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Not that those past two decades have been plain sailing. Anything but in fact, with violence, inter-band fallouts and drug-related tragedy all playing a part in ATR's checkered history. Of course this wouldn't mean a thing were it for the fact that during their height of productivity between 1995 and 1999, Atari Teenage Riot were responsible for creating an altogether new brand of brain-crunching techno married to punk aesthetics with a political fervour. If Delete Yourself and The Future Of War sowed the seeds in an era where backward-looking Britpop reigned supreme, then 60 Second Wipe Out sounded like the storm erupting from heaven to wake such languid revivalists from their slumbering complacency. Perhaps not surprisingly, the band didn't quite receive the acclaim their groundbreaking sound merited at the time, but as with all good things that suddenly disappear, their decade-long hiatus merely highlighted the alarming fact that no one had taken up the mantle to challenge the status quo on such an extreme scale since.
At the tail end of last year, DiS was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to speak to Alec Empire at length about the past and more importantly, the future. What became clear from the outset was the unbridled levels of excitement in his voice about the impending release of the new record he was putting together. Changes in personnel mean that the nucleus of Atari Teenage Riot - Empire, long-standing accomplice Nic Endo and new committal to the cause MC CX KiDTRONiK - has augmented a leaner approach than before, yet as Is This Hyppereal? exhibits quite ferociously, the results are no less powerful.
Although not a concept album, there's little doubt that Empire and co. have conjured a visceral, incisive record bursting with protest songs that take in everything from human trafficking to politically motivated organisation via the Internet. As expected, Is This Hyperreal? bludgeons the senses from start to finish. From the outset where a harsh crescendo of drums introduce 'Activate', both Empire and Endo take it in turns to trade slogans ("Too much government control", "Countdown to the meltdown") with genuine self-assessments ("Music sounds like a threat"). As brutal, no holds barred opening statements go, 'Activate' is as direct as it gets.
Not that proceedings lessen at any point. The Nic Endo led 'Blood In My Eyes' and 'Shadow Identity' both erupt in a deluge of noise and insurrection, the latter's "They don't get it, they just don't get it" possibly representing the nearest Atari Teenage Riot will ever get to writing a hook-induced chorus. 'Black Flags' meanwhile, Empire calling out "Anonymous teenage riot..." provocatively over a barrage of metallic riffs that wouldn't sound out of place on a Slayer or Mastodon record firmly encapsulates the spirit of Is This Hyperreal? while rendering the so-called new wave of noise terrorism like Crystal Castles redundant in an instant.
The title track itself may sound in passing like a future tense re-write of the KLF's 'What Time Is Love?', but there's a sinister undertone to Empire's lyrics, elevating it from routine techno territories. 'Rearrange Your Synapses' also does pretty much what it says on the tin, Empire's mid-song call to arms "The internet is a working creation of a black hole that sucks up all our creation, time and freedom" ringing disturbingly true. 'Digital Decay' homes in at what sounds like a thousand beats per minute, while penultimate number 'The Only Slight Glimmer Of Hope' complete with heavily orchestrated industrial breakdown carries Is This Hyperreal?'s malevolent storm right through to the bitter end.
By the time Empire declares "I want to become a threat to no one but myself" before bringing both 'Collapse Of History' and Is This Hyperreal? to an end, the listener is left in little doubt as to the intentions of its creators. Indeed with such a raging fire burning through their bellies, this stands up alongside 60 Second Wipe Out as possibly Atari Teenage Riot's most potent collection of songs to date, and what's more, in a climate besieged with apathy and despondence, their relevance today cannot be underestimated.
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CHICAGO -- A 1-for-12 showing, along with five strikeouts, would not exactly be the blueprint drawn up by Alejandro De Aza to start the 2013 season. But fellow outfielder Alex Rios has cautioned the White Sox leadoff man not to put too much stock in that early batting average.
"Actually, we just talked about that the other day," Rios said. "I told him that people worry about the first couple games of the season and he shouldn't worry. It's so early that it really doesn't even matter. But he's going to hit and he's a great hitter. Having him in the leadoff spot, it's going to make the team so much better.
"The difference changes so quick in batting average this early. There are so few at-bats that you get. But if he gets two or three hits tonight, his batting average will be way up there. He shouldn't be worried. He knows what he can do and we know what he can do. So he should be fine."
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"You have to be tough enough mentally to stay with it," Ventura said.
And according to Rios, who had five singles in his first 11 at-bats, a quick start's most important characteristic is the confidence boost it provides.
"If you feel like you are doing things right and your swing is where you want it to be, that's all that matters," Rios said. "When they start falling and you have that confidence, you mix it together and it's all good. Right now, I feel very good. I feel like I am where I need to be."
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These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.
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My five stars are for the editors, not Mao. The Revolutions Series is one of the best things Audible has offered. No matter what your political perspective, it is both pathetic and dangerous that Americans know so little about Marxist theory and practice. Or worse, think they know what they don???t. Marxism was one of the most influential lines of thought throughout the 20th century. It shaped the politics of half the globe, and continues to be a viable critique of the modern world. (After the trillion-dollar smash-and-grab job of 2008, isn???t it at least fair to say that the jury is still out on the Triumph of Capitalism?) If you want the Mao that charmed colleges students in the 70s, skip to the last chapters for poetically digressive essays on everything from dialectics, Chinese philosophy, and the errors of Stalin to the likelihood of horses evolving hands. If you prefer to despise the Mao of the great famines and the cultural revolution, you???ll find plenty of ominously vainglorious twaddle. It is so revealing now to listen to the elevated air of scientific certainty that once pervaded communist ideology. And to recall the violent political conflicts that gave monstrous birth to nominally Marxist governments. (The Trotsky book in the series is even more brutally revealing.) Even as many of these erudite works were being written, preventable famines raged and millions were being swallowed by history. As always, Zizek is amusing and provocative. His introductory essay characterizes Mao as Marxism???s ???Lord of Misrule,??? who betrays Marxism by his failure to grasp Hegel???s and Engel???s ???negation of the negation,??? which presumably leaves him mired in plain old negation. Or not. As Heidegger used to say, ???the nothing nothings.??? And so didn???t Mao, asserts Zizek. Even if you are not an avid dialectician, you may find this a fascinating document from the mists of the 20th century.
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This is a great intro to Mao. For the unanointed, you will likely be very surprised by the lucid, yet nuanced writings on a matters from religion, to class, to science and yes, communism.
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Finance & Development, December 1993
- Interview: Top Economist Ponders a Changing World
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46 HASKINS & SELLS June Adding-Listing Machines—Multiple or Full Keyboard Type THIS type of adding machine may be operated either by hand lever or by electricity. Each row in the keyboard contains all the figures from one to nine and the number of keys depends on the capacity of the machine. On a machine with a capacity of 9,999,999.99 there are 81 keys arranged as follows: 9999999.99 8888888.88 7777777.77 6666666.66 5555555.55 4444444.44 3333333.33 2222222.22 1111111.11 It is easily seen that the setting of an amount on the machine is extremely simple. No o key needs to be set, the machine automatically prints them. A few figures in an item can be set simultaneously, making the process much faster than the method of writing each figure. More work has suggested itself to the application of adding machines than to any other type of office appliance on account of the simplicity of operation. However, one need only look into the waste baskets of the average office to find many useless adding machine lists. It is not intended to make one believe that all lists in waste baskets were of no use. The average list of figures in books or on sheets can be added quicker mentally than by relisting them on an adding machine, especially when the machine is stationed at some distance from the clerk's desk. The one disadvantage of the listing machine over the non-listing machine is that it is slower. It takes just that much more time to reach the handle and operate it for printing individual items. The electrically driven machine lessens the time. Supervising the figure work done in an office one must watch to see that the convenience offered by the machine is not abused. There are, of course, many uses for the lists and in such case the full value of the machine is obtained. The routing of figure work to machines requires study. Full keyboard adding machines can probably be best classified as follows: Adding and Listing Machines. Adding, Subtracting and Listing Machines. Duplex Adding and Listing Machines. Calculating Non-listing Machines. To these machines are added special keys and other attachments with different functions, among which are adding eighths or twelfths directly. One company advertises about five hundred combinations of features. These machines have but one set of printing type but with movable carriages of different widths they are adapted to taking sheets of paper with several columns in any of which figures may be printed at will. The forms, however, must be ruled to conform with the machine spacing. With the wide carnage one can readily cross-foot figures but cannot cross-foot and add several vertical columns simultaneously, as with some adding typewriters. Special machines are really standard parts assembled with one or more features or attachments added to do some specific class of work. The present day machine indicates totals, sub-totals, and non-add items by distinctive symbols. The duplex machines with two sets of adding wheels, indicate which items are added in - the lower counter and which in the upper, and which are transferred from the upper to the lower counter. The star, indicating that the machine is clear, was the first symbol used and no doubt originated the Visible or Blind Generally with small offset figures representing complements.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's basketball squad had its four-game winning streak snapped by Indianapolis in regional action on Friday (Dec. 30) as the Greyhounds recorded a 65-55 win over FSU at Jim Wink Arena.
The Bulldogs built a 25-21 halftime advantage, but were outscored 44-30 in the final half as Indianapolis improved to 8-2 overall and won its eighth game in a row. FSU, which holds first place in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) North Division, dropped to 6-3 overall this campaign.
Indianapolis claimed the non-league victory by forcing 21 Bulldog turnovers and limiting FSU to only 15.8% (3-19) shooting beyond the three-point stripe. Meanwhile, the Greyhounds shot 43% from the floor in the final 20 minutes after managing only a 26.9% effort in the initial half.
Kristin Turner led the way for Indianapolis with a game-high 25 points, but the Greyhounds made their move with her on the bench due to four fouls in the second half. They led by only five points when she picked up her fourth with 10:22 to play. However, Indianapolis responded by going on a 14-7 run to push the lead to 12 points. It grew to as many as 15 points in the final five minutes.
Besides Turner, Katy McIntosh added 14 points and seven rebounds while Sydney Weinert totaled nine boards and six points for the visitors.
FSU was paced by sophomore guard Sarah DeShone's team-high 16 points. She also had six rebounds, two assists and two steals. Senior guard Tricia Principe added 11 ppoints and four assists, but those were the only two Bulldog players in double-figures.
Ferris State shot 37.3% (19-51) for the game and made 14-of-18 (77.8%) free throws. The Bulldogs owned a 41-32 rebounding edge and had nine offensive boards.
Defensively, FSU limited the Greyhounds to 35.2% (19-54) shooting for the game. UIndy made six-of-17 (35.3%) three's and 21-of-31 (67.7%) free throws.
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Ferris State led by as many as six points only two minutes into the contest in a game that featured three lead changes.
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I first saw "Porky and Daffy" at a party in Bob Clampett's studio. Bob used to show us 16 mm prints in his fun room. Mostly he showed his obviously brilliant color classics, but once in a while he would show us a really rare black and white.
He ran "Porky and Daffy" and sat there with a sly look on his face watching the reactions. We were all rolling on the floor laughing.
After the cartoon was over we all looked at Bob with awe and shame and he said to us "You fellas have dirty minds". He looked exactly like Bugs Bunny, just gleeful at the sneaky gags he got away with in this otherwise innocent looking cartoon.
I've since watched Porky and Daffy at least a hundred times.
The more I see it, the more amazing ideas I find in it. It's a huge reservoir of clever ways to move things funny.
This early period of Clampett's career is often overlooked by historians, probably because on the surface the drawings themselves don't look as advanced as the later color cartoons.
But to me, this is the period where Warner Bros. really found its unique voice. Clampett was not only constantly trying new ideas - he gave the characters life.
Clampett's First Cartoons Were Something Completely New
Clampett's First Cartoons Were Something Completely New
His characters were living throbbing vessels of cartoon protoplasm. When you watch his cartoons, you aren't just sitting from a distance witnessing funny things happen to cardboard images.
You are instead pulled into the screen and invited to experience the things that the characters cause to happen from their own natural urges and motivations.
That in itself is a major innovation. But here is the one I am talking about in this post:
Ideas on every LevelThe other one is that he found a way to insert all kinds of funny and inventive ways to move the characters. It seems that no detail escapes Clampett's thirst for invention.
Even actions and scenes that are not the focus of the storyline are creative.
For example, the other night, Milt Eddie and I were watching Porky and Daffy for the millionth time and I noticed this really funny walk.
Obviously, the focus of the scene is The Pelican dragging his anatomy across the canvas. The story point is just a connection between other scenes. Clampett can't bring himself to just let a continuity scene be merely functional. He finds room for fun in everything.
The pelican is hilarious and obvious, but behind him, Daffy walks by to sit on the stool. The walk is crazy and funny. It's a double bounce butt walk! Now if I had a funny walk like this is one of my cartoons, I would want to show it off. I'd wait till the Pelican did his bit, and then frame Daffy so that everyone could get a laugh out of that zany walk.
But to Bob, it's just a throwaway bit of inspired wackiness. He's got so many ideas, he doesn't really need to show each one off. This is the complete opposite of say Chuck Jones' approach. Jones will build whole cartoons around some central wacky idea and really point to it so that the audience and cartoon historians can't miss it. (the breast eyes in Claude Cat cartoons, for example)
Bob tosses away so many ideas that you can watch his cartoons over and over again and still find great stuff you would never have thought of in a million years.
And none of this stuff distracts from the main thrust of the story. The story is always completely and clearly told and you never have trouble following what he wants you to laugh at. He just adds in lots of easter eggs. The total entertainment effect is that everything is completely awake and alive and real. This totally wacky impossible world feels more real and fun than our own mundane 3 dimensional bland existence.
Another thought:
Innovation and Inspiration
A lot of cartoon history and individual cartoons have been judged on innovation. If something was new and hadn't been done before, it has been traditionally considered a quality cartoon - regardless of the entertainment value.
Most art forms and entertainment are not solely judged on how innovative each work is. They are judged on their skill, their power to evoke emotion and other qualities.
Why is animation so frequently judged on merely how innovative it is?
My theory is because it is still a young field, and it grew and changed so fast between 1930 and 1950. Those cartoons are the best ever produced and at the time, the evolution in techniques was so rapid that you couldn't help but notice the changes. Animation historians of that period tend to judge the talent and creativity of the creators by how much of a change each cartoon or animator effected. Thus, purely entertaining highly skilled directors and animators generally get short shrift from critics. This explains Bob McKimson's poor place in history.
I don't know of a single animator or director alive today that is as skilled, entertaining or funny as Bob McKimson was, yet he gets a bad rap because he wasn't always innovating. He was merely a superhuman talent.
Clampett on the other hand was too innovative. He tried new things out all the time. The problem is he had so many ideas that most of them weren't picked up on by the rest of the business and so many went unnoticed by historians.
Disney had a methodical approach to growth and innovation. They had in house classes to improve their drawing skills, action analysis, etc... you could see progress in skill every month in their 30s cartoons. This also came with a process of discovering and creating rules.
Disney formulated rules to govern what was allowed to happen in their cartoons and what wasn't. This really influenced the rest of the artform.
Clampett innovated and grew through inspiration. He just had spur of the moment inspirations and tried them. He didn't make a preset bible of rules to follow.
His inspirations always fit the context and story that he was directing. He had focused inspirations. What was happening in the story would give him ideas of how to handle it.
His characterizations, his sense of fun and cartooniness and exaggeration did inspire and influence the rest of the industry but the innovation of using natural inspiration and plain fun in every aspect of cartoon making never quite caught on with anyone.
Hopefully now that people are noticing, it might influence the future of our great art form.


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I am very interested in seeing this video. Our district is trying to develop something like this now. How can I receive a set? Thanks!
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Hi Fred,
We made two sets of video clips of inquiry in a 6th grade classroom at a
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into the way color comes off an M&M when it is placed in water and the other
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This is my first message. I'm excited that this list exists.
I've worked with many teachers and staff developers who use the learning
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At age 58 both can start collecting pensions worth about half their current pay, plus cost-of-living increases.
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Though recent promotions and raises have boosted their income by $20,000 over the past two years, they've got only $8,000 in college savings, and Sydney will graduate just a year before their hoped-for retirement age.
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The Groths caught a break when Casey, who will start at New Mexico State University next year, became eligible for a state scholarship that covers eight semesters of tuition as long as she maintains a 2.5 GPA. (Son Jacob, 21, is in the Air Force, which will pay for his degree in full.)
They figure modest retirement dreams will take them the rest of the way. "We just want to spend time at home with our future grandkids," says Michele.
Occupations: Director of logistics at an Air Force base; first-grade teacher
Goals: To retire by 2023 and pay for their kids' college educations
Total income: $169,000
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Retirement savings: $315,000
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The Groths are underestimating how much their children's higher education will cost, says Lee Munson, a financial planner in Albuquerque.
Even with her scholarship, Casey's student fees, room and board, and daily living expenses are likely to add up to about $7,500 a year. And the $50 a month the Groths are putting in Sydney's 529 plan now won't pay for much school in six years.
Save for college — quick! The Groths will need to tap some of their $22,000 emergency fund immediately for Casey's living expenses.
Munson recommends they put $450 a month aside to rebuild that account. They should also put $200 more a month in Sydney's 529.
Go aggressive. Nervous about what's going on in Washington, Scott moved 70% of the couple's retirement savings into short-term bonds last year.
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While that will require some belt-tightening for the next few years while Casey is in school, Scott isn't fazed: "We can definitely put away more," he says.
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On January 17th, 2008, KeySpan Foundation's Executive Director, Robert Keller and Jean Tesoriero, KeySpan Foundation Project Director hosted a luncheon at the National Grid Facility in Melville to celebrate the completion of a very successful year. Thanks to the joint effort of the KeySpan Donation Project / SeniorNet computer refurbishing project, a large number of computers have been recycled and donated to many not-for-profit organizations. Since the computer refurbishing project began in 2001, more than 4,500 computers have been revitalized by the "elves" and donated to the community by the KeySpan Foundation.
The direct beneficiaries of this program include not-for-profit entities, schools, churches and more. Additionally, the community benefits because this equipment might otherwise add to the solid waste stream and contribute to toxic pollution.
This work was successfully completed at the National Grid Facility in Melville, better known as Santa's workshop. In appreciation for the KeySpan support, SeniorNet volunteers from the Don Weidman Computer Learning Center presented a unique graphic collage to Bob Keller and Jean Tesoriero of the KeySpan Foundation. The collage featured photos of the "elves" at work in the National Grid facility in Melville, as well as some commemorative drawings by SeniorNet's resident artist, Russ Day.
Pictured below and starting with the back row from the left are SeniorNet volunteers Ed Kristol, Marty Kushnick, Nick DeFlorio and Judy Krupka. Holding the commemorative collage is Bob Keller, KeySpan Foundation Executive Director and to his left are John Rozzo, Doug Focchi and Don Mackenzie, all from the National Grid Facility. In the middle row are SeniorNet volunteers Ken Taylor, Eric Vero, Slava Vero and Joe Fiore. Kneeling are Richie Chang-National Grid IT, Peter Cann-SeniorNet, Fran DiLeonardo-National Grid IT, Joe Lamagna-SeniorNet, Mike Latva-National Grid IT, Roe Oetiker, Don Stone-SeniorNet and Jean Tesoriero-KeySpan Foundation Project Director.


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Public Library: An American Commons is an exhibition and photographic survey of public libraries throughout the United States by San Francisco based photographer Robert Dawson. There are over 17,000 public libraries in this country. Since Dawson began the project in 1994 he has photographed hundreds of libraries in sixteen states. From Alaska to Florida and from New England to California the photographs show a vibrant, essential yet threatened system. This exhibition includes approximately 70 black and white and color photographs of urban, suburban and rural libraries across the U.S.
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Why doesn't the join operation on the category of simplicial sets commute up to unique isomorphism? I mean, aren't products and coproducts commutative up to isomorphism? That leads me to conclude at first glance that the join is commutative, but it's not. Recall, given two simplicial sets $S$ and $S'$, we define the join to be the simplicial set such that for all finite nonempty totally ordered sets $J$, $$(S\star S')(J)=\coprod_{J=I\cup I'}S(I) \times S'(I')$$ Where $\forall (i \in I \land i' \in I') i < i'$, which implies that $I$ and $I'$ are disjoint.
Now the thing is, clearly my conclusion is stupid, because we use the fact that it doesn't commute to distinguish between over quasi-categories and under quasi-categories. Where did I go wrong?
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Since the new clib2 from OS4Depot doesn't contain a libauto.a, I decided to created my own libauto.a. The idltool utility creates a 'main.c' file and a 'base.c' file for each XML file in SDK:Include/interfaces. Since the main.c files check if the library is opened and open the library if not already opened, is there any reason to compile the base.c files (which only open the library) into a libauto.a??
Compiling filesysbox for clib2 libauto.a fails because the 'statvfs.h' file is missing from the clib2 includes. Is it OK to copy the statvfs.h file from the newlib includes to the clib2 includes??


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The CSU Bakersfield team dinked and dunked UC Santa Barbara and Spenser Messmore took care of the rest.
Bakersfield scored their first five runs courtesy of four UCSB walks, three hit batters, three infield hits and an error while Messmore surgically worked through the Gaucho offense as the Roadrunners won the non-conference game at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, 8-2.
Until the Gauchos broke through for two seventh inning runs, Messmore had allowed just one runner past second base.
Meanwhile, the Roadrunners (12-15 overall) chased UCSB starter Matthew Vedo after just six outs. Vedo accounted for four of the first five outs via strikeout, but he lost control in the second when he walked the No. 8 batter, hit a batter, then walked two more to force in a run. Oscar Sanay then had a check swing infield single to bring in another run and CSUB led 3-0.
The 'Runners added to their 5-0 advantage with Cael Brockmeyer's two-run home run in the seventh inning and capped the scoring on Frank Martinez's solo homer in the ninth.
UCSB scored its two runs in the seventh when Marc Venning's double to center field scored Joey Wallace and Venning later scored on Steven Fisher's sacrifice fly.
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Javad Katibai has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Quantitative Methods department at Walsh College since 1989 teaching graduate and undergraduate statistics courses. He has also offered professional seminars at Walsh College on topics of Statistics for Business, Budgeting and Forecasting, and Continuous Process Improvement.
Javad Katibai's automotive and academic career at General Motors Corporation spans well over two decades as Engineering Group Manager, Vehicle System Engineer, Designing Engineer, and as an instructor teaching "Fundamentals of Statistical Process Control," "Correlation and Regression Analysis" and "Statistical Methods for Comparison – Hypothesis Testing" training courses. Javad Katibai is a certified Design for Six Sigma, DFSS, Black Belt utilizing application of quality management, including statistics methods, to the design of chassis and powertrain integration systems. Javad Katibai has also acted as course mentor at General Motors Technical Education Distance Learning program proctoring business and engineering courses offered by universities offering degree programs at General Motors.
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Brno, Czech Republic, June 23, 2013 – Dominican Republic beat Peru 3-2 to take the lead of Pool A.
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Two defending champions from the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association will participate in the inaugural Under Armour Brothers In Arms Classic high school football event this fall.
Gilman, which has won the past two MIAA A Conference championships, is scheduled to play Manatee (Fla.) on Sept. 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the University of Maryland's Byrd Stadium.
In the first game that day, two-time defending MIAA C Conference champion St. Frances -- which is moving to the A Conference this fall -- is set to face Friendship (D.C.) at noon.
The Brothers In Arms Classic, which will take place at various locations around the United States in August and September, features more than 45 teams from 14 states and Washington, D.C.
"In order to raise awareness for the Brothers In Arms Foundation, we created the Brothers In Arms Football Classic," chairman Eric Beach said on a conference call Friday about the foundation, which was created last year to honor the legacy of fallen soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, in coordination with their families.
This season, Gilman will open with a tough schedule after going 2-2 against out-of-conference opponents last year before finishing with seven straight victories against MIAA A Conference teams on its way to the championship.
"We had a lot of success, broke [Don Bosco Prep (N.J.)]'s 46-game winning streak," Gilman coach Biff Poggi said of last year's out-of-conference schedule. "The kids kept working really hard, and they always stayed within the framework of our team."
The Greyhounds -- who were ranked No. 19 in the final USA Today Super 25 poll last year and routed Calvert Hall, 35-7, in the MIAA A Conference title game -- are scheduled to begin the season at home against Good Counsel on Aug. 23 before facing Manatee in College Park.
The Falcons, who edged Gilman, 20-19, in overtime last August, ended the season at No. 10 in the USA Today rankings, while the Hurricanes were just ahead of Gilman at No. 18.
St. Frances defeated Severn, 30-25, in the MIAA C Conference championship last November. The Panthers will open the 2013 season on Aug. 23 against Nease (Fla.) in the Kick Off Classic at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla., before playing in the Brothers In Arms game.
"Having been an avid supporter of the men and women who fight overseas for us, it's an honor and a privilege to represent the familes who have lost a loved one," St. Frances coach Messay Hailemariam said.
The Brothers In Arms Foundation started in order to honor Lt. Brendan Looney, a U.S. Navy SEAL and 2004 Naval Academy graduate, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.
"We have lost a lot of good, young people since 9/11," Kevin Looney, Brendan's father, said Friday on the conference call, "and the Brothers In Arms Football Classic will be a way to remember them all, not just Brendan."
Poggi said: "We've never played in anything as meaningful as this. We've played in a lot of big games and a lot of classics, but we've never played in anything that represents something as important as the Brothers In Arms Classic."
Ticket information will be available on the Brothers In Arms Classic website on June 1.


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Successful hacks that end in user account information being stolen seem like a commonplace event nowadays. They are usually followed by the service that was hacked issuing a statement, ensuring everything is being done to catch the hacker, and that your account password needs changing.
Cryptic Studios, the developer behind games such as City of Heroes, Champions Online, and Star Trek Online, has just discovered its user database has been hacked. There's just one problem: they made the discovery and issued a statement on April 25, 2012, but the hack occurred in December 2010!
The realization a hack occurred 16 months ago was due to "increased security analysis." The details taken included user account names, handles, and encrypted passwords. Cryptic also confirmed that the encryption has been broken (at least partially), meaning additional information may have been accessible to the hacker simply by logging in.
Logging into an account allows access to the following personal information:
- First and last name
- E-mail address
- Date of birth
- Billing address
- First 6 digits and last 4 digits of registered credit card
Cryptic say they have no evidence of this additional information being accessed, but why would they? If the hacker had the account password then access would just register as the legitimate user logging in.
To combat the hack Cryptic has reset all passwords for accounts affected by the security breach. However, the fact this happened so long ago means you may have already been stung by your details being taken. If you have any other accounts using the same password as your Cryptic account, go change them immediately.
Read more at Cryptic Studios


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The curtain lifts again and we begin to recount ritually and relive interiorly the great events that took place over a few days a long time ago. The world did not stop when they happened. Only symbolically did the sun darken and the veil of temple split. Peoples' commercial and emotional lives carried on as usual through the short tragic drama of the humiliation and extinction of a powerless pawn in the politics of the world. A short show-trial, public torture to keep the crowds satisfied, another execution of a religious (or political) activist who flared briefly in popular imagination and then lost their favour and sunk between the bigger waves of public affairs and personal concerns.
His close friends ran away, disappointed and maybe angry with him, to save themselves. He was left to die with only his mother, one disciple He loved and a few loyal women at the foot of His cross.
And here we are in 2012 telling the story again from the slightly disjointed but unforgettable accounts written down several decades afterwards. We do not have His own words except in translation. He put nothing in writing himself. We don't know what He liked for breakfast or exactly who He thought He was. He is more present than any other historical or fictional figure and yet when you look at Him closely he becomes transparent and disappears. If we meet Him we are changed but we cannot get a grip on Him.
These inconsistencies and paradoxes that so irritate the rational mind, when it operates in isolation, are the medium of a great transmission.
Children who like a story and those who recognise the value of a great work art are happy to repeat it indefinitely. In this story the repetition itself is an act of faith that strengthens faith and so clarifies vision.
It is more powerful if we act theatrically in the telling rather than sitting like a passive audience. In this story there are no mere observers.
We have a limited number of chances in one life to replay the drama and penetrate its meaning. Not knowing how many is a part of the process that connects us with the One who suffered and died but did not stay dead.
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Greetings wise wizards of Lenovo:
I'm helping a friend with the USB Port Replicator, who is running Windows Vista Home Premium on her Acer laptop. She has all of the necessary hardware requirements, and I've installed the Lenovo USB Port Replicator drivers with once with Vista (automatically installing the drivers), once with the CD, and finally from the Lenovo website. The problem is that the port replicator works fine upon installation, but as soon as Vista is restarted, not only does a second monitor not appear automatically, it doesn't appear at all.
Connecting the second monitor to the laptop VGA port works fine, and I can extend the desktop across both the laptop and the second monitor... it is only a problem on restart with the port replicator. I've uninstalled and resintalled three times now, once with letting Vista provide the drivers automatically, once with the CD, and once with the website download.
Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance,
I have purchased a new E420 Lenovo laptop with M01060 usb port replicator, unfortunatly does not work properly when we connect the monitor
Mines not working on XP. Works fine until I re-boot then I have a hard time getting it to work. I've tried unplugging the ac adapter, usb, tried switching my monitors and still nothing. Both monitors are functioning properly. The icon for the repilicator does not show up down the clock. It's in my program files with the only option to uninstall.
Comon Lenovo, there hasn't been an answer to this question since 2008???


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I attended this years The Amazing Meeting #9 in Las Vegas in July and will be posting video footage, pictures and news from the event. If you have been to a TAM meeting in the past please share your experience and suggestions. If you're interested in attending next year just click on the banner for more information or go here.
July 20th 2011 - This years TAM is hailed as being "the best TAM yet!". Being a first TAMer myself, it's hard for me to make a distinction however I think it's safe to assume that any Atheist friendly event with a Doughnut and Bacon Party has got to have outdone itself.
I arrived early on the 13th for good luck. The cab from the airport to South Point Casino was around $35 bucks due to road closure. There's a cheaper shuttle but I missed the last one (trying to figure out which mode of transport was appropriate). "That's the last shuttle leaving right now" said a "helpful" valet. I was told there would be someone to pick me up but those plans must have fallen through... no problem. The cab driver says the economy is better in Vegas than in Los Angeles.
Upon arrival I registered for my room without event (thank you Randi & JREF). I cruised over to the Del Mar lounge for Skeptics in the Pub (the unofficial kick-off) but not knowing anyone and no one knowing me makes for an awkward self introduction at best. Especially for a group of skeptics. So I lurked a bit to see if I could figure out whom was the Atheist. Funny reminds me of the old Howard Stern bit "Who's The Jew". And I'm sure TAM has a large Jew Atheist audience as well.
I attempted sleep for an excruciating period of time before waking sleep deprived to greet the "Official Start" of TAM 9.
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According to the accurate-looking window sticker, this 2012 Acura MDX with special tactical packages for S.H.I.E.L.D. gets an impressive 234 MPG city/304 MPG highway mileage, though this is running on Palladium. It's a fuel which, apparently, costs a daunting $448/oz. But that's actually cheap. Because the car itself costs just under $6 million.
But hey, it has stealth invisibility generators, an unmanned aerial vehicle, and is fictitious.
The Acura, is of course, the car star of the new Avengers movie. And while the MDX is nicely kitted up with exciting looking lights and special rims and guards, the fake window sticker is probably the best part. Mostly for alluding to future Acura technological innovations such as a 9-speed hyper-shift (that doesn't sound too comfortable!) transmission, steering wheel with palm-scan ID, inviso-shield exo-system wave modifier, and a retracting repulsor cannon.
This, of course, will be a welcome change from Acura's current lineup of non-retracting repulsor cannons.
As far as movie cars go, this one does have a very achievable look, and Acura could likely put out a special edition for those wanting the S.H.I.E.L.D. look. They could even include a little remote-control helicopter thing on the roof!
But I wouldn't hold your breath for the Enviro-Clone holographic surrounding projector.


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Our goal in Bridge Constructor is to build a bridge, and then pass through it. But as usual, it wouldn't be all that fun if it were that simple. Vinny on YouTube thankfully knows exactly how to do it in a classy way.
Crossing the bridge is actually the last thing you wanna do:
The source of the gifs, Vinny's original video, is really fun to watch:
Vinny - Breaking Bridge Constructor [Vinesauce, YouTube]
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My favorite Frankenstorm quote comes from Ralph Lopez, interviewed outside a housing project in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. "Half the world doesn't have electricity," the 73-year-old said, walking his Chihuahua, Pepe. "I grew up in a cold-water flat with no heat at all. And this is just for a week. So, boohoo."
What a perfect take on a society so connected to 20th century conveniences that a week without them seems unthinkable. One recalls the line from "Mad Men," where Don Draper ponders his young wife's obsession with self-actualization. "My dream was indoor plumbing," he shrugs.
This is not to underestimate genuine suffering from Superstorm Sandy. There was tragic loss of life and, on a still gruesome level, loss of homes. Life without power also posed serious problems for ill people dependent on a respirator or the frail elderly living on the 15th floor.
But if you needed an extra blanket to stay warm in 50 degrees or had to read by flashlight rather than watch TV -- well, boohoo. You should dispense with pained cries of, "I can't recharge my cellphone," a device that barely existed 20 years ago. And there's also little dignity in waving fists at politicians, demanding to know why you can't get electricity a week after your street was under 5 feet of water.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's initial plan to hold the New York City Marathon last weekend -- on schedule, come hell or (literally) high water -- deserved respect. Strong objection prompted him to cancel the annual event. Many thought it unseemly to show athletes racing past neighborhoods that still did not have electricity. I thought it would be a good thing, a message that New Yorkers would carry on.
The replacement visuals were fine, though. Some of the runners used the day to help out in hard-hit neighborhoods. Other volunteers with shovels appeared from nowhere. In the Breezy Point section of Queens, where fire devoured over 100 houses, residents vowed to rebuild. That's what we call carrying on.
City folk in the blacked-out areas may have even used the opportunity to look at a night sky not muddied by harsh urban lighting. They'd have seen lots more stars and an assertive hunter's moon.
"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years," Emerson wrote, "how would men believe and adore!"
More than a week later, thousands in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut remain without power. Many find themselves dealing with nature head-on for the first time. When the sun sets and the natural light vanishes, they go to bed. They do their cooking outdoors. But it's still temporary.
One great joy of wilderness camping is ending the trip. You come home, flip a switch and marvel that a light goes on. A hot shower seems a miracle.
Getting back something one took for granted is very special. Before foot surgery, I would bound up stairs two at a time, not even thinking. The week after, negotiating one step was a struggle. Today, I'm awed by those for whom such disability is permanent but who also carry on.
Ralph Lopez totally got it. Much of the world never had electricity. Every gallon of water someone had carried from a well. And aren't those electricity-less New Yorkers -- the ones living without utilities on a short-term basis -- among the pampered of the earth?
Moderns have so effectively walled themselves with technology that Mother Nature must throw a tantrum to get attention. (She also does tornados, earthquakes and blizzards.) It's pointless accusing her of senseless violence. As Leonardo da Vinci said, "Nature never breaks her own laws."


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I'm starting this post while the bread is in the oven. The smell of baking cinnamon bread is intoxicating. All I can think about is how hungry I am. I doubt there will be any of this loaf left. I have to make sure that I get photos before we dig in.
Then bake for 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees. This is also a good time to consider making coffee, because when this comes out of the oven you will want some bitter coffee to balance the sweet gooey cinnamon leaves.
Take the bread out of the oven and invert it on a plate so all the syrup that was bubbling at the bottom trickles down the sides. Let it set for five minutes so you don't burn your fingers and then dig in. This was the perfect breakfast for a rainy Sunday morning. The only downside being I didn't have as much natural light to work with so the photos don't quite capture it. I swear it looks even better than this.
Cinnamon Leaves
(This recipe was adapted from Joy the Baker)
For the Dough:
2 3/4 cups plus all-purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 1/4 teaspoons (1 envelope) active dry yeast
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup milk
1/4 cup water
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
For the Filling:
1 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons butter, melted
- Mix the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, yeast and salt) together in a large bowl, reserve one cup of the flour. On the stove or in the microwave, heat the milk, water, and butter until the butter is liquid. Allow the mixture to cool until it is still warm, but you can touch it with out burning yourself. Beat the two eggs together in a small bowl. Then add the butter mixture, eggs and vanilla to the dry ingredients. Use a wooden spoon to combine. The dough will take a while to mix. Once everything is a very sticky dough, kneed in the remaining one cup of flour- about five minutes of kneading should do it.
- Place the dough in a greased a bowl, rise with a clean towel over top until double. I like to warm my oven for a five minutes then turn it off and let the dough rise inside the slightly warm oven. It should take about an hour. Bread will rise really fast at about 90 degrees.
- Roll out the dough on a clean surface to 12 by 20 inch rectangle. Now your ready to add the filling. Brush the melted butter over the surface of the rolled out dough. Then mix the cinnamon, sugar and nutmeg together and sprinkle it over top. It will seem like a lot, just trust me on this part.
- Then cut the dough into six strips. Stack the six strips on top of each other. Cut those strips into three or four stacks of squares. Put the stacks of squares into the greased 9x5 loaf pan.
- Allow to rise a second time until double (about 15-30 minutes).
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Check to make sure the loaf is done before you tip it out by using a butter knife to press down on the top, if it springs back it is done. If it doesn't the dough isn't quite baked, put it back in the oven for another 5 to 10 minutes.
- Use the butter knife to loosen the edges then invert the bread onto a plate. The syrup that was made from all the sugar, is really hot and will run down the edges. Let the bread set for five minutes before you dig in so you don't burn your mouth. And don't forget to pour yourself a cup of coffee or a glass of milk. Enjoy.


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A reader commented on one of my posts and mentioned that he wished that I'd post on the footwork in the kata. So here you have it ;-)
There are three pretty distinctive types of footwork illustrated in this kata
- the cross-step - essentially a normal walking step (ayumiashi) stepping forward across your other foot. Useful for changing your angle wrt the opponent. I have posted on this idea before and called it "walking over the hill"
- the returning wave step - a sliding side-step (tsugiashi) - one foot picks up off the ground and sets back down without ever shifting your center of mass over the standing leg, so you begin to fall/slide to the side of the foot that you picked up. In this kata, this motion is typically used to illustrate how to drop your weight into a strike, but it also suggests the proper mechanism for a sliding evasion step sideways.
- backward turning step - if you pick up your right leg and pivot clockwise on your left leg, placing your right foot back on the ground behind you and perhaps a little to the left of where you started, then you are in the same position as if you'd cross-stepped forward with your left foot. This very useful turning motion (tenkan) is not explicitly seen in the kata, but is suggested by the cross-step.
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TOKYO, April 15 (UPI) -- The United States is open to "credible negotiations" on the Korean nuclear crisis, but North Korea must act, Secretary of State John Kerry said in Tokyo.
After consulting with leaders of South Korea, China and Japan over the past few days on the provocations coming from North Korea, Kerry said Monday all were united about North Korea's nuclear missile threat.
"There can be no confusion on this point," he said. "The North's dangerous nuclear missile program threatens not only North Korea's neighbors, but it threatens its own people. ...
"The United States remains open to authentic and credible negotiations on denuclearization, but the burden is on Pyongyang," Kerry said. "North Korea must take meaningful steps to show that it will honor commitments it has already made, and it has to observe laws and the norms of international behavior."
When the world in general is moving away from nuclear proliferation, "the last thing we need is one or two states bucking the trend of history and common sense," Kerry said. "The world does not need more potential for war. And so we will stand together, and we welcome China's strong statement of its commitment two days ago to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
It's also time for countries to put aside "long-festering territorial disputes," Kerry said, without specifically mention disputes between several countries, including Japan, and China over territorial and maritime boundaries.
"The stakes are far too high and the global economy is too fragile for anyone to allow these inherited problems to divide the region and to inflame it," he said. "Unilateral action and the failure of diplomacy would carry too great a cost, so we need to follow the example of the students at this school, think creatively and innovatively, and work together to find peaceful and diplomatic solutions to these differences."
Kerry sought to dispel some skepticism about U.S. commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, saying America will build on its "enduring presence."
Some people might be skeptical of America's commitment to this region. Well, let me be clear: President Obama made a smart and a strategic commitment to rebalance our interests and investments in Asia," Kerry said Monday in Tokyo. "My commitment to you is that as a Pacific nation that takes our Pacific partnership seriously, we will continue to build on our active and enduring presence."
Kerry also shared Obama's dream for the Pacific region, "in which nations and people forge a partnership that shapes our shared future."
To make the shared vision a reality for the region and to ensure that Asia contributes to global peace and prosperity, Kerry said all parties must wrap themselves ourselves around four growth that is strong, fair, smart and just.
"Now I will say to you we are well aware of all the challenges that remain," he said. "But the truth is the trend lines in the Asia-Pacific are heading in the right direction, the direction of reform and responsive government."
"We can only realize the promise of this Pacific dream if we choose to take that step together, building a partnership that grows strong and fair and smart and just," Kerry said in conclusion. "And if we achieve that together, we will have lived up to our responsibilities for future generations."


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Erik Larsen, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press 11:15 p.m. EDT March 25, 2014
Point Pleasant Beach
(Photo: Tom Spader, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press)
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. -- Hundreds of motels along the Jersey Shore, are not required to have fire sprinklers, under a state law that grandfathered the inns from having to provide the life-saving equipment, fire safety experts said.
The issue has taken on greater focus here since Friday's deadly fire at the Mariner's Cove Motor Inn, which killed four people.
Officials have not said whether the motel had a system in place, but survivors at the motel say there were no working sprinklers or fire alarms.
STORY: Improperly discarded cigarette started N.J. motel fire
David Kurasz, executive director of the New Jersey Fire Sprinkler Advisory Board, said the absence of fire suppression sprinklers is an ongoing and largely unknown risk that the public takes when checking in to the "mom and pop" motels that are such an iconic feature of the Jersey Shore.
"All of these motels, some built well before the 1980s, and all are grandfathered into a fire code that didn't include sprinklers," Kurasz said.
John H. Lightbody of Toms River, past fire district chief and current fire insurance investigator for Valentine Associates, said at least 200 motels on the Jersey Shore are not required to have sprinklers. Statewide, he said there are hundreds of motels.
Built in 1984, the Mariner's Cove Motor Inn would not have had to include a fire-suppression sprinkler system when constructed, according to the state of New Jersey.
"There was no requirement for this type of building to be provided with a fire sprinkler system," said Lisa Ryan, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Community Affairs. "There was a requirement for a fire alarm system."
The state Uniform Fire Code has mandated that structures of this type have sprinkler systems only since 2006, but older buildings such as the Mariner's Cove Motor Inn were not required to be retrofitted at that time, despite the change in the law, Ryan said.
A preliminary investigation has determined the blaze was started by an improperly discarded cigarette in a chair in an outdoor lounge. Authorities said the four men died from smoke inhalation. Seven other guests at the motel were injured.
No criminal charges have been filed and investigators were still trying to determine whether there were any functioning smoke alarms in the motel at the time of the fire.
- http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/25/no-sprinklers-required-at-motel-in-fatal-fire/6897657/