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Obama Says Senate May Drop Cap and Trade, Pass Energy-Only Bill
I am very happy about the possibility of Cap and Trade not passing, but in the long run this is just one of many victories that is needed.
"Obama said that his energy agenda is centered on promoting energy efficiency and clean energy technologies, including renewables, nuclear power and carbon capture and storage at coal-fired power plants. Cap and trade also needs to be in the mix in order to promote cleaner forms of energy at the lowest cost to industry, Obama said."
Another great victory would be for a president of the United States to realize that it is not his job to "promote energy efficiency and clean energy technologies".

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Tim Peter Nickodemus
Experience at SAIC
Being at SAIC is what I imagine it would be like to be in a giant blob. There's always something to respond to and it holds just enough surprise to keep it rolling. It requires regular intervals of collaborative movement too.
Personal Statement
The classroom and the studio are sympathetic laboratories of investigation and curiosity—one space informs the other... at SAIC they meet quite frequently.
Disclaimer: All work represents the views of the INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS & AUTHORS who created them, and are not those of the school or museum of the Art Institute.


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Recent scandals in the biosciences have highlighted the perils of communicating science leading many observers to ask questions about the pressures on scientists and the media to hype-up claims of scientific breakthroughs. Journalists, science writers and scientists themselves have to report complex and rapidly-developing scientific issues to society, yet work within conceptual and temporal constraints that shape their communication. To date, there has been little reflection on the ethical implications of science writing and science communication in an era of rapid change. Communicating Biological Sciences discusses the 'ethics' of science communication in light of recent developments in biotechnology and biomedicine. It focuses on the role of metaphors in the creation of visions and the framing of scientific advances, as well as their impact on patterns of public acceptance and rejection, trust and scepticism. Its rigorous investigation will appeal not only to science writers and scientists, but also to scholars of sociology, science and technology studies, media and journalism.
Contents: Preface; Communicating biological sciences; an introduction, Brigitte Nerlich, Richard Elliott and Brendon Larson; Part I Setting the Scene: Issues of Hype, Hubris and Humility in Science Communication and Citizen Participation: How journalism can hide the truth about science, Elmien Wolvaardt; Technologies of humility: citizen participation in governing science, Sheila Jasanoff. Part II Science Communication, Ethics and Framing: Models and Cultural Reality: The ethics of framing science, Matthew C. Nisbet; Bioethical decisions and the public sphere: a cross-cultural perspective, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter; Journalism and society, Toby Murcott; Science communication and ethics – trying to get it right: the Science Media Centre – a case study, Fiona Fox. Part III Science Communication, Metaphors and Practical Realities: Genes, genomes and what to make of them, Jon Turney; A workbench view of science communication and metaphor, Tim Radford; Metaphor contests and contested metaphors: from webs spinning spiders to barcodes on DNA, Stephen Strauss. Part IV Science, Science Communication and Metaphor Analysis: Should scientists advocate? The case of promotional metaphors in environmental science, Brendon Larson; Metaphors as time capsules: their use in biological sciences and the media, Iina Hellsten; Breakthroughs and disasters: the (ethical) use of future-oriented metaphors in science communication, Brigitte Nerlich; Craig Venter and the re-programming of life: how metaphors shape and perform ethical discourses in the media presentation of synthetic biology, Andrew Balmer and Camille Herreman; Epilogue: Blame Francis Bacon: the metaphor of progress and the progress of metaphor in science, Megan Allyse; Index.
About the Editor: Brigitte Nerlich is a Professor of Science, Language and Society at the Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK; Richard Elliott is a Postgraduate Research Student at the Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK; Brendon Larson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada
Reviews: 'Addressing some of the crucial challenges of communicating biology in contemporary societies, this book will be of interest to a variety of audiences – including mass media and STS scholars, science communicators and professional scientists.' Massimiano Bucchi, Università di Trento, Italy 'An invaluable library of practical and timely, yet ageless, science, science policy, societal, cultural, political, and communications insights, presented in a highly usable fashion certain to inform our approach to the wide range of science issues touching, as so many increasingly do, on domestic and international public policy questions.' Bud Ward, Editor, The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, USA '…this book provides a stimulating awakening into one of the challenges facing science writing today…A book that leaves a lasting impression on a reader, in particular one that will actively affect future action, is certainly a worthy read…Contributors to the book include journalists, scientists and literary analysts and thereby insightful perspectives are gained from many sides…It is an eye-opener for a wide audience...' BioNews '…Brigitte Nerlich and her collaborators have gathered contributions from social scientists, linguists, philosophers, journalists and press officers to focus the analysis of science communication on the ethics of metaphor use…Communicating Biological Sciences enriches the literature with a multitude of perspectives on how metaphors are used by different parties to perform political and ethical functions.' Public Understanding of Science
Visit Brigitte Nerlich's personal webpage.
Richard Elliott has a profile page on the Academia website and a LinkedIn profile.
Brendon Larson's profile on the University of Waterloo website.
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- Posted by desertsteph (My Page) on Fri, Jul 6, 12 at 14:26
I see him peeking out! looks really cute. don't know what to tell ya about catching him. my friend had a litter hanging out at his house and he 'trapped' them to take to the vet and have them fixed. I think he put out a cage/pen w/food in it and waited for them to go in, then shut the door. |
- Posted by desertsteph (My Page) on Fri, Jul 6, 12 at 14:27
I see him peeking out! looks really cute. don't know what to tell ya about catching him. my friend had a litter hanging out at his house and he 'trapped' them to take to the vet and have them fixed. I think he put out a cage/pen w/food in it and waited for them to go in, then shut the door. |
- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Fri, Jul 6, 12 at 16:17
I would call your vet and explain the situation. If you get the frontline stuff from the vets it will work on the fleas...or maybe revolution would be better as it does fleas and worms...which is likely the cat has worms. It's good stuff, but you do need a vet's Rx to get it. |
- Posted by lavender_lass (My Page) on Fri, Jul 6, 12 at 18:20
Marti- Hi! What a cutie, you have there :) First, don't try to do anything that makes him want to bite. That can be dangerous and won't do anything to improve your relationship. I'd start with what you're doing...feeding him and letting him get used to your voice. If you're able to pet his head...that's a great start. As for the fleas, I'm no expert...but if he's not going into your home and not getting too close to you...then the fleas are more of a discomfort to him, than a problem for you. That being said, I would check on powders and other things that might be able to be put on his bedding. If he has an old towel or something that he likes to sleep on...that might help. We haven't had a problem with fleas, but if there's anything you can put in his food...that might be easiest. I think Annie's suggestion sounds good, too. |
- Posted by shades_of_idaho (My Page) on Fri, Jul 6, 12 at 18:22
Marti I bought the Revolution for the porch kitties. I still have not used it. I need to catch them all at one time. Working on lots of petting at food time and hoping I can just squirt it on their backs.It is spendy. |
Yes, Revolution is spendy. But we used it once on our two cats, in their first year, and seven years later have never seen a flea. For worms - probably more worrisome than fleas - if your kitty is being fed by you and is used to your giving him kibbles, you can put a worming pill in a Pill Pocket. Most cats love them and will eat them right up and down will go the pill. Good luck! Love the picture! |
Had to go see the name of the stuff I put on him. It's Sentry Fipro guard. I used it on him last Friday. He has to be sedated to take him to the vet, and if I can get dh to put on gloves and hold him down tomorrow, I'll check him over better and see if there are any fleas left. I also rubbed some DE (Diatomaceous Earth) into the fur on his back. It will kill fleas if they come in contact with it. I also put it in his food from time to time for worms. I ran out of liquid wormer but need to get some more. He doesn't come into the house right now, but he does live in the garage. I don't let him roam at night any more and lock him in at night. He doesn't like it, but I leave the a/c on until I go to bed and I don't think it gets too hot. He is really tame now, compared to a year ago. He will let us pet him almost everywhere, loves to sit on my lap now too, but he doesn't like to be forced into doing anything, like rolling over. He doesn't really like to have his stomach or legs touched either. I already bear the mark of the beast from my wrist to my elbow, so I'm pretty careful about doing things that will set him off. Dh says he needs to be dipped and I told him to have at it. lol |
- Posted by forboystoo (My Page) on Sat, Jul 7, 12 at 12:07
Advantage II for Cats gets high reviews . You can get Revolution on line. If you don't have a relationship w/a vet, any of |
Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.petshed.com/revolution.asp
- Posted by desertsteph (My Page) on Sat, Jul 7, 12 at 12:52
"I already bear the mark of the beast from my wrist to my elbow" NOOOOOOOOOOO! lol! I actually have similar 'tracks'. I call it 'puppy abuse'. or does that mean the pup should have the marks, scabs instead of me? puppy does a lot of damage to my arms and legs but I think a kitty/cat would be much worse. |
I've had puppies before too and I can attest that scratches from a startled cat are much worse than a puppy. Cat's claws are a lot sharper. |
Thanks forboystoo. I'll check with my vet next week. He may give me another sedative and tell me to bring him in. He can put the cat out and we can spray him down with that stuff that kills fleas on contact. |
- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Tue, Jul 10, 12 at 9:29
You should also get him/her altered if you get to the vets...keeps the cat population down, helps keep males from spraying and makes them easier to deal with. |
He's been fixed and I get him shots every year with the help of the vet who gives me a tranquilizer first. I don't know what I'm going to do when this vet retires. I think the stuff I put on the cat must have finally worked. He quit scratching and I haven't been able to find any more fleas on him. But I haven't gotten dh to hold him down either. |
- Posted by Johnny_Dollar (My Page) on Tue, Jul 10, 12 at 11:16
Second getting him altered while at the vet's. |
I have an indoor/outdoor cat and used to have a terrible timekeeping fleas off of him. The topicals worked well on the dogs, but not so much on him. Two years ago we tried a 6-month injectable, Program, I think, and it has been a godsend. He gets his shot in March when he gets his regular shots/checkup and it lasts until the weather gets cooler. I don't get him a shot for Sept - March, so it's just a once-a-year expense. And I'm in the South. |
Thanks jakabedy, I'll check into that. |
- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Tue, Jul 10, 12 at 20:07
I also give Casimir a daily brewers yeast pill and he's rarely got fleas. |
I had a neighbor who used to give her dog a daily garlic pill and claimed he never had fleas. This cat is picky though and I don't think he would eat anything with any kind of crushed pill on it. |
- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Wed, Jul 11, 12 at 20:03
animals love brewers yeast and will eat it like a treat...i've never had a cat or dog who didn't. |
I agree with the altering, best thing you can do for a furbaby.....And also a good idea, while, he's at the vets, try to spray or set off a bomb in the garage...Hopefully that will get rid of the rest of the fleas...After altering, he just might not want to go out anymore and find your lap more enjoyable.......Good luck..... |
He is already altered/fixed/spayed. |
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Identity consolidation and privileged access management across Windows, Linux, and UNIX
Enterprise EditionDetailed auditing of privileged user sessions on Windows, Linux and UNIX
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Centrify is very pleased to announce the release today of Centrify Suite 2013. Centrify Suite 2013 builds on the core enhancements Centrify introduced in Suite 2012 by extending DirectAuthorize to Windows, providing tighter integration between DirectAudit and DirectAuthorize, making migration from legacy "sudo" environments to DirectAuthorize fast and simple as well as adding many newly supported operating systems. All this makes Centrify Suite 2013 the industry's easiest and most scalable solution for unified identity and privilege management and detailed user auditing across UNIX, Linux and now Windows systems.
In this blog post I will drill down on some of the new features. But first, what were some of the factors driving the features we put in Suite 2013?
Well, in today's heterogeneous IT environments, achieving security best practices and compliance by linking access privileges and actions to named users is a complex task. Managing user privileges for Windows, UNIX and Linux systems can be difficult to implement since identities and privileges often reside in disparate silos (e.g. /etc/passwd, sudo'ers files, etc.) or are managed locally system by system. Point solutions exist for privilege management of Windows systems or UNIX and Linux systems, but no solutions exist that span across both Windows and UNIX/Linux that utilize a unified architecture leveraging existing directory infrastructure.
We felt that historically with the Centrify Suite we did a great job of doing privileged user management for the hundreds of variants of UNIX and Linux that we supported, but the types of problems we solved on *nix were not being adequately addressed for Windows servers and there would be need for a single cross-platform solution that could span equally across Windows and *nix. We had previously came out with DirectAudit for Windows, and Windows itself already provides the AD authentication and policy that DirectControl provides on *nix, but there was a big need for robust authorization and privilege management for Windows. As Gartner notes
"...there is a need for the organization to have more granular control over and visibility into the way that these privileges are granted and used. Super User Privilege Management (SUPM) tools offer a flexible method for granting and/or limiting these privileges in a way that matches the organization's needs." (Source: "Hype Cycle for Identity and Access Management Technologies, 2012," by Gregg Kreizman, et al, July 23, 2012.)
Hence we released DirectAuthorize for Windows as part of Centrify Suite 2013, a major new product of ours that has many unique features including
In addition, while we had this great DirectAuthorize for *nix solution, we found that customers needed some help migrating from the old way of doing things (sudo) to the next generation privilege management technology — DirectAuthorize. Hence in this release we have come out with a "sudo migrator" much like we have always provided a migration tool to migrate from /etc/passwd, NIS, etc. (i.e. user account information) to Active Directory. This new import wizard uses Centrify Deployment Manager to retrieve remote sudoers files and import and process them for enforcement via DirectAuthorize. In addition, the "dzdo" command line interface now supports local users, run as single user and remote host command execution.
We also wanted to better integrate DirectAuthorize and DirectAudit together, hence another new feature in Centrify Suite 2013 is the ability for DirectAudit policies to now be able to trigger auditing sessions for specific user, computers and DirectAuthorize roles.
Finally, it would not be a Centrify Suite released without additional UNIX and Linux platform support. Already supporting the most platforms in the industry, the new solution now supports more than 400 platforms, applications and devices, including new platforms such as Fedora 18; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8, 5.9 and 6.3; CentOS 5.8, 5.9 and 6.3; Scientific Linux 5.8, 5.9 and 6.3; Oracle Linux 6.3; Ubuntu 12.10; Linux Mint 13 and 14; Mandriva One 2012; and OpenSuSE 12.2 and 12.3. Click here to see all the platforms supported by Centrify Suite 2013.
The net net is with Centrify Suite 2013 we offer you a comprehensive approach to identity management that includes integrated authentication, access control, privilege management, policy enforcement and compliance — all based on a single, unified architecture that leverages Microsoft Active Directory. For more information on Centrify Suite 2013 visit this webpage to download whitepapers, datasheets, etc. regarding what's new with Centrify Suite 2013. In future blog posts I will drill down in more detail on DirectAuthorize for Windows and some other new features in Suite 2013.
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THE Royal Navy is buying a new missile defence system for battleships that can obliterate supersonic warheads in mid-air.
The MoD will today confirm a £483million contract to create Sea Ceptor. It will use a UK-developed missile capable of Mach 3 speeds — 1km a second — and be able to protect an area of 500 square miles.


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Miss J (real name Jaada Lawrence) is a brand new music talent who released her debut album, Summertime, on the 1st April. She is only fourteen, but is already a successful singer and songwriter, and this week she'll be joining the Saturday Live! team on the phone to discuss her music, as well as her inspirations for going into the music industry, and who it is that inspires her most today. The Saturday Live! team will also be featuring some of her new tracks, Summertime included. It's certainly not one to be missed.
Back by popular demand Alistair Bretrum from Gardenwise.
Now that Spring has sprung again our thoughts and attention move into our gardens. Alistair will be in the breakfast studio with Annette Richards to help us make the most of our gardens and windowboxes
please email your questions for Annette's attention to [email protected] or leave your comments on the website ahead of the programme. alternatively you can text or call the station on the day
We are pushing the boat out for the Breakfast Show on Thursday 12th April.
Tracy Campbell is not only coming in to chat to Annette Richards but is planning to have a little cookery demostration too! Tune in to find out more.
Welcome to today's Style Council!
Spring is here, well and truly…
We like happy and jolly rooms and colour is a big part of that. So yellow..
Yellow gives a room a feeling of warmth and happiness, as it reminds us of sunshine.
A word of warning though, use yellow very sparingly in a room that gets drenched in sunshine. Yellow overload is a headache waiting to happen.
Yellow can range from bright to very soft and subtle, and blends nicely with most other colors. It can add a touch of warmth and brightness to a predominately cool-toned room (think blues, purples, greens), it also pairs well with other warm hues (orange and red) for a fiery appearance, and also works with natural materials like wood and stone.
I usually recommend shades of yellow especially in cooler rooms that tend to be overcast frequently. A north facing kitchen..bingo! The colour fools the eye slightly into thinking it is sunny, and thereby makes the room feel more inviting on cloudy days.
Very bright yellow works particularly well as an accent colour, as opposed to a wall paint color. If you want to paint, a soft pastel yellow is usually best. Accents make good additions to curtains, rails and details. When was the last time you bought yellow stripey curtains or a yellow shelf? Excactly. It is eyecatching, cheery and yellow does not react badly to most other colours.
Why not find out more by visiting Pauline at Hollywood Carpets! www.hollywoodcarpets.co.uk
Why not go to the top of the Alive website and click the "listen again" tab and hear Pauline's spring colour endorsements!
We have a fabulous competition with Hollywood Carpets down at Kingholm Quay.
Pauline Jack, who does our Style Council feature every second Wednesday has a fab rug and metal wall art to give away. In fact they are in this picture. The rug pictured and the beautiful butterfly wall hanging could be yours. We have two pictures, A and B, picture B has two things missing. If you can spot them email us at [email protected] and we will put you in the draw. Someone will win on Saturday afternoon!
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Just after the 1 o'clock news on the Friday Magazine Show, catch Military Wife Annie Fraser talking to host Cameron Murray.
The Military Wives are a choir apart, they have inspired across the nation, their single "Where-ever you are", the Christmas Number one became the fastest selling single in the 21st century, their album is number One across the UK and they have raised over £500,000 for the Royal British Legion and the SSAFA Forces Help.
Alive is proud to have Annie on the show.
If you could ask Annie a question what would it be? Email us at [email protected] we may ask it for you!
Now we do have to wonder what our Tuesday night Guru of Music does with bin liners after watching his chosen choone!
Koko's Star Cage
Koko, the stylish gift boutique in Queensberry Street, Dumfries is two years old this week and shop owner Gail Kempsell is celebrating by offering an excellent competition this week with Alive FM.
This great gift box of goodies could be yours.
If you can identify the celebrity Koko has put inside one of their ornamental cages you can enter our competition. If you can identify our actress email [email protected] with your answer.
The competition runs until this Saturday 12 noon. The winner will be announced after 12 noon…so make sure to listen in!
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Last year, my friend Gina Caciolo wanted to publish a "chapbook." She's a former student of mine, now in grad school in California. She asked if I had a really short book manuscript lying around.
Huh, I thought. I think I have just the thing.
Gina was taking an MFA publishing class. As usually happens, Gina had to edit, design, and print a short booklet called a "chapbook." If you've never heard of a chapbook, or wonder what it is, it's sort of like a pamphlet, or a church bulletin. Writers use them as samples of their work. They are used as calling cards, or collector's items. Even famous writers often produce chapbooks, which are essentially the B-sides of the world of letters.
My submission to Gina was How to Ride a Bike in Pittsburgh, a free-verse manifesto on what it's like to cycle full-time in the Steel City. The chapbook is about pedaling Pittsburgh's massive hills, but it's also about the low-rent, high-octane bohemian lifestyle that makes this city so much fun. Gina told me the book would take an "accordion" format. That sounded awful—like an even cheaper way to make a really cheap book. I shrugged my shoulders. It's just a class project, I thought. Whatever she wants to do, I guess.
Then a package arrived in the mail. I split the two round covers—which are designed to look like spoked wheels—and the "chapbook" unraveled. My mouth actually hung open. This is beautiful! I thought. Then I showed it to friends. "That's awesome!" they exclaimed.
Today, How to Ride a Bike in Pittsburgh is one of my favorite publications. What's more, the limited-edition series is individually stamped with little bicycles, so each one is slightly different. Not to mention the folding and stitching. All in all, the books are a laborious effort. Without a second thought, folks hand over $10 and take their copy home. I've seen them prominently displayed on shelves. The words are cool. But it's Gina who did a bang-up job.
Yesterday, Gina wrote me to express good news: "Your book is part of the digital collection of artist books at the CalArts Library! Share this! WOOT!"
I was overjoyed. Ever since I was a kid, I have wanted to see my own work in libraries and bookstores. I have wanted to stumble into a familiar spine on the shelf of dusty volumes, smile with recognition, and wonder who has thumbed through its pages. Now, in a way, this was finally happening. In a distant library, four time zones away, someone could take out a hard copy of my chapbook. They could relish reading it as much as I had relished writing it. And anybody, anywhere, can see a little digital photograph of what it looks like.
The same afternoon, I was checking out some DVDs at the Carnegie Library, and I suddenly wondered what had happened to my first book, The Archipelago. I know there was a copy floating around the library system, but could I check its stats?
"Sure," said the nasal librarian. "What's it called?"
The librarian couldn't spell "archipelago," and my name confused him, so I wrote them down. After a quick search, he not only told me the book's check-out rate: He generously wrote it all down. And he smiled as he did this. "Congratulations," he said, sniffing approvingly. "You should be proud of that."
As it turns out, there isn't one copy of The Archipelago, but three. One exists in the main branch, in Oakland, it's been borrowed five times and renewed twice. Another copy is in Moon Township—a distant suburb by the airport—and it's been borrowed six times, also renewed twice. And the copy in the Penn Hills was borrowed once (thanks, I imagine, to my friend Jenny Zeke, whose mother is a librarian there).
I've decided not to dwell on these numbers—it would be easy to wonder why a borrower needed to renew a 200-page book with lots of pictures. I might be curious why people in Moon Township are interested in the plight of Bosnian refugees. But these are passive concerns. As a diehard library patron, I love to see the life cycle of a book. It's sort of like checking in on prodigious former students. That's something Kindles and Nooks will never replace—the purity of a real, dog-eared paperback, held in real hands. No royalty is worth more than that.


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By Aaron Hicklin
Photography by Michael Muller
The first time Neil Patrick Harris went to Los Angeles, he found himself at the circus. It was 1987 and he was 14, visiting with his mom for his first paying gig as an actor, a small spot on a TV show. They were wandering along the Santa Monica pier, as tourists do, when they spied a tent, yellow and blue and shimmering on the shore. The tent belonged to Cirque du Soleil, establishing a foothold in California with Le Cirque Réinventé, a show that would eventually launch the troupe around the world. Oblivious to all this, young Harris took his seat anticipating elephants and tigers and sad-faced clowns. But the animals were conspicuously absent, replaced by athletic men and women who leapt and pirouetted through the air — first four, then six, then nine of them on a single bicycle, riding around the ring in formation. The show was like nothing he'd ever experienced. And like all magic, much of it seemed to defy either logic or physics.
"And then Denis Lacombe comes out and he has this famous act that he did, where he's a conductor," recalls Harris, windmilling his arms in imitation of the performer, affixed in ski boots to a small square trampoline, bending all the way to the left, then all the way to the right, thrusting a hand down his pants to retrieve fistfuls of batons, a sandwich, an outsize Flintstones-style bone, with which he frantically conducted his invisible orchestra. You can see how this might impress a young boy, especially one who adored Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. As the show ended, the audience began to filter out into the night. But Harris just sat there, the very last to leave, staring at the space where magic had blossomed.
"There was no stage door; they were just gone, into their circus world, and I could never, ever meet them or anything," he says ruefully. "They were superhuman, and I was exhausted, drained of energy. My hands hurt from clapping, my face hurt from laughing. I remember taking the oversized program home and poring over every picture, memorizing every person's name, because I was just baffled by that amount of creativity in one dose."
Who wouldn't love this story? As an encapsulation of how insanely bewitching the world can appear to a child, it's perfect. It also serves as an insight into Harris's fascination with the mechanics of performance, with the hows and the whys and the wheres of life. Of course, most kids have a desire to see behind the curtain, but you sense that in Harris the desire was that much greater.
"I'll tell you a story that might explain the type of person I am," he says one recent afternoon. "Back in the day you'd go to Universal Studios and groups would go from sound stage to sound stage. They'd pick volunteers to come up and join them for a bit — you know, 'We're going to green-screen you' or 'We'll suspend you in a wire and turn you sideways, and then when we put the camera sideways it will look like you can do magic tricks.' And I was the type of kid who would have volunteered to do just about anything. My hand was up very high for all of that. Not to be the center of attention — I just wanted to experience it."
He has, he says, always been like this. Haunted houses, skydiving, bungee jumping, tightrope-walking, trapeze-swinging, riding the rollercoaster, you name it — so long as it doesn't involve a ball (a celebrity basketball match is his greatest fear), he'll do it.
"I love being scared, walking through a field of maize in October with people jumping out and frightening me," he says. "I know they can't touch me and I like the experience of it — weirdly, I think hosting the Tony Awards is almost the same thing. I'm out there, it's live, something could go terribly wrong, but we have lots of outs and I have a teleprompter and we've already rehearsed everything. It's fun and a bit dangerous, but I know I'm going to be all right."
Lately he has caught his reflection in his 3-year-old son, Gideon. "He asks 'Why?' now, for everything," Harris says. "We're very similar. It seems he wants to break things down and figure them out. We both have kind of the furrowed brow — we want to get to the core of things."
You can see this same combination of curiosity and fearlessness in a 1990 appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, when Harris was 17. Doogie Howser, M.D., the show that launched his career, was entering its second season at the time, and once you get past the voluminous mauve shirt and flapping floral tie (clearly, 1990 was a transitional year in fashion) it's Harris's self-assurance and charm that captivates. "I've been working on a mentalism trick," he says breezily, before inviting his host to pick an item in an imaginary grocery aisle. Carson selects a tin of baked beans, and Harris asks him to supply a price. "I think it's about $1.19." Harris nods. "That's what I have, $1.19," he says, flipping over a card on his lap. The audience, on tenterhooks, erupts into laugher as Harris reveals — drum roll — a magnified bar code.


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I recently had to have my wonderful cat Lindsey euthanized at the ripe age of 18. I am not ready yet to bring a new cat into my home, but I am thinking about it.
I worry, though, because I have a doggie door for my dogs and don't want my next kitty to stray. Lindsey never left the yard, but she was a stray that adopted US, so our home was where she wanted to be. If I adopt an adult cat, how will I know that it will want to stay and not leave? It will be very hard if not impossible to keep the doggie door closed to the cat, although I guess it would take a little time for the cat to figure it out. Has anyone dealt with this and have you any suggestions? Also, the pet rescue places won't let you adopt unless you say you won't let the cat out. I wouldn't do it purposely, but with a doggie door, how can I truthfully say it will never get out! BettyLu |
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There are dog doors that are enabled by a chip or something in the collar. If the cat doesn't have the "key", the door won't open. Other than that, I don't know what you could do. This is an ongoing issue for my sister, she has lost 3 cats to coyotes in the last two years, she finally had to close off the dog door to keep the new kitten in. |
Maybe you can adopt a adult who has been raised indoors. One of my two cats is exclusively indoors, she is afraid of outside..The other one I ended up with and was let outside, she escapes all the time and I am running after her to catch her all the time. We live on a busy street and would get run over for sure. |
You can get pet doors that open when the animal with a special collar that opens the door goes through, after that it does not open for anyone else. They are great for keeping out wild animals as well....goodluck |
Especially racoons! That happened to me and boy what fun. Our husky did not appreciate it but we (I) did get it out of the patio and gone. We didn't have too many in the area, thank goodness. We had a fence around the house so it did keep coyotes out and other critters. |
I have a kitty door that is activated my magnets. We did it because coons were getting in at night to eat. Works fine - cats wear a little magnet on their collar and when they are getting close to the kitty door, the lock is disabled. Took some time for them to figure out, but not too long. |
- Posted by bettylu_zone6a (My Page) on Thu, Dec 10, 09 at 11:46
Thanks all for your funny stories and suggestions! I live in a subdivision in the county... so really no problems with critters (at least in the last 4+ years since I had the door put in). Although once my cat brought in a baby opossom (unharmed) and delivered it to my daughter in the wee hours of the morning! I think she thought it was one of her babies - mind you, the cat was around 15 years old at the time and was spayed many years ago! The problem with getting a door that has some kind of mechanism for triggering the lock/unlock feature is that I have 6 little dogs as well as the cat and I am not ready to purchase so many collars and changing the door itself. I had this door professionally installed when I had my sunroom put in and it is mounted in the wall - I hope never to have to change it out! I acquired a stray from a friend a couple of days ago, and so far, he is uninterested in leaving the spare bedroom, much less leaving the house! LOL I think he is glad to be inside where it is warm and cozy! BettyLu |
I acquired a stray from a friend a couple of days ago, and so far, he is uninterested in leaving the spare bedroom, much less leaving the house! LOL I think he is glad to be inside where it is warm and cozy! How wonderful. I was thinking to suggest also, to just wait for another stray kitty to take residence in your yard..but looks like you already have now by now :) Looks like a win for everyone, kitty included |
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'Gurshall': Georgia's freshman tailbacks command attention
Todd Gurley plows through Vanderbilt defenders (AJC photo/Brant Sanderlin)
ATHENS — As the hype builds around Georgia freshman tailbacks Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall, one of their teammates has settled on a nickname for the duo.
"Gurshall, that's what I call them," wide receiver Tavarres King said.
As King excitedly enunciates it, the combination of the first syllable of Gurley and the second syllable of Marshall rhymes with … Herschel.
The wildly premature suggestion that the Gurley-Marshall tandem is somehow reminiscent of Herschel Walker, the greatest Georgia tailback, reflects the excitement the freshmen have stirred.
Keith Marshall breaks a Vanderbilt tackle (AJC photo/Brant Sanderlin)
Tailback is a position that commands attention, good or bad. In the previous two seasons, Georgia tailbacks were known more for the bad – arrests, suspensions, dismissals, injuries. With Gurshall, things seem good again at the position.
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Event Horizon (1997)
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Paul W.S. Anderson
96 minutes
Laurence Fishburne,
Sam Neill,
Kathleen Quinlan,
Joely Richardson,
Richard T. Jones,
Jack Noseworthy,
Jason Isaacs,
Sean Pertwee,
Peter Marinker,
Holley Chant,
Barclay Wright With a budget of an estimated $70-million, the film opened to over two-thousand screens with a measly $9-million at the box office, and eventually $26-million overall. I first saw this film at the dollar theaters while out with friends and having to choose between the much-hated Good Burger and this. Knowing I couldn't sit through any Nickelodeon movie, I decided to give this a shot -- thinking it would be no good after a friend told me how bad it was. To my surprise I absolutely loved this flick. I later found out my lame friend didn't like it because it was too "gross". Rest assured I gave him five across the eyes and a swift kick the balls.
Despite how gory the film was, its said by Anderson that a reported 20-minutes of violent and gory footage was cut out -- mostly those from the "hell sequences" involving the crew in an orgy of painful sexual pleasure, ultimately leading to their deaths. Sadly, a lot of the footage is supposedly lost or destroyed, but during the documentary on the SE you can catch various scenes. For you gore fiends I'd recommend going frame-by-frame during the hell sequences -- you might be surprised by what you see.
If you haven't seen this flick yet, here's the gist of it -- a rescue team are sent on a mission to scout a ship called the "Event Horizon" that was thought to have vanished. The ship was essentially created as a means to travel to one point of the universe to the other via a man-made black hole. Now the team has to board the ship and attempt to discover the reason behind its disappearance of its crew. What they discover is hell itself, or so it would seem.
It's said that the original draft involved tentacle-aliens that were the menace instead of the whole haunted space-ship idea that's present in this film. That was quickly abandoned by Anderson, and from the sounds of it, it was a good thing. I have to admit that this flick gets pretty creepy at times, mostly due in part of the eerie atmosphere and seclusion that our characters face throughout the movie. Even some of the gore may turn the heads of horror aficionados. Although, we'd all hope to see a full uncut version of this movie, it'll probably never happen. Regardless, what we have here is still an excellent piece of horror cinema.
With its excellent mix of scares, violence, and gore, this is definitely one of my favorite films. Highly recommended, and be sure to go frame-by-frame during the hell sequences!
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It could be worse for Maple Leaf Fans
The Toronto Maple Leafs may be off to the worst start of the 2009-2010 NHL season, but it's not all bad news for Leaf fans. No matter how poorly they're playing now they'll have to start sucking even worse before they match one of these years of complete and utter futility.
The Senators entered the 1992 season as an expansion franchise, and wow, did that ever show. Things started on a good note with an exciting opening night win against Montreal, but the Canadiens would go on to win the Cup while the Sens would win only 9 more games on their way to a 10-70-4 record. For some reason team management considered the year a success, as their optimistic goal for the debut was to not set the record for fewest points in an NHL season. Which they accomplished, barely edging out the all time low by a mere three points. But it wasn't all bad news for Ottawa, as their abysmal season earned them the number one draft pick and a chance to build their team.
Oh, except they picked Alexandre Daigle, who is arguably the biggest draft bust in NHL history. He received a five year, 12.5 million dollar contract, the largest all time for a rookie, and proceeded to spend that money on drugs and late night partying while not bothering to score goals (just 16 in his first season). Daigle was one of the many reasons the Senators played another three awful seasons before finally becoming a legitimate franchise. Sort of.
The Senators were given some serious competition in the race to the bottom by their fellow expansion franchise, who were in their second year. The Sharks managed to win one more game than Ottawa, but set a still standing record of most losses in a season with an 11-71-2 season. They accomplished this by giving up just a few more goals than their rivals in suck, an impressive 414. They also suffered a 17 game losing streak, tying the mark set by the next entry on our list. It was in every way worse than their debut year.
To make matters worse the Sharks were stuck playing in Daly City's Cow Palace, an arena which held just over 11,000 frustrated spectators and was a fair distance away from the city the team supposedly represented. It wasn't even a regulation sized rink. In fact, it was a rink that had been rejected by the NHL and the old Golden Seals expansion team back in 1967. That's right, the Sharks were stuck playing in a building that was considered outdated by the standards of the 60s. But at least their misery was short lived, as the following year they got a new arena and made a decent playoff run, allowing them to put the sad days at the Cow Palace far behind them.
Even by expansion team standards the Capitals had a dreadful first season as they went 8-67-5, acquiring just 21 points to set the record for the worst year in NHL history. That's just a .131 win percentage, and they also set still standing records for most road losses (39 out of 40) and longest losing streak (17 games). They also gave up a staggering 446 goals, or 5 and a half goals a game. With those numbers, even Dan Cloutier would have helped their team out.
While their following seasons wouldn't be quite as embarrassing, they still stunk up the league for another seven years before finally sneaking into the playoffs. The success of the modern team has helped fans forget this era, but at the time the team almost left the city and the Capitals also made league expansion look like a terrible idea for years to come. Statistically they were the worst all time, so you're probably wondering why they only made number two on this list.
It's because the Scouts sucked so hard they were basically driven out of Kansas City. They joined the league in the same year as Washington, and went a relatively competent 15-54-11. The next year they finished 12-56-12, including just one win in their final 44 games. Combined, that's just 27 wins in 160 games, a pathetic .169 win percentage.
Sure, that's a little better than the Capitals, but the Caps went on to become a pretty good team. Meanwhile, the expansion to Kansas City is viewed as one of the worst decisions the NHL has ever made. Massive economic downturn in the city made for terrible attendance numbers, the owners racked up a million dollars in debt, and to make things even worse the players were forced to take the ice in one of the ugliest uniforms any professional sport has ever seen.
The franchise moved to Denver and became the Colorado Rockies but were awful there too, playing six losing seasons before being kicked out and sent to New Jersey, where they finally became a successful club. At the expense of having to play in New Jersey.
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Sen Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon) talks with his chief of staff, Fred Sembach during the Pennsylvania state Senate panel hearing on Harrisburg's debt crisis. Thursday's hearing was the first of two scheduled proceedings to learn how the city was able to generate a crushing $330 million of incinerator debt. Another is set for October 29. JOE HERMITT, The Patriot-News
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The Story of the Self Stirring Pot
About a year ago a story broke about a self stirring pot from Japan called the Kuru-Kuru Nabe (Swirly Pot). Basically when the water in Kurukurunabe gets hot enough, any food added like noodles or vegetables to the pot starts to spin counterclockwise. It recieved a lot of attention from newspapers, blogs and food channels and caused quite a stir (excuse the pun :-)).
You can see an early prototype in action below.
The actual swirly pot people reviewed was just a simple prototype. The good news is that as of January, it was made available to the Japanese market and has been selling like hot cakes.
From Idea to Product
"Wouldn't it be great," mused the man of self-confessed limited culinary skills,
"if noodles and vegetables could stir themselves." Hideki Watanabe – Inventor
Watanabe's had an idea to make a self stirring pot. Using skills he gained from his day job as a dentist he managed to create a prototype pot using his knowledge of dental plaster that worked and uploaded it to youtube. He recieved a lot of attention from various companies but nothing came of it because neither party could figure out how to mass produce the product.
Through trial and error, Watanabe eventually honed his design to an easily cleaned one with two components: a conventional pot with a separate grooved rig, which rests inside.
When a regular pot is heated, the water adjacent to the side rises vertically by convection. But the grooved sides of the Kurukuru Nabe direct the rising water to rise diagonally, ultimately creating a circular whirlpool.
In October 2012, a specialist IT and sheet-metal company known for producing highly polished components for Apple computers and portable music players agreed to become Watanabe's production partner. Toyo Rikagaku Kenkyusho Co., based in Tsubame, Niigata Prefecture, is a leading producer of items with a mirror-like finish, an area it gained extensive experience in when specializing in treating high-shine tableware.
"We had never worked with pots before," said a company official. "We tweaked the design to make sure we got a strong swirling movement going."
The Benefits
The benefits of the final product are great. Not only does the swirly pot keep pasta on the move, it also causes the scum from soup or boiling vegetables to gather in the middle where it can be skimmed off very easily.
It also causes boiling water to froth in the centre of the pan, making it far less likely to boil over.
The company is producing about 1,000 swirly pots per month but the kuru kuru nabe is currently only available to the West from Amazon.com. Hopefully it will arrive in Great Britain very soon.
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GARCIN: Are you going to love me?
ESTELLE: I wonder now!
GARCIN: Will you trust me?
ESTELLE: What a quaint thing to ask! Considering you'll be under my eyes all the time, and I don't think I've much to fear from Inez, so far as you're concerned.
GARCIN: Obviously. I was thinking of another kind of trust. (431-5)
What is Garcin referring to here? What "kind of trust" does he mean?
INEZ: What about your wife, Garcin?
GARCIN: Oh, didn't I tell you? She's dead.
INEZ: Dead?
GARCIN: Yes, she died just now. About two months ago.
INEZ: Of grief?
GARCIN: What else should she die of? (462-7)
Not only does Garcin not feel remorse over the way he treated his wife, he doesn't even recognize that what he did was wrong in the first place.
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Bollinger's CEO, President and Chairman of the Board, Donald "Boysie" Bollinger said in a statement, "For the sixth year in a row, the shipbuilding/repair industry has recognized Bollinger employees for their commitment to safety. Congratulations to our dedicated employees on their efforts in making Bollinger one of the safest shipyards in America."
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I've only had a quick peek at it so far Lennis, but damn -- I can already tell this is something worth the effort you've put into it. Do you feel this exercise is helping you grow as a writer? There's nothing like a huge project to help you develop and sharpen your mad skillz. It looks like your viewpoints are distributed among main characters? How many viewpoints do you think you'll end up with?For others' convenience, here's a link to what I think are your first chapters, written during last year's Dream Splash?
Readers rejoice! Sir Crono is reborn! I say, I do say, us writers at the Compendium, shouldn't we collaborate together to help this project finish? We could split viewpoints per person and could use Google Docs.
While I appreciate the thought, I'm afraid this is something only I can do. There are many surprises in store and I don't want to spoil them. The Compendium can best help me by pointing out inconsistencies in the plot and things that need to be explained better. Deviating from canon is inherently risky and I want people to tell me if things aren't working.
Goddamn, chapter 9 was so good. I love Crono's doubting Frog at first, and the characterization of each of them that such a scene allows. As I anticipate each event and then subsequently see it played out, I notice that you never make lazy work of anything. Instead of letting things happen simply, each narrative turn is an opportunity taken to add detail and meaning. To which I say bravo.I may've been overcritical last post; certainly a romantic gesture wouldn't be ill-fitting at that point. My complaint wasn't that big a deal, and I could see it working as is. I just thought I'd mention it, however slight.
In Chapter 6, "thee" is often used in the subject position of a phrase. However, the correct usage is that "thou" is subject and "thee" object. A work of fiction isn't forced to abide by history 100%, but "thee" in the subject position just sounds completely inelegant to me.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Mommy Doesn't Always Know Best
It drives my husband bananas that I worry some damn much about the stupidest things.
I thought I was justified in worrying about getting Turtle on to a schedule, but apparently I was just being my normal self and worrying about nothing.
I mean, in my defense Roo didn't have a schedule and slept like crap. I wanted to make it so Turtle didn't follow that path.
Who really wants to be sleep deprived when you can put her on a schedule?
So for the past week I've been monitoring when she naps and when she's awake. I've been struggling to get her to be awake during certain times of the day hoping I could starve off any late night partying she wanted to do in the middle of the night.
Once again, my husband thought I was crazy. He said I should just let her be, after all she's not even two weeks old. He told me that she's going to do whatever she wants and I can't do a thing about it.
So yesterday, I did just that. I let her be. If she wanted to sleep, she slept. If she woke up, we all played with her.
And you know what, he was right.
She slept great last night. She only got up 3x to feed and went back to sleep afterwards.
It was perfection.
I felt so great when I woke up this morning.
So while I'm fighting my natural instinct to worry about it today, I'm letting her be.
Wish me luck.
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- Erika said...
Schedules are just another thing that you have to do if it works for your family. I think that's really all parenting is, finding out what works for you and not worrying about what anyone else says or does. I never had a schedule and Peyton slept like crap, but Shey slept great. Go figure.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:28 AM
I am a true believer of schedules but they do not work until after about a month or so old. She will tell you when she gets ready for bath and bed by the level of crankiness. Right now she is going to do what she wants. I have to say once we got each of the boys on a schedule they slept through the night quicker and my happiness increased (along with everyone else's as I was less cranky)!!!
- March 6, 2010 at 9:59 AM
- Ashley said...
I put Babe on a sleep schedule when he was around 5 months old. Until then, I just went with the flow when it came to his sleep/awake patterns. Babe just turned 2 and sticks to a solid schedule. It's the best thing I ever did for him.
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My AC is not cooling during the day. We have always kept the temp set to 72 in the summer, but this year we are lucky if it stays below 85 during the day. It runs constantly, but doesnt cool. We've had it checked by 2 different companies and both said there wasn't a leak in the freon and that there is nothing wrong with the unit. We've also had all the windows in the house tinted with that energy saving film but its not helping. Our electricity bill is enormous and I don't know what else to do. Help! :-(
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- Posted by tigerdunes (My Page) on Sun, Jun 19, 11 at 11:02
Something obviously is not correct if your AC has always been able to maintain an inside temp in the low to mid 70s. Before I suggest another dealer , take a temperature reading from several of your inside supply vents. You will need a digital thermometer that can be found at any of the big box stores. I will assume ductwork has been checked, evap coil has been checked, filter has been changed out, compressor at condenser is running. Sorry for your trouble. Post back. IMO |
I havent been able to check the temp yet but we did check the duct work and it was fine. The inside and outside coils were clean as well. Im dumbfounded! |
- Posted by tigerdunes (My Page) on Sun, Jun 19, 11 at 19:34
get that temp checked. this may be a process of elimination. you are certain compressor at outside condenser is running? IMO |
Yes, its running |
Yes it could be running but is it doing anything ? What are your pressures ? Does the compressor pump down ? This is not for the DIYer. |
We had the above symptions on our new replacement system. The installer insisted that the intake duct was too small (thou it had worked for 18 years). Two other contractors insisted that the TXV valve had to be replaced under warranty but $500 labor. Finally a 3nd inspector found that a piece on duct insulation was blocking 2/3 of the airflow. He had it fixed in 15 minutes !!! Runs great !! |
Sorry it has taken so long to get back to this, been a busy week. Had two more AC guys come out this week just to tell me everything was fine. it was 107 a few days ago and with the AC set to 72, the temp got up to 91. I am not a DIYer and was not intending to do anything myself. I am looking for another perspective as Im tired of paying people to tell me that nothing is wrong with my AC. |
- Posted by tigerdunes (My Page) on Sun, Jun 26, 11 at 20:03
andi sorry for your trouble but this forum thread is going nowhere and you are not helping. what size is your home? your location? size of your AC? I asked you to take a couple of supply readings but have yet to see this information. can't help if you don't help. IMO |
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Kannapolis, N.C. – Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart will not race in Sunday's Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen International, according to a statement released by Stewart-Haas Racing Tuesday.
Stewart, 42, broke his right tibia and fibula racing sprint cars Monday night in Oskaloosa, Iowa. It happened nearly three weeks after Stewart was involved in a crash that injured two drivers at Canandaigua Motorsports Park.
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Hey folks, so I don't know about you, but I have found myself glued to Mad Men week in week out for the last few years. I've increasingly found myself becoming less and less concerned with what is actually happening, and more and more concerned with what the characters are wearing! Many a time the episode will end and my friends will say 'Wow I can't believe Don did that!' and I'll be like 'Oh what did he do? I was just looking at the clothes'. I have added about 10 Mad Men style dresses to my wardrobe since the show started a while back. Even more so as the show progresses through the 60s – with all those mod patterns and gingham crops coming through. For someone who not only loves Mad Men and fashion, but also loves blogging – there are a lot of websites and blogs springing up out there giving advice and style tips if you want to recreate the look at home. I found this very informative piece on Mad Men style dresses – well worth a read!
I'm not a size zero, so I feel I've been a little side-lined in previous years, but then along comes Christina Hendricks (who plays voluptuous redhead Joan Holloway) and the shops are being hit by Mad Men style dresses catering to more than just little stick figures. At last there are sexy, retro-inspired pieces for the curvier lady. Thank you very much Katherine Jane Bryant.
For those of you who don't know, Katherine Jane Bryant is the chief costume designer, the fashion genius behind the class and style of Mad Men's main movers and shakers (she is also costume designer for Deadwood – but I know in which style I'd rather be dressed!). She has won Emmys for her work and is regularly featured on top ten lists of most influential people in the world of fashion. The fashion on Mad Men has led to a small revolution in contemporary fashion with retro style making a comeback, on both men and women's clothing lines. Many designers and stores have launched special edition suits or entire collections inspired (implicitly and explicitly) by the fashions on the show. Bryant herself launched a Mad Men collection through Banana Republic a few years ago, and it is still going strong as far as I know. Her designs are fantastic examples of just what makes Mad Men fashion so popular. Brooks Brothers, who already make a lot of suits with the timeless classic appeal of Don Draper, made a special limited edition Mad Men suit.
Not only clothes for the curvier lady, the show has also reinvented clothes for the more individually minded young woman, who might want to wear something with style, class but also originality. We don't all want to wear little black dresses. Suddenly back in fashion there are bohemian, hippie patterns and bold colours, creeping hemlines and sharply cut nick lines. I'm even more intrigued to see there this is going should the show keep on going into the seventies, a little Saturday Night Fever – esque, white suits and black shirts?


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AIDA64 offers several different benchmarks for testing and optimizing your system or network. The Random Access test is one of very few if not only that will measure hard drives random access times in hundredths of milliseconds as oppose to tens of milliseconds.
Drives with only one or two tests displayed in the write test mean that they have failed the test and their Maximum and possibly their Average Scores were very high after the cache fills. This usually happens only with controllers manufactured by JMicron and Toshiba.
The read access times are some of the lowest we've scored on a SandForce based SSD to date. The numbers aren't quite a low as the Marvell controllers produce, but still very low.
One of the biggest advantages of the new SMART mSATA compared to MyDigitalSSD's Bullet Proof line is the SandForce's DRAMless system. The Phison controllers use a DRAM buffer to mask slow write to flash speeds where the SandForce SF-2281 is very fast with its own built in buffer system.


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Archive for the 'Javascript' Category
Ext JS 3.0 RC1.1 released
May 6th, 2009 by MartinIt is great to see that Ext JS team is working hard on features that reflects people needs. New release candidate looks very promising and especially Charting, ButtonGroup (Microsoft Office 2008 Ribbon style;)), Buffered GridView and Debug console are really sweet.
ExtJS Framework JavascriptMust see video: Douglas Crockford — "Ajax Performance"
March 4th, 2009 by MartinYes, yes I like the way Douglas Crockford talks about AJAX and JavaScript. Especially his last talk about AJAX Performance. I think that it is essential for every web developer to see/read this presentation.
AJAX Javascript talk WebCustom Ext JS JsonReader for Google Ajax Search API
October 30th, 2008 by MartinWell as long term Ext JS fan and user I of course faced with consuming external data resources like for example Google Data API or Google AJAX Search API. The last one mentioned has some really great output and layout capabilities, but I did not want them. I really need only some kind of JSON or XML interface. Google has one – ScriptTag. So after reading this post about creating custom Ext.data.JsonReader and Ext.data.ScriptTagProxy.
/** Ext Proxy for Google Ajax Search **/ Ext.namespace('GoogleAjaxSearch'); GoogleAjaxSearch.Proxy = Ext.extend(Ext.data.ScriptTagProxy, { url: 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web', apiKey: null, cx: null, callbackParam: 'callback', constructor: function(config) { GoogleAjaxSearch.Proxy.superclass.constructor.call(this, config); this.on('beforeload', this.onBeforeLoad, this); }, onBeforeLoad: function(o, params) { Ext.apply(params, { v: '1.0', rsz: 'large', cx: this.cx, key: this.apiKey, } ); return true; } });  |
Taffy DB – simple JavaScript storage
October 20th, 2008 by MartinI just came across this interesting utility for all JavaScript developers.
From its website:
Javascript Utility WebTaffy DB is a free and open source JavaScript library that acts as thin data layer inside Web 2.0 and AJAX applications.
What makes it cool:
- Under 10K!
- Simple, JavaScript Centric Syntax
- Fast
- Easy to include in any web application
- Compatible with major AJAX libraries: YUI, JQuery, Dojo, Prototype, EXT, etc
- CRUD Interface (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
- Sorting
- Looping
- Advanced Queries
PHP wrapper for Ext Javascript library
March 16th, 2008 by MartinWell Ext Javascript library is great. No doubt about it. And because I am still using PHP for some of my projects, I wanted some abstraction over Ext for PHP. There was no such project for PHP at that time. So I decided to start-up with some small prototype (yes I am XP fan ;)). All worked quite well, and code base started to expand. But one day I realized that I am doing noting than rewriting Ext to PHP… That strange feeling did not came away and I decided to do something with it. Back to the trees…. So after some time spent by thinking about design and generally whole purpose and motivation to writing PHP helper for Ext library… And my conclusion was that I will write some helper framework for handling communication (JSON and XML) and to help generally with all but Javascript itself. Ext syntax is simple and nicely designed so why not use Ext syntax itself… So that was how ExtPHPUI was born…
With ExtPHPUI I am focusing on following features:
- simplicity
- security
- performance
- flexibility
These more server oriented features are not in the scope of Ext JS, so I decided to provide helpers to simplify Ext JS sever side development…
If anyone is interested in PHP development with Ext JS library or even ExtPHPUI and want to share some knowledge and experiences feel free to contact me. I will write some more information about this project later.
AJAX ExtJS Javascript PHPExt 2.0 is final now
December 4th, 2007 by MartinAs always I am happy to that this great JavaScript library has moved forward. I was playing with alpha and beta versions and there is a lot to play with! If you are not familiar with Ext library I can only recommend it to you.
AJAX ExtJS JavascriptMozilla developers want to put Firefox on a diet
November 14th, 2007 by MartinI have to say that this post makes me little bit happier today. I am using Mozilla browsers since its first public versions, but memory consumption was one of my biggest complains towards it. Especially in a few last months I was close to change my preferred browser :(. I know that a lot of problems can be caused by 3rd party Addons or dozens of opened tabs, but …. Anyway I am really looking forward to see some improvements soon :).
Firefox Mozilla OptimalizationExt 2.0 Alpha is now available
October 3rd, 2007 by MartinNew aplha release of great Ext Javascript Library is ready for download. If you do not know about this great JavaScript library, you can take a look here. I am playing with this library from it's first public versions and I can definitely recommend it.
AJAX ExtJS JavascriptScott Guthrie announced the final release of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (aka "Atlas")
January 24th, 2007 by MartinIt includes AJAX extension itself including AJAX Control Toolkit and source code release. I have to say that I took a break for a couple of weeks in ASP.NET AJAX area, but now I am working on my personal project – AJAX enabled e-shop for photos and pictures. I think it will be a good test for this final release :). I am really excited to see what I can do with it :).


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7 June 2011, The Times of India
According to the latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), gas demand will grow by 50% and take a 25% share in the global energy mix by 2035. "Natural gas is a lucky fuel as all its competitors are more problematic" said Birol, the IEA chide economist, who explained that coal produces twice as much CO2 emissions, renewables are still expensive and nuclear expansion faces more and more safety issues.
7 June 2011, Asia Economy, Korea
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which pumps about 40 percent of the world's crude, is meeting in Vienna as fighting in Libya shuts off the bulk of supplies from Africa's third-largest producer and oil hovers at almost $100 a barrel. Crude prices at current levels could derail a global economic recovery, the International Energy Agency's Chief Economist Fatih Birol told reporters today in Oslo.
7 June 2011, Yonhap, Korea
According to the latest forecast by the International Energy Agency (IEA), natural gas demand increases by 60% by 2035. The IEA today released a new report in which it presents a long-term outlook which shows global natural gas demand increase by 63% by 2035 compared with 2008. This "golden age of gas" scenario is said to be likely to arise after several countries move away from nuclear energy following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi and the surge in unconventional gas, such as shale gas, which supports growing gas demand.
7 June 2011, The Australian
The International Energy Agency forecasts a sharp increase in natural gas demand. According to IEA's latest report, published today in London, global energy demand increases by 37% by 2035 compared with 2008 due to economic growth in emerging economies and natural gas demand grows with sharp increase of 63%. Natural gas occupies one quarter in the primary energy demand, the second largest share, next to oil and surpassing coal by 2030.
7 June 2011, Il Sole 24 Ore
Gas demand will grow with increase of power production due to decreasing shares of coal and nuclear energy, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest report entitled "Are We Entering A Golden Age Of Natural Gas?". The report, published today in London, says that a combination of factors, such as the accident in Japan and the events in the Middle East, as well as the greenhouse emissions control efforts, made rising demand for natural gas more likely. To meet the demand gas production would to increase by a volume equivalent to three times Russia's annual production, which in 2010 was 650 billion cubic meters.
7 June 2011, Bloomberg
The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects gas demand to increase by 50% by 2035. The main underlying factors for this scenario are growing demand in developing economies and nuclear energy reduction in Europe. IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka mentioned that the gas market has rapidly developed during the last months. "The European gas market has also a very good potential", says the IEA in its latest report, published today in London. European Union countries start renouncing to nuclear power plants, which leads to natural gas playing an even more important role.
7 June 2011, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan
According to the International Energy Agency, natural gas could play a much larger role in the worlds future energy mix as some countries veer away from the perceived dangers of nuclear energy after Japans crisis, and see it as a cheaper alternative to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. "Power generation remains the dominant sector for gas demand and, in the GAS Scenario, gas replaces some coal in power generation in China, India and the United States," the IEA said in its new report, published today in London. Conventional sources of natural gas will provide about 60 per cent of global production, while unconventional sources grow to about a 40 per cent share. Meanwhile, trade doubles, with the increase split between natural gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas.
7 June 2011, Financial Times
"We have seen a remarkable development in the gas markets the last few months. Gas has a strong potential to play a larger role, at the same time as the global gas market can become more diversified and consequently provide higher energy security" said IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka when the report was presented in London yesterday. A range of factors are now present to grow the share of gas in the global energy mix, IEA pointed out: good supplies, new and growing markets, and large uncertainty with regard to the future production of nuclear power. It is the large merging economies, like China, India and the Middle East, and their choice of energy sources, that to a large degree will determine how much gas consumption will increase over the next 25 years, the report concludes. Even if gas is the 'cleanest' form of fossil fuels, it is still fossil fuels. Increased use of gas can displace low-carbon energy sources like renewable and nuclear energy. Increased use of gas is no universal solution against climate change.
7 June 2011,
Increasing gas supply and demand for the fuel could set off a "golden age of gas", the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said. In this latest report, the IEA presents a scenario in which demand for gas could outstrip coal by 2030, and get close to demand for oil by 2035. "Ample supplies, robust emerging markets and uncertainty about nuclear power all point to a prominent role for gas in [the] global energy mix", the IEA said in the report. China is endeavouring to use cleaner forms of fuel in the coming years, and that is likely to increase the demand for gas substantially. "Worldwide, 16 of the 20 most polluted cities are in China, largely related from coal power plant production," said Fatih Birol, chief economist at the IEA. For this reason, China is pushing for gas to replace a lot of coal power production," he added.
7 June 2011, Aftenposten, Norway
Natural gas contracts will increasingly have a higher degree of flexibility, tied less to oil prices and more to spot prices, Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, said Wednesday. "There will be more flexibility with more market elements," Birol said at a conference in Rome. This flexibility will be for both new and existing gas contracts that will be renegotiated, he said. "Major discussions" will take place between exporting and importing countries as the two sides hold different views, he said.


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How can we know that there are other galaxies if we cannot leave ours?
HI, I am a 9th grade student in NY. We are learning about stars and galaxies in Science class know and I have a question. Today in class we watched a segment of a movie about our Milky Way. In the film, there was a scientist and he was talking about our galaxy and all the others. In his discussion he said that we cannot leave our galaxy, then he sad that there were many other galaxies in the universe. My question is, how can we know that there are other galaxies if we cannot leave ours? Thank you for your time.
The reason that we cannot leave our galaxy is that it is so huge that the fastest space ships we could build at the moment could not get out of it in a reasonable time. Maybe at some point far in the future we may develop technologies so that we can leave the galaxy, but that's a long long way off.
Although we cannot visit the other galaxies we can see that they are there through telescopes. That's how we know they exist. It was very hard to discover how far away they were and took the best minds in Astronomy many years to settle the issue. There was a famous debate in the 1920s over the nature of the "spiral nebula" (the early name for galaxies). An astronomer called Shapely took the position that they were in our galaxy, while another astronomer called Curtis argued that they were outside it. Curtis won in the end and the vast size of the universe only came to light after that!
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Links - Some custom sites, all action figure related. If you have a custom figure site please email me to let me know, I always like checking out other people's work
Other Custom Figures sites
6700curtisbrainstorms - Besides a bunch of supernatural figures, I also got the custom Eternity from him, he has since made a 6' (feet) version! (site seems down)
Arkenyon's Custom Action Figures - some real nice Marvel and DC customs - to me, his villains are very menacing, he also has helpful how-to articles
Bad Black Cat Customs - he had a great showing at CustomCon 14 of some well done 5" Marvels and I'm glad to see he got his site up and running to showcase his fantastic collection of customs - unfortunately my buddy's website seems to be down
Battlehammer Creations - all of his customs are very clean and smooth, i am most impressed with his animated-styled figures. ( Battlehammer Creations seems to be down which is a shame since he's such a great customizer. The link goes to his the house of ideas gallery)
Brother Voodoo's Plastic Knights - he has a ton of Marvel 5" custom figures as well as playsets and vehicles. The standouts for me are his Thunderbolts customs. (Note: the link is to his the house of ideas gallery)
BullyBoy Action Figures - Nice customs from Marvel and DC in 5" and 6" scales but I especially like the cool photography with some nice action effects. (Seems down)
Caenman Customs - really creative Marvel 5" customs, he specializes in customs from the Age of Apocalypse storyline
Captain Hi-Top's Laboratory - 5" Marvel customs - i like his Defenders and New Warriors figures
Chip and Davy's Total Custom World - Besides custom action figures, they also have.good articles on taking digital pictures of action figures and dioramas
Customs by Dave - sweet 5" scale Marvel Toybiz styled customs, he has a penchant for making the supernatural and creepy characters from the underbellies of the Ghost Rider, Hellboy and Valiant universes.
Doubledealer's Custom Figures - His customs are true works of art AND he keeps their articulation intact, unbelievable! Professional quality work here. You gotta check out his Psylocke and Shanna the She-Devil
Great White Custom Figures and Design - I saw his figs on Ebay and was stunned, proud to own several of his pieces in my collection. 5" Marvel and DC customs. His site seems to be down so the link goes to his house of ideas.net custom gallery
The House of Ideas.net - Formerly the uncannyxmen.net, this site now showcases all Marvel customs not just focusing on the X-Men universe.
Jack's Custom Page - (sadly the site seems to now be off-line)
Jin Saotome's Dangerous Toys - His customs are regularly featured in Toyfare magazine.
Johnny Cheung's Customs - love his 5" Marvels, in particular check out his amazing Shia'r Imperial Guard and Squadron Supreme customs (Note: Seems to be down since the Coolcollecting website switched to a DVD site, the link is to his the house of ideas gallery)
Joe Acevedo - he has hosted many of the CustomCons as well as other customizers' galleries. A pillar of the customizing community
Liga dos Bonecos - from Brazil, he collects 5" Marvel and DC and has some good customs. His site is in Portuguese but is still easy to navigate. He also has a blog where he talks about toys here: www.afdangus.com
Mattman's Custom Figures - This father and son duo produces awesome customs of Marvel Universe characters in the 5" scale. The top of the 5" customizing game as far as i'm concerned, his work raises the bar each time he shows a new custom. His Hulk, X-Statix and Serpent Society customs are must see.
Mighty Marvel Custom Action Figures - NICE! Marvel customs, very clean 5", wish he made more (sadly the site seems to now be defunct)
Mundos Dos Bonecos - A Brazilian 5" Marvel customizer who has some really nice work, I enjoy his collection of group shots
NHM's Custom Figures - this site brings back many good memories of the X-Men cartoon. Very show-accurate customs in 5" scale
Raynir's Custom Action Figures - a very talented Marvel Legends scale customizer, has a huge number of great customs
Thor292's Secret Stash of Custom Figures - a good selection of 5" Marvel, X-Men and Avengers customs
News, Reviews and Resources
Bowen Designs - I've gotten alot of ideas from the mini-busts and statues here
Custom Con - I love the concept of regular fans determining how the action figure lines should be done
Customizer's Underground - This huge collection of links to customizer's sites seems to be down.
Edward Wires Toy Prototype Painter - if only released figures look as good as the prototypes he paints (sadly since his passing his website is gone)
Eightball Studios - founded by Steve Kiwus, who sculpted many Toybiz figures, his book Babes, Beasts and Brawn is great for seeing old Toybiz Marvel 5" scale prototypes and a must-read for anyone at all interested in how action figures are made.
Julius Marx's Action Figure Insider - the new home of Julius Marx, action figure news and reviews
Marvel Universe Bios - the official online source for Marvel super hero biographies, an essential source of information
Marveltoys.net - Awesome 5" Toybiz resource, nearly every figure is pictured and reviewed
OAFE (Online Action Figure Entertainment) - Their action figure reviews are just hilarious!
Raving Toy Maniac - news, ya gotta check out the forum, aka "The Buzz" and the Marvel 5" archives
Superhero Times - seems to have been down for over a year
Ze Ball Breaker Micro-Heros Site - features "micro-heroes" art of many characters, including Marvel and DC universe. An excellent resource for costume designs.
Discussion - lots of helpful and friendly people here
Delphi Forums Customize - unfortunately this board hasn't been active in over a year
Raving Toy Maniac Forums, aka "The Toy Buzz"