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VariCAD 8.2-02
VariCAD is well known as one of Central Europe's strongest players for CAD tools for mechanical engineering. Their software has been continuously improved under industrial use for 14 years and has users in 40 countries around the world. They are a friendly company, willing to interact with you to solve a problem or glean feedback about their tool.
The product reviewed here was VariCAD 8.2-02, which was tested on a Red Hat Linux 7.3 system. VariCAD supports binaries for Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE Linux distributions, as well as for Microsoft Windows.
Despite the low price (less than $400), VariCAD is a serious, high-end 2-D and 3-D CAD tool for mechanical engineering design and competes favorably with tools costing substantially more. In fact, if you have a design team, discount pricing is also available.
The tool capabilities include 3-D modeling and 2-D drafting, support for metadata, such as title blocks, and linking libraries of machine parts to designs. VariCAD is a fast GUI tool based on OpenGL. High-performance graphics are vital to a mechanical CAD tool, where a designer's time cannot be wasted on slow screen redraws for changes in views. The 3-D interface is responsive on my test system, a KDS Valiant 6480CiPTD laptop with an 800MHz Intel PIII, 512MB of RAM and a Trident CyberBLADE Ai1 video chipset.
However, due to the numerous GUI icons, there is a learning curve to get up to speed on the iconic language within the tool. VariCAD supports a nice on-line tutorial to help you familiarize yourself with the menu flow for icons and available features. Going through this really aids in understanding how the iconic language works. The language makes a lot of sense, and screen real estate for icons is well suited for providing control over a strongly visual environment. This all seems appropriate for a tool in the 2-D/3-D field.
However, VariCAD does not have a user-accessible scripting language. This is an important usability feature for users who need to automate key design tasks, such as making variations automatically given a starting or genus mechanical design. The tool will not serve well for users who need or already have large scripting applications for automating their design tasks.
The supported capabilities without scripting, however, are enormously powerful. In CAD tools, parts libraries are everything, and VariCAD is well stocked with libraries that can generate thousands of parts based on ANSI or DIN industry standards. This feature greatly simplifies generating components for designs. For instance, the components might be fasteners, building blocks in large designs that incorporate custom metal machined parts. It is convenient and fast to create screws, keys, springs, bearings and numerous other types of parts. All of the components used in a design may then be linked automatically to a very convenient Bill of Materials (BOM) generator.
The file-locking feature supported by the tool is a rather crude form of access control. If a user attempts to access a locked file, typically for an in-use document, contact information is displayed for the user desiring access. It certainly might make sense within a design organization for maintaining access rights for key drawings, but in this tool, it is only effectively operable in limited contexts—during edits. Adding GUI features to the tool to provide access using a minimal subset of a real version control system like GNU CVS would have been much more effective. This would have enabled significantly more capability for supporting access rights as well as multiple-person design teams.
The general feel of the tool is that of working on the level of a totally visual-oriented tool. The iconic hierarchies are specific and work quickly. One gets used to automatically created elements and working them into the design flow seamlessly.
One of the best features of VariCAD is being able to work directly in 3-D to design an object. This mirrors experience in the real world—objects have mass, dimension and textures. From here, 2-D drawings can be created automatically. This is where the high-performance graphics shine in terms of usability. This performance is most likely due to the use of OpenGL as an infrastructure technology.
Also significant is the fact that VariCAD collaborates with the OpenDWG alliance. Getting CAD data into both standard and alternative digital forms is important for manufacturing, component testing and numerous other unique situations in mechanical engineering. The tool supports DWB, DWG, DXF and IGES data formats for maximum interoperability of mechanical datasets to/from other tools or manufacturing machines and to support Internet-based manufacturing. VariCAD also conveniently supplies a multiplatform drawing viewer free of charge.
The on-line (English) documentation supporting the project ranges from fair to good. And though it does contain grammar and spelling errors, the documentation generally allows you to grasp what you need to know. It's based on HTML, so it runs on a browser. Some professional users in North America might have preferred that this information be contained in a PDF instead—it's common to print a small number of relevant manual pages on paper, for working alongside a large screen monitor. But with Linux, it is also easy to have multiple desktops or a two-headed display. The company has taken a somewhat conservative approach to platform issues with their tool, supporting the KDE desktop only.
VariCAD is an impressive value proposition for a powerful Linux desktop application that supports 3-D and 2-D mechanical CAD engineering.
Michael Baxter has been working in computer technology since he was nine, imprinted by a 1969 viewing of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He is an experienced computer architect, system, board and FPGA logic designer. Michael holds ten US patents in computer architecture and logic, plus five patents as a co-inventor. His interests also include hiking, amateur radio and programming in Python.
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The timing of the Alternative Investment Management Association's hedge fund disclosure initiative indicates just how strong the winds of change are blowing in hedge fund land.
Coming just a day after ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet called the credit crisis "a loud and clear call" for extending hedge fund regulation, the move shows the hedge fund industry feels it must be more active in deciding the future shape of regulation.
The move, which will include regular -- probably quarterly -- disclosure of systemically significant holdings and risk exposure to national regulators, goes further than that suggested at last month's Treasury Select Committee by Marshall Wace chairman and Hedge Fund Standards Board trustee Paul Marshall, who had proposed aggregating data through prime brokers.
"The international agenda is starting to gallop away... We can see which way the wind is blowing and we want to exercise leadership," said AIMA CEO Andrew Baker, adding the proposals had been in the pipeline since early in the new year.
But AIMA's drive to do this also serves to highlight the low number of funds that have signed up to the HFSB's voluntary code -- a fact seized upon by last month's Treasury Select Committee.


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We desire to be a community that is shaped by the Word of God. One of the ways we try to be attentive to God is by committing, as a university, to the study of a single passage of Scripture for an entire year. We spend the year studying the context of the passage, thinking about its implications, striving to live it out, and often memorizing it. This passage is engaged in chapel, in the classroom, in staff meetings, on sports teams, in board meetings, in D-Groups, on leadership teams—literally across the campus.
Faculty, staff, and students seek God's wisdom for the selection of this passage. The entire community is invited to make recommendations, and each year hundreds of recommendations are received by the Office of the Campus Pastors. A team of faculty, staff, and students from all parts of campus come together to review the recommendations and to pray about where God might be leading us.
Ephesians 4
For the 2013–14 academic year, the university will be studying Ephesians 4. We would love to have you join us in our campus-wide study of this passage.
We encourage you to consider committing this passage to memory over the next few months, discussing it with a friend, praying through the passage, and watching for what God might want to do in your life through this significant piece of Scripture.
Ephesians 4 (NRSV)
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
7But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ's gift. 8Therefore it is said,
"When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his people."
9(When it says, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended[a] into the lower parts of the earth? 10He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.) 11The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. 14We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. 15But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body's growth in building itself up in love.
The Old Life and the New
17Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. 18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. 19They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20That is not the way you learned Christ! 21For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. 22You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, 23and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Rules for the New Life
25So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. 26Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and do not make room for the devil. 28Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. 29Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 31Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.


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Our biggest problem in solving the deficit and debt is that we bury the programs and related numbers, making it difficult for anyone who would look at them with hope of some kind of understanding.
The specifically funded programs such as Social Security and Medicare should be presented separately from the programs not specifically funded. Most of the deficit and borrowing are for Social Security and Medicare. Somewhere over 50 percent of the budget deficit is attributed to the shortfall in these programs.
By properly matching income and outlays, it will become obvious what programs and to what extent, are contributing to the deficit.
Programs such as defense and Medicaid, which are paid out of general funds, should be broken out of the general presentation. Defense is an original program in the original Constitution as written; Medicaid is a relatively new program that does not have any specific funding in the national budget. The Affordable Health Care direct cost is in the Medicaid program and therefore is buried and not easily seen as to the specific cost.
In other words, the deficit should be broken down and matched to the specific programs. Then it will become obvious which programs are the most costly and most in need of help.
Politically, it is easy and also misleading to speak of the national debt in general terms that the public cannot understand and can be easily led to the political view being presented to them. How can the budget be properly balanced if it cannot be properly analyzed to begin with? The present national debt of $17 trillion is increasing wildly without any immediate concern. The national debt should be about 40 percent of the gross domestic product, or GDP, but now is over 100 percent.
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Andy LaRoche went 3-for-3 with an RBI as the Buffalo Bisons defeated the Syracuse Chiefs, 6-2, in the first game of a doubleheader at Coca-Cola Field Sunday afternoon.
The win ends a four-game losing skid for the Bisons. The second game, which will feature the Bisons' debut of righty Chien-Ming Wang, will begin at 3:25.
The Herd jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a blast by Kevin Pillar The Bisons added another run on an RBI single from Eugenio Velez for a 3-0 lead.
In the third, Will Rhymes cut the lead to 3-2 with his own two-run shot on a home run to right field that just kept carrying and carrying and carrying until it just cleared the wall.
The Herd got those runs back in the third when Anthony Gose drove in two runs with a two-out bases-loaded single. A single in the fifth from LaRoche added another run and the Herd had a comfortable 6-2 lead.
Buffalo scored its six runs on nine hits.
Dave Bush pitched a complete seven-inning game, giving up two runs on five hits. He struck out eight and walked one to pick up the win and improve to 8-6.
The Bisons' lineup for Game 2:
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On Friday morning, the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo set a record for the highest attendance ever at 1,602,832... and counting.
According to the zoo, the previous record was set back in 1995 at 1,602,831. Officials attribute the all-time high numbers to several factors, including the newly renovated Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium, new Prehistoric Play Park and Fossil Dig Site, and a new Guest Services building that separates Ticketing and Redemption. Trip Advisor also ranked Omaha's Henry Zoorly Zoo and Aquarium the number one zoo in the country.
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HILLSBOROUGH — Hillsborough became the eighth municipality in North Carolina to receive the Sierra Club's designation of "Cool City" on Monday night.
Cool Cities agree to sign the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, pledging to try to meet or beat the Kyoto Protocol targets for greenhouse gas emissions and to encourage their state and federal government representatives to set the same goals.
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NORMAN — Wendell Troy Peck, 68, went to be with his Savior on Tuesday morning, March 19, 2013, with his family by his side. Wendell Troy "Wink" was born in Oklahoma City on July 1, 1944, the son of George and Juanita Peck.
A celebration of his life will be 2 p.m. Saturday in the Havenbrook Funeral Home chapel, 3401 Havenbrook St. in Norman.
He graduated from Capitol Hill High School in 1962. He married the love of his life, Janice Ann Gilley, on June 7, 1963. He retired from General Motors after 27 years as a toolmaker. He loved going camping and traveling with his wife and working around their beautiful country home.
He was preceded in death by his father and mother, George Oliver Peck and Juanita Sue Foust-Peck; his beloved brother-in-laws Bob Nikkel and Hubert Raymond Gilley Jr.; and son-in-law, Phil Williams.
He is survived by his beloved wife of 49 years, Janice Ann Gilley-Peck; his daughters Cynthia Ann Peck and Dr. Christy Ann Peck, M.D.; three grandchildren, Dustin Wayne Argo, Lyndsie Ann Cornell and Austin Clay Argo; his siblings Eddie Peck and wife Christine Peck, Myra Nikkel, Carolyn Wilson and husband Mike Wilson and Charles Peck and wife Connie Peck; and many nieces and nephews. He will remain in our hearts forever as a beloved husband, father, brother, grandfather and uncle.
The family would like to thank the staff of Valir Hospice for their excellent care and service.
In memory of Wendell, contributions may be made to Valir Hospice of Oklahoma, 721 NW 6th St., Suite 202, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, or International Myeloma Foundation, 12650 Riverside Drive, Suite 206, North Hollywood, CA 91607-3421, www.myeloma.org.
Arrangements for Wendell and his family were placed in the care of the Vice family and Havenbrook Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be shared at www.havenbrookfuneralhome.com.
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Rooms Veronika
Rooms Veronika offers great value comfortable accommodation close to the National Park Plitvice Lakes. Located on the D1 motorway.
At Rooms Veronika, we offer private accommodation in double and twin rooms with bathrooms. There is the possibility to add an extra bed for a third person. Our rooms are new, cosily furnished and quiet and do not over look the road.
Guests can relax in the shade of our garden where they will find several seating areas.
Parking is available in front of the house.
National Park Plitvice Lakes offers an abundant choice of facilities and activities to the visitor.
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Hunt County residents will be gathering in Greenville and Lone Oak Thursday to participate in the local observances of the 62nd Annual National Day of Prayer.
"Pray for American: Matthew 12:21" is the theme for this year's event, with activities scheduled starting at noon Thursday on the north steps of the Hunt County Courthouse, 2500 Lee Street and at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lone Oak Civic Center
The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people of all faiths to pray for the nation. It was created in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman.
Local clergy and laity are expected to participate Thursday in prayers for local, state and federal governments, as well as for government leaders, youth, schools and the community as a whole.
This year's event in Greenville is being sponsored by the Greenville Ministers Fellowship and the Greenville Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance.


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Four Championship Courses, One Amazing Experience
The newly renovated Innisbrook is simply one of America's most celebrated Florida golf resorts. Not only do we consistently receive top accolades – including Golf Magazine's "Top 100 You Can Play," and Golf Digest's "Top 75 Golf Resorts in America" – our Clearwater golf resort is also home to the annual PGA Tour Valspar Championship Presented by BB&T and the LPGA's ISPS Handa Legends Tour Open Championship.
Our Tampa golf resort is home to four outstanding layouts – all designed by the innovative and imaginative architect Lawrence Packard – including the top-rated Copperhead course, which welcomes the world's finest players each March when the PGA TOUR visits Innisbrook for the Valspar Championship.
As an Innisbrook guest, not only can you play where the world's finest professionals love to play, you can also take advantage of three other championship layouts featuring up to 70 feet of elevation change, and scenery more reminiscent of the Carolina sand hills and Georgia foothills than the typical Florida terrain.


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The Kansas City Royals won the Bubba Starling Sweepstakes Monday night when the phenom signed with the team over the chance to play football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
The team released a statement shortly afterward:
"We are ecstatic and relieved to have this process behind us and have Bubba in the fold," said Dayton Moore, Royals' Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager. "I am extremely proud of J.J. Picollo, Lonnie Goldberg and the entire staff for the work they've done during these negotiations, not just in the Bubba Starling case, but all of the athletes we were able to sign on this very busy day. I'm also thrilled that we were able to come to an agreement with a fine young man from this area who put being a Royal among his priorities in this process. It's now time to get his professional playing career underway."
Starling, who played centerfield in high school, was ranked by Baseball America as the number one high school prospect and the best high school athlete in the draft. The right-handed hitter and thrower batted .481 this spring. In his junior and senior seasons combined, he hit better than .500 with 17 home runs.
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This is a good time to ask: What does the public's growing skepticism on the trustworthiness of news organizations mean for the way news is handled? What does it mean for news organizations, and what does it mean for news consumers?
A survey has been released by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press indicating respect for most major news organizations has fallen. The new figures affect major newspapers, all three cable news outlets and TV networks including NPR.
Significant fall-offs in believability ratings affect nine of the 13 news organizations tested.
Every news organization should ask itself why the trend is moving toward more skepticism. Consumers of news, themselves, should ask what part they play in the numbers.
We all know that the days when Americans largely trusted their sources of information are slipping away. There are no Walter Cronkites out there any more — just countless numbers of talking heads, and writers, too, vying for attention in an ever-widening, ever more polarizing, journalistic circle. ...
The Pew Research Center says that across all 13 tested news outlets, the average believability rating is 56 percent — down from 62 percent in 2010 and down from 71 percent a decade ago. Every news organization's rating fell by double digits since 2002 except for daily newspapers and local TV news.
The New York Times, which has often been referred to as America's "newspaper of record," has dropped 13 points in believability since 2004.
Familiarity helps. Perceptions with newspapers "you are most familiar with" is comparable to two years ago (57 percent give their own newspaper a positive rating), and local TV news outlets get higher ratings (65 percent positive) than the major cable outlets.
Even so, no newspaper or TV station should feel comfortable with a three-fifths positive rating. We shouldn't expect everyone to like the news — and there will always be those ready to shoot the messenger. But news organizations that strive for consistency for excellence and fairness, respecting their customers all along the way, should continue to find an audience.
News consumers play an important part. Readers and listeners, rather than simply subscribe to news outlets that tend to confirm their political persuasions, should consider leaning toward those that maintain the best records for accuracy.
The best way for consumers to get good products — like with any other commodity — is to patronize the best products.
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Rising costs and a tight job market require careful choices and advance planning.
The stakes of the college hunt keep getting higher. Perpetually rising costs combined with a tough job market have made a difficult process even harder. We've always said that finding the college that's best for you is an education in itself. It still is.
In fact, seeing the college search as the first step in a career journey is more important than ever. That's because unless you intend to win the Powerball lottery, the skills you learn in college need to line up with the realities of the job market.
Like it or not, the jobs of the future are going to be more demanding, particularly when it comes to technical skills, but also in expecting applicants to write and think clearly.
Employers increasingly want proof of skills. Colleges are fitfully trying to put more "real-world" content into their courses. Smart students – and parents – will need to think hard about what's the right career path, and what schools will help them get started.
We're here to help. Making this long process work starts with the right attitude and a few of the right resources. You're reading one of those resources now.
U.S. News has helped people through the college search for three decades, and our Best Colleges guide has long been viewed as an essential starting point.
We give you a detailed overview of the nation's traditional liberal arts colleges and universities, with facts and figures to help you decide which ones might fit.
Warning: Four-year brick-and-mortar colleges might not be your best option for a variety of reasons, including cost and lack of focus on measurable skills. It's worth considering two-year programs and various kinds of online options.
We also give you a feel for the culture at a cross-section of schools, and we help you get organized for what can seem like an overwhelming series of requirements and deadlines. We take you through how to pay the bill, which has become increasingly complicated.
We've also got research, sortable data, photos and a personalized tool called College Compass online. We even have job and internship information to give you a sense of where you might end up. Because, along with the value of a great education, aren't jobs the point?
Our goal is to bring perspective and sanity to what can be an exhausting experience. I'll be the first to tell you that there is no one best college.
The point is to find the one that matches your ambition and abilities. To do that, you have to do some homework, then get out and explore. The more campuses you've visited, the better you can compare – and starting early doesn't hurt.
By the time you come down to a short list of schools, there's no substitute for walking the grounds, talking to students and professors and asking some tough questions. And remember, the most important visit is often the one that comes after you've been accepted and have real decisions to make.
The process isn't as daunting as it may sound. The short list will soon emerge if you take your time – and keep your sense of humor.
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Asking us to name our favorite films of the year is always a difficult task. It's kind of like asking someone to name the foods they most enjoyed eating. So we decided to turn to our fearless writing staff and showcase their thoughts on the subject. Check out which movies FEARnet's finest liked best in 2011 after the jump.
Gregory Burkart
Troll Hunter (Review)
Just when I thought the "found footage" genre was getting a little tired, a bunch of Norwegians brought in psychotic fifty-foot muppets for the win. Plus this movie shows how to draw blood from a rabid Ringlefinch, so that's a new one for my bucket list.
I Saw the Devil (Review)
The two main characters are ruthless, brilliant and completely insane, which is also a perfect description of this movie. The 360-spinning-camera "cab kill" is worth the price of admission, but I could have done without the diarrhea scene.
Insidious (Review)
I always thought the song "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was high-octane nightmare fuel, and so did the makers of this movie. Now they owe me sixteen grand for all those months of therapy.
The Ward (Review)
Haters gonna hate, but I thought John Carpenter did a damn fine job on this one, and I hope he stays in the game. I kinda wish John had composed the music, just for old times' sake, but Mark Kilian's score as one of the year's best.
Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2
Usually when you start expanding the mythos behind a slasher villain, he stops being scary, but this dude's full of surprises. I still prefer the first in the series, but this one has a very impressive body count, which is pretty much the whole point anyway.
Bryan Cairns
A haunted house romp by the creators of the Saw franchise, Insidious proves the creepiest movie of 2011 doesn't need over–the-top effects, or heck, a big budget, to scare the bejeezus out of you.
Paranormal Activity 3 (Review)
|Most horror franchises begin to die down by the third instalment, but by presenting a solid prequel that touches on the early days of these royally pissed-off demonic spirits, Paranormal Activity 3 broke that curse.
Super 8 (Review)
With its alien mayhem, young cast of Goonie-esque filmmaking characters and an old-school nostalgic vibe, the Steven Spielberg-produced Super 8 was the feel-good horror event of the year.
Fright Night (Review)
Inspired by the 1985 movie of the same name, the Fright Night remake successfully balanced humor and intensity for a bloody fun ride. It also didn't hurt that Colin Farrell oozed sexuality, charisma and danger as the hungry vampire next door.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: (Review)
A horror film with a message? That's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a compelling movie that features extraordinarily intelligent simians on the rampage, breathtaking CG technology and thought-provoking undertones. Plus, everyone knows, monkeys rule!
Carl Lyon
Final Destination 5 (Review)
While not the best movie in the franchise, the movie earns bonus points for returning to its roots with a bridge-based catastrophe sure to leave gephyrophobes squirming in their seats (a massive upgrade over number 4's lame NASCAR pileup), as well as a twist ending so absolutely mind-blowing it makes the movie's sins (particularly the world's sleaziest Jew stereotype) completely forgivable.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (Review)
This Guillermo del Toro penned-and-produced remake of an ABC TV movie from the 70's may have lacked the famed director's usual creative insanity, but made up for it in its sense of wide-eyd wonder and fairy-fuelled frights. The inherently silly premise—tiny monsters living in the basement—is completely forgiven by the childlike feelings that it stirs within its viewers.
Super 8
J. J. Abrams' love letter to 80's era Steven Spielberg, Super 8, elevates hero worship and emotional emulation to a science. The story of a group of friends filming a zombie movie on the eponymous Super 8 camera and the interplanetary incident that they stumble upon is pure 1980'a sci-fi, and the emotions that run underneath the extraterrestrials and explosions are pure Spielberg. I didn't expect one of my favorite movies of the year to get me a little misty-eyed, but Super 8 did just that.
Troll Hunter
Norwegian export The Troll Hunter asks a lot of you right out of the gates, with its loony concept of a documentary filmmaking team that follows the titular troll hunter as he faces off against some absurdly huge foes. However, it pays you back for your suspension of disbelief with good old fashioned movie magic and a sense of scale that Hollywood could certainly learn a thing or two from.
Hobo with a Shotgun (Review)
Probably the strangest thing I've watched in a very long time, Hobo with a Shotgun is an offensive and irreverent piece of Troma-seasoned sleaze-and-cheese that would gain a small cult following on its own gore-soaked merits. However, somehow managing to cast veteran actor Rutger Hauer as the shotgun-wielding hobo was a stroke of mad genius. The Dutch legend brings a sense of gravitas and genuineness to an absurd role, making him both an oasis and the epicenter of the storm of violent sleaze erupting around him.
Joseph McCabe
Troll Hunter
Ghostbusters meets Cloverfield. Fun, inventive, and fresh.
I Saw the Devil
Brutal and uncompromising. Proves the serial killer genre still has new things to offer in the 21st century.
Paranormal Activity 3
Possibly the most satisfying third chapter in a horror film series since Romero's Day of the Dead.
Final Destination 5
The funniest and perhaps most outrageous of the Final Destination films, FD5 is this year's Piranha 3D. Director Steven Quale (James Cameron's frequent second unit director) makes an assured feature film debut; and even the 3D is great.
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Attack the Block (tie)
Two future horror comedy cult classics. It's icing on the cake that both feature folks too often portrayed in movies as mere social problems to be solved (rednecks and inner city kids) as their heroes.
Alyse Wax
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (Review)
Tucker and Dale do for hillbilly horror what Zombieland did for zombies.
Attack the Block (Review)
A fun, high-energy alien action flick.
Paranormal Activity 3
Aside from the last fifteen minutes, this is the best of the Paranormal Activity series.
A Horrible Way to Die (Review)
A unique take on serial killer film that builds tension with every moment.
Bereavement (Review)
A surprisingly intelligent entry into the "torture porn" arena.
Scott Weinberg
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Review)
If you don't think it's a horror film, watch it with your mother.
The Skin I Live In (Review)
Takes the sexually-repressed mad scientist to a whole new level.
Black Death (Review)
Adventure quest, cerebral horror flick, and indictment of organized religion all in one.
The Woman (Review)
A portrait of wild madness colliding with structured lunacy.
I Saw the Devil
A powerfully dark and psychologically bruising serial killer thriller.
Lawrence P. Raffel
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
I know it's been around for a few years but the films' official release was this year. It's even better than the hype suggests.
[REC] 2 (Review)
I know I'll take some heat for this but I think it's better than the original and that's a TALL order.
Easily the best haunted house movie I've seen in a very long time and now one of my personal favorites. Ranks up there with Poltergeist, The Haunting (1963) and The Innocents.
Black Death
Creep, Severance, Triangle, Black Death...Christopher Smith is quickly climbing the ladder to become one of my favorite genre directors.
You wouldn't think that a movie about a telekinetic killer tire could make my top of the year...and here we are.
Honorable mention to Final Destination 5 and Shark Night 3D (Review), not two of the best films I saw this year, but both a hell of a lot of fun.


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July 15, 2014|
Linking a mold identified in a sample of recalled yogurt to consumer-reported illnesses may be premature, scientists say.
July 15, 2014|
Linking a mold identified in a sample of recalled yogurt to consumer-reported illnesses may be premature, scientists say.
July 10, 2014|
Mice undernourished during pregnancy can transmit the effects of such nutritional stress to their sons' germ cells, epigenetically.
July 10, 2014|
Cognitive testing in chimpanzee pedigrees reveals a genetic basis for intelligence.
July 7, 2014|
Pathogenic mutations in mitochondrial DNA are common in healthy people, according to a new study.
June 23, 2014|
Fungi that digest wood in novel ways could fuel new avenues of research on cellulosic ethanol, and suggest a need to move beyond traditional classification systems.
May 22, 2014|
A survey of trillions of base pairs of microbial DNA reveals a considerable degree of stop codon reassignment.
May 18, 2014|
An algorithm can pick out biologically and clinically meaningful variants from whole-exome sequences of tumors.
May 15, 2014|
Analysis of approximately 12,000-year-old human remains supports the idea that modern Native Americans evolved from ancestors who migrated out of Asia.
May 7, 2014|
For the first time, synthetic DNA base pairs are replicated within living bacteria.
April 29, 2014|
Molecular markers of a mother's nutrition around the time of conception can be found in her child's DNA.


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NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks are opening sharply lower as fear surges over the European debt crisis.
In the opening minutes, the Dow Jones industrial average is down 185 points at 12,637. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is down 17 at 1,345. The Nasdaq composite index is off 61 at 2,864.
Strong selling has also rattled European markets because of fear that Spain will need a sovereign bailout. The main stock indexes are down more than 7 percent in Greeece, 3 percent in Spain and Germany and more than 2 percent in France and Britain.
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7/30/2014 - Football
VERMILLION, S.D.--South Dakota sophomore punter and placekicker Miles Bergner has been named to the 2014 College Football Performance Awards FCS Punter Award Watch List announced Wednesday. Read More [+]
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Johnson, Iddings named preseason All-MVFC
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VERMILLION, S.D. - South Dakota linebacker Auston Johnson and defensive lineman Drew Iddings were named to the Missouri Valley Football Conference's Preseason Team on Tuesday morning via a conference release. Read More [+]
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I write about social entrepreneurship, nonprofits and social causes.
The public meltdown of the National Rifle Association in the aftermath of the heinous massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut has spurred activists, commentators and political organizers to action and outrage. From across the political spectrum, the reaction to NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre's angry call for more guns in schools – indeed, guns as the solution to many of society's problems – has been shock and denunciation, especially given the NRA's seeming lack of sensitivity following the murder of 20 first-graders with a semiautomatic AR-15 Bushmaster weapon. But there's one response lacking, and one that I'm certain a really smart social entrepreneur could provide.
For decades, the NRA has maintained near monopoly status as the nation's premiere gun safety organization – even after its controversial entry into publicly lobbying against gun control legislation in the 1970s, it still maintained training relationships with police departments and youth groups, including the Boy Scouts of America. Millions of Scouts have received NRA junior marksman cards (I'm one), and millions of Americans have learned to safely use firearms thanks to NRA-certified instructors. Indeed, the Scouts and the NRA celebrated a century of gun safety training in 2010 – even as the NRA continued its opposition to tougher gun laws aimed at keeping public spaces safer.
In terms of gun safety and shooting training, the NRA is pretty much the only game in town. And in many respects, it does a good job in mandating the kinds of national standards for safety that it ironically opposes on the legislative front. But its reaction to the Newtown murders and the groundswell of public opinion toward stronger gun legislation and firearms safety has introduced one factor into a formerly frozen market for those services – and its the kind of factor that usually awakens the entrepreneurial spirit in American markets:
When a brand is as publicly damaged as the NRA's currently is, it's open to challenge – and improvement. Peeling away the gun safety portion of what the NRA does and making a persuasive case for a more mainstream and ethical approach to firearms training seems like a real opportunity for a team of social entrepreneurs. For one thing, the market is huge. Forty-seven percent of American adults currently report that they have a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property, reported a Gallup survey last year. Further, the NRA itself brags about its "network of more than 65,000 instructors, more than 3,800 coaches, and more than 1,700 training counselors." Surely, many of them might be ready for a change, especially after Newtown. And then there's the NRA membership: more than four million dues-paying members, some percentage of whom would almost certainly be open to a better deal with a new organization that didn't come with the NRA's growing air of disrepute. All of this adds up to another factor that attracts social entrepreneurs:
That's because social entrepreneurs aren't interested in a single bottom line. There's a financial opportunity here, to be sure. A major dues-supported and fee-for-service organization is clearly possible. But the opportunity to challenge the NRA's hegemony may carry greater societal impact. The NRA has clearly been insulated by the portion of unadulterated good it does: few would argue that training Americans to use guns safely in a society that prizes its constitutional right to carry firearms for legitimate purposes (including sport and hunting) is vitally important work.
But how many organizations feel less comfortable partnering with an organization that opposes a ban of assault weapons, an organization whose leadership responded callously to the mass murder of schoolchildren in their classroom? Do police departments feel good about this partnership? Does the Boy Scouts of America and its network of local councils? Which brings us to a final factor that should attract the attention of ambitious social entrepreneurs looking to make a different after Newtown:
Let's ask a "what if" question. What if there were a very prominent billionaire who opposed the NRA's actions in public policy? What if that billionaire – a man with a strong history of informed philanthropic investment – declared his intention to change the landscape on gun safety and firearms policy? What if that billionaire also happened to be the boss of the nation's largest police force, a law enforcement organization that necessarily partners with the NRA for safety certification? Oh, and what if that billionaire was himself a wildly successful entrepreneur who knew first-hand the power of market economics on social change?
Social entrepreneurs, meet your potential funder. He's already demanded a plan. You might bring him one. And then we can all let the market decide.
That used to be the role of the press, better informed, less political, less extremist, less radical anti NRA. Its been a LONG time since that was true, but it sure was nice to have media we could trust.
Whose fault do you think that is?
Maybe Journalist?
8,000 new members a day since the shootings lets say its been 2 weeks, thats what 112,000 new members, now let me ask you how do you see the NRA brand being tarnished, they just went from 4.3 million to 4.4 million in two weeks. with LaPierre's cold but straightforward comments Iam thinking the NRA will be 4.5 million by the time Congress comes back from Christmas, maybe even they'll hit 5 million members some time in January or Febuary. Most NRA members know that in the future new gun rights groups will be born, because of the money and power but the NRA members know, that they will be moderate, and thats not going to happen, the NRA will grow to such a power because of the people, Iam thinking they will have 5 million by this mid summer, the Brand name of the NRA is not tarnished, and from the press conference they will grow because the members and the people love the cold hard truth
In the 62 mass-murder cases over 30 years examined recently by the magazine Mother Jones, not one was stopped by an armed civilian. We have known for many years that a sheriff's deputy was at Columbine High School in 1999 and fired at one of the two killers while 11 of their 13 victims were still alive. He missed four times.
The NRA wants us to believe that civilians can be trained to use lethal force with cold precision in moments of fear and crisis. That requires a willful ignorance about the facts. Police officers know that firing a weapon is a huge risk; that's why they avoid doing it. In August, New York City police officers opened fire on a gunman outside the Empire State Building. They killed him and wounded nine bystanders.
How often does the average NYPD officer go to the range and practice? Marksmanship is a perishable skill and their lack of practice is appalling. Go look into that.
Perhaps analyzing mass murders is the wrong approach. Google up selection bias and WW2 bomber armor for all the details. The idea was placing armor on the areas returning bombers were not hit, because returning bombers were successful because they weren't hit in critical spots.
The same could be applied here. Instead of focusing on mass murders, focus on incidents in public places that were stopped by private civilians. An example that didn't make Mother Jone's list despite 4 deaths is the 2007 YWAM/New Life Church shooting spree stopped by a private civilian.
Perhaps it doesn't stir the political pot as much, but why aren't the Psych associations being quizzed for solutions on identifying and treating mentally unstable individuals?
I wouldn't trust Mother Jones to report a laundry list honestly, they don't give news a bad name, they give propaganda a bad name.
I may not like Wayne all that much, but the NRA as an organisation hasn't let me down, and for that they got 3 more years of membership from me. Wayne is one of the old guard trying to make sense of the new sistuation and likely trying to figure out who is savy enough to pass the batton onto. So you had me until you didn't list self defense in this part of your article:
"The NRA has clearly been insulated by the portion of unadulterated good it does: few would argue that training Americans to use guns safely in a society that prizes its constitutional right to carry firearms for legitimate purposes (including sport and hunting) is vitally important work."
That is the reason for the 2nd Amendment. That you overlooked that in this whole article is telling of your intentions. But more telling is who you are promoting as this potential angel investor. Very few people who agree with the 2nd Amendment would have anything to do with that man. The fact that he wastes so much money on this cause of his is pretty telling of the kind of individual that would sign themselves up to be his puppet. To put it plainly, you would get some one looking for a charity job meal ticket because they couldn't cut in a real capitalistic way.
But whatever, different strokes for different folks.
First you have to realize that they do use self defense in there Statistics, its still called a killing by a gun. And is used against gun owners. They do not differentiate between a good killing and a bad one. Other wise the numbers would not work for them.
Oh yeah, letting your kids smoke pot is fine, driving a car at the age of 16 is ok, but owning a 'scary' looking gun isn't. Parents these days are hot headed and have no idea what they're teaching their kids. You're going to let a few rotten crazy apples ruin the whole bunch? Give me a break. How about funding the mental illness program instead of blaming everything on NRA and people who actually own guns and protect people. If you ban these 'assault rifles,' then only the criminals will have them.


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Sample chapters
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What you will learn from this book
Chapter 1 introduces Vim and a few well-known relatives; their history and relation to vi is briefly described.
Chapter 2 introduces how to make Vim a better editor for you by modifying it for your personal needs. It shows us ways of modifying fonts, the color scheme, the status line, menus, and toolbar.
Chapter 3 introduces some of the ways in which Vim helps us to navigate through files easily. It explains an alternative way for boosting navigation through files and buffers in Vim.
Chapter 4 introduces you to features in Vim. It describes how to use templates, auto-completion, folding, sessions, and registers.
Chapter 5 introduces simple tricks to format text and code. It also discusses how external tools can be used to give Vim just that extra edge it needs to be the perfect editor.
Chapter 6 is especially for those who want to learn how to extend Vim with scripts. The chapter introduces scripting basics, how to use and install/uninstall scripts, debugging scripts, and lots more.
Appendix A has a listing of games that have been implemented with Vim scripting; it also provides an overview of chat and mail scripts and has a section on using Vim as an IDE.
Appendix B shows how to keep your Vim configuration files well organized and how to retain your Vim configuration across computers by storing a copy of it online
In Detail
Each chapter of this book deals with a different aspect, and provides recipes for easy-to-use hacks to customize and simplify your Vim experience. After an introduction covering the derivation of Vim and its relatives from the vi editor, the author explains basic changes that you can make to the appearance of the Vim editor. Further chapters cover improved navigation through files and buffers in Vim; speeding up your work with templates, auto-completion, folding, sessions, and registers; and formatting text and code, including using external formatting scripts. The final comprehensive chapter covers everything about using Vim scripts and scripting to extend functionality.
Vim stands for Vi IMproved and is the editor of choice for programmers looking for a highly configurable, stable, open-source, multi-platform text editor. It is included with almost every Linux distribution as the standard text editor, and can be used to work with source code from any language. A big advantage of using Vim is that it can be extensively customized; you can control the basic interface, define personalized key mappings, implement macros, and call external or user-defined scripts. Vim has its own scripting language that allows for plug-in like extensions to enable IDE behavior, syntax scripts and highlighting, color schemes, themes, and utility scripts that can add a wide range of features and functionality.
Vim 7.0, for which this book is written, includes spell-checking, code completion, document tabs, current line and column highlighting, undo branches, and more.
This book contains hacks that cover everything from personalizing Vim according to the user's work cycle to optimizations that will boost the user's productivity. It does not cover the basic tasks of using the editor but instead focuses on making life easier for experienced Vim users. It is written for Vim 7.0 , the latest stable version.
This is a cookbook packed with ready-to-use hacks that give solutions for some of the commonest problems users of the Vim editor encounter during their daily use. Each recipe follows a systematic approach with a self-contained description of the task it covers, how to use it, and what you gain by using it. The reader can read any of the hacks in this book without having to read any of the other hacks–where necessary they include cross-references to other relevant hacks. The minimum version of Vim required for each hack is clearly indicated.


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Mustangs stun Seminoles in home-opener
Date: September 11, 2009
by: The Observer Staff
LAKEWOOD RANCH — Last week, the Mustangs endured what can only be described as one of their worst weeks of practice.
Coming off a disappointing 43-14 loss to the Pirates, Lakewood Ranch headed back to practice, looking to cleanup the mistakes that cost the Mustangs on both sides of the ball. But before Lakewood could work on squaring up its tackles and controlling the line of scrimmage, the team was hit with a flu virus that left the Mustangs' locker room reeling and forced many of the players to watch practice from the sidelines.
So heading into Friday night's home-opener against Southeast, it was anyone's guess as to how the Mustangs would respond and ultimately how many would actually be able to make it through all four quarters.
"We had a lot of kids that were sick," coach Shawn Trent said. "We had a lot of kids that were here every day at practice, but couldn't participate in practice because we have kind of a flu bug that we're still fighting a little bit. Some of those kids had to grow up a lot."
But when the game finally got underway, the Mustangs appeared to forget all about the ailments that had plagued them all week at practice and instead set out to prove to everyone that they were in fact ready to play.
Lakewood took an early lead on a touchdown run by Taryn Laws, who rushed for more than 100 yards on the night, and never let up as the Mustangs posted a stunning 20-16 victory over the Seminoles.
"I think we just totally forgot about (being sick) once we started," safety Danny Zarrella said. "Our defense was just playing really well and our offense was moving the ball and running it right down their throat. I think just the momentum kept us all going and we didn't think about being sick at all."
Lakewood jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the second quarter on a quarterback keeper by Reggie Lindsey. The Mustangs all but sealed the game in the third quarter when Zarrella recovered a fumble on a Southeast punt and ran the ball in for a 33-yard score to extend the Mustangs lead to 20-3.
"Southeast — that's also one of our rivals, so it's nice to get a big win like that," Zarrella said. "I just think people respect you more if you actually win. It was just nice to win."
After beating Southeast at home two years and falling to the Seminoles 14-3 last year ago, many expected Southeast to come in and dominate. But Lakewood wasn't about to fold under the pressure, and in doing so the Mustangs came out of the locker room with authority and put on one of their best performances despite also having to fight off the flu.
"It's not like they really beat us (badly before)," Trent said. "I don't think it was a stretch to get the kids to believe that we could beat them."
Lakewood will return to action Sept. 17 when the team travels to East Lee County High in Lehigh Acres. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
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Perle Fine: The Cool Series (1961-1963)
November 10-December 10, 2011
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Spanierman Modern is pleased to announce the opening on November 10, 2011 of Perle Fine: The Cool Series (1961-1963), presenting the distinctive Color Field paintings created by Fine, an artist who was at the center of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Developing according to Fine from "a need within the painting to express more," the Cool Series paralleled the gestalt in the art world in the early 1960s, as artists turned from the angst of the art of an earlier generation to a more tranquil mode in which a painting, through its form and color, spoke for itself. Although new attention has been focused on Fine's art in recent years, this is the first exhibition to feature this series since they were first seen in 1963 and 1964. Curated by Christine Berry, the show is accompanied by a catalogue, available from the gallery for $25, with full-color illustrations and an essay by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D.
Born in Boston, Perle Fine moved to New York in about 1927, enrolling first at the Grand Central School of Art and then at the Art Students League. In 1933, she was among the first students at Hans Hofmann's New York school; she also studied with Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Committed to abstraction at the start of her career, Fine began to receive recognition in the early 1940s, when she showed at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery and the Museum of Nonobjective Painting (now the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). She was among the few women artists to become part of The Club, the elite artists' group initiated in 1949, that was spearheaded by Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning; the latter invited Fine to join. A friend of many noted artists of the time, including Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, Fine was represented by several important galleries, including those of Nierendorf, Betty Parsons, and Tanager.
In 1954, Perle Fine moved to Springs on the east end of Long Island, where she and her husband, Maurice Berezov, built a one-room studio-house in the woods. Fine began her Cool Series in this context in 1961, creating them all of a sudden after destroying a group of works she had been producing for her next exhibition. Limiting her imagery to rectangles and squares placed off center on mostly monochromatic grounds, she sought to eliminate "irrelevancies" in order to exact an explicit and clear image. Fine's economy of means and the universalist implications of her stable yet dynamic arrangements can be associated with her long admiration for the art of Piet Mondrian, whom she knew. Yet her mixed and atmospheric colors depart from Mondrian's limited palette as do her edges—which vary from crisp to blurred— endowing her work with a unique delicacy and poetic equilibrium, qualities that were given recognition by the critics of the time. With their glowing light and dignified, reductive arrangements, the Cool Series paintings express a meditative metaphysical experience. Related in their spiritual content to Mark Rothko's late-period art, Fine's paintings envelop the viewer in emotional experiences that are at once volatile and restrained. Created from 1961 to 1963, the Cool Series were among the first examples of Color Field painting, revealing Fine's attunement to the spirit of her time.
Perle Fine displayed her work extensively in solo and group shows during her lifetime. Following her death from pneumonia in 1988, she was the subject of exhibitions at Hofstra University in 1974 and 2009 and at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, in 2005. Her work is represented in many numerous museum collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and many others.
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This is the presidential campaign where online media has come of age. There's a lot out there. Here's one humble(?) reporter's attempt to help readers wade through it all.
I'm going to start with comic relief. We need it. More with each passing day.
First up, Indecision 2008, which features the handiwork of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Co. While it's good for yucks, the sad reality is that there's a lot more truth telling among the laughs than often can be found in the blah-blah-blah coverage of the "legitimate" network and cable news programs.
Saturday Night Live is worth keeping an eye on, given its opening skits the past two weeks.
I recently came across this political humor site, which had me in stitches. Among other things, it tallies the wisecracks made by Leno, Letterman and the other late night talk show hosts.
Here's my favorite, from Jimmy Kimmel:
"How are you going to be the vice president of the United States with five kids to take care of? She's got a four-month-old of her own, she's about to become a grandmother and she's partnered with John McCain. How many diapers can one woman possibly change?"
But seriously folks, I should move on to the mainstream news coverage. Yahoo! News offers a cross-section and is not a bad place to start. The major national dailies, starting with the New York Times and Washington Post are good, as is the new kid on the block, the all-Web Politico.
Alternatives? The Guardian offers a European perspective via a Web site that is considered by many the best in the news business. Left-of-center perspectives on this side of the ocean can be found at Alternet and Huffington Post. Gristmill has top-notch news and analysis of the campaign as it relates to environmental issues.
I suppose I should list the official sites of Barack Obama and John McCain, if for no other reason than it provides an opening to mention a couple of third-party candidates, Ralph Nader on the left, Bob Barr on the right, and Ron Paul, who was all over the place when he ran during the primary. You may not be voting for any of the minor party candidates, but their sites are worth visiting because they raise important issues that the Dems and GOP aren't addressing head on.
There are a few useful odds 'n ends. Factcheck is a non-partisan truth squad analyzing the barrage of charges and counter-charges. If you want to check on the latest polls go here. And if you're still trying to make up your mind, this interactive questionnaire from USA Today tells you how the candidates stand on the issues of importance to you.
Among state and local blogs, I like what the Buffalo Pundit is doing, and the political blog of the Albany Times Union provides both statewide election coverage and a daily digest of political and government news from around New York. And, of course, there's Politics Now from my colleagues at The Buffalo News, which offers a good blend of local, state and national coverage.
Interested in how politicians are raising and spending money? Go here for state elections and here for federal. Good stuff.
Any sites you'd add to the list?
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I have done OK over the years . Spent last 2 years volunteering at the VA in Slc and Got a huge wake up call. I met soldiers who came back from raq and Afghanistan missing a few pieces of their bodies and they had a better attitude than I did. I became friends with several from the Vietnam era and sadly I attended too many funerals this last couple of years. They may be gone but the stories they left me with , will go on forever. I learned much the media doesn't tell us about what our soldiers are going through. I have a bil who came back totally messed up as he was clothes-lined while sitting on top a Humvee. He was a gunner. Now he is a basket case. I work with him frequently to try and help but I am no brain surgeon and unfortunately he is losing brain cells daily. I believe they call it TBI. No,No, not throttle body injection. Traumatic Brain Injury.
And I drive a Chevy and his wife drives a dodge, that might be part of the problem.
power lines were bad over there if the driver or tc wasnt paying attention it was very east to get clothes lined...as a gunner you are more focused on security around the truck and trying to see if you can spot IED's power lines are kind of a second thought. i hope the best for him and thank you for helping out the veterans as one it means a lotGo-Recon "xtreme" amber scanning tail gate light strip, Cobra ultra2 CB radio W/ 4 foot firestix antennas, dual exhaust with 40 series single in dual out muffler, 305/65R17 Mickey Thomson Baja ATZ on 17 inch Mickey Thompson Side Biters, 3 inch body lift
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Well Sarge I am truly grateful to all the men and women who help keep this country safe. Only wish the White house would wake up and take care of our veterans a bit better. While they get increases in pay veterans don't . and then Obutthead wants to increase the veterans cost of health insurance to the vet. Hopefully next election we can find some people who really care about this country instead of their wallets.
to be honest the only thing ive used the VA for is the GI bill but i had to pay to get that any way. i pretty much just do everything else on my own but thats more or less how i was raised. it would be nice if the top dogs cared more but thats the way its always been atleast its better than it was for the WW2 korea vietnam and desert storm vets....the govt pretty much told them all to F*&$ off
Yes it is getting better for some of those. But in the new benefits book the Korean war vets still get tweaked.
I was shocked when reading the benefits book that different conflicts result in different benefits. Heck a veteran is a veteran no matter what conflict. Give all the same benefits and save paper. However I do believe those in the battlefield should receive a different amount of respect than the ones who stayed home and pushed paper back and forth.
If only all Americans were brought up as you and I to take care of our own(like the marines). this country would still be flying high.
yep sadly they havent it seems as tho a lot of people on this forum are like that maybe its a chevy thing??? lol the thing that got me is while i was deployed in a combat zone getting shot at etc....soldiers that deployed to kuwait and never left kuwait got paid they exact same thing as i did, and they are the ones who make it harder for people that have been shot at and what not to get the benefits they deserve. ive had people that depoyled to kuwait tell me they have PTSD.
The line is too long of those not in combat trying to get PTSD disability. I have a different relative that played that for 6 years they finally gave him disability for bipolar he had before he joined. He is now at 70% and trying to get to 100%. He can run, walk like all normal people but he wants to sit and let his wife work and he collect disability while watching child porn on his laptop the VA gave him. Pisses me off.
It would be like giving the guy who opens the chute more money than the guy riding the bull.
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I have enjoyed reading the conversation between you guys. There are a lot of problems in America today. One of them is people standing around waiting on the Government or someone else to solve the problem. The other is the failure of this nation to care for the veterans who gave some much for so little. I served my country but I do not consider myself a veteran. I was never in a combat unit, in a combat zone, or even had someone try a kill me because of my uniform. So when asked to stand and be recognized along side combat veterans, I tend to keep my seat.86 911 Porsche Carrera
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Very noble caddi. But I am sure you had some part of helping keep this Greta country safe. Stand and be proud of that damn uniform and represent it well. Some of us who wanted to enlist were denied due to trivial health issues and such. No not alcoholism. And at no time did I intend to short sight the support group at home but my inference was that many who did not get on the field are trying to sit on freebies and get lazy mans wages for life. I applaud your reasoning , but believe you should stand with every other person who has served our country with honor.
I mean , heck you can't be all bad, you do drive a Chevy, Right?
that dog of his is pretty evil tho! and he is our number one spammer on the site!
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By Julie Manganis
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---- — PEABODY — A Topsfield woman, with her two young daughters tucked in car seats behind her, was simply doing an errand, withdrawing $40 from the drive-up ATM outside the Bank of America near the Northshore Mall last Monday morning.
At the same time, Gerald Russo, 33, of Gloucester, a man with a criminal record that includes heroin possession, was on a desperate hunt for $300 in cash.
His original plan was to pass an old check from the Cheesecake Factory, one that had already been cashed, a police report revealed. The bank didn't fall for the alleged scheme, however, and he left empty-handed.
Then, police allege, he saw an opportunity.
He opened the passenger door of the Topsfield woman's car, just as she had finished withdrawing cash, and hopped inside, she told police. He told the woman he needed $300, and the woman, fearing for her children — ages 20 months and 3 years — and herself, withdrew another $200 and gave it to him, she said.
Russo fled, the woman screamed for help, and the driver behind her, a 67-year-old woman, dialed 911.
Now Russo is being held without bail, pending a dangerousness hearing on Tuesday in Peabody District Court, where he's facing charges of unarmed robbery and breaking and entering to a vehicle with intent to commit a felony. Details of the robbery emerged from court papers examined on Friday.
Russo, who just last year was sentenced to serve eight months of a two-year jail term for threatening a Gloucester cab driver and possessing heroin, has a lengthy criminal record dating back a decade, according to court papers and newspaper reports. Part of his sentence in the Gloucester taxi case required him to take part in a drug treatment program run by the Salvation Army.
A year earlier, in 2011, Russo was convicted of forgery charges stemming from the theft of checks from his mother, which he subsequently cashed.
Russo was identified as a suspect in the Peabody ATM robbery after bank managers obtained surveillance video from outside the bank and recognized Russo as the man who had just been inside moments earlier, according to the police report.
Russo had used his own Massachusetts identification card to try to cash the check, which was made out in his own name. He also appeared in surveillance video from inside the bank.
Police got a warrant, and Russo, who was still on probation, turned himself in later last week.
Julie Manganis can be reached at 978-338-2521, via email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or on Twitter @SNJulieManganis.


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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of playing a round of golf with a gentleman I had never met.
As we walked the course, my playing partner asked what I did for a living and when I responded with "professional photographer and photo educator," he became very excited as he had an interest in photography.
This normally makes me a bit nervous because as much as I love photography, both teaching it and practicing it means that sometimes you need to get away from it and just play golf.
This gentleman had just one photography question for me, and it was a good one. He asked me if there was just one element that made a great photograph and if there was, what was it?
This got me thinking: Why are we drawn to some images and not others? What is it about a really great image that catches our eye and holds it?
I came up with five points that all have to click (no pun intended) for an image to be stellar.
The light. It really is all about the light. After all, the meaning of "photography" is derived from the Greek words "photos" for light and "graphos" for drawing. Without light we cannot have a photograph, but the quality and angle of that light is what gives our images form, emotion, clarity, depth and beauty. I believe that good, interesting light on a boring subject will yield a better photo than bad light on an interesting subject.
Technical qualities, which includes focus, exposure and correct color, are very important to the overall quality of a photograph. We must learn proper exposure, how to focus our cameras and how to get color that is accurate. To do this on a consistent basis requires classes, reading and, of course, practice, practice and more practice.
Composition, where we place objects within our frame. It can be as simple as moving our camera so there is not a telephone pole growing out of a person's head. Or it can be a daunting task, like trying to figure out the best placement of our subject matter to draw the viewer's eye to a certain location and, more importantly, keep it there. The best photos, the ones we can't take our eyes off of, are normally very simple. Most inexperienced shooters try to say too much or include too much in the photo. This makes a picture hard to look at and so we don't. The key to good composition is placement of subject matter; the use of other elements in the photo to draw the viewer's eye to your subject; and simplicity.
Subject matter, or center of interest. Every good image has a subject, a reason that you took the picture in the first place. A good example of this would be a photo of Lake Yosemite. This would be a boring image and a little static. Now add a sailboat in the foreground and you have a subject in your image, and your eye has a place to go. Any subject, even a not-too-exciting one, can make a picture interesting when combined with good composition, lighting and technical attributes.
Viewer interest is an overlooked area of photography. As photographers, we sometimes become emotionally attached to an image. An example of this would be if you had a dog. Let's say you really loved that dog and made some OK pictures of the dog. You might want to frame a photo and hang it on our wall because it is your favorite dog of all time. The problem is that if we share that image with others they have no emotional attachment to the dog and may not respond to your image the way you do.
If we can pull all five of these elements together in one image, we have made a very good photo.
Now, if I could just pull all of the elements of my golf game together at once, I might be able to break 90 on a consistent basis.
Jay Sousa, a former Sun-Star photographer, has his own photography business in Merced, conducts private classes and teaches photography at Merced College.


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Akron, Ohio (AP) -- It's a long shot any way you look at it.
A student from each of the NCAA Final Four schools will get the opportunity for a world-record basketball shot on Friday.
Flying 500 feet in the air aboard the Goodyear Blimp, each contestant will "shoot" a regulation basketball at a hoop measuring 100 feet in diameter.
Any student who makes the world's longest basketball shot will win a prize package from Goodyear, including travel, hotel and tickets for two to any sports event covered by the blimp during the next 12 months.
The event will take place near the Georgia Dome, site of this weekend's Final Four.
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In Jamil Nasir's Tunnel Out of Death, Heath Ransom, former police psychic turned machine-enhanced "endovoyant" private investigator, is hired to find the consciousness of the rich and comatose Margaret Biel and return it to her body. Tracking her through the etheric world, he comes upon a strange and terrifying object that appears to be a tear in the very fabric of reality. He falls into it—and into an astonishing metaphysical shadow-play.For Margaret is a pawn in a war between secret, ruthless government agencies and a nonhuman entity known only as "Amphibian." Their battlefield is a multi-level reality unlike anything humankind has ever imagined. When Heath learns to move back and forth between two different versions of his life, and begins to realize that everyone around him may be a super-realistic android, that is only the beginning of a wholesale deconstruction of reality that threatens more than his sanity....
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Jamil Nasir's third novel, Tower of Dreams, won France's top science fiction award, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, and was runner up for the Philip K. Dick Award for best science fiction paperback published in the United States. His short story "The Nomalers" won a first prize in the Writers of the Future Award. Tunnel Out of Death is his sixth novel.
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