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Movie Review: Coriolanus
Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut with Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Rating: R
Studio: Magnolia Mae Films
Ralph Fiennes starred in a celebrated 2000 London production of Coriolanus and now he's making his directorial debut with a modern day version of Shakespeare's tragic study of power, arrogance, political machinations and isolation. Fiennes works from a tense, intelligent screenplay adaptation by John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator) set in a trashed urban wasteland roiling with factionalism and unrest identified here as "a place calling itself Rome."
He and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker, Green Zone) have created something strong, clear and very much in synch with the frustrated, angry and explosive mood of our times. The movie isn't a radical, transformative experience on par with Kurosawa's visionary Shakespearean adaptations like Ran or Throne of Blood. It's closer to director Richard Loncraine's revisionist 1995 Richard III, set in a fascistic England, 1930. Not in bad company, though.
With Fiennes as a shaven-headed, ambitious, ruthless military hero who refuses to listen to advisors warning him to cozy up to the rebellious 'commoners' whose mere existence repulses him. This Coriolanus bristles with scenes of torture, kinetic, hand-held combat sequences featuring grenades, tanks and starving have-nots rioting over bread. The contemporary grit, blood and brutality juxtaposed against the soaring beauty of Shakespeare's language sometimes make for an awfully odd fit. Imagine if soldiers in The Hurt Locker started speaking in iambic pentameter and verse.
Yet the admirably ambitious Fiennes may have piled his plate too high. Even though he is often fascinating in the central role, he is only occasionally as chilling as in a meltdown scene staged during a political TV talk show. Gerard Butler has terrific moments as rebel forces leader Aufidius, Coriolanus' sworn enemy and unlikely ally, but the entire show is stolen by a pair of old pros.
Vanessa Redgrave is majestic and electrifying as Fiennes' ferocious, haughty and Machiavellian mother Volumnia; she lifts the movie every time she is on screen. If a supporting actress Oscar nomination, at least, isn't hers, then we can't wait to see the performance that can top hers. Brian Cox is superb as the crafty, watchful, ambiguously motivated Menenius. He's like a character out of a paranoid, highly astute and exciting war thriller — which, in a sense, he is.


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Yeah, and then watch Inglorious Basterds so you can see what really happened in WWII.
quote:The story was fictional. Alex Haley is a big liar. At least he copped to it after being taken to task by legit historians.
Watching Roots and its making me sick
to think that really happend.
I never said it was "historically accurate"
But the torture, beating, killing of slaves were...
1) The willing complicity of black Africans in the slave trade is one of the biggest "secrets" (i.e., coverup) in the history of slavery.
2) There were some sadistic bastards the owned slaves or were overseers; however, the majority of slaveowners were businessmen who realized that slaves were a substantial capital investment that did him no good if they were injure or dead. Read Time on the Cross.
Oh, well shite. That makes it all ok then.
People in here actually trying to lessen the disgustingness of slavery.
Same people in here probably all thought any mistreatment ended when slaves were freed and refuse to recognize Jim Crow laws, segregation, redlining, etc. Any attempt to justify or lessen the atrocities committed against oppressed people is ignorant and simple minded.
1) The willing complicity of black Africans in the slave trade is one of the biggest "secrets" (i.e., coverup) in the history of slavery.
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Getting you nob out and dancing round in town when its really cold and you have an erection. It has to be good music you dance to ...i suggest Smiling Ivy.
Yeh, i heard that Steve got arrested last night for waving his sheffield ski pole in a policeman's face!
Arrested for a sheffield ski pole?!!
Thats harsh
Arrested for a sheffield ski pole?!!
Thats harsh
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P.E.I. Thieves Arrested After Mistaking Hops For Marijuana
Can you see the difference between hops and marijuana? Apparently, not everyone can.
Two men and a woman were arrested in P.E.I. Saturday after mistaking hops for marijuana on a farm in Stratford, Queens District RCMP said in a news release.
Hops are used in beer brewing, and the green plant somewhat resembles nuggets of marijuana.
The farmer called police after spotting the trespassers near his buildings.
RCMP said "extensive damage" was caused to the farm's crop, impacting its ability to provide quality hops for market.
One of the men, 23-year-old Jesse Howatt, appeared in court on Monday. He has been charged with break-and-enter, theft, mischief, and two counts of breaching court orders.
The other man and woman have been released and are scheduled to appear in court at a later date.
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Kola J. McGrath was arrested for sneaking into her boyfriend's apartment complex by hiding in a small pink suitcase in Portland, Ore. The police searched the apartment of Curtis T. Lowe after being informed that a man had kidnapped a woman, put her in a suitcase, and taken her into the building. They found McGrath hiding in a closet.
Houaka Yang, 20, of Wisconsin, accidentally videotaped his confession and identified himself on tape with a camcorder he stole. Once the video camera was recovered, the victim uploaded Yang's clip to YouTube.
Luerissie Ashley Ross -- who is also a stripper called Pocahontas -- was arrested in February after she allegedly lured a man to his death and shot another in two robberies in Houston. Read more.
Clyde Hobbs was arrested in May, 2012 for allegedly calling 911 at least 17 times -- to talk dirty to operators. He'd been arrested several times in the past for the same crime. When cops arrived to collar him, Hobbs asked, "Are you here to arrest me again?" Read more.
Patricia Krentcil was charged with child endangerment for allegedly allowing her 5-year-old to use a tanning booth, but the New Jersey mom says the child got a sunburn from playing outside. Read more.
Largo (Fla.) Police pulled over Kotelman allegedly for speeding and driving drunk on May 3. Cops checked the trunk and say they found a small monkey tucked inside. Read more.
Latham, 22, allegedly got naked, stole a man's truck and then ran it into the front of a home at 50 mph. Read more.
Sheriff's deputies in Albuquerque, N.M. arrested Joseph Hannah for allegedly posing as a police officer. He's accused of pointing a gun at a group of teenage boys and allegedly urinating on a hat belonging to one of them. Two women told police that he pulled them over and flirted with them in separate incidents. Read more.
Michael Baker was arrested after posting a Facebook photo of himself stealing gas from a police car in Jenkins, Ky. Read more.
Ronaldo Silva allegedly broke out of a Brazilian prison by dressing in drag in April, 2012. He was caught less than an hour by a cop who noticed that he walked funny in heels. Read more.
Ray Woods allegedly tied 89 bags of heroin and cocaine to his penis. When cops found him out, he reportedly urinated all over himself. Read more.
Keith Fehr is accused of wearing a black dress and exposed himself to children at a park in Illinois. Read more.
Raymond Foley, an IT guy at an insurance company in West Des Moines, allegedly peed on four female co-workers' chairs over the course of five months. The company installed surveillance cameras in April, 2012 when the women complained, and reportedly caught Foley yellow handed. Read more.
Jesse James Thomas, arrested March 28 for public drunkenness, Thomas was wearing a sombrero when he jumped on an officer's parked patrol car screaming his name, according to an account in the Sacramento Bee. Read more.
William Bliss was arrested in March, 2012 after claiming four men made him carry a nuclear bomb -- while he was naked and drunk in the middle of an Iowa City street. Read more.
Salem police say surveillance video shows Christina Lopez watched her 17-year-old daughter dance at Presley's Playhouse Cabaret, a strip club in Oregon. Read more.
Accused teenage Bookie Briana Rios of Florida is accused of taking bets on NBA and NFL games. Read more.
Matthew Ibarria, a fugitive from Florida wanted for allegedly attacking a relative, was arrested after jumping naked from a car in Georgia. This dashboard video from a Kingsland Police Department vehicle allegedly shows him running away. Read more.
Jacob Lee Bovia is facing real indecent exposure charges for exposing his fake genitalia to a group of women on Maryland's Anne Arundel Community College campus. Read more.
John Jardini, 26, of Pittsburgh allegedly robbed a woman for $60 -- and then asked her out on a date by cell phone. The "love" story gets worse. Read more here.
Jason Engel, 21, of Pittsburgh, was arrested after he skipped a court hearing on charges that he stole $400 from a 2-year-old's piggy bank. Read more here.
Former Elvis impersonator Michael Conley blamed his diabetes for starting a standoff with Florida police, in which he threatened to use a weapon of mass destruction against them. He allegedly held up a vial of what he called Ricin -- a highly potent toxin -- as he barricaded himself in a motel in February, 2012. He was arrested about four hours later. Read more here.
Barker called 911 repeatedly in Hudson, Fla. asking them to fetch him a taxi and saying that he lost his football. Cops arrested him for allegedly misusing the emergency system on Feb. 20, 2012. Read more here.
Those who attempt to arrest Mark Loescher have their work cut out for them. When he was arrested for assault, he not only told officers that he was Elvis Presley's brother, a friend of President Bush, and director of the CIA, but he was also half-orangutan. Read more here.
A Martin County sheriff's deputy in Florida arrested Ramon Blair, 28, based on tips from informants that Blair would have hundreds of dollars of crack cocaine "on his person." An initial search turned no results, but a more thorough search while in custody revealed that Blair had hidden the crack in, well, his crack. Blair was told to undress, squat, and cough -- and police found what appeared to be a white piece of paper in his buttocks, which contained crack cocaine. Read more here.
Clothes be darned: Verdon Taylor was arrested in February, 2012 for allegedly stripping naked in the parking lot of a Walmart, walking inside and putting on socks, then shopping. Almost needless to say, he was eventually Tased. Read more here.
Portland, Ore. couple Nikolas Harbar and Stephanie Pelzner were arrested on Valentine's Day, 2012 after Harbar allegedly bound his naked girlfriend and threw her in the back of a car -- in the pursuit of a sexy role-play romp. Cops, after a long search, found that Pelzner wasn't a kidnapping victim, but that both were disorderly conduct suspects. Read more here.
Misty Lawson, 30, a self-described "professional baby maker" on her Facebook page, allegedly punched her son in the face and body several times during an in-home, state-mandated anger management course. Read more here.
Harold Wayne Hadley, Jr. was arrested in February 2012 for allegedly threatening to blow up his Mississippi school -- but he maintains it was a fart joke. He allegedly wrote, on a piece of toilet paper, that he "passed a bomb in the library." He was held on $20,000 bail. Read more here.
He had a real sweet tooth. Cops say they found 22-year-old Andrew Toothman lying down inside Kentucky Food World IGA market on Feb. 2, completely covered in chocolate and peanut butter. He'd also allegedly written "Sorry" in NyQuil on the floor. Read more here.
Rogue cuddler Agustin Sanchez allegedly snuck into his ex-girlfriend's home and crawled into bed with her for a snuggle. The spooning attempt was thwarted, however, when the woman notified police. Read more here.
Timothy Clark probably didn't think his plan through when he allegedly shoplifted from a Wal-Mart at the same time that police were holding their "Shop With A Cop" charity event. Read more.
Oneal Morris is accused of posing as a doctor and filling a women's buttocks with cement, mineral oil and flat-tire sealant. The woman wanted to work at a nightclub and searched for someone who could perform plastic surgery at a cheap price to give her a curvier body. Police say Oneal was was born a man but identifies as a woman. Read more.
Police in Illinois say that Olivia Ornelas blamed her DUI and crashed vehicle on her boyfriend's failure to take her, as he promised, to the new "Twilight" movie. Read more.
Authorities in Georgia found Ranaldo Jack stuck in a woman's chimney. He was charged in connection with an attempted burglary. Read more.
Marsia Emanuel allegedly flagged a school bus in Winter Haven, Fla., boarded and beat the bus driver in front of her daughter, a student riding it already. Cops found Emanuel later at home where she dropped her underpants in front of them, they said. It's unclear what was her motive. Read more.
Investigators in California are trying to track down a man who robbed a bank armed with pesticide. The suspect appeared to be carrying a black semi-automatic handgun and a plastic container of pesticide when he held up the Pacific Western Bank in Rancho Santa Fe on Nov. 4, 2011. Read more.
Police in Florida arrested Karen Henry, 45, after she allegedly threatened her 80-year-old father with a knife for not sharing his potato salad. Read more.
This camouflage might work well in nature, but it really stands out in the police station. Oregon investigators believe Gregory Liascos, 36, was wearing this "ghillie" camouflage when he attempted to break into the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals last week. After setting off alarms, the suspect allegedly fled into a wooded area nearby. Officers only found Liascos when a police dog bit what appeared to be a patch of grass -- which yelped in pain. On Oct. 12, 2011, authorities said Liascos failed to show up for his trial. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Sheriff's deputies in Pinal County, Ariz., say Albert Tejeda's unique tattoos -- and his lengthy rap sheet -- leave him with a face they'll never forget. After Tejeda allegedly fled during a traffic stop, deputies claim they knew exactly who they were looking for and later found the 31-year-old walking around Casa Grande with a samurai sword.
Even if Juan Aguirre got away, he would have ended up empty handed. Police said the 21-year-old Kansan stole six empty DVD boxes from a local adult entertainment shop.
Josephine Smith is seen in this booking photo from the Pinellas County Jail. Smith was arrested after allegedly attacking and biting a piece of skin off a homeless man in St. Petersburg after proclaiming "I am a vampire, I am going to eat you".
Edwin Tobergta, 32, is seen in this booking photo from the Butler County Sheriff's Office. Tobergta was arrested after allegedly having sex with an inflatable pool raft.
It's not easy to be the most most memorable visitor when thousands of NASCAR fans come to town, but West Virginia's Joshua Greene made a pretty good run for that honor when police caught the streaking 27-year-old with a raccoon in his car.
We're not saying there's guilt written all over his face, but Ismael Ambrosio is seen in this Aug. 9 booking photo from the Pinellas County (Fla.) Jail with a facial tattoo that could not have pleased police officers.
The hand of justice makes an appearance in this mug shot. Nichlous Peternik -- and the arm of a law enforcement official in Redding, Calif. -- are featured prominently in this memorable booking photo taken after Peternik was arrested on suspicion of burglary. Officials say they were forced to reach into the frame when Peternik refused to pull his hair back from over his face.
An Australian man caught driving a motorized cooler box through a beachside resort town appeared in court charged with drunk driving, The Courier Mail reported Monday. Christopher Ian Petrie, 23, faces charges of driving under the influence and driving without a license after police caught him on the makeshift vehicle, which was powered by a 50cc engine.
Former Miss El Paso USA Lorena Tavera was arrested for allegedly shoplifting a $69 shirt in El Paso.
Cory Smits, 29, is seen in this booking photo from the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department. Smits was found guilty July 7 on his fifth offense of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
This booking photo from the Shasta County Sheriff's Office in California shows Patrick Francis Brooks and his obscene tattoo after his July 11 arrest on charges of burglary, receiving stolen property, forgery and violating the terms of his parole for a previous conviction.
Mark Anthony Richardson Jr. wore diapers and faked being autistic to get women to babysit him. He was sentenced to three years in prison in July 2011 for groping an 18-year-old daughter of one of the conned nannies.
Levon T. Sarkisyan, allegedly broke into a Connecticut home and smashed statues and furniture, because he claimed God told him to do it, according to police.
Police in Phoenix, Ariz., have accused Randon Reid of the crime of flight -- and a crime against flight. Investigators say the 26-year-old suspect opened fire on an airplane parked at Deer Valley Airport, then fled from authorities who tried to pull him over. He has reportedly been charged with felony flight and driving under the influence.
Holy handcuffs! Police in a smog-clotted town in northwest Michigan are touting the arrest of Batman. The legendary caped crusader was reportedly nabbed while dangling from a 30-foot-high building. The unmasked superhero wannabe is actually a local resident named Mark Wayne Williams.
Some people have guilt written all over their faces, and others, like assault suspect Robert Norton Kennedy, have apologies tattooed across their foreheads. A booking photo released by the authorities in Horry County, S.C., appears to show the 51-year-old sporting a facial tattoo that reads: "Please forgive me if I say or do anything stupid. Thank You!" (Read More)
A South Carolina man who twice pleaded guilty to having sex with a horse has been released from prison and put on probation, under the condition that he keep his distance from the horse. Rodell Vereen, pictured in this file photo, was released from prison after serving 16 months.
It was almost a kiss of death. Deputies in Florida say 92-year-old Helen Staudinger opened fire on her neighbor's house after the much younger resident refused to give her a kiss. Investigators at the Marion County Sheriff's Office claim Staudinger refused to leave 53-year-old Dwight Bettner unless her neighbor gave her a kiss. She allegedly returned with a gun.
It's always best to practice what you preach. Police in Florida say they arrested the former president of a local chapter of Mother's Against Drunk Driving for driving under the influence. Debra Oberlin has been charged with drunk driving for the Feb. 18 incident.
Police in Michigan say a man claimed he was royalty before trying to steal a pack of Marlboros from a 7-Eleven. Joseph Lawrence Borowiak is charged with strong-arm robbery and resisting arrest after allegedly wrestling a store clerk over a pack of cigarettes. Borowiak reportedly stated, "The king doesn't pay for cigarettes."
Jerome Smith's forehead says he's a "Genius," but police say he wasn't being smart when he allegedly struck a pregnant woman with a handgun. The Cincinnati, Ohio, resident is accused of repeatedly pistol-whipping a woman who was eight months pregnant in late January.
When police caught 87-year-old Leo Earl Sharp allegedly transporting 228 pounds of cocaine, the suspect told them that he was forced "at gunpoint" to transport the drugs.
Andrei Bibbs, 54, of the 3000 block of Coopers Grove Court, was arrested Jan. 7 Illinois State Police and charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol. He was clearly shocked by the change.
Belton lost his wig, sunglasses and $115,000 worth of casino chips when security wrestled him to the floor during a botched weekend heist, according to authorities.
Tiffany Pocock, 27, of Bellevue, Ohio, spat blood on the cops who were arresting her in late May 2012. After being detained for driving a vehicle while impaired, Pocock also began banging her head repeatedly against the door of the police vehicle, sustaining personal injuries that resulted in her hospitalization. Read more.
Dylan DiFalco told a Sheriff's deputy he had to urinate and, when the cop told him he'd have to wait, he peed in the cop car, according to an arrest report. "I told you I had to go you stupid cop," Difalco said, according to the report.
Hodges, 20, of Florida, allegedly fled to a nudist colony and threatened residents there after committing an armed robbery at a nearby Lowe's. The fully-clothed Hodges was reported to have been easily identified by his pursuers in the naked environment.
Shelby, 53, was arrested in South Florida on June 1, 2012 for driving without a license -- immediately after leaving a courthouse after he appeared for the same offense.
Okrzesik is accused of helping to kill 19-year-old Juliana Mensch in March. She allegedly sent incriminating text messages and conducted fishy Google searches implicating herself in the crime.
Karoly is accused of choking her boyfriend because he refused to marry her so she could get a new Visa.
Pope was arrested for DUI. He allegedly told police that he was a "covert agent" and that he had drank 100 beers.
Mabb is accused of exposing herself at an intersection in Pompano Beach, Fla. She allegedly told police she didn't "give a f--k" about her actions, according to a police report.
Lages was arrested when he allegedly called 911 after he was not allowed to bring his kitten inside a strip club.


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I asked Microsoft for a response to their failing score on my "Online services security report card" for their Hotmail service and got the response that Hotmail customers were hoping to hear. Microsoft will fix the problem and enable full-time SSL browsing for Hotmail this month. Here's the official response I got from Microsoft.
"Whenever people access the web through unsecured wireless networks they run the risk of exploits. To protect against these exploits and keep passwords secure we encrypt all connections at login with HTTPS (SSL encryption), and have recently released new security features like Single-Use codes, which allow Windows Live customers to login with a one-time password and keep their normal password secure on public networks. In addition to protecting customers information at login, in November we will enable Hotmail customers to maintain full-session SSL encryption during their entire Hotmail session, which mitigates cookie-stealing exploits. While we are integrating several security features into Windows Live to help protect our customers, we always recommend that our customers use secure internet connections when browsing the web." – Microsoft Spokesperson
I will note that cookie stealing exploits (sidejacking) like Firesheep work independently of full time SSL browsing. Sites like Facebook that allow you to manually force an SSL connection for everything are still susceptible to cookie theft while sites like Ebay which doesn't support full time SSL browsing aren't susceptible. Vulnerability to sidejacking depends on how the javascript is written and whether they transmit authentication cookies using SSL or in the clear. So while full time SSL browsing is welcome (because that protects the data you're looking at), it's even more important to make sure that cookies aren't exposed by sloppy javascript code. I'm sure Microsoft's engineers will verify this as they're working on the fix, but I'll retest them and update my report card when they're finished upgrading.
Full SSL costs almost nothing
What I'm more curious about is whether Microsoft will implement SSL by default like Google Gmail. I've argued for many years that full time SSL encryption has negligible server and network overhead and Google confirmed this on their production Gmail environment this year. Google engineers wrote:
"In January this year (2010), Gmail switched to using HTTPS for everything by default. Previously it had been introduced as an option, but now all of our users use HTTPS to secure their email between their browsers and Google, all the time. In order to do this we had to deploy no additional machines and no special hardware. On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the above numbers (public for the first time) will help to dispel that."
Now that Google has made public their experience with full time SSL on Gmail (which got the only "A" on my online report card), I hope the rest of the industry will finally put the myth that SSL is too expensive to bed and do the right thing.
Facebook's response to Forbes
Facebook which absolutely flunked my security report card responded to Forbes' Kashmir Hill offers some hope that their will be a fix within the coming months, but nothing definitive and offered some mistaken defenses of Facebook security. Facebook's spokesperson claimed that Facebook always "encrypts" the login page. That's true but it's totally inadequate because good security requires strong encryption and strong authentication. Facebook's login page does not authenticate itself to the user because it doesn't default to HTTPS which helps the user determine if they're really visiting Facebook or some imitator's site. The U.S. banking industry mistakenly believed that encryption alone was sufficient in 2006 but finally deployed proper server authentication to the user a few years later. Most other online services have figured this out except for Facebook and Twitter.
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Magnum is proud to announce the sponsorship of the Dutch Marines Rowing Challenge
This community of former and current Dutch Royal Marines have taken up the challenge to row from Rotterdam, NL to London, UK to raise awareness for PTSS (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) and raise funds to support military staff in need returning from the field. Celebration of the founding of the Dutch Royal Marine Corps. 350 years 350 kilometers The elite corps of the Dutch Navy - the Royal Marine Corps are celebrating their 350 year anniversary by rowing 350 kilometers from the Netherlands to the UK. This is a great challenge and a fantastic way to mark the 350 years and to celebrate their ties with the UK Navy. With nine rowing boats they will cross the ocean and have been looking for partners and sponsors to get them into the water. Magnum is pleased to help this fundraiser and to be part of this amazing event. Magnum Elite Spider 8.0 Magnum as word wide supplier of uniform footwear and supplier of NATO approved military footwear will be supporting these men in their challenge by supplying them the Elite Spider 8.0. The Elite Spider was originally designed as the perfect combination of a sport shoe and uniform boot. Lightweight, but durable and full support on the ankle, this was the perfect boot to supply for training and this enormous physical endurance. "To unite makes you stronger, and Magnum is proud to be part of this team and the only way we can is to assist in what we do best: supplying our wearers with durable and lightweight tactical footwear." – Glen Richards Magnum Global Brand Director
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Dates: The Movie 43 Giveaway Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") begins at 1:00 PM EST on January 19, 2013, and ends at 4:00 PM EST on January 23, 2013, (the "Entry Period").
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Via Twitter: Entry is available by Tweeting @Playboydotcom an answer to "why do you deserve our naughtiest prize pack?"
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The phenomenon of tourists on the same trip taking multiple shots of the same scene and posting them all to a social media site like Facebook.
When Ann, Keith, and Fred all posted photos on Facebook of the same rice paddy, it was a total clusterclick.
by Frederick Lane April 29, 2012


text: [quote user="slipknottin"][quote user="heavyhitter"]I actually think if Luck doesn't declare, Newton has got a good chance at being the first QB selected over Ryan Mallett. [/quote] Possibly, I dont really expect both Mallett and Newton to declare though. But you never know. I do think Newton has a legitimate shot to go in the top 10. Especially after nonsense like Tebow going in the first.[/quote]I believe u were watching the Auburn-Alabama game. That first half that had him completly rattled. While I like Newtons physical skills the offense that Auburn runs is nothing like like a pro style offense.


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Love the sheep - can't wait to do an applique quilt
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Some of you know I live on a sheep farm. If you didn't know, now you do! LOL! :D I absolutely LOVE your sheep project! I've wanted to make something like this for a long time, but I don't get much time to sew/quilt with my two little kids.
I have to admit that I'm no longer a big fan of the real sheep. They belong to my MIL and GrandMIL. We have everything fenced off from the sheep, and I have two gates to go through every time I go out or come home. Not too bad of a price to pay to have a yard and garden, but sometimes they get in if the gate is left open or something. They head straight for the flowers and leave behind their "proof" in the kids' playground/pea gravel. :(
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I really love your work! The blanket stitch (I think it's called blanket stitch) around the sheep is great! That's one of my favorite stitches!!!
Love your sheep quilt, very nicely done. I really love the little fellas in your avatar. Tell us about them. Jan
I saw that book the other day at Hancock and that sheep got my attention too. It is soooo cute! Great colors too.
Buttercream, nearly finished the quilt now - I will post another pic then.
Janstar, see p.57 of "our furry, feathered friends etc." about Rascal & Coco.
This is such a cute quilt!
Katrine....Yes! you can have credit for the shelves.
I found the book on Amazon for way CHEAP!!! and it shipped today!!!
Thanks alot to everyone....
It's ADORABLE!!! I love it!
those are very nice....


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Konrád, György 1933–
Konrád is a Hungarian novelist and social worker. The Case Worker is his best known translated work, gaining its power, according to Irving Howe, "from Konrád's gift for the vignette, the suddenly snapped picture, as if taken from a slightly overfocused camera." (See also CLC, Vol. 4.)
Neal Ascherson
The Case Worker, a first novel by the young Hungarian writer George Konrád, has been widely praised in the West…. The Case Worker is horrific, and Konrád possesses both the power to see and the power to describe what he sees. But there is much to make reservations about: his violent, remorseless battering of the feelings causes monotony, his rhetorical seizures which spatter the reader with a hundred hot adjectives in a few sentences are, it seems to me, the easy but wrong way to the effect he wants….
What is memorable about the book is neither its narrative structure nor its tirades: Konrád's real achievement is, in fact, his evoking of a "case," the brilliant, economical creation of a character in a trap. He is a very talented writer, but The Case Worker is the sort of abreacting, subjective novel which does not yet prove him a gifted novelist and which, by its nature, can't be repeated in variation or developed upon. Konrád's next work will probably tell us more.
Neal Ascherson, in The New York Review of Books (reprinted with permission from The New York Review of Books; © 1974 by NYREV, Inc.), August 8, 1974, p. 16.
Ivan Sanders
With the skill of a social scientist, the compassion of a humanist, and the stylistic pyrotechnics of the avant-garde, Konrád [in The City Builder] outlines the political, social and economic history of an unnamed East European city….
Much of The City Builder reads like an extended essay, although it is profoundly literary. Its ideas arrive in language of extraordinary power and plasticity. Moreover, by constantly condensing and telescoping events, Konrád manages to pack a number of potential novels into his text. Alfred Kazin has said that novels cannot be written anymore, only scenarios. Eastern European novelists and film makers are particularly adept at schematic, elliptical modes of composition. Konrád merely hints at the specifics of time and place, yet each hint is crucial, for it evokes a state of mind and a way of life. The true protagonist of the novel is the city, whose main square, with its impressive public buildings and statuary, is a memorial to mock heroism and real suffering. The narrator finds his city at once cozy and confining, irreplaceable and detestable—"an Eastern European showcase of devastation and regeneration" that "can welcome its enemies with salt and bread and, having taken crash courses in the art of survival, change its greeting signs, statues, scapegoats—its history."
In his much-praised first novel, The Case Worker, Konrád already proved his stylistic...
(The entire section is 407 words.)
Jascha Kessler
George Konrád's first book, "The Case Worker," was a fictive essay built with blocks of grotesque realism: the daily horrors of the lives of the poor and helpless, the deficient, abandoned, crazed and rejected…. Its thesis was that our urban culture grows more vacant of humane values in proportion to our power to process masses of people through a machinery designed to give them well-being….
Still, "The Case Worker" accepts love, is drenched in compassion as it offers a traditional humanist solution of the problem of human imperfection. Konrád sees that it is just the problem—the intolerable evil inherent in our defective human condition—that spurs the revolutionist, and infuriates the...
(The entire section is 525 words.)
Susan Lardner
"The City Builder" is written as an interior monologue delivered by a city planner—a Socialist bureaucrat who lives and works in an "East-Central European city."…
The namelessness of speaker and city—besides possibly indicating a diminished individuality owing to East-Central European political circumstances—emphasizes the general pertinence of Konrád's theme, which is the bitter disappointments of middle age. East European Socialist middle age, true; but readers of diverse persuasions will recognize, if they don't also share, the planner's close attention to his aging body, his feeling of private and professional failure, his absorption in thoughts of death and of the sexual joys of the...
(The entire section is 449 words.)


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The Giants shouldn't deter from drafting Chance if available and or Reese like the kid even when Boothe got signed.
" Success is never final, but failure can be " B.P.
Best player available, if he is there and he is it....take him! Love the way Reese set himself up for the Draft!
I'd much rather Werner or Ansah.. But Warmack is a powerful run blocker whos complete player and plays with a nasty mean streak, and i believe will be a perrenial probowler for yrs to come, but i'd still rather a more impactful 1st rd pick, like Ez Ansah , Bjorn Werner, or Alec Ogletree...


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STGs are great rifles [were great kits]. Just hope that you didn't get a hack and slash build.
I just won the auction for an FAL. I guess that makes me a FAL'er or is that FALacy? Either way it's an STG kit on an Enterprise receiver. In fact, exactly it is:
"STG kit on Enterprise receiver with Rhodesian handguards, pistol grip, buttstock and grenade sight. The seven US parts are: receiver (Enterprise),trigger (DSA), sear (DSA), hammer (DSA), flash supressor (DSA), gas piston (Tapco) and charging handle. Also comes with STG handguards, bipod and 20rd mag shown in photo."
Did anyone on this forum build this one? I think that I got a fair deal on it, and I'm hoping that it is all that it is advertised to be. We'll see when it arrives. Expect a range report soon.
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STGs are great rifles [were great kits]. Just hope that you didn't get a hack and slash build.
When you buy on Gunbroker you pays your money and you takes your chances.


text: I made this last year and wanted to share it with everyone. It was surprisingly cheap and easy to make. Glass and hinges where the bulk of the cost. I think it came in at around $80. Here is a post on my blog about the process: https://cheapbeekeeping.wordpress.co...ervation-hive/ Pictures and video below. Pictures should link to larger image size.


text: To give birth to a child is considered as a new life for a mother. After giving birth to a baby, women feels like her new life. It happens due to terrible labor pain during delivery period. Women who go through cesarean do not know anything about labor pain, but for women with a normal delivery needs to face unbearable labor pains until she gives birth to a baby. There is no fixed time for labor pain; sometimes it will take 1-2 days or more. There are many ways that can help you to be comfortable during delivery by reducing labor pain.


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Peter Woit
For nearly 18 years now, most advanced mathematical work in
theoretical particle physics has centered on something known as
string theory. This theory is built on the idea that elementary
particles are not pointlike objects but are the vibration modes of
one-dimensional "stringlike" entities. This formulation
hopes to do away with certain lingering problems in fundamental
particle physics and to offer the possibility of soon explaining
all physical phenomenaýeverything from neutrinos to
black holesýwith a single theory. Fifteen years ago Edward
Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study made the widely quoted
claim that "string theory is a part of 21st-century physics
that fell by chance into the 20th century," so
perhaps it is now time to begin judging the success or failure of
this new way of thinking about particle physics.
The strongest scientific argument in favor of string theory is that
it appears to contain a theory of gravity embedded within it and
thus may provide a solution to the thorny problem of reconciling
Einstein's general relativity with quantum mechanics and the rest of
particle physics. There are, however, two fundamental problems,
which are hard to get around.
First, string theory predicts that the world has 10 space-time
dimensions, in serious disagreement with all the evidence of one's
senses. Matching string theory with reality requires that one
postulate six unobserved spatial dimensions of very small size
wrapped up in one way or another. All the predictions of the theory
depend on how you do this, but there are an infinite number of
possible choices, and no one has any idea how to determine which is
The second concern is that even the part of string theory that is
understood is internally inconsistent. This aspect of the theory
relies on a series expansion, an infinite number of terms that one
is supposed to sum together to get a result. Whereas each of the
terms in the series is probably finite, their sum is almost
certainly infinite. String theorists actually consider this
inconsistency to be a virtue, because otherwise they would have an
infinite number of consistent theories of gravity on their hands
(one for each way of wrapping up six dimensions), with no principle
for choosing among them.
The "M" Word
These two problems have been around since the earliest work on
string theoryýalong with the hope that they would somehow
cancel each other out. Perhaps some larger theory exists to which
string theory is just an approximate solution obtained by series
expansion, and this larger theory will explain what's going on with
the six dimensions we can't see. The latest version of this vision
goes under the name of "M-theory," where the "M"
is said variously to stand for "Membrane,"
"Matrix," "Mother," "Meta,"
"Magic" or "Mystery"ýalthough
"Mythical" may be more appropriate, given that nearly
eight years of work on this idea have yet to lead to even a good
conjecture about what M-theory might be.
The reigning Standard Model of particle physics, which string theory
attempts to encompass, involves at its core certain geometrical
concepts, namely the Dirac operator and gauge fields, which are
among the deepest and most powerful ideas in modern mathematics. In
string theory, the Dirac operator and gauge fields are not
fundamental: They are artifacts of taking a low-energy limit. String
theorists ask mathematicians to believe in the existence of some
wonderful new sort of geometry that will eventually provide an
explanation for M-theory. But without a serious proposal for the
underlying new geometry, this argument is unconvincing.
The experimental situation is similarly bleak. It is best described
by Wolfgang Pauli's famous phrase, "It's not even wrong."
String theory not only makes no predictions about physical phenomena
at experimentally accessible energies, it makes no precise
predictions whatsoever. Even if someone were to figure out tomorrow
how to build an accelerator capable of reaching the astronomically
high energies at which particles are no longer supposed to appear as
points, string theorists would be able to do no better than give
qualitative guesses about what such a machine might show. At the
moment string theory cannot be falsified by any conceivable
experimental result.
There is, however, one physical prediction that string theory does
make: the value of a quantity called the cosmological constant (a
measure of the energy of the vacuum). Recent observations of distant
supernovae indicate that this quantity is very small but not zero. A
simple argument in string theory indicates that the cosmological
constant should be at least around 55 orders of magnitude larger
than the observed value. This is perhaps the most incorrect
experimental prediction ever made by any physical theory that anyone
has taken seriously.
With such a dramatic lack of experimental support, string theorists
often attempt to make an aesthetic argument, professing that the
theory is strikingly "elegant" or "beautiful."
Because there is no well-defined theory to judge, it's hard to know
what to make of these assertions, and one is reminded of another
quotation from Pauli. Annoyed by Werner Heisenberg's claims that,
though lacking in some specifics, he had a wonderful unified theory
(he didn't), Pauli sent letters to some of his physicist friends
each containing a blank rectangle and the text, "This is to
show the world that I can paint like Titian. Only technical details
are missing." Because no one knows what "M-theory"
is, its beauty is that of Pauli's painting. Even if a consistent
M-theory can be found, it may very well turn out to be something of
great complexity and ugliness.
What exactly can be said for string theory? In recent
years, something called the Maldacena conjecture has led to some
success in using string theory as a tool in understanding certain
quantum field theories that don't include gravity. Mathematically,
string theory has covered a lot of ground over the past 18 years and
has led to many impressive new results. The concept of "mirror
symmetry" has been very fruitful in algebraic geometry, and
conformal field theory has opened up a new, fascinating and very
deep area of mathematics. Unfortunately for physics, these
mathematically interesting parts of string theory do little to
connect it with the real world.
String theory has, however, been spectacularly successful on one
frontýpublic relations. For example, it's been the subject of
the best-selling popular science book of the past couple years:
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, one of my
colleagues at Columbia. The National Science Foundation is funding a
series of NOVA programs based on his accessible and
inspiring book. What is more, the Institute for Theoretical Physics
at the University of California, Santa Barbara, organized last
spring a conference to train high school
teachers in string theory so that they can teach it to their
students. And The New York Times and other popular
publications regularly run articles on the latest developments in
string theory.
It's easy enough to see why the general public is taken with string
theory, but one wonders why so many particle theorists are committed
to working on it. Sheldon Glashow, a string-theory skeptic and
Nobel-laureate physicist at Harvard, describes string theory as
"the only game in town." Why this is so perhaps has
something to do with the sociology of physics.
During much of the 20th century there were times when theoretical
particle physics was conducted quite successfully in a somewhat
faddish manner. That is, there was often only one game in town.
Experimentalists regularly discovered new and unexpected phenomena,
each time leading to a flurry of theoretical activity (and sometimes
to Nobel prizes). This pattern ended in the mid-'70s with the
overwhelming experimental confirmation and widespread acceptance of
the Standard Model of particle physics. Since then, particle physics
has been a victim of its own success, with theoreticians looking for
the next fad to pursueýand finding it in string theory.
One reason that only one new theory has blossomed is that graduate
students, postdocs and untenured junior faculty interested in
speculative areas of mathematical physics beyond the Standard Model
are under tremendous pressures. For them, the idea of starting to
work on an untested new idea that may very well fail looks a lot
like a quick route to professional suicide. So some people who do
not believe in string theory work on it anyway. They may be
intimidated by the fact that certain leading string theorists are
undeniably geniuses. Another motivation is the natural desire to
maintain a job, get grants, go to conferences and generally have an
intellectual community in which to participate. Hence, few stray
very far from the main line of inquiry.
Affirmative Actions
What can be done to inject more diversity of thought into this great
quest of theoretical physics? Even granting that string theory is an
idea that deserves to be developed, how can people be encouraged to
come up with promising alternatives? I would argue that a good first
step would be for string theorists to acknowledge publicly the
problems and cease their tireless efforts to sell this questionable
theory to secondary school teachers, science reporters and program
The development of competing approaches will require senior string
theorists to consider working on less popular ideas and begin
encouraging their graduate students and postdocs to do the same.
Instead of trying to hire people working on the latest string-theory
fad, theory groups and funding agencies could try to identify young
mathematical physicists who are exploring completely different
avenues. (Pushing 45, I no longer qualify.) Finding ways to support
such people over the long term would give them a much-needed chance
to make progress.
Although I am skeptical of science writer John Horgan's pessimistic
notion that physics is reaching an end, the past 15 years of
research in particle theory make depressingly clear one form such an
end could take: a perpetual, well-promoted but never-successful
investigation of a theory that has no connection with the physical
world. If only physicists have the will to abandon a failed project
and start looking for some new ideas, this sad fate can be avoided.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/is-string-theory-even-wrong/2
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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Excerpt: "Ryan Nassib, an Eagles season-ticket holder, met with his hometown team, and the Syracuse quarterback had the expected reaction.
"That was cool as hell," Nassib said Tuesday in between practices for the Senior Bowl.
Nassib, who grew up in West Chester and attended Malvern Prep, met with coach Chip Kelly and general manager Howie Roseman for a brief interview on Monday night. He wasn't the only one of six Senior Bowl quarterbacks to sit down with the Eagles, and the Eagles weren't the only team to meet with the 22-year-old." Read more...


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Sometimes the average is anything but average
Brian Hayes
Playing at the keyboard one day, I came up with the following factorial-like procedure:
define f?(n) r: = random(1,n) if r=1 then return 1 else return r * f?(n)
This might be a buggy version of a program intended to calculate factorials, but it actually does something a good deal stranger. The auxiliary procedure random(1,n), invoked in the second line, is assumed to return an integer selected at random from the range 1 through n. Thus the program chooses a series of random integers, multiplies them, and stops when random(1,n) happens to yield a 1. It's like rolling an n-sided die and keeping a running product of all the numbers seen until a 1 appears.
Here are the results of a few sample runs of the program, for n = 7:
4x3x2x4x7x2x1 = 1,3442x5x4x5x4x3x6x2x2x5x1 = 288,0007x5x5x1 = 1754x7x6x2x6x5x6x3x5x3x3x3x7x4x3x3x7x2x5x1 = 432,081,216,000
Note that 7! is equal to 5,040, a value that doesn't turn up in this sample. The results that do appear are scattered over quite a wide range.
This randomized analogue of the factorial function needs a name: I shall call it the factoidal function. Also, risking the ire and ridicule of some latter-day De Morgan, I'm going to adopt the notation "n?" to suggest the nondeterministic nature of the computation.
Strictly speaking, the factoidal function isn't a function—not in the mathematical sense of that word. An essential property of a function is that applying it to the same argument always yields the same value. The function call f!(7) will produce the value 5,040 time after time. But, as we have just seen, f?(7) is likely to return a different value every time it is invoked, depending on the vagaries of the random-number generator. For that matter, the procedure might not return any value at all; the program could run forever. The f! procedure is guaranteed to terminate, because on each recursive call (or each passage through the loop) the value of n is decremented, and eventually it has to reach 1. But f? halts only when the roll of a die comes up 1, which might never happen.
In practice, of course, the program always terminates, one way or another. A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows there's about a two-thirds chance that random(1,n) will produce a 1 in n trials. And a 1 is almost certain to turn up within 5n trials. Thus if n is small (less than 1,000, say), f?(n) will almost surely succeed in calculating a value. If n is very large, the product being computed is likely to fill up all available memory, and the program will terminate with an error message.
You can get an inkling of what's going on here by looking at a small example, say n=3, and counting the cases in which the final product is less than 3!, or 6. For n=3 the only possible outputs of the random number generator are 1, 2 and 3, each of which appears with probability 1/3. The simplest event is that a 1 comes up on the first try, in which case the product is obviously less than 6; this happens with probability 1?3. There are two possible sequences of just two factors, namely a 2 followed by a 1 and a 3 followed by a 1; each of these outcomes has a probability of (1/3)2, or 1/9, and again the products are less than 6. A pencil-and-paper enumeration shows that there is only one other sequence of factors whose product is less than 6, namely 2, 2, 1; here the probability is 1/27. The sum of these probabilities is 1/3 + 2/9 + 1/27 = 16/27, or 0.5926. This is in agreement with the experimental results.
As n increases, the proportion of n? values less than n! converges on the value 0.6322, and the proportion that are greater tends toward 0.3678. Is there anything special about these numbers, and can we explain why this particular proportion should crop up? I think so. Note that on each iteration, the probability of getting a 1 and thereby ending the factoidal process is 1/n. That means the probability of getting anything other than a 1, and continuing the sequence of factors, is (n–1)/n. Then the probability of avoiding 1 twice in a row is ((n–1)/n)2, the probability of going on to three factors is ((n–1)/n)3, and so on. To have a high likelihood that n? will exceed n!, the chain of factors has to be extended to a length of at least n. The probability of reaching this point is ((n–1)/n)n; as n increases, this expression converges to 1/e, with a numerical value of 0.3678—just what is observed.
If most values of n? are less than n!, then the average of all n? values should also be less than n!, shouldn't it? We'll see. But first another digression, to look at a closely related function that shows how averaging is supposed to work.
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A serious problem in colder climates is the accumulation of moisture in hives during winter. The warm moist vapor rising off the cluster of bees hits a very cold upper reaches of the hive. The moisture condenses and freezes, only to thaw later and drip on the cluster, killing bees. This moisture also causes problems with mold and fungus, and surely contributes to other problems such as chalkbrood and chillbrood.
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Jordan and I had a wonderful weekend celebrating the wedding of our friends Laura and Thomas in Mississippi. Jordan andThomas played sports together in high school in Columbus, Mississippi and remained friends while they attended Mississippi State University in Starkville. Over the last couple of years, I have had the pleasure of getting to know Laura and Thomas. What a fun couple!
Jordan started off the weekend on Friday playing a round of golf with the groom and a few other guys in the wedding at the beautiful Old Waverly golf course in West Point, Mississippi.
The rehearsal (at the Chapel of Memories on the Mississippi State campus) and the rehearsal dinner at Old Waverly) on Friday night were the perfect end to a relaxing day (relaxing for the wedding guests anyway).
As we were visiting the local shops in Starkville on Saturday, we ran into Foley Bell Holditch, owner of one of the newest stores in downtown Starkville- Thyme. Foley worked with Jordan in Memphis and has since moved on to opening this amazing store. I'm sure you're wondering "what kind of store is Thyme?" Well, think Pottery Barn meets Williams-Sonoma. It is a wonderful blend of kitchen and home decor items. If we had more room in our car, I would have brought home at least one of their beautiful wreaths.
Early Saturday evening, the wedding itself was at the Chapel of Memories on Mississippi State's campus. It is the perfect size for a wedding and is so simply elegant, it doesn't call for extravangant decorations. Following the ceremony, we moved on to the Hotel Chester for an evening of fun with friends. It was beautifully decorated with flowers everywhere you turned. The menu was delicious as well-the food ranged from fresh fruit to sushi to a mashed potato bar. Of course no wedding is complete without bride's and groom's cake, and I sampled some of both! The bride's cake was a wonderfully light lemon flavored cake with buttercream icing, and the groom's cake was a decadent chocolate cake with smooth buttercream chocolate icing.
As the bride and groom left the reception and drove away in their limo, the crowd waved streamers made of coral, green, and white ribbon that complemented the wedding flowers and bridesmaid dresses perfectly. I have not seen streamers as a way to see off the bride and groom before, but I love the idea. It might create more work prior to the wedding than birdseed or rose petals, but the cleanup after the wedding has to be a breeze.
While Thomas and Laura are having a blast at their all inclusive resort in the Carribbean this week, Jordan and I are busy thinking of ways to rationalize a reason why we should go back to an all inclusive resort this summer. We had a great time at the El Dorado Royale for our honeymoon last year and wish we could go back at least twice a year.
Below are a few other pictures from our weekend in Mississippi.
Congratulations and Best Wishes, Laura and Thomas! We wish you nothing but the best.
Rehearsal Dinner Invitation
Some of the many beautiful flower arrangements greeting guests as they arrived at the reception
If you're in the middle of planning a wedding, I hope some of the ideas from Laura's and Thomas' wedding will be helpful for you. I'm hoping to be able to acquire a better camera soon so the pictures on the blog will show up better. Thanks for stopping by and reading!


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Gathering data with geoprocessing technologies such as global positioning systems, virtual reference stations, geographic information systems (GIS), and CAD is challenging enough. Integrating the vast amount of spatial information derived from two or more of these technologies to make critical decisions can be overwhelming. The reason for this lies not in technological inadequacy, but rather in the inconsistent use of standards and reference sources that apply to the data being integrated.
Standards are available at the state, local, national, and international levels to help ease the integration and dissemination of data across systems. National and international organizations work together to define standards, typically adopted at the state and local levels, governing how data is collected, modeled, maintained, and disseminated. If local standards are not available, public agencies should observe due diligence to ensure that the data is managed in compliance with state and local law.
Users should implement standards for the original data source (as-builts, orthophotography, legal descriptions, and others) as well as the accompanying metadata that provides the design specifications for the development, use, maintenance, and dissemination of that data. Clearly defined standards assure that the final data product, be it spatial or tabular, will be self-sustaining and can be integrated with other datasets.
Standards are particularly important when collecting information from orthophotography or when creating data using other spatial data as a reference point. In these situations, accuracy of the source information is as critical as properly defining the reference scale and projection, as any errors will be propagated to the derived data. Noticing these propagated errors can be difficult in organizations that have little contact with data beyond their walls. However, when integrating data from outside sources, these errors become magnified and analysis becomes stymied.


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Tom Evelyn joined St. Lawrence University as vice president for communications in June 2011. With more than 21 years of experience in journalism and higher education communications, Tom leads the office of University Communications, which is responsible for supporting academics, admissions and advancement through print and digital publications, media and public relations, social media, and video and photography. He also oversees North Country Public Radio (WSLU-FM), which broadcasts throughout northern New York and the Adirondacks and into Vermont and Canada.
Previously, Tom served as the senior director of news and media relations at Bucknell University and as the interim assistant vice president and associate director of news and information at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Before that, he worked as a reporter and editor at several newspapers in Florida and Georgia, covering a variety of topics from government and politics to health and technology. Tom also served as a cryptologist in the U.S. Navy while stationed in Spain and aboard ships on mission in the Mediterranean Sea.
Tom has a bachelor's degree in journalism with a philosophy minor from the University of Florida and a master's degree in communication from UCF, where he also guest-lectured in journalism and public relations.


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Anyone else think the Ravens owner looked like a serial killer
Ray Lewis is gonna KILL San Fran..
That is only possible with receivers, not RBs who come rumbling through a lane. Helmet to helmet isn't a penalty, striking a receiver in the helmet while he is defenseless is.
The reason I changed your quoted post is because you are making rules up. Defenseless player isn't the terminology, it's defenseless receiver.
It will be a tough SB to watch but prob get great ratings due to it being first time brothers coaching against each other. BroBowl.. Ugh.. Well coaches this yr and quarterbacks next year
Football has been very, very good to us.
After losing seasons 2013-15, the giants put up 11 wins in 16.. they are on way Back
But for now we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!!
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE NE again!!!
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Kings, queens, and torture in Bahrain
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark visited Bahrain in February at the invitation of King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa. As part of the official program, the queen honored Hamad with the "Storkorset af Dannebrog," the second highest Danish royal order. Although the visit took place about two weeks before Bahraini authorities began a violent crackdown on protesters, Bahrain has long had a troubled human rights and press freedom record. The current crackdown includes serious attacks on the press.


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Man Days
To the men who read my blog: Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
Valentine's Day has come and gone and many of you are probably thinking, "Whew, dodged a bullet with that one." Yes, we women can be tough as nails when it comes to special occasions. As I mention in my video blog Three Dates A Man Should Never Forget, Valentine's Day is rather important to us women.
You may think we celebrate being women every day by pampering ourselves with manicures and pedicures and by getting our hair done or by going shopping, but we are still big on marking special occasions and Valentine's Day is one of them. Sure, it's a Hallmark holiday, but it's OUR Hallmark holiday. We know you hate it. You have to put on a tie (okay, so that's not the case with all men), you have to plan a weekend away, buy jewelry, or at the very least take us to dinner and give us a few dozen roses and some chocolates. You may even have challenge your penmanship and write a card.


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October 2011
2011 Sustainability Report
The Coffee Bean International 2011 Sustainability Report is now live. This year, we made huge strides toward shifting our waste ratio, with the ultimate goal of hauling zero waste to the landfill. We also dramatically reduced our travel miles, which will impact our overall carbon footprint. Additionally, we grew our direct trade portfolio and off-commodity-market purchases, which isolate farmers from the coffee price volatility that is driven now primarily from investors/speculators. Through these direct relationships we can address coffee's biggest sustainability issues. Read more »
A Coffee Pilgrimage to Britain – Part 1
I recently had the opportunity to spend two weeks doing something I have dreamed of for many years; spending two weeks exploring the coffee culture in one of the Western world's oldest coffee cities – London. Read more »


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Guy Raz, talks with Alexander Nazaryan about his rant in Salon.com, excoriating the American literary world. He explains that Americans don't deserve a Nobel Prize because their work is too interior. Nazaryan is on the editorial board of The New York Daily News.
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Playboy.com's Guide to Osheaga
One of Canada's biggest music festivals is kicking off this friday. Prepare yourself with our list to make the three days of Osheaga your best fest experience yet.
Touted as one of the best music festivals in all of Canada, Osheaga is kicking off its sixth year with a three-day lineup that's bound to please any music lover. With five eclectic stages catering to almost every genre of music imaginable, and the wildly gorgeous Montreal women dancing their butts off to some of the biggest names of today, it's hard not to wonder if Osheaga is some form of heaven on earth.
Of Monsters and Men
Indie folk band Of Monsters and Men have blown up in America after their debut album, My Head Is an Animal, hit the charts with impressive positions across the board. You don't know when you'll get to see this band next, since they hail all the way from Garður, Iceland, so you should secure your place in the crowd to sway along to their faraway tracks.
We admit it; we hadn't heard of Poliça before Grammy award winner Justin Vernon of Bon Iver hyped them as one of the best bands he had ever heard. Equipped with dreamy synth and remarkable vocals courtesy of Channy Leaneagh, it will be interesting to see how this experimental project performs live. Will they bring a team of modern dancers? Live painters? Who knows! All we know is Poliça can count on us being there to experience it all.
If there's one thing we've learned about the women of Montreal, aside from having no qualms about wearing barely-there clothing, it's that they love to dance to anything with a beat. We missed SBTRKT's set when we were in Coachella (we blame it on the hot sun and the Bloody Marys at The Cantina) so catching his notorious DJ set is a must for us and should be for you too.
We feel like we need to bring another set of clothing to catch the Santigold set, since we couldn't imagine not wearing our best outfit in front of the queen of the 2012 summer festivals. We hope that she's able to bring her dancers to Canada, but with her midday slot we're expecting a more stripped down, intimate show, as opposed to the antics we will witness at this year's Lollapalooza.
Passion Pit
Count your lucky stars that Passion Pit have decided to keep Osheaga on their summer tour while Michael continues to improve his mental health. Gossamer is one of the best albums we've heard this summer, so expect a sea of hot and sweaty people hoping to score a good spot for their set. Gossamer is a mellow album, so you'll find us on the mountain recuperating after Santigold's wild set and guzzling a few beers with friends.
The Dø
Paris-based duo Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy are the first act to reach number one on the French charts with an English album. Their music is beautiful, Merilahti is stunning and their cohesiveness is known around the world to be enchanting. Although their native tongues are Finnish and French, Merilahti sings predominantly in English, which is helpful for those who are not trilingual.
Winniburger: Serves up some of the greatest greasy snacks we've ever had from a truck.
Pas d'cochon: We hope these guys bring their delicious oysters to the fairgrounds because it would be classy to eat them while watching indie bands, but we'd settle for their much more informal pulled-pork sandwiches.
Grumman '78: Tacos are delicious no matter how sober, drunk or danced out you are. Just remember to budget yourself, because these little fuckers, priced at six dollars apiece, can add up.
Take in the art: Six years ago Osheaga was a little prouder to share the word "Art" in its festival name. In fact, there was a huge makeshift art gallery set up which housed a few exhibits for the duration of the festival. Osheaga may not overly emphasize the art at their music festival as it's evolved into something much bigger, but it still does make an effort to bring some pretty interesting pieces made by local artists to its grounds.
Chill with some groundhogs: You may not be able to do this anymore since the place is jam-packed with numerous "VIP-tweet to win-holy crap there's a huge car advertisement" kiosks, but in the music off-season the home of Osheaga is a park called Jean Drapeau. When the festival was still in its infancy, concertgoers were able to take in the scenery and the animals who call that plot of land their own. If you see some groundhogs by the waterfall, feel free to take Instagram photos to send to your girlfriends, but don't try and have a heart-to-heart with one because it might bite your face off.
Pose for some photos: If you're a hot girl and want to be on Playboy.com, hopefully you'll run into one of our cameramen who are scoping out the festival for the cutest and most stylish girls to appear in our Osheaga lookbook.