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Web Feature Posted November 10, 2010
What would you ask the man who introduced the world to Narnia, Aslan, the Pevensies, and Reepicheep?
Alas, C.S. Lewis is not available for questions anymore.
But Micheal Flaherty is.
Co-founder and president of Walden Media, Flaherty is currently overseeing his studio's third big-screen adaptation of Lewis's beloved fantasy series. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader opens December 10, 2010.
After Flaherty's recent visit to Seattle Pacific University, where he spoke at an event hosted by SPU's Center for Integrity and Business and presented a Dawn Treader sneak preview, he took time to answer some questions from Response about the new Narnia film, Walden's vision for improving literacy among children, and the distinctive characteristics of stories Walden chooses to transform into movies.
Watch Flaherty's presentation "Reading and Movies," sponsored by The Center for Integrity in Business
Watch Flaherty's presentation at an SPU chapel gathering, "Prospero's Books: Using Film to Lead People Into a Transformational Love of Literature."
FLAHERTY: When we were first doing The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, we had a couple of A-list directors who came in and said, "I read this for the first time. It's a great story. But it really doesn't make sense to have a kids' movie where the lion dies and then comes back from the dead. We should just have him get roughed up a little."
Anytime people want to change fundamental points of the story, that's an immediate red flag.
We love it when a director has some creative ways to address the adaptation of a book into film, because you do have to make changes. As much as we love to talk about being purists, there's a difference between a faithful adaptation and a literal adaptation. We want the changes that they're suggesting and exploring to be faithful to the themes of the book.
First you have to figure out: Why was this story successful? What about this story made people love it, and what are those elements that we have to take the Hippocratic Oath on? What are the things we can't do any harm to?
In the case of the Narnia stories, the first thing we try to do is identify those themes. With Narnia, the key is to identify a lot of Aslan's dialogue in terms of, "What is Scripture? What cannot be changed one iota?" It all starts from the standpoint of "How do we make this truly respectful to the book and to the author?"
One thing that really helps us a lot is the example set by Pixar movies.
Our studio partners will try to look for something big to happen in the first act. They'll look for us to set up some things really early so that we can keep kids glued to the screen. They always talk about how, in the day and age of the Xbox and the iPad, you've really got to keep kids' attention glued.
But then we will point to a Pixar movie like Up, or even a movie like Wall-E, that creates a beautiful world, but it's built slowly. You get to know and love the characters before they're in the enormous explosions.
As a result, some films make for some very tense test screenings of new movies. The studios' people are always looking around during the first 20–25 minutes of test screenings to see what viewers' reactions are. Occasionally there will be a laugh or something. But I look back at Bridge to Terabithia or even Holes, two of our highest-testing movies, it's all about "the build" in those movies. You get to know and love the characters, with a big, big payoff in the third act. They are different from films that have huge set pieces or huge chases right at the beginning.
So for us, the biggest challenge is making sure that our studio partners are patient with that type of filmmaking.
In terms of "reform" and "systematic changes" — we have to get more kids reading.
This goes beyond the fact that reading is good for people's health — it's a key part of Walden's business strategy. The fact that Bridge to Terabithia and Holes were best-selling books that already had an audience out there made it a lot easier for us to get those films made. If those were original screenplays, we could never, ever get them adapted.
But this is a problem: Walden's a company dedicated to making films based on popular books, and it didn't take us long before we had effectively run out of choices. There were plenty of options those first few years, but now the cupboard is growing pretty bare. We're out there looking. We're starting to publish our own books. So hopefully for us, we'll get to the point where the books that we're publishing become a real, solid source of material for our films.
That's why we're really hoping that to get a film going on the book Savvy.
Savvy is a Newbery honor-winning book by a first time author named Ingrid Law. It's about a fascinating family — a home schooled, Christian family.
In Savvy's world, on your 13th birthday, you become aware of your "savvy." Your savvy is your unique talent that could be anything from reading people's minds to creating hurricanes to baking the perfect pie.
Mibs is the protagonist. Her father gets into an awful car accident just a couple of days before her 13th birthday, and her hope is that her savvy will be something that will help save her father.
We have a fantastic script. Karen Janszen, who wrote the script for A Walk to Remember, wrote this script for us. We're out looking for directors right now. It could kick off a new genre of home-schooled superheroes.
The storyteller's voice is certainly critical. And sense of humor is certainly critical.
I'm blessed with a son that reads a lot. He loves the voice that Jeff Kinney uses in Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Kinney's got a great sense of humor. He's got great characters.
It's so different for boys and for girls. We have to be more honest about that, considering the current reading crisis. We're partnering with a great children's author named Jon Scieszka, and Jon is editing a new book series for us called "Guys Read." He's written so many of my son's favorite books. It was just such a blessing to be able to work with him on this new series, along with Christopher Paul Curtis, Jeff Kinney, and Kate DiCamillo. Kate leads the way in knowing what kids really respond to.
And kids respond to a sense of brokenness, too — that sense that the world isn't as perfect as they had thought, and that things can be reconciled and made better.
I think the hardest lesson we've learned is that we're in the hits business. You can go from a period where you have films that are doing great, and then you can hit a cold spell for years. So you really start to question yourself and what you're doing and reevaluate things.
That's where it's really helpful to have a mission statement be your north star.
There are enormously loyal audiences out there for literature, just as much as there are for kids' toys. We hope the industry is learning to consider children's literature as a branded property, no different than a comic book character or a popular television series.
The second lesson — and it's a lesson that we have to remind ourselves, because we're not batting 1,000 in this by any stretch of the imagination — is to involve authors a lot more into the screenwriting process.
I think they should all read The Screwtape Letters.
In this business, the greatest ethical challenges are sometimes about making bad decisions one millimeter at a time, until we find out that we're several kilometers away from where we should be. It's important to make the right decisions every single day, inch by inch, so you don't wake up one day and find you're making films that are completely different than the ones you got into the business to make, or, even worse, that you've become a totally different person.
SPU students are people who feel a real sense of mission and a real sense of purpose. These aren't kids going into film just because they think it's cool. They understand that stories have an enormous power to transform and shape culture. And I think that it's even more important for folks like the students at SPU to always be mindful of that.
Ralph Winter, who produced the X Men series, some of the Star Trek movies, and Fantastic Four gave us a crack at partnering with him on it. But speaking for me and the other Walden folks working on it, we just could not figure it out how to approach it creatively.
Does it have to be set during World War II? Does it have to be set at wartime? Does the patient have to lose his life in battle? Does there only have to be one patient, or can we track multiple patients? Does it have to be Great Britain, or could it be Los Angeles, which is a great setting. I think it's a town Screwtape would love. What shape do the demons take? Are they interacting with us personally? Or are they just sort of a whisper that's in our head that we can't identify?
These were all great questions. Each one of them can set you off into a different direction creatively. We just couldn't figure it out and we decided not to move forward.
But it's back. I think that Ralph has come much, much closer to figuring out a way to approach it. I'm confident that he will be able to do it.
We had a difficult experience with the adaptation of Prince Caspian, and got some criticism for that. We truly, perhaps naively, thought that we were making a good adaptation there. But we saw the problems with it, and so there is no way we're going to take so many liberties with Screwtape after the Prince Caspian experience.
My biggest hope is that when we have the test screenings, when we ask people questions afterward, they're still wiping their eyes. I think that the ending of Dawn Treader is the most emotional of all three Narnia films, and one of the more emotional endings I've ever seen in a film. Even if you don't know the books, it's such an emotional goodbye to Lucy, who's my favorite character, and Reepicheep, who's my second-favorite character. To see both of them bid their farewells, it's super emotional.
My second-biggest hope is that people love Eustace, because he's going to be a pretty important character for us moving forward.


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Chesterton Tribune
Storm could dump 9 inches of snow on Indy area
(AP) — The calendar reads spring, but the crocuses might just croak.
The National
Weather Service in Indianapolis is calling for five to nine inches of snow
over much of central Indiana starting Sunday. The snow is expected to
enter the state around 4 a.m. and arrive in the Indianapolis area by 8
Areas south of
Bloomington could see a mix of snow and rain and lower accumulations.
Even though it
won't feel like spring, emergency management officials are preparing for
more seasonal weather hazards. Gov. Mike Pence has proclaimed next week
Severe Weather Preparedness Week, and a statewide test of emergency
communication systems is planned Wednesday.
service meteorologist Mike Ryan says the latest significant snowfall on
record in Indianapolis was 5 inches on April 9, 1897.

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Introduction to VLANs by HTRegz
Hey Hey,
I searched through the Tutorials Index and couldn't find anything on VLANs so I figured I'd throw this up. I've got a test on Configuring Cisco and Nortel switches for VLANs in a few hours, so I figure brushing up on the theory couldn't hurt. I find I learn best when I'm explaining for others, so here ya go. This is a introduction to VLANs, so for those of you with knowledge it will seem rather simple. If a more in-depth tutorial is wanted. I will go about doing some serious research and writing one.
What is a VLAN?
**As a side note, if you have never used webopedia before, I suggest you go take a look at it**Source: Webopedia
Short for virtual LAN, a network of computers that behave as if they are connected to the same wire even though they may actually be physically located on different segments of a LAN. VLANs are configured through software rather than hardware, which makes them extremely flexible. One of the biggest advantages of VLANs is that when a computer is physically moved to another location, it can stay on the same VLAN without any hardware reconfiguration.
VLANs let you group people logically, rather than physically as the definition says.
You have Accounting and Marketing Departments. These departments both have 7 employees and 1 manager. Being a large corporation, your managers aren't on the same floor as the rest of the employees, they're a few floors up with bigger offices. Yet you want all people related to Accounting on one network and all those related to marketing on another, including the managers. This would be a pain if you were designing your network using physical layouts. You'd have to run some massively long wires and it would be counter productive if someone ever moved. Your switches would look something like this.
This would be rather messy. Say someone movies to a different cubicle or office, you would have to run wires back to the original switch.Code:Accounting Switch Marketing Switch X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | S S S S S S S 2 S S S S S S S 2 A A A A A A A A A A A A A A M M M M M M M F M M M M M M M F E E E E E E E L E E E E E E E L O O F F F F F F F O F F F F F F F O L L L L L L L R L L L L L L L R O O O O O O O S O O O O O O O S O O O O O O O O O O O O O O R R R R R R R U R R R R R R R U P P
Solution: VLANs.
You setup 2 VLANs in your company. VLAN1 - Accounting and VLAN2 - Marketing. You configure your switches. Instead of the 2 8 port switches, you'd have a 16 port and for the other anything over 3 ports would do the trick, but we'll say an 8 port. On the floor with all the bean counters you'd have the 16 port switch. (instead of typing Same floor I will abreviate to SF to save space)
Now we've introduced something new. A Port labelled Trunk. Those of you who have done the CCNA will know this as the Trunk port, and those of you who have dealt with Nortel will know this as a Tagged port. Same thing... different name. A Trunk/Tagged port allows for communication between VLANs which span multiple switches (The Trunk/Tagged port must be a member of both VLANs when configured). Assuming our trunk ports are connected in the above example now an Employee on VLAN1 could ping the Manager on VLAN1's workstation. When the first trunk port recieves the data, it adds a tag to it. The recieving trunk port will remove this tag. The tag tells the recieving trunk port the VLAN ID of the transmitting workstation, so that it knows how to deal with the data. The tag is defined by IEEE 802.1q. A Tag Looks like this.Code:Employee Switch VLAN1 | VLAN2 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | S S S S S S S S S S S S S S T F F F F F F F F F F F F F F R U N K Manager Switch VLAN1 | VLAN2 X X X X X X X X | | | S S T F F R U N K
So Data Leaves the WS attached to port 1 on VLAN1. It travels to the trunk port and is tagged. It is recieved by the attached trunk port which looks at the VLAN ID in the TAG and switches it over to VLAN1 and removes the tag.Code:_________________________________________________________ | 6 Bytes | 6 Bytes | 4 Bytes | 2 Bytes | 46 - 1500 bytes | | DST | SRC | TAG | PROTOCOL| DATA | |___MAC___|___MAC___| |___TYPE__|_________________| ___________/ \___________ | 10 Bits | 3 Bits | 1 Bit | 12 Bits| |_81-00___|PRIORITY|__CFI__|VLAN ID_|
This has all been an example of Port-based VLANs. You should know however that you can also do Host (MAC) based VLANs (this is handy) because if you move a computer, when you plug it in, it will be back on the same VLAN. There are also Protocol based VLANs which allow you to segregate networks based on protocol (IP, IPX, etc).
One last thing I will leave you with is that 2 VLANs cannot directly communicate, even if they are on the same switch. They are seperate networks and, therefore, require a router to communicate.
By Enabling dot1q encapsulation on the router and setting up the ethernet interface to be a trunk and using sub-interfaces to define each VLAN, we can configure the router to route packets from VLAN1 to VLAN2 and vise-versa. This is basically just a matter of configuration. If there is enough interest. I will write an addendum on the configuration of both nortel and cisco routers and switches to carry out these tasks. I will also do a more advanced VLAN tutorial if so desired. This is designed to be a simple introduction. Feedback is always appreciated.Code:Switch VLAN1 | VLAN2 X X X X X X X X T R U N K | | | X Router
Edit: Some of the formatting is messed up. I apologize for this and will attempt to fix it when I get a chance. However I'm already running late for class.


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What Kind of Lasting Impression Did Historic Husker Team Have on You?
Randy York's N-sider
To "Respond to Randy" click on the link below and choose "Randy York's N-Sider" under "Area of Interest" on the new screen. Please include your name and city/town/state and share your thoughts on the Nebraska women's record-breaking basketball season. Your comments may be published.
The most historic basketball season in Nebraska history ended at the Sprint Center in Kansas City Sunday night, and Husker women's fans everywhere might have gone to bed asking themselves at least one important question before they turned off their televisions, radios, computers, cell phones and lights after a 76-67 loss to Kentucky.
Like this one: What kind of lasting impression did this record-breaking Husker team have on me?
If you take just a minute or two to think about all the trailblazing accomplishments the Huskers packed into the past five months, you know that this was more than the program's most memorable season ever.
It was a season that built a new foundation with talented, courageous, unselfish, mentally tough players who competed for each other from opening tip last November to final buzzer last night.
The Huskers' six seniors "have truly been a joy to coach because they've done it the right way," said Connie Yori, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's choice as 2010 National Coach-of-the-Year.
The Huskers, therefore, "will not be remembered for this game," Yori said. "They will be remembered for making history in Nebraska basketball."
This Team Broke Molds and Opened Doors
Yes indeed. Yori insists she didn't just coach basketball players. She coached "great people," and she is understandably proud of what they mean to the entire state. In taking Nebraska to a place the Huskers have never been before in men's or women's basketball, Yori's team broke molds and opened doors.
The Huskers worked unbelievably hard, showed remarkably sustainable discipline and pushed themselves to the limits of their potential all season long. Playing in what most coaches consider the nation's most power-packed conference from top to bottom, Nebraska finished the regular season unbeaten and earned a No. 1 NCAA tournament seed.
The Huskers beat Baylor (65-56) in Waco and Oklahoma (80-64) in Norman while winning the conference regular-season race by five games. The Bears and the Sooners reflect the strength of that amazing accomplishment because both made the Final Four in San Antonio.
The Huskers not only won big games in big ways, but also managed to win lots of hearts and stir extraordinary interest along the way. At the Alliance Chamber of Commerce Banquet in mid-February, about 160 Husker fans were fixated on several TVs when Nebraska started its comeback at Kansas. Banquet organizers made sure the emcee announced the score as soon as the game was final. The ovation represented a community that will be keeping constant tabs on Husker women's basketball when it sends Jordan Hooper, one of its own, to Lincoln this summer.
Big Red spirit even made its way into a large South Lincoln Hy-Vee store, which decided to pipe in Matt Coatney's play-by-play so grocery shoppers could listen to Nebraska keep its unbeaten streak alive on a Saturday afternoon game at K-State in early March.
No wonder "You Betcha!" has become a signature expression for the growing list of fans that enjoy listening to Coatney and Jeff Griesch on the Huskers Sports Network.
Coatney and Griesch were, after all, the ones who chronicled the team's thousand-mile journey - an odyssey that began with single-step exhibition games against Pittsburg State and Nebraska-Kearney early last November. Those steps became big leaps and giant bounds with decisive wins over a steady diet of nationally ranked teams - wins that proved the basketball gods were not crazy, so a nation took notice. Suddenly, the Huskers were the cover story in USA Today, a feature story in Sports Illustrated and going prime time on ESPN.
Even Nebraska's two largest daily newspapers sent their top columnists on the road to cover Nebraska women's basketball in the Big 12 and NCAA Tournaments.
It was hard to count the days when the Huskers were making every day count. Yori kept telling everyone that she loves what her players stand for, and her players kept telling everyone how much they love to practice, how much they love to compete and how much they love each other.
To be honest, one loss in the Sweet 16 before nearly 5,000 of your most loyal fans will never change first impressions - only enhance them.
Yori Sees the Beauty in Season's Success
Sweet is an interesting word at work here because in athletics and in life, the things that are often the hardest to bear will end up being the sweetest to remember.
It's been said that everything - even a loss that produces heavy-duty emotion - has a certain beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Through all that emotion, Yori no doubt saw the beauty inherent in all six seniors - and everyone else - who were so crushed to see the curtain come down on the season three games ahead of schedule. They wanted to remember the Alamo Dome in San Antonio, not watch the lights go out in KC's Power and Light District.
A head coach, of course, almost always sees the big picture better than players who have just had their hearts broken, especially when that coach has seen every player she's ever recruited at Creighton or Nebraska get her college degree. Talk about a leader who has academic and life priorities in perfect alignment with athletic goals.
You don't need a post-game press conference to know what Yori believes deep down inside.
First, there's no way to measure all the hours her players studied when they weren't practicing or playing and all the autographs they signed for little kids who waited in lines to see their new heroes. Secondly, there is no better way to lay the foundation for the power of positive thinking than what this team has done, even if their season fell short of what they all envisioned.
When six seniors leave a legacy that will always be there, you remind yourself that they also laid the groundwork that enabled their coaches to recruit the best players in such states as Washington and Arizona. If touted recruits understand the magnetic power of hard work, selfless leadership and wholesale support in Lincoln, Nebraska, fans should understand that power, too.
Ask Jordan Hooper, perhaps this state's best-ever girls' high school basketball player. The Alliance senior didn't choose a Nebraska basketball scholarship over a Husker volleyball offer to become a household name. She chose NU to become part of a tight-knit family that believes in aggressive goals, ultra-intense effort and all the values that define exceptional teamwork.
Great Expectations Evolved with Each Win
It may be worth remembering that this magical season came after last year's 15-16 record, so in the 2009-10 preseason polls, the Huskers didn't even rank among the top six in the conference. As the wins piled up at a record rate, though, logic got lost in the avalanche of great expectations.
Immediately after the Huskers lost their first game - to Texas A&M in the Big 12 Tournament - we posted a poll on Huskers.com, asking fans how many games they saw Nebraska winning in the NCAA Tournament. Of the 4,041 who voted, the largest number - 1,085 - thought the Huskers would win them all, even though they would be on a collision course with UConn, which some already consider the greatest college women's basketball team of all time.
Those great expectations somehow seem to reflect how much this team captivated Nebraska fans who relished watching contorted bank shots from Kelsey Griffin and a rain of threes from Vonnie Turner and Cory Montgomery. They also loved to watch freshman Lindsey Moore run the team at point, and weren't surprised at all when junior Dominique Kelley scored a total of 44 points against UCLA and Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament.
Even though Nebraska will lose its most productive senior class in Husker history, you can't help but ask: Does the future look bright with new faith in the foundation and new faces poised to add more facts and figures to that foundation?
You know the answer.
You betcha!
Voices from Husker Nation
As noted in your example, Alliance Chamber of Commerce banquet attendees were fixated on televisions during the game at Kansas because western Nebraskans fell in love with the Lady Huskers this year. And not just because of 32 victories. We fell in love because the Lady Huskers reflected western Nebraska values: Hard work and a never-say-die attitude. Alliance basketball fans will be glued to radios and televisions next winter, too, when our Jordan Hooper trades in her Bulldog uniform for a Husker uniform. She leaves AHS after a four-year career that totals 2,078 points, 1,337 rebounds, 376 steals and 353 blocked shots. Her Alliance legacy? Teamwork! "Don't focus on me; focus on the team," is often a Hooper quote. Yes, this Sheridan County ranch girl will have a huge impact on the NU program, and fans from the Wyoming border to the Missouri River will fall in love with her style of play. Kevin Horn, Alliance, Nebraska
I know I'm not alone when I say that this team inspired me on an unusually deep level. One only has to open the first page of the newspaper to see a chaotic world that seems defined mostly by power and money. Good people are marginalized and lesser people are put on a pedestal. This team was the antithesis of all of that - a beacon of selflessness, teamwork, discipline, effort and courage. They shone brightly!! I'm proud to say they wore "Nebraska" on their jerseys. Thanks for the memories and best of luck to all of them as they make their way in this world. Nate Williams, Omaha, NebraskaI live a few miles outside of Washington D.C., and my family and I tracked the Lady Huskers all season with deep pride. The job Connie Yori did with these ladies and how they played and represented themselves on and off the court was a source of tremendous pride. As an Omaha native and a grad of George Mason University in Fairfax Va., I know firsthand the joy that is felt with exceeding expectations and garnering so much attention. We are all proud of what the Huskers did this season and hope it is the launching pad into the future. Thank you for a great season. Kevin Foley, Vienna, Virginia
Congratulations to the Nebraska women's basketball team. I have to admit that until I logged onto the Nebraska website to see how Kelsey was doing, I really have never followed women's basketball. I remember coaching Kelsey on a youth soccer team when she was only 4 or 5 years old. She was always the best athlete on the field, but when she kicked the ball into one of the other team's players and hurt her, Kelsey sat down on the field and cried and didn't want to play anymore. As good of an athlete as Kelsey is, she has always been a better person. I applaud Nebraska athletics and the coaching staff for recruiting such a wonderful group of young ladies. They epitomize what sport and team really mean. Randy Hoffbeck, Barrow, Alaska
When Linds (Lindsey Moore) said she was going to Nebraska, many of us said: "Huh?" Now we wear red on game day and the Husker ladies have a multitude of boosters here in Washington State that all say "you betcha" many times during the broadcasts. Even when the games are televised, I turn down the sound and let Coatney do the play-by-play. Just fun to watch a team and a coach that epitomize the term team. Can't wait until next year. Bryan Price, Seattle, Washington
The Husker women's basketball team truly defined what it means to be a team. They were more than the sum of their parts. They were a joy to watch. They were humble and classy. I had hoped that they would win it all to prove a point to those who did not give them due props for all they've done. There are good programs because they recruit well. There are winning streaks. There are titles. But I'd wager to say that this team is worth more than that. They proved that the true value of sports is the camaraderie and the relationships you build through it. I hope this team succeeded in setting the foundation to put Husker women's basketball on the map. That achievement will last forever. Jason Go, Omaha, Nebraska
If I was a young woman who excelled at basketball and saw the Huskers this year, what better coach or college could I ask for? Not only would I potentially get playing time on the court, but my charachter would shine at this college. With Connie Yori not only having excellent coaching skills, her encouragement for an education and a career after hoop time speaks volumes! Congratulations Husker women! Kristine Soukup, Gretna, Nebraska
I have been following the Husker women's basketball team since Connie Yori started. I knew this team would be good, but never did I imagine a 32-2 record! They should all be very proud of their accomplishments both on and off the court. The players are an outstanding group of young women. You can tell by watching them that they really love each other and truly enjoy playing the game together. I was in Kansas City when they lost to Kentucky, but I have never been more proud to say I was from Nebraska. You just don't see these girls lose their cool. They always respond to a situation with class. You can't say that about a lot of teams these days. I am definitely going to miss this year's class of seniors, but we have an amazing group of girls coming back next year, and I look forward to all that they will do. I believe the tradition started this year is far from over! Lori Pohlmann, Plymouth, Nebraska
Congratulations to Coach Yori and the entire women's basketball team. I am not much of a basketball fan, but I sure did enjoy watching the few games I saw on TV. Personally, I find the women's game much more interesting and fun to watch than the men's games. I think they play a game that is much more what basketball should be like, rather the combination basketball/rugby that, especially, the men's pro teams play. Here's wishing continued success to Coach Yori and the women's team. I may even try to come to Lincoln for a game next season. Louis Stout, Omaha, Nebraska
I think there will be many lasting impressions left by this marvelous team on Husker Nation. For every young lady out there across Nebraska ages 8 to 18, there could not be a better set of examples to follow. This group of young women sent the message that it is okay to dream and dream BIG because dreams can and DO come true!! Every game I was able to watch on TV, I saw the same thing. I saw a basketball team that demonstrated family, loyalty, love, dedication, determination and most of all, TEAM!! Thank you, Kelsey, Cory, Lindsey, Nique, Vonnie, Kala, Nikki, Nicole, Layne, Cat, Jessica, Nikki, Kaitlyn and Meghin for taking us all along on a most magnificent adventure. We will NEVER forget each and every one of you. You epitomize what Nebraska is about!! Rosalie Suggs, Noblesville, Indiana
Thank you, Lady Huskers for the fantastic ride. What you have accomplished this year went beyond our wildest expectations, and you are to be admired for it. The love you share for each other and the sport seeped into the hearts of your fans as well. Thank you, seniors, for laying the groundwork for better things to come. I didn't follow women's basketball until this year, but I know I'll be there next year as you start your 2010-11 season. You betcha! Sue Brandt, Omaha, Nebraska
This great team has been dreaming all along this season and gave us joy. We can only congratulate the girls, coaches and everyone involved in the team for their hard and diligent work. The team has continued to rise in power. Thank you to all for helping us live this wonderful adventure with you. We are very, very proud of you, and also proud to be your fans. GO BIG RED. Helene and David Periago, Toulon, France
I was never a Husker fan until my niece was recruited for this season, but by halftime of the first exhibition game, I was hooked for life. Never have I seen a team so "together" before they would even step on the court and sort of meld into one another. The Lady Huskers are one of the hardest working, selfless teams I have ever seen, and that comes through in interview after interview. They all say the same thing - it's always we, not I, who worked to win that game. After winning the regular season, I would say, win or lose from here on out, I would never be so proud of anything as how proud I was of those girls. They showed the nation that to be winners you do not need to play dirty ball. Am I a fan of Husker basketball? "You betcha!" D.Nekeferoff
As a season ticketholder since Angela Beck's last season, I have seen a lot of the Lady Huskers. When Connie Yori took over the program from Paul Sanderford, I knew that the team would eventually reach this point! That said, I want to tell the team, Coach Yori, and the assistants, that this longtime fan could not be more proud of you all!! The quality, integrity and loyalty shown in building this program is something that all can be proud of. Your hard work, mental toughness, and respect and love for your teammates could be felt and seen when you were on the court!! A word to the bench players that practiced hard this year and contributed to the team's success , your own court time will come, and you surely were a large part of this year's team!! John C. Thomason, Creighton, Nebraska
If the question is "Will we continue to follow the Husker women after this season?" the answer is "Yes, we will be back next year." This team and what it accomplished so reminds me of when Bob Devaney beat USC and then beat LSU in football. The point is, Bob Devaney beat somebody, and it proved we belong. The Husker women beat somebody for 30 games - two games a week in a tough conference. They belong! Kathryn Dobrinic, Hillsboro, Illinois
Did the Lady Huskers capture my attention this year? Absolutely! I have watched them numerous times on TV, and I filled out my first-ever bracket for the women's tournament. I had the Huskers going all the way because I believed in them. I will always remember this team! Lady Huskers, you were all FANTASTIC!! Matthew Schmidt, Gering, NebraskaWe are so proud of this great team. I spent a great 5½ years of my life in Lincoln. Unfortunately, I don't live there anymore, but wherever I go, I'm a proud Cornhusker. I believed in this team from the beginning. I have their poster hanging in my office here in Philadelphia, and it has been there since they were 10-0. Thank you, Coach Yori. I'm sure we will see you and your team in the Final Four in the near future. Tareq Jaber, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
My most memorable moment was when my daughter, Hannah, told me it would be cool to meet the entire Husker Women's Basketball team and to have a shoot-around with them. The Kerns' family wants to wish the six seniors a very successful life off the court. This team will never be forgotten by Husker Nation. Steve Kerns, Hebron, Nebraska
The Husker women made a lasting impression not only on the entire state of Nebraska, but also on the entire nation. I felt connected to them in a way, and I feel blessed to have experienced the passion and commitment that these girls showed on the court. They showed the state of Nebraska that they can have a winning program if you believe and really want to win. They didn't care about winning. It was about the bond that they shared with one another and the constant belief in one another that kept their season going. These girls were so inspiring, and their story will live on in the Nebraska women's basketball program for decades to come. Congratulations on an amazing season. I will be excited to see what happens next year! Danielle Smith, Kearney, Nebraska
This women's basketball season is obviously an historic one and makes you wonder what other Husker sports had a breakthrough year prior to winning a national championship. That sure would be interesting to know about the football, gymnastics, volleyball, and bowling teams. I'm convinced that if this year's club had not experienced these playoffs, it would have missed knowing what it takes to go all the way. Roy L. Miller, Lakewood, Colorado
I will always remember this team for their hard-working efforts toward every challenge that they encountered this season. I loved the smiles on their faces because they showed how much they loved playing with each other and for each other. I will always remember how they got an entire state behind them. I will always remember them for the groundwork that they established toward the future of this program. Of course, I will always remember all the records they set along the way. More than anything, I am now a dedicated fan of the program. Watching basketball will get me through the dull winter months between football/volleyball and the baseball seasons. Congrats to everyone involved in the program! Kathleen Kniss, Scottsbluff, Nebraska
This was an unbelievable season and a start of putting women's basketball on the map at Nebraska. It was a very tough Big 12 with Baylor and other up-and-coming teams. But with good recruiting by Yori and staff, this season should draw more attention to the coaching and what they can do in future years, thanks to six great seniors who opened the doors for those who are going to find out that there is no place in the world like Nebraska. Bob Feldman
I am proud of the Nebraska women's basketball team and coaching staff. It was a great year. They made us all proud! Darlene March, Barneston, Nebraska
Connie Yori has accomplished what few coaches will ever achieve - going undefeated in conference play. Also, to coach a team to 32 wins (17 more than the year before) is an incredible feat. Her effort, her coaches, and her players hit the utopia of success! Wow, what an unbelievably successful women's basketball season. Mark Schild, Tucson, Arizona


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LOS ANGELES -- At age 37, Shane Mosley's better days appeared to be behind him following a narrow loss to Miguel Cotto in November 2007 and an unimpressive victory over Ricardo Mayorga four months ago.
"Well, I did it again, right here at the Staples Center -- the king of Cali," a giddy Mosley said after taking Margarito's WBA welterweight title via a technical knockout at 43 seconds of the ninth round Saturday night."Everything that we worked on came to pass," Mosley said. "I wasn't really expecting a knockout. It happened."
Did it ever. And in most convincing fashion.
The bout was Mosley's second at Staples Center. He won a 12-round split decision over Oscar De La Hoya on June 17, 2000 in the first boxing match held at the downtown Los Angeles arena to win a version of the world welterweight title for the first of three times. He's also been a champion in the lightweight and junior middleweight divisions.
All things considered, this triumph might have been more impressive.
"It was an amazing performance by Shane," said Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, which promoted the bout along with Top Rank. "A lot of people counted him out. He turned back the clock."
Margarito was coming off an impressive victory over the previously unbeaten Cotto six months ago to win the WBA welterweight crown and leave the 30-year-old slugger being touted as one of the world's top pound-for-pound fighters.
But Mosley dominated the man known as the "Tijuana Tornado" from start to finish, handing him the first knockout of his career.
"I think my speed was too much for him," Mosley said. "I was fast, I have a lot of power in my punches. He's very strong and powerful, he comes at you. I'm also powerful. People underestimate my strength. (Ricardo) Mayorga, (Fernando) Vargas, these guys are big. I'm able to knock them out. Margarito didn't feel nearly as big."
Mosley said he'd love another shot at Cotto, but would take on all-comers. He also mentioned the possibility of meeting the winner of the Manny Pacquaio-Ricky Hatton fight, scheduled for May 2 in Las Vegas.
A rematch with Margarito would also seem to be a possibility.
"Right now, I'm the man to beat," Mosley said.
Mosley brought in Nazim Richardson to train him for this fight, replacing his father, Jack. That move couldn't have worked out any better.
"I said before the fight I knew (Margarito) was something special, so we put a special game plan in," Richardson said. "Shane Mosley's an excellent athlete. Shane Mosley's an excellent student."
Margarito, of Tijuana, Mexico, didn't win a single round on one judge's scorecard, one on another and two on the third before the ninth. The Associated Press had Mosley winning every round but one.
"I feel OK. I was just getting caught over and over," said Margarito, who was taken to a hospital for precautionary reasons.
Margarito started slowly against Cotto last July, but came on to dominate his opponent before stopping him in the 11th round. He got off to another slow start, but Mosley made sure he wouldn't get untracked.
Margarito fans at ringside, perhaps understanding their fighter was in trouble, began a pleading "Margarito, Margarito" chant as the eighth round began, and the Mexican boxer's corner came to life when he landed his most solid blows of the fight to that point.
But Mosley staggered the champion late in the round, and floored him with a barrage of punches as the round ended. Margarito wobbled to his feet to beat the count to 10, but looked like a beaten man as he sat in his corner.
Mosley continued to force the action in the ninth, and finally Margarito's corner threw in the towel when the fighter was unable to defend himself. Mosley landed 18 power punches and 21 overall to none for Margarito in the final round.
Mosley, who weighed the maximum 147 pounds, raised his record to 46-5 with 39 knockouts. Margarito, who weighed 145.8 pounds, dropped to 37-6 with 27 knockouts. Mosley landed 178 punches to 108 for Margarito and 118 power punches to Margarito's 78.
Both fighters earned around $2.4 million. The bout was held before an announced crowd of 20,820 -- largest to attend a sporting event at Staples Center since it opened in October 1999.
"It was a great night for me," Mosley said. "Hopefully, there are many, many more."


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In 2014, Berlin marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a momentous occasion, full of symbolism and emotion for those who had lived with the gruesome concrete barrier that kept Berlin—and, symbolically, all of Germany—divided for more than 40 years. In the quarter-century-plus since the Wall came tumbling down, Berlin has re-established itself as Germany's capital and gone through an urban and social transformation that has made it, once again, one of the most exciting cities in Europe (many would say, the most exciting). Superlative museums, grand (and grandiose) monuments, a nightlife that's both glamorous and gritty, a performing arts scene that has no equal in Germany, fascinating neighborhoods to explore, fabulous parks and green spaces to enjoy, cafes, beer gardens, shopping, elegant restaurants and on-the-go street food—Berlin truly does have something for everyone. And although Berlin is a fast-paced, forward-looking city, it is also a city full of memorials and reminders of its haunted and harrowing Nazi and Communist past. Berlin has seen it all and lived to tell the tale—a tale that makes this city perpetually fascinating and endlessly exciting as it reinvents itself again and again.
No other city in Germany can match Berlin for the sheer number of attractions and diversions it offers. The city is particularly rich in museums (170 of them at last count) and you could build your entire trip around visiting them. But Berlin the living city is fascinating wherever you go, filled with historic monuments, gut-wrenching memorials, picturesque parks and lakes, famous avenues and riverside promenades, and lots of new architecture. In fact, Berlin has more new buildings than any other city in Europe.
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When I fly to New Orleans tomorrow, connecting through Dallas, to kick off the North American Tour, I will take my 56th and 57th flight of 2012.
I've been counting.
Never mind what all that flying does to the atmosphere. I wonder what all that flying does to one's blood. Skin. or brain. At 30 thousand feet, one is more exposed to cosmic radiation than those on the ground. And the body scans one endures in security emit as much radiation as being in the air for 3 minutes. I'm no scientist, but I deduce this may be why I think look hot in an airplane bathroom mirror; which, similarly to how I sometimes feel at 2am, is an inconvenient time and place to feel the most confident.
Being a frequent flyer has made me more aware of my carbon footprint. Never mind my solar house, electric car, ban of plastics and local/organic food fetish. I travel through the air enough to make all those other efforts moot. I may look green on paper, but if carbon had a prom, I'd be carbon king.
So, inspired to offset and sequester carbon in the atmosphere, I came up with this little calculation to give back.
For every domestic flight, I plant one tree.
For every international flight, I plant five.
TIMES the amount of people I'm traveling with, which can been as many as 23 people on some legs.
Based on this modest carbon sequestering calculation and the number of flights I've made this year, times the entourage, I owe the planet 2425 trees to offset my time in the sky.
So far I've planted 33.
2392 more to go. That is, until I fly again, and again and again, which will keep the number increasing…
Why Trees? See the quick video below.
At home in California I've teamed up with a local non-profit "Stand For Sam" whose mission it is to reforest and restore the lungs of the Earth. With their help I funded the planting of 27 Oaks at the new High Tech High School in San Marcos, CA - AND set up a few plantings we'll be doing in various parts of the country on this summer's tour.
We also planted a Meyer Lemon in our backyard. An avocado tree in Singapore. And was recently gifted 4 fruit trees for my birthday. Thank you Warner Music & Cyndi Lauper! (Wink Wink Gregory Lewis, Ross and Ashley!) Stay tuned for pictures.
We're off to a great start and still have a long way to go. You'll be able to help too at the shows. Look for the info about tweeting and texting to support the planting of trees thanks to our partners at Reverb and Green The World. It's never been easier to be green.
That being said. We'll have water refill stations at our concerts so you won't have to buy the expensive plastic stuff. Stay tuned to find out more about that.
Time to fly…


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Brooding Perfectionism.
There are different types of perfectionism (e.g. failure to live up to one's idealized standards or failure to live up to idealized others' standards), but brooding perfectionism adds the element of rumination, which Olson and Kwan define as "a maladaptive style that is defined as the unintentional process of repetitively and passively thinking about one's negative emotions and focusing on depressive symptoms and their meaning." It can be a difficult vicious cycle because reflection and seeking to understand both seem to be good things - but what's striking is how negative an effect rumination has on general thinking (it swamps working memory), problem solving, and resilient behaviors.
Excerpt (sorry the whole article is not available free access - but it can be rented with a free DeepDyve.com trial): "A ruminative response style has also been shown to prolong depressive episodes. Rumination leads to irrational, negative interpretations of life events. In addition, focus on negative thoughts leads to an absence of potential efforts to ameliorate the consequences of a negative life event. The combination of a depressed mood and rumination may activate doubt regarding one's problem solving abilities, leading the individual to give up hope on solving problems. Individuals may also believe that their problems are less controllable than they actually are. These individuals are unsuccessful in efforts to diminish the problems, focusing more on their emotions than on productive behaviors that could potentially correct the problems."
What the researchers found is that a ruminative tendency predicted whether depression would be severe in the setting of setbacks. High brooding perfectionists were not more depressed as a group when they hadn't experienced serious negative life experiences. But they were very vulnerable to depression when negative events occurred.
For another great read, check out Rethinking Rumination. Interesting tidbits covered included the difference between worry and rumination, the difficulty that ruminators have with task-switching, the paralyzing effect of rumination (more think than do), and rumination's effects on attention and memory bias. It turns out ruminators are more likely to generalize rather than specifically remember from life events (autobiographical memory). Fortunately, the paper also includes interventions to overcome rumination and there are papers like this Seligman paper have specific suggestions to reduce destructive rumination and increase happiness. For highly intellectual persons, it can be freeing notion learning more about this dark side of reflection and perfectionism.
For a pretty accessible self-help book, check out The Power of Now.
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Iron Maiden 'Rock Band' Six Pack Drops on May 22
Calling all gamers. On May 22 –that's next Tuesday- the Iron Maiden six song pack dubbed 'Maiden Epics' will land at the 'Rock Band' music store. 'Maiden Epics' is culled from some of the British band's most powerful and beloved albums, hence the name. The tracks are rooted in the '80s, which was Maiden's prime decade of dominance and ties in with the songs that will feature prominently on the band's upcoming summer trek.
The tracks included in the six pack are as follows: 'Phantom of the Opera' from the band's 1980 self-titled debut studio record; 'The Prisoner' from 1982's 'Number of the Beast'; 'The Flight of Icarus' from 1983's Piece of Mind'; the 13-minute masterwork 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' from 1984's 'Powerslave'; and 'Infinite Dreams' and 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" from 1988's 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.'
As mentioned previously Maiden will hit the road for a North American tour this summer and the tour is based on the set list from the 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' trek from 1988. So what's old -or "classic"- is new again. The tour launches next month and runs through August.


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November 27, 2002
Mr. Jonathan G. Katz
In Re: File No. S7-36-02 and File No. S7-38-02
Dear Mr. Katz,
I am writing to express my strong support for the referenced Proposed Rules. The voting policies and voting records of investment advisers can and should be made available to their clients, the public and the regulatory authorities. The fact that the Department of Labor already requires such disclosure and that a number of investment advisors and mutual funds already voluntarily make this information available is testimony to the feasibility of the proposals.
We strongly believe, however, that the proposals must be expanded. We urge you to:
1) Apply the same disclosure requirements to all investment advisers,
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3) Require that all investment advisers disclose all short positions held using the same criteria applied to specific disclosure of long positions.
Without these additions it will be impossible to reconcile voting rights held to voting actions taken. Without these additions necessary and appropriate information concerning portfolio risk and potential conflicts of interest will continue to be unavailable to both clients and regulators. Without these additions the laudable aims of the current proposals will fall short of their potential.


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Simple Quince Paste Recipe
Edible Gifts: Quince Paste
Surprise your friends this holiday with the unique edible gift of quince paste. Quince is a fruit closely related to apples and pears, but it's most commonly cooked into a jam, paste, or pudding. In Spain, quince paste (dulce de membrillo) is served with manchego. After tasting this sweet and salty combination, the paste has become an essential on my cheese plate.
Since quince season ends in December, it's the perfect time to make this gift for cheese-lovers. Most recipes call for drying the paste in the oven for 15 hours, but luckily, I found one on Epicurious that simplifies the process. With a little experimenting, I was able to adapt their recipe to create a delightful quince paste with a consistency somewhere between jelly and gumdrops.
Quince Paste
Modified from Gourmet
- 4 medium quinces (about 2 pounds total)
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup water
- 2 to 3 cups sugar
- Preheat oven to 350°F and lightly oil a 1-quart terrine and line with buttered parchment.
- Scrub quinces and pat dry. In a small roasting pan bake quinces, covered with foil, in middle of oven until tender, about 2 hours, and transfer pan to a rack.
- When quinces are cool enough to handle, with a sharp knife peel, quarter, and core them.
- In a food processor puree pulp with 1/4 cup water until smooth (if mixture is too thick, add remaining 1/4 cup water a little at a time, as needed). Force puree through a large fine sieve or cheese cloth into a liquid cup measure and measure amount of puree.
- Transfer puree to a 3-quart heavy saucepan and add an equivalent amount of sugar.
- Preheat the oven to 200. Cook quince puree over moderate heat, stirring constantly, until it is thickened and begins to pull away from side of pan, about 25 minutes.
- Pour puree into terrine, smoothing top with an offset spatula. Place in the oven for 30-45 minutes to further dry the quince paste. Cool and chill puree, loosely covered with plastic wrap, until set, about 4 hours
- Run a thin knife around sides of terrine and invert quince paste onto a platter. (Quince paste keeps, wrapped well in wax paper and then plastic wrap and chilled, 3 months.)
- Slice paste and serve with cheese and crackers.
Makes about 2 1/4 pounds quince paste.
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In this article, we'll finish learning about bits. We'll take a look at a few more operators and an important Perl function for working with bits. Finally, we'll implement the algorithm we looked at.
You may want to read the previous article if you haven't (or review it if you have) before you dive into this one.
The bitwise XOR and NOT operators
Maybe you recall that, from the last article, I said that the bitwise OR operator would set a resulting bit to 1 if one or both of the corresponding bits in the operands were 1. The key thing to notice here are that if both of the bits are 1, then the result is 1. The OR operator may be more appropriately termed an inclusive OR.
However, there is another operator worth mentioning, the exclusive OR, more commonly known as XOR. The bitwise XOR operator is represented by a carat symbol (^). The bitwise XOR operator will set a resulting bit to 1 if and only if one of the operands features a 1 as the corresponding bit.
For example, say that we have these two operands:
If we apply the bitwise XOR, then we get this result:
However, say we have these two operands:
If we apply the bitwise XOR to these operands, we get this result:
That's because, for the first and third bits, both operands feature a 1. The bitwise XOR operator requires that only one of the operands have a 1.
Remember how the bitwise AND operator can be used with a bit mask to check the value of a particular bit or set of bits? The bitwise XOR operator can also be used with a bit mask, but for a different purpose. Using the bitwise XOR operator and the appropriate bit mask, it is possible to toggle a specific bit or set of bits. For example, consider this number:
If we want to toggle the second bit, we could use the XOR operator with the appropriate bit mask (0100) to get this result:
Or, if we wanted to toggle the third bit, we could use the XOR operator with a different bit mask (0010):
Again, this is interesting and very useful behavior.
In order to see how this looks in Perl, let's recreate what we just did, but in Perl this time. These Perl lines apply the operations we just looked at, and then print the results:
my $bits = 0b1100;
printf "%bn", $bits ^ 0b0100;
printf "%bn", $bits ^ 0b0010;
Finally, there is the bitwise NOT operator (also called the bitwise negation operator, among other names), represented in Perl by a tilde symbol (~). If we oversimplify it, it's very easy to understand. The bitwise NOT operator, at an oversimplified level, "flips" each bit in an operand (it only takes one operand), turning each 1 into a 0 and each 0 into a 1.
In reality, however, the NOT operator is a bit more complex. The NOT operator returns a result based on your machine's integer size. So, on my machine, if I apply the operator on this operand:
Then I get this result:
Looking at the operand, you would expect the bitwise NOT operator to return 1000, and it does—but the result comes after a string of 1s. On my 64-bit machine, integers are 64 bits, so the four bits we want come after a string of sixty 1s.
Thankfully, it's easy to fix this using something you already know. In the above case, we want to extract the last four bits. Does this sort of thing sound familiar? We can use the bitwise AND operator and a bit mask to trim off all of the extra bits:
my $bits = ~0b1111;
$bits = $bits & 0b1111;
printf "%bn", $bits;
As you can see, it's not very difficult to get the behavior you want.
{mospagebreak title=Bit shift operators}
Let's now take a look at the bit shift operators. A bit shift operator simply shifts bits around, as its name implies. Perl offers the left bit shift operator, represented by two leftward-pointing angle brackets (<<), and the right bit shift operator, represented by two rightward-pointing angle brackets (>>).
Suppose I have a binary number that looks like this:
If I shift everything to the right four bits, I get this:
Here's what this looks like in Perl:
printf "%bn", 0b11110000 >> 4;
Then, if I shift everything back to the left four bits, I get this:
As you can see, zeros are brought in to fill the new space.
Here's the operation in Perl:
printf "%bn", 0b1111 << 4;
If, instead, I had shifted things to the right four more bits, I would get 0. The bits would simply "fall off the edge." Once again, this is what this would look like in Perl:
printf "%bn", 0b1111 >> 4;
{mospagebreak title=Bit vectors}
Up until now, we've just been storing plain binary numbers as scalars and then manipulating them with various bit operators. This is fine for many operations, but there are some serious disadvantages to it. First, we're limited to a certain number of bits (32 bits of 64 bits, depending on your machine). If we go over this, we'll get an error. Second, they are a bit difficult to work with. Extracting the value of a particular bit or set of bits requires some ugly code.
Now is actually a good time to return to the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm that we examined at the beginning of the previous article. Recall that in order to implement the algorithm, we needed a way to eliminate non-prime numbers from a list. We looked at two ways to do this, but both were horribly inefficient. The second method, however, was heading in the right direction.
In the second method, we had a large array whose indexes were the actual numbers (we would start at 2, discarding 0 and 1, since the latter two are not prime). If the value at a particular index was 1, then we knew the number represented by the index was prime. Otherwise, it was not prime.
This is inefficient because the numbers 0 and 1 are still going to be treated as integers, and that requires quite a bit of memory. However, you know that only one bit is required to represent either value. So, why not just use one bit? Well, because we can't just create a normal array of "bits." We can, however, create a bit vector.
A bit vector is simply a long sequence of bits which may be divided up into individual units of data, or elements. These elements are sets of bits that may have varying sizes, depending on what exactly we want to store. In our situation, we only need to store one of two values, so each unit only needs to have one bit.
So, if we're storing prime numbers from 0 to 10, we'd have a bit vector that looks like this internally:
This indicates that the numbers 2, 3, 5 and 7 are prime, and that the numbers 0, 1, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 are not prime.
{mospagebreak title=The vec function}
So, how do we work with bit vectors? Fortunately, Perl provides an easy way to do this using the vec function. The vec function, in its most basic usage, returns the bits of a particular element in the bit vector. The function takes three arguments. The first is a string, which is the actual bit vector. You see, using a string as a bit vector allows us to store an arbitrary number of bits, unlike before when we used integers to store things.
The second argument is the index of the element we want to retrieve, and the third argument is the width, in bits, of each element. Note that the width must be a power of two, so you'll need to waste some bits if your data doesn't fit nicely into a proper width.
For example, consider the bit vector we looked at earlier, that represents the numbers 0 through 10 and indicates whether or not each number is prime:
(Actually, the bit vector wouldn't quite look this this! But don't worry—that's another topic, and we can get by without discussing it).
If we want to check if the number 2 is prime, we would do so like this:
if (vec($numbers, 2, 1)) {
print "2 is prime.n";
Above, we retrieve the second element (third in the sequence, since we start counting at zero, just like with arrays) of one bit in width. Since it is 1, we know that 2 is prime.
The vec function can also be used to assign a value to a particular bit or bits. For example, say we wanted to explicitly mark the number 2 as prime. We would do so like this:
vec($numbers, 2, 1) = 0b1;
Again, note that you don't have to work with one-bit elements. It's just that this width is relevant to our example. You could just as easily work with two-bit elements:
vec($numbers, 0, 2) = 0b10;
Just make sure that the width is a power of two, and you'll be fine.
{mospagebreak title=Finding prime numbers}
We now have everything we need to implement the algorithm, so let's get to it. The first thing we need to do is create a bit vector that contains a bit for all of the values up to a maximum. Let's find the first one million prime numbers:
use constant MAX => 1_000_000;
In order to create the bit vector, we can use the vec function and an empty string. The vec function, if you pass it an index outside of the string, will simply fill all of the missing elements with zeros. So, we can easily create a vector with one million elements like this:
my $sieve = '';
vec($sieve, MAX, 1) = 0;
However, all of the elements are zero, which means that all of them are initially marked as not prime. We want all of them to start as prime, and then eliminate non primes from this list. So, let's flip all of the bits:
$sieve = ~$sieve;
(We could assume that 0 means prime and save ourselves an operation, but that's probably a bit less intuitive).
Now we have a bit vector to use, and we can begin to apply the algorithm. The algorithm is simple. We just need to find the first unexamined prime number (2 to start with) and then eliminate its multiples. We then repeat this until we have reached the square root of the maximum number (which would be 1,000). Here's the code:
for (my $i = 2; $i <= sqrt(MAX); $i++) {
next unless (vec($sieve, $i, 1));
for (my $x = $i * 2; $x <= MAX; $x += $i) {
vec($sieve, $x, 1) = 0;
As you can see, we loop over the numbers 2 through 1,000. If the number is known to be not prime (that is, if the bit value is 0), then we move on to the next number. Otherwise, we mark its multiples as not prime by setting their corresponding bits to 0.
That's it! We're done! We can now print the results:
for (2..MAX) {
print "$_n" if (vec $sieve, $_, 1);
Here's the full code:
use strict;
use warnings;
use constant MAX => 1_000_000;
my $sieve = '';
vec($sieve, MAX, 1) = 0;
$sieve = ~$sieve;
for (my $i = 2; $i <= sqrt(MAX); $i++) {
next unless (vec($sieve, $i, 1));
for (my $x = $i * 2; $x <= MAX; $x += $i) {
vec($sieve, $x, 1) = 0;
for (2..MAX) {
print "$_n" if (vec $sieve, $_, 1);
There is, of course, a lot more to using bits that cannot possibly be explained in the space provided by two articles. Even the things I have explained here can be elaborated on significantly, and some of the things I've left out are actually pretty important. But even so, you should now have a basic knowledge of bits, along with, hopefully, an appreciation of them. Good luck!


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This high-rise hotel faces the rebuilding site of World Trade Center, and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. St. Paul's Chapel is across the street, the World Financial Center is 1 block, and Tribeca is 4 blocks away.
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The Millenium Hilton's fitness center includes cardio- and weight-training equipment, and an indoor pool with floor-to-ceiling windows framing views of 18th-century St. Paul's Chapel.
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The Millenium Hilton's complimentary 24-hour health club features a 40-x-20-foot heated indoor pool (pool has limited hours) and includes a 24-hour fitness center with free weights, cardio machines, and weight machines. Personal training is offered for a surcharge. A massage room is available for appointments with an independent massage therapist.
This New York Financial District hotel includes a 24-hour automated business center with three computers providing free WiFi, as well as faxing, copying, and secretarial services (surcharges). Garage parking is available (surcharge).
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Church & Dey - New American menu with a focus on fresh seasonal ingredients, with an carefully chosen wine list and daily specials. Seating for 120; serves three meals daily, including a breakfast with buffet or a la carte options. Offers a unique perspective on the World Trade Center redevelopment site.
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The hotel's indoor pool is in a glass-enclosed room overlooking St. Paul's Chapel, the historic church across the street where George Washington worshipped on the day he was inaugurated as the first president. The 24-hour health club includes a fitness center with free weights, cardio machines, and weight machines.
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School's back on and NYU students wander through my neighborhood, clutching new books and pencils. Quite often, I see some of them set up in the park, preparing to draw Washington Square arch. It's a beautiful landmark, and I've often tackled it myself.
I like the ones who slop around with paint and charcoal but I can't relate to those who show up with t-squares and turn out tight engineering schema, that look more like blueprints than any expression of soul. To me, drawing is about observation and sensuality more than perfection. That's my esthetic.
I draw a lot of architecture because they define the landscape we New Yorkers live in. While I'm no Brunelleschi, I understand the principles of perspective. I know generally how to locate a vanishing point and that knowledge can be useful if I'm really stuck. But I think of it as more like understanding the principle of the internal combustion engine; I get it but it doesn't enter my mind much when I'm driving down the road.
Here's how I'd go about drawing* the view down my street.
It's a fairly complex scene so I lay down some little marks first. I find the midpoints of my page (in green) using my pen as a rough ruler. I take the same sorts of measurements of the thing I'm drawing. I also uses my thumbs as rough rulers� so and so many thumb widths to this point, so and so many pen cap lengths to this point � that sort of thing. If I didn't measure things out like this, I'm sure I would have misjudged how wide the library's facade was in the foreground. The actual part of the scene that is of interest only occupies about 1/8 of the whole space.
I usually start drawing in the upper left hand corner and work my way across. I'll make little marks if need be to tell me where things intersect. When I just whip out a long diagonal line like the one in the upper left, it probably won't hit the mark unless I set a target point.
I'll also look for some sort of large and broken line somewhere to use as a reference point. In this case, the building on the right has a regular pattern of tiles down its length; I can use this like an in situ ruler to guide the other buildings' proportions. I count down three tiles and say, 'Okay, the roof of the ornate building in the center hits this height. Go down one more tile and that's the point at which the angle of the receding part of the roof hits. Down two more and that 's the roof of the building behind it…' and so on. If there's no guide in the landscape (as there wasn't horizontally here) I can also use my pen length to bifurcate the space and create a partial grid to set my reference points.
Remember to check your verticals. Unless you have birds' or worms' eyes, make sure your verticals are straight 90 degree angles to the ground. It's so easy to start leaning them over and soon all of your lines will be out of whack.
I measure other sorts of angles by holding up my pen horizontally and then rotating it to meet the angle. That action temporarily imprints the deviation of the angle from the horizon into my brain. When I go down to the paper, I just repeat the rotation and I can usually get it pretty dead on.
I like to do all these little measurements rather than ruling down the artificial lines of perspective and then erasing them because I am trying to record my own observations in my drawings. I find that all these little measurements bring me closer and closer to my subject and that's the goal of my work. I don't care if it's all accurate and perfect but that it reflects what and how I am seeing. The deeper I go the better. Somehow rulers and perspective lines make it all seem more mechanical and artificial and I just don't like it.
In any case, the results seem okay to me. In fact, I will often be a lot wilder and just draw lines and angles on the fly. I don't care that much of my buildings are misshapen and irregular, so long as they feel alive. Those T-square folks seem to make drawings that lie on the page like dead, academic fish.
Drawing buildings is just like drawing anything else. Be slow. Keep your eyes on the subject most of the time. Don't freak out if you make a 'mistake'. And do it as often as you can.
Drawing isn't a science. Don't reduce it to one.
*Atypically, I drew this in Photshop on a tablet so I could use layers to demonstrate my methodology.


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