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I was pointed to this handy photo storage site by a post on Kelly's "My Blog .. My Life ..My Ancestry". Shoeboxes are collections of photos – just like the real shoeboxes we used to store our family snaps in, but these are digital.
An account with 1000Memories is free, and lets you store as many photos as you want. They plan to bring in paid accounts later, with extra bells and whistles, but I like it as it is – I prefer to edit my photos on my own PC rather than using a website.
Once you've created an account, you start to create shoeboxes. These can be public or private; if you make a shoebox private, you can invite people to view it by emailing them. You can switch a shoebox from public to private (and vice versa) by clicking the "lock" icon. Pictures can be in more than one shoebox – upload it once to a shoebox, and then click the "shoebox" icon the picture to choose another shoebox to share with.
You can delete photos and shoeboxes, and add more, very easily. You can also import from Facebook, Instagram and Flickr. They also have a scanning service, which I haven't tried – this provides an online copy of your photos, and a DVD.
You can add captions (although they don't show on the display page, you have to click on the photo to see it), as well as dates, locations, and tags. You can post a photo to Facebook, and "like" a photo. Photos from a digital camera will import the date from the image data.
There's an app for iPhones and Android, which lets you scan and upload straight to your shoeboxes. I've tried this, and it works well, but I don't get very good results with my smallish smartphone and wobbly hands! It would be most use when meeting up with someone who has family photos you want to copy, but you'd need a good phone and a steady hand, plus a bit of practise first.
I like its simplicity – no fancy background options, four simple buttons, and a plain but still attractive interface. The Help is extensive, but well indexed, and easy to use, and the FAQ pages cover all the questions you're likely to have when you start. If you can't find an answer, you can post a public question – I've seen several where the team have agreed that suggestion is a good one, and will be added in the future.
If you love old photos, you can browse through the public shoeboxes, or use the search. This works best on topics that are fairly common, such as "wedding". You can't restrict the search to your personal shoeboxes, although there may be a way to do this that I haven't discovered.
I've enjoyed playing with this, and I'm using it as an extra backup to my family photos, as well as making some available to other family members who are tracing the families.

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The best TV show ever, JONAS, is premiering on May 22nd on the Disney channel. If you can't wait, it will be on youtube on the 3rd of May. Here's an epic preview of it:
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Canon announces the launch of a new direct-to-DVD camcorder featuring its Advanced Zoom system. The Canon DC320 combines the ultra-convenience of straight-to-DVD recording with the most powerful zoom - up to 45x - of any Canon camcorder yet. Providing crisp, clear image quality - from wide to telephoto - Advanced Zoom opens up new possibilities for moviemakers shooting sports, wildlife and other distant subjects straight to disc. Since the majority of TVs on sale today are native widescreen, the Canon DC320 is equipped for True Wide 16:9 recording. Compatibility with DVD Dual Layer (DVD-R DL) media and Canon's high capacity battery pack extends recording time, allowing every moviemaker to capture that extra shot.
Canon DC320 camcorder - DVD
"Combining the ease of direct-to-DVD recording with the benefits of innovative Advanced Zoom technology, our new DC300 series raises the standard for DVD-based camcorders," said Mogens Jensen, Head of Canon Consumer Imaging Europe. "Our commitment to offering the highest quality imaging to every consumer will encourage more and more people to discover the joy of home moviemaking." New to Canon camcorders in 2008, the LCD screen also doubles as a handy video light. When turned to face forwards, it provides enough illumination to allow recording of close-up subjects to continue in poor lighting conditions.
Canon DC320 video camera - Zoom and High resolution
Canon's Advanced Zoom system equips the Canon DC320 with more telephoto reach than was previously available at this level. Advanced Zoom combines the quality of genuine Canon optics with the processing capabilities of the DIGIC DV II image processor, allowing distant events - such as a bird in flight or a concert performance – to be captured with crystal clarity. The new Canon DC320 camcorder in the new range offers True Wide High Resolution 16:9 recording - perfect for playback on widescreen TVs. Canon's True Wide system also incorporates a widescreen 2.7" LCD - perfect for previewing movies in the correct dimensions - and a widescreen EVF (Electronic Viewfinder): allowing users to save on battery power when framing their shots during recording.
Canon DVD camcorder DC320 features
• Canon's new Advanced Zoom system offers up to 45x magnification
• Megapixel CCD, for superior image quality
• Still image capture to SD or SDHC (High Capacity) memory card
• True Wide High Resolution 16:9 recording and Quick Start button
• DIGIC DV II processor provides clear, vivid images with true-to-life colours
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• Extended recording: compatible with DVD-R Dual Layer discs and optional high capacity battery
• Easy-to-use: Easy mode and playback in standard DVD players
• A Joystick makes controlling the camcorder's features easy
Canon DC-320 - Image processor and SDHC
Canon's DIGIC DV II image processor was originally designed to handle the increased data rate of High Definition footage. The extra processing capacity of this ultra-fast processor is inherited by the DC300 range: with advanced noise reduction technology built in, DIGIC DV II captures images that are sharper and colours that are truer-to-life. DIGIC DV II also drives the DC300 series' stills functionality. Since the colour requirements of digital photographs are different to video, it handles the signals separately, optimizing output for each. Digital photographs are recorded to SD or SDHC memory cards.
Canon DC320 camera - Convenient and Intuitive
Straightaway, it's easy to get going: a convenient switch located on the side of the camcorder engages Easy mode, allowing even novice users to start shooting instantly. The camcorder automatically finds the first blank space on the DVD, cutting out the need for fast forwarding or rewinding. Selecting and operating shooting features and functions is equally easy, using the intuitive Joystick controller. To find a particular scene for playback, simply browse through thumbnails on the 2.7" widescreen LCD screen. Finalized DVDs can be played back using a standard home DVD player - perfect to put in an envelope and send to family and friends as keepsakes.
DC320 camcorder - Quick start
During pauses in shooting, the Quick Start feature conserves battery power - one push of the dedicated Quick Start button tells the camcorder to rest in Standby mode. One more push and the camcorder is ready to record in around a second, ensuring that precious one-off moments - a child's first steps or a match-winning goal - aren't missed.
Canon DC320 videocam - Recording and Battery
Every camcorder in the new range is compatible with standard DVD-R media, which are cheap and easy to get hold of. In addition, compatibility with DVD-R DL (Dual Layer) allows up to 108 minutes of video to be recorded on a single disc - cutting down on the amount of spares that have to be carried on a long shooting day. With lower power consumption than its predecessor range, the DC300 series is also compatible with the optional high capacity battery pack (BP-2L24H) - ensuring that the camcorder continues for longer on a single charge. With longer zoom reaches than ever before - thanks to the new Advanced Zoom system - the Canon DC320 camcorder incorporates an Electronic Image Stabilizer that helps ensure footage remains smooth. While camera shake can often ruin home movies, Canon's EIS system is even effective at the upper ends of the zoom - when shake becomes most noticeable.
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- Balancing the Books
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Reviewed by Richard Rescigno
The history of Ford, like that of the automobile industry itself, is filled with crises, craziness and characters. Among them: Henry Ford, genius and reactionary; his grandson Henry Ford II—the skirt-chasing, heavy-drinking "Hank the deuce" of "Never complain, never explain" fame; the flamboyant Lee Iacocca, fired for sins including not being a Ford; and Jacques Nasser, the CEO whose boldest move, other than making a raft of bad acquisitions, was removing the blue oval logo from Ford Motor (ticker: F) headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. He considered it outmoded; he himself soon was.
American Icon, a well-researched, lucidly written work by Detroit News reporter Bryce G. Hoffman, picks up the Ford saga with the story-so-far of current CEO Alan Mulally, the Midwesterner who rescued the company from its latest crisis. Unlike so many of his megalomaniacal predecessors, Mulally is approachable, disarmingly down-to-earth and engaging. Those were exactly the virtues needed to pull the auto maker back from the cliff it had been speeding toward, and which it almost plummeted over during the 2008-'09 Great Recession and global auto depression, when it managed to avoid going the miserable way of General Motors (GM) and Chrysler.
American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save
Ford Motor Company
by Bryce G. Hoffman
Crown Business
422 pages, $26.00
Mulally was recruited from Boeing (BA) in 2006—having pulled that firm out of a tailspin after 9/11—by Bill Ford, great-grandson of Henry. To revive Ford Motor, Mulally used a simple strategy that wasn't simple to implement. Ultimately, One Ford, as it was called, focused on improving the quality, desirability and profitability of the cars and trucks sold under the company's core brand, and on paring brands, plants, employees and pension and medical liabilities. To do this, Mulally had to first bolster Ford's finances, a task achieved with the help of a plan, hatched before his arrival, by Bill Ford and then-CFO Don Leclair. By the time they were finished, the Ford team had raised $23.6 billion. And they had mortgaged just about everything.
But money couldn't improve accountability. Some Ford executives spent more time trying to conceal problems than solving them. To end this, Mulally scheduled a weekly meeting that mandated attendance by the head of every key Ford unit around the world, in person or by conference call.
Each of the attendees had to give presentations and answer the new CEO's questions without leaning on an aide, a practice that forced them to actually know what was going on in their businesses. For those who didn't, Hoffman writes, the new boss had a not-too-veiled threat: "'If you don't know the answer to something, that's okay, because we'll all be here again next week," he said with a smile. "And I know you'll know it then.'"
To ensure that everyone else would know what was going on, too, Mulally used prominently displayed bar charts at these meetings, just as he had done at Boeing. Different colors showed the state of a project or program that was part of the overall One Ford plan. Red signified trouble.
At first, there were no red bars. But that changed after Mark Fields, now the head of Ford's operations in the Americas, brought in a chart acknowledging that the launch of the Ford Edge crossover vehicle had been delayed by quality concerns.
Realistic readings of what was going well, or poorly, helped immensely, as Ford faced a growing list of problems when the financial crisis took hold.
So far, the Ford comeback story is playing out splendidly. Last year, the company earned $8.8 billion, not counting a tax item that boosted the figure to $20 billion, and it is turning out some of the best vehicles on the road. But caveat lector. The history of automotive journalism is not without tomes like American Icon, which often turn out to mark turning points—not always pleasant ones—for the companies they chronicle.
Another book on Ford Motor was David Halberstam's 1986 best seller The Reckoning, in which the company was pummeled as the epitome of just about everything that was wrong with American industry. In contrast, Japan's Nissan was lauded as a lodestone of excellence. At about the same time, Ford launched the first-generation Taurus, and later, it introduced the Explorer SUV. Soon the company was deeply in the black again, just as Nissan fell into the red, weighed down by unappealing products.
Henry Ford once said: "History is more or less bunk," adding, "the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." So far, at least, Alan Mulally has been heeding his predecessor's wise counsel.
RICHARD RESCIGNO is the managing editor of Barron's.
Failure Chic
Lessons of Murphy's Law
Reviewed by Joe Queenan
Americans are encouraged to believe that failure is not an option, but author Henry Petroski regards it as just about inevitable. A professor of civil engineering and history at Duke University, Petroski began his writing career with To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, an influential work that deals with mechanical and engineering failures. This huge sequel devotes much more attention to the interplay between human beings, machines, buildings and disaster. It's exhaustive, relentless, often exhilarating—and given its technical nature, surprisingly readable.
The central premise is based on Murphy's Law, attributed to an Air Force engineer named Murphy: If anything can go wrong, it will. Just give it time. Murphy also remarked, about a technician who had made a crucial error, "If there's any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure
by Henry Petroski
The Belknap Press of Harvard University
432 pages, $27.95
Petroski believes that all technology leads to ways to do it wrong. Examining everything from flaws in the Apple iPhone to the sinking of the Titanic, he states flatly that every man-made object contains some sort of design flaw that could lead to failure. Not necessarily catastrophic failure, but failure all the same. The crown will crack. The PC will crash. The bridge will buckle. "Technology is made by people," Petroski declares. "People make mistakes. So technology is made of mistakes."
When the Brooklyn Bridge opened, it contained huge amounts of defective wire inside its suspension cables because "its board of directors resolved that no contract could go to a firm with ties to any of the trustees or engineers involved in the project." As a result, the contract for the wire went to a firm whose products were "untrustworthy." In the end, 221 tons of substandard wire had already gone into the bridge before anyone discovered the problem. The man who built the bridge had no choice but to leave the bad material in place, while supplementing it with good material.
If those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat past errors, worse are folks who never knew the errors were made. The author notes, for example, that the 1981 Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway disaster, which killed over 100 people, could have been avoided had somebody working on the project been familiar with materials-stress theories set forth by Galileo four centuries earlier. He thinks the Titanic may have sunk not because of inherent design flaws but because of a shortage of high-quality rivets in Belfast shipyards. Disasters like the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are bound to recur because too many cooks are stirring the broth, without knowing what ingredients the other cooks are using.
If you're already a bit phobic about flying in a plane, crossing a suspension bridge, or even driving a car, To Forgive Design is probably not for you. If the concrete in that new tunnel came from a mobbed-up outfit, the wall may collapse and you may drown. If there is a shortage of high-quality grommets in the shipyard that week, the ocean liner may sink. Never mind that life in general was a lot more dangerous before the advent of planes, cars and ocean liners, or that never leaving your home is no solution, either, since lots of things can fail there, too.
Petroski chronicles the story of failure with a measure of affection reminiscent of a biographer of Attila the Hun who develops a grudging fondness for his subject. But whether or not the latter had redeeming qualities, the former surely does: Failure reminds us to avoid the sin of pride. I thoroughly enjoyed To Forgive Design, even down to the gloomy quote from the famously gloomy writer Samuel Becket: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
JOE QUEENAN's book about reading, One for the Books, will be published this fall by Viking.
Oil Is Not Well
Politics and petroleum
Reviewed by Michael Taube
Oil, known fondly once as "black gold" and "Texas Tea," has been viewed by many governments as a strategic commodity from which political battles, bouts of bloodshed, and even large-scale military conflicts often bubble to the surface.
Not everyone feels such things are necessary. Ivan Eland, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, believes that oil isn't strategic at all. In this well-written and provocative new work of advocacy, he argues that there are ways for the U.S. to gain access to petroleum while maintaining the nation's safety and security. The trick is for governments to "just allow the market to deliver oil" and recognize the fact that "despite politicians' promises, oil independence is unachievable and even undesirable."
Eland sets forth no fewer than 11 popular myths about oil, including these: "no viable market exists for oil," "oil reserves have peaked, and we are running out of oil," and "price hikes in oil and gas cause economic disasters." These myths have created a politicized environment for oil production and potential oil supremacy, which the author believes have been counter-productive.
No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East
by Ivan Eland
The Independent Institute
224 pages, $18.95
No War for Oil critically reviews the history of various flawed efforts by the U.S. to develop unholy partnerships with different foreign governments to acquire and secure access to oil, from World War I to the present. For example, there is the intriguing history of the link between the U.S. and pre-eminent oil producer Saudi Arabia. In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a summit meeting with Saudi King Abdul Aziz in which he committed the U.S. to provide Saudi Arabia with military protection in return for access to oil. But by 1949, in "apparent contravention of the agreement," the U.S. "had a secret plan to destroy those oil fields, rather than defend them, in the event that the Soviet Union ever invaded." Almost as astonishing is that U.S. oil executives were told to "store explosives under their beds" as a precaution against a Communist attack.
While many conservatives (myself included) have supported U.S. military efforts to remove tyrants and plant the seeds of democracy in the Islamic world, Eland and the libertarian-leaning Independent Institute are clearly no fans of the war on terror as currently waged. They feel that private political motives were far different from publicly stated reasons.
For instance, Eland believes the first Gulf War (1990-91) had little to do with Kuwait, and was mostly about the U.S. defending its Saudi oil interests. In his view, this could have been accomplished "without going to war with Iraq to liberate Kuwaiti oil." Meanwhile, Eland supports the notion that the White House's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003, "as in the first Gulf War, likely was oil." But due to the fact that "war for oil is unseemly...officials of the George W. Bush administration emphasized other objectives."
Rather than using oil as a strategic commodity and causing international conflict, Eland's solution is for the U.S. to use the free-market economy to its advantage. This would require a long-standing series of policy changes from previous administrations. By letting the market "provide the U.S. economy with all the oil it needs at the lowest price free commerce will allow," the market will remain stable. Withdrawing troops from the Islamic world and the Persian Gulf would show that the White House is serious in its intent to create a more peaceful political and economic environment. At the very least, Eland suggests, it would be a good start if they can "go halfway."
MICHAEL TAUBE is a Toronto-based columnist for the Ottawa Citizen.
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To go along with the Gold SDK update today, we have a brand new BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha OS as well. This time we kick up to version 10.0.9.1675 (some users are seeing 10.0.9.253). If you have a Dev Alpha check for the update and you should see it available. Release notes after the break, and if you spot anything new be sure to let us know!
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- In some instances, if you connected your BlackBerry device to another device using an HDMI cable, the audio did not behave as expected.
- If you changed your mobile network settings so that your device connected to a 2G mobile network (such as GSM), a cell broadcast message might have displayed on your device every two or three minutes.
- Pictures added to contacts on the BlackBerry device were not synchronized to Microsoft Outlook.
- In some instances while playing media files, audio might have been clipped for a fraction of a second.
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Gary Zum Mallen Receives Community Caring Award
May 9, 2013 (Courtesy of Geneseo Republic)
Gary Zum Mallen of Geneseo has been named the 6th annual GIFT Community Caring Award winner.
The award was established to recognize individuals in the community who have "gone above and beyond." Recipients are role models who exemplify an extraordinary commitment to public service and social responsibility.
Zum Mallen, who serves as the Geneseo Public Library District board president, was nominated for the award by library director Claire Crawford. "He has worked for years on building the new library. As a former Geneseo Middle School principal, he had already mastered the art of a building project," wrote Crawford in her nomination. "The library was estimated to cost $4 million. We finished the project at $2.6 million," said Crawford. "As a library user and instructor, Gary has always valued the public library. "We have enjoyed his enthusiasm and dedication in achieving a dream that will last for many years to come," she said.
"Gary has been influential in this community through his involvement in the school district as middle school principal. He spearheaded the change to the middle school concept and also was a guiding force in the passage of the referendum that built the new middle school," said GIFT board member and fellow school administrator Tom Domino.
As the GIFT Community Caring Award winner, a $500 donation was made in Zum Mallen's name to the Geneseo Public Library. Lohman Companies Insurance Foundation fund with GIFT made the donation.
Through the annual Community Caring Award, GIFT Foundation seeks to honor those who have demonstrated selflessness, exhibited long-term commitment to the service and the betterment of society, and who have had a significant impact on the lives of others in our community. We particularly look for those whose efforts will last beyond their lifetime. Gary joins a very special list of winners since the awards inception in 2007.


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I never did Physics in university and I consider that a mistake so I am correcting that now by teaching myself. To that extent I have been watching the MIT lecture videos by Walter Lewin and I am currently up to Lecture 16. The lecture is about Elastic Collisions.
In this lecture he poses this question which I invite you to watch (The link should take you to the correct time in the video but if it does not then the question is posed at 22m52s).
I suspect that the reason that the wall can have that momentum but no Kinetic Energy is that:
$$p = mv$$ $$KE = \frac{mv^2}{2}$$
But in this case
m is extremely large and therefore
v is going to be very very small even when it is squared. Thus, if it happened to be a completely elastic collision and the ball bounced off then the value of 'v' for the wall would be nothing and the laws of physics hold. So I think that the wall will have a velocity of zero in the question and thus doubling it is zero.
I suspect that in reality 'v' for the wall is not quite zero so the wall does get some small amount Kinetic energy. Therefore it will need to loose that energy somehow (otherwise you could keep throwing tennis balls against the wall until it exploded with energy). My suspicion is that walls loose this in vibrations and heat. I also suspect that is why floppy pieces of metal wobble around for a bit when you throw a ball against them.
I obviously cannot ask Walter Lewin if I got that correct so I am asking here. Am I on the right track or did I get that completely wrong? Thankyou so much for your help.


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The Mac mini is winning attention with its compact construction and admirable capability. For instance, it ships with iMovie HD and iDVD 5. For editors with gear just a few years old, the mini's single 1.42GHz processor and internal DVD±R/RW burner is pretty capable. The small size and near-silent operation of the mini—compared to a big, old, multi-fan tower—is also pretty desirable.
After a fast and powerful CPU, the next thing any video editor needs is storage. The size of the mini precludes cramming a 3.5" drive inside. Since some editors work with clients in the editing bay, storage that looks as good as it works has its place. So we brought in a few of the hard drives designed to match the Mac mini to see how they, um, stacked up.
We tested (from top, as shown above) the Maxelerate from WiebeTech, the MiniMate from Micronet, the Mini from LaCie, and the MiniStack from NewerTechnology. Another entry in this category is the Pal from AcomData, but we were unable to secure one in time for this review.
Stacking Up All four drives that we tested are designed to stack conveniently under or on top of the Mac mini (second from top). Some maintain the look of the Mac mini better than the others, but all are very similar in appearance. Three of the four drives offer both USB and FireWire hubs on the back of the drive enclosure. Having both connectivity options is critical to augment the mini's limited space for ports. If you are used to the plethora of ports available on most towers, you may be surprised that the mini only has space for one FireWire and two USB 2.0 ports, so the amount of peripherals you can connect is more limited than what you'll find on most desktop editing systems.
All the external drives rely on external power supplies. While handy in terms of saving space, external adapters create a morass of wires that have to go somewhere. Though they all played nicely on a single power strip in testing, "wall warts" would have helped to reduce this clutter; small, switching "warts" that plug into power strips are available.
Each of the packages also includes FireWire and USB cables. Newer Technology's bondi-blue cables are 17" long. Micronet provides two cute little cables: an 8" USB and 7" FireWire that are mini-matching white. Wiebe includes standard, black, multi-foot-length cables. LaCie includes branded white 9" and 15" FireWire cables that are the only ones to have in-line toroids for isolation and protection. While we really like the ultra-short 7" cables, and wish they were available separately to use with pocket drives, they turned out to be less practical for the stackable drives than we thought. More on this later.
The NewerTechnology MiniStack's bundle includes Intech Speed Tools and EMC/Dantz Retrospect. The MiniStack has an internal, multi-speed fan that the user can set to automatic or manual control, high or low speed—a unique feature among the group. It also has a heat sink on the bottom of the enclosure to help radiate heat from the drive.
MicroNet's MiniMate is a completely "silent" system with no fan. However, the hard drive mechanism inside is clearly louder than the MiniStack's. As we used the drives, the Newer MiniStack fan kicked on and made the two drives equally annoying, but at different pitches.
Wiebe's Maxcelerate has a continuous fan and a vent going from side to side, quite a departure from everything else blowing out the back. The top is also slightly smaller than the bottom, making it look sort of like an ingot of silver. It has four rubber feet, whereas the other units have bases very similar, if not identical, to the Mac mini itself. It is also unusual in that the Wiebe logo lights up when the connected Mac mini turns on, even when the Wiebe is off. Color differentiates between modes and activity.
LaCie's Mini does not have a fan and is thus very quiet. The industrial design and metal case has air vents underneath and four corners that lift up and provide space between the LaCie Mini and whatever is on top of it. We'll see if this space was enough to do the job. The LaCie has only two FireWire ports. You can connect this drive and pass on the connection, but there is no USB.
The Heat Is On We played a DV clip from each of the hard drives, simultaneously, for three hours. As we did this, each of the systems, including the Mac mini itself, heated up considerably. As the drives under the mini heat up, this heat rises into the air intake vents of the mini.
By using a digital thermometer, we measured a 10-15 degree drop in the temperature blowing out the back of the mini when it was lifted above the drive beneath it by less than an inch using two thin styrofoam "rails." This opens the market for someone to develop a mini spacer that allows for, or deliberately creates, airflow between stacked mini peripherals.
The LaCie raised-corner design puts air between the units and avoids direct physical contact. However, I measured the space to be just 3 mm. That's a hair higher than two stacked pennies. If there were a constant breeze—like in front of a fan—this would be useful, but not silent, which the LaCie certainly is. My tests indicate that more space is required to achieve a cooling effect on stacked components.
If you plan on operating WiFi or Bluetooth, you can't put the drives on top of the mini because its antennas are in small cutouts in the metal shielding just under the plastic on top. Put a metal-cased drive on there and you've effectively killed wireless connectivity. However, if you're not wireless, drives on top are acceptable. Just be aware that the mini creates heat that will affect the drives above it.
Unlike enclosures at the dawn of FireWire, which had internal power supplies and cooling fans, most single-drive enclosures made today rely on passive cooling and external power supplies. This can cut costs but may come at the expense of your drive. Passive cooling is fine if the drive is all alone in a well-ventilated, cooled area. But we know better. Look in our edit suites and you'll see stacks of drives, piled up, in a corner, on top of the hot computer, etc. Pro users need enclosures that actively cool the drive and play well with other drives—lots of other drives. Either that, or suffer the consequences.
This is important because neither the case nor the drive manufacturer's warranties will be much consolation if your drive dies of heat stroke the night before a massive project is completed. I really like enclosures that actively dissipate heat. NewerTechnology and WiebeTech are the clear leaders here.
The Need for Speed I used Intech Speed Tools to provide a comparison of all the drives connected to the same computer the same way. As USB 2.0 gains popularity and, in some cases, replaces FireWire, it is important to note that my tests showed that every single drive was fastest through FireWire, consistently testing at 30-35Mbps. The drives were significantly slower via direct USB connection at an average of 14-18Mbps, and slowest through a USB 2.0 hub, failing to achieve even 13Mbps when all were connected simultaneously.
Also, USB drives act differently when the Mac mini sleeps: they disconnect themselves. If you like to leave all your apps and projects in place when you sleep your machine, know that the computer wakes before the drives mount and the timelines will initially show the media as missing. This doesn't happen over FireWire.
For these two reasons, I strongly recommend digital video users to stick with FireWire for your primary drives. If you are making the migration to HDV or HD, throughput becomes even more critical. You can string your backup or extra media drives off USB if you like.
I also challenged the MiniStack by putting four different captured clips into separate corners of the screen and looping playback. This forced the drive to read from several different portions of the disk as fast as it could. In addition, the computer passed an additional 3.6MB stream back out through the MiniStack's FireWire hub to the deck. The MiniStack and its internal FireWire hub passed all this data flawlessly. A digital thermometer registered only a ten-degree increase in temperature of the MiniStack's fan output over ambient temperature.
Conclusion The Mac mini is the biggest source of heat when rendering a lot of video. Keep this in mind when selecting the hard drive that will accompany it. When doing any processor-intensive task, the Mac mini fan will kick in. While it's nowhere near as loud as a G4 tower, there is no need to select a perfectly silent companion drive if the Mac mini itself is whirring away—you won't get the silent editing environment you're hoping for.
The Mac mini internal hard drive can be erratic in terms of performance even though it is an internal IDE. Part of this is due to the fact that most laptop drives are not made for the pounding digital video editors will give them. Also, different Mac mini computers are outfitted with different drives—only certain specifications are guaranteed. Apple can, and has, changed drive speeds and manfacturers without notice. So the best bet for your digital video is, as always, a separate drive dedicated to your media.
NewerTechnology's MiniStack is a very good physical match for the Mac mini. It offers user-controllable fan cooling and a heat sink on the bottom of the enclosure. These help keep the drive cooler, longer. For me, that's a good thing.
MicroNet's MiniMate matches the mini perfectly. Depending on the drive mechanism, it can be perfectly silent. If you won't be beating the hell out of the drive, then the MiniMate is the perfect mate.
WiebeTech's Maxelerate offers unique side-to-side cooling that is always on. The case is not as close a match as the others. Performance numbers were also a bit lower than the other drives. However, job one—a drive enclosure that offers ventilation—is done very well.
LaCie's Mini continues their high-build quality and design. The unique raised corner keeps hot surfaces from making contact, but more space and active air movement are needed for it to really make a big difference. It does not offer any USB connectivity.
These Mac mini-like enclosures are well suited to their primary task of providing massive storage that physically matches the Mac mini. Most also provide very useful FireWire and USB hubs that make up for the Mac mini's limited space for ports.
Drives get hot. Stacking the units directly on top of each other compounds the problem. So stacking them next to each other across a table is a better, and cooler alternative to vertical stacking. However, not all of them come with wires long enough for side-by-side use. This is where longer wires are more useful.
This also means that the drive doesn't really have to match the Mac mini's form factor, so you are free to choose the enclosure and the drive of your liking, perhaps in an enclosure that offers active cooling.
Given the affordability of the Mac mini, and the potential for one user to work on multiple machines, we'd love to see a Mini SAN (storage area network) that would allow two Mac mini computers to connect to the same enclosure and share the same data on two computers. But that doesn't exist, just yet.
Sidebar: MINI PRO?After hammering the mini with two dance DVD projects, a stage play DVD project, and a wedding edit and DVD authoring, I have come to admire its capability. With just four tweaks, Apple can make a miniPro for pro users who don't need a lot of slots.
Apple once had a "box" concept for their computing products. Each corner of the box offered desktop or portable solutions for consumers or professionals. While consumers can pick from several different laptop or desktop models, and there are several pro laptops, pro users have only one desktop machine. Yes, it is a very capable machine. But it is also very big and expensive. It's time for Apple to put more products in our corner of the box. A miniPro would help fill this space nicely.


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Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish officially signed to a six-year, $60 million deal with the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. Darvish, perhaps the most highly-touted player to ever come out of Japan, will be counted on to help shore up the Rangers' pitching staff following the loss of their former No. 1 starter C.J. Wilson, who signed with the Angels in December.
The signing also gave editors and headline writers across the country the opportunity to come up with their own witty play on words based off of Darvish's first name. ("Yu" is like "you," you see.) They haven't had this much fun since Hope Solo's run last summer.
For your enjoyment, we've collected some of the best/worst headline puns since his signing. If you really hate yourself, you can also create your own Yu Darvish memes on MLB's Google+ page, to amuse all three of your friends who actually have a Google+ account.
Yu Da Man! [ESPN]
Yu Got A Deal [ESPN]
Yu Better Believe It! [ESPN]
Rangers Show Yu The Money [ESPN]
Rangers make offer Yu can't refuse [MLB.com]
Yu haul: Rangers land Darvish in $60M deal [MLB.com]
Yu's The Man in Texas as Rangers Benefit from $3 Billion Fox Deal [Forbes.com]
Yu Should Feel Home In DFW [NBCDFW.com]
If Yu Want It, Yu Got It — The Rangers Bust a Move, Sign Darvish [Lone Star Ball]
You Can Always Get What Yu Wants: Texas Rangers and Darvish Agree to Six-Year Deal [Dallas Observer]
We're Expecting A Lot From Yu [HardballTalk]
And for something completely different:
Whirling Darvish [The Economist]


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I will post this story here and post a more abbreviated version on another forum with questions. So here goes.
June 18, 2011 I went to a Financial planners dinner where I ordered stuffed pork chops and drank two glasses of merlot. It did me in. I was having chest pains all night and into the next morning. Thinking it might be a heart attack I went to the hospital where I was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. Three days later I was released and told to watch what I ate. I was not too good at this so I was in pain often. A week or two later I experienced angina. Within a few days I had a stent in my left heart artery. Over the next eight months I had numerous tests (an EGD which revealed Barrett's esophagus, a CT scan which was basically negative, ultra sound and finally an ERCP revealed incomplete pancreas divisum). My doc didn't know what to do about that so he referred me to doctors at Froedert hospital in Milwaukee. It then became evident that the cause was slightly more complicated. After an MRI, another CT and biopsy of some neoplasms in my liver we were now dealing with neuroendocrine cancer in my liver that had metastasized from someplace else in my body. It is likely that it came from my pancreas but objectively there is no evidence of a tumor there from the scans that were done. The octreotide scan did not prove very useful as my cancer is largely ocreotide negative. So I began chemo with etoposide and carboplatin. After a month of this therapy I had another CT scan that revealed the tumors were still showing progression. I switched my therapy to Gemzar and Irinotecan. After a month of that another CT scan revealed more progression of the tumors. Results of the Target Now process of molecular profiling set the stage for the next round of chemo with 5-FU and Irinotecan.
FOLFIRI was partially successful in that it stabilized the cancer spread but it did not seem to cause any remission. It was also the hardest of the three chemo cocktails. The main issue was fatigue and chronic hiccups.
Yittrium-90 Radio embolization came next. This treatment is performed by an interventional radiologist. Millions of tiny beads irradiated with Y-90 are injected into my liver where they attempt to cutoff blood supply to the tumors. Finally some success! I underwent two treatments of Y-90 commercially known as Therasphere spaced about a month apart. They do one side of the liver at a time. The CT scans revealed a reduction in size and necrosis for most of the tumors. After a few months of waiting it was decided to try Chemo embolization. This procedure is similar in approach to the radio embolization but a chemo drug is used instead of the Y-90. I found this procedure more painful than the Therasphere. The side effects are similar to acute pancreatitis plus some nausea and fatigue.
About Thanksgiving of 2012 I started noticing increased fatigue in my legs and a higher level of neuropathy. After a PET scan and numerous X-rays and MRI's it was determined that I have a cervical spine problem involving mostly C-5 but there are other degenerative problems as well. After a second opinion by another neurosurgeon I decided to go ahead with the surgery. Four level cervical fusion (C3-C7) was performed. The docs say the cancer is not related.
One of the things I've found out since this surgery is that one of my major spine symptoms was a sensation when tilting my head forward. At the time I referred to this as a "stinger" because it felt something like an electrical shock to my body. I've since found out that this symptom has a name. It's called Lhermitte's sign. It is a classic symptom of Multiple Sclerosis and other things (like cervical spine injuries such as mine).
Another discovery made by the PET scan was that we finally have objective evidence that the primary tumor is in my pancreas. My oncologist and the surgeon both agree however that my cancer is beyond resection.
On the cancer side, I had a good scan in July that indicated most of the tumors in my liver continue to shrink and/or are undergoing necrosis. The pancreas remains the same with sporadic pancreatitis. I've found that eating carefully right through them is as effective as not eating.
Next on the agenda are octreotide injections. Octreotide has the ability to attach itself to the tumor and halt or slow its growth. I must undergo a test to see if I'm eligible for this therapy. Basically I get an octreotide injection and then get tested for chromogranin a in my blood at 0, 3 and 6 hours. If the chromogranin decreases during this time I should be eligible.
It appears that my condition as being octreotide negative must also mean that I'm octreotide injection ineligible as well. So after a month or two of doing nothing on the cancer front I developed a TMJ problem and a pain in my left side below my breast. My oncologist advised I see a dentist for the TMJ. The dentist and my primary doc passed off the breast pain as a side effect of finasteride pills. Both were quite wrong as the cancer had now metastasized to my bones. There's a tumor in the TMJ which is fractured and my fifth rib also has a tumor. After a MRI it was also found to be in my spine at T5, T8 and T12. I had a biopsy on the rib and they did a cryoablation procedure on the rib as well.
It's time to get a second opinion from the doctors at MDAnderson cancer center in Houston. They could offer nothing but some Phase I trials. I didn't think I was ready for that just yet, let's try Sutent. At first we didn't think it was working but after two cycles we saw some decrease in the rate of growth so hang in there.
Now I think that since the cancer has metastasized to my bones my oncologist is thinking more palliative than curative. Well, after one more Sutent cycle the cancer seems to be progressing on almost all fronts. Let's see what's going on at University of Chicago Medical Center. Basically the same was said there. Phase I clinicals was my best bet but first get some radiation done on the bones.
My physical condition has deteriorated significantly this year. Overall the neck surgery was only partially successful. My stingers are gone but the pain in my lower body, starting at my buttocks is significant. Some days the tightening of my muscles around my spine is a signal to me that it will not be a good day. Other days I can make it through most of the day but by late afternoon or early evening I need some help from oxycodone. 5 or 10 mg usually does it but some time that does not even help. Sleep is the best remedy. Fatigue is totally unpredictable. I can be fine one minute and hopelessly tired the next. Some days I think I can sleep 20 hours. Other days I might be fine with just 8.
TMJ radiation is done. The pain I'm now having is coming from some fractured ribs and a fractured T8 vertebra. I'm not sure exactly what causes the pain. It is likely the surrounding tissue that causes it.
Moving ahead, we contacted the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and they provided a list of eight possible clinical trials. After review with oncologist it was decided to try a Phase II trial at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The trial involves the drug cabozantinib. This drug has been successful in treating Renal Cell Carcinoma. The manufacturer is seeking to expand use into my type of cancer. The doc there says that my cancer may be too high grade for the trial but needs more time to evaluate my biopsies and scans. She also said my cancer may be better treated with a new protocol called CAPTEM. So we are now in a waiting pattern to see what comes next.
I titled this story "My Neuroendocrine tumors are rare" because they seem to defy all of the normal treatments and a solution seems so elusive.
It's a long and painful road as most of you already know. One day at a time. I often take time to smell the roses and thank God for all those in my family and friends that support me.


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Stockton, CA
Jimmie Lee Joe
October 18, 1923 - March 16, 2013
Jimmie Lee Joe of Stockton passed away on March 16 at 89 years old. She was born on October 18, 1923 in Texas. Jimmie was Membership Chairperson of the NAACP and had owned and operated Jimmie Joe's Daycare for over ten years. She was preceded in death by children Joyce and Roy and is survived by her children Dolores, Bonnie, Woodi, Judi, Vicki and Suzette Holmes and a host of grand, great and great-great grandchildren.
Visitation will be held on Monday, March 25 from 4-8 pm in the chapel of Frisbie-Warren & Carroll Mortuary and Funeral Services will be Tuesday at 11:00 am at the Mosswood Park Church of God, 2315 S. Lincoln St. with committal following at Stockton Rural Cemetery. To sign the guest
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Orleans County All Stars runners-up in district tournament
by Richard Creaser
LYNDONVILLE — The Orleans County All-Stars, composed of players from two Lake Region and one North Country squads, earned runners-up honors at the 13-to-15-year-old Babe Ruth district tournament held in Lyndonville over the weekend. Team manager Mark Royer had nothing but praise for his team.
"I told the boys after the game, we came here with pride, we played with pride and we left the field with pride," Mr. Royer said on Monday. "It was an honor to coach them."
The caliber of sportsmanship displayed by the Orleans County team was such that even the umpires took note, Mr. Royer said. The umpires admired the way the players remained composed and respectful, even at their worst moments.
The district tournament pitted the Orleans County squad against all-star teams from Lyndon and St. Johnsbury. The double elimination tournament took place Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with St. Johnsbury emerging as the district champs following Sunday afternoon's match-up against Orleans County.
The tournament started out well for Orleans County as they defeated Lyndon on Friday night. Orleans County faced St. Johnsbury in the first game of the day Saturday morning and lost 10-0 with the game called in the fifth inning by the ten-run mercy rule.
"Even though we lost 10-0, St. Johnsbury was only ahead 5-0 coming into the bottom of the fifth," Mr. Royer said. "If we could have caught a few breaks it might have been a completely different game. We played well, but just couldn't cash in those runs."
Orleans County finished off Lyndon in the nightcap to set up a rematch with St. Johnsbury on Sunday afternoon. Because of the double-elimination format, the St. Johnsbury squad was playing for the championship while Orleans County played to force a second and deciding match.
The rematch proved the capabilities of the Orleans County squad as they managed to carry a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the sixth inning. Unlike in the first meeting, Orleans County generated some offense by finding holes in an otherwise tight St. Johnsbury defense.
"We definitely hit the ball better," Mr. Royer said. "The ball found the grass. That's what we would say in the dugout, 'Make the ball find the grass.'"
St. Johnsbury plated two runs in their half of the sixth inning and carried it over into Orleans County's final at bats. St. Johnsbury would hang on to the lead and with the win, clinch the district title.
"We pitched really well and played solid defensively," Mr. Royer said of the championship game. "After they shut us down ten to nothing on Saturday there was no head-hanging. We knew we had something to show them and we showed it on Sunday."
Mr. Royer admired the way his team handled their loss in what may have been the biggest game of the season. Baseball is just a game, he said, but the way you handle the outcome speaks volumes for the depth of a person's character and that carries over to life off the diamond.
"Even when you try your best you won't always get the result you want," Mr. Royer said. "Your effort and your attitude are the only things in life you can control. It's how you handle adversity and how you get back up and try again that really matters."
contact Richard Creaser at [email protected]
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The Discraft "Mini Star", based on the Ultrastar mold and released in December 2004, is a hefty little sucker that weighs in at 38 grams and boasts a diameter of 4.5" (the largest of any mini we've seen). This is a great-flying mini (probably due to its large diameter), making it perfect for tossing around the house or use with a mini basket. It's not often that a revolution occurs in mini discs, but we're thankful that Discraft saw the light.
The Full-color Yin/Yang Mini disc improves on the original by adding this awesome full-color edge-to-edge print on top. Beautiful!


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National Journal's Major Garrett Reinforces GOP Attacks On Obama's Small Business Comments
The National Journal's Major Garrett brought up the Republican campaign to use the "you didn't build that" line to attack President Obama during both the Republican and Democratic national conventions, but let stand the distortion at the heart of that campaign. In fact, during his speech -- as independent fact-checkers have noted -- Obama was explaining how small businesses have benefitted from the successes and contributions of others, including government, which Garrett failed to point out.
Indeed, those comments have repeatedly been taken out of context [1] by the right-wing media and Republicans for over a month. But as FactCheck.org noted [2], those attacks are dishonest:
There's no question Obama inartfully phrased those two sentences, but it's clear from the context what the president was talking about. He spoke of government -- including government-funded education, infrastructure and research -- assisting businesses to make what he called "this unbelievable American system that we have."
In summary, he said: "The point is ... that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
During a discussion about the 2012 presidential election on NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, Garrett, a former Fox News White House correspondent who is now a National Journal congressional correspondent, referred to how "Republicans will use the president's 'you didn't build that' against him" at the respective party conventions. Garrett continued by explaining that the comments would be used "thematically at the Republican convention and with traveling hecklers in Charlotte," where the Democratic National Convention will be held.
But as the full context of Obama's comments show [3], he was simply noting that the success of small businesses comes not only from their own initiative, but also can come from outside influences such as "a great teacher somewhere in your life" and investment "in roads and bridges."
This is something Romney has also [4] stated [5].
The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler wrote [6] of the Romney's campaign distortion of "you didn't build that":
[B]y focusing on one ill-phrased sentence, Romney and his campaign have decided to pretend that Obama is talking about something different -- and then further extrapolated it so that it becomes ridiculous. That's not very original at all.
PolitiFact added that "when you read the full text of [Obama's] remarks, that quote distorts the meaning of Obama's claim." It continued [7]:
We believe, as do our friends at FactCheck.org and the Washington Post Fact Checker, that Romney has seriously distorted Obama's comments.
Romney cherry-picked a quote that made it sound like Obama was dismissive of businesses when in fact he was making a point that success comes from the combination of "individual initiative" and the fact that "we do things together."
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text: Fighting between ethnic militia groups in eastern DRC's Ituri region has driven an estimated 100,000 people out of their homes. The insecurity is not only hampering WFP efforts to reach IDP camps but also stopping farmers from tilling their fields, prolonging their reliance on food aid. The 20 percent malnutrition rate in Tche IDP camp (portrayed in this VNR) is the regional average.


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Distant Worlds Legends v184.108.40.206a Update
Posted: 22 MAY 2013
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So two of my ex-girlfriends and my current girlfriend are all religious and have one point or another sat me down on a couch and asked me, "You don't belive in Jesus do you." In my head Im resisting the urge to laugh and say, "no fucking way," but out of respect i restrained myself and explained calmly that i am atheist and no i do not believe in Jesus. Well i hope you can all see where this discussion went. To the point however i would like to ask you guys if any of you have had this predicament and how did you deal with it. I do love my girlfriend very much but she is highly religious and has no intention of allowing me to stay "ignorant of her lord and savior." What do mentlegen?
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Yeah, but she's going to want your kids to "love jesus" just like she does, right?
I married a Catholic girl who wasn't even interested in going to church.
The only problem we had related to religion was once our kid was old enough to start going Catholic religion classes once a week after school.
Can't say that I have been in that position exactly, but communicating expectations is key here. If she expects to convert you or you her, things will never work out. If you plan to procreate and have very differing views on how to raise a child, things will be difficult, at best.
You probably can make a long term relationship work with a theist, but remember that there are so many fish in the sea and you will care for others as much, if not more, than those you have known so far. In other words, don't be afraid to move on. It might be best to partner with a mate that shares your core values.
I've had excellent sex with religious people, but I've never had excellent 'relationships' with religious people. Why? Conversations regarding values are a integral part of the daily me.
In the past, having great sex and fun with religious people has been confused with love, they are not always easy to distinguish... but I think that when you really really consider your true identity, the values that define 'you', it's impossible to be truly 'in love', completely, with the a religious human. IMHO, this is an example of being 'in love' with our 'projection' of that human, our biased and tainted perceptions of that human. I am convinced that it is exactly this inability of humans to recognise this fundamental bias causing our erroneous perception of the 'others dues to lust and co-dependence, is the greatest cause of divorce (or whatever equivalent) in our society.
I don't believe any relationship between a believer and a non-believer has any real potential, other than short term fun and entertainment.
I've made it in the door of religious homes, but never into the hearts. It's clear very early on to religionists that I'm not religious and the confrontation will take place if they have felt that they could save me. The one that got the furthest was younger than me. Eventually we had to have the conversation very directly that who I was would never change. While her church is cool, I don't find the message cool. It's exclusionary based solely on acceptance of a story. I've lost out on many great girls in my life due to this. In the end, I found an Atheist whom was the right match and these conversations are now more of a chorus, "Jesus loves us," lulz "A man lived in a whale." lulz I'm afraid that I wouldn't look back and change my decision because biting my tongue when Bachman speaks might lead to me overflowing with WTF's.
I wish you the best of luck. I'm simply saying for me it wouldn't work, but for you, if they have to ask, maybe it's feasible with some serious thought before you speak, everyday for the rest of your life. Dad, Mommy says that Jonah lived in a whale! Son, ask Mommy where the 33,000 cubic feet of air came from over those three days. Be sure to let her know that you respect her opinion!
Hmmm. Well this depends. Is she really hot?
You can deal with her rationally and use her knowledge of the bible to enhance your own. The bible
is a flawed document based on unreality and you can politely dispute her entreaties by explaining why the bible and jesus doesn't work. Try to keep the discussion healthy and off an emotional reactive level.
If this is impossible, then it's time to rethink your friendship.
I recently had a conversation about this very thing with a girl whom I like VERY much The context of the discussion was that her passionately-held Christian beliefs and my total lack of belief probably created an impregnable barrier between two people like us. She sadly agreed. And that's just the way it is.
Interfaith relationships can work, but certain factors have to be correct for them to work out. I am actually married to a Wiccan, and while we agree on plenty of things, there are some where we don't. But we respect what each other think, and make no attempt to change the others mind. If you can have that kind of mutual agreement, you can live in harmony in you Atheist and Christian situation. But if she is dead-set to make you 'see the light', or isn't willing to accept your Atheism then there will be a problem. If there can't be that agreement at this early juncture, then it will only get worse if the relationship progresses to something more serious. Say, if you have kids. You will want to your kid to think for themselves and make up their own mind. But she'll want to baptize, go through all the religious education, and indoctrinate indoctrinate indoctrinate. If you get stuck in that situation, everyone loses. So you have to ask yourself if your willing to accept and respect her belief. It you can, you next have to sit down and ask her the same question. If she is willing to let you be you, and not try to convert you then I think you should give it a go if you love her. If she's not, it's best to cut your losses why you can.
Tell her the facts of the matter about her so-called holy book. Such as ..........The earth is not flat. it is neither the center of the solar system, nor the universe. It is more than 6k yrs old, and took longer than 6 days to come into being. There is no such place as the garden of Eden, or Mt Sion. The flood never happened, and neither did the exodus. The Jews did not then, and do not now, expect their messiah to be born of a virgin, or be anything other than a worldly leader.There was no such place as Nazareth in 1st century Palestine and there is absolutely nothing original in the dying/resurrecting man/god stories of the new testament. All this of course is just for starters.
Then you can assure her that you are crazy about her and have no problem that she insists on believing this stuff anyway.
Had the same problem occur to me last year in my first year of college. I had a new start and became interested in this girl involved in the same program as me. I gradually tried to let go of my introverted ways and build something meaningful with her. Everything was going smoothly and mutual interest formed between us.
One day, however, she happened upon my Facebook info and took note of my religious views (listed as "agnostic atheist"). This prompted many tense discussions and unnecessary judgments. At one point she even pleaded that I go to a church group on campus with her (which I did, though it was purely to see what sort of brainwashing took place at the collegiate level). Things only got more bitter after that point because of my indifference to the event.
As of this year, we're now simply friends (we more or less "agreed to disagree." I hate that saying, by the way). We remain friends (insofar as I can tell) not because of a natural bond, but because we work together on a day-to-day basis in our program where ignoring the other person would foster unneeded misery. It's a terrible shame, really, how an otherwise irrelevant belief can rupture something like love—or, at least, what I thought was love.
In retrospect, I find it funny how I even allowed myself to go to that petty gathering for the sake of appeasing her ridiculous beliefs. "Saving" me was apparently more important than acknowledging the feelings we had for each other. She concluded that I was the "wrong path" for her to go down, refusing to get physical at all in fear of it being "morally" wrong with an atheist. You know what I think is wrong? Someone who denies their own feelings.


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How will experiencing Earth in the Hayden Planetarium give someone a new perspective on the blue planet?
Emmart: We authentically show our planet as one would see it in space. We see the geography, but not the borders we impose. We see evidence of how we are changing the natural environment in places. This perspective helps us realize we are all already in space, and we are protected by being here. We inhabit the most beautiful spaceship we could ever imagine. We must learn how to get along better with it and with each other.
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- Did you hear that there was an earthquake at the Maui Invitational last night? RTC Live was there covering the Kentucky-Washington game and thought something was a little off when the desk in front of the correspondent and the basket supports from the ceiling began shaking back and forth. Read this at the 6:36 mark. The amazing thing is that the game and that moment in particular (when UW's Venoy Overton elbowed a Kentucky player and received a technical foul) were so intense that few fans and actual participants even noticed the 4.6 temblor. As John Calipari responded when asked about it: "there was an earthquake?" Thankfully there was no damage to life or property anywhere, and it won't go down as another Atlanta/SEC Tournament or thankfully an 1989 World Series pre-game, but it was a bizarre moment nevertheless.
- This isn't D1, but we feel obliged to talk about it for a moment. A D3 game between Skidmore and Southern Vermont on Tuesday night went a division-record seven overtimes before Skidmore finally pulled it out, 128-123. The game that ended in regulation tied at 59-all matched the D1 and D2 marks with the seven extra periods, with a 1981 contest between Cincinnati and Bradley acting as the longest such game at that level. In an unbelievable exhibition of stamina, USV's Lance Spratling played in all 75 minutes of the game, which means that henceforth whenever someone does something that requires a will beyond the normal call of duty, we shall say that person Spratlinged the mess out of it. Interestingly, only 142 folks showed up to watch this game, 24 fewer than the new record number of rebounds for any level of NCAA basketball (166).
- While we're on the subject of records, Kansas last night expectedly broke its record of 62 consecutive home victories at Allen Fieldhouse with a convincing 82-41 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The Jayhawks haven't lost at home since February 2007, but they'll likely have to go another four years to approach the all-time D1 record of 129 in a row, set by Kentucky back in the 1940s and 50s.
- More records last night. Coach K as you know (and discussed further here) got his 800th career victory at Duke last night against Kansas State, but Texas coach Rick Barnes also hit a milestone with the 500th victory of his career in a win against Sam Houston State. He has a long way to go to catch the likes of Calhoun, K, Knight, Boeheim, etc., but given that he's only 56 years old and he's easily averaging 25 wins per year, Barnes could eventually work himself into that echelon of elites before he decides to retire.
- Sigh… We'll just let this one speak for itself. This is a screenshot of Bruce Pearl's wife's (Brandy) Facebook page. And we wonder why people are so self-absorbed and completely devoid of empathy? Well, here's Exhibit #127 in the prosecution's case, Your Honor.


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Let's assume you are convinced that the extra time spent unit testing has merit and improves production. Does that still hold up when everyone working on the same code doesn't use them? This question makes me wonder if fixing tests that everyone doesn't use is a waste of time. If you correct a test so the new code will pass, you're assuming the new code is correct. The person updating the test better have a firm understanding of the reasoning behind the code change and decide if the test or the new code needs to be fixed. This much inconsistency in a team when it comes to testing is probably an indication of other problems as well.
There is a certain amount of risk involved that someone else on the team will alter code that is covered by testing. Is this the point where testing becomes counter-productive?