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About Oomingmak
Musk Ox Producers' Co-operative
A unique northern gift of exquisite Qiviut items, brought to you since 1969 by Oomingmak, the original Alaskan Co-operative. The Co-Operative is owned by approximately 250 Native Alaskan women from remote coastal villages of Alaska who knit each item by hand.
What is Qiviut?
Qiviut (pronounced "kiv-ee-ute"), the downy-soft underwool from the Arctic musk ox, is shed naturally each year during the spring months. Eight times warmer than wool and extraordinarily lightweight, Qiviut is one of the finest natural fibers known to man. Unlike wool, Qiviut is not scratchy and will not shrink in any temperature of water. It can be hand-washed in any mild detergent and will last for many years. Learn more »
Our Items
The items knitted in our traditional line are 100% Qiviut and natural in color. Each village has a signature pattern for the scarves, stoles and smoke-ring. These patterns are derived from traditional aspects of village life and the Eskimo culture, such as ancient artifacts, skin sewing or beadwork design.
The newer line of Tundra and Snow, introduced in 1999, is 80% Qiviut and 20% Silk, blended together. Some of the yarn is in the natural color and some in a bleached off white, so that the beautiful patterns are knitted making a contrast between the two. The Tundra and Snow Caps and Headbands are practical for any sports activity, yet beautiful to wear to a special event.
All the items made by the Co-Op members are as comfortable to wear on cool days in a warm climate as they are in chilly weather.
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When knitting is received at the Co-Op headquarters by mail from the remote villages or in person by the visiting member, it is checked over for quality and entered into inventory. The member is paid for her work, and the knitted items are washed, blocked, labeled and packaged, ready for our customers.
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Oomingmak visitors come by the little brown house with the musk ox mural on the corner of 6th and H Street from all over the world. Many of our customers find us on the web or through the printed media and choose to call our toll free line (888) 360-9665.
If you are in Anchorage, call our local number (907) 272-9225 or stop by our downtown shop at 604 H Street to see and feel our quality Alaskan hand made products. More contact information »


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This threaded rod is a commonly used part in constructing frames or any other machanical part of the 3D printer. The bar is made from zinc plated steel and 100 cm long. The thread size is M4.
In some cases it can save costs to use this product instead of a lead-screw for linear motion. If you use this part for linear motion, you can use PTFE spray to lubricate the rod for better motion, but note that the resulting end quality of your prints will be impacted due to the imperfections of metric rods.
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Good Woman, A (Spain/Italy/Luxembourg/United Kingdom/United State, 2004)
It has taken this workmanlike adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play, "Lady Windermere's Fan," more than a year to reach U.S. movie screens. The reason it's here now probably has less to do with a sudden interest in Wilde than it does with the white-hot rise to stardom of one of its leads, Scarlett Johansson. The actress made the movie as she was on the rise, and it showed at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival (a year after Lost in Translation and The Girl with the Pearl Earring). But it wasn't until last year that Johansson's art house popularity spilled into multiplexes, and now she's the kind of commodity that Lions Gate Films sees a chance to exploit.
With Oscar Wilde plays, there are two givens. The plot will revolve around some kind of mistaken identity and the dialogue will be so witty that no one will care much about the story. Like The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband, A Good Woman (the film's title, not the play's) fits those criteria. The movie succeeds because screenwriter Howard Himelstein keeps Wilde's best lines intact and the actors speak the words with practiced confidence.
Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is an American woman of ill repute seeking refuge in Italy around 1930. Shortly after her arrival in Europe, she latches onto a wealthy young American abroad named Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), who is newly married to the naïve, pretty Meg (Scarlett Johansson). But Robert's clandestine meetings with Mrs. Erlynne are not what they appear to be to the prying eyes of gossipy friends and neighbors, and the checks he writes aren't for services rendered. Meanwhile, the charming Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore) has his eyes on Meg, and sees a way to use Robert's apparent infidelity to his advantage. And a liberal aristocrat (Tom Wilkinson) thinks there's a softer side to Mrs. Erlynne that everyone else is missing. From there, the story plays out as expected, with secrets being revealed and concealed. One refreshing twist is that not everyone knows everything by the time the final reel has unspooled.
In terms of recent Oscar Wilde adaptations, this one is a little above The Importance of Being Earnest, but not on the level of An Ideal Husband. The viewer's chief enjoyment of Mike Barker's interpretation is the conversation, so those who don't appreciate literate, talky motion pictures will be bored by what this one has to offer (unless they become mesmerized by the copious cleavage on display). Lines of note include: "Bigamy's having one wife too many. So is monogamy," "The best way to keep my word is never to give it," "My own business bores me. I much prefer other people's," "Modern marriage thrives on mutual deception," and "You have no redeeming vices."
Helen Hunt, like Julianne Moore in An Ideal Husband, is an American actress playing a mysterious woman whose entrance into a stale community stirs things up a little. It's a near-perfect performance for Hunt, the frequency of whose screen appearances has dwindled of late. Johansson is nearly as good as the innocent Meg, who believes that she knows her husband because they have been married for a whole year. Tom Wilkinson brings a mixture of good humor and momentary pathos to the character of Tuppy. British veteran John Standing has a supporting role as another of the indolent British expatriates.
Although the narrative of A Good Woman exists primarily as an excuse for Wilde's dialogue, it works well enough to satisfy in its own right. There's nothing surprising about the twists that Wilde has built into the story, but it's interesting to view how the misunderstandings shake the foundations of the characters impacted by them, and to see how each of these individuals develops. A Good Woman is good enough to have warranted an art-house distribution before now, but at least the film has not been lost on a distributor's dusty shelves or relegated to a straight-to-DVD release. The dialogue and performances are worth more than that.
Good Woman, A (Spain/Italy/Luxembourg/United Kingdom/United State, 2004)
Cast: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers, John Standing
Screenplay: Howard Himelstein, based on "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde
Cinematography: Ben Seresin
Music: Richard G. Mitchell
U.S. Distributor: Lionsgate
U.S. Release Date: 2006-02-03
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY
Subtitles: none
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1


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Watch the chaotic airport scene here. Poor Kristen and Tay.
Kristen and Taylor Arrive in Sao Paolo
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Find out if belongings left on our flights or in an airport have been handed in and how you can get them back.
Any lost items that are found on board an aircraft are handed to the lost property team at the arrival airport.
Similarly, items found in the airport, including in a British Airways lounge, also get handed over to the airport team.
In most airports, this is an airport handling agent and you will need to contact them directly to trace and retrieve your property. You can find contact details for all of our airports globally below.
Unfortunately, we do not have a central lost property team so we are unable to help you further if your property has not been handed in at the airport.
Please have your flight details to hand, including the date on which you think you lost your property.
There may be an administrative or storage fee for reclaimed items, as well as postal charges for returning items. If your property has been found, the handling agent will explain any charges.
For items lost in a British Airways lounge at Heathrow, on board an arriving aircraft or in the terminals, contact Heathrow Airport's handling agent, Smarte Carte.
Smarte Carte charge for storing lost items and will apply postage and packing charges if you need your property sent back to you.
For items left either in the British Airways lounge at Gatwick, on board an aircraft, or anywhere else around the airport, contact the Excess Baggage Company by phone on 01293 223457 or submit the enquiry form, giving the following details:
Please allow 24 hours for a response to your lost property enquiry. You can either collect the items from the Excess Baggage Company's Gatwick South terminal depot or Victoria station depot (for baggage left on trains), or pay for your items to be sent to you by courier. You will be charged for each item returned.
Read more about the lost property returns service or report and track your missing items.
For items lost on board a British Airways arriving aircraft or in the terminal at London City Airport, we will try and reunite you with your property. We have partnered with London City Airport who use Zero/Burden/Not Lost so you can search for, claim, or register your item.
Please note that we only keep items for a maximum of 30 days.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co agreed to pay $2.6 billion to the U.S. government and Bernard Madoff victims to settle allegations that the bank failed to tell authorities about its suspicions of fraud at Madoff's fund.
Even as the bank cut its exposure to Madoff's fund to minimize its losses it what ended up being a $17.3 billion Ponzi scheme, JPMorgan never shared its doubts with U.S. authorities, government prosecutors said.
"The bank connected the dots when it mattered to its own profit but was not so diligent when it came to its legal obligations," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a press conference.
"In part because of that failure, for decades, Bernie Madoff was able to launder billions of dollars in Ponzi proceeds essentially through a single set of accounts at JPMorgan," Bharara added. The bank's $1.7 billion settlement with the Department of Justice, part of the larger deal announced Tuesday, is the largest forfeiture a bank has ever had to pay to resolve anti-money laundering violations. The deal does not include charges against individuals.
The settlement is only the latest of JPMorgan's legal difficulties. In November, the bank agreed to a $13 billion settlement with the U.S. government over the bank's mortgage bonds. JPMorgan still faces at least eight other government probes, covering everything from its hiring practices in China to whether it manipulated the Libor benchmark interest rate.
These are big payouts, even to a bank whose profit has topped $20 billion a year. The Madoff settlement underscores how being the largest U.S. bank can be a hindrance as well as a benefit to JPMorgan. Like its Wall Street rivals, JPMorgan a colossus in which internal communication is often imperfect.
"We recognize we could have done a better job pulling together various pieces of information and concerns about Madoff from different parts of the bank over time," JPMorgan spokesman Joe Evangelisti said in an email. The bank filed a notice of suspicious activity with regulators in London in October 2008, but not in the United States, he acknowledged.
He added: "We do not believe that any JPMorgan Chase employee knowingly assisted Madoff's Ponzi scheme."
The Department of Justice agreed to a two-year deferred prosecution agreement with the bank as part of its settlement. Tuesday's deal also settles probes by multiple bank regulators into failures in JPMorgan's anti-money laundering policies. The bank agreed to improve its controls.
Experts viewed the $1.7 billion forfeiture as a tough penalty for JPMorgan, but several questioned why no individuals faced charges over the bank's failure to alert authorities for more than a decade to concerns about Madoff.
"Despite those egregious facts, it appears that no person, no bank official, no bank employee, not a single one, is going to be held personally accountable for the scandal," said former Treasury Department official Jimmy Gurule, now a professor at Notre Dame University's law school.
JPMorgan said Tuesday afternoon that the tab for the settlements will reduce fourth-quarter results by about $850 million, after the bank had already set aside money to cover most of the expenses. In the third quarter, the bank set aside another $7.2 billion to cover expected legal losses, bringing the total funds it had stockpiled for settlements to $23 billion. The settlement payments announced on Tuesday are not tax-deductible, the company said.
The company had been expected to make about $5.13 billion in the quarter, according to analysts' estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters. Shares of JPMorgan fell 1.3 percent to $58.26 on Tuesday.
The settlement also includes a $350 million penalty from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. In private litigation, the bank will pay $218 million to settle the class action suit and $325 million to settle a U.S. bankruptcy trustee's suit. The Department of Justice portion of the payout will go to Madoff's victims.
"The bank was clearly willfully blind, I think, to detecting and reporting suspicious transactions to the Treasury Department," Gurule said.
Even if the transactions had been reported, it is not clear if Madoff would have been shut down. Analyst Harry Markopolos told the Securities and Exchange Commission multiple times about his suspicions about Madoff's consistently good returns, and was ignored by the agency.
Madoff was a quiet force for years on Wall Street, serving at one time as the chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market. Through his Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC hedge fund, he operated the largest Ponzi scheme that has ever been uncovered. It collapsed in December 2008 after he told senior employees at his firm "it's all just one big lie" and turned himself in to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 of defrauding thousands of investors and is serving a 150-year prison sentence. Investors lost $17.3 billion in principal, the bankruptcy court trustee has said.
From 1986 until his arrest in 2008, Madoff kept an account at JPMorgan Chase, or banks it had bought, according to the statement of facts the bank agreed to disclose as part of its settlement with the Justice Department.
The account at the bank received deposits and transfers of about $150 billion, almost exclusively from investors in Madoff Securities, yet the money was not used to buy securities as Madoff had promised, according to the statement.
According to the statement, in the 1990's Madoff routinely transferred money between two accounts, one held at an undisclosed bank and one at JPMorgan held by Norman Levy, one of its most important private banking clients. Levy is described only as a "private bank client" in the government's statement of facts, but he is named in the lawsuit filed against JPMorgan by the Madoff bankruptcy trustee Irving Picard, according to a source familiar with an unredacted copy of the lawsuit.
Levy died in 2005 at the age of 93.
According to the statement of facts, Levy and Madoff wrote checks back and forth to each other each day to take advantage of normal delays in the check-clearing process and make it seem as though the accounts had more money than they did.
JPMorgan paid interest on the inflated amount in Levy's account and continued dealing with Madoff even after the other bank notified it of the scheme, according to the statement.
An employee of JPMorgan's private bank said in a 1994 memo that "the daily cost associated" with Madoff's withdrawals was "outrageous." But when the employee tried to tell Levy about the scheme, Levy responded: "If Bernie is using the float, it is fine with me; he makes a lot of money for my account."
While people in some parts of JPMorgan failed to take their suspicions about Madoff's results to people in other parts of the giant company and the U.S. government, they moved quickly enough to withdraw money from Madoff-related entities and save the company some $200 million right before Madoff was arrested, according to the statement of facts.
In the first two weeks of October 2008, JPMorgan's "Equity Exotics Desk" sought to reduce its exposure to hedge funds following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and JPMorgan's earlier takeover of Bear Stearns. On October 16, 2008, an analyst in Equity Exotics assigned to scrutinize investments wrote a long email compiling suspicions about Madoff, including his "lack of transparency," use of small and unknown accounting firms and resistance "to provide meaningful disclosure" on his exceptionally good returns, according to the statement of facts.
A JPMorgan official in London reviewed the analyst's memo and filed a suspicious activity report with the U.K. Serious Organised Crime Agency saying Madoff's consistently superior performance seemed "to appear too good to be true -- meaning that it probably is."
The report said JPMorgan was redeeming 300 million euros from two Madoff feeder funds out of a total of 350 million euros. JPMorgan took additional steps involving structured products linked to Madoff funds to limit possible losses. Without these steps, JPMorgan would have lost $250 million instead of the $40 million loss it booked, according to the statement of facts.
If JPMorgan's deferred prosecution agreement with prosecutors runs a normal course, Bharara will seek to dismiss the criminal charges against the bank at the end of the two-year period. The settlement does not include detailed descriptions of how JPMorgan is expected to improve its anti-money laundering efforts.
(Reporting by Emily Flitter and David Henry, additional reporting by Aruna Viswanatha, Karen Freifeld Jonathan Stempel and Joseph Ax,; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, Bernadette Baum and Lisa Von Ahn)


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MLL Announces Burn Cancer Week Supporting HEADstrong Foundation
BOSTON– Major League Lacrosse, the premier professional outdoor lacrosse league, announced today that it has partnered with the HEADstrong Foundation to help raise awareness about blood cancers to the extended lacrosse community and its fans.
"We are thrilled to partner with the HEADstrong in 2014," said MLL Commissioner David Gross. "The organization has always been a strong supporter of the MLL and its players and we hope that "Burn Cancer" awareness week and our other initiatives will help raise awareness for all forms of blood cancer."
Highlighting the partnership is the first ever "Burn Cancer" awareness week, designed to draw attention to the fight against all forms of blood cancer. "Burn Cancer" week will be held July 31 – August 2 and feature games from all eight MLL teams. Throughout the action-packed week, MLL coaches will sport lime green shirts and select players will wear Warrior Lacrosse equipment specifically designed with HEADstrong elements, raising awareness and representing the patients, survivors, and victims of the disease. Lime green is not only the National Awareness Color indicating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but also the adopted color of HEADstrong, which Nick Colleluori, founder of HEADstrong, believed was meant to invigorate and enliven those who wore it.
MLL Burn Cancer Week Schedule
7/31 Chesapeake Bayhawks vs. Denver Outlaws 7:30PM on CBS Sports Network
8/1 Charlotte Hounds vs. New York Lizards 7:00PM on CBS Sports Network
8/2 Boston Cannons vs. Florida Launch 3:00PM on ESPN3
8/2 Rochester Rattlers vs. Ohio Machine 7:00PM on Youtube
The partnership also recognizes members of the MLL who distinguish themselves in their community outreach with the HEADstrong Humanitarian of the Month award. Starting in February a player particularly active in their community will be awarded and featured on both MLL's and HEADstrong's website each month to help celebrate compassionate efforts and further raise awareness for the foundation.
"On behalf of the HEADstrong Foundation and all of those who have been affected by blood cancers, we wish to extend our sincere appreciation to Major League Lacrosse for embracing our cause through the "Burn Cancer" awareness week partnership beginning this season," said Cheryl Colleluori, HEADstrong president and Nick's Mom. "The sport of lacrosse has served our organization as an arm of support, encouraging us to take HEADstrong to new heights. Humbly, we have emerged as a national resource, facing-off against the disease and assisting blood cancer patients and their families. We are committed to HEADing efforts to improve their quality of life and supporting those working to eliminate the diseases."
Nicholas "HEAD" Colleluori founded the HEADstrong Foundation shortly after being diagnosed in 2005, and his legacy continues to live on through the organization's work. The foundation strives to provide those working to eliminate blood cancers with any necessary materials that may help to improve the quality of life for those affected by the disease. HEADstrong aids the battle to defeat blood cancer through fundraising, raising awareness, scholarship, and education. Through this joint partnership, MLL hopes to meaningfully contribute to their efforts.
"Since our inception in 2006, the HEADstrong Foundation has established an awareness campaign using the color lime green – which is the awareness color representing non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, the disease that claimed our Nick's life," Colleluori continued. "The visibility and representation of HEADstrong on the playing field during MLL's Burn Cancer Awareness Week, is a tribute to the life and legacy of our founder Nicholas as well as a statement of hope and strength in support all of those living with cancer. We graciously applaud Major League Lacrosse for taking a stance and helping HEADstrong to get aHEAD of cancer."
About HEADstrong Foundation
The HEADstrong Foundation™ is a 501(c)(3) committed to being a resource for blood cancer patients and their families, helping them to navigate the harrowing ordeal of cancer by providing essential services to improve quality of life.
HEADstrong™ is an athletic rooted organization that serves the cancer community by granting direct financial assistance to those financially impacted as a result of the disease, by providing complimentary long-term housing and amenities for those traveling to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for cancer related treatments through Nick's House™, by funding innovative blood cancer research through the Nicholas E. Colleluori Lymphoma research fund, by serving family meals and offering outlets of entertainment for those receiving care at hospitals, by delivering comfort kits to newly hospitalized patients preparing for treatment or transplant and by lending an arm of support through their peer to peer advocacy group.
The blueprints for the Foundation were conceptualized by Nicholas "HEAD" Colleluori in 2006, while he underwent treatment for non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, which ultimately claimed his life. Today, Nick's vision is being fulfilled through the relentless efforts of his family, athletes and supporters across the country uniting in the fight against blood cancers.
For more information on the HEADstrong Foundation™ please visit to www.HEADstrong.org.


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I went to the site today and saw this:
What I find interesting is that they lost connectivity and evidentally were unaware or who knows what. Does anyone have further details to this? Perhaps the EU or US (Patriot Act?) wanting to shut them down from posting exploits and such?On January 12, 2004, Packet Storm had its connectivity turned off without any forewarning.
After the plug was pulled, it took approximately two weeks to get a straight answer from our provider as to whether or not we were going to get turned back on. It seems that when bandwidth is donated to a worthy cause, the cause is not so worthy when it comes to returning phone calls. In the end, our hosting was cancelled. Due to the abrupt turnoff, we did not have time to set up safe hosting elsewhere.
If you have a strong, fast, and secure location that can host 4-12U's of rack space, please contact fringe[at]dtmf.org with any information.
Packet Storm has no plans to fall under corporate sponsorship again and we hope that the security community understands that this transition does not mean we are going anywhere.
We do plan to get the site back up to speed and updated within the next week, but mail and cgi services will be unavailable. They will be restored once we have a permanent home. Please do not bother attempting to send in submissions until you hear otherwise.
Again, many thanks to all of our supportive mirrors that are taking on all the traffic while we are in the middle of fixing this ordeal.
Thanks again for your patience,
Packet Storm Staff
I looked for the original discussion on this but damned if I could find it..


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Alston Scott Householder
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Rockford, Illinois, USA
Malibu, California, USA
BiographyAlston Householder spent his childhood in Alabama where his family had moved shortly after he was born. After attending school, he entered Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where he studied philosophy, receiving his BA in 1925. He then went to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where he continued his study of philosophy, receiving his MA in 1927.
Householder then taught mathematics in a number of different places and began to work for his doctorate in mathematics. He was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Chicago in 1937 for a thesis on the calculus of variations. However his interests were moving towards applications of mathematics, particularly applications of mathematics to biology.
From 1937 Householder spent eight years working on mathematical biology as a member of the Committee for Mathematical Biology at the University of Chicago. John Hearon, after retiring from the National Institutes of Health, wrote of Householder's work over this period:-
Hypothesis, conjecture and tentative theory flew in all directions and there was a period of great ferment. In the midst of this, to every area to which he addressed himself Householder brought organisation and systemisation. He was then, and for some years to come, the only one of the group formally trained as a mathematician. It showed. He brought to every problem he undertook unification, generality of method and, in the end, simplicity.Although this work on mathematical biology occupied Householder for a relatively short period of his career, he wrote 33 papers on the topic and a monograph Mathematical Biophysics of the Central Nervous System written jointly with Herbert D Landahl and published in 1944. The book is:-
... an exposition and an enlargement of work which, to a great extent, was done by the authors themselves towards the establishment of a mathematical neuropsychology.In 1944 Householder left the Committee for Mathematical Biology and became involved in the war effort. In 1946, after the end of the war, Householder joined the Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Here he changed topic, leaving behind his research interest of mathematical biology and moving into numerical analysis which was increasing in importance due to the advances in computers. Not surprisingly there is a gap in Householder's prolific publication record while he became a leading expert in this new area. He started publishing on this new topic with Some numerical methods for solving systems of linear equations which appeared in 1950.
Even before this first publication in numerical analysis, Householder had been appointed Head of the Mathematics Panel of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1948. This role certainly did not prevent him from taking a leading role in research in numerical analysis in general and in numerical linear algebra in particular. Wilkinson wrote:-
In the 1950s our knowledge of this topic was in a rather chaotic state. A large number of algorithms had been developed but no systematic study of their inter-relationships had been undertaken. It is primarily due to the work of Householder that order has emerged from this chaos. In a remarkable series of papers he effectively classified the algorithms for solving linear equations and computing eigensystems, showing that in many cases essentially the same algorithm had been presented in a large variety of superficially quite different algorithms. The resulting classification made it possible to concentrate on the most profitable lines of research and in this way his work was directly responsible for the development of many of the most effective algorithms in use today. Of particular importance is his appreciation of the value of elementary hermitian matrices in numerical analysis.The lasting impact of Householder's work in this area is described in [1]:-
... Householder transformations are now routinely taught in courses in linear algebra, throughout the world, as is the systematic use of norms in linear algebra, which he pioneered.In 1964 Householder published one of his most important books The theory of matrices in numerical analysis. This book was reviewed by Richard Varga who wrote:-
Without question, this book represents one of the real highs in scholarly attainment in numerical analysis, and as such, it belongs on the shelves of students and researchers alike in this field. The author has succeeded in bringing all the related contributions of various authors in the field of matrix theory under a single unified point of view. The scholarly depth of this book is indicated by forty-four pages of bibliography, with approximately nine hundred titles; the bibliography alone is one-fifth of the book.Householder will certainly not only be remembered for his research contributions. Equally important as a contribution to mathematics was his organising the Gatlinburg Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra. The idea for the first symposium was born in 1960 when Householder and several other colleagues discussed the idea at Ann Arbor. The first symposium took place in April 1961 and [1]:-
... numerical analysts from around the world gathered in the beautiful atmosphere of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee to share their latest results.There followed more Gatlinburg Symposia. The second was in 1963, the third in 1964 and the fourth in 1969. Householder left Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1969, after 25 years service, and became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee. The year 1969 was important for Householder in other ways too, for in that year he received the Harry M Goode Memorial Award, a medal and $2,000 awarded by the Computer Society:-
For his impact and influence on computer science in general and particularly for his contributions to the methods and techniques for obtaining numerical solutions to very large problems through the use of digital computers, and for his many publications, including books, which have provided guidance and help to workers in the field of numerical analysis, and for his contributions to professional activities and societies as committee member, paper referee, conference organiser, and society President.After five years as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Householder retired. The Gatlinburg Symposia continued after he left Oak Ridge but they moved to different locations in Europe and North America. The authors of [1] write:-
... to honour him for his many contributions, these symposia are now called the Householder Symposia.At the 13th in the series of Householder Symposia held in Pontresina, Switzerland in 1996, Friedrich L Bauer spoke on Memories of Alston Householder. He described him in the following way:-
[Alston Householder] had a full life, with many friends and people who admired him. He was an American in the best sense of the word, liberal and socially conscious. Yet he was a cosmopolitan with a thorough knowledge of foreign languages and cultures. He was a mathematician of distinction. Above all he was a friendly human being. We miss him very much.
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- P G Ciarlet and R S Varga, In memoriam : Alston Scott Householder, 1904-1993, Numer. Math. 68 (2) (1994), 187.
- G W Stewart, Preface : A S Householder, Linear Algebra Appl. 28 (1979), 1-3.
- R A Willoughby (ed.), Collection of articles honoring Alston S Householder, Comm. ACM 18 (1) (1975), 3-58.
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32 innovations that will change your tomorrow
Steve's breakdown: Being a new business pro means you're also a Futurist. Yes – Futurist! Everyday the new business department has to see and go after the money that's in their future. New York Times Magazine did a nice piece yesterday you should click through to.
EVERYWHERE, USA: The electric light was a failure.
Invented by the British chemist Humphry Davy in the early 1800s, it spent nearly 80 years being passed from one initially hopeful researcher to another, like some not-quite-housebroken puppy. In 1879, Thomas Edison finally figured out how to make an incandescent light bulb that people would buy. But that didn't mean the technology immediately became successful. It took another 40 years, into the 1920s, for electric utilities to become stable, profitable businesses. And even then, success happened only because the utilities created other reasons to consume electricity. They invented the electric toaster and the electric curling iron and found lots of uses for electric motors. They built Coney Island. They installed electric streetcar lines in any place large enough to call itself a town. All of this, these frivolous gadgets and pleasurable diversions, gave us the light bulb.
We tend to rewrite the histories of technological innovation, making myths about a guy who had a great idea that changed the world. In reality, though, innovation isn't the goal; it's everything that gets you there. It's bad financial decisions and blueprints for machines that weren't built until decades later. It's the important leaps forward that synthesize lots of ideas, and it's the belly-up failures that teach us what not to do.
When we ignore how innovation actually works, we make it hard to see what's happening right in front of us today. If you don't know that the incandescent light was a failure before it was a success, it's easy to write off some modern energy innovations — like solar panels — because they haven't hit the big time fast enough.
Worse, the fairy-tale view of history implies that innovation has an end. It doesn't. What we want and what we need keeps changing. The incandescent light was a 19th-century failure and a 20th- century success. Now it's a failure again, edged out by new technologies, like LEDs, that were, themselves, failures for many years.
That's what this issue is about: all the little failures, trivialities and not-quite-solved mysteries that make the successes possible. This is what innovation looks like. It's messy, and it's awesome. Maggie Koerth-Baker


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Wait for It: Filmed Performance of Hamilton, Featuring Original Cast, to Arrive in Cinemas in Fall 2021
This news leaves us more than satisfied! Disney has announced the cinema release of a filmed performance of the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical Hamilton. The film, which features the original Broadway cast, will be released on October 15, 2021.
"I fell in love with musical storytelling growing up with the legendary Howard Ashman-Alan Menken Disney collaborations—The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, Aladdin," said Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda in a statement. "I'm so proud of what Tommy Kail has been able to capture in this filmed version of Hamilton—a live theatrical experience that feels just as immediate in your local movie theater. We're excited to partner with Disney to bring the original Broadway company of Hamilton to the largest audience possible."
"We are thrilled for fans of the show, and new audiences across the world, to experience what it was like on stage—and in the audience—when we shot this at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway in June of 2016," said director Kail. "We wanted to give everyone the same seat, which is what this film can provide."
The original Broadway cast appearing in the film includes Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr, Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, Christopher Jackson as George Washington, Jonathan Groff as King George, Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton, Jasmine Cephas Jones as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds, Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison and Anthony Ramos as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton.
The cast also includes Carleigh Bettiol, Ariana DeBose, Hope Easterbrook, Sydney James Harcourt, Sasha Hutchings, Thayne Jasperson, Elizabeth Judd, Jon Rua, Austin Smith, Seth Stewart and Ephraim Sykes.
The release of the filmed performance of Hamilton will follow this spring's premiere of the major motion picture adaptation of Miranda's first Tony-winning musical, In the Heights.


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We invite you to, somethin epic y'all know?
Well we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessness
Sort of a desperation
Through that desperation, we 'come addicted
Sorta like the fiends we accustomed to servin
But we feel we have nothin to lose
so we offer you, well, we offer our lives, right
What do you bring to the table?
While I'm watchin every nigga watchin me closely
my shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me
I keep my head, both of them where they supposed to be
Hoes'll get you sidetracked then clap from closed feet
I don't sleep, I'm tired, I feel wired like codeine, these days
a brother gotta admire from four fiends away
My pain wish it was quick to see, from sellin 'caine
til brains was fried to a fricaisse, can't lie
At the time it never bothered me, at the bar
gettin my thug on properly, my squad and me
lack of respect for authority, laughin hard
Happy to be escapin poverty, however brief
I know this game got valleys and peaks, expectation
for dips, four percent pertation we stack chips, hardly
The youth I used to be, soon to see a mill'in
No more, Big Willie my game has grown prefer you call me William
Illin for revenues, grateful dim the light
channel 7 news, round seven jewels, hand gettin the mic
Forgettin all I ever knew, convenient amnesia
I suggest you call my lawyer, I know the procedure
Lock my body can't trap my mind, easily
explain why we adapt to crime
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
Live at the main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it
Presidential suites my resedential for the weekend
Confidentially speakin in codes since I sense you peekin
The INXS rental, don't be fooled my game is mental
We both out of town dog, what you tryin to get into?
Viva, Las Vegas, see ya, later at the crap tables
meet me by the one that starts a G up
This way no fraud Willie's present gambling they re-up
And we can have a pleasant time, sippin margaritas
Ge-ge-geyeahhh, can I live?
Can I live?
My mind is infested, with sick thoughts that circle
like a Lexus, if driven wrong it's sure to hurt you
Dual level like duplexes, in unity, my crew and me
commit atrocities like we got immunity
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True this, history school us to spend our money foolish
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Summer is over and it is time to get back into the swing of a new semester.Actually, I just finished teaching an Early Fall OT Survey course for freshmen, so I have been swinging things for a while. But I still want to celebrate the beginning of a new school year with the traditional Reading Acts book giveaway. As regular readers know, I occasionally purchase a book and when I put it on the shelf I discover I already owned the book. Although this is embarrassing (and possibly a sign of old age), it is good news for readers of this blog since I usually set the book aside for a giveaway.
First up this year is a volume of essays on The Gospel of John and Christian Theology edited by Richard Bauckham and Carl Mosser (Eerdmans, 2008). According to the Eerdmans website, the book is now out of print, although print on demand copies are available. The essays in the collection were first presented at the first St. Andrews University Conference on Scripture and Theology in 2003. This explains the diversity of essays in the book from biblical studies to theology, including "big names" such as Rowan Williams, Miroslav Volf and Jürgen Moltmann.
Here is the table of contents:
- Johannine Dualism and Contemporary Pluralism, Stephen C. Barton
- Johannine Dualism and Contemporary Pluralism Miroslav Volf
- Christianizing Divine Aseity: Irenaeus Reads John D. Jeffery Bingham
- Anglican Approaches to St. John's Gospel, Rowan Williams
- Glory or Persecution: The God of the Gospel of John in the History of Interpretation, Tord Larsson
- The Historical Reliability of John's Gospel; From What Perspective Should It Be Assessed?, C. Stephen Evans
- The Fourth Gospel as the Testimony of the Beloved Disciple, Richard Bauckham
- Bridging the Gap: How Might the Fourth Gospel Help Us Cope with the Legacy of Christianity's Exclusive Claim over Against Judaism?, Stephen Motyer
- Anti—Judaism, the Jews, and the Worlds of the Fourth Gospel Judith Lieu
- "The Jews Who Had Believed in Him" (John 8:31) and the Motif of Apostasy in the Gospel of John, Terry Griffith
- "The Father of Lies," "the Mother of Lies," and the Death of Jesus (John, 12:20-33), Sigve K. Tonstad
- The Lazarus Story: A Literary Perspective, Andrew T. Lincoln
- The Raising of Lazarus in John 11: A Theological Reading, Marianne Meye Thompson
- The Lazarus Narrative, Theological History, and Historical Probability, Alan J. Torrance
- The Prologue of the Gospel of John as the Gateway to Christological Truth, Martin Hengel
- The Testimony of Works in the Christology of John's Gospel, Murray Rae
- On Guessing Points and Naming Stars: Epistemological Origins of John's Christological Tensions, Paul N. Anderson
- Narrative Docetism: Christology and Storytelling in the Gospel of John, Kasper Bro Larsen
- "The Truth Will Set You Free": Salvation as Revelation, Anastasia Scrutton
- God in the World—the World in God: Perichoresis in Trinity and Eschatology, Jürgen Moltmann
To have a chance at winning this book, leave a comment with your name so I can contact you if you win. I will randomize the names from the comments and select one winner at random. There are no geographical limits, I will ship this book to the winner where ever they live.
I will announce the winner (and the next giveaway) on Friday morning, August 31, 2018.


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The Space Marines are numbered amongst the most elite warriors in the Imperium. Created by the Emperor himself from the genetic material of the demigod Primarchs, they are the ultimate soldiers for a cruel and terrible age. Inside this 192-page hardback codex, you'll find everything you need to unleash the Space Marines in battle, plus thrilling lore and art to inspire your own collection.
Inside this book, you'll find:
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text: LOS ANGELES - You know things aren't going well when the moderator of a panel asks the audience if anyone understands a word of what was just said by one of his two interviewees. The delivery was deadpan, but it actually underlined the vexing challenges that are making social media all the more complex and confusing for advertisers.Image credit: ThinkLA.orgMore importantly, the jab accentuated the mood that was taking hold in a banquet hall filled with hundreds of marketers at ThinkLA's Automotive Breakfast earlier this week. The at-times confusing back-and-forth between executives working on analytics at Twitter and Facebook followed a rather critical keynote by Greg Johns, senior vice president and client director of digital strategy at Initiative. There appeared to be little room for grandiosity or empty platitudes at this morning gathering.[Related: Is There Any Digital Marketing Value in New Breed of Social Apps?]"It comes down to what I think is the biggest challenge that we all face as an industry and that is complexity. Collectively over the past 15 years and more, we've done a really good job at making this very complex for all of us," Johns told the audience. "Across all objectives, there should be a focus on scale. Doing small programs is good, but doing large programs that make a measurable difference for your business is what you should be focusing on." -- Jonathan Lewis, Facebook Programmatic buying and selling of ads, which Johns describes as "this idea, this promise that we will be able to automate most of this complexity out," isn't working out as well as everyone had hoped. "As we are on this learning curve of it, it's actually gotten more complex than simple& It's turning a little bit into the wild, wild west again in terms of the things we're doing."Cookies and Banner Ads Time-Consuming and Less Useful DataNot only are cookies and banner ads becoming "less worthwhile to us," Johns says, "it's making the reporting that we spend so much time putting together really become less useful to us." The rush to know all data has manifested itself into what he calls the "80\/20 problem" wherein marketers spend most of their time building and compiling data instead of gleaning useful insights from the data.Although television is more fragmented than ever, the disparate infrastructure of online and social media is still no match for the reigning king of media. "We have to get that focus in place," says Johns. "We have to find our own filter."[Related: Twitter Readies Design Changes As It Unveils New Ad Offerings]Brands and marketers need to create "intricate campaigns that can blow away what you can do on 55-inch screens. Unfortunately I think these are the exception, not the rule in our industry. We just can't scale," he adds.Simplicity Remains Elusive for Social Media MarketingDespite all the work and investment that has gone into digital media, simplicity seems just as hard as ever to come by for marketers and brands. Indeed part of that is due to the growing number of tools and platforms by which ads reach consumers. But, at the same time, these ads are trying to track down users who increasingly spend more of their time on mobile apps from the likes of Facebook and Twitter."When you think about data you can offer up a lot of complexity," says Jonathan Lewis, manager of monetization analytics at Facebook. "We want to surface data but we want to do it for the right purpose ... to simplify your life instead of adding complexity."Lewis encourages marketers to focus less on likes and more on core metrics that lead to a lift in branding and ultimately sales. "Focusing on just social metrics as an outcome leads you potentially to undesirable outcomes," Lewis says."Measuring the digital environment is harder than you might think," Lewis says. A big reason why is because advertisers are rarely disciplined in how they approach a campaign, he adds.The same rules generally apply for retweets on Twitter. Tim Perzyk, the company's regional head of U.S. research and sales analytics, says marketers are skipping ahead by assuming that a share of voice matters. Retweets, for example, primarily speak to advocacy, he says.Focus on Scalable Business ObjectivesPerzyk and Lewis both spoke about their respective company's responsibility to help every advertiser achieve business objectives that matter most to them. "We're trying to create tools that are as flexible as possible for the different approaches and strategies that you need," Lewis says."Across all those objectives, there should be a focus on scale," Lewis says, echoing earlier comments from Johns. "Doing small programs is good, but doing large programs that make a measurable difference for your business is what you should be focusing on."These experimental or narrow campaign "pet projects" can be fun, but advertisers need to develop campaigns that are repeatable and built on consensus, says Johns. "Innovation still has its place, but it can't be just metastasizing everything we do."The challenges associated with campaign measurement and other unnecessary complexities are effectively a "forcing function" that motivates Facebook to continue building a better platform, says Lewis. "We can actually evolve as a platform and do the thing that matters most to your business."So what can those in the industry do today to begin effecting positive changes? Johns, who oversees digital strategy for Hyundai and Kia, admits he doesn't have all the answers but says the most important goal of all is to simplify."What are we going to stop doing in order to do these new things?" Johns says. That's the conversation he said he and his colleagues need to start having.Matt Kapko covers social media for CIO.com. Follow Matt on Twitter @mattkapko. Email him at email@example.com Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline and on Facebook.


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The buck in buckwheat is named after its triangular seeds which are high in protein. It's not actually wheat or even a grass. This flour is great for recipes where you want to add a little earthy flavor complexity by substituting it for some of the regular flour in your recipe. In baking, buckwheat goes great with things like pumpkin. Buckwheat flour contains no wheat or gluten which is an advantage for people who have issues digesting those products. Due to the fact that Buckwheat flour contains no gluten, it won't bind in your recipe as much as wheat-based flour so extra binding solutions may need to be looked into when baking with it.
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Now, is it a 8 million Euros lottery or is it that the Hellenic Parliament is on sale at that price? Hard to tell..
IMF executives parading in an empty Athens after everything has been handed out to the big fat banks? Could be...
The national guard with the traditional uniform still in place...
Guarding the "Greek" parliament
Changing of the guard
Ionic order columns
Looking towards Lycabettus hill
70's curved architecture
Old style Athenian house
Open air cinema in the centre of Athens. Missing them so much in Sydney...
Those protruding box-type balconies remind me of Switzerland somehow...
Ruins in the centre of Athens
View from the foots of the Lycabettus hill
View from the foots of the Lycabettus hill. If you pay close attention you will notice a man standing by the open window of the top floor of the opposite house, holding his camera towards my side
70's - 80's block of flats
Typical Kolonaki style... It certainly has something Parisian into it as well!
Old houses
One of the few great Jazz bars in town; Jazz in Jazz
"Don't let your dog kill the kittens"
Another wonderful open air cinema on the "Reservoir Square"
Vintage Athina...
Busy kiosk on the Kolonaki square
Diesel on the ground floor of a neoclassical building
Athens streets
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Tesla reduces prices on Models S and X amid stock slump
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla has reduced the prices of its two most expensive models, raising concerns about fading interest in its cars and whether the company can generate enough cash to pay all the bills.
On Monday, Tesla cut $3,000 from the price of the Model S sedan and $2,000 from the Model X SUV.
The company said in a statement that it periodically adjusts prices and available options like other car companies. The decreases offset price increases from a month ago when Tesla offered longer battery range and added a new drive system and suspension. The statement didn't say if slowing sales influenced the decision.
The moves come as Tesla's stock is under pressure from investors who are becoming skeptical of CEO Elon Musk's ability to turn a profit and keep the business growing, all while balancing demands of developing a self-driving ride system and building new products such as a small SUV, a pickup truck, a new roadster and an electric semi.
"The business fundamentals of Tesla always have been shaky, but the stock price has been buoyed by the story that this is a company that was going to do huge things," said Navigant Research analyst Sam Abuelsamid. "What we've seen in the last month or so is people are starting to recognize maybe that wasn't really true."
The Palo Alto, California, company, which had been growing sales until this year, has run into trouble while trying to make the transition from a niche producer of luxury electric vehicles to a mass-market automaker. In order to control costs to bring down the price of its less-expensive Model 3, it's been forced to go through two rounds of layoffs and close some of its stores.
Musk told employees that expenses are being reviewed since the company went on a "Spartan diet" after losing $702.1 million in the first quarter. All of this came after Tesla had difficulties producing the Model 3.
And Musk's own behavior has been questionable at times. He's run afoul of the Securities and Exchange Commission for posting important company information on Twitter. Last year, he was seen appearing to smoke marijuana during an interview. He berated stock market analysts for asking questions about Tesla's finances and was sued after calling a diver who helped rescue a Thai youth soccer team from a flooded cave a pedophile.
Tesla shares closed Tuesday down slightly at $205.08. They have fallen more than 38% so far this year, cutting the company's market value more than $20 billion to $36.5 billion.
With the price cuts, the Model S now starts at $71,250 while the X starts at $71,950. Both prices don't include federal and state tax credits.
Tesla said in a statement that the reductions are about 2% to 3% on the S and X. The company last week raised the price of its top-selling Model 3 by $400, pushing the base price to $35,400.
"By any reasonable standard, these small changes are not newsworthy," the company said in a statement.
Last quarter was among the worst for Tesla in the past two years. Sales tumbled 31% in the period. Musk predicted another loss in the second quarter but said Tesla would be profitable again by the third quarter.
In January, the automaker cut its prices by $2,000 per vehicle, acknowledging that the pending expiration of a $7,500 federal tax credit for its electric cars will hurt sales. The credit is gradually being phased out for Tesla by the end of the year.
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Friday, July 6, 2012
Posted by Rot at 7:48 AM
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3 comments:
- Mr. Chicken said...
Such an inspiration. I think that body up top might be the one currently at Dick Van Dyke's haunt.
- July 6, 2012 at 1:48 PM
- Anonymous said...
Pumpkinhead and Alien are my top monsters of all time. This guy is so talented.
- July 6, 2012 at 2:53 PM
- Dave Lowe said...
Mr. Chicken's right, pictures here...
Stan Winston was his neighbor. I once read they had planned to combine forces one Halloween... could you imagine?!!!
- July 6, 2012 at 3:03 PM
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Wednesday, 16 July 2014 09:41 AM EDT
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel resumed its heavy bombardment of Gaza on Tuesday and warned that Hamas "would pay the price" after the Islamic militant group rejected an Egyptian truce plan and instead unleashed more rocket barrages at the Jewish state.
Late Tuesday, the military urged tens of thousands of residents of northern and eastern Gaza to leave their homes by Wednesday morning, presumable a prelude to air strikes there.
Rocket fire killed an Israeli man Tuesday, the first Israeli fatality in eight days of fighting. In Gaza, 197 people were killed and close to 1,500 wounded so far, Palestinian officials said, making it the deadliest Israel-Hamas confrontation in just over five years.
The Egyptian proposal, initially accepted by Israel, had been the first attempt to end the fighting.
It unraveled in less than a day, a sign that it will be harder than before to reach a truce. Hamas does not consider Egypt's current rulers — who deposed a Hamas-friendly government in Cairo a year ago — to be fair brokers.
Violence is bound to escalate in coming days.
Hamas believes it has little to lose by continuing to fight, while a truce on unfavorable terms could further weaken its grip on the Gaza Strip, a territory it seized in 2007. Underscoring that position, Gaza militants fired more than 120 rockets and mortar rounds at Israel on Tuesday, during what Egypt had hoped would be a period of de-escalation.
A particularly heavy barrage came around dusk, with more than 40 rockets hitting Israel in just a few minutes, including one that fell on an empty school. TV footage showed children cowering behind a wall in Tel Aviv's main square as sirens went off. An Israeli man in his 30s was killed near the Gaza border when he was delivering food to soldiers — the first Israeli death.
Hamas' defiance prompted Israeli warnings. In an evening address aired live on TV, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that after Hamas' rejection of the truce, Israel had "no choice" but to respond more forcefully.
"Hamas chose to continue fighting and will pay the price for that decision," he said. "When there is no cease-fire, our answer is fire."
After holding its fire for six hours, the Israeli air force resumed its heavy bombardment of Gaza, launching 33 strikes from midafternoon, the military said. In all, Israeli aircraft struck close to 1,700 times since July 8, while Gaza militants fired more than 1,200 rockets at Israel.
Netanyahu said Israel would have liked to see a diplomatic solution, but would keep attacking until rocket fire stops and Hamas' military capabilities are diminished. The Israeli leader said he would "widen and increase" the campaign against Hamas, but it remains unclear if that will include a ground offensive.
Israel has warned it might send troops into Gaza and has massed thousands of soldiers on the border. However, entering Gaza would likely drive up casualties on both sides. Israel has hesitated in the past to embark on ground operations for fear of getting entangled in the densely populated territory of 1.7 million.
Late Tuesday, the Israeli military told residents of the northern town of Beit Lahiya and the Gaza City neighborhoods of Shijaiyah and Zeitoun in automated phone calls to leave their homes by early Wednesday.
Sami Wadiya, a resident of one of the areas likely to be targeted, said he would not leave his home. "We know it's risky, but there are no secure places to go to," he said.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Israel has the right to defend itself, but that "no one wants to see a ground war."
"Our effort remains focused on seeing if we can return to a cease-fire," she said.
The current round has been the deadliest since a major Israeli military offensive in the winter of 2008-09. The previous outbreak of cross-border violence, in 2012, eventually ended with the help of Egypt, at the time seen as a trusted broker by Hamas.
Hamas officials Tuesday rejected the current Egyptian plan as is, noting they weren't consulted by Cairo. Some portrayed the truce offer as an ultimatum presented to Hamas by Israel and Egypt.
The officials said the Egyptian plan offered no tangible achievements, particularly on easing the border blockade that has been enforced by Israel and Egypt to varying degrees since 2007. Egypt tightened the closure in the past year by shutting down smuggling tunnels that were crucial for Gaza's economy, pushing Hamas into a severe financial crisis.
"The siege on Gaza must be broken, and the people of Gaza should live freely like other people of the world," Moussa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas official, told the Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen. "There should be a new equation so that we will not have a war on Gaza every two years."
Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas leader in Gaza, said the movement wants additional mediators and international guarantees of any deal.
"Mediation to end this aggression needs to come from different countries, and the guarantees should be given by different countries in order to commit the occupation (Israel) to what any future agreement might say," al-Masri said, without naming preferred brokers.
Qatar and Turkey, seen as more sympathetic to Hamas, have been involved behind the scenes, but it's not clear to what extent. The emir of Qatar visited Turkey for talks Tuesday with Turkish leaders.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas' main political rival, was to meet Wednesday in Cairo with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and then fly to Turkey for high-level talks.
Before the latest fighting, Abbas had reached a tentative unity deal with Hamas that would have given him a new foothold in Gaza. However, a significant easing of the Gaza blockade in a truce deal would revitalize Hamas, make it less dependent on Abbas and possibly scuttle the unity agreement.
Abbas and his Western-backed Palestinian Authority have largely been sidelined in the past week, unable to change the course of events.
Hamas' popularity tends to rise when it fights Israel, usually at the expense of Abbas, who continues to advocate negotiating a deal with Israel on Palestinian statehood.
The Palestinian Authority's health minister, Jawad Awwad, who had traveled to Gaza to deliver medicine to the territory's largest hospital, was chased off by stone throwers. Hamas officials later apologized to him.
In Israel, there was also domestic political fallout.
Netanyahu is under a lot of pressure from hawks in his Cabinet and the ruling Likud Party to launch a ground offensive to put an end to the rocket fire. He faced blistering criticism from the right over initially agreeing to the Egyptian truce plan.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called a news conference in which he said Israel should not hesitate and "go all the way." He said the operation should conclude with the Israeli military controlling all of the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, fired Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, one of his fiercest critics who didn't tone down his rhetoric during the offensive. Netanyahu said that by attacking the government at a time of war, Danon played into the hands of Hamas.
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They are Nerd Kingdom and the game is called TUG, which stands for The Unknown Game. This may strike you as the most unimaginative name ever, but once you understand where this project comes from and what are their goals, it actually makes perfect sense.
I am not sure at this point how much of the original source code engine remains in this project. It is quickly getting into shape and looking good.
This project is coming from a different angle. This baby is spawn by behavioral scientists. By collecting data on how people play, they believe they can reshape the game as it unfolds.
One example they give is: Imagine they have an algorithm that detects when a player is griefing other players. Eventually they would know who are the trolls in the community and maybe they could do something about it, like placing all trolls together in an island and see what happens. In the future this may give ideas to other game designers on how to deal with griefing and trolling in games.
A game that watches you play all the time may seem a bit big-brotherish. They do come from a science background. Behavioral scientists have been creating these mad experiments for a long time now, I'm not sure this ever came at the expense of someone's privacy.
These experiments in the past were small scale compared to what you can achieve in this era of big data. I hope NK will remain transparent on what data is collected about you and how it is linked to your real identity, or simply make it so you are out of the experiment by default and you have to actually opt-in.
You may invoke a nightmarish scenario where a government denies you boarding a plane due to your psychotic behavior in a game. If you worry about this kind of thing and still want to play TUG you should probably take it with Nerd Kingdom.


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White blood cell facts for kids
The job of white blood cells (also called leukocytes) is to fight infections and cancer. They also remove poison, waste and damaged cells from the body.
The number of white blood cells increases when a person is fighting infection or disease and decrease when a person is healthy.
Types of white blood cells
Lymphocytes are round white blood cells a bit bigger than a red blood cell. Their center is round and they have little cytoplasm. Part of the lymphatic system, these target specific germs or poisons using their antibodies. There are three known types of lymphocytes, called T-cells, B-cells, and natural killer cells (NK cells).
B-cells make antibodies, which are little molecules that attach to viruses or bad cells. These tell other cells to destroy the viruses or bad cells, like a flag.
T-cells can either help make more B-cells, or kill cells with antibodies.
Natural killer cells kill cells in the body that have been infected by a virus or that are part of a tumor. They are part of the innate immune system.
Monocytes are reserve cells which turn into macrophages and dendritic cells, which work together in tissues to fight disease. Monocytes have a kidney bean shaped center and lots of cytoplasm. They may appear as macrophages in a non-round shape when they pass through tissue to eat germs, "junk" cells, and dead cells.
The next three types of white blood cells are referred to as granulocytes since they all contain rough, grain-like particles that assist in attacking viruses and bacteria. Granulocytes are also called polymorphonuclear leukocytes because of the shape of the nucleus, which has three segments.
Neutrophils are the most abundant type of white blood cells in mammals, 70% of leukocytes. They are an essential part of the immune system. They get to the site of an injury within minutes, and make up much of the content of pus. They have a short life-span of a couple of days.
The nucleus, which looks like a string of beads, does not take up stain strongly. Like phagocytes, they actually eat the bacteria and dead cells. They also release a bunch of proteins which work to damage the bacteria.
Basophils, or basophil granulocytes, are rare granulocytes. If you collected 1000 white blood cells, only 1–3 of them would be basophils. Their nucleus is hidden by granules which turn dark blue in color when stained. Basophils carry histamine and heparin. They appear at the sites of ectoparasite infection, or allergies. We don't know exactly how they work.
Eosinophils, or acidophils, are leukocytes. They are one of the immune system components which combat parasites and certain infections. As with mast cells and basophils, they part causes of allergy and asthma. Eosinophils are round cells with a lobed nucleus and granules which turn red when stained. These granules are packed with proteins that can be poured out to help destroy invaders.
Cell testing
A test called a differential count shows how many white blood cells there are in a person's blood, and how many of each type are there.
Images for kids
Neutrophil engulfing anthrax bacteria
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Whose Line is it Anyway?
With all the commotion over the new PlayStation 3 coming out, it seems like various groups are taking full advantage of the long queues. Here are 3 groups squeezing some real lemonade out of this lemon-line situations (all shamelessly pulled from G4's fantastic blog TheFeed).
Clever Outsourcing: In Cary, North Carolina, a young businessman has bussed in 50 homeless men to wait in lines for him and his friends. He's giving them $100 each for their day's worth of work, and bringing in meals via U-Haul as well. He plans to sell the extra PS3's on e-bay for upwards of $2000 per system.
Thugs: Last night, two gun-toting muggers decided to rob a line full of gaming enthusiasts at a Connecticut Wal-Mart. While most of the line was happy to comply with the bandits' demands for cash, sadly, one 21-year old realized it's a lot easier to be a hero from behind the controller than in real life. Upon confronting the robbers, he was shot twice. Luckily, he seemed to be playing with extra lives-- he was rushed to a local hospital, where he's in stable condition.
Do-gooders: The team from ScrewAttack.com is waiting in line for PS3's, but instead of selling their shiny new PlayStations on e-Bay for crazy loot, the team is instead auctioning off their places in line, and then giving all the cash to charity!


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text: China bans Muslims form fasting in the holy month of Ramazan (Sunday, June 12, 2016) 10:12 Chinese government has started Ramazan with banning civil servants, students and children in a mainly-Muslim region from fasting, according to government websites. China's ruling Communist party is officially atheist and for years has banned government employees and minors from fasting in Xinjiang, home to the more than 10 million strong mostly Muslim Uighur minority. It has also ordered restaurants to stay open.The region sees regular clashes between Uighurs and state security forces, and Beijing has blamed deadly attacks there and elsewhere in China on militants seeking independence for the resource-rich region.Rights groups blame tensions on religious and cultural restrictions placed on Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the vast area, which abuts Central Asia.Several local government departments in Xinjiang posted notices on their websites in the last week ordering restrictions on fasting during Ramadan.During the holy month, the faithful fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious."Party members, cadres, civil servants, students and minors must not fast for Ramazan and must not take part in religious activities," a notice posted Thursday on the government website of central Xinjiang's Korla city said."During the Ramazan month, food and drink businesses must not close," it added.A Uighur official in the city's Tiekeqi township named Ahmatjan Tohti told a group of men wearing traditional doppa hats at a meeting last Monday that officials should "resolutely stop party members, civil servants, students and minors from entering mosques for religious activities" during the festival, a separate report posted on the website last Tuesday said.A website run by the education bureau of the regional capital Urumqi's Shuimogou district posted a notice last Monday calling for "prevention of students and teachers from all schools from entering mosques for religious activities", during Ramazan.In the northern city of Altay, officials agreed to "increase contact with parents", to "prevent fasting during Ramazan", according to a post Friday on the state-run China Ethnicities Religion website.Meanwhile the website of the Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County government in northwest Xinjiang said Monday that restaurants in the area would be instructed to stay open during Ramazan to "ensure that the broader masses have normal access to cuisine".Dilxat Raxit of the World Uyghur Congress, an exile group, condemned the restrictions in an email Monday, adding: "China thinks that the Islamic faith of Uighurs threatens the rule of the Beijing leadership".China keeps tight control over religious groups, though Beijing often says it grants citizens broad freedom of belief.China's State Council on Thursday released a white paper which declared that religious freedom in Xinjiang "cannot be matched by any other period in history"."During the month of Ramazan, Muslim restaurants can decide whether they want to do business. There will be no interference," it said."Local governments ensure that all religious activities during Ramazan go on in an orderly manner," it added. Average Rate:0.0 (0 votes) 12345 Rate 12345 Email is required Show my email. Characters left: 500 Comment is required Generate New Image Generate New Image Alert me when published. Submit


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1880, Family Plot
View of a family plot at the Old Calvary Cemetery.
1880, Overview
Panoramic view highlighting the Old Calvary Cemetery, located on North Broadway (formerly Buena Vista Street), the unpaved road running from the left into the center of the image.
1880, Plots and Tombs
1880. Plots and tombs at the Old Calvary Cemetery.
1880, Pico Family Tomb
1880. View of what is identified as the Pico Family tomb at the Old Calvary Cemetery.
1925, Workman Monument
1925. Photograph of the Workman Monument in the Old Catholic Cemetery of the Pueblo Los Angeles on North Broadway.
1920, Graves and Hills
1920. The old Catholic cemetery on North Broadway Street. The grass has grown tall and thick from neglect and only the tombs and taller headstones of the graveyard can be seen.
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Panoramic view showing the Old Calvary Cemetery (center).


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The Catholic Faith contains within itself several mysterious paradoxes. For example: The King of Kings and Lord of Lords was born in poverty and born of a virgin. The Apostles, charged with the spreading of the Faith, were mostly unsophisticated men of little education.
This week's Gospel passage contains another: After Judas leaves the upper room to betray our Lord, Jesus reveals that His glorification is about to occur. For Our Lord, glorification is understood in terms of His passion, death and resurrection. While it's very easy to understand how the resurrection is glorious, it's more difficult to see how His passion and death constitute a part of Christ's glory as well. Our society does not associate suffering with glory. And yet, Catholics believe that it was precisely Jesus' suffering and death for our sins that was the greatest work He ever accomplished for us.
Our instinctual disdain for suffering is sometimes expressed in modern religious art. In some sanctuaries, you will find what our commonly known as "resurrecifixes." These are images of the Resurrected Christ emerging from a cross. And yet, the liturgical law of the Church mandates that sanctuaries must contain a true crucifix that shows the five wounds of the passion. By contrast, the resurrecifix expresses a desire to bypass the suffering and death aspect of Christ's glory. And yet, we know that this does not coincide with the reality of our lives.
The reality of our lives involves suffering, trial and hardship. This is precisely why the Church requires us to have a crucifix in the sanctuary — it connects our lives and the sufferings we endure to the suffering of Jesus. In order to experience the joy of Easter Sunday, we must endure the Good Fridays that our Lord permits us to experience. In fact, the significance and meaning of Easter Sunday can only be understood in light of the events of Good Friday. The two events reveal that as evil and dark as Good Friday was, it could not vanquish Our Savior in the ultimate sense. His victory on Easter Sunday was a victory over suffering and death itself. The devil gave Christ his attempt at vanquishing Him and Our Lord conquered and won.
To suffer graciously is to share in Jesus' glory. Those who suffer with grace and hope teach us to become poor in spirit — persons totally dependent upon God. They provide for us opportunities for charity and show us the depths of humility. Those who suffer also teach us the possibility of remaining joyful in the face of trials. Most persons associate joy merely with happiness or giddiness. True Christian joy, which is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, involves much more — it is the desire for God and/or to delight in the things of God. So, it is quite possible to be joyful in one's suffering, in spite of the absence of giddiness.
In Christ, suffering reveals to us the depth of His love. He embraced His suffering joyfully, even though there was nothing emotionally happy about the moment. Our Blessed Lord invites us down the same path – to understand with greater clarity that our suffering can be an intimate participation in the glory of His suffering and death, which led to our hope — the resurrection.


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November Turkey Watching at Your Favorite B&B
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Don't mistake the headline to this blog for watching an innkeeper prepare a turkey dish. What we're actually referring to is wild turkey watching. In the wild. First, if you've never seen a wild turkey up close, it's quite a sight - probably much larger than you'd expect even before they puff up their feathers and fan their tail. Country estate B&Bs that abut wildlife preserves include Eagle Centre House B&B in Eagle, situated on 20-acres in conservancy, where deer, wild turkeys, fox and redtail hawks are a common sight, and Moondance B&B in Fond du Lac, located on 3.5 wooded acres with a bird's eye view of the wildlife that wanders in and out of the area from the second-story deck off their deluxe suite. Speaking of bird's eye views, at Justin Trails B&B in Sparta, you can gaze out over their 210 acres from the vantage point of a 12-foot observation tower; you're sure to catch glimpses of wild turkey and eagles. At the Kinni Creek Lodge & Outfitters in River Falls, guests who like to hunt turkeys and pheasants are always welcome and they even offer guided hunting excursions.


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What? Just thinking out loud here.
My title for this post is meant to be provocative - but I have nothing to add to it, right now. Of course, many lay people love the Westian version of TOB, so my other question is: Is TOB THE conclusive, definitive, theological-dogmatic work on human sexuality? Is it infallible teaching? (Not exactly.) To be sure, I'm not at all trying to discredit the Holy Father's teaching, but I really have to question some of those who interpret it, and 'teach' it.
That said, a priest will always get my attention when it comes to teaching on faith and morals, much more so than a layman or even a deacon could. No offense to married deacons intended, just stating a fact - I'm much more interested in what a moral theologian who happens to be a priest has to say. A friend sent me a link to something Fr. Gregory Gresko, OSB, a monk/priest, moral theologian, wrote concerning "how a flawed interpretation of Blessed John Paul II's seminal work on human sexuality can lead to a fundamentally wrong understanding of sex." It's very good.
In his column, the avid blogger, scholar and chaplain of the Blessed John Paul II Shrine in Washington, D.C., examines Christopher West's newest book, "At the Heart of the Gospel: Reclaiming the Body for the New Evangelization."
Fr. Gresko begins by calling West's definition of lust problematic, as the author describes it in his new book as a "disorder of the heart."
While this is certainly true, Fr. Gresko says West falls short in his interpretation by failing to clearly define what is meant by "heart" and whether or not he fully takes into account human concupiscence – or "the tendency to sin."
Fr. Gresko says West claims that "a more complete spousal understanding of the 'body' provides the key to rectifying the sinful diseases of the 'heart.'""When the Church tells people publicly what sexual actions they can get away with without sinning, many people will push the envelope."
But such an attitude, he writes, overlooks a humans tendency towards sin, which is "objectively present in the body" even after Baptism.
The priest points out in his column that even the most virtuous saints "had to wage battle daily" against sin. Therefore, assuming that lust or other disorders of the heart can be completely removed from the spousal act, as West seems to suggest, is false. - CNA
In his CNA column, Fr. Gresko affirms the Holy Father's work, writing: "Among the greatest works of his Pontificate is his Catecheses on Human Love (Cat.), also known as "Theology of the Body", profoundly beautiful but theologically complex teachings on human love that at times have been subject to misinterpretation." The column then goes on to critique the difficulties one encounters in Christopher West's interpretation. Some highlights:
Use of "Sexual" TerminologyGood stuff, huh?
West insists on using "sexual" language throughout his work in an attempt to communicate more easily the truths of John Paul II's often complex teaching to his readers. To West's credit, in a few places he emphasizes that his use of such terminology always is intended to mean an integrated sexuality, that is, one that respects the unitive and generative aspects of human sexuality within the confines of marriage. However, in his insistence of utilizing the language of "sex", he risks both threatening the reverence that is due before the mystery of sexuality as well as reducing John Paul's Catecheses to being solely about sexuality, evidencing a separation between John Paul II's work and his own. The Catecheses are far broader in scope than sexuality in addressing numerous other themes of theological thought and inquiry.
Interpersonal communion
John Paul II speaks of communion as interpersonal, that is, as person to person. This theological and anthropological approach springs from his great treatise on sexual ethics, Love and Responsibility, in which – writing as Karol Cardinal Wojtyla -- he explains how our regard for another human being always must value the other as a person, one who is a unity of body and soul, in a manner consistent with what he termed the personalistic norm. This argument is fundamental for understanding the full scope of the Catecheses. Such interpersonal communion by its nature is most intimately a face-to-face encounter. John Paul II, to my understanding, never refers to this communion as being merely between bodies. In West's discussion, perhaps unintentionally, the body is overemphasized to the point that it appears idolized. It is crucial to highlight in discussions of bodiliness that we are talking about the body of a person. Indeed, the body manifests the person. John Paul's use of such personalistic terminology is very specific, as was also clear in Love and Responsibility, protecting his theology from being reduced to the level of a mere bodily sexuality. Of course, sexuality is a main aspect of the Catecheses, that goes without saying. However, it is always the sexuality of persons, body and soul, never intended to be reduced to the bodily aspect alone. In conjugal union, the entire being of the person, body and soul, grows in communion and enters into the mystery of the Divine Communion of Persons.
Mature purity
Such purity involves one spouse's ability to see the other spouse's body in purity. Spouses certainly should not be seeking to look at other persons' naked bodies (except when necessary to care for their children or when medically required, with the obvious complete respect for human dignity that is due). However, West argues that mature purity at a virtuous level signifies being able to look at any body and maintaining perfect chastity; if he has to look away, West states that he is merely continent but not virtuous, although admitting that the vast majority of persons would find themselves in such a position. If discussions on the virtue of chastity, or "mature purity", attempt to look at any body with the hope of seeing the other with pure eyes, West's theological presentation is under serious threat of becoming an apologia for pornography, which is precisely the separation of the body from the person. West spends much time talking about the importance of loving others' bodies properly, but what is missing from the discussion is the greatest need to love other persons most, encountering them as integrated bodies and souls, with virginal innocence. Loving persons accordingly is consonant with Karol Cardinal Wojtyla's articulation of the personalistic norm in Love and Responsibility, without reducing the person to mere bodiliness. - Full article here.