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Life in Christian County, Kentucky... The Rural Life...
Isaac and I have been taking our nightly walk again for the last few nights, after a lot of disruption in the schedule for a couple of weeks. He's bored with our old route, so we've been walking down our lane and out onto the highway, about two miles round trip. It's not a busy highway, so when a vehicle does approach, we hear it coming long before it arrives.
Many wheat plants are growing along the highway, sprouted from seed that fell last year from harvest-laden trucks. The wheat plants look much like their undomesticated grassy relatives, except for the great difference in the size of their seed heads.
A baby rabbit sat very still in front of a mailbox, hoping we didn't notice him. As we drew closer, he bounced away in a panic.
A little farther on, a bird flew out of the tall grass of the ditch with a great chatter and clatter. We agreed that she probably has a nest. I hope she doesn't get as excited about vehicles as about pedestrians, or she will never get her eggs hatched.
The air is fragrant with hay. Across the county, the first cutting is being taken. Yesterday, our neighbor was making big round bales in his field. Today, the bales have been moved, and cattle have been turned in. They will enjoy the tender new growth of grass.
This place is like the Shire of J.R.R. Tolkien's books. If this little community deep in the heartland was ever threatened, if the Black Riders were ever seen here, then we would know that the dark shadow of evil had grown very long indeed. Brave soldiers have fought terrible wars to preserve this place, but we've hardly noticed.


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BANGUI (Reuters) - A Central African Republic attack helicopter opened fire on rebels advancing on the capital on Friday, breaking up their column, a senior regional peacekeeping source said, days after a peace deal broke down in the mineral-rich nation.
The source from a neighboring Central African power, who asked not to be named, said the helicopter strike had halted the Seleka insurgents - although no one from the rebels was available to comment and Central African Republic officials said fighting was continuing on the road to Bangui.
France's Foreign Ministry said the rebels had advanced to within "a few kilometers" of the capital of its former colony and it advised French citizens there to restrict their movements.
The U.N. Security Council expressed strong concern at the developments and "condemned all attempts to undermine the stability of the Central African Republic." In a statement, the 15-member council urged all parties to stop fighting.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon echoed those views in his own statement. The U.N. Security Council convened an emergency session on Friday afternoon to discuss the fighting.
In Bangui, panicked residents ran through the streets, shops closed and schools sent home students after national radio announced the rebel approach.
Seleka, a loose umbrella group of insurgents that has accused the government of breaking a series of peace deals, said earlier its forces planned to take the city on Friday.
"The rebel column, which was headed south, was stopped by an aircraft ... an attack helicopter," the senior regional military source told Reuters.
"The helicopter opened fire on the column, forcing it to disperse. ... The rebels have not reached Bangui," he added.
The violence is the latest in a series of rebel incursions, clashes and coups that have plagued the landlocked nation in the heart of Africa since its independence in 1960.
The Central African Republic remains among the least developed countries in the world despite rich deposits of gold, diamonds and uranium.
The Seleka force took a series of towns and came close to the capital last year, after accusing President Francois Bozize of failing to honor an earlier peace deal to give its fighters cash and jobs in exchange for laying down their arms.
Regional powers, including Chad and South Africa, sent in troops to back the government and the revolt ended in a January peace accord.
Seleka broke that truce on Wednesday, saying the government had again failed to implement agreements to incorporate its fighters into the army and get the foreign troops withdrawn.
Residents in Damara, about 75 km (45 miles) from the riverside capital, said regional peacekeepers had allowed the Seleka rebels to pass their roadblocks outside the town early on Friday. The insurgents then clashed with government forces in Damara before taking the road to Bangui, they said.
Bozize, who had been on a visit to South Africa, returned to Bangui on Friday and went straight to the presidential palace, officials said.
"The rebels have been pushed back, but fighting is still going on between Damara and Bangui," said special presidential adviser Pascal Bolanga. He said Bozize was directing operations from the palace.
The president, who seized power in a 2003 coup backed by Chad, had met with his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, securing an increase in South Africa's 400-strong troop deployment, officials said.
"We can announce the South Africa president's expression of fraternal support via the dispatch of additional troops," David Gbanga, the director of state radio, announced to the population. "Stop panicking and remain calmly in your homes."
A spokesman for South Africa's Defence Ministry declined to comment.
"Everything is closed here," Saint Hardy, an accountant in Bangui, told Reuters by telephone, saying army units were rushing to the city's outskirts to face the rebels.
Military officials said the rebels had also captured Bozize's hometown of Bossangoa, about 300 km (180 miles) from Bangui, one of the largest towns in the country's north and a barracks for the republican guard.
"It is serious. Bossangoa has fallen," said one senior Central African Republic defence official. "Our men tried to resist, but without success."
Reporting by Daniel Flynn and Bate Felix in Dakar, Ange Aboa in Abidjan, and Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau in New York; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Peter Cooney

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Moviemaker Steven Spielberg can't get enough dinosaurs.
The Republican candidates vying for U.S. president are increasingly being queried about their views on creation/evolution.
Since its discovery in 1959, Nutcracker Man has usually been depicted as walking upright (though only a skull had been discovered).
One of the world's leading Christian apologists, Dr. Ron Carlson, president of Christian Ministries International, has gone to be with the Lord.
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Schwarz and McGlothlen Named Class Agentsby Karen Handley • March 24, 2005 Share:
Jonathan D. Schwarz and Andrew T. McGlothlen have been named Class Agents for the 2005 Wabash College graduating class.
"We were absolutely impressed by the quality of the applicants who applied to be the Class Agents for the Class of 2005," said Director of Alumni Affairs Tom Runge '71. "Everyone of the candidates would have done a fantastic job. Andrew and Jon stood out in their involvement with the entire Wabash community and their commitment to their class—the Class of 2005 will be well served."
An English major, Andrew McGlothlen is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity where he has held office as secretary and pledge trainer. He is currently the senior gift campaign coordinator for his fraternity. McGlothlen has served as manager for the varsity soccer team and is an assistant to the Wabash College Sports Information Department, a position he has held since his freshman year. He is a member and social chairman of the Newman Club. He recently co-organized The Laugh Off, a fundraiser event for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. He is the son of Sherry Harper of Dunlap, Ill. and Thomas McGlothlen of Edelstein, Ill.
A political science major, Jon Schwarz is a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity where he has held office as secretary and risk management chairman. He is a member of the Model United Nations and has served as president and treasurer and the Campus Political Party Organization, serving as president and secretary. He is the vice speaker for the Wabash Parliamentary Union and served as president and secretary of the Crew Club. He is currently the senior gift campaign coordinator for the Class of 2005 and is an administrative intern with the Wabash College Office of Dean of the College and Dean of Students. Schwartz is also the coordinator of student recruiters for the Wabash College Admissions Office. He is the son of Galen and Susan Schwartz of Indianapolis.
The Class Agent system, initiated in 1955, was designed to generate participation in alumni organizations. Class Agents also assist in generating new admissions, communicating directly with the college and classmates and encouraging interest in fundraising activities.


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I think this book is a really good book because it is very nice book. This book reminds me of when I joined choir and had to sing. Melody reminds me of some girls I know because they get afraid.
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May 24, 1999
Human Resources Subcommittee Marks Up H.R. 1802, the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999
On May 20, 1999, the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources marked up and approved by voice vote H.R. 1802, the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999. The full Ways and Means Committee is expected to markup the bill on May 26, 1999. The provisions included in title II of H.R. 1802, are similar to language in H.R. 631, the SSI Fraud Prevention Act of 1999 (see Legislative Bulletin 106-1).
Below are descriptions of the SSI and OASDI provisions in H.R. 1802, as reported by the Subcommittee.
Liability of Representative Payees for Overpayment to Deceased Recipients
Would make a representative payee primarily liable for an SSI or OASDI overpayment caused by a payment made to a beneficiary who has died. Also would require SSA to establish an overpayment control record under the representative payee's Social Security number. Would be effective with respect to overpayments made 12 months or more after the date of enactment.
Recovery of Overpayments of SSI Benefits from Lump Sum SSI Benefit Payments
Would require the Commissioner to recover SSI overpayments from SSI lump-sum amounts by withholding 50 percent of the lump-sum or the amount of the overpayment, whichever is less. Would be effective 12 months after the date of enactment and apply to overpayment amounts outstanding on or after the effective date.
Additional Debt Collection Practices
Would extend to the SSI program all of the debt collection authorities currently available for the collection of overpayments under the OASDI program. Would apply to amounts of overpayments that are outstanding on or after the date of enactment.
Requirement To Provide State Prisoner Information to Federal and Federally Assisted Benefit Programs
Would require the Commissioner to provide, on a reimbursable basis, information obtained under agreements with institutions for reporting prisoners to Federal or federally assisted cash, food, or medical assistance program. Would be effective upon enactment.
Rules Relating to Collection of Overpayments from Individuals Convicted of Crimes
Would prohibit SSI and title II eligibility based on disability for 10 years if ex-fugitive or ex-prisoner knowingly fails to notify SSA at time of (re)application that he or she had received benefits erroneously while in prison or knowingly fails to comply with scheduled repayment of overpayment. The Commissioner would determine whether individual "knowingly failed" to notify or comply and would take into account the individual's mental or linguistic limitations if any. Also would eliminate waivers of recovery of overpayments caused by imprisonment and require SSA to continue collection efforts while prisoners are in jail. Would apply to overpayments made in, and to benefits payable for, months beginning 24 months or more after the date of enactment.
Treatment of Assets Held in Trust Under the SSI Program
Would include in the countable resources of an individual for SSI purposes, the assets of any trust containing property transferred from the individual or spouse to the extent that the assets could be used for the benefit of either. Commissioner would be authorized to waive application of the provision in cases of undue hardship. Would exclude certain trusts (e.g., those established by will, or certain trusts that would repay the State the cost of services provided the beneficiary upon his or her death). Would apply to trusts established on or after January 1, 2000.
Disposal of Resources for Less Than Fair Market Value Under the SSI Program
Would provide a penalty under the SSI program for the disposal of resources at less than fair market value. The penalty would be a loss of benefits for a number of months equal to the number of months obtained by dividing the uncompensated value of disposed-of resources by the Federal benefit rate plus the maximum State supplementary payment applicable to the individual's living arrangement. Would apply to disposal of resources made on or after the date of enactment.
Administrative Procedure for Imposing Penalties for False or Misleading Statements
Would add a new penalty of nonpayment of SSI and OASDI benefits for individuals found to have made a statement or representation of material fact for use in determining eligibility to disability benefits that the individual knew, or should have known, was false or misleading or omitted a material fact, or made such a statement with knowing disregard for the truth. The period of nonpayment would be 6 months for the first violation, 12 months for the second, and 24 months for the third violation. Would be effective with statements and representations made on or after the date of enactment.
Exclusion of Representatives and Health Care Providers Convicted of Violations from Participation in Social Security Disability Programs
Would bar representatives and health care providers from the SSI and OASDI programs if they are found to have helped commit fraud. Bar would be for 5 years, 10 years, and permanent exclusion for the first, second, and third offenses respectively. Would be effective with respect to violations and convictions occurring on or after the date of enactment.
State Data Exchanges
Would deem the SSA's data privacy standards to meet all State privacy standards for purposes of sharing data. Would be effective upon enactment.
Study on Possible Measures To Improve Fraud Prevention and Administrative Processing
Would require the Commissioner in consultation with OIG and the Attorney General to undertake a study to identify possible measures to reduce fraud and improve processing of beneficiaries' reported changes of income. Also requires a report to Congress on legislative and administrative recommendations in these areas. Report would be due not later than 1 year after date of enactment.
Annual Report on Amounts Necessary To Combat Fraud
Would require SSA to include in its annual budget an itemization of the amount of funds required to support efforts to combat fraud by applicants and beneficiaries. Would be effective with respect to annual budgets for fiscal years after FY 1999.
Computer Matches With Medicare and Medicaid Institutionalization Data
Would require the Commissioner to conduct periodic matches with Medicare and Medicaid data held by the Secretary of HHS, and would permit the Commissioner to substitute information from the matches for the physician's certification otherwise required in order to maintain the full benefit level of an individual whose institutionalization is expected not to exceed 3 months. Would be effective upon enactment.
Access to Information Held by Financial Institutions
Would provide that the Commissioner may require SSI applicants and beneficiaries to provide authorization for SSA to obtain any and all financial records from any and all financial institutions. These authorizations would remain in effect, unless revoked in writing. Commissioner need not furnish to the financial institution copies of the authorizations or written certification of compliance with the provisions of the Right to Financial Privacy Act. Refusal to provide, or revocation of, an authorization may result in ineligibility for SSI. Would be effective upon enactment.
Provision of Reduced SSI Benefits to Certain Individuals Who Provided Service to the Armed Forces of the United States in the Philippines During World War II After They Move Back to the Philippines
Would continue SSI benefits at a reduced rate for certain Filipino veterans with U.S. Armed Forces service during World War II if they are eligible for SSI on the basis of an application filed prior to enactment and subsequently move to the Philippines. The continued SSI benefit would be based on 75 percent of the SSI Federal benefit rate. Income and resource rules would be modified to facilitate administration of this special benefit outside the 50 States and District of Columbia. Would be effective 12 months after enactment or earlier, if administratively feasible.


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The PlayStation 3 version of SingStar has given karaoke fans a great deal of choice in song selection with its downloadable tracks. But what about those people who already have a huge library of songs from the PS2 SingStar games? Well Sony has announced a new disc swap feature that will allow those people to make use of the music they already own.
The new feature—which will be delivered via a free update later on this year—works in exactly the same way as the disc swapping in the PS2 versions. Players simply start-up the game in their PS3, select the option to swap discs, put in their PS2 games and get ready to embarrass themselves.
The songs will not be copied to the hard drive, so it will be necessary to swap discs every time you want to belt out "A Flock of Seagulls." Sony also explained that the feature will work on all PS3 models, even the newer ones that don't support backwards compatibility.
While it may seem minor, this is actually a great update for SingStar fans. It saves them having to rebuild the library of songs they've already spent money on, and instead focus on what really matters: terrible drunken singing.


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The Real ID Act was slipped through Congress in an Iraq War/Tsunami relief supplemental bill in May 2005. Cutting off a "negotiated rulemaking" that had included the ACLU and other key stakeholders from Homeland Security to state officials as part of a process to update the nation's driver's licenses, Real ID imposes a clumsy and burdensome set of requirements on states as part of its aim to definitively turn Americans' driver's licenses into a true national idenity card system.
Ultimately, Real ID changes the very nature and mission of DMVs, from agencies responsible primarily for ensuring the safe operation of vehicles on state roadways, into a wide-ranging enforcement agent of the federal government in areas from immigration rules to Social Security fraud. Given that far more Americans die on our roads every year than have ever fallen victim to terrorism, diluting and confusing the mission of our DMVs would seem to be unwise indeed.
This Act is a giant unfunded federal mandate that will create enormous initial and ongoing administrative burdens and costs for states. It will also create burdens for individual citizens including a higher cost and longer wait for licensing. And it is far from clear that these extraordinary costs will bring any benefits in preventing terrorism. Before states spend the substantial resources Real ID will require, they owe it to their citizens to seriously question the necessity and efficacy of implementing the Real ID Act.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been charged by Congress with issuing regulations spelling out the details of these and other requirements. In some cases, the administrative burdens faced by the states will depend greatly on exactly what requirements DHS decides to impose. Nevertheless, the outlines of the burdens it will impose are clear from the statute itself.
The Real ID Act requires the inclusion of particular features on every driver's license or identity card, each of which may entail significant burdens on the states.
Real ID will also require many or all states to build new computer and communications systems, or rebuild existing systems. The new requirements will likely include:
What may prove to be the most significant burden that Real ID will impose on DMVs is the requirement that states "shall verify, with the issuing agency, the issuance, validity, and completeness of each document required to be presented" to get a Real ID identity card. Such verification will be enormously time and labor intensive and may force DMVs to greatly expand their conception of their mission.
The required documents that will need to be verified include a photo identity document, proof of date of birth, proof of social security number (or proof of lack of eligibility for same), proof of address, and proof of citizenship or lawful immigration status. Each presents problems:
The above makes it clear that there are at least two additional major problems with the verification provisions of Real ID:
One of the most significant new burdens on states will be the additional personnel that they will have to hire and oversee in order to perform the many new required functions described above:


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Juniper Networks: Follow the LeaderBy Baselinemag | Posted 2005-12-13 Print
Once it became clear network security was strategically important to Cisco, Juniper felt it had to catch up fast.JUNIPER
When Juniper Networks realized that network security was an area of strategic importance to Cisco SystemsJuniper's singularly huge competitor in networking gearthe company felt it had to catch up fast. So in 2004, it bought firewall-appliance maker NetScreen in a deal worth more than $3 billion.
It was a smart move, says Dan Cameron, senior technical architect at Cambridge Health Alliance, a hospital and public health company in Massachusetts, because it gave Juniper instant entry into the security market with high-performance firewall and intrusion prevention products. Juniper "bought the true market leader, and they've done a good job of integrating them," he says.
NetScreen appliances, which use special-purpose chips designed to quickly process security rules and policies, don't require as much care and feeding as traditional firewalls, according to Cameron. "There are no moving parts with NetScreen," he says. "It just runs."
Under the stewardship of Juniper, the NetScreen products "get better and better every day," says Jason Warmby, information-technology director for Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction, a contractor based in San Francisco. For instance, he says, the NetScreen firewalls now offer "deep-packet inspection" that can identify attacks as they're occurring.
At the University of Miami, "Juniper's firewall is the lifeblood of everything," says Stewart Seruya, chief security and network officer. When the university, which has 15,000 students and 10,000 staff and faculty members, first deployed NetScreen firewalls in 2001, Seruya's team shut off virtually all incoming or outgoing traffic that wasn't a Web page or e-mail.
Seruya wanted to be sure the exceptions to that tight lockdown were individually evaluated and approved. Today, four of Juniper's NetScreen 5000-series firewalls manage 4,500 exceptions that the school's security staff has documented,
such as allowing network-based phone traffic through the firewall.
Juniper has been very good about listening to NetScreen customers and responding to feedback, Seruya says: "One of the things I like is that we've got their ears."
For example, the NetScreen operating system initially couldn't handle the H.323 protocolused by IP-based voice and video applications to control phone calls and handle other communications functions-on networks using network address translation (which masks the IP address of systems).
In October 2004, Juniper announced that version 5.1 of the software would provide that capability. Seruya says that while it took three years for the feature to appear in the product, "at least I had a forum to scream and holler at Juniper."
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It was not long ago that the word "smartphone" was synonymous with BlackBerry, especially in the enterprise market. Needless to say, the world changed with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and, in fact, neither the enterprise nor consumer smartphone markets have stopped evolving since.
In that time, companies such as Apple and Google have turned the enterprise world on its head by showing users innovative features and functionalities that they didn't even know they wanted. Ultimately, enterprise users began to demand that their organizations either provided or enabled iPhones and Androids with enterprise applications in order to perform their jobs. The result? Organizations have since given into the demand and are now increasingly looking for methods to secure and manage the plethora of devices that need to be supported. Thus the era of BYOD.
While many have questioned BlackBerry's ability to compete in this new market, many now see the launch of BlackBerry 10 (BB 10) as a second chance for the company to capture back its enterprise users as well as keep its current users from defecting. After all, the core of BlackBerry's 80 million users has always been in the enterprise market. With the release of BB 10, the company is making its biggest and most significant push to date in providing a mobile experience that caters to both the enterprise and the consumer markets. Whether this launch will serve to be a game changer remains to be seen; however, there are plenty of reasons to believe that BB 10 will have a positive impact in the enterprise space. According to Dipesh Mukerji, senior director of product strategy & marketing, Kony Solutions, BlackBerry 10 will affect enterprise mobility in the following ways.
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Four Oscar Campaign Tactics Consultants Swear Will Work (Unless They Don't)
Oscar Tactic No. 1: Show your hunger.
It might seem obvious, but the best way to win an Oscar is to let people know you want to win an Oscar. "It's like throwing a birthday party," explains our first Oscar consultant. "You can't tell people that you don't want [any presents] and then be shocked that they don't give them to you."
One marketing expert relates an example of a campaign that failed as a result of just such an approach: Julie Christie's non-campaign for Best Actress in 2006's Away From Her. "She told us, 'I've never been a campaigner,'" relates this insider. "She kind of disappeared; she went back to Europe — and she lost. Whereas Marion Cotillard [nominated for La Vie En Rose] moved into the Chateau Marmont and let everyone know she wanted it. I remember saying to her, 'You might want to come back here.'"
This year, two actors who have traditionally eschewed campaigning — Lincoln's Daniel Day Lewis and Silver Lining Playbook's Robert De Niro — worked overtime to court Academy membership, for Best Actor and Supporting Actor respectively.
"Supporting Actor this year is interesting," opines one studio chief. "Harvey practically got De Niro to wash cars on Santa Monica Boulevard." Adds the first consultant, "De Niro hasn't done much glad-handing and personal appearances in his career. But this guy, for a supporting role, is everywhere — including that Hollywood International Film Festival. On Goodfellas, he was nowhere to be seen. I remember studio publicists were driven to drink over his nonchalance."
Notes the head of marketing at another studio without skin in the Best Actor race, "Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win no matter what, but he also campaigned more than he ever has before. He was out here a lot — I've never seen him doing it before — probably because it's such a tough field of competitors, you know?"
The studio chief does, however, warn of the dangers of someone of their pedigree being seen as wanting it too badly. "If it doesn't work, then that's bad, because you've sold out shaking hands and kissing babies; when Academy members see noneffective glad-handing, people avert their eyes." Rough town!
Oscar Tactic No. 2: Be a beautiful woman.
Just a year ago, the Los Angeles Times published its own examination of the Academy's secrecy-enshrouded membership, and the results were quite unlike the broader movie-going public: Oscar voters are nearly 94 percent white and more than three-quarters (77 percent) male, the Times found, with a median age of 62. Members younger than 50 years old make up less than 15 percent of the membership. To put that in technical demographic terms, it means the electorate is filled with dirty old men. "Here's the sad truth: The more 'fuckable' the actress, the more likely the chance to win," says our first consultant, not a little forlornly, adding, "The academy is all men. Beautiful women get nominated, out of all proportion to the numbers — to the point that some of these winners have never equaled that [nominated] performance again. But look, they've done studies. Even babies are more drawn to attractive people. This year, you've got an 86-year-old woman and a 6-year-old girl up against Jennifer Lawrence. So who do you think is gonna win?"Again, as with all these tactics, it is hardly foolproof. But it is interesting to note how many attractive actresses took on unglamorous roles, then seriously glammed up for their press rounds, and won. This tactic grabs attention as the actresses seem even more beautiful for the stark contrast.
"When Hilary Swank plays boys — and she's won two Oscars doing that — her whole campaign is her wearing pretty dresses all the time," explains our first consultant. "You can go to every event in a gown, and more people want to dress you. Designers come out of the woodwork. Also, when Helen Mirren won for The Queen, she won by campaigning — remember all the talk about how she was 'actually still a babe' even though she was over 60?'" No shock that Anne Hathaway has been everywhere, with the hacked-off mop she wore as Fantine the tragic, toothless prostitute, turned into a charming pixie cut.
Oscar Tactic No. 3: Act humble — even if you're not. (Especially if you're not.)
Humility — even false humility, given the outsize egos of so many male Academy members — is essential. Says our first consultant, "I was working with an Oscar-nominated actress recently, and she told me she went to the Sorbonne ... I was like, 'Wow! That's a great nugget — we should use that in interviews and press materials,' and she was immediately like, 'Whatever you do, do not tell people I went to the Sorbonne!' And she was right: This is a town that doesn't appreciate or reward smart women … It probably hurt Sharon Stone's career immeasurably when she claimed she was in MENSA."
Similarly, one former marketing head thinks that Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain's fortunes have ebbed in the Best Actress Oscar odds in favor of Jennifer Lawrence because of a perceived sense of entitlement in Chastain coming from her speech for winning a Golden Globe. The speech was "awful," says the executive. "Those awards speeches are such opportunities to deliver why you should win an Oscar. Instead, she said, 'I've worked for a really long time. I've auditioned and struggled and fought and been on the sidelines for years.' You've worked so hard for this? You haven't been on the map but for a few years! Jesus, Christopher Plummer waited almost 50 years to win an Oscar! And I think that contributed to her decline."
This is particularly important when you flub a speech before an audience that has even more overlap with the Academy's membership, like the BAFTAs. For this reason, Oscar consultants' eyebrows raised in alarm when the Twittersphere erupted in derision at Anne Hathaway's botched BAFTA acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress last week. Even as she professed breathless surprise, her words felt perfectly scripted and memorized, the combination of which (after being a front-runner for so long) made her feel presumptuous about winning. Calling her own film a "theatrical juggernaut" also did little to help her come off as a gracious, modest winner. (If it seems sexist that these "arrogant" and "too-smart" campaign violations are only connected to women, see the voting body cited in Tactic No. 2.)
tl;dr: Have a good PR agent, or have Harvey Weinstein kill people for you.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge on Wednesday blocked TV streaming company Aereo Inc. from operating in several Western states, at least until the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a related case in April.
Broadcasters have argued Aereo is stealing TV signals without paying. Aereo says the tiny antennas it uses to capture signals before relaying them over the Internet should be treated the same as antennas that people use to pull TV signals for free.
District Judge Dale Kimball, who ruled Wednesday, argued that Aereo's retransmission of video signals is "indistinguishable from a cable company." He said that if Aereo continued to do business, it would damage broadcasters' ability to negotiate with legitimate licensees, siphon viewers away from their websites and subject them to potential piracy.
Aereo charges upwards of $8 a month and offers its service in New York, Boston, Houston, Atlanta, and elsewhere. Subscribers get about two dozen local stations, plus the Bloomberg TV financial channel over computers, Internet-connected set-top boxes and mobile devices.
The U.S. Supreme Court, which will begin hearing arguments in the Aereo case on April 22, will aim to resolve different rulings in different districts. A ruling in the 2nd District Court of Appeals, which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont, that said Aereo was not violating copyrights and allowed it to continue operating. Kimball's ruling applies to the jurisdiction of the 10th District Court of Appeals, which covers Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and the parts of Yellowstone National Park that extend into Montana and Idaho.
Aereo launched service in all of Utah in August and in the Denver area in November. It hasn't revealed how many subscribers it has.
Fox, the broadcaster owned by Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., said in a statement the ruling was a "significant win for both broadcasters and content owners."
Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia said in a statement that he was "extremely disappointed" and will pursue "all available remedies" to restore service to the affected customers.
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This document captures the specification for native map reduce jobs and proposal for executing native mapreduce jobs inside pig script. This is tracked at PIG-506.
Pig needs to provide a way to natively run map reduce jobs written in java language. There are some advantages of this-
The advantages of the mapreduce statement are that the user need not be worried about coordination between the jobs, pig will take care of it.
- User can make use of existing java applications without being a java programmer.
To support native mapreduce job pig will support following syntax-
X = ... ; Y = MAPREDUCE 'mymr.jar' [('other.jar', ...)] STORE X INTO 'inputLocation' USING storeFunc LOAD 'outputLocation' USING loadFunc AS schema [`params, ... `];
This stores X into the inputLocation using storeFunc, which is then used by native mapreduce to read its data. After we run mymr.jar's mapreduce, we load back the data from outputLocation into alias Y using loadFunc as schema.
params are extra parameters required for native mapreduce job.
mymr.jar is any mapreduce jar file which can be run through "hadoop jar mymr.jar params" command. Thus, the contract for inputLocation and outputLocation is typically managed through params.
For Example, to run wordcount mapreduce program from Pig, we write
A = load 'WordcountInput.txt'; B = MAPREDUCE wordcount.jar Store A into 'inputDir' Load 'outputDir' as (word:chararray, count: int) `org.myorg.WordCount inputDir outputDir`;
Note that the files specified as input and output locations in MAPREDUCE statement will NOT be deleted by pig automatically. User has to delete them manually.
Comparison with similar features
Pig Streaming
Purpose of pig streaming is to send data through an external script or program to transform a dataset into a different dataset based on a custom script written in any programming/scripting language. Pig streaming uses support of hadoop streaming to achieve this. Pig can register custom programs in a script, inline in the stream clause or using a define clause. Pig also provides a level of data guarantees on the data processing, provides feature for job management, provides ability to use distributed cache for the scripts (configurable). Streaming application run locally on individual mapper and reducer nodes for transforming the data.
Hive Transforms
With hive transforms, users can also plug in their own custom mappers and reducers in the data stream. Basically, it is also an application of custom streaming supported by hadoop. Thus, these mappers and reducers can be written in any scripting languages and can be registered to distributed cache to help performance. To support custom map reduce programs written in java (bizo's blog), we can use our custom mappers and reducers as data streaming functions and use them to transform the data using 'java -cp mymr.jar'. This will not invoke a map reduce task but will attempt to transform the data during the map or the reduce task (locally).
Thus, both these features can transform data submitted to a map reduce job (mapper) into a different data set and/or transform data produced by a mapreduce job (reducer) into a different data set. But we should notice that data tranformation takes on a single machine and does not take advantage of map reduce framework itself. Also, these blocks only allow custom transformations inside the data pipeline and does not break the pipeline.
With native job support, pig can support native map reduce jobs written in java language that can convert a data set into a different data set after applying a custom map reduce functions of any complexity.
Implementation Details
X = ... ; Y = MAPREDUCE 'mymr.jar' [('other.jar', ...)] STORE X INTO 'inputLocation' USING storeFunc LOAD 'outputLocation' USING loadFunc AS schema [`params, ... `];
Pig Plans
Logical Plan- Logical Plan creates a LONative operator with an internal plan that consists of a store and a load operator. The store operator cannot be attached to X at this level as it would start storing X at inputLocation for every plan that includes X, which is not intended. Although we can LOLoad operator for Y at this point, we delay this until the mapreduce plan and track this with LONative operator. Since Y has dataflow dependency on X, we make a connection between operators corresponding to these aliased at logical plan.
X = ... ; | | | |--- (LOStore) Store X into 'inputLocation' Y = MapReduce ... ; | (LONative) -- innnerPlan ---| mymr.jar | params |--- (LOLoad) Load 'outputLocation' | | ...
TypeCastInserter- This is a mandatory optimizer that adds a foreach and a cast operator after a load so that if a field is loaded from a load we can convert it to required type. In absence of this, we fail with a cast exception after load is completed. Currently, we apply this optimizer on LOLoad and LOStream as they can be loaded "AS schema". As, mapreduce clause corresponds to a load operation, this optimization is also applicable to LONative operator. A test case for this scenario is-
B = mapreduce 'mapreduce.jar' Store A into 'input' Load 'output' as (name:chararray, count:int) `wordcount input output`; C = foreach B generate count+1;
Physical Plan- Logical plan is visited to convert internal plan of load store combination into corresponding physical plan operators and connections are maintained as per the logical plan.
X = ... ; | | | |--- (POStore) Store X into 'inputLocation' Y = MapReduce ... ; | (PONative) -- innnerPlan ---| mymr.jar | params |--- (POLoad) Load 'outputLocation' | | ...
MapReduce Plan- While compiling the mapreduce plan, with MRCompiler, we introduce a new MapReduceOper, NativeMapReduceOper that tracks the presence of native mapreduce job inside the plan. It also holds required parameters and jarname.
X = ... ; | | |--- (POStore) Store X into 'inputLocation' --------------- MR boundary ------------------------- Y = MapReduce ... ; (NativeMapReduceOper) mymr.jar params --------------- MR boundary ------------------------- Y = (POLoad) Load 'outputLocation' | | ...
Inside the JobControlCompiler's compile method if we find the native mapreduce operator we run the org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar's Main method with the specified parameters. We also make sure all the dependencies of job are obeyed for the native jobs.
Security Manager
hadoop jar command is equivalent to invoking org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar's main function with required arguments. RunJar internally can invoke several levels of driver classes before executing the hadoop job (for example- hadoop-example.jar). To detect failure or success of the job we need to detect the innermost error value and return it to Pig. To achieve this we install our own RunJarSecurityManager that delegates the security management to current security manager and captures the innermost exit code.
Pig Stats
Pig Stats are populated by assuming Native job as a single instance of mapreduce job and progress is also reported with the same assumption. As the native job is not under control of pig, except for the exit code, it is hard to capture any information about this job. Thus, job id generated is a pseudo id and it doesnt correspond to actual hadoop job id. We mark the native jobs with a new FEATURE called NATIVE.
PIG-506, "Does pig need a NATIVE keyword?", https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-506
Pig Wiki, "Pig Streaming Functional Specification", http://wiki.apache.org/pig/PigStreamingFunctionalSpec
Hive Wiki, "Transform/Map-Reduce Syntax", http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/LanguageManual/Transform
Bizos blog, "hive map reduce in java" http://dev.bizo.com/2009/10/hive-map-reduce-in-java.html


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*Springfield is a city in Calhoun County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,260 at the 2010 census. It has a Municipal Wi-Fi system installed by ACD.net. Contents 1 Farmers' Market 2 Parks 2.1 Begg Park 2.2 Upton Park 2.3 B. Carol Hinton Park 2.4 Rothchild Park 3 Government 4 Geography 5 Demographics 5.1 2010 census 5.2 2000 census 6 References 7 External links Farmers' Market The City of Springfield hosts a year-round farmers' market to provide the community with access to fresh, local produce. The Springfield Farmers' Market is open to the public and accepts Food Assistance Benefits including SNAP/Bridge Cards, Double Up Food Bucks, WIC Project Fresh, and Market FRESH. The Springfield Farmers' Market is the largest in Calhoun County. The building in which it is housed is 9,500 square feet and has a bistro area where shoppers can enjoy the market happenings. The City of Springfield hosts many events each year such as craft shows, the annual classic car show, their annual chili cook off, a holiday market, an Easter Egg hunt, and a Halloween event. The Market is located in Begg Park which also has a professional 18-hole disc golf course, a playground, picnic tables and a pavilion. The address of the Farmers' Market is: 503 Military Avenue Springfield, MI 49037[6] Parks Begg Park Springfield's Begg Park is located at 503 Military Avenue just off M-96 and is Springfield's largest park at 20.7 acres. It is home to a professional 18-hole disk golf course and hosted the 2008 Disc Golf World Championship. (For more information on Springfield's disc golf course see: Professional Disc Golf Association - Begg Park) In addition to the disk golf course, Begg Park also has the Springfield Farmers' Market, a playground area, a picnic pavilion, open spaces, tree-shaded areas, paved walking trails, and a brook that cuts through the park's center. Upton Park Upton Park is a 6.2 acre park located between Nettles Street and Upton Avenue in Springfield, Michigan. The park features a 1 acre pond used for fishing and model boat racing. In addition, the park has a pavilion used for picnics, playground equipment,a basketball court, and a walking trail that circles the pond. The park is located in the Central and Eastern neighborhoods and is located at the center of one of Springfield's most established neighborhoods. Upton Park is formally known as John F. Kennedy Park. B. Carol Hinton Park The City of Springfield received a grant in 2012 from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to create a park out of a small piece of city-owned property near the intersection of 27th Street and Frisbie Boulevard. The park has a basketball court and play scape enclosed by a fence. Rothchild Park Rothchild Park is an open park located at Helmer Road and Harmonia Road. It is approximately 12 acres and features a pavilion with picnic tables. [7] Government Springfield has a council-manager form of government. This style of governance combines the strong political leadership of elected officials in the form of a council or other governing body, with the strong managerial experience of an appointed local government manager. The form establishes a representative system where all power is concentrated in the elected council and where the council hires a professionally trained manager to oversee the delivery of public services. In the City of Springfield, this form of government keeps city services efficient and cost effective, while promoting growth and development for residents and businesses. 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There were 2,367 housing units at an average density of 636.8 per square mile (245.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 86.30% White, 7.69% African American, 0.96% Native American, 1.37% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.08% from other races, and 2.58% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.51% of the population. There were 2,161 households out of which 26.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.4% were married couples living together, 13.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 44.7% were non-families. 36.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.89. In the city the population was spread out with 22.4% under the age of 18, 11.3% from 18 to 24, 30.9% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. 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Braindead (Dead Alive in North America) is a zombie-horror-comedy 1992 film.
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- They're not dead exactly, they're just... sort of rotting.
- Party's over!
- [as an excuse for punching Selywn and stuffing it into a bag] Hyperactive...
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- It's all part of the grieving process.
- Intellectual at party [struggling against an attack by Void] I take it back! [Void snarls] I'm sorry I called Nabokov a pedophile!
- Intellectual: [defending himself against oncoming zombies] Some of my best friends are Pedophiles! [His famous last words]
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A couple of people have written reviews on some supplements. I am trying to avoid them, but I did find a glass of apple juice before bed helped me get into a Lucid Dream. I would just hate to find using a supplement that was supposed to be harmless end up causing damage to my brain, but that's more of a fear than a "anti supplement" stance.
Def let me know which ones give you success.
Also, if the brain doesn't exist, then it is only the mind that exists =) Which is what I believe some philosophers say is the truth. That our mind is a mind within "the great' mind that could be referred to as God. That there is no such thing as space and time, just the laws of the dream, just as when we experience our Lucid Dreams, the objects and people don't physically exist anywhere, we just perceive them as physical. The physical world is the lucid dream of God, and we are simply parts of God. Much more plausible for me after experiencing a LD, but I figure I'll worry about figuring that stuff out when I am dead...that way if there is an afterlife I can figure that stuff out then, no point of worrying about it now =)
Some Thoughts on Personalizing Reality Checks/Dreamsigns
Discuss lucid dreaming techniques including dream recall, MILD, WILD, meditation and other ways of attaining lucidity in dreams.
Re: Some Thoughts on Personalizing Reality Checks/Dreamsigns
I dont like them either and have been known to put up with small headaches for months and wont even take a disprin or anything so was very reluctant but will now use one small lot about each 2 weeks. Also as far as putting stuff in out bodies I think our food production chain has dealt to any hope of pure food years ago
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rdubya wrote:I did find a glass of apple juice
Yeah! That's what that "inkpoet" guy mentioned somewhere above. Man, wouldn't it be wild if good old apple juice was the best substance to use for lucid dreaming? I mean you can't get much healthier than that!
Peter wrote:I dont like them either
Yeah, I know what you mean. I tried cocktails of triptaphane and choline a while back, but it started to give me a very weird headache (coulda been psychosomatic, though), but anyway I gave all that stuff up. I *am* going to try brewing up a batch of mugwort tonight though, but it's probably going to take a while.
rdubya wrote:Also, if the brain doesn't exist, then it is only the mind that exists
Mmmm, well, again--only if you buy into Cartesian dualism (which most of us do whether we like it or not. It's just part of our "conceptual legacy"). Lucid dreaming is another one of those odd things (like quantum mechanics, which is best discussed via mathematics) that tests the limits of our "antiquated systems" (to borrow a phrase from Jack Nicholson's character in the old movie Easy Rider--funny scene, btw!). We need a better way to think and talk about all this stuff--but right now we're stuck with what we've got!
Oddly enough, though, you could think of Descartes as a type of starting point. One of his "meditations" in his Discourse on Method concerns how--if at all--you can tell if you're dreaming on not. Apparently, ol' Rene knew nothing about lucid dreaming! --but he doesn't answer the question adequately at all.
Believe it or not, Robert Waggoner's book is the source for all this speculation I'm doing. Right now I'm really into thinking about dream characters. How do we define "personhood" in the real world? Well, it usually has something to do with someone acting with some kind of autonomy, right? But I've had lucid dreams where characters acted incredibly autonomous. So, can you conclude that, in some odd sense, these dream characters have personhood? Should they be respected somehow? Do the in some way have "rights"?
Personally, and in an odd way, I'd like to think so. But what about those occasions where your significant other is raving mad at you in the morning because "you" were acting like a jerk in her/his dream!? "Honest, honey--that was *not* me!" And here the snake starts to eat its own tail...
rdubya wrote:That there is no such thing as space and time
If that's the case, then we are alive, we have always been alive, and we always will be alive. On the other hand, we're dead, we've always been dead, and we always will be dead--all at the same time. I'm not in the least prepared to say this is so, but it might be one of the things our dreams are trying to tell us--and ultimately it's again pointing towards the limits of our language and current philosphical conceptions.
rdubya wrote:I'll worry about figuring that stuff out when I am dead
Given that there's no space and time then, what makes you think that, at least in some sense, you're not already "dead" ?
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We are dead and we are alive at the same time - why not. We dream and we control PART of the dream - something else dreams and controls PART of the dream, so a LD is an interface between 2 forms of awareness that are dreaming at the same time or in the same space - well why not
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Peter wrote:We are dead and we are alive at the same time - why not. We dream and we control PART of the dream - something else dreams and controls PART of the dream, so a LD is an interface between 2 forms of awareness that are dreaming at the same time or in the same space - well why not
Nice, Peter. That's well put.
It's probably no surprise by now that I'm somewhat of a fan of the Irish writer James Joyce, who of course penned the "novel" Finnegans Wake--which is about not only dreaming, but sleeping and the entire nocturnal experience. (I mistyped the title when I was creating my username, btw--doh! Idiot!).
Anyway, it's--to say the least--a difficult book to "read" in any normal sense of the word (if you're not quite sure what I mean, pick up a copy, turn to any random page and try reading it. It's like getting hit with 300 ugs of microdot). As a result, readers of this work (and Joyce in general) tend to collect a lot of secondary source material--critical analyses and the like.
One of my favorites of these is by a guy who teaches literature at UC Berkeley named John Bishop. Back in the 80s he wrote this fantastic, playful, fun to read book on Finnegans Wake called Joyce's Book of the Dark. And in it he discusses how dreaming (the whole gamut of sleeping actually) is the closest experience we have to death--and we have this experience every night. There's an entire chapter, for example, on the Egyptian Book of the Dead (which Joyce used extensively as source material). But there are also great speculations as well into what happens to the self, what happens to memory (which Joyce respells "m'm'ry" (memory with holes in it)--indeed what happens to "you" during the night.
Because of the way it's written, Finnegans Wake also presents us with a radically different concept of language. The language of the "Wake" is a polyglot of more or less all the languages that exist on earth (and some that no longer exist), and Joyce employed multi-linguistic "puns" throughout to convey, not double-entendres, by multi-entendres that can and often do span a number of different languages at the same time. Ultimately Joyce's novel offers up a completely different and radical way to look at and use language--but again, that language is couched within the language of sleeping and, in particular, dreaming (as a matter of fact, a number of my lucid dreaming experiences have been what I can only call, well, "Wakean").
I bring all this up just to mention that this is what's been driving a lot of these questions I've been asking here.
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I would be very disappointed if life was as easy as heaven and hell...haha.
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