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J. Floyd Harrison, well known Wayne attorney who received the Democratic nomination for State Senator in the Sixth district at the August primary, announces that he will wage a vigorous campaign for election this fall. He addresses the following letter to the voters of his home county.--Editor's Note.
Wayne, W. Va.
September 15, 1926
Dear Wayne County Friends:
Through the columns of Wayne County News, I desire to express my appreciation to my neighbors and friends for the splendid vote that I received in Wayne County in the race for State Senator. For your information, I furnish the following primary tabulation: Wayne County, Curry (Lee Curry) 659, Harrison 2, 476; Mingo, Harrison 851, Curry 1, 726; McDowell, Harrison 872, Curry, 656; Wyoming, Harrison 402, Curry 113. This gives me a majority of of 1447 in the Sixth district.
The thing that makes me doubly thankful to the voters of Wayne County is the fact that owing to my law practice being particularly pressing at this time it was not possible for me to get out, even in my own county, and solicit the voters. Since this fine showing in the district, it leaves me no choice but to put up a strong fight for the office. This I shall do to the best of my ability, and in the process I shall try to show to my good Wayne County friends my true appreciation.
Wayne County is entitled to a State Senator, for since the election of the Honorable R. J. Prichard this district has been represented by people from without the county. The pendulum is swinging back, and there is little doubt in my mind that at this time it is possible to elect a Wayne County man for this office.
When I succeed in the general election, my home district will be the first in my thoughts, and I shall try to deport myself as fitting for a native son of Wayne county so to do.
Again, thanking my friends and neighbors for the splendid showing, I am,
Faithfully yours,
The annual Wayne County Teachers' Institute at Wayne came to a close last Friday with the adoption of resolutions that had been prepared by the respective committees.
The Committee on Obituaries deplored the death of two Wayne County teachers, namely Miss Ona Wilkinson and Mrs. Effie Wilkinson Blankenship. This committee was composed of J. N. Tabor, Chairman; H. B. Thompson, secretary; E. A. Buckingham, Anna Copley, and Rachel Ratcliff.
The Committee on Resolutions was made up of one representative from each district, as follows: Rexford P. Plymale, Ceredo; T. B. McClure, Union; Una Baisden, Butler; W. C. Mollett, Lincoln; Frank Maynard, Grant; Jean M. Fraley, Stonewall; and Eugenia Wagonlander, Westmoreland. In its report this committee extended special thanks to State Supt. Ford, Supt. Berkley and the various instructors and speakers and others who had contributed to the success of the Institute. The report of this committee, as adopted by the Institute as a whole, contained one clause of special importance, reading as follows:
"This Institute desires to go on record, not in a formal way but in a most emphatic manner in an unanimous way, in favor of the plan that the county be made the Unit in school taxation, rather than the districts. We have for many years made this resolution, but at this time we desire to call this matter to the special attention of the State Educational Department and to the officials and candidates."
The Committee on School Law was composed of the following: J. M. Vanderpool, chairman; App Queen, H. F. Fry, Blanche B. Frazier, L. Burgess, and Luther L. Frasier.
Five points were covered in the report of the Committee on School Law, as follows:
We the committee . . . beg to submit the following:
1. That we ask the next legislature to enact a law authorizing the Boards of Education of the several magisterial districts, where needed, to lay an additional levy of 3 cents for each $100 for the period of one or two years to create a fund to be used exclusively for the payment of teachers' first and second months salary. This fund when created shall not be used for any other purpose and shall be refunded each year from the regular school fund.
2. That we favor making the county the unit of taxation.
3. That the legislature enact a law creating a teacher's compensation fund, similar to the workmen's compensation fund, to be funded and kept intact by making 1/2 of one per cent deduction out of each month's salary of teachers for the purpose of pensioning and caring for incapacitated teachers.
4. That we ask the legislature to amend section 128 of the West Virginia School Law that it may carry a penalty for the violation of this section of the law, but not otherwise to be altered or changed (Section 128 refers to compulsory attendance of children between the ages of 14 and 16 years.).
5. Resolved, that we the teachers of Wayne County do no endorse the Darwin Theory of Evolution, with reference to the origin of man, and that we hereby petition the next legislature to enact a law prohibiting the teaching of this theory in the public schools, colleges and universities in the State of West Virginia.
Five schools will take part in a Public School day program that will be given at Wilson Graded school beginning at 9:00 a. m. on Friday, September 24th. The five participating schools and their principals are:
Genoa Graded: Blanche Frazier
Greenbrier Graded: Mrs. C. L. Matthews
Patrick Graded: App Queen
Wilson: C. L. Matthews
Joels Branch: Fred Bartram
C. L. Matthews will be the chairman of the day. There will be a grand march made up of all the pupils of the five schools at 9:00 a. m. This will be followed by pledging allegience to the flag, singing, school stunts, etc.
At 11:00 a. m. there will be a discussion of various school problems such as hot lunches, adequate books, etc. Penmanship and Arithmetic drills will follow with all schools having a part. This will be followed by a spelling match.
At noon there will be a sumptuous basket dinner on the ground.
The afternoon, beginning at 1:30, will be given over to various athletic events which will include 50 yards dash for boys of various ages, over-head relay for boys and girls, standing broad jump and running broad jump for boys classified according to age, shuttle relay for girls and other interesting events.
The closing exercise of the day will be the announcement of individual winners and the winning school in the day program. Friday, September 24th, is the date, Wilson Graded School is the place and a profitable day is promised for everyone.
The county court recently awarded damages of $100 to Frank Adkins for a slide on Adkins' land on the Wilsons Creek and Prices Creek road. The building of the road caused Millers Fork to cut away part of the bottom land belonging to Adkins. The $100 covers future as well as past damages.
Wayne County Court has accepted the road construction contract of Allen Adkins on the Bowen-Winslow road.
C. M. Fraley, Henderson Maynard, Valentine Pyles and J. P. Crabtree have recently filed applications with the county court for appointment as notary public.
The county court recently awarded a contract for the county medical practice to Dr. Glen Johnson of Wayne. There were two bids received, one from Dr. A. G. Wilkinson of Wayne for $72 a month and the successful bid from Dr. Johnson for $70 a month. The work includes medical practice at the county infirmary and the county jail.
The county court has awarded to contract the construction of a sixteen feet wide county road on Big Hurricane Creek, Butler district, from the residence of T. B. Crabtree to the top of Crabtree mountain at the residence of Chas. McKinsey. There were two bidders on this job of work and their bids were close, namely Chas. McKinsey for $972.50 and B. P. Toney for $975.00. The contract was accordingly awarded to McKinsey.
Grover C. Hunter, for several years a deputy sheriff in this county, has resigned to accept a position as private detective for the N. & W. Ry. On motion of Sheriff J. C. Wilson, the county court recently named Brady Murphy of Kenova to succeed Hunter as deputy sheriff at a salary of $150.00 a month.
County Commissioner B. B. Cyrus, County Road Engineer H. O. Wiley and P. J. Staley have been named to a committee to go on the Docks Creek road leading from the the end of the work completed to the mouth of Docks Creek, and the committee will go over the survey on this route and make such changes as they deem necessary. A county order further provides that this road shall be advertised and let to contract from the point where it is constructed to the mouth of Docks Creek to the county road along Big Sandy River.
The C. E. Price road contract on the Lavalette--Kenova route is now completed with the exception of the final dressing, which will require another week. County Road Engineer H. O. Wiley has the county road force on the Lavalette route getting it in shape to turn over to the State for maintenance shortly. This is state route number 75, and it accommodates a densely populated section of the county.
A total of 96 stills have been confiscated in Logan county during the summer, according to reports of state police, federal and county officials. Twenty-one stills have been brought into the sheriff's headquarters within the past two weeks, as well as 1,800 gallons of mash and 80 gallons of moonshine whiskey.
Harry C. Bloss, of Lavalette, this county, was elected Sir Herald in the Grand Castle of the Knights of the Golden Eagles of West Virginia at the recent annual castle meeting in Parkersburg. J. O. Miller of Wayne, Route 1, was named one of the castle trustees. it was voted that the next annual meeting be held in Huntington.
Mrs. B. B. Cyrus was hostess at an enjoyable dinner at her home at Cyrus, W. Va. recently. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Stewart of Portsmoth; Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Malcolm and daughter, Mary, and sons, George and Bayless, of Portsmouth; E. R. Malcolm of Huntington; Mrs. Julia Sprencher of Huntington; Mrs. Sophia Malcolm and Miss Josephine Malcolm of Kenova.
Rev. A. W. Damron of Wayne received this week from Rev. Lawrence Dickerson, of Prospect, Ohio, the largest apple that has been seen in this section this year. The apple, which county agent Click says is a Wolfe River variety, weighs one and one-half pounds and measures fifteen inches in circumference and is a perfect specimen. It is of light red or pink color. Rev. Dickerson, a former Wayne County man, produced the big apple on his farm at Prospect, Ohio.
180 pupils enrolled in the Wayne County High school at Wayne Monday of this week. This is an increase of 40 over the enrollment of last year, and Principal H. E. Berisford believes that the enrollment will reach the 200 mark before the year is over. 80 of the 180 enrolled are members of the Freshman class.
Don Chafin, widely known Logan county citizen, motored down to Wayne Monday of this week and spent the day renewing old acquaintances here. Don says he is in good health and happy, but declares that he is out of politics.
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Eastleigh's steady climb through the county's rugby ranks came to a climax when they claimed the Gales HSB Hampshire Bowl.
A close encounter against regular London SW3 rivals Ellingham & Ringwood was expected but Eastleigh's desire and work-rate helped them to a 44-6 win.
Visitors Eastleigh got into their stride after an end-to-end start and built up a healthy 27-6 half-time lead.
They produced much of the same after the break to widen the gap but were made to defend their advantage over the last 15 minutes as battling Ellingham pinned them back in their own 22.
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Smith said: "I'm over the moon; this is a perfect end to a perfect four years for me. All the hard work and training on cold, dark and wet nights has paid off.
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"Credit to Ellingham because it is difficult for anyone to play against a team on the boil and we certainly were today."
It took just four minutes for Eastleigh to score as Paul Fudio crossed in the corner.
Eastleigh wing Jon Lynch struck with a penalty and opposite number Charlie Crockram answered with a couple before the visitors got into the groove.
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[above] two cavalier spaniel ceramic jars @ Anthropologie in Yorkville, Toronto
Vino @ 7 West Cafe in Toronto
Love this rabbit cookie jar @ anthro
more beautiful ceramics @ anthropologie
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 12:00 AM
just got the seatool housing delivered the other day.
Have had the camera for a week or so, and it's lotsa fun.
Looking forward to getting it UW asap.
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 12:20 AM
Hope to see some results soon
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 02:04 PM
Spent some time questioning one of the GoPro guys at their booth (more like a pavilion) about editing 3D HD and distributing it. Also had a great conversation with a Sony guy about some of their 3D post solutions, including 3D editing and 3D Blu-Ray authoring that is well within reach of prosumer budgets. (Expect that Apple may be up to something in the 3D editing area as well, but just speculation at this point.)
Then went to the Red User gathering at the Tropicana where Red 3D was being shown and discussed. Wow!!
Interesting that *both* the GoPro 3D guy and the Red User 3D guy said that Cineform was used to prep their 3D footage for editing in Final Cut Pro. (Looking into understanding this whole process better....)
And the GoPro 3D guy referred me to YouTube's new experimental 3D effort, which I think is very interesting!
Here are some further links on the YouTube thing:
A YouTube intro video on their experimental 3D effort.
YouTube's "Now in 3D: Join the Experiment with Us!" blog entry.
If you do a "3D" search on YouTube you get all kinds of experimental 3D efforts...
Now, this is YouTube, I know, but definitely an indication of how far-reaching this 3D thing is likely to be.
And one of the best parts of this year's NAB (besides, of course, having lunch with Eric Cheng) was catching some of Ray Kurzweil's talk, "Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: The Impact on Media, Communications , and Society."
So much to learn, and so much tinkering to do!
- Mary Lynn
Posted 15 April 2010 - 02:15 PM
I'm sure the guys at Apple, Adobe, Avid and Canopus are all working on an editing solution for 3D. I also heard from Sony that the next playstation will be 3D.
Just if you didn't have to wear the glasses.......
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 07:10 PM
I'm viewing with Red/Cyan glasses, but would like to view the YouTube "Row interleave" version. Anyone know what kind of glasses I would need for that and where I might get them?
Posted 16 April 2010 - 06:56 AM
That said, quite a few productions are now shooting in 3D and 2D to cover the bases. I think theatrical releases with have a huge influx of 3D releases, I'm not sure home entertainment will catch on though.
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
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Posted 16 April 2010 - 11:54 PM
I also think 3D will be popular in TV-based gaming, since console gaming typically only involves 2-4 people actively staring at a set (and not moving very much, unless you're a Nintendo person).
Casual TV watching is probably going to be the hardest market for widespread 3D adoption.
Mary Lynn -- thanks again for those YouTube links. I found them when they were first announced, but never bothered to give the service a try!
Posted 17 April 2010 - 10:58 AM
There is also increasing awareness of the apparently large percentage of people who have monocular vision for whom 3D will not work and lately it has been on the news that fear of epileptic seizures, caused by the 3D technology, is growing. Never the less, I personally look forward to learning more about the shooting and editing workflows. It is an exciting time in the industry.
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Posted 17 April 2010 - 11:00 AM
To answer my own question above about how to view "Row interleaved" 3D, apparently this format of 3D stereoscopic processing can be viewed quite well on a Zalman stereoscopic 3D LCD monitor with related glasses.
Reading a very good primer right now on some of the basics of 3D called "3D Movie Making, Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen" by Bernard Mendiburu, published by Focal Press. Picked it up at the NAB store, and it has turned out to be quite intelligible and helpful in getting a handle on some of this stuff.
There have been some interesting developments in the processing of 3D with Jim Cameron's Avatar that are not reflected in this book, which was published while Avatar was still in production. A very brief writeup on Cameron's developments can found here in TV Technology magazine.
Studies continue...
- Mary Lynn
Posted 17 April 2010 - 02:29 PM
The Youtube videos were pretty impressive and I was just looking through the cheapo cardboard red/blue lens.
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Posted 17 April 2010 - 11:38 PM
Posted 18 April 2010 - 07:06 AM
And it's not a very big book at that. But have to say it's packed with great info!
I'll post about more good resources as I come across them, and hope others will do the same!
Still trying to grasp all the implications of the Cameron/Pace stereography discovery...
Posted 25 April 2010 - 01:55 PM
"3D is here to stay, and we need to start doing it underwater at a consumer level."
As you can imagine, I could not agree more. I have been waiting 25 years for some more company in this awsome niche...now the mainstream is finally catching up. Thanks for establishing the forum.
Someone mentioned shooting the Fuji W1 underwater. I tested it last September in the SeaTool housing and I think I posted a brief review. Other than the fact it's a consumer camera, and all that entails, the biggest limitation is that you are shooting lenses which are the equivalent of 35mm focal length (in full frame DSLR format) behind a flat port with a 77mm stereo base. Doing the math, you quickly see you can't get too close to your subject without introducing serious stretch! Nevertheless, for anyone wanting to try shoot UW 3D stills and video with a minimum investment (approximately $1,100) just to start learning, this is undoubtedly it. Add the Fuji HDP-L1 (http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/22/fujifilm-now-lets-you-view-3d-pics-taken-with-its-real-3d-w1-on-3d-tvs/) and it becomes really easy to play your 3d stills and video on the Panasonic 3D TV!
The folks on the DIY forum may be a help for people wanting to implement other than off the shelf 3D solutions, such as for macro. Personally, macro has always been my favorite because the close spaced lenes of the stereo macro camera allows you to see a macro 3D world in a way you never could with your own wide set eyes.
Best regards,
Posted 25 April 2010 - 09:27 PM
Posted 26 April 2010 - 04:01 PM
Someone mentioned shooting the Fuji W1 underwater...
Best regards,
the Fuji camera is fun and i think a interesting and inexpensive intro into this new version of an old art. Its 35mm equiv lenses behind flat ports were always going to present challenges UW.
Twin Polarised Kodak Carousels and 3D 2-slide viewers were never that common....
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 12:35 AM
Nice to see a 3D-section on wetpixel. I'm very excited to see what's showing up here in the next months/years and Yes... this is heavy stuff and really complicated to travel with. So far, it's the reason why I have only been using my homebuild rig (about 15kg. above water... Take a look in the DIY section to see/read more about!) in waters that I could reach by car/boat. I would definaitely like to go to the Red Sea by plane in the future, so hopefully I'll figure out how to pack it well! :-)
All the best from Kim Meineche! :-)
This is amazing stuff! I'm worried though, looking at the size of all that 3d equipment at NAB, its going to be quite a bit of work to take it down underwater. I already have a hard time traveling the globe with my minimal video setup, I wonder what it will be like traveling with almost twice that amount of equipment. Things do seem to be getting smaller fast, but until such time, maybe I can cheat with a software solution instead? Is there a Final Cut plugin that can generate 3d from 2d
Edited by Kimmeineche, 27 April 2010 - 12:36 AM.
Posted 16 April 2011 - 08:14 AM
I can field some questions about s3d. In the past I have made some UW s3d rigs out of s95s, but I had to clang the bar to sync and they drift quite a bit (will look around and upload examples).
I just got the gopro s3d housing/sync cable, talking to the EyeOfMine guys about a flat lens housing for it.
Anyway, I have been into s3d photography for a while and even worked on the film mentioned above! Just joined here because I am going on a 1.5 month diving vacation and want to make sure I have the right gear that will last.
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We finally got around to mudding the drywall. Its only been 3 months since we hung the drywall. We started with smaller taping knives and worked our way up to wider ones with each layer of mud.
The first coat of the long living room wall. A built-in will be going in the opening on the right.
The master bedrooms first coat.
Second layer.
On the last layer we tried wet sanding with a damp sponge. We had wring out the sponge a lot and be careful to be very gentle so as to not take off too much mud. It worked pretty well though. We did follow up with a light dry sand afterwords.
Onto the main bathroom where were focusing all of our efforts right now. We just finished the laying down the tile floor and grouting it with epoxy grout .
And the ceiling that we werent planning to have to drywall until the electrician fell through ittwice.
Next up was priming and we added the sand texture into the primer. That worked OK but I think we need to find a way to apply the texture more evenly than with a roller because we had a lot of areas that needed more texture to make it look even.
The future access panel for the shower shut off valves next to the toilet.
Then I asked Flannel Man to skip ahead and install the light fixtures temporarily so I could pick the paint color for the upper half of the walls. The construction light we were using up to this point was just too yellow to pick out paint.
We had a minor issue in that the lights couldnt sit flush with the wall. The center bolt that holds them on was meant to fit into a standard depth electrical box not the shallow pan boxes we had to use because of studs being in the way. Flannel Man was later able to cut down the bolts without messing up the threads.
The bottom half of the room was going to be painted white to look like wainscoting but the top half I wanted some type of light blue or green color. I had a whole pile of paint chips from various stores.
I considered the tile neutral so I thought any color would look good but holding the swatches up to the tile I found the tile had a very blue undertone to it. So the greens and green grays seemed off to me.
I narrowed it down to a few favorites and taped them on the wall. At this point I realized that the G24 base light that came with the bath exhaust fan was a soft white so it gave off a slightly yellow glow. But the florescent bulbs I picked for the sconces were a bright white. We liked the bright white better so all of the white in the room didnt look dirty or yellowed. Eventually well replace the bath light with a similar temperature light but for now we looked at both for picking out the paint colors. Soft white light with pure white Azek moulding:
Left to right: SW 2640 Skylark, SW 6218 Tradewind, Behr UL220-12 Urban Mist, Behr 720E-2 Light French Gray, Behr 720E-3 Rocky Mountain Sky, the sliver on the end was just from Tradewinds long card.
SW Skylark is actually an exterior color but it color matches BMs Glacier Lake which I saw in an inspiration picture I liked so I was considering having it mixed in an interior formula.
Bright white light with American Olean Catarina Coliseum White tile:
My two favorite were the two on the left. In the end I felt Skylark might be too pale and not contrast enough with the white wainscoting but I liked the mix of green, blue, and green that still managed to work with the tile. I went with the gray/blue Tradewind which I hoped would give the room a nice pop of color. Plus its one of interior designer Phoebe Howards favorite blue colors along with the one shade lighter SW Top Sailso you cant go wrong with that!
At this point Flannel Man started with the wainscoting paint. I had tried to get it color matched with a piece of the vinyl trim we were using for the wainscoting. But the color reader was acting up that day so the Sherwin Williams guy attempted to come up with the color mixture by eye. Four tries at tinting, shaking, and drying a drop of paint on the sample and he thought he had something. At that point I just wanted to get the heck out of there after waiting around for almost an hour! So I told FM wed try the color and if it wasnt right we could have it re-tinted. Well FM must have not been paying attention because I talked to him the next day and he had painted all of the ceiling and the wainscoting before realizing the color was PINK!
Taking a closer look at the trim we had I realized the straight pieces of vinyl we had bought were a different color than the Azek moulding order that came in after we had bought them. Originally, we were going to get the matching straight Azek but it was textured on one side, had a rougher finish, and didnt have rounded corners. Plus the Azek was 3 times as much as the stuff we found at Menards. The straight pieces didnt match the pink color of the wall or ceiling at all but it was darker than the Azek. So I guess we would be painting the trim after all (we were hoping we could get away with not).
I took the pink paint back and both of the samples and the Sherwin Williams lady was very sympathetic. She found that the straight bright white base they use matched the Azek exactly so matching it between types of paint (for the doors) became very easy. Too bad they dont give you a discount for not needing any tinting! With a two new cans of Duration; one in the bright white base and one in Tradewind the room was looking much better.
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Many large cities own helicopters to spot criminals or shuttle patients from serious freeway crashes.
Los Angeles, notorious for high-speed chases and wildfires, maintains a fleet of 23 choppers in its police and fire departments. But there are at least four other government birds that patrol less conspicuous targets: the city's water supply and electric grid.
The Department of Water and Power spends about $2.5 million a year to maintain and operate its Bell helicopters with a staff of eight full-time pilots.
And now the department is preparing to replace its two oldest airships at a cost of up to $4 million. At a time of tight budgets and pending rate increases, DWP officials contend their air operations are a necessary, and cost-effective, expense to monitor security and maintain infrastructure.
"Our older helicopters are simply no longer adequate to do what we need them to do," says Michael Finnegan, one of the department's two chief helicopter pilots.
The two helicopters were purchased in 1988 and 1990 and have about 10,000 hours each of flying time, though helicopters in general have been known to continue flying with at least 70,000 hours on their engines, according to one aviation expert.
"A helicopter can be re-built over and over again," said Robert Feerst, president of Indiana-based Utilities Aviation Specialists.
But the department expects increasing maintenance costs will be more expensive than replacing them, Finnegan said
Aviation officials are preparing a request for proposals to potentially issue this summer. Depending on the value of the bids, the DWP could buy none, one or two choppers, officials say. They would sell the old helicopters at an auction.
Newer models have modern technology and more lifting power, Finnegan says. They have digital instruments instead of buttons and dials, and a navigation system with GPS for low visibility conditions and night flights. Also, they can lift heavier power poles than the current helicopters, at high altitudes and in hotter weather, he added.
While the DWP helicopters are sometimes all flying at once, they're often grounded. Based on flight logs for roughly 12 months ending in May, the DWP flew an average of 4.4 hours per day and about two flights per day — spread among the four aircraft.
Large area
The Daily News reviewed flight logs and compared DWP's helicopter program with other utilities to understand how it all works.
With more than 3,600 miles of transmission lines and towers that span five western states and the 338-mile-long Los Angeles Aqueduct, the DWP often flies to make repairs, install and transport new equipment, attend meetings, photograph facilities and patrol for security.
"It is simply not cost effective to cover this kind of territory by truck," Finnegan said.
Many of the flights are to the Owens Valley, about 200 miles from Los Angeles, where the DWP manages hundreds of thousands of acres and has extensive water rights.
On more than 70 percent of the department's roughly 700 flights during the past year, a pilot and usually one security officer patrolled the system, according to flight logs. They ranged from quick half-hour tours in the L.A. basin, where the department runs eight reservoirs and pump stations, to nearly seven-hour hauls to undisclosed locations. Some of the power lines stretch to Oregon and Utah.
While the DWP wouldn't point to any specific terrorist plots its helicopters have helped foil, officials say threats and attacks on utilities, in general, have increased since 2002, when it purchased its two newest aircraft.
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the department spent about $2 million on each chopper, part of a larger security build-up. The heightened threat produced a "windfall" for the utility aviation sector, Feerst noted.
Costs comparable
Another option would be outsourcing. More utilities today contract out their aerial work than maintain their own fleet, Feerst said.
Southern California Edison, like the DWP, is an exception: It has a fleet of six helicopters and six pilots.
San Diego Gas and Electric, Pacific Gas and Electric in Northern California, and Sacramento Municipal Utility District — the next largest public utility in the state — all use contractors exclusively.
Ownership may be just as cost-effective as contract work, though. Compared with outsourcing at Pacific Gas and Electric, the only utility which provided detailed expense figures, DWP's in-house fleet costs about the same. PG&E spent $13.9 million in 2013 for nearly 9,000 hours of flying time — at a rough price of $1,565 per hour.
The DWP, which has a smaller service area and flies just a fraction of that, spent $2.4 million in fiscal 2013, and flew 1,600 hours in the roughly 12 months ending in May (the department keeps just one year of flight logs). That is a rough cost of $1,535 per hour. In the previous four years, using the same flying time, DWP choppers cost slightly more than PG&E's 2013 outsourced rate.
That parity was welcome news for Tony Wilkinson, chairman of the DWP Neighborhood Council Oversight Committee. Wilkinson believes all DWP divisions should undergo a regular comparative cost analysis because "all of us think the cost of workers at DWP is very high."
The eight DWP pilots made an average of $122,000 each annually in 2012 – the most recent year available from the state Controller – plus about $15,000 in health and retirement benefits. When not flying, the pilots train, oversee maintenance and repairs, record their flight logs and take care of other administrative work, said Finnegan, the pilot.
Irrespective of cost, Wilkinson believes maintaining an in-house fleet is important for security and natural disasters, when the DWP can't depend on a company's availability. Department officials agree.
"If a major disaster strikes L.A., our pilots will be flying alongside fire and police choppers to protect and secure the city," Finnegan said. "The program, personnel and equipment are all vital to providing safe and reliable water and power to the city."


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Since the crash that killed two Sag Harbor men on April 9, I have driven past the accident site on Brick Kiln Road several times. It has had relevance for me, if at a remove, because my older daughter was in another vehicle that happened to come on the scene just seconds after the apparently speeding Mustang struck a tree.
Adelia had been riding with a friend and the friend's aunt, westbound on Brick Kiln, the same direction that Thomas Wheeler and Manuel Cunha had been traveling. She said that a tire from the wreck was still rolling as they passed, then it came to a stop and flopped over. Smoke, she said, was rising from the twisted metal; the flames that quickly engulfed the car had not yet erupted.
She saw the driver's head slumped to the side. She saw the passenger's air bag suddenly and belatedly inflate. It was a lot for a 9-year-old to have to see.
Unofficially, police sources have said that the Mustang must have been going close to 100 miles an hour when Mr. Cunha, who was at its wheel, lost control. The car went into the oncoming traffic lane, then shot back, striking the tree. As a father, my mind plays the what-if scenarios: What if the car my daughter was in had been going the other way? What if the Mustang had come up behind them on the twisting, up-and-down road?
In my work for the paper, I have been to plenty of accident scenes. Many of the worst have been, as this one was, on sunny weekend afternoons — often in the "shoulder season," before Memorial Day or after Labor Day. In most, it is very difficult to know what really happened. Had the drivers been drinking? Were they just caught up in the exuberance of a day off? Is it all random — just chance?
So, finally, I went to the Brick Kiln site for a closer look. Fresh flowers, a heart-shape wreath, had been left for the victims. Aside from a gentle curve a hundred yards or so up the way and a dip in the pavement, the road was straight.
A man was sitting in a small car parked opposite the memorial smoking a cigarette, the window down. I thought about Mr. Cunha's and Mr. Wheeler's families, and wondered what had happened. There were not, and there never will be, real answers.


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Fall: January 15
[December 15 for international applicants]
The Dance Department must receive all department and university application materials. Attendance at the department audition is required. After acceptance at the Department level, there is a final review of all application materials by the College of Music.
A supplemental application, which is required, can be obtained by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Number Required: 3
From Whom: Letters of recommendation should be obtained from from qualified representatives of academic or professional communities in dance.
Prospective students should have an undergraduate grade point average of 3.0; transcripts which show a foundational knowledge of dance with a graduate GPA of 3.4 or above; and a curriculum vitae that details experience in dance, art, education, scholarship and/or public leadership.
A master's degree in Dance or Dance Education or a related field with substantial professional experience in dance, arts administration, teaching dance, or dance research is required.
A baccalaureate degree is required, although it need not be in dance.
The Statement of Goals should address the prospective student's unique profile as a developing professional in the field of dance, as well as his/her ability to do original research. The student should consider why the Dance Department (the research foci of its doctoral faculty, its mission and resources) is well matched to the student's career and educational goals.
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The audition includes a technique class with portions taught by several members of the faculty, a presentation of research or applied practice, and an interview.
Doctoral Writing Examination:
All applicants take an on-site Doctoral Entrance Examination. Results are considered in the admissions process. Remedial coursework may be required.
All applicants will be interviewed at the audition.
A resume is required.
The writing sample should be a recent scholarly or academic research paper.
Students who enter the Ph.D. program in Dance may be considered for advanced standing, based on relevant coursework. The Doctoral Faculty Committee awards credits toward advanced standing on a case-by-case basis in the first year of full time study. The maximum number of advanced standing credits awarded is 30.
International students can be accepted without attending the audition, if their video and other supporting documents give adequate evidence of excellence.
Number of Didactic Credits Required Beyond the Masters: 46
Required Courses (33 s.h.)
Dance 505 (1) Dancer and the Dance Medium
560 (3) Dance and the Gendered Body (3)
575 (3) Meaning in Dance
576 (3) Dance as a Mode of Learning
580 (3) Black Performance
601 (3) Problems in Dance Research
799 (2) Preliminary Exam Prep
899 (3-6) Pre-Dissertation Research
951 (3) Aesthetic and Philosophical Inquiry
999 (6-9) Doctoral Dissertation
Dance Electives (7s.h.)
Select (3) from Dance 506 (3) Creative Process
535 (3) Video Dance
565 (3) Dance Science and Somatics
596 (3) Principles of Dance and Technology
Other Dance Electives (4)
Electives outside Dance (6)
(3) Research Methods
(3) Theoretical
Internship: No internship is required.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
Preliminary Projects:
Through the Preliminary Projects, the student demonstrates her/his achievement of scholarly and professional competencies.
1. The student must be able to carry through and complete a major, independent research project culminating in a research article that meets current professional standards for publication.
2. The student must be able to complete a major, independent dance curriculum development project in the form of a course proposal. The proposal must articulate the curricular rationale for a course of the student's own invention, the objectives of the course, how these will be implemented in the teaching-learning processes, what the material content of the course will be, how learning will be assessed, and bibliographic resources for the course.
Qualifying Examination:
A Qualifying Examination focusing on Dance Research and Cultural/Historical Studies is taken after the first year of full time study. The student demonstrates breadth of knowledge and insight into multiple scholarly perspectives, discourses, and world views through this examination.
In order to maintain good academic progress toward the degree, the student should plan to submit her/his Preliminary Projects by the end of the summer after the second year of full-time study, and no later by mid-term of the fifth semester.
All four doctoral faculty members in dance contribute questions to the Qualifying Examination.
A minimum of three doctoral faculty must approve the content of the Preliminary Projects and the Qualifying Examination.
A minimum of three doctoral faculty members must make a decision on the examination grade: pass, pass upon the approval of required revisions, or fail. If the student does not submit required revisions before the start of the next semester, the grade automatically reverts to fail. If a student either fails the whole examination, or a part thereof, she/he is permitted to retake the entire examination or the failed portion once. A second failure constitutes grounds for academic dismissal.
Both the Qualifying Examination and Preliminary Projects are take-home examinations. The Qualifying Exam must be completed within one week over the summer after the first year of formal coursework.
Dissertation Proposal:
In the dissertation proposal the must student demonstrate that she/he is well versed in the specific mode of inquiry and research methods to be applied and that these are well tailored to the solution of the research problem. Written standards for the evaluation of the dissertation proposals are published in the Ph.D. Handbook. A formal review process consists of three steps:
1) a 4-5 page abstract of the dissertation proposal must be reviewed by the entire doctoral faculty;
2) the full six part proposal must then be reviewed by the student's Dissertation Advisory Committee;
3) the dissertation proposal must be formally presented in a public event and shown to enrich the entire doctoral/graduate community in dance at Temple University.
The Doctoral Dissertation is a substantial piece of original and independent research making a significant contribution to new knowledge in dance and possibly related fields.
In consultation with the Primary Advisor, the student selects a second member from the doctoral faculty in the Dance Department and a third member from any Temple University doctoral program and requests their participation on the Advisory Committee. The student prepares the full dissertation proposal, initially with the guidance of the Primary Advisor, later, seeking feedback from each member of the Advisory Committee. Finally, the student submits the proposal for review by the entire doctoral faculty of the Dance Department. When the Dissertation Advisory Committee agrees that the proposal is ready to go forward, the Primary Advisor and the student schedule a time and place for the student's formal presentation of the dissertation proposal before the graduate students and faculty of the Dance Department.
The original Doctoral Advisory Committee may be expanded with additional doctoral faculty from Temple University or other universities, or even doctorally prepared experts who work outside university settings. For the purposes of the dissertation defense, the committee must include at least one additional doctoral faculty member from Temple or another university but not from the student's program; so constituted, it becomes the Dissertation Examining Committee. At least one member of the Dissertation Examining Committee must be an "Outside Examiner," defined as one who has not read the dissertation in progress. The composition of committees is subject to approval by the Doctoral Coordinator of the Dance Department, who ensures adherence to Graduate School policies; exceptions to these rules will be considered only if the student submits a petition to the Dean of the Graduate School.
In the eventuality that circumstances prevent a committee from functioning effectively, the committee may be reconstituted, but only through the following procedure:
1) the student must write a letter to the Doctoral Faculty Committee, c/o the Doctoral Coordinator, stating the reasons for the requested change;
2) the Doctoral Faculty Committee will make a decision on the petition; if necessary, the Doctoral Coordinator will ask the student to supply further information to the Committee on paper or in person;
3) all appropriate parties must be notified of the change. In addition, the Graduate School must be notified of any changes in the composition of the Doctoral Advisory Committee. In the event that either the student desires to change the Primary Advisor or faculty availability dictates such a change, procedures similar to the ones stated above are followed. Faculty availability may also dictate a change in the composition of the Dissertation Advisory Committee.
The Dissertation Examining Committee assesses the defendability of the research and the written document. At least three members of the committee must certify that the dissertation is defensible before the student can proceed to the oral defense of the dissertation. A majority of the members of the Dissertation Examining Committee must approve the oral defense.
The dissertation must be approved for defense from the advisory committee. The advisor and student must agree on a defense date. The announcement for defense is posted on ISIS and on campus no later than 10 working days prior to the scheduled defense.
The Primary Advisor, the Doctoral Coordinator, and the Department are responsible for announcing the oral defense of doctoral candidates. All doctoral defenses must be announced through the Graduate School using the "Notification of Scheduling Oral Defense" form. These forms must be received by the Graduate School (501 Carnell Hall) a minimum of 10 working days prior to the defense. Also prior to the defense, fliers must be posted announcing the defense.
Department of Dance
309 Vivacqua Hall (062-62)
1700 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-0843
Lynne Shaeffer
Program Coordinator:
Dr. Kariamu Welsh
Acting Coordinator
Graduate Chairperson:
Dr. Luke Kahlich
The Department of Dance offers programs of study leading to the Master of Education, Master of Fine Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. All students are expected to develop a command of the discipline of dance, including its modes as a performing art and a medium of inquiry. The department's mission places high value on the role of dance in a pluralistic, multicultural society.
Time Limit for Degree Completion: 7 years
Students are able to complete the degree program through classes offered before and after 4:30 p.m.
Dept. of Dance
309 Vivacqua Hall (062-62)
1700 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-0843
The program encourages interdisciplinary coursework, research, and interactions among faculty and students with interests in music, music therapy, education, theater arts, media arts, women's studies, Jewish studies, African American studies, anthropology, history, etc.
Not applicable.
The graduate programs are ranked among the top twelve in the nation as determined by the Dance Career Guide. The Doctor of Philosophy program is one of four programs in the country and the Master of Education program is the only such program in the United States.
The Ph.D. in Dance is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD).
Individual doctoral faculty members conduct research studies on historical and cultural representatives of the body, including issues of gender, race, and class; feminism and dance; African and African American aesthetics; dance reconstruction; dance and the child; dance as a phenomenon in its own right; dance standards; and accreditation and arts advocacy. Research expertise of doctoral faculty are in historical, ethnographic, aesthetic, phenomenological, and scientific modes of inquiry in dance. The subdisciplines of the curriculum are organized into four major subdivisions: Dance research; Cultural studies in dance (humanistic and socio-cultural inquiry into dance); Dance processes (performative, creative, healing, community building, and behavioral processes in dance, as well as scientific inquiry); Professional applications (applied practice in particular educational settings/institutions and among specific populations, as well as arts advocacy).
Graduates perform and choreograph with companies throughout the world, teach at all levels of education, serve as arts administrators and policymakers for the arts, and publish extensively.
Non-matriculated students are able to take technique classes and some core coursework with the permission of the instructor and the Department Chairperson. If accepted into the program, those courses (up to a maximum of 9 credits) may be applied toward the degree program.
Teaching Assistantships (TAs) and Research Assistantships (RAs) are available. Teaching responsibilities usually include teaching university core curriculum. On occasion, TAs are assigned to teach Children's Dance, Repertory, technique classes, or classes germane to their area of study. This award includes a monthly stipend, book allowance, and tuition remission. The award is for one year. Students must re-apply for the award for a second appointment. The RA/TA application should include information in a clearly written and well-edited presentation. Please include 4 copies with the other application materials. Vital Information: If an entering student, include the Personal Data Sheet. If a continuing student, include the following information on a cover sheet: Name, degree program, address, telephone number, electronic address, and current grade point average; statement of teaching experience and a concise, clearly written, one paragraph philosophy of teaching; statement on how personal and professional goals relate to the responsibilities of the Assistantship.
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Check this out.Nuisance -- Thursday, August 08, 2002 -- 12:26:06 AM
A place to let us know of a new website you have discovered, or an old favorite. Any time you go somewhere you think may be of interest, post the link with a short description here.This thread is tagged: links, games, 11550
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Did we have a George Clooney thread besides the main page?
Here's a story that's, er, not quite what one would expect.
Amaxen, I almost never click on your "check this out" link because the titles are so uninformative and I want to know what I'm getting into. Would it spoil it for you to be a little more descriptive? Because you've posted a lot of cool stuff!
George Clooney -- plays a practical joke. Text only and sfw, but may leave a rather odd image in your head. Next link: Spongebob Squarepants Rectal Thermometer.
Ah HA! That's exactly why I'm not clicking on 'em!
That Clooney story is so great and so awful at the same time.
well, it's not as if they show the SSRT in demo mode or anything.
There is a Spongebob episode, my favorite, where they come up with a slogan for the restaurant to sell more patties. They decide on People Order Our Patties! and the signs have big letter P's on them so all you see is POOP! That thermometer reminded me of that. Perfect!
That Clooney story is classic! I just coughed myself into an asthma fit, though.
I read that to my husband and I was laughing so hard I was crying. He was not as amused as I.
What's up with all the old references in that story, though? The guy is telling the story like it happened last week or a year ago, and last I checked, Spin City has been off the air for a few years (and I miss it).
flirting, sex, and relationships in Japan
If I'm making cross-cultural sex sound like a bit of a nightmare: yeah, it was. In this case, once I worked out what was going on, I thought all my problems could be solved by a simple conversation or two, explaining the more free-form nature of western sex, and encouraging my partner along the lines of, "You don't have to act a certain way, you can act however you like! You can relax! Enjoy yourself! Doesn't that sound great?" but that was also a failure to understand the Japanese psyche. It's not liberating for a Japanese person to be told there are no rules, it's frightening. I was inadvertently terrorizing my partner by dropping them into the middle of a scary foreign wilderness and telling them to make do without a map.
Me: First of all, westerners don't always shower or have a bath before sex. However, I will try to accommodate you on this because the idea of sex without showering seemed to horrify everyone I talked to right down to their very bones.
Secondly, when you suggested that I shower the other day, and I said no, I was not rejecting you. I didn't understand that it was your Japanese signal that you wanted to have sex. If I had understood that, I would definitely have said yes.
Seiji: *spits tea all over the table*
Me: �this is one of those deeply unspoken Japanese things that I'm not supposed to talk about directly, isn't it.
Seiji: Yes.
I think this guy had his name legally changed to 'Billy Badass'
Maybe this should go in the man thread.
I was about to say "He needs a stogie. Then he'd be perfect." -- but then I spotted it.
Now he just need a beer. And his boots should be black.
Maybe he has a couple of grenades mounted on a chest harness, too. Or would that be too gay?
"...males get round their inferior size by being endowed with a particularly long penis, which means they can inject the female without having to get too close to her chomping beak. The male's sexual organ is actually a bit like a high-pressure fire hose and is normally nearly as long as his body - excluding legs and head."
Amish Drift:
Google suggest provides insight into the zietgeist
It's not necessarily pretty to watch.
Heh. I finally found out whether or not cats have bellybuttons. I mean, I always assumed they did, but I could never see them. (Feline navels, that is; cats I have no trouble seeing whatsoever.)


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As the 2013 Stanley Cup championship rolls closer to the end, I wanted to briefly highlight and compare the final two Cup goaltenders, Tuukka Rask of the Boston Bruins and Corey Crawford of the Chicago Blackhawks. Rask and Crawford come to the playoffs with two vastly different playing styles proving that both styles of play are extremely effective. Crawford's stereotypical butterfly style goaltending primarily focuses on form and positioning, consistently dropping down into the butterfly position as the primary line of defense. Rask's hybrid style of
play however is more reactive, making a majority of saves from the goaltenders athletic talent, quickness and mobility. Differences in goalie gear and more specifically the goalie leg pads clearly define the goaltenders playing style. Crawford's Reebok Premier goalie pads are designed specifically for butterfly goalies, providing a large flat-faced design and stiffer construction ensuring maximum coverage. Rask's Vaughn Velocity hybrid pads features a dramatically softer construction with multiple breaks throughout the internal construction ensuring maximum flexibility and mobility.


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It allows users to explore various control techniques to maintain the ball in a quasi equilibrium position over an oscillating plate, controlled by two servo-motors and a touchscreen.
The ball can either remain at a fixed reference point or it can trace a pre-determined path.
Request a quote for Amazing Ball.
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OpenOffice and MS Office Docs
I know that OpenOffice and open MS Office documents (more-or-less, the formatting sometimes is off) - but, can it reliably save documents as MS Office? I know that it can, but my question is how well? Would someone know that the file (Word & Excel mainly) wasn't done in MS Office because the formatting has been all messed up?
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
I don't know but, as a side note, the author of "High Performance mySQL" has written several books and says that Office is far buggier than OpenOffice and is a pain to work with for writing books. He very much prefers working with OO than Office.
Unfortunately, I don't have MS Office on my home computer to do comparisons on. So, I can't tell myself how well the conversion is - though I do know that converting from MS format isn't always 100% effective (i.e., formatting).
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
I've had mixed luck going in either direction. It depends a lot on the document complexity, as is well known. I deal mainly with NIH forms, and OO.o does OK, but not well enough.
You really just have to try it and compare.
Piers Anthony, the well known science fiction and fantasy author, uses OO and sends his novels in with their format, I believe. Of course, the fact that his books are always best sellers is going to help keep the publisher from sending it back and saying, Manuscripts must be in .doc format.
His books over the years had several "Afterwards" where he spoke about his trials and tribulations getting Linux to be usable for him. (This goes back many years, when it was harder to use than it is these days.) He had decided that he really didn't like MS, and was looking for alternatives.
Of course, if some unknown author sent in a manuscript in OO format, it would probably be rejected.
Personally, the only thing I have recognized is a problem with graphics. When you embed graphics in a OO writer document, save it as DOC and afterwards open it with M$Word, those images are either not existent or they are not interpreted as objects in their own frame, so you don't have a chance of modifying any of their options (including positioning/size).
Another thing is the conversion of tables between OOimpress and M$Powerpoint - I don't remember in which direction, but if you're going to have a table of size 2x2 on one side, you'll end up with 4 text-frames on the other side Of course, not to speak about fonts and animations
A few years ago the german - well, let's call it - "federation" started on migration guides. Version 2.0 is available in English and explains migration problems between M$2003 and OOo (page 273 et seqq.). This document is quite old (2005) and does not deal with all problems and migration in both directions. The new version 3.0 (dated Apr 2008) unfortunately is only available in German right now, but it is a really good comparison as far as I can see.
Save the doc as *.rtf (which is the default in Wordpad by the way).
Won't save every *.doc feature, but what it'll save is portable.
da more I know I know I know nuttin'
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
Well, Excel, ... Gnumeric is said to be more compatible to Excel than Excel itself.
not all macros pass, not all graphs pass, ...
I personally find Gnumeric a better spreadsheet than OOcalc. Same non-compatibility btw.
There is an Open Document Architecture, the FLOSS version is comprehensive in OO, unfortunately Redmond designed an Open Document Architecture which is said better ('course you pay a license fee!) hence no full compatibility.
Now, as these are compressed XML files, you can always decompress them and mull them through sed.
da more I know I know I know nuttin'
FWIW, I think graphics from all spreadsheets are useful only for crude data exploring. For anything more complicated you need a plotting package. I like Grace on Unix; there is a clone on Windows (I can look up the name if you care, but this is getting OT).
Thanks - Gnumeric looks interesting (aside from forcing Gnome to be installed). I haven't had to do any graphs yet. I'm going to give OpenOffice a shot and see how it does (and I'm planning on having WinXP available via virtualization).
What I'm using Excel for instance - my boss wrote a perl script that takes an Excel generated CSV file and converts it to a DHCP entry(ies), so all you have to do is cut and paste into dhcpd.conf. This is nice for when you have to add 70 new hosts and someone emails you an Excel spreadsheet with their information in it. This method takes less than five minutes compared to how long to type in all that information manually (though, I still see room for improved automation).
I use Word to write up reports on, say, usage of a certain program. I could easily, probably much more so, write it up in OO and save it as an .odt or .rtf file, but my bosses would probably flip their lids if I did (not good for me). Where I work is slooowly coming around to alternatives, but they are still very hand-in-hand with Microsoft.
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
If you do simple text with paragraphs, some mixed fonts and little else, then OO.o is fine. It gets hairy when you have complex tables, fill-in forms, images and stuff like that. For straight text there are no problems.
For the simple spreadsheet application you describe, most anything will work. csv is a standard format, and simple tables with strings they all do.
I'd personally do the Perl script in awk, but I'm old school.
Converting back-&-forth between CSV & Excel's native format has been a product feature since day one, & of course, manipulating comma separated value records is exceptionally easy in Perl or any other language which supports regular expressions.
Collaterally, I have seen technical writers keep track of API calls they have to include in printed documentation in either Excel spreadsheets or Access databases -- both of which I have written Perl scripts to manipulate.
Microsoft Office has been a huge money maker for a reason. Much of business lives in the various applications.
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Alice Fleming circa 1888
Alice Fleming was born 1 Jan 1872 in Ballylanders, Co Limerick, Ireland. She was the twelfth child born to Thomas Fleming and Mary Hennessy. Records in Ireland indicate that Alace Fleming, daughter of Thomas Fleming was baptized at Galbally, Limerick, Ireland[i]. Alice's parents were elderly as she entered her teens and there was probably little or no parental supervision as she and her cousin Molly freely roamed the countryside. Thomas Fleming was a grocer in Ballylanders and sent Alice to school where she completed four years of high school. At some point word was sent to her brother Michael, who was in the United States, that Alice was "running wild". In 1890 Michael went back to Ireland packed his sister up for a move to the United States. Alice was sent to live with her older sister Mary Ann Walsh, twenty six years her senior, in Port Huron, Michigan.
Life in Mary's home was not easy for Alice. Mary's daughters teased her about her foreign clothes and country ways. Alice often traveled to visit her brothers, John, Edmund, James, and Michael who were all living in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Alice married Michael Connery in her sister Mary Walsh's home in Port Huron, Michigan on 28 June 1893.[ii] Her brother Fr Michael Fleming preformed the ceremony.
As I have tracked my grandparents through the years something my grandmother used to say came to mind: "A lady never discusses her age." It seems that as the years passed, Alice became younger! Between the censuses of 1900 to 1940 her birth year changed from 1872 to 1875 to 1880.[iii]
Many of my memories of my grandmother center on my visits to her house. She had memorized many poems and would recite them dramatically on occasion. She would also tell us about the "little people" she saw and heard as a young girl. Tales of banshees and Leprechauns were never far from her lips. She was very well educated and she and MJ saw to it that their children were also well educated.
One of my most vivid memories was Mama Dear sitting in a chair in the living room to read "her" newspaper. Usually her hair was worn in a long braid wound into a coronet at the top of her head or pinned into a bun on the back of her head. As she began to read her paper with a magnifying glass, she would slowly unpin her hair and let it tumble down her back. Then she would hand me her hair brush and allow me to brush that silver hair while she read her paper. To me this was the greatest privilege.


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In this blog I talk about some of the personal programming I do as a hobby. By trade I'm a Java and database developer but I've dabbled in Haskell, front-end development, etc. I'm currently working as an architect but still enjoy getting my fingers dirty in code!
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Manage Cabal packages from inside EclipseFP
This view lets you see the list of packages you've installed, with their version, or the full list from Hackage, that you can filter by typing the prefix of the name you're looking for. From there you can install the packages as either Global or User, see the package information, or click on the "More Information" link to open the Hackage page directly.
You can also update the list. This GUI is only a wrapper above the cabal list and cabal info commands.
Hopefully this will be useful to people! Should I add a text field somewhere to be able to specify more options to cabal install, or is that overkill for a GUI?
4 comments:
- Tyler Breisacher said...
Oooo that looks nice. If someone thinks it's overkill they can just not use that view. That's one great thing about Eclipse -- the GUI itself is extremely modular. I vote yes on this!
- Alejandro Serrano said...
It looks great. I would just change some bits of the interface to be cleaner, but I think the idea is wonderful :)
- JP Moresmau said...
OK, I'll add a text box to provide additional flags to install. Alejandro, what would you change?
Thanks all for the feedback!
- Alejandro Serrano said...
I've drawn my idea of the best interface for this in https://picasaweb.google.com/100916249610903693270/EclipseFPIdeas?authuser=0&feat=directlink
The "refresh", "show installed only" and "install selected package" would be shown in the toolbar Eclipse has for each view. When clicking "install selected package", a dropdown would appear letting the user choose "For current user only" or "For all users".
Just some small bits: for the search box I would use the special "search box" style for text boxes (I used that in Hoogle view), and I would also include a link to "View in Browser" for installed packages (I could make the Browser show not installed packages also, just tell me).


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Mark McGwire Hired by Dodgers
Mark McGwire was hired Wednesday as hitting coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers, where he'll work with All-Star sluggers Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier.
McGwire spent the past three seasons in the same job with the St. Louis Cardinals, where he starred during parts of his 16-year major league career. During McGwire's tenure, the Cardinals led the National League in batting average (.269) and on-base percentage (.337), ranked second in runs (2,263) and fourth in slugging percentage (.416).
He worked with All-Star sluggers Carlos Beltran, Lance Berkman, Matt Holliday and Albert Pujols, while helping develop 2011World Series MVP David Freese.
The job is a homecoming for McGwire, who is from the Los Angeles suburb of Pomona and currently lives in Orange County. He played college baseball at Southern California and was a member of Oakland's 1989 World Series champion team.
McGwire replaces Dave Hansen, who was let go last month and hired by the Seattle Mariners for the same job.


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Penn Badgley to Star in Jeff Buckley Biopic
Penn Badgley knows what he'll be doing on his next 'Gossip Girl' hiatus.
He's landed the lead in the upcoming Jeff Buckley biopic 'Greetings from Tim Buckley', which will dramatize the events leading up to the singer's rapturously received performance at a 1991 tribute concert for his late father.
In a statement, Badgley expressed his excitement, saying "To play a man who was singularly gifted as an artist, greatly misunderstood and mythologized as a human being… It's something very special and sacred. I'm going to give all I can to this project."
The Buckley story has been a source of fascination and heartbreak for generations of fans — Tim Buckley died at the age of 28 after overdosing on heroin, and Jeff was 30 when he drowned in 1997. Though Jeff was only able to complete one studio album before he died ('Grace,' released in 1994), his music has continued to attract fans and followers — mirroring his father's steadily growing posthumous legacy.
Producer Patrick Milling Smith discussed Badgley's casting in the role, saying "We had been searching well over a year for an actor that can come close to Jeff's spirit while also having the serious musical chops required to authentically tell this story. Penn's audition blew us away and we knew we found our star."
'Greetings from Tim Buckley' will have to fight for screen space with another Buckley biopic in the works — and one that's coming together with the blessing of the singer's family. Director Jake Scott is currently working with Jeff's mother and Tim's widow, Mary Guibert, on what the family is calling the official Buckley film, with an eye toward filming in the fall.