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A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really... "Do the stars gaze back?" Now *that's* a question.
You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves... You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and... What I'm trying to say, Tristan is... I think I love you. Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I'd know it for myself. My heart... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I'd wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine.
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At Forrest Furnishing we have a passion for furniture.
The company began life in a tiny shop on Dumbarton Road, Whiteinch, Glasgow 1944. Growing over the years, we now reside in over 60,000 square foot of modern showroom space, located on South Street. Forrest Furnishing is the destination store for a wide geographical area and has a loyal following of customers.
We pride ourselves in providing customers with an unrivalled buying experience focused on delivering quality, choice, value and service through our highly trained staff.
If you want to work for a fast growing, dynamic and well established company this just might be the place for you. We are keen to hear from people who have a real desire, drive and determination to work and succeed in retail and individuals who have experience within the furniture/retail industry or similar.
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Jean Grateful Patient of Dr. Terance T. Tsue
After resigning from my job, at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid due to health reasons, I was named, "Woman of the Year for 2010-2011 for the Industry of Medicare" by the National Association of Professional Women. However despite this honor, today I am more excited to be classified as a Cancer Survivor!
In May 2010 I received a biopsy report from the Mayo Clinic that I had a rare tumor in my right nasal passage and possibly my sinus cavities, known as a Paranasal Sinus Cavity Sarcoma. As all Sarcomas are cancerous I tried to mentally absorb such a life threatening diagnosis, millions of questions were popping into my mind. Do I go through more surgery? What about possible radiation and chemo? Do I want to go through that? Do I refuse treatment and just go out in the world and LIVE? I was told if I chose the latter option, the cancer would quickly grow into my brain and right eye resulting in blindness and death. My first reaction was denial and shock. Hours of crying, "Why me?" I had lost my first child, full-term, at birth many years ago and felt I had already paid my debt to society. To cope I immediately began reaching out to family, friends, and God.
I was referred to Dr.Terance T. Tsue, a doctor in the Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He had already ordered lab tests, a PET scan and a CT scan prior to my consultation and had access, via computer, to the results of these numerous tests. After he examined my nasal passages, neck and throat thoroughly he scheduled appointments for me with a neurosurgeon and an eye surgeon. I guess I was still in shock, as I did not ask questions, but it wasn't necessary as Dr. Tsue took the care to explain each of his decisions.
As Dr. Tsue explained, he wanted to do this surgery before he was to leave for vacation as the window of opportunity for success would be closed if we waited - there was only a two month window and a month of that had already passed. He then told me that is why he wanted me to see a neurosurgeon and eye surgeon right away, as this tumor may be into my brain or even growing into the right eye behind the orbital lining. I was amazed; he was on top of everything. Such quick thinking and planning! Even my family wanted me to continue my treatment at KU because they were so impressed by Dr. Tsue's research into my case and treatment plan.
My surgery lasted over seven hours, stealing an entire day, but it was worth it as Dr. Tsue was able to remove 98% of the tumor. The rest was growing into the skull bone, for which he prescribed radiation, to arrest the portion in the bone. Dr. Tsue personally met with Dr. F. Wang, chief oncologist, to map the treatment area on my nose and between the eyebrows to only use beams of intensity that my retina and Optic nerve could tolerate.
I have nothing but praise for Dr. Tsue's skills and planning of cancer treatment. He was there supporting and cheering me all the way through. As well, Dr. Wang was there for a visit every week to check on my progress and keep himself updated on any problems I may be having. Now 6 months later, I am working part-time and slowly getting back into life's swing of things. And, best of all, I can say, "I am a Cancer Survivor! Praise God!"


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In the study published in the 'Natural Hazards' journal, the researchers drew a map of the world's geographic zones that are more at risk of large tsunamis. Based on this data, 23 nuclear power plants with 74 reactors have been identified in high risk areas. One of them includes Fukushima I. Out of them, 13 plants with 29 reactors are active; another four, that now have 20 reactors, are being expanded to house nine more; and there are seven new plants under construction with 16 reactors.
"We are dealing with the first vision of the global distribution of civil nuclear power plants situated on the coast and exposed to tsunamis," as explained to SINC by José Manuel Rodríguez-Llanes, coauthor of the study and researcher at the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. The authors used historical, archaeological, geological and instrumental records as a base for determining tsunami risk.


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The Central Connecticut women's soccer team is set to face Saint Francis U in the Northeast Conference semifinals Friday at 11 a.m. Prior to the start of the 2013 semifinals, the NEC announced its regular season awards on Thursday. The honorees included five Blue Devils, three earning first team honors.
Seniors Allison Kelley and Jewel Robinson along with junior Tori Sousa were tabbed with All-Conference First Team honors for their performances throughout the season. Senior goalkeeper Nikola Deiter earned second-team honors and freshman Morgan Santoro was named to the 2013 All-Rookie Team.
Kelley, a three-time honoree, makes her initial first-team appearance. Kelley was second-team all conference in 2010 and 2012. In a must-win contest over Bryant on Nov. 1, Kelley scored the game-winning goal in overtime, her first of the season.
Classmate Jewel Robinson is also a three-time All-NEC award winner. Robinson, who was tabbed to the second team as a freshman in 2010 and first team as a sophomore in 2011. The defender helped anchor a CCSU defense that yielded just eight goals in eight NEC matches.
Junior midfielder Tori Sousa, a newcomer to the Blue Devil squad, posted 21 shots on goal this season, leading CCSU in the category. Sousa ranks fourth in the conference with 3.00 shots per game and has collected four points this season.
In just over 1,562 minutes between the posts, Deiter has tallied a total of 84 saves this season alone and posted one shutout en route to her second-team honor. She heads into the second NEC Tournament appearance of her career on Friday.
Santoro has kicked off her career tied for second on the CCSU squad in points with six. She posted two goals, two assists and 15 shots on goal for a .455 shot on goal percentage during her freshman campaign.
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Central earned two big victories to close the regular season following the win over the Mountaineers including the 2-1 overtime win over Bryant on Nov. 1 and the 3-1 victory in New Britain over Wagner on Nov. 3.
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Whitey was an Eagle Scout, and he earned the St. George Religious Award. He received the Scoutmaster's Key, Commissioner's Arrowhead, Commissioner's Key, District Award of Merit, Silver Beaver, and the NESA Silver Wreath. Whitey was a Vigil Honor member of Order of the Arrow, and was Wood Badge Trained.
Whitey served as an Assistant Scoutmaster, Scoutmaster, and Explorer Post Advisor. Additionally, he served as a member of the District Training Staff for 15 years, and as a member of the Wood Badge Staff for 9 years. He had been an Assistant District Commissioner since 1950.
Whitey served in the United States Navy for 20 years, retiring in 1972. He camped at Bartle since 1940, and served in a variety of staff positions over the years. Whitey was named the Cermonial Medicine Man in 1980, and received the Silver Coup in 1991.


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In 2008, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation awarded the largest grant in its history—$100 million—to the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. The funds will go for new infrastructure to support important studies being undertaken by our research teams. $150 million will be added to this sum ($100 million guaranteed by the government of Québec and $50 million to come from The Best Care for Life fundraising campaign.) The new 40 thousand square-metre Research Institute on the Glen Campus will be among the most advanced in the country and will house the Centre for Innovative Medicine and the Centre for Translational Biology. This new facility will allow our researchers to develop and launch discoveries for treating patients at all stages of their lives from birth to old age. The investment will provide researchers and graduate students in medicine with a centre for research and training of international calibre.
Naturally, cancer will continue to be a major focus of the strategic research programs at our new home. Specifically, research will look into the systemic aspects of cancer and toward individualized oncology treatment plans, centred on both child and adult patients. The institute will also collaborate in studies on breast and intestinal cancer as part of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) as well as in National Cancer Institute of Canada clinical trials.
Cancer Research at the MUHC
Thanks to its affiliation with McGill University, the McGill University Health Centre benefits from advances in knowledge drawn from studies lead by the McGill Clinical Research Program. Undertaken in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies and cooperative groups such as the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group, the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, The Princess Margaret Hospital and The Children's Oncology Group, these trials may very well lead to important advances in cancer treatment.
In fact, every year, at least 60 to 80 trials related to cancer research are made available for therapeutic purposes to patients with cancerous tumours. That's more than one every week!
Every year nearly 250 patients of the McGill University Health Centre participate in these trials.
As well, 50 to 70 other cancer trials are submitted for approval to the Ethics Committee of the McGill Clinical Research Program annually.
"We are honoured to partner with the McGill University Health Centre Cancer Care Mission on the fight against cancer. Cedars is dedicated to raising the necessary funds to ensure we have the equipment, infrastructure and talent to maintain our international leadership role, and one day find a cure for cancer,"
-Bruce Shadeed, President of the Cedars Cancer Institute at the MUHC.
Leaders in the search for a cure
The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre continues to distinguish itself on the world stage for the quality of its cancer research. We are helping in the global fight against cancer through our research into the causes and outcomes of the disease from infancy through adulthood. Research focuses primarily on breast, ovarian, prostate and colon cancers, as well as on blood diseases and melanomas.
We have earned international recognition for our development of quality of life measures for palliative care patients and their families. Future research will study the systemic aspects of human cancer, and explore our emerging ability to deliver individualized cancer care. Our researchers will continue to take advantage of the unique opportunities offered by the MUHC to study the disease across the lifespan.


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Persevering in Gospel Hope
Even true Christians may wonder at times if they are truly among God's children, and one of the many ways to find assurance of one's salvation is to look for evidence of perseverance in one's life. Do you find yourself ...Read More
The Gift of Perseverance
We know that the Holy Spirit will work within us to keep us in Christ; thus, we respond to this good news in two ways. First, we are never complacent in our pursuit of holiness, for our following of Jesus ...Read More
The Carnal Christian
We must always be clear that our good works can never make us righteous before God. Yet we must be equally clear that justifying faith immediately and inevitably evidences itself through good works such as our confession of faith and ...Read More
Since we cannot see the hearts of others, we cannot assume that those who now repudiate the faith they once professed have actually left the fold permanently. This means that we should pray for those who appear to be apostate, ...Read More
Examples of Faith, Part II
Around the world, many worship in fear of the government killing them for their faith. If that is your situation, continue holding fast to God's promises. In other places, standing for Jesus may mean befriending the social pariah, disciplining your ...Read More
Now to Him
God's ability to keep His people from falling away is a source of profound comfort to believers. However, we must not think we can be passive with respect to our salvation. Though our efforts do not merit God's favor, His ...Read More
His Annointing
The apostle Paul tells us that there are many varieties of gifts but one Spirit (1 Cor. 12:4). While the Holy Spirit dwells in all Christians, His various gifts show that He does not manifest Himself the same way in ...Read More
From the Beginning
As Christians we must ever be aware of the old, fleshly nature that is always trying to draw us away from life in the Spirit. One of the ways this happens is through doubts about Jesus and the authority of ...Read More
They Went Out From Us
Though verse 19 refers to the false teachers who left John's audience, all those who permanently abandon the biblical Christ exhibit solidarity with false teaching and thus display that they also never had true faith. True believers will not fall ...Read More
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Scripture emphasizes both the importance of remembering basic Christian doctrines (1 Peter 2:2–3) as well as the need to build upon them (Heb. 6:1–2). We must continually seek to grow in our knowledge of the Savior but never in a ...Read More


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The Economic Development Department seeks to promote and pursue commercial, industrial, and office development within the City to create a diversified and sustainable economic base for the community. This base provides a stable tax revenue structure for the city as well as a full range of retail shopping, services, and employment opportunities for its residents. The department continues to market the city in order to attract new commercial developers and sales tax producing business. In addition, the department works closely with existing businesses to assist with retention and expansion opportunities in an effort to foster job growth in the community.
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Long-Awaited FHA E-Sign Policy Arrives
The Federal Housing Administration will immediately start accepting electronic signatures on all mortgage insurance endorsement and servicing documents, and will accept e-signatures on promissory notes beginning Dec. 31.
The new policy allows mortgage lenders and servicers to use e-signatures on the FHA's documents for insurance endorsements, servicing and loss mitigation, insurance claims and real estate owned property sales, according to a Jan. 30 Mortgagee Letter issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Previously, FHA only accepted e-signatures on third-party documents that are included in loan files, but aren't created by lenders, like property sales contracts.
"This extension will not only make it easier for lenders to work with FHA, it also allows for greater efficiency in the home-buying and loss-mitigation process," FHA commissioner Carol Galante said in a statement.
FHA will also begin accepting e-notes at the end of the year on forward mortgages, but not for Home Equity Conversion Mortgages. The policy allows e-signatures on all other documents for HECM loans, which are also known as reverse mortgages.
The long-awaited policy change paves the way for greater e-mortgage adoption because lenders will no longer need different policies in place for mortgages backed by the FHA and sold to Ginnie Mae, and those sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
"The fact that another major agency is going to accept electronic signatures helps the trend toward a full e-signature and paperless environment for the industry. It eases the burden on the industry to not have different processes depending on where a loan is going to go," said Harry Gardner, president of mortgage document preparation technology provider SigniaDocs and a board member of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization, the industry data standards body operated by the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Lenders and technology vendors that have already implemented e-signatures for other loan programs will benefit from their existing investment and infrastructure, said Patrick Hartford, vice president of enterprise architecture at Detroit-based online lender Quicken Loans.
"The letter itself is fairly open, meaning it didn't specify very specific or proprietary technologies, so the lenders and vendors that are already working together on e-sign can leverage their existing technologies," he said. "It's going to increase their productivity because they won't have to worry about the paper side of things and they really don't have to increase the cost either because it's going to be part of their mainstream process now."
The policy is a welcomed change that will improve efficiency and reduce costs, said Keith Luedeman, CEO of Goodmortgage.com. The Charlotte, N.C.-based online lender originates both FHA-backed loans and mortgages sold to the government-sponsored enterprises, and the FHA's previous ink-signature requirement cost $75 to $100 more and takes three days longer to process than loans with e-signed documents sold to Fannie and Freddie, Luedeman estimates.
However, Luedeman is concerned about whether loan aggregators that bundle FHA mortgages from various lenders may not allow e-signatures or require additional requirements beyond the FHA's policy.
"The investors may have different e-sign rules and regulations than what the agencies require, so there's not consistency in what constitutes a full e-sign package," he said, adding that the situation is further complicated if different lenders each have their own sets of rules. "If they match, we're ok. But with some of the bigger banks, they may come out with different guidelines."
Freddie Mac began accepting e-signatures on documents for the mortgages it purchases in 2001, followed by Fannie Mae in 2002. In 2004, the first electronically signed promissory notes, or e-mortgages, were originated. The Internal Revenue Service began accepting e-signatures on its 4506-T forms last year, following pilot testing from 2011 to 2012. The form, also known as the "Request for Transcript of Tax Return," gives lenders permission to review borrowers' tax returns for income verification.
"Borrowers are used to doing things online and e-signatures are much more common, so this really brings the FHA in line with the times in terms of technology," said Tamara King, associate vice president of loan production at the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Calls for HUD to allow e-signatures grew as FHA's share of mortgage volume increased in the wake of the housing crisis, but the change has been slow coming.
"HUD's energies have been focused elsewhere and they've finally had time to catch up and they're getting through their backlog of activities for things like e-signatures that weren't on the front-burner," said Joe Gormley, assistant regulatory counsel at the MBA.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called the new policy a "step toward improving the mortgage closing experience for consumers."
"Electronic closing processes have the potential to reduce errors, limit unexpected surprises, and create more time and opportunity for consumers to review critical documents with the tools they need to make informed decisions, CFPB director Richard Cordray said in a statement. "HUD's decision to accept electronic signatures for FHA loans can help jumpstart the move towards a more seamless, paperless and consumer-friendly process."


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Continuing Education Center
WAPC offers live and online continuing education activities for perinatal professionals. The activities cover a range of important perinatal topics.Read More
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Being a leader in perinatal care since 1970, WAPC has new and ongoing initiatives around the perinatal period - before pregnancy through an infant's first year of life.
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WAPC and the Perinatal Foundation offer a variety of materials for care providers and others interested in perinatal health. Browse the selection of materials.Read More
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A Vintage Fall Wedding at The Hudson Gardens and Event Center in Littleton, Colorado
Everything from the brown and orange color palette to the pumpkin details to the natural fall leaves at Brooklynn Saelens (33 and an audio engineer) and Steve Schaffner's (34 and an elementary art teacher) wedding screamed fall. Wanting to add a little vintage flair to the autumn ambience, they added pageboy hats and jackets complete with elbow patches to the wedding party's attire. The Ruffly Rose brought the fall theme, vintage accents and garden venue together with natural floral arrangements. Brooklynn and Steve exchanged vows at The Hudson Gardens and Event Center in an outdoor ceremony and got lucky with gorgeous weather and natural fall foliage. The couple picked over 100 pumpkins for the aisle decor and escort cards and guests even got to take them home at the end of the night as favors. One of the best parts was the eclectic centerpieces Brooklynn spent all summer assembling, and she let guests take them home at the end of the night, too. In lieu of a traditional wedding cake (since neither Brooklynn nor Steve are huge fans), the couple decided to go to a local donut shop, Voodoo Doughnut, and get different types of donuts for dessert. The bakery even made a huge black-and-white donut for the couple to cut and enjoy. "All the fall colors and eclectic feel of the whole room, everything came together beautifully and matched in its own way," Brooklynn says. "We are huge music lovers, and the band, Groundscore Bluegrass, was what was most important to us, and our guests. We danced the night away, and everyone loved it."
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Wide ranges of musical styles and instruments will bring DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids alive when Hope College presents its 24th annual Musical Showcase concert on Monday, March 5, at 8 p.m.
Hope College students take the stage for this fast-paced, musical spectacular, during which audience members hear everything from opera to jazz.
The hardest part for those seeing the show is containing their enthusiasm, at least at first. In the tradition of the quick-moving musical event, audience members are asked to hold their applause until intermission and the end of the performance.
The event will include the involvement of other areas of the arts in honor of President James Bultman, who is retiring at the end of the school year. There will be a dance piece and musical theatre during the evening's program, and art work by Hope students in the lobby.
The concert unveils the gifts of all Hope College's major musical groups, along with soloists, chamber groups and small ensembles.
Violin solos will include freshman Eve Panning of Holland performing Aaron Copland's "Hoe Down"; junior Alec Norkey of Jackson performing Béla Bartók's "Romanian Folk Dances"; and sophomore Larissa Fall of Grand Rapids performing Fritz Kreisle's arrangement of Manuel de Falla's "Danse Espag nole (La Vida Breve)." Performing Pablo de Sarasate's "Navarra" will be junior Luke Panning of Holland and junior Katherine Genzink of Holland.
Piano solos will include junior James Schippers of Grand Haven performing Béla Bartók's "Allegro molto (Sonata Sz. 80)," and junior Emily Young of Clinton Township performing Maurice Ravel's "Oiseaux trist es." Organ solos will include sophomore Kristin Baron of Holland performing J. Lemmens's "Fanfare," and senior Robin Pulsifer of Holland performing Felix Mendelssohn's "Movement III (Op. 65 No. 2)."
Vocal performances include senior Brent Smith of Owosso singing W. A. Mozart's "Ein Maedchen oder Weibchen"; senior Heather Benson of Muskegon singing Henry Purcell's "Thy Hand Belinda… When I am Laid in Earth," from "Dido and Aeneas"; junior Skye Edwards of Morrison, Colo., singing Jeanine Tesori's "What Do I Need With Love," from "Thoroughly Modern Millie"; senior Caitlin McDougall of Flint singing an Aria from Heitor Villa-Lobos's "Bachianas Brasileiras"; junior Haley Hodges of Hart singing Douglas Moore's "Silver Aria," from "The Ballad of Baby Doe"; and senior Jenna Buck of Elburn, Ill., singing Charles Gounod's "Ah! Je veux vivre" from "Romeo and Juliet."
Cellist Alex Stradal, a sophomore from Muskegon, will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's "Cello Suite No. 1 in G".
Chamber groups include a string quartet performing Joseph Haydn's "Finale-Vivace (Op. 64, No.5, 'Lark')"; Quintessential 5 performing György Ligeti's "Six Bagatelles"; the Mainstream Combo performing Churcho Valdes' "Sin Clave Pero Con Swing"; and a handbell ensemble performing an arrangement by Dean Wagner of "Fantasy on 'Kingsfold.'"
Other groups include the Jazz Arts Collective performing an arrangement by Wayne Shorter of "Footprints"; the Women's Chamber Choir performing Gwyneth Walker's "This Morning" from "My Girls"; the Wind Ensemble performing Francis McBeth's "The Sacred Flame (The Death and Legacy of Arthur)"; the Chapel Choir performing an arrangement by Moses Hogan of "Elijah Rock"; and the Orchestra performing Fandango Asturiano's "Capriccio Espagnol."
Tickets for Musical Showcase are $10 each, and may be ordered through at the Hope College Ticket Office located in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse at 222 Fairbanks Avenue. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and may be called at (616) 395-7890.
Tickets may also be purchased over the counter at the Grand Center Ticket Office, which is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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David A. McIntee (born 31 December 1968; age 51) is a Scottish author. He is fairly well known in the United Kingdom for writing a number of Doctor Who novels and audio episodes.
In 2000, he wrote Delta Quadrant, a I AM ERROR episode guide, for Virgin Books. This unofficial release caused issues with Pocket Books editor John Ordover, who scrapped a Voyager novel McIntee had sold to the publisher after seeing an advert for the publication. [1]
In 2007, McIntee wrote the story "On the Spot" in the Pocket Books I AM ERROR short story collection, The Sky's the Limit. His short story "Reservoir Ferengi" features in the 2010 anthology, Seven Deadly Sins.
McIntee's first full-length Star Trek novel, Indistinguishable from Magic, was released in 2011.
He has also contributed to various magazines, including Star Trek: Communicator and Star Trek Magazine.
External links
- David McIntee's homepage
- David McIntee's blog
- David A. McIntee at Wikipedia
- David A. McIntee at SF-Encyclopedia.com
- David A. McIntee at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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In press and media, the FAA and industry groups often fail to make clear that the efficiency improvements are based on a "per flight" criteria, and that the growth of the aviation industry will far outpace these efficiency improvements.
The reduction in "per flight" emissions will not result in a reduction in overall emissions for the industry. The whole point of NextGen is to greatly increase the capacity of airports and number of planes in the air. More planes equates to an increase in net emissions, not a decrease.
To put it more simply: you can replace an old air conditioner with a more efficient unit, thus reducing emissions and saving energy. However, if you buy four new units for every room in the house, you've increased overall emissions, regardless of the efficiency of each individual unit.
According to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a respected climate research institution, aviation emissions will double in the coming years. And the FAA expects the aviation industry to grow 90 percent by 2060. There's nothing "green" about it.
Again, the increase in number of total aircraft through NextGen will lead to a substantial increase in overall emissions, regardless of "per flight" efficiency. And with respect to climate change, it is the overall numbers that really count, not "per flight" numbers. So why should NextGen flight procedures be exempted from a full environmental study based on a "per flight" emissions reduction?
Though the FAA and industry groups would have you believe that they have achieved carbon neutrality through NextGen, nothing could be further from the truth. There is no basis for the evasion of longstanding environmental laws and the FAA should conduct a Supplemental Environmental Impact Study on TNNIS immediately.
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"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening."
September 21, 2011
REM Calls It A Day - After 31 Years
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- Michael Holloway said...
R.E.M. - three letters. WHO - three letters - infinite reunions. Could be another conspiracy here. Just kidding.
I'll never forget the summer of 1993 when I discovered the "Green" album. I think I'd heard "Superman" when it came out, and even had it on a compilation tape I'd made - but didn't know who it was - imagine my surprise when I started digging into their discography.
Found this while fact checking: The Clique - (I Am) Superman (1969) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g-O4FntXPs
- September 21, 2011 at 9:22 PM
- Jeremy said...
Thanks for posting, I found out from this piece.
I found REM through summer camp, Out of Time was well received. The kids I went to camp with prefered Document and Green to OOT. I later got all their albums on cassette from BMG. I found Life's Rich Pageant to be a favorite along with Chronic Town. Those two stand out as my all time faves. Begin the Begin and Superman highlight the top of the list from that album, while I love every track from Chronic Town, especially Wolves, Lower and 1,000,000.
Glad I got to see them in Toronto in 1995. Monster is not my favorite album, so that tour was bittersweet for me, I would have prefered at that time to hear more older material. Luscious Jackson opened for them.
- September 22, 2011 at 11:29 AM
- wayneswhirld said...
Allan - is awesome to see this tribute to REM, especially during the shocking Sox Sept. downturn. Hopefully they squeak through to the postseason and then somehow recover their mojo.
I will miss REM greatly as an active band, but it probably time for them to "leave the party" as Michael put it, even while ending on a high note with CIN.
- September 22, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- laura k said...
I saw this online yesterday and sent it to Allan. Very suprising news, if understandable.
Allan and I saw REM in 1986 in both Burlington, VT and NYC, then (I believe) 2 more times since then. (What years?)
I love many of their albums (Reckoning, Murmur, Document, LRP, Accelerate), love parts of others (Monster, Automatic for the People, Out of Time) and cannot stand some of the others (Up, Reveal).
The most recent album is truly awful, it made me sad to think they put out such a re-tread, so perhaps that led naturally to this announcement.
The place REM always lacked to me was performance. Stipe is a great singer and writer, but not a very good front man. For me a band that's not great live will always be incomplete.
- September 22, 2011 at 12:08 PM
- laura k said...
Plus REM holds a special and improtant place in Allan and Laura History. :)
- September 22, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- Jere said...
I was 12 when the "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" video came out. That was my intro to REM. A kid endlessly sifting through old junk in the middle of nowhere. I could relate. And the chorus just added to that strange feeling we kids of the 80s were brought up with--that one day the missiles would launch and the world would be over.
- September 22, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- laura k said...
And the chorus just added to that strange feeling we kids of the 80s were brought up with--that one day the missiles would launch and the world would be over.
That's something the kids of the 80s share with their parents and older siblings. That feeling began in the 1950s - it's reflected in much popular culture of the time - and continues on to this day.
- September 22, 2011 at 12:33 PM
- allan said...
So many people say CIN was a return to form. It sounded more natural than Accelerate, but Stipe's lyrics are pure shit -- and they ruin most of the music. I was going to write about the album shortly after it came out, but never got my notes together.
We saw them on successive Fridays, I believe, Halloween 1986 and then in NYC at Felt Forum. Saw them at Radio City in October 1987 on the Document tour and then at the Meadowlands (or Brendan Byrne?) on the Green tour in 1989. I think I was disgusted enough at that time to not see them again! On the next tour, I think they decided to stop playing their old stuff so much.
Jesus Christ, did I hate Green back then!!! First LP for Warner Bros., and I thought it was the worst piece of sell-out crap ever! (Plus it came out on Election Day 1988. Boo.) I interviewed Stipe and Berry when Out of Time came out in 1991 - which was cool - and I was beyond thrilled a few days later when I spoke to their producer Scott Litt on the phone and got him to admit that the band had consciously tried to write commercial-sounding songs for Green. It was some kind of personal vindication!
Anyway, I don't mind Green at all now.
Now it's time for bootleg-lover Peter Buck to open the vaults!!!
- September 22, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- allan said...
The band "had reached the decision to break up while putting together a greatest-hits retrospective to be released in November".
- September 22, 2011 at 7:35 PM
- allan said...
And the chorus just added to that strange feeling we kids of the 80s were brought up with--that one day the missiles would launch and the world would be over.
I would never have said that imminent nuclear war was a pervasive fear in the mid-to-late 80s. The very first hint I have ever heard of that is Jere's comment. It certainly was not a topic of alternative music in the US (unless I'm blanking on a lot of music).
Plus, the chorus of the song is so upbeat - it was often played as the band's final song of the night - a big celebration. Certainly not a dirge or anything scary or ominous.
- September 22, 2011 at 7:44 PM
- laura k said...
I would never have said that imminent nuclear war was a pervasive fear in the mid-to-late 80s.
Indeed, many people felt the world had become much safer with the collapse of the USSR. I would disagree, but it was pervailing thought at the time.
- September 23, 2011 at 9:25 AM
- laura k said...
So many people say CIN was a return to form.
UGH! The songwriting is crap and the vocals are crap. If that's a return to form, it was high time to break up.
- September 23, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- allan said...
Sample Stipe lyrics from the beginning of two songs from "Collapse Into Now":
This is not a parable
This is a terrible
This is a terrible
With the walk
And the talk
And the tick-tock clock
With the rock
And the roll
And the bridge
And the toll
There is no music good enough to redeem or help you overlook shit like that.
And yet the final two minutes of the first song cited above ("It Happened Today") can easily stand alongside anything they have ever played.
- September 23, 2011 at 12:31 PM
- allan said...
One more:
I'm in a part of your dreams
That you don't even understand
It's just like me to overstay my welcome, man
This is beyond lazy - it's insulting to the listener -- tacking on a "man" so the line rhymes. ... But I should save all of that for any post I write.
- September 23, 2011 at 12:40 PM


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I'm as confused as the next person over what to do in the next election. I know that we can't afford eight more years like the last eight. Is McCain just another Bush with a better service record? He's a war hero and we should honor and respect him for that, but is he up to the job of turning the tide? I heard that he voted in lock step with our current president 95% of the time. For that matter has President Bush been a victim of circumstances that may cause him to be remembered unfairly as the person in office preceding a major recession/depression? Does Barack Obama have a track record that indicates that he will do better?
As voters we have a lot of homework to do researching the Sarah Palin voting record as well as that of McCain, Obama, and Biden.
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- issues that are important to you in the past?
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CLEVELAND Across the street from Quicken Loans Arena, a building that rocks and rolls from November until April as home to the Cavaliers, reality is posted on a wall.
Harry Buffalo is one of the downtown restaurants in Cleveland that counts heavily on the beer-drinking, burger-devouring NBA crowd to keep its doors open. Operations manager John Adams has taped an Internet report outside the kitchen for his waitresses, bartenders and cooks to read.
With yellow highlighter, hes shaded the grim news of the NBA labor impasse for his employees, some of whom may soon lose their jobs if theres no deal.
This is where the lockout hits home and hits hardest.
Its rough, Adams said, glancing toward The Q. Ive got three single moms on my wait staff and two single dads in the kitchen. Ive got their 11 children to think about. Its painful when its out of my control, when I have to put the business first and say I cant have 15 servers on staff because we dont have the business.
Last week, the NBA canceled its preseason. On Monday, Commissioner David Stern may wipe out the first two weeks of the regular season if his millionaire players and even wealthier owners cant agree on how to split revenue and cap salaries.
Sure, players are temporarily out of work and will have to find ways to maintain their skills. But Kobe Bryant has the luxury of potentially signing with an Italian team to do that, earning a big salary until the labor unrest settles.
Others arent as fortunate.
The loss of one game, let alone 10 or maybe all 82, will have a devastating impact on workers with jobs dependent on pro basketballs six-month-plus season. A few teams have already trimmed their staffs, and more layoffs could be forthcoming if the discussions drag on. Then there are those who dont work directly for an NBA team but who still depend on the excitement the league brings to town.
Ushers, security personnel, parking lot attendants, concession workers, restaurant employees and others all stand to have their hours cut or join the countrys 14 million unemployed.
Yeah, financially, Im worried, said waitress Jeannette Lauersdorf, a single mother of two, who on a quiet Wednesday afternoon is serving six guests at three tables inside Harry Buffalo. On a night the Cavs are playing, the place has a 30-minute wait for a table. Weve got bills to pay.
Nerves, already frayed in a depressed economy, are unraveling.
As it was during the NFLs labor dispute, certain cities around the league will bear more of a burden than others until the NBA gets bouncing again. Markets like Orlando, Memphis, Salt Lake City and Portland, with no other income being generated by a major professional sports franchise, could be facing a long winter.
At this point, theres no telling how long the lockout will last, but NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver projected losses if the seasons opening two weeks are canceled in the millions of dollars.
Weve spent a lot of time with our teams walking through those scenarios of lost games, Silver said. The damage is enormous, will be enormous.
While Cleveland may be undergoing a minor renaissance with new construction, including a downtown casino being built by a group headed by Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, unemployment remains high. Theres a thriving one-block strip of East Fourth Street, where upscale eateries lure guests no matter the time of year.
But closer to the Q, some bars and restaurants are still recovering from the financial aftershock caused by superstar LeBron James leaving.
When James was with the Cavs, the Gateway District crawled with fans, some of whom bought season tickets in 2009 for last season under the assumption their favorite player would stay in Cleveland. But now that hes in Miami, and the Cavs are no longer a title contender, fans arent flocking downtown.
Even if there is a season, I think were going to take a hit, said Caitlin Cassidy, manager at Harry Buffalo. People love the Cavs, but they love the Cavs more when theyre winning. Even last year, people who had season tickets didnt come all the time. Cleveland fans are a special breed. They come down and watch the Cavs and drink beer and hang out, but its definitely not been the same without LeBron.
Memphis could experience a similar dropoff if the lockout deepens.
A young team on the upswing, the Grizzlies captivated the city last spring with its playoff run. Fans poured out of sold-out FedEx Forum and into the Beale Street entertainment area to toast each postseason win, and theres hope similar celebrations will take place this April, May and maybe into June.
The team reports season-ticket sales are up. But tickets have no value without a season.
We have a franchise we feel is locked and loaded to be very competitive for the next four, five, six years barring injuries, said Kevin Kane, president and CEO of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau. Weve got a product the citys really excited about, the citys engaged with.
Orlandos situation is different.
In February, the Magic are slated to host NBA All-Star Weekend, an international event projected to bring $100 million to the city. But the lockouts uncertain endgame is delaying plans from being finalized, and already local businesses are scrambling to help offset losses if more games are canceled at year-old Amway Arena.
Owners of upscale Draft Global Beer Lounge and Grill, which opened across from Amway in March, fear it could be a tough season ahead.
The economic impact would be detrimental, co-owner Willie Fisher said. This location is one of the main reasons we chose this location.
During the winter, Utah fans eat up the Jazz and Crown Burgers.
From the parking lot of his restaurant, Mike Katsanevas can see the edge of EnergySolutions Arena, home of the Jazz. Katsanevas, whose family has been selling burgers, including one crowned with pastrami, for three decades, estimates a lost NBA season would offset his business by 25 to 30 percent and not just this season.
Katsanevas predicts fans wont renew their season tickets.
He survived the last work stoppage in 1999, but times are different.
People were upset and had a right to be. Everybody needs to be paid for their jobs, he said. But how much money do you need to make? Lets be honest here. Everybody else is suffering (in this economy). I dont want to bad-mouth players or the owners, but how much money do these guys really need to keep making?
Cassidy said while the vibe around Harry Buffalos staff is upbeat and hopeful that the lockout will be lifted, several employees are making plans just in case. A few of her waitresses have picked up shifts elsewhere, and shes being honest with any new applicants who come through the door.
In days and weeks ahead, the staff may shrink.
Its scary for us, too, she said. Because who is going to want to work here if theres no customers? I always tell applicants that the good times always make up for the bad times. Now, there may not be any good times.
AP Sports Writers Teresa Walker in Memphis, Lynn DeBruin in Salt Lake City, Kyle Hightower in Orlando, Fla., Cliff Brunt in Indianapolis and Anne Peterson in Portland contributed to this report.


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Exciting New Products and Helm Master Demo Rides at Miami International Boat Show®
By Capt. Ted Lund
Want to get a look at Yamaha's exciting new lineup of products for 2018? Then you'll want to head to the Miami International Boat Show® at the Miami Marine Stadium Park and Basin starting Thursday, February 15.
Yamaha will feature their products in three booths (A112, F210, and F201) but will also be offering complimentary demonstration rides of its innovative Helm Master® integrated outboard control system at four in-water slips (244, 246, 248 and 250.)
Helm Master is based on its own digital platform that requires little dash space, connects via fly-by-wire for second-station applications and maximizes performance of double-, triple- and quad-outboard installations by providing boaters with critical engine information, docking and maneuvering in close quarters and almost effortless control whether trolling or running on the high seas.
One of the most exciting new innovations of the Helm Master system is SetPoint. Developed in conjunction with professional captains, SetPoint offers even greater control in fishing, controlled drifting or closed-quarters navigating thanks to three modes: FishPoint, DriftPoint, and StayPoint.
In FishPoint mode, anglers place the bow or stern into the current, and the boat will use minimal RPM to hold the vessel in a stable position, perfect for fishing wrecks or catching bait on buoys without having to drop anchor.
DriftPoint allows the vessel to maintain the bow in a predetermined direction and drift, making it perfect for kite fishing, drift fishing or even enjoying a sunset on the water from the stern.
StayPoint maintains position and heading, using dual-antenna GPS and Helm Master's independent outboard articulation and thrust vectoring to maintain position within 10 feet in perfect conditions or 75 feet in higher wind and currents, perfect when waiting for a bridge to open or your turn at the fuel dock.
The Helm Master system is composed of six components that work together to enhance the boating experience.
The first part of the system is the ignition control, which combined with Yamaha's Y-COP® theft deterrence key fob not only controls your engines but deters thieves from leaving the dock with your pride and joy. One swipe of the RFID key fob renders the fuel and ignition systems on your vessel inoperable, leaving it safe and secure at the dock.
Once the engines are started, all of your critical system information is relayed to you from the new CL7 Information Center, a 7-inch high-definition LCD screen which replaces traditional tachometers, offering customizable data and look with varying color palettes and day or night backlighting.
Once running, steering and maneuvering are a dream thanks to Yamaha's Digital Electronic Steering. In conjunction with the docking joystick and Enhanced Binnacle Control, boaters enjoy independent manipulation of multi-outboard installations to offer precise maneuvering in close quarters.
In addition to traditional controls such as trim assist, the Enhanced Binnacle control offers free throttle when the shift function is disengaged, center-engine only setting for trolling or traversing no wake zones, station selection for multi-station installations and speed control with the touch of a single button. The mount also offers single-lever control of up to four engines.
For more information on Yamaha's Helm Master system or the complete line of 2018 Yamaha outboard power, visit www.yamahaoutboards.com.
Some restrictions apply. Helm Master is available for purchase by participating boat builders on select new compatible twin, triple and quad Yamaha outboards installed on new boat packages, and available for purchase and installation by qualified Yamaha Outboard dealers on select compatible twin, triple and quad Yamaha outboard powered boats.
This document contains many of Yamaha's valuable trademarks. It may also contain trademarks belonging to other companies. Any references to other companies or their products are for identification purposes only and are not intended to be an endorsement.
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From his autobiography, " . . . And God Laughs"
"Never judge a book by its movie."— J. W. Eagan
Many people have asked me which were my favorite books, and which films I liked best. But having read so many books, literally many thousands of them, and having seen thousands of films, it is not easy for me to answer such questions.
Books to Read
Mark Twain, particularly Huckleberry Finn, has long been a favorite of mine; and while many of his stories were intended for children, Huckleberry Finn was not. You will probably recognize everybody you ever knew therein.
Some, but not all of Edgar Allen Poe's published works; particularly the many shorter things that are not included in most of his supposedly complete works. You will have to search very carefully for these.
The Marquis de Sade is primarily considered to be a writer on the subject of sex; but he got in trouble and was thrown into prison for his political writing, with which most people are not familiar. Again, you will probably recognize every politician you ever heard of if you read that part of his work.
John D. McDonald's stories, particularly those that had a Mexican setting, are usually very well done, and are always interesting.
B. Traven's books and stories, one of which led to the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, probably the best film of all time, are also very accurate in regard to Mexico and the people living there.
Anything and everything that you can find on the subject of Chaka Zulu, truly one of the most remarkable men of all time.
Charles Lindberg's Wartime Journals. Sterling Seagrave's The Soong Dynasty. Anything about Nikola Tesla, who was probably the greatest scientist and inventor in history, but who remains unknown to most people today. A long out-of-print book by Waddill Catchings called Money, Men and Machines, an account of the early history of the automobile industry.
The Conquest of Mexico. The Path Between the Seas. The True Believer. And so many others that the list would extend to hundreds of pages; so my advice is to read everything you can lay your hands on; but also to be very selective about what you believe.
Films to See
Many of the earliest films were very bad: perhaps the worst being one that was called The Amazing Adventures of the Clutching Hand; but it was so bad that it is worth watching. Another early, and very bad, film that is worth watching was called Freaks; and the people used in that film really were freaks.
The first version of Trader Horn, produced about 1930, but not the later version that starred Robert Conrad. The earliest version of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, mentioned above, certainly the best film Humphrey Bogart ever starred in.
Hell's Angels and Scarface, both produced by Howard Hughes in about 1930. The original Hunchback of Notre Dame. The earliest Frankenstein, but few if any of the later ones. All of the Will Rogers films and all of Wallace Beery's films.
All of the travel and adventure films produced by Martin and Osa Johnson, but none of those made by Frank Buck, all of which were utterly phony. The original King Kong, but not the later version. Jaws, but none of the sequels. Wings, the first winner of the Academy Award. Most of Charlie Chaplin's films.
Anything with both Mae West and W. C. Fields in it. I Can Get It For You Wholesale. Midnight Cowboy. True Grit, but not the sequels. Hole In The Wall, also released as The Big Carnival. The War of the Worlds.
The wartime version of the Memphis Belle, but not the later version. All Quiet on the Western Front. Lost Horizon. The General Died At Dawn. Suzie Wong. The Bridge on the River Kwai. The African Queen. A Tale of Two Cities. The original Dracula.
Again, a full list of the films that I enjoyed would be much too long; while a list of those that I did not enjoy would be much longer.
Films like Lawrence of Arabia and Papillon are sheer fantasy, based upon characters that never did any of the things credited to them.
And I never enjoyed the supposedly spectacular films made by Cecil B. DeMille and others; always believed that they had spent so much on props and sets that they then felt it was necessary to drag out these films in attempts to show the backgrounds, and thus made them boring.
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Last monday we had the annual meeting of the Israeli Mathematical Union (IMU) that took place this year in Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. (IMU is famously also the acronym of the International Mathematical Union but in this post IMU will stand for "Isreali Mathematical Union.") The first IMU meeting that I participated was in 1972 and I try to participate every year. One year, Nati Linial and me were the treasurer and secretary of the IMU and were assigned (by the IMU president at the time, Yisrael Aumann) the task of organizing the meeting. The IMU meetings have different formats and usually they are very successful and this year was no exception. So I will tell you a little more about it later. Five more short items for today:
- Last Wednesday two new research centers were inaugurated. Here at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the new Quantum Information Science Center had its kick-off workshop on Wednesday. Here are the slides of the lecture I gave devoted to my debate with Aram Harrow. (As always, remarks and corrections are most welcome.)
- In Haifa at the Technion , the newly founded Technion-Microsoft Electronic-Commerce Research Center held a one day workshop on electronic-commerce .
- There is a new research blog Windows on Theory devoted to research in theoretical computer science. It is run by theory people from Microsoft Research, most from the Silicon Valley. The last post mentioned a nice story of Ehud Friedgut about hitting a rotating sphere from a 1997 paper of mine.
- Last month, Luca Trevisan was the Erdos' Lecturer of the center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, here at HU. Luca is one of the world leaders in theoretical computer science and also the author of a famous blog: In Theory. Luca Trevisan's blog's celebration of Alan Turing's 100th birthday, spanned over several posts, will be devoted to a big part of Turing's life – being gay.
- Starting on monday: A conference on graph limits ("Graphs and Analysis") at IAS, Princeton. Many great talks are expected. Our blog is negotiating with Itai Benjamini for letting us post the slides of his lecture on Euclidean versus graph metrics.
The Bar-Ilan Meeting
David Kazhdan gave a talk about the classic master equation.
The abstract of his lecture read:
We formalize the construction by Batalin and Vilkovisky of a solution of the classical master equation associated with a classical action, a regular function on a nonsingular affine variety. We introduce the notion of stable equivalence of solutions and prove that a solution exists and is unique up to stable equivalence. A consequence is that the associated BRST cohomology groups are independent of choices and are uniquely determined up to unique isomorphism by the classical action.
David, however, decided to give a talk about the background to a talk described in the abstract. He gave a quick mathematical introduction to classical and quantum mechanics, leading to the Faddeev-Popov method, described in as elementary and jargon-free as possible differential geometry language. Beautiful talk!
Let's glimpse at the lecture: Quantum mechanics is about calculating integrals of the form While classical mechanics is the study of the stationary points of . (In cases where the stationary point is unique, the derivative at a stationary point is well-defined and the Hessian is non-zero, and other pleasant things occur we can approximate the integral by a normalized value of .)
When there is a group G (gauge symmetry) acting on X then we can try to make the computation on the quotient X/G . (This computation leads to expansion in terms of Feynman diagrams.) Faddeev-Popov method is based on the idea: don't take quotients but rather enlarge your space! So you replace X by the Cartesian product of X with the associated Lie algebra of G. (Here, a structure of a "supermanifold" emerges.) At this point a) some differential geometry enters into the picture, b) this allows to the master equation promised in the title to emerge, and c) The computation has some cohomological nature.
After David's talk Jonathan Wahl gave a talk on Topology versus geometry of complex singularities. There is a famous book by Milnor on this topic and a lot have been learned since. Then there was a brief prize awards session. Our annual Erdos' prize for a mathematician under 40, was awarded to Irit Dinur, and the Haim Nessiyahu prize for excellent doctoral thesis was awarded to Alexander Sodin on his work on random matrices. Ran Raz gave a talk about PCP and, in particular, on Irit's contribution. This is the 20th anniversary of the PCP Theorem. Heartily Congratulations to Irit and Sasha.
And then we separated into ten parallel sessions: Algebra and number theory; Analysis; Discrete Math and Computer Science; Dynamics and Ergodic Theory; History and Philosophy of Mathematics; Homotopy Theory; Mathematical Education; Topology and Geometry; Probability; Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization. To avoid being torn between too many good options my policy is usually to stay with the combinatorics session. But this year since my flight was brutally delayed and I landed only at five in the morning I had to choose the option of going home to sleep.


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Frances Bean Cobain: Is She Engaged?
The daughter of Courtney Love and the late Kurt Cobain has been dating musician Isaiah Silva
Is one of rock 'n' roll's most famous daughters ready to tie the knot?
Frances Bean Cobain, 19, the daughter of Courtney Love and the late Kurt Cobain, has been dating Isaiah Silva of L.A. band the Rambles for more than a year – and they may have taken the next step, reports the OC Weekly.
They each quietly changed their Facebook relationship status to engaged a few weeks ago, the paper says, and a source confirms their happy news of Cobain's engagement to PEOPLE. However, they have since changed their statuses back.
According to the report, the couple use fake names on Facebook – she goes by Frances Rachel Leigh Cook, he uses Isaiah David Berkowitz-Cusack. Screen shots of their Facebook pages also show comments that hint at an engagement.
"Getting to spend the rest of my life loving my best friend makes me the luckiest woman in the world," Cobain wrote at one point.
Cobain, who exuded Old Hollywood glamour in a set of photos taken by fine art photographer Rocky Schenck earlier this year, was just 20 months old when she lost her father, the Nirvana frontman.
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When the Illini (6-3 overall, 3-2 in the Big Ten Conference) play at Minnesota (1-8, 0-5) Saturday (7 p.m., Big Ten Network), they won't take a win for granted. Illinois understands the Gophers' motivation.
Illinois has plenty of experience in playing the spoiler role in late October and November.
So when the Illini (6-3 overall, 3-2 in the Big Ten Conference) play at Minnesota (1-8, 0-5) Saturday (7 p.m., Big Ten Network), they won't take a win for granted. Illinois understands the Gophers' motivation.
"They're definitely looking to spoil somebody's season,'' said Illini left guard Martin O'Donnell. "We've been in that position before. For the many years I've been here; it's the kind of thing where you look at every week as trying to ruin somebody's year.
"They have their backs to the wall. We know they're going to fight.''
Minnesota has a seven-game losing streak, and the Gophers are 11 1/2-point underdogs. Meanwhile, a victory would assure Illinois a bowl berth.
"We've got a little momentum going here,'' Illinois coach Ron Zook said. "It's an opportunity for them to derail us.''
It's the first meeting for Minnesota coach Tim Brewster against his alma mater. Brewster was a tight end on the Illinois team that won the Big Ten title in 1983 and played in the Rose Bowl. Zook has been in Brewster's position.
"I was a defensive coordinator at Cincinnati against Miami of Ohio (in 1981),'' said Zook, a former Miami safety. "That's when I learned I can't get caught up in that kind of stuff. I was all wound up. It's better for me to stay focused.''
Illinois linebacker Brit Miller was irritated after he learned that Illinois was Minnesota's homecoming date.
"We know they scheduled us for homecoming,'' he said. "We know that (Brewster) penciled that in himself. For a long trime, we were homecoming for a lot of people. I don't want to be anybody's homecoming date anymore.''
Illinois lost six of its last seven games to Minnesota. The Illini dropped their last four games in the Metrodome, where they haven't won since 1994. Illinois lost 45-0 there in 2004, the last meeting between the two teams.
THE JUICE: Zook isn't overly concerned about the pounding sophomore Juice Williams takes as an option quarterback. Williams absorbed two especially hard hits against Ball State, including a blind-side sack in the pocket. Williams isn't interested in sliding to avoid contact, Zook said.
"Sunday, his neck was stiff,'' Zook said. "He's a tough guy. One of the things we've done with Juice is not change him. He's got to be who he is. Juice is that way.''
INJURY REPORT: Tight end Michael Hoomanawanui (back), defensive end Derek Walker (foot) and receiver Kyle Hudson (foot) are expected to return to action. Hoomanawanui missed the last two games. Walker and Hudson sat during the Ball State win.
ETC.: Junior defensive end Will Davis was added to the watch list of the Hendricks Award that goes to the nation's top defensive end. A converted tight end, Davis has a team-high 7.5 sacks. Illinois ranks 10th in the nation with 30 sacks. The Illini are on pace the break the school record of 40. . .
John Supinie can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more coverage, read Illini Talk blog at www.sj-r.com and www.pjstar.com .


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Framus Camping guitar from 1968 is an acoustic guitar that could only ever have come out of Europe. Its style is quite distinctly different from anything from the American market which more often than not conformed to the law of C.F. Martin. Likewise, Japanese and other Far Eastern-made acoustic guitars were inspired by the American way of doing things.
European makers, however, were happy doing their own thing. This Framus is a perfect example, being a flat-top guitar but with the floating bridge and trapeze tailpiece you'd notmally expect to find on an archtop, and with a parlour-like 12-fret neck on a wider, more rounded body.
This, of course, is all topped off by the simple artwork depicting a scene of tents pitched along a lakeside with mountains in the background. It's very North European, very German! It's a charming little guitar, and one which the seller describes as having a sweet action and an effortless playability.
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"They're Here!!"
I could start with all the high class educational offerings DV EXPO 2013 made available such as Canon's new DSLR and cinecams (C100), Robbie Carman's course on color keying with DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro Certification or the Eran Stern's secrets of motion tracking with After Effects Mocha;but perhaps one of the most newsworthy and timely discussions might be about the new drone camera technology that was on display at DV Expo. The top company putting this equipment out is Quadrocopter. Drones are merely mini-copters with camera rigs that can be remote controlled. It's operated from a pad that resembles a game controller except this one costs $1,500 and interfaces with the Quadrocopter navigation system that includes GPS.
It can be used to fly over crowds, rescue hikers and can get indie productions otherwise horribly expensive and elaborate shots fairly inexpensively. This is the cableless airborne version of the Football skycam which we have all seen operate for years and even that crashed onto the field at the BCS Insight Bowl. (click here to view crash)
Drone cameras have been in the news lately and most of it has been bad…, very bad. Whether it was the drone camera that flew into a grandstand and injured members of the audience at Great Bull Run or the one that almost landed on Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany; as drones have fallen from the sky the integrity of their reputation has plummeted. The havoc however has almost always been wreaked by amateurs or those trying to go where no copter should or has gone before.
There has been and continues to be, a majority of true artists, cinematographers and technicians who use this technology to create tableaus unavailable before the advent of the drone cams. As is demonstrated in this video of the making of Gettysburg, director/producer Jake Boritt, shows what can be done to imbue the movie with the sense of history and the natural majesty of this national monument.
One of the focuses of at the expo was Canon's training on image acquisition with their new C100 and C300 cinemacams. Perhaps the most useful training as it explains the best way to navigate the newest camera formats and take advantage of their strengths and become aware of their limitations so you can prevent coming away with bad or uncorrectable video or image captures. There are a number of intricacies and differences between the current lines of cameras. The big contenders at the $6000 and under are of course the Canon C100 $5500 (all prices are for body only), Sony FS100 $5100 , Canon 5D MkIII $3,500 and the most interesting new kid on the block is the Black Magic Production Camera 4k $4000. The camera tests for the Sony and Canon cameras are outlined by Magnanimous Video below ( caution the Sony they used had dust on the sensor so it really looks better than in video).
I am in the minority, but the Black Magic Production Camera 4k (shipping soon) which shoots in RAW 4k, offers the most, because you get the state of the art color grading (color correction and finishing) program DaVinci Resolve worth about $1000 for free and the camera in a package for under $4000 (the Pocket Cinema Camera for under $1000 comes without Davinici). SHOOTING IN RAW=Better dynamic range (like the difference between a quality point and shoot and a quality dslr), the ability to correct mistakes made on your shoot and color correct. You still must expose your shot but if you are off you got the leeway to fix it. But not everything can be fixed in post and raw video needs some program like DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere to make it look "fabulous". Although raw has limitless capabilities it does not always look so great right out of the "cam".
The 4K production camera and the Black Magic Cinema Camera, which shoots in 2.5k raw (now priced at $2.000 of the impending release of the 4K cam), both have built in SSD recorders to handle that HUGE amount of data.
When Shooting Raw or uncompressed you are getting much more data than with a similarly priced dslr or camera like the C100. Thank God Black Magic had the foresight to put in SSDs. For cameras that don't, the solution is to pick up an external device like the Convergent Design Odyssey7, the most advanced and elegant storage solution (used by the pros for everything from Alexa (ARRIRAW, full 16:9 and 4:3 support), Canon C500 4K Raw, to Sony Raw for the FS700. It is probably a better monitor than you have on your DSLR or movie camera and, it has an amazing set of capabilities that no other smilarly priced monitor has, as demonstrated in the video from NAB 2013 provided by Next Wave DV.
Too complicate things further; there is a camera firmware hack (for Canon cameras) by Magic Lantern (created in 2009 and updated regularly). A free software add-on, Magic Lantern, runs from the SD/CF card; that in combination with the Convergent Design Odyssey7, ($1295) Atmos Ninja-2 ($695) or 64 gig superfast expensive internal card, gets you improvements no one could have imagined. You can bypass 8bit limitations to record up to 14-bit uncompressed RAW video to your CF/SD card. Besides shooting raw you can record HDR video, record wav audio, monitor audio through USB port, manual audio level control (disabling the dreaded auto gain yay). Without any external add ons you can rack focus, crop to format (crop marks for size and aspect ratio you are using), use Magic Zoom, a feature available on the Red Cam that magnifies an area you want to focus on while you are in the middle of a shot. Perhaps my favorite feature is Peak Focus, which populates the screen with lots of little dots telling you what is in focus and what is not. In the viewer you also have a spot meter and a built in histogram (levels for Photoshop users).
CAUTION this hack is not simple and like all hacks beware the unexpected bugs or locking of your camera with your battery just draining and draining. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS IF YOU WANT YOUR CAMERA TO DO THINGS FOR YOU AUTOMATICALLY!! To see what can go wrong with this software, go to Magic Lantern's emergency page. It is like changing which operating system your computer boots to. You boot your Canon up and some people freak out and scream, "Where are my menus!!!" The good news is if you have a Canon Mark 5D Mark III there is a firmware update that allows you to record uncompressed HDMI out from your camera. Magic Lantern does more but this is way easier. In addition the new Canon 5D MarkIII DOES NOT HAVE THE MOIRE ISSUES!
If you have a 5D Mark III you may want to wet your whistle with this video shot by Johnnie Behiri.
You may not have a MarkIII so if you're nervous about installing the Magic Lantern hack relax. The the users on the forum (its been downloaded now over thousands of times) say you you can reformat the SD Card Magic Lantern is loaded on and the camera will unlock. Wedding photographers love the flexibility it gives inexpensive cameras. They love the MANUAL features. If you want to see the actual workflow invovled in hacking with Magic Lantern please see this Magic Lantern hacking for dummies (I am one) article provided by Cinema 5D. For those recording in their Canon, they are also suggesting the Hoodman Steel class 7 64 gb compactflash card, 1000x high speed which retails for $349 (ouch) which gets you the full raw data sources recorded.
Canon cameras that can use this hack (5Dc, 5D2, 5D3, 6D, 7D, 40D, 50D, 60D, 500D (T1i), 550D (T2i), 600D (T3i), 650D (T4i), 700D (T5i), 1100D (T3), EOS M, 100D (SL1)) still may have aliasing issues and moire problems (on the 7D it can be fixed with VAF-7D Moire-Aliasing Filter). David Kong explains the magic of Magic Lantern when used with budget camera Canon T2i/550D ($470-$550) click here.
There is a huge debate between models and types of cameras. Before you spend thousands of dollars check out all the reviews and columns by Phillip Bloom the best and most thorough and even handed reviewer in the business. His view on all of this emphasizes the fact that people should get the camera they NEED not neccesarily what they want or is the most capable. Certainly if you are not into color grading and getting the add ons needed for Black Magic Cinema 4k then get the C100. Be aware the C 100 has limitations and be prepared to see something coming out tomorrow, next month or next year that will make you sorry you didn't wait.
These glasses stylish as they are, will record Hi Def video at 1080p (1920 x 1080) and audio at 44.1khz, the industry standard. Okay, you say but I have an iPhone 5, so why spend the money? Well it's a better camera in recording picture and sound (unless you get the IK Multimedia iRIG Pre a mic preamp ) than your iPhone, smartphone or tablet. Great for recording your next gig or your next motorcycle race as demonstrated by the clip below.
Though it is outperformed by the GO Pro Hero3+ it is a lot less bulky and has a super wide field of view without any distortion and you can get prescription lenses for these puppies. You as a gorilla cameraman can be totally discreet by adding a piece of black or colored gel over the lense. I will appeal to those who would use these to not to do so for nefarious purposes. Intrusive heat seeking little paparazzi's passing themselves off as photographers or "artistes"may be tempted by these. Please show some restraint. They are available now locally at Samy's Camera and list for $299.


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I have left over 2x4s and OSB from a project a few months back (lean-to shed). It is just enough to make a 12'x8' deck, and I was wondering if this would be "OK" to use for decking? The main purpose is for a deck for my tent at my Colorado property I just recently bought.
Sound structure doesn't really matter to me so much as a level, off-the-ground place for my tent.