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Meet Oliver.
Formerly known as Zang, he will be making his home with us upon our return to LA. Because… how can you resist that face???
We are quite ready to be heading out on our road trip. Just getting a last few things done here and there, washed, sorted, packed… Trying to decide which yarns and patterns to take which is always difficult. I want to pack a million things, but honestly how much knitting time will I have?
The plan is to leave early tomorrow and get as far as Healdsburg. It used to be that when you saw the sign for Healdsburg, it meant that Santa Rosa was coming up soon and that meant Denny's, a burger, and a chance to pee. Now apparently Healdsburg is synonymous with wine, Michelin starred restaurants, and is sort of a fantastic Wine Country destination type place.
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There is also a yarn store in Healdsburg, according to the internet. I am ridiculously excited. I have this feeling that the entire drive will reveal a very changed Hwy 101.
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Missoula City Councilman Weighs in on September 9 Union Gospel Mission Hearing [AUDIO]
There will be a public hearing Monday, September 9 in the Missoula City Council chambers to discuss the Union Gospel Mission's request to move from Toole Avenue to a storefront building on West Broadway.
Ward 6 Councilman Ed Childers said on Friday, September 6, that he understands the concern by many in the West Broadway neighborhood, about the Poverello Center and the Union Gospel Mission potentially being just a few blocks apart.
"All the people that are concerned about having the gospel mission there in addition to the Poverello Center certainly have reason to be concerned," Childers said. "I'm not in favor of the government doing retroactive laws, and I can't see myself voting to do this if that stays in there."
Executive Director of the Union Gospel Mission, Candace Day, said in an August 28 interview on KGVO Radio, that permits for the mission had already been granted in May.
"We already have permits in place," Day said. "One of the things we want to address is the fact that the city has proposed to backdate a land-use ordinance regarding soup kitchens and homeless shelters."
Childers said that the issuing of retroactive conditional use permits is of concern to many council members.
"It's interesting," Childers said. "I've heard people say they're concerned about doing retroactive ordinances, but they haven't said they're concerned enough not to do it, so we'll see where it goes, I guess."
The public hearing will be held Monday, September 9 at 7 p.m. in the Missoula City Council chambers at 140 West Pine.


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Reimbursement for flood expenses being received from FEMA, state
Reimbursement payments for expenses incurred for repairing damage from the torrential rains and the June flood are being received by local government units, the fire departments and the Moose Lake school.
Townships received funds in November from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state for repairs to washouts from the heavy rains. Representatives of FEMA had visited the affected governmental units, fire departments and the school to assist in submitting requests for reimbursement aid.
"They were very professional and straightforward," said Dan Reed, a supervisor for Automba Township.
"They were nice to work with," said Bernadine Reed, the Barnum city clerk, in a telephone interview. "They guided us through the process."
The city of Moose Lake submitted the final request for funds at the end of November.
City Administrator Mark Vahlsing explained that it took time to pull all of the information together for the final request.
However, both the cities of Barnum and Moose Lake received small amounts of funds for reimbursement of clean-up costs.
The city of Moose Lake received $2,600 so far, said Mayor Ted Shaw. He added that the city will receive a percentage for 56 out of 57 projects.
Bernadine Reed explained that the requests were submitted by categories.
"It goes by when the work was completed," she said. "The work has to be done, and then we send in the invoices for reimbursement."
The city of Barnum has also received funds for reimbursement for clean-up in the city after the flood.
Carlton County Engineer Wayne Olson reported that the county has received funding for the replacement of five bridges so far this year that had been damaged in the flood.
"Culverts are considered bridges," he said. "There will be nine more bridges replaced next year. Three of them are span bridges."
A number of bridges have been and will be replaced by box culverts. Olson said that projects will be ready to go early in the spring.
The State of Minnesota has stepped in to assist the counties with funding for bridge replacement.
"The state bonding was approved in the special session," said Olson. "There was $27 million total, with $6.5 million designated for bridge replacement."
A bridge, replaced by a box culvert, in Skelton Township was scheduled for completion in early December. The funding came from FEMA and state bonding.
Another project in Deer Creek Township, south of Wrenshall on County Road 6, was to be completed the following week.
"We've gotten some reimbursement through ER funding too," said Olson. "That's a higher level of funding for state aid roads where we haven't gotten funds from FEMA. There are quite a few dollars coming in. We have to figure it out and work through things with FEMA and see what they cover. The ER funds cover emergency work to get the roads passable again. We hope to get 100 percent coverage for the emergency work and 80 percent funding for the permanent work."
Olson added that the Legislature was supposed to match what FEMA didn't cover so the county would not have to match FEMA funding with taxpayer dollars. He said that the county is slated for complete reimbursement of all of its expenses related to flood damage.
"We won't know the final numbers until it is done," Olson concluded.
Heather Cunningham of the county's Zoning and Environmental Services Department submitted a report to the Carlton County Board of Commissioners that explained the debris removal plan for the residents that had to get their flood debris out of their homes and to the curbside as quickly as possible after the flood to prevent the growth of mold. The county had contracted with private contractors to conduct countywide curbside removal of flood debris.
Residents were also able to haul their flood debris to designated drop-off sites.
Approximately 12,500 cubic yards of demolition/solid waste were removed and disposed of, not including appliances, electronics and household hazardous waste.
The costs for labor overtime, materials, contracts and administrative expenses totaled $540,196.15. The department has received $526,691.25 in reimbursement from the state and federal government. The remaining portion is expected to be reimbursed.
The Moose Lake Area Fire Protection District submitted requests for reimbursement of funds for costs associated with emergency efforts during the flood and the clean-up.
Tom Paull, the city's flood manager and a firefighter, had submitted requests for funding, including a request for the crews and trucks at the DNR rate.
He reported to the fire protection district board at the October meeting that a letter had been received stating that FEMA was just going to fund actual costs but not for crews and the use of equipment.
Payment was expected in six to eight weeks.
Superintendent Robert Indihar reported at a school board meeting on December 3 that the Moose Lake School had been notified that it will be receiving reimbursement funds of $756,000 in 30 days.
The total bill for flood damages to the school was $850,000. Supt. Indihar explained that some things had not yet been purchased. The remaining funds will be coming when all is completed.


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The House failed last week to pass the Commodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act of 2008, which would have provided more transparency for the commodity markets.
"With the support of more than 290 members of Congress, including more than 75 Republicans, H.R. 6604 was well on its way to being passed over the two-thirds vote requirement, sending a clear signal that transparency and enforcement would return to the commodities and futures markets. Then Republican leadership demanded that members change their votes in order to protect President Bush," said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota.
"H.R. 6604 is a bipartisan bill that passed the Agriculture Committee by voice vote," Peterson said. "It is the product of a comprehensive series of hearings to examine the issues surrounding futures trading from all sides. And it clearly has enough support to pass this House.
"We will continue to pursue meaningful steps to address the conditions that have thrown some futures markets into disorder and hope that members will have the courage of their convictions to join us."
The National Farmers Union also released a statement urging the House to continue to work on the bill. "It's pretty clear that the markets are not functioning as they should," NFU President Tom Buis said. "Without adequate oversight and transparency we will only continue down this slippery slope, leaving America's family farmers and ranchers in jeopardy."
Buis said this legislation would also address concerns producers have about speculation in the energy futures markets, a particular concern for agriculture producers whose input costs are directly related to U.S. and world energy prices.
"There are many reasons for high energy prices; this bill does not and cannot address all of them. However, it is a good step to addressing our concerns in the markets," Buis said. "I urge the Senate to act quickly on similar legislation and the House to continue and work toward passing this necessary legislation."
The NFU statement said the act, "would have required transparency and improved access; prevented excessive speculation by requiring the CFTC establish requirements limiting speculation; and strengthened the CFTC with legal authority and increased staffing to address oversight, surveillance and regulation."
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• Revise the core principles applicable to position limits for contracts in agricultural and energy commodities to require position limits for speculators.
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The Tamarian language was the spoken language of the Tamarians. The Tamarians speak entirely by metaphor, referencing mythological and historical people and events from their culture. As a result, Federation universal translators--although they can successfully translate the individual words and sentence structure--are unable to convey the symbolic meaning they represent. Without prior knowledge of the Tamarians' history and legends, a word-by-word translation is of no use to someone attempting to communicate with them. This language barrier led to isolation of the Tamarian people after all attempts at communication had failed. For example, instead of asking for cooperation, they would use a phrase such as "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra", because their culture's stories include a tale of two Tamarians, Darmok and Jalad, who were brought together while fighting a common foe on an island called Tanagra. The problem with communicating in this fashion is that without understanding the meaning of the reference, the metaphor becomes meaningless. While explaining the structure of the language, Deanna Troi gave the example that "Juliet on her balcony" could be used to describe a romantic situation, but it is impossible to understand if the listener does not know who Juliet is, or why she was on the balcony. (TNG: "Darmok") Some examples of the Tamarian language: "Darmok on the ocean" - loneliness, isolation "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" - cooperation "The beast at Tanagra" - a problem to be overcome "Kadir beneath Mo Moteh" - failure to communicate/understand "Kiteo, his eyes closed" - refusal to understand "Temba, his arms wide/open" - signifying a gift "Temba, at rest" - when a gift being offered is declined "Mirab, with sails unfurled" - signifying departure/engines to full/fleeing "Shaka, when the walls fell" - failure "Sokath, his eyes uncovered/opened" - understanding/realization "The river Temarc in winter" - be quiet/silence "Zinda, his face black, his eyes red" - anger or conflict, also can indicate pain or discomfort "Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha. Lungha, her sky gray" - greeting between two different cultures/races "Uzani, his army with fists open" - to lure the enemy towards you by spreading your forces "Uzani, his army with fists closed" - to close rank and attack after luring the enemy "Kira at Bashi" - to tell a story "Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel" - successful first contact between two alien cultures, or to work toward a common goal These phrases and idioms are often attenuated in conversation - "Shaka, when the walls fell" has been heard shortened to "Shaka"; others follow a similar pattern. Dathon also uses "Kalimash, at Bahar" after experiencing pain in his shoulder, signals to Picard with a hand wave associated with "stay back" in Basic. Perhaps meaning "I feel better now" or "the pain is gone". Background information In one scene where Picard attempts to treat a wounded Dathon, the Tamarian says "Kiazi's children, their faces wet". It is unclear what Dathon means by this, although (since Dathon is trying to shoo Picard away from caring for his injuries at the time) it may allude to children crying for no reason; the Tamarian may be saying that Picard should not worry or feel sad, as nothing could be done. It might also mean that Dathon knew he was dying, as Kiazi's children apparently knew, since Picard was trying to find out the extent of Dathon's injuries at the time. Apocrypha The Tamarian language is explored further in the short story "Friends with the Sparrows" from the TNG anthology The Sky's the Limit. In the story, it is explained that Tamarians have a fundamentally different brain structure to most humanoids, and as such experience concepts such as time and self differently. The story explains that Tamarian children learn the stories behind the metaphors, and thus their meanings, through enactment and repetition. Variations of meaning in metaphors were conveyed through subtle vocal and gestural cues that the universal translator had previously missed. In fields such as engineering and programming, a musical language was used to convey precise equations, numbers and instructions; thus explaining how Tamarians could effectively operate starships.
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Car insurance: MPs to investigate impact of whiplash claims
MPs are to investigate the extent to which claims for whiplash injuries are pushing up the cost of car insurance.
The Commons Transport Committee said it wanted to examine suggestions that rising payouts meant the UK was now the "whiplash capital of the world".
It will look at the impact fabricated and exaggerated claims have on premiums and what can be done about them.
Ministers say action is needed to curb the 60% increase in road-related personal injury claims since 2006.
Whiplash is characterised by the NHS as a neck injury caused by a sudden movement of the head forwards, backwards or sideways.
Claims for such injuries have soared in recent years despite improvements in vehicle safety and a sharp reduction in the number of reported accidents involving personal injury.
The cross-party committee has already held two inquiries into the rising cost of car insurance in the past three years.
But now it plans to focus specifically on claims for whiplash injuries - of which there were more than half a million last year - and how they affect what drivers are paying for insurance.
Insurers say there has been an "epidemic" of claims - with 1,500 made every day - and their £2bn annual cost is adding £90 to the average premium.
In a consultation document published in December, the Ministry of Justice set out ideas for action, including creating new medical panels to improve diagnosis of whiplash injuries and allowing more cases to be challenged in the small claims court.
The committee wants to know whether the government's proposals will reduce the cost of premiums and what proportion of the £90 figure is attributable to inaccurate or fraudulent claims.
It will also study the likely impact of the proposals on genuine claimants and what else can be done to bring down premiums.
Louise Ellman, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, said the issue was "difficult", but she and her colleagues wanted to weigh up all the arguments about the best way forward.
"It is vitally important for policymakers to understand the reasons for the very high cost of motor insurance, especially for young drivers and to take steps to bring that cost down," she added.
"Whiplash claims undoubtedly play a part in driving up the cost of motor insurance but access to justice for injured people must be preserved."
'Fraud of choice'
Former Justice Secretary Jack Straw has mounted a high-profile campaign against what he says is the large increase in dubious whiplash claims, tabling a private member's bill in 2011 urging reform of motor insurance.
The Association of British Insurers has called for whiplash injuries to be assessed by an accredited medical expert, trained in the latest diagnostic techniques and able to take into account the circumstances of the collision rather than the claimant's reported symptoms.
It also says a set level of damages should be prescribed for whiplash claims and any exaggerated claim should be thrown out entirely.
"Insurers want to make it simpler and quicker for genuine whiplash claimants to get fair compensation," says the body's assistant director of motor and liability James Dalton.
"But whiplash is notoriously difficult to diagnose, which means that for too many people it has become the fraud of choice."
The government said it had taken action to help bring down insurance premiums by banning referral fees, reforming no win no fee rules and cracking down on fraudulent whiplash claims.
"In addition, we are considering several options to ensure that newly qualified drivers are properly prepared and drive safely, allowing insurers to reduce premiums for this age group," Roads Minister Stephen Hammond said.
"We continue to work with young people, the insurance industry, and other key partners in addressing this important issue."


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Good fences make good neighbors
The members of the community in the Bulugolla village in Sri Lanka breathed a sigh of relief. It was the month of October and the rice harvest had gone well. The rains had been plentiful and their meddlesome neighbors (seen in picture above) were abiding by their boundaries. This has not always been the case.
As the head of the village explained, "We depend upon a rice harvest to earn our livelihood. While we culturally and traditionally have lived in harmony with elephants, we cannot survive without our paddy farms and so we have to keep the elephants out".
Human wildlife conflict is currently one of the greatest conservation challenges. As human populations grow, wildlife habitat shrink and humans and wildlife come in contact with each other as they compete for resources. In addition, wildlife such as elephants cannot be limited to the boundaries of protected areas as many protected areas can only support a certain number of elephants. In Sri Lanka, most elephant live outside protected areas amidst paddy fields, community villages, highway railways and other development infrastructure that is intended to support the growing human population. Conflict is inevitable but failure to reduce it will result in extinction of wildlife species.


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It was just after 2:30 on the morning of Jan. 25 when Siohban Lee of Takoma Park left the home she shared with her grandmother to meet a man she had connected with on an Internet dating Web site a week or so earlier.
Prosecutors say Lee, 18, was standing at a Metro bus stop at Fifth and Nicholson streets NW when Alexander Buckley shot her in the head. Authorities charged Buckley, 22, whom Lee had met on the social networking Web site Tagged.com, with second-degree murder in Lee's death.
Lee, who graduated last year from Montgomery Blair High School, was found by a patrol officer responding to a call about an unconscious person lying on a sidewalk in the Brightwood neighborhood. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
At a hearing Friday in D.C. Superior Court, nearly three rows of Lee's family, including her parents, grandmother and sister, crowded on one side of the courtroom for Buckley's preliminary hearing. Buckley has been held in the D.C. jail since the shooting. He was escorted into the courtroom wearing an orange jail jumpsuit and had a tattoo of a star on his right cheek.
Authorities believe robbery was the motive in the killing. Homicide detectives say they were able to link Lee's death to Buckley with her black iPhone 4, which remained powered on hours after the shooting. Authorities found Lee's phone, along with a Ruger 9mm semiautomatic handgun, in Buckley's apartment about five blocks from where Lee was killed.
Police did not say in court Friday whether the gun matched the one used to kill Lee.
Court records show that Buckley gave inconsistent and contradictory accounts to detectives who questioned him. He initially denied knowing Lee and denied possessing an iPhone. He then told detectives that he purchased an iPhone from someone who sold it, along with an iPod, on the street for $40.
He then acknowledged knowing Lee and said he met up with her at the bus stop and tried to persuade her to have sex. When Lee refused, he walked away, leaving her at the bus stop alone, he said. He told detectives that he then heard a gunshot, looked back and saw an unidentified man dressed in black running from the scene.
One unidentified witness told detectives that Buckley had showed off the iPhone less than 10 minutes after the shooting. The witness told detectives that Buckley said the phone was locked but that he knew a place he could go and pay to have it unlocked.
D.C. homicide detective James Wilson testified that detectives found Buckley's cellphone number in Lee's phone and that there were 11 calls between the two on Jan. 24 and Jan. 25.
Under cross-examination by Buckley's attorney, Jason Downs of the District's Public Defender Service, Wilson said police had neither witnesses to the shooting nor direct evidence linking Buckley to Lee's death.
Prosecutors also said they believe Buckley had cut off his GPS ankle bracelet days before Lee's death. He was ordered to wear the monitoring device after a 2009 burglary conviction.
Judge Russell F. Canan ordered Buckley to remain in jail until his trial, which is scheduled for 2014.
Friday's hearing was overwhelming for Lee's mother, Nikki Coleman. Coleman left the courtroom in tears, but she returned halfway through the proceedings. "I'm still grieving. No mother should lose her child," she said after the hearing. She described her daughter as a hard worker who worked at the Starbucks in the Giant supermarket in downtown Silver Spring.
Coleman said Lee's grandmother had no idea Lee had left the house the morning she was killed. Coleman said she had repeatedly warned her two daughters about meeting unknown men, whom Coleman called "stray cats," on the Internet.


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President urges Cyprus to "share the burden"
NICOSIA, Cyprus Cyprus's president called on the country to "share the burden" of solving its financial crisis Friday as banks opened for normal business for the second day, but with strict restrictions still in place on how much money their clients can access.
"The deal we agreed on, after the dramatic hours we all lived through last week, is without doubt painful," President Nicos Anastasiades said during a speech at a civil servants union convention Friday.
"Everyone will have to make sacrifices as our financial situation, in the violent way in which it has developed, will oblige all of us to share the burden" to reform the economy, he added.
Lines formed outside some banks just after opening time, but most were gone by mid-morning. Before reopening Thursday, Cyprus's banks had been shut since March 16 to prevent people from draining their accounts as politicians scrambled to save the country's stricken financial sector.
The tiny Mediterranean country has imposed daily withdrawal limits of 300 euros ($384) for individuals and 5,000 euros for businesses -- the first so-called capital controls that any country has applied in the eurozone's 14-year history.
Financial strains are building on families and businesses, and the recession in Cyprus is likely to deepen. Cyprus's banks became much bigger than the country's government could afford to rescue -- more than seven times the size of the country's economy. When the banks were hit by large losses and Cyprus could not afford to bail it out on its own, the country turned to the other 16 European Union countries that use the euro.
On Monday Cyprus agreed to make the banks' bondholders and big depositors contribute to the rescue in order to secure 10 billion euros ($12.9 billion) in loans from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund. One bank, Laiki, is to be split up, with its nonperforming loans and toxic assets going into a "bad bank." The healthy side will be absorbed into the Bank of Cyprus. Savers with more 100,000 euros in both Bank of Cyprus and Laiki will face big losses -- possibly as much as 80 cents on the euro.
However, in spite of the turmoil of the past weeks and harsh conditions of the rescue, Anastasiades stressed that his country's future lay firmly within the euro.
"We are not going to leave, I stress, from the euro. .... We will not, I stress, endanger the future of our country with dangerous experimentation."


text: At 01:30 PM 11/23/2005, Joe Landman wrote: >Jim Lux wrote: >>So here we go with some devil's advocacy... > >:) > >> From the user viewpoint, in a largish shop, but with a single user in mind >>The scenario is that I want to run some sort of analysis tool that is >>computationally intensive enough to require more crunch than I can get >>with a single desktop. Applications that spring to mind are various > >[...] > >fine so far > >>So, whatever I do, my output is eventually going to wind up pasted or >>copied into some MS product, AND, it has to be "clean" enough that when >>the admin for the manager 3 levels above me tries to resize the images >>that I've cut and pasted, it doesn't choke (that means using WMF or EMF >>for graphics, for instance). > >Hmmm... I typically try to use a more standard image format (png, jpg, >tiff, ...). I have found these work better than others in my apps. Most >everything in the windows world happily deals with those. I have had lots >of problem with WMF import. Don't know why. The formats you gave are bitmap images.. The problem is with rescaling.. Say you have a nifty graph generated from something like Matlab. If you rescale the bitmap image, then sometimes the text becomes unreadable, especially if there's more than one rescale involved and the rescaling actually resampled the image (say, to save file space...) If, on the otherhand, you have the image as a vector format, when you rescale, the rendering application (ppt, acrobat, word) can render the text as text at whatever scale it needs to. This is particularly pernicious for documents that get viewed with a projector, and then get zoomed to look at the details. >>What does this sort of environment mean? It means that a strategy where >>I run my analysis tool on a Linux box and then try to export the data >>back to my Windows box for doing the reports is a royal pain. It's > >Hmmm.... If this is a royal pain then (and please don't take this wrong) >your linux/windows system is set up wrong. To "export"/"import" I open a >file on our SAMBA share, that happens to house the home directories from >the cluster. If you have to do anything else then something somewhere is >broken, and yes, it is a pain. Yes, assuming your netops folks allow you to have a "public" sharepoint that is visible from your desktop machine, something that requires a fair amount of institutional negotiation in a MS centric shop. Many aspects of FUD will be raised about whether that's secure, etc. >We set up the transparent access for our customers, and I had assumed that >all cluster vendors did. Maybe I am wrong. Many "locked down" shops want a fair amount of control over the software that's hanging on their internal network, and if your particular cluster distro isn't one they "trust", then it's a problem. Clearly, if a vendor is providing a turnkey systems to someone, then they've taken on the responsibility (and expense) of complying with all the rules for the customer. That can be a major project in itself (it can also be easy.. depends a lot on the customer...) >>worse than sneakernet. Sure, I can SSH into the Linux box from my >>windows box, and even fire up a Xserver on the Windows box, but things >>like cutting and pasting just don't work very seamlessly, and it seems >>that Linux application creators consider generating Windows compatible >>file formats anathema (leaving aside the file format aspects..) because >>they might be considered "pandering to the dark side". Folks.. >>uncompressed TIFF images don't hack it as an interchange medium. > >What? 16MB TIFF for a 50k JPEG? I usually use JPEG or png. If I need to >use a windows format I do. Linux can read/write all of them (and >interconvert) using the right tools, so this is rarely an issue. But not vector formats as easily.. And, yes, you can interconvert on the Linux side to get something useful, but you've also lost a lot of the "seamless user interaction" and starting to get more like a batch oriented sequence of operations: I set up my cluster job, run it, get the output file, then run this script to convert it to a format that's Windows pastable, then copy the file to my windows box, then do "insert file...." in ppt... A lot more steps than "Click on graph, Ctrl-C (or Ctl-Ins), Click on ppt slide, Shift-Ins".. In the Linux cluster but Windows desktop scenario, you're running on two different machines, with two different user interfaces, and you have a cognitive "context switch" every time you go back and forth. (Just the "single click" in kde vs "double click" in Windows distinction is bad enough... how many times have I opened multiple copies of the editor on the headnode?) >As for "pandering", well, that may be an option for some, but my customers >and users need to get work done. The issue is how do you get it done in >the least amount of time and effort, and the greatest impact. And my contention is that in some circumstances, that might be with a cluster using Windows rather than Linux. >>And no, Open Office is not fully interoperable with MS Office. There's >>always little hiccups with things that you really, really need. > >charts (cough cough) > > >>(hmm.. equation editor? footnotes? change tracking? Outline mode?) The > >Actually all of these work really well in 2.0. Its the charts that drive >me batty. > >>typical scenario is that you're one of half a dozen folks working on a >>document, and you all pass it back and forth and make changes, and for >>all practical purposes, we ALL have to be using the same tools (even >>going back and forth between Mac and PC is problematic.. Those "big red >>X" things that appear in your ppt slides). > >Hmmm. Been doing this without problem for a while for ppts going to >certain groups that like good ppts. For the most part we haven't run into >problems apart from font mapping, and I am admittedly not interested in >fixing it at this moment. >>So, whatever applications I'm using on my cluster have to seamlessly >>integrate with the tools the "rest of the business world" are using, >>whether I like or not. > >Also true, quite true of my customers. They are looking for minimum time >to insight (hey look, its a marketing phrase). Fussing around with >transport and conversion of data is not an option. So they don't have to. presumably, though, your customers are Linux centric? That is, they are doing their analysis and reporting in the Linux environment, not the Windows environment? >They can mount their home directories on the cluster as yet another drive >letter. They can and do use it as yet another resource. > >>Now, let's consider another practical detail.. I've got my cluster >>running, and I'm cracking through my work. Something breaks (maybe a PC >>rolls over and dies). I call the help desk. The vast majority of >>problems are something simple (whether the cluster is Linux or Windows). >>Thats why there are support experts out there (ahem) selling their services. Indeed.. and an essential resource they are. However, if you're a naive buyer of cluster computing, you might think that it's easier to just buy that MS cluster and have it supported by the inhouse MS support folks. Fear/Uncertainty/Doubt are powerful, powerful forces when it comes to support. There's a big psychological difference between having your boss call the boss of the support division (keeping it within the company) and calling your outside support vendor. Practically speaking, the actual support might be identical, but it's the thought that "I can get one of those PC support guys over here in an hour to fix my dead node" without spending a fortune (because you've already spent the money for them to be always there for all those thousands of desktops). >>The odds of getting someone to fix my broken cluster, today or tomorrow, >>are much higher if it's Windows based, just because there's more folks >>around who are capable of doing it. If that 1 Linux cluster weenie >>happens to be on vacation, I'm dead... the odds of all 10 Windows cluster >>weenies being on vacation simultaneously is much lower. > >Hmmmm. Again, thats why there are external experts who do this stuff. As >for the 50-100, I think the number is closer to 20-50 desktops per >admin. I have seen 4000 node clusters supported by 2 people full >time. I am not going to comment on the other aspects of this. Typical desktop support costs are around $150/month for a large shop (paying for the help desk and the roving techs)... That's roughly $2K/yr. Figuring a support person costs $200K, that's 100 systems per person. But, as you say, it could easily be a factor of 5 either way, and I think a very good case can be made that the boxes/body ratio for a cluster (which, by definition is all identical boxes configured the same) might be higher. OTOH, a lot of big corporate desktop management systems do the "You can have system configuration A, B, or C, and no other" thing, so they are pretty homogeneous too. >>Now let's talk security. My speculative IT organization supports 10,000 >>windows desktops, and has fairly systematic and rigorous ways to deal >>with the patches that come out once a month, as well as hotfixes for >>vulnerabilities that get discovered. My Windows based cluster isn't >>going to seem scary to the IT security folks.. it's just another 100 >>computers and represents an infinitesimal increase in the overall >>workload and a small increase in the complexity of their workload. The >>incremental cost to bring my cluster into the corporate fold, from a >>security standpoint, is small. > >Uh.... I am going to disagree with you. If you saw the firedrills these >folks go through when the patch bolus hits... it breaks standard desktops >and servers, and they need to watch everything very carefully. I know of >at least one fortune 500 IT organization that lives in fear and >trepidation of the next patch bolus. They are serviced by some other >fortune 500 organization for most of their IT stuff. I will not comment >on the quality of that support. yes, huge firedrills on Patch Tuesday.. BUT... the MS cluster won't incur *additional* hassles, because it's just the same as everything else. (Well, it might.. the applications are different) >Look carefully at what the CTC has to go through with their systems. If >you are running 1000 copies of Norton on your disks, with each one loaded >up with a personal fire wall, anti spyware and virus ... do you really >have a cluster? I don't think so. Sure.. why wouldn't it be a cluster? Sure, you've encountered some inefficiencies in having all those antivirus programs, etc. running where they're not really needed, but still, you're doing cluster work. Mostly, all that dreck fills up disk space and doesn't hugely affect computational performance most of the time, except once a night when SAV phones home for the latest virus pattern files, etc. >>Say I wanted to install a Linux cluster. Ooops.. they're not quite as >>familiar with that. > >And this is why there is a market for this expertise. But then, you have two sources of expense: The outside expertise PLUS the inside people who have to deal with them. Yes, the inside expense is less than it would have been before, but it might well be that the total cost is higher. >>They don't have all the patch rollout stuff, they don't have a patch >>validation methodology, etc. Sure, there's all kinds of patch management >>stuff for Linux, in a bewildering variety of options, but now we've got >>to have a Linux security expert, in addition > >... all of this outsourceable for a tiny fraction of what they pay for >their required in house windows staff ... Is it really that much cheaper? I suspect not. Large windows shops aren't all that inefficient.. they can't be. It's not going to be, say, 10 times more expensive to manage windows boxes than Linux boxes in an apples/apples comparison. And, there's a huge commercial pressure to come up with ways to reduce the management costs of Windows boxes (so you have products like Patchlink). And once you add in the overhead to make the inhouse compliance folks feel warm and fuzzy, outsourcing might not be as cost effective. >>to the cadre of MS security folks we already have. You mean your cluster >>uses a different distro than the other iconoclastic Linux desktop users >>have? You recompiled the kernel to get the latest whizbang high >>performance network support? > >Hmmmm..... > >>With MS, the choice is easy.. use what you're already using for the rest >>of the company (SMS probably). Kernel or distro compatibility isn't an >>issue.. you use what you're given and suck up the inefficiencies and live >>with it. If it's a performance dog, you go make the pitch to buy more nodes. > >Actually it is a huge issue. Some codes are just not supported under some >patch levels (SP2) because it breaks it. So you have a choice of running >your mission critical code or running at the accepted support level. But this is essentially the same choice.. either your software works on your configuration (be it Linux distro or Windows build) or it doesn't. In the Linux case, you've got the potential option of spending serious time convincing the powers that be that you can make it work and still be in conformance with the instutitional computing rules. In the Windows case, you're just plain out of luck. Of course, in the Windows world, most shops have dealt with the "how to support multiple SP levels of Windows" problem.. and, of late, this problem is much, much reduced from the days of Win95,Win98,WinME,NT4.0. I haven't had anything break with Win2K or WinXP patches in a long time, with the exception of a weird interaction between the OpenGL drivers in Matlab R13 and Win2K. As far as the "MS only supports 2 versions back".. that comes with the territory in Windows applications. If you're selling applications for Windows based clusters, you'd have to factor that into your support strategy, same as if you're selling applications for any other flavor of Windows. >>So, all in all, there's a real case to be made for a Windows based >>cluster, even if the raw performance takes a big hit. In terms of >>"getting the work done" for a fixed dollar allocation, you might be >>better off buying more nodes to make up for the performance than paying >>for all the extra stuff that corporate IT is going to require. > >There is a case, but I think it is different than you argued. I have been >thinking this through for a while. A large cluster is an appliance, as is >a small cluster, as is a router. It needs to be managed as one, and >appear to drop onto the net as an appliance. All interaction from the >windows centric folk need to be as an appliance. This is the windows model. I think so... and you've got to "look" to the Windows centric world appropriately "trustworthy", just like that network connected HP printer down the hall. What you can't do is "look like a computer", because that will scare them. >It is very hard to get a windows person to change to linux, unless they >need to. So you lower the barriers by making this thing appear as nice >and friendly as possible. Wrap it with some nice web tools for job >submission (we have some being deployed at a number of customer >sites). Make data transfer drag and drop via explorer (which we >do). Make all aspects of this be as easy as possible. > >It can be done, just requires effort and focus upon integration. > >There are lots of cluster hardware vendors out there who will happily sell >linux hardware (or windows for a premium). There are few who actually >know how to make this all work seamlessly. If you call it a cluster >appliance and build it as such, and make it appear to be just a little web >appliance with some disk which happens to calculate for people, well, the >resistance level is very low. Indeed... I agree... the problem is that someone has to pay for building that "web appliance" and I'm not entirely sure that the market for clusters is big enough to allow that (substantial) expense to be spread thin enough. My Linksys WRT54G has Linux inside, as does my Moxi digital cable box, but the vast majority of users of either are not aware of it. They're also being produced in million scale quantities, so the considerable work required to "hide" Linux (or equally valid for some other devices, WinCE) and make it truly "appliance like" is small in a per unit sense. I think there IS a market for an appliance with some applications tailored to use it. Say you have someone doing a lot of work with NASTRAN or HFSS (both are computationally intensive FEM programs). You could give them their familiar windows executable that just happens to feed work off to a networked attached computational engine. I've contemplated doing something like this with a program called 4NEC2, which wraps a nice Windows front end around a compiled FORTRAN backend program (NEC -Numerical Electromagnetics Code). NEC runs just fine on Linux (heck, there's even cluster versions of it) and the "interface" is just text files in 80 column card images and 132 character printer output. Jim


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Aayla Secura
With an athletic build, an exotic beauty, and blue skin, Aayla Secura stood out among the many faces of the Jedi ranks. A cunning warrior and Jedi Knight during the rise of the Clone Wars, Aayla fought alongside Clone Commander Bly on many exotic battlefields. Having mastered the emotional detachment necessary in the Jedi Order, she always tried to pass on what she had learned to others. Aayla was killed, along with many other Jedi Generals, when her troops turned on her in reaction to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's broadcast of Order 66.
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The Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura learned the ways of the Jedi as Padawan to Quinlan Vos. As a Jedi Knight, she joined the mission to rescue Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi from captivity on Geonosis, fighting in the arena against Geonosian drones and Separatist battle droids.
Aayla served as a Jedi General during the Clone Wars, forging a close working relationship with Clone Commander Bly. She sought to teach younger Jedi what Master Vos had taught her, counseling Ahsoka Tano after Anakin Skywalker's injury on Maridun.
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Twi'leks are tall, thin humanoids with skin pigment that spans a rainbow of colors. Their most distinctive feature is a pair of shapely prehensile tentacles that grow from the base of their skulls. Few things are as graceful as a female Twi'lek in motion. This beautiful image has forever doomed generations of young Twi'leks into servitude, as the wealthy and corrupt have taken to brandishing Twi'leks as badges of prestige. In the waning years of the Republic, the Twi'lek homeworld of Ryloth was represented in the Galactic Senate by the corpulent blue-skinned politician Orn Free Taa. Even a politician of high office was not above flaunting a pair of lovely Twi'lek aides as a sign of influence and wealth.
Felucia is a world teeming with fungal life-forms and immense primitive plants. Much of the planet has a fetid, humid landscape overgrown by forests of bizarre wilderness. Many of the life-forms on Felucia are partially or completely translucent; they color the sunlight as the beams penetrate their skin. Others are opaque and imposing, like the enormous jungle rancors that roam the landscape. Beneath the hazy canopies of the enormous pitcher plants and leafy growths is a surreal color-drenched expanse. During the Clone Wars, the Jedi attempted to defend Felucia from those who would exploit the planet.
Ryloth is the principal planet in the Ryloth system located in the Outer Rim near Tatooine. It is home to the Twi'leks, a humanoid species with two large, fleshy head-tails growing from their skulls. The Twi'leks call these prehensile appendages lekku and can communicate through subtle lekku gestures, although they also speak Twi'leki. During the Clone Wars, scheming Separatist warlords blockaded and invaded Ryloth, hoping to steal its riches.
Quinlan Vos
A Jedi with a sarcastic sense of humor and a reputation for not playing by the rules, Quinlan Vos was an expert tracker renowned for his ability to read memories from objects people handled. The Jedi Council sent him on a mission to assassinate Count Dooku, during which Vos fell in love with the assassin Asajj Ventress and was forced to learn the ways of the dark side of the Force.
Clone Commander Bly
A veteran of many Clone Wars battles, Clone Commander Bly (clone designation CC-5052) served in the 327th Star Corps on such worlds as Quell, Maridun, and Felucia. Bly developed a close working relationship with Jedi General Aayla Secura, who was always reassured to know the dependable clone trooper had her back.


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The new Scuderia Ferrari T-shirt is made from high quality materials and features a racing-inspired design. With a straight cut that provides a regular fit, this T-shirt designed especially for young fans of Scuderia Ferrari is decorated with the original 2018 Formula 1 team logos, in color printing or embroidered. The details of the contrasting inserts on the shoulders and the Italian tricolor graphics on the sides really make this piece stand out.
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A mysterious curate arrives one dark and stormy night to succor the populace—in this dryly comic tale by British novelist Mantel (The Giant, O'Brien, 1998, etc.).
First published in England in 1989, Fludd takes place in Fetherhoughton, a sorry post-industrial town on the moors where petty animosities and pervasive ill-humor hold sway. Father Angwin, the priest, is a decent man, though by 1956 he's long since given up believing in God and goes through the motions of his office only in hopes that his congregation may still benefit. His bishop's request that all the statues of saints be removed from Angwin's church results in a crisis, which the priest ineffectively resolves by burying the figures. He then settles deeper into his despair, but a knock on his door, which opens to reveal the sodden and peculiar figure of Fludd, also reveals a way to his redemption. Fludd has a strange effect on everyone he meets: Angwin, who immediately confesses the whole of his disbelief, feels a load lifted, which enables him to act decisively; the priest's spinster housekeeper, Agnes Dempsey, finds a warmth spreading through her that makes her hopeful once again; and when Fludd reads the palm of the town convent's youngest member, Irish Sister Philomena, she awakens to new possibilities in life—possibilities that she'd never dared dream of. But along with his quiet miracles, Fludd brings a hefty measure of unease, since no one can remember exactly what he looks like when he's not around, and he seems to eat and drink without actually chewing or swallowing. At the close, he performs the one act that will set them all free, and then, like the true conjurer he is, has a final trick up his sleeve just for Sister Philomena.
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Pictured: Joe Bertagna '73, Hockey East Commissioner,
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Sports Illustrated's "Faced in the Crowd"
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –Junior forward Liza
Ryabkina of the fifth-ranked Harvard women's hockey team is
among six athletes across the country to be featured in the Feb. 22
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Ryabkina, a native of Kharkiv, Ukraine, is a nominee for this season's Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, given to the nation's top collegiate women's hockey player. She ranks second on Harvard with 11 goals and is third with 17 points this year. Ryabkina also ranks first on the Crimson and eighth in the nation with four game-winning goals to her credit.
Ryabkina was the unanimous selection as the Beanpot Most Valuable Player after scoring five goals in the tournament. She scored the game-winner in Harvard's 1-0 win over Northeastern in the Beanpot championship game Feb. 9 and scored four times, including three in the third period alone, in the Crimson's 5-0 victory against Boston College in the opening round Feb. 2.


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getDigital.de needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 73 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
Our page urgently needs a redesign. We want to keep the site structure, you should just redesign the navigation, header, etc and the product detail page. This is the site we are talking about: http://www.getdigital.de
We need a new design of the webpage which can be found at http://www.getdigital.de. We want a new design of the homepage and a new design of the product detail page. These are the detailled requirements:
1. The parts of the page which are displayed on each site (header, left navigation box, right info boxes, border of the boxes, infobox at the bottom) are not modern enough anymore, which is why we need a design for them. We don't have a specific idea for the design, but we want that the slim style is preserved (for example navigation links that can be programmed in HTML/CSS) and that there is a connection to our target group (geeks/computerfreaks), but not too intrusive so that potential customers with another background are not scared away. Our logo can stay as it is (only the writing "getDigital.de" without the background, font PerfectPixel).
Some info about each element:
Header: Besides the logo and some advertising slogans the header should contain a search box, which could maybe be designed more user friendly as it is now (for example with the caption "Produktsuche" or "Product search" in English). The advertising slogans can be removed if needed for the design.
Navigation box: This contains our navigation, please have a look at the site to see which links.
Right boxes: Besides the shopping cart this part of the site contains a campaign box, in which we advertise for free products or a bestseller product. It should be possible to place an image, a heading and a short text with a link to a detail page in this box. Additionally, this part contains another box in which we advertise for our realitypics. The displayed picture is chosen randomly each time the page is reloaded, but the text stays the same.
Main box: We like the design of the content of this box on most pages, no changes are needed here except on the product detail page (more to this later). Here, only the border should be changed. The background of the content must stay white.
Bottom box: This box is not very important, it contains some additional info. It can be removed if needed for the design.
General remarks:
The whole site is available in two languages (German and English), so it is important that the length of all texts can vary a bit. We have additional fun languages like binary, hex and l33t, these can mess up the design a bit as they are only for fun. Please have a look at the current page for an idea of this.
It is not important that the order of the boxes is preserved, you can also remove some of the content and put it in another box (for example the language selection, which is maybe easier to find in the header). You are also allowed to merge two boxes, etc. Please feel free in this part. It is important that the design can use the full width of the screen with all resolutions (as it is on the current page) and that it is fully usable with 1024 resolution width.
Additionally, we want to add the following three texts to the page (don't know where):
- 4 Wochen Widerrufsrecht / 4 weeks return time
- 98% Kundenzufriedenheit / 98% customer satisfaction
- Versand innerhalb von einem Tag / We ship within one day
2. The design of the product detail page (only the content of the main box, directly for one product (with the prices, the "Add to cart" button, etc) should be changed completely, you only have to preserve the functions, which are in detail: Price info (can be more than one price), main and additional pictures, video, availability display (in stock or not?), shopping cart button with optional type dropdown box, heading, link to the category overview, product description. Please note that the video and the additional pictures are optional. Here is a direct link to a product that displays all these things: http://www.getdigital.de/products/clocky
There is an additional difficulty because shirts have a larger price display, more variants to choose from (all other products have only one variant) and an additional info link to sizes/colors info. Here is an example: http://www.getdigital.de/products/I…r_computer
The main focus in the design should be on usability, everything should be presented very clearly and it must be easy to find the order button.
Currently not on the site, but needed are the following features:
A box with short info about a product (only for the gadgets, NOT for the geek wear shirts) like an extremely short description (one sentence), dimensions, needed batteries, color, etc.
An additional button "To your wish list" ("Auf die Wunschliste"), which has to draw much less attention than the "Add to cart" button.
A list of complementary/similar products (2-4, presented with very small pictures), heading "Zu diesem Artikel passende Produkte" or "Complementary products".
As described in the description
HTML/CSS Code, we just need the graphics. For the rest see the description.


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Preamplifiers are essential elements in the audio chain for sound systems and home theaters. The Plinius Tautoro is on the top tier of high-end preamplifiers in with high –quality manufacturing and design. However, it is also on the top tier of price tags at an MSRP of $8,395.
The Plinius Tautoro's exceptional construction and design features simple front / side panels which are ergonomically sound. The source selection buttons are adequately lit and appropriately sized. The front panel also features a volume control wheel that is both big and tactile. You will also find a ¼" headphone jack that is, despite being traditionally standard, very rare in many of today's models. Moreover, turning the Plinius Tautoro around, the rear panel has well-organized, high-quality WBT socketry.
As a multi-source, superior system, the Plinius Tautoro features generous input and output options for easy, instinctive control. This includes home theater bypass, adjustable gain (50dB, 56dB, 60dB, 66dB), adjustable load (47k, 470R, 100R, 47R, 22R), phase inversion, preamplifier outputs, fixed-level stereo output for recording, and other useful elements.
You will also find proprietary features like the traditional Plinius ground lift switch along with 12V trigger input/outputs, main power on/off switch, and a third party remote input. The included remote control provides easy access to volume adjusting, source selection, and secondary operations like phase inversion, display dimming, and home theater bypass activation. The inclusion of buttons allowing for full functionally of an optional Plinius CD player is another plus.
The Upside:
Behind its exceptional build, the Plinius Tautoro Preamplifier delivers a clean and stable sound without much disruption. While many other preamplifiers try to improve and deliver a lush sound (sometimes to the point of being too sweet and rich), this model defines sound with more detail in its natural highs and flats. There is no doubt the Tautoro is a full-function, full-featured preamplifier worth its hefty price tag.
The Downside:
The Plinius Tautoro is not the most spatially or environmentally-friendly product. It is large, not very light, and heats up pretty fast with use. It actually might require its own dedicated stand depending on your sound system or home theater setup.
Taking into account its high price point, the Plinius Tautoro is all-in-all well-worth it. Apart from its dependable, solid construction, it has all the extra functionality most audiophiles will clamor for and that casual users will also learn to appreciate. Even with all its capabilities and options, it is still very easy and enjoyable to use. It provides all the crucial elements that deliver great sound. Whatever you are playing, it is guaranteed to sound its best with the Plinius Tautoro.


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If you've ever suspected store mannequins of knowing more than they let on, it might not be just your imagination. An Italian company known as Almax has developed a $5,000 bionic mannequin that employs the same type of facial-recognition software used to identify criminals in a crowd. Equipped with cameras in their eye sockets, the "EyeSee" dummies are designed to profile shoppers by age, gender, and race in much the same way online merchants do. The data, according to Almax, can help stores tailor their offerings, window displays, and even store layouts to appeal to their customer base and help boost sales. Our take? It's more than a little creepy to have robots watch—not to mention record—your every move.
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From the outside, the EyeSee looks like every other dummy you've ever encountered, down to its frozen expression, dead-inside gaze, and hand-on-jutted-hip pose. Each ersatz human is made of recyclable, shockproof polystyrene and finished with water-based paints "in full respect of the environment," according to Almax. The real reason the EyeSee is superior to overhead security cameras, however, is because it stands at eye level and "invites customer attention," Max Catanese, the company's CEO, told Bloomberg Businessweek.
The EyeSee doesn't store anyone's image, but rather converts the streaming video into raw numbers for crunching.
The EyeSee doesn't store anyone's image, but rather converts the streaming video into raw numbers for crunching.
Using EyeSee, for instance, prompted one retailer to create a children's clothing line after the dummy showed that kids made up more than half of its afternoon traffic. Another Almax customer posted Mandarin-speaking employees by one of its doors after it found that a third of its visitors using that entrance after 4 p.m. were of Chinese descent.
You'd think that profiling customers without their consent would raise legal and ethical issues, but Almax insists that the technology processes the data without transmitting sensitive information that might cross boundaries of privacy. The EyeSee doesn't store anyone's image, but rather converts the streaming video into raw numbers for crunching. Not that the gray area couldn't get even grayer, of course: The company is considering rigging the mannequins with listening devices or adding screens that show customers products relevant to their profiles, not unlike cookies and targeted ads on a website.
Just don't give the dummies artificial intelligence or moving limbs, please. We all know how that turns out.
+ Almax
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Located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, Victory Gardens Theater Company has welcomed up-and-coming playwrights for 33 years. In 2004, the company expanded its campus with the purchase of the Biograph Theater for its new main stage. Built in 1914, the theater was one of the city's oldest remaining neighborhood movie houses, and it was part of Chicago's gangster lore: in 1934, John Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI in the Biograph's alley.
Architect Daniel P. Coffey, FAIA, of Daniel P. Coffey and Associates, and general contractor Pepper Construction preserved the landmark exterior, restoring the façade and replacing the historic marquee with a replica of the original.
Inside, the old movie house had been chopped up into a hodge-podge cineplex. The Building Team and the theater company "wanted something unexpected and fresh," said Coffey. Once inside, theatergoers would enter Victory Gardens' "new world."
That "new world" had to be created in a relatively small space—30,000 sf—and on a tight construction budget—about $6.4 million. The Building Team created a lobby that puts on a performance of its own, creating the appearance of a pricier and larger space than it actually is. Hints of cherry hardwood trim and marble counters were used to suggest a heftier budget. Drywall "clouds" and mirrors were added to make it appear more expansive.
In the theater itself, the company wanted an intimate space for both audience and performers. The walls were painted rich colors of ochre and burgundy to create a warm atmosphere. The 299 seats were angled to achieve ideal sightlines with minimal blocking; no patron is more than 45 feet from the stage.
"There's not a bad seat in the house," said Reconstruction Awards judge Walker Johnson, FAIA, who added, "While the regular theatergoers have remained very loyal, this new venue can only help vault Victory Gardens to new heights."


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It would be easy to slam feel-good actions and the officials who support resolutions, ordinances and legislation that does little except pander to political causes and factions in the hope of garnering votes.
Instead, we'll concede that on the local level, at least, there is sometimes a sincere belief that these things, well, actually might have value in the statement alone.
We will place newly elected and novice council member Richard Leon's support the Second Amendment resolution in that "sincere belief" category, perhaps because we are such strong Bill of Rights supporters ourselves.
However, we do agree with the council majority which has, in essence, twice rejected the measure as both redundant and an open door to political posturing on, literally, any and all issues du jour guaranteed to get a headline, sound bite or recognition from organizations that push the cause.
Let us be clear here.
Each sitting member of council, upon his or her swearing in, vowed to uphold the Constitution of the United States as well as the laws of our state.
That's a pretty strong affirmation of not only the Second Amendment but the bedrock document upon which our county was so successfully built.
Understand, too, that the rejected resolution would have done nothing to bind anyone to any position or even reveal too-hot, too-cold or just-right positions on the controversial issue of gun control, the reason these "reaffirmations" are popping up on the local, county and state level.
There are too many very real critical local issues at hand that must be addressed here in the Cape rather than Mom, apple pie and baseball rhetoric.
Even if the underlying belief in such is both admirable and sincere.
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Amanda M. White
posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 9:51 am
I have a question regarding what to include in the ascii file from SPSS to be used in Mplus. I've run both an EFA and a CFA to explore and confirm latent constructs, however now that I want to run a path analysis, I'm having some problems. In the EFA and CFA, I included only the variables that were being exmained. I did not include the dependent variables or any control variables in the original EFA and CFA since I didn't want them to be part of the latent consructs. My main question is should I keep these variables in the ascii file even though I don't want them to be used for the EFA and CFA. But, I do want to use them in the path analysis. Any thoughts?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 10:09 am
I would have all of the variables in the ASCII file. The USEVARIABLES option of the data set is used to select a subset of variables from a data set to be used in the analysis.
Amanda M. White
posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:02 pm
Great! Thanks for your help!
Amanda M. White
posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 12:17 pm
One more question regarding SEM - I can only find an example for SEM using continuous variables. Is the syntax not different for SEM using continous and categorical?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 2:13 pm
Observed factor indicators in an SEM model can be continuous, censored, binary, ordered categorical (ordinal), counts, or combinations of these variable types. You can use the CENSORED, CATEGORICAL, and COUNT options of the VARIABLE command to specify the scale of dependent variables that are not continuous.
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