involved.
The risk of the unproductive distortion of research behavior to conform with evaluative measures forms a persistent theme of the report and is emphasized in the Preface:
More important, I urge the funding councils to remember that all evaluation mechanisms distort the processes they purport to evaluate.
Only peer review can detect and resist unwanted behavioral distortions:
We are also convinced that only a system based ultimately upon expert judgment is sufficiently resistant to unintended behavioral consequences to prevent distorting the very nature of research activity.
Bibliometric measures are understood to be included in the performance indicators, which might promote undesirable results. The possibility of distortion of citation practices by the use of citation analysis in evaluation had been anticipated by the critique and by other commentaries.
The contrasting levels of direct human labor and the costs of that labor involved in peer review and in the determining use of performance indicators are acknowledged. The burden of peer review is accepted by the report. It is also recognized that the promise of reduced labor offered by citation analysis might be betrayed by the magnitude of the task of editing data into a form acceptable for comparisons between entities for assessment in a large country, such as the United Kingdom. The argument from relative costs for the use of citation analysis to determine judgment has then been considered and rejected.
The reports own and proposed use of citation analysis and other performance indicators is consistent with its informative role. In relation to current considerations, the increase in citations received by United Kingdom papers since the introduction of the RAEs is used to support the reviews judgment of the improvement in United Kingdom research. For future use, peer reviewers are to be informed by performance indicators but not compelled to reflect them in grades awarded (for the Research Quality Analysis proposed to replace the RAEs). Performance indicators would only form the basis of assessment for those entities with quantities of research below the level commensurate with the costs of peer review (the Research Capacity Analysis).
A dispute within information science has been decisively resolved by privileged external observers, in favor of the view that citation analysis may be, and does not have to be, used to inform expert judgment. The congruence in conclusions between the report and the alternative perspective within information science is matched by similarities in reasoning, particularly the recognition of the risk of distortion of behavior. The reports preference for peer review is partly a product of changes in the reviewers understandings, through their consideration of relevant evidence. The resolution of the dispute must be acknowledged by future work in citation analysis, if it is to retain its relevance to wider public discourse.
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