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Oct. 6, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT came out strong against Harvard, scoring on its first possession and briefly taking a 2-1 lead late in the first quarter, but the Crimson then hit for six straight goals en route to a 9-5 victory over the Engineers in Collegiate Water Polo Association Northern Division action on Thursday night. It was a bit of redemption for Tech's Cambridge rival, as MIT (7-12, 2-3) defeated Harvard (5-4-1, 3-1) by a single goal in all three of the teams' meetings last season.
The Engineers were strong defensively, only conceding goals on opportunistic counter attacks and power plays. However, Tech was denied on the offensive end by Harvard keeper Jay Connolly, who made 14 huge saves. MIT's freshman goalie Nick Souza was no slouch himself, making 12 stops, including a penalty shot, and five steals.
Tech was paced offensively by sophomore Mike Smith Bronstein, who scored twice to bring his total to 27 goals on the season, good for second on the team behind Devin Lewis' 29. Freshmen Rob Kalwarowsky and Mark Artz each contributed one goal, as did junior Morgan Laidlaw.
"We played well for most of the game," said head coach Felix Mercado. "I think we got some good looks at the cage but their goalie made some nice saves. I feel that we are right where we want to be at this point in the season and should get back on the winning track soon," he added.
MIT will look to do just that when it travels to New York on Sunday, Oct. 8, to take on Fordham at 2:30 p.m. and Iona at 5:00 p.m.


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New Delhi, Feb 15: India needs to engage with the Middle East more than ever before as the recent dramatic developments in the region could open up longer term opportunities for the country, National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon said Friday.
"It seems to me that the turbulence in the region poses short term challenges but also opens up longer term opportunities in terms of our security," Menon said in a special address to the concluding session of the 15th Asian Security Conference, organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA).
Menon said there was today no region which impinged on India's security with as much immediacy as West Asia. Over 6.5 million Indians lived in the region, the largest concentration of the Indian diaspora abroad. In several countries they constituted the largest expatriate group. The diaspora in West Asia remitted home over $35 billion every year.
India's trade and economic ties with the region of about $160 billion were growing, as was its dependence for energy. About 60 percent of oil and gas was imported from the region. It was also a factor in food security as a major source of phosphatic and other fertilizers.
Major maritime lines of communication carrying India's westward trade and energy supplies passed through the region.
Menon said the challenges included regional instability, sectarian divide and the space domestic changes in several countries had opened up for extremist groups to pursue their agendas.
"But in the long run, what we are seeing could result in the people of West Asia taking control of their own destinies and choosing their futures and leaders," he said, adding that India had strongly supported democratic aspirations of the people and opposed "externally enforced change".
"We are clear that societies cannot be reordered from the outside through military force. As recent experience shows, external interventions have uncertain and unstable outcomes. We only have to look at the instability radiating out of Libya into the Sahel region and the prolonged conflict in Syria, with spill-over effects in Mali and the wider region."
Beyond specific situations in individual countries, Menon said, deeper and longer term changes with profound security implications could be seen.
These included the changes in the world energy scenario and its geopolitical effects in terms of great power interests in the region. And what political and security effects would the West's diminished dependence on Middle East oil have, he asked.
Demographics, communications, the political role of religion, and cultural factors were all changing rapidly and in ways that affected the politics of West Asia very deeply. But these factors were yet to work themselves out and their implications were still far from clear.
"The issue is how to navigate the short term with its challenges to arrive at a more positive long term future. Frankly speaking, we had all got comfortable dealing with West Asia in ways set by habit. That is no longer possible.
"We are in a time when scholarship and increased engagement with the region is needed more than ever before," he said, stressing that India's interest lay in a peaceful and balanced strategic environment in West Asia, which is such an important part of the country's extended periphery.
Reminding the participants and audience about India's contribution, he said India had worked to promote defence cooperation with the countries of the region, bilaterally and through cooperation among the Indian Ocean rim countries.
On India's take on the Arab-Israeli conflict, he said: "Our support for peace in the Middle East has been principled and consistent. India was the first non-Arab country to recognize the state of Palestine."

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The numbers of kids 15 and under who got hurt riding all terrain vehicles (ATVs) went up 35% between 2001 and 2004 — but then fell 37% between 2004 and 2010, a team of researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.
It's unclear exactly why injuries dropped off, they said: Over the course of the decade, overall ATV use more than doubled, with an estimated 10.6 million four-wheeled ATVs in use in 2010. But even as the numbers of ATVs increased, fewer young people may have ridden the rugged, four-wheeled recreational vehicles as the decade wore on. During the economic recession of the mid-2000s, new ATV sales declined — and with them, perhaps, new riders. What's more, teens, who tend to be price-conscious drivers, may not have had the spare cash on hand to pay expensive gas bills.
"During economic downturns, discretionary travel and travel by drivers with limited funds, including teen drivers, decline most," wrote National Center for Injury and Violence Prevention and Control epidemiologist Ruth A. Shults and colleagues, in the journal Pediatrics.
Using nationally representative data assembled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program, the researchers estimated that over the course of the decade, more than 361,000 children 15 or younger were treated in emergency rooms for injuries sustained during ATV rides. Annual injuries among riders 15 and under numbered 32,280 in 2001, peaked at 43,450 in 2004 and decreased to 27,517 in 2010. Children 11 to 15 years old accounted for nearly two-thirds of the injuries reported, with boys getting injured at rates about twice that of girls, in all three age groups, the researchers considered.
Fractures were reported in nearly 30% of the injured riders between the ages of 6 and 10 and the ages of 11 and 15; among injured younger riders ages 0 to 5, fractures represented 20%. The youngest kids were more likely to suffer cuts than the older ones. The most common diagnoses in girls were bruises and scrapes; in boys, fractures.
Compared with children visiting emergency rooms for all injuries, kids with ATV-related injuries were seven times as likely to be hospitalized. They were twice as likely to be hospitalized as children injured in car crashes, the team added.
According to the report, the Consumer Product Safety Commission recommends that children 15 years and younger not be allowed to ride adult-sized ATVs (which is associated with increased injuries), always wear helmets, stick to unpaved areas when riding, and never carry a passenger unless their ATV is built for it.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, which publishes the journal Pediatrics, recommends that kids under 15 stay off of ATVs altogether.


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With Daylight Savings on the brain this week I thought it might be appropriate to share one of my little projects I put together for the boys' room.
I've mentioned their deep affection for the game of football so I thought it would be fun to make a football-themed clock.
First, I bought a pre-made wood circle (and I know that's cheating but I don't have power tools to make one myself).
Then I bought a clock mechanism and a pack of football cards which proved to be a troublesome issue. You see, my boys LOVE their cards and collect them like crazy so when I bought a pack for myself to use they were thrilled. However, I asked Spencer to point out the best cards in the pack which he did, not knowing what was up or what I'd be doing with them.
As soon as he showed me the best cards I said thank you and proceeded to glue them to the painted clock face which provoked the loudest squeals you can imagine.
That was pretty much the gist of their reaction when they saw me gluing football cards to the clock.
I gave them the extra cards but it took a good solid week of the clock on the wall before they forgave my sacrilege.
Unpainted wood round $6
Clock mechanism and numbers $5
Pack of football cards $2.97
Spray paint, varnish (I already had on hand) $2
Total: $15.97
Hearing boys say "It's half-past Troy Polamalu"? Priceless.
Newsflash: People have been asking if I'm going to BlogHer this year in Chicago. I went last year as a presenter and worked with Melanie Nelson of Blogging Basics 101 fame and have the chance to return for an encore in the Geek Lab section of the event.
BlogHer is collecting data to determine where the interest is and if you'd like to see us presenting or to hear what we have to offer please visit the BlogHer link, log in to your account and click the "I would be interested in attending" link under the header to let them know. Thank you so very much.
And here are a few other fun crafty links I've collected. May you craft in joy.
A knitted bunny washcloth pattern just in time for spring from Susan B. Anderson
A yarn basket from a Friend to Knit With (you'll have to see it to understand what it is)
Goldfish-in-a-Bag soap from Craftster
A dozen ways to make a play kitchen by One Crafty Place
A flower crown from Tiny Happy
Sponsored by Pink and Blue for unique baby gifts to make them "ooh" and "ahh" and by Pak Naks--Decorate your stuff with these adorable rubber charms.


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Keeping it simple (part two): feast and socks.
The Forest socks are moving towards the toes:
I've been on a Modern Marvels kick lately and most of the episodes require attentive viewing. Since all of my socks in progress also require attention, I cast on a pair of mindless socks:
This week's Friday's Feast:
What are you proud of?
My independence.
What is the best thing you've ever won as a prize?
I don't think I've ever won anything. At least not anything I remember.
Name something you do that is a waste of time.
Hitting the snooze button too many times.
Main Course
In what year of your life did you change the most?
Where is a place you consider to be very tranquil?
My home.


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Moments like this, when riding, are what it's about. Not thinking about work, stress, or anything other than the next riser and turn in the road. We're back in Seattle later this week. More posts on Kauai to follow, year end wrap ups, and what we've got going on in 11.
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My California (Street) Home
This time around, the apartment hunt was totally different than it had been when I started looking for my own place in 2001, post-divorce, post-Connecticut, pre-knowing-anything-about-SF.
Over the course of three years, I had established something of my own (new) life and self and identity, and needed a place to go with it. Which was exciting in a new way, although not so easy to do given my modest budget. (Miniature donkey marketing wasn't exactly lucrative.)
So I started looking. Again, I relied on Craigslist. Again, I discovered that apartments on modest budgets are mostly terrifying and awful. However, I had zero -- actually, less than zero, if that's possible -- interest in living with roommates. Thus, my hunt took weeks and weeks and weeks.
Weeks and weeks and weeks, that is, while I was still living in the loft. With one bed. With my now-ex-boyfriend. It wasn't entirely awkward, it was just a little strange. (But then, so is everything in San Francisco, so whatever.) Mostly it just made it feel like we weren't really broken up.
I'm not sure exactly when it started, but at some point when we were living in the loft, our small group of friends started playing trivia at the Tuesday night Pub Quiz at the Edinburgh Castle. It became our thing. Every Tuesday there would be a core group of us -- sometimes as few as four -- and others would drop by, or just drop in, on an ad hoc basis. We once had 19* people playing! But it was awesome to have a weekly activity that we could count on. Trivia was our social touchstone.
One night, early in our trivia-playing careers, my friend's boyfriend invited his friend to come. And she, not wanting to show up alone, brought a guy friend from work. She didn't quite take to the game, and gave up after a couple weeks. But her friend from work continued to join us. We liked him -- he was funny and smart and good company.
A YEAR later, after EG and I were broken up but still living together, he -- the friend's boyfriend's friend's coworker -- suddenly took an interest in me. (Until that point, he'd been somewhat cordial, but was clearly NOT interested in me; I'd assumed it was because, you know, he wasn't interested in me. Apparently it was because he wasn't interested in flirting with someone who had a boyfriend. Duh.)
And THAT is how I met, and started dating, The Boy. Tony.
EG and I living together while we were broken up and I was looking for an apartment wasn't awkward UNTIL I started dating someone else. HA!
So, yeah. I stepped up my apartment search.
Still, it wasn't until AUGUST that I happened upon a cryptic Craigslist ad that sounded...good, but...vague? It had the wrong address (two perpendicular streets) and was categorized in the wrong neighborhood. And when I called the number to talk to "Bob," no one picked up the first three times. But I persevered, figuring if the apartment really was as described, maybe I'd be one of the few people who had the tenacity to actually get to see it.
I eventually booked a time to see the place, which is how I learned that the small, six-unit apartment building was owned by a Japanese woman who spoke almost no English. She therefore depended on her wacky, 70s-throwback handyman -- Bob -- to place apartment ads and field inquiring calls. I took one look at the apartment and knew I wanted it, but Bob, who was showing the apartment, told me I'd have to wait to meet Fumi first. Two days later, I went back, met Fumi, and offered to write her a check on the spot. She agreed. She told me I seemed nice ("you nice girl"), and besides, the apartment was "pink...for girl."
The place was on the third of three floors, up two small flights of green, carpeted steps. It was off-street so there was minimal noise. But the building was located on California Street, at Polk, which meant it was on the cable car line, and I could faintly hear the tracks running all the time. I could also (far less faintly) hear the actual cable car go by and ding when it stopped practically in front of my building. I loved it.
Even better, though, if you listened carefully on a foggy night, you could hear the fog horn from Alcatraz.
The interior was simple and perfect for a single gal. Fine-sized bedroom, smallish living room. Two large closets, giant built-in shelves. Eat-in kitchen. Full bath with claw-foot tub. Good light.
Fun location. I had a totally ghetto grocery store in one direction, and a Whole Foods three blocks in the other direction. I was right ON Polk Street, too. So if I turned left, I'd be in the seedier part of the city, smack-dab in the middle of what was once called "Polk Gulch." For those of you unfamiliar (which is probably ALL of you), that was the focal point for SF's tranny scene, and remained a favorite hangout for tranny hookers. In the same direction, I was within walking distance of the Castle (the place with the Tuesday Pub Quiz) AND my favorite bars in all the city -- Lush Lounge** and Vertigo.
If you turn and go the other way up Polk Street, you end up in the Russian Hill area, which is far nicer and a lovely place to stroll on a weekend morning for coffee (there are about 90000 coffee places aside from the requisite Starbucks and Peet's) or brunch or stopping in at a sports bar to catch an East Coast baseball team in a game that starts at 10 a.m. in California.
I loved that place. Which was good, because there were moments when I wondered if I might just end up staying there alone, with my cats, knitting, for the rest of my life. As you might know, since a few months after I moved in, I started this blog.
Here's a quick little video I made of my California St. Apt.
Note: 1. I always hate how my voice sounds in video. 2. I don't know why it sounds like I'm heavy breathing. 3. I almost switch the camera sideways in the bathroom and then quickly remember that doesn't work with video. 4. Yes, unmade laundry on the bed.
*Don't think that playing trivia with 19 people and one answer pad is easy. 19 people have 19 opinions about what is "correct." We always did poorly when we had too many people on the team. Luckily, no one but me ever really cared.
**Lush Lounge was the only bar I ever attended regularly. EG and I would go there when we had no other plans on a Friday night, which was often when I first moved to the city. We loved the great bartender there, who eventually left to start his own place a few doors up: Vertigo. Sadly, Lush Lounge has since moved. I'm told it's the same old place, but I've yet to see it.


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"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
Danielle Hark is a wellness writer, professional photographer, and freelance photo editor. She is also a mental health advocate, and founder of brokenlightcollective.com, the online photography gallery for people living with, or are affected by, mental illness. As someone who has struggled with mental health issues, her mission is to help as many other people who are struggling, using photography and creativity whenever possible. Danielle lives and photographs in NJ with her husband and favorite models, her young daughter and shelter pup. For more information visit DanielleHark.com.


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Elina Jerschow, MDDrug allergies are a major impediment to patient care. Desensitization is the process of decreasing a patient's sensitivity to an allergen over time by injecting gradually increasing amounts of the allergen. When this process is targeted toward enabling patients to tolerate medications to which they are allergic, it is called drug desensitization therapy.
The Division of Allergy & Immunology recently recruited Elina Jerschow, MD, to become director of the Montefiore Drug Desensitization Program.
Dr. Jerschow was previously an associate director of Clinical Research at Merck Research Laboratories, evaluating patient reactions during different phases of the drug development trials. Dr. Jerschow completed a research fellowship in Dermatologic Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco as well as an Internal Medicine residency and a fellowship with extensive bench research in Allergy and Immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She has been the co-principal investigator in a clinical trial at Einstein involving patients with persistent allergic asthma.
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April 30, 2002
* Apr. 30 vs. UCLA 2:00 p.m. Caesar Uyesaka Stadium
* May. 3 vs. UC Riverside 2:00 p.m. Caesar Uyesaka Stadium
* May. 4,5 vs. UC Riverside 1:00 p.m. Caesar Uyesaka Stadium
The Gauchos
The UC Santa Barbara baseball team comes in to todays game against UCLA with a 17-25 overall and 3-9 Big West Conference record. The Gauchos has a bye this weekend from Big West action, but had two week-day games, losing to USC, 11-7, on Wednesday, and then rebounding the next day to defeat Westmont 14-3.
The Bruins Of Westwood
UCLA comes into todays game sporting a similiar record of 19-26 with a 5-7 showing in Pac-10 play. The Bruins, coached by Gary Adams (915-753-7 in his 28th year at UCLA), went 1-2 over the weekend hosting Washington State. The Bruins are batting .296 as a team, led by Adam Berry (.311, 15 HR, 39 R, 43 RBI) and Ben Francisco (.368, 6HR, 42 R, 37 RBI). The pitching staff has an ERA of 5.43, led by Wes Whisler (4-2, 3.82, 45 K, 61.1 IP) and Mike Kunes (6-3, 4.08, 53 K, 64 IP). The Gauchos and Bruins met earlier this season on Feb. 26 in Los Angeles, with the Bruins coming out on top, 12-7.
Whoopin' On Westmont
The win over Westmont last Thursday snapped a five-game losing streak for UCSB. Matt Wilkerson homered twice in the win and eight-of the-nine offensive starters had a base hit. Eric Posthumus (4-1) picked up the win, going six strong innings. The Gauchos probably wish they could schedule more games against the local college in Montecito, as they trounced the Warriors 16-5 in their previous meeting on March 26. In that game, the Gauchos scored a run in every inning for the first time since 1985, when they did so against Chapman College. Posthumus also picked up the win in that game.
Whallopin' Wilkerson
The two homers hit against Westmont, added to the one hit the previous day against USC gave Matt Wilkerson three for the week and 13 one the season. The 13 homers by Trabuco Hills, Calif., native puts him in a tie with Jared Janke ('93-'96) for the UCSB single-season record for home runs by a freshman. The Bruins are all too familiar with Wilkerson, as he smacked three homers against them in their previous meeting.
Gaucho Probable Starters
1B * Josh McCanne * Batting .349 against lefties and leads the Big West with five sac-flies. 2B * Chris Malec * Smacked his seventh homer of the season vs. Westmont. SS * Dave Licht * Drilled two doubles to go with two RBI vs. Westmont. 3B * Nate Sutton * Second on team with 25 walks. 5-for-5 on steal attempts. LF * Blair Havens * Went 2-for-4 with a double, walk, run and RBI against USC. CF * Ryan Spilborghs * First start of the season in CF against USC.Has 8 hits in last 9 games. RF * Matt Wilkerson * Started in left field last game and in right field against USC. C * Vogt/Rodriguez * Two have split time all season and both played vs. USC and Westmont. DH * Matt Stevens * Went 3-for-4 with 3 RBI in his first start of season against Westmont.
"Lose The Chew" Day Coming Up
UCSB will resume Big West action Friday, May 3-5, hosting UC Riverside. The Saturday game will be "Lose the Chew" Day, Sponsored by the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. Prior to the game, former Major League Umpire, Doug Harvey, will talk to Santa Barbara youngsters about the hazardous effects of chewing tobacco. The game is anticipated to draw a capacity crowd of 1,000; admission will be on a first come first serve basis, so get here early for the best seats.


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According to urban legend, a landfill somewhere in the small city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, bulges with millions of copies of the worst game ever made--a game that many observers blamed for the North American video-game sales crash of 1983. Atari's bubble burst because of a little alien.
In December 1982, Atari released E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, and critics quickly labeled it the worst game of all time. In light of many more-recent debacles--I'm looking at you Aliens: Colonial Marines and SimCity--granting "worst game ever" status to E.T. in perpetuity seems somewhat unfair. Nonetheless, this primordial Atari 2600 title continues to top "worst of" charts, including our own, time and time again.
So why should you give it another chance? Because code hackers managed to fix some of the games most glaring problems, and now it's actually fun to play.
What went wrong?
When Atari finally got the rights to the E.T. name in late July 1982, it wanted to make the game a holiday-season sales hit. Steven Spielberg chose Howard Scott Warshaw (designer of both Yars' Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark, two of the best Atari games ever) to design the game, and Atari established a schedule that gave him just five weeks to do the job.
"I was either the golden child selected to do the project, or I was the only one stupid enough to take on the challenge," Warshaw says. Regrettably, due to the short development cycle, the game never received a proper fine-tuning. Atari rushed it out the door, and the product that hit store shelves was raw to a debilitating fault.
Players immediately began denouncing E.T. as confusing and frustrating. Gameplay was inscrutable, and nothing that appeared on-screen made intuitive sense. Vague symbols would occasionally pop up at the top of the screen, but they made no sense unless you dove deep into the manual to ferret out their meaning. Walking to the edge of the screen would jump you to an entirely new map with no clear objective to pursue. And occasionally characters would appear and, without giving any indication of their purpose or intent, summarily carry E.T. off to yet another screen.
The graphics were bad, even by the standards of early '80s game design. And E.T. was tragically susceptible to falling into any of the multitude of "wells"--diamonds, circles, and arrows--that dotted the gamescape like burrows in a vast prairie-dog metropolis, whenever even a single pixel of his sprite collided with one of those shapes. Tumbling into these pointless holes, and then laboriously climbing back out, time and time again, made for seriously annoying and monotonous gameplay.
Atari wildly overestimated the game's sales volume, produced vastly too many copies, and ended up taking a major financial hit, suffering a reported loss of $100 million on the endeavor. But Warshaw modestly declines to shoulder all the blame for the 1983 video game depression, citing the failed Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man as a contributing factor. "I'd like to think I'm capable of toppling a billion-dollar industry myself, but I doubt it," he says.
This game has fans?
Members of a small community of contrarians insist that the 1982 version of E.T. was a good, enjoyable, entertaining game. They say that people simply (and grossly) misunderstood it. The kids didn't read the included instructions, they argue. Sure the game was difficult, they concede, but the game's mechanics--featuring elements like open-ended worlds and side quests--were ahead of their time.
The game's instructions answered all the questions regarding its objective, its point system, its enemies, the purpose of the wells, and the meaning of the strange symbols. Unfortunately, the instructions were also long and complicated, and about as likely to serve as reading material for a kid on Christmas morning--or really any time--as a terms-of-service agreement. The instructions did provide answers, but much as they would today, gamers in 1982 expected to hit Start and begin figuring out gameplay in real time.
The game's unique open environment posed some issues of its own. Today, open worlds are common in video games. But when E.T. debuted, a world described by a three-dimensional cube (as illustrated above) was beyond ambitious. You'd reach a screen's perimeter, and find yourself whisked away to an entirely different environment. The relocation was "correct" within the context of the game--but unless you understood the logic, you'd quickly become disoriented and be left grasping for answers.
Duane Alan Hahn makes persuasive arguments in defense of the original E.T. on RandomTerrain, but there's no denying that the game was a bad match for the younger audience that bought and played most games in 1982. E.T.'s gameplay, strategies, and style were unfamiliar to the infant gaming industry, and wouldn't be appreciated until many years later.
A solution appears
To make the game more appealing to its many critics, Neocomputer.org launched a project to explain and address E.T.'s most widely recognized problems. Precisely who "fixed" the game remains unclear, though an AtariAge member named Recompile certainly played a major role, but the bottom line is that the project yielded new ROM code that dramatically improves E.T.
The number-one user complaint about the original game involves the frustrating issue of continually (and inadvertently) falling into wells. The original problem stemmed from pixel collisions between the E.T. sprite and the pits themselves. If a single pixel of E.T. collided with a single pixel from a well, down the alien went, even if his feet were firmly planted on the ground. A couple of adjustments to the code, and now E.T. doesn't spend inordinate amounts of time plummeting into crevasses (unless you're very uncoordinated).
A second issue related to general difficulty settings that were too challenging for even the most seasoned gaming pros. Every step would drain your energy, leading E.T. in short order to pass out (and thereby lower your score). For a game based on exploration, the steep penalty for any movement posed a major problem. But thanks to changes in the new game code, you lose energy only when running, falling, or hovering. Simply walking is no longer detrimental to your score.
The Neocomputer.org blog also provides some tips on how to customize the difficulty further. For example you can tweak the rate of energy consumption. Check it out to ratchet up the challenge!
Finally, in the original version of the game, E.T. suffered a strange color alteration. Granted, aliens are often known as "little green men," but in the movie E.T. was distinctly tan. Now, thanks to a few HEX value changes in the new code, E.T. gets as close to his "natural" color as the Atari will let him.
By opening the E.T. ROM file with a hex editor and adjusting key values, the project's coders essentially patched the 30-year-old game. Of course, the contributors didn't change the core gameplay at all, so they recommend that you--unlike your tween predecessors--read the manual or watch a tutorial video so you have a sense of what the heck you're supposed to be doing.
Warshaw commends the fixes and admires the hackers' tenacity in sticking with the project. "They brought a lot of integrity to the project," he says, "I think they did a nice job." He assures PCWorld that if Atari had given him more time back in 1982, he would have made the crucial fixes himself.
You can download the new ROM directly from the Neocomputer projects page and open it using an Atari 2600 emulator such as Stella. E.T. was ahead of its time in 1982--but thanks to some dedicated fans with some technical prowess, you can finally enjoy this gaming classic. Even if it remains the most reviled game in history.
This story, "How hacking fixed the worst video game of all time" was originally published by PCWorld.


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- A huge wintry storm will only graze Westchester County on Tuesday night into Wednesday, staying mostly out to sea, according to Accuweather.com.
Westchester County towns will likely only see a dusting of snow with an outside chance of up to 3 inches. Coastal towns are more likely to see higher accumulations than inland locations.
As the storm moves northeast to pummel Cape Cod, however, gale-force winds are likely to move in overnight and into Wednesday.
Winds will be around 25 mph on Wednesday with gusts of up to almost 50 mph.
Schools are not likely to be affected by the storm.
After this storm, more springlike conditions are on the horizon.
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Fog Still Causing Problems For Some
A thick blanket of fog that covered northern New Jersey for much of day is causing problems at the airports.
Newark and Philadelphia have delays on arrivals of 2 1/2 hours according to FlightAware.com while flights into JFK are delayed by nearly an hour and LaGuardia arrivals are delays by 5 hours.
Traffic slowed down noticeably during the morning commute. The fog was blamed for an accident on Hooper Avenue in Toms River in front of the Ocean County Mall.
Visibility will be reduced this evening as rain develops overnight continuing into Saturday morning when some could mix in before it all ends. Friday's high temperatures will fall as the day goes on from the 50s into the upper 30s. The rain will end on Saturday morning possibly with some snow mixes in.The rest of Saturday will be sunny.
Another round of winter weather will affect New Jersey on Sunday. Snow will begin to fall late Sunday morning across New Jersey and mix with rain as the afternoon goes on before turning to all rain by evening except in northern areas.
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Oscar Wilde is my favourite 19th century dramatist and wit, and since I'm wild about Wilde (sorry about that one), here are some pics of his Dublin family home, and the 'statue' erected to him which stands in Merrion Square. There are two obelisks directly across the path from 'him' which are covered with witticisms famously attributed to Wilde, some of which I've included in the body of this post. Enjoy!
|1 Merrion Square, home of the Wildes from 1855 until 1878. Now the Irish American University.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
Visit: 'Over thy dead body': to view the Wilde 'Family' Tomb in Mount Jerome Cemetery Dublin.
*Click on photographs to view larger version.
All photographs Copyright©J.Geraghty-Gorman 2011.


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Massive Growth In Independent Musicians & Singers Over The Past Decade
from the the-numbers-are-in dept
It's important to note, of course, that very, very, very few people get to make a living as a professional musician. That's just the unfortunate reality of the market. But understanding where that employment comes from is important. The RIAA, rather bizarrely, relies on the top line numbers for "musician employment" to make their case, but nearly all of those musicians are not musicians who are associated with RIAA member labels at all. Let's dig into the numbers a bit and see what we find.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Data is available on their site, though they don't always present it consistently, and so we see some people cherry picking some numbers (what the RIAA did) to distort things and then, sometimes, they're just bad at math (again, RIAA is guilty). So, if we look at overall employment of musicians and singers over a 10 year period, we can go back to the numbers from May 2003 and then the numbers from May 2012. Take a look at some of the key data points here. Let's start with the top line numbers, which is what the RIAA and others have been using.
From May 2012:
But the top line numbers aren't that interesting, really. Let's look a bit deeper at what makes up those numbers above, and you discover some very interesting things very quickly:
And From May 2012:
So, let's look at the kinds of musicians that most people think are being talked about when discussing musician employment: musicians in bands that record/release songs/albums, perform and tour, and that kind of thing. Remember, these numbers are very, very small, because the BLS is only looking at full time musicians, and there just aren't that many people who make a full time living as a musician outside of working for a performing arts company. Back in 2003, the "sound recording industries" (i.e., the labels) employed a grand total of... 880 musicians. Across the entire country. Note, too, that this was the high point of the industry. The idea that the RIAA is some huge supporter of musicians when at its peak it didn't support more than 1,000 musicians really says something, doesn't it? A decade later that number is, indeed, way down: 190. The major labels aren't supporting very many full time musicians at all.
But, much more interesting is the corresponding explosive growth of independent musicians. Back in 2003, it was a mere 300. But, by last year it was 1,830. In other words, over the past ten years, there's been decided growth in full time musicians of the type that we're normally talking about -- those creating and releasing music. In fact, it's grown 71% from 1180 in 2003 to 2020 in 2012, and the massive growth is seen in the area of independent artists who have much greater choice and control in their careers. And, it seems worth noting that the equivalent mean wage of an independent artist is significantly higher than one employed by the labels -- $35.41 vs. $26.38. Mean numbers are a bit meaningless since all sorts of things can be hidden in the mean, but on the whole, the numbers look pretty good.
Now, there are plenty of caveats to go with this, since many, many musicians who release music are unable to do so full time, so they don't show up in this chart at all. But by all indications more part time artists are also earning more money than ever before as well, with thousands of artists now being able to make some money, whereas in the past they couldn't make any.
Of course, it would be great to get even more artists making a full time salary, but the argument made by the RIAA and others that now is a bad time to be a full time, performing musician, making and releasing music, just doesn't seem supported by the numbers. It sure looks like there are many more full time, performing musicians now, it's just that many of them are independent (and making more).


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Summary of Threats:
Very little information is available on site-specific threats. In Indiana, the type locality has been destroyed by stream channelization. Rhoades (1962) stated that the Patoka was the bastion for O. indianensis. Today however, the Patoka River watershed is threatened by coal mining, stream channel clearing, and poor water quality. Eight of the 11 sites sampled by Page (1994) within the Patoka River watershed fail to provide evidence of O. indianensis. Two of the 8 sites were badly polluted. Another existing population, northwest of Evansville in Vanderburg County, is (or was) threatened (decimated) by a landfill expansion project recently (between 1993-1995).
Page (1994) reported that the mainstay of the Illinois population, the Saline River system, is woefully degraded. The North and Middle forks of the Saline River are extremely polluted and no longer harbor O. indianensis. The contributing factors of the degraded water quality include strip-mining, oil-field pollution, siltation, and desiccation (Smith 1971). A paucity of aquatic life and habitat is patent within this river system (Smith 1971, Page 1985). A proposed project by the Corps of Engineers to construct a reservoir in southern Illinois currently threatens an existing population (Sue Lauzon, pers. comm. 1994).
Although O. indianensis is state protected in both Indiana and Illinois, neither State law is able to provide protection to the species habitat. Therefore, current State protection will not prevent further decline. The only federal law pertinent to the protection of O. indianensis is section 404 of The Clean Water Act. However, as demonstrated above, this law will not preclude the loss of habitat or populations.
Based on existing information, we are not aware of any populations occurring on public lands. It is imperative to recognize that protection of a population will require, at most localities, conservation of the entire waterway (e.g., good conservation practices). This is necessary because activities and practices upstream directly impact the water quality downstream.
Recommendations on Listing:
Retain category 2 status until further trend and threat information can be obtained. Page (1994) contends that the species does not warrant federal protection because the species is more common then once thought and is widespread in Indiana. However, the Illinois population warrants continued State protection because of the much reduced range and the habitat of the mainstay of the population is highly degraded. We believe, however, that many critical questions regarding the stability of Indiana's and Illinois' populations remain unanswered. Therefore, category 2 classification is most appropriate for O. indianensis.
Indiana: The historical distribution is unknown. It is interesting that earlier surveys may not have documented as widespread of a range for the species as reported to date. Although it is thought to be more common then once believed, it is unclear if the range of the species is actually greater than previously documented. Page (1994) did not acknowledge several historical records, therefore, it is possible that the historical range mimics the current range. Page (1994) did add a new county to the range of the species, however, two other historical counties have been eliminated as well. Further, several of the sites searched in 1993 did not show evidence of O. indianensis inhabitance. Presumably these sites were selected for the survey because they contained the essential habitat components and were in close proximity to other known populations. It is not known, however, why these sites were void of the species. It is plausible that these sites may have once harbored O. indianensis, and for whatever reason no longer do.
The paucity of data regarding threats to O. indianensis further obfuscates the status assessment. Since population information for most locations is lacking prior to the 1993 survey, we have no basis for determining the trend of the species in Indiana. For example, if Hay (1896) and Rhoades (1962) were correct in their theory that the Patoka River Valley was the core of the Indiana population, the current condition of the watershed justifiably raises concern. [Note: Based on Rhoades' (1962) and Page's (1985) papers, it is believable that O. indianensis is endemic to southwestern Indiana and Illinois. It is also credible that the Patoka River was the core of Indiana population because Hay (1896) through his statewide survey for crayfishes found O. indianensis only within the Patoka River valley. Rhoades (1962) confirmed Hay's findings]. Currently, the Patoka River drainage is threatened by past and ongoing mining operations, stream channelization, and agricultural practices. It is noteworthy that no individuals were found at historical sites in Gibson and Dubois Counties (the core of the Patoka River Valley). Therefore, if the Patoka River Valley was indeed the core area, the population in Indiana has probably declined and may still be declining.
Illinois: Page (1994) stated that the current range of the species is much smaller than historically known. However, his 1985 and 1994 reports do not reflect this statement. According to the historical records provided by Page (1994), there is only one population considered extirpated from Illinois. It is possible, however, that Reitz's records for the North and Middle forks of the Saline River were not documented within Page's 1994 report, and therefore, the number of populations extirpated was not accurately depicted. Regardless, the range of the species has been restricted by one county only (i.e., historically the species was found in 8 counties and currently is found in 7 counties). However, the range within the extant counties may have been significantly reduced. Without a greater defined map (see Page 1994, Figure 1), it is difficult to infer definitively.
Unlike the Indiana population, population trend data is available for Illinois. Page (1994) stated that the Illinois population does not appear to be declining; its status is the same as it was in the 1970's and 1980's. However, Page (1994) and others have cautioned that the existing threats to several of the populations may precipitate or exacerbate declines in some populations.
Management Actions Needed:
Identify core population areas, and existing and potential threats. Seek conservation agreements with landowners throughout the watershed to minimize, and possibly negate such threats.
Research, Surveys, and Monitoring Needed:
To accurately assess the status of O. indianensis, the following issues need to be addressed: 1) further analysis on the possible historical range in Indiana, specifically address the discrepancy in the reported range; 2) compile trend data, especially for Indiana; 3) clarify the range reduction issue in Illinois; and 4) document past and existing threats to populations in Indiana and Illinois. The identical sampling methodology utilized by Page in 1985 and 1994 should again be implemented; however, sampling intensity (i.e., each site should be visited more often) should be increased. Page's (1994) population status information is limited due to the small sampling period (most sites were sampled on only 2 different dates).
Black, J.B. 1963. Observations on the Home Range of Stream-Dwelling Crawfishes. Ecology 44(3):592-595.
Boyd, J. A. and L. M. Page. 1978. The Life History of the Crayfish Orconectes kentuckiensis in Big Creek, Illinois. Am. Midl. Nat., 99(2):398-414.
Brown, P.L. 1955. The biology of the crayfishes of central and southeastern Illinois. doctoral Dissertation. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 158p.
Crocker, D.W. and D.W. Barr. 1968. Handbook of the Crayfishes of Ontario. University of Toronto Press.
Eberly, W.R. 1955. Summary of the Distribution of Indiana Crayfishes, Including New State and County Records. Indiana Academy of Science Proceedings 64:281-283.
Hay, W.P. 1896. The crawfishes of the state of Indiana. Pages 476-506 in 20th Annual Report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana.
Page, L.M. 1985. The crayfishes and shrimps (Decapoda) of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 33(4):i + vi, 343-393p.
. 1994. the Distribution and Status of the Indiana Crayfish, Orconectes indianensis. Illinois Natural History Survey. Unpubl. Report for Indiana Department of Natural Resources. 25p.
Pennak, R.W. 1978. Fresh-water Invertebrates of the United States. - 2nd ed. 464-487p.
.1989. Fresh-water invertebrates of the United States: Protozoa to Mollusca/Robert W. Pennak. - 3rd ed. p. cm.
Reitz, N.M. 1912. Ecological relations of crawfishes of Illinois. B.S. Thesis. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Rhoades, R. 1962. The Evolution of Crayfishes of the Genus Orconectes indianensis Section Limosus (Crustacea: Decopoda). Ohio J. of Sci. 62(2):65-96.
Smith, P.W. 1961. The amphibians and reptiles of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 28:1-298.
1971. Illinois Streams: a classification based on their fishes and an analysis of factors responsible for disappearance of native species. Illinois Natural History Survey Biological Notes 76.
Name and Office of Preparer:
Jennifer Szymanski, BFO, Indiana
List of Primary Individuals Contacted:
Lawrence Page, Illinois Natural History Survey (217)333-6846.
Specific Locality Information:
Three declining populations = Honey Creek, Hardin County, IL; Little Saline, Saline County, IL; and South Fork, Williamson County, IL.
September 1997
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You've seen it time and again: an outlet box busting at the seams because someone tried to stuff a few too many devices and wires in too small a box. So how do you know how much is too much? The NEC provides guidelines on how to properly size outlet boxes.
It's really pretty simple. You must size outlet boxes to be of sufficient size to provide adequate space for conductors, fittings, and devices.
Space used by conductors, fittings, and devices must not exceed the values as specified in Tables 370-16(a) and (b) of the NEC. The volume of a box is the sum of the values of its assembled parts, including plaster rings, covers, and extension rings. Manufacturers don't have to mark the volume capacity of standard electrical boxes and extension rings with their cubic inch capacity, if their size is listed in Table 370-16(a). Splicing devices and raceway connectors, lock nuts, or bushing don't affect sizing.
Box volume calculations. When all of the conductors to be enclosed in an outlet box are the same size, use Table 370-16(a)—only if the box contains no fittings or devices—to determine the size outlet box required for the condition or the number of conductors permitted in the outlet box. You don't have to factor insulation into the calculation.
Example No. 1:
Q. What size outlet box is necessary to accommodate six No. 12 THHN conductors and three No. 12 THW conductors?
(a) 4 x 1 1/4 square
(b) 4 x 1 1/2 square
(c) 4 x 1 1/4 round
(d) 4 x 1 1/2 round
A. The answer is (b), 4 x 1 1/2 square. Refer to Table 370-16(a) and select the type of box that will accommodate nine No. 12 conductors.
Example No. 2: Q. How many No. 14 THHN conductors can be installed in a 421½ round box?
(a) 7
(b) 9
(c) 10
(d) 11
A. The answer is (a), 7 conductors. Again, you refer to Table 370-16(a) to obtain the answer.
Box fill calculations. Only use Table 370-16(a) if the outlet box does not contain any cable clamps, fixture supporting fittings, wiring devices, or equipment-grounding conductors (EGCs). To properly size an outlet box that contains more than just conductors, you must refer to Table 370-16(b). How do you take these devices into account in your calculations? Let's discuss them individually.
Conductors. Calculate the volume for each conductor that originates outside an outlet box and then terminates or is spliced within that box as the volume of one conductor, as listed in Table 370-16(b). Calculate the volume for each conductor running through the box (without splice) as the volume of one conductor, as listed in Table 370-16(b). You don't count conductors that originate and terminate within a box for box fill.
When working with a domed fixture or canopy, you can omit an EGC(s) and not more than four fixture wires (smaller than No. 14) from the calculations if they enter the outlet box from a domed fixture or similar canopy.
Cable clamps. Where one or more internal cable clamps (factory or field supplied) are in the box, a single conductor's volume allowance shall be made in accordance with the volume listed in Table 370-16(b)—based on the largest conductor that enters the outlet box. One or more cable or raceway connectors do not count in box fill calculations.
Fixture support fittings. When installing one or more fixture studs or hickeys, the volume allowance shall be one conductor volume per type, based on the largest conductor entering the box.
Device or equipment fill. For each yoke (strap) with one or more devices, a double volume allowance in accordance with Table 370-16(b) shall be made for each yoke (strap) based on the largest conductor connected to the device(s) or equipment supported by that yoke (strap).
Grounding conductors. When one or more grounding conductors enter a box, consider these as one conductor in your fill calculation. Base the volume calculation on the largest grounding conductor that enters the box.
If you have one No. 14 and two No. 12 grounding conductors entering a box, consider these conductors as one No. 12 conductor. Add a conductor volume for an isolated ground conductor (to reduce electrical noise) [per Sec. 250-146(d)] installed with an EGC. The NEC isn't clear on how to calculate volumes if you're installing more than one isolated ground conductor within the same raceway.
Example No. 3:
Q. What is the total number of conductor volumes for a switch wired with 14/2 NM cable and a receptacle wired with 14/2 NM cable? Assume the outlet box contains two cable clamps.
(a) 5
(b) 7
(c) 9
(d) 11
A. The answer is (d), 11 conductors. The sum of individual devices is calculated as follows:
• Switch—Five No. 14 conductors (two conductors for device and three conductors terminating);
• Receptacle—Four No. 14 conductors (two conductors for the device and two terminating);
• Ground wire—One No. 14 conductor; and
• Cable clamps—One No. 14 conductor.
Then add each for a total of 11 No. 14 conductors.
Next month, we'll continue our discussion on sizing outlet boxes with sample calculations for working with different size conductors, domed fixtures or paddle fan canopies.


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De tweede bètarelease van versie 3.6 van LibreOffice is uitgebracht. Dit opensource-officepakket wordt geleverd met tekstverwerker Writer, spreadsheetprogramma Calc, presentatieprogramma Impress, tekenprogramma Draw, databaseprogramma Base en Formula, een applicatie om wetenschappelijke notaties mee te maken. Informatie over de bugfixes in deze release en aanpassingen in de manier waarop het programma met het odf-formaat omgaat, kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden, de veranderingen en verbeteringen die in versie 3.6 worden doorgevoerd, zijn hieronder voor je op een rijtje gezet.
Label / business card wizard
- Support for contextual spacing.
- Format paintbrush now differentiate character automatic formating attributes applied to paragraph from those applied to text portion inside the paragraph. These character automatic formating attributes are past to the entire paragraph by default; if Ctrl is hold while the format is past these attributes are applied to the selected text portion.
- VML import (used inside older DOCX files) now handles lines, rotations and flips.
- DOCX import now handles GetExpression and SetExpression fields.
- RTF/DOCX import/export now handle the document zoom setting.
- Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] will decrease and increase font size of the selected text, respectively. fdo#36187
- Word count (whole document and selection) in status bar fdo#34772
- Table AutoFormats now record the following table-level properties: fdo#31005
- Break
- Keep with next paragraph
- Repeat heading
- Allow table split across pages
- Allow rows to break across pages
- Merge adjacent line styles
- Table shadow
- Shows Text Boundaries depending on the choice of display unprintable characters fdo#46073
- Support for importing Smart Art.
- Extension of label definitions with form (paper, page) size. Labels which are not centered on the form are created correctly now.
- All 1700+ predefined label definitions have been modified to include the form size, obsolete definitions have been removed.
- Recalculation of label position on the form. Label definitions with gaps between labels that are wider than the right margin now produce correct documents. Existing user defined labels are automatically extended with form size.
- The form size can be entered/modified in the wizard dialog.
- Ctrl-D fills-down in more familiar ways, filling with the contents of the cell above if no cell is selected, and filling down multiple cells with larger selections
- New option to specify a custom sheet name prefix in new documents.
- Marked cells in Calc can now be merged via the right mouse click context menu. fdo#37210
- Improved error message for invalid sheet name. fdo#45285
- Export conditional formatting to xlsx
- Improved CSV file import.
- Handle lines with more than 64k characters. fdo#48501
- Differentiate between "max rows exceeded" and "max columns exceeded" and "max cell size exceeded" error messages. fdo#48516
- Better handling of broken CSV files where generator didn't follow RFC 4180 quote rules. fdo#48621
- Import numbers in scientific notation without having to check "import special numbers". fdo#39716
- Better initial default separators, comma, semicolon and tab. fdo#38088
- Added a "Save cell formulas instead of calculated values" option to CSV export. fdo#45664
- New spreadsheet function DATEDIF as defined in ODF OpenFormula and for MS-Excel interoperability. fdo#44456
- New spreadsheet functions IMTAN, IMSEC, IMCSC, IMCOT, IMSINH, IMCOSH, IMSECH and IMCSCH as defined in ODF OpenFormula. fdo#51017
- Support field items in cells. You can now insert date, sheet name, and title fields into cells. To insert a field, activate the cell to be in edit mode, right-click on the cell, and select Insert Field in the context menu to insert a field.
- Allow sorting of data from the autofilter menu.
- Quickly allow pasting only text, value, or formula from the context menu.
- Detailed configuration options for formula calculation. You can now configure the reference syntax for built-in function INDIRECT. In the future we may add more calculation options here to allow users to configure run-time formula calculations.
- New formula options page with calculation settings.
- Dialog for detailed calculation settings.
- Remove the limitation to 3 sort entries in calc. fdo#45747
- Default number of sheets for new document will be 1, instead of 3. fdo#50183
- Support for X errorbars in scatter and bars charts, import and exporting to xls and ods when using ODS 1.2 extended. fdo#33773
- Support for color scales and data bars. Import from xlsx and import/export from ods in ODF1.2 Extended. Warning: Some limitation still apply and will be fixed in 3.7.0
- New dialogs for conditional formats to support color scales and data bars
- Added widescreen format for impress-slides. fdo#42986
- Correctly detect the external display and put the presenter console on the local display (Michael Meeks)
Basic IDE
- Format dialogs (Font, Font Size, Spacing) and Symbols (Tools > Catalog) now have help buttons. fdo#47860
- Docked Object Catalog pane
- Support for Japanese postcard paper size in all applications.
- Recent Documents list are updated on Save, Save As, Save All, and Close. fdo#37775
- Allow for editing of read-only documents. Paraphrasing from the commit message of [1]:
- When e.g. viewing mail attachments (that have been stored r/o to some download directory by the mail application), it would be nice if the user could easily temporarily modify them (say, play around with a spreadsheet, changing some numbers and triggering recalculation of formulas) by clicking the "Edit File" button and not being asked to create a copy for editing. Thus:
- The "Edit File" button now only toggles the r/o status of the view. It no longer asks to create a copy for editing if the underlying document is physically r/o.
- When a modified document is toggled to a r/o view via "Edit File," LO still asks the user to save or discard the changes. However, if the underlying document is physically r/o, saving the document opens the "Save As" dialog, instead of just doing a "Save" operation (which would fail on the physically r/o document).
- The title of the document window now contains "(read-only)" if and only if either the view is r/o or the document is physically r/o (or both).
- Add Support assistive technology tools option to installation process fdo#39833
- Added Lanczos algorithm for resizing of images and use it instead of interpolate algorithm. This change has increased the quality of images when reducing image resolution in PDF export. fdo#46378
- Import filter for Corel Draw documents. More details here and here.
- PDF Export with Watermark option. See it at File > Export to PDF.
- ODF Export now comes with a "ODF 1.2 Extended (compat mode)", that yields better interoperability with older consumers of the Open Document Format. It comes at the price of a slightly reduced standards conformance though.
- The About dialog has been redesigned for a cleaner look. Access via Help->About
- Writer and calc use split color buttons, making it possible to apply the last used color with one mouse click for font, background, border and highlight colors
- Clicking >> will not show toolbar options anymore, the options could be shown by right-clicking the toolbar. fdo#38276
- Rulers are now much cleaner and more light-weight
- Support for Trinity Desktop Environmentintegration (widgets, open/save dialogs, and address books)
- Dictionary choice removed in spellchecker when there is only 1 dictionary active fdo#40778
- Zooming does now base on a geometric progression instead of an arithmetic one fdo#44173
- Default to Tango icon set on OS/X
- GTK themes are now able to render background gradient
- GTK themes now have a way for tab prelight rendering
- GTK theming is implemented for fixes lines and frames
- Implemented locale dependent date acceptance patterns for input of incomplete dates. This prevents erroneous detection of dates in Calc and Writer cell input and CSV file import. See blog article for details.
- Added English_Malawi en_MW locale data.
- Added Erzya_Russia myv_RU locale data.
- Improved language tools (spell-check dictionaries, thesaurus, hyphenation patterns). Information taken from dictionary repository:
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) spellchecker
- Updated Swedish spell-check dictionary
- Updated French spell-check dictionary and thesaurus
- Updated Czech thesaurus
- Greatly improved German language tools (de-DE, de-AT, de-CH) with over 30,000 new words added to the German spell-check dictionary and over 7,000 new synonyms added to the German thesaurus. Hyphenation patterns were also improved.
- Substantially improved OLE2 document import: .doc, .xls, .ppt
- Substantially improved simple .doc /.docx import
- Large document scrolling / re-layout / interactive editing improvements
- Large autocorrect lists handled around twice as fast
- Improved performance of pivot table in Calc. Refreshing of pivot table should be now 35-50% faster than 3.5. In addition, memory footprint of pivot table is reduced significantly.
- Improved performance of raw cell value import from xlsx documents.
- Improved performance of merged cell and matrix range import from ods documents.
- Many modules ported to faster, more reliable gnumake


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Introduction To Industrial Controls
This course examines the concepts, devices, and common practices associated with modern industrial control systems. Common industrial control devices are studied.Students learn how to wire, program, and troubleshoot programmable logic controller (PLC) based control systems. PLC applications focus on interfacing and controlling a variety of electromechanical devices such as motors and pneumatic actuators. Industrial safety practices and procedures are emphasized throughout the course.
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Local News
This article originally appeared in "Newspapers" by Loretto Dennis Szucs, FUGA, and James L. Hansen, FASG in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
Hometown newspapers are often the only place where the lives of so many are so closely detailed. In the years before international and national news filled big city papers, even they had room to tell about the local heroes, creditor's claim to an estate, stories of local businesses, visitors in town, a duel, a stolen watch, a broken leg, and other surprising stories about our ancestors. There simply isn't a better place to see what was going on in the lives of individuals and families than in old newspapers. The following examples represent the kinds of items that can be found in local papers.
It was customary for individuals setting up business in a new community to announce the fact in the local paper. In the 1760s, the South Carolina Gazette was filled with such notices. Robert Catherwood, 'surgeon to the hospitals and garrisons in East Florida' (16 February 1767), opened a practice with an announcement, and a Mrs. Grant proposed 'to practice midwifery having studied that art regularly and practiced it afterwards at Edinburgh: Certificates of which she can produce from the Gentlemen whose lectures she attended, and likewise from the professors of Anatomy and Practice of Physick in that city. . . .' (29 December 1768).
A few interesting examples culled from the Newport Mercury (26 August 1809) provide insights into the bustling Rhode Island city. Typical of newspapers of its time, the front page notified readers about items of local interest, including a meeting called by Ephraim Bowen, Grand Master of the Rhode Island Grand Lodge of Masons. Although the meeting announcement doesn't provide many biographical details, it does place Bowen in a place and time and links him with an organization where other records may be available.
Most of the Mercury was devoted to national and international news. A lengthy article described the French Code of Conscription. The news that all Frenchmen between the age of twenty and twenty-five complete were subject to conscription had implications not only for the French, but for Americans as well.
While the majority of the stories in the Newport paper do not relate to a specific family or individual, they do provide an overview of what was going on in that particular time and place. They also give us a pretty good idea of what was important to readers at that time. Newspapers are great for providing snapshots of the world our ancestors knew.
Though obituaries and other biographical details that family historians hope to find were usually absent in newspapers of that era, the 1809 Newport Mercury did provide a few useful details. For example, a notice was given to the creditors of the estate of Sarah Mumford, late of Newport. Readers were allowed to 'exhibit their claims' to her unsolvent estate in the newspaper for a period of six months. The notice posted by Henry Mumford, executor, on 7 August 1809 might lead to court and other records surrounding her death, as well as any other records of financial problems of the deceased.
Even a business notice can be enlightening for those who want to know more about an ancestor. The following announcement appeared on the back page of the same Newport newspaper: 'Albert V. Gardiner informs his friends and the public that he has removed his store of goods to 102 Thames Street, lately occupied by Sally M. Smith & Co. where he has constantly on hand and for sale a large and valuable assortment of English, India, French, Dutch, Scotch and American manufactured goods. Including an elegant assortment of ladies hats and bonnets. Every article for mourning is constantly at hand.' This article tells us something about Albert V. Gardiner and his interests as well as giving us a closer look at a small Newport business and the merchandise available in those days.
The Atlanta Constitution of 16 January 1875 includes a typical mix of information that could be found in a big city paper of that era. The headlines provide the reader with a sense of the general population's viewpoint, and what citizens were going through just ten years after the close of the Civil War. Quite predictably, there was a great deal of grumbling and irreverence concerning the federal government of the United States. The fact that the people of Atlanta were still struggling was evident in the unusually large number of bankruptcy and other legal notices in that issue.
There were also notices of meetings of Confederate soldiers, and the obituaries of two former Confederate heroes.
Other items of note in the Atlanta paper were the shipping news (listing arrivals of ships), a railroad schedule, and even lists of guests who were staying at the Atlanta hotels that week. It provided the names of the guests and their home residences'most of which were southern cities, but there were some visitors from New York and other northern spots.
There were several articles complaining about the deplorable condition of the streets and the mud that Atlanta citizens and wagons had to pull themselves through to get from one place to another.
As with other old newspapers, ads in the Atlanta paper make for fascinating reading in themselves. Under the subheading of 'Drugs, Oils, etc.,' the newspaper advised the people that opium could be bought for $11 a pound, bicarbonate of soda $7 a pound, and Epson salts was priced at $6 a pound.
In another ad, Dr. S. B. Collins announced his painless opium antidote, noting the destructive nature of this popular drug.
The weekly editions of community newspapers give a personal glimpse of people found nowhere else. Country papers would allow plenty of space for a column prepared by a local resident to tell of recent births, upcoming or recent marriages, illnesses, visitors to the community, former residents vacationing with relatives in their old home, and news of a more personal nature. A common example of the kind of clues to be found is one which reads, 'Miss Marjorie Dyer of our town is visiting her cousin Miss Margaret Howley in Fort Wayne.' This example gives another location of family members and possibly a surname previously unknown. These columns also note anniversaries, parties, reunions, and achievements such as a promotion or a school award. Newcomers to a community often received the attention of the columnist, and former residents were naturally included.
The 'local brevities' sections in some newspapers are quick updates on residents of the community and they can be rich sources of unique information not found elsewhere. Three notices in the Brooklyn Union Argus of 13 June 1879 are good examples of what can be found.
- A gold watch valued at $200 stolen on the 4th instant from the residence of Mrs. Mary Richardson, 41 Pierrepont Street, was yesterday recovered by Detective Lowery from a pawnshop in the Bowery.
- Edward Lamb, twenty-eight years of age, of 172 High Street, had a leg broken yesterday by the scales of the ice cart he was driving falling on him.
- Michael Gallagher seventeen years of age, of 189 John Street, lost a finger yesterday by the machinery in the tin factory corner of York and Adams Street.
School News
School news might include awards won and detailed coverage of a graduation, complete with a class picture or even individual photographs of the graduates. School board minutes, lists of teachers and pupils, and other school events are also frequently recorded. An example of a social event for which the guest list was printed appeared in the 12 May 1858 issue of the Central Illinois Gazette. The article described the costumes worn by named guests at a masquerade party held at Mr. R. H. Carter's. The names of the invited puts them in West Urbana, Illinois, and it gives us an idea of how people entertained themselves in 1858.
Local news columns are one of the most important sources for data on women and children'two groups of people who rarely appear in other records in their own right. Local columns also provide clues leading to other records. If you find that your great-grandmother belonged to a Methodist charitable organization or a sewing circle sponsored by a church, it is a clear indication of church membership. If the religious affiliation was previously unknown, the researcher has a valuable lead.
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Current Economic Situation, Outlook, and Recent Actions
Dennis P. Lockhart
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
The Rotary Club of Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tenn.
March 27, 2008
I'm delighted to be in Chattanooga today as your speaker. As you know, things have been quite busy lately at the Federal Reserve. There's a lot I could talk about this afternoon, but I'd like to focus on what I believe is top of mind for the members of your distinguished group.
During my remarks, I'd like to talk about the economy, recent Fed actions, and the economic outlook. I'll close with a few thoughts on guiding fundamentals for policy in these challenging economic times. My views are mine alone and not necessarily those of my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
In the past few weeks, many have asked if the economy is in recession. We don't yet have enough evidence to answer according to the technical definition by the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is charged with making that determination by looking at a host of economic indicators. Also, we have not yet recorded two straight quarters (or even one) of real contraction (negative gross domestic product growth), which is the popular definition of recession. In fact, the most recent quarter remained positive.
That said, it's clear the economy is in a slowdown that resembles past periods that were the leading edge of a recession. Economic growth has been slowing since the third quarter of last year coming off solid growth rates in the second and third quarters of 2007. Following a sluggish fourth quarter, I expect that GDP for the first quarter of this year will show little, if any, growth.
Also, personal income growth has been flat, and there has been significant softening of employment, manufacturing activity, and sales at the retail and wholesale levels. Indeed, some areas such as employment actually have been contracting. Job growth in recent months was negative, and the unemployment rate has moved up to 4.8 percent, compared with 4.5 percent last summer.
It's possible—given certain strengths such as strong business balance sheets and export growth—that the economy will not pass the threshold into a technical recession. In considering the current economic situation, I believe that an important policy objective at this juncture is to ensure that this slowdown is short and shallow.
A critical factor—possibly the critical factor—in the determination of the length and depth of the current slowdown is the performance of the housing sector.
Nationally, house prices declined by 10.7 percent from January 2008 compared with a year earlier, according to the most recent S&P Case-Schiller home composite price index evaluating 20 major metropolitan areas. Of course, local results may differ. Chattanooga area home prices, for instance, last year were still rising—but at a slower rate. On average across the country, though, home prices have declined, in some markets substantially.
The number of housing starts and new home sales has fallen and are at less than half their respective peaks. Unfortunately, cutbacks in construction have made only a small dent in builders' elevated supply of unsold new homes—now at around 10 months' supply at the current pace of sales and up from the average for the past decade of around four months.
Housing weakness has weighed on growth in other sectors. For instance, the retail segment of the commercial real estate sector has weakened, according to anecdotal information. As we know, retail development tends to follow rooftops.
Also, problems with subprime mortgages have led to tighter credit conditions that have restricted mortgage financing, placing further downward pressure on housing activity.
With regard to financial conditions more broadly, markets have not yet stabilized. Although financial instability originated in the residential mortgage-backed securities market, it has spread to affect a variety of credit markets via market linkages or institutional interdependencies. The experience has been traumatic, at times generating primal emotions. Market volatility has been driven by fear, distrust, and flight to safety. I emphasize this point because financial system stability is a central focus of Fed policy at the moment.
At the same time, inflation has become a more prominent concern. Price pressures have been most obvious in energy and commodities, including commodities in the food chain. High and rising inflation—if allowed to persist—can distort household and business behavior.
Both headline and core inflation measures have been elevated in recent months and above a level I would consider in the long run to be consistent with an objective of price stability.
Even when inflation abates, shifts in relative prices of goods such as increases in energy costs—if sustained—can cause painful dislocations that force households to adjust living patterns and companies to change their practices and even business models.
Fed actions
Today, the U.S. economy faces challenges on three fronts: one, weakening growth; two, unstable financial markets; and three, elevated inflation and heightened uncertainty about the inflation outlook.
To address these issues, the Fed has two basic sets of tools. At the macroeconomic level there is traditional monetary policy, and at the level of specific financial markets there are various liquidity measures.
Changing the federal funds rate target, which is the main monetary policy tool, supports macroeconomic goals—sustainable economic growth and stable prices. This tool changes the overnight interbank price for money.
In recent months the Fed has repeatedly lowered the fed funds rate, which was 5.25 percent last September. At our most recent meeting March 18, the Fed cut the federal funds rate target by 75 basis points to 2.25 percent. This action was taken in response to the weakening outlook caused by tightening credit conditions and the deepening of the housing contraction.
Changes in the federal funds rate can influence but not dictate other interest rates in credit markets. There is not a one-to-one correspondence between changes in the fed funds rate and longer-term interest rates for borrower classes critical to the economy. For instance, while the fed funds rate has declined 300 basis points in the past seven months, the rate for conventional 30-year mortgages has declined about 65 basis points, and the yield on AAA corporate bonds has declined only 41 basis points.
In addition, the ability of reductions in the federal funds rate to address liquidity strains in credit markets has proven to be limited.
A continuation of these liquidity strains presents a serious potential risk to the financial system. As a result, the Fed in recent months has undertaken additional steps to directly improve liquidity conditions in key credit markets.
Federal funds rate changes determine the size of the Fed's balance sheet—the foundation of the money supply. The Fed's liquidity tools work primarily by changing the composition of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet. For example, by temporarily exchanging some currently illiquid assets for other more liquid assets, the central bank can mitigate some of the pressures that have prevented credit markets from functioning smoothly.
A listing of recent liquidity actions can sound like an alphabet soup—the TAF, or Term Auction Facility, announced December 12; the TSLF, or Term Securities Lending Facility, announced on March 11; and most recently, the PDCF, or Primary Dealer Credit Facility, announced March 16 to allow certain nonbank financial institutions to borrow from the Fed.
Each of these measures are simply extensions of the traditional tools of the Fed—the discount window and open market operations. Collectively, the four major liquidity-oriented programs had the following elements—a lengthening of term of lending, broader types of collateral, a wider set of counterparties, and a lower premium for the primary credit rate, which is the rate at which the Fed lends directly to banks through the discount window.
These Fed liquidity actions can be likened to a surgeon's instruments—designed to get at precisely the problem at hand—and no more.
Also, the Fed's liquidity actions can be viewed as a complement to monetary policy, a point that was made in the FOMC's statement following its March 18 meeting: "Today's policy action, combined with those taken earlier, including measures to foster market liquidity, should help to promote moderate growth over time and to mitigate the risks to economic activity."
A week ago Sunday, the acquisition of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan Chase was announced. Earlier this week, the deal was changed from the original $2 per share to $10 per share, and certain specifics were adjusted. To facilitate this transaction, the New York Fed—through a limited liability company formed for this purpose—will take control of a portfolio of assets valued at $30 billion as of March 14. JPMorgan Chase will bear the first $1 billion of any realized losses in this portfolio, and any gains will accrue to the New York Fed. The arrangement was undertaken with the support of the U.S. Treasury.
This action was taken to bolster market liquidity and promote orderly functioning of short-term funding and credit risk markets.
As I said earlier, financial stability must be a central concern at this time. The Fed has taken strong measures to avoid potential damage to the broad economy.
Looking ahead, my forecast has been affected both by an economic slowdown that has been sharper than I had expected and the recurring spells of financial market turmoil. A few months ago our forecast at the Atlanta Fed saw growth slow in the first half of 2008, then pick up in the second half of the year. But it now appears to me that the contraction in housing and the dampening effects of financial turmoil on household and business spending could persist through the remainder of this year. The recovery in growth I had expected in the second half of this year may be delayed.
The tax rebates should provide some stimulus in the second and early third quarters of this year. But given the uncertain atmosphere I expect will continue to prevail in May and June, I do not expect full flow through of the rebates into personal consumption expenditures.
I expect it will take much of the rest of the year for house prices to bottom out and financial markets to restore the necessary preconditions of stability—that is, confidence in asset values and confidence in transaction counterparties.
Looking ahead further to 2009, my outlook becomes more optimistic. It will take longer than I earlier expected to return to solid growth, but by the fourth quarter of 2008 the conditions should be in place to support a return to healthy growth next year.
With regard to the inflation outlook, I've learned not to be dismissive of inflation risks in this era of surging global demand for commodities. But my expectations are in accord with the FOMC statement of March 18 that inflation should moderate in coming quarters. This moderation reflects a projected leveling out of energy and other commodity price increases and the impact of generally weaker demand conditions in the economy. In any event, it will be necessary to continue to monitor inflation developments carefully.
Guiding fundamentals
As I said earlier, the U.S. economy faces challenges on three fronts: growth, inflation, and financial stability. I'd like to close by grounding my remarks in what I believe are some guiding fundamentals appropriate for this challenging period.
Integral to the Fed's dual mandate of maximum sustainable economic growth and stable prices is the goal of financial stability. Orderly markets and the flow of credit to businesses and households are necessary for the sustained prosperity of all sectors of the economy—not just Wall Street. My view of recent Fed interventions is that they are an attempt to help preserve or restore normal market functioning.
I am aware there are risks inherent in these actions. The line that separates restoring market function from merely redistributing losses and gains is not a bright one. This is the reason that policymakers only rarely and reluctantly intervene in markets.
Also, the distinction between liquidity problems and insolvency is not a trivial one when monetary authorities respond to troubles of market players. The critical evaluation is the systemic risk posed by the failure of an institution.
Some believe the Fed has overreacted. Others have said the central bank has been slow to respond to building problems. And still others have warned that the Fed has crossed lines that define appropriate function.
But from where I stand, Fed actions were taken with a prudent acknowledgement of the unintended consequences that may accompany almost all policy interventions. The actions taken by the Federal Reserve over the past several months were taken in perilous and fast-moving circumstances. Given the likelihood of continued financial and economic uncertainty, the public authorities charged with achieving and maintaining financial stability must preserve the capacity to act decisively in the best interest of the economy as a whole. I believe the Fed has done that. Thank you.


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LocationRubí, Spain
ArchitectMiAS Arquitectes / Josep Miàs
Project LeaderSilvia Brandi
Project TeamAdriana Porta, Maria Chiara Zilliani, Pablo Varesi, Fausto Raposo, Mafalda Batista, Barbara Fachada, Baptiste Marconnet
Structural ConsultantsBOMA
Technical ArchitectCarles Bou
ClientRubí Town Hall
Area1600.0 m2
Project Year2011
Text description provided by the architects. Rubí local market is in a central urban position. It is in a triangular plot, which gives the market the same shape. In the northern side, before the intervention, there was an excavated unbuilt and residual space that was not used. The project proposed building a two-storied underground parking area, connected to the existing one. Above the new parking area the enlargement of the market was built. The project includes the refurbishment of the lower floors in order to integrate them into the parking, installing refrigerators and waste processors.
This new square, over the underground parking will be the new outdoors hall of the market. Its geometry tries to make the slope walkable and suitable as a public space. In addition, it is an extension of the commercial activities inside the market, giving enough space for fairs and occasional outdoor commercial events.
With this project, the market changes its orientation, situating the main entrance in the square. This extension is almost like a façade-building, with new city hall and market administration offices, which lie on the northern side of the plot. This building then occupies the frontal area, growing higher than the existing market so that it becomes something like a three level placard. On the ground floor, the building has commercial spaces related to the existent market activity, and the main access to the market and to the underground parking.
We have built a sort of urban beach, where people would lie and sunbathe, wander, play. It is a new topography made of sand and pavement that landmark a water building, something like a wavy front. This is a transparent blue building, where foam is still shining.


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