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April 17, 2014 in Photo and Video (E)
[prMac.com] San Diego, California - The all-star Pixite LLC photo app suite gets an impressive boost this week with the launch of Union, a pioneering photo enhancement app designed for intuitive, high-level image stacking, editing and masking. A natural extension of Pixite's established photo editing apps, Fragment and Tangent, Union lets users quickly and easily replace backgrounds and combine photos in unique and creative ways.
Union's design appeals to professional photographers and hobbyists alike, featuring a clean, intuitive interface and the latest technologies in mobile graphic design.
"It's a brand new take on the entire masking procedure, changing the way you'll think about layering, blending, and combining photos," said one of Union's creators, Ben Guerrette. "But it's also easily understandable, ushering you through the steps without having to be super explicit."
Union artists can create superimposed, silhouetted, and double-exposure edits from their iPhones or iPads by combining images for surreal and sometimes radically creative compositions, while retaining uncompromising professional quality results.
To begin, Union users load a background image, color fill, or transparent layer. Then, users load a foreground image or color fill that can be composited onto the background image. During either or both processes, users can make adjustments for brightness, contrast, color temperature, and saturation levels with a precision-focused slider.
In the final step, users add a mask layer that dictates the parts of the foreground to be erased to create the final blended image. Since the mask layer is non-destructive and separate from the foreground image, users don't have to worry about permanently erasing or losing any parts of the foreground. Additionally, users can swap out the foreground and retain the mask that they have been working on.
Editing supports both broad and minute adjustments for foreground image position and size, creating tight, smooth blending for an organic finish. Highly precise tools erase unwanted image sections for seamless background and foreground integration.
One of Union's tools that has been optimized for mobile editing, the Magic Wand, is unique among those offered by other apps by allowing real-time adjustments, which drastically reduces time-consuming back-and-forth editing. Using Union's Magic Wand, photo artists can complete both larger-scale sections and minute erasures with simple tap-delete functionality.
For up-close detailed work, the brush tool's solid, gradient, and square brush options coupled with zoom-adjustable brush size give the users unmatched flexibility and precision. Used together with the Highlight tool, which clearly shows the masked areas using a semi-transparent red overlay, Union allows users to achieve pixel-perfect blending.
On top of its exceptional masking tools, Union brings a whole new level to blending by including shape and image loading for masks. Instead of starting from a blank mask layer, users can select from various geometric shapes or convert any photo in the Camera Roll into a high contrast black and white image to be used as a mask, offering opportunities for silhouetted compositions that weren't previously possible.
Finished Union images can be saved in full-resolution format, exported, and shared on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or via email.
Union can be used on its own or in tandem with other apps in the Pixite suite, including Tangent and Fragment. Both have already created big footprints in the iPhonography community-Tangent was named one of App Store Best of 2013 and Fragment topped the Photo & Video category charts-earning a loyal following while pushing the limits of mobile artistry.
To function more symbiotically with Union, both Pixite apps received fresh updates - making room for Tangent 1.6 and Fragment 1.3.
Overall, it's a powerful vote for Union's clean, uncluttered interface that gets out of the way so that users can focus on editing artistry and creative vision. Among Union's enhancement options:
* Combining background and foreground images, then isolating a desired section
* Advanced real-time masking with specialized, high-precision erasure
* Both shape and image based masking with image adjustment, scaling and blending tools
* Easily produced superimposed, silhouetted, and double-exposure effects for radically surreal, spacious compositions
"It's super easy for the hobbyist, but it has the deep tools a professional expects," Guerrette said. "It covers both spectrums. There are both commercial and recreational possibilities."
Union's design features were created based on direct feedback from photo aficionados.
"Much of what we do is inspired by the community of artists on Instagram," Guerrette said. "We're constantly pulling inspiration from them. We look closely at what they do in order to create tools to make their job easier."
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* iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 7.0 or later
Pricing and Availability
Union 1.0.1 is $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photo and Video category as a universal app.
Located in San Diego, CA, Pixite LLC was founded in 2009 by Eugene Kaneko and Scott Sykora. Pixite creates professional-quality photo apps for iOS devices like Web Albums, the most popular and highest-rated paid Picasa Web Albums client on the App Store. In 2013, Pixite partnered with creative technologist Ben Guerrette to produce Tangent, a creative tool that overlays geometric patterns onto images transforming them into one-of-a-kind works of art. Tangent was named App Store Best of 2013 and was featured in the official Apple iPhone 5s video. In partnership with Italian graphic designer Laurent Rosset, Pixite also created the unique photo effects app LoryStripes. LoryStripes enhances photos using carefully crafted graphical elements called Stripes. Pixite also developed Fragment, a revolutionary photo enhancement app that uses a series of uniquely prismatic overlays. Fragment reached #1 in the Top Paid Apps in the Photo and Video category for iPad and #2 for iPhone, and has been featured by Apple in 134 countries. All Material and Software (C) 2009-2014 Pixite LLC / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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666 Park Avenue is getting a few new residents.
Without a Trace alum Enrique Murciano and One Life to Live's Wendy Moniz have landed multi-episode arcs on the new ABC drama, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
In 666, an innocent Midwestern couple (Dave Annable and Rachael Taylor) get hired as resident managers of an Upper East Side apartment building in New York owned by Gavin (Lost's Terry O'Quinn) and Olivia Doran (Vanessa Williams). Unbeknownst to them, the residents have all made deals with the devil to have their desires fulfilled.
666 Park Avenue's Terry O'Quinn plays a "sharecropper on the plantation of evil"
Murciano (CSI, NCIS) will play Dr. Todd Scott, a handsome young surgeon living at The Drake. He unwittingly drives a wedge between Louise (Mercedes Masohn) and Brian (Robert Buckley) when he calls in a few prescriptions and makes some neighborly house calls to a recovering Louise. Naturally, like the other residents of The Drake, Dr. Scott will be battling some hidden demons of his own. He'll first appear in the fifth episode of the freshman season.
Moniz (Guiding Light, Damages) will play Ingrid, the therapist of Drake resident Nona (Samantha Jade Logan). Despite Nona's resistance to dig deep in their sessions, Ingrid shows a genuine concern for her young patient and hopes that if Nona cannot trust her, perhaps she can open up to the trusting Jane (Taylor). She'll first appear in the Oct. 14 episode.
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I understand that when evaluating
$$ \int_{-1}^{2} \frac{1}{x} \mathrm dx = \ln 2$$
It's simple integration, I understand. I'm more focused on the theory behind if it even exists. I had a question from Larson, Edward's Calculus 9th edition that was a true or false relating to this earlier today.
In one sense, I thought it had to be $\ln 2$. But, when looking at it again, technically the area from $-1$ to $0$, and $0$ to $1$ are negative infinity and infinity, respectively. They should cancel out and our original integral from $-1$ to $2$ is the same as the integral from $1$ to $2$. However, technically the integral does not converge from those two endpoints. The areas from $-1$ to $0$ and $0$ to $1$ are only infinitesimally close as they both approach zero from one side.
I was looking for your guys' input here. I was debating myself most of today over this seamlessly simple true/false question.
Note: this is a Calc 1 class, but I suppose I'm just getting ideas from Calc 2 onward (I've self-studied a bit) intertwined with our knowledge we've learned so far.


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January 11 deadline for SFSF Phase II funds The application for the final $11.5 billion of State Fiscal Stabilization Funds—all intended for education—is due on January 11. Final requirements and the application were released on November 12.
January 19 deadline for RTTT Phase I application The race is on! The final requirements and application for RTTT were released in November. The application deadline is January 19 for Phase I and June 1 for Phase 2. States may wait until Phase 2 to apply or apply again if they don't receive a grant in Phase 1.
February 8 deadline for Title I School Improvement Grants (SIG), a $3.5 billion program separate from Race to the Top, targets persistently low-achieving schools. The final SIG requirements for this program were released on December 3. The deadline for the state to apply for SIG funds is February 8, 2010.
The proposed regulations for the ARRA Investing in Innovation (i3), which provides $650 million to nonprofits and LEAs, have been issued; public comments are due on November 9.
Race to the Top Fund: Proposed regulations published July 29, 2009. NEA's comments praise the administration's commitment to improving public education, but express concern about using student test scores to evaluate teachers and overly emphasizing charter schools as a tool for reform. We urge the administration to focus instead on proven, research-based strategies and addressing inequities among school districts — and schools within districts.
Title I, Part A and IDEA funding: Proposed regulations published August 17, 2009.
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By the looks of it, "The Counselor," a rancid, ultimately sodden crime thriller, was made to appeal to several audiences, among them fans of the cinematic stylings of Ridley Scott; acolytes of cult author Cormac McCarthy; and admirers of the Irish actor Michael Fassbender, who between the 2011 drama "Shame" and the opening sequence of this movie, has become Hollywood's go-to-sex-guy for explicit between-the-sheets adventures.
In that naughty, teasingly graphic scene with Penelope Cruz, "The Counselor," which Scott directed from a screenplay by McCarthy, supposedly lays its cards on the table: This is a movie that will pull no punches when it comes to sex (and, later, violence), but will instead confront viewers with frank, uncomfortably straightforward portrayals of the darkest parts of human nature.
Sadly, the filmmakers then dispense with any shreds of honesty they may have once aspired to by cutting to a shot of Cameron Diaz, gorgeous in magic-hour amber light, riding a horse while a cheetah runs alongside behind her. As Malkina, the silver-clawed, gold-saber-toothed femme fatale (who, in case you missed the subtext, also has a string of leopard-like spots tattooed down her back), Diaz is just one of the tawdry characters who populate the south Texas nether-world of "The Counselor," a sewage-soaked demimonde that is as confusing as it is spiritually compromised.
It seems that Fassbender's title character — attorney at large to all manner of lowlifes — is in the midst of a shady deal involving Malkina's boyfriend, Reiner (Javier Bardem), and a shadowy figure named Westray (Brad Pitt). Just what the deal is and how it all goes horribly wrong, it seems, are so tiresome — and their moral universe so much more richly limned in "Breaking Bad" — that McCarthy felt it necessary to gussy it up with windy, Shakespearian speeches, wearying conversational dead ends and lots of gratuitous swipes at female sexual appetites, which are clearly a source of enduring and unresolved anxiety for the poor guy.
Isn't McCarthy — author of "No Country for Old Men" and "The Road" — supposed to be the master of macho toughness and spare stylistic control? You wouldn't know it from this self-consciously nasty piece of borderland noir, in which his familiar tropes by now look hackneyed and pathetic. "The Counselor" treats viewers to at least two baroquely staged beheadings and countless courtly disquisitions on morality, mortality, regret and heaven knows what else. It's an actor's paradise, all this poetic, run-on musing, but it results in a movie that, despite its strenuous efforts to appear hardened and sexy and sleek, is unforgivably phony, talky and dull.
It may be that "No Country for Old Men" was the perfect marriage of mannerisms: McCarthy's pseudo-depth and the Coen brothers' reliably deadpan delivery system. With Scott's more florid hand at the helm, the weaknesses and excesses stand out in sharp relief, never more so than when the miscast Diaz delivers her carefully practiced arias to predation and Darwinian lust. "The Counselor" must have looked great on paper, but you can't believe a word of it.
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R. At area theaters. Contains graphic violence, some grisly images, strong sexual content and profanity. 117 minutes.


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Know Your Role + Jays@Phils pregame
Stopped by Dunedin Stadium this morning for batting practice. The Jays hold BP at home on days they play the Phillies in nearby Clearwater. And glad I did roll over there, because one of the best moments of the spring occurred.
Roy Halladay headed over to the snack cart and reached into the bucket of gum to grab a few pieces. As he walked away, Doc accidentally dumped the entire bucket and its hundreds of Double Bubble pieces all over the ground. Without as much as a flinch, Doc kept walking and left the mess in front of the clubhouse exit.
Not 10 seconds later, rook Travis Snider heads over and gets on hands and knees and begins picking up all the gum, completely knowing his role. As he was reaching under the cart to retrieve every last piece, Doc walked by and had the biggest grin you've ever seen the guy have.
"You're all over it, Snider," Halladay said with a laugh as he headed out to the field.
"It's a good start to the day," said Snider to the group of us reporters standing there enjoying the whole scene. "I got Doc on my side."
Classic stuff.
Rod Barajas is back in camp after Mexico was bounced from the World Baseball Classic. Alex Rios should be around tomorrow or the next day now that Puerto Rico is out as well. USA! USA! USA!
Barajas had great things to say about the tournament and also about youngster Brad Mills. When asked if he was surprised to see Mill sill in camp, Barajas offered this:
"Absolutely not. I caught his first bullpen on accident. I'm looking through the line of pitchers and I'm trying to find the guys that I think are going to be challenging fo that spot and I hadn't heard Mills' name yet. But everybody had somebody else and I saw him and I'm like, 'All right, I'll take this little lefty.' I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't expecting that out of him. So, the next time he threw a bullpen, I wanted to catch him again and his stuff was right there. It was unbelievable."
Scott Downs threw in a Minor League intrasquad game today and center fielder Vernon Wells got some more ABs in that game as well. Wells is hoping to get into a Grapefruit League game this weekend. Said Cito: "Hopefully, we can start the season with him in center field. That'd be great."
Don't forget, you can follow my in-game updates at www.twitter.com/mlbastian
Today's lineup:
Russ Adams, LF
Jose Bautista, SS
Jason Lane, CF
Kevin Millar, 1B
Scott Rolen, 3B
Travis Snider, RF
Michael Barrett, C
Brad Emaus, 2B
Jesse Litsch, P
Chase Utley, 2B
Miguel Cairo, SS
Greg Dobbs, RF
Jayson Werth, CF
Matt Stairs, LF
Pedro Feliz, 3B
Chris Coste, 1B
Ronny Paulino, C
J.A. Happ, P
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I am really surprised Halliday didn't pick up the gum himself, thought Roy liked to finish stuff he started.. Got to like Snider's attitude though, just trying to fit in.
Let's hope Adams keeps playing well and someone picks him up. I like Cito keeps playing Emaus, to see what the kids got, so far so good, I'd say.
Nice to see Bautista at short; it would be a huge help to the lineup if he can manage the position. If he comes close to handling it, I'd say play him there. It'd be damn nice having a short stop capable of hitting 20-25 hr's per year. Great idea, Cito, I hope it works out.
Funny story with Snider and Doc, glad to see they are able to have some fun together.
Also nice to see Stairs in the Phills line up, hope he gets some playing time this year with them.
Haha, love the Travis Snider bit. Classic indeed! So how is Jason Lane doing for you guys? I could go look up the spring stats, but they're not made the easiest to find, and they don't always tell the whole story anyway. He's still an old favorite of mine from his Astros days.
Lane in 37AB's: .351ba/.359OBP/.757slg. 4 hr's, 2-2b's, 7 rbi's.
His problem though, is we have Wells, Rios, Lind and Snider so he will likely go to AAA.
Nice blog.
Next year Starters:
Well no one except Doc is an ace there so we need Doc to be there.
OTher than Doc which 5 do you take?
do you go with the young talent in Cecil Mills Purcey and Romero
or do you go with proven startrs that gave us the best rotation last year in McGowan Marcum Litsch….and then 1 other starter who does best in Spring Training.
How do you go about this?
Its a good problem to have though..
I say we trade away some of the quality guys, just one or maybe two of them from
or even Purcey/Mcgowan/Marcum
I think if thats the case then we can trade like McGowan and another minor leagues for a solid 1st baseman, which would save us money and allow us to sign halladay. or do you think David Cooper will be ready?
if thats the case then trade for a 3B, and if Emaus is ready then trade for ****.
Boy isn't this a good problem to have?
I think keeping all this access pitching would be a bad idea,if they are no use to us then trade them for somone who is because each pitcher who I mentioned is a solid 3-5 guy.
but the trade we make will have to be a good one, and I dont trust JP with it.
Rios played well in that Puerto Rico/USA game last night. What a game btw! Hopefully the WBC will have him in playing form early. Everyone talks about the negatives of the WBC. Sure, players geting injured in the WBC it is a big negative. However, no one mentions the positives? Rios is now probably coming into this season stronger than ever, having faced high quality pitching and competing at high level. I'm predicting a quick start for him! This is all based on seeing him play the other night, so I could be wrong.
Blue Jays sign Netherlands closer Leon Boyd to a minor league contract.
You get the impression that Snider is a real quality person. He was so impressive during his stay in Syracuse last year. Doc is Doc – simply the best!
The Boyd signing is interesting. Impressive numbers but against what quality competiton? Can never have enough pitching at any rate.
Good point on Rios, after his participation in 2006 he was arguably the best hitter in the American Leauge for the first half of the season. I think alot of people are expecting big things from him this year.
The Jays are having a great ST. Let's hope they can keep it up in the regular season. It will be interesting to see who will break camp with them.
With Cito as the manager breaking camp with 11 pitchers can't hurt because he handles his pitchers so well, and that will leave room for one more position player.
I noticed the Jays have uploaded their new players pictures to the MLB website. Does anyone know where to see all of them?
How would you guys feel if the Jays took a shot on Shawn Hill whom was made available today ? He's injured often but given that he'll likely come cheap why not ?


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With the Chad Mendes-Manny Gamburyan fight off UFC 157, a new welterweight bout has stepped up to fill the gap.
Strikeforce imports Nah-Shon Burrell (8-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Yuri Villefort (6-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will meet later this month. UFC officials on Monday announced the new booking.
In addition, with the loss of Mendes-Gamburyan opening up a spot on the main card, a middleweight bout between Court McGee (14-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC) and Josh Neer (33-12-1 MMA, 6-8 UFC) has moved up from the preliminary card to the pay-per-view.
UFC 157 takes place Feb. 23 at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook. The main event is a women's bantamweight title fight between Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche.
Burrell went 3-1 while in Strikeforce with wins over Joe Ray, Lukasz Les and James Terry. But at "Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier" this past May, he had a six-fight win streak snapped with a TKO loss to Chris Spang.
Villefort this past May lost for the first time in his MMA career, dropping a split decision to Quinn Mulhern, also at "Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier." But he's been out of action since then. The Imperial Athletics "Blackzilians" product started his pro career 6-0 with three submissions and a pair of knockouts.
With the addition of the bout, UFC 157 is back up to 12 fights.
The UFC 157 card now includes:
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
- Ronda Rousey vs. Liz Carmouche – for women's bantamweight title
- Dan Henderson vs. Lyoto Machida
- Urijah Faber vs. Ivan Menjivar
- Court McGee vs. Josh Neer
- Josh Koscheck vs. Robbie Lawler
PRELIMINARY CARD (FX, 8 p.m. ET)
- Lavar Johnson vs. Brendan Schaub
- Mike Chiesa vs. Anton Kuivanen
- Dennis Bermudez vs. Matt Grice
- Caros Fodor vs. Sam Stout
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook, 6:30 p.m. ET)
- Brock Jardine vs. Kenny Robertson
- Neil Magny vs. Jon Manley
- Nan-Shon Burrell vs. Yuri Villefort
For more on UFC 157, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Lisa Tawn Bergren: How a Writing Break Helped Her Career
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Accomplished author Lisa Tawn Bergren has worked in various facets of Christian publishing, but the most significant turn in her career (thus far) occurred when she obeyed God's instruction to temporarily give it up.
In 2001, amid an abundance of opportunities, Bergren took a break from an industry she loved.
She resumed writing four years later. However, instead of returning to her previous genres of contemporary and historical romances and children's books (including the perennial best seller God Gave Us You) she penned The Begotten, a supernatural medieval thriller that earned her accolades from industry professionals and became a 2007 Christy Award finalist.
Bergren, the author of 28 books, recently shared from her home in Colorado Springs, Colo. how following God's directions continues to be the most rewarding aspect of her literary career.
When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
I always loved curling up with a good book. I always enjoyed writing. I got a degree in English literature (but) I never really considered that I could possibly be a writer. I knew English would be usable in business or marketing. Writing a book seemed a romantic ideal.
What path did you take after college?
I was a "ski bum" in Park City, Utah. I really found myself in a dark place because I drifted so far from my foundation of faith. I was bartending on Sunday mornings. I was walking on the wild side. It was Christian books and Christian music that brought me back to my knees and helped me understand what I was missing. I left Park City and went to Israel and Egypt. I decided to come home and work in an industry that had made such a difference for me.
Where did you start?
I worked for a Christian music company, helping on a variety of fronts, with marketing and with whatever else was needed. I had a met a friend of a friend in Park City who was writing Harlequin romance novels. There was something about knowing someone who had done it that made it click—a real person can write a book.
At that time in Christian fiction, there was not a lot of variety. You had Janette Oke, Frank Peretti. I've always liked writing something different than someone else out there. I wrote a contemporary Christian romance novel.
While you were pitching your book to Multnomah Publishers, you also sought a staff position. Where did that lead you?
I received an offer for my first book, Refuge, on the same day I started working at Multnomah. I was a marketing coordinator and then a marketing manager and then the editor-in-chief of the Palisades (contemporary Christian romance) line. I ended up writing six novels for them.
I was part of the leadership team that started WaterBrook for Random House and served as editor of the fiction line for them for four years. During that time I also wrote three historical novels and women's fiction.
By then you had married and started a family. Did this change your aspirations?
I went home to be with my babies (two daughters) when they were 5 and 2. During that time, I wrote two contemporary general novels that could work for men and women. I also launched a company called Good Books and sold books and gifts from home.
When and why did you stop writing?
I was teaching at a writers' conference (in 2001) and God gave me two words: 'fallow season.' I'm a doer, so it was crazy and illogical to me to take a fallow season. Contracts were available to me and we were in need of the money. But He was so clear. I prayed and tried to negotiate Him down to one book. He was very persistent and insistent.
If I hadn't taken that hiatus, it would have killed me. I came close to burnout—launching a company, handling book due dates at the same time and handling family traumas.
Can you share some of those challenges and how God shepherded you through them?
Six months after I decided to take a hiatus, my niece Madison (Mady) died in the middle of the night from a congenital heart defect. She was 6 years old. Sheltering my kids and myself through that grieving process was huge. Six months after that, I was pregnant with my son, Jack. We weren't planning that either. God could see all that ahead—the good and the hard and what I would need.
What led you to write again?
Three and a half years into taking a break, I sensed a need to get back into the groove. I had read The Da Vinci Code in 24 hours. I loved the pacing and the intrigue, but I obviously hated the heresy. I'm a huge Lord of the Rings fan, and those movies were coming out around that time. This led me to write a big epic quest trilogy that had some of the pacing and intrigue of The Da Vinci Code, but to remain scripturally accurate.
How did you devise the plot for The Gifted Series, and specifically for the critically acclaimed first book, The Begotten?
I talked to a couple of biblical scholar friends and told them I was looking for a Biblical mystery. They mentioned the lost letters of St. Paul. In 1 Corinthians you see a reference to letters that are not part of our Christian canon. What if someone were to find a new letter from St. Paul? What would be the most evocative thing he would write about, but remain true to the letters we do know? I thought it would be spiritual gifts, pre-reformation and pre-renaissance. That's how I wound up with supernatural thrillers. The second book in the gifted series, The Betrayed was published in September. I am writing the third book, The Blessed.
What is your advice to aspiring writers and others who long to fulfill a God-given dream?
There are seasons in all of our lives. Just because an open door hasn't appeared before us at the moment we want doesn't mean it won't come down the line. The older I get, the more I'm comfortable with just trusting that I'm to do what's laid before me and trust Him to do what He's going to do and accept that. God is good all the time, no matter what happens.
Stacy Hawkins Adams is a freelance writer and Christian fiction author. Her third novel, Watercolored Pearls, was released last month.


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Montgomery County educators head to Denver to share lessons of success
Collaboration model to be highlighted at national labor-management conference
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Education is asking local union leaders and school district officials from Montgomery County, Md., to share the secrets of their success at a national conference focused on improving student achievement through labor-management collaboration.
While collaboration between teachers' unions and school districts is getting some long-overdue recognition these days, members of the Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) and Montgomery County Public Schools have been working together to boost student achievement for more than a decade.
One of the biggest school transformations has occurred at Broad Acres Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md., which went from being one of the county's lowest performing schools to one of its top schools in just three years.
Innovative Union-District Approach
Thanks to the collaborative efforts of a union-district partnership at Broad Acres, 93 percent of its fourth-grade African American students achieved math proficiency. Math score improvement was better than any other school in Montgomery County.
"When something works to transform a low-performing public school into a place of academic success, we need to share what we have learned," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "It's been happening successfully at schools across the country, and it's time for these small victories to ignite a movement that spreads like wildfire."
It's those victories—like Broad Acres, which even resulted in one of its own staff members being named as a National Teacher of the Year—that education officials are hoping will spread when the conference convenes February 15-16 in Denver.
MCEA President Doug Prouty says that collaboration between the local union and the school system led to a concrete focus on professional growth and development for all staff.
"We take the quality of teaching and learning seriously, so we jointly created and implemented a thorough, meaningful and transparent evaluation system that ensures intensive support for all new and underperforming teachers," said Prouty. "These elements of our professional growth system have increased both accountability and outcomes."
Historic National Conference
MCEA is one of more than 70 NEA affiliates participating in the Conference on Advancing Student Achievement through Labor-Management Collaboration. Forty-seven of the attending affiliates are represented jointly by NEA and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The event is sponsored by the Department of Education in partnership with NEA, AFT and other education organizations.
"We thank the Department of Education for hosting a conference that will showcase union-district collaboration and success," added Van Roekel. "When unions and school districts share with others how they worked together for better solutions that help students succeed, we're onto something."
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Taking the Vader-black iPhone to full-on Blackout!
When Apple first showed off the new, unibody slate and black iPhone 5, I referred to it as Vader black. I liked the look so much, I escalated it by going retro-black with my Lock screen and Home screen wallpapers. Then, when AnoStyle was announced, I immediately wanted to take it one step further. I wanted the Blackout look you see on high-end watches and cars. Problem was, AnoStyle didn't offer black anodization. Not yet, at least...
So I bugged Ally and her Ano-Ninja accomplice, Rob, and volunteered to be test subject zero for their first-ever Blackout iPhone 5. They agreed, I bought a new phone for them to try it out on, and as you can see from the results above and below, they did not fail to delight.
If you turn it into the sun or bright light, it looks like a normal black and slate iPhone 5, only several shades deeper and darker. If you turn it away from the sun, it's matte black as the emptiness of space. It's so black, only the slight difference in refraction of the Apple logo and iPhone lettering can be seen, darker or brighter, shadowed or gleaming across its back.
If you hold the the blacker-than-Vader black iPhone next to a regular black and slate iPhone 5, the difference is immediately apparent. Above is a shot I took with a 5D Mark III and f/1.4 lens under Hue LED lighting. However, in normal use it's understated and subtle and almost no one will notice anything different about it all alone and at a glance. I love that, and more than one friend I showed it off to at Macworld|iWorld could only smile and mumble "damn" as well. Others may prefer being loud and colorful and shiny in red or blue or gold. I wanted something simple and pure and authentic and utterly capable of getting lost any and every time I leave it on a dark surface.
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I love spring in vancouver, the blossoms are out and they are turning every walk to work into something beautiful. These springtime sugar cookies are an ode to the trees that line my street.
I baked a half-batch of sugar cookies using this recipe but I have to say that it's nowhere near as tasty as my mom's recipe. They still taste good - its pretty hard to mess up a basic sugar cookie - but I know that they aren't as good as they could have been.
Next I outlined the cookies using royal icing. I don't use a specific recipe for royal icing, I just mix until it becomes the right consistency. For these cookies I whisked two egg whites until they were soft foamy peaks and then whisked in icing sugar until it stiffened and created firmer peaks.
After the piped edges had a chance to dry I added a bit of water to my icing to thin it out so that I could flood the cookies. Sometimes royal icing will get bubbles in it but its an easy fix: just poke each bubble with a toothpick to let the air out or gently swirl a spoon through it.
Cookies flooded and drying! It would have been best to let them dry overnight but I didn't really feel like doing what was best so I only left them for an hour or so.
For decoration ideas I turned to the pictures I took on my cellphone of the trees by my place. Pink blossoms...
..fluffy white blossoms.
.Sugar Blossoms ! This is probably the easiest flower shape to make a large amount of plus they keep for a long time. I already had some white flowers left over from another baking project so I only had to make some pink ones. The tutorial for them is right here
The flowers are attached with a tiny bit of royal icing and the writing is done with a food marker.
So cute!
All packaged up to be given away. Even though I only made a half-batch its still too many cookies for one person alone, even if that person really really likes cookies and spring-themed desserts.


text: Jennifer from Cup of Coco made this wall globe for a child's room. It's made of 100% wool felt and the little pieces move around and attach with velcro. The cute suitcase holds all the pieces. Wouldn't your kids love something like this? I bet it gets played with for hours and hours.


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Create Your Own Car 3First you have to buy a car, then you can redesign it en drive races wo win money. Build your own car 1Select a car and modify it using the arrows on the right. Flash Tuning Car GTAn online game that allows you to create your own sports car. Use the range of functions at your disposal to change the spoiler, doors, rims, tyres, p...Drag Racer 3Buy your car, customize it and race, but be careful - do not break the engine! Ultimate Drag RacerTry to finish first in your own car! Tune Race 1Pimp your ride now anduse it to race! Be wary, you need to handle the gears yourself!
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If buying and selling property was creative and productive, imagine how much better off this country would be.
Here's a question I could do without being asked again. From some random chick on Facebook: "Do you have a mortgage?"
Goodness knows I'm not a shy person: I'm happy to say I find G strings uncomfortable, tried pot but it makes me uptight (who needs a drug to do that?) and I already confessed I lost my virginity in my second year at university.
But I find this particular question revoltingly intrusive. It sounds innocuous but is really a gauche attempt to define you by your property ownership status. Are you a property owner, that is someone with value as a virtuous and moral person?
Or are you dirty renter? (Come to think of it she may have been wanting to know if my house is paid off with no mortgage, but even so, the point stands).
I'm fed up with this country's oppressive attitude to home ownership, and I don't mean because my heart is bleeding for young thrusters trying to - cliche alert - get on the bottom rung of the property ladder.
In middle class society owning a house and all the other deeply boring conformist concerns that go with it - property values, school zones, DIY, please skewer my eye out with a rusty nail - seem to be the single measure we use to construct personhood.
The attitude around home ownership is not explicitly acknowledged but here's how it goes.
The rule is: everyone in middle class polite society must aspire to owning a house. Tough beans if you have other passions or objectives or obstacles in your life that make this particular goal irrelevant or infeasible.
By owning a house you now have a right to participate in society as a person with standing. Those who don't own houses are considered losers and, although not overtly stated, pretty much given the impression they are second class citizens.
Strangely they don't seem to notice this much because like practically everyone this group subscribes to the "I am nothing without a house" ethos.
They just rail against property prices and complain about investors pushing prices up, not the whole unspoken property brainwashing con.
Buying a house is unquestionably the ultimate aim in one's life - people are desperate to join the rest of their suburban compadres who can discuss school zones at barbecues. There is a revolting conformist zeal to home ownership - "Oh you're one of us now! Welcome aboard!"
But the real reason those rinky-dinky white heterosexual couples in their pressed Bermuda shorts want to get on the property ladder is because it's the only way those of average IQ can hope to get rich in New Zealand.
Frustrated Yuppies might call for a capital gains tax, but let's be honest: the reason they want to own a house is not to make a vege garden, but to get rich.
Agreed, owning a house might be agreeably cosy in some respects - you can paint it magnolia, you don't have get chucked out by venal landlords - but it is not a signal you are a moral or worthwhile person.
And like most constructs, we don't even realise this one is so pervasive because we are immersed in it. To most middle class Kiwis property is the first topic at a barbecue and this is just "normal".
In fact, people become quite miffed if you dare to suggest there might be other measures to use to get an insight into a person other than which suburb they live in and how high they have scrambled on the property ladder.
Home ownership is viewed with something close to religious fervour. Friends tell me we are not the only ones: other countries have the same mania about property (although I doubt they discuss up and coming suburbs at family dinners in Syria).
I suppose I should be grateful in this country you are assessed for your place in the pecking order by something you can influence.
In the English class system you can be shabby and posh because what matters is still your accent and what school you went to. But our property discourse is still limiting and destructive. Imagine if we put all the effort we put into houses into something more creative and productive? Now that is a question I wouldn't mind being asked.


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Via Twitter this morning, Jeff Jarvis declared this the news media's silly season. Jeff being Jeff, he used more colorful language: "Bullshit season begins. First: Time thing o' the year. Next: Top 10 lists. Then predictions. All bullshit."
And he's right. The year-end lists contain no real news. They help us remember what happened in the calendar year. But there is little new information published. Predictions for the year are about as accurate as guesses about the length of Kim Kardashian's next marriage. For the news organizations, these features fill time and space during what is traditionally a slow news time. (Time's Person of the Year is a one-sentence news morsel and you move to the next thing about Lindsay Lohan.)
The thing is, people seem to enjoy them. It's no coincidence that Buzzfeed's biggest traffic day of the year came with its Most Powerful Photos of 2011 entry.
Nieman Lab's Megan Garber talked with Buzzfeed's founder, Jonah Peretti about that.
"I think the future is going to be about combining informational content with social and emotional content," Peretti says, and "the post did a great job of combining those two things."
I think he's right, too. The problem with most of the year-in-review and year-ahead features is that they don't include enough information and emotion to serve a true journalistic purpose. They're done because we've always done them. With energy and emotion, they could be much more relevant than they are.


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competition is good
As an iTouch owner, I say great review.
Competition is great it means better hardware and better prices for everyone.
Monopolies are never a good thing and, frankly, Apple's iPod Touch has had things its own way for rather too long. Yes, there are better MP3 players and better PMPs, but the former are all too small to realistically watch movies on while the latter are just too big to be easily slipped into a pocket. Direct competition, such …
Being a MASSIVE fan of the iAudio X5 and the way it kicked the crap out of its competitors, I was beginning to think they would never make a modern equivalent. Thank Christ they finally got around to it. This thing looks great. I could fit everything on a 32GB version of this I can on my rather broken old X5. Judging by the X5, I bet it sounds excellent, the screen sounds like fun, etc, etc. First chance I get, a 32GB one of these is getting bought.
So it sounds as if the Cowon is a fine audio and video player – marginally better than the iPod Touch. However, Apple has already moved the Touch way beyond that.
The crucial difference is that the Touch is part of a large and growing infrastructure that extends its usefulness in ways the Cowon could never do. WiFi (how did Cowon leave that out? Like the BB Storm...), email, web browsing, the App Store (including turning your Touch into a remote media controller), games, calendar, contacts, etc., etc., etc.
That said, I'm glad that someone is pressuring Apple in terms of sound and screen quality.
The display sounds real nice, even if the rest is not exactly my cup of tea. There seem to be some rather arbitrary limitations in place such as the 24 radio presets, 256 track limit on the favourites playlist...
As a Mac guy I'm "wedded" to iTunes and proper MP4 support but I'd welcome any other players that work well with iTunes, so proper support for (smart)playlists etc.. Oh, and gapless playback, please.
I am liking the idea of this! Finally a PMP using a display technology fit for the purpose!
And at such a high resolution too for an OLED device, thats the same as the still outstanding screen res of the Sony PSP (Although the PSP3000 may have lowered the bar a bit there) but you should have pointed out though, it is actually missing 23000+ pixels in relation to the Touch (480x320). OLEDs are brand new so I'll let them off! ;-)
Its a shame though, I just bought a 32Gb iPod Touch 2nd gen on Sunday. And the screen still has the slightest tendency towards fading/colour washout when viewed from an angle. And as the Touch is meant to be viewed from a variety of orientations, its a significant factor.
Am I correct in thinking that this OLED screen has no such problem?
I'll take a ganders at this if I can find it in a shop, then if suitably impressed, I'm putting my iPod Touch on Ebay! Mind you I'll really miss mobile Safari as I think its the best web browser on ANY mobile device of a lower class than a laptop. Us iPod Touch/iPhone users have been spoiled!
One other question though - Is it MULTITOUCH?
"While the S9 lacks any facility to set up on-board playlists, you can easily add tracks – up to 256 of them – to a "favourites list", and we suspect this will serve most users just as well" - No, that is a deal breaker. This is a chronic omission, only being able to set a single playlist. I am personally offended. What if I want playlists for different moods?
Utter crap, I see nothing of note or originality in this device, and it typifies the bandwagon jumping which has stifled innovation in the technology market. iPod beater my arse, iPod emulater more like. And I don't even like the iPod, I think it is over-priced and all shine and no function.
I will stick to my 7year old 20Gb Zen thank-you very much.
The simple fact is, the S9 has WAY better sound quality than the iPod can hold a candle to, and this should be easy to detect, it is that much better!
The AMOLED screen is simply awesome .
One thing i didnt see mention of was its 55 hour battery life for audio or 11 hours for video - crazily good.
Personally, the Touch I would never buy, as i have an iphone. Listen to it though, its SO poor! It does work well as my Sonos controller though ;0)
Clearly its horses for courses, but if you value sound quality, above all else, and enjoy movie playback, this is the daddy!
Cowon have always made devices for people who just want to use them as they wish how they wish, without any additional requirements for running operating system x or downloading software y. You'll likely never get an offering from Cowon that will integrate properly with iPlayer or iTunes or, for that matter, DRMd MS stuff -- but what you will get is decent equipment that you can use how you see fit.
Tempting indeed, it even works (apparently) with Linux... but no, thanks. I've been considering getting a 32GB Touch, since I'm interested in its "iPod-with-web" capabilities, and wanted to be able to carry all my music in a SS-based player. S9 has no web, so too bad for Cowon, or I'd get the S9 just for its ease of use with Linux (the article has no details on this, so I'm assuming it works). I don't care for radio, movies, games (yet, might change my mind if I find something interesting). Also, reading the article I had the impression that the "one playlist" thing was limited to list created *using the player* itself, but I would suppose that you could create more in the computer and have them all sent to the player? Or not? Either way, it's a strange restriction.
Problem with Touch: needs all sorts of incantations to be able to use with Linux (with reduced functionality, I think? like album art problems? can't upgrade firmware before helpful hackers release new jail-breaking stuff). Too uncertain, specially considering the sort of money involved. Or I'd have gotten one already.
touch of confusion and possible skulduggery regarding this, the rendered pic 1 in the article and a few more during show the screen displaying an image almost to the very edge - which had me drowning in my own drool.
Its not actually like that though is it? shaame - i was going to use this post to say thing like "i hope HTC do that on a WM phone soon". guess ill have to wait
While that thing surely is not bad, it's not the music (or media) player part of the touch that makes it so great. And it's also not the touch screen. It's the fact that the iPod touch is a great PDA, eBook reader, mail reader, browsing device and generally a nice small computer with lots of apps available. The two devices are just totally different gadgets.
The trouble with buying a Cowon is that you buy into a device with no support.
They got me good with their A3 and never again will I've fooled. Software is buggy, USB chargeable? Only if you're prepared to wait 3 days to get it charged! Playlist? - Only the one. Yes it's that bad.
Cowon seem to churn these devices out every 6 months and then it's obsolete and you feel left on a pile of poo.
Not a good attitude Cowon.
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i agree with your comments. i am a cowon iaudio 7 user and while this player has great sound and battery life (60 hours), there is a bug with ogg playback that could be easily fixed by cowon that will probably never be fixed. also, the device records to wma,instead of mp3/wav, and there is an issue with playlists.
The icons aren't Apple knock-offs. Cowon have been making touchscreen players using those icons since long before Apple even sat up and realised the clickwheel was getting a bit old hat.
And some of the comments here - FFS guys get over yourselves. Just because you've never heard of Cowon doesn't mean they're some shitty little Johnny come lately. My Cowon D2 has outlasted 2 iPods and still kicks the crap out of them sound-wise.
In defence of the Cowon A3 I have had one for over a year and it has been faultless apart from the the occasional crash when ff/rwd-ing through a large video files (700mb +) - a simple turn off/on fixes that. As for taking 3 days to charge via USB, that is just cock, it takes about 6 hours - and anyway, Cowon supply a mains charger! Cowon also issue regular firmware updates for their players which is not quite the same as offering "no support". The A3 also has a screen that is in a different league from either the S9 or the iPod Touch.
Of course it ain't perfect - the lack of playlists is a pain (btw, you can set up separate lists on the S9, but by Christ it ain't easy!) but I use mine mainly as a video player.
If you want easy multiple play-lists (and gap-less playback) - buy a bloody iPod, that's what I did because Apple products have those two functions nailed down in a way MTP devices can only dream of. Of course no Apple product will play Flac or decent rez AVI files so you pays your money. The sound my A3 produces makes my 2G Nano sound like utter shite btw.
Of course multiple play-lists and gap-less are not the be all and end all to every consumer - some folk like to listen to their albums in the order the artist intended and gaps only really make a mess of operas, so I can see why Cowon didn't bother addressing either.
What I would say about the S9 is wait until El Reg reviews the Cowon O2 before buying, the screen is bigger and it has memory expansion.
"The Cowon S9's screen genuinely advances the science of PMP screens" - iRiver Clix does not count as PMP, I suppose. It also employs active AMOLED and I assure the quality beats iTouch (and anything with LCD screen). And yes, image quality does not suffer from angle view, good to see it going mainstream.
Some iRiver devices, including Clix, also support Audible DRM (like all Apple players) which is nice; they also have firmware updates from time to time.
I must however agree that even pretty good PMP is not a replacement, not even competition, for a tiny computer with WiFi and quite a lot of programs to choose from.
while on the abi forums, a user had contacted cowon directly about the cable because it was initially believed to be a micro B USB cable that is becoming popular in america.
However they responded back shortly after stating it was a common cable becoming standard in Korea, a 20 pin recharging data cable or something along those lines.
Its a fairly common cheap cable its just not a standard for america yet. It is part of an attempt to get cellphones and pdas and other devices of the such in korea to use the same ports so that there are less proprietary cables in use.
You can find them if you look for about 5-10$
"The crucial difference is that the Touch is part of a large and growing infrastructure that extends its usefulness in ways the Cowon could never do. WiFi (how did Cowon leave that out? Like the BB Storm...), email, web browsing, the App Store (including turning your Touch into a remote media controller), games, calendar, contacts, etc., etc., etc."
Funny, I remember doing all that with my Dell Axim back in '04. And I could even take the battery out of it.
I don't get the whole fanbase thing. What, because Apple says PDA functions are now "cool" suddenly they're a must have on all PMPs? If you want a PDA, why not just buy a real one instead of Apple's crappy iMitation? An iPaq 111 is 299USD + the cost of your favorite size SDHC card. Not that bad compared to the Touch, particularly when you consider all the freeware programs for WM (MiniMo, PuTTY, KoboDL, etc.), the storage expansion, the better format support, the faster processor, and the replaceable battery.
I'll be getting one. My D2 is getting a tad tired, so yay for upgrade time. Only drawback is no SDHC slot, so I'll wait for the 32GB.
If I wanted wifi and email on a device, I'd get a PDA or a smartphone. This is a music player, not a communications device. If you're into device convergence, great, get the iPhone or a Sony Ericsson Walkman jobbie.
While I've had my niggles with Cowon firmware as well - yes, OGG playback in order is somewhat annoying - at least they do regular firmware releases. I do hope the release firmware on this one is decent. I don't use playlists - I use folders - but you can create them using a PC media manager when the device is in MTP mode.
The comparison with Honda Legends and BMWs is just ridiculous. The Cowon devices are capable of so much more than iPods, and have much better sound. Now they've solved the "sexiness" quotient, I think we do have an iPod-beater on our hands.
Final note, the device works great with all the major OSes. I use Linux mainly at home; it's all good with Amarok and the usual media players.
> we were left wondering why Apple alone seem to understand the value of gapless playback
well originally Apple didn't understand gapless but Sony *did*. The original ATRAC "network walkmans" (like my HD3) certainly did but original iPod's didn't - that's one of the reasons why I discarded iPod as an option.
Sadly, in the new "MP3" incarnations Sony appear to have dropped gapless + ATRAC is no more. So when/if I come to replace the HD3 looks like Sony may be much less attractive and iTouch is a option again (after all,. as I'm going to have to rerip all my CDs then there's no benefit of sticking with Sony)
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CHANTILLY, Va. — The space shuttle Discovery was rolled into its new home in the Smithsonian on Thursday, completing its transformation from spaceship to museum exhibit.
A low-slung tow truck pulled the 83-ton orbiter into position inside its hangar at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center here, taking care to angle the tail through a specially cut notch in the hangar's door and avoid hitting the satellites hung from the ceiling.
When the shuttle finally settled into position, cheers went up from scores of museumgoers who watched the operation.
Discovery replaces the prototype shuttle Enterprise, which has been in the Smithsonian's custody since 1985 and was on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center since its opening in 2003. Discovery will be displayed exactly as Enterprise was — with the exception that Discovery's scarred and blemished exterior has been left pretty much as it was when it returned from its last spaceflight in March 2011.
"It's got a kind of grit to the story," said the Smithsonian Institution's secretary, Wayne Clough.
Past and future of spaceflight
The move-in operation came hours after a ceremony marking the shuttle's handover from NASA to the Smithsonian. Dignitaries hailed the past and future of American spaceflight while Discovery and Enterprise sat nose-to-nose as a backdrop.
More than two dozen of the astronauts who flew on Discovery attended the ceremony — including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden; NASA's first woman shuttle commander, Eileen Collins; and retired senator-astronaut John Glenn, who was the first American in orbit 50 years ago and a Discovery payload specialist in 1998.
"This is one of the greatest gatherings of astronauts probably in the history of NASA," said Gen. J.R. "Jack" Dailey, the museum's director, whose voice quickly choked up with emotion.
The retirement of Discovery and NASA's two other working shuttles may mark the end of a 30-year chapter in American spaceflight, but not the end of the story.
"Today, while we look back at Discovery's amazing legacy, I also want to look forward to what she and the shuttle fleet helped to make possible," Bolden told the crowd. "As NASA transfers the shuttle orbiters to museums across the country, we are embarked on an exciting new space exploration journey."
He referred to NASA's plans to develop a new heavy-lift rocket and spaceship that could take astronauts beyond Earth orbit, to near-Earth asteroids and eventually Mars — places where the space shuttles could not possibly go. Bolden also touted NASA's partnerships with commercial space companies to send cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station, which could not have been built without the space shuttles.
"What we learned [through the shuttle program] will be applied to the next generation of space transportation systems," Bolden said.
Glenn reviewed Discovery's record as the world's most traveled space plane, and although he said the shuttle was "prematurely grounded," he said the craft had a long career ahead of it as a source of inspiration for future generations. "Today Discovery takes on a new mission — less dynamic, perhaps, but nonetheless important," Glenn said.
The senator-astronaut then served as a witness as Bolden, Dailey and Clough signed papers formally transferring Discovery to the museum's care.
Switching shuttles
The stage was set for the ceremony earlier in the morning, when Enterprise was rolled outside from the place it had held in the Udvar-Hazy Center's James S. McDonnell Space Hangar. Meanwhile, Discovery was hoisted off a modified NASA 747 jet, which it rode piggyback on Tuesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Dulles International Airport.
It was just a short three-mile tow from the Dulles runway to the museum. Just as Thursday's ceremony began, Discovery was pulled along for the last few hundred yards, coming to rest just in front and to the side of Enterprise.
The ceremony drew thousands of onlookers to the Udvar-Hazy Center, including 9-year-old Aaron DiFranco of Laytonsville, Md. DiFranco's family took him to the final space shuttle launches last year — and on Thursday, he wore his astronaut costume in Discovery's honor.
When asked whether he was more anxious about seeing astronauts or the spaceship in which they flew, he didn't hesitate with his answer. "The shuttle!" he said.
Thursday's events were the opening splash for a "Welcome Discovery" festival at the center, featuring space-related activities, performances, appearances by astronauts, films and displays. Friday will be "Student Discovery Day" — and on Saturday and Sunday, the museum will be serving up a full schedule of activities for families.
Discovery's place in history
When NASA announced the shuttle fleet's retirement, the Smithsonian got first pick of the orbiters, and decided to go with Discovery.
"NASA and the Smithsonian signed an agreement in 1967 that has enabled the National Air and Space Museum to preserve and display the greatest icons of our nation's space history," Dailey explained in a statement. "At the Udvar-Hazy Center, Discovery will be seen by millions of people in the coming years, especially children, who will become the next generation of scientists, engineers, researchers and explorers."
Discovery was the first shuttle to be decommissioned, after flying 39 missions, more than any other single manned spacecraft in history. It logged 148,221,675 miles and 5,830 orbits of Earth during 365 days in outer space. Discovery's achievements include the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, John Glenn's flight at the age of 77 (which made him the oldest person to fly in space), and the "return to flight" missions after the Challenger explosion and the Columbia disaster.
"Space shuttle Discovery is the star," Glenn said. "It has the most extensive record of all the shuttles."
Space news from NBCNews.com
Teen's space mission fueled by social media
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
- Buzz Aldrin's vision for journey to Mars
- Giant black hole may be cooking up meals
- Watch a 'ring of fire' solar eclipse online
- Teen's space mission fueled by social media
Discovery's sister orbiters, Atlantis and Endeavour, will be headed to Florida's Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center and the California Science Center in Los Angeles, respectively.
The Enterprise is a special case: It was used as an aerodynamic test vehicle during the shuttle's development but never flew in space. Weather permitting, Enterprise will be loaded up on the modified 747 at Dulles, just as Discovery was in Florida, and flown to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport as early as Monday.
Eventually, the Enterprise will be placed on a barge for a ride to its new home on the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, docked at Pier 86 on Manhattan's West Side.
Follow msnbc.com's science editor, Alan Boyle, on Twitter (@b0yle) for updates on Discovery's transfer.
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The training of Zen priests and lay leaders: As a Soto Zen priest with Dharma Transmission in the line of Shunryu Suzuki, Zoketsu ordains and works with Buddhist priests in the Bay Area group and out of town. The ordination and training of priests is a personal matter of deep discernment: though there are no set requirements, nor any set definition of the training, most priests practice steadily and faithfully for many years before ordination, and continue for many years after. Most will have practiced for some period of time in a temple or monastery. Zoketsu also works closely with lay practitioners who receive lay Buddhist initiation, usually after many years of practice and close relationship. Priests and lay practitioners who complete training as head monk of a practice period (Everyday Zen Practice Periods are held most years in all the locations where Zoketsu teaches) become Zen teachers. After years of teachings under Zoketsus guidance some teachers receive Dharma Transmission (priests) or Lay Entrustment (lay). For more about the inner meaning of these commitments and relationships see Zoketsu's dharma talk On Commitment. See also the chapters in Taking Our Places on Vowing and Ethical Conduct.


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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — California-based chicken producer Foster Farms is recalling about 6,165 pounds of its ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast strips because the strips contain wheat and soy — known allergens — which are not listed on the labels of its packages, federal agriculture officials said.
The mislabeled packages were discovered when a customer complained, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said in announcing the recall Tuesday.
The problem occurred when labels for another chicken product that does not contain wheat or soy were inadvertently used, food safety inspectors and officials at Foster Farms said.
There have been no reports of adverse reactions from the sale of the mislabeled products, officials said.
The chicken breast strips being recalled were sold in 4.5-pound cases containing 12, 6-ounce trays of "Foster Farms Grilled Chicken Breast Strips Boneless & Skinless With Rib Meat 97% Fat Free," with an identifying case code of "000606."
The recalled product bears the establishment number "P-20923" inside the USDA mark of inspection and a use-by date of "JUN 22 2013" printed on each tray.
They were produced April 23 and were distributed to retailers in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
Based in Porterville, Foster Farms is a family-owned company that has been operating since 1939, according to the company's website.
In a statement, Fosters Farms spokeswoman Lorna Bush said "food safety is, and always has been, our top priority."
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Breathers beware: Particulate fouls icy Fairbanks
Stanford University Medical Center doctors gave Alex Lee a parting gift at the end of his heart operations earlier this year: surgeon's masks.
They knew Lee, 19, would be returning home to Fairbanks, Alaska, and gave him the masks to protect himself from air polluted with suspended particulate that can cause irregular heartbeat or a heart attack. Diagnosed with Down syndrome, Lee is not in position to take his doctors' stronger suggestion - moving away from his hometown air.
"They gave us a box of masks and said, `Stay out of it the best you can," said his mother, Patrice Lee.
The young, the elderly and the weakened in Fairbanks risk accelerated health problems every winter because of particulate. Much of it comes from wood smoke produced by homeowners trying to cut their fuel bills. Municipal officials say natural gas is the long-term solution, but that is years away. The Environmental Protection Agency has taken notice and says it will impose sanctions and a federal attainment plan in two years if state and municipal officials don't come up with an acceptable one of their own.
Lee and her son do their best to avoid breathing air that ranks among the dirtiest in the country.
"The only option for us was to stay holed up here in the house with HEPA filters and doing the best we can not to breathe the air," Lee said.
Air problems in Fairbanks, Alaska's second largest community at around 97,000 people, start with geography. Temperatures every winter reach 40 to 50 below zero. Fairbanks and nearby North Pole are partially surrounded by hills that create a bowl effect, said Cindy Heil, an air planner for the state Department of Environmental Conservation. In a meteorological phenomenon known as an inversion, cold air along the ground can be capped by a layer of warmer air, trapping emissions.
Carbon monoxide used to be the main concern. A vehicle inspection and maintenance program and newer cars solved that.
The issue now is particulate, the mix of solid particles and liquid droplets ranging from dust and soot to microscopic pieces.
A human hair is about 70 micrometers in diameter. The most dangerous particles, according the EPA, are less than 10 micrometers.
"They get breathed deeper in the lungs and cause more problems," said Kate Kelly, the EPA Region 10 director of air, waste and toxics. Research ties particulate to pollution to heart attacks, decreased lung function and premature death in people with heart or lung disease.
National air quality standards allow no more than 35 micrograms of particulate per cubic meter averaged over 24 hours. On Nov. 26-28, a monitor at North Pole recorded 24-hour averages of fine particle matter - 2.5 micrometers in diameter or less - at 152, 167 and 151 micrograms per cubic meter, making for "very unhealthy" designation. At least one hour during the three-day period spiked at 245. Those same days, readings at a Fairbanks monitor averaged 71, 58 and 82, an assessment that rated only "unhealthy."
Gary Schultz, 58, lived in Fairbanks for more than 30 years but in January was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, the most common form of irregular heartbeat. He went from an active skier to someone who had trouble keeping up with his daughter on a trip back from the mail box. Concerns for his own health and smoke near his daughter's middle school prompted the family to move, reluctantly, outside Seattle.
Fairbanks particulate likely is underreported, he said. The two Fairbanks monitoring stations are on public buildings downtown, away from neighborhoods burning wood.
"We essentially gave up on Fairbanks," he said. "I don't think anything is going to improve up there."
Three winters of Fairbanks noncompliance - an average of 14 days per year - got the attention of the EPA. A compliance plan is due Dec. 14, a deadline Heil and other officials acknowledge will not be met. They hope to complete an acceptable compliance plan within 18 months, before the EPA by law must withhold federal highway construction money. After two years, the EPA must impose its own compliance plan.
Solutions to air problems, Kelly said, are best tailored close to home but local compliance efforts in Fairbanks have met resistance.
"Everybody wants clean air," said state Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole. "We just have to make sure that we can also heat our homes."
Wilson sponsored a citizen initiative passed in October that bans the borough regulation of home heating devices. The borough, she said, has no business stepping in with restrictions when no one knows if they will work.
"We're still waiting here for a model, a model that shows us that if we do A, B and C, we can then get into attainment," she said. "We have not seen anything from the borough, from the state or from the EPA showing us that that is even possible with the technology that is available to us."
The borough now can only encourage voluntary measures, such as avoiding the burning of green wood.
Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Luke Hopkins said an acceptable attainment plan might still be possible using incentives such as replacement program for inefficient wood stoves and underwriting fuel oil costs on inversion days. Getting 7,000 homeowners to voluntarily use oil instead of wood on the worst days might do it, he said. The entire borough, he said, has a financial incentive to avoid losing federal road money and living under a federal air quality attainment plan.
"I don't want that. I don't think anybody wants that," he said.
Patrice and Alex Lee remained mostly hunkered down last week as temperatures hovered near -40, awaiting a change in the weather or the season. Her son, she said, grew especially close to a Stanford surgeon and anesthesiologist who wanted to see Alaska's northern lights until they heard about the particulate problem.
"They're not coming," Lee said. "They wanted to come in the winter to see the aurora. They said, `You're just crazy to live there.'"


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Book Talk
- Janet Chismar Senior Editor, News & Culture
- 2004 12 Nov
I'm sure, at some point, you have read at least one book that radically changed your worldview. For me (and Steven Curtis Chapman), that book was John Piper's "Don't Waste Your Life" (Multnomah). If you ever feel that life is boring, that faith is just about "doing" church on Sunday, you have got to read Piper's work.
Given how much inspiration I drew from "Don't Waste Your Life," I approached his new release, "Life As a Vapor" (Multnomah), with mixed emotion. Could anything measure up? Well, once more, Piper blew me away. Set up as a series of 31 meditations, the book's chapters will remind you that life is short but can be lived fully and gloriously through and in Christ. Mac Powell (Third Day), Cliff Young (Caedmon's Call), Shane Barnard, Chris Tomlin, Steve Green and members of Jars of Clay have all been greatly influenced by Piper's writing and ministry. Check out what they have to say at lifeasavapor.com.
Since life is fleeting, we need to make the most of days on Earth. Quite a few of this fall's releases address that theme. Ryan Dobson (yes, the son of James and Shirley) has written a great book called "2Die4" (Multnomah). Hard-hitting and fast paced, "2Die4" will get your adrenaline flowing. Taking the command found in Matthew 16:24-25 ("Deny yourself and take up your cross … Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."), Dobson shows readers how that truth translates in real life and how to take risks that will matter for eternity.
Need an example? Brother Andrew ("God's Smuggler") and Al Janssen ("The Marriage Masterpiece") are two guys who understand the meaning of risk. In bringing the gospel to Palestinians, these men routinely face persecution and peril. "Light Force" (Baker) outlines Brother Andrew's efforts to reach Israel's neighbors for Christ. Not light reading but very enlightening and thought-provoking, the first-person voice adds a sense of humanity to history — a feeling of holiness to headlines.
Toby McKeehan (a.k.a. "tobyMac") and Michael Tait have teamed up again, this time for a book project, "Under God" (Bethany House), a collection of short stories about the men and women of faith who shaped America's heritage. No, don't yawn! With teachers like Toby and Michael, how can history possibly be boring? As Toby points out, "Knowing the past is crucial in dealing with the present." Calling the nation to repentance and forgiveness, Michael and Toby urge readers to forge a fresh vision for the future.
One of the crucial times Christians can shape the future is on election day. Yet too many of us ignore our civic responsibility. Why? According to attorney and former President of the Family Research Council Ken Connor and Associate Editor of "SBC Life" John Revell, authors of "Sinful Silence" (Ginosko), many Americans have a poor understanding of what God expects regarding the civic process. Drawing on biblical principles — and my favorite prophet, Isaiah — Connor and Revell will compel you to get off the couch and do something (and to vote!).
Finally, at the end of all this heavy reading, you're bound to need some refreshment. Enter Max Lucado, who invites you to "Come Thirsty" (W Publishing Group). Book after book, Lucado writes each in that cozy, conversational tone and with needed reminders. "Come Thirsty" will quench your soul's thirst in a few easy sessions. If you need your "Max fix" in person, Lucado will be traveling with Michael W. Smith to three cities this fall. "This is going to be one big church service, and I'm excited about that," says Smith. "It's an honor to work again with Max Lucado." (Visit michaelwsmith.com or maxlucado.com for more details.)
Steven Curtis Chapman shares that John Piper's "Don't Waste Your Life" "just rocked my world and totally wiped me out and inspired me. Several songs on "All Things New" (Sparrow) were inspired by that book." Chapman, along with members of Everlife, are enjoying once more "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis. According to Chapman, Disney is producing a $180 million production of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." "I've been asked to come in and be involved in some different levels, so it's awesome."
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Not all of David Lynch's commercials had the caffeinated zest of his Japanese Twin Peaks coffee ads. In 1991, he collaborated with Eraserhead's director of photography Frederick Elmes on this borderline apocalyptic anti-littering PSA for New York City. You can find much more of Lynch's curious commerical work at Lynchnet.
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Robert De Niro has signed on to star opposite Bradley Cooper in Relativity Media's suspense thriller "The Dark Fields."
Project, which begins lensing in Philadelphia in May, marks the first bigscreen deal inked by De Niro since he switched from WME to CAA in January.
Story centers on a down-and-out Gotham writer (Cooper) who comes into possession of a designer drug that gives him newfound intelligence and success. De Niro will play a brilliant financial mogul who begins pursuing Cooper's character.
Neil Burger will direct the pic, which is being produced by Scott Kroopf, Leslie Dixon and Ryan Kavanaugh. Tucker Tooley is exec producing.
Film, which will be distributed by Universal, is based on a novel by Alan Glynn. Dixon penned the screenplay.
De Niro has a trio of films in the can: U's "Little Fockers," Robert Rodriguez's "Machete" and the indie "Stone."