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How to master Ms. Pac-Man
Here's David Manning's YouTube videos illustrating how to make use of ghost AI quirks on the fly while playing in Ms. Pac-Man: Ghost Behavior and On Grouping. It's excellent for building an intuitive sense of how to play the game which, because of random aspects, cannot be reliably beaten with patterns as with Pac-Man. [more inside]
Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the modern Web
Kernelmag's Jeff Keacher documents connecting his old Macintosh Plus to the World Wibe Web, courtesy of a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of software to remove all those pesky <div>s and such. [more inside]
The Onion's AV Club Asks: Just How Prescient Was Hackers Anyway?
Yesterday's Tomorrow Today!
The BBC broadcasted the science and technology showcase show Tomorrow's World (titles on piano) on 7 July 1965 on BBC1, it ran for 38 years until it was cancelled at the beginning of 2003. Unlike the boosterism of US science programs, Tomorrow's World was more famous for it's live stunts and wry outlook ( James Burke experiences the "convenient" office of the future and the future of home gardening and crushing ennui). The BBC has an archive of episodes and clips for UK visitors, everyone else will have to be content with clips concerning Home Computers, New Banking, Nellie The School Computer, The Elliot Light Pen, Mobile Phones, and Moog Synthesizers.
The Commodore 64 Returns
The Commodore 64 - arguably the most influential PC in history - is back. They've beefed up the specs a bit.
"We have approximately 3 million bytes of memory just used to store an image..."
Before everything, there was PLATO
Touch screen. Awesome graphics. Online community. No, I'm not talking about the latest handheld device to hit the market, I'm talking about Control Data's PLATO system. [more inside]
Celebrity Computer Pitchmen
William Shatner hawked Commodores. IBM tried the cast of M*A*S*H, but without Alan Alda, who played Atari. Bill Cosby was a Texas Instruments man. Compaq gave us some funny ones with John Cleese. Bill Bixby pushed Tandy with a straight face. Buzz Aldrin, The Pointer Sisters, Tommy LaSorta, and Tip O'Neil pitched the Amiga. I guess I should include George Plimpton's Intellivision spots. Apple's covered by everyone else. Who did I miss?
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When Sara was in the first grade, her teacher discovered that she had weak writing skills. No matter what techniques they tried, the teacher saw no improvement. Throughout her elementary school years, Sara made little progress in writing and often felt embarrassed about her handwriting. On occasion classmates ridiculed her.
"I was frustrated and felt trapped. It seemed as though I could not accomplish anything," she recalls. "Finally one day my father came home from work and informed me that I would be spending my afternoons after school at a new 'recognition' computer center."
With that, things began to turn around for Sara. With speech recognition software, she could control the computer by speaking to it. Using a microphone, she could make her words appear on the computer screen in a word processing format, ready for revision and editing-also accomplished by voice. At last she had discovered a technique that enabled her to write clearly. She began using the program regularly for homework. Her natural talents came to the fore. Her grades steadily improved and by the end of the quarter she made honor roll. At year's end, Sara was one of two recipients of a coveted creative writing award.
Sara's experience with writing by recognition illustrates the promise of this technology for students with both physical and learning disabilities, according to Bob Follansbee, co-project director along with Patricia Corley of EDC's Speaking to Write project. The project Web site, has won several awards and is actively used by thousands of school-based professionals.
Follansbee, who worked with Sara at his previous job (at Children's Hospital in Boston) has seen stunning results in numerous students.
He recalls Jason, a 19-year-old young man who sustained a head injury at the age of 14 in a boating accident. The injury exacerbated his pre-existing learning disabilities, aphasia, (difficulty recalling words and formulating sentences) and apraxia (which limited his ability to gain facility with the keyboard).
"I had good ideas but couldn't get them down on paper," Jason says. "My writing and reading are excellent now. I'm able to get my ideas down on paper. The recognition has put a more independent and confident edge on my life."
While the software is being aggressively marketed to teens and others for use outside of schools, Follansbee hopes its potential inside schools will be embraced. "We don't want a kid to get to the eighth grade and never have mastered writing," he says. "It's a much different experience in schools when you've had success with writing." Success with the technology can change a students view of himself and force them to become independent. He is careful, however, not to promise too much. "It's one of the tools one uses, it's not the only one," he says. "We like to encourage people to have as many options as possible," he adds.
Follansbee, Corley, and others in the field are closely watching the changing technology. Originally the software could understand one word at a time. Now it allows students to speak—and be understood—continuously or roughly at the rate of normal conversation. "As the technology leaps ahead, the functionality of the older products is lost," he says. "That's a problem for some kids" who were thriving while using the "old" technology. Many students need more supports and need software that isn't lightening fast, he says. For some students, they need to move slowly and have opportunities to make corrections word by word. "It's a bit of a balancing act" to make sure the students and the technology are a good match, he says.
The Speaking to Write project is located in EDC's Center for Family, School, and Community and funded by NIDRR in the U.S. Department of Education. The project was developed in collaboration with the Communication Enhancement Center at Children's Hospital, Boston and features:
- Adaptations to leading speech recognition programs that will make them more accessible to secondary students with physical and/or learning disabilities
- Tools for educators and parents to help them understand and address the demands of speech recognition for secondary students
- Revised training protocols and materials that are tailored to the needs of students with disabilities
- Tools for educators and parents that help them integrate speech recognition technology into meaningful instructional activities across the curriculum
EDC's Prize-Winning Website
There are students like Sara at almost any school. To promote understanding and use of recognition technology, EDC staffers have produced a prizewinning website that introduces visitors to speech recognition technology, offers group discussions, helps users deal with school-related issues, and links visitors to related websites and resources. The site has won two prestigious honors and received an "upgrade" on a previously announced honor:
- The site earned semifinalist status in the education category of the 4th annual GII Awards. The award recognizes achievement in 10 categories central to the way people live, work and play: Arts and Culture, Children, Commerce, Community, Education, Entertainment, Government, Health, Netpreneur, and News and Media. The GII awards were presented by Ziff-Davis at its Nextravaganza conference featuring Internet experts, visionaries, and celebrities. The GII Awards program is a private-sector initiative sponsored by leading corporations, organizations, publishers and government agencies. Vice President Al Gore has described the awards program as "…an innovation that is important to our future."
- Spk2wrt also received the Editor's Choice Award of the Awesome Library, a collection of the top five percent of sites in the field of K-12 education. The Awesome Library is sponsored by Education and Development Institute in Oregon.
- The site received an "A" from Education World following improvements on the site (following a previously earned a "B").
Jen Minotti, EDC's technical and research specialist who developed the site and its graphics, says that the site receives as many as 28,000 visitors a month. "I was just amazed," she said. "We're one of the few Web sites where you can go to learn about speech recognition." The site also features a mail-list discussion that is very popular, engaging more than 300 regular subscribers and about 120 who receive a weekly digest of the information. An average of a half dozen questions are posed every day, and Follansbee facilitates discussion. Follansbee and co-project director Patricia Corley hope the project will be funded to continue that aspect of the Web site, as well as offer an online course for students.
Originally published on May 31, 2000

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Andrew Wenger starts strong in Union debut
Wenger on joining Union: 'We're going to be great this year'
Andrew Wenger celebrates after scoring a goal in the Union's 2-2 draw with Real Salt Lake on Saturday. (USA Today Images)
CHESTER, Pa. - The last time Andrew Wenger entered PPL Park, boos followed his name.
On Saturday, the crowd was chanting it.
"That was pretty damn cool," smiled Wenger, who was traded from the Montreal Impact to the Union on April 4. "Much better than the F-words they were giving me last week."
The Lancaster native, who had 10 to 15 family members in the house, made the most of his Union debut on Saturday against Real Salt Lake. Lining up as the team's primary striker, he finished with 86 minutes, multiple chances and a timely goal in the Union's 2-2 draw (see story).
"I was pretty anxious," said Wenger, who helped the Impact draw the Union on March 29. "If you saw my first touch of the game, it was pretty donkey. I actually gave the ball away, then fouled [Javier] Morales. It was good to get that one out of the way."
Getting the nervous out with his "donkey" first touch, Wenger's impressive night began in the 15th minute, when he got the ball in space and lofted a promising shot on net. The attempt floated over Jeff Attinella but deflected off the crossbar and stayed out.
"Just found myself in behind and saw him, he was five yards off his line and I just tried to get something out of it," Wenger said. "Maybe it's six inches lower or maybe it's not. I knew there was a chance."
Wenger corrected his miss in the second half. Gaining the zone and firing off a perfect right-footed cross into the box, Vincent Nogueira hit Wenger in stride, who moved the ball from his body to feet before calmly pushing a clean shot past Attinella for his first with the Union.
"I was just trying to play in the moment, that's the best way to play," Wenger said. "I don't really remember what exactly happened, I just took a touch and slipped it in.
"It would have been a lot better if we could have gotten three points. But it's good to open the account early."
It was just what the Union needed from their new No. 9. Though the expectation was a lack of chemistry between Wenger and his teammates, it was a surprisingly smooth transition.
"He's a perfect fit for our team," said Antoine Hoppenot. "He has good feet, he can hold the ball up, make good runs and score goals. He's going to have a lot of goals this year."
But it wasn't just a scoring touch that impressed Wenger's new teammates.
"He showed a lot today," said Maurice Edu. "Not only did he score the goal but he worked his tail off, he was tracking back, making tackles and breaking up plays. He showed a lot of good traits today and we're pleased he got that goal. He's going to be a good asset for our team, we're happy for him."


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Certificate of Maturity
that it is January 30, 1933. A ten year old Jewish boy, Leslie Frankel, is
coming in from the cold where he has just been ice skating with his friends. He
enters his house, begins to remove his mittens and scarf, and his ear is caught
by the sound of the news on the scratchy radio in the other room. Entering, his
parents are there, listening intently. His mother sees him and pulls him close;
with a child's intuition, Leslie knows that everything is not right. He looks at
his father for strength, but the man's head is bent in his hands so his face is
hidden. Could he be crying? Leslie has never seen his father cry. "What is
wrong, what has happened?" the little boy asks. He is met with silence,
until, finally, his mother says, in a voice that is strangling, "Hitler has
become Chancellor."
While children like Halina struggled to uphold the semblance of a normal youth, children were also perishing by the scores. A young Jewish historian named Emmanuel Ringelbaum wrote:
Ringelbaum also recalled a night when seventy children froze to death on the steps of a ghetto house. (Ringelbaum 233) And Birenbaum affirms that, "There were no children in the real meaning of the word in the ghetto." (Birenbaum 20) Yet, hope, for the children, had to persist.
Halina's words, one can see how the outside world, with all its pleasures,
dissipated almost completely from the Jews locked in their ghetto. And for
children especially, who had known the world such a short time, there was hardly
a consciousness of any better world.
she did reach the "camp of torture," she lost the rest of her family
immediately. She then allowed a fellow prisoner to chop off all her long hair
with the "utmost indifference." (Birenbaum 81) Halina, like other
little girls in the concentration camps, was leading an existence devoid of the
best parts of being a little girl. Surrounded by death, one's hair-style
suddenly became a triviality.
Halina Birenbaum would one day rejoin that other world. She was moved from
Treblinka to Auschwitz, where she was liberated at the end of the war. Halina
survived. Halina Birenbaum was a child survivor whose childhood never unfolded
in the way that her mother and father must have expected it to. When they
cradled her as an infant, swathed in pink in their arms, could they have known?
Could they have predicted the horror?
Thus, the Nazis were defeated in 1945, but the nightmare of the Jewish Holocaust lives on. And for the children who perished at the hands of Hitler, there could be no future except that of remembrance. The memories of those children, each one of their individual, sad, incredible stories, and the conglomerate horror of their fate, can never be forgotten. All in all, it is estimated that 1.2 Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust. While similar extermination has been occurring in Bosnia and Rwanda in this decade, one can only wonder what it means to be a mature adult, what it means to use mature free will, and, if these questions remain unanswered, what sort of "certificate of maturity" might someday be demanded from our own children?
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Brandon Dubinsky and Sean Avery scored first-period goals to lift the New York Rangers to a 4-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. The Rangers have won three straight and six of eight.
Chris Drury and Brendan Shanahan also scored for the Rangers. Erik Cole scored both Carolina goals.
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Is it ok to have a 3rd shower?
I am a teenage mom i have 2 children 2years apart im pregant with my 3rd and this baby will be 2yrs apart from my middle child my mother wants to throw me a shower since i gave away all my baby stuff some family and friends have a problem with me having another shower should i let my mom throw me another one or not?
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As the mother of 4, I only had a shower with my first. But I see nothing wrong with celebrating each baby -- within reason. Why not consider having a baby "sprinkle" or "bear necessities" party as opposed to a full blown shower?posted 06/13/2010 by sugar&spiceX3
well i am a mother of two and expecting my third. if you can throw three four or how many children you have go for it. i planning my own as of now just a gathering since economically we are trying to prepare for the baby arrival. just a small dinner i am cooking for a handful of family and friends. its always good to have a baby shower for the gifts of course and to just spend some time with your family and friends before the big arrivalposted 06/16/2010 by kmarino27
ok thank you so much!posted 06/15/2010 by blueAngel1989
i say let her throw you one.. some ppl are real old fashioned and dont think that u should have more than one shower. I have a 4 year old and am pregnant with my second.. my family isnt throwing me a shower so I am having to get everything and it is no fun.posted 06/13/2010 by ashlae03
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Treasure Fingers dropped Rooftop Revival this week via Scion A/V and it got us thinking about old folks on film.
Since the explosion of music videos in the eighties, many artists have tapped wrinkle power to creatively promote their music. Fans may fondly recall Katy Perry, the Pretenders, Arrested Development, Sigur Ros and even those emo-rap dubstep dudes going gray. Today, we've picked our five favorite geriatric-themed music videos of all time for your viewing pleasure.
#5 Treasure Fingers "Rooftop Revival"
We've loved Treasure Fingers since the release of "Cross The Dancefloor", and this new hit is definitely on par. While the video's fountain-of-youth theme might not hit every mark, it's well executed, beautifully shot, and has a relatively low wrinkle count. The remixes on the record include Computer Club and Bro Safari. Is this the first time all three Evol Intent boys have shared a release outside of their drum-n-bass personas? Catch Bro Safari next week at HARD Miami's Moombahton Massive.
#4 Underworld "Always Loved a Film"
Barking marked a huge comeback for electronic music's outsider headliners, Underworld. While it may have been one single shy of perfection (really, you couldn't have put "Downpipe" in there somewhere?) "Always Loved a Film" is one of the record's great tunes. It's a crowd pleaser live, but here in video form it takes on a new meaning.
#3 Beastie Boys "Ricky's Theme"
Undisputed music video champions Beastie Boys probably spent all of forty minutes shooting this one, but it's an indelible classic. Granted, it has the touch of director Spike Jonze all over it — street sports, surrealism, terrible disguises, and charming humor.
#2 The Prodigy "Take Me To The Hospital"
No, we are not saying that Keith and Maxim are old folks, it's more that "Take Me To The Hospital" is a trendy catchphrase of septuagenarians everywhere. What a killer fucking track!
#1 Crookers "Put Your Hands On Me"
We love Youtube commenters. Despite rampant anonymous bigotry and indecipherable grammar-bombs, you can always trust Youtube viewers to vote up a brilliant comment like "This is as sexy as an autopsy". In all fairness, this video and the underwhelming "No Security" vid may have derailed the Crookers' world domination when Tons of Friends was released, but make no mistake — the Crookers are still stealing your girlfriend and making out with your sister while you try to sort your MP3s. Because Crookers are the shit. That was implied. Do you not understand inference? Maybe that explains why your girlfriend was dissatisfied and your sister's such a slut.


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Also from Roger Saunders...
October 16, 2012
It may be that consumers need to be protected from themselves at the checkout lane. Do you agree with the logic that "candy at the cash register" constitutes a risk factor for chronic diseases? Do retailers have an obligation to offer checkouts free of foods high in fat, salt, sugar, etc.? [more...]
No! No!
The nanny state that these two authors are promoting is ridiculous. What's next? Let's not put magazines with Hollywood starlets scantily dressed at the checkout counter? Don't place Girl Scout Cookie offerings at the end of counters or in the entry area of the store? No more Little League baseball donations at checkout because someone's son (or daughter) didn't make the team? Do we ban all candy, salt, sugar, and fats?
Merchants are attempting to grow their revenues and margins by offering consumers items that they may choose to purchase. Consumers are willing to take personal responsibility for their lives. These authors should be willing accept the liberty that people want and value in their lives.
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Hey guys, so I have been finding really hard to get to posting this week because I have had SO much homework and study! Things have just been really busy in general, so this post is not the best but i got the chance to get into town today with my friend and I saw this dress in Topshop! I tried it on and it fits so well, as most Topshop clothes do! Here is the link to the dress if you wanna check it out!
Im SO sorry about lack of posts but I will be back to normal again very soon and expect some big posts too! Maybe even some youtube videos?


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August 28, 2014
Law enforcement officials in Arizona say no criminal charges will be filed in connection with the death of a firearms instructor who was fatally shot by a 9-year-old girl he was teaching to use an automatic weapon.
"Based on the video, the sheriff's office has determined no charges are pending," the Mohave County Sheriff's Office said in a statement, according to Reuters.
The sheriff's office said the shooting at the Bullets and Burgers gun range in Dolan Springs is "being viewed as an industrial accident."
On a video released by the sheriff's office, Charles Vacca, 39, can be seen instructing the girl on how to use the Uzi, telling her how to aim and shoot.
But on her last shot, the recoil sent the gun pointing into the air, and Vacca was struck in the head, the sheriff's office said. That section of the video was not released to the public.
The Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health is also investigating the incident.
A local man, Lance Krig, filed a lawsuit against Bullets and Burgers in 2012 over the gunfire noise, CBS affiliate KLAS in Las Vegas reported.
Krig told the station he had concerns about safety as well.
"I stated on the record before the court, I said, 'Somebody is going to get killed up there,'" Krig said.
The gun range operator declined comment and the lawyer who represented Bullets and Burgers in Krig's suit could not be reached, KLAS said.
Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Healths are conducting their own investigation into the shooting, but details cannot be released due to state law.
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In: Reviews by Nick "Alsop Live" Dinicola6 Apr 2012
Let's just get that out of the way now. Assassin's Creed III is an appropriate title because this is more a sequel to Assassin's Creed II than Assassin's Creed: Revelations. In fact, production began on this game before Revelations was even a thing, which is not say it doesn't take Revelation's story beats into account. More accurately, it says that you won't be doing any tower defense in III.
The demo at PAX East dropped new assassin Conner right in the middle of the Battle of Bunker Hill, just as one of the men in charge is giving the "whites of their eyes" speech. He's tasked with finding and killing the Templar, John Pitcairn. It's a familiar Assassin's Creed mission, but the environment is entirely unfamiliar.
There are no narrow streets — or narrow anything, really. The battle takes place on a wide hillside, with the British high up shooting down on the revolutionaries. Thousands of NPCs are lined up for both sides, taking turns shooting at each other. There are two paths Conner can take: One more stealthy and one more action-oriented. He takes the action route, putting him right in the no man's land between the two sides. The guns and cannon fire are not just for show. As a cannon ball explodes in front Conner, he falls back and puts up his hands to protect his face, and he has to run from rock to rock to keep out of the gunfire. Pitcairn is at the peak of the hill, but Conner can't charge the line or he'll get cut down. So he takes the path less traveled: Up a tree.
And it's not just trees, but also cliff sides. Conner climbs like a pro, sticking his hands between the cracks in the rocks. Colonial America might not have as many buildings as Renaissance Italy, but this environment is no less interactive. The forest is not just for show, and it's impressive how natural the trees look while still giving Conner multiple climbing options.
Since you'll be spending lots of time in the treetops, Conner has some new weapons that are best used from there. The rope dart is one such weapon: A throwing knife with a rope attached to it, allowing him to string up his enemies and hang them from the branches. This is great way to stay stealthy if there's just one guy below you, but in the demo Conner had to face a group.
Your enemies have guns, and you have to be aware of this. If they spot you from long or medium range they'll line up, just as they've been trained to do, and take turns firing at you. To survive, this new assassin can take an enemy hostage and use him as a human shield.
In the demo, Conner hid behind the poor sap until the other group had to reload, then he rushed forwards to close the gap. At this point combat became more familiar. Enemies surrounded the assassin and attacked one at a time, and he countered and killed each one. But there was one new trick: When two enemies attacked at once Conner took them both down in a single fluid animation. This time you don't have to kill guys one at time; if they come at you two at once, you can kill two at once.
There are new stealth elements as well with the introduction of Stalking Zones. Bushes aren't just for hiding anymore, but stalking as well. Conner doesn't automatically dive into a bush when you walk up to it, instead he ducks into it and keeps moving through it. This allows you sneak through enemy territory rather than killing every single guard you see.
Conner snuck through the enemy camp until he got an angle on Pitcairn. The target was sitting atop a horse, overlooking the entire battlefield, but he was a good distance away. In Assassin's Creed III you're encouraged to go straight for the target instead of killing everyone around him first. Conner has a special set of moving kills that allow him to take out anyone in his path without losing speed.
He jumped from the bushes and made a beeline for Pitcairn, running past most of the other soldiers milling about. He somersaulted over one guy, killing him, and then leapt off a nearby rock to bury a hatchet in Pitcairn's face (Nice little detail: The hatchet is shaped like the Assassin's symbol).
Assassin's Creed III looks like a rebuilding of the series from the ground up. The core concepts and mechanics are still there, but everything around them has changed. And that's a good thing. This third game might not represent as big a leap as Assassin's Creed II was from Assassin's Creed, but it's certainly close.
Nice write-up! I am a big AC fan. Because of Skyrim I haven't finished Revelations, but I have a nice chunk done and will finish soon. I am excited for this game and your positive write up gives me confidence this series can continue. Thank goodness there will be no tower defense. Fortunately in Revelations you can precede without playing TD. So, in your opinion, do you see this new character Connor being used in multiple games like Etzio (my favorite video game character ever) and to an extent Altiar? Do we know if Desmond is still a part of this? I am wondering if the series eventually brings us to a complete game taking place in modern times, our time. What do you think?
Anyway, thanks for the review, can't wait!
Nick Dinicola
I didn't get a good sense of Conner's character unfortunately, but if the series progresses as it should then I assume this will be his only game.
Let me explain: Desmond will be in ACIII, this will conclude his story, so this this should be the big finale. What this means for Desmond, I don't know, but as an ancestor of Desmond, Conner can only return if Desmond returns. So if Desmond's story ends, Conner's has to as well.
Thankfully there are plenty of other Assassins with Assassin ancestors that future games can focus on.
Alex Hutchinson, the creative director, has said that this game will focus more on Desmond than any of the previous games, so I think this IS the "modern times" AC game everyone has been waiting for. Or at least it's as close as we're gonna get. Which is fine by me, I'd rather play in the past than the present.


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Thursday, 9 September 2010
Divisions divided
Dowd definitely did his homework for The Pope's British Divisions. He interviewed people from Inverness in Scotland to Blackfen in Kent, via Catholic youth services, the Archbishop of Westminster, and Bernard Wynne of Stand Up for Vatican II. Though a competent journalist, Dowd is not above the odd clanger of colossal proportions; he remarked at one point that you knew the game was up when David Cameron said even Jesus would be for gay rights ... Personally, I feel that if there is anything more ludicrous than Cameron spouting theological opinions, it is people who think Cameron's theological opinions are remotely normative.
Of course, Cameron's opinions might be indicative rather than normative, and Dowd indeed gave us a soberingly varied picture of the leading indicators in the Church, at least as he sees them. On the positive side we can note the extraordinary way in which immigration has changed the Catholic Church in England since 1982. Some might of course have found in Vincent Nichols's description of the multipication of tongues a pretext for advancing the cause of a universal Church language - say, Latin? - but the immigrants' biggest impact probably results from the fact they tend not to be carriers of liberal Western opinions.
There followed sometime later a little section on Fr Tim Finigan's parish at Blackfen, Kent. Fr Finigan is of course one of the ablest voices in favour of the Benedictine reforms in the Church, though I found myself a little agitated by his defence of Latin for which he questioned whether anyone could understand the liturgy in English anyway! It's a fair point but in the circumstances it looked like a case of playing the man, rather than playing the ball. Of course I would have done no better. Dowd also interviewed a female parishioner - was it Mac? - who quoted the then-Cardinal Ratzinger's remark that truth wasn't about numbers.
It was a thoroughly apposite comment given the rest of Dowd's documentary which ranged in alarming detail over the kind of consensus Catholicism which Cardinal Ratzinger was in fact targeting.One of the major changes since 1982 is surely the large numbers of people who like the Catholic brand but appear to have no qualms of conscience about what they stick under it. This flexibility has been sold under the cover of being 'not judgmental', but nobody appeared to appreciate the problem which the Ratzingerian position poses: you cannot believe in total individual expressiveness and the Catholic faith. Somewhere Catholic belief is an obedience. Who said that? Oh, yeah, it was St Paul.
There was a serious degree of self-deception in advocates of non-judgmentalism in the programme. Fr Joe Wheat who works with Catholic youth didn't want to make value judgments about who was Catholic and who wasn't. But, I thought, isn't he making a value judgment about value judgments? Fr Wheat described the situation of young Catholic people who disagreed with Catholic truths as a 'struggle', but judging by the young people who were interviewed, their struggle seemed to be in understanding how Pope Benedict could be so out of touch with the 21st century. They seemed not to be involved in a moral struggle at all; more of a knowledge struggle in what was to them an incomprehensible Church. I don't want to make judgments, of course, but why do I have the feeling they needn't look to Fr Joe Wheat for enlightement?
'Elastic' is how Dowd qualified Fr Wheat's approach to Catholicism, and it was an epithet that might have been applied to many others in the programme. To the sound of twanging rubber, Andy Burnham, the ex-Labour minister, commented on how rigid the Church was over certain health issues. Burnham too doesn't quite see what is wrong with both calling yourself Catholic and conducting pragmatist politics. Pontius Pilate would have been proud. More elastic pings could be heard when Bernard Wynne was rolled on to say how the Latin Mass symbolised a return to 1950s clericalism. Here was another example of self deception; anyone who thinks clericalism died with Vatican II clearly never tried to cross a priest in sandals and rainbow stole. One man's clericalist is another man's freedom fighter. I suppose it is no consolation that Wynne's groupuscule will soon have to rename itself Zimmers for Vatican II. Still, it is ultimately no laughing matter, especially when one listens to the young Catholic people Dowd interviewed in a Catholic school who said they had no problem with abortion and same-sex marriage. Somehow, somewhere, Wynne's Church failed, but he thinks the problem is bossy priests? The mind boggles.
No more was the self-deception issue more acute than in Vincent Nichols's defence of the Soho gay Masses. No priest makes Communion a moment of judgment but trusts that people come forward in good conscience. Thus, said His Grace. The principle is fine in isolation. But when Dowd interviewed people who attend the Mass, at least one of those he spoke to felt not only accepted in her lesbianism, but also that it was fine to believe the Church had got it wrong on this issue. Perhaps some people go to the Soho Masses honestly wishing to lead a chaste life. Was it Dowd's fault that he didn't interview them? Did he interview them and decide to suppress their comments? Or was the person inteviewed more indicative of the kind of gay person that attends the Mass? What I want to know is whether the word 'acceptance' is code for 'no evangelisation here'. Where is the evidence that this congregation understands why this Mass has been allowed? And where is the justification for allowing it without ensuring a constant, gentle, but determined call to keep them on the straight and narrow - that narrow path which is the aim of the rest of us sinners who have proclivities not to homosexuality but to violence, drink, racism, or just sheer nastiness? One protestor outside said that we had become the Church of Accommodation. One can understand why. In this light, Vincent Nichols's telling 'judgmental' people they should just 'learn to hold their tongue', sounds like pastoral bullying, not honest leadership.
Ultimately, Dowd's picture suggested that the coming battle will be not so much between the Wynnes and the Finigans but between the Wheats and the kinds of seminarians that were interviewed towards the end of the progamme. The Wynnes are in the minority. So too sadly are the Finigans. The programme, however, sounded a vague note of hope through the voices of students from Oscott. They, it turned out, were optimistic. They were also clearly the pope's men and hoped his message would be heard during his visit.
But is it their business to hold this mosaic of Catholicism together, as Dowd concludes? The mosaic model - code again for theological incompatibilities - sounds much too much like the latitudinarianism which has turned Anglicanism into a sort of religious whitewash. Nobody, of course, wants to see division, and the human race is all too prone to want to wage war on its nearest and dearest. But latitudinarianism is a counterfeit of charity or ecclesial unity. To be honest, the word 'pastoral' is looking like a blanket with the end thread pulled loose. Still, who with a mitre has noticed that it is getting alarmingly short?
Frankly, my Lords, we need a different model which is gentle of heart but hard of head; not this praxis of disaster with our heads stuck in the ground.
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- Mac McLernon said...
An excellent summary, Ches...
I was annoyed that, despite Mark Dowd interviewing several of the young people at Blackfen (who have no problem accepting the Church's teaching on moral matters) the only youngsters quoted were the Cafeteria variety, who demonstrated little more than how poor catechesis has been over the past 30 years! To believe that abortion is ok is simply NOT compatible with Catholic belief!!
And yes, there were two quotes from me used in this morning's version...
- 9 September 2010 at 11:51
- Clare@ BattlementsOfRubies said...
This is an excellent review, thank you!
Anyone know if we can hear it on BBC's archives?
I'm off to hunt now.
- 9 September 2010 at 12:49
- Clare@ BattlementsOfRubies said...
Oh I'm dim. There's the link right there in your post. Duh.
- 9 September 2010 at 12:50
- Patricia Phillips said...
Archbishop Nichols was misleading listeners about the Soho Masses. He has received irrefutable evidence that the Masses are being run by and for those who openly oppose Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Past and present members of the Soho Mass Committee have identified themselves as either practising homosexuals; in 'marriages', civil partnerships or same-sex relationships; openly opposed to Catholic teaching on homosexuality and related issues (such as homosexual adoption and AIDS prevention); or affiliated to anti-Catholic, pro-'gay' groups, such as Stonewall. Not one has stated that they fully support Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Some of the Soho Mass committee have been proven to be instrumental in campaigning for anti-Catholic, pro 'gay' legislation, regarding civil partnerships, the adoption of children by homosexuals and so-called 'equality' legislation, which threatens the very freedom of the Church to speak out on moral issues. Archbishop Nichols has been made aware of all of this and has been shown indisputable evidence. Three factual articles on the Soho Masses can be found at:-
A fourth article for Christian Order on the Soho Masses is in the pipeline.
- 9 September 2010 at 17:12
- Ches said...
I shall read the evidence with interest. Thank you.
- 9 September 2010 at 20:09
- JARay said...
I thought that you had disappeared Ches. Good to see you back.Thanks for this excellent summary.
- 10 September 2010 at 00:20
- Ches said...
JARay, it's only my waistline that is disappearing ;-)
- 10 September 2010 at 10:29
- Robert Ian Williams said...
I have just watched Archbishop Nichols on BBC 2 discussing the Pope's visit...... he defended the legitimacy of civil partnerships as long as they are not regarded as marriages!
As a Catholic i feel totally let down by this crass leadership.
- 20 September 2010 at 22:09


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None of the Broncos' front-office trio publicly committed Tuesday to trading Tim Tebow, but there are indications that process has begun.
"There's no timeline," said general manager Brian Xanders, adding that he didn't know what sort of trade market there would be for Tebow. "We haven't really talked about it. We haven't received any calls, so we'll just deal with it one day at a time."
The arrival of Peyton Manning likely means Tebow is leaving.
Broncos executive John Elway and coach John Fox called Tebow on Monday night to tell him it was possible he would be traded.
"I'm sure he was disappointed," Elway said Tuesday. "He didn't come out and say he was disappointed. I think it was a typical Tim Tebow response in the fact that he was very positive, and he said, 'Well, we're talking about Peyton Manning, and I understand exactly what you're doing.' "
Tebow, who hasn't spoken publicly since Manning began his free-agent tour more than a week ago, couldn't have been blindsided by the call. Denver's courtship of Manning was well publicized, from the televised SUV ride from Centennial Airport to Dove Valley on March 9 to a workout at Duke University last Friday.
Still, it had to have been difficult for Tebow to hear his bosses tell him he was likely to be traded. After all, it was only 11 weeks ago that Elway stood at the same podium as he did Tuesday and said Tebow would be the starting quarterback when the Broncos opened training camp. Now he is No. 2 on the depth chart, with no guarantee of a starting job, or wide-open competition, anywhere else.
As the Broncos begin the process of determining Tebow's future, Elway said "it would be our goal" to make sure Tebow winds up in a good situation. Possible landing spots include Jacksonville (Tebow's hometown, with QBs Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne on the roster) or the New York Jets (with Mark Sanchez as the starter) .
"I would love to be able to do that just because of the type of guy that Tim Tebow is and where he is in his career," Elway said. "It would be our goal to get him in the best situation possible for him to have success also."
During the lengthy Manning introductory news conference, attended by more than 120 members of the local and national media, it was only when Tebow was mentioned that Elway and other Broncos officials became subdued. Elway was asked what he would say to Tebow's legion of loyal fans, many of whom are also Broncos fans.
Elway's answer, in short, was that this wasn't personal.
"The toughest thing about this whole thing is Tim Tebow, because of what I think of Tim Tebow," Elway said. "I've got a great deal of respect for him as a person and what he does, but there is no question that the toughest thing about this business is the personal side. We just had to make a decision as an organization, myself, Coach Fox, the personnel department, the coaches, of what would be the best decision for the Broncos to be competitive for a world championship, and Peyton Manning was that."
Tebow isn't the only quarterback whose career was disrupted by Manning's free-agent journey that also had him in meetings with Arizona (Kevin Kolb), Miami (Matt Moore), Tennessee (Matt Hasselbeck and Jake Locker) and San Francisco (Alex Smith).
Manning said he would welcome the opportunity to be teammates with Tebow, but that seems unlikely.
"If Tim Tebow is here next year, I'm going to be the best teammate I can be to him, and he and I are going to help this team win games," Manning said. "If other opportunities present themselves to him, I'm going to wish him the best. He's going to be a great player wherever he is. Those are decisions that have to be made by other people."
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May 1, 2016
Monique Turenne's sentencing on murder charges might have to be postponed because she's fired her lawyer.
Turenne was convicted last month of murder in relation to her husband's death, a Canadian Air Force major, in 1996 in Panama City.
Turenne announced the firing in an interview with a Canadian newspaper.
Turenne gave her first interview a month ago to NewsChannel Seven following her conviction. She claims her lawyer, Walter Smith, was ineffective during her trial.
She now says her family is getting her another lawyer. Right now, it's not known if next Tuesday's sentencing on her murder conviction will be postponed.
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Habla Espanol? Most quick-service chains are brushing up on their Spanish. And for good reason.
A 2009 analysis by the Latinum Network found that while the American economy floundered, the spending growth by U.S. Hispanics was twice the growth of general market spending.
Considering one-third of the nation's population 19 years old and younger is expected to be Latino by 2015, this trend only appears to be accelerating.
Restaurants have taken note and have scrambled for creative ways to pique the interest of this spendthrift demographic – hiring separate agencies of record for Spanish-speaking markets, launching Hispanic-specific promotions and sponsoring Latino-focused events, for example.
"As the Hispanic consumer population continues to grow and become a greater share of total restaurant spend, it is necessary to create specific strategies to build awareness, encourage trial use and, ultimately, attract this demographic into an operator's store," said Darren Tristano, executive vice president of Technomic Inc.
Just last year, the top 500 advertisers allocated 5.4 percent of their budgets to connect with Hispanic consumers, according to the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies. The wave of this specific spending focus began in 2007, when Hispanic ad dollars hovered close to 5.6 percent.
Since then, a Spanish wave has washed over QSR marketing schemes. Major players including Wendy's and Burger King have launched Hispanic-specific campaigns, Baskin-Robbins created a new role to head up the company's U.S. Hispanic marketing efforts, and Carl's Jr. developed a format to integrate the chain's products into prime-time lineups of Univision and TeleFutura affiliates.
Among the best marketers for the Hispanic demographic – as acknowledged by the AHAA – are El Pollo Loco, Domino's Pizza and McDonald's. McDonald's even got into the mobile marketing game early, launching a text message ad campaign geared toward the market in 2007.
Streamlining messages
Because the demographic has integrated into the U.S. market at a staggering pace, El Pollo Loco is currently in the process of an AOR review, expected to be completed in February, which will streamline its formerly separate Hispanic and general market accounts.
"The consumer market has evolved and it's important that we, as a brand, come into the marketplace with one consistent voice," said Mark Hardison, vice president of marketing for El Pollo Loco. "We were finding, with two separate agencies, that our message was disparate. They looked different and felt different and we believed it was taking away from the brand more than adding to it. To have consistency in the way the brand is presented to everyone is a huge deal, and it is simple and necessary."
In addition to offering consistency, Hardison adds that the consolidation into a total market approach will yield more efficiency and cost savings.
Shortly after its sale to 3G Capital, Burger King also consolidated its advertising message with the objective of providing a consistent message across demographics. In doing so, the company cut LatinWorks, which provided campaigns for the Hispanic market.
Separating messages
Other chains have gone the opposite direction, either adding a separate Hispanic AOR or adding to their marketing departments to focus on the demographic.
Wendy's, for example, and its Hispanic advertising agency The Bravo Group – tapped in August - recently launched a new campaign called "Sabor de Verdad" (loosely translated to 'Real Test') to reach out to the Spanish-speaking population. Bob Holtcamp, senior vice president of brand marketing for Wendy's International Inc., said that connecting to the U.S. Hispanic households is essential to the growth of the brand.
"Wendy's seeks to build faith among the more than 45 million U.S.-based Hispanics that we will deliver the best tasting fast food experience every time at everyday prices," Holtcamp said.
Taco Bell pledged to put forth a better marketing effort toward this demographic in 2006 and has since run simultaneous English and Spanish ad campaigns, including the Vendor spot featuring a Mexican lottery vendor calling out menu items in street-style.
Some chains are positioned in markets that are heavily Hispanic and therefore need to convey a message to that demographic for survival, according to Tristano.
One such chain is Church's Chicken, headquartered in San Antonio. It has long maintained separate AORs - Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners for the Hispanic market and Trend Influence for the general market. According to Marc Butler, senior vice president of marketing, 22 percent of Church's Chicken's customers are Hispanic in origin and, in Texas specifically, the demographic outnumbers Caucasians at restaurants.
As is common with the chain's marketing strategy, its new chicken mini item is being promoted with both English and Spanish spots, which makes sense for the brand.
"Many of our restaurants are in Spanish-dominated markets," said Andy Bonaparte, vice president of advertising. "We plan to continue this (strategy) for our marketing plan."
A strategy for survival
Though these brands acknowledge a big chunk of their consumers, and witness the spending potential moving forward, others have yet to embrace a multicultural marketing message. This, according to Tristano, will work against them sooner than later.
"Many restaurants are still just focusing on the affluent English-speaking consumer and have not made a push toward this group. Just providing coupons or menus in Spanish is not a 'strategy,'" he said. "It is essential to actually build a bridge, provide specific messaging and penetrate this demographic in order to maintain continued success in the market. Chains that research Spanish-speaking consumers and hire marketing staff with a deep understanding of the market will have a leg up on their competitors."
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THE official opening of Cooma Hospital's new renal dialysis unit has been delayed until September, however hospital management has confirmed the unit will begin accepting patients from as early as August 11.
Expected to be unveiled on July, 8 the $1.7 million facility is still undergoing finishing touches, with the unit's furnishings still to be completed.
Cooma Hospital Manager Antje Badger says the renal unit is now in its finals stage of completion as the hospital prepares for incoming patients who now have a local option for treating kidney disease.
"We are finishing off the building and putting in the furniture," Ms Badger said.
"Hopefully an opening in early September will take place, however the renal unit will be open to patients from August 11."
The renal unit will provide four treatment chairs with space for an additional four chairs. Currently there is a self-treating unit at Cooma Hospital which is facilitated through ACT health channels.
For many years the Monaro Renal Dialysis Group has been raising funds for a unit based at Cooma Hospital, which will allow patients to seek local treatment rather than having to commute to Canberra or Bega for dialysis treatment.


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What is Movie News After Dark? Usually it's just a nightly column dedicated to the best news and links from around the movie blogosphere. Tonight it comes with a disclaimer: Its author has just returned from a bender of Pixar films and is in the midst of a Marvel films marathon as he writes this. This sort of situation may cause over-zealous Avengers coverage, animated goofiness and spontaneous, uncontrollable bouts of crying — that is, if the score from UP comes on. Be prepared.
We begin tonight with an awesome image of Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Bruce Lee in 1978 courtesy of the Tumblr blog of film critic Shawn Levy. Beyond being an exceptionally nice guy, Levy also has a taste for the moving pictures and the icons of said medium. This shot, in my opinion, is certified awesome.
Tonight in actual movie news, there are now reports that Jessica Chastain may join Iron Man 3 as a "sexy scientist." It's also possible that the "sexy" part is an interpretation based on her actual sexiness and not the character's technical description, but it's all pretty much the same, isn't it?
Over at Lounge Geeks, the lovely Kayla Kromer presents her latest Geek Techniques entry, a Six Feet Under themed cocktail. Which reminds me that I need to dive back in and finish watching Six Feet Under. I'm told — by my mom, the all-knowing expert on television — that it has one of the greatest series finales of all-time. I need to see this for myself.
The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik explains What Mad Men Shows About American Pop Culture. Aside from our predisposition for heavy drinking, womanizing, bigotry and propensity for major mid-life crisis issues, that is.
Over at Hollywood.com, our good buddy Matt Patches talks to Jason Statham about why he'd be a terrible Spider-man, among other things.
There will be a great deal said about The Avengers this week. Allow me to bring today's items together into one paragraph. First, /Film gets a little snuggly with Joss Whedon about The Avengers. Next, renown geek art purveyors Gallery 1988 will hold an Avengers art show on opening weekend. And finally, also in the realm of Avengers art, Bleeding Cool explores What The Avengers Would Look Like in a World of Unrestrained Product Placement. Here's an example:
The folks at Wired have a wonderful profile of a film called Londoners, which was shot with a hand-cranked camera from the 1920s. It's essentially telling The Artist that silent films are okay, but using a hand-cranked camera is what's actually in right now.
Ron Swanson as Fantastic Four's Thing? Sure, that's something that I can get behind. It's also something that Nick Offerman said on Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Which is what makes it more than just fantasy casting.
Speaking of things you listen to, This American Life is doing a live cinema event on May 10th, and they've added David Sadaris to a line-up that already includes David Rakoff, Mike Birbiglia, Tig Notaro, Glynn Washington, Ryan Knighton, the Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company and OK Go. Sounds like fun.
Vulture takes a moment to look at Game of Thrones' Kid-Actor Problem. Apparently the show is moving things along a little too slow and these actors are growing up in real-time. Beware: there's a lot of math and potentially spoilery info in there, if you're the sensitive type.
Also in incredible television, Pajiba's Dan Carlson walks us through a list of 6 Great Dramas That Owe a Debt to The Wire. Also known as everything good that has come along since The Wire. Point. Made. (Note to self: I need to watch Homeland.)
/Film's David Chen presents his 5 Most Anticipated Movies of IFF Boston, one of the domestic film festivals that I would love to attend one of these days, if money and time were less of an issue. Sure, they don't premiere a lot of stuff that can't otherwise be seen at Sundance, Toronto, SXSW or other majors, but I've heard that it's a really great party. And who doesn't love Bean Town? You're right, Yankee fans. That's okay, I don't count them as people.
Speaking of Yankee fans, here's a carefully stitched together series of dolly shots from Spike Lee, a man who really does love a great dolly shot.


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The Project Runway host and Victoria's Secret supermodel is the proud mother to four kiddos – three with recent ex-hubby Seal, and one from a previous relationship. But the mother of Leni, 8, Henry, 7, Johan, 6 and Lou, 3 has morphed motherhood and fashion into a business through not one, but two maternity lines: Loved and Lavished. This mother knows that big families are always in fashion.


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A tiny rabbit pops out of the bag of your opponent and rushes away with surprising speed. His allies will be alerted of your presence.
Speaker Homunculi are creatures created by the spell Ell's Handy Homunculus. They are messengers, rapidly running across the battlefield to deliver messages to and fro. They help fight the information war by making messaging not take any actions on their master's part.
Speakers have a +12 racial bonus to Jump checks.
While generally constructs are neutral, a homunculi picks up the alignment of its creator on casting.
Handy homunculi make poor weapons. They always run if possible, attacking with their feet only in dire need.
They are one of the few homunculi that "speak". However, it's not anything they say on their part, they are like parrots and repeat what they hear. Generally you tell them to deliver a message to a certain person or a certain place, and they do so. Of course, they need to know where they are going, so if they have never been there before they may get lost.
Messenger (Su): A speaker rabbit may join an ally in range for the typical restrictions of the Message spell, and whisper the things its master is saying to the ally, who may speak back and the voice able to be heard by the master. The speaker is thus a sort of two way intercom between itself and the master.
The body is made of fur and clay, with the core crystal often embedded in the forehead. A drop of the caster's blood is mixed in with the clay, which animates the fur skin and body on casting Ell's Handy Homunculus. The entire cost of supplies equals 500 gp.
Assembling the body requires a DC 15 Craft (pottery) or Craft (taxidermy) check.
CL 1st; Ell's Handy Homunculus, Message; Never sold; Cost 500 gp + 25 XP.
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The Parkway Safety Network (PSN) is a committee that is mandated by the Board of Education and composed of school parents and residents approved by the school principal to assist staff in the various safety issues affecting our schools. The Network currently has a Chairman, Secretary, Emergency Kit Chairperson, and Block Home Chairperson.
Safety Network representatives attend committee and training meetings, have the responsibility of overseeing and inspecting the building emergency kits, checking on the supply and location of sealed emergency water bottles, coordinating neighborhood Block Home programs, and attending individual school safety walks/audits.
Emergency Kits: Safety Network representatives and school nurses work together to prepare an emergency kit of supplies to accompany building staff during evacuations. The kits, one per 100 students, are placed strategically throughout the buildings and contain a first aid inventory necessary to stabilize injuries until public safety personnel arrive. The kits are checked twice a year to ensure sufficient inventory is maintained.
Emergency Water Supply: Safety Network representatives check the location and availability of sealed potable drinking water bottles stored in the school for use in the event of an emergency or water outage. The water, seven (3.0 gal. each) bottles for elementary and 14 (3.0 gal. each) bottles for secondary schools can be used for drinking or antiseptic purposes, and is strategically placed throughout the buildings.
Block Home Program: Safety Representatives contact parents and district residents to volunteer their home as a safe haven for children in emergency situations. Schools inform elementary students of the value of contacting a block home if they feel threatened, are suspicious of individuals in their presence, or find themselves locked out of their home. Block Home volunteers undergo an application process, a background check of the sex offenders registry for all occupants over the age of 17, and training to respond to the student's needs. Applications can be obtained by contacting the Block Home Chairperson via Parkway Security at 314-415-8200.
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A New Trove of Global Temperature Numbers
My print column examines an announcement last month that a new effort to compile historical global temperature numbers has confirmed the earth has been cooling warming in the past century. Behind this news is a messy process of combining and reconciling temperature readings from around the world, and the results are being debated by other scientists who are digging into the new compilation of numbers and seeing for themselves.
Richard Muller, leader of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature group that compiled the database, said he invites his peers to dig — that's the motivation, he said, for releasing all data and drafts of papers before they have been accepted for publication in a peer-review journal. It's open peer review of sorts.
"Climate change is such a central issue that we need to have not three groups, not four groups, but as many groups as we can," said Muller, a physicist at the University of California at Berkeley. "There are 1,000 things to do now that people are suggesting. One of the things we tried to do, by putting our data online, is instead of getting people to say, 'You do this, you do that,' we can say, 'You do it yourself.' "
One big issue that the team examined, but remains disputed, is the urban heat island. City dwellers often find that their surroundings are much warmer than that of nearby suburbs. Building materials retain more heat than undeveloped land, and dense pockets of humanity use more energy, giving off heat. The difference in Northeast U.S. cities and surrounding areas ranged between 13 and 16 degrees Fahrenheit, on average, according to a NASA satellite study published last year. Some scientists attribute some of the warming trend to heat-trapping from increased urban development rather than to emissions of pollutants. Berkeley Earth said it was able to control for this effect, but not everyone is convinced. Meanwhile, the project didn't examine what caused the warming it found.
Anthony Watts, a meteorologist who has spearheaded a crowdsourced effort to document the quality of surface stations, said he is preparing a paper for peer review that will examine the effect of bias from different sites. He declined to elaborate, saying that his reputation as a skeptic of many warming studies constrained his ability to use open peer review like the Berkeley Earth team does. "The bar is set far far higher for skeptical scientists, and we must go through the scientific process with care with all i's and t's crossed and dotted," Watts said.
One tricky area for the Berkeley Earth team is whether the earth's temperature has continued to rise since the late 1990s. The Daily Mail interviewed Judith Curry, Muller's coauthor and a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about this, and she expressed some displeasure with an opinion column Muller wrote in The Wall Street Journal about the issue. She later wrote on her blog that after a 90-minute talk with Muller, "there isn't much that we disagree on."
"There are large variations sitting on top of the rise," Muller said. "With those bouncing up or down, it's very hard to tell whether the temperature has leveled off or not."
These fluctuations help explain why other researchers' prior attempts to predict next year's temperature from past trends have been unsuccessful. "The only way to prove these models are any good is to demonstrate that they skillfully predict new data," said William Briggs, a statistician and member of the probability and statistics committee of the American Meteorology Society. "None have done this. There is reason to suspect all models."
Further reading: The blogs of Curry, Briggs, Watts and mathematician Stephen McIntyre all have featured lively debate on the Berkeley Earth findings.
Correction: A new effort to compile global temperature data confirmed the earth has been warming in the past century. This blog post initially said the effort had shown the earth has been cooling.


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Transportation stocks–one pocket of the market that avoided much of this week's malaise–are now feeling the pain.
The Dow Jones Transportation Average, a 20-member index of airlines, railroads and trucking companies, slumped more than 3% at session lows Friday. The decline comes after the index set a record high on Thursday, bucking the broader trend of declining stocks, currencies and emerging markets.
The divergence raised some eyebrows. For one, followers of the age-old Dow Theory generally look for the industrials and transports to move in tandem to confirm a market's trend. The theory's ideology stems from the notion that making goods is one leg of the industrial economy and moving those goods around is the second leg, so their trends should be in sync.
Ahead of Friday's action, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 2.3% this month, while the Dow transports were up 2.3%. With the transports holding up, there was hope that the rest of the market would reverse course and follow their lead.
Friday's slump throws some cold water on that theory.
The decline stems from a broader rout in emerging markets, which continued Friday as as investor concern mounted over how the developing world will cope with the withdrawal of global stimulus.
The Dow transports recently fell 204 points, or 2.7%, to 7365. The Dow industrials, the more widely followed measure, dropped 137 points, or 0.9%, to 16058.


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By Deb
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Got my new earings today and i love the color of Labradorite they are such a pretty grey and they look nice on. Great buy with an extra $10 dollars off. These are the second pair of earings of have bought from Carol Brodie and will probably buy more..
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Very nice earrings!
By Belle Ontario
from Ontario
For anyone thinking about purchasing these earrings, I would not hesitate to recommend them. They are just lovely, each earring displaying a very Canadian stone with beautiful colours.
By Heather7
from B.C.
got these on sale, but they are terrible,brownish green....will keep, but not happy with them.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By boost
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Very pretty, my new go to earring. The labradorite is beautiful and the setting very nice. My only concern is the butterfly backings, they seem loose but give the earring a lighter hold so they hang a little on your ear. I love them
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Cute, but small
By Jewellery lover
from Montreal, QC
These are cute, but on the small side. The stones are nice, however, one of the butterflies did not fit, just fell off. Luckily, I had spares. I got them at 50% off and certainly can't imagine paying the original price - way too much.
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By 4eversunshine
I am in love with labradorite, these have such a beautiful organic gleam to them, like looking into a moving stream. They are a good size (you can see them from a distance) and the bezel set is sturdy and very shiny. I find I keep going to them as they tend to look good with everything!
By Linda
from Brossard (Quebec)
These are classic elegance. You can wear them comfortably everyday and add a touch of class to your look. The setting is perfect. The colors that shine through the labradorite are stunning.Great price for great quality.Thank you Carol and all the best to you.
By MARY ELLEN
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I was very pleasantly surprise by these earrings. They are small to medium in size however the stone just flashes with colour. The faceting really sets the stone off. The posts are set at the top of the earring rather then the center so you can position it on your ear at different angles. I would have given it a 5 star but the post seems a little flimsy so I'm not sure how sturdy it is. However even with this I would recommend the earrings as they are exceptionally nice for their size.


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This is a portrait in oils on canvas made around 1826 by Augustus Earle (1793-1839), which measures 69.0 cm x 53.5 cm. It shows a fashionably dressed man seated with hands clasped, looking away from the viewer. His eyes are wide open and alert and his set lips convey a sense of earnest concentration. He is wearing a dark-blue coat with brass buttons, matching trousers and a cream waistcoat with an elaborate cravat. His matching shirt has a stiff collar pointing out and up, close beneath the chin. A fob watch is visible near his hands.
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- is a colonial portrait painting - portraiture was the primary economic mainstay for many artists in early colonial Australia; in contrast to landscape painting, portraiture dominated the style of art made between the 1830s and the mid-1850s in the older colonies of New South Wales and Victoria
- was painted by Augustus Earle (1793-1838) - Earle was an adventurous world traveller, colonial painter and lithographer who spent several years in the colony of New South Wales during 1825-28 painting portraits (including full-length portraits), landscapes in oils and local genre subjects in watercolour, which included portraits and figure studies of Aboriginal people; his relatively brief time in the colony was productive and groundbreaking; his watercolour landscapes and genre scenes often incorporated personal insights and touches of humour, which distinguishes them from conventional illustrations and views made by other artists at the time
- is one of a large number of commissioned portraits undertaken by Earle - these commissions included a life-size portrait of the retiring governor Sir Thomas Brisbane (made 1825-26), along with portraits of the Colonial Secretary Major Frederick Goulburn (made 1825-26), and other artistic identities such as the Tasmanian surveyor and visual artist George William Evans (made 1825), and Earle's student, the Sydney artist Frederick Garling (made 1826); his best-known portraits include a full-length standing figure of the Naval Officer of Port Jackson Captain John Piper, made in about 1826, and a related family group of Mrs John Piper with Thomas, Eliza, Anne and William Piper, also made in 1826
- depicts Barnett Levey (1798-1837), a prominent Sydney merchant and arts identity who was the first free Jewish settler in the colony of New South Wales - an actor and founder of the Australian theatre, Levey arrived in Sydney in 1821 and by 1825 had established himself as a merchant; in the same year he married Sarah Emma Wilson, the step-daughter of Jacob Josephson, Australia's first silversmith; Levey had a passion for the dramatic arts and in 1833 established a permanent theatre at the rear of his Royal Hotel, the Theatre Royal, which was the first purpose-built theatre in Australia; it closed in 1838 and was destroyed by fire in 1840
- is one of an extremely rare pair of portraits of the period - the matching portrait is of Barnett Levey's wife, Sarah, titled 'Mrs Barnett Levey', painted in about 1826; these portraits were intended to be hung side by side, with the one of Sarah being placed on the left so that her gaze would be directed towards her new husband (they were married in the year these portraits were made)
- is a painting that is set within a rare frame - while earlier colonial timber frames are known to exist, the frame for this painting, along with its pair, is possibly the earliest known example of the use of frame mouldings; the decorative mouldings in each corner are made from gesso, which is a form of plaster that has been fixed to the timber frame
- provides social and personal insights - Barnett Levey is shown wearing fashionable Regency attire; this period (later 18th century) was marked by fashionable gentlemen dressing to present 'an air of studied carelessness' through dramatic contrast; this contrast is seen here in Levey's navy coat, which is set against a cream-coloured neckcloth, waistcoat and breeches; his fob watch completes his appearance as a well-dressed 1820s Sydney gentleman; it has been suggested that the clasp of his hands in his lap, the slight forward positioning of the head and the gentle but penetrating eyes are indicative of his flamboyant personality.


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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday the league is going to propose an 18-game regular season schedule to the players' union as part of the next Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Speaking at a press conference at an owner's meeting in Atlanta, Goodell said the support for what backers are calling an enhanced season was 'overwhelming.'
'We think we've moved this concept along,' Goodell told reporters at a news conference following the one-day owners' meeting, who said the league is hoping to introduce the 18-game season in 2012. 'There's a tremendous amount of momentum for it. We think it's the right step to take. But we want to do that with our partners, including the players.'
Goodell said owners see two more regular-season games ' and two fewer preseason games ' as a way to enhance revenues. But while owners appear solidly behind the plan, several players have already questioned the idea of an 18-game regular season, including Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who questioned the long-term health issues for players that would be raised by more football.
'I've taken part in several postseason runs where we have played 20 games,' Brady said in a statement issued in June by the National Football League Players Association. 'The long-term impact this game has on our bodies is well documented. Look no further than the players that came before we did. Each player today has to play three years in order to earn five years of post-career health care. Our Union has done a great job of raising the awareness on these issues and will make the right decision for us players, the game and the fans.'
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Moneylife » Personal Finance » New Products » Nokia Lumia 800: Why the 'noPhone' review draws ire only from Nokia and Microsoft employees?
Nokia Lumia 800: Why the 'noPhone' review draws ire only from Nokia and Microsoft employees?
Last week we published a review of Nokia's latest 'Lumia 800' based on technical specifications of the mobile. However to our surprise, it attracted number of comments, mostly abusive, from none other than Nokia and Microsoft employees and associates
Last Friday, I wrote an article about the newly launched Nokia Lumia 800. The article was aimed to educate and inform readers and buyers about this latest smartphone from Nokia so that they could make a smart decision. However, this review ruffled some feathers and we saw an orchestrated pile of comments. The common factor in all these comments was use of abusive language that explains the motive.
However, the surprise came when I decided to check the origin of these comments. The first comments that appeared were posted by none other than the employees and associates of Nokia and Microsoft. Especially one commentator, Harish, who later realised his mistake of posting comment from his official IP address (from India) and changed it later, is the one who had written the maximum (nine so far) abusive posts. I wonder, if this is called good PR practice at Nokia and whether they believe that everything can be bought like the ad-extravaganza they created in newspapers and TV channels?
Here is what Harish says...
Name = harish
Email Id = firstname.lastname@example.com
Ip Address = 18.104.22.168
What an crap review!! it's one of the best phone available, iphone is so dumb compared to this.... Guess some one is paying you lumpsum, congrats..
The IP address '184.108.40.206' belongs to Nokia Corp.
Name = Aditya Agrawal
Email Id = firstname.lastname@example.com
Ip Address = 126.96.36.199
dude, gone are the times when actual consumers just use to care about the technical specificiations of mobiles. today, people want devices which are beauitful, fast and easy-to-use. for most of the consumers, it does not matter if the phone has 512mb or 1gb ram. if the 512mb performs better in real-life, that't the one customers are gonna prefer.
just a small advice, go to a store and use windows phone 7.5 for 10 mins, the last thing you will care is whether the phone has a single or a dual core.
The IP address 184.108.40.206 belongs to Microsoft Corp.
Nokia, which first sensed this factor back in 2000, reduced handset prices in order to make it more affordable and was able to increase its market share phenomenally, until it faced stiff competition from China-made but locally branded handsets. While the world was embracing newer operating systems (OS) for mobile handsets, Nokia decided to stick with its age-old Symbian platform. Symbian is a good OS, but only for basic phones and could not compete with the likes of BlackBerry, Android and Apple's iOS. This resulted in Nokia losing its market share across the globe, especially in smartphone category.
Just a few days ago, Exane BNP Paribas conducted a survey in the five European markets where the Lumia 800 has gone on sale. Out of the total 1,300 people surveyed from the five markets, around 456 said they were interested in buying a smartphone. "With only 2.2% of surveyed buyers firmly intending to purchase the Lumia 800, Nokia's first flagship Windows Phone is ... far behind the current blockbusters, Apple's iPhone 4S and Samsung's Galaxy S II," analyst Alexander Peterc wrote in the report. Need I say more?
Strictly speaking on the pricing and technical specification terms, if somebody offers a SUV (sports utility vehicle) at a price of a mid-sized car, then over 95% people would prefer to buy the SUV. Don't believe me? Go and ask any dealer of Mahindra & Mahindra and they will tell you the overwhelming response to their newly launched XUV500 that is attributed to its competitive price with other mid-size cars in the market.
Similarly, if for about Rs30,000 somebody is offering a mobile handset with better technical specifications (like dual-core processor, more memory, dual camera and larger screen) do you think anyone would buy Lumia 800? I doubt. Just to give more choices, for the same amount, you can buy, Samsung Galaxy SII, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S, HTC Rhyme, HTC Sensation and even BlackBerry Torch 9810, that are much superior in technical specifications and features when compared with Lumia 800. As of today, Samsung Galaxy SII is available at around Rs27,200, which still is the top seller in this price range.
We are also clueless about the kind of 'Kolaveri di' (rage) generated by readers (?), especially from countries like Singapore, the US, UK and even Poland. We had traced back the origins of all the comments and would publish, if necessary, at a suitable time.
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Jagadeeswara Reddy 4 years ago
If its true that Microsoft & Nokia is doing this orchestrated pile of comments against an article who just expressed his opinion about a product, its just a shame on them & shows their lowest moral.
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Pradeep 4 years ago
Mr. Yogesh, you lack professionalism. you are not fit for this industry
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Aeliya 4 years ago
Lol. Honestly, Yogesh Sanale, who gave you your job? Posting another article in your defense based on the comments on the previous one is as juvenile a behaviour as it can get.
You are unfortunately not exposing Microsoft and Nokia here but making a display of your own intelligence and the values and the integrity or the lack of them of moneylife.in
Microsoft and Nokia are bigger than responding through the Comments section of Yogesh Sanale's review on http://www.moneylife.in. It's not as if Rajiv Makhni is sharing his review on NDTV.
a)You haven't used the phone
b)You are making a display of your joblessness and your insecurity by publishing the details of the commenters
c) For all your efforts, good luck with your reviews ahead. You might just want to float them on your own blog or something equipped with a statscounter gadget for tracking and analysing live traffic feed!
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chandan 4 years ago
God, the author is a real moron!! He did not bother to actually test the phone and wrote a review...how sane is that?
Also, he has the gall to rant against people who do not agree with him. Posting the e-mail addresses of the people who posted negative comments about his review is really cheap!
God, what a creep !!
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athynz 4 years ago
So let me get this straight: YOU posted a "review" of the Nokia Lumia 800 - a negative review - and did NOT even bother to try the device out? Dude, total FAIL from the get-go. THEN in a follow up "article" you rat out 2 people who call you out on your so-called review. Do I have that right? So much for any sort of integrity - what's the matter? Upset because they called you out? I have some advice for you - if you plan on reviewing a product - TRY the product out first so you have actual hands-on experience... then again that's what a real reviewer does.
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Having grown up with three of them, Tom Brady knows the value of having a sister — and is thrilled for his sons that they get to experience it.
"I think it's great for my boys to have a girl in the house," the father of two sons and a newborn daughter, Vivian Lake, recently told ESPN.
The New England Patriots quarterback hopes it helps John, 5, and Benjamin, 3, "understand at least a little bit about what makes a woman tick — not that I can certainly figure that out, because I can't. She's a beautiful little girl."
With his ever-growing brood, Brady, 35, is settling into a nice work-life balance with wife Gisele Bündchen.
"I love playing football. I love coming to work every day," he says. "But also, being at home, and giving those boys my attention, and my affection, and my discipline, and being a good parent is so important, because I grew up with two of the best parents a son could ever ask for."
Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady welcomed their second child together, a baby girl named Vivian Lake Brady, on Wednesday, Dec. 5. Born at home in Boston, she joins big brothers Benjamin, who turns 3 Saturday, and John, 5, Brady's son from a previous relationship.
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