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Something is filming almost every day in Pasadena and environs, from a commercial to a big-budget feature film. See those hand-lettered cardboard signs taped to lampposts, with such cryptic messages as "Fish" or "Wagon"? That's code for the crew, and the arrow on the sign is pointing toward the filming location.
Here are some of the most famed locations around town. Most are public places and/or businesses, but a few are private homes. Check 'em out, but please do not trespass on private property or disrupt businesses.
1315 S. El Molino Dr. This grand estate was Faye Dunaway's mansion in the L.A. noir classic Chinatown.
380 S. San Rafael. You can't see it very well from the street, but this was Wayne Manor in the TV show "Batman." The nearby brick mansion that burned down in 2005 was often erroneously called "The Batman House." This is the real Batman house.
675 Arden Rd. Filming continues on a regular basis at this handsome colonial—it's the Draper's home in Mad Men.
843 S. El Molino Ave. This colonial was Steve Martin and Diane Keaton's house in both Father of the Bride movies.
All Saints Church, 132 N. Euclid St. It was the Harvard quad in Legally Blonde and is one of the most popular locations in town; Cruel Intentions, The Other Sister and many other movies have been set here.
Caltech campus, 1200 California Blvd. Legally Blonde was shot here, and the Athenaeum served as the posh club in the funniest scene in Beverly Hills Cop. The Athenaeum is also seen in The Wedding Planner, Orange County and "The West Wing."
Castle Green, 99 S. Raymond. Scenes from Bugsy were shot here (and see if you can find the house on Grand Ave. that was his house). The Man with Two Brains, The Sting and many episodes of "Murder She Wrote" were also filmed here.
Church of the Angels, 1100 Ave. 64. Aston Kutcher got married here in Just Married, and it was the location for the "Hellbound" episode of the "X-Files." It's one of the prettiest church settings in California.
City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Ave. This landmark is a notable character in Beverly Hills Cop, Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (it is Hynkel's Palace), A Walk in the Clouds, Butterfield 8 and recently in "Parks and Recreation," along with the Planning Office across the street.
Colorado Street Bridge (Suicide Bridge). Watch closely and you'll see this bridge often in movies, TV shows and commercials. It appeared in one of our faves, Being John Malkovich; in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 film The Kid, the Little Tramp stops a suicidal young woman from jumping off the bridge.
Cravens Estate, 430 Madeline Dr. This grand brick estate, now the headquarters of the American Red Cross, is the "J.A.G." headquarters and has been in many movies, including Enemy of the State and Traffic.
Fenyes Mansion, 470 W. Walnut. This was the White House in Eleanor & Franklin and was a key location for Being There. Now run by the Pasadena Museum of History, it is open for public tours.
The Gamble House, 3 Westmoreland Ave. This was Doc Brown's house in Back to the Future.
Kendall Alley. Scenes from Pulp Fiction, The Sting, Paper Moon and many others have been shot in this atmospheric Old Town alley. Read a story about The Sting filming here.
Mayfield Senior School, 500 Bellefontaine. Scenes in Devil in a Blue Dress, The Nutty Professor and Lost World: Jurassic Park were shot on this gorgeous campus, and it served as the hospital in which Roald Dahl's Matilda was born.
Pasadena Central Library, 285 E. Walnut St. This was the law library in Legally Blonde.
Prospect Blvd., Pasadena. Many houses on this street have been film locations, and the tree-lined street is beloved by directors of car commercials.
The Raymond Theatre, 129 N. Raymond Ave. This now-shuttered theater was the setting for many movies, from This is Spinal Tap to Pulp Fiction.
The once-world-famous Busch Gardens (a 30-acre garden in the lower Arroyo Seco developed by beer tycoon Adolphus Busch) was a public attraction from 1905 to 1937; among the many movies filmed there were Adventures of Robin Hood and Gone With the Wind.
1675 E. Altadena Dr . The Walsh family of "Beverly Hills 90210" lived in this house in the 91001 zip code.
Altadena Town & Country Club, at Mendocino and Holliston, is a popular filming location. Our favorites are the country-club scenes from HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
The house on Rubio Canyon at Maiden Lane was Tom Cruise's house in Risky Business. It's one of the most popular locations in town, having also appeared in Can't Hardly Wait, The Babysitter's Club, How Stella Got Her Groove Back and many others.
L.A. County Arboretum. The Arboretum has provided jungles for countless films and TV shows, including The African Queen, lots of Tarzan movies (including old Johnny Weissmuller ones), the classic TV show "Fantasy Island," the modern TV show "Invasion" and, of course, 1960's Attack of the Giant Leeches. Meet the Fockers also used it as a location.
Santa Anita Racetrack. Much of Seabiscuit was shot at this historic racetrack, as were the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races and the great Hitchcock's film Notorious, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains.
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Occidental College, 1600 Campus Rd.. Films shot here include Jurassic Park III and the Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers; it also served as the college in "Beverly Hills 90210" and the high school in Clueless. Most recently it was the college campus in The Kids Are All Right.
329 Melrose Ave. This was the house in the movie The House. Mask was also filmed in Monrovia.
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Huntington Library, Art Gallery & Gardens, 1151 Oxford Rd. Robert Redford lived here in Indecent Proposal. It was also used for the prom scene in The Hot Chick and the statue mishap scene in The Wedding Planer.
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Sierra Madre's town square, at Baldwin and Sierra Madre, was the town square in the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
South Pasadena
1848 Oxley St. Pee-wee lived here in Pee-wee's Big Adventure; the neighborhood was his movie neighborhood, too.
The Rialto Theatre, 1023 S. Fair Oaks. This was the murder site in The Player.
The horror classic Halloween was filmed all around town in 1978– the Myers house was moved and sits behind Buster's (on Mission), South Pas High served as Haddonfield High, and the Strode House is at 1115 Oxley.
1711 and 1727 Bushnell Ave. 1711 was Michael J. Fox's house in Teen Wolf as well as Marty's mother Lorraine's teenage house in Back to the Future. (Remember George McFly falling out of the tree?) George's house was just down the street at 1727. Bushnell Ave. has been a location for many productions.


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Globes Best: Robert Pattinson
Well, as previously noted, Ryan Gosling's scrunch face knocked him off the top spot. That leaves Robert Pattinson.
It was a beautifully cut blue suit. He wore it well. There was no mother hip action. And while there was some open mouth posing action, in addition to some Miley mouth pout action too, overall it was a good effort… even though from some angles his eyes seem too far apart. This coming from the bitch with a major eye wonk and a serious case of bloat. It gets worse with my word count.
Anyway, the other reason I wanted to post about Pattinson is because his red carpet interview with Alexa Chung is one of the best examples of how amazingly wonderfully sh-t she is at this job.
Does she look like she cares when she asks him "how are you tonight?" The slouch says it all.
How about the way she ends their chat? There has never been a more unenthusiastic "cheers". I love her.
PS. This is for LB who made me pasta on Saturday and introduced me to the best Italian show ever C'e Poste Per Te. Every time an Italian mother cries, it's like God telling us he loves the world.
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Early days for 4G in the enterprise
- 12 December, 2012 15:06
Australian enterprises are slowly adopting 4G wireless broadband, according to industry analysts. While operators are selling 4G service at the same price as 3G, service coverage and equipment costs constraints remain.
Telsyte recently estimated that by 2016, 46 per cent of all Australian mobile connections will be 4G. How quickly 4G is adopted will depend on the number and popularity of 4G devices, the analyst firm said.
"With faster and more stable connection, some companies—especially [small and medium-sized businesses]—are replacing fixed broadband with mobile broadband which allow them the flexibility of bringing their Internet access everywhere they go," said IDC analyst Siow-Meng Soh.
Australian businesses are taking 4G "as they can," said Gartner analyst Geoff Johnson. Carriers aren't charging extra for 4G, and the cost of 4G equipment can be built into a company's regular technology refresh, he said.
However, nascent coverage in Australia is still an issue holding enterprises back from adopting 4G, and may especially be a problem for the mining industry and others working in remote locations, he said.
"I've been around capital cities the last few days, and it's somewhere in between non-existent, terrible and flying," he said. "You just never know what you're going to get."
Coverage today is mainly limited to capital cities. However, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone are all investing large amounts of money to build out their 4G networks.
Also, Johnson warned that today the term 4G is just marketing. "A strict definition of 4G" is 100 Mbps while moving and 1 Gbps when standing still, he said. Mobile operators currently offer LTE speeds of up to 40 Mbps, and the actual speed varies depending on location and other factors.
Where there is coverage, the fastest business adopters of 4G are likely to be companies with a mobile workforce, Johnson said. For example, "a big team of sales reps or field engineers," he said.
LTE speeds enable better video and other applications that require high speed and low latency, Soh said.
"We expect 4G/LTE to drive the usage of video conferencing using mobile devices, particularly since video apps are now readily available and devices now have better screens and cameras," he said. "4G/LTE will also enable next-generation of machine-to-machine applications such as video surveillance and digital signage."
The higher speeds of LTE could especially benefit the healthcare industry, Soh said. 4G tablets "can be used to enable communication between a doctor and a patient and support other areas such as ability to view MRI scans through a high resolution touch screen or access other patient records faster," he said.
LTE could reduce the cost of doing surveillance because it eliminates the need for wired equipment, Soh said. That would save money especially in remote locations, he said
While important for HD video and telepresence, 4G speeds offer little enhancement for Web browsing and messaging, Gartner said in a paper released in November. The analyst firm recommended that enterprises take a cautious approach to adopting 4G.
"Companies should allow mobile users to upgrade to 4G services and devices by attrition, rather than as a planned migration at once," Gartner said in the report. "Assess the use of 4G technologies for higher-speed enterprise data applications, and devices such as tablets and notebooks first. Since 4G coverage is still not ubiquitous, companies should negotiate pricing based on 3G and 4G multimode services.
"With mobile broadband, it becomes realistic to support multimedia applications such as video on mobile smartphones and tablets," Gartner said. "However, even with higher speeds, the low reliability and variability of the wireless network will preclude the use of high-quality mobile videoconferencing.
"For other applications, this network issue will also force the continued demand for offline capabilities, because no matter how fast the network standards get, the challenge of ubiquitous coverage has not improved, and it will remain an issue for the business planning horizon."
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All week long, our very own Jennifer Steinhauer from Weeknights with Jenny will be sharing recipes from her new book Treat Yourself: 70 Classic Snacks You Loved as a Kid (and Still Love Today). Follow along to win one of five copies we're giving away -- and to take a trip down memory lane.
Today: Jenny brings back the crisp, chewy candy bars of Halloweens past with a how-to for homemade Twix.
The Twix was my go-to candy bar, my movie companion, my lunchtime fascination, my trade-anything-for-it Halloween treat. When the mini-Twix came out, long after I became an adult who no longer had the metabolism to eat them daily, I thought them heaven-sent, even though their arrival meant I would simply hide in my laundry room and mow down my kids' trick-or-treat bag's entire supply.
In the annals of classic junk food overreach, there was, for a short time in the late '80s or early '90s, a moment of Cookies-n-Creme Twix bars, with a chocolate cookie base and an Oreo-like filling in place of the caramel, a devastating development. Thank goodness, the classic seems to have reigned.
This version is time consuming, but worth it. Just make sure your pan is very well greased when you make your shortbread, or it will be hard to slip it out. Here's the good news: If the shortbread breaks, you can still set it easily into the caramel. But do NOT stack these once cooled, and especially don't stack them on top of your Goo Goo clusters, or you will wake up in the morning with a glob of chocolate that you have to pull apart, perhaps in a dark room alone, where no one can see you eating approximately half a pound of chocolate for lunch.
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Unsalted butter, softened, for the pan1/2 stick salted butter, softened1/4 cup sugar3/4 cup all-purpose flour1/4 teaspoon salt1 3/4 cups (10 1/2 ounces) semisweet chocolate morselsOne 14-ounce bag caramels (about 2 cups, or 50 caramels)2 tablespoons half-and-half
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We're giving away a copy of Treat Yourself every day this week! To enter to win today's copy, tell us in the comments: What's your candy bar of choice? We'll pick five winners at random next Monday, June 9th!
Photo by James Ransom. Excerpted from the book Treat Yourself: 70 Classic Snacks You Loved as a Kid (and Still Love Today) by Jennifer Steinhauer. Reprinted by permission of Clarkson Potter Publishers. All rights reserved.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino says after working with Christoph Waltz on 2009's "Inglourious Basterds," he found himself writing a role specifically for the Austrian actor in "Django Unchained."
"I've been wanting to do this story for a long time and there was never a German dentist-bounty hunter in the story. The next thing I know, I sat down and wrote that opening scene, and he just flew right out of the pen, like it was the tenant of God, boom!" Tarantino told reporters in New York while promoting "Django" before its theatrical release late last year.
Waltz earned matching Best Supporting Actor Oscars for his performances in "Django" and "Basterds." Tarantino scored the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Django," which was also nominated for Best Picture.
"I had this same problem with Sam for about a decade," Tarantino said at the press conference, referring to Samuel L. Jackson, who appeared in "Django," as well as the writer-director's previous films "Jackie Brown" and "Pulp Fiction."
"It's hard not to write for these guys; they say my dialogue so well," Tarantino said of Waltz and Jackson. "For 10 years, I'd write something cool; Bill, for instance.
"For seven months of the year and a half I spent writing 'Kill Bill,' Bill sounded just like Sam," he said of the role that eventually went to David Carradine.
"The way I write, I always kind of fancy it as poetry, and they're the ones that make it poetry; they come out of my pen," Tarantino said. "Sometimes it's not even appropriate, but I can't shut it off."
Asked to describe what it was like to collaborate with Tarantino again several years after their last effort, Waltz said: "There was no reunification and there was no 'working again.' This was just another mushroom of the fungus that was growing subcutaneously in me, all the time."
The bizarre response prompted laughter from the gathered journalists, as well as his co-stars -- Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Di Caprio, Kerry Washington, Don Johnson, Jonah Hill and Walter Goggins.
Waltz was a little less cryptic, however, when pressed to talk about what external sources he used to develop his character, Dr. King Schultz, in "Django," a blood-soaked 19th century America-set, slave-revenge picture.
"In a way, I think 'outside source' is a contradiction in terms. I can only speak for myself, but the source is the script. The script has a source; I can point it out to you," Waltz said, waving at Tarantino's head.
As for the physical training he did for the role?
"I worked very hard, and succeeded most gloriously in falling off a horse, very quickly," Waltz recalled. "This was very early on in the training. Then on, my work was a little slower for the first few months, then I got back up on the horse."
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Day fifteen: How'd you get your hair like that?
On day fifteen of "How'd you get your hair like that?" I ran into a nine year old Lily from Five Points. Lily was stylin' from head-to-toe and had just about the cutest headband there ever was.
She told me about the many ways she does her hair (with the help of her mom) before school. I for one was impressed with the french braid she mentions. Those things aren't easy to tackle.
I liked talking to Lily about her hair because she gave me the basics of back to school hair style: Shower, and do your hair. Sometimes it's in a braid. Sometimes it's in a ponytail, sometimes a bun, sometimes a headband.
It reminded me of what I used to do with my hair each morning before school. One time – I think I was in second grade – I remember I asked my mom to put my hair in pigtails, and I felt really self-conscious the whole time. I made up an excuse as why I had the pigtails, too ("My mom just said this was the easiest thing to do with my hair today.").
Since I was a tomboy, I didn't want to tarnish my image and become a girly-girl. I needed to maintain. And pigtails didn't help that cause. But I suppose that day, I just wanted to feel like a woman.
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>Diabetes mellitus itself has two major forms: Insulin-requiring diabetes (IDDM, Type 1),* for which insulin must be given by injection to control blood sugar levels; and non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM, Type 2), which may be controlled by diet or by oral medications (oral hypoglycemic medications).
>The main risk to the diver is the occurrence of hypoglycemia, that can manifest itself as confusion, sweating, rapid heartbeat, unconsciousness and even death. High blood sugar levels, or hyperglycemia, may also cause unconsciousness, although this usually develops much more slowly than hypoglycemia. Impaired consciousness underwater leads to almost certain death. Although hypoglycemia occurs most commonly in Type 1, it can also occur in individuals taking oral hypoglycemic medications. Hypoglycemia experienced during a deep dive may be wrongly perceived as nitrogen narcosis.
>Although hypo- or hyperglycemia can occur daily, other problems can develop over the long term, in persons with diabetes. These maladies include: retinopathy (alterations in visual acuity); disorders of the kidneys; coronary artery disease; and changes in the nervous system, including abnormal nervous conduction and atherosclerosis, that can cause poor circulation in the limbs.
>Fitness and Diving: Divers with diabetes are at risk of sudden loss of consciousness. This carries the ultimate risk of drowning and implies additional risks for their dive buddies. Individuals with diabetes, however well the diabetes is controlled, should not be deemed as fit to dive without restriction. Those who meet certain criteria can dive provided they dive in accordance with detailed, specific procedures (See Diabetes & Diving: Current practices demonstrate that many with diabetes do take the plunge; By Guy de Lisle Dear, M.B., FRCA, Alert Diver, January / February 1997). Divers with diabetes should be examined periodically for complications of their disorder that may disqualify them on the grounds of additional risk.
>Medication Used in Treatment: Sulphonylureas (drugs that posses hypoglycemic action) such as glipizide, glibenclamide, chlorpropamide and tolbutamide may interact with numerous other drugs used to lower BG.
>There is a small risk of lactic acidosis which is markedly increased by any condition that reduces metformin clearance (acute or chronic renal impairment) or compromises oxygen delivery and predisposes to tissue hypoxia (acute or chronic respiratory or cardiovascular insufficiency) in persons with renal, liver or heart diseases.
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Education is one of the most effective ways to break the cycle of discrimination that children with disabilities experience. GPE promotes inclusive education to ensure all children can go to school.
35% of the out-of-school children worldwide of primary school age live in areas of conflict. Education can give them a visible sign of return to normalcy in these difficult contexts.
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I am focusing on Fantasy Hero in a Sword & Sorcery setting (think Conan, Fafhred & Grey Mouser kind of world). Role playing is more important than combat. The story & characters are more important to me than the combat. I would say 50/50. Some sessions might be a big battle, some sessions not a single dice will be rolled for combat, and sometimes there might be a minor 'combat' as a plot device.
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Achilles was a hero in Greek mythology and one of the main characters that participated in the Trojan War. He was also the protagonist of Homer's epic, the Iliad. He was the son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and Thetis, a nymph. Both Zeus and Poseidon were in love with Thetis, however Prometheus warned them of a prophecy that said the son of Thetis would be greater than his father; so, the two gods decided to withdraw, and Peleus ended up marrying her. When Achilles was born, his mother wanted to make him immortal and thus, dipped him in the river Styx. However, she did not realise that his heel, by which she held him, was not touched by the waters, and so that was the only part of his body that remained mortal. According to another version, Thetis covered Achilles' body in ambrosia and put him on top of a fire to burn away his mortality; however, she was enraged because she was interrupted by Peleus and abandoned them.
When the Trojan War started, Achilles commanded 50 ships, each having 50 Myrmidons. He also appointed five commanders; Menesthius, Eudorus, Peisander, Phoenix and Alcimedon. After departing, they landed in Mysia by mistake, which was then ruled by Telephus. Telephus was wounded in the battle by Achilles, and could not be healed. After consulting an oracle, he was told that he who inflicted the wound would be able to heal it; so, Telephus asked Achilles to heal him, and in return he guided them to Troy.
The Iliad starts the narrative of the Trojan War with Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans, having acquired a woman called Chryseis as his slave. Her father, being a priest of Apollo, begs the god to help him, and Apollo sends a plague among the Greeks. Calchas identifies the source of the problem and Agamemnon reluctantly consents; however, he demands that Achilles hand over his own prize, another woman called Briseis. Achilles, furious that he was dishonoured in such a way, withdraws from battle and asks his mother to convince Zeus to help the Trojans, so that he may prove himself again in the battlefield. The Trojans manage to repel the Greeks back to the shore; Patroclus, Achilles' friend, wearing Achilles' armor, successfully leads the Myrmidons against the enemy, but is subsequently killed by Hector, the Trojan prince. Enraged by his friend's death, Achilles joins the battle and tracks down Hector, whom he kills in a face to face duel. He then drags Hector's lifeless body with his chariot during the funeral games he held for Patroclus.


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This piece of metal, apparently showing the red, white, and blue stripes worn by American Airlines, is said to be a piece of wreckage from Flight 77. [Source: Associated Press]Some emergency responders and other witnesses are surprised at the lack of major plane debris at the Flight 77 crash site at the Pentagon: Brian Ladd of the Fort Myer Fire Department arrives at the scene a few minutes after the attack. Yet, "Expecting to see pieces of the wings or fuselage," he instead reportedly sees "millions of tiny pieces" of debris spread "everywhere." [Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 68] Captain John Durrer of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Fire Department also arrives within minutes of the crash. He will later recall thinking: "Well where's the airplane, you know, where's the parts to it? You would think there'd be something." Reportedly, "The near total disintegration of the plane had left only a multitude of bits scattered outside the building." [Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 70] Sergeant Ronald Galey, a helicopter pilot with the US Park Police, arrives over the Pentagon in his helicopter within minutes of the attack (see Shortly After 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). He will describe what he sees there: "[I]t was a relatively small hole in the side of the building. I'm going, 'This couldn't possibly have been a 757.' There's absolutely nothing that you could identify as an aircraft part anywhere around there. Nothing. Just couldn't have been." Galey will add, "I just can't emphasize enough, the initial damage, looking at it, it just didn't look like a 757 hit that building." [US Naval Historical Center, 11/20/2001] Sergeant Keith Bohn, another Park Police helicopter pilot, lands his helicopter near the crash site shortly after the attack. He will recall: "When I landed on the scene, there was actually a particular slit into the side of the Pentagon, which is hard to believe that an aircraft made it, but it's that small of a slit.… I could not see any aviation parts. I couldn't see an engine or a wing. There was just rubble, pieces, small pieces." [US Naval Historical Center, 11/19/2001] Steve DeChiaro, the president of a New Jersey technology firm, had just arrived at the Pentagon when it was hit and ran toward the crash site. He will recall: "But when I looked at the site, my brain could not resolve the fact that it was a plane because it only seemed like a small hole in the building. No tail. No wings. No nothing." [Scripps Howard News Service, 8/1/2002] Early in the afternoon, CNN Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre reports: "[T]he only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you can pick up in your hand. There are no large tail sections, wing sections, fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around, which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon and then caused the side to collapse." [CNN, 9/11/2001] Sheryl Alleger, a Navy officer at the Pentagon, goes past the crash site in an ambulance in the afternoon. She will recall: "[Y]ou couldn't see any bits of the airplane, that was the thing that got me.… I expected to see the tail sticking out.… But—nothing. It was like the building swallowed the plane." [Hilton, 2002, pp. 143] Eileen Murphy, a nurse at the Pentagon's DiLorenzo Tricare Health Clinic, will recall: "I expected to see the airplane, so I guess my initial impression was: 'Where's the plane? How come there's not a plane?' I would have thought the building would have stopped it and somehow we would have seen something like part
of, or half of the plane, or the lower part, or the back of the plane. So it was just a real surprise that the plane wasn't there." [Office of Medical History, 9/2004, pp. 96] Sergeant Reginald Powell, a radiologist at the DiLorenzo Tricare Health Clinic, will say: "I was in awe that I saw no plane, nothing left from the plane. It was like it disintegrated as it went into the building." [Office of Medical History, 9/2004, pp. 119] Captain Dennis Gilroy, acting commander of the Fort Myer Fire Department, reportedly "wondered why he saw no aircraft parts" when he arrives at the scene. [Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 68] Other witnesses will say they come across some pieces of plane debris: Rich Fitzharris, an electrical engineer working at the Pentagon, later remembers seeing "small pieces of debris, the largest of which might have been part of an engine shroud." [Mlakar et al., 1/2003, pp. 13 ] Allyn Kilsheimer, a structural engineer who arrives at the Pentagon at about 5:00 p.m., will recall: "I picked up parts of the plane with the airline markings on them. I held in my hand the tail section of the plane." [Popular Mechanics, 3/2005; Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 100] Later on during the day, the FBI arranges a search of the lawn in front of the crash site. According to the Defense Department's book about the Pentagon attack: "Although much of the plane disintegrated within the Pentagon, the searchers found many scraps and a few personal items widely scattered on the grass and heliport. Plane remnants varied from half-dollar size to a few feet long." [Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 159] Also, one photo will show what appears to be plane debris on the lawn in front of the Pentagon, with the red, white, and blue stripes of American Airlines. [Knight Ridder, 4/28/2002]
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Afternoon sessions attended at the SMX Social Media Marketing Conference in Las Vegas.
Sessions covered – Customer Acqusition Through Social Media, 'Blow away blogging' and the end of day 'Keynote Conversation' with Danny Sullivan and Del Harvey, Director of Trust & Safety at Twitter
Customer Acquisition Through Social Media (#smx #13B)
If you're looking to put a case to the boss as to why it's time to think about Social Media, this session is the one for you!
- Drew Conrad, Social Media Marketing Specialist, Zagg (@drewconrad)
- Mark Marin, Chief Marketing Officer, Plink
- Mariana Rodriguez, Account Director, Beeby Clark+Meyler (@marodcar)
Member Acquisition Through Facebook – Mark Marin: Plink.com
A case study into what loyalty rewards can do for brands, Mark showed us among other stats an impressive 70% uplift in Burger Kings transactions, 77% increase of spend per user and a dramatic increase in overall loyalty to the brand.
With Facebook users being 'worth' 58% more than non FB users and with better campaign optimisation and more focused targeting, the cost per acquisition is now a quarter of the cost 6 months ago. Even something as simple as a 2 pixel line around an advert showed a 10% increase in CTR
- Target Facebook ads specifically to what people like eg – Amazon Vouchers
- Get users to share with a friend to get more
- Keep users on Facebook as long as possible – step 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc
Social Media and email – Drew Conrad ZAGG @zaggdaily , (@drewconrad)
Looking at the internet marketing goals of ZAGG, Drew gave us a whistlestop tour of strategies for growth to increase revenue, visits and order size with Social Media and email.
- Increase email sign ups with Social
- Add a like box to the home page – ZAGG obtained 30,000 likes in 10 days
- Send frequent reminders to hang out and hook up
- Use Facebook Ads to landing pages, content and posts
- Use True View in-stream Ads in Adwords (cheaper than YouTube Search)
Twitter Search and Blog Posts
With the Tagline 'Don't take our word for it, here are X Tweets about', ZAGG share tweets made by users alongside an offer that you can't refuse.
ZAGG also put together a Global Map of real life customer stories for maximum engagement
The results?
See for yourself! According to the marketing blog at Radian 6, Zagg topped the list of the most mentioned Twitter Usernames on Cyber Monday.
Customer Acquisition Through Social Media – Mariana Rodriguez – www.beebyclarkmeyler.com
Step 1: Define your acquisition goal
- Make a purchase
- Social action
- Increase cookie pool
- Download content
- Register/submit info
- Coupon/offer redemption
- Product trial
Step 2: Clearly Outline Your Campaign
- What constitutes an acquisition?
- Who do you want to reach?
- How are you going to get them to take action?
Step 3: Measurement Plan
Measuring offline success from social media customer acquisition efforts requires a two step process
Non-acquisition Actions (Intermediate step)
- Visits store
- Attends event
- Downloads
- Social action
Acquisition actions
- Purchase
- Register
- Coupon
- Trial
- Social action
Blow Me Away Blogging (#smx #14A)
- Mike Arnesen, Senior SEO Analyst, SwellPath (@mike_arnesen)
- Drew Conrad, Social Media Marketing Specialist, Zagg (@drewconrad)
- Sarah Evans, Chief Evangelist, Tracky (@prsarahevans)
- Jennifer Evans Cario, President, SugarSpun Marketing (@JenniferCario)
8 Takeaways from a True Story of 800% Blog Growth – Mike Arnesen, Senior SEO Analyst, SwellPath (@mike_arnesen)
"Blogging is hard – it takes passion, creativity and time"
Mike Arneson shows us how SwellPath increased their traffic by 800% with the following Takeways:
#1 – Blog Frequently and on Schedule
#2 – Incentivise your team – content calandar and a bonus (yes please!)
#3 – Let your audience do the work – answer their questions
#4 – Find & Exploit opportunity gaps -write what Google wants
#5 – Leverage Google Authorship
#6 – Optimise the meta
#7 – include FASS Fast Action Social Sharing buttons
#8 – Use Google Plus for additional placement
ZAGG & Blogs – Drew Conrad (@drewconrad)
With more than 10% of the visits to ZAGG.com come from the blog Drew takes us through the benefits of blogging
- Content for social channels
- Content for email
- 82% higher click-to-open rate
- SEO value
- Links to posts
- Internal linking
- Engage customers
- Establish brand
Using examples of popular blogposts that have gone viral, Zagg shows that it is important to create unique and interesting content.
Everything you need to know about the social editorial planning process – Sarah Evans, Chief Evangelist, Tracky (@prsarahevans)
It doesn't matter if you're a single author blog, or managing multiple contributors, use a social collaboration platform.
Have a Plan
- Establish roles (content producer, editor)
- Monthly, weekly, daily
- Deadlines
- Promotional toolkit
- Keywords
- Timing (relevance and share)
- Monitor
- International & national headlines, localize story
- Holidays, observances
- Customer or brand lifecycle
- Conferences, media events
- Google trends
- Company milestones, human interest stories
- Add top newsrooms to your phone
- Utilize ifttt
- Top social network trending topics
- Twitter lists of top tier media
K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple Stupid!)
- Identify your key times (Tweriod)
- Schedule posts at times most likely to reach your community (Buffer)
- Automate sharing (dlvr.it)
- Reminders to share.


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The Induction Ceremony for three honor societies at St. Bonaventure University's School of Business was held April 3 at the William E. and Ann L. Swan Business Center.
Dr. Pierre A. Balthazard, dean of the School of Business, gave the welcome, with remarks given by Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D., university president.
Beta Gamma Sigma is a national honor society for business and management programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Election to a lifetime membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest honor a business student can receive in either an undergraduate or a master's program.
The graduate student inductees into Beta Gamma Sigma for 2014 are Michelle Bailey of Arcade, N.Y.; Sarah Chase of Buffalo, N.Y.; Lucas Johnson of Port Allegany, Pa.; Jeremy Lons of Springville, N.Y.; Reed McElfresh of Olean, N.Y.; Cory Rickettson of West Seneca, N.Y.; Christopher Scott of Cuba, N.Y.; Larry Tosh of Allegany, N.Y.; and Chad Wanderlich of Hamburg, N.Y.
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Alpha Mu Alpha is the national marketing honor society recognizing and rewarding scholastic achievement of outstanding marketing students across the country.
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Buying Guide for NAS management software
Learn the key evaluation factors for purchasing NAS management software in this Buying Guide.
While NAS management software is increasingly versatile, it is also more complex, so the selection process requires careful consideration. This Buying Guide focuses on NAS product issues and provides a series of specifications to help you make on-the-spot comparisons between products from vendors such as Attune Systems Inc., EMC Corp., Hitachi Data Systems Inc., IBM and Microsoft Corp.
Consider the system requirements. NAS management software is typically installed on a server, so this demands an available server that meets the software's requirements for operating system, CPU, memory and other computing resources. This is usually no problem for larger businesses, but it may be a problem for smaller organizations with limited server availability -- especially if the available server is already running other software.
As an example, Adaptec Inc.'s Snap Server Manager software requires a Pentium III 133 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM, Snap Server GuardianOS v2.6 or higher, Snap Server SnapOS v3.4 or higher and Java Virtual Machine V1.4.1. Server virtualization can further strain resources, since the physical server is carved up into multiple logical servers that all draw simultaneously upon the same CPU and other computing resources. (See the product specifications page for other details.)
Evaluate the tool's hardware interoperability. Since it's cumbersome and impractical to use a different management tool for each NAS device, companies should select software that can support numerous NAS devices across the organization. This means committing to NAS products from a single vendor or selecting a tool that can support NAS devices from different manufacturers. Recognize the scope of NAS appliances or gateways supported by the software and determine whether the management tool can cover the entire organization adequately.
Evaluate the tool's management interoperability. Many NAS management tools can function through network management tools already in use in the organization, such as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s OpenView, SNMP, SMI-S, Java, HTTP, HTTPS or XML. This lets administrators run NAS management tools through their existing management platform, instead of having to learn and operate the NAS management software as a separate tool and process. While that may not pose a problem for limited NAS deployments where NAS management overhead is limited, but can become an bottleneck in environments where NAS overhead is heavy.
Evaluate the role of NAS virtualization. NAS management may also include virtualization capabilities that allow multiple NAS platforms to appear as a single storage resource. This makes it easier for administrators to allocate storage and improves overall storage utilization because no NAS systems are left "orphaned" and forgotten in the enterprise. One solution is to implement a distributed file system, creating a global namespace between servers and NAS boxes. In other cases, virtualization is implemented through hardware appliances that pool individual NAS filers. As the number of NAS boxes grows, the efficiencies offered by virtualization should be considered more strongly.
Consider the level of automation available. Management software becomes more valuable when it can automate many of the most common storage management functions, including resource location/identification, provisioning, software updates and routine maintenance functions. NAS management software should schedule important tasks like software updates or backups during off-peak hours. Management tools should provide notifications and alerts in response to critical storage conditions, such as low availability of storage. Some NAS management tools also handle capacity growth, which helps administrators track storage utilization and plan upgrades. Staying ahead of needs is a key issue in preventing application downtime and maintaining storage performance.
Consider the cost impact. Beyond the up-front cost of acquiring software, remember that some features and functionality may be optional, and including them will add to the cost. Many software tools also require yearly license (aka software maintenance) fees that will multiply the tool's cost over time. Weigh the software's value against its TCO, which should include all necessary onetime and recurring fees.
Consider the management skill set. Effective storage management requires working familiarity with the tools in use. New management tools, or tools from different vendors, demand training and practice for proficiency. Administrators and other key IT staff need to be adequately trained. In some cases, training is included as part of the acquisition cost. If not, the costs should be included in the product's TCO.
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Saves the camera position in just 2 clicks so it can be retrieved later. Works between models. Perfect for version comparison for instance.
When cuts that aren't flat are desired the model can be manually divided into groups representing each side of the cuts. This script helps putting the cut geometry on its own layer so it can be hidden when the model as a whole is shown.
Set fog start and end distances precisely from points in model or custom lengths.
Pan camera precisely using inference.
Like Sketchup's native Top View but has the same relation to the previous view as Top View has to Front View. Useful to set plan views that are aligned to a building or other content instead of having north up.
Move the camera as far backwards as possible without hitting anything. Useful for interior views.


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04-15-2010 12:48 PM - edited 10-05-2011 12:49 PM
There have been multiple discussions over the past months concerning a 1 long and 2 short beep symptom on some T61 and T61p model systems. Over the last several weeks members have begun to start additional topics on this theme and cross post between threads.
I am consolidating all the threads into this new discussion today. Since many of these discussions were originally parallel, the dates and some of the context will now appear somewhat out of chronological order. Please keep that in mind while browsing this thread.
If you are presently experiencing the 1 long and 2 short beep code with a black screen on boot up, I would recommend that you contact service at this time for assistance.
Previously, I have advised customers to contact service for assistance with the symptoms discussed here. In an effort to maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty, Lenovo has repaired a number of systems as post warranty exceptions. Lenovo will continue the post warranty support; however, with some revisions to the extended coverage effective December 31, 2010.
Customers who experience these symptoms on qualifying models that are no more than six months beyond expiration of warranty should continue to contact support for assistance. This additional coverage ends March 31, 2011.
Coverage beyond this date is available under the terms and conditions of extended warranty or maintenance agreements. Warranty extensions may be purchased for systems that are still within the base warranty period, and post warranty maintenance agreements may be purchased to provide coverage after base and extended warranty periods have expired. Extended warranties and maintenance agreements are a great way to ensure coverage for all the major system components.
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Solved! Go to Solution.
I meet the same problem with congfucius(http://lnv.lithium.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=T_Series_Thinkpads&thread.id=28970)
I just powered my T61p normally this afternoon but nothing displayed on my screen. And it gave a 1 long beep and 2 short beeps. I tried several times and resulted same. I am aftraid it was the problem of the GPU (NVidia FX570M). I heard that the T61p is in the defect product list of NVidia's GPU-gate.
Unfornately, my T61p is out of warraty now. Is any one can help me? Will lenovo serve this replacement of the video card?
Thank you.
04-10-2009 12:53 PM - edited 04-10-2009 01:18 PM
2 is a coincidence, 3 is a pattern... and your problem is identical to mine, too, and happened just some days after mine did...
It seems to me, without wanting to be alarmist, that the T61p with the 570M gpu (or a batch of them) is failing with the same exact problem (1 long 2 short = GPU error) at the exact same time... scary thought, really.
Mine arrived at the lenovo repair center (it's still on warranty) on wednesday, and the status shows as "Repair complete, shipped to customer" as of yesterday. There is no tracking number or "Failing Element / part number" in the status page, tho. It hasn't arrived, either.
Do you know your planar card / motherboard part number? It would be interesting to know if it's the same as mine (42W7653). Were you affected by the problem shown at http://forum.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=T_Series_Thinkpads&thread.id=30460&view=by_date_a... ?
And once Mark_Lenovo reads this, Mark, do you need any info? (serial number for the laptop, easyserv reference, etc?)
I called the EasyServ warranty customer support to ask if they had any additional info not in the website, and as a matter of fact they do. The (very, very helpful and nice) man on the phone told me that the motherboard had been replaced and the laptop was due to arrive today, and he gave the UPS tracking number for it, which indeed says it's scheduled to arrive here today, at some point.
Once it's here I'll update with information about the actual repair and the part number of the new motherboard, etc.
To be honest I'm more than pleasantly surprised about the service: the box for shipping my laptop arrived on wednesday, it was picked up that very same day, the laptop was repaired on thursday and arrives to me today, friday. If the laptop works as expected, this is a 10 out of 10 for lenovo customer support, at least for me.
"Can you really blame Lenovo for Nvidia GPU failures??? When it is occuring across all systems that are built by Apple to HP?"
Yes, I most certainly *can* blame Lenovo.
Lenovo is responsible for everything that goes into their machines.
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Centex actually you are wrong. Nvidia only released the detail that a batch of their GPU was faulty to the OEM manufacturers when the T61p had already been out for nearly 14 months.
Not everyone have a crystal ball like you.
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Yes, I most certainly *can* blame Lenovo.
Lenovo is responsible for everything that goes into their machines.
If you read the statement by Nvidia, which stated that only few selected batches of the Nvidia GPU chip was affected by the problem, and it was not the initial batch. In addition, the GPU would only produce problem after been used under certain condition for some periods of time. I don't think it would be possible for Lenovo to stress test every GPU that goes into every laptop for a month or two. There is something called manufacturing cost.
The word "responsible" is being used in two ways here.
As you say, lead_org, Lenovo isn't "responsible" for putting the faulty GPUs in the T61 in the first place, because they had no way of knowing the GPUs would turn out to be faulty.
But once the GPUs *did* turn out to be faulty, then Lenovo *is* responsible for the faulty component, because they sold it in their product.
Let me illustrate with an example. I write and sell a major Windows software application. From time to time, flaws have shown up in my product because of flaws in Windows itself and because of flaws in video drivers. But I can't just sit there and say "This isn't my fault, and I'm not going to do anything about it. That's just tough stuff, and you'll have to live with." No, I've had to develop workarounds for these flaws in other people's products (but used in my software) at considerable time and expense, because *I* am responsible for the end product.
Actually Lenovo did post a recall notice for the some of the affected motherboard on the T61p, i will try to find it and post it here later.
In addition, not all boards are affected, only those boards affected would need to be replaced. Software fixup is much easier to implement then hardware fixup, you can just upload the patchup or update and then your client around the world just download it, this is not possible for hardware problems.
Your software probably cost the same as a T61p, how much does it cost you to mail out update cd compare to Lenovo shipping all the T61p back, checking every laptop, replacing a handful of affected models then ship it back to the customers, then if any of the things got delayed, then people will start complaining about the slow service.


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My recent blog entry "Can Coconut Oil Treat Alzheimer's?" generated a lot of comments with the same question: "Why isn't the Alzheimer's Association researching coconut oil?" It's an excellent question and one I get often about coconut oil and other substances that have been rumored to help people with Alzheimer's.
At first glance, the answer is simple: we've received few, if any proposals specifically studying coconut oil. However, we have received a little over half a dozen proposals on studies that look at substances derived from coconut oil such as ketones. Most recently, we funded a study in 2010 by David Morgan, Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. Find a summary of his study here: Ketogenesis and Alzheimer Pathology.
In addition, I encourage readers to check out the section of our web site that discusses a research study on Caprylic Acid and Coconut Oil. This substance derived from coconut oil looked promising in early studies but the makers of the supplement opted to stop researching it prior to phase three trials that would have tested effectiveness. We were disappointed they didn't continue the study.
At the Alzheimer's Association, we fund mainly studies by new investigators, which helps us encourage the next generation of Alzheimer's researchers and introduce fresh ideas to the field.
Every year, we receive grant applications through an online proposal process from hundreds of researchers from around the world. Those proposals are then peer reviewed by a panel of three to four volunteer Alzheimer's research experts and they are scored and ranked. Finally, they are sent to the Alzheimer's Association Medical and Scientific Advisory Council (MSAC), a group of nationally and internationally recognized Alzheimer's experts. The MSAC is tasked with ensuring fairness and equity in the peer review process and making recommendations for funding to the Alzheimer's Association.
Basically, our research dollars go to the research proposals that have the most merit – no matter what the institution or country of origin, we simply want to fund the best designed studies that will get us closer to better treatments, early detection or prevention.
However, while we are the largest private nonprofit funder of Alzheimer's research, even we cannot fund all of the studies that should be funded. For example, out of the hundreds of research proposals we received in 2011, about 22 percent were found to have merit; but we only had the resources to fund about the top 9 percent. Those studies that don't get funding from us may find funding elsewhere, or re-apply next year – but in some cases, they fall to the wayside. It's frustrating to know that the answers may be out there, right within reach but the research funding simply doesn't exist.
We are working hard on several pieces of legislation right now that will help ensure the future of Alzheimer's research, including the Breakthrough Act and the HOPE for Alzheimer's Act. We're already seeing our work on the National Alzheimer's Project Act starting to benefit the research community and hope that it continues to do so.
About the author: Elizabeth Edgerly, Ph.D., is the chief program officer for the Alzheimer's Association, Northern California and Northern Nevada Chapter. To read more blog posts by Dr. Edgerly, click here.
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"What do you think of this sentence?" I asked the class. "Is there anything wrong with it?
We don't teach a grammar class, my friend and I, we teach creative writing at a homeschool campus that is an offshoot of the public school district. We are "parent helpers" not paid teachers.
It gets worse: For six of the last seven years we have been quietly, gloriously, subversively imploring our students to ignore grammar, spelling and format, and just write. We tell them that all that formality and structure can be ignored for 90 minutes. All of that can (and will) come later, after the creativity has been let out of its structured, school-system cage.
Should we be booted out? Reigned in? Given strict boundaries?
Yesterday we had our largest class ever: 30 kids. In years past, our largest group was about twenty, with an average weekly class size of about 10-15.
"Mom, were you worried when you saw so many kids in there today?" asked my youngest after class, though she knew the answer already. Thirty kids in our classroom who were there by choice—who either already love to write or don't but have heard, through the school grapevine that this writing class is different, fun? I could not have been more thrilled. I still am.
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Yesterday one of our youngest students, a tender-hearted seven year old invited to class because his older sister already attends, shared his story with the class orally: over the weekend his precious fish died.
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Two weeks ago a boy with perfect handwriting but zero confidence as a writer stood up and read the beginnings of his sci-fi story. It was his first day in class. The story, brilliant.
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If you think you are hearing tooted horns, think again. My friend and I are mere spectators, facilitators of creativity that is already pulsing inside these astonishing kids. Sometimes we see it first and gently coax it out. Other times, it bursts forward, unbidden.
Yesterday after our class on writing with the senses, a new student brought me a two-page essay he had written at home: "This is just for you to read," he said, "I don't want you to share it with the class, but I worked really hard on it and I'm proud of it."
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President Barack Obama set a new standard Wednesday for stupidly exploitative White House events by appearing onstage with children to unveil his gun control proposals.
He quoted from letters that the kids had written him. He invoked their Solomonic authority: "Their voices should compel us to change." He signed executive orders as they gazed on adoringly. He hugged and high-fived them.
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News flash: Kids don't want bad things to happen. This would be a genuinely useful insight … if we could write public policy in crayon. The White House event smacked of the old unilateral disarmament campaigns of the 1980s when we were supposed to get rid of our nuclear weapons because they scared youngsters.
We can safely assume that the kids onstage with Obama don't have a fine-grained sense of the limits of gun control or a proper regard for the Second Amendment. That's OK, though — neither does he.
It can't be said that using kids as props was beneath the gravity of occasion, since the occasion was all about feel-good PR and make-believe. For all the emphasis on stopping another Sandy Hook, Obama didn't offer anything that would do it.
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The president wants a new assault weapons ban. He told of how another school shooting happened in California last week while networks were broadcasting a Biden news conference about the progress of his task force. He didn't mention that the shooter used a shotgun, not an assault weapon. He could have said that there was yet another shooting this week at a Kentucky community college. The shooter used a semiautomatic pistol.


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I've talked to quite a few pastors recently, and I am concerned about them. I don't think they're keeping up with their internet reading.
These pastors tell me that they consider themselves blessed to be serving where they are. Their congregations are supportive, encouraging and understanding. While there is a steady throb of disagreement within those congregations, the pastors understand that as a sign of health, people wrestling with hard issues together. These pastors say that human beings are going to disagree over all kinds of things, but for the most part that disagreement is not becoming destructive. These pastors find it hard to imagine themselves doing anything other than what they are doing. They work hard and passionately, but are flexible enough to have good family time as well, an aspect of life that is encouraged and expected by their congregations. Oh, and in my conversations with them, they laugh a lot.
These are not all pastors in "cushy" situations. They are not all enjoying membership growth. Giving is down in some of their congregations, and budgets are being cut. As a result, they aren't always able to do what they would like to be able to do. They are not all getting raises. People die in their congregations and divorce and have their houses foreclosed. Their congregations are not in Disneyland. But these are happy pastors. Pastors with tender hearts and thick hides.
If they kept up with their internet reading on the topic of clergy morale and satisfaction, they would know that they should be unhappy and harassed. They would know that their congregations are out to get them, that church councils are hard taskmasters who count every working hour. They would know that their congregations are packed with people whose knowledge of Lutheran doctrine is limited, whose theology is deficient, and whose commitment to the faith is feeble. They would know that conflict is always destructive and that the church hierarchy is not to be trusted. They would know that real pastors are miserable and misunderstood.
I'm sure there are unhappy pastors out there, struggling through painful circumstances. But maybe not as many as you might think. Most pastors I know seem to be amazingly... well... happy.
I guess until they have time to sit down, check the internet, and find out how miserable they are, they'll just go on being happy and productive.
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Every day somebody releases a new spam solution, but just as often you hear dire predictions about how spam loads are growing exponentially. How will future generations deal with spam floods in 2030? Though some pundits claim email is becoming obsolete, it's unlikely that most people are going to give up on what is still one of the easiest ways to move data around the net. Plus, spam transcended email a long time ago: ads for viagra and scammy mortgages lurk in pretty much any web service you can name. With spam bots getting smarter and smarter, you'll have to turn to science fiction for solutions. Here are five strategies for dealing with spam of the future.
The Terminator Solution
In the Terminator movies and TV series, humanity is destroyed when an A.I. named Skynet takes over our satellite weapons systems, unleashes human-killing cyborgs, and nukes the crap out of us. The Terminator solution to the spam problem will involve implanting a deadly A.I. into Spam Assassin or another antispam program. After Spam Assassin takes over the internet backbone, it can track spam to its source and send out its cyborg minions to terminate known spammers.
The Wargames Solution
A more cheerful spam solution is inspired by Wargames, a movie where a missile defense program realizes that nuclear war is a no-win scenario and refuses to shoot off its missiles. Assuming that spam bots become artificially intelligent, which they clearly will, compassionate programmers can persuade them to stop spamming by running the spam bots through millions of spam scenarios. When the spam bots realize that sending massive amounts of junk for advertisers will destroy the world, they will realize the error of their ways. Instead of putting Viagra ads into the comments on WordPress blogs, and into gmail inboxes, the spam bots will create giant metadata tagging farms and make it twenty-thousand times easier to search the Web.
The Robocop Solution
In the future, the people with the most money will receive the least amount of spam. Just as the awesome police cyborg Robocop was designed never to attack executives at the company that made him, spam bots controlled by major corporations will build exceptions into their A.I.s that spare the rich. So as long as you can afford to buy off the spam bot operators, you'll never be targeted with ads for live-extension pills. If you can only afford a Googlesoft connection, you'll have to rely on the open source Wargames Solution project to prevent spam. And unfortunately, the Wargames geeks are having a hard time deciding who gets to commit code, so they haven't really started persuading the spam bots to become good guys yet.
The Neuromancer/Wintermute Solution
At the end of William Gibson's classic cyberspace novel Neuromancer, the A.I. Neuromancer merges with the A.I. Wintermute and they wander off into literal space to find more beings like themselves. It's the oldest trick in the book: You want to stop Frankenstein, build him a Bride. You want to stop the evil A.I. spam bots, build them a special companion they can merge with. The best solution to spam in twenty years will come from the "lovable robots" lab at MIT, where they'll create a creature who can read spam as fast as a spam bot can write it. The two creatures will create a massive, beautiful mail feedback loop together forever. Luckily, their hybrid babies will move to the planet Caprica so humans never have to deal with Spawn of Spam.
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HAL is the spaceship-controlling A.I. who goes insane in the movie 2001, murdering all the people on a mission to find a piece of alien technology among the Jovian moons. The HAL solution to spam isn't really a solution, but just one probable outcome. And that outcome is pure insanity. Spam bots will start randomly taking down chunks of the internet backbone, crashing servers, and fomenting anarchist revolutions among the Javascript proletariat. The only solution will be to start sending messages on paper or via telegraph.


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Blind faith is NOT a virtue. Responsible faith, "i have faith all the puzzle pieces are in the box" is okay. "i have faith my brother will do the right thing". Those examples have some evidence to work with.
Hope on the other hand -that's a tough thing for an atheist to sell. The disenfranchised and down-trodden really eat up religion's promise of hope and salvation. The humanist moral position that, at a minimum, ALL humans deserve a chance for a life of dignity & happiness should guide the rest of us to help those that need it.
People slip through the big cracks now -there's 7 BILLION of us. We're turning "spiders into ants" with people -and ants are way less precious than a spider.
Justin, I probably don't see hope the way you do, or the way the "faith, hope and charity" line does. (Faith is my new great-granddaughter's middle name. No; I don't approve.) But hope supported by effort, hope of a realistic and desirable outcome, seems OK to me. I guess your opening statement struck me as raw. When hope approaches the attitude of prayer -- we'll just sit here and hope and pray -- then it's useless.
I agree, Jay, that they're not mutually exclusive, but for hope to have any meaning at all, it has to be based in something TANGIBLE. It's like a similar distinction I draw between faith and trust. Faith to me is belief without substantial basis. Trust is belief WITH substantial basis, with a real-world foundation which is worthy of the word, "trust."
Hope that has no investment of action behind it is the kind of hope I was referring to in my earlier comment.
Hi, Justin.
Some years back, my psyche of personality prof said something to the effect that "hope lies." I've never forgotten that. Hope is a vain expectation of a positive or favorable outcome, and too often where such an outcome is unlikely or downright improbable.
A person can either engage a situation and work it to his or her desired conclusion or acknowledge that the situation is beyond his control and await the outcome impassively. In the final analysis, hope is inoperative, as much a waste of time as prayer is.
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The White House announced today plans to better utilize the torrent of data produced by agencies like the departments of Energy and Defense. The administration intends to invest $200 million in developing systems to better share and dissect large bodies of information.
The Big Data Research and Development Initiative encompasses six federal agencies including DARPA, the National Institute for Health, and the National Science Foundation and will fund projects designed to "extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data," according to a press release.
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- The EarthCube, "a system that will allow geoscientists to access, analyze and share information about our planet."
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