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This Friday night, Tucson basketball fans will be in for a treat. Not only will the Arizona women's basketball team host #3 LSU in the team's first regular season game, but this game will feature a battle between two of the best freshmen in the country. It's a battle of heavyweights that should attract anyone who loves the game.
Let's begin with the visitor. Seimone Augustus is a 6-1 freshman guard from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During her senior year at Capitol High School, Augustus was named the Girls National Basketball Player of the Year. She also earned Parade All-America honors and numerous other awards. Seimone is only the second player to be named Miss Basketball in back-to-back years in the state of Louisiana. She scored a stunning 3,600 points in high school and gathered 1,728 rebounds. In short, Seimone Augustus is a great player.
Now, let's go to the home team. Shawntinice Polk (Polkey) is a 6-5 freshman center from Hanford, California. During her senior year, Polkey was named a first team Parade, USA Today, Nike, SLAM Magazine, and WBCA All-American. Polkey collected 2,163 points in high school to go with 1,326 rebounds and 384 blocks. Polkey was rated the #1 post-player coming out of high school and finished Arizona's final exhibition game with 16 points and 15 rebounds. In short, Shawntinice Polk is a great player.
So, on Friday night, these two phenoms will meet at McKale Center. The Tigers are in the top five in every poll. Meanwhile, the Wildcats have reloaded with exciting talent and have their eyes set on a shot at a Pac-10 title. The stage is set.
As promising as this match-up is between these two youngsters, this game may not swing on the talents of either Augustus or Polk. Obviously, both teams have plenty of talent to offer. I believe this game could turn on Arizona's home-court advantage. Who wouldn't want to pay six bucks and see this one? A large opening night crowd at McKale Center would be a huge factor for a young Wildcat team that is learning to win. A large opening night crowd could possibly rattle a young player named Seimone Augustus.
There has never been a better time to give women's basketball a chance. If you walk away and say that the game wasn't entertaining, that is your decision to make. But at least give it a chance because this is the most exciting home opener the Wildcats have ever had. Not only will you see two terrific teams, but also two of the most promising freshmen in the country will be on display. Keep your eyes on Augustus and Polkey. Keep your eyes open because the game will be played at a high level. Check it out. In short, Seimone Augustus and Shawntinice Polk are great players. You'll see!
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I built the gourdtar back in the 90s from a giant dipper gourd I found at the North Carolina Farmers' Market in Raleigh. One of my professors in grad school at NCSU had a wood shop and he helped me built the neck and the fingerboard. When I moved to Shreveport around 2000, I fashioned the current bridge from some bamboo growing in my new backyard. The various pickups were a more recent addition.
The gourdtar is more or less a three string lap steel, though you could also look at it as a fretless mountain dulcimer if you preferred. In fact, I often drone strings on it while playing slide on just the high or high and middle strings, a technique quite similar to the way "traditional" players use a noter on a mountain dulcimer.
We have a lot of fun playing this one at shows, but because the gourdtar is fragile, its something of a rarity in our shows these days.
There's yet another version of this song on the Twang Darkly cd Live from Wire Mountain; in fact, this very track is available as a free promotional download. Likewise, the original version is on my Devil's Stomping Ground album.
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There's a domain that I want. The registrant details were hidden behind Domain Discreet, which no longer exists, and none of the contact info works, email bounces etc. so I can't approach the owner and ask what they want for it. It was due to expire last year so I used a deleting domains provider to try and grab it, but several months after it was supposed to have expired it was re-registered by its current owner for another two years. Tried filing a complaint with ICANN about the invalid contact details but no dice. Advice?
File a complaint with the actual company that registered the domain as well, not just ICANN.. They will have his billing adress and a working email to notify them that they have to update their who.is info.
I would also keep filing complaints to ICANN every so often.
If you really-really want it, create a "I want the yourWantedDomain" page and make it go viral - might reach the current owner.
Create another viral content and mention somewhere there that you want to contact them in order to obtain the domain. That's what I'd do if I wanted the domain so badly.


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PULLMAN, Wash. -- Senior Steve Birnbaum, who started eight games for the Washington State Cougars last fall, worked with WSU's number one offensive unit during Monday's and Tuesday's practices and is now officially listed as WSU's starter for the Sept. 4 opener at home against Utah, head coach Mike Price confirmed after Tuesday's practice.
"Steve Birnbaum is our starter for the opener," Price said. "We have charted every pass our quarterbacks have thrown in the scrimmages and practices, over 450 passes each, and Steve had the highest completion percentage, over 73 percent. He also has not thrown an interception in any of our scrimmages."
"Our quarterbacks are much better this year, but Birnbaum has been at the top of our charts," Price added. "Steve, as well as Paul and Jason, have taken care of the football and that has been one of our key goals. The ability of all our quarterbacks to make the right decisions has improved greatly from last year.
Birnbaum, junior Paul Mencke and redshirt freshman Jason Gesser have been locked in a three-way battle to see who will start the opener against the Utes.
Price said before the start of fall camp he hoped to name a starter a week into the three-week camp, but delayed that decision until this week.
Birnbaum, in WSU's three scrimmages this fall, has not thrown an interception while completing 13 of his 26 passes. He also did not throw any interceptions in WSU's spring scrimmages. Price has stressed since last season turnovers would be a key part of his decision. A year ago the Cougars turned the ball over 40 times, including 25 interceptions.
While Birnbaum ran with the number one offensive unit, Gesser has split his time this week with the first and second units and Mencke with the number three offense. Mencke also took a few snaps as a wide receiver Monday.
Returning to the practice field this week after missing several practices including last Saturday's scrimmage were running backs Jeremy Thielbahr and Brad Philley, wide receiver Milton Wynn, linebacker Raonall Smith and offensive lineman Ryan Raymond.
Several key starters continued to work out in sweat cloths on the sidelines this week, although Price said several of them could play if it was game-day.
Among those nursing injuries and not participating in the contact workouts are running back Alex Tinsley (hamstring), offensive linemen Reed Raymond (hamstring), defensive lineman Ing Aleaga (hamstring), defensive back Virgil Williams (shoulder) and linebackers Serign Marong (hamstring) and Grady Emmerson (ankle).


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Why prefer composition over inheritance? What trade-offs are there for each approach? When should you choose inheritance over composition?
Prefer composition over inheritance as it is more malleable / easy to modify later, but do not use a compose-always approach. With composition, it's easy to change behavior on the fly with Dependency Injection / Setters. Inheritance is more rigid as most languages do not allow you to derive from more than one type. So the goose is more or less cooked once you derive from TypeA.
My acid test for the above is:
e.g. A Cessna biplane will expose the complete interface of an airplane, if not more. So that makes it fit to derive from Airplane.
e.g. A Bird may need only the fly behavior of an Airplane. In this case, it makes sense to extract it out as an interface / class / both and make it a member of both classes.
Update: Just came back to my answer and it seems now that it is incomplete without a specific mention of Barbara Liskov's Liskov Substitution Principle as a test for 'Should I be inheriting from this type?'
Think of containment as a has a relationship. A car "has an" engine, a person "has a" name, etc.
Think of inheritance as an is a relationship. A car "is a" vehicle, a person "is a" mammal, etc.
I take no credit for this approach. I took it straight from the Second Edition of Code Complete by Steve McConnell, Section 6.3.
If you understand the difference, it's easier to explain.
Procedural Code
An example of this is PHP without the use of classes (particularly before PHP5). All logic is encoded in a set of functions. You may include other files containing helper functions and so on and conduct your business logic by passing data around in functions. This can be very hard to manage as the application grows. PHP5 tries to remedy this by offering more object oriented design.
This encourages the use of classes. Inheritance is one of the three tenets of OO design (inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation).
This is inheritance at work. The Employee "is a" Person or inherits from Person. All inheritance relationships are "is-a" relationships. Employee also shadows the Title property from Person, meaning Employee.Title will return the Title for the Employee not the Person.
Composition is favoured over inheritance. To put it very simply you would have:
Composition is typically "has a" or "uses a" relationship. Here the Employee class has a Person. It does not inherit from Person but instead gets the Person object passed to it, which is why it "has a" Person.
Composition over Inheritance
Now say you want to create a Manager type so you end up with:
This example will work fine, however, what if Person and Employee both declared
The Manager object is composed as an Employee and a Person. The Title behaviour is taken from employee. This explicit composition removes ambiguity among other things and you'll encounter fewer bugs.
With all the undeniable benefits provided by inheritance, here's some of its disadvantages.
Disadvantages of Inheritance:
On the other hand Object composition is defined at runtime through objects acquiring references to other objects. In such a case these objects will never be able to reach each-other's protected data (no encapsulation break) and will be forced to respect each other's interface. And in this case also, implementation dependencies will be a lot less than in case of inheritance.
Another, very pragmatic reason, to prefer composition over inheritance has to do with your domain model, and mapping it to a relational database. It's really hard to map inheritance to the SQL model (you end up with all sorts of hacky workarounds, like creating columns that aren't always used, using views, etc). Some ORMLs try to deal with this, but it always gets complicated quickly. Composition can be easily modeled through a foreign-key relationship between two tables, but inheritance is much harder.
While in short words I would agree with "Prefer composition over inheritance", very often for me it sounds like "prefer potatoes over coca-cola". There are places for inheritance and places for composition. You need to understand difference, then this question will disappear. What it really means for me is "if you are going to use inheritance - think again, chances are you need composition".
You should prefer potatoes over coca cola when you want to eat, and coca cola over potatoes when you want to drink.
Creating a subclass should mean more than just a convenient way to call superclass methods. You should use inheritance when subclass "is-a" super class both structurally and functionally, when it can be used as superclass and you are going to use that. If it is not the case - it is not inheritance, but something else. Composition is when your objects consists of another, or has some relationship to them.
So for me it looks like if someone does not know if he needs inheritance or composition, the real problem is that he does not know if he want to drink or to eat. Think about your problem domain more, understand it better.
Inheritance is pretty enticing especially coming from procedural-land and it often looks deceptively elegant. I mean all I need to do is add this one bit of functionality to some other class, right? Well, one of the problems is that
inheritance is probably the worst form of coupling you can have
Your base class breaks encapsulation by exposing implementation details to subclasses in the form of protected members. This makes your system rigid and fragile. The more tragic flaw however is the new subclass brings with it all the baggage and opinion of the inheritance chain.
The article, Inheritance is Evil: The Epic Fail of the DataAnnotationsModelBinder, walks through an example of this in C#. It shows the use of inheritance when composition should have been used and how it could be refactored.
In Java or C#, an object cannot change its type once it has been instantiated.
So, if your object need to appear as a different object or behave differently depending on an object state or conditions, then use Composition: Refer to State and Strategy Design Patterns.
If the object need to be of the same type, then use Inheritance or implement interfaces.
Personally I learned to always prefer composition over inheritance. There is no programmatic problem you can solve with inheritance which you cannot solve with composition; though you may have to use Interfaces(Java) or Protocols(Obj-C) in some cases. Since C++ doesn't know any such thing, you'll have to use abstract base classes, which means you cannot get entirely rid of inheritance in C++.
Composition is often more logical, it provides better abstraction, better encapsulation, better code reuse (especially in very large projects) and is less likely to break anything at a distance just because you made an isolated change anywhere in your code. It also makes it easier to uphold the "Single Responsibility Principle", which is often summarized as "There should never be more than one reason for a class to change.", and it means that every class exists for a specific purpose and it should only have methods that are directly related to its purpose. Also having a very shallow inheritance tree makes it much easier to keep the overview even when your project starts to get really large. Many people think that inheritance represents our real world pretty well, but that isn't the truth. The real world uses much more composition than inheritance. Pretty much every real world object you can hold in your hand has been composed out of other, smaller real world objects.
There are downsides of composition, though. If you skip inheritance altogether and only focus on composition, you will notice that you often have to write a couple of extra code lines that weren't necessary if you had used inheritance. You are also sometimes forced to repeat yourself and this violates the DRY Principle (DRY = Don't Repeat Yourself). Also composition often requires delegation, and a method is just calling another method of another object with no other code surrounding this call. Such "double method calls" (which may easily extend to triple or quadruple method calls and even farther than that) have much worse performance than inheritance, where you simply inherit a method of your parent. Calling an inherited method may be equally fast as calling a non-inherited one, or it may be slightly slower, but is usually still faster than two consecutive method calls.
You may have noticed that most OO languages don't allow multiple inheritance. While there are a couple of cases where multiple inheritance can really buy you something, but those are rather exceptions than the rule. Whenever you run into a situation where you think "multiple inheritance would be a really cool feature to solve this problem", you are usually at a point where you should re-think inheritance altogether, since even it may require a couple of extra code lines, a solution based on composition will usually turn out to be much more elegant, flexible and future proof.
Inheritance is really a cool feature, but I'm afraid it has been overused the last couple of years. People treated inheritance as the one hammer that can nail it all, regardless if it was actually a nail, a screw, or maybe a something completely different.
My general rule of thumb: Before using inheritance, consider if composition makes more sense.
Reason: Subclassing usually means more complexity and connectedness, i.e. harder to change, maintain, and scale without making mistakes.
A much more complete and concrete answer from Tim Boudreau of Sun:
Inheritance is very powerful, but you can't force it (see: the circle-ellipse problem). If you really can't be completely sure of a true "is-a" subtype relationship, then it's best to go with composition.
Inheritance creates a strong relationship between a subclass and super class; subclass must be aware of super class'es implementation details. Creating the super class is much harder, when you have to think about how it can be extended. You have to document class invariants carefully, and state what other methods overridable methods use internally.
Inheritance is sometimes useful, if the hierarchy really represents a is-a-relationship. It relates to Open-Closed Principle, which states that classes should be closed for modification but open to extension. That way you can have polymorphism; to have a generic method that deals with super type and its methods, but via dynamic dispatch the method of subclass is invoked. This is flexible, and helps to create indirection, which is essential in software (to know less about implementation details).
Inheritance is easily overused, though, and creates additional complexity, with hard dependencies between classes. Also understanding what happens during execution of a program gets pretty hard due to layers and dynamic selection of method calls.
I would suggest using composing as the default. It is more modular, and gives the benefit of late binding (you can change the component dynamically). Also it's easier to test the things separately. And if you need to use a method from a class, you are not forced to be of certain form (Liskov Substitution Principle).
You need to have a look at The Liskov Substitution Principle in Uncle Bob's SOLID principles of class design. :)
Suppose an aircraft has only two parts: an engine and wings.
Now your aircraft can start with having fixed wings
Either the base class
Now, I can replace my engine on the fly as well.
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To understand why "prefer composition over inheritance", we need first get back the assumption omitted in this shortened idiom.
There are two benefits of inheritance: subtyping and subclassing
With the two benefits comes two different purposes for doing inheritance: subtyping oriented and code reuse oriented.
If code reuse is the sole purpose, subclassing may give one more than what he needs, i.e. some public methods of the parent class don't make much sense for the child class. In this case, instead of favoring composition over inheritance, composition is demanded. This is also where the "is-a" vs. "has-a" notion comes from.
So only when subtyping is purposed, i.e. to use the new class later in a polymorphic manner, do we face the problem of choosing inheritance or composition. This is the assumption that gets omitted in the shortened idiom under discussion.
To subtype is to conform to a type signature, this means composition has always to expose no less amount of APIs of the type. Now the trade offs kick in:
With the above trade offs in mind, we hence prefer composition over inheritance. Yet for tightly related classes, i.e. when implicit code reuse really make benefits, or the magic power of open recursion is desired, inheritance shall be the choice.
When you want to "copy"/Expose the base class' API, you use inheritance. When you only want to "copy" functionality, use delegation.
One example of this: You want to create a Stack out of a List. Stack only has pop, push and peek. You shouldn't use inheritance given that you don't want push_back, push_front, removeAt, et al.-kind of functionality in a Stack.
These two ways can live together just fine and actually support each other.
Composition is just playing it modular: you create interface similar to the parent class, create new object and delegate calls to it. If these objects need not to know of each other, it's quite safe and easy to use composition. There are so many possibilites here.
However, if the parent class for some reason needs to access functions provided by the "child class" for inexperienced programmer it may look like it's a great place to use inheritance. The parent class can just call it's own abstract "foo()" which is overwritten by the subclass and then it can give the value to the abstract base.
It looks like a nice idea, but in many cases it's better just give the class an object which implements the foo() (or even set the value provided the foo() manually) than to inherit the new class from some base class which requires the function foo() to be specified.
Because inheritance is a poor way of moving information.
The composition has a real edge here: the relationship can be reversed: the "parent class" or "abstract worker" can aggregate any specific "child" objects implementing certain interface + any child can be set inside any other type of parent, which accepts it's type. And there can be any number of objects, for example MergeSort or QuickSort could sort any list of objects implementing an abstract Compare -interface. Or to put it another way: any group of objects which implement "foo()" and other group of objects which can make use of objects having "foo()" can play together.
I can think of three real reasons for using inheritance:
If these are true, then it is probably necessary to use inheritance.
There is nothing bad in using reason 1, it is very good thing to have a solid interface on your objects. This can be done using composition or with inheritance, no problem - if this interface is simple and does not change. Usually inheritance is quite effective here.
If the reason is number 2 it gets a bit tricky. Do you really only need to use the same base class? In general, just using the same base class is not good enough, but it may be a requirement of your framework, a design consideration which can not be avoided.
However, if you want to use the private variables, the case 3, then you may be in trouble. If you consider global variables unsafe, then you should consider using inheritance to get access to private variables also unsafe. Mind you, global variables are not all THAT bad - databases are essentially big set of global variables. But if you can handle it, then it's quite fine.
Aside from is a/has a considerations, one must also consider the "depth" of inheritance your object has to go through. Anything beyond five or six levels of inheritance deep might cause unexpected casting and boxing/unboxing problems, and in those cases it might be wise to compose your object instead.
I agree with @Pavel, when he says, there are places for composition and there are places for inheritance.
I think inheritance should be used if your answer is an affirmative to any of these questions.
However, if your intention is purely that of code re-use, then composition most likely is a better design choice.
Subtyping is appropriate and more powerful where the invariants can be enumerated, else use function composition for extensibility.
The answer is quite simple
When you have an is-a relation between two classes (example dog is a canine) you go for inheritance.
On the other hand when you have has-a or some adjective relationship between two classes (student has courses) or (teacher studies courses) you chose composition.
A simple way to make sense of this would be that inheritance should be used when you need an object of your class to have the same interface as its parent class, so that it can thereby be treated as an object of the parent class (upcasting). Moreover, function calls on a derived class object would remain the same everywhere in code, but the specific method to call would be determined at runtime (i.e. the low-level implementation differs, the high-level interface remains the same).
Composition should be used when you do not need the new class to have the same interface, i.e. you wish to conceal certain aspects of the class' implementation which the user of that class need not know about. So composition is more in the way of supporting encapsulation (i.e. concealing the implementation) while inheritance is meant to support abstraction (i.e. providing a simplified representation of something, in this case the same interface for a range of types with different internals).
A rule of thumb I have heard is inheritance should be used when its a "is-a" relationship and composition when its a "has-a". Even with that I feel that you should always lean towards composition because it eliminates a lot of complexity.
Inheritance is a very powerfull machanism for code reuse. But needs to be used properly. I would say that inheritance is used correctly if the subclass is also a subtype of the parent class. As mentioned above, the Liskov Substitution Principle is the key point here.
Subclass is not the same as subtype. You might create subclasses that are not subtypes (and this is when you should use composition). To understand what a subtype is, lets start giving an explanation of what a type is.
When we say that the number 5 is of type integer, we are stating that 5 belongs to a set of possible values (as an example, see the possible values for the Java primitive types). We are also stating that there is a valid set of methods I can perform on the value like addition and subtraction. And finally we are stating that there are a set of properties that are always satisfied, for example, if I add the values 3 and 5, I will get 8 as a result.
To give another example, think about the abstract data types, Set of integers and List of integers, the values they can hold are restricted to integers. They both support a set of methods, like add(newValue) and size(). And they both have different properties (class invariant), Sets does not allow duplicates while List does allow duplicates (of course there are other properties that they both satisfy).
Subtype is also a type, which has a relation to another type, called parent type (or supertype). The subtype must satisfy the features (values, methods and properties) of the parent type. The relation means that in any context where the supertype is expected, it can be substitutable by a subtype, without affecting the behaviour of the execution. Let's go to see some code to exemplify what I'm saying. Suppose I write a List of integers (in some sort of pseudo language):
Then, I write the Set of integers as a subclass of the List of integers:
Our Set of integers class is a subclass of List of Integers, but is not a subtype, due to it is not satisfying all the features of the List class. The values, and the signature of the methods are satisfied but the properties are not. The behaviour of the add(Integer) method has been clearly changed, not preserving the properties of the parent type. Think from the point of view of the client of your classes. They might receive a Set of integers where a List of integers is expected. The client might want to add a value and get that value added to the List even if that value already exist in the List. But her wont get that behaviour if the value exists. A big suprise for her!
This is a classic example of an improper use of inheritance. Use composition in this case.
(a fragment from: use inheritance properly).
"Prefer composition over inheritance" is a design principle, which says don't abuse inheritance when it doesn't fit.
If no real world hierarchical relationship exists between two entities, don't use inheritance, but instead use composition. Composition represents "HAS A" relationship.
E.g. Car HAS A Wheels, body, engine, etc. But if you inheritance here, it becomes CAR IS A Wheel - which is incorrect.
For further explanations, refer to prefer composition over inheritance
As many people told, I will first start with the check - whether there exists an "is-a" relationship. If it exists I usually check the following:
E.g 1. Accountant is an Employee. But I will not use inheritance because a Employee object can be instantiated.
E.g 2. Book is a SellingItem. A SellingItem cannot be instantiated - it is abstract concept. Hence I will use inheritacne. The SellingItem is an abstract base class (or interface in C#)
What do you think about this approach?
Also, I support @anon answer in Why use inheritance at all?
@MatthieuM. says in http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/12439/code-smell-inheritance-abuse/12448#comment303759_12448
What do you want to force yourself (or another programmer) to adhere to and when do you want to allow yourself (or another programmer) more freedom. It has been argued that inheritance is helpful when you want to force someone into a way of dealing with/solving a particular problem so they can't head off in the wrong direction.
Composition v/s Inheritance is a wide subject. There is no real answer for what is better as I think it all depends on the design of the system.
Generally type of relationship between object provide better information to choose one of them.
If relation type is "IS-A" relation then Inheritance is better approach. otherwise relation type is "HAS-A" relation then composition will better approach.
Its totally depend on entity relationship.
A real world example of when Composition is better than Inheritance.
Assume you have a BaseClass where T is injected by a concrete class.
At first glance this looks nice because you can inject any type you want and use this type to change property behavior within the class; whereby T is referenced like this:
A possible concrete class using inheritance looks like this:
But what happens if you need to have that base property handle different types? Do you create one class per type? No just use containment instead. Like this:
You can see from the example above that the SubClass is open to expand in any way needed. It can in essence be more than one implementation of a single baseclass. It's easily morphed into just that type giving you very specific access to property types. This is better than inheriting and creating multiple class derived from the BaseClass with one caveat...
Addressibility to "Contained" things takes on a different signature which is simply preceding the thing wanted (SomeProperty) with the instance of the class. Like this:
Because of this, it's best to create short names for contained things...so your code can look like this (Just make sure that the short names have good meaning)...
This rule is a complete nonsense. Why?
The reason is that in every case it is possible to tell whether to use composition or inheritance. This is determined by the answer to a question: "IS something A something else" or "HAS something A something else".
You cannot "prefer" to make something to be something else or to have something else. Strict logical rules apply.
Also there are no "contrived examples" because in every situation an answer to this question can be given.
If you cannot answer this question there is something else wrong. This includes overlapping responsibilities of classess which are usually the result of wrong use of interfaces, less often by rewriting same code in different classess.
To avoid this situations I also recommend to use good names for classes , that fully resemble their responsibilities.
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If you get your news from Fox or a handful of other news outlets that are not, to be charitable, best known for their fact checking, you will be relieved to learn that wind farms do not add to climate change.
Yesterday, Fox News completely misreported a new scientific study dealing with the earth's surface temperature and the effects of wind farms on it. According to Fox, the windmills, which actually reduce global warming, contribute to it! While most attribute the error, later picked up by other news sites, to shoddy reporting and the increasingly short news cycle, Fox is known to be a booster of big oil.
While Fox News concluded that "wind ain't working," Liming Zhou, the study's lead researcher, characterized Fox's coverage as misleading.
"We need to realize that the build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere due to the burning fossil fuel will have global impacts," Zhou wrote in a question-and-answer piece, "while the warming effect reported in this study is local and is small. Generating wind power creates no emissions, uses no water, and is likely green. Wind power is going to be a part of the solution to the climate change, air pollution and energy security problem."
The actual study, published April 29 on the website of the science journal Nature, studied the effects of wind farms on the temperature of the earth's surface in areas directly near the wind farms.
The researchers studied west Texas, where four of the world's largest wind farms are located. They analyzed satellite data collected from 2003-2011, and concluded that the wind farms there may cause a "significant warming trend of up to .72 [degrees Celsius] per decade." The likely reason for the warming is that windmills act as fans, pulling warmer air from above down to the surface, especially during nighttime hours.
The scientists concluded that the windmills were responsible because the area that showed the highest surface warming correlated closely with the actual geographic area of the wind farms themselves.
Zhou, who took umbrage with the media's portrayal of his team's research, emphasized that wind farms do not contribute to global warming.
While Zhou is clear that there is no connection between global warming and wind farms, he does argue that more research needs to be done so as to best ensure that wind farms do not disrupt local micro-environments.
"Understanding the impacts of wind farms is critical for developing efficient adaptation and management strategies to ensure long-term sustainability of wind power," he wrote.
Photo: Wind farm in Texas. Talon Kasmai // CC 2.0
Editor's note: Due to an error in the editing process, a decimal point was inadvertently deleted from this article. Heat from the wind farms could warm surface temperatures locally by .72 degrees per decade, not 72 degrees. We apologize for the error and thank our readers for pointing it out.


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text: Aug 19, 2014 22:16 Cooper: Cuts could put budget out of compliance with law Cooper: Cuts could put budget out of compliance with law Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Lafayette Parish School Board Superintendent, Dr. Pat Cooper holds up a copy of the proposed budget while pointing out what he views as it's problems during a special budget hearing on Thursday evening at the school board offices. Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- District 5 representative Kermit Bouillion asks a question to Lafaytte Parish School Board President Hunter Beasley during a special board meeting to discuss the budget on Thursday. Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Christine Duay, Director of Early Childhood Education for the Lafayette Parish School System makes her recommendations for the upcoming budget to members of the school board during a special meeting to discuss issues with the proposed budget on Thursday. Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Christine Duay, Director of Early Childhood Education for the Lafayette Parish School System makes her recommendations for the upcoming budget to school board chief financial officer Billy Guidry, seated right, during a special board meeting to discuss issues with the proposed budget on Thursday. Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Employees of the Lafaytte Parish School System, from left, Matt Dugas, finance director, Billy Guidry, Chief Financial Officer, and Stephanie Richard, Budget and accounting Supervisor, handle questions from members of the Lafayette Parish School Board during a special meeting to discuss issues with the upcoming budget. Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- District 5 representative Kermit Bouillion, left, and Lafayette Parish School Board Superintendent Dr. Pat Cooper speak privately during a special meeting to discuss the upcoming budget on Thursday. BY Marsha Sills| firstname.lastname@example.com Aug. 14, 2014; 9:16 p.m. Comments LAFAYETTE — The budget turf war between Superintendent Pat Cooper and a majority of the Lafayette Parish School Board continued Thursday with Cooper arguing that cuts the board has made place the district out of compliance with state and federal laws. The argument isn't a new one posed to the board by Cooper or his staff during the board's review of the school district's general fund that began in mid-May. Since then, the board has met a dozen times to seek its own answers to offset a $23.5 million shortfall, instead of accepting numerous proposals by Cooper to balance the budget while protecting instructional services and jobs. During the board's last budget meeting on July 31, it came within $1.3 million of its $23.5 million target and voted to approve the proposed general fund and cover the remaining funding gap with money from its rainy day account. The board met again on Thursday and, based on the agenda, was scheduled to consider another budget proposal from Cooper — but it didn't. Not after board member Rae Trahan reminded staff that it's already approved the proposed general fund — cuts and all — and voted on July 31 for staff to advertise that the spending plan would be available for public review, as well as the dates for a public hearing and meeting of final adoption of the 2014-15 budget. Trahan questioned early in the meeting why public notice had not been given since the board gave those directives two weeks ago. Chief Financial Officer Billy Guidry told her, "I missed that one." Guidry explained he had not noted the board's action on the matter and was prepared for the board to continue its general fund discussions, as evidenced on the agenda, during Thursday's meeting. A review of the July 31 minutes showed that the board did take action to proceed, though Cooper continued to challenge the board's decision. Board attorney Bob Hammonds told the board that it will be able to amend the budget as often as it likes; however, it has a statutory obligation to approve the budget by Sept. 15. "We all know that what you advertise may not be what you finish with," Hammonds said. "You need to advertise to meet the Sept. 15 deadline." Cooper said while he agreed with some of Hammonds' comments, "I am responsible to make sure (the) budget complies with the law. I'm not going to accept (the budget) until you comply with the law." To clarify its stance, the board voted 6-3 Thursday to ask staff to advertise and specified that the public notice be published by Aug. 20. Board members Shelton Cobb, Kermit Bouillion and Mark Cockerham voted against the motion. Before the board cast its vote, Cooper asked: "This board is instructing us to break state and federal law?" Board President Hunter Beasley told Cooper that the board is instructing staff to file public notice. "What I would suggest is that if you're saying state or federal law is being broken, it might be a good idea to give the specific legislation that is being broken," Beasley told Cooper. Staff provided board members a list of their cuts in cited laws or School Board policies that justify the expense. Some issues on the list cite board policies and education-related state and federal laws and run the gamut from adequate training for teachers to compliance with staff-student ratios set by the state. The list was made available to the board earlier this week, said Assistant Superintendent Sandra Billeaudeau. The board asked Hammonds to review the list and guide the board on how to proceed before its meeting for final adoption. Cooper suggested that the board wait to advertise until Hammonds gives them his opinion. "I can't see advertising a budget that I see as out of kilter with the law," Cooper said. Even after the board's vote Thursday, Cooper continued to assert his stance that the board has not approved a budget that's ready for public review. Trahan said that based on staff comments about not wanting to comply with their vote to advertise, she'd like to see the board direct Beasley to submit the public notice if staff fails to do it. She asked Hammonds if such a directive was proper. "I don't think I've ever seen it in all my years," Hammonds said. "It's never been necessary." Trahan asked the board to take a vote and direct Beasley to file public notice if staff doesn't, though the suggestion only received four votes from Beasley, Trahan, Tehmi Chassion and Tommy Angelle. Board members Greg Awbrey, Mark Babineaux, Bouillion, Cockerham and Cobb voted against. It's possible that the board's budget issues may end up in federal court. The board met in executive session for about five minutes Thursday to discuss a preliminary injunction and federal lawsuit filed by Greg Davis that asks the court to intervene in the board's budget issue and its handling of any future termination proceedings against Cooper. Davis filed the lawsuit last week and on Monday filed a preliminary injunction asking for a speedier intervention related to the board's budget. The fiscal year ended June 30. Davis claims the board's delayed approval of a budget and the cuts they've decided to make to it will disproportionately impact the school system's disadvantaged and minority students. He's asked the court to step in and force the board to comply with a state law that requires political agencies who don't adopt a budget before the end of the fiscal year to roll forward into the new one with 50 percent of their prior year's budget to ensure continual operations. Davis has asked the court to disqualify two board members — Chassion and Babineaux — from voting in any future potential termination proceedings against Cooper because of their alleged bias against the superintendent. Davis' case has been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Richard Haik, who oversaw the district's implementation of a consent decree that enabled the district to achieve unitary status in 2006, ending a 41-year-old desegregation lawsuit. The board voted 8-1 Thursday to ask Haik not to recuse himself from the case. Prior to the vote, Beasley reminded members not to disclose what was discussed in executive session. No hearing dates have been set yet. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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Kaniks Tolver's "Life Rehab: Don't Overdose on Pain, People and Power" removes the excuses that keep individuals from taking control of their life, in order to create the change they desire to experience. This book clearly shows how to create an atmosphere that invites a life of success. Kanika's heart felt approach will guide you to a place of clarity and positive change.
-Matthew C. Horne, Author/Motivational Speaker http://www.matthewchorne.com
It was hard to stop reading Life Rehab once I started. I finished in two days. In a word, the book is personal. People typically should earn the privilege to get so intimate with another person. Kanika is bold and fearless. She bared it all and shared it with the world — and it's inspiring to boot. I've never seen honest introspection done so well. And, I have challenged myself to meet her level. I am certainly better for this gift she's shared with us. REQUIRED READING!!
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- By John Paul Jackson Prayer is spiritual warfare. It destroys evil, brings light into darkness and affects, impacts and changes things in the unseen realm. God's Kingdom comes and His will is done when we pray. Prayer does not alter what God has determined. He is sovereign. Instead, it enforces what He has already foreordained. It asks God to overthrow Satan's plan and implement His.
- By John Paul Jackson Did you have invisible friends when you were a child — playmates only you could see? Concerned parents occasionally approach me about this topic. What are "invisible friends"? Are they dangerous? Is this a sign of a prophetic gift? What should parents do when their children insist these people are real? Though I am not the final authority on the topic, I do have some ideas based on Scripture and personal experience.


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Oregon (1-0, 0-0 Pac-12) continues it four-game season-opening home stand by hosting in-state rival Portland State Monday night at 6:30 p.m. at Matthew Knight Arena. The game will be televised live on the Pac-12 Networks.
Portland State was 17-15 a year ago and 10-6 in the Big Sky Conference. The Vikings are 1-0 on the new season after defeating Pacific University (Forest Grove, Ore.) 77-58 Friday night.
Head coach Dana Altman's squad has five letterwinners and two starters returning from 2011-12. Last year's squad went 24-10 overall and tied for second in the Pac-12 Conference with a 13-5 record. The Ducks advanced to the quarterfinals of the National Invitation Tournament, marking the second straight season that UO advanced to tournament play.
Oregon's 24 wins last year were the most since the 2006-07 season.
Senior center Tony Woods picked up right where he left off at the end of the 20111-12 season. In the final game a year ago, Woods scored a career-best 15 points in an NIT quarterfinal game at Washington.
Saturday against Northern Arizona, He nearly matched that with 14 points, including an emphatic dunk that put Oregon ahead for good with five minutes left in the game.
In 25 minutes of action (four short of his career high), Woods also added seven rebounds and a pair of blocks to his stat line against the Lumberjacks. He netted six-of-10 field goal attempts and was two-of-three at the free throw line.
Woods' two blocks gave him 53 for his Oregon career, four shy of entering the Ducks' all-time top 10.
Oregon is now 70-38 in 108 season openers. Last year's 78-64 loss at Vanderbilt snapped a string of 19 straight season opening wins for the Ducks. Oregon has also won 15 straight home openers dating to a 1997-98 loss to Portland State (56-54).
With the 83-73 win over Northern Arizona on Saturday, Oregon is now 57-12 all-time versus teams from the Big Sky Conference, including a 9-2 mark against Portland State.
The Ducks and Vikings have met each of the last three seasons, with Oregon winning the last two, including a 79-70 decision last year. PSU's last victory over Oregon came in 2009-10 (88-81).
The Oregon Ducks men's basketball team tipped off the 2012-13 regular season Saturday against the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, winning 83-73 at Matthew Knight Arena in front of 5,768 fans. The win marked Oregon's 15th straight win in a home opener.
Oregon had four players score in double figures as senior Tony Woods led the way with 14, followed by 13 from freshman Damyean Dotson, 12 from senior E.J. Singler and 10 from freshman Dominic Artis. Woods' 14 was one shy of his career high points total. Singler led the Ducks with eight rebounds, while Woods gathered seven of his own.
NAU rallied in the second half to catch up to UO and took their first lead of the game, 67-66, with 5:44 remaining after back-to-back three-point shots by Dewayne Russell and Blake Hamilton. A powerful dunk by Woods sparked a 12-0 run by the Ducks to ensure that they would not lose the lead again.
UO outrebounded NAU 43-36 and ended up outshooting NAU 48.3% to 41.4%. Oregon's points in the paint were the key to the game as they bested the Lumberjacks 42-24 in that category..
The NAU game was the first game of the Global Sports Challenge. That tournament also includes a Nov. 19 date with Jacksonville State, a semifinal game Nov. 23 at Nevada-Las Vegas and then a final game against either Cincinnati or Iowa State Nov. 24.
In its two exhibition games, Oregon averaged 13.0 steals and 9.0 blocks. Freshman Willie Moore accounted for nine steals on his own in the two games, including six in the first exhibition versus Concordia. Another freshman, Dominic Artis, has five steals in exhibition play. In the paint, junior transfer Waverly Austin had eight blocked shots, while Tony Woods accumulated six. Oregon was also impressive on offense, averaging 20.0 assists in the two exhibition games. Junior Johnathan Loyd dolled out 11 assists in the exhibition season, while Artis and Moore each had 6.


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September 16, 2010
Normally, war and dental school do not combine, but this month, students at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry made an exception to the rule when they held their annual "Penny Wars" to raise money for a local charity. The school's American Student Dental Association (ASDA) chapter and student-led community outreach program Pacific Pays it Forward co-hosted the fundraiser along with a food drive.
During the week-long event, students collectively donated hundreds of dollars to City Youth Now, a local organization which helps neglected children obtain medical and dental care. The fundraiser also included food drive donation bins set up throughout the school to benefit the San Francisco Food Bank.
The "Penny Wars" fundraiser challenges students to contribute pennies to their respective DDS or IDS class's change collection, with each penny counting for one point. Students may also add nickels, dimes and quarters to competing class change collections, as these coins count for negative points. The class with the most net points at the end of the week is declared the winner — this year, the DDS Class of 2013 took the win. All the money raised is donated.
"We had a great time with the penny wars and food drive fundraiser this week," said Vinni Oberoi, Class of 2012 and Pacific ASDA community outreach coordinator. "A lot of students participated and we're excited to be able to give our donations to City Youth Now and the San Francisco Food Bank."
This is the second penny wars fundraiser ASDA and Pacific Pays it Forward have hosted to benefit local charities. In recent months, both groups have been busy planning various fundraisers, community outreach events and an on-campus vendor fair, to be held in mid-October.
Pacific Pays it Forward was launched in 2009 by student leaders at the Dugoni School of Dentistry. Throughout the school year, the group offers opportunities for students, staff and faculty at to reach out to the San Francisco Bay Area through philanthropic activities extending beyond the dental community.
ASDA is a national student-run organization whose mission is to protect and advance the rights, interests and welfare of students pursuing careers in dentistry. More than 87% of all dental students nationwide join the association. At the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, 100% of DDS and IDS students are members of ASDA. For more information, visit http://www.asdanet.org.
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The Red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) is native to the warm watery areas of southern United States and northern Mexico. Their shells are dark green with dark markings and the head, tail, and legs are also green with fine, yellow striping patterns, camouflaging them from predators. Their red marks are on either side of their head behind their eyes. They eat bugs, tadpoles, and vegetation, although older turtles prefer plants. They like swimming in ponds and due to their cold bloodedness, will also sit on logs or rocks and stretch out towards the sun. In the wintertime, depending on how cold it gets, most red-eared sliders will swim to the bottom of a pond and sleep or brumate and wake up when it's warmer, generally in March or April.
In Florida and in some other countries, the Red-eared slider is listed as invasive. Other turtles and wildlife have a difficult time competing with them. It's important to follow laws/regulations that are set up to protect native species. At Dottie's Pond, however, the Red-eared slider seems to be right at home and gets along with other pond dwellers.
Dottie's Pond is located in South San Jose, at Jose Joaquin Bernal's ranch (built in 1826, now maintained by the County). It's a man-made pond and is fed by a natural spring. On a recent trip, minnows and large fish were spotted along with several Red-eared sliders sitting atop a partially submerged log in a sunny spot. Large oaks and native scrub surround the pond and creates many places to perch or hide, as well as a shady resting area for hikers.
See http://www.stpfriends.org/Santateresapark/stcptrl2.htm for more information about Dottie's Pond. If visiting, the best time would be 1pm, summertime, when the sun is directly overhead and providing a clear view into the pond; a hiker claims that a gigantic white fish lives at the bottom. Or just go anytime and enjoy a nice hike, interesting history, some stories, and a family of Red-eared sliders.


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Recently, Rebecca Minkoff showcased her Fall 2014 collection at the Theatre at Lincoln Center. The collection puts a feminine, modern, and simple twist on classic menswear. It's functional, refined, and soft yet it embodies confident appeal. Predominant colors in the collection include pink, grey, navy, and brown, and textures include leather, wool, silk, and cotton. Celebrities in the front row admiring the looks included Victoria Justice, Carrie Underwood, Zosia Mamet, Anna Kendrick, Bella Thorne, Zendaya, AnnaSophia Robb, and Coco Rocha.
Key looks from the collection included a grey wool coat paired with a purple silk top and oatmeal corduroy pants, a beige faux fur coat layered over a teal top and pants, a black, grey, and pink wool jacket paired with a beige silk top and a dark purple pencil skirt, and a green wool coat paired with a cream crepe top and a midnight blue jacquard skirt. What a great collection of bold contemporary looks!


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On Processed Food, Nutrition, and Advertising
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- The 'Step by Steps' of the LED Green Light Grant Program
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- Beyond Bottles: A Better Way to Hydrate
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PSFK's Piers Fawkes posted a great little article on Tuesday about food education and manipulative marketing.
His focus is on two ads, one for Ragu spaghetti sauce, the other for Hellmann's mayonaisse. Both brands belong to Unilever.
And Fawkes is disappointed, both in Unilever and in the ad agencies that work with them:
It's not that we have a major problem with Unilever making products they want to – it's just the way the soap-maker promotes them as healthy foods. It leaves us wondering which ad agencies are making these ads for them? Surely they should understand the conversation that is taking place around these food and health, and be advising the clients against putting out such work. But then again, Unilever seems to have large enough budgets to overcome ethics in the creative community.
In case you missed it above, here's a link to the PSFK post.


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Texas Homeowner Grabs Robber?s Gun, Kills Him / - Waco, Temple, Killeen Weather and News Authority
I love a story with a happy ending, except that the homeowner and the victim are the same person, the deceased was the perp.Quote:
(November 3, 2008)—A homeowner in North Dallas who answered his door Sunday night to find a man pointing a gun at him killed the would-be-robber.
Police say the resident grabbed the man's handgun and used it to shoot the would-be robber.
A second would-be-robber escaped on foot.
The homeowner wasn't injured, but the man he shot later died at an area hospital.
Names of the homeowner and the victim were not released.
Police Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse told The Dallas Morning News that the resident "was protecting himself."


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New road race to end the season... Dear Trail take II
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While the venue may not be many riders first or 10th choice it is nice that the road season is getting one more race in before the door closes. Cycling Events will be hosting a Road Race on the Dear Trail course September 6. Doesn't anyone ever wonder why the road season ends so early?
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Wow! Looks like it's not the usual DT course but all the good parts plus!
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Would be great to see more
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Would be great to see more road events in September when the weather is usually great. Hopefully a few more clubs will dare to do some more road events next year in September. I'm game. Not as pretty as Gore Pass but a better then doing cross, ie BMX on skinny tires.
I'll see you out there!!!!!!!
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September is great racing weather!
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You are right, September has a great chance of being nicer than say April in Colorado!
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Bayhealth has welcomed Rachael Ali-Permell, RRT, AEC, NPS, ACCS, of New Castle, as the new respiratory therapy manager.
Ali-Permell brings 20 years of experience in respiratory therapy and 14 years of managerial experience to Bayhealth. She spent the majority of her career with the multi-hospital North Shore-LIJ health system in New York. She most recently served as director of respiratory therapy at Long Island Jewish Medical Center where she managed a staff of 80 respiratory therapists, and was previously supervisor and then assistant director of respiratory therapy at North Shore University Hospital.
Ali-Permell received her bachelor's degree in respiratory therapy at SUNY Upstate, and worked for 10 years in the college's affiliated hospital after receiving her degree. She is a member of the American Association of Respiratory Care and the National Board of Respiratory Care. She is also a certified asthma educator, a neonatal pediatric specialist, an adult critical care specialist and a registered respiratory therapist.
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Making a movie out of a popular franchise seems to be all the rage in Hollywood these days. Unforunately, aside from the big screen adaptation of The Fugitive, alot of the elements that any successful television show work are often removed. When Michael Mann decided to take Miami Vice (he produced the NBC original in the 1980s) and make a feature film out of it, he seemed he could care less about what cemented the success of the very thing he worked on.
Miami Vice was a cop show with a comic book sensiblity; instead of the cops wearing tights and having superpowers to fight crime, they fought crime wearing fly clothes while driving a fly car and sleeping with fine ladies. The Michael Mann adaptation washed out those bright colors for some kind of half-assed attempt at "reality". The whole film, in tone and in story, was so dark that I might as well have inserted a damn flashlight on my TV set to see who is shooting who.
This is where I come into discussing the issue I have with the recently announced Doctor Who film.
For those of who that don't know, Doctor Who is a popular science fiction show that airs in the UK centered around an eccentric time-traveler whose ship masks as a police box. Since 1963, the series has gone thru at least ten actors who have played the main character. The longest of these actors in the series original run (which ended in 1989) was Tom Baker, who played the character from 1974 to 1981.
I grew up mostly watching Tom Baker's episodes back in my youth when they originally aired on WTTW (a PBS station here in Chicago). He played the character, unlike previous actors before him, as a loveable, yet slightly moody goofball. When Baker left, that weird magic he brought to the role left with him. Although I did like Peter Davison's time, I felt that the lazy storytelling shined through more than any acting he did. Baker at least knew how to make even a turkey interesting (a good example is the rather boring story arc "Underworld").
With the hiring of David Yates, who directed some of the Harry Potter films, I suspect the BBC is hoping to bring some of the sucess of the former franchise to the Doctor Who films. That being said, Harry Potter is a much different creature than Doctor Who considering it's got a longer history. I'm one of the many in the camp that no one will ever be as good as Tom Baker in the role, which makes going to watch an hour long film of the show even more difficult.
Good acting aside, I also present another problem I'd have with a Doctor Who movie: what kind of a script would work for a feature film format?
The current Steven Moffat version of the TV series is loaded with a certain heavy-handedness that works only in the context of a show like Lost. Mystery has always been apart of Doctor Who, but the show was always very good about allowing your brain to fill in the blanks even thou the actors were given words to recap what happened before. Moffat doesn't seem to care for that much and only does so when he wants to present another mystery.
Russell T. Davies, who brought the show back and produced the first half of the new series, was also into keeping viewers guesing as to what was next. The biggest difference of between the two is that he knew how to let some of the stories take a breath from whatever massive thread was inserted into the show's plots for that particular season. If the film franchise, which claims not to want to appear similar to the television show, goes that route, that will be a huge gamble for the BBC.
If the Doctor Who film fails to grab the kind of money expected by the BBC, it would be sort of a sitting duck in their film library much like Superman Returns is within the Superman film franchise; you can't really move forward with what you have if you don't like it. The television version of the show knew at least to get rid of what they percieve as the bad egg holding the show back and keep it moving.
A film franchise can be broken easily if the first outing doesn't generate any interest, especially when the actor signed is supposed to do it for a number of them. The flexibility and time of a television format is more suitable for Doctor Who. Considering I am not at the wheel making these kinds of decisions, I can only hope this doesn't become another turkey like the 1996 TV movie was.


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Opening Date:
November 22, 2013
Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Simone Lahbib
Stephen Frears
Run Time:
1 hr. 34 min.
MPAA Rating:
PG13 for some strong language, thematic elements and sexual reference
Based on the 2009 investigative book by BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, PHILOMENA focuses on the efforts of Philomena Lee, mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock - something her Irish-Catholic community didn't have the highest opinion of - and given away for adoption in the United States. In following church doctrine, she was forced to sign a contract that wouldn't allow for any sort of inquiry into the son's whereabouts. After starting a family years later in England and, for the most part, moving on with her life, Lee meets Sixsmith, a BBC reporter with whom she decides to discover her long-lost son.
Philomena (PG13)
Showtimes available three days prior to opening.


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Water treatment and pathogen control: Process efficiency in achieving safe drinking water
By Mark W LeChevallier and Kwok-Keung Au
Increasingly, microbial issues are commanding the attention of water treatment operators, regulators, and the media. There are many treatment options to eliminate pathogenic microbes from drinking water. Finding the right solution for a particular supply requires sifting through a range of sometimes competing processes.
Processes for removal of microbes from water include pretreatment, coagulation/ flocculation/sedimentation, and filtration. Pretreatment processes include application of roughing filters, microstrainers, off-stream storage, or bank infiltration, each with a particular function and water quality benefit. Filtration can be accomplished using granular media filters, slow sand, precoat filters, membranes, or other filters. Oxidants may be added to water for a variety of purposes, including control of taste and odor compounds, removal of iron and manganese, Zebra Mussel control, and particle removal, among others.
For control of microbes within the distribution system, disinfectants must interact with bacteria growing in pipeline biofilms. Models for removal of particles and microbes by granular media filtration, and equations for predicting microbial inactivation by disinfectants, can aid in the understanding and prediction of the effectiveness of treatment processes for microbial pathogens.
Water Treatment and Pathogen Control is intended to provide a critical analysis of the literature on removal and inactivation of pathogenic microbes in water to aid the water quality specialist and design engineer in making important decisions regarding microbial water quality.
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Rolling revision of the Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality
Water treatment and pathogen control is included in the plan of work of the rolling revision of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality.
The Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality Final Task Force meeting (Geneva, 2003) noted that finalization and progressive updating of the supporting document Water Treatment and Pathogen Control: Process Efficiency in Achieving Safe Drinking-water would provide substantiation and support to other supporting documents dealing with the issue of system safety evaluation.
The document, which has been in preparation for several years, includes a selective and succinct review of the literature, focusing on high-quality papers. The key papers included are those that address failure mode and suboptimal performance. The document will require an update, because this is a dynamic and active area of continued new information. New data should go into a future revision/edition of the document.
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Second edition of supporting document, publication date around 2008.
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The Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality Working Group meeting (Geneva, 2005) agreed on a plan of work for the preparation of a second edition.


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Sand has become such a powerful visual, emotive and experiential component of tourism. This essay ventures an ontological explanation for the Western world's acquired and now gripping fascination with this particularly mundane material, and its robust current connection with the tourism industry. ...
v. 1. Introductory papers -- v. 2. Tools and methods -- v. 3. Tools and methods.
Islands are the challenging targets of a global pursuit in the closing of gaps, their distinct geography so far having seemingly eluded and mocked both human ingenuity and terra firma. This article seeks to deconstruct the concept of the bridge as more than just a value-free symbol of inexorable tec...
Population, employment and economic capacity continue to concentrate in and around large urban centres. If geography (measured as proximity to large centres of population) increasingly matters in the knowledge economy, then there may be no future for periphery locations. This paper critically review...
This article discusses the relationship of Malta with the European Union in the light of Malta's status as an example of a 'nationless state'. The article first develops the relevance of this under-researched concept by locating it within the discussion of postcolonial, small island nationalism. It ...
How well do the brands and branding exercises of specific 'island products' connect with the brand of 'the Island' on which they are based? This paper adopts a sweeping 'island studies' global perspective in addressing this question. Given that they are already heavily themed places, we should n...
Status sumberdaya dan sistem pengelolaan tradisional perikanan pesisir di Maluku Tengah. (Status of resources and traditional fisheries management in central Maluku)
Growing and cast leaves of Zostera marina were sampled from May through December and in February in two embayments of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to determine the species composition and temporal pattern of macroalgal epiphytes. Thirty-eight species were identified. Some occurred sporadically ...
Annotated marine flora of the Cape Rodney - Ikakari Point Marine Reserve. University of Auckland Marine Stn., Leigh, New Zealand
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Dorchester has FA Cup hopes... and a Beckham lookalike
In football, non-league Dorchester Town could make it through to the lucrative third round of the FA Cup tomorrow.
They beat Plymouth Argyle earlier this month in a shock result of the first round and now face Luton Town for a place in Sunday's draw. Here's Matthias Kurth


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Barry Thomas Wheaton
ALEXANDER - Barry Thomas Wheaton, 72, passed away peacefully March 21, 2013, surrounded by his loving family. He was born Oct. 16, 1940, in Lincoln, to Archie and MaryLynn Wheaton, their first born child.
He attended schools in Norridgewock and Skowhegan, graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington with a degree in education, and earned his master's degree in school administration from the University of Maine, Orono. In 1967 Barry met his true love, Barbara Scott, whom he married Feb 16, 1968. The couple moved in 1978 to Alexander, where they have resided ever since. He was a
and principal for 40 years. He also owned/operated his own sporting camps, was a master Maine guide and a talented musician. He was passionate about trapping, hunting, fishing, guns, knife making and the great outdoors. He enjoyed teaching hunting/trapping courses, writing articles, creating trapping videos and spending time with his family. He was a member of Maine Trappers Association, National Trappers Association, National Rifle Association and Safari Club International. Barry was a wise, compassionate, talented man. He was an amazing teacher and mentor and has touched the lives of so many. He will be missed dearly and lovingly remembered by all who have had the privilege of knowing him.
Barry was predeceased by his father, Archie Joseph; and sister, Bonnie Hoyt. Surviving to honor his memory are his mother, MaryLynn Wheaton of Norridgewock; devoted wife, Barbara; four daughters and one son, Robin Gagner of Hampden, Jill Moffitt and husband, Jason, of Holden, Elizabeth Padham and husband, Don, of Embden, Andrea Gagnon of Sidney and Barry Wheaton II and wife, Laurie, of Grantville, Ga.; 13 adored grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; three brothers and best friends, Gary and wife, Sally, of Norridgewock, Jonathan and wife, Phyllis, of Alexander and Archie James and wife, Debrah, of Norridgewock; several very special nieces and nephews.
Please join us in celebrating Barry's life 1 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at Peoples United Methodist Church, 20 Third Ave., Baileyville. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to Maine Trappers Association, attention: Linda Bridges, 93 Arundel Road, Kennebunkport, ME 04046.
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On Wednesday, May 7, Chrysalis played the second slot of the night at the Rock Shop in San Jose. Chrysalis is a heavy metal band from Barstow, California. On this night, Chrysalis is Billy Norris (drums), Gabe Gallejo (guitar/ backing vocals), Yessi Burton (guitar/ vocals) and Jared Sturgis (bass).
Chrysalis opens the show with their drum pummeling and stimulating "Sounds of the Playground". The stage of the Rock Shop is illuminated with strobe lights in addition to green and red lights that light up the members of Chrysalis as they play on stage. After a quick introduction, Chrysalis rips into the pounding and punishing "Thoughts Behind". The tune gets the crowd moving. After an applause from the crowd, frontman Yessi Burton tells the crowd that the next song is a special song for the group and that they had just shot a video for it. The song is the moving and melodic "Instant Silence". Next up they play the steady, gripping instrumental based "Tumbula" that leads straight into the dynamic rock song "Saturn Waits". The crowd gets involved and starts clapping in rhythm to the beat of "Saturn Waits". Chrysalis end the show with the fast and fierce tune "My Forsaken".
The meshing of lights with the tempo and rhythm of the music as well as frontman Yessi Burton's banter with the crowd in a robotic voice makes Chrysalis's live show an entertaining and substantial experience. Chrysalis's music ranges from heavy metal to hard and alternative rock as well as hardcore and even elements of synth. With an album under their belt and a new one that came out this year, Chrysalis have a bright future ahead. They are currently on tour in support of their newest album "Focus On The Center". To hear "Focus On The Center" and to check out their tour dates visit http://chrysalismusic.net/.


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Traveling back in time, to the days of knights, lords and ladies, and over-sized smoked turkey legs is as simple as a drive to Lakes Park. If you are looking for something different and entertaining to do with the whole family this weekend, the 14th annual Riverdale Kiwanis Medieval Faire is the place to go.
Upon entering the grounds, you are transported to the land of Empress Theodora and her brave knights; a land where wenches and fairies roam the kingdom. Shopkeepers, cooks, entertainers, and spectators are all costumed in period fashion and speak in the Old English dialect.
No matter what your goal is for weekend, family time at the faire can meet everyone's needs. For the shopper, merchants offer everything from drinking horns, fairy art, medieval costumes, and jewelry to swords and even baby dragons (don't worry mom, they are really just lizards in disguise!). For the fashion-savvy family member, there are face painting, henna tattoos, and hair braiding tents to visit. And for the wee ones, there is also a children's section with games and a few carnival rides; however the new playground just outside the faire is really the place to let the little ones run free though.
No need to leave the faire for lunch because, even though a little pricey, the faire has some amazing grub! Meals range from $5-$15 but are well worth the price. Fish and chips, smoked turkey legs, stew, and corn dogs are portioned so large, that the kids can easily share! If you are feeling like splurging a little make sure to share a dessert of either a funnel cake or double fudge M&M brownie… can you say, "Yummy,"? There is even beer and mead (white honey wine) in the tavern tent for mom and dad to enjoy.
The faire also has scheduled entertainment running throughout the course of the day. The jousting and life sized chest matches are an amazing sight, though the jousting loses its authenticity when it falls into a WWF sort of routine at the end, but it manages to stay entertaining. There are also acrobats, jugglers, singers, and comedians, scheduled through out the grounds to entertain your family and make sure everyone has an excellent time.
This event is a little pricier than what is normally recommended, but it is one of those once a year traditions, a MUST, to visit each and every year. The faire is located at Lakes Regional Park in Fort Myers and will be held the weekend of January 23rd -24th from 9:30-6. The admission is $13 for adults and $6 for children aged 6-12. On-site parking is free.


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Continuing on from the recent examination of potentially lethal parasites in water, both outdoors and in plumbing, the issue of what else is in our water needs to be checked into. For customers of the LA Department of Water and Power, an insert in the latest billing (for those receiving paper bills) informs them of the increased addition of a chemical in the system. Chloramine—a substance derived from the combination of chlorine and ammonia—has been, and continues to be, put in the water used and ingested by Los Angeles residents. This additive, in substitution for chlorine, is gradually being introduced to local water users across the region served by the LADWP. The purpose is to disinfect the water before use. Supposedly, by replacing chlorine with chloramine, residents will be happier and healthier, by not having that chlorine smell so many object to when turning on a tap. See www.ladwp.com/waterquality for an article titled "Chloramine Disinfection City-Wide Expansion."
Not so fast, LADWP—first of all, the nauseating stench that comes from the faucet, or that is present in swimming pools, is not even from chlorine. It comes from chloramine! The vapors of this chemical are stronger in odor, are less easily dissipated or removed, and is extremely difficult to extract from water. Not by boiling, filtering or even distilling can you be rid of chloramine. The fumes may therefore accumulate far more easily than those of chlorine.
Another fact is that, while chlorine has been found to be carcinogenic, few studies have been done on chloramine. What is known is that in some experiments performed on small rodents such as mice, rats and hamsters, there has been evidence of reproductive cancer in females. Considering that in many instances where this kind of result has come from testing on lab animals, the substance under test has been banned, why should we accept chloramine being thrust upon the public?
Chloramine also has this nasty characteristic of breaking down after a short time, such as a day or two, into other compounds, namely (after beginning as monochloramine) dichloramine and trichloramine. The compounds' toxicity increases with the breakdowns, with dichloramine being worse, then (when it eventually reaches this stage) trichloramines being the most toxic. These substances are all known to be very irritating to the eyes, lungs, and mucous membranes, including those of the gastrointestinal system.
After chloramine has deteriorated into the above three chemicals, it can form dangerous disinfectant byproducts known as trihalomethanes (THMs). This occurs when chloramine combines with organic matter in the water. When used as a disinfectant, it can be fully expected to come into contact with such substances, as its purpose is to render them harmless. Instead, THMs are the result, and they are suspected (but again, little testing has been done so far) of being a carcinogen.
Chloramine is known to be a hazardous substance, often triggering asthma and other respiratory ailments (see http://nj.gov/health/eoh/rtkweb/documents/fs/0359.pdf). Prolonged exposure and even accumulation of congestion from its fumes may produce pulmonary edema. When contacted externally, chloramine is liable to cause severe skin rash, even sometimes burning of tissue. The eyes, as well, may be damaged by the fumes of this chemical. Those suffering from liver or kidney disease are particularly at risk from exposure to chloramine. It cannot be used for a kidney dialysis machine; hemolytic anemia would result. For a thorough explanation of this predicament, this article explains the process: ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/11/2579.long. An expensive and lengthy process for filtration of such water must take place before use in these machines.
Other problems that can be caused by this water additive are increased chances of mold growth, thus initiating another severe health danger. Additionally, chloramine can leach lead out of plumbing pipes, which will, in turn, cause poisoning of those using it.
All in all, communities such as Los Angeles are making a terrible mistake in switching to chloramine use. Despite all the feel-good reassurances included in the bills, and their website's further proclamations of how wonderful this will make the local water, the truth is the opposite. Sure, chlorine is no prize-winner but chloramine is not only less effective in killing pathogens such as E. coli (see the World Health Organization's findings: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/S04.pdf), it is downright hazardous to all who use it. It's bad enough we have a lack of water here, why make what we do have even worse?
For further information on chloramine and its properties and effects on human health, go to this site: http://www.chloramine.org/chloraminefacts.htm