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The Cloud Corporation
Timothy Donnelly
Wave Books ($16)
by Stephen Ross
Cloud seeding is a form of weather modification used to alter the type or amount of precipitation that falls from clouds. The procedure works by dispersing substances like silver iodide and dry ice in the sky, either by launching them in a rocket or dropping them from an airplane. Once deployed, these substances cause vapor to condense or solidify around them, possibly creating new weather. Numerous countries currently use seeding techniques to relieve droughts, to clean smoggy air, to prevent rain or snowfall (the Chinese government, for instance, took extensive measures to keep Beijing dry for the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics), and even to dampen countercultural activities (the U.S. government allegedly seeded the skies over Woodstock, NY, in mid-August 1969).
Timothy Donnellys best poetry operates on a similar principle to that of cloud seeding. He will introduce a phrase, a song, a word, a government reportany metaphysical seed you likewhere the mist of thought begins to coalesce around it, occluding it here, polishing it there. In time, the seed and the surrounding thought-cloud will undergo a state change and merge into something new, a cross-fertilization of intelligence and cloud. The poem that grows out of this encounter, like a seeded cloud, will carry inside it, at least figuratively, the taint of industrial, commercial, and cultural forces that went into its making, but it will also be a unique environmental phenomenon. The process feels something like
fluctuating on like a soft shifting mass, yielding
instantly to pressure and engulfing any object senseless
enough to have trusted in its surface, incorporating
whatever it can into the grand amalgam of itself
discovering itself and finding everything perfectly
indispensable and pointless . . .
Whereas governments send chemicals into the sky to increase crop fertility or to keep public events dry, Donnelly deploys a range of cultural matter—from Springsteen and Shelley to The 9/11 Commission Report and The Beverly Hillbillies—to spur the release of something rather more nebulous: A silver line, a souvenir, a sieve of relation.
While this cloud seeding analogy may seem a bit heavy-handed, something about reading and writing on Donnelly makes one want to overdo it, to partake of the head-clearing license he gives himself to run wild with analogy, metaphor, and the appropriated language of non-poetic disciplines (meteorology, in this case). While the debate around organic form in poetry long ago grew stale, the broad concept does speak to Donnellys methods of recycling or riffing on a set palette of subjects (elements) within a given form (system)—usually the vicissitudes of knowledge and selfhood within the three-line unrhymed stanza. Much like a weather pattern or a financial market, The Cloud Corporation, conceived as a book-length whole, operates on a cyclical logic of accumulation, solvency, and dissolution. But it also stands outside and reflects on these and the other systems on which it is conceptually modeled. It is a grand amalgam of biographical fact, emotional fancy, literary convention, and gently ironic reflection on the whole:
its foundation
made of clouds, an anchorage
in sinking down where to know
is to feel knowledge dissolving
into particles of pause, the many
stoppages and starts that shape
by sounding each possible maze
through a landscape of otherwise
perfectly nothing.
Donnellys great achievement is to generate, across dozens of poems, an insistent pathos relating to the systems (physiological, financial, natural) that govern our lives. He does this in part by literalizing the figurative language of everyday life—the metaphors we live by, especially that the mind is a landscape—and, alternately, by recasting the natural objects of the world in the figurative language of commerce, history, architecture, philosophy, religion, and poetry. This literal-figurative dialectic begins with the titular Cloud Corporation, a curious, incongruous coinage that, meditated on, gradually opens into a thousand possible meanings—The clouds part revealing, as Donnelly has it. With its focus on questions of collectivity, knowledge, and self, the book might easily have been titled The Intelligence Community (just the sort of horrifically banal phrase that Donnelly would take pleasure in recuperating). Another contender, had it not already been taken and had the books organizing conceit been earthy rather than cloudy, might have been Leaves of Grass.
At its best, Donnellys patois of the body, the heavens, and the marketplace wipes instrumentalized language clean of accumulated meaning, restoring flattened-out words and concepts to a state of prismatic three-dimensionality. In Donnellys usage, corporation, yoked to cloud, is allowed at least momentarily to stand free of the unpretty connotations it has acquired. In fact, the word must acquire new meaning, because the prospect of the weather itself becoming a corporate resource is simply too painful to consider. But then we realize that it already has:
The clouds part revealing an anatomy of clouds
viewed from the midst of human speculation, a business
project undertaken in a bid to acquire and retain
control of the formation and movement of clouds.
A mature environmental aesthetic (Buell, The Environmental Imagination), to borrow Lawrence Buells formulation, is at work in this book. If this aesthetic could speak, it would say: Our selves, like our thoughts and our ethics, are nothing more than emergent properties of the things of this world. As a result, the degradation of the latter directly erodes the integrity of the former. Reflect on yourself reflecting on this. On the subject of weather modification, Donnelly has some thoughts of his own:
It is no more impossible to grasp the baboons
full significance in Egyptian religious symbolism
than it is to determine why clouds we manufacture
provoke in an audience more positive, lasting
response than do comparable clouds occurring in nature.
Donnellys writing often wanders into the realm of what Terry Gifford has called post-pastoral: literature [that] has gone beyond the closed circuit of pastoral and anti-pastoral to achieve a vision of an integrated natural world that includes the human (Gifford, Pastoral). Donnelly certainly aspires to chart, or at least imagine, an integration (incorporation) of this sort, even as he is also prepared to admit that in most cases it is direly lacking. Regardless of real world conditions, he has invented for himself, in serial poems like The Cloud Corporation and Globus Hystericus, a formally robust line generous enough to swallow the whole world. In this sense, his poetry stands among other contemporary work that sports with, revises, and upturns the conventions of nature writing in the broad daylight of post-industrial modernity. Such work uses the experimental strategies of modernism—collage, intertextuality, self-reflexive meditativeness in the Stevensian grain—to recover the ethical viability and aesthetic potency of otherwise worn out modes of nature writing like the pastoral. For recent works of a comparable post-pastoral richness and maturity to that of The Cloud Corporation, one thinks of Lisa Robertsons XEclogue and The Weather, Peter Gizzis Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Jennifer Moxleys The Sense Record, and Joshua Coreys Severance Songs. My green retreat, Donnelly writes, has folded, drawn into itself without me / in it. Later he sketches a harrowing anatomy of modern nostalgia:
Already the present starts plotting its recurrence
somewhere in the future, weaving what happens
in among our fabrics, launching its aroma, its music
imbuing itself into floorboards, plaster, nothing can
stop it, it cant stop itself. You will never have access
to its entirety, and you have asked how to calculate
what resists calculation, how to control what refuses
to cooperate, but know full well a propensity to resist
and to refuse is the source of its power.
The Cloud Corporation is not eco-poetry (it might not even be nature poetry), but it nonetheless occasions and responds to the sorts of questions that most concern eco-poets. It does so with a political edge, but without limiting itself to a strict political instrumentality. It points one of the more promising ways into the future of environmental writing.
Much more could, and hopefully will, be said about this subject, but for now I would like to conclude by quoting the most beautiful passage in the book, from Dream of a Poetry of Defense, in a shameless bid to convince as many people as possible to buy stock in The Cloud Corporation:
As infrastructure to the most invisible
indestructible flower. And infinite. As infinite as pleasure
apprehended through excess. As cross-fertilization
of intelligence and cloud. And as light, and as energy.
As all related instruments indispensable to choruses.
As being differently indispensable. As being harmonious.
As far as being harmonious is concerned, Donnelly has done nothing less than yoke evanescent wonder.
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Illustrations by Richard Whitters
efore I dive into the topic at hand, let me introduce you to the D&D Creative Studio. I have the opportunity to work with a talented and dedicated team on a daily basis, and I want to take a moment and acknowledge them. I hope you will welcome them to the D&D Next conversation as well!
Mari "The Mistress of Monsters" Kolkowsky, Publishing Art Director
Kate "Keenblade" Irwin, Publishing Art Director
Dan "DooMhMhamer" Gelon, Digital Publishing Art Director
Emil "Evil" Tanji, Concept Designer
Nick "Nique Necromantique" Bartoletti, 3D sculptor and animator
Keven Smith and Matt Adelsperger were sucked away to work on other teams (Kaijudo and Magic: The Gathering, respectively), but we still like to think of them as teammates "on assignment."
Okay, now let's tackle a discussion of color and D&D. I'm not looking to pick a single color for the next iteration of D&D, so please don't think that doing so is the intent of this column. I simply want to start a discussion about color, the impact color can have on the products and the way we perceive them, and the emotional resonance that color can create.
First of all, color is all about mood and tone, right? If you want a room that feels bright and alive, paint it with yellows. If you want a room that is serious and somber, give it dark rich tones. If you want a room that infuriates mass murderers, paint it pink. Seriously! A study said that pink was a calming color that would reduce violent emotions. So a prison painted the rooms of their most violent offenders pink. Guess what? Violence increased rather than decreased. There were huge riots until the prison repainted the walls. Just goes to show that scientific studies about color should be taken with a grain of salt. So I'm not going to bring up scientific studies that have been done about the meaning of color or why folks choose specific colors.
Now let me ease into some specifics, plus explore the two most preferred colors I've had to deal with for D&D. A few years back, I saw a commercial that showed me this really radical and trendy couple (this statement is dripping with sarcasm, by the way), and they declared their love of beige. Yep, the color. The dictionary defines beige as follows: A light grayish brown or yellowish brown to grayish yellow.
I call it boring, but that's just my own personal bias.
Have you ever noticed the love/hate relationship Dungeons & Dragons has with the color brown? I fight with it all the time. Something to keep in mind is this: When you ask for "a really cool parchment feel," you're asking for something that's based off brown. Sure, it's light brown. Maybe it even has a bit more yellow to it to give it more of a warm golden feel, but it is still a variation of brown! The same holds true for anything based on leather, hide, old book covers, and other earthy elements. These things are all very brown. In case you can't tell, dealing with brown stuff isn't a piece of cake (not even chocolate cake, which is kinda brown). Many folks talk about their love of the "in-world" feel and the immersive feeling of period items, but at the same time they complain about how boring "brown" stuff is. I feel like I'm dealing with a catch-22 situation. Often folks will say, "Yeah, but you can make it interesting with texture." Really? Imagine comparing brown textures all day long . . .
After brown, the next favorite color for D&D seems to be red, so I'm going to pick on red for a few minutes.
As a visual professional, I can tell you that a certain shade of red might elicit a specific emotional response for person A, but that it'll mean something completely different for person B—depending upon the person's age group, culture, or ability to perceive color. Picking colors is more art than science. I did a search on the web for the meaning of the color red, and I found:
Red is the warmest of all colors.
Red is the color most chosen by extroverts.
Red is one of the colors most chosen by males.
Red cars go faster (really?) and cost more to insure.
Red is the color of anger.
Red is the color of prosperity.
Red is the color of joy.
Red is the color of love.
Red can have a physical effect, increasing the rate of respiration and raising blood pressure.
Red increases enthusiasm and interest.
Red increases energy.
And that is just a small sample of "facts" found for a single color. I'm not sure I buy into all the statements made, but let's run with it for a minute.
Now, I'm a fan of red. Well, most reds, but that doesn't mean that everything should be red just because I like it. Instead I've got to make choices based upon the needs of the brand, the product, and the choices that you guys and gals make with your wallets.
Marketing folks will tell you to use the color red to grab attention and to get people to take action. They also tell you to use starbursts, but that's a different discussion. Sure, using red might grab someone's attention. That is, unless you are shelved on an aisle full of red items.
So, our teams here need to talk a bit more and make sure that we understand the intent of the piece, the place in which it will be sold, the emotional reaction we are trying to create, the demographics of the consumer, and a host of other questions I'd like to have answered before we jump on the red bandwagon. This is the kind of stuff that we discuss in the creative brief and do design explorations around. The whole creative studio does a mind meld and tries to channel the thoughts and ideas of players in an attempt to find a look-and-feel solution that hits the nail on the head.
At this point, I'd like to play with a bit of color theory. Here are a few color palettes that are created using standard conventions of color theory using red as our base. If I were just going to run with scientific principles, I could pick the "best" red, and then use one of these palettes to create the perfect book cover, right? You wouldn't mind a cover created in any of these palettes right?
Do I hear some rumblings of disagreement right now?
We know red is popular among males, is all about aggression and power, creates a very powerful statement, and would stand out from the background, right? So if you aren't jumping on my red bandwagon here, why do you think that is? Maybe you want more sophistication or subtlety. Maybe it's just the fact that you think everything shouldn't be red. Maybe you just hate red. Maybe . . . well, there are a lot of maybes out there.
Like I said, it isn't that easy.
So, let's play a game for a moment. What if I narrow our color topic down and focus on choosing a color for the logo only. What color do you want the D&D logo to be? What color speaks to you about the meaning of the brand, the feel of the D&D experience, and the emotional reaction that the logo should elicit? For the sake of ease, I'm going to use the existing logo and do a color shift on it. What do you think? Do you have a preference? Does the color affect the mood and emotional resonance of the logo? Does it make the D&D logo "say" something to you?

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I've always wondered about this in romance novels: Why are the female leads almost always virgins, regardless of their age, era, etc.? Don't get me wrong - I am not saying that women should take their bodies or sexuality lightly. But I also find it a bit odd that in the 21st century women readers and writers seem to, well, "fetishize" the hymen, women's purity, virginity. Seems like an acceptance, an endorsement, even of the age-old idea that a women of experience (or even one of curiousity) is somehow "damaged goods" - less desirable than one who is "pure".
What does it mean in the Higlander novels? Why does the women's virginity play such an important part? What does it mean for their characters, the storyline? etc
Please, no flames from others about whether one way of living/being is better than the other. I believe that women have every right to decide if, when, where, and with whom they share their bodies - or don't - so please don't assume this is an attack on or judgement of anyone. Just wondering about this and would love to understand it from a romance writer's point of view.


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OTTUMWA — On top of the old St. Joseph's Hospital in Ottumwa is a 70-foot antenna once used for radio communications in Wapello County.
Thursday afternoon, the Wapello County Board of Supervisors approved terminating a lease agreement with Ottumwa Regional Health Center, allowing the antenna to be destroyed when the old medical facility is demolished.
Sheriff Mark Miller told supervisors since the new E911 tower is up and running, the county no longer has anything in operation at the Alta Vista Avenue site, the location of the old St. Joseph's hospital. The cost to remove the tower, he indicated, would exceed the cost of what the old antenna would be worth.
Miller told supervisors he would draft a letter to OHRC thanking them for its assistance to the citizens of Wapello County as well as inform them of the termination agreement.
In other business, the board:
• Approved the final design for the bridge over Village Creek, located in Keokuk Township, with Calhoun Burns. The new bridge and approach is expected to cost Wapello County $500,000 to construct.
• Approved changing Kari Short's position in the county attorney's office from Clerk II to Clerk III. Currently she is paid $13.72 per hour. Her pay will be boosted to $14.90 per hour.
• Approved hiring Aaron McConnell as temporary full-time Wapello County deputy sheriff. His starting salary will be $20.07 per hour. He replaces a deputy that was assigned to the Drug Task Force.
• Discussed revising the dental contract with River Hills Community Health Center; however, no action was taken.


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TULSA — Class 3A No. 15 Sequoyah pulled off a season sweep of Cascia Hall, beating the Commandos 59-54 on Tuesday night.
The Indians (8-4) were led by Caisen Green, who had 14 points. Ryan Helsley chipped in with 13 points — all in the second half — for Sequoyah.
"It was a tough game," Sequoyah coach Jay Herrin said. "We came out in the third quarter and got our lead back up to nine. We had a few turnovers in the fourth to fuel their comeback.
"Ryan got all of his points in the second half and really played well. He hit some big shots and made some key free throws."
B.J. Leach added 11 points for Sequoyah, which won at Cascia Hall for the first time in five years.
With the win, Sequoyah improves to 8-4 with a road game ahead on Friday night in Henryetta. The Indians will also play Saturday at home against Keys.
In the girls game, 4A No. 5 Cascia Hall jumped out to a big lead and never relinquished it in a 55-43 victory. The Lady Commandos outscored Sequoyah (7-5) 24-2 in the first quarter and never looked back.
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CHOUTEAU — A big third quarter sent Hulbert to a 49-24 rout of Chouteau on Tuesday night.
The Lady Riders, led in the game by Tiffany Thompson's 19 points, used a 17-4 third quarter to snap a two-game losing streak.
"We played a little sluggish early," Hulbert coach Rick Ott said. "They had a pretty good defensive scheme, and they dared some of our kids to shoot the basketball. So we started running more of a spread-out-type offense. Then, in the third quarter, we got in our press a little bit, hit some 3s and blew it open pretty quick."
In the boys game, Chouteau held off Hulbert, 63-47. Mason Fielden led the Riders (8-6) with 15 points.
Both Hulbert teams will be at Vian on Friday night, with the boys playing at 6:30 p.m. and the girls to follow at 8.


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CARRBORO — The first bottle opens with a hiss just before 9 a.m. A clear, soft golden Munich Helles pours into the cup.
It feels too early to drink craft beer. Not even the college football fans tailgating nearby in Chapel Hill are popping tops this early.
To drink at this hour requires a professional. And more than 20 of them are gathered Saturday at Steel String Brewery in Carrboro to judge the the N.C. Brewers Cup, the State Fairs homebrewing competition.
The majority of the judges are bona fide experts, having completed the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) administered by the American Homebrewers Association. Others are professional brewers or industry experts.
Im not sure where I fit, but I show up ready to learn.
Jim McNulty, a 33-year-old cytotechnologist from Whitsett who is an experienced judge, is serving as my partner and guide.
As he starts to explain how to properly judge a beer, it becomes overwhelming. Im no lightweight my beer palate is fairly refined from years of tasting and homebrewing. But I quickly learn that beer judging is a serious process, even painstaking.
The rules are rigorous. Before the competition starts, the judges must prep their palates, avoiding certain foods and toothpastes. No aftershave or perfumes nothing that could color the sensory glands.
Before I sit down, McNulty places a dozen plastic cups on the table to allow them to breathe, or off-gas the plastic phenolics that could affect the aroma and flavor of the beer. He inspects the bottle. Then he pours a 2-ounce sample into the cup. We sniff. Grainy. And we sniff again. Caramel. And again. Bready. My nose hits the foam rookie mistake. I delight in a beers aroma more than most enthusiasts, but five minutes later, I still havent tasted it.
What I learn is the score sheet gives about a third of the score based on aroma and appearance alone derived without taste. Another 10 points out of 50 are based on overall impression. Flavor and mouthfeel account for the remaining half the score. The Munich Helles (pronounced hell-us, I learned), is sweetly malty with limited to no hops.
The whole competition is about describing what youre experiencing, whether smell or taste.
And the vocabulary is both lyrical and amusing. A malt flavor can be grainy, dark fruit, toasty or burnt. Hops can be citrusy, floral, herbal, spicy or woody. Esters, or flavors from malt and yeast created during the fermentation process, are fruity, whether apple and pear, or berry and stone fruit. Other flavors include smoke, vinous (wine-like) or brett (described as horse-blanket), though these are sometimes flaws.
The score sheet includes this checklist of flavors to steer our feedback. We write down our scores. The first entry is decent, but not enough to win the category.
McNulty adds plenty of comments and suggestions. Im too shy to write much given my amateur status.
I judge to become a better homebrewer, he tells me at the lunch break. I think thats why a lot of us judge. I dont think anybody comes in wanting to tell people that their beer is good or their beer is bad.
As we finish the first beer, I look at the clock. Twenty minutes, start to finish.
McNulty compliments my palate, but his is better. He grabs the bottle opener. Ready for the next one? he asks.
I am. At this point, I need a beer.
What Im tasting
On the professional shelves, the fall season is well underway. It seems too early, but nevertheless, I bought a pumpkin beer. I found a new one with Anderson Valleys Fall Hornin Pumpkin Ale. Its deep mahogany in color, rich in aroma and flavor and well spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg one of the better ones in this seasons patch. A six-pack costs about $10.
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Read onIt became a night of redemption for a couple of Detroit Red Wings at
Joe Louis Arena, and this Western Conference Quarterfinal Series is now
even because of it.
Damien Brunner
scored 15:10 into overtime to give the Red Wings a 3-2 victory Monday
night against the Anaheim Ducks. He atoned for a bad gaffe in Game 3 -- a
turnover in his own zone that led a critical goal in Anaheim's 4-0
victory -- by putting home the rebound of a Gustav Nyquist shot to tie the series at two games apiece.
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A. Weddemann, J. Jadidian, S. Khushrushahi, Y. Kim, and M. Zahn
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA
The modeling of ferromagnetic materials is a challenging task of high industrial and academic impact. Thin film and granular systems form the basis of novel spintronic devices such as modern hard drives with a high data area storage density. In order to push the current limits even further and to design more efficient devices, a strong understanding of the governing dynamics is required. We ...
Modelling Aircraft Fuel Gauging Unit using COMSOL Multiphysics Software
T. Ekwevugbe[1], and G. Bevan[2]
[1]Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
[2]School of Engineering and Computing, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland
An investigation was undertaken into the suitability of using COMSOL for modeling an aircraft capacitive fuel gauging unit. A model of a sensor immersed in a fluid was developed for rectangular tank geometry with a range of fluid levels and sensor orientation using the electrostatics application mode in COMSOL's AC/DC module The importance of modeling the capacitance of air was demonstrated. ...
Power Transistor Heat Sink Design Trade-offs
T. Eppes, I. Milanovic, and G. Quarshie
University of Hartford
West Hartford, CT
Power transistors require heat sinks to dissipate thermal energy and keep junction temperatures below the recommended limit. The reliability and longevity of any semiconductor device is inversely proportional to the junction temperature. Hence, a significant increase in reliability and component life can be achieved by a small reduction in operating temperature. A range of heat sink designs ...
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T. Zhao, G. Minerbo, J. Hunka, and G. Hazen
Sugar Land, TX
Coil antenna is the simplest form in well-logging tools for resistivity measurement of the formation. This paper introduces how to accurately compute the impedance of the coil with very thin wires at high frequency, and with the complex borehole structure, e.g., metal housing and collar. A 3D RF electromagnetic wave in frequency domain is used. An alternate array of transmitters and receivers ...
Boundary Element Technique in Petroleum Reservoir Simulation
M. Liu, and G. Zhao
University of Regina
Regina, SK
Petroleum reservoir simulation is a process of modeling the complex physical phenomena inside a reservoir. This study presents an application of an analytical based numerical scheme so called the Boundary Element Method (DRBEM). It is proven to be able to provide a computationally efficient means of handling single and multiphase flow in a homogeneous medium through the comparison study with ...
Finite Element Convergence for Time-Dependent PDEs with a Point Source in COMSOL 4
M. Gobbert, and D. Trott
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
Many application problems have non-smooth forcing terms, such as the Dirac delta function. The convergence order for the FEM solution is limited by the regularity of the solution in this case. This paper presents information on the techniques needed in COMSOL 4 to enable FEM convergence studies for time-dependent problems of this type, including how to correctly implement the Dirac delta ...
Simulation of an Atmospheric Pressure Direct Current Microplasma Discharge in He/N2
L. Tong
Keisoku Engineering System Co. Ltd.
A study of an atmospheric pressure direct current microplasma discharge in He/N2 is performed using COMSOL Multiphysics. The calculation of heat transfer is fully coupled with the plasma simulation so as to resolve the gas heating in discharges. A simple circuit model is used to decide the discharge voltage so that the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics are obtained. The I-V characteristics ...
Patch Antenna Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
T. Eppes, I. Milanovic, and S. Thiruvengadam
University of Hartford
West Hartford, CT
Patch antennas are widely used in communications links with unmanned aerial vehicles. Their hemispherical send and receive patterns enable the systems to maintain radio frequency contact over a wide range of vehicular attitudes. A microstrip-fed design offers other attractive features including lightweight, inexpensive, and a 3-D structure that can be easily integrated into the fuselage. This ...
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A. Warning, A. K. Datta, A. Dhall, and D. Mitrea
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Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
A multiphase porous media model involving heat and mass transfer within a potato chip was implemented in COMSOL 3.5a. The diffusive flux in oil and liquid water was modeled from capillary driven flow while the gas phase was modeled using binary diffusion. A non-equilibrium water evaporation rate was used and Darcy's law for the momentum equation to solve for the convection of each ...
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By Keith Gushard
Meadville Tribune
Double-murderer Gary Wiley keeps fighting for his freedom by attacking a robbery conviction that provided the motive for his killings.
Wiley's attorney said Monday he hasn't given up even though Crawford County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Anthony Vardaro has ruled Wiley is not due a new trial for robbing OxyContin, a highly addictive painkiller, and $350 in cash, from a Linesville drug store. Wiley murdered Tod and Laurie Prenatt because of their knowledge of the robbery. If the robbery conviction is overturned, so would Wiley's murder convictions, confirmed Wiley's court-appointed attorney, J. Wesley Rowden.
Vardaro found there are no genuine issues on any material facts in Wiley's robbery case. Vardaro's order states the appeal for a new robbery trial will be dismissed without a hearing within 20 days unless the defense responds within that time period.
Rowden said Monday he plans to respond to Vardaro's dismissal order within the 20-day time period.
Wiley had appealed his robbery conviction, claiming his attorney at the robbery trial time didn't give him effective representation.
Wiley was convicted of robbery, theft and terroristic threats in Crawford County court on Jan. 20, 2011, following a jury trial for the April 2, 2010, robbery of the Rite Aid store in Linesville. He's currently serving a 20-month to 120-month jail sentence for those crimes.
In March 2012, Wiley was convicted by a Crawford County jury of killing Tod Prenatt, 51, and his wife Laurie Prenatt, 44, at their Linesville-area home on April 10, 2010, because the Prenatts knew Wiley had robbed the Rite Aid drug store.
Wiley's attorney at the robbery trial, Robert Trambley, the county's public defender, appealed Wiley's robbery conviction on different grounds, but lost and Wiley's robbery sentence was upheld by Superior Court Jan. 26, 2012.
On Sept. 4, 2012, Judge Vardaro appointed Rowden to represent Wiley after Wiley had filed his own appeal of the robbery case with county court, citing an ineffective counsel. Rowden also had represented Wiley during his March 2012 double homicide trial in county court.
In the appeal of Wiley's Rite Aid drug store robbery conviction, Rowden claimed the robbery case wasn't properly investigated by the defense prior to trial since Wendy Kemling, a potential alibi witness for Wiley, wasn't interviewed.
In his ruling, Vardaro found there was nothing to indicate Wiley's attorney was ineffective with regard to Kemling.
"There is no indication that anything that the defendant's (Wiley's) attorney had available would have suggested to him that Ms. Kemling was a potential alibi witness and there was no averment that the defendant (Wiley) told trial counsel that Ms. Kemling was with him at the time the robbery occurred and therefore she should be interviewed as a potential alibi witness."
The appeal also claimed the defense failed to obtain the recording of the 911 call of the robbery that would have provided the exact time of the robbery. It also claimed the witness who made the original 911 call, Rob Anderson, provided statements that were inconsistent with those of witnesses that the prosecution used in identifying Wiley.
Vardaro ruled, "We do not believe that the information provided by Mr. Anderson in the 911 call would have been critical to the extent it would have changed the outcome of the trial."
District Attorney Francis Schultz was happy with Vardaro's ruling to dismiss Wiley's appeal for a new trial on the robbery charges.
"The issues raised with regard to a new trial were without merit," Schultz said Monday. "I'm pleased with the ruling."
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Nearly two months after Hurricane Sandy pummeled through the Northeast, the frustration about the communication from state officials and power companies in the storm aftermath is still a major discussion among members of the public.
The quality and accuracy of the information flow was the key subject brought up at the Board of Public Utilities third public hearing at Hopatcong Middle School Tuesday night.
More than 60 people, including local officials and residents from Morris, Sussex and Passaic counties, attended the meeting where over a dozen people commented and raised concerns to BPU and JCP&L officials about the state's preparedness and response after the storm that left millions across the state without power for days and some for weeks.
Several mayors said the power company provided false restoration numbers, which angered the residents in their municipalities in a time when they needed comfort most.
Hopatcong Mayor Sylvia Petillo told officials that residents wanted to get frequent updates on when the power was coming back, where crews were in town, and how many crews were working, but she couldn't receive any of that information from JCP&L. She added that the false restoration numbers, including the Sunday after the storm when a JCP&L representative , but were never restored, was a major issue.
She suggested having a JCP&L supervisor call the OEM director every morning to provide updates about the crews' daily work routines.
"Then we would have information to give out that would be current and it would be real," Petillo said. "Other than that we can not get the information from the managers that are assigned."
Frankford Mayor Gary Larson, who received an applause after he spoke, said the restoration charts given from the power company kept showing inaccuracies and added to the frustration during the outage.
"I don't understand why you would put those numbers up there," he told the officials. "We had residents coming in and asking us questions and there was very little we could give them."
Other residents who spoke agreed with officials, including Kim Armstrong, of Roxbury.
"I would ask the BPU to seriously consider appointing person to have that information in town so everyone is talking on same page," she said.
Hopatcong resident Carolyn Albanese suggested having JCP&L post updates on social media where crews are working in town, simliar to how she said the Hopatcong Police posted on their Facebook page whenever they saw crews on streets.
BPU president Robert Hanna said in his opening statements that the communication has been by far the biggest public complaint. He said while there were several methods of communication implemented after Hurricane Irene, including having more representatives in the town, greater use of social media, and creating the outage maps, he doesn't believe it was the forms of communication that was the problem, and instead the accuracy.
"The method is not the issue, he said. "There are plenty of methods in this day in age to get information. The problem really was the quality of information getting out there to the public. Many, many complaints of the information posted was inaccurate and incorrect information was given out."
He said while the utility companies can not generate street by street information, he said the companies "have to do a far better job in terms of the quality of information they provide to the public so that people at least can make an intelligent decision about whether they can stay in their homes or not."
JCP&L president Don Lynch said the power company is working to provide more accurate information regarding outages and restoration times.
"While no other utility in the country can currently do that down to the customer level, I am committed to work with the BPU to figure out how we can do that, how can we provide more specific information."
Lynch added that JCP&L is also currently working on a number of other steps to improve communication, including expanding communication channels in texting, emails and other alerts, and making enhancements to the power maps.
Lynch, who said the storm resulted in the largest restoration effort in the history of New Jersey, said nearly all JCP&L customers were effected by the storm with 1.3 million outages in all 236 municipalities.
"The damage that resulted from this storm was more damage than Hurricane Irene plus the snowstorm that hit us last October," he said.
Hanna said there were over 17,000 out-of-state workers that helped restore the power, which was the largest utility workforce ever mobilized in New Jersey.
He added that 71 percent of all New Jersey electrical distribution circuits were damaged from the storm. He said 116,000 trees came down, where over 64,000 of those were in JCP&L territory. There were over 6,700 JCP&L utility poles that came down as well, he said, which is the most of the four electrical companies in the state.
"We are looking at all aspects of preparation and response by the electric utilities in the hopes that we can make this better," Hanna said.
Some of the other issues brought up Tuesday night in the two-and-a-half hour meeting were about the downed wires and trees that remained on the ground for days.
"The biggest issue that I had was that every major way in and out of this town, particularly Lakeside Bouelvard, remained block by downed trees for about a week," Hopatcong resident Andrew Dick said. "Please consider whether the town and county employees could be trained to work in areas where there are downed wires to safely secure wires to get roads open."
Hanna said all comments will be reviewed by state officials to improve the infrastructure.
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More meetings will be scheduled after the new year.
Residents can also submit written comments via email to: firstname.lastname@example.com or by mail to: Kristi Izzo, Secretary of the Board, Board of Public Utilities, 44 South Clinton Ave., 9th Floor, P.O. Box 350, Trenton, NJ 08625-0350.
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Will this renovation pay off? That's the question on the mind of every homeowner who's thinking about undertaking a project to bolster their home's resale value. And in today's tight housing market, the answer to that question may even determine whether the house will sell.
Fortunately for homeowners, a number of remodeling projects offer the potential for a high return on investment (ROI). According to Remodeling magazine's annual cost vs. value report, some of the best renovations are those done on the exterior of the home—siding, window, and door replacements—because they immediately improve a home's curb appeal. In other words, if the paint on your front door is peeling or the sidewalk is badly cracked, you're not making a good first impression—and that can make prospective buyers question how much you've put into maintaining the home's interior. Even simple fixes, like pulling weeds and trimming unkempt shrubbery, can make a home more inviting.
Beyond curb appeal, certain projects will provide higher returns than others. U.S. News asked real estate agents and home contractors for their recommendations:
Attic bedrooms. According to Remodeling, you'll recoup 73 percent of your investment when turning the attic into a bedroom. However, this also ranks as one of the most expensive projects, averaging $50,148 nationally. But if you have the money, an attic bedroom is a desirable feature among homebuyers. "Any time you add additional square footage like that can have a very positive effect on the selling price," says Paul Wyman, a real estate agent with Wyman Group in Kokomo, Ind.
Kitchens. Although a kitchen remodel returns only 66 percent, on average, Chris Dossman, a real estate agent with Century 21 Scheetz in Indianapolis, says kitchens are one of the first things homebuyers look at. "If you have a house that doesn't have an updated kitchen but you have a remodeled attic, that's not what people are looking for," she says.
The cost of a major kitchen remodel varies widely depending on the region. Nonetheless, it's important not to go overboard, as you don't want to price your home out of the local market. For example, if you're in a neighborhood where the average home value is $200,000 and you put in a $50,000 kitchen, you're out-pricing your house.
A major kitchen redesign may not be a good decision if the space only requires a facelift. "You don't have to completely gut your kitchen if it's in good working shape," says Adam Taffel, a real estate broker with Centre Realty Group in Newton, Mass. In many cases, less-drastic updates like refinishing surfaces, upgrading appliances, and installing new light fixtures will cut it.
But making the mistake of opting for a facelift when the space does, in fact, need a full-scale remodel will cost you. "You need to ask yourself questions like, 'Are the cabinets structurally sound enough that if I spend a significant amount of money refacing them, are they going to just fall apart anyway?'" says Darius Baker, a contractor with D&J Kitchen & Baths, Inc. in Sacramento, Calif.
Baths. Investing in a bathroom remodel yields a 62 percent return, on average, but you've got to do it right. Many homebuyers are looking for a master bathroom with two sinks, custom showers, and great lighting. You'll turn off buyers if you only put in the minimal amount of work. "A lot of folks, when they buy a home, don't want to have put a lot of work into it," says agent Wyman. "An outdated bathroom requires a lot of work." Since bathrooms are especially prone to looking dated, pick neutral colors and finishings.
Also consider bumping out the size of a bathroom. Many buyers looking for a three-bedroom home want two full baths rather than one full and one half bath, says bath contractor Baker.
And sometimes less is more. "Giving it new paint, a new toilet, a new shower faucet, and a new [shower]head is probably the best bang for your buck. But that's assuming the flooring is nice and the walls around the tub and shower are in good standing condition," says contractor Dennis Gehman of Gehman Design Remodeling in Harleysville, Penn.


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It's almost time for the second presidential debate—at 9 p.m. tonight President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney will duke it out on Long Island.
But, for those New Yorkers who will not be going to Hofstra University in Hempstead for Tuesday's debate, here's a list of local watering holes in Park Slope hosting viewing parties.
- , 200 5th Ave, will be setting 30 TVs (out 105) to play the debate live in the restaurant section of their space. If you must know, the rest of the TVs will be dedicated to the Yankees game.
- Union Hall, 702 Union St: Come watch the Second Presidential Debate downstairs at Union Hall. They will be projecting the debate onto their huge screen in the downstairs performance space. Featuring drink specials and plenty of seating for everyone.
- Pacific Standard, 82 4th Ave: Drinking Liberally Downtown Brooklyn will host the debate viewing at Pacific Standard. Come for some good neighborhood drinking, a big TV and camaraderie.
- Dram Shop, 339 9th St: Come catch the debate on at least four TVs (you can catch the Yanks on the other TV and projector).
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The I-495 Express Lanes are in the final phase of construction and should be operational by late fall 2012, officials said during a news briefing Wednesday morning.
The lanes, which have been undergoing testing for the last couple of months, will bring faster, easier and pricier trips to commuters, but they'll also bring major traffic changes.
"This is the biggest single traffic change for this region since the opening of I-66 30 years ago," said Jennifer Aument, vice president of Transurban-Fluor, the company building the lanes. "So all drivers, whether they plan to use the Express Lanes or not, need to be alert and be prepared."
Aument urged carpoolers to purchase their E-ZPass Flex transponders and learn as much as they can about the lane operations before they open. New EZ-Pass customers can get a week of toll-free travel when the lanes open if they create an account during October.
All travelers who wish to use the express lanes when they open will need an E-ZPass or an E-ZPass Flex. Flex users will be able to switch to HOV mode and avoid paying a toll if they have three or more people in the car.
Drivers should expect to pay somewhere between $3 to $6 for a roundtrip on the Express lanes in rush hour, and $1 to $2 during less congested periods.
Aument said tolls on the road aren't established ahead of time – instead, they're adjusted in real time depending on congestion levels.
Aument equated the opening of the Express Lanes to the "first day of school," and said commuters need to visit the I-495 Express Lanes website before they open to orient themselves and map their routes.
The 14-mile stretch of high-tech toll lanes will run from the Mixing Bowl interchange in Springfield to just North of the Dulles Toll Road.
Officials held the briefing at the Express Lanes operations center in Alexandria, which will be manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week when the lanes open. There, operators will handle enforcement and emergency response.
Virginia State Troopers will patrol the lanes to enforce the tolling, with beefed up police presence during rush hours.


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Editor's Note: The last online update from Southern California Edison indicated that power would be fully restored by 8 p.m. tonight after earlier online updates indicated earlier times today. SCE beat the 8 p.m. estimate, restoring electricity to the last 146 affected customers around 6 p.m. Here's a look at what some residents experienced during the outage, which lasted around 18 hours for some, seven for others and less than one hour for many more.
Some residents in Manhattan Beach's Tree Section were without power for some 18 hours Monday after an outage that began shortly before midnight Sunday.
For James Gill and his family that meant using battery-operated candles to begin morning prep for work and school, and using the release switch to open an electric-powered garage door.
Indeed, as dusk spread its glow, curious residents walked to Poinsettia Avenue and 35th Street Monday to watch Southern California Edison crews at work, wondering when their power would be back on.
For Jill Cooper, who arrived at the intersection with her two-month-old twins in a stroller, the power outage meant throwing away milk for the babies. And while she'd been relieved to have power restored around 7 a.m., her power going out again around 4 p.m. brought her out to determine if she'd be spending any time in the dark Monday night.
Time in the dark left its mark for those affected residents; some nonplussed and patient, some praising the SCE crews for their non-stop work, others trying to figure out if they'd need to go out for dinner or go to the movies to escape the darkness at home until the projected 8 p.m. power restoration time last provided by SCE.
Gill, who was frustrated by not being able to get information on the outage and when power would be restored despite dialing the phone number given to him by two City Council members four times, in the early afternoon had wandered to where SCE crews were at work to get firsthand info. He was told that once tree trimming was completed and one last thing done, power would be back on.
He thought the info translated into an hour or two at most. Three hours later and he was no closer to knowing when his home would have electricity.
Calling the experience "a little test to see what it's like" to not have power for more than a few hours, Gill said the experience "awakened" him to every little thing one counts on power for in one's daily routines.
Cheryl Burke, who had an SCE worker knocking on her door at 6:30 a.m. to get into her backyard to deal with a downed power line, said the crews were "working like crazy" Monday to fix the power problem.
"They can't really do much about it," she said of the workers and the power outage. She said workers knocked on doors in the 3400 block of Poinsettia saying trees needed to be trimmed.
As she saw work progress, she was "optimistic" and bought groceries mid-day. Upon her return home, she found herself without power. Monday around 4:45 p.m., she wondered if she'd better go to a movie. "It's not going to be much fun to be in the dark," she said.
John Hoven was among the onlookers who felt an appreciation for the skilled work of the crews. He said he was among the residents whose homes had power restored in the morning to get through their day, and then had it turned off around 4 p.m. when SCE crews needed to make their final fixes.
"These guys have been working their butts off," he said. "They've been working non-stop."
Cooper, who'd had to throw out "hundreds of ounces of milk" for her babies, found the day "kind of stressful." When power first went out, she and her husband were in the middle of a feeding, but fortunately the milk had been warmed enough.
She and her husband took one baby to bed with them when they noticed he seemed to be cold. The babies sleep in sleepers sans blankets at this age and without power, the heater in the house didn't work.
Monday morning, she and her husband threw out milk, yogurt and cheese, her husband making a run to re-supply her with milk and yogurt for the day while he was at work.
About an hour after a man in a truck with the SCE brand on it told onlookers at the intersection power would be on in 10-15 minutes, the crew successfully restored power to all.
- Previously: Power Out in Part of Tree Section
- Previously: Updated: Power Outage Lingers Into Monday Morning


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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The 21-year-old Iraq war veteran seen in a video being shot by a sheriff's deputy says in a recorded statement that he has difficulty walking.
Senior Airman Elio Carrion released a videotaped statement through his attorney Thursday, a day after San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Ivory J. Webb pleaded not guilty to attempted voluntary manslaughter and was released on $100,000 bail.
"My physical therapy continues to progress and I still have difficulties walking," Carrion says, looking into the video camera.
"I'm sorry I haven't been able to speak publicly, but right now I'm focused on my physical therapy and healing."
The tape shows him sitting on a couch next to his wife and moving around with the aid of a walker.
The January 29 shooting was videotaped by a bystander and broadcast on U.S. national television. (Watch the shots being fired -- 1:00)
It shows Webb shooting Carrion, who was not armed, in the chest, shoulder and thigh after a brief high-speed chase involving a car in which the airman was a passenger.
Webb, who faces up to 18 1/2 years in prison if convicted, has not spoken publicly about the shooting.
Carrion, who is assigned to a security unit at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana, has not been charged with a crime.
I saw this coming right after it happened. Even though I try not to judge someone until I've been in their shoes; what was this deputy thinking?
Could it be he got caught up in the pursuit and wasn't able to turn it down after apprehension? I hope I'm never put in that situation.'The Art of War' teaches us to "Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's coming, but on our own readiness to receive him"--Sun Tsu
03-11-06, 09:59 PM #3FishTail Guest
I'd really like to know what was in his head when he pulled the trigger. That's the key to it all.
The video link doesn't workBeing the best is not what always counts. What counts is always trying your best.
Remember who you are, and where you came from. That way you never get a big head.
May those that lost their lives in 9-11 RIP, for the things you did not many could do. You left so many behind so that you could save so few. For now we stand strong as one, and will not look back till the fight is done. (me)
The opinions given in my posts DO NOT reflect the opinions, views, policies, and/or procedures of my employing agency. They are MY PERSONAL OPINIONS only.
03-11-06, 11:55 PM #5Originally Posted by LongTailWhen I used to be somebody (I'm center top)
"A burning desire for social justice is never a substitute for knowing what you're talking about". -Thomas Sowell-
03-12-06, 12:09 AM #6FishTail Guest
So... does it work in California the same as in England? That if you have an honestly held belief (however unreasonable) that you are in danger of death or serious bodily harm you can use lethal force?
I know here the law regarding lethal force is based of the officer's persecption. I don't see how that can be different anywhere else.
Way too hard to judge another's actions over a small video clip. Plus none of us here have any idea of what the officer was thinking.
I will say it does not look good for the deputy. Did a passenger run? I seem to remember that. Why did the passenger run?This message was brought to you by Tampons. We
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Originally Posted by LongTail'The Art of War' teaches us to "Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's coming, but on our own readiness to receive him"--Sun Tsu
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ST. LOUIS — Allen Craig slid home and it sure looked as though he was out.
Didn't matter.
A rare obstruction call by an umpire let Craig score with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, finishing off a mad-cap play that sent the St. Louis Cardinals over the Boston Red Sox 5-4 Saturday night for a 2-1 lead in the World Series.
It was as crazy an ending in a World Series game as anyone had seen, and created a wild scene at home plate. The Cardinals rushed out to congratulate an ailing Craig while the Red Sox rushed to the exact same spot to argue the call.
A walk-off win? More like a trip-off.
"I'm in shock right now," Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina said. "Wow, it's unbelievable."
Third baseman Will Middlebrooks tripped Craig after a wild throw got away following Jon Jay's ninth-inning grounder.
Boston tied the score with two runs in the eighth before Molina singled with one out in the ninth off loser Brandon Workman. Craig, just back from a sprained foot, pinch hit and lined Koji Uehara's first pitch down the left-field line for a double that put runners on second and third.
With the infield in, Jay hit a grounder to diving second baseman Dustin Pedroia. He made a sensational stab and threw home to catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who tagged out the sliding Molina.
But then Saltalamacchia threw wide of third while trying to get Craig. After the ball got by, Middlebrooks, with his stomach on the field, raised both legs and tripped Craig, slowing him down as he tried to take off for home plate.
Third base umpire Jim Joyce immediately signaled obstruction, and even though a sliding Craig was tagged by Saltalamacchia at the plate following the throw by left fielder Daniel Nava, plate umpire Dana DeMuth signaled safe and then pointed to third, making clear the obstruction had been called.
"It's part of the game," Cardinals slugger Matt Holliday said. "The guy was in his way. ... We'll take it."
Craig returned for this Series from a sprained left foot that had sidelined him since early September.


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A couple of my friends and I want to have a cheesey horror movie flick night. Can anyone reccomend any movies that would be good for this? Either post it here or message me. PLEASE
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Cheesey Horror Flicksmoviefan9010 on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 11:22pm
A couple of my friends and I want to have a cheesey horror movie flick night. Can anyone reccomend any movies that would be good for this? Either post it here or message me. PLEASE/Q
ya rent s.i.c.k
Cheesey Horror Flickstequilajoe on Saturday, July 14, 2007 - 11:35am
I Googled the words "cheesy horror flicks" and found this website...happy hunting!
Cheesey Horror Flicksdeadfluffychicken on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 7:13pm
just about anything on SCI-FI channel
Cheesey Horror FlicksChangeling on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 - 4:03pm
Dead-Alive, Evil Dead series, and The Frighteners but if those don's work then just search some on google.
Cheesey Horror Flicksockmick on Friday, January 4, 2008 - 8:13pm
CHEESY ?,..killer clowns from outer space
cellar dweller
night of the creeps
neon maniac's
santa's slay
chopping mall
dead and breakfast
killer party
demon wind
slaughterhouse rock
the borrower
cutting class
highway to hell
the brain
the vagrant
terminal invasion
brain damage
how's that for a start ?
Cheesey Horror FlicksSleepAwayGirl89 on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 12:55am
sleep away camp series
night of the creeps
black cadilac
killer klowns from outer space
lethal eviction
april fools day
satans little helper
Cheesey Horror FlicksPalmfete on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 11:06pm
Dead Alive (Brain Dead)
Evil Dead
Dracula 2000 (for cheese, the sequels only!)
Howling (for cheese, the sequels)
Shaun of the Dead
Cursed (mild cheese)
Monster Squad
Cheesey Horror FlicksBrandon1978 on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 7:52pm
A real good cheesy horror flick is "Broken" and if the doesn't tempt you, here are a few more.
1.) Junior
2.) The Watchers
3.) Detour
Hope this helps you.
Cheesey Horror FlicksLiving Dead Girl on Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 9:58pm
Tourist Trap, good and cheesey.
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Cheesey Horror Flicksxthedestroyer on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 11:21pm
Anything by H.G. Lewis Such as:
Blood Feast
Blood Feast 2:All U Can Eat
The Gruesome Twosome
Two Thousand Maniacs
The Wizard of Gore
Gore Gore Girls
The Wizard of Gore
Something Weird(Especially this one!)
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The Office of the Clark County Prosecutor is continuing to investigate possible charges against a man involved in a fatal automobile collision on Ind. 60 on June 25.
The head-on collision resulted in the death of Craig J. Elsmore, 48, of Floyds Knobs, who was the only occupant in his 1998 Dodge Ram pickup truck at the time of the accident.
The driver of the second vehicle, a 2010 Honda Civic, was driven by Mark Robinson, 18, of Key West, Fla. A passenger from Memphis was the only other person in the Honda.
While the Indiana State Police accident report lists the contributing circumstances of the fatal accident as Robinson crossing the center line and cell phone usage, no charges have been filed. Clark County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Jeremy Mull said officials have not yet resolved if the collision was a "criminal act or merely an auto accident."
"We are doing an ongoing investigation of that crash to determine whether or not criminal charges are appropriate," Mull said. "I will review all the evidence once I obtain it to determine if it is appropriate to file charges."
He said it will likely be several weeks before the prosecutor's office receives all pertinent information, including records from the University of Louisville Hospital, where Robinson was treated after the collision and later released. Mull said it is a violation of Indiana law to text and drive and that texting and driving is responsible for many accidents on state roadways.
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Higher-order function
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In mathematics and computer science, a higher-order function (also functional form, functional or functor) is a function that does at least one of the following:
- takes one or more functions as an input
- outputs a function
All other functions are first-order functions. In mathematics higher-order functions are also known as operators or functionals. The derivative in calculus is a common example, since it maps a function to another function.
In the untyped lambda calculus, all functions are higher-order; in a typed lambda calculus, from which most functional programming languages are derived, higher-order functions are values with types of the form .
map function, found in many functional programming languages, is one example of a higher-order function. It takes as arguments a function f and a list of elements, and as the result, returns a new list with f applied to each element from the list. Another very common kind of higher-order function in those languages which support them are sorting functions which take a comparison function as a parameter, allowing the programmer to separate the sorting algorithm from the comparisons of the items being sorted. The C standard function
qsort is an example of this.
Other examples of higher-order functions include fold, function composition, integration, and the constant-function function λx.λy.x.
The following examples are not intended to compare and contrast programming languages, since each program performs a different task.
This Python program defines the higher-order function
twice which takes a function and an arbitrary object (here a number), and applies the function to the object twice. This example prints 13: twice(f, 7) = f(f(7)) = (7 + 3) + 3.
def f(x): return x + 3 def twice(function, x): return function(function(x)) print(twice(f, 7))
This Haskell code is the equivalent of the Python program above.
f = (+3) twice function = function . function main = print (twice f 7)
In this Scheme example the higher-order function
g() takes a number and returns a function. The function
a() takes a number and returns that number plus 7 (e.g. a(3)=10).
(define (g x) (lambda (y) (+ x y))) (define a (g 7)) (display (a 3))
In this Erlang example the higher-order function
or_else/2 takes a list of functions (
Fs) and argument (
X). It evaluates the function
F with the argument
X as argument. If the function
F returns false then the next function in
Fs will be evaluated. If the function
F returns
{false,Y} then the next function in
Fs with argument
Y will be evaluated. If the function
F returns
R the higher-order function
or_else/2 will return
R. Note that
Y, and
R can be functions. The example returns
or_else([], _) -> false; or_else([F | Fs], X) -> or_else(Fs, X, F(X)). or_else(Fs, X, false) -> or_else(Fs, X); or_else(Fs, _, {false, Y}) -> or_else(Fs, Y); or_else(_, _, R) -> R. or_else([fun erlang:is_integer/1, fun erlang:is_atom/1, fun erlang:is_list/1],3.23).
In this JavaScript example the higher-order function
ArrayForEach takes an array and a method in as arguments and calls the method on every element in the array. That is, it Maps the function over the array elements.
function ArrayForEach(array, func) { for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) { if (i in array) { func(array[i]); } } } function log(msg) { console.log(msg); } ArrayForEach([1,2,3,4,5], log);
this could also be implemeted as
function log(msg) { console.log(msg); } [1,2,3,4,5].map(log);
This JavaScript code is the equivalent of the Python program above:
function twice(f, x){ return f(f(x)); } function add3(x){ return x+3; } twice(add3, 7); // 13
This Ruby code is the equivalent of the Python program above.
f1 = ->(x){ x + 3 } def twice(f, x); f.call(f.call(x)) end print twice(f1, 7)
In programming languages that support function pointers, one can emulate higher-order functions to some extent. Such languages include the C and C++ family. An example is the following C code which computes an approximation of the integral of an arbitrary function:
#include<stdio.h> double integral(double f(double x), double a, double b, int n) { /* Compute the integral of f() within the interval [a,b] */ double sum = 0, dt = (b - a) / n; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) sum += f(a+(i+.5)*dt); return sum * dt; } double f(double x) {return 3*x*x;} int main(){ printf("%g\n",integral(f,0,1,100)); return 0; }
Another example is the function qsort from C standard library.
In other imperative programming languages it is possible to achieve some of the same algorithmic results as are obtained through use of higher-order functions by dynamically executing code (sometimes called "Eval" or "Execute" operations) in the scope of evaluation. There can be significant drawbacks to this approach:
- The argument code to be executed is usually not statically typed; these languages generally rely on dynamic typing to determine the well-formedness and safety of the code to be executed.
- The argument is usually provided as a string, the value of which may not be known until run-time. This string must either be compiled during program execution (using just-in-time compilation) or evaluated by interpretation, causing some added overhead at run-time, and usually generating less efficient code.
macros can also be used to achieve some of the effects of higher order functions. However, macros cannot easily avoid the problem of variable capture; they may also result in large amounts of duplicated code, which can be more difficult for a compiler to optimize. Macros are generally not strongly typed, although they may produce strongly typed code.
In object-oriented programming languages that do not support higher-order functions, objects can be an effective substitute. An object's methods act in essence like functions, and a method may accept objects as parameters and produce objects as return values. Objects often carry added run-time overhead compared to pure functions, however, and added boilerplate code for defining and instantiating an object and its method(s). Languages that permit stack-based (versus heap-based) objects or structs can provide more flexibility with this method.
An example of using a simple stack based record in Free Pascal with a function that returns a function:
program example; type int = integer; Txy = record x, y: int; end; Tf = function (xy: Txy): int; function f(xy: Txy): int; begin Result := xy.y + xy.x; end; function g(func: Tf): Tf; begin result := func; end; var a: Tf; xy: Txy = (x: 3; y: 7); begin a := g(@f); // return a function to "a" writeln(a(xy)); // prints 10 end.
The function
a() takes a
Txy record as input and returns the integer value of the sum of the record's
x and
y fields (3 + 7).
See also[edit]
- First-class function
- Combinatory logic
- Function-level programming
- Functional programming
- Kappa calculus - a formalism for functions which excludes higher-order functions
- Strategy pattern
- Higher order messages


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Tonawanda News — Area health officials reached out on Tuesday to warn residents to stay warm as the mercury plummets this week.
Erie County Department of Health Commissioner Gale Burstein said everyone — the very old and very young in particular— can face potentially life threatening injury from such severe cold.
"When winter temperatures drop significantly below normal, staying warm and safe can become a challenge," Burstein said. "Exposure to cold temperatures, whether indoors or outside, can cause other serious or life-threatening health problems. Infants and the elderly are particularly at risk, but anyone can be affected."
To prevent cold-related ailments, she said limiting exposure to the outdoors, wearing multiple layers of clothing (including a wind-resistant outer layer), and staying dry are key components to staying safe.
In addition to the usual concerns about slippery stairs and sidewalks, she also issued cautionary advice for those with heart conditions, as chilly temperatures tax the vital organ.
"Cold weather puts an extra strain on the heart," she said. "If you have heart disease or high blood pressure, follow your doctor's advice about shoveling snow or performing other hard work in the cold."
Other health warnings related to the cold came from Kenmore Mercy Hospital, where Dr. Michael S. Gough said those with lung conditions must also avoid the extreme cold.
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A 41-year old Lincoln man is facing a long list of criminal charges after allegedly ordering his dog to attack a 9-year old boy.
Police say during an argument Saturday night, Cedric Fowler kicked a woman in her stomach and knocked her down a flight of stairs. The woman's son jumped on Fowler to defend his mother. At that point, Fowler allegedly called his dog to attack the boy.
The boy was bitten on the hand.
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What Will QE2's Legacy Be?
The Fed's program has attracted a number of critics, but its long-term effects are still up for debate.
Questions surround the legacy of the Federal Reserve's second round of quantitative easing—commonly referred to as QE2—and its effectiveness in kick-starting the economy. The Fed's first statement of 2011, released Wednesday, remains largely unchanged from previous ones. After lowering interest rates to virtually zero more than two years ago and then pledging to leave them there for an "extended period," the Fed launched QE2 in November 2010. As part of the program, it's purchasing $600 billion in longer-term treasury securities in hopes of pushing interest rates lower, spurring lending, and jump-starting an economy that seems to be slowly improving.
Still, the program has its share of critics, who believe QE2 is causing bubbles and inflation both in the United States and overseas. QE2 has a ways to go before it's scheduled to end in June. The Fed has said it reserves the right to purchase fewer securities than it originally announced, but most experts expect the program to be completed in its entirety—and maybe even continued—in the second half of 2011.
[See How QE2 Could Affect Your Money.]
"The Federal Reserve is going to remain very accommodative for a long time," says Aaron Gurwitz, chief investment officer for global wealth manager Barclays Wealth. "Whether there's more quantitative easing or not is a secondary issue, but we don't see them starting to tighten financial conditions any time soon."
Since Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted at plans for QE2 in late August 2010, experts say the program has impacted markets worldwide. Here are a few arguments about its potential long-term effects:
[See QE2: Potential Winners and Losers.]
Yields are lower than they would have been. Treasury yields have risen steadily since the Fed's announcement in November. The 10-year treasury note now yields about 3.4 percent. On Nov. 4, 2010, the day of the Fed's announcement, the yield stood at 2.5 percent. Critics say the program is failing because yields have risen. Defenders say the yields must be considered in the context of a global economy, and that other factors like debt concerns in the United States have contributed to the rise in interest rates. Higher yields are also generally associated with a pickup in economic activity, which is one of the goals of QE2.
Other asset classes are benefiting. Stocks of all sizes have recently hit highs not seen since before the financial crisis in 2008. The last time the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded around 12,000 was in June 2008. Gold is trading above $1,300 an ounce, and there are concerns that other commodities like oil will begin to move higher this year. "If you hear that the Fed is going to do something to keep interest rates lower to stimulate the economy, then you expect stronger growth in the economy, you expect stronger corporate earnings, and you're going to expect stock prices to go up because stock prices always move in anticipation of higher earnings," says Stacey Schreft, former vice president and economist at the Fed.
Other experts complain that the Fed's program is creating a bubble in multiple asset classes. "It's inflated everything from stocks to bonds to commodity prices and agriculture prices," says Jeffrey Sica, chief investment officer of investment firm SICA Wealth Management. He believes stocks and bonds are in the midst of a bubble, and he's worried that the bubble could carry over into oil prices and slow the economic recovery.
[See How to Invest in Rising Oil Prices.]
It's causing inflation in emerging markets. Experts say the Fed's announcement has also raised inflation expectations globally. One of its mandates is to ensure that inflation remains stable and deflation doesn't become a concern. Critics are worried that the Fed's efforts will go too far and spur inflation in the United States and overseas. Sica is concerned that rising inflation in emerging markets like China and Brazil will cause those countries to become much more protectionist as they try to safeguard their currencies. Leaders in both emerging economies have recently raised interest rates in an effort to tame inflation.


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He has diligently converted the three volume series of parish records transitioning from handwritten to typescripts and now into an electronic format that will allow anyone easy access to historical records held by the Congregational Church. During his lecture, Jonathan will demonstrate the advantages of full-text searching and how these advantages translate into a better understanding of the major events that shaped both our town and parish history. The lecture is sure to engage the amateur genealogist in all of us.
The lecture will be held at the Old Academy Building (constructed 1795), the oldest public building in Easton across from the Congregational Church, 336 Westport Road, starting at 2 PM. The program will conclude at 2:45 with a 15 minute walking tour of both the Old Academy Building and Church Sanctuary immediately following the lecture.
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