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Hey Guys, I wasn't sure if this was the right spot to post this, but I assumed that no one better than code junkies to ask about building a website. I had a designed all lined up to make a website for my business and he flaked out. I'm not needing anything amazingly fancy or world class, just a simple/function website that looks good and performs equally as well. I also am in need of a logo for my business, something that I can use online as well as have printed on a few polo tees. Anyone interested? If this was posted in the wrong area, please feel free to move it moderators. The Bargain basement just seemed too dead for it to get noticed at all.
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Northern Illinois senior student-athletes Lauren
Eberts (women's soccer), Samantha Grams (volleyball), Shaakira Haywood (women's
basketball), Jenelle McCalla (track & field) and Amanda Sheppard (softball)
have been honored as 2013 Outstanding Women Student Awards for their
contributions to Northern Illinois University. Awarded annually since 1980, the
honor is given by the NIU Presidential Commission on the Status of Women to 48
women across all disciplines. Eberts, who has a 3.762 GPA in public health, played
in every minute of the team's 2012 season. The senior defender helped NIU allow
the fewest goals in the Mid-American Conference and the second-fewest shots on
goal in NIU's program history. Grams maintains a 3.805 GPA as a health sciences
major. The Forest Park, Ill., native earned Academic
All-MAC honorable mention laurels during her senior campaign with the Huskies
after playing in 24 matches and 62 sets in 2012. Grams totaled 28 kills, 39
blocks and 14 digs during the year, scoring 48 total points during the season. Haywood has a 3.687 GPA in psychology.
She played
in all 30 games, starting 12 at center in 2012-13 and has played in 37 straight
games dating back to February of 2012. Haywood scored a career-high 73 points,
averaging 2.4 points a game, shooting 43.3 percent (26-60) on the season. McCalla, who has a perfect 4.0 GPA in psychology, holds the NIU school
record in the 400 hurdles with a time of 1:01.76. This year, the Whitby,
Ontario, Canada, native qualified for the MAC Indoor Championships in the 60
hurdles, while also contributing on NIU's 4x400 relay teams. Sheppard has a 3.495 GPA in kinesiology and helped the Huskies reach
the 2013 MAC Championship game. The Oak Forest, Ill., native batted .298 and
ranked second on the team with a .470 slugging percentage, while playing in all
57 games. Sheppard also was second on the team with 18 extra-base hits,
including a team-best 12 doubles and five home runs.
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I only have the key to your heart
But who has the map to the treasure chest?
Love & Happiness
They used to talk about
Ladies & Gentlemen
We'e gonna let the beat rock
Set the scene for my story, my movie
I hope you all feelin' beautiful tonight? I'm jokin'
Uh yo
[Verse 1]
What's a dream to a feen?
The theme song for a nigga whose cast is broke, tied to a sling
Language of gang bangers
Me & my niggas gang bang with magnums
But nah you can't say it's the same thing
We fuck hoes, suck hoes
We smash em'
We cut hoes.We duck hoes
We pass em
Damn it's embarrassing, where's the good parenting?
Another cheat, Another lie, another marriage end
You ballin'? How many points you averaging?
If it ain't bills like Clinton then lee like Madison
Cause people are too cruel, people are too cool
People are new school, they always say you cool but we isn't
They always say they do it, but they didn't
They always say they gone do it never did it
They always say they want but never gone get it
I got it!
If I divide the product and multiply it, by equal sides
Will it add to your ass? Or just 69
We were like eleven, seven minutes in heaven
You ball for 23, I ball for 24
You thought I meant Kobe, I thought you meant Lebron
I guess I thought wrong, I thought you were the one
But 3rd times a charm, now how the hell did we lead to 69?
Oh here we go again!
Me & You, Laid back Chillin' in my room
You say it's getting late, & you're all up in my face
And what's your scrub ass doing creepin tonight?
You see loves got a hold on me
[Verse 2]
That's supposed to be the bridge but I burned all mine
Never came on time, always cut long lines
Never see eye to eye even if I was cross eyed
Tonight your tongue tied with one guy, that don't get green from the rock like fungi
He got 3 strikes like umpires.
You messing with them guys?
You can't even give a real nigga one try?
Huh? Can't give a real nigga one try?
Not even one time, Not even one line?
911 emergency, minus the 702
Let's cut the R&B, Now you divide that by 2
And I just can't believe it, she just took half so she could get even
You tryna deport me?
You tryna extort me?
I used to be your baby now you tryna abort me
You paid till you 18, but now I'm Jeremy Linnin'
And I don't think that you get it, you tryna child support me
Oh here we go again!
That's supposed to be the bridge but I got it
Ass doing creepin tonight
Creepin Tonight


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Though N'Sync fans are still celebrating Chris Kirkpatrick's Nov. 4 wedding to longtime girlfriend Karly Skladany, another member of the famed boy band, Lance Bass, is currently preparing for his own nuptials. Us Weekly broke the story that Bass, 34 had proposed to boyfriend Michael Turchin in September 2013. And on Nov. 9, the singer talked to Us about his wedding planning at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center 42nd Anniversary Vanguard Awards Gala, and the surprising source of his wedding advice.
PHOTOS: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake and other 2012 celeb weddings
"I'm so glad I went to Chris' wedding because I forgot about some of my old management company people," he told Us. "And then we were sitting there talking to Jessie Biel, too, and she gave us a lot of great pointers. And she had some really great ideas."
"One really cool idea she had was that, on the invites -- because we love our onesies -- send out personalized onesies to all our guests so that at midnight after the reception it turns into a pajama party," he added. "How fun would that be? I think we might be doing that one. That was something we both loved."
PHOTOS: Jessica Biel's best white dresses
Biel, 31, married Bass' friend and former N'Sync member Justin Timberlake, 32, in October 2012. The entire group got together for Kirkpatrick's nuptials, and Bass said it was just like old times.
"It's very immature," he revealed. "We still pretend we're 16. A lot of fart jokes. A lot of old jokes that keep resurfacing. It's like nothing ever changed."
PHOTOS: Jessica Biel's red carpet evolution
Bass has few details about the actual day, but he does know that it will take place sometime next year, probably around October.
"We've slowly but surely started planning it," he said. "It'll be a year from now. But it's a lot. It sure is a lot."
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Lance Bass Says Justin Timberlake's Wife, Jessica Biel, Is Helping Him Plan His Wedding


text: By proclamation, there shall be Eastside Meet-ups: Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland. Current Status: Meet-ups are ON! Yes, even when it's raining. Just post up and let us know you'll be there. Who: You! Drag your sorry butt out and have a beverage with us. When: Thursdays around 6pm! Where: Bellevue Brewing Company 1820 130th Avenue N.E. Suite 2, Bellevue, WA 98005 www.bellevuebrewing.com Why: Do you really need a reason? And we promise we won't harass you TOO much if you drive the cage to the bar. (We'll change this page if it's decided by general acclamation to move the gathering somewhere else.)


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Wasatch Range (South) > Provo Peak > Climber's Log
Provo Peak Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Up the West Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2009
|The road in was quite bad - there was an avalanche about 3 miles from the trail head, but we crawled over it in my buddy's pickup without too much drama.
Lots of route-finding before we hit the ridge. After that, just a steep, rough climb in heavy winds (I estimated sustained bursts at 60 mph based on the "head out the window on the freeway" tests). Summited about 7 PM. It would help to be a little more conditioned than I am; I underestimated this one.
|Posted Jun 6, 2009 11:42 am
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2009
|Hiked up the west ridge. The snow was pretty much gone except for a few patches. I had to hike 3 extra miles round trip because of a snow slide covering the road.
|Posted Jun 3, 2009 7:07 pm
|Winter climb from Rock Canyon
Date Climbed: Dec 31, 2008
|Wife and I hiked up Rock Canyon and climbed up the west ridge on New Years Eve, my ninth time on the summit. We used snowshoes most of the way but cached them part way up the ridge and went with ice axes alone. We saw no one all day, but snowmobile tracks on the Squaw Peak Road made that part of the hike easier. The trip took from first light to dark. It was a beautiful white day!
The false summits on Provo Peak used to drive me nuts. But I learned to watch the peak just south of the summit and not expect to be close till I was looking down on it! No more disappointments. :-)
|Posted Feb 20, 2009 10:38 pm
|Great views
Date Climbed: Jan 17, 2009
|With Brent, Christine, Dave, and Moogie737. Beautiful day and great views from the summit. It took 9 hr and 45 min and would have been even longer if Brent, Dave, and Moogie737 hadn't broken most of the trail the week before.
|Posted Jan 18, 2009 7:06 pm
|Y Mtn over Lion Head route
Date Climbed: Mar 2, 2010
|First ascent on 1-17-09 via the Rock Canyon TH; along with Dave, Christine, Zeejay and Brent. Left the TH at 6:45 am and returned at 4:30 pm. Hard work but worth it. With luck a trip report may materialize. #2 3-2-10 This route is a tougher one than Rock Canyon because of elevation gain. With Brent, Dave and Anne. Plan for a minimum of 11 hours r/t. For us, it was a fine winter adventure. #3 7-17-10 Drove to the TH at 8,350' (high clearance a must). Solo. 1+09 to top, then bagged East Provo Peak. Returned over Provo Peak to find Boy Scouts and signal mirrors on major peaks in the Wasatch. 0+51 down.
|Posted Jan 18, 2009 12:23 am
|A long time ago
|Up the CCC terraces.
|Posted Dec 7, 2008 11:28 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2008
|Sweet. went with my buddy matt. got to the dirt turnout on the road behind squaw peak. started up the obvious trail - NOTE: about 100-200 yards after you start, get off the main 4wd trail and start climbing! we didn't and ended up bushwhacking up to the ridge. going up took like 2:20 because we got lost at first; down was 1 hour. really pretty. fall colors.
|Posted Sep 27, 2008 1:55 pm
|Scott Wesemann
|What a view!
Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2008
|With Steve and Brett Bohman. The fall colors were amazing and we did not see another soul. Once on top the great weather we were having instantly was gone, as a large cloud enveloped the mountain and proceeded to dump snow on us for the remainder of the hike. Traversed over to the East peak and the ridge is (BIGGEST CHOSS PILE IN THE WASATCH) horrible. Loose scree and rock and after we got onto the class 3 stuff, the rock was wet and dangerous, so we backed off and headed back up to Provo peak and then back down. It snowed on us the whole way back. what a fun hike.
|Posted Sep 22, 2008 5:00 pm
|Great 4th of July Hike
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2007
|Jason (my brother), Ammon and his brother, Slade (my boyfriend), and I made it to the top of this steep climb. There were great views and strangely tons of butterflies!
|Posted Sep 7, 2008 12:28 pm
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2008
|Great views even with the haze. It was my brothers-in-law (age 14 and 12) first time at 11000 feet. They did great! Fun hike despite the bane of my existence: shale. Good workout, a little early route finding which mostly consisted of looking up and finding the ridge. :)
|Posted Jul 12, 2008 9:06 pm
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2008
|It was a nice time to drive the Squaw Peak road, which I'd never done before: everything was very green. A little bushwhacking above the old bulldozer track before finding the trail. Same thing on the way down. This route is a good, short workout, and it was cool to be on the highest thing between Timp and Nebo, but kind of anticlimactic after South Thunder the previous week, and the limestone scree is not my favorite hiking surface; this made me change my mind about scrambling the disintegrating ridge over to the East Peak. Guess I'm not such a peakbagger after all. That side-trip, nasty now, would have been fun on snow, but there was not much of that left, so I'd left my ice axe in the car. And ah, the sounds of nature, such as two-stroke engines and gunshots. I did enjoy the wildflowers a lot. Worth doing, but if I ever go back it will be winter.
|Posted Jun 22, 2008 10:28 pm
|West Slope Approach
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2007
|Despite the fact that this hike nearly broke my spirits, once on top the views were fantastic. I watched as Ammon Hatch tried to solo to East, and made the decision to stay put based on how it was going for him (and the fact that I had no strength left in my legs). Good times.
|Posted Feb 26, 2008 11:30 am
|Northwestern Ridge Climb
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2007
|The weather was just perfect that day so I decided to make the trek up the peak. Somehow I missed the cairn turnoff along the trail and ended up blazing my own trail up the Northwestern ridge among the pines. It was slow going, but I finally hit the summit. What an amazing view!! The visibility was spectacular. The temperature at the summit was about 70 degrees with a slight breeze. It couldn't have been more pleasant up there.
|Posted Oct 17, 2007 1:42 pm
|Steve Elmer
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2007
|Short and steep with sweet views. FYI: Watch out for hunters.
|Posted Sep 26, 2007 10:09 pm
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2007
|I had a tuesday off so I headed for Provo Peak, one I had my eyes on for some time. I parked higher up and followed an atv track until it intersected the usual climbers trail. Steep in many places but the views were expansive and just got better the higher up I got. From the log I was the first one up there since Labor day. Strange that a great peak this close to major cities gets very little activity. The trail I found is good all the way to the summit and is worth looking for.
|Posted Sep 19, 2007 4:38 pm
|Provo Peak.
|Ive done this hill many times and in all times of the year. I love it.
|Posted Sep 5, 2007 1:55 pm
|Popular now?
Date Climbed: Sep 29, 2012
|Sept 29, 2012. Seems like Provo Peak is now popular, saw 8 other people out there today, in the past I've had the place to myself.
The Fall colors were nice.
June 20, 2009. I'm finishing up the Wasatch 11,000er's and I needed to bag East Peak, so I first summited Provo Peak (and it was snowing on the peak), and then lost a bunch of Elevation trying to follow the ridge to East Peak. It took 1.5 hours to summit Provo Peak, and another 1.5 hours to traverse over to East Peak. The traverse is steep. Lots of wind and driving rain to deal with on this solo trip.
No more Peak Cairn?
Aug 11, 2008
Two years ago, when I climbed Provo Peak there was a carin on the peak. Today (August 11, 2008) the cairn was gone.... which one of you destoryed it?
Anyway, from the Squaw peak road it took me less than 1.5 hours to summit.
Route Finding
Date Climbed: Sep 30, 2006
I drove up Squaw Peak road to the base of Provo Peak, then just made my own way up to the peak, walking through and over the man made terraces along the way. Eventually I came to the north ridge and followed that to the peak. On the peak, inside the cairn, I found a log book, which I signed. I did find a faint trail down the west side on the return trip.
|Posted Aug 31, 2007 12:49 pm
|West Ridge and East Peak
Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2007
|Hiked up the West ridge then once at the top traversed down and up East Peak. Descending down on the way over to east peak we stayed on the ridge / rock as much as possible and dropped down to the south a few times. A bit sketchy on the Scree going down between provo peak and east peak but possible with some hiking poles to help with balance. On the way back if you stay on the ridge you only have to drop down to the south a few times. Is there another route up East peak??
|Posted Jul 19, 2007 12:08 am
|W. Ridge
Date Climbed: May 11, 2007
|Squaw Peak Road wasn't open yet, so I decided to ride my bike in... Made for a long day. Great summit though, awesome views.
Full TR here: http://www.danransom.com/TripReports/?p=26
|Posted Jul 16, 2007 12:22 pm
|Ammon Hatch
|West Slope
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2007
|Pretty steep, but short. I attempted to solo over to East Provo, but decided against it after 20 minutes of banging my head against a wall. I suggest it to no one.
The road was passable by passenger cars, so the horrible nature of the road is either exaggerated, or it has been improved lately.
|Posted Jul 4, 2007 11:35 pm


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By far the biggest game-changer (in my opinion) to BibleWorks 9 (and to Bible software in general!) is the BibleWorks Manuscripts Project. I've written a bit about it on the unofficial BibleWorks blog.
You can also see a video of it in action here. View the video on the MSS Tab.


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Early Admission: College of Health Professions
2+2 Early Admission for Undergraduate Programs (BS and BPS)
SUNY Upstate is an upper-division transfer college specializing in health care careers. Students take the prerequisite courses (minimum 60 semester hours) at another college and then complete their junior and senior years of the bachelors degree at Upstate for their program of study. Through our 2+2 Early Admission Program, students can apply to SUNY Upstate's College of Health Professions in their senior year of high school for consideration for admission for their junior and senior years.
- Medical Biotechnology, BS (pre-requisite courses)
- Medical Imaging Sciences/X-ray, BS (pre-requisite courses)
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- Respiratory Therapy, BS (pre-requisite courses)
- Radiation Therapy, BS or BPS (pre-requisite courses)
Accepted students complete a minimum of 60 semester hours of college level pre-requisites at the college of their choice. Upstate guarantees these students a position in the program they were admitted to provided the student has met all conditions as outlined in their letter of acceptance.
Early Admission applicants should demonstrate a commitment to pursuing a health profession by volunteering in a health care setting, shadowing a professional in their profession of choice or participation in a Health Explorers Post or New Visions Program.
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- 90% average in a college preparatory program
- Competitive SAT and/or ACT scores
- Present a strong overall record of achievement in college preparatory course work, which must include at least three years of mathematics (Course I, II and III or Algebra, Geometry and Algebra II/Trigonometry) and at least three years of science (including Biology and Chemistry or Physics) at the Regents or Honors level.
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- Apply during the senior year of high school.
- Complete the SUNY Upstate application which is available September 1 to March 1. On the application, select the year you hope to enroll. For example, if you're graduating high school in 2014, select 2016. Do not submit a SUNY application for SUNY Upstate at this time.
- Submit an application(s) to the undergraduate college(s) you intend to attend the first two years.
- Mail the official high school transcript; official SAT and/or ACT scores; and two letters of recommendation to:
SUNY Upstate Medical University
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- Please submit mid-year grades to Student Admissions once they are available. These can be e-mailed (firstname.lastname@example.com), mailed or faxed (315-464-8867).
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- Qualified applicants will be contacted to set up an on-campus interview.
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- Successfully complete all pre-requisite courses for their major, as outlined in their letter of acceptance.
- Maintain a required cumulative grade point average (varies by program.)
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It's Bikini Day!
Chances are that you didn't know that today was National Bikini Day. July 5th will be a day of awesome-ness! You need to go to the beach/pool and enjoy all the wonderful ladies in their bikinis. They probably don't even know they are taking part in such a spectacular day. Every year every man will be counting down to this day, so make sure you enjoy it. We have a video to get you in the spirit of Bikini Day, and then of course the gallery.


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Over the past several weeks, my geeky excursions have led me to all sorts of fashionable, brilliant and creative minds residing in Savannah. But no group is as dear to my heart as the Savannah HP Meetup.
Comprised of the city's biggest Harry Potter fans, HP Meetup is a club that gathers monthly for fun Potter-related activities and geeky conversations.
Most recently, I met with a couple of members to purchase copies of J.K. Rowling's first post-Potter novel, "The Casual Vacancy." The book release was a major turning stone for the Potter community and for Rowling as she marked her official debut as an adult author.
The big question many critics asked was whether Rowling can successfully make the transition to adult novels. And if you've read any of the reviews pouring in since the release, then you already know the answer is a resounding yes.
But many fans, including myself, would argue that Rowling has been writing adult novels for a very long time.
"I thought that it was a children's series," says HP member Betsy Graham. "Then I saw the movie and I loved it. And so I got the first four books and read them back-to-back."
Meetup preserves
the magic
All of the members of HP Meetup are adults who either work full-time jobs, attend colleges or manage our own households and families on a daily basis. But once a month, we'll find time to have fun and connect over our favorite series.
Club founder Nicole Alford organizes the monthly events for HP Meetup.
"We make wands, we stencil butterbeer mugs, we play Harry Potter Kinnect games and board games," Alford says. "And we play Quidditch, too."
A great deal of time is also spent discussing some of the unanswered questions and remaining mysteries in the Harry Potter books and sharing other science-fiction fantasy series with the group.
Members have traveled to conventions such as LeakyCon. And Alford even flew to London, where she was able to attend the movie premiere for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2."
Graham, who is also a member of feltbeats.com, a fan site dedicated to actor Tom Felton of the Harry Potter series, has covered three movie premieres as a member of the press and met several of the major stars in the series.
Embracing the magic
As students, teachers and librarians celebrate the freedom of reading during the 2012 Banned Books Week, HP members are speaking out on behalf of Harry Potter — currently listed as one of the most frequently challenged books of the 21st century.
"I think that anyone who criticizes the series hasn't actually given the series a chance," Graham says.
Not long after the first Harry Potter book was published in 1997, religious groups asserted that the novel — and those that followed after — contained subtexts of witchcraft and the occult.
But on the contrary, recurring themes and storylines in the series reveal parallels to Christianity — particularly the idea that love conquers all, including death.
Following the release of the final book in 2007, Rowling confirmed this reading, saying that she was afraid to admit it sooner for fear readers would uncover the subsequent events of the story.
"Yes, it's about magic," Alford says, "but it's mostly centered around friendship and love and all the things that make stories good."
If you're interested in being a part of Savannah HP Meetup, join us next at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11 for a meet and greet at the downtown Starbucks, 1 E. Broughton St. You can also find us on online at facebook.com/savannahhp.meetup.
Janay Kingsberry is a web producer for SavannahNow.com. She studies journalism at Savannah State University. Find her on Twitter at @_LoisLane or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Find Janay's "Geek On" blogs on savannahnow.com to read her essay "Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Censorship," which won first place last year during Savannah State's Banned Books Week finale event.


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Dipartimento di Matematica
"G. Castelnuovo"
Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
Piazzale A. Moro 2
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Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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H. H. Lehman College
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Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata"
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Abstract: Harmonic functions satisfy the mean value property with respect to all integrable radial weights: if $\scriptstyle f$ is harmonic then $\scriptstyle h*f=f\int h$ for any such weight $\scriptstyle h$. But need a function $\scriptstyle f$ that satisfies this relation with a given (non-negative) $\scriptstyle h$ be harmonic? By a classical result of Furstenberg the answer is positive for every bounded $\scriptstyle f$ on a Riemannian symmetric space, but if the boundedness condition is relaxed then the answer turns out to depend on the weight $\scriptstyle h$. \endgraf In this paper various types of weights are investigated on Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces as well as on homogeneous and semi-homogeneous trees. If $\scriptstyle h$ decays faster than exponentially then the mean value property $\scriptstyle h*f=f\int h$ does not imply harmonicity of $\scriptstyle f$. For weights decaying slower than exponentially, at least a weak converse mean value property holds: the eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator which satisfy $\scriptstyle h*f=f\int h$ are harmonic. The critical case is that of exponential decay. In this class we exhibit weights that characterize harmonicity and others that do not.\endgraf
Keywords: Mean value property, harmonic functions, Laplace operator, trees, symmetric spaces, hyperbolic spaces, convolution operators, exponential decay
Classification (MSC91): 43A85; 31B05, 05C05, 53C35
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South China Sunday Post-Herald, August 26, 1956.
Snowpine Liu takes up new position
Mr. Snowpine Liu, well-known in sports circles in China as well as in the Colony, has been invited by Dr. D. Y. Lin, President of Chung Chi College, to take up an appointment as head of the physical education department of the college, this autumn. Mr. Liu, graduated from Scochow University with BPE degree, and then went on to the United States and took up advanced studies in Physical Education at Springfield College, Mass., U.S.A. He obtained his Master degree in Physical Education (MPE) from Springfield College in 1932. After that, he entered the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and graduated with an MA in 1934.
While in the States he wrote several articles on Sport in Chinese Colleges and the Athletic Progress in China. These have been published in the national magazine, American Physical Education Review.
Mr. Liu served China as an attaché during the World Olympic Games at Los Angeles in 1932 and the Asian Games in Manila in 1936. After his return from the States, he took up a position as Physical Director at Hangchow Christian College and the University of Shanghai. He also served as dean of the Canton Provincial Physical Training College just before World War II. He came to Hongkong in 1949 and has been teaching in the New Territories.
He is working voluntarily for the Student Sports Association of the New Territories and the Nixon Library as an advisor.
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Our family farming history began with my great-great-... (nine generations ago) grandfather Johannes. He, his wife and three children left Saxony, Germany, on April 20, 1734, aboard the ship St. Andrew, mastered by Capt. John Stedman. They landed at Philadelphia on Sept. 22 and eventually settled our family's first "New World" farm near Society Run in Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pa., in 1743. Pig farming was our family's specialty until the mid 1950s. A lot has changed since then. Our BQA cow–calf operation includes 100% grass-fed registered Red Angus, Hereford and purebred Beefalo; 30 to 35 pastured Duroc and Spot pigs; 100 Freedom Ranger broilers; and 90 Golden Comet and Buff Orpington layers. We organically maintain 80 acres, comprising 15 acres in rotational pastures, 15 acres in tillable cropland, and alfalfa/mixed grass hay on the balance. We have never used chemical pesticides or herbicides on our pastures or hay fields. We are not a "certified" organic farming operation, but we prefer the natural/organic approach to help promote sustainability.
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|ISS004-E-10113 (17 April 2002) --- Backdropped over clouds some 247 statute miles below, the Space Shuttle Atlantis was photographed with a digital still camera shortly after its separation from the International Space Station (ISS). A big empty space now replaces the "look" in the cargo bay of a scene one and half weeks ago showing the giant S0 (S-zero) truss in the cargo bay as the shuttle prepared to dock with the station. The S0 truss is now part of the orbital outpost.
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Health fears for Jurrah
FEARS over the mental health of Liam Jurrah have surfaced after the former Melbourne forward was charged with drink-driving on Wednesday.
Jurrah, a P-plater, allegedly blew 0.27, almost five times the legal limit, after he was tested at a house in Adelaide's north.
Police were already at the house dealing with another incident when Jurrah, 24, arrived. Police suspected he was under the influence of alcohol and he was breath-tested. He was charged and his licence was automatically disqualified.
There was talk within the football industry on Wednesday that Jurrah was struggling to deal with his personal issues.
It's understood at least two of his former Melbourne teammates are worried about him.
Jurrah, who left the Demons at the end of last season, is due to play with the Port Adelaide Magpies in the SANFL this year, having been overlooked by the Power in last year's AFL national draft.
A Power spokesman said the club was gathering as much information as it could before commenting.
Jurrah is already facing court over assault charges that relate to a fight at the Little Sisters Town Camp in Alice Springs last March.
Jurrah trained with Port Adelaide in the lead-up to last year's national draft but was overlooked by the club because of fitness and off-field issues.
He was offered a spot with the SANFL Magpies, with a view to possibly returning to the AFL in 2014. But he has failed to attend pre-season training with the Magpies because of family issues and was away from Adelaide for several weeks. He has also battled a leg infection.
The AFL Players Association and the Power had vowed to help him through the legal troubles. Power football manager Peter Rohde said before Christmas his club would do all it could to help Jurrah.
''We believe these measures will enable Liam to have the best possible opportunity to find his way back into the AFL system in great physical condition, with proven form at SANFL level and with those non-football matters fully dealt with,'' he said.
''All going well, that could be through any club in the AFL, but we would love it to be with Port Adelaide if everything works out.''
Jon Pierik is a sports writer with The Age, focusing primarily on AFL football, cricket and basketball. He has won awards for his cricket and basketball writing.
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The 500 Family Study [1998-2000: United States] (ICPSR 4549)
Principal Investigator(s): Schneider, Barbara, University of Chicago. National Opinion Research Center (NORC). Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children and Work; Waite, Linda J, University of Chicago. National Opinion Research Center (NORC). Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children and Work
The 500 Family Study was designed to obtain in-depth information on middle class, dual-career families living in the United States. To understand the complex dynamics of today's families and the strategies they use to balance the demands of work and family, over 500 families from 8 cities across the United States were studied. To address different issues facing parents with older and younger children, families with adolescents and families with kindergartners were included in the sample. Working mothers and fathers are now splitting their time between their responsibilities to their family, and to their respective occupations. This study of 500 families explores how work affects the lives and well-being of parents and their children.
The study's data allows researchers to explore a broad range of questions:
- How do dual-career families manage and organize their resources and time between family and work?
- How do work conditions, including characteristics of the job and workplace environment, affect the quality of relationships among household members?
- How do dual career parents manage the moral and social development and learning experiences of their children?
- How do the work-related responsibilities of working parents affect their child's moral, social, and educational development?
- What effect is consumerism and technology having on how working families direct the moral and social development of their children?
- What do parents believe is their role regarding the child-care of their children and how they should fulfill that role both in terms of time and in the allocation of economic and social resources? What are some of the resources in the community that parents use to supervise their children?
- How do families regard the "free time" of adolescents and how they allocate adolescent "free time" in maintenance of the household?
- What is the quality of relationships among family members?
To obtain a detailed picture of work and family life, mothers, fathers, and their children were asked to complete a series of instruments including surveys, in-depth interviews, and time diaries. These instruments were designed to provide information about work, marriage, child care and parental supervision, management of household tasks, time allocations, coping strategies, and psychological well-being.
The four datasets associated with this data collection are summarized below:
- The Cortisol Data contains information for a subsample of families that elected to participate in a study of psychological stress. Parents and teenagers who agreed to participate completed an additional two days of ESM data collection. The health survey that was administered reported on a variety of health and lifestyle issues that might affect cortisol (stress hormone) levels such as medication use, consumption of caffeine and alcohol, use of nicotine, timing of menstrual cycle, pregnancy, presence of chronic illness, and respondent's height and weight. Additionally, parents reported on the health of the children (teenagers and kindergartners) participating in the study.
- The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) Data contains a variety of information related to how individuals spend their time, who they spent it with, and what activities they were engaged in over the course of a typical week. Respondents wore programmed wrist watches that emitted signals (beeps) throughout the day. When possible, family members were placed on identical signaling schedules to provide information on a range of family activities. At the time of each beep, participants were asked to complete a self-report form which asked them to answer a number of open-ended questions about their location, activities, who they were with, and psychological states. Several Likert and semantic-differential scales were used to assess participants' psychological states.
- The Parent Data contains basic demographic information from respondents as well as detailed information about parents' occupation job duties, income, work schedule, benefits (e.g., medical care, flexible work schedules, and family leave), and the consequences of their jobs (e.g. long hours, job stress, having to work weekends). Additionally, the data contain information about the extent to which parents experienced work-family conflict and what changes might help with better balance of the demands of work and family (e.g., more flexible work hours, more help from spouses with household and child care responsibilities, improved child care, and after-school care arrangements). Parental attitudes toward traditional arrangements, how household tasks were actually divided among family members, and how often the family paid for services (e.g., cleaning, yard work, meal preparation) were also captured. The data also contain information about how children are socialized in families with two working parents. Topics about the frequency with which parents engaged in various activities with their children (e.g., talking, eating meals together, attending religious services), how frequently parents monitored their teenager's activities, and how often they talked with their teenager about school activities, plans for college, career plans, friendships, and peer pressure.
- The Adolescent Data contains data for sixth through twelfth graders, which focuses on family relationships and experiences, school experiences, paid work, psychological well-being and behavioral problems, and plans for the future (e.g., college, career, and marriage -- including expectations regarding spouses' sharing of responsibility for child care, cooking, chores, and paid work). To allow for comparison of parents' and adolescents' responses to similar questions, several items appear in both the adolescent and parent data. These items include the frequency with which parents and adolescents discuss school events, college and career plans, participation in religious and other activities, gender role attitudes and the division of household tasks within the family, and items measuring depression, stress, and anxiety.
Qualitative Data -- Interviews The main purpose of the interviews was to explore topics addressed in the parent and adolescent surveys in greater detail. Parent interviews were designed to examine how working parents cope with the demands of work and family life. Adolescent interviews touched on similar themes but altered questions to gauge the adolescent's perceptions of their parents work and family lives. Kindergartner interviews were brief and focused on children's after-school and child care arrangements and time spent with parents.
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Due to the sensitive nature of the data and to protect respondent confidentiality, the 500 Family Study Qualitative Interview Data (DS5) are restricted from general dissemination. Currently, these data are accessible only via the ICPSR physical data enclave and may only be accessed at ICPSR's location in Ann Arbor, MI. Users wishing to view these data must first contact Research Connections (email@example.com), complete an Application for use of the ICPSR Data Enclave (available here), and receive permission to analyze the files before traveling to Ann Arbor. More information may be found at ICPSR's Enclave Data Web site.
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Study Description
Schneider, Barbara, and Linda J Waite. The 500 Family Study [1998-2000: United States]. ICPSR04549-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-05-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04549.v1
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This study was funded by:
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (200-6-14 and 3003-6-20 (2nd funding cycle))
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: adolescents, child care, child rearing, domestic responsibilities, dual career families, everyday life, family relationships, family work relationship, housework, job satisfaction, life satisfaction, lifestyles, parent child relationship, quality of life, school age children, social interaction, social life, stress, time utilization, work, working hours
Geographic Coverage: United States
- 1998-02-01--2000-06-01
- 1997--2001
Unit of Observation: families (and family tracking beeps), students (and student tracking beeps), parents (and parent tracking beeps)
Sample: The 500 Family Study sample is purposive (nonrandom) and is comprised of data collected from communities throughout the United States (five in the Midwest, one in the Southeast, one in the Northeast, and one on the West Coast). These communities were largely urban or suburban, with only one rural site. Participants were solicited through local public high schools and elementary schools via advertisements that appeared in local newspapers, and through snowball recruitment. Of the 500 families that were studied, 300 families had teenaged children and 200 families had kindergarten-aged children. Seven of the eight communities studied were also studied in the SLOAN STUDY OF YOUTH AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, 1992-1997 [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 4551). Sixty-three families who participated in SSYSD consented to participate in the current study.
Mode of Data Collection: mail questionnaire, face-to-face interview, self-enumerated questionnaire
Response Rates: Of the 512 families who participated in the study, 327 were families with teenagers, 157 families had kindergartners, and 28 had both teenagers and kindergartners.
Depression was assessed with the 20-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). The scale measures the frequency of depressive symptoms experienced by respondents over the course of the previous week.
Marital Satisfaction
Marital satisfaction was measured with the 15-item ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale. This scale asks couples to assess their satisfaction with key aspects of their marriage such as communication, financial management, and parenting.
Time Use and Management
Respondents' day-to-day lives were captured using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). This is a unique method for examining how individuals spend their time, who they spend it with, and what activities they are engaged in over the course of a typical week.
Parent Surveys
To assure comparability with national datasets, several questions that were used in the parent survey were drawn from other surveys including the 1990 United States Census, the Current Population Survey, the National Survey of Families and Households, the General Social Survey, the Quality of Employment Survey, and the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) of 1988-2000. Additional items measuring anxiety, anger, self-esteem, and stress were drawn from Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale, Taylor's Anxiety and Anger Inventories, and Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale. Mothers and fathers of kindergartners were asked to complete a 20-item Parenting Hassles Scale, which assesses the degree of stress or difficulty parents experience in dealing with conflicts that routinely occur in families with young children.
Adolescent Surveys
To ensure comparability with national surveys of adolescents, survey items were drawn from several previous studies, including NELS 1988-2000, the Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development, the General Social Survey, and the Families in Communities Study. A modification of items from the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment was also included as a measure of adolescent attachment.
Standardized Child Assessments
Three sets of standardized assessments were used to assess young children's cognitive and social competence, school readiness, and behavioral problems. These assessments included the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the Harter Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children, and the Child Behavior Checklist.
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Original ICPSR Release: 2008-05-30
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ITHACA, NY — A documentary about the first openly gay Major League Baseball player will open the spring portion of the Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen film series at Ithaca College. "The Glenn Burke Story" will be shown on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. in Textor 103. It is free and open to the public.
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When a user on subnet 1.1.1.x tries t ssh to the 2.2.2.x management address on the ex access or dist switch, the ssh connection drops. When I put a 1.1.1.x ip on the switch and ssh to it, it stays up.
I can PING the user device from the switch 2.2.2.x ip, but traceroutes fail. The default gateway for the switch is obviously the 2.2.2.x interface on the router.
Both subnets are in the same security zone on the J-series. Any ideas?
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Only a victory over Tiger Woods will keep Rory McIlroy's faint hopes of a $1.5million payday alive in the Turkish Airlines World Golf final - where all eight players could still qualify for the semi-finals.
World number one McIlroy chipped in for birdie on the final hole of his match with Charl Schwartzel, only to see the former Masters champion follow him in from 12ft.
That meant a one-shot victory for the South African and a second straight defeat for McIlroy, who seemed unaware that he could still qualify for the last four, albeit with other matches and scores going in his favour.
"It looks like I'll get to spend a day on the beach tomorrow, which will be nice," said McIlroy, who has girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki with him in Antalya.
"It was actually a decent match. I felt like I played a bit better today, had plenty of chances and just didn't really hole much. I got off to a better start and Charl played solid and then birdied three of the last four so I couldn't really do much about that."
As for his match with Woods, which has been postponed until Thursday due to adverse weather conditions, McIlroy added: "I'll try and keep him out of those semi-finals. I'm sure that's not what the tournament wants but it's what I'm going to try to do."
Woods had lost to Schwartzel yesterday but today beat Ryder Cup team-mate Matt Kuchar by five shots. Victories for Schwartzel and McIlroy would see Schwartzel through to the semi-finals on three points with McIlroy, Woods and Kuchar all on one point.
The lowest aggregate score for each player's three matches would then be used to break the tie, with one player joining Schwartzel in the last four.
The same scenario could also unfold in Group Two. Justin Rose is top with two points after beating Lee Westwood (66 to 69), with Webb Simpson joining Westwood on one point after beating Hunter Mahan.
Rose faces Simpson and Westwood takes on Mahan in the remaining matches.


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By Jon Wiederhorn
Just a day after the death of Carrie Fisher, her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds died. Reynolds, who was best known for her roles in the musicals Singin' in the Rain and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, passed away on Wednesday (Dec. 28) at the age of 84.
"She's with Carrie," Reynolds' son Todd Fisher told The Hollywood Reporter.
Related: Carrie Fisher Dead at 60, Artists React
When they heard the news, numerous musicians and celebrities young and old posted their thoughts on social media.
"She was one of the last of the true H'wood talents: actress, singer, dancer," wrote Lin-Manuel Miranda.
"i love you billie. so so much. rest in peace, debbie reynolds," tweeted Ariana Grande.
"——————– wow…… this sad news makes me wanna hug my mama and never let go……," tweeted Miley Cyrus.
Here are some of the artists to expressed their condolences:
i love you billie. so so much. rest in peace, debbie reynolds.—
Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) December 29, 2016
#DebbieReynolds has just died. This is too hard to comprehend. Beautiful, talented, devoted to her craft, she follows Carrie, dead days ago.—
Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) December 29, 2016
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Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) December 29, 2016
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Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) December 29, 2016
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christina perri (@christinaperri) December 29, 2016
I can't imagine what Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds' family are going through this week. I send all of my love.—
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Earth has witnessed its first Klingon opera. On Friday in The Hague, Netherlands, the Terran Research Ensemble raised the curtain on "U," the first Earth opera performed entirely in Klingon. "U" is the Klingon word for "universe" or "universal," and the opera tells the story of Kahless the Unforgettable, said to be the first …
ok someone just needs laid.
I realise the opera is in Klingon but it would help us mere earthlings if comments were made in a language that comes from Terra ;-)
I'm just trying to visualize the three tenors performing in Klingon, backed up by Romulans, Vulcans. I also wonder if anybody has translated "Dark Side of the Moon" into Klingon yet?
There are in Italian and how many of the audience can actually speak Italian?
Surely that should either be "invited the Klingon people", or "invited the people of Qo'noS*".
*Kling or Klinzhai would have also been acceptable, at a pinch.
it would be good to remember that people is the collective noun for a group of humans, no?
Qo'noS is the Klingon homeworld, but it is only one planet among many. Kling or more properly Klinzhai would refer to the "Citizens of the empire." Mostly Klingons, but some subjugated races that had been integrated into Klingon society as fully citizens as well. To invite the totality of the Klinzhai would be to invite members of many various species that made up an empire spanning hundreds of light years and dozens of habitable planets.
Mine's the one with the misspent youth in the pocket…
Actually I believe Kling was originally intended to be the name of the world, until someone on the TOS writing staff pointed out that it'd sound really silly. In fact, I'm not sure whether there wasn't an on-screen reference to Kling as the Klingon capital at one stage, because once it was agreed that, yes, it did indeed sound silly, the homeworld just became 'the Klingon Homeworld' until someone decided to call it Qo'noS. The solitary reference to 'Kling', I believe, was retconned to refer to the capital district on the said planet.
As for Klinzhai, I'm fairly sure it refers to the written language of the Klingons, not to the people or the planet. Or it may just be the lettering system. Anyone got Marc Okrand's address?
Also coat.
Depends on if you allow certain "Expanded universe" elements to be cannon. E.G. the "A time to X" series, and the post DS9/Voyager novels. Nerd wars have been fought over less.
"thlIngan" is the preferred spelling.
As you've used thte correct spelling of Qo'Nos, I would have expected you to use that rather than the tera'ngan mu'qaD.
from memory thIIngan'pu'Wi would be appropriate for Klingon as a population, or thlIngannugh as a social group.
Actually the written form is referred to as pIqadD
Its all fictional. There are no Klingons. Get over it and go find a life rather than arguing over grammatical errors in for a non-existent situation.
You have no joy in your soul. How lovely for you that you must sneer at what other people enjoy. Who is sadder? The people who get a moment's passing interest and amusement from debating the pedantry related to a series of Televisions shows they found interesting, or the individual who feels so threatened by this that they feel they must lash out at these harmless nerds?
TL;DR: It's not a playground and folk 'round here pity (rather than respect or fear) bullies. Grow the fnord up.
To quote Memory Alpha* :
"Its strident tones are considered ear-shattering by most non-Klingons. "
... Klingon should love it.
and a padded cell.
..sling a bird of prey around the sun and go back in time surely the guys who built them can?
Quite right. There goes that blokes credibility.
Don't encourage them. They will be wanting to put on a weekend festival of Vogon poetry readings next.
We need to get more dedicated groups of nerds together to do this sort of thing.
Expect riots in the streets as the Klingons try to assert their dominance over the fans of the Vogons- and watch them come together and flee the latest public reading by Grunthos the Flatulent.
They could get the poet laureate of the Azgoths of Kria (Grunthos the Flatulent's poem "Ode to a small lump of green putty I found under my left armpit one midsummer morning" springs to mind)
I was thinking the same as I scrolled down through the comments. Klingon is so boring and serious. Vogon poetry is the only way to go.
On the topic of Klingon, I think that the august organ that is 'The Onion' has shown us what is very likely the truth, so I suppose that I should just accept Klingon opera:
.... or more of those coffee houses the likes of which can most famously be found in Amsterdam, might provide the necessary muse.
Narn opera.
It has to be Aktuh and Maylota if you wanna dance with me.
............it is indisputably a good day to die.
Qapla' batlh je!
If, success and honour can actually be squared with the idea of a Klingon singing.
Just how many Klingon-speaking Trekkies do they expect to find in the land of the tulips? Or will us mere Earthlings and other non-Klingons be issued with a Universal Translator...
As they say on Kronos, "Gbqnl vf n tbbq qnl gb qvr." That and something about revenge and cold soup.
In school I was taken to lots of operas in languages that none of us spoke.
the POIN T is that you do not under stand what they are saying tto qoute terry pratched they might as well dbe singing "dam this door sticks, dam this door stciks"
at least one theme, from ' Aktuh and Maylota'
If an alien ship passed by at just the right time, and scanned just the "wrong" channel, such that the first ever contact was made in Klingon!
...I'm looking forward to the (no doubt now inevitable) establishment of Earth's first Klingon theatre company.
After all, you've not experienced Shakespeare until you've seen it in the original Klingon.
Qapla' !!!!
"TaH pagh taHbe'". I have to say that those fricatives really destroy the poetry. It sounds like a seventy year old chain smoker who thinks he can cough his way to glory!
Considering Opera is often enjoyed by people who don't know what they're actually singing about anyway (i have friends that read the english translation as they listen) I think this is great.
BBC Proms next year? :P
Opera in any language all sounds like scat to me.
will it be called Kling Film ?
(it had to be asked)
*shrug*. German doesn't sound so smooth either, but there's various german operas. And, as a few have commented, ppl watch operas in languages they don't understand anyway (how many watching an italian opera speak italian?) so that's not a problem apparently.
I was going to make any number of smart-arsed comments about this, but all cognitive functions have been interrupted. I am now forced to visualize the bridge crew of the enterprise bursting out into Klingon song.
This has occured. You just need to watch more Trek.
Uhura, Rand and Chapel singing Three Little Maids (Mikado)
Klingon Ensemble (lead by Worf) singing Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry "Bloodwine" (Pirates of Penzance)
General/Chancellor Martok singing "I am the very model of a modern Major General" (PoP).
(which I would desperately love to see sung in tlhIngon.
Bridge Crew Enterprise singing "We Sail the Ocean Blue" (HMS Pinafore)
with a rebuttal by the engineering/security teams of Enterprise NX01 of singing
A British Tar (HMS Pinafore again).
... then reality struck.
Is surely my mistake in assuming the headline referred to a Norwegian Software company and their most famous product.
Just me then.
...where's the post from Dr. Sheldon Cooper?
@ Martin Lyne
One of the most popular nights of the BBC proms for the last few years has been the Dr Who night - some great music, video and people dressed up in costume. The kids love it (and even though they will deny it, so do the parents). I reckon a Trek evening could be just as popular as there is some really good music (some of which is almost impossible to get hold of).
at others...
With reference to the language, Renee Fleming sang the part of Britannia during the LNOTP - it was in English, and I know the words, but I damned if I could make out more than a few words. This didn't stop it being a really great performance by a fantastic diva and the old goosebumps were working overtime. Not sure that the helmet matched the Vivian Westwood though - perhaps if she had carried a trident and shield as well....
ghe'naQlu'Di' mobbe'lu'chugh QaQpu' hegh wanI'.
auto-identifies Klingon as Italian.
So perhaps Klingonaase -is- particularly suited for opera. :-)
Now we need an opera in the ultimate logical language, one that even Vulcans would be proud of.
[Appreciation] I'll ask the Lojbanistani.
{.i.ianai do pensi lodu'u la.vylcan. glekyxau me.o'a lonu sagzgi draci na'e bau la.vylcan.}
Do you really think Vulcans would be proud of an opera in a language other than Vulcan?
I went to hear the opera - only got a face and whirling dots which were never satisfied to stop. I did right-click and a little box came up offering me the opportunity to open my microphone and camera to BBC. Is that unusual? Does BBC normally spy on those who watch?
>"it would be good to remember that people is the collective noun for a group of humans, no?"
Yet more evidence that the Federation is no more than a homo sapiens only club.


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Messi scores twice in Spain's Copa soccer
Lionel Messi extended his record for goals scored in a year on Wednesday as he scored both of Barcelona's goals in a 2-0 win away against Cordoba in their Spanish Cup last-16 first-leg clash.
The 25-year-old three-time Ballon D'Or winner struck in the 11th minute, after being set up by David Villa, and then in the 74th when he ran onto an Alexis Sanchez pass to score to give the holders a handy advantage to take back to the Camp Nou for the second leg in January.
The brace took him to 88 for the year, three more than German legend Gerd Mueller although, earlier on Wednesday, Brazilian side Flamengo claimed Zico should be the holder with 89 goals in 1979.
Also in the last 16, Sevilla trounced Mallorca 5-0, while Atletico Madrid beat Getafe 3-0.
Barcelona's bitter rivals Real Madrid slipped to a 2-1 defeat away at La Liga strugglers Celta Vigo, although Cristiano Ronaldo's goal four minutes from time gives them a precious away goal.
Real's evening started badly when French international striker Karim Benzema had to go off in the 31st minute with what looked like a twisted ankle.
While Messi can do no wrong, his compatriot Marcelo Bielsa can do little right as his Athletic Bilbao side exited the competition at the hands of third-division Eibar in their delayed last-32, second-leg match.
Bilbao went out on the away goals rule as last season's finalists were held 1-1 at home by their modest opposition.
It is a far cry from last season when Bielsa - who guided the Argentinians to the 2004 Olympic title - received great praise for the stylish football his young side played and in which they also reached the Europa League final.
Eibar's reward is a last-16 clash with Malaga with the first leg next Wednesday.
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Baby Boomers Face Massive Loss of Retirement Wealth Due to Housing Market Meltdown
Plummeting house prices will leave millions of homeowners dependent on Social Security in their retirement
For Immediate Release: June 24, 2008
Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x 115
WASHINGTON, DC- Former GAO Comptroller General David Walker testified today before the House Budget Committee about a proposed commission to cut Social Security and Medicare for future retirees. However, as Congress debates this issue, they must take into account the financial situation of near retirees. A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that, due to the collapse of the housing bubble, the vast majority of near retirees have accumulated little or no wealth. This means that they will be almost completely reliant on Social Security and Medicare to support them in their retirement years.
The study, "The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers," analyzed the wealth holdings of families headed by people between the ages of 45 and 54 in 2004 and projected the wealth of families headed by people who will be in this age group in 2009. The findings are presented by income quintile under three scenarios- real house prices remain at current levels, real house prices fall by 10 percent, or real house prices fall by 20 percent. In all three scenarios, the vast majority of these families will have little or no housing wealth in 2009.
"This extraordinary destruction of wealth will have tremendous implications for millions of families as they enter retirement," said report co-author Dean Baker. "Coupled with a very low personal savings rate, this means that many people will only have Social Security and Medicare to rely on in their retirement.
The report projects that if house prices were to stay the same through 2009, the median household would have 24.7 percent less wealth than the median household in this age group in 2004. If real house prices fall 10 percent, the median household would see a 34.6 percent loss in wealth compared with the median in 2004 and a 45.6 percent falloff if prices fall by 20 percent.
For those who rent their homes, however, the outlook is not as bleak. In fact, the renters within each wealth quintile in 2004 will have more wealth in 2009 under all three scenarios, than will the homeowners from the same quintile. These projections underscore the dramatic impact of policies that promoted homeownership during the housing bubble.
This analysis should also prompt serious re-examination of policy proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare for near retirees. Baker commented, "policies that perhaps could have been justified at the peak of the housing bubble make much less sense now that tens of millions of near-retirees have just seen most of their wealth disappear."
In analyzing wealth holdings for these families, the authors used data from the Federal Reserve Board's 2004 Survey of Consumer Finance. The authors also used the S&P 500 and the Case-Shiller 20-city Composite Index to adjust for equity values and home price changes between 2004 and 2009.
The Center for Economic and Policy Research is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. CEPR's Advisory Board of Economists includes Nobel Laureate economists Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz; Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics at Harvard University; and Eileen Appelbaum, Professor and Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University.


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160.577: In miles per hour, the record speed of last spring's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, won by Greg Biffle. That was nearly eight miles per hour faster than the previous mark (152.705 mph) set in the fall of 2011, when Tony Stewart won at Texas en route to his third Cup championship. To a large degree, Biffle's record speed was a function of a track-record-low two cautions for a track-record-low 10 laps.
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You have to give credit where it's due. Though Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) still is nowhere near toppling Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) as the king of cool consumer technology, the recently unveiled tablet/laptop hybrid called Surface is going to be an interesting competitor in the red-hot tablet race.
And from an investor's point of view, one has to be thinking ahead about the fiscal impact that could be made by Surface — if consumers welcome it with even just partially open arms.
See, like Apple's iPad, most of the guts and assembly of Microsoft's new portable device isn't something Microsoft actually makes or does. It pays other companies to come up with those solutions. Given the way Apple's iPads and iPhones have dragged so many component makers along for the ride, though, solid demand for Surface could translate into solid demand for its suppliers. The question is, who wins and doesn't win if Surface gets traction?
The consumer-oriented model that runs WindowsRT is presumably going to be powered by a microprocessor and chipset built by ARM Holdings (NASDAQ:ARMH) and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), which most likely means a Tegra central processing unit will be the brains of the lower-end device. The Surface Pro, which will be operated by Windows 8, will be using a Core i5 CPU, which is made by Intel (NASDAQ:INTC).
It's not just about the processor, though. The device offers a touchscreen display, which requires a certain caliber of input-handling. That's potentially good news for Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ:CY), which already is powering other devices running Windows 8.
Of course, these are just educated guesses based on existing supply and manufacturing relationships. Nothing is set in stone yet, and the company has dropped few hints about what's under the hood of the newly debuted tablet.
As if the onset of the tablet era wasn't frustrating enough, Microsoft just drove the proverbial dagger into the backs of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and Dell (NASDAQ:DELL).
How so? Although these outfits have watched PC and laptop sales decline for several years now, there was at least some solace knowing they'd each be coming out with a tablet that was run by Windows 8, keeping them relevant somewhere between their prior roles as kings of computers and their contended role as tablet makers. Now, though, it's not clear whether Microsoft is going to give them leftovers from the launch of their own tablet business.
It's a risky maneuver from Microsoft, to be sure. Though it's a fading business, PCs and laptops still are selling, with most of them being operated by Windows. If Microsoft undercuts them on the tablet front, will these PC makers maintain their enthusiasm about a pre-installed Windows OS? (Sadly, they might have little choice but to just suck it up, though it's clearly more PC and laptop competition they didn't need.)
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Assuming this list of winners and losers is essentially on target, the next question is, how big will the benefit be if Surface tablets actually make a dent?
Unfortunately, it's a question of degrees: It depends on how strong that strength is. We do have some perspective, though.
In 2011, STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) nearly doubled its revenue — from 2010's $353 million to last year's $638 million. How? The company sells the electronic gyroscope found in the iPhone and iPad. It's the hardware that makes the screen image flip from portrait (up and down) to landscape (side to side) when the device itself is turned sideways or right-side up. It's not a new technology, but the gyroscope didn't become a prolific seller for STMicroelectronics until it became standard last year's on Apple's hot-selling tablets and phones.
Skyworks Solutions (NASDAQ:SWKS), which makes mobile broadband technology, is another iPad explosion beneficiary. Granted, it doesn't exclusively supply to Apple. It's growing at least in part because mobile broadband connections are growing universally, from 500 million subscribers a couple years ago to a projected 2.5 billion by 2014. But, let's face it: The iPhone is leading the charge, and that's good news for Skyworks. Revenue has soared from $802 million in 2009 to $1.4 billion last year, and better still, profits are growing even faster than revenue, reaching $226 million in 2011.
Yes, those are a couple of cherry-picked extreme cases, and suppliers that have customers other than Apple won't see improvements as dramatic as those. Every little bit helps, though.
That being said, the reality is — for the time being — there's more we don't know about who's making Surface components than we do know. Intel, ARM and Nvidia are the frontrunners, but it's the more obscure suppliers that could see the biggest (relative) benefit.
Of course, all this is moot if Surface doesn't sell well. Let's at least give it a chance to break into the market.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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LOS ANGELES, June 28 (UPI) -- Hollywood stars Woody Harrelson and Jessica Chastain have been named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities for 2012.
Chastain, whose film credits include "The Tree of Life" and "Take Shelter," has been a vegetarian for 15 years and a vegan for five, and even had vegan fried chicken prepared for her on the set of "The Help," PETA said.
"I don't want to torture anything," she said. "[I]t's about trying to live a life where I'm not contributing to the cruelty in the world. … While I am on this planet, I want everyone I meet to know that I am grateful they are here."
Harrelson, who recently starred in "The Hunger Games" and "Rampart," has long maintained a vegan diet.
"I just let people see my energy and how strong I stay," he said.
Previous winners of PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities contest include Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand, Olivia Wilde, Carrie Underwood, Prince, Natalie Portman, Shania Twain, Leona Lewis, Andre 3000, Tobey Maguire and Alicia Silverstone.


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TQ: How do you prepare for a review? How has this process changed since you started in SPEW?
When I started in SPEW my reviews tended to be a lot shorter. I essentially read the story, and tried to get my thoughts and critiques down in a somewhat organized manner. Before I took my hiatus over the summer, I would generally read, print out, highlight and get my main ideas down on paper, then write the review. I'm currently trying to get my reviewing back to where it was (because I'm very, very rusty). Now I try to follow the same process, but I'm having a lot more difficulty organizing my reviews and getting my thoughts out clearly. This issue is greatly exacerbated by my procrastination of reviewing until the deadline.
TQ: How much crit/squee do you generally put in a review?
TQ: How much time do you spend filtering out squee comments or softening critical ones?
It depends how much I've procrastinated the review. Critique is a lot more difficult to write because I have to make sure I'm clear and that I'm not phrasing it in a way that is rude or condescending. Also, I have to make sure that I'm giving reasons and explaining precisely what I didn't like and why I didn't like it. I personally find a well worded criticism is more helpful to me than squee-ing. I really try not to squee unless I actually think the thing is worth squee-ing about. In other words, I try to say what I mean and mean what I say in a review. However, if I'm running late, a lot more squee than I really want in the review slips in, which is not something that makes me happy. I feel like if I squee at everything, the things that I really think are squee-worthy aren't distinguished. However, it's much, much more difficult and takes a lot more time to critique than to squee.
TQ: Do you review every story in the same fashion, or do you have different techniques for different genres?
With a poem, I will always print it out and highlight and make comments. I will generally note the number of syllables and highlight repetition and make more generall comments on the piece. I then will review. With a one-shot what I do varies more. If I have definite things I like or don't like about it that come to mind immediately, I'll brainstorm them down on paper. If not, I may print out the story and use that to help me think. I'll pick out and highlight sections that stand out to me, and make comments right next to them.
TQ: How much do you edit your reviews before submitting?
Not as much as I should. I have very little patience for editing, and if I've left my reviews really late I've often written them out then just submitted them. I always write my reviews in word and spell check them. If I'm feeling really good about the review, I'll look it over quickly and submit. If I have a lot of critique or am not thrilled about the content I will carefully go over the review and try to make sure I'm clear and have put thought and reasoning into everything I've said. I also try to make sure I don't sound condescending.
New TQ: Do you have a favorite genre to review? Why is it your favorite?
Poetry is my favorite genre to review, and I also find it the easiest genre to review. I like to review more technical aspects of a story and connect them to theme, plot and, characterization. Poetry is a genre where technical things like line length, rhyme, stanza breaks, etc. are critical. The length of a poem is generally much shorter than that of a poem, so I find the review much easier to organize than with a longer story (even a one-shot). In a longer piece, I have to pick and choose what I want to comment on more than in a poem which is nice.


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Serving as head coach for the USA will be Bob Cimmino, who has been the head coach at Mount Vernon High School (N.Y.) since 1994, compiling a 324-57 overall record (as of 09/09).
Cimmino previously coached for USA Basketball at a 2004 skills development clinic in New York.
"It's a tremendous honor to be associated with USA Basketball and the Nike Hoop Summit, and I'm absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to work with 10 of the best players in the United States against 10 of the best players in the world," Cimmino said. "It's a high school coach's dream."
"I think the roster has been set up so that the coaching staff has the talent, we just have to get down to business early and work very hard in our practices. We want to bring the title back to the U.S."
Assisting Cimmino will be Rich Gray (St. Louis Eagles AAU, Mo.), who for more than 23 years has served as president of the St. Louis Basketball Club, a two-time AAU national championship program that has featured NBA talents such as Tyler Hansbrough, Larry Hughes and David Lee. Gray was an assistant coach for the USA in the 1997 Nike Hoop Summit, which the USA won 97-90, and an assistant coach for the USA North Team in the 1999 USA Basketball Youth Development Festival.
"I'm honored to be chosen again as a coach for USA Basketball. It is something that I will always cherish, and I cherished the last time that I had the chance to coach in the Hoop Summit," Gray said. "That team was trying to come back after a loss the year before, much like the situation this year. The experience I gained, with the building of teamwork and getting the kids to understand the importance of USA, definitely gives me an advantage this time around."
Featuring top-ranked athletes from throughout the nation, USA Basketball today announced the first nine members and the coaching staff for the 2010 USA Junior National Select Team, which will face off against the World Select Team in the 13th annual Nike Hoop Summit at 7:00 p.m. (PDT) on Saturday, April 10 at the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore.
The Nike Hoop Summit is the country's premier annual basketball game for high-school age boys and features America's elite, young athletes against a World Select Team comprised of top international players 19-years-old or younger
The first nine members of the eventual 10-man USA roster include: guards Harrison Barnes (Ames H.S. / Ames, Iowa), Will Barton (Brewster Academy / Baltimore, Md.), Reggie Bullock (Kinston H.S. / Kinston, N.C.), Kyrie Irving (St. Patrick H.S. / Elizabeth, N.J.), Brandon Knight (Pine Crest H.S. / Lauderdale, Fla.) and Kendall Marshall (Bishop O'Connell H.S. / Arlington, Va.); forwards Tobias Harris (Half Hollow Hills West H.S. / Brookville, N.Y.) and Terrence Jones (Jefferson H.S. / Portland, Ore.); and Jared Sullinger (Northland H.S. / Columbus, Ohio) at center.
The 2010 World Select Team roster, which is expected to be announced in March, will consist of 10 or 11 players age 19-years-old or younger from FIBA's five geographic zones: FIBA Africa, FIBA Americas, FIBA Asia, FIBA Europe and FIBA Oceania, with the approved sanctioning of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the world governing body of international basketball.
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text: ... Are you seriously telling me the Ascendants story line is to be the "Noodle Incident" of Trek Lit? No detail spoilers after the end of Soul Key, please, I'm working my way to Destiny and Typhon Pact. But from what spoilage I've already read, all I'm going to get on the Ascendants is "FOUR YEARS LATER" and "some stuff also happened" without any clarification. What the frak?? Is this true? So like, what, the new editor at Pocket Books just up and decided I don't really need to know what happens in the b'hava'el system between 2377 and 2381?


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, August 30, 2010, 5:03 PM
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San Ramon Valley schools gear up for the future
Original post made on Oct 3, 2010
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a resident of San Ramon
on Oct 3, 2010 at 3:13 pm
This young man knocked on my door today and introduced himself as a candidate for the San Ramon Valley School Board. We're new to the area but he really seemed to have a passion for maintaining the spirit of competitive education in the valley. He's probably going to get both my husbands and my vote. Why is it I see signs with three names on it for the three positions available? Is there some "all for one, one for all" thing I'm missing out on? I've met John Lane for just a few minutes and I can tell he'd be a good director... young and virtuous. Who are the three musketeers or are they the three stooges and do we have to vote for all three if it turns out we only like one?
a resident of another community
on Oct 3, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Dear Dolores,
The concept of a slate of three candidates for the SRVUSD Board started in the late 1990's when Joan Buchanan campaigned with two other candidates on a shared-cost basis. It should be understood that all four current candidates are individually running for three positions on the SRVUSD Board. No combined campaign or slate of three candidates changes the voters' right to choose any three of the four candidates on their individual merits.
I will be supporting John Lane and Rachel Hurd with my votes. I have not yet determined my vote for a third candidate. We should all realize that we have four earnest candidates and I suggest voters review the fiscal planning experience and education of all candidates as primary requirement for our best use of SRVUSD funds going forward.
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