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Was anyone else bothered in this episode hearing both "Lee" (now Bluebeard with a transparent accent) and "Clementine" (small frog boy) in a new game? Surely this isn't an issue for people who haven't played TWD, but these were the two major characters of the last game, now relegated to cameos in a totally different world. What, does TTG only know 20 VA's? I just found that it was distracting and contributed to a sub-par installment. Anyone else think they should keep their hands off the major characters from their other games in a more serious effort towards immersion?
telltale use the same voice actors in thier games all the time. it's like with anime dubb compnays they just like useing the same ones as they work fine.
I don't understand. Many companies that work on video games or animation use the same voice actors. Why would they bar an actor from ever appearing in any of their other productions simply because they voiced a main character one time? That doesn't make sense to me. Why not employ an actor who did good work before?
Also, there are plenty of people who never played The Walking Dead. And, there are also a lot of people who do recognize the voices and aren't bothered by it. I did recognize them, and I liked that fact about it. It made me smile when I heard Dave Fennoy as Bluebeard. He has a great voice.
Like I said, it won't likely be an issue for people who didn't play TWD. Now, why wouldn't a company employ the same actor who has done good work in another role before? Well, simply, because it's a different role. I think the Bluebeard rendition here exemplifies this. I thought Mr. Fennoy was superb as Lee, but even though he's a good voice actor, I found this most recent role to be dreadfully ill-suited to his particular skill set. He has such a clear voice that to muddy it with an indeterminable accent seems a crime, and a role more suited to someone else's strengths.
I see your point though. Brad Pitt was excellent in the movie Se7en. The director of that movie, David Fincher used him several more times in suitable roles such as Fight Club, because he is a good actor. My point is that David Fincher wouldn't have used him in, say, "The Social Network," because although he's a good actor, there isn't a good place for a Brad Pitt in that movie. Can you imagine Pitt playing the Winklevoss twins? It would be amusing, but unprofessional from a director's standpoint. "Lee"'s Fennoy just didn't seem suitable here as Bluebeard; I honestly found it laughable, and think Telltale might like to do a better job placing not just good VA's in roles, but good VA's in the right roles.
Now, why wouldn't a company employ the same after who has done good work in another role before? Well, simply, because it's a different role.
I'm sorry. I just don't see this as a reason to not employ an actor. If that were the case, then no actor would ever appear in more than a few things. And in the world of voice acting, a small group of actors voicing a large group of characters is not uncommon at all.
I think the Bluebeard rendition here exemplifies this. I thought Mr. Fennoy was superb as Lee, but even though he's a good voice actor, I found this most recent role to be dreadfully ill-suited to his particular skill set.
Ah, well, I respectfully disagree with you on that. I thought he was spot on as Bluebeard. I've read the comics for close to 10 years and the voice that I heard in my head was very similar to the voice that he does for the character. I know that's a matter of opinion, though. But, for me it works.
I thought he had an accent before but I really didnt hear any this time. I think Dave Fennoy's voice fits the look and mannerism of Bluebeard extremely well but YMMV.
I actually enjoy it because it brings back memories, Besides people want Lee back and well unfortunately this is as close as they are gonna get
No, thats ridiculous. They use a lot of the same voice actors because they're reliable. Melissa Hutchinson also voices Beauty. It doesnt take me out of it at all.
I disagree with you, and also, were you not bothered by Gavin Hammon as Beast and the Magic Mirror, or Melissa Hutchinson as Beauty? I also believe that Roger Jackson, who played Chuck in TWD, voiced Crane or maybe Colin in E1. I forget who.
Dave Fennoy has the Badass Baritone thing down pat and Melissa Hutchinson has proven that she can voice kids in a way that doesn't make people want to strangle them. Rare talents there. So why go for someone else?
I do get why it might be distracting when the voices are so similar though. The voices do fit the characters but I can see why you might think it doesn't if you can't help but hear Lee in there.
Dave Fennoy's voice fits perfectly for Bluebeard. I don't try to hear Lee when I am listening to him.


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Karl-Heinz Paqué
Talk about putting theory into practice. Karl-Heinz Paqué gave up a secure job as an economics professor to become finance minister in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Now, less than a year after taking office, he must cope with a $550 million shortfall in tax receipts, a sum equal to almost 5% of the state's budget. "It is completely different from academics," Paqué deadpans.
But Paqué, a prominent advocate of deregulation, is delighted with the opportunity to use Saxony-Anhalt as a platform to show Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government how reform can be achieved. Among the measures he is pushing: an across-the-board cut of at least 10% in government subsidies and reform of the state's bloated system of public banks.
In a country where politics is often a lifelong profession -- and outsiders frequently don't fare well -- Paqué, 46, is an anomaly. He taught economics at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg before being elected to the state parliament as a member of the market-oriented Free Democratic Party, which governs in a coalition with the center-right Christian Democratic Union.
Paqué enjoys the political support of state Prime Minister Wolfgang Böhmer, a Christian Democrat. More important, the public seems to be accepting his reforms. "I think the public is aware that we are in very bad shape and we have to make courageous reforms," says Paqué. If he is successful in Saxony Anhalt, and his example proves reform can stimulate growth, perhaps there will be hope for Germany after all.

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"(Carlin) would prove to be a monumental discovery of profound importance to Newmont and, furthermore, it would lead to a revival of the long dormant gold mining industry in Nevada."
~ Kaufman, 1992
Although the Mercur Mine, situated in Utah about 300 kilometres east of Carlin, Nevada, began production in 1898 and is a Nevada-type disseminated gold deposit, it is not recognized as the first discovery of its type. The reason is that geologists did not realize it was a distinct deposit type until 1968 (Cathro, 2010).
Although several small examples of the family had been discovered in Nevada much earlier in the 20th century, first prize goes to the Carlin deposit, which was discovered in 1961 by John Livermore and Alan Coope of Newmont Mining Company. Not only did they have the vision to imagine, from a study of the published literature, that this gold deposit model must exist, they proved it by finding a commercial example. At the time of the discovery, Newmont had virtually no competition for gold exploration in Nevada because the price was fixed too low to make exploration attractive. Moreover, everyone thought that the early prospectors had found all the gold that occurred at surface using gold pans and shovels, and none of the known discoveries were of commercial size or grade.
This deposit type is most accurately described with the unwieldy name "sediment-hosted disseminated gold," and locally called "Carlin-type." However, it is referred to in this series as "Nevada-type" because Carlin is too site-specific. In actual fact, most of the deposits of this type that have been discovered display important differences to Carlin and to each other. In the early days, they were also called "noseums," or invisible gold, deposits because the gold was literally invisible in both fresh and weathered specimens. The flakes were so fine that they floated in running water, could not be concentrated in a gold pan, and did not congregate in placer deposits.
The Carlin discovery demonstrates how far the science has advanced in the last 50 years and ranks as one of the greatest accomplishments in modern economic geology. Who would have predicted that a previously unrecognized deposit model, particularly of an ancient and valuable metal like gold, could quickly result in one of the world's best gold districts? Unlike the world-class mines that have been the main focus of this series until now, Carlin was not an obvious target that an experienced prospector could recognize and envisage becoming a mine once someone could solve the transportation problems and raise the necessary development capital. Between the start of production at the Carlin Mine in 1965 and the end of 2008, Nevada-type deposits produced a cumulative total of 5,077 tonnes (157.9 million troy ounces) of gold (Price, 2009). This amounts to 3.2 per cent of total world production of 159,000 tonnes (5.1 billion ounces) since the beginning of civilization (U.S. Geological Survey estimate).
Newmont, a name created by a combination of New York and Montana, is a major American mining company with a long and proud history. It was the creation of William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), one of the most successful mining investors, executives and promoters of his generation. Thompson was born in Montana and raised in Butte, then briefly attended Columbia College of Mines in New York before heading for Wall Street. His first big breaks were participating in the initial financing of Bingham Canyon by Utah Copper Company and then brokering the 1906 deal in which the Guggenheims acquired control of the Nevada Consolidated (Ruth) porphyry deposit at Ely, Nevada. Recognizing the importance of professional advisers, he initially relied on mining engineer Henry Krumb and geologist George Gunn to identify outstanding opportunities. In the next few years, he used his financing skill to either gain control or acquire an interest in two other major porphyry copper deposits in Arizona — Inspiration at Globe and Magma at Superior. That was just the start of an incredible string of huge mining financings that built the basis of his personal fortune and became the foundation of Newmont.
In 1916, he helped the Guggenheims finance the rich copper-silver deposit at Kennicott, Alaska, and consolidate it with their interests in the Bingham Canyon, Ruth, Ray and Braden (Chile) mines to form Kennecott Copper. After 1925, Fred Searls Jr. became his chief geologist. Between 1920 and 1928, Thompson helped finance Hudson Bay Mining at Flin Flon, Manitoba, which began production in 1930. In 1928, as well, Newmont joined American Metal Company in forming South African Copper Company, which acquired the O'okiep ore body in South Africa. Thompson was also involved in the founding of Texas Gulf Sulphur, Anglo American Corp. and Rhodesian Anglo American Ltd. According to Wikipedia (2010), Thompson was also a director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
In 1916, Thompson formed a private holding company, Newmont Company, to hold his growing portfolio of investments and corporate holdings. As his fortune continued to expand in the booming war years, he changed the name to Newmont Corporation and converted it into a public company in 1921. The name was changed again to Newmont Mining Company in 1925. According to Wikipedia (2010), Newmont earned $32 per share in 1927 and was soon the third largest mining company in the world, after De Beers and Anglo American Corp.
As his health began to decline rapidly during the late 1920s, Thompson decided to dispose of his stock holdings. Whether it was another example of the astute judgement that marked his career or just plain luck, most of his selling had been completed before the stock market collapse in November 1929, six months before his death. Newmont, which was now being managed by an executive committee and a blue-chip board, was not so fortunate. Like most companies listed on Wall Street and elsewhere, Newmont's stock price was decimated, from a 1929 peak of $236 to $3.87 in 1932.
The history of the company consists of three distinct periods: 1) the growth of a major mining company under Thompson until the stock market collapse; 2) surviving the Great Depression and becoming a large copper producer during the post-war period; and 3) becoming a world-class gold producer since the Carlin discovery. In a way, the third stage is the end of a long and winding route that began with a decision that was made just before Thompson died and that he was not keen about. That was the 1929 purchase of a 51 per cent interest, for less than $500,000, in the two best gold mines in the California Motherlode camp, Empire and North Star (Cathro, 2008).
The two adjoining mines were merged into a new company named Empire Star Mines. The deal was negotiated by Fred Searls against the advice of his associates, who were concerned because of the difficult economics of gold mining at a time when the gold price was fixed at $20.67 per ounce. Raised in Nevada City, in the heart of the Motherlode, he had been watching for opportunities there since joining Newmont.
Fortune smiled on the company in February 1934 when U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt persuaded Congress to increase the gold price to $35.00. This certainly was not done to help struggling mining companies; it was the final step in a desperate strategy that began a year earlier, immediately after his inauguration. The United States was on the gold standard, under which both banks and the government guaranteed to redeem their notes and deposit liabilities at the rate of $20.67 per ounce of gold. The United Kingdom had abandoned the gold standard in September 1931, near the start of the Depression. The U.S. was forced to do the same when a banking crisis developed just as President Herbert Hoover's term was ending. Both foreign and domestic depositors and note-holders were rushing to cash in their dollars for gold, which resulted in a run on U.S. banks. The fear was that a large number of banks would fail because there was insufficient gold to cover demand and the U.S. gold reserves would be depleted. Speculation that the U.S. might end the gold standard made the crisis worse as people rushed to obtain gold while they could. To solve the problem, the gold standard had to be abandoned quickly. Roosevelt took office on March 4, 1933, and the process began three days later.
New laws were passed quickly to give the federal government the right to purchase all the gold in private hands at the old price and become the sole owner of gold in the U.S. At the beginning of February 1934, the U.S. established a new gold price of $35.00. This stabilized the banking system by creating a large inflow of gold into the country from elsewhere because of the fixed, higher price. The Treasury made a huge profit (almost $3 billion) because it had bought gold at $20.67 prior to its revaluation to $35.00. Next, the U.S. readopted a limited form of the gold standard. From January 31, 1934, to August 15, 1971, the Treasury purchased gold from all sellers at $34.9125, but sold gold only to foreign monetary authorities and licensed industrial users at $36.0875.
By 1934, Empire Star was operating five mines in the Grass Valley-Nevada City district. As the Depression began to bite deeper and base metal prices crumbled, and in spite of intensive cost-cutting, Newmont was still in a shaky financial position. When the price jumped in February, the value of its annual gold output immediately jumped 75 per cent to $3.5 million, and Newmont's dividend income rose 630 per cent to $1.1 million in 1934. By additional borrowing and judicial trading in the stock market, Newmont was able to increase the market value of its portfolio from about $9 million in 1932 to nearly $30 million in 1934. Through serendipity, Empire Star had become the crucial support that enabled Newmont to survive the Depression and enlarge its gold exploration budget. It was also the first step in Newmont's emergence as an important gold company and the long road to the Carlin Mine.
Searls accelerated his search for other gold opportunities and Newmont was operating 12 gold mines in North America by 1939 (Wikipedia), including five in the Motherlode district and six in Canada. They were all small- to medium-sized underground deposits. In 1934, Newmont acquired control of two medium-sized Canadian gold deposits, the Island Mountain Mine at Wells, British Columbia and the Northern Empire Mine in the Beardmore-Geraldton camp, Ontario.
Newmont became interested in Island Mountain, located in the heart of the famous Cariboo Gold Rush, after a pyritic gold deposit was discovered in 1932, and operated it until 1954. Production while under Newmont ownership was about 10,380 kg (334,000 oz) of gold and 1,500 kg (48,140 oz) of silver from seven million tonnes of ore at a recovered grade of 14.8 g/t (0.43 oz/ton) gold and 2.1 g/t (0.06 oz/ton) silver (Henceforth, tonne = t and all grades are recovered, not reserve).
The Northern Empire Mine was operated by Newmont until 1942 and produced about 4,640 kg (149,000 oz) of gold from 426,000 tons, a grade of 12.0 g/t (0.35 oz/ton). In 1937, Northern Empire bought control of the nearby Magnet Mine, which produced from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1956, and Tombill Mine (1938 to 1942). Production was 4,890 kg (152,000 oz) of gold from 326,500 tonnes at a grade of 14.4 g/t (0.42 oz/ton) from Magnet, and 1,870 kg (60,100 oz) from 172,900 tonnes averaging 12.3 g/t (0.36 oz/ton) from Tombill.
In 1935, Newmont entered into a partnership with prominent financier Bernard Baruch to acquire the Getchell Mine in Nevada from a Nevada banker, Noble Getchell. They built a 900 t/d cyanide plant to process oxide ore averaging about 12.0 g/t (0.35 oz/ton), which was quite profitable until the underlying sulphide ore was encountered. It was an unrecognized noseum gold deposit.
Newmont continued its investment in new Canadian gold deposits in 1935 when it acquired the Berens River property in Ontario, which produced 5,060 kg (157,350 oz) of gold from 508,500 tonnes of ore between 1936 and 1948, at a grade of 9.6 g/t (0.28 oz/ton). The mine was so far north of the Red Lake gold camp that building a road was impractical and all equipment and supplies had to be flown to the site.
The last of the Canadian deposits acquired by Newmont was the Sachigo River Mine, situated in an even more remote part of northwestern Ontario. It was discovered in 1935 by geologist Eldon Brown and produced 1,635 kg (52,500 oz) from 42,200 t grading 38.7 g/t (1.13 oz/ton) between 1938 and 1942. It is interesting that Brown later became the president of Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd., which opened a small nickel mine at Lynn Lake, Manitoba, in 1952 using a new ammonia leach hydrometallurgical process. Newmont financed the new process and acquired a 40 per cent interest in the company.
Except where indicated, information on Newmont is from R.H. Ramsey (1973). L.H. Officer (2004) is the source of information on the banking crisis and abandonment of the gold standard in 1933-34. Special thanks go to Don Sweetkind and Mike Cathro for preparing the Nevada
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August 15th, 2013 11:11 AM #1
Middle Name for Adlai
Husband and I are set on Adlai for baby boy #2 (still just a dream baby, though), but we're at a loss for good middle names. I love that it's a unique A-name with a little Biblical street cred, but all our attempts at a middle just don't sit right. The first boy has the more respectable, responsible moniker (named for grandfathers) and, as second children are usually more creative, we want to give boy #2 a little more freedom. Last name is West, like the direction.
Any ideas?
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August 15th, 2013 12:12 PM #5
Adlai is a more unusual Biblical name so I would pair it with a more traditional mn or classy, spunky surname (his first name is already "different" from his respectfully named older brother so I wouldn't want to get too carried away so that the two boys sound like they were named by different parents/family). Are there any other family members or friends that you would like to honour in the middle spot? I don't know if I agree with your statement that second children are usually more "creative" than the older ones but here are some suggestions. I think three-syllables would be ideal with a two-syllable fn and one-syllable surname.
Adlai Montgomery
Adlai Solomon (if you want to go all-out Biblical )
Adlai Jonathan
Adlai Barnaby
Adlai Philemon
Adlai Timothy
Adlai Donovan
Adlai Raphael
Adlai Sullivan
Adlai Theodore
Adlai Alexander (if you don't mind alliteration)
Adlai Sebastian
Adlai Peregrine
Adlai Bartholomew
Adlai Dominic
Adlai Finnegan
Adlai Evander
Adlai Benjamin
Adlai Jeremy
Adlai JulianAll the best,
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Thank you so much! I'm loving all of the suggestions. You're all doing a much better job than we were... it just felt like everything we could think of sounded flat and dull. :-pWilde West
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Maybe Yes, Maybe No
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Chapter 1 (v.1) - Maybe Yes, Maybe No
Hailey scowled at me.
What had I done to her this time?
~ Pause the Story ~
OK, you're probably thinking, what is this? Well, Hailey is like my arch enemy, I hate her, she hates me. She is obsessed with herself, hair and make-up. She thinks that everything that happens to her has something to do with me, unless it's something good.
No, I don't try to hurt anyone, It kind of just happens, I guess.
~ Back to Story ~
I thought back to anything I had done this week that could possibly do anything to her. Nope, nothing came to mind. Maybe she was scowling at someone behind me. I turned around. No one. Dang it!
"What's your problem today, Hailey?" I asked.
"Oh, don't act all innocent!" She shouted.
"What are you talking about? I didn't do anything!"
"Yeah, sure you didn't."
"I swear I didn't."
"Let me jog your memory."
Hailey turned around.
I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Just then...There it was. A bold spot.
"Is that what you're talking about? The bold spot?" I asked.
"So you do know what happened?"
"No, but I can see it."
"If you didn't do it then who did?"
"I don't know."
I hate Hailey. She makes me feel dumb when she askes dumb questions. She is the one being dumb, but I'm the one that feels dumb. It's just not right!
I feel sick just staring at her and, admittingly beautiful face.
"Carly, just admit that you did it!"
"Tell me what happened and I might know who did this to you."
"Of course you will, because it was YOU!"
"It wasn't!!"
"Fine! If you're going to stick to that story, I will tell you."
"Thank you."
"OK, so what happened was...Sebastian and I were getting slushes at the mall. We ran into my friend Callie. Sebastian was getting all lovey dovey around her so I had to make sure I could get his attention again. It was no use, he was obsessed with her. I had a chat with Callie, I told her to STAY AWAY, anyway, she didn't take it very well and she and Sebastian left me at the mall alone. Later that night, I was sitting at my mirror and saw the bold spot at the back. That's all I know."
"So do you know who did it now?"
"Maybe. I think Callie was a little jealous that Sebastian would go back to you, so she shaved a bit of your hair, hoping you won't found out until later, and Sebastian would think your too ugly to go out with ever again."
"I don't think Sebastian is that shallow."
"Yeah but I do."
"Fine, I will talk to her."
"She won't admit it right to your face. You have to catch her in the act."
"How? She has already done it!"
"Get some extensions and talk to Sebastian. She will get jealous and do it again. I will be following her and you until it happens. Then we will know."
"Do you think it will work?"
"Well, do you think Callie would do that?"
"I'm not totally sure."
"Well she is your friend!"
~ Pause the Story ~
Thanks everyone for reading the first chapter of my brand new series - Maybe Yes, Maybe No. The title is a little strange, but I hope it catches on. The next chapter will be out soon, who knows, it could be out by the time you read this.
Bye For Now,
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AHA focuses on digital historyRoundup: Talking About History
Intersections: History and New Media
Robert B. Townsend introduces the broad array of new media articles in this issue in "Viewing History at the Intersection of Past and Future," and comments that these "essays consider how the new media of the internet are changing the practice of history in our capacities as scholars, teachers, and general disseminators of knowledge of the past to the general public."
The essays in this issue take up the theme from different angles. Some ask broad questions and look at how new media affects general concepts (narratives, data) and whole disciplines (public history), while other articles concentrate on specific new media projects and programs.
New Media – Broad Looks
Essays with a broad take on new media include:
- Digital Media in History: Remediating Data and Narratives
Stefan Tanaka points out that there is "much possibility for enriching history by using digital media" but stresses the need to "engage, evaluate, and change technologies."
- New Media and the Challenges for Public History
How can organizations (museums, historic sites, archives) use new media to stay connected? Tim Grove considers this question.
- The Mythology of Blogs: A Top Ten List for the Uninitiated Historian
Think you know what blogging is about? Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom sets the record straight on what's true and what's myth in the blogosphere.
- Roy Rosenzweig and the Future of the Past
We couldn't talk about history and new media without talking about the late Roy Rosenzweig. Steven Mintz revisits Rosenzweig's work and labels him a "torchbearer."
New Media – Projects and Programs
Sometimes the best way to discuss a topic is to point to concrete examples. The authors of the following articles deconstruct new media projects they've been a part of.
- Two Ideas, Two Cities, Two Projects: A Digital Urban World
Janice L. Reiff takes a look at the Encyclopedia of Chicago and Hypercities.
- Practicing Digital History at the Intersection of Teaching, Research, and Outreach
E. Thomas Ewing looks to Virginia Schools in the Great Depression web site to discuss how new media can allow the combination of teaching, research, and outreach.
- Erasing the Line between Pedagogy and Epistemology
John McClymer breaks down how he designed a course that "erase[s] the boundaries… between studying and doing history."
- Investigating U.S. History at CUNY—Digitally
David Jaffee details the Investigating U.S. History project.
- What is Digital History? A Look at Some Exemplar Projects
Douglas Seefeldt and William G. Thomas call up (and link to) a plethora of digital history examples.
- Keeping up with the Web, 1997–2008: Women and Social Movements in the United States
Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin cover the past decade of their experience working with women's history online.
- Wiki and the History Classroom
Kevin B. Sheets talks about developing the "CortlandWiki" and how it worked in the classroom.
- The Digital Durham Project: Creating Community through History, Technology, and Service Learning
Trudi Abel presents an initiative from Duke University, The Digital Durham Project.
- Visualizing 19th-Century Edinburgh with Animation Software
Lisa Rosner investigates murders from the 1800s with the help of software used by real estate agents.
- Pragmatic As Well As Prescient: Digital History Education at George Mason University
Daniel J. Cohen examines digital history education at George Mason University from 2001 to now.
- History Engine: Creating a Writing Assignment for the Digital Age
By Andrew J. Torgetwith Scott Nesbit
- Teaching with the History Engine: Experiences from the Field
By Lloyd Benson, Julian Chambliss, Jamie Martinez, Kathryn Tomasek, and Jim Tuten
- Creating Community with the History Engine Connecting Teachers, Librarians, Students, and Scholars
By Kathryn S. Meier and Rachel Shapiro
The History Engine
A number of articles in this issue address the History Engine, a web site (that we've covered on AHA Today in the past) that allows students to create articles in a way that teaches them how to do the work of a historian.
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Jon Gosselin away with gal pal while Kate had B-day boo hoo with octos.
On the latest installment of JK8 filmed in March Kate has 34th birthday party solo without Jon.
Where was Daddy Dearest?
"I went out to Utah for, like, five days," he said to the camera. "I just wanted to get back out there and ride with my friends. It just happened to fall on Kate's birthday."
Not shown on camera, a source confirmed, Deanna Hummel, 23, one of Jon's gal pals, he was off riding with.
Meanwhile the Pennsylvania Department of Labor investigation continues to determine if JK8 violates child labor laws after receiving a written complaint.


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Time to Heal: How Long Does Healing (and Brief Therapy) Take?
They say 'time heals all wounds'. But does it? Or are there other things involved in the healing, too?
If it is time that salves and soothes, how much time does it take to heal?
(And how on earth might a thing like time-limited brief therapy work?)
Perhaps it's worth just investigating time for a moment. What's your relationship with time like? Does it evaporate on you, too quickly gone? Are you in a kind of 'pursuer-distancer' relationship with it, where you're always chasing it down, and it usually stays tantalisingly out of reach? Or does it pool at your feet and maroon you in a rising tide of excess? Is there so much of it that it's hard to find ways to meaningfully fill it?
Therapy itself is intimately twined with time. Measured in regular rhythms of sessions and the weeks between. Yet even here, time can play tricks. For in some sessions, the clock fairly races. In others, the ticking slows and seems to expand somehow, inviting a whole other dimension into the room.
So how can we use this nebulous, changeable stuff therapeutically – both in therapy and in life? How can we harness time for our healing?
Solution-focused brief therapy offers one perspective. By its very nature and brevity, it acknowledges the time-limited nature of all our lives – an end to brief therapy is woven into its beginnings much as our death is implicitly present at our birth.
So brief therapy doesn't muck about. In its more extreme forms, it doesn't even want to know about the problem too much. Instead, it focuses on the way out of the problem, and it asks 'how' you will recognize that way out. And 'how' you possibly have some part of the solution – part of the healing – in your life already. In fact, it often poses a lot of 'how' questions.
So it might ask things like:
How will you know when this wound is healed? What will the signs of that be?
How will you feel when that happens?
How will you behave? What sort of things will you be doing with your days then?
How will others see or know this about you? How will they notice your healing?
How have you helped heal other, earlier wounds you might have had? (And how did you know how to do that? Where did your knowledge about that come from? How can you access it again?)
They're interesting questions.
And, in whatever timeframe it takes – brief or longer-term – perhaps these kind of queries can help us get a new angle on our healing. New insight. A kind of re-focusing on our present and future. And perhaps they can even help time's quest to heal our wounds…
So how do you find these kinds of questions?
Photo: Gabrielle Gawne-Kelnar
Gabrielle Gawne-Kelnar (Grad Dip Counselling & Psychotherapy) is a Sydney psychotherapist in private practice at One Life Counselling & Psychotherapy. Gabrielle also co-facilitates telephone support groups for people who are living with cancer, for their carers, and for people who have been bereaved through a cancer experience. She is the editor of a journal on counselling and psychotherapy and she provides regular therapeutic updates on facebook and Twitter @OneLifeTherapy.
Gawne-Kelnar, G. (2010). Time to Heal: How Long Does Healing (and Brief Therapy) Take?. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 24, 2017, from https://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapist-within/2010/08/time-to-heal-how-long-does-healing-and-brief-therapy-take/


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If you're an iPhone user, today's press conference debuting a preview of the upcoming iPhone software 3.0 is going to rock your world. Greg Joswiak took the stage and announced that Apple set a goal to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, and the company achieved much more than that by selling 13.7 million. He mentioned that the company now has sold more than 17 million units, with 25,000 applications with over 800 million downloads. 98% of the applications have been approved in seven days or less.
The next version of the iPhone operating system, now at version 3.0 is going to offer over 1,000 new APIs for developers, and deliver over 100 new features. The iPhone OS 3.0 will ship this summer and will be free to all iPhone 3G customers and even original iPhone users. There will be a $9.95 update charge for iPod touch users, sadly. So, who's ready for the newly announced features?
- Copy and paste functionality.
- Accessories can now talk with hardware.
- Push notifications, huge plus compared to background applications in my opinion.
- Landscape mode for Apple applications.
- MMS text messaging, finally.
- Search all applications via the new Spotlight
- 3.0 now has a standard system for finding other devices in the same area without using a WiFi network. Other devices can now be found via Bluetooth with no pairing required.
- Stereo Bluetooth is now supported
- Anti-phishing now in Mobile Safari
- Safari will also remember login credentials.
- Parental controls extended to movies, TV shows, and application downloads.
- Turn-by-Turn GPS for the Google Maps application.
- There is a new Voice Memo application for iPhone.
- There is also a new version of the media player that will automatically adjust the quality of the stream based on your connection to the network.
- In-App Purchasing for App Store applications, demonstrated in EA's upcoming 'The Sims 3' game for iPhone.
- HDTV streaming for audio and video.
Spotlight: The new Spotlight feature will have its own separate page on the devices home screen, which will sit to the left of all other pages. To get to it, simply swipe to go to the left and then enter what you wish to search for. From what we've seen, it's simple and easy.
In-App Purchasing: This is rather self-explanatory. In certain applications (mainly games) you'll be able to pay for items. For example, in The Sims 3, you can purchase items for your Sims, at $0.99 each.
All the other new additions are relatively self-explanatory.
There have been a lot of announcements today, and I'm sure you're wondering why Apple took so long to provide some of these features. Here are a few quotes from today's announcement:
"We were asked, why don't you do background processing? It's bad for the customer. It drains battery. We've been testing this, and running some background processes on some phones. We took a popular AIM client, and we just let go in the background -- then we measured the standby time. And it dropped by 80% or more."
"So, push. Preserves battery life, maintains performance, optimized for mobile networks."
"[Applications] 96% are approved, but there are things we have to watch out for. There have been issues, issues about content that's available to children for instance. But at the end of the day, we have a great solution that's working, and we're constantly making it better. We're tracking these numbers, and speaking with developers, and we are constantly doing that."
After the presentation, the Q&A began. Here are some quick highlights from the session:
Q: Flash? What are you doing?
A: We have no announcements on that topic today. But there are a lot of video streams we can handle. h.264 works great. We're adding HDTV streaming for audio and video. We think there's a lot of great video solutions for a single clip.
Q: Where do you stand on tethering?
A: Scott (explains tethering): We're supporting tethering in the client side, we're building that support in. We're working with our carriers around the world. We are building that support in.
Q : Are you addressing any of the lagginess with the new OS? We saw some of that when you loaded SMS up.
A: We're definitely addressing those issues. The units you saw today are demo units.
Q: Push notification, will you make uptime promises?
A: No.
Q: Why did copy paste take so long?
A: Scott: It's not that easy. There were security issues.
Overall I am very pleased with the updates that Apple is coming out with. As a Windows Mobile user, I myself have personally not given the iPhone a go because key features like MMS, C&P, and Push Notifications were not available on the iPhone. This major update is going to be a key player in the mobile phone arena. Microsoft and Windows Mobile has their work cut out for them. Overall I'm sure the millions of customers using the iPhone gives Apple a thumbs up, I do.
On a side not, there were a ton of new applications demoed today at this press event. Too many for us to list, so head over to Engadget for a look.
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In April, shortly after the marathon twin bombs went off, 13-year-old Cole Garaventi was moved to design and sell wristbands to raise money for the One Fund Boston.
In April, shortly after the marathon twin bombs went off, 13-year-old Cole Garaventi was moved to design and sell wristbands to raise money for the One Fund Boston.
As readers may recall, Garaventi, now an eighth-grader, was inspired by first responders' selfless, heroic acts to roll his own sleeves up and begin collecting donations by selling wristbands for $2 inscribed with "Pray for Boston" and "April 15, 2013."
"The bombs really scared him like a lot of other kids," said Bonnie Garaventi, Cole's mom. "The thing that amazed me is he didn't have a filter about helping; he just jumped right in."
Unlike her son, Bonnie noted, "I would have thought,'There's nothing I could have done."
When all was said and done, Garaventi had sold 5,000 wristbands and raised $12,500, the amount Bonnie sent to One Fund Boston in mid-May.
"People were grateful for Cole's efforts because they gave them an opportunity to do something to help," said Bonnie. "His project was easy to do, accessible and allowed others to get involved on a local level."
Gov. Deval Patrick learned of Cole's efforts through the Garaventis' neighbors, Henry and Belinda Termeer, leading Patrick to invite Cole to spend time with him in his State House office.
"That was an amazing experience," said Cole. "I couldn't have thought of a better way to be recognized and have him buy one of my bracelets."
Patrick spent about half an hour with Cole and his grandparents.
"We discussed how I came up with the bracelet idea and how I felt about the initial first responders," said Cole.
Recently, the One Fund Boston reached $64 million in donations and began distributing funds to victims.
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Sowing Seeds for Life's fifth annual Christmas in the Park" celebration will be held Saturday at Ganesha Park from noon to 4 p.m.
The annual event draws upwards of 600 to 800 kids. Each child under 13 will receive a toy.
There will also be live entertainment, crafts for kids, vendor booths, snack stands and photos with Santa Claus. There will also be a food pantry giveaway available for families in need as well.
Celebrities expected to take part again this year include former child actor Rodney Allen Rippy, best known for his Jack-In-the-Box commercials of 40 years ago; singers Britney Young and Rick Barry, country music legend Jeremy James Bonner, and Paige Sanders.
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" Brand: Bush / Size: 7 Inch / Type: Digital Photo Frame "
we received the Bush digital photo frame as a christmas present. This photo frame looks great, with its shiny black frame. You can load your pictures onto the photo frame either using a memory card or a usb stick, both are loaded into the back of the frame in good positions meaning the usb stick doesn't pertrude from the side and is hidden at the back of the frame nicely. This product is very easy to use, even for a technophobe like myself! The pictures are very clear and are displayed for a time set by yourself, you can also set how the pictures change from one picture to another, this is called fade settings, another setting option is for the pictures to appear in order or randomly. pictures can be displayed in both landscape and portrait. We have two small children with sticky fingers so our frame frequently gets messy so luckily this product wipes clean very easily. One disadvantage is that it has to be plugged into the mains so you need to position it right to hide the lead, however we love this photo frame and would definitely recommend it to others.
The seven inch Bush Premium Digital Photo Frame currently sells for £49.99 from Argos, where apparently, it is on permanent special half-price offer, the RRP allegedly being £100.
(I suspect however that this is one of those special offers to definitely take with a pinch of salt, as having seen the digital photo frame out of its box, now, I would say it is near-identical to similar digital photo frames that start off costing around the £50 mark. I would say that it is a piece of kit that would ALWAYS have been intended to retail for about £50.).
I live a long way from my parents and tend to send them, via email, a lot of digital photos of my kids, their grandchildren. My mother has not always had 100% success in viewing / storing these images, and I thought (naively! Foolishly!) that a digital photo-frame might make a good present for her.
So, I didn't know much about digital photo frames except that I wanted to pay about £50 for one, and that I wanted one that could be used with a USB. This Bush frame is USB (and memory card) compatible, and the image resolution given for it was also greater, at 800x600 pixels, than the resolution for similarly-priced photo frames in the Argos catalogue, so I thought it would be a good choice.
This was a grave mistake on my part.
Argos have a controversial 'no returns or exchanges' policy for digital photo frames purchased from their shops, so I didn't get to see the frame, which as I say I'd purchased as a gift for my mother, out of its packaging beforehand. Initially it was slightly smaller than I'd expected, but this was not a great disaster. I was however disappointed to find out that the frame has to be kept plugged into the mains or it won't work. It had simply never occurred to me that digital photo frames wouldn't run off batteries (but this may have been a silly assumption on my part, as it seems most of the digital photo frames in the Argos catalogue at least have to have a mains supply).
I was even more disappointed when I realized that the photo frame has an EXTREMELY limited internal memory. It will only store about 20 different photos at a time - and they don't tell you about THAT in the Argos catalogue! Now I know what to look for, of course I see that had I paid another £10 I could've purchased a different (Sony) digital photo-frame with 128MB internal memory, and that, presumably, would've stored all the pictures I could've wanted.
The screen of the camera is made not of glass, but of the slightly soft, transparent plastic that laptop screens are made of. This being a photo frame and not a laptop computer, initially, I thought this 'soft stuff' was touch-screen material and I had some trouble working out that the controls for the digital photo frame are in fact operated by means of the simple 'up, down / right, left' buttons on the back of it. Once I'd realized this, it was fairly simple for me to upload photos from a memory stick / USB drive plugged into the side of the photo frame.
So, not realizing about the frame's limited storage capacity, there I was trying to load a number greater than 20 of photos onto the Bush frame for my mother, and after 20 images were on it, the thing simply stopped working. There was no 'disc full' message on screen or anything helpful like that; it just sat there doing nothing when you pressed any of the buttons. This caused us no end of panic, as my mother, who had just taken over the photo-loading process having watched how it was done, thought she'd broken the frame by pushing the buttons too hard (the buttons on the back of the thing seem quite flimsily constructed). We switched the frame on and off at the mains and it fired up again OK (as it turns out I hadn't saved the 20 uploaded pictures onto the frame's memory correctly), and it wasn't until I read the instruction book quite thoroughly that I realized that the problem related to the frame's surprisingly limited image-storage capability.
I would say that being able to store only 20 different pictures on a digital photo frame is a joke. What on earth is the point of such limited capability? You can keep a USB drive plugged permanently into the side of it, but this is supposed to be a format intended for the display of visual media for godsakes, so having a flash drive always sticking out the side just looks pathetic.
Given the purpose for which I purchased this photo frame, I would give it maybe two out of ten as a successful present. I'd hoped to be able to load a great many photos onto the frame and leave it, so that my mother could just switch it on and it would work to show a great variety of pictures, without her having to faff about trying to upload / erase material by herself. I suppose it's a case of caveat emptor, but I can't understand why anyone would deliberately design a digital photo-frame that carries all these limitations in the first place.
To summarize: What I like about the Bush Frame:
- It will display both portrait and landscape pictures, turning the ones that are the 'wrong way round' correctly
- The picture quality is good
What I don't like about the Bush Frame:
- The surprisingly limited photo-storage capacity
- The relative largeness of the frame in relation to the screen
- The fact that it has to be plugged in to the mains in order to be used / doesn't run off batteries
- The flimsiness of the buttons that are used to operate it
And finally, that I can't even return this useless turkey to Argos and get my £50 back
Would I recommend this product? What do you think! ABSOLUTELY NOT! AVOID!


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Practice – Offense Catching Up, Sort OfPosted by on August 24, 2009 – 5:46 pm
Sort of a bizarre day at practice today.
Let me start with Coach Jim Zorn talking after practice about the progress that the offensive line's made and go from there. Here's Zorn:
"I think we've seen a lot of progress. I'm very excited about the fact that we have given our starters time and even our backups and young guys some time as well to stand strong and throw. We've had some good play development.
"You can see the plays developing now, and that's getting a chance to make them work. We've picked up some complicated blitzes with these two teams we've played and we stood our ground. There have been some scrambles. There has been some need for scrambles, but not nearly as much as we've seen last year."
And this seems to be true, and it seems to be reflected in the way practice goes. As players repeatedly predicted in the early days of training camp, the offense in general is slowly catching up with the defense. The disparity is no longer so great, and practices are no longer just the offensive players being chased around by the defense.
That's not the bizarre part — like I said, that's pretty much what people have been predicting. The bizarre part is that despite this closing of the gap, there were really no individual offensive performances that stood out today and the offense didn't seem to be clicking at all.
It seemed like every time Jason Campbell through a perfect pass — and he threw a few — the receiver would drop it clean. Or the pass would be behind the receiver, but he'd make an impressive play to catch it. Only a couple times did everything come together — pass, open receiver, catch — and most of them were Campbell-to-Moss.
It seemed like there were several plays where the second-team defense was having surprising success against the first-team offensive line; I know I saw J.D. Skolnitsky push past Chris Samuels at least once. It was just that kind of day.
Two of the younger players stood out, although not necessarily for the right reasons: Marko Mitchell didn't necessarily keep his momentum going from Saturday night, with a couple of balls bouncing off his hands, and Colt Brennan followed his rough game with a practice that looked uncharacteristically tentative. Coach Zorn's comments after practice didn't exactly offer a vote of confidence for Brennan.
"Well," he said, "I have always said that Colt is just trying to battle with Todd [Collins] for the number two spot. I think that we saw that Todd was not willing to bow down and give up his number two spot. So the competition right now is for the number three spot, and Chase [Daniel] is making a statement about that."
As far as Daniel goes, I didn't notice him doing anything strikingly positive or strikingly negative.
And the special teamers were doing their downing-the-ball drills with the volleyballs again, and I finally asked someone why. "We do 'em with the volleyballs to get a true bounce," Special Teams Coordinator Danny Smith told me. "If you do it with a football, you're working the guys with a lot of reps. They may get ten reps but only three playable balls 'cause you can't control the bounce of the ball. I want a rep every time they do it, so with the volleyballs you can control that and every rep is a quality rep."
So now I know.
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text: Album Review: Brother Ali - Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color by Andrea Swensson September 17, 2012 reviews Album art for Brother Ali's "Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color" (Album Art) Brother Ali has endured a series of emotional highs and lows over the last few years — including losing his father, the death of Rhymesayers labelmate Eyedea and visiting Mecca. Fittingly, his new record, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, strikes a similar balance between darkness and light. As the title suggests, the album opens with contemplation on the State of the Union and an unflinching analysis of the challenges we face as a nation, painting a dark portrait of modern-day politics. "Letter to My Countrymen" begins upbeat — a vibraphone-heavy soul groove bounces optimistically underneath his verses — but less than a minute into the song, Ali gently suggests we start tending to the issues at hand. "I want to make this country what it says it is," he raps calmly and assuredly, unspooling the first of the album's many thematic statements as he addresses issues like racial disparity, economic privilege and apathy. Such a politically charged album could sound preachy if handled clumsily — especially when released seven weeks before a Presidential election. But the issues Ali addresses on the album are broader than the buzzword-heavy talking points being bandied about this voting season, and he only expresses vague feelings about the President. Rather, his main beef is with the system as a whole; throughout the record's first nine tracks, he deconstructs the challenges facing middle and lower-class America and offers his viewpoint with searing, unwavering honesty. Some tracks provide a stream-of-consciousness narrative of Ali's own life (as with the confessional "Stop the Press"), while others zoom further out to examine what's happening in his community and across the country. Ali is certainly not afraid to express his anger and frustration over what's happening, especially on the scathing "Mourning in America," where the repeated hook of "Murder, murder/kill, kill, kill" flows into controversial proclamations like "It's a very thin line between a soldier and a terrorist." But on most of the other tracks, his cadence is relaxed and conversational, showcasing his personal approach to sociopolitics and his skill for presenting intellectual ideas in a universal language. Despite all of the darkness present on the album's opening tracks, Ali still finds hope, and the last third of the record is spent meditating on his family and the deep bond he feels to his community. In one of the album's only faltering moments, Ali tries too hard to ramp the mood back up and veers into schmaltz on the chorus of "My Beloved" — yet the levity of the song also provides much-needed breathing room after such a long string of diatribes. My favorite track is the short "Namesake," which harkens back to his feel-good classic "Forest Whitaker." For the first time since 2003, Ali parted ways with Ant to collaborate with accomplished producer Jake-One (50 Cent, Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg), and the production channels the soul influence of his earlier work while simultaneously pushing him forward creatively. When viewed as a whole, Mourning in America is Brother Ali's most lyrically and sonically cohesive effort yet. Tweet


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"Integrating Molecular Switches and Machines with the Everyday World"
Sir Fraser Stoddart, PhD, Head of Northwestern's Mechanostereochemistry Group
875 papers and publications
Briefly reviewed his work
1981 to 1998 to make a molecular switch
Spread the switch onto monolayer
Works with Jim Heath to work on crossbars
electrochemical switching of the bistable catenane (2000)
rotaxane based switch
molecular switch tunnel junction. 70nm wires and 100 nm wires
5000 molecules per junction
160 kbit molecular RAM (2007)
2500 junctions out of 160000
device is smaller than the cross section of a white blood cells
75% of the switches were bad.
10^11 bits per square centimeter.
Switches are not robust, need to put them into polymers
Bottom up – Stoddart, top down Heath
2007 160 kbit molecular device
where to go
Omar Yaghi
Beyond open reticulated geometries
Catananes and rotaxanes inside metal organic frameworks
Molecule is the crystal
Ultra high porous (a lot of space in them)
Mechanically interlocked molecules
A crown ether in a MOF
Paraquat in BORG 1
A catanane in a 2D
A MOF replete with otdered catananes
Towards 3D molecular structures
Need to add switchability to a robust MIMS with MOF structures
making of nanovalves (video) to try and develop a way to treat cancer
Simple ways to make complex molecules
Efficient and creative templated organic synthesis rapid and reliable physical measurements
Nanotech spawns new approaches to energy, nanoelectronics and photonics,
Next generation beyond cmos,
Nanomaterials and composites, nanocatalysis, nanomembranes, nanoinitiatives and grand challenges remain
How to go from switches to machines
molecular switch ==> autonomous molecular machine
Make a food grade product that replaces methanol from basic chemical component
For pharma, food and other
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Priest, Former Dorm Rector at Notre Dame: Student Housing Policies Must Foster Moral Development
Adam Wilson / July 5, 2016
Father Ronald Vierling served as rector of the University of Notre Dame's Morrissey Manor, an all-male dormitory serving 240 students, for 11 years. He just stepped down from his position, and this summer he's transferring to a Catholic boarding school in New England where he'll serve as chaplain.
The Cardinal Newman Society recently spoke with Fr. Vierling about his time at Notre Dame and the importance of strong residential life policies for Catholic universities.
Having spent over a decade ministering to students at America's most recognizable Catholic university, Fr. Vierling stated that Notre Dame's dedication to its Catholic identity is "a mixed bag." He said the University has compromised its Catholic identity in some ways, but noted there are positive signs of hope.
Concerning residential life, Fr. Vierling lamented shifts in the University's housing policies, saying Notre Dame is "more concerned with treating students like a consumer base rather than young people in need of formation."
Fr. Vierling told the Newman Society that all student housing policies "must point in the same direction: fostering the human and moral development of students by setting meaningful standards which are informed by the teaching of the Church and holding students accountable to those standards."
[More at cardinalnewmansociety.org/priest-former-dorm-rector-notre-dame-student-housing-policies-must-foster-moral-development/ ]


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What are the disadvantages of using social networking sites regarding students?
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It isn't clear exactly what you mean, but I am going to assume you mean using social networking sites such as Facebook as an educational tool. One disadvantage to this is that it removes a certain distance between teacher and students, allowing both access to too much personal information and allowing students and teacher to communicate in ways that might not be appropriate. Some schools have policies which prohibit teachers and students from being friends on Facebook for this very reason. Second, the use of social networking sites in the classroom can be more of a distraction than a tool for education. I have read of teachers who have used Facebook educationally, but I have never read of how these efforts turned out. Social networking is meant to be social, not educational, and when students are on Facebook, it always turns out to be far more social than educational.
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Social Networking website includes so many people and many interesting features. These websites attract any person easily because of its various stuffs as chatting with friends, sharing information, playing games or finding new friends. The long time use of social networking website is very dangerous for any person mostly for students.
There are many students use social networking sites till mid night which is dangerous for their health and also waste time. These will directly effects on study. Another disadvantage for student is they all time thinking about any stuff of social networking site which makes them depress. There are many other disadvantages of social networking website for students.
Disadvantages of social networking is that people spend way too much of their time on these sites and never care about what happens around them or outside of the social networking world.
Kids can post too much on sites like these, they can take it to be their diary and sometimes from social networking sites they get in trouble. They can also spend too much time online because of this.


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For those looking for more protection from their racing leathers, Dainese D-Air Racing suits are finally coming to the USA. Already bringing the technology in Europe last year, Dainese is set finally to bring the D-Air Racing technology to the USA, in September 2015.
Riders interested in the airbag-equipped leather suit have two options: 1) the top-of-the-line off-the-rack Misano D-Air cow leather suit ($2,499), or 2) the made-to-measure Mugello D-Air custom kangaroo leather suit (Price TBD).
This announcement represents the first airbag-equipped motorcycle race suits to go on sale in the USA (Alpinestars Tech-Air system is still not available, though the rival Italian brand is close to coming to market), and offers track riders the same level of protection as Dainese's MotoGP riders, like Valentino Rossi.


text: Hi all!! I'm trying to decouple a component with 9 outputs and 3 power pins and 500ps of rise time ( so, I need decouple the component until 700MHz). I'm following the typical process of set a Target Impedance, decouple low frequencies with a bulk capacitor and decouple High frequencies with ceramic capacitors. My problem is that When I calculate the induction budget to determiante the number of ceramic capacitors ( following the Black Magic Book, formula 8.18 : L(tot)=X(max)Tr/3.1416 ), the value is very small: 160pH for a 500ps of rise time and 1 ohm of target impedance. Therefore I should put 7 capacitors in parallel. I think that putting seven bypassing capacitor for a small component is insane. any solution? Thanks in advance -------------------Legal Disclaimer--------------------------------------- The above electronic mail transmission is confidential and intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. Its contents may be protected by legal and/or professional privilege. Should it be received by you in error please contact the sender at the above quoted email address. Any unauthorised form of reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited. The Institute does not guarantee the security of any information electronically transmitted and is not liable if the information contained in this communication is not a proper and complete record of the message as transmitted by the sender nor for any delay in its receipt. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: http://www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu


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CREDIT card users face a record $533 million Christmas interest bill as grinch banks refuse to share official rate cuts.
Big banks and other providers have been far keener to slug customers with rate rises compared with giving reductions, analysis shows.
Kirsty Lamont, director at financial comparison service Mozo, said providers were grabbing an extra $25 million a month - or $800,000 a day - in interest by being less generous with rate cuts compared with rises.
Average credit card rates fell a stingy 0.14 per cent in the past year - compared with a 1.5 per cent cut to the official rate. Yet when the Reserve Bank lifted rates 1.5 per cent in the year to October 2010, credit card rates rose 1 per cent.
Consumers using plastic for the traditional December spending binge are being crunched with a huge gap between the official cash rate of 3.25 per cent and average credit card rate of 17.29 per cent.
"Banks are trying to siphon more profits from credit cards to compensate for a sluggish home loan market," Ms Lamont said.
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With the presidential inauguration upon us, we have a new bit of presidential trivia about to take place. (In case you weren't aware, Barack Obama is not only the first black president, but also the only black president (obviously) to be elected twice.) To celebrate some of the previous leaders of the free world, here are some lesser-known "Presidential Only" claims to fame.
Abraham Lincoln
Career paths to the White House are varied, but Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president who was once a licensed bartender. He was co-owner of Berry and Lincoln, a saloon in New Salem, Illinois. It was back in 1832, after a failed run for Illinois state legislature, that the 23-year-old opened what was first a general store. The store sold alcohol that was illegal to drink on premises.
So, in 1833 the pair obtained personal licenses to serve. Because Berry was a raging alcoholic, most of the work fell to Lincoln, who could not compete with other taverns in the town. A declining population in New Salem sealed the fate of Lincoln's days as a bartender, but his opponents during the 1860 presidential campaign would not let him forget the past. Because the Republican Party, of which Lincoln was a member, promoted the temperance movement, his opponent Stephen Douglass used Lincoln's stint as a bartender against him.
Lincoln cleverly denied his role in Berry and Lincoln, claiming that it was Berry who had obtained the licenses, not him. At least he never claimed not to have imbibed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt is known as much for his cowboy-persona as he was for his policies as President. He is the only president to receive the Medal of Honor. During his service in the Spanish American War, then-Colonel Roosevelt commanded the volunteer "Rough Rider" cavalry regiment in battle and personally led a horseback charge at the Battle of San Juan Heights.
He was recommended for the medal for exposing himself to "withering enemy fire over open countryside" but the medal was denied, possibly for political reasons. For more than 100 years people campaigned to have the medal awarded to Roosevelt.
In 2001, the honor was bestowed upon him by then-President Bill Clinton in a ceremony at The White House. This "first" also made Roosevelt the only president, and the only man in history, to win both the Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize, which he won for his role in settling the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland was the only president in history to hold the job of a hangman. He was once the sheriff of Erie County, New York in the 1870s.
Prior to his election to this, his first office, the deputy Sheriff Jacob Emerick had been responsible for hangings, all of which were then public. On at least one occasions however, Cleveland sprung the trap himself, considering it inappropriate to shirk the unpleasant duty.
It was on September 6, 1872 that Irishman Jack Morrissey, who was convicted of killing his own mother, died at Cleveland's hand. According to a later article in The New York Times in 1912, Cleveland did not enjoy the job and was sick for days after. Interesting for a man whose favorite hobby was hunting, and who named his shotgun Death & Destruction.
James Buchanan
Although many other commanders-in-chief might have acted single, James Buchanan was the only bachelor president in US History. Despite having a fiancé, and several romantic pursuits, Buchanan may have been bisexual or gay.
According to professor James Loewen of Catholic University, Buchanan enjoyed the company of companion William Rufus King, also single, who had also served as the only bachelor Vice President under Franklin Pierce.
Contemporary critics called King Buchanan's better half, his wife, and Aunt Fancy. Some people even snickered that they were Siamese Twins, slang at the time for homosexuals. Little can be learned from Buchanan himself. He ordered his papers burned upon his death.
Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford was the 38th President of the United States, but he was the only President who was never elected to any office higher than US Congress. That's because in 1973 Ford replaced scandal-ridden Vice President Spiro Agnew.
It would have ended there, but for the fact that Ford's boss was Richard Nixon. So when Nixon's presidency went up in flames after the Watergate cover-up, Ford was appointed president to serve out Nixon's remaining term. The defining moment of Ford's presidency was when he pardoned Nixon "for any crimes he may have committed."
Had two women gotten their way, Ford may have become the only unelected President to be assassinated. Both attempts failed, but Ford never recovered from a series of bungles, and was beaten in 1976 by Jimmy Carter.
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Outside attacker Emily Spencer had a team-high nine kills in the victory. Spencer was pulled at the end of the second game as IPFW coach Kelley Hartley Hutton used 13 of the 14 players on her active roster against winless Wright State (0-8).
Spencer was one of four IPFW (7-1) players with more than five kills. Middle attacker Jessie Manwaring had seven kills, while outside attackers Katie Higginbotham and Haley Emenhiser each added six kills.
Libero Tessa McGill had a match-high 19 digs — extending her streak of having at least 15 digs in every match this season. McGill against Wright State also recorded her first kill of the season.
With this victory, IPFW is on its longest non-conference winning streak since 2006.
The Mastodons will continue non-conference play this weekend as they travels to Spartan Showcase in East Lansing, Mich. IPFW will open the two-day tournament against Michigan State at 7 p.m. Friday before playing Georgia and Albany on Saturday.
Both Michigan State and Albany reached the NCAA Tournament last season. In addition, Michigan State received votes in this week's top 25 national coaches poll.


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And yet the prohibition on marijuana is something more than just a fading relic of the culture wars. It has also been part of the ad hoc assemblage of laws, treaties, and policies that together we call the "war on drugs," and it is in this context that the votes on Election Day may have their furthest reach. When activists in California tried to fully legalize marijuana there in 2010, the most deeply felt opposition came from the president of Mexico, who called the initiative "absurd," telling reporters that an America that legalized marijuana had "very little moral authority to condemn a Mexican farmer who for hunger is planting marijuana to sustain the insatiable North American market for drugs." This year, the reaction from the chief strategist for the incoming Mexican president was even broader and more pointed. The votes in Colorado and Washington, he said, "change somewhat the rules of the game … we have to carry out a review of our joint policies in regard to drug trafficking and security in general." The suggestion from south of the border wasn't that cocaine should be subject to the same regime as marijuana. It was: If we are going to rewrite the rules on drug policy to make them more sensible, why stop at only one drug? Why go partway?
Something unexpected has happened in the past five years. The condemnations of the war on drugs—of the mechanized imprisonment of much of our inner cities, of the brutal wars sustained in Latin America at our behest, of the sheer cost of prohibition, now likely past a trillion dollars—have migrated out from the left-wing cul-de-sacs that they have long inhabited and into the political Establishment. "The war on drugs, though well-intentioned, has been a failure," New Jersey governor Chris Christie said this summer. A global blue-ribbon panel that included both the former Reagan secretary of State George Shultz and Kofi Annan had reached the same conclusion the previous June: "The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies." The pressures from south of the border have grown far more urgent: The presidents of Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Belize, and Costa Rica have all called for a broad reconsideration of the drug war in the past year, and the Organization of American States is now trying to work out what realistic alternatives there might be.


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Welcome to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's collection of 47,501 plant images. We have listened to our users and made it even easier to find images in this updated version of the image gallery. All thumbnails are linked to larger versions of the image and image information.
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Castilleja lanata A. Gray
Sierra woolly Indian paintbrush, Woolly paintbrush
Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family)
USDA Symbol: CALA24
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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"They always give it all they've got and on that August night Krokus delivered the goods! 'Long Stick Goes Boom: Live From Da House of Rust' is proof of that." - The Dedicated Rocker Society
"Dedicated followers will be able to appreciate the careful attention to detail included throughout the group's set, such as the 'Metal Rendez-vous' classic "Bedside Radio" and "Easy Rocker" from 'Hardware.'" - Music Enthusiast Magazine
Release date: Apr 22nd, 2014
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Vlsonn – Bison Run [Forth. IA Records 007 – June 10th]
Canadian producer Vlsonn is back again with another forthcoming tune (this time on IA Records) thats really taking 2-step places. Very impressed by how he can make everything sound so future while still retaining the classic elements of the genre.
Be on the lookout for this guy because as it is possible to see on his soundcloud page, he's got tons of releases coming on many labels (RAW Records, B.YRSLF, Aufect)
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Selectism Columnist, Kyle Hackett, puts forth the word on Monday's opening of Smith + Butler in Brooklyn. Located on the corner that it is named after in Brooklyn, the shop looks to please the style of the urban man looking for the classic brands that made this country what it is, while casually courting local start-up outfits who bring product to complement the latter. Expect Woolrich, A.P.C., Wrangler, more.
More images from the Smith + Butler shop (opening Monday, Nov. 17th) after the jump.


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Darren Schwiebert, Fredrikson & Byron, Shareholder in the firm's Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, and Intellectual Property practice groups.
by Regan Morris
But when Schwiebert worked on his first patent case, he knew he was hooked. Patent law combined his love of the law with his interest in the latest technologies. And it allowed him to work with some brilliant inventors fighting to protect their inventions. While his practice predominantly focuses on patents and intellectual property litigation, he also handles trade-secret cases and copyright law.
"For me, patent litigation is entirely about the toys, the technology," Schwiebert told LawCrossing. "It amazes me — the opportunity that I get to learn about all of these technologies as it relates to these cases."
As a result, Schwiebert has become somewhat of an expert in a vast array of products, including high-performance snowmobiles, scoreboard displays, and MRI technology. Sometimes - as with MRI technology - Schwiebert defends a lone David inventor up against a corporate Goliath, but generally the parties who choose to sue over patents are companies because of the high cost of litigation.
Schwiebert advises attorneys interested in patent law not to be intimidated by the science and says there's no Harvard Law School.
"Part of what patent cases are about is explaining to a judge or jury the technology in a format that they not only understand, but that they can apply legal doctrines to," he said. "Maybe when you get to the higher end of the technology — for example, the MRI technology — it may take me longer to understand the core science than somebody who has exposure to that particular science before. But all of these cases are about understanding and learning what the technology is."
Schwiebert, who works with Fredrikson & Byron in Minnesota, says the legal profession has been rapidly catching up to new technologies in recent years. As a member of his firm's technology committee, he is the litigation person in charge of technology for the litigation group and helps keep attorneys abreast of ways they can use technology in their cases, whether through Flash presentations or electronic files.
He works closely with the firm's litigation support administrator, Chad Papenfuss (see this week's Legal Staff profile), on studying new technology and how it impacts litigation. The two men are not IT staff, so don't call them if your keyboard is jammed.
"There are kind of two aspects to that. The first is the more glamorous, which is the use of technology in court proceedings and technology for presentations to jurors, presentations to clients, presentations to judges," he said. "And then the other side of it, which is less glamorous and equally important, is the technology that supports the litigation process — from imaging documents and document databases to managing large document-intensive litigation to real-time deposition transcripts that can be manipulated and annotated to assist in depositions."
Electronic Discovery is becoming an increasingly important area of law for the firm, especially as more and more documents are filed and stored electronically. Schwiebert says there are many gray areas concerning electronic data that are gaining prominence in patent and other types of litigation. A traditional paper document, for instance, is different from a printout of an electronic document because certain data, called meta data, may be missing from the printout.
When you print out an email, you will not see who the email went to if the recipient was "BCC'd" or blind copied. Schwiebert thinks we will see an increasing number of cases where computer hard drives are subpoenaed by forensic experts to recover data or emails believed to have been deleted.
"A lot of times, the meta data will contain information about who accessed it and when they accessed it. In patent litigation, that type of information can be valuable," particularly when establishing timelines in a case, Schwiebert said. "I'm always amazed at what people might put in an email that they might not put in a letter. And those are great sources for litigation. It's funny. Maybe it's just human nature, but when you type a letter, it seems that people have a filter coming in that says, 'I may not want to say that or I don't mean that.' But emails are so quick, so instant. And there are some high-profile cases — a lot of them settled shortly after — where people have said things in emails that become just great evidence."
Although Schwiebert, who sits as a volunteer Conciliation Court Judge in Hennepin County about once a month, has never used personal emails in one of his cases, he says he has heard about several recently where "private" Hotmail and other accounts have been mined for data.
So be careful what you write - even in your "private" email.
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