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Reviewing Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is difficult, because if I were to say it's bland, unfunny, and offensive, a large portion of the audience will fire back with, "Just like the show!" Meanwhile, another portion will suggest that I find the game vile simply because I don't like the cartoon it's based on.
Neither response will do justice to quite how rotten this game is, however, because Back to the Multiverse offends independently of the show. For the record, I quite like Seth McFarlane, despite his many detractors, and I am capable of enjoying Family Guy. Yeah, I know, I'm a terrible person for that.
But if you think the SHOW's bad, the game is like that time we did a wacky activity with an obscure eighties personality!
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 [reviewed])
Developer: Heavy Iron Studios
Publisher: Activision
Release: November 20, 2012
If Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse provides one laudable service, it's that it is a nostalgic experience. Remember licensed games from the early 2000s? The ones that provided borderline workable gameplay with visuals that lost something in the transition from 2D cartoon to 3D software? The kind of videogame that regurgitated lines from the show, completely out of context, in the petty hope that we'd remember an old joke and be tricked into thinking it was funny?
Multiverse is exactly that experience. Memories of old Simpsons and South Park games come flooding back in this soporific third-person shooter with substandard cel-shaded graphics that'd look right at home on a PlayStation 2. As Brian states that all he needs now "is a midget with some gin," or as Stewie charmlessly repeats that victory shall be his, it's hard not to feel a little reminiscent glow in the heart. Indeed, this is everything we've come to know and loathe about licensed games, distilled into its purest form.
Any "original" writing found within the game is offensive, and not in the usual Family Guy way. At least on the show, there's a sense the writers were aiming to be funny. Not so in Back to the Multiverse. Nary does a level go by without something being called "gay" or "queer." There's no actual gag to that -- it's just someone calling something gay, and we're meant to laugh. One level set in a world where "it's desirable to be crippled" comes off not as satirical or witty, but as outright spiteful. I love offensive humor, but only if there's "humor" evidenced somewhere in the proceedings. There are no offensive jokes here, there are only offensive comments, coming from a developer that's trying far too hard to emulate McFarlane.
This unfunny dialog is repeated over and over again. If an Amish opponent's banal sex joke doesn't make you smile the first time, you'll be trying to eat your own teeth after you've heard it for the twentieth. Get it, because Amish people don't have sex? No? Get it now? Now? How about now? Over and over again, a tiny selection of character models per level bark the same puerile phrases at you, while the protagonists fire back with out-of-place commentary culled shamelessly from the show.
Gameplay does nothing to make up for the worthless script, either. Played co-op or solo, the campaign puts us in the role of Stewie and Brian as they travel the Multiverse and pursue recurring nemesis Bertram. A sub-standard third-person shooter, our two heroes run from point A to point B, mowing down brainless enemies and occasionally stopping to activate a switch or pursue a short fetch quest. Stewie has access to a range of powerful weapons, such as rocket launchers, laser pistols, and satchel charges, while Brian uses more grounded weaponry including pistols and shotguns. As chapters are cleared, each character can access more guns, but it becomes clear early on that Brian's shotgun is really the only decent weapon in the game. Everything else is either unwieldy or ineffective, while the shotgun's spread and high damage makes up for how terrible the actual combat is to control.
With its floaty physics and imprecise aiming, Multiverse's shambolic combat feels like something dredged up from the N64 era. It's barely even worth aiming due to how erratically enemies run around and how inadequate the weapons are. The only worthwhile tactic is to just take that shotgun and run around in vague circles, blasting the air until the last enemy stops spouting repetitive and unamusing trash. This is more or less how the game is played from beginning to end. Its idea of challenge is to throw more enemies at the player, a tactic mitigated by the fact that dying simply respawns you a few yard back, with no actual penalty. Progress is a matter of attrition, a pointless slog for the few hours it takes to reach its anticlimactic climax.
Special combat items alleviate some of the boredom temporarily. It can be at least mildly amusing to distract enemies with a Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man, or summon Ernie the Giant Chicken to combat enemies to the tune of "Surfin' Bird." These may raise a slight smirk once, but only once. If at all.
There's a set of challenge courses that reuse stages from the main game and charge you with special tasks, such as collecting items within a time limit or killing a set number of enemies without slaughtering innocent characters. While the challenges themselves are unremarkable, they do let you use characters other than Brian and Stewie -- all of which seem to be noticeably more fun to use. They all have their own unique weapons that are far more enjoyable to use, such as Lois' salad-spewing kitchen utensils or Quagmire's machine gun. Quite why these superior characters were relegated to a bunch of shallow extra modes is puzzling, because if they were usable in the campaign, it might have made for a better experience.
Multiplayer is also available, but it's local only, and is really just a series of mundane and trite modes designed to let players run around thoughtlessly shooting each other, just like the rest of the game. It exists more or less for the purpose of allowing Multiverse to say it has multiplayer. In that effort, it at least can be called a success.
Technical issues are naturally in place, to really hammer home how substandard eveything is. The game regularly freezes itself for a few seconds, usually in intervals of two. This can throw the audio out of sync in cutscenes, or screw up your actions as it lags out just when you attempt to input something. As already noted, the visuals are unappealing and dated, especially the poorly compressed cinematics.
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is crude, archaic, sloppy, and unfunny, but I don't want the show to be blamed for any of it -- not because I wish to defend Family Guy, but because by blaming the show, we let this game get away with being the invidious dross it is. Multiverse deserves is to be judged as feculence on its own merits, singled out to be eviscerated mercilessly, and if we tie it so closely to the property upon which it is based, we allow its burden to be shouldered.
Let Back to the Multiverse drift alone -- naked, ashamed, and floating bereft on a sea of contempt, buoyed not by excuse nor justification. It is not bad because Family Guy is bad, it is bad because it is unfettered, unrepentant swill.
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NovU wrote:What just happened is mind boggling. Ainge finally fucks fucks really fucks up. This is great to hear but even worse, Dan Gilbert just built a superteam out of thin air plus the pick.
I believe Kyrie next to LBJ boosted his play this past couple years. Kyrie next to Hayward will be a mess, helps neither. Horford/Hayward/Kyrie aren't a big 3 teams will fear. Ainge just turned #1 seed into #5 seed team this offseason. Grats.
Isiah alone is a better player than Kyrie at this stage of their NBA career. This is why addition of Jae Crowder vastly unbalances this trade. Minutes these two are going to replace are gonna be huge for the Cavs. Imagine durable and prime Isaiah and Jae playing in place of erratic Irving and ancient bodies like Frye and Richard Jefferson. Adding to the insult, Brooklyn pick absolutely gang rapes. Is this legal? How?
Making this deal with the biggest rival in same conference, did Ainge lose his mind? He had a good shot, great shot at getting to the Finals for the next couple or few seasons. The thing is the Cavs were only gonna get worse while things were looking up for the Celtics.
The Celtics gave up a 29 year old, 5'9" Thomas coming off of a hip injury, for a 25 year old, 6'3" Kyrie Irving. Thomas wasn't going to get max money, as we wouldn't pay a 30+ year old undersized PG who relies on quickness and athleticism that kind of money. Irving gives us more years (If he re-signs in a couple years, which I think he will), and he isn't the same liability on defense. While he's not a great defender, he is quite a bit taller, and what happened to Thomas in the Wizards series wouldn't have happened to Kyrie.
We gave up the BKN pick, but not the LA one. Moving Crowder makes perfect sense, because of the log jam at that position. This will give Brown the opportunity to log more minutes (Which he deserves), and Tatum will see the floor more. Tatum has tremendous upside. Thomas and Hayward will be a mess? I heard the exact same thing about Garnett, Pierce and Allen when they came together, people said egos would get in the way, that it wouldn't work. Well, it did. Gordon Hayward isn't a ball dominant player, Kyrie will have the ball in his hands far more as a Celtic. Not only that, combine those two with Horford who is one of the most unselfish bigs in the league, and it should work out just fine.
I hurt for the loss of IT, because he was all heart. It reminded me of when I would watch Iverson and he would put it all out on the floor. To say however, that the Celtics got raped, is completely false. We received a player 4 years younger, who hasn't even entered his prime, and was a major part of a CLE championship. This move makes sense, but it still hurts.


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Buying a piece of JFK history, 50 years on
John F. Kennedy, a Massachusetts native, is still polled as one of America's most beloved presidents, even 50 years after his assassination. His family connections, youthfulness, and mysterious and seemingly glamorous life still intrigue the public. Many auction houses are marking the 50th anniversary of his 1963 assassination in a Dallas motorcade with exclusive sales of many of his, and his friends', family's and colleagues' personal items. Take a look at how you can buy a piece of history.
McInnis Auctioneers is holding a three-day auction in Amesbury on hundreds of JFK items. It begins at 3 p.m. on Nov. 22 and continues through Sunday. Anyone interested in purchasing an item can bid by going to the auction house at 76 Main St. in Amesbury, leaving an absentee bid form, registering for a phone line, or particpating online as the auction is streamed live online.
Warren Commission Report
The official report that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing JFK and wounding Texas Governor John Connally. The McInnis item up for sale is the complete 889-report signed by all of the commission members, including Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford.
It will be for sale on day one of the McInnis Legends Auction Summit, Nov. 22-24.
Lee Harvey Oswald's mother's letters
Lee Harvey Oswald is the man accused of killing John F. Kennedy in Dallas, on Nov. 22, 1963. His mother wrote letters to Playboy magazine to defend her son's honor and maintained her belief in his innocence.
Amesbury-based McInnis is auctioning these letters as part of the first day in their auction summit surrounding JFK and his close companions and colleagues. The summit takes place Nov. 22-24.
Peter Lawford files
Peter Lawford, John F. Kennedy's brother-in-law, was a major player in Hollywood in the 1960s and had a tremendous influence in both the film world and the political world. These expansive files include correspondences between Lawford and Kennedy, information about Marilyn Monroe, a close friend of Lawford's, and behind the scenes files about the connection of Hollywood and Washington. These files have never been released before and remained in the possession of Lawford's business partner, Milton Ebbins, for 40 years.
All the files will be sold on the third day of the McInnis auction summit, Nov. 22-24.
Pictured: Lawford's speech introducing Marilyn Monroe before she sang "Happy Birthday'' to JFK.
Tribute to Jackie Kennedy
Jacques Lowe, a renowned photographer, created a tribute showcase to Jackie Kennedy for the Leukemia Society of America. Jackie died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1994. These photos, first published in 1996, raised money to aid lymphoma research. The negatives of the famed photos were lost in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, making this collection even rarer.
They will be sold in the first session of the McInnis Legends Auction Summit, Nov. 22-24.
1953 Kennedy engagement photos
Even though Life Magazine only published a few photos of Jack and Jackie upon their engagement in 1953, there were many more photos in the set. Those not published in Life are now up for auction. The entire collection of more than 230 photos was taken on Hyannis by Hy Peskin and shows the Kennedys in a relaxed setting.
The set is inluded on the first day of the McInnis auction summit.
Hyannis rocking chair
John F. Kennedy spent much of his time in rocking chairs, but this one was particularly special because of its role in his bond with Jackie. It was in the nursery at Otis Air Force Base in Bourne where Jackie gave birth to their son, Patrick, in 1963, who died two days after his birth. The chair is where JFK spent his time with Jackie in those perilous two days.
The chair will be a part of the second session of the McInnis auction summit, Nov. 22-24.
Cashmere blazer
Lem Billings was John F. Kennedy's childhood friend who remained his confidant until his death. He had his own room in the White House and was a close friend to the entire family. JFK gave Billings this cashmere blazer with presidential buttons, and an inscription inside the jacket pocket.
It will be sold on the second day of the McInnis auction summit.
JFK's fedora
John F. Kennedy has been referred to as the man who killed the hat. He disliked headwear, and was the first president to not wear a hat during his inaugural address. However, he did have a fedora that he wore on occasion. There is even a book detailing his aversion to hats.
The rarely-worn hat will be up for auction on the second day of the auction summit.
Felix de Weldon bust
Sculptor Felix de Weldon, although most well-known for his statue of five Marines and one sailor raising the flag at Iwo Jima, also made four bronze busts of JFK. One is located at the JFK Library, and another remained with the artist.
That particular bust is now up for auction on the second day of the Legends auction summit, Nov. 22-24.
Jackie's letters to her stylist
Jackie had an extensive correspondence with Marita O'Connor, her stylist and hat maker. In these letters, Jackie shows her concern for fashion by using minute detail to describe the hats she needed. Written personably and intimately, the letters show Jackie's feelings upon the impending inauguration and during her pregnancy. She coined the term "personal shopper'' in these letters by asking O'Connor to shop for her at Barneys in New York.
The letters are part of the second day of the Legends auction summit, Nov. 22-24.
Bill signing pens
This is a collection of 50 pens all used to sign pieces of important legislation into action, including the Civil Rights Act by Lyndon Johnson and the Peace Corps Act by Kennedy. Of the pens, 17 of them were used by JFK and the rest by Johnson.
The entire collection, sold as one piece by McInnis Auctioneers, is part of the second session of their auction summit, Nov. 22-24.
JFK with 1948 Red Sox
A Trans World Media Syndicate photo collection followed JFK on his congressional campaign trail in 1948. It shows a variety of shots, but most interestingly, shows Jack with the 1948 Red Sox team. JFK was a loyal Sox fan.
All the photos are part of lots included on day two of the McInnis auction summit, Nov. 22-24.
Lee Harvey Oswald's ring
Lee Harvey Oswald's wedding band that he left at his wife's bedside the morning of Kennedy's assassination was sold by New Hampshire-based RR Auction for $108,000 in October. The Texas buyer wished to remain anonymous.
JFK's rosary
Kennedy's 1960s rosary, showing signs of constant use, was gifted to his long-time best friend and assistant David Powers. The rosary was part of an October auction that also included the car in which JFK and his wife, Jackie, rode in hours before his death, and the sixth-floor window in which Lee Harvey Oswald is accused of perching to assassinate the president.
Lee Harvey Oswald's Dallas police mug shot after he was arrested for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was part of the October auction put on by RR Auction in Boston at the Omni Parker Hotel, the site where JFK proposed to Jackie and where many of his speeches were delivered.
1963 Christmas card
In the days before his death, John F. Kennedy had begun signing the annual White House Christmas cards. This 1963 card is a rare item surrounding the former president.
RR Auction sold it for $21,013.
Final doodle
Before he left his hotel in Dallas, John F. Kennedy created this drawing of a sail boat on hotel paper. The president was known for filling his notes with doodles and sketches, often of boats.
RR Auction sold it for $32,270.
JFK's watch
This Bulova watch was given to John F. Kennedy in 1941, as commemorated by the engraving on the band. Bobby Livingston, marketing executive of RR Auctionsold it for $25,428.
Early signed photograph
This candid photo of a John F. Kennedy in his twenties is the earliest known signed photograph of the president. It dates to the early 1940s and is signed "Remember Me! Jack K.''
RR Auction sold it for $6,082.
JFK Hyannis Museum Foundation
For those JFK and history buffs who wish to commemorate the former president without splurging can visit the two places dedicated to him. The gift shop has popular souvenirs that visitors can take away to have a piece of Jack's history without bidding in a big auction.
The John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum Foundation has a multimedia exhibit chronicling the days the former president and his family spent on Cape Cod. Various features in the museum highlight the years 1934 to 1963.
John Allen, executive director of the museum, said the store sells a wide variety of items, including pencils, postcards, mugs, and tree ornaments. The most popular item, however, is books. Allen said biographies of JFK, Jackie, and his family are the shop's best sellers.
Pictured: "The Letters of John F. Kennedy'' was released earlier this year and is expected to be in demand at the Hyannis gift shop.
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Mixed reviews for A-Rod in 2013 Bronx debut
Reaction from Yankee Stadium crowd split between cheers and jeers
NEW YORK -- Yankees fans delivered a mixed message on the topic of Alex Rodriguez on Friday night.
And when you think about it, that probably shouldn't have been a surprise for this extraordinarily talented but polarizing figure. And A-Rod's current situation is uncharted territory -- for him, for the Yankees, for fans of the Yankees and for all of baseball.
Never before had a man facing a 211-game suspension played a Major League game at home. Rodriguez, charged with numerous violations of baseball's joint drug agreement, is playing while his suspension is under appeal.
He had already played in three games in Chicago -- three losses in Chicago -- but Friday night was his 2013 debut at Yankee Stadium. And it was his home debut while facing the largest non-gambling suspension in the game's history.
There had been considerable conjecture about how Yankees fans would react to the return of A-Rod, but on Friday night the speculation was replaced by cheering and booing, at a decibel level suitable to baseball in the Bronx.
The Yankees were facing the Tigers, leaders of the American League Central and owners of a 12-game winning streak. But even that kind of competition wasn't stealing the central Gotham story line from Rodriguez and his vocal supporters and/or detractors.
When Rodriguez, playing third and batting fifth, was announced during pregame introductions, there was a lot of noise in both directions, but the cheers appeared to have a slight edge.
When he came to bat in the bottom of the first, the decibel-level battle escalated. Again it was close, maybe 52-48 close, with the cheers carrying the day. One thing sounded certain: The vast majority of the sellout crowd of 46,545 was involved in this argument, regardless of side. Either way, the A-Rod moments were the loudest moments of the evening.
Once we moved from the theoretical to the directly game-related, things changed. Moments after the big battle between ovation and denunciation, Rick Porcello struck out Rodriguez to end the inning with a runner in scoring position. At this point the boos, not surprisingly, had a truly substantial edge. The same thing happened in the third, when Rodriguez struck out again, again with a runner in scoring position.
When Rodriguez flied out to right in the fifth, there was initially a hopeful roar. He had, after all, put the ball in play. But this particular ball was hit without notable force. Then, in the eighth, against the flame-throwing Bruce Rondon, Rodriguez took a slider for a called third strike, and the boos were back in force.
We didn't get to witness the flip side of this phenomenon. That would have required a hit from A-Rod, who was removed from the game for defensive purposes and replaced by Jayson Nix in the ninth inning with the Yankees leading, 3-1.
The Yankees eventually prevailed, 4-3, in 10 innings, the winning run being scored, ironically or not, by Nix. Rodriguez was not available postgame to discuss either his reception or his performance.
But anybody who expected Yankees fans to universally forgive and forget -- or, on the other end of the spectrum, to unanimously condemn -- would have been disappointed.
There isn't a road map for this stuff. And if baseball is fortunate, it won't have to compile from this time forward an exhaustive record of how fans reacted to scores of players charged with performance-enhancing drug violations.
When Yankees manager Joe Girardi was asked before the game how he thought fans "should" react to the return of Rodriguez, he appropriately replied that he did not have a "should."
"The only thing you hope when you walk into a ballpark, whether you're at home or visiting, is that it's not personal," Girardi said. "The fans are going to react the way they're going to react. They bought their tickets, and that's part of it."
An argument can be made that at this point Rodriguez, who had earlier admitted three years of steroid abuse before the latest round of allegations, can be safely seen as a repeat offender. But if some of the partisans in the Bronx prefer to see him as innocent until proven otherwise in regard to the current charges, that is understandable.
For another night as the focus of attention, Alex Rodriguez continued to be a figure of controversy.
Even at home, even in the Bronx, there is no one-size-fits-all view of this player, this career, this individual.


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Frost & Sullivan: Europe Shifting to Digital Money and Online Sales for Micropayments
25 Feb, 2013, 11:00 GMT
- New features such as prepaid, online and contactless solutions will accelerate micropayment evolution
LONDON, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The micropayments market is set to grow rapidly in Europe. Overall, cash payments are decreasing in the region, and though they still remain the preferred means of payment, the emergence of micropayment solutions and products is fuelling the shift to digital money. In fact, defining a single direction for the European market, optimising fee structure and risk management, and enhancing end-user experience will surely boost the use of prepaid, online and contactless solutions for small payments.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan on Opportunities in the Micropayments Market finds that the growth of micropayments solutions will be driven by the usage of pre-paid, contactless, and mobile payment solutions. The analysis determines that use of contactless payment cards systems in Europe is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.7 per cent from 2011 to 2017. Likewise, with the massive adoption of smartphones and increasing penetration of tablets in Europe, mobile commerce will record a CAGR of 10.6 per cent between 2011 and 2018.
The shift to digital money has a substantial benefit for banks and governments alike. In Europe, the cost of handling cash is high. The European Payment Council (EPC) is working on ways to improve processes and reduce the total cost. "The process of production, transportation, protection and destruction of cash is complex and expensive, and with only 30 per cent of the produced money in circulation, governments are looking to optimise the national cost of cash," said Frost & Sullivan ICT Global Program Director Jean-Noel Georges. "The economic crisis has also forced governments to streamline tax collection and fight against shadow markets through the use of electronic money and associated Web services."
Moving away from cash, however, comes with many challenges attached. The preference for cash payment among the older generation of users, issues with the business model and lack of infrastructure as well as a clear marketing message have pegged back market growth in the short term.
Consumers have shown varying degrees of readiness to adopt contactless cards. Frost & Sullivan believes that education on the user and merchant sides, with a strong focus on the security features of contactless technologies, will help to popularise the usage of contactless cards, and potentially, of contactless-based mobile payments.
As of now, the future of prepaid cards and prepaid mobile solutions seems brighter. "Turning cash into electronic funds in a stored value account is currently the best approach," noted Georges. "A flexible solution, which includes issuing a prepaid mobile payment account where customers can load the money through peer-to-peer transfers, cash deposits or bank cards and then use the prepaid value with merchants, will encourage non-cash payments."
Lastly, cloud-based mobile payments are also expected to contribute to the expansion of the micropayments market. "Cloud-based m-payments, in principle, are an extension of the traditional online commerce market. However, we believe that as cloud-based m-payment matures, and its awareness among consumers and merchants increases, the solution will play an important role for the in-store payments and micropayments markets," said Georges.
Creating marketing and promotional tools based on target groups and offering aggressive awards and discount programs will also spur demand for micropayments.
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Take time to delight in the Lord
This time of year can be very trying. The Christmas season is a distant memory and our New Year's resolutions have been forgotten or remembered with guilt. The cold weather stops us from doing some outdoor activities except skiing or snow shoeing, of course. We may get a reprieve on Super Bowl weekend but if the team we are rooting for loses it's not much help.
Many of us are already awaiting the spring flowers. It would be easy to become sorrowful and let our lives become bastions of displeasure. In order to overcome the winter doldrums, sometimes we listen to the lies of the world. We equate the month of February with worldly pleasure wrapped up in sensuality. We may begin to believe that love is this mystical thing like some of the romances we see in the movies or on television. But we know that love is a choice and the loving acts we choose to perform then bring the loving feelings we all desire.
During February, we also may seek pleasure in worldly passions such as money, power and intelligence. It is sad that we place such a high value on these worldly passions that do not truly fulfill our needs. As St. Paul writes, "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:19-21, ESV)
However Paul continues, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." (Galatians 5:22-23, ESV)
God's Word provides us with the Holy Spirit who gives us the fruit that St. Paul writes about. This fruit is far more important than anything the world can provide. All worldly pleasures are lies from Satan and are only temporary while what God gives us is for eternity.
When we believe in God, not only do we receive the fruit of the Spirit but God also through King David's writings promises us, "Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday." (Psalm 37:3-6, ESV) We receive the Godly desires of our heart which are wrapped up in our relationship with Jesus Christ and with one another.
Join me this month of February as together we delight in the Lord who is the only one that can bring us the true desires of our hearts.
Pastor Jim Beilstein of Trinity Lutheran Church is a member of Carson Valley Ministers' Association.


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Interview with a pilot: 7 insights from the cockpit
Senior Pilot, Captain Han Hee-seong, 58, has been flying for 33 years, and despite near-death experiences, constant jet lag and rogue combat planes, he still loves what he does.
After a shining career at Korean Air (where he was nominated as a top pilot), Han now resides in Shanghai and flies Boeing 777s to Europe and the United States for China Eastern Airlines.
"When I was young my dream was to be a judge," he says.
"But in high school all this changed. I realized that I wanted to travel and fly around the world."
Based on our interview with him, we think he made the right decision.
He shares seven things we didn't know about life in the cockpit.
1. Jet lag doesn't get easier with practice
The most difficult part of being a pilot, according to Han, is actually something most of us might understand.
"The hardest part is adjusting to different time zones and trying to get enough sleep before flying," says Han. "This problem plagues all of us pilots throughout our career."
He breezes over the technical difficulties.
"Sometimes we come across typhoons, sudden gusts of wind, hailstorms, fog or heavy rain, or there is a problem with one of the engines and we have to turn it off and make a quick landing," he says.
"However, these things are easy to deal with once you have the experience."
2. It's not about the airline, it's about the aircraft
And here we were comparing inflight bibimbap and bento boxes.
"Whether you take a major carrier or a low-budget carrier, the aircraft itself is the same aircraft: a Boeing 737," says Han.
"Maybe a Boeing 777 or an Airbus 330 -- those seem to be popular these days. And the pilots are veteran pilots who have done their time, until about 55 to 60, at large airlines. Flights today are very safe."
Interestingly, he says that the one aircraft that all pilots he has met dislike unanimously is the Airbus 380. "We think it hasn't been tested enough, and that it's simply not as safe."
3. But you have to like the food
When asked if pilots dislike the airplane fare, Han replies, "If they're picky."
Han is not. "I like foods from all over the world -- everything tastes fine to me."
The pilot and the copilot, according to Han, eat different meals. Usually the pilot gets the first class meal and the copilot the business class meal.
"This is just in case one of the meals might cause food poisoning," says Han.
More on CNN: 9 easy ways to make a flight attendant go insane
4. A good airport is like a good wife (or husband)
"A good airport -- such as Incheon International Airport, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Singapore's Changi Airport, or Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok -- is above all comfortable, with good facilities and good service," says Han. "Like a good spouse."
So which airports are likely to end up dying alone?
"New York's JFK International Airport and Chicago's O'Hare Airport have so much traffic that there's always a 25- to 45-minute line before we can take off, or after we land, park the plane," says Han.
5. 'The seatbelt sign is a lie'
"Keeping the seatbelt sign turned on whenever the aircraft is below 10,000 or 20,000 feet (depending on the airline) is a rule designed to keep the passengers safe," says Han.
Although he can usually cooperate with air traffic control to avoid pockets of turbulence without much fuss, he says he turns on the seatbelt sign anyway just because of the possibility of turbulence.
"Technically, I suppose, then, that seatbelt sign is a lie. Ordering passengers to put on their seatbelt when they might not necessarily need them," says Han.
But we're with him in thinking that it's better to be lied to than laid out on a stretcher.
"We have several cases each year of passengers who did not have their seatbelt on during thunderstorms, hailstorms or particularly violent gusts of wind -- when even the aircraft was actually damaged, and the passengers, obviously, even more injured," says Han.
6. There is (or was) a real reason for regulating mobile phones on flights
"I remember mobile phones disrupting the communication systems -- but then again, it was 15 years ago," says Han.
"Although the more recent aircraft have shielding devices to protect the navigation and communication systems, the aircraft from 10 or 20 years ago don't have such shielding, so mobile phones do disrupt the navigation and communication."
7. It's not just hotel suites and golf, the cons include near-death experiences and health problems
"I've had two dangerously close encounters with combat planes," says Han.
"The first encounter was because the combat plane ignored regulations and infringed on civilian (commercial) air routes, and the second near-collision involved four planes who failed to signal that they were flying above the airport I was trying to lift off from."
The environment isn't the healthiest.
"The air inside an aircraft has 20 percent less oxygen than the air on the ground. We cruise at an altitude about the height of Mount Halla on Jeju Island (1,950 meters), and often suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome because of our irregular sleep schedule."
Many pilots drop out during the training because their health deteriorates, don't pass the final test for their certificate, or don't make it to their retirement because of accidents and incidents.
At least the thrill never dies
"Flying is, simply, fun. That's why I've done it for so long, and, as long as my health allows, why I can keep doing it, until I retire at 65."
And despite what you might have imagined from cockpit photos or watching unrealistic action films, it's a lot more hands-on than you might expect.
According to Han, that's what's so fun about it.
"Kicking off on the runway at 350 kph, lifting off in an aircraft that weighs 350 to 400 tons, flying for over 10 hours -- carrying over 300 passengers, or over 100 tons of cargo -- and then gently landing at your destination -- there's a distinct thrill in the knowledge that I made all of this happen."
Besides the thrill of piloting the flight, there is also the delight of the flight itself, and the magnificent natural sights below.
"I have never, ever felt that my job was boring," says Han.
"Of all the pilots I've met -- they number about 2,000 -- there were less than five pilots who quit simply because they disliked the job."
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I just checked out the weather and it looks like the rain is going to hold off for most of the day! Which is absolutely fantastic as today is Apple-Palooza! There is LOTS and LOTS of fun things going on today so be sure to check out the ITINERARY so you don't miss what's most important to you!
I'm really excited about our first Apple Pie Baking Contest. I have a special room all set up for the pies. In fact – I already had one pie delivered this morning!
Melissa and her son Easton were here bright and early to deliver a delicious looking pie for the contest!
I've gotten some great 'Pie Stories' from some of the participants too:
Monica Freng shared with me her story,
My apple pie is pretty basic: tart apples, a little sugar n cinnamon, and a double crust using my moms family recipe for crust. We are self proclaimed pie snobs in our family - nothing ever comes close to moms homemade pie, it's always fruit or pumpkin (no chocolate mousse, etc) and it's always better for breakfast. :) we have been known to judge potential spouses by their love of such things. The first time my (now) husband came home with me we were in the kitchen while mom put together pies for Easter. I turned to him and asked, "you DO like pie don't you?" and his responded taken aback, "you might as well ask me if I like good things!"
I am certain that was the moment I knew he was a keeper!
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I am planning an entry in your pie baking contest. As far as my story - my Norwegian grandmother operated a boarding house in North Dakota. She always made homemade pie and one of my favorites was Dutch apple made with apples from the trees in our back yard.
I'll have more stories to share along with an update on how everything goes today!
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The artifacts housed in the collections room are just a small sample of what we have. In our large storage area, we have over 7000 boxes and millions of individual artifacts from archaeological sites all over Virginia.
A typical day for me includes washing artifacts, bagging and labeling them, storing and sorting boxes of artifacts in the storage room, and doing research. Today specifically, I and a couple of high school volunteers are washing artifacts that were delivered to the DHR earlier this week. They are from a clay smoking pipe factory that operated during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Pamplin, Virginia (44AP01).
I have been researching the Pamplin pipe factory this summer, and I have also been designing an exhibit that will be on display in the Department. We have hundreds of the pipes in many styles and colors in our collections, and I have grown quite fond of them over the past couple of months!
As well as washing pipe and sagger fragments with the volunteers, I am sorting washed and dried pipes by style and bagging and labeling them for storage. I also bag other artifacts from the site, such as brick fragments and glass shards.
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Do you give professionally? I don't mean do you bring cookies and other treats for your coworkers during the holidays (although cookies are always greatly appreciated!), but rather do you volunteer your time or expertise in the SQL Server community? There are many DBAs and developers out there that devote a lot of their personal time to volunteering in the SQL Server community, and these people deserve to be acknowledged!
If you know of a SQL Server DBA or developer that generously volunteers his or her time to help others in the community or their job in particular, I'd love to hear about them ([email protected])! I want to highlight SQL Server community members that go the extra mile to answer questions, volunteer at events, or offer solutions to difficult SQL Server questions.
I'll kick things off by highlighting two amazing women who were recognized by PASS for their efforts this year: Lori Edwards and Wendy Pastrick. They offered me great insight into what drove them to volunteer their time to PASS and other community events.
Lori Edwards
Lori Edwards (blog|twitter) was chosen as the PASS 2010 Outstanding Volunteer. Here's what Rick Heiges, the PASS vice president of marketing, had to say about Lori during his keynote at PASS Summit 2010.
"Lori went above and beyond the call of a regular volunteer this year, she led a team of volunteers working to get several tasks completed. Highlights include developing a reporting system to house all previous speaker evaluations and a data entry screen for entering new speaker evaluations. This saves PASS money since as we did not have to contract the work or pay a 3rd party. This project will allow attendees to enter online evaluations for all PASS events including local PASS Chapter meetings, PASS SQLSaturdays, PASS SQLRally, and PASS Summit. In addition to this effort she managed many of the processes for the PASS Summit program committee, including all PASS Summit session PowerPoint reviews and abstract proofreading and editing.
Lori was the right-hand person to Program Committee Chairman Allen Kinsel, and did a fantastic job organizing the numerous projects that her team of volunteers was asked to take on. Lori did a great job keeping the projects on-track and on-time, which is no easy task when you're dealing strictly with volunteers."
It's great to hear that there are people out in the SQL Server community, like Lori, putting in a huge amount of time and effort to make PASS successful and helpful to everyone. I'm always impressed by those people who, despite having busy work and home lives, dedicate their time to helping the community, and I wanted to hear how Lori was able to devote so much of her time to PASS in the year, and what drove her to do so.
Megan Keller: How did you get started volunteering in the SQL Server community and with PASS in particular?
Lori Edwards: I've done quite a bit of volunteer work in the past (non-work related), so it made sense for me to participate in this community. Being part of the Twitterverse, I had become more familiar with PASS and everything that went into bringing the PASS Summit together. During the Summit in 2009, I had the chance to meet Allen Kinsel, and when he asked for help for the program committee, I volunteered.
Megan: What drove you to volunteer so many hours to PASS and PASS Summit 2010?
Lori: The short answer is that things needed to get done and I kept saying okay. Initially, my role was to work on some special projects that had been on the PASS to-do list, but didn't have anyone to head them up. Since most of these projects had to do with the PASS Summit, I began attending the weekly Program Committee calls. There was so much that needed to be done, it was hard not to volunteer to help.
Megan: How do you find time in your busy work and home life to volunteer so frequently?
Lori: I guess that you just make time. I can definitely say that my reading decreased last year. There were definitely times that the family lost me to PASS while we were trying to make deadlines. For the most part, though, it was just making good use of time when other things weren't going on—while the kids were doing homework, during lunches, when I'd otherwise be staring at the TV, etc.
Megan: How has volunteering in the community helped you grow personally and professionally?
Lori: Professionally, it was a great opportunity to work on my project management skills. The wonderful group of volunteers that I was able to work with made these projects much easier. Personally, I had the chance to interface with a huge number of people in the SQL Server community that I may have never met.
Megan: What advice do you have for those folks who would like to volunteer in the SQL Server community but aren't sure where to get started?
Lori: The main pieces of advice that I have would be to figure out what drives you, what you would like to get out of your volunteer experience and then, realistically, what amount of time you have to volunteer. Whether it's speaking, taking part in a local user group, or working with one of the PASS committees, there are any number of opportunities to help out. Jeremiah Peschka wrote a great blog post about volunteering here. PASS continues because of all of the people that contribute their time and talents—every little bit helps it become even better.
Wendy Pastrick
Wendy Pastrick (blog|twitter) is very well-known in the SQL Server community for her work on the PASS Women in Technology Virtual Chapter, SQLSaturdays, and more, so it's no surprise that she was chosen for the 2010 PASSion Award. "This person goes above and beyond to connect with others in the community—and helps them to connect with their peers—shares a wealth of knowledge through speaking, founding and organizing events, virtual chapters, user groups, and helps others to learn from her experience, including as a PASS Regional," said Heiges.
It seems like Wendy's name just keeps popping up when talking about the Women in Technology Virtual Chapter or successful SQLSaturday implementations. So I couldn't wait to find out how Wendy finds time to dedicate herself to several SQL Server community causes a year.
Megan Keller: Congrats on being selected for the 2010 PASSion Award! What drives you to volunteer so many hours to PASS and the SQL Server community? How do you fit volunteering into your busy work and home life?
Wendy Pastrick: Honestly, it's the people I get to work and interact with. They are all such intelligent and fun people, it's easy to do things that bring us together. When I discovered the PASS organization roughly 7 years ago, it was a breath of fresh air to find a community dedicated to SQL Server. I decided immediately that anything I could do to help out and become part of the group would be worthwhile. Finding time for anything you want to do is tricky at times. There is always a give and take, and I find that after the kids are in bed, I'm working for PASS a few nights per week. As with most things, if you truly want to do it, you will make the time. I'm very fortunate to have a supportive family and employer. At the SQLSaturday even in Chicago last April, the smiles and thank yous alone were worth every hour the team put in to make the event a success. Bringing people together and sharing the excitement of a technology is reward enough.
Megan: The Women in Technology (WIT) Chapter has really grown in the past couple of years. What's your goal for the future of this virtual chapter?
Wendy: Looking to the future of WIT, I see us moving in a direction of Community Outreach. We have been taking our show "on the road" bringing the WIT message to SQLSaturdays and other Tech events (i.e., Indy TechFest) and hope to be present at SQLRally in May. Each of our events ends up a unique experience, with different people contributing to the panel of speakers and different questions posed from the attendees. Also, some of our members are taking up the challenge issued at the PASS Summit 2010 Luncheon and will be reaching out to local schools and other organizations to help organize Tech Projects to help encourage young people to take an interest in technology.
Megan: How has helping out in the community helped you grow personally and professionally?
Wendy: This is such a great question! Personally, I have been forced to become more organized. I'm still not as good at it as I would like, but I get better with each project. I've learned new things about building relationships and managing not just projects but people, too. These skills certainly transfer to my professional life and make me a better employee and team member. The friendships and network I have been able to build are, in a word, priceless. I owe having a job I truly enjoy to making connections through PASS activities. In turn, I have been able to help other people connect professionally, allowing them to grow and enjoy their work as well.
Megan: What advice do you have for those folks who would like to volunteer in the SQL Server community but aren't sure where to get started?
Wendy: There are numerous ways to become involved—so many that it can be unclear where to begin and whom to contact. My suggestion would be to check out your Local PASS Chapter and see what they have to offer. You may find they have a need for volunteers. They may be hosting a SQLSaturday, and volunteers are in demand for those (you can offer to volunteer when you register or send an email to the address listed). If your local group isn't hosting a SQLSaturday, maybe you might want to take that on. See what SQLSaturdays are happening near you by going to www.sqlsaturday.com
Also, there are several Virtual Chapters listed on the PASS website. Find a topic which interests you and join up! You should receive an email from the group with contact information. Many have monthly planning meetings and it's a great way to get involved.
Finally, there is the PASS flagship event—the annual PASS Summit. Actually, there are two: one in the USA and the other in Europe. The number of volunteers needed to make these events successful is huge. From the program committee to the Ambassador programs, there is so much to do. All of the information is here—www.sqlpass.org/Community/Volunteers.aspx. Hope to see you around!
Whose generous volunteering in the SQL Server community impresses you or drives you to want to help out as well? Let me know at [email protected].


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"The Girls Go Rock Climbing" (CONTENT RATING TBD)
WALK THIS WAY � J. Alexander shocks the girls with a scary lesson on perfecting their runway walk while wearing straightjackets. The models help one girl with her image, while two competitors get into a heated argument. After a couture runway challenge sends one girl to Paris, the girls are left hanging in the air for an edgy fashion photo shoot on a rock-climbing wall. The judges send one model home. The special guests are Roy Campbell, fashion designer Collen Quen and photographer Matthew Jordan Smith (#903).


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List of Names Developed By High School Students in Bozeman, Montana
Second Year of Winter Storm Naming Will Continue to Drive Social Media Conversations on Weather
ATLANTA – October 1, 2013 – The Weather Channel© today announced its list of winter storm names for 2013-2014, which will include Atlas, Boreas, Hercules and Kronos. Last winter the network became the first national organization to proactively name winter storms with the goals of making communications and information sharing easier, and better alerting residents to forecasts for storms that could significantly affect their lives. The inaugural effort was a great success, highlighted by the social and traditional media dialogue around the forecasts and impacts of winter storm Nemo last February, which was mentioned in more than a million tweets.
"Our first year of naming storms proved that it worked, and we were thrilled with the result which was an ideal demonstration of the intersection of social media and television," said Bryan Norcross, meteorologist and storm specialist at The Weather Channel. "The winter storm names enabled simpler and more focused communications around forecasts and preparedness information on The Weather Channel and in other media outlets, and during the big storms like Nemo, the names became a handy way for the public to receive and exchange information."
The storm names for 2013-2014 are derived from lists created by students at Bozeman High School in Bozeman, MT, as an assignment in Latin class and are primarily from Greek and Roman mythology.
The storm-naming criteria are based on National Weather Service thresholds for winter-weather warnings and the storm's expected impacts on a population center or over a large geographic area. Winter storms will be named whenever the predicted weather exceeds the naming criteria. Storms that do not exceed the criteria may also be named, on occasion, when the impacts are forecast to be especially unusual, historic, or significant.
The decision to begin naming storms came about as part of The Weather Channel's program to find the best possible ways to communicate severe-weather information on all distribution platforms, including social media. Hashtags are an intrinsic part of social-media communications, and a storm name proved to be the best way to efficiently and systematically convey storm information. Storm-name hashtags have been used with tropical storms and hurricanes for years, and Winter Storm Nemo's billion-plus impressions on social media last winter demonstrated that the same system is ideal for winter storms as well.
Improving communications is a key part of The Weather Channel's core mission to keep the public safe and informed in severe-weather events. During the winter months, many people are impacted by freezing temperatures, flooding, power outages, travel disruptions, and other impacts caused by snow and ice storms. The storm-naming program raises awareness and reduces the risks, danger, and confusion for residents in the storms' paths.
Along with naming storms, during the 2012-2013 winter storm season The Weather Channel also introduced a new Winter Impact Index called STORM:CON, a scientific, point-based winter weather index that provides, on a scale of one to 10, the potential impacts for major U.S. cities in the path of the storm. To create this index, several factors are considered, including the forecast of the storm's duration, time of day, day of the week, how close in time to a previous significant winter event it occurs, and whether it occurs early or late in the season. The final index number provides an indication of the impact a winter storm will have on a particular city.
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AmAre is an Italian verb which stands for "To Love". It also summarizes what we need to be happy:
Aware (Being)
Active (Being)
Respectful (Being)
Eating (properly)
If we want to digg a bit more under the surface, it also shows we are united in an interconnected universe: there is no (I) Am without (We) are. This is an extremely simple concept to understand, but which has positive effects for a lifetime. If you want to walk this path toward holistic living, just add this blog to your favourites. If you just passed by, and you think you'll not return, we hope at least you'll bring with you these simple five steps to happiness, and we hope they will be as beneficial to you as they have been to us.


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Lion's great, but some of us prefer mucking with the behind-the-scenes stuff with our operating systems. We've found a variety of Terminal tricks that can tweak various Lion behaviors. (Note that with some of these commands, Terminal may complain that a "default pair does not exist." Fret not. Run the command a second time and the error will go away.)
Can you repeat that?
As part of Lion's iOS-style auto-correction, pressing and holding down certain keys on your keyboard now brings up a palette that lets you choose an accented or alternate character. Because of that feature, though, you can no longer press and hold keys to make them repeat—making it a bit tougher to type woooooooohooooooooo, for example. To disable Lion's ban on key repeating, fire up the Terminal and paste in this command.
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
Press Return, and then log out and back into your account to start repeating letters with nary a care in the world. Revert back to Lion's default key-holding behavior by subbing "true" for "false" in that Terminal command.
Restore sanity by not restoring
Thanks to Lion's Restore feature, all the windows you left open in a given application remain open when you relaunch it. That's awesomely helpful in a Web browser or a text editor. In certain apps, however—particularly those where you rarely need to revisit the same documents—the feature is more of an annoyance. Window resuming is actually configured on an app-by-app basis. Here are the Terminal commands to disable Resume in Preview and QuickTime Player X:
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
Quit the apps before you try the commands. Again, swap "true" for "false" to reverse your change.
An animated discussion
When you open a new window in Lion, it launches with a "zoom" animation effect that looks straight out of iOS. If you hate the animation—whether for the real or perceived delay it may cause, stylistic concerns, or something else—you can turn it off. Here's the command:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
You guessed it: Swap "true" for "false" to go back to zooming.
Reading Lost
Safari gains a new Reading List mode in Lion. Whether you want to use it or not, there's seemingly no way to remove the Reading List icon—a pair of glasses—from prime real estate to the left of Safari's bookmarks icon, just below the Back button.
Okay, just kidding. There's totally a way—with the Terminal.
(Thanks to Hints reader nathanator11 for the tip!)
defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar '("Top Sites")'
To undo this one and bring the Reading List icon back, you use this command instead:
defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar '("Top Sites","Reading List")'


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Who's your daddy? Researchers program computer to find out
A University of Central Florida research team has developed a facial recognition tool that promises to be useful in rapidly matching pictures of children with their biological parents and in potentially identifying photos of missing children as they age.
The work verifies that a computer is capable of matching pictures of parents and their children. The study will be presented at the nation's premier event for the science of computer vision - the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Columbus, Ohio, which begins Monday, June 23. Graduate Student Afshin Dehfghan and a team from UCF's Center for Research in Computer Vision started the project with more than 10,000 online images of celebrities, politicians and their children.
"We wanted to see whether a machine could answer questions, such as 'Do children resemble their parents?' 'Do children resemble one parent more than another?' and 'What parts of the face are more genetically inspired?'" he said.
Anthropologists have typically studied these questions. However Dehghan and his team are advancing a new wave of computational science that uses the power of a mechanical "mind" to evaluate data completely objectively – without the clutter of subjective human emotions and biases.
The tool could be useful to law enforcement and families in locating missing children.
"As this tool is developed I could see it being used to identify long-time missing children as they mature," said Ross Wolf, associate professor of criminal justice at UCF.
Wolf said that facial recognition technology is already heavily used by law enforcement, but that it has not been developed to the point where it can identify the same characteristics in photos over time, something this technology could have the capability to do. Dehghan said he is planning to expand on the work in that area by studying how factors such as age and ethnicity affect the resemblance of facial features.
The project is the latest entry by UCF students into a scientific debate that has lived on for more than 60 years – can computers think? Dehghan, who remembers being fascinated by a free-thinking robot in the movie The Terminator as he was growing up, says the project shows that computers can "deep think" by building on previous knowledge. While humans might look for something as prominent as actress Catherine Zeta Jones's smile in her offspring, the computer is able to focus on indicators people may not find as significant – such as
the left eye, the chin and parts of the forehead. By designing an algorithm to focus on specific features, the research team converted the photos into a checkerboard of patches and extracted tiny snapshots of the most significant facial parts.
The computer compared all the photos feature by feature and sorted them by the most probable match. The team found that its program not only did a better job of matching features of parents and their kids than random chance, but it also outperformed existing software for identifying relatives through photos by 3 to 10 percent. The study affirmed that children resemble their parents, often in unseen ways, but that in the majority of cases (63 percent) sons resemble their fathers more than their mothers, and daughters are more likely to resemble their mothers (82 percent).
"Machines can learn through time," Dehghan said. "When a computer goes through thousands of images it knows what it has seen and is able to tell you." Technology has grown to the point that computer scientists are able to revisit findings from traditional science fields and expand on them, said Mubarak Shah, one of the world's leading authorities in the emerging field of computer vision and director of the UCF center.
Shah, who advised Dehghan and his colleagues on the project, said the technology could also be useful in areas such as homeland security, where authorities can use the technology to determine relationships between terrorists.


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Chilcot and the Great Game
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The Iraq Inquiry's verdict on Tony Blair's misadventures is finally out. It makes for tough reading BY Sunny Hundal The story of why Britain invaded Iraq with the U.S. is of a once-powerful empire yearning for its former military stature in the world. Some say it was Iraq's oil that seduced Tony Blair into joining George Bush; others point to Britain's eagerness


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Manchester United manager David Moyes insists the club's supporters understand the troubles facing their side at present.
Saturday's home defeat to Newcastle was United's fifth of the season.
It represented the first time they had lost back-to-back Premier League games at Old Trafford since 2002 and leaves them nearer the relegation zone than the top of the table, with even a seven-point gap to make up on the Champions League places.
Few envisaged such a disastrous start to Moyes' reign when he took charge of a squad that won the championship by 11 points after replacing Sir Alex Ferguson in the summer.
Various theories have been put forward for the alarming slump in fortunes, most significantly a lack of quality in midfield, which lacks the drive and fight of recent seasons.
Some fans have also started to question Moyes himself, although now the decision to appoint the Scot has been made, it is accepted he must be given time to make the decisions he feels are necessary to improve the Red Devils fortunes.
"They all understand it (the bigger picture)," said Moyes.
"Most of them know exactly.
"Of course no-one expects Manchester United to lose games, no more so than me, but it is a fact and my job is to make it better."
It is clear Ferguson's exit has had a seismic effect, not only on the United players, who do not seem capable of lifting their game to the level their former boss managed, but also the opposition, for whom the fear factor of visiting Old Trafford has been removed.
Moyes cannot be blamed for this.
He is just working hard to try and ensure he is getting the most from his squad that he possibly can.
"We've got roughly the same squad that was champions last year," he said.
"We've not changed an awful lot in that period.
"I need to make sure I'm getting the best out of the players and we are performing as well as we possibly can.
"I do think we can play better but there were a lot of games last year where Manchester United didn't play particularly well and maybe, in a game like that, sneaked it with a goal."
What was also clearly noticeable on Saturday was that United failed to respond to Yohan Cabaye's opener in the manner most would have imagined.
Instead of hitting their opponents with an avalanche of attacks, the hosts meekly surrendered, despite Moyes' efforts to galvanise his team.
"I tried to chuck the kitchen sink at it," said Moyes.
"I tried to put Antonio (Valencia) on to go without a right-back and get Adnan (Januzaj) to come inside.
"We looked to try to find openings to give us a chance and we nearly put on as many attacking options as we could to try and get them."


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When U.S. President Barack Obama visited Prague in April, the world's press establishment followed. Photographers scrambled to capture an iconic image. Joe Klamar succeeded.It's an eccentric aesthetic, and that's what they got for these pictures of the U.S. Olympic team, which many people are complaining about.
"It seemed like an obvious shot at the time. I thought all the other photographers would get it, as well," says Klamar, winner of the Czech Press Photo (CPP) "Photo of the Year" award for 2009.
One reddit commentator said: 'There is no way any photographer with a mind for composition would make these mistakes. … If you were to tell me to set up shots to be as ugly as possible, but to not get caught, I would do these same setups.They are real people, not works of art.... but the implication is: The photographs are art.
'I think he must be making a statement about the way society paints athletes as perfect. Showing flaws in the photos to illustrate the fact that they are people, not gods. The mistakes are intentional. Especially considering about half could be fixed by any redditor that has Photoshop.'
Speaking on behalf of Mr Klamar, Director of Photography for AFP Mladen Antonov told the MailOnline: 'The results of this photo shoot are exactly why we sent Joe Klamar in the first place. He has a very unconventional view and approach to both photography and the world.
'We are a news agency, not a PR or advertising agency hired by the Olympics and may I stress - as some internet sites have suggested - that these are not the official portraits of the U.S. Olympic team but only the images distributed by us.
'We have made them look like human beings, as was Joe's intention, not like pieces from Madame Tussaud's as other agencies did. They are real people, not works of art..."
How artistic should journalistic photographs be? No, that's not the right question. The right question is: Is it wrong for journalistic photographs to be artistic in a strange way that undermines the beauty of a notably beautiful subject and calls attention to the quirkiness of the photographer?
Or is the right question: What will make you look? Or: What will make you remember Joe Klamar?


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Clerk Offices in Madison County, Missouri keep public records for a county or local government, including permits. Clerks may be responsible for filing and issuing Madison County permits, including building permits, land use permits, access permits, utility permits, and special event permits. These permits allow property owners and residents to conduct demolitions and renovations, host temporary events, reserve public property, or conduct land development upgrades. They may also show whether a building meets fire and Madison County building codes and include the name, date, and purpose of the permit. The Clerk Office provides information on how to apply for a permit or how to check if a permit is valid, and their permit records are typically available online.
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It's the very last episode of the io9 show, We Come from the Future. Yep, we got cancelled. So we're celebrating by setting off our biggest explosion yet — and talking about all the best shows that got cancelled despite being awesome. Well, I still think it's debatable whether Dollhouse was awesome. But anyway.
You can watch all our back episodes on YouTube. But it won't matter now because we are already cancelled! Done! Finished! Gone! A dead parrot!


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I was talking to friend about how great kitesurfing is, and he said he never would because he swears he heard about a guy who got bitten while riding a kite.
He said the shark saw the Kite rider as a great big fishing lure, skipping on the water....came up out of the water and bit him.
That guy is soooooo full of it. Interesting food for thought though....wait, did I just say that?


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I've used some custom rewrites implemented by the Roots framework. Occasionally they get wiped: certainly if I visit Settings > Permalinks, but also at seemingly random times.
My htaccess reads so:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^css/(.*) /wp-content/themes/the-hit-centre/css/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^js/(.*) /wp-content/themes/the-hit-centre/js/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^img/(.*) /wp-content/themes/the-hit-centre/images/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^plugins/(.*) /wp-content/plugins/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^media/(.*) /wp-content/uploads/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
I've tried removing the
# BEGIN WordPress
comments, but then WP just writes a new block of code.
Is there a hook I can call in functions.php that will prevent WP refreshing the permalinks?
thanks, Tim


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Magic The Gathering TCG 2010 Core Set Booster.
Unlike previous core sets, which were all reprints, the Magic 2010 core set will have approximately 50 percent brand-new cards. Following in the footsteps of Tenth Edition, all core sets going forward will be black-bordered. Also of note is that planeswalkers will appear in the core set for the first time starting with Magic 2010. The set size and rarity mix will still follow new guidelines as announced last year. Magic 2010 contains 249 cards, including 15 mythic rare cards (9 are reprints 6 are brand new). Set size: 249 cards (101 C, 60 U, 53 R, 15 M, 20 L)
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Stafford to play in final preseason game
ALLEN PARK -- Starting quarterback Matthew Stafford will play in Thursday night's final preseason game. He is unsure how long he will be in the game, but seemed certain he will play.
"We want to get out there and keep our rhythm going on offense. I'm assuming a lot of guys that haven't gotten a chance to play as much in the preseason will play a little bit more. It will be fun to watch those guys,'' Stafford said.
Coach Jim Schwartz would not confirm that Stafford will see action.
"We'll see over the next 48 hours,'' the coach said.
Starters are not expected to see much playing time, they never are in the preseason finale.
Schwartz would not offer his theory of how much to play the starters.
"The theory is we have a game and we play the game. We don't go to protect players, we have a game scheduled we're going to play,'' Schwartz said.
The coach did say that the plan is for Kevin Smith to get more reps. Smith, who was held out of practice on Tuesday, is coming back from knee surgery.
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