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Sister of suspected Boston bombers lives in West New York, says she can't understand
WEST NEW YORK AND BEYOND – A West New York woman claiming to be the sister of suspected Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan, 26, has said that she "doesn't know what got into" them when they allegedly killed three and injured hundreds in Monday's attack, according to a report on NJ.com.
"They were great people. I never would have expected it," said the woman. "They are smart – I don't know what's gotten into them."
The woman would not identify herself by name, and spoke to reporters only through a crack in the door, but public records listed a woman living there with the same last name as the suspects. She referred to the men as her "brothers."
According to NJ.com, at least a dozen FBI agents arrived at the apartment building and created a perimeter around it just after 11 a.m. They were let in after a few minutes.
According to the story, reporters asked if the woman was "okay," to which she replied: "No I'm not okay – no one is okay right now. I'm hurt for everyone who has been hurt. I'm sorry for all the people who are hurt and for all the people who lost their lives."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder of the brothers, was killed in a shootout early this morning just outside Boston after a massive manhunt. The search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was ongoing as of 11 a.m.. Of the younger brother, the woman simply said, "He's an amazing child." – Dean DeChiaro
Weehawken seniors plan 'Weekenders' Trips
The Weehawken Weekenders have some upcoming dates planned on their calendar, including a July 17 trip to The Platzl Brauhaus in Pomona, N.Y., and an Aug. 4 trip to the Magnanini Winery in Wallkill, N.Y. In the fall, the Weekenders will attend A Tribute to Dean Martin at the Brownstone on Oct. 16. And this winter, on Dec. 8, the group will take a trip to see "A Playhouse Christmas" at Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in Hampton, N.J.
Please call the Weekenders Office for more information at (201) 319-6059.
Hudson River PAC to hold concert this Wednesday
The Hudson River Performing Arts Center will present the penultimate concert of its lunchtime UBS Atrium Series this Wednesday, April 24 at 12:30 p.m. when it hosts the New York City-based Gypsy/jazz/Latin fusion group Ljova and the Kontraband this weekend. The concert will be held in the atrium of the UBS building in Weehawken, located at 1000 Harbor Boulevard.
The ensemble explores Gypsy and Eastern European melodies, Latin rhythms, Jazz-inspired improvisations, and deeply rooted Classic forms, all given new meaning through original compositions that forge a new direction, with a nostalgic gaze towards the past.
The band was founded by the maverick film composer, arranger and violinist Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin, who has dug deep into his roots to create a cross-cultural sound that is at once beautifully melodic and intelligent. Ljova, who has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of New York's finest rising composers and instrumentalists," is inspired by his collaborations with diverse and world-class artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Osvaldo Golijov, the Kronos Quartet, and the rapper Jay-Z, among others.
Since making its debut in June 2006, the ensemble has performed at venues such as New York's Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Colorado Music Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The UBS Atrium Series is funded in part by The Hudson Reporter.
Arts @ St. John's presents Concert on the Cliffs today
A smattering of Blues, Soul, Americana and funky New Orleans-style R&B artists will be on hand in Union City Sunday night for the Arts @ St. John's Concert on the Cliffs. The concert, the first of its kind to be put on by the arts collective that has occupied the church since it closed in 2010, will be held at 5 p.m. on Sunday at the church, which is located at 1516 Palisade Ave. in Union City.
Brian Mitchell, Lisa Mills and Christine Santelli will headline the event and will be joined by special guests Mike Frensley and Adam Ahl.
Mills, who hails from Alabama by the way of Mississippi, has "a stunning voice that comes over like a full-throated Otis Redding with some Muscle Shoals soul and Nashville country touches for good measure."
Mitchell, a multitalented musician has gained considerable notoriety in music industry circles and beyond for both his solo career and his high-profile collaborations recording and performing with some of music's most respected artists including Bob Dylan, Al Green, Rosanne Cash, BB King, Levon Helm, and Allen Toussaint.
Santelli has toured around the world and has released eight albums throughout her career. Her most recent album, "Dragonfly" was chosen as 2012 Album of the Year by Deep Roots Magazine.
Tickets for the concert cost $17 online (www.brownpapertickets.com/event/365170) and $22 at the door. Food is included in the price.
Loew's to host Fifth Annual Volunteer Expo
On Thursday, April 25 from 1 to 7:30 p.m., Friends of the Loew's and the Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre will host the Fifth Annual Hudson County Volunteer Expo.
At the free Expo, guests can meet with representatives from dozens of nonprofit organizations that are in need of volunteers to help fill the ever-widening gaps in funding.
Guests can explore hundreds of volunteer options, and find out how they can make a difference for youth, families, senior citizens, animals, the environment, small business development, affordable housing, historic preservation, parks, the LGBT community, the disabled, the homeless, arts and culture organizations and more.
No RSVP is necessary to visit the Expo.
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Catalyst 2009
- Catalyst Day One Getting Things Started and Andy Stanley
- Catalyst 2009 – Labs
- Catalyst Day One – Malcolm Gladwell
- Catalyst Day One – Rob Bell
- Catalyst Day One – Francis Chan
- Catalyst Day Two – Dave Ramsey, "The Momentum Theorem"
- Catalyst Day Two – Chuck Swindoll
- Catalyst Day Two wrapup – Andy Stanley
- Catalyst 2009 – Fun Stuff
At Catalyst, Chuck Swindoll received the lifetime achievement award and was well recognized by the nearly 13,000 people in attendance. It was a treat to get to hear what this Godly man had to share. First up, he shared the TOP TEN LEADERSHIP LESSONS IN 50 YEARS OF MINISTRY. The 10 lessons are from Chuck but the stuff in between are what I thought of with each lesson (which may or may not correspond with what Chuck shared. I've got to admit – when he mentioned each of these lessons my brain and heart were sparked with all kinds of insights…)
1. Its lonely to lead
Yes it is. Why is this the case? Because a true leader will sometimes make decisions that no one else understands but himself. Also, a leader will often, by virtue of leadership, be out in front of those following. Out in front is lonely. However, while this is true – it is also why it is paramount that a leader doesn't get stuck in his loneliness. Good leaders will find others to grow with. Good leaders will find ways to stave off the loneliness – recognizing that it comes but also staying out the the quicksand of its grip.
2. Its dangerous to succeed
Why? Because success can get to your head and the ego can become like the Hindenburg disaster. Success may also prevent a leader from growing if they let it breed arrogance.
3. Its hardest at home
And so it is. Yet it is also the most important at home. If a leader isn't leading well at home then eventually that will be mirrored in wherever else they lead. Character may be displayed out in the world but it is nurtured and fed at home.
4. Its essential to be real.
This is a biggie. I really struggle with this one because if I'm honest I don't want people to know the "real" me! I don't want people to know my failings, my weaknesses, my disabilities, or my inabilities. Yet, I have found that the more real I am, the more impact I have as a leader. Realness is not just about transparency but it is also about genuineness. Do you love as much as you say you love? Do you really care as much as you claim to care? Are you really passionate about what you say is important? Are you a good faker? Your answers to those questions really indicate how genuine you are.
5. Its painful to obey
Not only is it painful, but its also transforming. There is blessing in obedience – but often, as a leader, the blessing isn't seen before obeying but rather after. Obedience as a leader is painful because often the leader is being asked to obey in something that other people may not have been asked because the leader must go there first.
6. Brokenness and failure are necessary
Necessary, that is, for the formation of good leaders. Good leaders rise out of the ashes of broken dreams and failed plans because they don't die there. Good leaders learn and grow from the brokenness, and the failure. Brokenness also applies to the passion which calls a leader to leadership. Brokenness is the adjective that describes one's heart wrench. It compels the leader to be the agent of change for that which is broken. Read carefully, a leader that isn't broken or hasn't failed is just a seed that's still in the package.
7. My attitude is more important than my actions.
Oh yes. Really, it's attitude that directs actions. You can go and stick 40 sticks in the ground to replace a bunch of logs that were cut down or you can plant 40 saplings to replenish a forest. It's attitude that makes the difference. Is what I'm doing a job or a calling?
8. Integrity eclipses image.
This lesson seems a lot like lesson number four but really it deserves being emphasized. Integrity is something that is invested in for the long haul for the prize of character. Image is something that is invested in for the short trip of fame. The thing about image is its like sand. It gets blown away easily. Integrity on the other hand is like rock – it's solid. However, it's not indestructible. Without care integrity can be blown up just as easily as dynamite blows up rock. But if you recognize the dynamite before the fuse is lit then it can be preserved. Image? The fuse is already lit the moment you play with it. The thing is, you can't escape image. But the image integrity builds MATTERS and LASTS, and MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
9. Gods way is better than my way
If only I would never forget this. But sadly I do. I suspect its a lesson that a lot of us have to relearn at times. If this statement is true (and I believe it is) then it might be a good idea to always, always, always seek out God's way wouldn't it?
10. Christ-likeness begins and ends with humility
Why is this so? I'm not going to start on a lesson about humility there – it's been covered pretty well. Humility is (are? that's a tricky grammar construct) the bookends for Christ-likeness because you can't be full of Christ if you are full of yourself. Humility in a leader is the open door to Christ's work in the leaders life. Humility opens the valve of a leader's heart to the flowing work of the Holy Spirit in his life. Humility is the lightning rod that collects the transforming power of God's Word in what the leader does. Yes, humility is important! How apt that Chuck would reference the following scripture,
You see, we don't go around preaching about ourselves. We preach that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we ourselves are your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. – 2 Corinthians 4:5-7 (NLT)
Chuck had a few other things he shared as well, a foundational principle (we must be willing to leave the familiar methods without disturbing the biblical message) and a bonus "Three important observations" about ministry. Then he ended with "five statements worth remembering during your next 50 years in leadership which are worth recording so I've included them here:
1. WHATEVER you do, do more with others and less alone.
2. WHENEVER you do it, emphasize quality not quantity.
3. WHEREVER you go, do it the same as if you were among those who know you best.
4. WHOEVER may respond, keep a level head.
5. HOWEVER long you lead, keep on dripping with gratitude and grace.
There was a lot of leadership juice that got poured into my life in the 50 minutes or so Chuck spoke! If you want to read what others had to write about this session check out:
- Drew Dyck's "Chuck Swindoll's 10 Lifetime Leadership Lessons"
- Kent Schaffer's "Chuck Swindolls 10 Ministry Lessons and 8 Bonus Nuggets"


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Asking that question is Mark O'Connell at The Millions. He makes a good point: it is kind of ridiculous how seriously people take these things, how offended people can get if their favorite isn't chosen. There's no way for one award to please everyone, to choose the one book that is truly, objectively the best--there is very little "objective" anything when it comes to art. However, for librarians these awards are pretty indispensable. You'll see plenty of posts on this blog, for example, about winners and shortlists. We use them when deciding what to buy, what to recommend to people, what to read ourselves. Maybe it would be better if everyone read all of the books and judged every one for themselves, but that's never going to happen.
So readers will look to awards lists to tell them what's good, and librarians will look to them to tell them what readers will want. That said, you have to learn to be a little bit leery of these lists. There are a ton of awards out there, and not all of them are that selective. Even when they are, if they have a narrow purview they're liable to at least longlist everyone in their genre. I write reviews for Booklist and Publisher's Weekly, and it seems like even the Booker's cachet is rather dilute--every other book I get (granted, I review literary fiction) seems to be by a "Booker-nominated author". And of course, as O'Connell points out, there's no accounting for taste. The judges of even the most prestigious awards are still just people, with their own idiosyncratic preferences. Rarely are they completely off base, though, and I have to think that, overall, it's a good thing to get people reading and talking about quality books in the way these awards do. In that spirit, here's the Booker longlist that inspired O'Connell's article, and a few highlights that MCPL has already ordered or received (with links to the catalog).
On Canaan's Side, Sebastian Barry
Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt
A Cupboard Full of Coats, Yvette Edwards
Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman
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Philadelphia, PA – Suzann Pettersen rallied for her sixth Ladies European Tour victory on Sunday and that helped her improve one spot to No. 7 in this week's women's world rankings.
Pettersen will look to improve her ranking even further this week when the LPGA Tour returns to action in Arizona.
Ahead of Pettersen, the top six in the rankings remained unchanged with Yani Tseng followed by Na Yeon Choi, Stacy Lewis, Inbee Park, Shanshan Feng and Jiyai Shin.
Pettersen's move bumped So Yeon Ryu down a notch to eighth. Ai Miyazato held steady in ninth and was again trailed by Mika Miyazato, Paula Creamer, Cristie Kerr, Catriona Matthew, Karrie Webb and Amy Yang.
Azahara Munoz and Sun Ju Ahn exchanged positions with Munoz improving one to 16th. The last three were unchanged with No. 18 Brittany Lincicome followed by Angela Stanford and Lexi Thompson.


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The photos on this page are from my home state of California, a state that contains the highest and lowest points of the 48 states, and numerous wonders in between. These photos are from the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California Highway 395, Mono Lake, Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, Point Dume beach, Joshua Tree National Park, San Francisco, and more! Photos from Yosemite National Park and Death Valley National Park are in separate galleries.Read More


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The Poodles Get Ready to Release 'Performocracy', Samples Online
The Poodles Get Ready to Release 'Performocracy', Samples Online
February 12, 2011
Watch out! Out of Sweden, The Poodles release their new album 'Performocracy' on April 15th in Europe and May 5th in North America.
The title of the album is a combination of the words "Performance" and "Democracy", meaning "The power of Performance" or "Rule by Performance". The album was again produced by Mats Valentin, but this time Tobias Lindell (Europe, Mustasch) mixed the 12 outstanding tracks that make up the CD. "I think we have followed through on what we started with the last album, "Clash of the Elements", explains singer Jakob Samuel. "Besides continuing to work with producer extraordinaire, Mats Valentin, we took a step further with some of the material that was hinted at on "Clash of the Elements". On "Performocracy" there is a more epic and darker character to some of the songs that we wanted to explore in more detail. Having said this, we have definitely stayed with a lot of the signature melodic elements that are trademark of the band".
The first single off "Performocracy" is "Cuts like a knife", which promises to entice both Poodles fans and anyone with a passion for rock n' roll. The song will impact at radio on February 21st and the single will be released digitally only on March 3rd. A video produced by Steve Ravic, who also shot and produced the band's landmark DVD release "In the Flesh", will accompany the release of the first single. After the gold and platinum records that the band was able to achieve in their home country Sweden, now it is time for them to take on the world !
"One important aspect of having a few releases in the bag is that you know more what you want as a band" adds bassist Pontus Egberg. "Someone once said that "if you want to dream big, you have to dream in great detail". To us this means that we take all the knowledge and experience that we have acquired from our previous efforts and use that to plan ahead and make our dreams bigger."
As the album title suggests, performing songs live is the reason for what The Poodles are as a band. A full European tour is planned for the early fall of 2011 and in conjunction to this The Poodles will also head to South America and Japan to support the release of "Performocracy". For the summer of 2011 The Poodles will take part to festivals and shows with a focus on Sweden.
Stay updated following The Poodles on poodles.se or on facebook.com/the poodles.
"Performocracy" will include the following tracks:
I Want It All (MP3 sample)
Until Our Kingdom Falls
Father To A Son
I Believe In You
Cuts Like A Knife (MP3 sample)
As Time Is Passing
Love Is All
Your Time Is Now
Bring Back The Night (MP3 sample)
Vampire's Call
Into The Quiet Night
Don't Tell Me (Bonus Track)
Heavy Metal has never been more exciting and the new album promises to be a milestone in rock n' roll history!
The Poodles are:
Jakob Samuel – vocals
Pontus Egberg – bass
Christian Lundqvist – drums
Henrik Bergqvist – guitars
Produced by Mats Valentin
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Science has already established that people with right leaning political ideology are more apt to be prejudiced and that people with low education tend to be prejudiced, but now they've also shown that low IQs and conservative beliefs are linked to prejudice.
Cue the screaming poutrage of the Right.
Stephanie Pappas reported for Yahoo:
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
"Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood," he said.
And you wondered why conservatives don't believe in science. If science told you that your beliefs were ignorant and a sign of a low IQ, you would (assuming you had a low IQ) do what any low IQ animal would do. You'd react with anger and perhaps verbal violence to stop the inevitable pain that results from cognitive dissonance among those who can't handle it. Who can't handle cognitive dissonance? People with lower IQs.
Now before we get all puffed up and start gloating toward our racist acquaintances, we of the superior intellect need to realize that gloating in the face of an angry, confused person with a low IQ will do nothing but give short term satisfaction.
As other scientists note later in the article, the challenge is how to get through to people whose intellect can't handle being challenged with alternative realities. We can't argue our way through to them; we have to find a way to appeal to their feelings. And yet, it seems compassion is lacking so we can't put any stake in using compassion or empathy to appeal.
The ability to appeal to base emotions is exemplified in many of the has-been Republican candidates from Cain to Perry, but nobody does it like Newt. After all, it takes an unfathomable loss of ethics and integrity to knowingly and with malice exploit racism and fear for personal gain. It takes someone with no soul to be willing to destroy the unity of this country for their personal gain.
We see how well Newt Gingrich is using the Palin technique of exploiting the confusion and fear of lower IQ individuals by appealing to their racism, their fear of the "other" and their religious beliefs. Their alleged religious beliefs are based in the same fears – these are not New Testament love your neighbor type of Christians; these are the Christians who pray for President Obama to die and leave his wife a widow and his children fatherless (see Psalm 109).
These prayers of vengeance are called "imprecatory prayers" and they've been political public knowledge since the Palin prayer warriors engaged in them during 2008. In 2011, a sergeant was suspended for leaving imprecatory prayers against the President in a stack of bibles meant for inmates of the prison where he worked (inciting violence much?) and Alan Colmes got a pastor to admit on the radio that he was indeed praying for President Obama to die:
"Are you praying for his death?" Colmes asked.
"Yes," Drake replied.
"So you're praying for the death of the president of the United States?"
"If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around, I am asking God to enforce imprecatory prayers that are throughout the Scripture that would cause him death, that's correct….."
These folks are the result of cruel, ugly machines of hate for political gain and deception. These are dangerous forces, and sadly, the lower the IQ the more dangerous they are. Imagine them as a wounded animal in the wild who's been misled to believe that everyone who is not the same color as he is a vulture come to prey upon him.
They see everyone else as their enemy. This is typical in a simplistic mindset. And then the real vultures come to prey upon these folks, pointing the finger outward at Democrats, liberals and President Obama as "the problem," sometimes using language meant to imply that the danger we pose is imminent.
If we are to have any hope of overcoming this ugly ploy, we must stop trying to use intellectual arguments to get through to these voters because that isn't working.
We must find a way to appeal emotionally to people whose world views offend us. Perhaps we can start by realizing that even though they sound mean and low, they know not what they do. They are being used and manipulated by a master right now, but certainly the modern day Republican Party is no slouch at their Southern Strategy.
Newt Gingrich is a lot of things but dumb he isn't, unlike the cunning but rather ignorant Palin to whom he is wrongly compared. Sarah Palin is as much a victim of her own ignorance as her followers are, though she is an obvious exploiter of others – the alpha ignorant, if you will. But Newt knows better and still chooses this path.
In response to the study, a scientist observed that perhaps simple and extreme ideologies attract dumb people. They gave the example of far left ideology believing that everyone is wonderful, though there was no data to prove this hypothesis. I consider myself pretty far left if the Republican Party represents the new middle Right, but I have seen evil on this earth and I know it exists and must be fought by any means necessary (Hitler, as an example).
However, I disagree that assuming the best in human nature is dumb or a sign of low IQ (I would hypothesize the opposite, actually, that anti-war ideology might be found in more evolved people, for example, so long as that ideal was an acknowledged impracticality and not a dogma) but I would agree that overly extreme ideology tends to attract people who don't like complexities inherent in balancing human nature as it is versus human nature as we would like it to be. Extremes generate emotional responses that too often overwhelm intellectual engagement.
What we do know right now is that far right ideals attract people who are racist and have low IQs. The whys are up for grabs. We also know that the Republican Party is exploiting this in a dangerous, destructive manner that is bad for our country, and that they are being aided and abetted in this mission by too many religious leaders and corporations (including our mainstream media) for the purpose of enacting policies that benefit the 1%.
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New Year resolutions can be difficult to make, and even harder to keep. This year, as I made resolutions around my health; spending time with family and friends; and spiritual growth, I also made a point to include financial related goals. For 2012, my family set two financial goals: to eliminate credit card debt and meet with a financial specialist to review our plans for retirement and college savings. I say family because my husband and I felt it was very important to include our five and seven year old sons in the process. They each established their own financial goal – my seven-year old decided he would save money to buy and care for a guinea pig (wonderful!).
In setting these goals, we made sure they were realistic, specific and measurable. This way, we remain clear on what we are working to achieve, and are committed to holding ourselves accountable as a shared family responsibility.
As far as our credit card debt repayment goal, we first determined how much money in our budget we would allocate towards repayment. For us, this meant making a decision to spend less in certain areas so we can direct more funds toward debt repayment. Then, we decided to use an online tool to create a payment strategy and timeline based on paying down the highest balance, with the highest interest rate, first. The tool also provided a chart where we can regularly track and monitor our progress. This is great because we have a visual representation of how well we are doing. Being able to see just how every dollar makes a difference is extremely motivating!
In meeting with a financial specialist, we will work together to develop a list of recommendations based on our long-term financial goals and in consideration of our current financial picture. Once we have a plan, we will then monitor our progress against the plan throughout the year. This might look like a simple spreadsheet where we can create an action list based on the plan objectives that serves as a checklist to keep us on track.
I must admit, even though I work in the financial services industry, sometimes I feel overwhelmed when it comes to financial management, particularly in light of the current economic state. This is why it is very important to seek guidance from someone trained in financial management regardless of your profession, stage in life or income-level. Some people assume that you have to be wealthy to meet with a financial specialist, but this isn't true. A great place to start is visiting your local bank and speaking with a banker. They can provide basic guidance or direct you to other resources.
I understand that finances are a private matter for most, and so you might be hesitant about speaking to a "stranger" about your money. However, speaking with a professional who can direct you on different financial management strategies, tools and resources can mean the difference between where you are today and where you want to be in the future. If you are not ready to speak with someone professionally, take advantage of the online resources that are available. Many of them are free.
Wells Fargo also offers a number of online tools and resources that will help you with your financial goals in 2012. Whether its credit management, retirement savings, wealth building, or budgeting, visit WellsFargo.com for a wealth of financial information that can definitely bring you closer to realizing your goals.
Whatever you decide regarding your financial goals, be sure to make time to regularly review your plan and track progress.
All the best in the New Year!
Michelle Thornhill is senior vice president, Diverse Segments for Wells Fargo & Company. Visit www.wellsfargo.com/aspirations for more information.
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Lara Croft's latest visual evolution in Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, while noteworthy, is actually one of many facelifts and tweaks the iconic character has seen since 1996.
Really, it's amazing to look at how much she's changed from game to game. Take a look at this infographic by Halloween Costumes, which chronicles every Lara Croft model leading up to the latest one in 2014, to see what I mean—note that it not only shows how the in-game model has changed, but also how the Lara featured on promotional materials has changed, too:
And if you want to take a closer look at the newest iteration of Lara, you should watch this video which details all the latest changes in the model for the "definitive" version of Tomb Raider.
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Rosa here today. Mom needed a break so we had to take the week off with her - no one here has figured out how to use the computer ourselves...yet!
The holiday rush and extra work hours finally got to Mom and then we got a COLD spell and our well house pump froze this past week leaving us with no water for a couple of days! Not much fun feeding us on paper plates!
So today is just an assortment of news and pics of us to keep you up to date.
Joey snoopervises the road crew activity on the street. Lots of noise and trucks going by adding an edge to the road to fill in the places where the pavement broke off.
Everyone else is doing fine. Mom has lots of home and yard projects lined up for Pop this month like adding more insulation over our cat house and getting the raised garden beds set up for spring. That's seems to be all the mnews from us. What is new with you?


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FIFA 13 heads-up a strong PlayStation Store update this week, but there remains no sign of the heavily delayed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Other full game releases arriving this week include F1 2012, inFamous Collection, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD Edition, Mirror's Edge and Tokyo Jungle – the latter also with a 20 per cent discount for PS Plus members.
There are also demos of Tokyo Jungle and Starhawk single-player, plus Silent Hill: Book of Memories on PS Vita.
And after a pretty long wait Grand Theft Auto III on PS2 has been added to the store.
On the DLC front there's new content for Amazing Spider-Man, Argul's Tomb for Darksiders III and three new cars for Gran Turismo 5.
But where's Counter-Strike?


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How lovely to be given the opportunity to talk you through our new book, Jelly Roll Dreams.
Just a brief history of us – we are mother and daughter and I can only speak for myself – mother talking here – it is lovely working with my daughter Nicky. We have a shop, The Quilt Room, just south of London which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year! Little did I realise when I opened the shop, thirty years ago, that I would be working alongside my daughter who was then three!
I live in the beautiful county of Cornwall, which is in the southwest of England. Together with my husband Nick, we have a flock of primitive rare breed sheep and at the moment we are in the middle of lambing. Here is Vera, one of my Manx Loaghtan, with her twins who are one day old. They are born chocolate brown and lighten to a light brown in the sun. I also have Hebridean sheep which are black so I end up with gorgeous natural black and light brown knitting wool – how great is that!
Nicky lives near The Quilt Room with her husband Rob and two year old son, Freddie. Freddie is into everything and always happy to help unravel a jelly roll!
And now, to talk about the book.
Jelly Roll Dreams contains the twelve winning quilts from the Jelly Roll Dream Challenge which we organised last year with our sponsors Moda Fabrics and Janome Sewing Machines. Here we are with Mark Dunn of Moda Fabrics on the F&W stand last October. It was there that the overall winner, Laura Coons from the USA, was announced and you can see her gorgeous quilt, "Garden Walk", on the left of the photo. Laura's quilt is featured on the front of the book – it really is a lovely quilt and such a good technique.
The "Lovin' that Muffin" quilt made by Claire Hepworth from the UK, shown on the right, was the fourth prize winner.
The judging was extremely difficult. There were entries from all over the world and picking just twelve quilts for the book was just about the hardest thing we have ever done. The standard was so high it was daunting. We weren't looking for the most difficult design but the designs which would be most likely to inspire others. They also had to make good use of the jelly roll with the help of up to 3 yards of extra fabric if required.
So let's show you a few more of the quilts in the book. This lovely quilt was one of the prize winners, Jennifer Goldstein from the USA. It was made for her daughter and called "For Emma". The mixture of simple piecing and appliqué made it a worthy winner.
When Nicky and I were judging the quilts, we were also testing the techniques used. This was important as we knew we had to make variations of the twelve winning quilts. One of the most important things for us was how the quilt was made which is very different from judging at a quilt show when it is only the finished quilt you are looking at. We had to check the instructions and make sure everything was right before it went into the book.
Here is "Pac-Mania" made by Angelika Sins from Germany who was another of the prize winners. If you have never worked with curves before we would urge you to try this one. It goes together beautifully and once you learn that 'pins are your best friends' the curves are no problem.
This one below was made by Tina Kirschling called "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" made in a selection of batik fabrics.
…and here is our variation which as you can see looks completely different. We have chosen a jelly roll by Fig Tree Quilts which has given a much softer effect.
And we will leave you with just another photo of the overall winning quilt – congratulations to Laura Coons for such a clever design and one we so enjoyed making – it really went together like a dream – in fact a Jelly Roll Dream!


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|Oracle® Data Cartridge Developer's Guide
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10800-01
|View PDF
This chapter describes the routines that need to be implemented to define pipelined and parallel table functions in C.
This chapter contains this topics:
See Also:Chapter 13 for an overall explanation of pipelined and parallel table functions
The following C methods support parallel and pipelined table functions.
ODCITableStart initializes the scan of a table function.
STATIC FUNCTION ODCITableStart( sctx IN OUT <imptype>, <args>) RETURN NUMBER
Table 23-1 ODCITableStart Parameters
sctx (IN OUT)
|The scan context returned by this routine. This value is passed in as a parameter to the later scan routines. The scan context is an instance of the object type containing the implementation of the
ODCITable routines. If
ODCITablePrepare is implemented, the scan context it creates is passed in to
args (IN)
|Set of zero or more arguments specified by the user for the table function
ODCIConst.Success on success,
ODCIConst.Error otherwise.
ODCITablePrepare is not implemented, this is the first routine that is invoked to begin retrieving rows from a table function. This routine typically performs the setup needed for the scan. The scan context is created (as an object instance
sctx) and returned to Oracle. The arguments to the table function, specified by the user in the
SELECT statement, are passed in as parameters to this routine. If
ODCITablePrepare is implemented, it creates the scan context at compile time, and that scan context is passed in to this routine.
REF CURSOR arguments of the table function must be declared as
SYS_REFCURSOR type in the declaration of the
ODCITableStart method.
ODCITableFetch returns the next batch of rows from a table function.
MEMBER FUNCTION ODCITableFetch( self IN OUT <imptype>, nrows IN NUMBER, rws OUT <coll-type>) RETURN NUMBER
Table 23-2 ODCITableFetch Parameters
self (IN)
|The current scan context. This is the object instance returned to Oracle by the previous invocation of the scan routine.
self (OUT)
|The scan context to be passed to later scan routine invocations.
nrows (IN)
|The number of rows the system expects in the current fetch cycle. The method can ignore this value and return a different number of rows. If fewer rows are returned, the method is called again; if more rows are returned, they are processed in the next cycle.
rws (OUT)
|The next batch of rows from the table function. This is returned as an instance of the same collection type as the return type of the table function.
ODCIConst.Success on success,
ODCIConst.Error otherwise.
ODCITableFetch is invoked one or more times by Oracle to retrieve all the rows in the collection returned by the table function. The scan context is passed in as a parameter. Typically
ODCITableFetch uses the input scan context and computes the next set of rows to be returned to Oracle. In addition, it may update the scan context accordingly.
Returning more rows in each invocation of
fetch() reduces the number of fetch calls that need to be made and thus improves performance.
Oracle calls
ODCITableFetch repeatedly until all rows in the table function's collection have been returned. When all rows have been returned,
ODCITableFetch should return a null collection.
ODCITableClose performs cleanup operations after scanning a table function.
MEMBER FUNCTION ODCITableClose( self IN <imptype>) RETURN NUMBER
Table 23-3 ODCITableClose Parameters
self (IN)
|The scan context set up by previous scan routine invocation
ODCIConst.Success on success,
ODCIConst.Error otherwise.
Oracle invokes
ODCITableClose after the last fetch call. The scan context is passed in as a parameter.
ODCITableClose then performs any necessary cleanup operations, such as freeing memory.
If ODCITablePrepare is implemented, this routine is only called once, at the end of query execution, rather than each time the table function exits.
Prepares the scan context and other query information at compile time.
STATIC FUNCTION ODCITablePrepare( sctx OUT <imptype>, tf_info SYS.ODCITabFuncInfo, args);
Table 23-4 ODCITablePrepare Parameters
sctx (OUT)
|The scan context returned by this routine. This value is passed in as a parameter to the later scan routines. The scan context is an instance of the object type containing the implementation of the
ODCITable routines.
|Contains the projection information and the return type's table descriptor object (TDO):
args (IN)
|The arguments that will be passed to the table function. This method is invoked at compile time; thus, only literal arguments have values. Column and expression arguments are passed as null values.
This method prepares the scan context based on the information known at compile time. This scan context is passed to
ODCITableStart when it is called at the beginning of query execution.
If this optional method is implemented,
ODCITableClose is only called once at the end of query execution. Each time the table function is restarted,
ODCITableStart is called and passed the scan context. This allows the table function to maintain context between restarts, and to perform cleanup operations only once at the end of query execution.
ODCITableDescribe returns describe information for a table function whose return type is
STATIC FUNCTION ODCITableDescribe( rtype OUT ANYTYPE, <args>) RETURN NUMBER
Table 23-5 ODCITableDescribe Parameters
rtype (OUT)
AnyType value that describes the returned rows from the table function
args (IN)
|The set of zero or more user specified arguments for the table function.
ODCIConst.Success on success,
ODCIConst.Error otherwise.
If the optional routine
ODCITableDescribe is implemented, Oracle invokes it at query compilation time to retrieve the specific type information.
This interface is applicable only for table functions whose return type is
ANYDATASET. The format of elements within the returned collection is conveyed to Oracle by returning an instance of
ANYTYPE. The
ANYTYPE instance specifies the actual structure of the returned rows in the context of the specific query.
ANYTYPE provides a datatype to model the metadata of a row—the names and datatypes of all the columns (fields) comprising the row. It also provides a set of PL/SQL and C interfaces for users to construct and access the metadata information.
ANYDATASET, like
ANYTYPE, contains a description of a given type, but
ANYDATASET also contains a set of data instances of that type
The following example shows a query on a table function that uses the
ANYDATASET type:
SELECT * FROM TABLE(CAST(AnyBooks('http://.../books.xml') AS ANYDATASET));
At query compilation time, Oracle invokes the
ODCITableDescribe routine. The routine typically uses the user arguments to figure out the nature of the return rows. In this example,
ODCITableDescribe consults the DTD of the XML documents at the specified location to determine the appropriate
ANYTYPE value to return. Each
ANYTYPE instance is constructed by invoking the constructor APIs with this field name and datatype information.
Any arguments of the table function that are not constants are passed to
ODCITableDescribe as
NULLs because their values are not known at compile time.
See Also:"Transient and Generic Types" for a discussion of
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While hose-toting drones may be a fantasy, hose-powered robo-dragons (or robotic hose-dragons — however you like it) are very much a reality. This strange but potentially useful robot from Japanese researchers could snake into the windows of burning buildings, blasting everything around it with the powerful jets of water it uses to maneuver itself.
Yes, it's a real thing: Created by Tohoku University and Hachinohe College, the DragonFireFighter was presented last month at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
It works on the same principle your hose does when you turn it on and it starts flapping around everywhere. Essentially your hose is acting as a simple jet: the force of the water being blasted out pushes the hose itself in the opposite direction. So what if the hose had several nozzles, pointing in several directions, that could be opened and closed independently?
Well, you'd have a robotic hose-dragon. And we do.
The DragonFireFighter has a nozzle-covered sort of "head" and what can only be called a "neck." The water pressure from the hose is diverted into numerous outlets on both in order to create a stable position that can be adjusted more or less at will.
It requires a bit of human intervention to go forwards, but, as you can see, several jets are pushing it that direction already, presumably at this point for stability and rigidity purposes. If the operators had a little more line to give it, it seems to me it could zoom out quite a bit farther than where it was permitted to in the video.
For now it may be more effective to just direct all that water pressure into the window, but one can certainly imagine situations where something like this would be useful.
DragonFireFighter was also displayed at the International Fire and Disaster Prevention Exhibition in Tokyo.
One last thing. I really have to give credit where credit's due: I couldn't possibly outdo IEEE Spectrum's headline, "Firefighting Robot Snake Flies on Jets of Water."


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Month: December 2017
Configure Azure Blob Archive StorageReading Time: 4 minutes
Azure storage is great. Good thought to open on right? Of course! This year Azure graced us with the ability to (preview) the new Azure Archive Storage. Obviously this is enticing, especially at it's (current) $0.0018/GB price point. For more cost informaiton on Azure Archive Storage you can visit the link below.
Now this is nice, but I found myself a bit perplexed. How do I configure a storage account as an "archive" storage account? As it turns out, you don't. Let's walk though configuring an archive blob tier.
First, obiously you need a storage account. The Archive access tier is currently available on either "Blob" or "General Purpose v2". General Purpose v2 will work the same way, you'll just also have the ability to host non-blob storage (File, Queue, Table). I'm going to just choose Blob though for this purpose.
Account kind selected, I'll create the storage account. You can choose whatever Access Tier you'd like, that's the access tier all of your objects will inheret by default. I choose "Cool" here because you will have to upload data before you can archive it and the cool tier saves money initially.
Alright storage account created, let's go open it up.
If you go to the "Configuration" tab you can see the default acces tier you selected durring creation. Here is where I was a bit confused, why don't I have the ability to select archive? You'll see in a bit.
Go ahead and create a container, and upload a file. I created a container with the very complex name of "container1", and have uploaded my very important image file that I want to archive.
Can see above that the inhereted access tier is "Cool" which was set at the storage account level. If you go into the blob properties you can see at the bottom there is an option to select the access tier for that specific file. Ah! There is it, Archive!
I'll go ahead and select Archive, and see the the following message.
Please be cognizant of this, they aren't kidding when they say that rehydration can take a long time. We can now refresh and see that the file is set to an access tier of "archive".
Fantastic, we've archived the file! Now here is where you have to be careful, while the file is in archive the only data you're able to access is the file metadata. The file itself is NOT ACCESSABLE until rehydrated. If you try and download the file while archived you can see the following message.
Archive storage is designed to be very long-term storage that you don't need to access immediately, thus the low cost point. If you do need to access your file, you simply go back to that object and change it's access tier to either Cool or Hot. It will then go through the "rehydration" process to move the file back into an accessable access tier.
I urge you to take that message seriously, in this example it took about 8 hours for my 48k image file to be rehyrated. They say it takes longer for larger files, and I'm going to test that next. Though in the mean time, assume it will take quite some time to be accessable again. After which time, WHEW! I recovered my very, very important file.
There you go, how to configure Azure Blob Archive Storage.
I hope I've made your day at least a little bit easier.


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One of the less "traditional" tracks at Oracle OpenWorld is the Oracle Unconference. The Unconference allows for a much more informal setting for sessions and generally is more interactive and audience driven compared to the usually amounts of PowerPoint sessions contain which can cause eyes to bleed. This year I've signed up to give a session at the Unconference entitled Chalk & Talk: The Core Performance Fundamentals of Oracle Data Warehousing. This session will be a PowerPoint free session (hence Chalk & Talk) and it will be a very engineering heavy discussion around what techniques I use with customer POCs and VLDB databases and why I use those techniques. If you are a DBA that supports an Oracle data warehouse, especially a VLDB Oracle data warehouse, I think this session will give you some great insight on how to deal with performance challenges you may face. Topics that will be discussed will include partitioning, parallel execution, compression, statistics collection, Exadata, bulk data loads, ETL/ELT just to name a few. Bring your questions and join in the discussion. Hope to see you there!
Session Details:
- What: Chalk & Talk: The Core Performance Fundamentals of Oracle Data Warehousing
- Where: Moscone West Floor 3 Overlook #2
- When: Monday, October 12 at 1pm


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Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Moscow) has transferred its controlling 52.156 percent of the shares of Vladivostok Air (Vladivostok Avia) (Vladivostok) (a member of the Aeroflot Group of companies) to SAT Airlines (Sakhalin Airlines) (Sakhalin) (a 100 percent subsidiary of Aeroflot). This move was made following the decision of Aeroflot's Board of Directors concerning the creation of Far Eastern Airline (DVA) within the Aeroflot Group.
According to Aeroflot, "the new member in Aeroflot Group of companies will satisfy the growing demand for regional flights offering the highest service standards in one of the most impressively developing regions of the country — Russia's Far East."
Aeroflot continues, "the creation of Far Eastern Airline (DVA) will contribute significantly to the social-economic development of this vast region with a powerful economic potential and will let Aeroflot Group become one of the leading air carriers in Asia-Pacific.
The establishment of Far Eastern Airline (DVA) is one of the key elements of Aeroflot Group strategy aimed at the creation of a large aviation holding which will successfully compete with the leaders of the global civil aviation."
Vladivostok Air is the largest air carrier in Russia's Far East, carrying about 1,100,000 passengers annually on its own fleet of planes. The airline flies to 24 domestic and 13 international destinations.
Copyright Photo: Vladivostok Air. V/A's flight attendants.
Aeroflot recently celebrated its 90th anniversary of its creation as a state airline. Aeroflot is one of the world's oldest airlines, founded on March 17, 1923 as Dobrolet. Operations commenced on July 15, 1923 from Moscow to Nizhniy Novgorod. The company adopted its current name Aeroflot on March 25, 1932.
Read the full report from Pravda: CLICK HERE
Top Copyright Photo: Andi Hiltl. Vladivostok Air' Airbus A330-301 VQ-BEU (msn 055) arrives at Antalya.
SAT Airlines Route Map:
Bottom Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing. SAT Airlines' (Sakhalin Airlines) Boeing 737-232 RA-73005 (msn 23100) completes its final approach at Beijing.


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252 page confidential report into the Australian National Broadband Network (worth AUS$43b)
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Many of the pages in the report, are headed "confidential" and only intended for individuals with "National Broadband Network probity clearance". The report was tabled, accidently, in the Austrlaian Senate yesterday.
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The Cinnamon Bear Fire, discovered the afternoon of Oct. 5, was contained at 85 acres Tuesday morning, up from 30 percent containment the prior evening.
The fire, located 11 miles southeast of Pagosa Springs on national forest land, is believed to have been caused by lightning on Sept. 29, according to Archuleta County's emergency operations website.
Earlier estimates of the fire's size landed at 110 acres, but were revised following more accurate mapping as the blaze progressed.
According to a press release, a total of 78 personnel battled the fire Monday, including the Sierra Hotshots, two Juniper Valley correctional crews and several individuals from Pagosa Fire Protection District, Upper Pine Fire Protection District, Archuleta County Emergency Management, Ute Mountain Agency, Durango Helitack, Wasatch Helitack, Mesa Verde National Park and the Pagosa Ranger District.
Additionally, one Type-1 helicopter and one Type-3 helicopter were used. Over the weekend, single-engine air tankers made several drops to stop or limit the advance at the head of the fire.
With the first rifle season underway this weekend, the Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch Center is warning anyone heading out into the backcountry to be extremely careful with fire, considering the current dry and windy conditions.


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With over six million views in six days, OK Go's video for "This Too Shall Pass" is the latest in their unprecedented string of runaway YouTube hits. Lead singer Damian Kulash shared OK Go's video philosophy—and history—with Gizmodo.
Q: At this point, OK Go may have the best track record of anyone at creating these incredible viral music videos. Why are yours able to stand out?
A: I think it has become increasingly clear to us, as we have chased our most exciting ideas, that there's been a dissolution of the distribution system for music. That seems really depressing when you see that records aren't selling, there's no way to make any money, the system's falling apart. But if the system itself is falling apart, then so are the rules wrought by it. Videos evolved in this very restrictive environment of MTV. There were only maybe 100 that would play at any time, and labels weren't willing to invest in them. So now that the system is falling apart, there's also no reason to stick within the confines of the definitions that were built up during that system. This sounds heady and pretentious, but it means for us the ability to chase our most compelling ideas. We don't have to think so much into the box of "Will this song work on this radio format?" There's an infinite world of possible audiences out there for whatever you're making now.
It's not like we sat down one day and the brain trust came up with idea for "This Too Shall Pass." Tim [Nordwind, the bass player] and I have known each other since we were 12, and it's always been the animating passion of our lives to make fun projects together. Everything from making home videos to recording songs. So the fact that the band got signed and gets to make records is all well and good, but that's all just a part of our creative relationship. Now that we have an outlet for these other things, all the better. The video for "A Million Ways" [below] was originally just a practice run for a live show. When that catches fire… We're now in a position where we don't see restrictions on what we can do at all.
Q: So "A Million Ways" wasn't even supposed to be a video at first? How'd you stumble onto that dance?
A: Before we were even signed, we were all living in Chicago and there was this incredible public access show called Chic-a-GoGo. It's like a lo-fi Soul Train. You bring a five year old in and an art student with a gorilla neck and everybody has a dance party. We only had one song at that point. We got a chance to perform there, which was great, but it was so low budget that they couldn't record our audio. We decided if we're going to lip sync let's swing for the fences, and we came up with this totally ludicrous dance routine to the only song we'd at that point recorded ["C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips"].
Tim worked at NPR at the time, and Ira Glass was a fan. He took us on tour as his opening act for "This American Life," and we kept the dance routine.
Rock shows are such a known quantity. The band does this, the audience does that, and there's a particular range of emotions people go through. But when you bring something people don't expect, it really shakes it up and is very different and weird and fun.
As for the dance for "A Million Ways," we'd come out with our second record and we didn't want to do the same dance that we'd done for our first. My sister choreographed a new one for us, and we worked on it in our backyard. The video was a practice tape, but there was something so funny and awkward and weird about it that we just sent it around to friends. Then it suddenly had 500,000 hits, which was more records than we'd ever sold.
I truly and honestly did not believe that numbers close to that video's were achievable again. A lot of it was dependent on YouTube being brand new at the time, and people discovering the service when the video came out.
Q: Do you feel pressure now for every video to go viral? Especially one that took as much time and effort as "This Too Shall Pass"?
If "This Too Shall Pass" could have a broader footprint than "A Million Ways" or "Here It Goes Again" did, that's great. But that's definitely not our intention. From our perspective, the upshot of these things being successful is the ability to do a lot more of them in the future. We've done a lot of videos in the last few years. I'm definitely happy with the video of "WTF?" and this latest one, but when these videos do well it makes it so much easier to get the other ideas we've conceived done. Saying "I'd love to do this thing [in a video] with six cars" is tough, but now it's more likely that someone will actually give us six cars. It's less that they're designed for viralness and more that the operating principle of our creative life is chasing down those ideas.
Q: Where did "This Too Shall Pass" come from? Do you consider it a continuation of your previous efforts or a jump forward?
A: "This Too Shall Pass" is a combination of a bunch of things. Making the treadmill video ["Here It Goes Again"] and the wallpaper one ["Do What You Want"] after that, I just got really obsessed with these contingent systems. Looking at choreography not as dance or movement but as a performance or a system that requires lots of disparate elements to work in perfect synchrony, or sometimes imperfect semi-synchrony. I was thinking a lot about loosely choreographed pieces. What sort of systems can you do that aren't specifically dance, but you get the effect that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, because everything works just where it should. Rube Goldberg machines are also, I think, universally magical.
Our label, bless their moronic hearts, was given our record nine months ago. It kept getting pushed back. We basically wound up with several months of our lives to just get in trouble. If we'd had to go into promo land and get on tour we wouldn't have time to do this kind of stuff. Basically I got home when the record was done and wrote down my dream list of videos. This whole project started with a two-paragraph description that I put down online as a job post, essentially. I asked for two creative engineers, because I figured that's about what it would take. Two engineers, and a couple of months. It ended up being more like 60 engineers, and five months of work.
Q: The set looks like a walking death trap. Did anyone get hurt, or were there any close calls?
The camera man was actually hit by the giant blue barrel that falls from the ceiling. You see the camera takes jolt at the end, right around the time the airplanes take off. That's the big blue barrel running into him. Otherwise, there were a few bumps and scrapes and bruises. Brett got hit by the bowling ball when it didn't stay on the ramp once. But none of the super dangerous things every hurt anyone, that I know of.
In terms of putting ourselves in harm's way, what makes these things exciting is the experience quality of it. The essential element of this would be lost if we made a film that depicted all these components but didn't actually have them. I can think of other music videos that show Rube Goldberg machines, but they're all carefully edited things. It loses the idea of being there for the people doing it or the people watching it. I pushed the design team to make the ways the machine treats us stranger, rougher. I was hoping the part where I get rocketed across the room would be a catapult. The professional circus riggers who set that up said we couldn't do that. I was pretty insistent, but they were very clear that no, making you airborne is going to hurt you. And I was like, don't people do this all the time? And they said sure, there are stunt men who train for years and/or do this with a lot of CG. I wanted to do it, but apparently this is as dangerous as it gets.
Q: Wait… you had circus riggers on-set? What other professionals came together to help build this thing?
A: It was such an incredible group of people. The doors that fall at the end were designed by a rigger/builder guy who everyone called "The Pirate." His mains source of income is working on longships, so he's actually literally a seaman. The person who painted them is the guy who designed the most recent Coke bottle. It was a crazy group of people. The reason we got that spread is we didn't walk into USC and ask for their brightest engineers. We posted this stuff on the MindShare Labs list. I think they're called Syyn Labs now. They're basically a community of nerdy, creative folks in Los Angeles. Anybody who was wont to go to a lecture series as a drinking venue had access to this. Basically anybody who sees the smart/fun/creative side of engineering.
Q: Why such emphasis on "old-school physics" and practical effects instead of CG?
A: On the basic level, this whole project is only exciting because it is real. It's not a labor of love for anyone to go make a commercial. This is an art project for all these people. If it ain't the real thing, it's not worth it. They're not there to make a video that promotes a band. They're there to make this awesome project. Any time someone suggested a way to do something easier, I gently pushed them away from it. What makes Rube Goldberg machines so universal is very hard to describe and very easy to lose. If you make it failproof, the thing completely loses its magic.
Q: Would you say that's how you've historically approached your videos?
A: Across our videos in general, it's not really a requirement but it's something that attracts me. I once wrote out a list of 20 things that make a good video. One of them is that it's something that anyone watching could, with enough time, have done themselves. Treadmills and choreography and all the things in "This Too Shall Pass," none of those are specialized access. A broken piano costs like 70 bucks. It's not like you have to be an engineer to get that.
Look, we were working with engineers from NASA. Three people who worked on the Mars Rover worked on this machine. And it was wonderful getting people to stop using the specialized part of their skill and get them to use the inspired part. A lot of times I had to explain what "magic" was and what they weren't allowed to do. You want to use optical gates? Okay, but it has to be followable for the audience. What about lasers? You can't use something from your lab you worked in, but you can use a laser pointer from a gas station. What if you dissected a Blu-ray player? Fine, but only as long as people can tell it's from a Blu-ray player. You'd be surprised how much communication it takes.
Q: Any parts in particular stand out where you could've been spared a lot of trouble given a CG or manual assist?
A: Almost every point in there could have been cheated. There's no way to cheat the table I'm sitting on in the beginning. I suppose you could maybe put together that machine and then animate the balls but that would've been incredibly difficult. Almost everything else would have been a lot easier with a manual cheat or CG cheat. The timing on everything was critical.
Take for instance the sunrise contraption, the umbrella that comes up as the sun. The timing delay between the sun coming, the flowers coming up, and the birds coming down—we could have just triggered all that stuff electronically or manually. The way it was actually done is changing the fulcrum of the 2x4s that those things were spinning on, so the weights on the end would spin around more slowly. A hammer gets hit on the fulcrum on the back, and by changing where that hammer was, you change the delay until the release of the flowers. That kind of stuff, there's no reason we couldn't have cheated all this, but the 60 people who built this thing wouldn't have had the challenge and the satisfaction of the finished product.
Q: So what's next? Do you feel pressure to keep topping yourselves?
Mostly I'm just excited because I think this makes it more likely that we'll be able to do more in the future. Finding people who will help us pay for some of these things should be a lot easier right now. And finding collaborators. As wonderful as the team was, there's no way that those people—no matter how compelling an internet posting I'd put up—there's no way they would've signed up to do this if we hadn't already done the treadmills. The success of any particular project is that rather than lifting the bar and creating pressure to come up with new ideas, it opens you up to more and more of them. Now it's more likely that when we call to find an anti-gravity chamber in NASA, it'll happen.
Q: Ha. Is that something we can expect to see at some point?
A: Oh, man. Weightlessness would be the final frontier, I think.


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I first played Douglas Smith's classic platformer, Lode Runner, on an Apple II computer in 1983. I wasn't very good, but then I was also only ten.
Nearly three decades later Tozai Games has released Lode Runner Classic for Windows Phone 7, with versions coming soon for iOS and Android. The simply running and digging gameplay has aged incredibly well. Me? Not so much.
Lode Runner is a relatively simple game. You control a stick man that must traverse a maze-like level, collecting all the gold before moving on to the next. Stick enemies are trying to stop you, and the only weapon at your disposal is a digging tool capable of removing sections of the ground, briefly trapping your enemies. These pits fill in gradually, so it's possible to kill your stick enemies if you time it right, but they'll just respawn somewhere else and continue their relentless pursuit.
For such a primitive title, the enemies are intelligent and relentless, their combined pathing granting the illusion that they are coordinating their efforts to bring you down. As you progress through the game the enemies become more unpredictable; they aren't simply trying to get you as efficiently as possible. They have an agenda, and figuring out why they act as they do is key to making your way through latter levels.
It's actually rather impressive, the amount of tension built by these ancient stick men nipping at your heels. These days big name developers spend millions on visuals and programming creature behaviors, when these little bastards are making my heart beat a mile a minute.
Lode Runner Classic delivers 150 levels of classic gameplay, playable in both Expedition and Time Attack, providing hours of old school goodness. What it doesn't deliver, sadly, is a level editor — the original game was one of the first to do so. You can change the colors at least.
Thirty years down the road I feel I've developed a much deeper appreciation for Lode Runner than I had as a child. This seemingly simple title is actually a rather complex mechanism crafted specifically to hand me my ass. I've not gotten any better at it, but at least now I understand my failure is a result of brilliant programming.
Lode Runner Classic - $2.99 [Windows Phone 7]


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But 50 years later, the thousands of people who filled Dealey Plaza weren't there to cheer but to remember in quiet sadness the young, handsome president with whom Dallas will always be "linked in tragedy."
The solemn ceremony presided over by Mayor Mike Rawlings was the first time the city had organized an official Kennedy anniversary event, issuing 5,000 free tickets and erecting a stage with video screens.
Somber remembrances extended from Dallas to the shores of Cape Cod, with moments of silence, speeches by historians and, above all, simple reverence for a time and a leader long gone.
"We watched the nightmarish reality in our front yard," Rawlings told the crowd, which assembled just steps from the Texas School Book Depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from the sixth floor at Kennedy's open-top limousine. "Our president had been taken from us, taken from his family, taken from the world."
Two generations later, the assassination still stirs quiet sadness in the baby boomers who remember it as the beginning of a darker, more cynical time.
"A new era dawned and another waned a half-century ago, when hope and hatred collided right here in Dallas," Rawlings told the crowd that gathered under gray skies and in near-freezing temperatures. The mayor said the slaying prompted Dallas to "turn civic heartbreak into hard work" and helped the city mature into a more tolerant, welcoming metropolis.
The slain president "and our city will forever be linked in tragedy, yes," Rawlings said. "But out of tragedy, an opportunity was granted to us: how to face the future when it's the darkest and uncertain."
Historian David McCullough said Kennedy "spoke to us in that now-distant time past, with a vitality and sense of purpose such as we had never heard before."
Kennedy "was young to be president, but it didn't seem so if you were younger still," McCullough added. "He was ambitious to make it a better world, and so were we."
Past anniversaries in Dealey Plaza have been marked mostly by loose gatherings of the curious and conspiracy-minded, featuring everything from makeshift memorials and marching drummers to freewheeling discussions about others who might have been in on the killing.
On Friday, the mayor unveiled a plaque with remarks the president was supposed to deliver later that day in Dallas. Rawlings' comments were followed by a mournful tolling of bells and a moment of silence at the precise time that Kennedy was shot.
In Dallas, the dreary weather was far different from the bright sunshine that filled the day of the assassination. But that didn't stop crowds from lining up hours before the ceremonies began.
Drew Carney and his girlfriend, Chelsea Medwechuk traveled from Toronto to attend the ceremony. Like many of those in attendance, they wore plastic ponchos to ward off the rain.
At 25 and 24, respectively, they were born a quarter-century after Kennedy died. Carney, a high school history teacher, said he became intrigued with Kennedy and his ideals as a teenager.
"It filled you with such hope," he said.
Elsewhere, flags were lowered to half-staff and wreaths were laid at Kennedy's presidential library and at a waterfront memorial near the family's Cape Cod compound.
Shortly after sunrise, Attorney General Eric Holder paid his respects at Kennedy's recently refurbished grave at Arlington National Cemetery, where a British cavalry officer stood guard, bagpipes played and a flame burned steadily as it has since Kennedy was buried.
About an hour later, Jean Kennedy Smith, 85, the last surviving Kennedy sibling, laid a wreath at her brother's grave, joined by about 10 members of the Kennedy family. They clasped hands for a short, silent prayer and left roses as a few hundred onlookers watched.
In Boston, Gov. Deval Patrick and Maj. Gen. Scott Rice of the Massachusetts National Guard endured a heavy rain during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Kennedy statue on the front lawn of the Statehouse. The statue, dedicated in 1990, has been largely off-limits to public viewing since security procedures put in place after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But the area was opened to visitors Friday.
Both of Kennedy's grandfathers served in the Massachusetts Legislature, and in January 1961 the president-elect came to the Statehouse to deliver one of his most famous addresses, which came to be known as the "City on a Hill" speech, just before leaving for his inauguration in Washington.
The tributes extended across the Atlantic to Kennedy's ancestral home in Ireland.
In Dublin, a half-dozen Irish soldiers toting guns with brilliantly polished bayonets formed an honor guard outside the U.S. Embassy as the American flag was lowered to half-staff. An Irish army commander at the embassy drew a sword and held it aloft as a lone trumpeter played "The Last Post," the traditional British salute to war dead.
More than a dozen retired Irish army officers who, as teenage cadets, had formed an honor guard at Kennedy's graveside gathered in the front garden of the embassy to remember the first Irish-American to become leader of the free world.
Together with Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore and embassy staff, they observed a moment of silence and laid wreaths from the Irish and American governments in JFK's memory.
Associated Press writers Bob Salsberg in Boston, Matthew Barakat in Washington and Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin contributed to this report.


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