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Danny Burstein, the Tony Award-nominated husband of Helena's Rebecca Luker, will star on Broadway in a new musical and on HBO in a new series from director Martin Scorsese.
Burstein, whose two Tony nods came for "The Drowsy Chaperone" and "South Pacific," will star in "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," a new musical based on the 1988 Pedro Almodovar film. The show, opening Oct. 2 at Broadway's Belasco Theatre, also stars Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sherie Rene Scott.
In addition, Burstein has a recurring role in the Scorsese-directed "Boardwalk Empire," a new series set in Atlantic City during prohibition. The HBO show premieres at the end of September.

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Brooks Joins Amnesty International USA Board of Directors
|Brooks said the treatment of civilians during armed conflict is an issue of increasing concern to Amnesty International.
The organization recently decided to expand its mission, Brooks said, and her new Board oversight responsibilities include helping to keep AI effectively focused. AI formerly worked mainly on prisoners of conscience, judicial fairness, torture, political killings and the death penalty. Now its mission has expanded to include grave abuses of all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes social and economic rights as well as civil and political rights. "The newly expanded new Amnesty mission creates many exciting new opportunities for coalition-building and expansion of the membership, but it also creates a risk that AI's work may become ill-defined or that the organization could become overextended," Brooks said.
Brooks says that one of the most critical human rights issues in the world today concerns the treatment of civilians during armed conflicts, and this is an area in which Amnesty International is increasingly active. In the United States, she said the government's reaction to 9/11 is also raising new and troubling civil liberties issues alongside traditional Amnesty concerns over the treatment of refugees and immigrants, prisoners, the right to fair trials, and the death penalty.
Amnesty's strategy for bringing attention
to human rights causes includes forming political constituencies
willing to pressure elected officials, so increasing worldwide
membership is another organizational goal. Amnesty International
was formed in London in 1961, and its international headquarters
is still in London, but roughly one-third of Amnesty members worldwide
are Americans. "It's exciting to work with one of the world's
foremost human rights advocacy groups and be involved with human
rights issues in a practical way as well as in a scholarly way,"
Brooks said.
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May/June 2016
ON THE COVER: The Milky Way shines over Black Mesa, where night skies unpolluted by city lights provide optimal stargazing conditions. Photograph by Kim Baker.
The Night Shift
Though they are big, the state's skies are anything but empty. In rural areas like Black Mesa, the Gloss and Wichita Mountains, and Beavers Bend State Park, Oklahoma nights offer owe-inspiring views of the galactic neighborhood.
Photography by Kim Baker
Map Quests
Are you an iPod addict? Take a journey through the state's music scene. Are you fascinated by geology? Northwest Oklahoma beckons. School is out for summer, and the highways are calling. In these ten maps, we illustrate a road trip for any interest and a way to fill the days until the bell rings again in August.
Illustrations by JJ Ritchey
United Nations
When Guymon experienced an influx of African immigrants displaced by decades of war, famine, and political strife, the town opened its arms to new residents with an exuberant festival celebrating their diverse cultures.
By Holly Wall
Photographs by Arlene Winfrey
Going Wild: The Oklahoma Today Guide to Camping
The idea of camping pulls many travelers in two directions: The desire to commune with nature is strong, but embarking on an outdoor getaway can be daunting In this extensive package, adventure writers Susan and Bill Dragoo demystify the process, showing would-be campers the where, the how, and the why of roughing it in Oklahoma.
By Susan and Bill Dragoo
60 Years of Photography: Part Three
For Oklahomans, watching the sky is more than a pastime—it's a fascination bordering on the religious. These ten images represent some of the best weather photographs ever to appear in the magazine's sixty-year history.
Celebrate nine decades of Route 66 with a trip down the Mother Road; near the Tenkiller Lake dam, Blue Doors at Tenkiller welcomes travelers who want to relax without an agenda; find jewelry, books, fashion, and food in downtown Weatherford; and in Muskogee, G Fest's inaugural outing brings can't-miss musical performances.
Ducky Reding turns his Geary plumbing shop into a destination for homemade creations; Casey Moeller, an Okie living in Texas, shares what she misses most about her home state; Oklahoma City seamstress Carolyn Humphrey makes customers' sartorial dreams a reality; and World Literature Today editor Daniel Simon shares book recommendations—and a new poem.
The Menu
Writer Silas Allen travels the state in search of the ultimate plate of chicken and waffles—visiting Mama E's in Oklahoma City, Caz's Chowhouse in Tulsa's Brady Arts District, and Brooklyn's Restaurant in Stillwater for an inventive take on this classic. And just in time for Cinco de Mayo, learn to make your own queso—with help from McNellie's in Tulsa.


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I turned 70 this year. For me, this milestone brought a realization that I could no longer delude myself that the future was endless. I can recall thinking as a youth that anyone over the age of 65 should strongly consider making an immediate reservation at their local funeral home. Once, as a child, I asked a neighbor how old he was. He remarked "21 years old". Upon hearing his answer, I remember thinking to myself that he already had one foot in the grave. All such musings are relative. I have an aunt who will turn 97 years old this year. She says that for her, time is passing by so fast that she seems to be having breakfast again every two hours or so.
My father died unexpectedly at the age of 62. He was a good man. He was a great father. He was born into poverty and struggled to get ahead. He was a child of the Depression. Those circumstances influenced his perspective for the duration of his life. I used to think that he knew the answer to every question. When I surpassed him in age, I realized that he didn't know as much as I thought that he did. He always gave the impression that he knew the solution to any problem. He never let on that he, like everyone else, was just trying to do his best with regard to the never-ending challenges that continue to occur during the course of one's life. When my father died, the church was filled to overflowing. I was shocked to see the many people that he touched during his life. His age at the time of death had something to do with the crowd. He was still active in the community. His unexpected passing shook up the status quo in the small town in which we resided. It was one of those places where everyone knew everyone else. If one dies in old age, the response is usually not the same. Many friends and relatives have preceded them. Their retirement takes them out of the mainstream. Many who would like to attend their funeral cannot due to age or circumstance. My father's age was not the only factor that filled the pews. It was his lifelong service to others that was the primary reason for the surprising funeral attendance. He was likeable and caring to all who knew him. I can assure you that the balance in his bank account had absolutely nothing to do with anyone's outpouring of sympathies.
In hindsight, I can say that a person's obituary can be written fairly completely by the time they reach 50 years of age. That does not mean that they cannot do anything meaningful after that age. It just suggests that their major accomplishments have already been achieved. As a rule, one's physical prowess starts to decline at that point in time. It is not rapid but it is cumulative. By the age of 65, most people have some health issue with which to contend. By the age of 80, the time devoted to health maintenance is virtually full time. This does not suggest that one should give up and resign themselves to their fate. On the contrary, there is much to be experienced and enjoyed during these later years.
As you age, I believe that one should devote more time to doing the things that they enjoy while they still can. It does no good to dwell on one's changes in life. One is much better served by staying active, engaged, and inquisitive. As the author, Eckhard Tolle, says in his book "The Power of Now", you will do well to stay in the "now". I cannot argue with this proposition. Life is a finite process, which should be enjoyed and celebrated. Quests for money, power, and prestige are ultimately hollow endeavors. Friends, family, and service are the true rewards in life. Leave the past behind to fend for itself. You cannot change it. You can only change things in the now. Prepare for the future but do not sacrifice the present as a consequence. Balance is the key. Strive also for equanimity. Peace and understanding will soon follow.
Life is a journey oftentimes without a script. Seek always to do good and to promote it wherever you find it. Try not to be too serious. Criticism and cynicism yield unpalatable fruit. Be uplifting, supportive, and well meaning. Your legacy and self-satisfaction will thereby be enhanced. Do not forget that life is about growth and learning. When you stop either you are already dead.


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Here's some food for thought: Many of your favorite fruits, vegetables and herbs do double duty as nutritious and delicious sustenance and antidotes for common ailments.
Nature's Pharmacy
That onion in your soup? It may help a child's cough. The ginger in your favorite tea? It can ease cold symptoms and nausea. And the parsley garnish on sandwiches you typically discard? Pop it in your mouth in place of a multivitamin.
Andrea Candee, a master herbalist and instructor for the New York Botanical Garden, and Gert Coleman, a Pleasant Plains resident and member of the International Herb Association, weigh in on a few foods that are good for you in more ways than one.


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The depends on where you garden and which perennial wildflowers you are interested in. The best way we know of to go about solving that problem is to go to our Native Plant Database and, using the Combination Search about the middle of that page, search on North Carolina for state, herbs (herbaceous blooming plants) for Habit, and perennial for Duration. You can follow each link to our webpage on that plant to find out its growing conditions, propagation suggestions, height, light requirements and see picures from our Image Gallery.When we searched that way, there were 991 plants that fit the specifications! So, we scanned through them looking for attractive wildflowers. You will note there were so many that we only got to "F", as they are listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Here is our list from that search:
Achillea millefolium (Common yarrow)
Antennaria plantaginifolia (Plantain-leaf pussytoes)
Aquilegia canadensis (Eastern red columbine)
Asclepias incarnata (Swamp milkweed)
Caltha palustris (Yellow marsh marigold)
Claytonia caroliniana (Carolina springbeauty)
Coreopsis auriculata (Lobed tickseed)
Commelina erecta (Whitemouth dayflower)
Dicentra cucullaria (Dutchman's breeches)
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata (Flat-top aster)
Erythronium americanum (Yellow trout-lily)
Fragaria virginiana (Virginia strawberry)
From HGTV, Best Time to Plant Perennials:
"Early fall is a good time to plant larger sizes of perennials (if they are available) because the weather is cool and reduces stress on the top parts of the plants. The soil also stays warm and allows the roots to grow, helping the plants to get established in the landscape. In the spring when the plants come out of dormancy, they should perform better than if they were planted in the spring and asked immediately to bloom (in addition to rooting and becoming established). Note that smaller-sized plants from small pots may not root deeply enough to avoid heaving during the freeze-thaw cycles. However, planting larger plants in fall generally works well."
So, you see, we were kind of playing around with you, because we already knew that. But, in the course of answering your question, we introduced you to our Native Plant Database and taught you how to use it to find information about any native plant you are interested in. One further tip, if you want to be sure the plant you are interested in is native to your specific area, where you can be a little more confident of the soils, climate and rainfall the plant will flourish in, go to the bottom of the plant webpage and click on the link to the USDA Plant Profile on that plant. First you will get a map of North America with all the states where that plant grows natively in green, click on your state (North Carolina) and you will get a map with the counties of that state in green where the plant is reported to grow.


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Workers at seven Slidell stores were cited for selling alcohol to underage youths working for the Slidell Police Department, authorities said.
Throughout the day Friday, Slidell Police ran an undercover operation in which two underage informants were sent into stores to see if clerks would sell to them without asking for identification, Slidell Police Assistant Chief Kevin Foltz said.
The operation was funded by state grant money, Foltz said. Police routinely run such operations to crack down on sales of alcohol to those under 21.
During last week's operation, police sent their undercover buyers into stores across the city, and only a relatively small number of shops sold them alcohol, Foltz said.
Police issued summonses for unlawful sale of alcohol to someone under 21 years old to the following people during the operation:
* Connie A. Lackey, 45, at Top Fuel, 3898 Pontchartrain Drive.
* Young S. Yoon, 56, at Acadia on Pontchartrain Drive.
* Jessica L. Hebert, 30, at Conoco gas station, 626 Old Spanish Trail.
* Ashley A. Stanley, 25, at Kangaroo Express, 350 Voters Road.
* Lachaunte Lathan, 29, at Shell gas station, 183 Northshore Blvd.
* Sharon J. Smith, 52 at Circle K gas station, 1150 Front St.
* Chace S. Landry, whose age was not listed, at Lishman's, 4020 Pontchartrain Drive.
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WESTFIELD - A Feeding Hills man is charged with OUI after a crash Sunday in Agawam.
Demetrios Gravanis, 46, is charged in Westfield District Court with OUI and negligent operation of a motor vehicle. Judge Philip Contant set $1,000 bail at Gravanis's arraignment Monday.
According to the police report, officers responded Sunday to a crash near 326 N. Westfield St. Two women approached the officers as they arrived on scene, one of them bleeding from the head and face, the report said.
The women said the other driver had crossed the line into their lane and struck their vehicle, and he had tried to leave the scene, the report said. Officers then checked on the other driver, Gravanis, who said he was all right but dazed by his car's airbag.
Gravanis's vehicle had driven almost 350 feet after the accident, finally striking a mailbox and getting stuck on the post, the report said. Gravanis said the women's car had crossed into his lane, and he was showing signs of intoxication, the report said.
Paramedics gave first aid to everyone at the scene, the report said. Officers determined Gravanis's vehicle crossed the double line and side-swiped the women's vehicle, the report said.
Officers administered field sobriety tests, which Gravanis failed, the report said.


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|Oakton Community College
Your Oakton student login ID and password allow you access to register for classes; for current credit students, and non-credit (Alliance) students taking computer classes on campus, your Oakton student login ID also grants access to on campus networks and computer labs.
Your Oakton student login ID is your first initial followed by the first seven letters of your last name followed by the last four digits of your Banner ID. For credit students, the Banner ID number is located on your schedule/bill and is also available on your instructor's class list.
For example, if your name was Joan Smith and your Banner ID was B01234567, then your Oakton Computer Login ID would be: jsmith4567
More about student login IDs.
This search form will find both your Banner ID and your Oakton login ID; for credit students, it will also tell you your applications status, and whether you need to apply or reapply.
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To make sure it's not just my TV, I've checked it out on each of the HDTVs I own, from DLP LED to plasma, and on each one, the CBS 1080i broadcasts are just so much sharper, detailed, even brighter. I asked my old man and brother the same thing, and they all agree. It's not even close, IMHO. In fact, FOX's 720p broadcasts look borderline awful for an HD picture. The detail, sharpness, and crispness are just bad. I often think I'm watching an upconverted SD picture, if that.
Does FOX do something to their 720p broadcasts? I ask because I've seen ESPN's or some other sports broadcasts in 720p, and I could swear they're far better than FOX's.
I'm thankful my Steelers are in the AFC, so this means most of the time when they're broadcast on Sundays, it's on CBS. Sucks that tomorrow they'll be on FOX. BTW, I can stomach the pregame show in 720p, because SD, HD, 720p, or 1080i, FOX's NFL guys are the best!
BTW, I'm not including NBC (Sunday Night Football) or ESPN (Monday Night Football) here because those are single events, even though I believe NBC's broadcast is nice!
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Famed money manager Peter Lynch called them "10-baggers" -- stocks that climbed to 10 times the value he paid for them. They're a rare breed, but they're not impossible to find. Especially not when you're a friend of Fools.
If you look at the market's best stocks, you'll find companies that have risen in value over the past decade by 3,000%, 5,000%, and even 24,000%. They're not penny stocks, but rather the stocks of viable companies that have sound business prospects and are achieving phenomenal returns every year. You need to pick only one or two monster stocks to have a winning portfolio.
Stalking the monster
So where can we find tomorrow's monster stocks today? At Motley Fool CAPS, we track the opinions of more than 70,000 investors who are working every day to help collectively identify those winners. Thousands of stocks have CAPS ratings from both novice and professional analysts, and the opinions of the best stock pickers are weighted more heavily in determining a stock's CAPS rating of one to the maximum five stars.
Investors at CAPS are rated as well, and we call the best of them All-Stars. We've compiled a list of these top players, who, like Peter Lynch, have already found monster stocks -- companies that have doubled, tripled, or quadrupled in price. Then we've given you some of their recent picks for stocks that they consider equally promising.
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China Southern Airlines (NYSE: ZNH )
Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP )
China Mobile (NYSE: CHL )
America Movil (NYSE: AMX )
SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWR )
Nabors Industries (NYSE: NBR )
Of course, this is not a list of stocks to buy -- or to sell, for those monster stocks that the CAPS All-Stars have already found. Instead, it's a jumping-off point for doing additional research.
The future's so bright
Where CAPS All-Star Azurepoet earned distinction with a great call on SunPower, the solar-energy subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE: CY ) , adoratium seeks to do it again with Suntech Power, a Chinese alternative-energy company that designs, manufactures, and sells photovoltaic cells. Included in the penumbra of this concern's attraction is that Suntech has an exclusive contract to provide solar energy for the main stadium at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
After a first-quarter earnings scare that spooked Wall Street into driving down its stock price, a lot of CAPS players took a new look at this Motley Fool Rule Breakers recommendation, including All-Star cnj01, who thinks the long-term prospects outweigh any short-term price fluctuations: "Recent recovery of stock prices are largely a correction of an overreaction of Wall Street to the dismal first quarter earnings. Longer term this manufacturer of photovoltaic cells is expected to return to more normal revenues and earnings."
That's also what's on the mind of CAPS player LazarKacho, who sees Suntech as being in the nascent stage of a long-term growth trajectory:
Demand for alternative energy sources and especially solar power is going to continue to grow at an unprecedented rate (or at least it should) as the world begins to understand the environmental problems humanity is facing. Governments are going to continue to develop strategies to resolve these problems and their efforts are going to become more and more radical. STP is at a position where it can tremendously benefit from these efforts and the growing demand for its products. It is a leader in an industry that is only in its nascent stages of development, but possesses enormous potential. It has a superior product and lower labor costs compared to some of its competitors. The company valuation is also more attractive and seems more reasonably valued with regards to its growth prospects and current earnings compared to its peers.
A chance for scary growth
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Browse by University and Academic Department
Group by: Date | Creators | No Grouping
Number of items at this level: 9.
Varisco, Andrea Edoardo (2014) The influence of research on state building policy with special reference to security sector reform: the case of Sierra Leone. PhD thesis, University of York.
Larson, Anna (2013) The State of Democratisation in Afghanistan: An examination of the state-citizen relationship in a fragile context. PhD thesis, University of York.
Lewis, Alexandra (2013) Violence and Fragility: A Study of Violent Young Offending in Yemen and Other Fragile States. PhD thesis, University of York.
Milton, Sansom (2013) The Neglected Pillar of Recovery: A Study of Higher Education in Post-war Iraq and Libya. PhD thesis, University of York.
Singh, D (2012) An Investigation of Corruption and Clientelism in Afghanistan Hindering Law Enforcement: With a Specific Case Study in the Afghan National Police. MPhil thesis, University of York.
Robins, Simon (2011) Addressing the needs of families of the Missing: A test of contemporary approaches to transitional justice. PhD thesis, University of York.
Asiedu, Victor Odame (2010) From Combat to Community: a Study of how Community-based Approach to Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) can Contribute More Effectively to Peacebuilding: The Case of Sierra Leone. MPhil thesis, University of York.
Hoffman, Benjamin C (1998) Towards an architecture for peacebuilding : restructuring power in political conflict. PhD thesis, University of York.
Ozerdem, Alpaslan (1998) An approach to sustainable recovery of urban water supplies in war-affected areas : with specific reference to the Tuzla Region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. PhD thesis, University of York.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio – As most of you have heard by now, rumors are swirling that Joan Jett may be hitting the stage with Nirvana at Thursday night's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Brooklyn.
The speculation stems from a photo posted on Foo Fighters' (the current band of Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl) Instagram page showing Jett's recognizable Melody Maker electric guitar alongside Grohl's drum kit, Krist Noveslic's bass and Pat Smear's Stratocaster guitar.
When the Rock Hall announced the list of presenters and performers for the induction ceremony, it did not list Nirvana on the schedule. However, while it did state clearly that KISS and Linda Ronstadt would not be performing, there was no mention of whether or not Nirvana would hit the stage.
Nirvana hasn't performed since Cobain's suicide in 1994, but Novoselic stated publicly last week that he has been practicing.
Many have speculated that R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, who is inducting Nirvana into the Rock Hall, might perform with the band along with a wide variety of other scenarios. The photo of Jett's guitar doesn't necessarily mean the 1980s rock icon will be stepping in for Kurt Cobain or that she'll be the only guest on stage.
Still, Jett and Grohl know each other pretty well. The two have written songs together and Jett has performed with Foo Fighters in the past.
So, is Joan Jett singing a few Nirvana classics something you would want to see? Vote below, and tell us what song you would want to hear her sing in the comments.


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This species is found from Florida and the Bahamas to Brazil and straggling north to New York in the Gulf Stream. Has been introduced to Bermuda but not established, however, rare waifs reported from Bermuda. Also reported from St. Helena and Ascenscion Islands in the eastern Atlantic (Burgess 2002). It has been reported as vagrants from West Africa (Allen 1980). Present at depths of 3-100 m.


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It can be a memorable moment in any athlete's life to sign a National Letter of Intent to play a sport at a Division I college.
But when Aliyah Graves-Brown signed to play field hockey Georgetown on Wednesday morning, it was not just memorable for her. It was memorable for the entire school.
Graves-Brown became the first student in the history of Harrisburg Academy to receive a full athletic scholarship to a Division I college.
"It's such an honor, and such a blessing," said Graves-Brown, a Big 11 second-team member. "It's a great thing for my school and for me.
"I hope to inspire others, that just because you're at Harrisburg Academy to excel academically doesn't mean you can't excel athletically as well."
Lower Dauphin's Hunter Bracale signs to go to Duke
Graves-Brown made three unofficial visits to Georgetown, and three more to Temple. But the Hoyas had an advantage ever since she attended a camp at Georgetown after her sophomore season.
"I called my dad and said that I loved it there," Graves-Brown said. "I just went back to that gut feeling and reaction from when I was first at Georgetown."
There was another factor in her decision to go to Washington, D.C. Her major will be Government and Political Science.
"It's a great place to be academically," Graves-Brown said. "There are so many opportunities there."
Long before getting to Wednesday's signing, though, her field hockey career took an unexpected turn. After playing three years on varsity for Harrisburg Academy, the school folded its program.
Fortunately for Graves-Brown, her school joined Cedar Cliff in a co-op, so she played with the Colts last fall. She had eight goals and three assists.
"She brought in a refreshing level of maturity," Cedar Cliff head coach Justin Weaver said. "Almost a calm confidence, and of course some amazing skills."
Weaver said that those skills can translate into success in Division I field hockey, even if Graves-Brown has to make some adjustments to the new level of play.
"I've seen players go from high school to Division I or II and change altogether," Weaver said. "What her game is now may not be her game next year. ... The raw talent and determination is definitely there. It will transition her into that next stage of her playing career."
Central Dauphin sends four players to Division I schools
Along with her high school playing days at Harrisburg Academy and Cedar Cliff, Graves-Brown has also played four years with the KeyState Field Hockey Club travel team.
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Any chance of this being implemented at some point? Would seem to be consistent with the omxExponential implementation. Currently I optimize some free parameters over the range 0 to -inf, which is exponentially scaled, and I suspect this probably poses optimization difficulties....
If you can point me to an open-source C or C++ implementation that we can include, I'll add it in a jiffy.
There might be some confusion. We currently have a log() function for mxAlgebras. Inside an mxAlgebra, log(aMatrixOrAlgebra) will produce the elementwise logarithm of aMatrixOrAlgebra. The same is true for exp(aMatrixOrAlgebra): it's an elementwise exponential of aMatrixOrAlgebra. The omxExponential() function is an entirely different thing. It is the matrix exponential function, not the elementwise exponential of a matrix. Similarly, the matrix logarithm function is not the elementwise logarithm function.
If you want to take the log of every element in an algebra or matrix, you can do that with log() already. If you want to undo the matrix exponential, you'll need a matrix logarithm. Two issues with matrix logarithms in general are that (1) not all square matrices have a logarithm, and (2) among those that do, some have more than one.
Your question sounded like you wanted the elementwise logarithm that we already have. Or did you actually want the matrix logarithm?
Charles is the guy working on continuous time models. I'm pretty sure he want the matrix log, not the elementwise log.
I assume there is some way to constrain the matrix log such that there is only 1 solution.
Joshua is correct, it's the matrix log I'd like. I'm not clear under which conditions it is not defined, (something I should get clear on, certainly!) but I ran a limited range of tests and logm() from the expm package gave me consistent results. If it proves inconsistent then I could just leave it as optional...
A side issue - does my intuition that the exponential scale of the free parameters may be posing estimation difficulties in some circumstances seem reasonable?
> A side issue - does my intuition that the exponential scale of the free parameters may be posing estimation difficulties in some circumstances seem reasonable?
I think so. If the true value of a parameter is less than about 1e-9 then the optimizer will believe it is done because changes to that value are already smaller than the tolerance. Log units don't have this problem.
Let us know how it goes.
I used the algorithm with a C implementation. There is a better algorithm available, Higham 2008, but we need to translate it from R to C.
Works well, though yes there are some more complex cases I deal with where the higham08 alg would cope but the simple approach doesn't. Need to properly test to see if optimization for me has improved in general, but cheers! :)
It would probably take me 1-2 days to translate the R code into C. It's not a huge amount of work, but there are lots of other demands on my time. Let me know if you think it would really be worth it.


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On Aug. 22, The Plain Dealer sent 27 journalists into the Cleveland Clinic Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute to see what happens during the course of 24 hours at what many recognize as one of the best, and busiest, heart centers in the country.
Reporters and photographers were there as a teenager with a deadly heart condition underwent hours of testing, as a retired waitress had quadruple bypass surgery, as doctors rushed to help a dying patient brought in by helicopter, and as two men had hearts transplanted into their chests.
We told those stories, and others, last month in an eight-part series called "Tales From the Heart." We left off at 7 a.m. Aug. 23, as doctors and nurses geared up for another day and many of the patients we followed were still in the hospital recovering.
But the stories don't end there.
Today, we bring you updates on some of the patients we met that day.
Here's what they are doing now, 17 weeks after having their chests opened, their valves repaired, their clogged arteries bypassed and their lives turned around.
Four months after a heart transplant saved his life, you'd be hard-pressed to tell Dan Cotton has had any kind of recent surgery.
The 57-year-old store manager for JCPenney is rosy-cheeked, smiling and walking with ease around the Avon Lake home he has shared with his wife, Marty, during his recovery.
"Marty teases that when we go back home and see people, they won't think I've gone through this," he says. Just about the only proof he has, he says, is the scar on his chest.
The couple from Watertown, N.Y., have been staying at Marty's parents' former home since Dan's release from the hospital in September. Her father died last year, and the house has been for sale since. It's been the perfect spot for Dan to heal, they say.
He's driving now, taking walks every day, and goes to cardiac rehab at the Clinic three times a week. His biopsies, to check for rejection, are now a month apart. His next is on Dec. 29.
The Cotton's are scheduled to return home today. They've been back to New York only once, in October, since Dan became ill.
Neither of the Cottons has worked since Dan's heart attack in February. He's looking forward to getting back to work and getting his exercise program in place. His wife is a little more cautious -- she feels protective, she says.
"It's been a nice cocoon here."
They both look forward to spring when they can get on Cotton's motorcycle and ride around Ontario and the Thousand Islands.
The couple have a longer-term plan, too. After Cotton retires in five years, they'd like to open a bed and breakfast in the Cleveland area for heart patients awaiting transplant and recovering from surgery. They saw how important a home-like setting could be after Cotton got his mechanical pump, or LVAD, the device that kept him alive after his massive heart attack until he had the transplant.
"You have a lot to come to terms with after that surgery," Marty says. "He went to sleep and woke up with this machine.
"We want a place for people to get support from others who are going through the same thing and have a little hand-holding."
They'd like to supply some practical help, too: low-sodium, heart-healthy meals, and bandage changes for LVAD patients, who need them daily.
The couple have been focusing on what they call the "silver linings" of Cotton's heart transplant: that the Avon Lake home was available for his recovery; that he was in Ohio and close to the Cleveland Clinic when he had the heart attack that led to his transplant; that the long hiatus from their retail jobs has allowed them to be with family for the holidays this year.
"This will be the first nonretail Christmas in our entire marriage," Marty says. "It's nice. I could get used to this."
The time off work has caused some anxiety, though. Cotton's disability insurance through his employer ran out in August. He's now on long-term disability, and the couple are paying for continuation coverage under COBRA.
The bill for his mechanical pump was hundreds of thousands of dollars. They're getting final notices, but the hospital has told them the bills still haven't been resolved with their insurance company. They haven't seen any bills for the transplant yet.
"It's definitely cause for concern, because we had debt before this happened," says Marty.
"There isn't a price they could give you that's too high. I'll do what I have to do to pay it off.
"It was worth everything to have our story come out the way it did."
The pain is gone, the scars have faded from red to pink, and Jeffrey Scott is doing a lot more than climbing stairs without getting winded.
"I'm trucking along," says the 42-year-old charter boat captain and master scuba diver who had robotic surgery on Aug. 22 to repair a leaking heart valve.
Scott spent the last week of November in Tennessee, visiting friends.
"When I went to the mountains, I was hiking up and down like there was no tomorrow," he says. "I feel like a new man."
Scott left the Caribbean in February and moved back to Youngstown to help his father recover from hip surgery. His grandmother became sick a little while later, then his mother. He helped nurse them all back to health before realizing he was out of breath just walking upstairs from his grandmother's apartment to the kitchen.
A doctor in Youngstown referred him to the Cleveland Clinic, where a cardiologist told him he needed surgery fast.
Scott was scared.
He was worried about having his heart and lungs stopped for the operation. And he was worried about how he could pay for major surgery. He wasn't working, and he didn't have insurance.
About 10 days before his operation, a patient financial services counselor from the Clinic told him he qualified for the hospital's charity-care program -- his care would be free. Later, at a pre-op visit, someone from financial services told him a few bills might show up in the mail. "Just ignore them," she said. Scott had no idea if all the costs would really be covered; he just knew he needed the surgery.
After his week in the hospital, he headed back to Youngstown already feeling better than before his surgery.
But a week later, he couldn't breathe and the pain in his chest was 10 times worse than after his surgery. It felt as if he were being stabbed with a butcher knife.
His parents drove him to a hospital in Youngstown. The staff there sent X-rays of his chest to his cardiologist at the Clinic, who told them to send Scott to the Clinic immediately.
There, doctors found that Scott's pericardium, the fibrous sac around the heart, was inflamed and filled with fluid, something that can happen after heart surgery.
The setback meant three more days in the Clinic.
"It hurt worse than the surgery did," Scott said later. "I couldn't lay flat on my back because it hurt too bad. And I couldn't take a breath that was bigger than a minute, little breath. If I took a breath any bigger than that, it felt like someone was reaching into my chest and ripping it out.
"But that was the one and only minor setback."
After that, friends invited Scott to Tennessee, and other friends offered him a trip to Amsterdam to make up for the rough year he'd had.
A few bills did arrive. They showed Scott's surgery and follow-up treatment totaled almost $300,000. But Thanksgiving week, he received a letter from the Clinic telling him his care was paid for, 100 percent.
He hasn't gotten another bill since.
On Dec. 14, Scott flew to Amsterdam. He plans to return to Youngstown in January, help his mother with her tax business until April, then start his charter boat business again -- in Florida this time.
"Go back to what I love doing," Scott says, "sailing and diving."
He quit smoking as soon as the doctor told him he needed surgery. He put on 30 pounds but lost 10 and says the weight hasn't slowed him a bit.
A few weeks ago, his father stopped him in the kitchen.
"You know," George Scott Sr. said to his son, "you don't say it anymore."
"Say what?" Jeffrey Scott asked.
"You don't say you feel old anymore."
Jeffrey Scott laughs at that now, realizing just how often he used to tell people that.
"I said it all the time," he says. "Every day. I honestly thought I was just getting old.
"Now I feel young. I feel like a kid again."
On Oct. 21, two months after a complicated re-operation to replace and repair her damaged heart valves, Savithri Shamabhat was so sick she could hardly walk. After four or five steps, she couldn't go on.
The 41-year-old former software engineer called a taxi to take her to a hospital a mile from her home outside San Jose, Calif.
When she got to the emergency room, doctors found fluid on her lungs, anemia and digestive problems that had kept her from eating.
A week later, Shamabhat was back at home, feeling better. Four days after that, she began to vomit blood.
This time, doctors found a problem at the base of her esophagus and were able to stop the bleeding. On Nov. 3, Shamabhat went back to the home she shares with her husband, Gopikrishna Itagi.
The next day, as a neighbor was driving Shamabhat and her sister back from a blood test, a driver T-boned their car, sending bits of glass into Shamabhat's arm and bruising her sister -- who had flown in from India months earlier to help take care of her.
All that bad news looks as though it's behind her now.
"Now, I feel good actually," Shamabhat said in a telephone interview from her home.
"I take my dog out for walks.
"Before surgery, I used to get tired every four or five minutes. I used to check my pulse. Now actually I am able to walk three-quarters of a mile, and I take only three or four stops."
Doctors suspect rheumatic fever damaged Shamabhat's heart valves when she was a child growing up in India. Before her Clinic surgery, she'd undergone three other heart surgeries -- two of them open-heart.
A fourth operation is something few heart surgeons will attempt. But Shamabhat's surgeon, Dr. Bruce Lytle, chairman of the Heart & Vascular Institute, specializes in the tough re-operations. Since he operated on her on Aug. 22, her heart has been working just fine, she says, even through her other health problems.
She feels so good that she sent her sister back to India on Dec. 6.
"Now, I do household chores," Shamabhat says. "I wash dishes, and I cook. And I did go for Black Friday shopping."
And she celebrated Thanksgiving, too.
"I sent some chocolates to Dr. Bruce Lytle, thanking him on Thanksgiving Day.
"He really is a godsend."
Two days after 18-year-old Gus George underwent tests at the Cleveland Clinic to see what, if anything, could be done about his hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, doctors implanted a defibrillator. If his heart stops, the device will shock it back to life.
The sudden stop of the heartbeat can happen to patients with HCM.
Gus' older brother, Samuel, had the hereditary disease, too. Samuel collapsed while playing basketball in 2009 and died. He was 19.
So far, Gus hasn't needed the defibrillator, says his cardiologist, Dr. Milind Desai, who specializes in HCM.
"I have not heard of any shocks," Desai said. "He's doing OK."
Gus, he says, is scheduled to return to the Clinic in January for a follow-up visit.
Beth Ryburn is perky, but her Southern drawl is raspy as she talks about her progress since she had the first of two surgeries to repair a 2-inch aortic aneurysm in August. She and her husband, Richard, returned to their home in Maryville, Tenn., in late November after the second surgery.
"I'm blessed to have so many friends who have helped with meals, blessed to have my daughters nearby and blessed to have Richard. You name it, he's helped with it."
And the retired schoolteacher has needed some help. The second surgery, the one that actually repaired the bulge in her aorta, was on Oct. 28. It went as planned, but several complications left her in intensive care for a week and in the hospital for another two weeks.
When she woke up from the surgery, Ryburn could talk only in a whisper. The breathing tube had damaged the nerve that supplies motor function and sensation to her voice box. She also had trouble swallowing because of it.
Two steroid injections in her throat, a week apart, cleared up most of the problem, but she still has some residual scratchiness in her voice.
"It seems to be worse in the mornings," she says.
Then, she had to go back to the OR six days after surgery because the chest tube that surgeons leave in to drain fluid wouldn't come out. They discovered the tube was caught on a stitch, so they snipped it, and out the tube came.
A blood clot in her leg also delayed her release from the hospital, as she had to start a blood-thinning regimen and wait for test results to make sure the medication was at the right level.
Other than those "bumps in the road," as she and her husband describe them, Ryburn says she's doing well.
"Of course I'm sore, but those were two major surgeries 10 weeks apart. I was very optimistic and thought I was through the worst of it after the first surgery. The second surgery was, I think, more invasive than the first."
Ryburn has the scar to prove it. The second incision is 24 inches and stretches from above her navel, straight up her chest, then under her left breast and arm, around her back, under her shoulder blade to the spine, then straight up her spine to about 3 inches below her neck.
"It looks like I've been cut in half," she says.
The Ryburns made it home in time for Thanksgiving, but Beth had enough energy to spend only a couple of hours at her daughter's home.
It wasn't until about five weeks into this recovery that she started to feel as if she'd turned a corner. "It felt like I just got a burst of energy and I was able to do a lot more."
She took the opportunity to put up Christmas decorations with her husband.
"I was prepared to do a good part of it," said Richard. "Every time I'd turn around, she'd done a little bit of this and a little bit of that."
The Ryburns are thankful for the incremental progress she's made and are looking forward to the future.
They're also grateful that Medicare, along with an insurance supplement Ryburn purchased several years ago when she knew she'd be needing surgery for the aneurysm, has covered all her medical bills so far.
Ryburn celebrated her 67th birthday Dec. 14, sharing a night out with her twin brother, Parks Hitch.
She feels the surgeries lifted a weight off her shoulders.
"Having the aneurysm fixed, even putting up with the big scar and the pain -- it's a tremendous relief. It's like a new lease on life, really."
At his last doctor's visit, Joe Baschnagel received another 0R, or zero rejection, result on his most recent heart biopsy. His doctor gave him other welcome news, too.
He can play the bagpipes again.
The 58-year-old from suburban Buffalo gave up the instrument when his breathing became labored as his health deteriorated before the August heart transplant that saved his life. He was most looking forward to picking the bagpipes up again.
"I've played a couple times since," he says.
"They're awful loud," his wife, Maureen, says, laughing.
But he's mostly been playing practice chanters, a smaller woodwind instrument used to learn the bagpipes, because they're not as heavy.
With his new heart pumping well, Baschnagel also can drink as much water as he wants now.
"I'm not on diuretics, which I hated. It all works together. Once you get the heart pumping good, it all gets back to normal."
He's no longer out of breath, and he can walk a lot farther than the mailbox.
Baschnagel, who returned home in September after a two-week stay in the hospital and another two weeks at the Marriott in Westlake, is doing cardiac rehab in his basement now. He walks on a treadmill that his son and daughter-in-law gave him recently, and he's logged four miles at a time.
"I'm feeling good," he says. "My energy is very good."
Baschnagel has had a bump in the road to recovery, however. About a month ago, a blood test showed signs of infection with CMV, a virus that most people are exposed to by age 40. Baschnagel's donor had been exposed to the virus. Baschnagel had not. The virus is potentially fatal on first exposure for transplant patients because of their suppressed immune systems. Generally, though, the virus does not cause serious illness.
Baschnagel has been taking anti-viral medications since learning about the infection. His most recent blood test came back clear, but he'll probably stay on the medications a while longer, he says.
The virus will remain dormant in his body for the rest of his life, though, and he'll have to be careful if he gets flu-like symptoms to determine if it's returned.
"It could have been bad if they didn't catch it, but I feel fine," he says.
He's looking forward to getting back to his bagpipe group, but doing so will require a lot of stamina. They play for two hours straight, and march while they play.
He hasn't thought much about work, though.
Baschnagel, who has had heart problems his entire life, is also trying not to think too much about the medical bills, which he says are about $1 million to date for his heart care since May. They're still pending with his insurance company. Baschnagel's local volunteer fire department, where he used to be a member, is planning a fundraiser in March to help cover some of the cost.
"I just got a bill today for $20,000," he says, laughing. "We're just average people, but what's important was my health." That optimism is what his wife says has carried him through the hospitalizations, surgeries and recovery.
"I just knew he'd do well because Joe's the type of person where he's always happy and upbeat. Nothing gets him down at all."
Before her surgery at the Cleveland Clinic's heart center, Ella Shutt got around in what she calls her power chair -- an electric scooter -- because she was too exhausted to walk.
After doctors bypassed the arteries in her heart -- one was 100 percent blocked, a couple of others were 90 percent -- and sent her home for rehab, the 68-year-old West Virginia woman was able to walk again, despite her COPD, a lung disease caused by the cigarettes she smoked for years.
Now, when her sister takes her to the grocery story or Walmart, she doesn't have to drop Shutt at the door. She can park as many as three or four spaces away, and Shutt uses her walker -- just in case she needs to sit down.
"I still get short of breath, but I don't get so short of breath that I have to sit down for very long," says Shutt who worked in the past as a licensed practical nurse.
"What I wasn't expecting was to be able to walk any length of time or any length without feeling my chest just tighten up and tighten up and tighten up. It's a wonderful feeling not to have that.
"My sister says she can hear it in my voice -- the excitement. It's like a little kid who's been let out of the house for the first time."
When Shutt visited her daughter in Youngstown over Thanksgiving, she made the pecan pies and chicken and dumplings. She hasn't had any complications, hasn't had to return to the hospital and hasn't had to pay a thing: so far, Medicare and her supplemental insurance have covered her tens of thousands of dollars in heart surgery bills. And lately she's been dreaming that she's out roller skating.
"I've still got a certain amount of restrictions of what I can and can't do," Shutt says, mentioning that shoveling snow is on the can't list.
"But I've got news for them," she says. "I'm going to take my shovel and my power chair and I'm gong to clear a path in front of me.
"That's not shoveling, that's plowing snow."
Carol Sirohman seems more interested in talking about the other patients who were at the Cleveland Clinic's heart center on Aug. 22 than she is about her own recovery.
"My goodness, they made me look like I had a hangnail," says the 71-year-old former waitress from the Youngstown suburb of Poland.
It was, of course, more than a sore finger that sent her into surgery four months ago. Doctors repaired a leaky mitral valve and bypassed four blocked arteries.
Her recovery went well at first.
But at her six-week checkup, the staff at the Clinic noticed the incision in her leg -- where a vein was removed for the bypasses -- had become infected. After that, Sirohman went on antibiotics and made weekly visits back to the Clinic to make sure it was healing.
"They were thinking about putting me back in the hospital," Sirohman says, "but decided not to.
"I'm doing pretty good now.
"I feel like I have more energy than I did."
Her daughter, Terri Lundberg, says it's clear her mother's better.
Sirohman sent her daughter out to buy lights to string around the two oak trees in her front yard. But she didn't like the color of one of the strands. So after her daughter left, she went out and replaced the strand herself. And she plans to bake at least some of the dozens of Christmas cookies she turns out every year.
That's good news for her children and her grandchildren, who wondered why Sirohman didn't mail them her homemade Easter pastries last April.
"We didn't get any this year, and all the kids complained about it," Lundberg says. "I didn't realize how bad she was feeling. To not get our Easter box, that must have been a big deal."
Now, Lundberg says, her mom "seems to be kicking into gear like her old self."
She won't cook the entire Christmas dinner this year, but there's a good chance she'll roast the prime rib, and she'll definitely host 11 out-of-town overnight guests.
"And she asked me to dig out her treadmill," Lundberg says. "I don't know if she's using it, but the fact that she asked to have it unburied is a good sign."
Sirohman asked for it after exercising twice a week at a rehab center in Boardman.
Her tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills have been covered by Medicare so far, except for $400, which is still being sorted out, Sirohman says.
The biggest sign that she's feeling good, though, is the car she bought on Oct. 17 -- a 2008 red Pontiac G6 convertible.
"I've waited 71 years for this car," Sirohman says.
Diane Suchetka and Brie Zeltner, Plain Dealer Reporters


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Nope never dropped and not going to.
I Dont Let ANYONE Touch My Wii Either! I Pack It Up And Plug It Back Into My TV By Myself And No One Touches It.
Tbh Ive Never Dropped It But When It Was Sitting On The Ground I Forgot It Was There And Accidentally Kicked It Half Way Across The Room! I Was Panicing So Bad But Theres Been Nuthin Wrong With It! Everythings Fine!
Thanks To Dan.Skater For The Awesome Sig!
No, I haven't dropped my baby.
With much love, 261311.
-=Join the Waluigi Fan Club=-Originally Posted by JT.
i did. i almost cried.
be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert integrity of purpose
and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Lemme Give You A math Problem...
7-Year-Old Nephew + Corded GC Controller + Wii + 3-foot-tall Speaker = Fall
Yes, I did I bought my Wii while I was on a camping trip with my GrandParents. Anyways there truck has a built in DVd player in the back with a RCA input, Hmm I did exactly what your thinking, I bought a cheap 12 volt power inverter and played Wii while we traveled XD So anyways It was 3 more days until we would be home and my Wii would be safe, I was out in the truck putting it in the Box and keeping it there until we got home and while trying to inset blue box 2, blue box 1 got pushed out the other side and onto the ground, The Wii, Adapter and Remote. It was rocky and it landed on a sticking out rock. The word Wii could barley be picked out and when you turn the remote to make the cursor rotate it glitches. I brought it in, Hiding my tears and showed my Grandmother. As luck would have it the very same day my Grandmother had lost her 120 Dollar Pants, and when she found them on another site she went to wash them and spilt bleach on them, AHH! Anyways both of us were upset, Nan knew how i felt having somthing you loved and expensive lost, she Paid 150 Dolars for the repaid of the CAse! Way to much. Im sure i forgot somthing and i'll edit later
Add me on Animal Crossing City Folk! = D
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AC:CF Friend Code: 0001-8968-6109
I'm slowly but surely working on building the Perfect town, I would appreciate it if you could give me any spare flowers you have, Just leave them anywhere = D
ive just knocked it over...several times...
ThE QuI3t ThInGs ThAt No0nE eV3R Kn0wS
And Ill Scream With A Thousand Voices...
Xbox 360 Online Gamertag - Number1Newb
Luckily, no. mine is uhhh 2 or 3 feet up... idk cuz im canadian, lol. but i have dropped my only wiimote 2 or 3 times, lol.
(2 and 3 FTW)
I'm a Rising star, In this forum.
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If i had a Corded GameCube Controller I garauntee it would have fallen over many times, luckily i have a WaveBird!
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Mayors Michael Gonnelli of Secaucus and William Roseman of Carlstadt say that their municipalities have never been reimbursed from stadium officials for police and fire department overtime expenses created by events at the stadium. And when it comes to next year's Super Bowl, they say: "Don't ask!"
A witness said that a father watched helplessly in as his son plunged to his death from a Hoboken high rise.
In Sports, the North Bergen wrestling team came up just short in the NJSIAA, North 1, Group 4 sectional final to Hackensack, ending the Bruins' quest for their first sectional title in 20 years.


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Frequently Asked Questions - Debian
Useful Starman commands.
Using the perl based Starman webserver is the easiest way to run LedgerSMB locally (and quite possibly for production use as well).
At the terminal, and from your LedgerSMB directory:
Start Starman
starman tools/starman.psgi
Default port is 5000.
starman -l :8080 tools/starman.psgi
Start with 8080 specified as the port.
Note: some documentation specifies the switch
It has been sugggested that this may give performance advantages in a production environment but isn't recommended while developing.
The manpage has more to say on this.
man starman
Based on that we currently would not recommend using --preload-app even on a production server
While Starman is running
Reload Starman
pkill -HUP -f "starman master"
Restart Starman
pkill -TERM -f "starman master"
Release the port if Starman is terminated
NOTE: try Restart Starman before doing this.
pkill -KILL -f "starman master"
The short answer is that TeX doesn't know how to deal with UTF-8 (or rather non-ASCII) characters. XeTeX has been designed to work around these limitations. The easiest way to generate PDFs is to install Xe(La)TeX and use the 'xedemo' templates - these templates have been 'ported' from LaTeX to XeLaTeX.
Distribution specific install instructions listed below.
Debian / Ubuntu
Install texlive-xetex that includes xelatex
apt-get install texlive-xetex
but you need to patch LaTeX::Driver
Install liblatex-{driver,encode,table}-perl for latex
apt-get install liblatex-{driver,encode,table}-perl
and libmoosex-followpbp-perl for Template::Plugin::Latex
apt-get install libmoosex-followpbp-perlafter that:
apt-get install libtemplate-plugin-latex-perl (or cpan Template::Plugin::Latex)
LedgerSMB xelatex configuration
Install xelatex and change the LedgerSMB configuration from the menu:
System -> System Defaults -> Templates directory
Change to "xedemo"
Change a path
From the mailing list: (Chris Travers)
Right now, I am open to suggestions on a better approach, as the Template::Latex api's don't seem to work to do this, but I resorted to changing the paths in LaTeX::Driver::Paths directly (find the location with locate LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm). This file gets written at installation time for the LaTeX::Driver module and so I consider it reasonably editable.
locate LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm
If locate is not installed you can do: find /usr . |grep "LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm"
/usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm ( Debian / Ubuntu )
Make a backup copy of LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm (you have to have root priviliges to do this or use sudo)
cp /usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm /usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm.backup(Change the path to your path for LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm)
User your text editor to edit LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm (you have to have root priviliges to do this or use sudo)
In LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm change
$program_path{pdflatex} = '/path/to/pdflatex;
$program_path{pdflatex} = '/path/to/xelatex';
This is the error you get, if you do not change:
/usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver/Paths.pm (Debian path) :
latex error - pdflatex exited with errors:
l.26 \RequireXeTeX
! Fatal fontspec error: "cannot-use-pdftex"
! The fontspec package requires either XeTeX or LuaTeX to function.
! You must change your typesetting engine to, e.g., "xelatex" or "lualatex"
! instead of plain "latex" or "pdflatex".
! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
! For immediate help type H <return>.
l.38 }
The utf8 character "hack fix"
Before making this change will UTF8 characters appear as squares in the PDF file. To print utf8 characters in pdf files, you must make the following change:
These are the steps:
su root
open /usr/share/perl5/LaTeX/Driver.pm
in your text editor
go to line 174 on Debian Squeeze (6.x) and line 176 on Debian Wheexy (7.x)
you see "write_file( ..." there
".tex", $source
".tex", {binmode=>':utf8'}, $source
Font fix
In order for Verdana to work, install the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer (Debian/Ubuntu)
apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
In versions 1.3.28 and up, the demo templates no longer depend on Verdana though, but use the non-proprietary Liberation font set, which can be installed using
apt-get install fonts-liberation
Code reference to LedgerSMB
The code for this is LedgerSMB/Template/Latex.pm
In general: neither. The advice is to have the full source tree in /opt/ledgersmb/<version>.
Installing the LedgerSMB modules in the standard Perl search path works, but interferes with running different versions side-by-side.
To undo installation in /usr/local:
- remove /usr/local/share/perl/5.XX.X/LedgerSMB/
- delete /usr/local/share/perl/5.XX.X/LedgerSMB.pm; and
- find and remove the .pl files that come in LedgerSMB's project root directory and bin/ and LedgerSMB/Scripts/ directories.


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Hitman's Pontiac Trans Am Page
1978 Pontiac Trans Am
Carb Rebuild
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Window Runs
Power Steering
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Front Brakes
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Storing the Car
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Exhaust System
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Heater Core
When your heater core goes, you definitely know it. I started to smell antifreeze (which isn't good to begin with), then all of a sudden, my windows fogged up beyond belief. It also started to leak antifreeze inside on the passenger side of the car. I knew right away what it was. Now this job was no easy task. It involved not only taking apart just about the entire dashboard of the car, but I also had to dismantle the front of the car as well. I started by taking apart the glove compartment
which wasn't too bad. Six or eight screws and it was out. I also had to drop out the heating ducts which ran underneath the passenger side. Once again, pretty easy. The heater core is located in the heating unit which is bolted to the firewall. At first, all I saw was two screws holding this in, so I removed them, but it still didn't budge. I brought out the old trusted "Haynes" manual and read up on what I was doing. Little did I know that the unit was also bolted to the firewall from the engine side of the firewall as well. Now, to get to these bolts that hold it in, you have to take apart the front wheel well on the passenger side.
There are about 10 bolts holding this in place, some are located underneath the car as well. There are also two bolts in the wheel well that hold on the overflow for the radiator. Once these bolts are gone, you can gently pry the wheel well away from the car. Once this is opened up, you can get at the bolts
that hold the heating unit on from the engine compartment. You can now also get at both hoses that feed the heater core. Once all of this is disconnected, you can try to remove the heating unit from inside the car. As you notice, I said "try". It separates from the firewall pretty easy, but this unit runs all the way over to the drivers' side of the car. Now to be able to get this unit out, I needed to also dismantle the drivers side heating ducts which are only held in by a few screws. To make this a little easier, I moved the center console back and out of the way. Also mounted to the top of the unit are all of the cables that run the heater. These are of course connected to the heater controls in the dashboard. Now the manual says to disconnect all of the wires, but I found it easier to disconnect only enough to be able and slide the unit out somewhat and then rotate it so that I was able to get at the heater core.
The were only a couple of screws that held in the heater core to the main heating unit. Once I got those out, I was able to remove the old core and place the new one in its place. Then it was just a matter of putting everything back in its right place in the reverse order that I took everything apart. This project took me about 5 hours to complete with help from my Dad. It was a lot of work and I have a few cuts and scrapes, but it saved me a whole bunch of money. The garage wanted about $480 to do this job. I bought the parts myself for about $22. I think that it was worth the headache.
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BROOKLYN - The borough's first Select Bus Service is now rolling, but many commuters are demanding that several busy stops be restored to the new route.
Councilman Jumaane Williams is supporting some Flatbush residents who complain that the select service route knocks out critical stops along the B44 line, including one that's just a block away from a school.
Commuters upset with the changes also complain that the select buses are nearly empty, while the local buses are jam-packed.
READ MORE: Transportation Stories
The route travels directly from Nostrand Avenue and Avenue H to Nostrand Avenue and Kings Highway, promising a quicker ride between Sheepshead Bay and Williamsburg.


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DENMARK TOWNSHIP, MI — A helicopter pilot and passenger were unharmed after the blades of the helicopter struck the support arm of power lines they were working on, the Tuscola County Sheriff's Department reports.
Tuscola County Sheriff's Department Deputy Ryan Robinson responded to Quanicassee and VanGeisen about 6 p.m. for a report of a helicopter crash. However, responding officers found that the helicopter pilot and passenger were unharmed, the Tuscola County Sheriff's Department reports.
The pilot reported to investigators that he was working on the power lines about 250 feet in the air when an attached hoist had a line break, causing the helicopter to pitch and strike a support arm, the Sheriff's Department said.
The helicopter blades were damaged, and the pilot landed safely the craft in a corn field, police said. The FAA will inspect the site and the helicopter Friday, Aug. 23, police said.
— Brad Devereaux is a public safety reporter for MLive/The Saginaw News. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and Google+


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MANHEIM — Mike Williams has an overflowing football-coaching resume.
In 33 years he's guided Manheim Central to three state-championship appearances, including a PIAA crown, plus 21 Lancaster-Lebanon League section titles and 16 District 3 championships.
He's compiled more victories than any pigskin coach in District 3 history (340), and he's a Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association Hall-of-Famer (Class of 2001).
Williams can go ahead and add one more thing to the list as he gets set to embark on his final season as the Barons' skipper:
Street name.
Last Wednesday, Manheim mayor Scott Funk proclaimed the street that runs along Elden Rettew Field "Mike Williams Drive", and the road signs were unveiled during Baron Pride Night in the stadium.
"It's a very special thing; a neat thing," said Williams, who said he didn't know about the street signs until Funk called him up in front of Manheim Central athletes, cheerleaders, coaches, parents and fans.
"I'm honored," he said. "This is right up there. And it's not a sports thing as much as it is a team thing because — and I'm glad the mayor mentioned it — it's about our team and how we're involved with the community.
"Our players always give back, so it's nice to be recognized for the things we do for our community, and not always for what we accomplish on a Friday night."
Williams' maroon street signs, hanging above the usual green Memorial Drive signs, are not permanent, but will be posted throughout the season — his final season as the Barons' head coach.
Manheim Central opens the season on Friday when Warwick visits Elden Rettew Field — on Mike Williams Drive.
Manheim Central angling for more success in Mike Williams' swan song
Manheim Central's Mike Williams stepping down after this coming season
What they're saying: Reaction to Mike Williams stepping down after this coming season


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Add the Whistle Stop Festival to your list of to dos...
It's Saturday in Irondale in the historic district on 1912 1st Ave South.
Admission is free. It's from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Whistle-Stop Children's Depot will include pony rides, inflatables, face painting, The Rainbow Ring Toss, mini-shuffleboard, giant checkers, a cakewalk and The Pit Stop Challenge and several more fun activities.
There will also be about 15 vintage fire trucks parked at the festival. What's great some of the owners let the children sit in the driver's seats. I can't guarantee this. But I've been to fire truck musters before and these guys are always kid friendly.
Go here to get more info and a list of vendors and entertainers.
Here's how their site describes it:
The 19th Annual Whistle-Stop Festival will be held on Saturday, September 25, 2010 in Historic Irondale, Alabama. The Whistle-Stop Festival brings together artists, craftsmen, and musicians from all over the South East. Returning to headline the 2010 festival is Lil' Malcolm and the Zydeco House Rockers, who will perform from 7pm – 10pm, other musical acts include Mile Marker 7 and Crankshaft.
The Exchange Club of Irondale is sponsoring the Whistle-Stop Walk-a-thon beginning at 7:30am. You can find the sing up sheet with the other festival forms.
In addition to the various musical acts the festival will feature a muster of vintage fire engines, carnival games for kids, food vendors offering everything from BBQ to funnel cakes, a display of vintage cars, and a cooking demonstration. Also, appearing this year will be the vendors who make up the Irondale Community Farmer's Market. The Historic Irondale Café will be open all day from 9am to 5pm serving up their legendary fried green tomatoes.
It's not too late to secure a booth for the 2010 Whistle-Stop Festival. We will continue to accept applications until September 20th!


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AUBURN, Alabama -- Gus Malzahn isn't shy about giving players a second chance.
Former Georgia safety Tray Matthews announced his intention to transfer to Auburn on Saturday, making Matthews the second major SEC transfer of this offseason to land on the Plains.
I'm truly blessed for this opportunity and second chance that God and Coach Gus has blessed me with. I'm excited and ready to Excel at AU— TriggaTray28 (@Trigga_Tray28) June 14, 2014
Matthews, who was dismissed by Georgia coach Mark Richt after a classroom incident earlier this month, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Athens Banner-Herald, took only 11 days to commit to Auburn, a finalist for the former five-star recruit when he initially chose Georgia.
He will have to sit out a year after transferring before being eligible to play in 2015. Matthews started six games at Georgia as a true freshman and made 36 tackles, one interception and one fumble recovery.
Matthews also started against Auburn and made 12 tackles. The free safety was in coverage against Ricardo Louis on the Prayer at Jordan-Hare when Josh Harvey-Clemons tipped the ball into the air.
Ready to be an Auburn Man. I'm very humbled by all that has happened . Truly blessed. Au family and fans we in this together. WDE!! #Blessed— TriggaTray28 (@Trigga_Tray28) June 14, 2014
Immediate attempts by AL.com to contact Matthews after his commitment were unsuccessful.
Matthews was arrested in March with three other teammates on misdemeanor charges of theft by deception for cashing scholarship checks twice.
The four Georgia players received a pre-trial intervention last Thursday, meaning the charges will be dropped if they meet their terms.
The circumstances of Matthews' arrival differ from those of former Ole Miss tackle Austin Golson, a Prattville native who transferred to Auburn earlier this season to be closer to his sick grandparents.
But Malzahn hasn't been shy about offering players – both his own and other teams' – second chances.
Quarterback Nick Marshall has thrived at Auburn after being dismissed by Georgia and spending a year at the junior college level. Malzahn also brought back former H-back Ricky Parks on a walk-on, probationary basis, then let Parks go again this spring.
At least one of Matthews' new teammates has already welcomed him with open arms.
That boy @Trigga_Tray28 coming to join this money team #AU— Josh Holsey (@HeyItsJholsey) June 14, 2014


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Running back Andre Brown breezed through the Giants locker room on Wednesday afternoon with a bounce in his step but didn't stop long enough to speak with reporters.
Apparently, he came out of his 30-carry, 115-yard, one-touchdown masterpiece in his 2013 season debut with little more than the routine bumps and bruises of his trade.
Now that Brown, who has spent the season on the short-term injured reserve list with a fractured fibula, has energized the running game perhaps he can do the same for the passing game.
How, you ask?
Quarterback Eli Manning's forte is the play-action pass. It has been absent from the offense for the most part this season because of the Giants lack of a consistent running game. Brown may give them that consistency.
If so, opponents, starting with the Packers on Sunday, may have to bring a safety into the box to help stop Brown and the Giants could return to their big-play roots.
This season, Manning has 11 touchdowns and 16 interceptions, including three pick-six. He has thrown more interceptions and fewer touchdowns through nine games than he has in any season in his career as a regular starter.
Furthermore, the Giants are scoring roughly nine points per game less than they were last year and have just eight passes of 30 yards or more, ranking 28th in the NFL.
Theories abound as to what is wrong with Manning. Certainly part of the answer is that without a running game, the Giants have been one-dimensional for most of the season and it has made Manning's job more difficult.
• Giants are facing a huge challenge in Packers rookie running back Eddie Lacy. Former Alabama star ranks eighth in NFL in rushing with 669 yards.
• Jason Pierre-Paul says he's going to play it smart with his injured shoulder.
• Tom Coughlin is impressed with Packers third-string quarterback Scott Tolzien.
• Giants opponent scouting report: Green Bay Packers.
• Jon Beason feels snubbed that Big Blue was flexed out of prime time.
• Photos and videos: Giants prepare to meet Packers in critical game at MetLife Stadiuum.
• Video: This poor guy is starting at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
• Veteran Brandon Jacobs is slated to give his bad hamstring a try in practice on Thursday.
• Power game: Super Bowl organizers says there will be no repeat of power outage.
• Defensive end Justin Tuck is making his case to remain a Giant.
• Giants have a history of losing to backup quarterbacks.
• Giants have scrambled to find all the tape they can of Packers quarterback Scott Tolzien.
• Packers getting quarterback Scott Tolzien ready with a full week of practice.
• Packers notes: Linebacker Clay Matthews switches to smaller club on right hand; injuries mounting on offensive line.
• Dolphins veteran left tackle Bryant McKinnie says bullying scandal "exaggerated."
• Peyton Manning misses practice but will play vs. Chiefs, says coach.
• Chiefs to start wide receiver Dwayne Bowe despite his arrest.
• Texans coach Gary Kubiak to return to sidelines following mini-stroke.


text: A former Jerusalem mayoral hopeful is launching a venture to create jobs in the capital. Nir Barkat has founded Startup Jerusalem, which aims to create 1,000 jobs by September 2005 and 7,000 in the two years afterward. The group hopes to attract businesses to the city in the areas of health and life sciences; outsourcing and business services; and culture and tourism, the Jerusalem Post reported.


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NEW YORK — If there's a keynote performance at the 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival, it may well be Abbie Cornish's riveting portrayal of a Texas single mother who, desperate for money to regain custody of her son, haphazardly smuggles Mexican immigrants across the border.
Such leading roles don't frequently come around for women, but this year's Tribeca boasts a boatload of them. In David Riker's "The Girl," which will make its world premiere in competition at the festival, Cornish's fraught, sweaty performance of a mother on the brink bears two more pervasive themes at the 2012 Tribeca: financial straits and overlapping worlds.
"It totally rebirthed me as an actor," says Cornish, the Aussie actress of "Bright Star" and "Limitless." "It felt like it was the first time again. In making the film, I felt like it was the best I had ever been as an actor in all regards — as an actor, as a collaborator, as a human being."
The New York festival, founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, opens Wednesday with the flashy premiere of the comedy "The Five-Year Engagement," starring Jason Segel and Emily Blunt. Tribeca is punctuated by such popcorn-friendly tent-pole events, including the closing night superhero bonanza, "The Avengers," and numerous outdoor screenings.
The slate, numbering 90 movies this year, is typically among the most varied (and hardest to define) of the large international festivals. This year's selections were programmed by a somewhat new team that includes veterans of Sundance and Cannes.
"These are stories that start off on familiar turf — on territory and genres that I feel like I know where this is going — and take turns and go in directions that I totally didn't anticipate," says Geoff Gilmore, the chief creative officer of Tribeca Enterprises, who programmed the Sundance Film Festival for years. "And they end up feeling fresh."
And they are stories littered with memorable female protagonists.
"Lola Versus," a New York comedy from the filmmaking couple Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein to be released this June, is one of the best showcases yet for Greta Gerwig, the naturalistic actress of "Greenberg" and the recently released "Damsels in Distress." Lister-Jones and Wein drew from their own experiences (particularly Lister-Jones) to make a film, she says, about "what it's really like to be a single woman in New York, approaching 30."
"More than anything, I think we really felt there needed to be a movie with a female in the leading role because there's so few of them out there that feel authentic and real," says Wein. "You rarely get to see women being unapologetic."
"It's a moment happening now for women in film and we're happy to be a part of it," he adds, noting last year's "Bridesmaids" and Lena Dunham's recently debuted HBO series "Girls." "They're obviously our brethren" — to which Lister-Jones corrected: "Sistren."
Michael Winterbottom's "Trishna," is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," relocated to contemporary Rajasthan, India. Freida Pinto ("Slumdog Millionaire") stars as the title character, a peasant who falls in love with a British businessman (Riz Ahmed).
In wintery noir "Deadfall," the fallout of a brother-sister pair on the run (Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde) turns on a trio of women: Kate Mara, as a police officer and daughter to the police chief; Sissy Spacek as the mother of an ex-con boxer; and Wilde, as a perhaps overly dependent sister. (Another, more low-budget film set in cold environs is the interesting "First Winter," about a group of Brooklyn hipsters whose yoga classes and commune-like rural retreat come undone by an apocalyptic blackout.)
Nancy Schaefer, executive director of the festival, sees recession-era films that "maximize creativity": "There's a lot going on in these films that speaks to people having to be resourceful."
In telling a history of the vibrator, "Hysteria" has quite another perspective on resourcefulness. Directed by Tanya Wexler, the film, depicts the invention by a 19th century British doctor (Hugh Dancy) in tandem with the rebellions of an early feminist (Maggie Gyllenhaal, in a part perfectly suited to her) in Victorian London.
There are numerous other films, too, that feature not only a leading lady, but a female director. Kat Coiro's "While We Were Here," is a black-and-white drama about a wife (Kate Bosworth) and husband (Iddo Goldberg) traveling in Naples, where Bosworth's character is lured by a young American abroad (Jamie Blackley). Julie Delpy's "2 Days in New York," her follow up to "2 Days in Paris," more comically places a relationship (Chris Rock plays Delpy's husband) in the context of a particular place.
In "Take This Waltz," actress Sarah Polley takes her second stab at directing after the well-received "Away From Her." While "Away From Her" was adapted from an Alice Munro story, Polley wrote the script for "Take This Waltz" herself — though it still bears a Munro-like interest in the passage of time. Michelle Williams stars as a tempted young wife to Seth Rogen.
"Your Sister's Sister" is another kind of follow-up for director Lynn Shelton, whose 2009 "Humpday" was a notable entry in the unadorned filmmaking style typically called "mumblecore." "Your Sister's Sister" similarly uses awkward intimacy to tease out a deeper story between two sisters (Emily Blunt and Rosemarie Dewitt, both in fine, improvising form) and a possibly shared interest (Mark Duplass).
But perhaps the most unusual female protagonist at Tribeca is the young Rachel Mwanza, who plays a 13-year-old child soldier caught up in an unspecified African revolution in Montreal filmmaker Kim Nguyen's "War Witch."
"When we found her, she was living partly at her grandmother's place and partly on the streets," says Nguyen, who shot the film in the Congo. "The movie gave her a small chance of getting out of the streets."
Nguyen wanted a subjective film from the perspective a child soldier, often adapting the story after speaking with locals, like a sergeant that ended up in the film. Actors were never given a script, lending "War Witch" an uncommon realism.
"I realized quickly that she has an immense talent," says Nguyen. "When I asked her how she does it — how she bursts out in laughter, how she starts crying so normally — she just told me that she thinks of her past."


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Ever wonder what astronauts aboard the International Space Station do to pass the time? Pretty much what we do here, as it turns out --- they read books, listen to music, watch movies. We came across this list of all the books, music and DVDs aboard the ISS, and noted with interest that one of the films available for viewing is the 1995 title "Apollo 13."
The Apollo 13 mission to the moon, of course, was the one that didn't make it, the one on which all the astronauts nearly died. And this movie is aboard the space station? It's good to know the astronauts have a morbid sense of humor.
The two solid weeks of sunny, mild weather we had in April were a tease, evidently, because now that it's gone that pleasant stuff doesn't show any imminent signs of coming back.
The weather this weekend won't be miserable by any means, but don't get too excited. The proximity of a stalled warm front just to our south, followed by the passage of a cold front later on Sunday, should assure cloudy skies, with chilly easterly winds and the ever-present if slight chance of light rain or drizzle, throughout the weekend period.
Temperatures will be none too impressive, topping out around 57 on Saturday and 63 on Sunday, which is also the day that our monthly weather column will appear in The Staten Island Advance, summarizing the weather of the April just past.
So without further ado, here's the raw data we'll use for the column; all statistics are from Central Park unless otherwise indicated.
Heating degree days for season to date (since 7/1) --- 4,298 (actual), 4,638 (normal) --- 340 below normal
Cooling degree days for season to date (since 1/1) --- 10 (A), 12 (N) --- 2 below normal
Average temperature --- 54.9 degrees (A), 52.5 (N) --- 2.4 degrees above normal for month, 2.0 above normal year to date
High temperature for month --- 84 on 18th; Low temperature --- 33 on 3rd
14 days warmer than normal, 9 days normal, 7 days colder than
Precipitation --- 2.77 inches (A), 4.28 (N) --- 1.51 inches below normal for month, 0.28 below normal year to date
Snow for month --- 0 inches (A), 0.5 (N) --- 0.5 inches below normal
Snow for season --- 11.9 inches (A), 22.4 (N) --- 10.5 inches below normal
Average cloud cover --- 62 percent (up 1 percent from month previous)
Wettest day --- 1.18 inches on 28th
Water temperature --- 55.2 degrees at the Battery, Manhattan (up 10.6 degrees from month previous)
Reservoir levels --- 97.0 percent (A), 99.8 (N) --- 2.8 percent below normal (down 5.7 percent from month previous)
***Highlights: None
*** No records set or tied
*** Trends: Third of past four months warmer than normal
Yesterday's extreme temperatures in the contiguous United States --- High: 107 at Laredo, Texas; Low: 7 at Stanley, Idaho.


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AUBURN -- Auburn 30, Florida Atlantic 14. That's what the Jordan-Hare Stadium scoreboard read at the end of Saturday night.
Savor it, Auburn fans. The next win may not come for a month or longer.
Auburn 10, Florida Atlantic 6. Those are the halftime digits to worry about.
Auburn 315, Florida Atlantic 307. Those are the final total yard numbers to fret over.
"Terrible," said one Auburn fan in an elevator while leaving the game. "We've got to get better," said a woman next to him. Those are the comments that will send Jay Jacobs back to his talking points about how young these Tigers' stripes are in 2011.
As true as that is, so is this through one month: Auburn is a bad 3-1 SEC team that could be 1-3.
If Auburn plays during the next month like it did in the first half against Florida Atlantic, the Tigers will trail by four touchdowns at intermission. At least.
Florida Atlantic collected a $975,000 paycheck and in the process confirmed how rough October will be for Auburn. As one al.com reader astutely posted during the first half: "Florida Atlantic should be careful. This might be a trap game for them."
Where's the next win coming from for Auburn?
At South Carolina? Good luck tackling Marcus Lattimore.
At Arkansas? Bobby Petrino put up 44 and 43 points on Gene Chizik's first two defenses, which were better than this one.
Home vs. Florida? The Gators are starting to look strong again.
At LSU? Auburn's offensive line is Tiger bait against LSU's front seven.
Auburn could be 3-5 entering an Oct. 29 game against Ole Miss, essentially needing that win to become bowl-eligible. Lose to Ole Miss and the Tigers could have to sweep the final three -- at Georgia, vs. Samford, vs. Alabama -- to qualify for a bowl. [Corrected: Auburn plays Ole Miss on Oct. 29 in Auburn.]
No one should be surprised Auburn is struggling. But it's striking when watching pre-game highlights on the scoreboard from 2010 and then witnessing this year's version. Fortunes can change quickly in college football.
You know it's bad when Auburn's much-maligned defense was actually the highlight Saturday, scoring one fewer touchdown than the offense.
We've never seen a game like this by Gus Malzahn's offense in three years at Auburn. It can't be overstated how poorly Auburn played, especially in the first half.
On the very first play, Barrett Trotter threw a bad interception. That started a night in which Trotter too often had to scramble for his life, hold the ball too long, or throw darts when touch was needed.
The Tigers had seven negative plays before halftime against a Sun Belt Conference team that lost by a combined score of 85-3 to Florida and Michigan State in the first two weeks. Twice, Auburn couldn't pick up a third or fourth down when needing only two yards -- despite going to its most dependable players.
Mike Dyer got stuffed on a third-and-2 run up the middle and lost a yard. Emory Blake dropped a fourth-and-2 pass shortly before halftime.
If you had Week 4 in the pool for when some Auburn fans would start booing the defending champs, congrats, you were a winner after the Blake drop.
Meanwhile, Auburn's defense continues to provide inflated numbers to every opponent. Florida Atlantic was statistically the worst offense in America yet against Auburn more than tripled its season average in total yards.
Then there was the matchup of the country's worst third-down offense (Florida Atlantic, 9 percent) vs. the worst third-down defense (Auburn, 64 percent). Winner: the Owls, who converted 6 of 14.
With one-third of the season completed, Auburn is allowing 31 points per game. That's the highest scoring average through four games in school history, topping 1949 (25.8 points) and 2009 (24.3 points).
The final scoreboard says one thing. October will say something quite different.
Write Jon at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @jonsol.