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Hi guys.
I'm new to the forum. I was playing with an online Java test from codility about a function that returns the equilibrium index in a sequence of integers (Codility). The problem states:
My solution to this was the following:Equilibrium index of a sequence is an index such that the sum of elements at lower indexes is equal to the sum of elements at higher indexes. For example, in a sequence A:
3 is an equilibrium index, because:
6 is also an equilibrium index, because:
(sum of zero elements is zero) 7 is not an equilibrium index, because it is not a valid index of sequence A.
Assume the sum of zero elements is equal zero. Write a function
int equi(int[] A);
that given a sequence, returns its equilibrium index (any) or -1 if no equilibrium indexes exist. Assume that the sequence may be very long.
int equi ( int[] A ) { int leftSum = 0; int rightSum = 0; for (int iterator= 0; iterator< A.length; iterator++){ rightSum += A[iterator]; } for(int eqIndexCandidate = 0; eqIndexCandidate < A.length; eqIndexCandidate ++){ if (eqIndexCandidate != 0) leftSum += A[eqIndexCandidate - 1]; rightSum -= A[eqIndexCandidate]; if (leftSum == rightSum) return eqIndexCandidate; } return -1; }
However, when I got the results back it seems that I missed one case:
How would you deal with a case that the numbers are too large to fit in an integer ? It seems that Codility would not let me use any packages from the API...


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Season 4 Episode 18 | 20m 8s
When the producer of a hit reality TV show receives inside information about a contestant from the show's psychologist on its closing night, her moral compass is tested. A short film by Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, co-creator of Lifetime's UnREAL.
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It started off as an ordinary enough day.... pleasant weather, the usual concerns that needed to get done, the usual people passed on your way. You pause, hearing an intriguing tune, and realize that you've been hearing it or variations of it throughout the day. You haven't heard it before today, is it a new popular song, you wonder? Momentarily distracted by the music, you step around a corner and smack into a something that wasn't there a moment before. Or rather, stumble into it, literally into it. You float suspended in... something... that resists your movements something like water or jelly but feels like air. Glancing around yourself, you can still see your surroundings, distorted by whatever it is that holds you. People walk by, never noticing or reacting to you in any way, even passing through the edges of the pillar-looking thing that is holding you.
There is a "sensation" behind you and it sings the song you have heard all day long. You swim-turn around to see a area begin to glow and receede from you. The brighter the glow, the farther away it appears to be, until you have a sense of vertigo. From an enormous distance away, something appears to be moving towards you. Eventually you make out a personage. As they draw close you see that it is actually a chain of persons, both men and women, holding hands and looking stretched out to an enormous degree. Strain is evident on their faces. They are dressed in odd attire, completely unfamiliar. They all look somewhat transparent. The personage at the end of this chain of people draws close and stretches out her hand. Her mouth moves. If you stretched out your arm to it's fullest extension you could just grasp her hand. Suddenly, you hear a voice, soft, blurred, and somewhat distorted coming from a great distance, like an echo without a source. The words spoken are melodic, alien, unknown. The meaning abruptly drops into your head. "Help us, please we beg of you. You are uniquely suited to assist us in our time of need. We have sought across time and space to find some few whom by being who and what they are, can be the answer to our need. You are such an one. You can save our world, our people, our lives. Please, we beg of you, come to our aid! Take my hand, please!"
welcome to your story! the exact details of this campaign will be a surprise. (muahahahah!) however, as most of my campaigns do, it takes place in a modified greyhawk settings. this particular campaign has a feature unique from any of my other campaigns. in fact, this is the first time that Ive done this. lucky you. you may choose as your origin any setting that has been supported by any edition of d&d during any part of its history. additionally, as a special option, you may choose to play as yourself-from the real world-converted into d&d stats. for example, you may choose to play someone from modern greyhawk, or darksun, or lankhmar, or eberron, d20 modern, or d20 future, or even as yourself. despite your origin, the character must be (d&d) 3.0 and 3.5 compliant. for settings which do not have an official 3.0 or 3.5 update, we will have to work out the details together. if you choose to do yourself, we will have to do some comparisons and contrasts to see roughly where you fall.
source materials: all official wotc publications to include books, dungeon and dragon magazines, and the wotc website articles. books not allowed-these are boed, bovd, eoe, ee, fc1 and fc2. books like epic and deities will have to be qualified for as usual via in-game context. all source materials used need to be quoted so that i can reference. the dm will be using these materials as well.
character level: 1st through 6th is allowed, exact level to be determined later. starting wealth will be as appropriate for the level. xp will be the minimum to qualify for the level.
races: all races which have a final ecl of 6 or below are allowed. races with a higher ecl might be considered if they have a racial level breakout, or if one can be made for them. keep in mind that this includes all races in d&d which fit under the 3.0-3.5 umbrella, even d20 ones.
equipment: anything that appears in the allowed source materials and for which qualifications your character meets is fair game. however, due to the unusual starting nature of this campaign, your exact starting equipment will be not only determined by your starting wealth, but by what your character would happen to have on them during a typical "day off". the rest will be considered as credit that you will be provided a way to use shortly after campaign start. ill allow you to blow it all on something nice, even. i find that such characters quickly learn the for want of a nail lesson. saving it up to use as credit might be worth your while, however. ;D
classes and prestige: anything from the allowed source materials for which the character qualifies is allowed. i do prefer a good reason for odd or unlikely choices. with lots of supporting background story... the more implausible the selection, the more detailed the justification required. non-standard choices are fine, but it should make for an interesting story as to why this particular character managed to learn that rare/unusual/little-known thing. please include said story. same goes for race and equipment choices, btw.
self as character: we will have to work together closely to identify your ecl.
if you have questions, ask. there are no stupid questions with me.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 108 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
I'm looking for a hip, fun, retro design of a sassy bride for a logo and blog header. Our blog is called "Best Hudson Valley Wedding Ever" and it will deliver entertainment and information to brides in the New York metropolitan area planning a wedding. Advertisers will only be top-quality vendors, so it's got to look high-end, smart and FUN.
Best Hudson Valley Wedding Ever
We need a logo and blog header design for our brand new wedding blog. It should have a hip, cool yet fun vibe. Our logo should incorporate the image of a bride and the blog name, "Best Hudson Valley Wedding Ever."
Some ideas I had are a sassy bride with a martini or champagne glass next to retro logo lettering. It shouldn't be too cartoony, as our brides are sophisticated (or at least think they are.)
Here are some links that represent the vibe I want:
The logo should be clearly legible and easily transferred to other mediums such as Facebook, Twitter, and graphics for t-shirt designs.
We have a brand new blog launching soon. We have only one competitor with a dry, text heavy, static site. The vibe of our blog should be extremely fun, entertaining and interactive.
My wife and I are local wedding experts who specialize in non-cheesy wedding entertainment. Our design should have the same appeal. We're cool, fun, friendly, helpful, inviting and definitely not cheesy or corny. We love hip, retro images, especially from the 50's and 60's, though we're open to other eras if they fit the description.
image of a bride;
blog name "Best Hudson Valley Wedding Ever"
Nothing overly romantic or sappy sentimental
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Hey all,
Hoping to get some conversation going. I have a megaSTE with 4mb and a microcosmos. Using wifi to connect to my network.
I would like to do some basic internet work with my ST if I could.
Email, IRC, Telnet, browse Atari.org (about the only site I can get anything out of !!!)
I have tried to use Atariirc or Airc some call it. I have had limited success - anyone else?
Older cab overlay seems to work - one from Cab 2.5 - I will have to look up the specific version again.. of course painfully slow, but nothing if not a fun challange to see what pages you can access. I am surprised that no company maintains an HTML only search engine.. anyone know??
Old Program IRC works ok, but the interface is no where near as good as Airc.
What do you use to telnet?
Lets talk about what we can get to work with our stack overlay Fake STing. Who wrote it? can it be improved?


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People from different cultures have different conventions for answering seemingly innocuous questions like this. Users will become frustrated if when you ask for an email address, for example, if the response box only allows for 20 characters.


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Badgers embarrass Huskers en route to Pasadena
Wisconsin beats No. 12 Nebraska 70-31 in Big Ten title game
INDIANAPOLIS — Turns out, it was Nebraska that was overmatched.
Wisconsin ran for 539 yards and pummeled the Cornhuskers 70-31 on Saturday night in the Big Ten Championship game.
Melvin Gordon ran for 217 yards on nine carries, Montee Ball had 201 yards and three touchdowns and James White added 109 yards and four scores for Wisconsin. It was the most yards rushing Nebraska has ever allowed and the second-most points.
This game was supposed to be about the Huskers, who reached the title game in just their second year in the Big Ten. The Legends Division representative was on a six-game win streak and had beaten the Badgers in September.
Wisconsin was only in the title game because Ohio State and Penn State, which both finished ahead of the Badgers in the Leaders Division standings, were ineligible because of NCAA rules violations.
What appeared to be a good chance for Nebraska coach Bo Pelini to get Nebraska into a BCS bowl game for the first time in his five years at the Lincoln, Neb., school turned out to be another coronation for Wisconsin. The Badgers became the first Big Ten team to reach three consecutive Rose Bowls since Michigan did it from 1977-79.
Wisconsin (8-5) advanced to play Stanford in Pasadena. The Cardinal defeated UCLA 27-24 in the Pac-12 Championship Game.
Taylor Martinez passed for 182 yards and ran for 140 yards and two touchdowns for the Cornhuskers (10-3).
Martinez opened the second half the same way he started the first — by throwing an interception. Devin Smith returned the errant lob to the Nebraska 9-yard line, and Ball scored on Wisconsin's first play to make it 49-10. Smith later left the game with a head injury and did not return.
Martinez's 11-yard touchdown run trimmed Wisconsin's lead to 49-17, but Wisconsin came right back. Ball's 57-yard touchdown run, punctuated by a straight-arm that dismissed Ciante Evans, gave Wisconsin a 56-17 lead. White followed with a 68-yard touchdown run to make it 63-17.
Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon busted loose for a 56-yard run on the fourth play from scrimmage. Then, on Nebraska's first offensive play, Marcus Cromartie picked off a Martinez pass and returned it 29 yards for a score, giving the Badgers a 14-0 lead 127 seconds into the game.
Martinez made up for it. He was pressured, avoided trouble three times, then took off up the middle of the field for a 76-yard touchdown run.
The Huskers got a 32-yard field goal from Brett Maher on their next possession, and for a moment, they were right back in the game.
Wisconsin was just getting started. White scored on runs of 9 yards and 1 yard, then Ball scored with 7:15 left in the second quarter to extend the Badgers' lead to 35-10.
On the final offensive play of the first half, White threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Sam Arneson to give the Badgers a 42-10 lead at halftime. The Badgers gained 391 yards in the first two quarters. Gordon had 152 yards on four carries and Ball had 111 on 14 carries at the break. Martinez was sacked three times.
NOTES: Wisconsin won last year's Big Ten title game 42-39 over Michigan State. … Wisconsin entered the game ranked 11th nationally in total defense. … Nebraska made its third conference title appearance in the past four years. The Huskers made the Big 12 Championship Game in 2009 and 2010 before leaving for the Big Ten. … Wisconsin's defensive back Darius Hillary left the game with a head injury, and it was announced during the second quarter that he would not return.


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The relationship between Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and President Barack Obama has come to resemble a loveless marriage succumbing to the strain of keeping up public appearances.
An imminent split seems unlikely. The US remains Afghanistan's chief international backer and the Obama administration's ambitious plan to transform the war-torn country needs Mr. Karzai if it's going to succeed.
But the angry words tossed between Kabul and Washington lately have amply demonstrated the strain between a US administration that says it is committed to political reform in Afghanistan and an Afghan leader empowered by an election widely thought to have been marred by fraud.
In one recent low point, President Hamid Karzai allegedly threatened to join the Taliban if the international community kept pressuring his administration. The US State Department shot back, saying it was considering disinviting Mr. Karzai from a meeting in Washington next month. Karzai spokesman Waheed Omer said last week that Karzai never made the comments about joining the Taliban, though the Associated Press and others stand by their reporting.
"Karzai feels he's hostage to the internationals, and they feel they are hostage to him. So you have this frustration on both sides," says Martine van Bijlert, codirector of the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul. "It's been like that for a long time, and it seems to be getting worse."
Yet Karzai and Washington are bound together in the interests of their charge – post-Taliban Afghanistan – with President Obama committing 30,000 more troops to safeguard Karzai's fragile regime.
Analysts are divided on how the United States might put the relationship on more constructive footing, with some advocating careful confrontation and others counseling avoidance.
What might the US do?
The confrontational approach involves warning Karzai that his anti-Western statements undermine public support from NATO democracies that have committed troops to Afghanistan.
Karzai, argues Jamie Metzl with the Asia Society in New York, should be reminded that the 18-month time frame set by Mr. Obama last year for the beginning of withdrawal is "ticking away" and when the clock strikes midnight political support for staying may disappear if his government hasn't improved.
The US could also curtail financial support to Karzai, Mr. Metzl says, and reexamine ties with figures such as his brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, who is widely considered to be paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, a charge he denies.
Metzl shares the general consensus among analysts, however, that there's no alternative to Karzai on the horizon. He says there is no serious talk in Washington of withdrawing support from Karzai as the US did with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963, which led to Diem's ouster and murder that year.
"What the Diem experience has taught the US is [that] as flawed as your partner is now, the next guy will probably be worse," says Metzl.
Yet Karzai has been fanning fears that the US has a power play up its sleeve, portraying the US's recent courtship of Pakistan as preparation for granting it the keys to Afghanistan.
"If we come down really hard on [Karzai], all it does is confirm what he is saying: that we are trying to dictate policy [and] will turn the country over to Pakistan and their interests," says Marvin Weinbaum, an Afghanistan analyst at the Middle East Institute in Washington.
Bypass Karzai?
Mr. Weinbaum argues the US should try to deal with other Afghan leaders, including the ministers of Defense and Interior. "It means, in a sense, bypassing Karzai to the extent that you can."
US officials have been hinting at this since Karzai won his fraud-marred reelection and the State Department codified the idea by stressing "sub-national governance" in its January strategy document.
Karzai is sensitive to this. His latest outbursts came when the lower house of parliament rejected his effort to strip international oversight of Afghan elections. Karzai appeared to suspect that foreigners marshaled the parliament against him.
Afghanistan's government structure – crafted by the US after the Taliban's ouster – centralizes power around a strong executive, notes Christine Fair, an Afghanistan expert at Georgetown University. She doubts there's much room to work around Karzai.
But it's too early to judge the new effort since much of the US's "civilian surge" – designed to improve and extend Afghanistan's government – got sidetracked by Haiti relief efforts, she adds.
"It's clear that everything still needs to be signed with Karzai, so managing him remains the focus," says Ms. van Bijlert.
Worried Afghans
Karzai's words have disturbed many Afghans because they seem to jeopardize the reason people voted for him – that he had Western backing, says Omar Sharifi, the Kabul director of the Boston-based American Institute of Afghanistan Studies. "Everyone thought Karzai had the support of the US and that is the cornerstone of his power," says Mr. Sharifi.
Even longtime Afghan analysts like Haroun Mir are puzzled by Karzai's moves. There's even an unsubstantiated rumor, according to former UN official Peter Galbraith, that Karzai's inner circle says he has an opium habit. Speculation about Karzai's mental fitness has bubbled up before following earlier provocative anti-Western outbursts.
Some analysts say Karzai could lose advisers and see his government unravel if Afghan politicians become convinced the US is backing away from the president. "Even his staff are angry at President Karzai's comments," says Mr. Mir. "He is totally isolated."
Mr. Weinbaum says that a visit to Washington might give Karzai a good platform to step back from his words.
That said, it was a visit from Obama to Kabul that laid bare the latest tensions.
"I don't think there's much that can be salvaged" in the relationship, says Ms. Fair. "If Obama went being all cool and lovey-dovey … he would have been criticized.
"At some point you have to signal to your client that, hey, we are the ones paying your bills."


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It's Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story [1] from a Mark's Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark's Daily Apple community please contact me here [2]. I'll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading!
Dear Mark,
I just wanted to thank you for your hard work and dedication to your blog.
I discovered Primal living during my recovery from anorexia. I didn't give it a real shot until 5 months into recovery. I was just too afraid of all of that fat was going to make me fat!
During those 5 months, I gained up to an ideal weight for myself eating 3000-3500 calories a day. Oh, and lots and lots of carbs and lean protein – you know, that bodybuilding stuff. I still had no menstrual cycle and had a night eating problem. I was still depressed, anxious, and was still drooling over food I saw on the Food Network. I was getting really scared because I literally could not stop eating. I didn't want to gain any more weight. I had decided I nothing to lose, so took a plunge into Primal living.
I obviously didn't go cold turkey with the carbs. It took about a week to cut my carbs in half and eliminate most grains. (I swear carbs are like crack). I started eating lots of egg and cheese omelets, BEEF, whole avocados, some bacon. I was so excited eating cheeseburgers at my favorite burger place where they have grass-fed beef burgers…YUM. I knew if I didn't eat enough fat and too much carbs at a meal, my cravings returned. I quickly learned this and became very consistent with my Primal choices.
About a month into the diet change, I noticed some changes. My anxiety after a meal decreased, and I was able to concentrate on school and my son more. I started to feel my sex drive returning, was less hungry, was able to go longer periods without eating.
Then about a week ago, BAM, my period finally returned! I was so, so relieved and felt like I was back to my old self, but a more improved version.
I know this is not a typical success story, but I feel that my mental success is equally as important as my physical success. I am finally looking forward to movies, meeting new people, completing my school work, and playing with my 17 month old. I now eat to live instead of living to eat/binge by myself.
Don't get me wrong, I am very pleased with my appearance. And I am glad that I don't have to spend mindless hours running on the treadmill – how depressing! I have fallen in love with resistance training and have gained lots of strength.
Although I am sure there is no proof, I believe that the lack of saturated fats and too many carbs completely messed up my mental health. (It wasn't until I turned vegan that my anorexia really peaked). I see so many people devote years to their eating disorder and sometimes even never recover. I feel very fortunate that I got out of that hell in a relatively short amount of time and am healthy again.
I found what lifestyle works for me and simply cannot imagine living any other way. I am so grateful that I discovered Primal living and happy that I am living life again!
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Let's Ruin a Summer Tradition! Drinking Out of a Garden Hose Could Kill You
Add this to the list of things we used to do all the time as kids that have now been totally RUINED.
A new study by a company called Healthy Stuff is out to destroy the classic summer tradition of drinking water out of the garden hose. Because drinking that water COULD KILL YOU!
They tested 90 different garden hoses and found that ALL 90 contained levels of lead and phthalates that were higher than the safe levels set by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
And 33% had higher lead levels than the safe levels set by the federal Safe Drinking Water standard.
By drinking out of a hose, you MIGHT end up ingesting chemicals that can cause liver problems or even cancer.
Of course, you'd probably have to drink A LOT of water out of a lot of hoses to have that happen. A few drinks won't kill you. And I'd REALLY rather not encourage today's kids to skip water drinking and go for soda instead.


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Marlborough is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1660 and was previously called . It can be found in Middlesex county and is a part of the Southern registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at City Hall, 140 Main St., Marlborough 01752. On the attached map, Marlborough is shown as 48 in Middlesex county.
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Chief Scientific Advisor and Research Associate, Center for Cetacean Research of Costa Rica
Climb aboard a motorboat and sail a tropical "inner sea" in search of endangered dolphins and whales in Costa Rica.
Earthwatch researcher Lenin E. Oviedo Correa studies Costa Rica's whales and dolphins to help conserve their habitat.
Says Oviedo Correa: "The natural beauty of the Golfo Dulce area is important to the local economy, in which tourism plays a crucial role. Many development projects are trying to capitalize on those incredible natural attributes, a trend that is already bringing negative consequences. By joining our team, you'll help us ensure that we have the information to suggest the right strategies for maintaining and conserving Golfo Dulce's most valuable aspects: the marine ecosystem stability, the biodiversity, and the cultural and socioeconomic relevance for coastal communities. That's not even mentioning the value that this habitat offers a planet in need of carbon balance in the atmosphere to ameliorate climate change. We do not oppose the right of coastal communities to achieve a better standard of living, but we believe that this quest should not prevent all of us from preserving our natural heritage for future generations."
"For me," says Dr. Oviedo Correa, "the most exciting thing is that these animals show a complexity in behavior that is associated with the place where they live. Golfo Dulce is small, so they're like, this is what I get, this is my home, and because this is my home, this is what I get, I'll do that. Then you see the same the same species outside Golfo Dulce, and you see completely different behavior. You see a completely different way of exploiting resources."
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The Akron School Board met Tuesday, November 13.
Regan Benson again addressed the school board on transparency issues and asked the board not to approve the minutes from the meetings in September and October. However, these minutes had already been approved. Benson said the board does not announce when the meetings are, and still felt the board was not fair when they ruled she could not apply for the vacancy on the board because she had not been living in the district long enough to qualify. She also suggested the district institute a student board of education. She was going to talk about the passing of Amendment 64, but it was in the agenda for the board to discuss later in the meeting.
FFA members Emilie Brent and Lizzie Alonso-Holtorf thanked the board for allowing them to attend the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. Brent spoke about the places they were able to visit, including the Case combine factory, the Science Museum and the Chicago Board of Trade. Alonso-Holtorf said they went to the Indianapolis Speedway and also visited the museum there. They talked about the conference and how they learned a lot that will help them in FFA and individually. Both girls then again thanked the board for the privilege of attending the conference.
Woody Woods reported on BOCES and said there has been no meeting since October. A BOCES board retreat is being held in January. There was no CASB report, but a representative is needed. Member Kyle Dorrenbacher volunteered to become CASB representative and was quickly approved by the board.
Dick Huwa of RLH Engineering said everyone is trying to get final reports done, finish out the few changes and correct any problems. Tom Landsberger and Joe Glaze of The Neenan Company then spoke to the board. They said they are working on final billing and final reports. They also spoke about the LEEDS program and said when they submit their report, they will submit 66 points for the energy efficiency. The school needs 60 points to qualify for the LEED program.
On that subject, Ag instructor Matt Brown said one of the requirements for 10 points is that the students need to have 10 hours of instruction on energy conservation and there are six divisions such as conserving water. Brown said he would like to get the approval of the board. Six hours of study would be in the classroom, and he would arrange for all the material for the classes. The other four hours would be hands on where the students would go to different centers to learn about conserving energy. The district has about nine months to finish this training and prove that they have held the classes to qualify for the ten points for the LEED program.
Benson then objected to changing her child's curriculum and said that she needed time to talk to parents. She said the board needs to communicate with the public, and she felt that the students should also hear about our country's dependence on foreign oil. The board said they would put this information on the school's web site and in the newsletter that goes out every week.
The board then discussed Amendment 64. Although there are a lot of questions, they don't have many answers. Superintendent Bryce Monasmith said that some of the policies may need to be changed, but no one knows for sure how passing the amendment to legalize marijuana will change the present policies. Marijuana is still not legal by the federal laws, but the state laws will change.
Bus storage lockers were discussed. Both Maintenance Director Nancy Bullard and Justin Wylie spoke to the board and said there is not enough storage space in the buses for all the gear taken by the different athletic teams. They spoke about fiber glass boxes that could be installed in the buses, about the strength of the boxes and how the boxes would alleviate some of the problems. The board will discuss this at the next meeting work's session, which will start at 5:30 p.m. instead of 6:30 p.m.
In other business, consent agenda items that were approved were the hiring of Randy Arnold as Maintenance Director; Amanda Stoll as a substitute teacher; volunteers Janelle Strait, classroom, and Matt Minnear, wrestling, and the resignation of Jacqueline Bucaro, para professional.
The next Akron School Board meeting will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 11 in the library.
Akron School Board holds November meeting
The Akron School Board met Tuesday, November 13.


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LOS ANGELES — A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations. There were no immediate reports of major damage or serious injuries.
The 5.4-magnitude quake — considered moderate — was felt about 11:42 a.m. from Los Angeles to San Diego, and as far east as Las Vegas, 230 miles away. Nearly 30 aftershocks quickly followed, the largest estimated at 3.8.
The quake was centered 29 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles near Chino Hills, a San Bernardino County city of 80,000 built mostly in the early 1990s with the latest in earthquake-resistant technology.
Buildings swayed in downtown Los Angeles for several seconds, leading to the evacuation of some offices.
"I'm still shaking. My knees are wobbling. I thought the building might collapse," said Rosana Martinez, 50, who works in a fifth-floor office at the California National Bank in downtown Los Angeles.
Not a killer quake
The quake initially was estimated at 5.8 but was revised downward to magnitude-5.4, said seismologist Kate Hutton of the U.S. Geological Survey office in Pasadena. The USGS estimated the quake was about 8 miles below the earth's surface.
"It will certainly cause cracked plaster and broken windows, but probably not structural damage," Hutton said.
As strong as it felt, Tuesday's quake was far less powerful than the deadly magnitude-6.7 Northridge earthquake that toppled bridges and buildings on Jan. 17, 1994. That was the last damaging temblor in Southern California, though not the biggest. A 7.1 quake struck the desert in 1999.
The earthquake had about 1 percent of the energy of the Northridge quake, said Thomas Heaton, director of the earthquake engineering and research laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.
The magnitude-5.9 Whittier Narrows quake in 1987 was the last large one centered in the region hit Tuesday. That quake heavily damaged older buildings and houses in communities east of Los Angeles.
"People have forgotten, I think, what earthquakes feel like," said Hutton. "So I think we should probably look at it as an earthquake drill. ... It's a drill for the `Big One' that will be coming some day."
'Get under the tables'
Disneyland visitor Clint Hendrickson, 32, said he was in the Golden Horseshoe theater watching a show when the temblor hit.
"The ground moved and the chandelier started shaking," he said. "We are from Texas and we thought it was part of the show, until people started yelling, 'Get under the tables!'"
Attractions at Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure theme parks and at the Knott's Berry Farm theme park were temporarily closed for inspections after the shaking.
The quake interrupted a meeting of the Los Angeles City Council, causing the 27-story City Hall to sway just as Councilman Dennis Zine was criticizing a plan to increase trash fees.
"And there goes the earthquake — earthquake, earthquake, earthquake!" said Zine, as members of the audience began to cry out. "The building is rolling!"
Scattered reports of minor damage
California's Office of Emergency Services received scattered reports of minor infrastructure damage, including broken water mains and gas lines.
"Nothing serious enough to be an immediate threat to lives, but there is some disruption to utility service," spokesman Kelly Huston said. The damage was in the greater Los Angeles area.
Minor structural damage was reported throughout Los Angeles, along with five minor injuries and people stuck in elevators, said City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel, serving as acting mayor. She said there was flooding in one department store.
The California Department of Transportation and California Highway Patrol were assessing freeways to check for damage. Traffic appeared to be flowing easily, however.
"I think we were very lucky with this one," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said.
'It was rolling'
The jolt caused a fire but no injuries at a Southern California Edison electrical substation in La Habra, about 12 miles southwest of the epicenter, spokesman Paul Klein said. Damage there and to other equipment led to some power outages in Chino Hills, Chino, Diamond Bar and Pomona, he said.
Near the epicenter, all the customers of a Chino Hills Starbucks ran outside and bags of coffee beans fell off shelves, worker Jamie Saleh said.
"It was very, very strong. It was rolling and ... there wasn't a pause," said Saleh, 24. "It came on really strong and just kept going."
Chino Hills was incorporated in 1991, so much of the construction is newer and built to modern safety standards, said city spokeswoman Denise Cattern. She said there were no reports of harm in the city of 80,000, although cell phone service in the area was disrupted. The biggest employer in town, the school district, is out of session.
"At this point, the biggest impact we can report is getting through on cell phones. ... And a few little rattled nerves," Cattern said.
More aftershocks expected
California is one of the world's most seismically active regions. More than 300 faults crisscross the state, which sits atop two of Earth's major tectonic plates, the Pacific and North American plates. About 10,000 quakes each year rattle Southern California alone, although most of them are too small to be felt.
Jeff Ranieri, a meteorologist with NBC Weather Plus, said the quake occurred along the Whittier and Chino fault lines, not the highly unstable San Andreas Fault.
The shallow nature of the quake helped to disperse the impact, spreading it over an area of about 100 miles. He said aftershocks up to magnitude 4.0 could be expected.
In Orange County, about 2000 detectives were attending a conference on gangs at a Marriott hotel in Anaheim when a violent jolt shook the main conference room.
Mike Willever, who was at the hotel, said, "First we heard the ceiling shaking, then the chandelier started to shake, then there was a sudden movement of the floor."
Chris Watkins, from San Diego, said he previously felt several earthquakes, but "that was one of the worst ones."
Pat Abbott, a geology professor at San Diego State University, said the area had been overdue for a sizable quake.
"We're very lucky," Abbott told NBC affiliate KNSD of San Diego. A quake with a magnitude 7.0 has been expected in the region for some time, he said.
Joanne Hedge of Glendale Rancho, a suburb of Los Angeles, described "a giant thud which sounded like a sonic boom ... followed by 20 seconds of rapid, noisy shaking."
"This old house just rode it through as it has since 1939," Hedge told KNBC.
'Our building shook pretty good'
Delegates and guests at a cluster of hotels near the Disneyland resort spilled into the streets immediately after the quake.
Joseph Maddalena, who runs the historical documents and memorabilia dealer Profiles in History, was on the phone in his office in Calabasas, near Malibu, when the earthquake struck. He quickly put down the phone and ran to check on his 14-year-old son who had come to work with him as he prepared for a Thursday auction of 1,100 pieces of Hollywood movie memorabilia.
"Our building shook pretty good," he said after discovering his son and his employees were unharmed and the building was fine.
"The window in my office kind of bowed out but it's all right now. Everything is fine," he said.
Alex Johnson of msnbc.com and NBC affiliates KNSD of San Diego and KNBC of Los Angeles contributed to this report from The Associated Press.
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I'd like to know if anyone has a link to a proof of the following?
Take two infinite sequences $a_n$ and $b_n$ such that $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n^s=\sum_{n=1}^\infty b_n^s=finite$$
for all $s\in\mathbb{N}$. Then, after some rearrangement, $a_i=b_i$ for all i? I have my own proof which I am pretty sure is correct and I'd very much like to know if such a proof has been given before (to see if it is any different)
Thanks in advanced for any help :)


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Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb (syndicated to the New York Times) had a great article about Facebook privacy today that incorporated some stuff from my thesis/working paper. Marshall was nice enough to contact me before he ran the article to ask what I thought about the new Facebook Publisher.
Basically, Facebook is introducing a new Publisher that gives people easier access to (and more granularity over) what they publish to whom. While I don't have access to the new Publisher yet, here's what I told Marshall yesterday:


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New York, September 30, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is disheartened by the passage in Jordan's lower chamber of Parliament of a draft anti-corruption law which would allow heavy fines for publishing information on corruption, and calls on the upper chamber to reject the bill.
On September 27, the chamber of deputies passed the draft law, which would allow fines for public accusations of corruption "without solid facts" of between 30,000 and 60,000 Jordanian dinars (US$42,000 to US$84,600) -- but failed to elaborate on what would constitute "solid facts," local and international news outlets reported. Article 23 of the draft law says the fines would be levied on "every person or party that publicly or explicitly attaches charges of corruption to others without solid facts with the purposes of extortion, slander or defamation and character assassination," according to news reports. The law was approved by a 56-40 vote. The bill will now go to the upper chamber for a vote before it is submitted to the king for endorsement. The upper chamber, facing pressure from several prominent Jordanian journalists, delayed its scheduled Thursday vote indefinitely, Agence France-Presse reported.
"If passed, the anti-corruption law would severely restrict the ability of journalists to expose corruption," said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. "Extortion, slander and defamation are already punishable under Jordanian law. This legislation is not designed to address those crimes; rather, it would shield government officials from public scrutiny."Last month, Minister of State for Media Affairs Taher Adwan, a career journalist, resigned in protest of media restrictions, among them the proposed anti-corruption legislation, CPJ reported. On Wednesday, the board of the Jordanian Press Association threatened to resign en masse if the bill becomes law; they submitted provisional resignations to the syndicate's general assembly, the association's website reported. "The article seeks to silence journalists and deputies who want to fight corruption. It will protect the corrupt," independent former Member of Parliament Abdullah Nsur told Agence France-Presse.
In September, Jordan joined the Open Government Partnership, a global initiative aimed at promoting transparent governance. Jordan is due to submit an action plan to the partnership in March 2012.
"Amman cannot pledge a commitment to open government while simultaneously punishing reporting on corruption," Abdel Dayem said.
CPJ has documented several assaults on the press in Jordan since March, including attacks against news bureaus, threats against media staffers, assaults on journalists covering demonstrations, and the hacking of news websites. In April, CPJ said that government failure to take decisive legal measures against those who physically assault journalists in Jordan amounts to a tacit endorsement of such attacks.


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Val is in conversation with man in his late twenties/early thirties.
Val: I bet you're going to miss your grandfather, huh?
Guy: He was a great guy.
Val: When's the funeral?
Guy: Next Tuesday. I've been asked to give the eulogy at Gramp's funeral but I'm not sure what it is exactly.
Val: Well, a eulogy is usually a speech honouring someone's life. It's a tribute.
Guy: But how long is it supposed to be?
Val: There's no set length… just don't make it an epic.
Guy: Is it okay to use humour?
Val: Oh yeah, of course! You can relate the humour to your grandfather's life. Just make sure it's PG….
Guy: Gramps was a huge soccer fan… maybe I should talk about that?
Val: If it was a big part of his life, definitely.
Guy: He waited his entire life for his team to win the championship and they did – 5,000 to 1 odds – then he died.
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Photos 1 & 2
Photos 1 & 2
Illustration 1: Map of Saugus, Lynn, and Nahant from Alonzo Lewis, History of Lynn, Boston, 1844.
Saugus was chosen as the site for an ironworks because of the availability of the four necessary natural resources--water, iron ore, charcoal, and flux.
Questions for Illustration 1 & Chart 1
1. Study Illustration 1 and Chart 1. Illustration 1 is a section of a 19th-century map drawn to show how the region looked in the 1600s and 1700s. Locate the towns of Saugus, Lynn, and Nahant, and the site of the ironworks.
2. Using Illustration 1 and Chart 1, suggest why Saugus might have been a good spot for an ironworks. Why would it have been important for an iron furnace to be close to needed raw materials?
3. Locate the sites where the natural resources described in Chart 1 were found. How do they think gabbro was transported to the ironworks from Nahant?
4. What can you conclude about the relationship between the location of natural resources and the establishment of the industry? What can you conclude about where the iron products would be marketed?
* The illustration on this screen has a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a high quality version of Illustration 1, but be aware that the file will take as much as 34 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.


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Daily log, May 12
Tiffin reports
A person reported Saturday evening a person had a knife and was threatening people. A juvenile was released to a mother, and charges were pending. It occurred on the grounds of Noble 4-5, 130 Minerva St. A police department spokesman said a child made the threat when children were playing on the school grounds after school.
A 100-block South Monroe Street woman reported Saturday night she returned home and found her computer on. It appeared someone had tried to pry open a door.
Frederick F. Steinhauser, 28, of Tiffin, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated early Sunday morning.
A first-block Circular Street resident reported Sunday morning a vehicle was entered.
County report
A 700-block TR 1075 man went to the station Sunday morning to report theft of medication.
Fostoria reports
Two people were arrested after a 300-block East Tiffin Street resident reported Saturday evening a neighbor was driving erratically and urinated in front of children.
A 1000-block North Union Street woman advised early Sunday morning she wanted to report an assault she had committed.
A 600-block Maple Street man reported early Sunday morning the theft of two bicycles.
A person reported early Sunday morning the theft of a bicycle from the 900 block of South Main Street.
A 400-block North Town Street woman reported early Sunday morning someone had broken into her garage. Her vehicle was damaged.
A person reported Sunday morning two buildings in the 200 block of West North Street were broken into.
A 300-block South Wood Street man reported Sunday morning his vehicle was broken into and his cell phone was taken. He advised another vehicle also was broken into.
A 400-block West Lytle Street man went to the station Sunday morning and reported his vehicle was broken into, and a phone charger and candy were taken.
A 500-block South Wood Street man reported Sunday morning his vehicle was broken into, and items were taken.
A 200-block West South Street resident reported Sunday afternoon a vehicle was broken into. Items were taken.
Tiffin accidents
An injury accident was reported at South Washington Street and St. Francis Avenue Sunday afternoon.
A man crashed his bicycle at Elmwood and East Market streets Sunday afternoon and refused medical treatment.
County accident
A citation of failure to control was issued after a semi was in a yard on East CR 50 Saturday evening.
State Patrol accident
A person was taken to Fremont Memorial Hospital after a motorcycle accident at SR 635 and TR 34 Sunday evening. The person sustained minor injuries, a spokeswoman said.
Fostoria accidents
Jamie M. Tornow, 40, of Arcadia, was cited with assured clear distance ahead after an accident at West Lytle and South Wood streets April 24.
A citation of failure to yield stop sign was issued after a non-injury accident at West Tiffin and South Countyline streets Saturday afternoon.
Tiffin Fire Rescue Division responded to clean up at an accident at 20 E. Perry St. early Sunday morning.
Tiffin Fire Rescue Division had two squad runs Friday afternoon, two squad runs Friday evening, two squad runs early Saturday morning, one squad run Saturday morning, three squad runs Saturday afternoon, one squad run Saturday evening, one squad run early Sunday morning and two squad runs Sunday morning.
Bettsville EMS and fire had a squad run Saturday night.
Municipal Court
Dylan L. Young, 1016 Buckley St., Fostoria, pleaded no contest to traffic device violation, $132.
Bruce W. Davis, Sylvania, pleaded guilty to speed, $140.
Bradley C. Kepler, Fremont, pleaded guilty to speed, $202.
Willie J. James Jr., Toledo, pleaded no contest to no operator's license, $1,107; pleaded no contest to driving under suspension, 180 days jail, 120 days suspended, $150; pleaded no contest to failure to reinstate license, $750; pleaded no contest to driving under suspension, $750.
Jeffrey B. Dahms, 423 W. Crocker St., Fostoria, pleaded guilty to driving under suspension, defendant to sit out fines/costs, $834.
Aleigh L. Adelsperger, 337 Greenbrier Court, Tiffin, pleaded no contest to reckless operation, 30 days jail, 30 days suspended, six-month license suspension, credit for operator's license suspension dating back to date of offense, four points, $560; operating vehicle impaired/under influence case dismissed upon motion of city prosecutor due to plea in companion OMVI case; pleaded no contest to improper/prohibitive turn, $35.
Ronald A. Daughenbaugh, 487 Miami St., Tiffin, contempt case dismissed, court finds that the debtor's exam is completed and the contempt is satisfied, costs to defendant, $47.
Chasidy J. Ryon, Republic, pleaded no contest to theft, 180 days jail, 167 days suspended, 13 days credit, one year non-reporting community control, drug/alcohol assessment, prohibited from any alcohol or entering any establishment where alcohol is served by glass unless primary business is food, $378; pleaded no contest to theft, 180 days jail, 167 days suspended, 13 days credit, one year non-reporting community control, drug/alcohol assessment, alcohol restrictions, $213.
Kristen J. Reiter, Findlay, pleaded no contest to hit skip/private drive, 30 days jail, 30 days suspended, one year non-reporting community control, continue counseling, $488; pleaded no contest to failure to control/weaving, $35.
Adam C. Roberts, 226 Circular St., Tiffin, pleaded no contest to driving under suspension, two points, $599; pleaded no contest to equipment regulation violation, $35.
Stephanie V. Myers, Tiffin, pleaded no contest to driving on closed road, $132.
Kathryn L. Haver, 170 Summit St., Fostoria, pleaded no contest to failure to control, two points, $119.
Mohammed Ali A. Alhusayni, 24 St. Clair St., Tiffin, pleaded guilty to no operator's license, $132.
Paul F. Kirian, 912 N. Cheryl Drive, Fostoria, pleaded no contest to speed, two points, $208.
Samuel E. Morehart Jr., 46 Erie St., Tiffin, operating vehicle impaired/under influence case dismissed upon motion of city prosecutor due to plea in companion OMVI case; pleaded no contest to operating vehicle impaired/under influence, 180 days jail, 134 days suspended, two-year license suspension, 10 days incarceration, 36 days electronic home monitoring, two years non-reporting community control, one year ignition interlock and SCRAM, two years restricted plates, vehicle ordered immobilized 90 days, alcohol/drug addiction assessment, alcohol restrictions, $1,155; pleaded no contest to failure to yield right of way, $35.
Justin P. Latona, 21 Edison Ave., Tiffin, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, $209; pleaded guilty to speed, $207.
Dineah K. Mallepalli, 160 S. Sandusky St., Tiffin, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, $132.


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Yesterday at lunch, the subject of the "obesity epidemic" panic came up briefly. I scoffed a little, and a coworker said "you know, it's funny. On the one hand, medically, we have all these doctors talking about health. On the other hand, socially, people are telling you to love yourself. Surely there's a happy medium."
I said "it's called Health At Every Size," and launched into a little backstory about the physical and psychological harm of dieting to make the point that hysteria, even from doctors, doesn't necessarily constitute sound medical advice. But what I should have said was this: "That's only weird if you think that loving yourself and taking care of yourself are mutually exclusive." It's only in the context of a diet-obsessed, Puritan culture that self-love seems antithetical to public and personal health.
Anyone who's read fatosphere blogs for any length of time will tell you that we are huge proponents of nutritious eating and regular movement, though for their own sake rather than for weight loss. Even the people who aren't all-HAES-all-the-time are interested in encouraging people to normalize their relationship with food — to stop seeing it as a source of sin or fear or love or comfort, not to turn around and make gluttony the main focus of our lives. But we're constantly being reviled — or at least treated with suspicion — for pimping overindulgence and inactivity. Why? Because we advocate treating yourself well, and that gets people's Puritan hackles up. Treating yourself well — doesn't that mean engaging in constant sinnery? Things that are good for you are supposed to feel like constant punishment, so if you're not punishing yourself, how can you ever do yourself good?
Since I'm steeped in the size-positive movement most of the time, looking outside it sometimes makes me feel, as Temple Grandin put it, like an anthropologist on Mars. I see twists of logic like this one and think "who are these people, who think that health is a reward you get for punishing yourself sufficiently? Who are these people, who can't see how you could possibly treat your body well if you liked yourself?" When I hear someone complimented for weight loss: "Who are these people, who think that the most valuable thing your body can be is smaller?" When children's wellness campaigns focus on weight loss and invoke the specter of childhood obesity: "Who are these people, who can't see the good in having active, nourished children if those children aren't also thin?" I'm not even talking about trolls, people who think that if they don't want to fuck you, you must be a morally reprehensible subhuman. I'm talking about regular people who read the latest medical news uncritically, and form their opinions accordingly, with thinness at the tippy-top of the pile of public goods. Who ARE these people?
Well, they're our friends and coworkers and parents, and sometimes us, so it behooves us to remember that these attitudes don't come out of a vacuum. As with other issues that I consider no-brainers, like comprehensive sex ed, we're struggling here against decades or more of cultural fixations and prejudices, many of them carrying the kind of religious undertones that absolutely decimate logic. It ties in with fear of sex: enjoyment is sinful, and anything that gives pleasure (including food and activity) must be suspect if undertaken for its own sake. It ties in with racism and classism: the poor and the non-white must be willfully ignorant and willfully unhealthy. It ties in with ablism: illness and disability must be somehow deserved, or we'd have to face up to the frightening fact that they can happen to anyone. It ties in with misogyny: a woman's highest goal is to disappear. It's fear of the other, upon whom we project all our insecurities and insularities. And it's a cornerstone of our current society.
If we're hoping to — slowly, painstakingly — help birth a more enlightened society, we have to realize how deeply these attitudes run in our current one. Fatphobia is something of a fad right now, but only because it's the latest in a long line of scapegoats; it may be trendy, but it comes from a deep-seated place. And as we try to tease it out, we have to recognize that its roots — xenophobia, parochialism, moralism, fear of the unknown — will try to anchor it. That's why fat activism has to consciously undertake intersectionality. We're not going to get anywhere just chipping away at fatphobia from above, when all the real action is under the surface. When you encounter anti-fat attitudes, think not only about how they manifest, but where they come from. We need to be ready to get at them from the root.
And take care of yourself because you love yourself. In case we haven't made that clear.


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Challenge for pope in Europe's dwindling church
BORGLOON, Belgium (AP) — The church is made of rusty steel beams separated by gaps, and its austere beauty won it an international prize. Yet the eerie desolation of the see-through art installation has also turned into a reflection on the state of Roman Catholicism on a religion-weary continent where real churches, like the dozen dotting the hills of this verdant area, increasingly lose their flock and function.
Pope Francis faces a daunting array of challenges, and one of them is bringing souls back to the historic heartland of the Catholic church. The pontiff has already gotten off to a promising start with a humble charm that has electrified Catholics — and his installation ceremony Tuesday reinforced his sway over hearts and minds as he launched an appeal to protect the planet and the poor.
But reviving the faith won't be easy on a secularized continent that has been horrified by church sex abuse scandals and alienated by the church's conservative positions on contraception, female ordination and priestly celibacy.
"There won't be any miracle solutions on offer for the new pope," said Rik Torfs, a Belgian senator and professor of canon law at Leuven University.
Across large swaths of Europe, empty pews and empty pulpits are the stark reality of centuries-old churches in a continent where, not so long ago, the village spire was the main point of reference for society. In Italy, the Vatican's own backyard, being Catholic often seems more a cultural trait than a way of worship. Traditionally Catholic France and Ireland are also turning away from the church. Even in deeply devout Poland, the nation of the widely beloved Pope John Paul II, faith is starting to waver.
"The structure of the church, both statistically as intellectually has been very much weakened," said Torfs.
For signs of this decline, look no further than Paris, where the famed Notre Dame Cathedral is celebrating its 850th anniversary this year.
On Pope Francis' installation day, thousands of tourists easily outnumbered less than 200 worshippers in the pews, even as the ceremony on St. Peter's Square was televised inside the cathedral.
A total of 13 million people visit Notre Dame each year, making for long lines to get inside. But the cathedral's own website notes that for those who want to attend Mass, there is rarely a wait.
To highlight the move to secularism, many churches have been turned into restaurants and shops, or even demolished, often given a new function in society never intended by those who originally built them.
In Belgium's Ghent, a chapel is now a fancy women's clothing store. Across the border in the Netherlands, Maastricht has seen its Dominican church become one of the fanciest book stores in Europe. In the same city, a 15th century Gothic church is now ensconced in a contemporary boutique hotel.
It is this disappearing act that gave Pieterjan Gijs of the Gijs Van Vaerenbergh architecture firm ideas.
Built like a real village church, the Borgloon art installation's layered structure allows visitors to see right through it, and this evanescence gives it a double layer of beauty and philosophical depth. It won the 2012 prize for best religious building by the web site Arch Daily.
"Ever more, churches stand empty and in that sense, it latches on to this issue," Gijs said.
Looking through his work of art, called Reading Between the Lines, one can see Borgloon's real Saint Odulphus church, whose origins go back almost a millennium and which has now fallen on hard times.
Inside, 12 little candles symbolized all of the baptisms that have taken place there in nearly 1 ½ years, a small number for the main church of an area covering some 10,000 people. By contrast, 17 little crosses show the number of church burials in just the past four months — testament to a dwindling flock that is not being boosted by enough new souls.
Maria Vrancken, who remembers going to church every day as a schoolgirl, doesn't see too many full church services at St. Odulphus anymore. "No, only for funerals," she said. "And even then, it depends who gets buried."
The statistics bear her out.
The latest figures from Leuven University Professor Marc Hooghe show that baptisms in Belgium declined from 93.6 percent of births in 1967 to 57.6 percent in 2009. Religious marriages suffered an even worse fate, going from 86.1 percent to 26.2 percent over the same period. And church attendance fell from some 43 percent to just 5 percent.
The Pew Research Center assessed religious observance during the papacy of Pope Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and found it low within the four nations with the biggest Catholic populations in western Europe.
"Across all four countries, a minority of Catholics say religion is very important in their lives," the Pew study found, going as low as 15 percent for French Catholics. Weekly Mass attendance continued to decline. Among Spanish Catholics, it sank from 31 percent to 24 percent between 2009 and 2011, and in Germany, Benedict's homeland, it fell from 23 percent to 16 percent over the same period. French Mass attendance slipped from an already low 10 percent to 9 percent. Pew said it had not routinely surveyed Mass attendance in Italy.
That decline in popular support has affected the standing of the church in society and politics and also undermined its strength from within. "There was a short circuit between the church and the contemporary world. The church no longer has the structure it had a few decades ago," said Torfs. "It has weakened more than public opinion realizes. It is even worse."
Things are already bad enough for 63-year-old Vrancken in Borgloon. She said there were two priests left for 13 churches, medium to very small, in and around the eastern Belgian town.
"There are some retired priests who come in and help every now and then," she said. "So they say that people have to go to Mass, but they almost cannot do it anymore because there are almost no more Masses left."
Here again, the stats back up her point. The Hasselt bishopric which covers Borgloon had 843 diocesean priests in 1967; that number had dwindled to 335 in 2009. For the whole of Belgium, the number of priests went from 10,087 to 3,659 in the same period.
And with quantity, also went some quality, said Torfs.
"The big problem is to find enough people that can engage in this world and stand their ground. Priests who can take on the external world and have enough gravitas."
Still, the right pope will be able to make a difference.
And Pope Francis, said Torfs, has certainly made the best possible start.
"For the first time in decades we have someone with a new outlook on the world," he said. "We haven't had that in a long time."
Lori Hinnant contributed from Paris
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Just what would you be willing to give up to keep your iPhone or Android device if push came to shove?
According to a new survey, a lot of us would be willing to give up sex, chocolate and exercise but we aren't willing to go barefoot to save our beloved hand held devices.
A recent study by TeleNav shows just how addicted we have become to wireless technology.
All Things D reports that the study found:
- A third of all surveyed were willing to give up sex for a week rather than forgo their mobile phone.
- When it comes to guilty pleasures, 55 percent were willing to go without caffeine, 63 percent
- said they'd give up chocolate before their phone, and 70 percent would forsake alcohol to hang on to their phone.
- Some 54 percent were willing to go a week without exercise to keep a tight grip on their phone.
But there are still some lines we won't cross. Only 22 percent of those surveyed said they would rather go a week without seeing their significant others than giving up their phones.
Only 1 in 5 people were willing to go barefoot to save their beloved devices. Of those survey, 43 percent of iPhone owners said they would forsake shoes to keep Apple's wonder gadget, while only 27 percent of Android and Blackberry users said they would go to the same extreme?
What does that say about iPhone owners and Apple's grip over people's lives?


text: The Hayden Christensen teleportation movie Jumper comes out in a month, and of course there's a video game to go with it. You'll play the Jamie Bell jumper character Griffin from the movie, who has a particular bone to pick with the anti-Jumper Paladins who are trying to track him down: they killed his parents. Of course, when you have the ability to hop dimensionally through space, it makes fighting a lot more fun. You can teleport your enemy next to a hungry polar bear, or into the path of a shark in an aquarium. In fact, why not just teleport them into a brick wall? You could even be extremely sneaky like Hiro from Heroes and teleport them into your dead father's grave. The possibilities are endless.


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Posted by Jaime Casap, Global Education Evangelist at Google
2012 was a year of opening doors to learning on the web for more and more students each day. With the web, students and teachers are using new technology and devices to collaborate with each other in class, from home, and around the world. We want Google in Education to help open more doors and we're pleased to announce there are now 2,000 schools using Chromebooks for Education–twice as many as 3 months ago. And with several Chrome devices available today, there is a device for any school, any student, anywhere.
The most recent schools to join the fray include: Transylvania County Schools in rural North Carolina deploying 900 devices; top Catholic prep school St.Thomas Aquinas High School in Florida going one-to-one with 2,200 devices; and urban charter network Rocketship Education in the Bay Area of California using 1,100 Chromebooks as part of their blending learning approach. The Google Apps for Education community also continues to grow, with Chicago Public Schools bringing 270,000 students, teachers and administrators into the cloud.
Connor and Meg at Spring Valley High School are two of the over 14,000 students in Richland School District Two in South Carolina who are now using Chromebooks for 1:1 learning.
This week I had the opportunity to speak with many in the global education community as I traveled from the FETC conference in Orlando, Florida to the BETT Show in London, U.K. I'd like to share some thoughts from my journey.
Looking back in Florida one year later with Chromebooks for Education
This week at the FETC 2013 conference, we hosted a panel where school leaders reflected on this past year. In January 2012 some of the first districts announced that they were moving "one to one" with Chromebooks and that they were choosing the web as their learning platform. On the panel Tuesday, these educators talked about the impact the web has had in their schools: enabling tech support internships, allowing homebound students to collaborate remotely, and teaching students to become digital leaders. The results of the hard work of educators and students shows clearly in the impact at Leyden and the changes at Richland Two one year later.
Learning with the web in London
Yesterday morning I landed at London's Gatwick airport, straight from the redeye and into the exhibition hall of the world's largest education technology conference, BETT. Steve Philp, one of the first educators to use Chromebooks in the UK, shared his views on his year with Chromebooks and the web. Bruno Reddy of King Soloman Academy in London also spoke about how the web has impacted his classroom and how it will help his students in the long term:
"In an increasingly digital age, it's great to see that the students I teach have been able to harness these skills in such a way, and it puts them in good stead for the years ahead."On Saturday, I fly out of London, and onwards to the next educator event with even more of the Google in Education community. You can find upcoming live and virtual events on the calendar page of our website. I hope to see you soon – in person or on the web.


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Death of an Image #4C, 2005/2012, is a limited-edition photograph from Andrea Galvani's series Death of an Image. To make this body of work, Galvani uses objects, mirrors, and smoke to create disturbances in viewers' physical perception of landscapes. Through detonations and other interventions, Galvani likewise alters viewers' sense of time, whether capturing a split-second action otherwise incomprehensible to the naked eye or revealing a place's properties through slowly unfolding processes.
This image was taken in the Greek countryside on a hot summer day. It was produced by placing mirrors in the branches of a tree and in the surrounding area, and then aligning them so that their reflections converged upon the camera's lens. The resultant constellation of white lights anchors the image as a kind of negative focal point—a void that centers the viewer's attention. Death of an Image #4C depicts a momentary epiphany of orchestrated light, highlighting the disruptive properties of something that otherwise leaves no physical trace.
Andrea Galvani (born in Italy, 1973) earned a BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy, in 1999, and an MFA in Visual Art from Bilbao University, Spain, in 2002. Drawing from other disciplines and often using scientific methodologies, his conceptual research informs his use of photography, as well as video, drawing, and installation. Galvani's artworks have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Aperture Foundation, and Calder Foundation in New York; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART), Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO); De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; and elsewhere. In 2011 he received the New York Exposure Prize and was nominated for the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Galvani lives and works in Brooklyn.
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Oct. 21, 1998 — Magnetic readings taken by the Galileo spacecraft indicate that a watery ocean lies beneath the icy surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. That doesn't come as much of a shock anymore. But here's the big surprise: The readings also show that there may be a subsurface ocean on a sister moon, Callisto.
"The results are totally unexpected," said Krishan Khurana, a geophysicist at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Khurana and colleagues at UCLA, the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported the new findings in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. They could fuel a fresh round of speculation about whether watery moons could harbor life beyond Earth.
The scientists based their conclusion on magnetometer readings from Galileo, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 1995. Neither Europa nor Callisto appear to have a strong internal magnetic field, but such fields are created as they pass through Jupiter's powerful magnetosphere.
UCLA space physicist Margaret Kivelson, the principal investigator for Galileo's magnetometer, compared it to what happens when an electrical current is generated by a dynamo: When a conducting material such as copper wire passes through a magnetic field, a smaller magnetic field is induced around the wire.
Magnetic mystery
In the case of Europa and Callisto, which are both covered with a layer of water ice, Galileo detected an induced magnetic field — and a pretty strong one at that, indicating that electrical current was flowing somewhere close to the surface. But what is the conducting material on Jupiter's moons?
"It turns out that ice is not a good electrical conductor," Kivelson said. "So we don't think the current can be carried in ice as ice. But as ice begins to melt, then electrolytes begin to dissolve, and then they can carry that current."
The researchers said the most plausible explanation for the magnetic effect was that Europa as well as Callisto have liquid oceans containing electrolytic salts.
"As in sea water on Earth, the electrolytes may come from leaching from 'rocky' material," University of Cologne researcher Fritz Neubauer wrote in a commentary also published by Nature.
However, Khurana cautioned, "we cannot say for sure that we have seen the unmistakable signature of liquid water. ... We're suggesting something very non-obvious."
There could be alternate explanations — for example, if Callisto's interior contained a globe-girdling layer of pure iron 100 feet thick, it might produce the same magnetic signature, Khurana said.
Europa vs. Callisto
For years, researchers have cataloged evidence that Europa had a subsurface ocean, drawing on images and gravity data from Galileo. There is even evidence that water or slush periodically welled up from Europa's interior to the surface.
No such evidence has been seen on Callisto, however. Khurana said that may be because Callisto's icy crust goes much deeper than Europa's. The best guess from planetary scientists is that the ice on Europa is just a few miles thick, with an ocean going perhaps 100 miles down below that.
In contrast, Khurana's team estimates that the ice on Callisto could be a solid 60 miles thick, covering an ocean with a depth of six miles. "The pressures would be enormous," Khurana said.
"We do know that Callisto's outer surface is very, very old, so that water inside is not in contact with the outer environment," he said.
Determining definitively whether Callisto has a subsurface ocean would require much more detailed magnetic and gravitational readings, Khurana said. Those readings could be made by an orbiter — perhaps like the orbiter due to be launched toward Europa in the next decade. Khurana said a network of robotic observatories on the moons' ice, equipped with magnetometers and seismometers, would do an even better job.
Jupiter has two other large moons and a dozen smaller ones. One of the large moons, Io, is highly volcanic and not considered a good candidate for harboring liquid water. Another moon, Ganymede, has such a strong magnetic dynamo effect that it's hard to detect the kind of induced field found on Europa and Callisto.
Might there be water hidden beneath Ganymede's surface? "We haven't ruled it out," Kivelson said.
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People who run big companies, that's who.
As previously mentioned, a new regulation now requires Japanese companies to disclose the previously well-guarded salaries of employees over ¥100 million (US$1.1 million). Executive salaries in Japan are lower than the astronomical compensation execs receive in the West.
"Companies owe their existence to society," says Shizuka Kamei, the Japanese politician who spearheaded the regulation. "People who are paid a lot should be proud of themselves and the job they do."
Here are some folks that might be proud of themselves and their bank accounts.
Howard Stringer: Sony Corp
¥410 (US$4.6 million)
Hajime Satomi: Sega Sammy Holdings
¥400 million ($4.5 million)
Yoichi Wada: Square Enix Holdings
¥204 million ($2.3 million)
Satoru Iwata: Nintendo
¥187 million ($2.09 million)
Kazunori Ueno: Namco Bandai Holdings
¥100 million ($1.12 million)
And Stringer pulls in one of the largest exec salaries in Japan among listed companies as the company posted its first back-to-back yearly loss. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
The concept of executives disclosing their salaries has caused controversy among the business community. In comparison to their Western counterparts, they do receive smaller salaries. But for many Japanese commenters on television and among those I have spoken with, the feeling is that successful businessmen don't need millions of dollars, that salaries such as these are excessive. What does that then say about the significantly larger salaries their Western counterparts are paid?
Sony Pays Stringer $4.5 Million After Back-to-Back Losses [BusinessWeek]
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It's likely a lost season for the Vikings (though, perhaps, not for their quarterback). Does that mean they can't have fun? No, no it does not.
As filmed by VikingUpdate.com, Minnesota broke today's practice with a breakdancing contest. DT Everson Griffen got things started, but it was DE Fred Evans that really brough down the house.