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YORK, Pa. – The York College women's volleyball team lost 3-2 in a hard fought battle against conference opponent Marymount Wednesday evening at Charles Wolf Gymnasium.
The gamed was designated "Dig Pink" night and the Spartans sported pink gear as well as helped to raise money and bring attention to breast cancer awareness month. The team has raised $1600 so far and will continue their efforts until the end of October.
With the loss the Spartans fall to 5-20 overall and 1-3 in the Capital Athletic Conference. The Saints now hold an overall record of 18-6 and are 2-0 in the conference. The Saints won the match 17-25, 25-17, 23-25, 25-19 and 15-11.
The Spartans came out very strong in the first match of the night. In the second match York struggled with passing the ball and the Saints were able to capitalize. The Green and White battled back and forth with Marymount during the third set. The score remained very close throughout and the Spartans were able to hold on for the victory. Marymount came out on fire in the fourth set and despite York trying to make a late comeback the Saints would be able to hold onto a win. Entering into the fifth set the Saints would take a small lead early in and it would prove to be enough to capture the set and earn Marymount the victory for the night.
Sophomore Katie Huston (Ellicott City, Md./Mount Hebron) played a tremendous game for the Spartans. She finished the night with 14 kills and zero errors for an attacking percentage of .438. Also playing well for the Green and White was freshman Allie Donahue (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) with 42 assists and 16 digs.
On the defensive side of things senior Ashley Rineman (Hanover, Pa./Delone Catholic) played a strong game and recorded 21 total digs.
York returns to action on Tuesday evening when they travel to Goucher for a 7:00 pm matchup.

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Being on a diet does not mean you have to forgo desserts. No, you don't want to eat a gallon of ice cream every night or pig out on cheesecake whenever the opportunity arises. However, there are plenty of ways you can treat yourself without sabotaging your weight-loss goals. The internet is full of healthy desserts that are both delicious and enjoyed guilt-free.
Here are five tasty treats that won't break your diet.
Avocado brownies. If you haven't noticed, people promoting a healthy lifestyle have started advertising the use of legumes, like chickpeas or black beans, over flour in baked goods. Is it healthier? Sure. Does it also make you squirm just a little bit? Well, if the answer is yes, try using avocado for your substitution instead - especially when baking brownies.
The flavor of an avocado is mild enough that it easily blends into the chocolate brownie batter, all while adding a healthy dose of nutrients to a treat that is usually loaded with sugars and empty calories. These particular brownies also happen to be egg-free and dairy-free, so give them a try the next time your craving that famous square-shaped snack. You might be pleasantly surprised.
Chocolate banana cookies. These little treats are not only perfect for dessert, but they are healthy enough to have for breakfast or as a mid-day (or midnight) snack. That, however, isn't even the best part: there are just three ingredients in this concoction - bananas, oats and cocoa powder. That's it.
There's enough added sweetness from the bananas to satisfy your sweet tooth, but not so much that you'll want to go back to bed after satisfying your craving.
Peanut butter "caramel" truffles. Did you know you can use dates to make caramel? You can, and it's delicious. Go ahead and test it on your toughest food critic and see if they can tell the difference. The dates are pitted and then whipped up into a smooth, creamy "caramel" without using an ounce of butter or cream. Treating yourself to one or two after dinnertime is a perfectly acceptable, diet-friendly treat you don't have to feel guilty about.
If you want them to be extra tasty, channel your inner Salt Bae and top these off with a light sprinkling of sea salt.
Cacao cake. This dense, moist cake has no refined sugar and no flour. With some simple substitutions, like almond flour and a few tablespoons of maple syrup, you're able to make yourself a grain-free, refined sugar-free, chocolate cake. The craziest part? It actually tastes good!
The cake makes six servings, and it clocks in at only 289 calories and 8 grams of sugar per slice. In comparison, one Twinkie has a whopping 16.5 grams of sugar.
Mint chocolate chip "nice" cream. Here's a dessert that tastes just as good as the real thing with hardly any added sugars. It's ice cream, but really it's "nice" cream, because it's not going to add inches to your hips like all those other ice creams that have upward of 200 calories per one measly half a cup serving. This ice cream, on the other hand, is delicious, satisfying and low-calorie to boot.
Now that you have these healthy desserts in your food arsenal, you no longer have to feel tempted to break your diet at every sight or smell of cookies, cake or ice cream. Still be sure to watch your portion sizes and stay consistent. If you can do that, you'll eventually see the results you've been looking for, even if you do indulge in a delicious treat every now and again.
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If you spend long enough on this forum, you'll come away with all sorts of weird, untrue ideas of Orthodox Christianity.
I would suggest most persons in general avoid any question beginning with why.
Our 7 year olds go to their First Confession this Sunday (Palm Sunday).
Quote from: LizaSymonenko on April 14, 2011, 04:59:20 PMOur 7 year olds go to their First Confession this Sunday (Palm Sunday).How long were they supposed to abstain from the Eucharist prior to their first confession?
They are not to eat or drink anything from Saturday midnight, until after they receive Holy Communion.
In Poland there is no abstinence BTW. One week you normally take and the next one you are going to confession.
Quote from: Michał Kalina on April 14, 2011, 05:56:58 PMIn Poland there is no abstinence BTW. One week you normally take and the next one you are going to confession.Interesting, thank you. So is such an abstinence kept anywhere or is it just a practice I wrongly assumed to exist?
As for the sins you may have forgotten: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/AbsolutionAfter one confesses, the priest—who may or may not have heard the confession—covers the head of the person with his stole and reads the prayer of absolution, asking God to forgive the transgression of the individual. The Orthodox version of absolution, in contrast to the Catholic, stresses the unworthiness of the minister to forgive sin, which God alone can do. In the Greek practice, the priest says: "Whatever you have said to my humble person, and whatever you have failed to say, whether through ignorance or forgetfulness, whatever it may be, may God forgive you in this world and the next…" One version of the Russian Orthodox prayer of absolution states: "May Our Lord and God, Jesus Christ, through the grace and bounties of His love towards mankind, forgive you, my Child, all your transgressions. And I, an unworthy Priest, through the power given me by Him, forgive and absolve you from all yours sins."
Having honestly forgotten to reveal a sin, is different from purposefully omitting to reveal one (due to shame, etc.).From my previous post this particular line was meant for you: "Whatever you have said to my humble person, and whatever you have failed to say, whether through ignorance or forgetfulness,..."Ignorance being that you didn't realize you had sinned, and do something you didn't realize you shouldn't do.Forgetfulness being that the sin simply slipped your mind during Confession. In reciting all the other ones, a few got overlooked.It's the repentant heart that is pleasing to God...more then reading off a laundry list of sins.
But I mean for example I would go in say I've lied. But do I recount what I lied about/how many times I remember in my entire life?
Take a breath, read Ecclesiastes 1:9.
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We are a launching EightDreams, an inspirational online educational community to help address topics around spirituality, health, general wellness, counseling, and management of money & relationships. In order for us to look great we are calling on your creativity to design an amazing home page for our vision!
There are two types of people who will use the site - teachers and students. EightDreams is a place where our visitors come to learn things that are important to make their lives better - a school of life. Our workshops and classes offer inspiration and also knowledge needed to pursue life long dreams. We aim to create a community where users can connect with other like-minded peers.
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We want to create the sense of the "perfect experience" both in the sense of content and beauty of the site. Students can take a workshop; they can be inspired by the words of a teacher, or can connect with a new friend. We want to create a sense of ease, simplicity, beauty and inspiration without making the design too 'feminine' or childish.
We like clean lines, softness (perhaps, with the occasional stroke of bold color). We have attached our logo and a sample layout of our home page. The sample layout does not need to be exactly followed, but the regions that we have marked in EightDreams_Home_with_Notes.png should be preserved.
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Culture- ART FEATURE- Beast-ly art: Howe goes hog wild
If you're counting the days until the movie version of Charlotte's Web hits the multiplex next December, good news! You can get your farm-animal fix (no, not that kind of fix— get your mind out of the trough) right now by taking a gander at Pat Howe's exhibition of acrylic paintings, "Beyond the Barn Door," at Gallery@5th and Water.
As frothy and sweet as cotton candy at a county fair, Howe's bovine, porcine, canine, caprine, and galline portraits (those last two mean goat-ish and chicken-ish, respectively–see, this is what you call an educational column) contain no underlying irony or hint of social commentary, ala George Orwell. They're simply straightforward animal pictures competently painted.
Howe's broad strokes create multiple planes of color that convey both the variations in an animal's fur or feathers as well as the shaded dimensions of its body. Her brush, thick with paint, builds a beefy texture with visceral appeal.
Sometimes Howe presents farm fauna in their natural milieu of pastures or chicken-wire enclosures. More often, though, she de-contextualizes her subjects by placing them against monochromatic or wallpaper-patterned backgrounds. Howe's speckled-egg backdrop is fine for several images of poultry, but her use of a coral harlequin pattern behind goats, and garish green dots, reminiscent of pebbled glass, behind chickens is less successful.
In addition, her framing tends to go overboard in the direction of cuteness (think of that feeling you get 15 minutes after eating cotton candy). In "Comin' and Goin'," a large frame made from horizontal pink clapboard, with inner and outer rims of weathered white wood, surrounds a small painting of forward-and-backward pigs. Granted, it's decorative– in fact, it's ideal for a toddler's room filled with white wicker furniture.
Fluff aside, Howe's real talent lies in her observation of the distinctive twitches and gestures specific to certain species. In "Which Came First?" two chicks on the lower right interact in classic chick-like fashion– one leans forward, claw raised, ready to peck the other, while its counterpart recoils slightly, twisting its head to eye at its aggressor. In Howe's strongest painting, the large "Take the High Road," two cows graze beside a wheat field on a clear-skied day, and one flicks its left ear just so, as if shaking off an unseen fly.
Should you have a particular pig you want to capture for posterity, Pat Howe's the painter to call.
Pat Howe's exhibition of acrylic paintings, "Beyond the Barn Door," is on view at the Gallery @ 5th and Water through August 27. 107 5th St. (located in the upstairs entrance to Henderson & Everett And Stoneking/Von Storch). 979-9825.
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The McGuffey Art Center is on its annual end-of-summer hiatus the last two weeks of August. 201 Second St. NW. 295-7973.
Second Street Gallery is on break and will to art action in September with an exhibition by photography "it girl," Anna Gaskill. 115 Second St. SE (in the Charlottesville City Center for the Arts). 977-7284.
Les Yeux du Monde features work by Gloria and David Lee through August 25. 5:30-7:30pm. 115 S. First St. 973-5566.
The University of Virginia Art Museum presents "John Barber's Sketchbook: The Development of an Artist, through August 23. Also on view: "Humanism and Enigma: The Art of Honoré Sharrer," through August 20. 155 Rugby Road. 924-3592.
Through September, the main gallery of the University of Virginia's Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture, located in the new Special Collections Library, features "The Style of Power: Building A Nation," examining the art, architecture, and decorative arts popular in post-Revolutionary America. 972-4254.
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection hosts two exhibitions: "Mysterious Beauty: Edward L Ruhe's Vision of Australian Aboriginal Art," and "Manta Wiru (Beautiful Land): Paintings from Amata." Both shows remain on view through August 19. 400 Worrell Drive (Pantops). 244-0234.
The Charlottesville Community Design Center presents "Working to Rebuild Pearlington, Mississippi After Katrina," an exhibit by the Building Goodness Foundation, featuring photography by Will Kerner, Pete Syme, Clayton Cubbit, and numerous Building Goodness Foundation volunteers. On view through August 25. 101 E. Main St. 984-2232.
The Gallery @ 5th & Water presents "Beyond the Barn Door," an exhibition of acrylic paintings by Pat Howe, through August 27 in the upstairs foyer of Henderson & Everett and Stoneking/von Storch. 107 5th St. 979-9825. See Art feature, page XX.
The Creature Gallery offers wildlife photographer Hal Brindley's latest show, "Alaska," on view through October. 824 Hinton Ave. 284-1800.
Migration: A Gallery features its second summer show, "Inside / Out," featuring paintings by Lynn Boggess and ceramics by local fave Tom Clarkson. Also on view, "Elemental Harmonies," which showcases the work of painter Suzanne Howes-Stevens and metal artist, Jim Martin. Both shows run through August 31. Also in August, the gallery hosts the Charlottesville-Albemarle Art Association's 13th Annual Juried Show through August 29. 119 Fifth St. SE. 293-2200.
For the month of August, the C&O Gallery displays Jonathan Doner's "Textures and Transformations." 515 E. Water St. (next to the C&O Restaurant). 971-7044.
On August 18, John Trippel opens his exhibition of paintings depicting area locations at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center. The show remains on view through mid-October. A reception is scheduled for August 18, 6-8pm. 1600 Melbourne Road (behind Charlottesville High School). 923-4544.
Art Upstairs features Peter Alamonte's "A Watercolor Retrospective: 1960s to the Present," on view through August 31. 316 E. Main St. (2nd floor of the Hardware Store). 923-3900.
The new Convergence gallery features work by aerosol street artists during August. 414 E. Main St. (in the basement under the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar). 825-8184.
Angelo presents Laura J. Snyder's "Lightness and Weight," an exhibition of paintings and works on paper that explore "a conflict between the physical and the spiritual," on view through August 31. 220 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 971-9256.
During August, HOME showcases new paintings and mixed-media pieces by Andrew Hersey. A portion of all sales will benefit the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA. 126-D Garrett St. (in the Gleasons Building). 293-2812.
Mono Loco displays an 11-artist group show, "Wherever You Go, There You Are," through August 31. 200 W. Water St. 409-7556,
In August, La Galeria presents Roger Lehr's exhibition of oils and acrylics entitled, "Differences." 218 W. Market St. (next to Vinegar Hill Theatre). 293-7003.
August 1-31, C'ville Coffee presents "Whitmans– A Sampling of Media and Subjects from the Paintings of Judy Carraway." 1301 Harris St. (across from Circa). 817-2633.
Mudhouse presents post-Katrina photography by John Shepherd, on view in August. 213 W. Main St. 984-6833.
During August, Order from Horder presents work by photographer Cary Oliva. 425 E. Main St. 293-9166.
Laura Lee Gulledge presents "99 Versions of Laura Lee on the Wall," on view at the Starr Hill Gallery during August. 709 Main St. 989-2554.
The 5th Floor Gallery at Keller Williams Realty features an August show of Heliardo Aragao's work along with work by painter Gidey Gezahey. Habitat for Humanity receives 10 percent of all sales. 300 Preston Ave., Suite 500. 220-2201.
Sage Moon Gallery presents "Essence Revealed," an exhibition of work by ceramic sculptor Diann Schindler, on view through August. 420 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 977-9997.
The latest installment in poet Laurance Wieder and artist Andrea Korotksy's "Poem House:Songs in the Landscape" features the painted window, "The Last Century," and the take-it-with-you poem, "My Glasses Flew Off," in the Poem Tube. The installment runs through September 15. Front yard of 2331 Highland Ave. 295-5057.
Through August 31, the Boar's Head Inn Store presents artwork in various media by Mary Boxley Bullington, Gray Dodson, Jeanette Buys, Jack Cacciatore, and Kirk McCauley. Rte. 250W. 977-2241.
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Art Association's new members show, featuring work by Lucia Bakewell, Michael Bednar, Joy Cross, Christine Rich, and Marcy Springett, is currently on view upstairs at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport. 295-2486 or 973-9700.
The Central Virginia Watercolor Guild displays new watercolor, pastel, acrylic, and mixed-media work at the Albemarle County Courthouse through October 31. 410 E. High St. 964-1423.
In August, Transient Crafters presents Meg West's latest exhibition of regional landscapes entitled "Summer Views." 118 E. Main St. 972-9500.
White Orchid Restaurant shows "Photographs of Vietnam" by the late Georgia Barbour through August 31. 420 W. Main St. 297-4400.
Glo is currently showing paintings by Christian Peri. 225 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 295-7432.
Blue Ridge Beads & Glass displays new paintings and art glass by Jerry O'Dell. 1724 Allied St. 434-293-2876.
L'étoile Restaurant displays paintings by local artists Barry Gordon, Malcolm Hughes, and Christian Peri. 817 W. Main St. (across from the Amtrak Station). 979-7957.
Washington and Lee University's Williams School of Commerce presents "Art Song," an exhibition of etchings, monotypes, relief prints, and lithographs by Judith Kahn. The show runs through September. Lexington. 540-458-8602.
The Artisans Center of Virginia presents ceramicist Dan Finnegan's show, "New Kiln-New Studio-New Work" during August. 601 Shenandoah Village Road (Exit 94 off I64), Waynesboro. 540-296-3294.
Orange's Corner House Gallery features Virginia landscapes and architecture studies by Linda Bourdreaux Montgomery and Virginia Unakite, along with jewelry by Coryne Simone LaBry. 173 W. Main St. 540-672-5019.
Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents a rotating series of paintings under the umbrella title of "An Enduring Legacy: Paintings Acquired Through the J. Harwood and Louis B. Cochrane Fund for American Art." 200 N. Boulevard. 804-204-2704.
Through October 8, Madison's Sevenoaks Pathwork Center features "Organic Studies," a show of photography by Ruth Adams. 540-948-6544.
Lovingston's The Eye of the Beholder gallery offers "Stopping Points," featuring paintings, drawings, and photographs by Elizabeth Hutson. Located in the Packing Shed on Front St. 996-5058.
The Barn Swallow features pottery by Janice Arone and Mary Ann Burke, plus other handcrafted artwork. Route 682 off 250W. 434-979-4884.
The Ed Jaffe Gallery features paintings and marble sculptures by Ed Jaffe, plus abstract photographs by Marc Jaffe. 108 W. Main St., Orange. 540-672-2400.
The Fluvanna Heritage Trail Foundation Art Show invites entries for its annual exhibition on October 6. Works created within the last three years are eligible for entry, and the deadline is September 28. Entry forms are available at Maggie's House in Palmyra, the Fluvanna County Library, the Community Center in Fork Union, and the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville. For more info., contact Windy Payne, 434-296-5243, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Scottsville Council of the Arts invites submissions of painting, sculpture, and other media—but not photography—for its "Fine Art Show" during JamesFest, October 13-22. Deadline for application is September 15. For more information or an application visit avenue.org/sca or call 286-4945, 429 Valley St., Scottsville.


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Deutsches Mennonitisches Friedenskomitee
The Deutsches Mennonitisches Friedenskomitee (DMFK; German Mennonite Peace Committee) was established in 1956 as a response to the resumption of conscription in the wake of the rearmament of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany [West Germany]) during the Cold War. The German Mennonite peace witness was stimulated by the German collapse at the end of World War II, the influence of American Mennonites, the recovery of the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition, and a general change in theological thinking. The DMFK was commissioned by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Mennonitengemeinden to promote the peace witness. Its mission is assisting conscientious objectors during hearings and in their civilian public service, occasionally publishing pamphlets, and organizing meetings and demonstrations. It employed two staff members in the mid-1980s. After 1976 it became more active because of deepening convictions and growing general awareness of the nuclear arms race.
See also Peace Education
Dreißig Jahre DMFK, 1956-1986. Rammental DMFK, 1986.
Deutsches Mennonitisches Friedenskomitee website.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — In a grassroots effort to help reduce global warming a citizens' group has asked Middlebury selectmen to endorse a plan aimed at reducing the community's greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent by the year 2012.
The Middlebury Area Global Warming Action Committee (MAGWAC) on Tuesday presented selectmen with a 43-page report on the extent to which Middlebury, its residents and commuters are generating greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide), and how those gases could be reduced.
MAGWAC members Steve Maier and Peg Martin urged selectmen to adopt four major recommendations within the Middlebury Area Climate Action Plan, including:
• That the town set an example in reducing greenhouse gases on a municipal level by using biodiesel and other alternative fuels for its vehicles and heating; by encouraging public transportation, walking and less driving; by considering "building efficiency standards" for new construction; and by developing a plan to reduce town government-related greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2012.
MIDDLEBURY — After 15 years of service as Vermont's lone representative in the U.S. House, independent Bernard Sanders hopes voters this November will give him a new role in Washington, D.C. — as a United States senator.
Sanders, 64, is seeking to fill the spot being vacated by longtime Sen. James Jeffords, I-Vt. The fiery progressive congressman and former Burlington mayor faces competition from IDX Systems founder Richard Tarrant, a Colchester Republican.
During a far-ranging interview on July 7 at the Addison Independent, Sanders shared his views on such issues as the war in Iraq, farming, job creation, the federal deficit and health care.
As usual, he did not mince words.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen on Thursday set a fiscal year 2006-2007 residential tax rate of $2.2103 per $100 in property value, an increase of approximately 7 cents compared to the current residential rate of $2.1397.
Middlebury overall rate for non-residential properties (business and second homes) was set at $2.055 per $100 in property value.
The new tax obligation reflects a municipal rate of 73.6 cents per $100, which includes 2 cents for the fire equipment replacement fund and 1 cent for the land conservation fund. The previous municipal rate was 69 cents per $100.
Also reflected in the new rate is an education property tax rate of $1.474 per $100 for residents and a non-residential school property tax rate of $1.32 per $100.
FERRISBURGH — Former Rep. Tom McGrath of Ferrisburgh has thrown his hat into an already bustling ring of candidates for the two House seats representing Addison-3, a move that will trigger a Republican primary contest in the Vergennes-area district.
McGrath's entry into the race sets up a GOP primary in which he will compete against incumbent Rep. Greg Clark of Vergennes and former Vergennes Mayor Kitty Oxholm. The top two finishers will move on to the general election, where they will face Vergennes Democrat Diane Lanpher and current Vergennes Mayor April Jin, who is running under the Progressive Party banner.
The Addison-3 district includes the communities of Ferrisburgh, Vergennes, Panton, Addison and Waltham. Longtime incumbent Rep. Connie Houston, R-Ferrisburgh, will not seek re-election.
MIDDLEBURY — Otter Creek Brewing's award-winning beer is getting greener and greener.
No, we're not talking about a build-up to a special St. Patrick's Day promotion.
The green, in this case, symbolizes the many environmentally friendly processes the Middlebury-based brewery is using in production of the more than 30,000 barrels of beer it ships out annually to 22 states.
"It's not one big thing we're doing, but a lot of small things that add up," Otter Creek Brewing President and owner Morgan Wolaver said during a Thursday tour that meandered around imposing steel vats, humming machinery and busy employees at Otter Creek's Exchange Street plant.
SHOREHAM — Jeremiah Parker has spent his professional life restoring historic homes and barns to their former glory.
Now he wants to take a temporary detour from renovation to build some brand new homes — seven of them, to be precise. He is proposing those new abodes as part of "Green Woods Village," an eight-lot subdivision that would be located on a four-acre parcel in the village of Shoreham.
Parker, the owner of Shoreham-based Jeremiah Parker Restoration, is collaborating with the Addison County Community Trust (ACCT) to find state and federal grants to make the new homes more affordable for middle-income buyers. He said he wants to market the development to people of all walks of life, who would benefit from the project's proximity to town services, schools and churches.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
BRISTOL — The Vermont Downtown Development Board last week awarded its official "downtown designation" to Bristol, which could make available more than $2 million in grants and tax credits to residents, business owners and property owners in the downtown area as well as to the town itself.
"It's a fairly big deal," said Joss Besse, coordinator of the Downtown Program of the Vermont Agency of Commerce. "The community has demonstrated it's done a lot of work already (preserving) the downtown area."
In order to obtain the downtown designation, which was created under the 1998 Downtown Development Act, a community must demonstrate a long-term commitment to revitalization through planning, capital improvements, economic development, and preservation of historic resources.
SHOREHAM — Having spent years selling apples, fudge and hot dogs, it's only appropriate that Steve Jackson would use a food metaphor in describing Vermont's economy.
The Shoreham Republican, one of two candidates in the running for the Addison-Rutland-1 seat in the Vermont House, likens the state's economy to a pie that needs to be super-sized.
"Whenever I hear that money is needed to fund particular programs in the state of Vermont, it's always, 'What department are we going to take it out of?'" Jackson said. "It's like the pie can be only one size. How about making the pie bigger?"
Jackson proposes to make Vermont's economic pie larger by making it an even bigger draw for tourists, while encouraging the state's smaller communities to follow Middlebury's lead in creating their own industrial/business parks.
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"Stalker is so far removed from the relentless fright-a-minute conventions of the genre that it somehow works on a much higher level than any of its competitors. A staggering majority of Stalker takes place in wide, open and relatively calm outdoor expanses. But the atmosphere never lets up; it only shifts from mood to mood. It's unsettling for different reasons, and on the occasions where it throws the real chills at you, the effect is mind-blowing."
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by Tom Utescher
In the last of many make-up games necessitated by rain-outs this spring, Penn Charter and host Springside School rang down the curtain on lacrosse season last Tuesday, with PC taking a 13-3 decision after gaining a commanding 10-2 advantage in the first half.
Charter wound up smack in the middle of the final standings in the Girls Inter-Ac League, coming in fourth with a record of 6-6, while posting an overall mark of 12-8. The Quakers swept their season series against Springside, Germantown Academy, and Agnes Irwin, while losing twice to Episcopal, Notre Dame, and Baldwin.
Meanwhile, no one at Springside was particularly upset to leave the 2011 campaign behind them. Sparing all the gory details, suffice it to say that an 8-7 non-league victory over Interboro High School back on April 1 was the Lions' only entry in the "W" column all season.
"I absolutely think progress was made, and I'm excited at having almost the entire team coming back," said Springside alumna and first-year head coach Lydia (Barber) Imperiale. "I think I'm the first coach in four years who's coming back next year, so we want to take advantage of that by getting in a lot of work in the off-season."
The Lions graduate just two seniors, attacker Annelise Davies (West Chester University) and goalie Hilary McDonnell (Vassar).
"There's a lot of potential," Imperiale observed. "They're coachable girls with a lot of ability. We just really need to work on consistency, playing at a high level the whole game."
The Quakers also have a young squad overall, with 17 freshmen and sophomores on the varsity roster. The senior tri-captains are Kate Higgins and Blaine Steinberg, who will play lacrosse at Gettysburg and Dartmouth, respectively, and Liz Wills, who'll join the field hockey team at Bucknell.
"Our freshmen and sophomores have really stepped up and matured, and adapted to high school lacrosse," said Higgins. "They have a lot of heart and hustle."
The senior felt that PC's May 21 victory over Baldwin (16-9) in the Pa. Independent Schools tournament was significant, given the fact that the Quakers lost to the Bears twice in their regular-season series.
"Baldwin was a huge win for us, because it showed how much we've developed," she said.
The day before last week's Springside game, Charter lost an Indy tournament game to Girls Inter-Ac champ Episcopal Academy, 14-6. Top-seeded Episcopal was heavily favored to win the tourney, since league rival Notre Dame Academy, which lost two one-goal games to EA in the regular season, did not participate in the post-season event.
A minute-and-a-half into Tuesday's contest at Springside, Higgins received a long pass from mid-field from Steinberg and drove in to score. Springside answered two minutes later, when Ellie Stout fed the ball from behind the cage to set up a shot by fellow junior Libbie Maine.
The Quakers quickly regained the lead as freshman Julia Fleming banged in back-to-back goals less than two minutes apart, and this proved to be the beginning of a decisive 6-0 surge. Springside finally deposited a second goal with 5:32 remaining in the first half. Lions sophomore Kitty Morrissey blazed down the middle of the field a drew a foul in the arc, then converted off of the free position.
In the final four minutes of the period, Higgins sandwiched her third and fourth goals of the day around junior Amanda Fleming's second, putting PC up 10-2 at the intermission.
"Our defense needs to communicate more," Springside's Imperiale pointed out. "We need to react faster with our slides, and just play at a faster pace in general. We'll check the ball out, but then the other team will get the ground ball."
Players like Morrissey and Maine give the Lions good speed through the midfield, but the team needs to parlay an effective transition game into points on the scoreboard.
"Good things happen out there," Imperiale said. "We'll make some great plays, but then we don't finish. That's been our struggle all year."
In the second period on Tuesday, Penn Charter pushed its lead into double digits at 12-2 before Springside's final goal of the day, another free-position strike by Morrissey. Quakers sophomore Margot Pighini locked in the final score at 13-3.
Higgins came away with five goals, and there were two apiece for Amanda Fleming, Julia Fleming, and tenth-grader Emma Ebert. Another sophomore, Kelly Kubach, made six saves as PC's starting goalie before turning over the cage to junior Rachel Weiner, who made three stops. Springside received four saves from McDonnell, one of the two Lions who'll be lost to graduation.
"Tasmin Lamb [a junior] will be coming up from the JV," noted Springside's Imperiale. "This was her first year as goalie, but she's a natural athlete and she's catching on quickly."
Another departing senior, PC's Higgins, is eagerly looking forward to playing for Gettysburg, which defeated Bowdoin College on May 22 to win the 2011 NCAA Division III National Championship.
Higgins will be joined in the Bullets' next freshman class by Ali Clark of Episcopal Academy, Taylor Lawlor of Conestoga, and Megan Nearing of Methacton High School.
"Since a lot of the recruits live in this area, I think we'll try and get together this summer and work on some conditioning and some stick skills," the PC senior said. "It's going to be another step up to the college level."


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message sixthchildJoined: 18 Apr 2012Posts: 298Location: East of Eden Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:34 am Post subject: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Hi me again, didn't know that a spelling mistake could put you guys in such a spin let alone get a thread locked so fast! Anyway, this is the guy who is allegedly the one who made the naughty film that is responsible for all this phobia thingy (sorry can't spell that other word yet) Apparently in Pakistan a minister is going on record saying that he will pay the sum of 100,000 dollars for this guy to be murdered. Now if that kind of thing doesn't increase the rise of Islamaphobia(yippee cracked it) don't know what will! So is it the end of civilization as we know it? Btw: sorry bout the last post, in a rush, you know how it happens only human n that! Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15327 Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:00 am Post subject: What do you imagine is the life expectancy of this guy ? Back to top artemisiaJoined: 04 Nov 2008Posts: 875Location: the world Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:03 am Post subject: I think poor old Theo Van Gogh lasted about a couple of months after his film was broadcast. He didn't have a bounty on his head but that didn't matter. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is still in hiding. You'd think "Sam Bacile" would've done a better job of setting up a series of aliases if Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is really his name. He's sure put a lot of people's lives on the line over this. Back to top sixthchildJoined: 18 Apr 2012Posts: 298Location: East of Eden Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject: I do find it interesting that although the Government in Pakistan has distanced themselves from this ministers comments, he still has a job there. How long would someone stay in office in a "civilized country" if they has done the same thing? Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:18 pm Post subject: And more fuel for the fire: Anti-"Jihad" posters in NY subways: "The MTA initially rejected the provocative posters--which read, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad"-- but a federal judge ruled the campaign was protected by First Amendment rights, forcing the MTA to reverse its decision. The ads are financed by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. Executive director Pamela Geller dismissed fears the posters could stir acts of violence similar to protests seen in response to the film "Innocence of Muslims." "Im appalled at the fact they can use the term savage so easily, categorize the whole Muslim world under the word savage,'" a subway rider told The Post. "Its disheartening something like this would actually go up." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/anti-muslim-subway-posters-nypd-increase-security_n_1912239.html Back to top Cool TeacherJoined: 18 May 2009Posts: 930Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 6:57 pm Post subject: Don7t worry. Nobody s goging to kill anyone. 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It is located 3 kilometers (about 1.9 miles) southeast of downtown area of Sanya, Embraced by Mt. Tuziwei on the northwest, Mt. Luhuitou on the southwest, Dadonghai has a crescent-shaped beach extending 2.3 kilometers long (about 1.4 miles). You can never expect another place where clear blue sea, sunshine, and superb white sandy beach are so adjacent do a city. Along the beach are well-designed sea-viewing wooden platforms with palm trees and pavilions. There are also many beach-front bars providing wine, beer, snacks and sea food along the beach and bay area.
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Hainan (English name: Hai Nan). Capital: Haikou, referred to as: Joan. Hainan Province on April 13 -1988, the Seventh National People's Congress adopted the first meeting of "the decision on the establishment of Hainan Province" and "On the Establishment of the Hainan Special Economic Zone of the resolution "; April 26, 1988, the CPC Hainan Province Committee of Hainan Provincial People's Government formally. Since then, Hainan became a province of the youngest and largest special economic zone, Hainan's development has entered a new historical period. South China Sea on Hainan Island is a bright pearl, is second only to the country's second largest island of Taiwan. Hainan is the smallest land area of China, the largest province of the marine area.


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This years, SPE WEST regional conference will be held December 4-6,2009 in Oakhurst, CA
KEYNOTE: Catherine Opie
HONORED EDUCATOR: Robbert Flick
From the SPE Website:
Start conjuring up memories of childhood summer camp life and Camp Winnemucka – because the SPE WEST "unConference" and Retreat will take you back! Located in the beautiful Sierra Mountains – you'll be nestled in with your colleagues in summer camp style accommodations and served only the best camp style food that ECCO has to offer! Get ready and get in the spirit for Camp SPE WEST!
As the conference will focus on professional development, registration will be limited to 150 SPE members for an on-site ECCO stay and an additional 50 for an off-site hotel stay. 200 registrants allowed total. Members ONLY will be allowed to register this year. West members will be given an early registration option. Registration starts September ONLINE only. Please visit again soon for full details or become a member to receive the newsletter announcement.
Call for Installations, Performances, Other:
Open to SPE members. The Evergreen Conference Center has a vast outdoor and indoor grounds with open wooded spaces, a large pond and outdoor gathering areas. Installations would be installed for the length of the conference. Artists will need to install and de-install their own works and bring their own supplies to install or present their work. Proposals should be somehow related to the conference theme "Document and Identity". To see images of the conference site please visit: http://www.conferencecenter.org/. Please send proposals by to curator Victoria Heilweil.
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Winners will receive free admission and a weekend stay at 2009 West Regional "unConference" and retreat. Transportation to and from the retreat is not included.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... ?full=true
Evolutionary algorithms discovering "laws of nature."
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Evolutionary computing lets anyone discover new laws of nature – but does this mean the end of science as we know it?
IT WAS long after midnight when Michael Schmidt noticed a strangely familiar equation pop up on his monitor. His computer was crunching the data from an experiment to measure the chaotic motion of a double pendulum, a type that has one swinging arm hanging from another.
Schmidt recorded this movement using a motion tracking camera which fed numbers into his computer. What he was looking for was an equation describing the motion of the pendulums.
Initially, the task looked hopeless. When a double pendulum moves chaotically, its arms swing in a way that is almost impossible to predict, with seemingly no pattern whatsoever. For a human, finding an equation for this would be almost impossible. And yet the computer found something. To Schmidt, a PhD student studying computer science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, it was a hugely significant moment. "It's probably the most exciting thing that has happened to me in science," he says.
That's because Schmidt's computer had found one of the immutable laws of nature: the law of conservation of energy, which says you can never add or take energy away from a system. What had taken many scientists hundreds of years to discover took his computer just one day (see diagram).
Schmidt and his supervisor Hod Lipson had hit upon a new way of doing science, no less. Their method bodes well for areas of research thought to be too complicated to follow set rules. It also promises a future in which computers can find the laws of nature faster than we can, leaving humans forever playing catch-up.
The approach is a radical departure from the usual scientific method. Normally, scientists propose a hypothesis to explain an observation. They then devise an experiment to test their hypothesis, throwing it out if the experiment shows it to be wrong. The hypothesis is then revised and tested over and over again in experiments until it is generally accepted to be true.
Schmidt and Lipson's approach is the very opposite: rather than coming up with a hypothesis to test, they carry out experiments first, feeding the data into their computer to discover the laws of nature (see diagram).
Their success is all down to something called evolutionary computing. This is where robots or computers are given a goal - learning to fly, say - and produce lots of programs that could potentially achieve it. These programs are tested against the goal, and the most promising ones are selected and merged. This process repeats until, after many generations of testing, a program is produced that can complete the set task perfectly. In fact, Lipson is best known for his work as a robotics engineer, and in particular for creating software that can evolve to control weird and wonderful machines, like robotic aircraft, walking robots and the parts for a device that prints food.
Evolutionary computing allows computers to do things that they haven't been programmed to do and is already being use to solve problems as diverse as creating train timetables to designing aircraft.
The same process is behind Lipson and Schmidt's law-finding computer. It begins by randomly stringing together simple mathematical expressions to create equations: 10,000 of them to be exact. It then tests each equation to see how well it describes the data - a practice that has been used by researchers since the start of the 19th century, when mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Adrien-Marie Legendre developed a method for finding which mathematical equation best fits a set of data points. But that is where the similarity with traditional methods ends.
None of Schmidt and Lipson's equations work particularly well - most are complete nonsense - but by simple chance some fit a little better than others. The software then "breeds" these equations together to produce the next generation, ensuring that the offspring are different to the parents.
The difference could be small, with just one term in the equation being altered - equivalent to a genetic mutation in living creatures. Other offspring are created by combining one half of a "father" equation with another half of a "mother" equation to create one that shares characteristics of both. The software then tries to fit these new equations to the data, before repeating the whole process. For the first few thousand generations, most of the equations produced are useless. But gradually, some emerge that fit the measurements rather well.
Wheat from the chaff
So far, so good. The problem is that while most of these equations look the part, they have nothing to do with the laws of nature. Finding the laws of nature turns out to be extremely difficult.
Yet it is possible. That's because physical laws have an important property: they are invariant in some way. This means that some aspect of the equation cannot change, whatever is done to it. For example, the total amount of energy in a system will never change due to the law of conservation of energy.
Finding these invariants is hard for both humans and computers. The trouble is that there are an infinite number of equations that fit the data perfectly and are also invariant. Think x=x or 2x=2x and so on. And, of course, the evolutionary algorithm finds plenty of these too. These trivial answers swamp the solutions, making it impossible to find the important ones. "It's like arguing with a teenager," says Lipson. "It just keeps coming back with things that are irrelevant."
Schmidt and Lipson knew they needed a way to separate the wheat from the chaff. "But the longer I worked at it, the harder it seemed," says Schmidt.
It took six months, but Schmidt and Lipson hit upon a solution. To get an idea of how it works, imagine you find a number of equations that seem to relate the height of the pendulum's midpoint and its horizontal position. While a trivial answer would simply relate these two variables, a physical law of motion describes a much deeper connection between them. This means that it can be used to predict, for example, how the height and position change with time. So Schmidt and Lipson decided to use this to test their equations: not only must an equation match the data, in the pendulum's case it must also describe how the pendulum changes in time.
The pair first tested this idea using a simple experiment, and immediately hit pay dirt. They collected data from a simple harmonic oscillator consisting of a mass slung between two springs. After a few hours of crunching this data, the computer spat out an equation that describes the motion of the mass in terms of its acceleration, velocity and position, and two other equations that Lipson and Schmidt verified describes the total energy in the system.
They went on to try a more complex system of springs and masses, then a simple pendulum, before finally taking on the most complex system of them all: the chaotic double pendulum. Schmidt and Lipson published their work in the journal Science in 2009 ( vol 324, p 81).
The reaction was immediate. The pair were inundated with calls from other researchers wanting to put their own data through the evolutionary algorithm. "We got requests from all kinds of people working in different fields," says Lipson.
Unable to cope with the demand, they decided to automate the system and make it available for free online. It wasn't easy, though. Whenever you start an evolutionary algorithm working, there are all kinds of parameters that need to be fine-tuned by a human. Without this fine tuning, the process can take 10 times longer than it should.
So Schmidt tweaked the algorithm and is now confident that it is well set-up for anyone who wants to use it. "That's a pretty big deal in the world of evolutionary algorithms," he says. "It could turn anyone into a Newton or an Einstein."
Today, the algorithm is called Eureqa and has thousands of users all over the world, with people using it for everything from financial forecasting to particle physics. One person even uses it to analyse the statistics of Australian rules football games.
Perhaps the most interesting example of Eureqa's use is on data gathered by Gürol Süel, a biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre in Dallas. Süel studies a harmless rod-shaped bacteria called Bacillus subtilis, commonly found in soil. "It's often studied because it is related to anthrax," he says.
B. subtilis is interesting because it can change into a spore with a relatively tough shell when it is exposed to harsh conditions. Süel's interest is in unpicking the network of genes that govern this transformation, known as differentiation. "We want to know how cells make these decisions," he says.
To find out, he studied which genes are active at any one time by attaching different fluorescent markers to the proteins they produce. Measuring the intensity of the fluorescence tells him how much protein is being made by each gene. Over time, Süel has built up a remarkable database showing which factors switch different genes on and off - the role that nutrients play, for example, and how some genes control others. It turns out there is a huge network of effects at work.
Making sense of all this data is extremely difficult. On the molecular level, Süel says there is a probabilistic interaction between biomolecules that controls what is going on. This is analogous to the way that molecules hit each other in a gas. It is impossible to determine which molecules are moving at what speed and how they interact with each other; the system is just too complex. Instead, you have to think in terms of probabilities, the chances that molecules will bump into each other.
Süel wondered whether there was a deeper underlying law for the control of cell differentiation, however, and noted that there are well-defined laws that perfectly describe the behaviour of gas molecules en masse. These are the laws of thermodynamics and they form one of the cornerstones of modern science.
Based on this, he puzzled over his measurements and came up with a mathematical formula that more or less described the data. However, it was a complex beast with about 16 variables corresponding to things like gene expression rates and the rate at which various different proteins degraded.
Such a complex expression is obviously hard to work with. So Süel turned to Eureqa to see what the evolutionary algorithm would make of his data. Eureqa also spat out an equation that described the data, but this one was much simpler, containing only seven variables.
Süel took a closer look and noticed that it wasn't so different after all. In fact, the only difference was that some of the terms had been lumped together. Clearly, there were variables that he thought were important but turned out to have little influence on proceedings. "That in itself was a useful insight," he says.
Beyond our grasp
Eureqa had another surprise up its sleeve. It is one thing to find an equation that seems to describe your data but quite another to find a natural law that has much broader predictive power. Yet that is exactly what Eureqa came up with - a biological law of invariance that is equivalent to a conservation law in physics.
Many philosophers of science question whether something as complex as biology really can be reduced to laws. Süel's work suggests that it can, but there is a catch. "This equation is symmetric, it's beautiful, it has to be true," says Lipson. "But we don't know what it means."
Süel, who has been puzzling over the equation for months, thinks it may be related to a feedback mechanism in the cell. "We have an idea but we don't know for sure," he says.
That's exciting but also worrying. What if we never find out what Süel's new law describes? "Maybe we will just have to call it 'smell', or something like that, and accept it for what it is without ever really understanding it," suggests Lipson.
An important part of science is the gaining of insight - the feeling of knowing something, says Steven Strogatz, an applied mathematician also at Cornell who was not involved in Lipson or Süel's work. "We've had a period of a few hundred years or so when humans could understand things in a very satisfying way," he says. "That period may be coming to an end."
Much of physics is about systems that have only a handful of variables, and even then many people struggle to understand the equations that describe them. When it comes to biology, economics and climate science, however, most of the systems we wish to understand have many more variables, says Strogatz. Cells may have millions, making them very complex indeed.
It may be that we are unable to understand systems as complex as these on an intuitive level, he says. And perhaps this exposes a very human type of arrogance - that we feel we are entitled to know how the universe works. Strogatz questions this: "Why should we expect to understand everything?"
That leads to a somewhat depressing picture for the future of science. Lipson speculates that his algorithm will allow laws of nature to be extracted from data at rates that are currently unheard of, and that this kind of machine learning will become the norm. It means that we humans will forever be playing catch-up, never quite understanding what the machines are telling us.
This has more than a passing resemblance to the singularity, the long-fabled point at which machines start learning faster than humans can keep up. "This is a post-singularity vision of science," says Lipson.
Süel is more optimistic about the role of humans. He points out that you need to have some understanding of a system to know what questions to ask of it. Only then can you generate data that will help answer new questions. Without the years he spent studying B. subtilis, he wouldn't have been able to design a suitable experiment. But he is also the first to admit that Eureqa is important. "It's going to change the way we do biology," he says. "And scientists are going to be at the heart of this change."
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December 20, 2010
WOW!!! sad day for logic.
Welcome to the law of exponentials, i was wondering when it would begin to have a noticeable effect on science. I would say that it is reasonable to predict we will see a sharp rise in the amount of applied physics and a leveling off in theoretical understanding until we just say "I dunno know it's what the computer told me..."
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"chrisv25" wrote: WOW!!! sad day for logic.
Welcome to the law of exponentials, i was wondering when it would begin to have a noticeable effect on science. I would say that it is reasonable to predict we will see a sharp rise in the amount of applied physics and a leveling off in theoretical understanding until we just say "I dunno know it's what the computer told me..."
You're sig line says it all, right, goes perfect in here.
"Living backwards!" Alice repeated in great
astonishment. "I never heard of such a thing!"
"—but there's one great advantage in it, that one's
memory works both ways."
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"sandra" wrote: [quote="chrisv25"]WOW!!! sad day for logic.
Welcome to the law of exponentials, i was wondering when it would begin to have a noticeable effect on science. I would say that it is reasonable to predict we will see a sharp rise in the amount of applied physics and a leveling off in theoretical understanding until we just say "I dunno know it's what the computer told me..."
You're sig line says it all, right, goes perfect in here.
guess it does
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April 9, 2009
Interestingly, that article brings up the same questions your observations about the color orange do in that religious thread up yonder.
computers are a tool..akin to a fork..or a shovel..a super complex tool..but a tool..just the same
Is "God" a "tool"?
Some would argue..yes
I have shaken my fist at the sky before, saying something along the lines of "You tool!!!"
but, I am digressing, here
Willie Wonka quotes..
What is this Wonka, some kind of funhouse?
Why? Are you having fun?
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Is Photography a Good Investment?
If you've read the client letter in "Portraits Are More Than Paper", I'm sure you'd agree that photography carries a lot more meaning which sometimes gets overlooked until the critical moments in your lives.
We all have our financial situations and I am in no position to tell you what's right for you and your family. I do, however, want you to think about this question:
In 20 years, if I offered 3 times the amount of money that you paid me today for documenting your life* in beautiful photography, would you give me the photographic art and memory?
Also think about the kind of things that will still be around in 20 years. Your car(s)? Your TV? Your refrigerator? Last but not least, the portraiture work that you hired a professional for?
My fellow photographer Larry Lourcey has somehow come up with a similar analogy, which I've "borrowed" below for your convenience.
* Examples of "your life": pregnancy, newborn babies, your children turning one year, two years, …, going to school, graduating from high school, your parents as they get more senior, etc.
Is Photography a Good Investment?
– Larry Lourcey
Some time ago, I wrote a post on the value of photography as an investment. Honestly, I think a lot of people miss the true value of a timeless portrait.
These days, people are trying to make smart financial choices. That makes it the perfect time to revisit the post-with just a few updates…
Choosing The Right Investment
A lot of times, you hear the word investment used very loosely. You have time investments, emotional investments, and of course – financial investments. Now everyone agrees that stocks and bonds are an investment, but is photography really an investment? I might be slightly biased, but I think it is a wonderful investment.
Let's say you had an extra $1000 sitting around the house and couldn't decide how to spend it… I know, a good problem to have! Obviously, there are tons of options for you to choose from, but I'd like to just narrow it down to three.
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The first option would be something Dad would love – a 50" plasma TV for the den. Weekend football just got a whole lot better! Depending on how much television you watch, you could get a lot of enjoyment out of this over the next several years.
Another option would be something Mom might vote for – a new sofa for the den. You could pick out something very traditional or maybe a really cool, trendy piece that will change to look of your den.
The third option would be a portrait of your kids. Let's say they are 12 and 14, like my kids. You decide on a nice gallery-wrapped canvas portrait to hang over the fireplace – something that goes beyond what they look like and shows their personalities.
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Ok- you've made your choice and all three are working out splendidly. Every day you walk through the den and admire your darling children on the wall. In the evening, you relax on your new, comfy sofa and watch some television on the big screen. Life is good!
Fast forward 15 years – a reasonable time for any investment. The sofa isn't doing too well. It is showing the signs of age with a few stains and small tears. You will likely drag it out to the next garage sale and pray someone gives you $25 for it. By the end of the day, you'll be hoping someone just takes it for free – just to get it out of the garage.
Unfortunately, the TV isn't faring much better. In fact, it is highly unlikely you still have it. You have probably already replaced the television you bought to replace the original 50" unit. If you DO still have it, you would be hard pressed to get $25 for it at the garage sale.
The portrait, however, is a whole different story. Your kids are 25 and 27 – they have moved away and started their own families. Instead of seeing them every night at the dinner table, you now see them every day hanging above the fireplace. If someone showed up at your home and offered you $25 for that portrait, you would laugh. Heck, someone could offer you that original $1000 back for the portrait and you would never take it. Why? Because you can always buy new sofas and televisions. Once your kids are grown up, however, you can't buy portraits of their childhood.
There just aren't too many things you can buy today that will be guaranteed to be worth more to you in 15 years than they are today. A beautiful portrait of your family will never go out of style. In my mind, that makes it a wonderful investment.
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Back in July I outlined a method for establishing a SSH tunnel between Linux and Windows machines. The goal of the connection was to enable a PHP script on a front-end Linux web server access to information stored on the back-end private Windows server running SQL Server.
What I didn't mention at the time was how I enabled PHP support for Microsoft's SQL Server.
The most common deployments of PHP on Linux include support for MySQL or Postgres, depending largely on other factors such has the organization's preference, experience and requirements. Since PHP can be deployed on Windows, there is support for Microsoft's SQL Server. Such support is nontrivial to enable in PHP on Linux. It is however possible:
To enabled SQL Server support in PHP on Linux, the PHP extension that provides said support requires the FreeTDS library to build against. FreeTDS is an open source implementation of C libraries originally marketed by Sybase and Microsoft to enable access to their database servers.
Downloading the source code, building and installing FreeTDS is straightforward:
$ wget \ ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/stable/freetds-stable.tgz $ gunzip freetds-stable.tgz $ tar xf freetds-stable $ cd freetds $ ./configure $ make $ make install
The next step is to build the PHP source code against the FreeTDS libraries to include SQL Server support. This can be done one of two ways; build PHP from scratch or build the specific PHP extension. Since I was working on a server with a preexisting install of PHP, I opted for door number two:
Locate or download the source code for the preexisting version of PHP. Next, copy the mssql extension source code from the PHP source code into a separate php_mssql directory:
$ cp ext/mssql/config.m4 ~/src/php_mssql $ cp ext/mssql/php_mssql.c ~/src/php_mssql $ cp ext/mssql/php_mssql.h ~/src/php_mssql
Now build the source code, pointing it to where FreeTDS has been installed:
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There should now be a mssql.so file in ~/src/php_mssql/modules/ that can be copied into the existing PHP install. Once copied the last remaining steps are to enable the extension by modify the php.ini file and restarting the Apache HTTP Server.
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