text: The Savannah-Chatham Public School Board met Wednesday June 3 and eliminated 36 positions. Nearly 150 jobs have been eliminated so far to help balance the 2010 budget. The board decided to raise class sizes and cut non-teaching positions rather than raise the millage rate, which will stay the same as last year. Here's what else went on at the meeting: Several principal and assistant principals will move up and around next year. The board approved the following reassignments: Patrick Rossiter was reassigned as interim replacement for retiring DeRenne Middle Principal Marsha Tolbert. Gould Elementary Principal Ethel Bowles will switch places with May Howard principal Vernon Cole Georgetown Elementary Principal Kimsherion Reid will replace interim principal Selina Ruth-Gillans at Southwest Middle Pulaski Elementary Principal Joseph Thomas will take over Reid's old position at Georgetown Elementary and Kamal Piankhi will take over for Thomas at Pulaski. Sixteen elementary, middle and high school assistant principals were reassigned as well. For the complete list of all the resignations, retirements, reassignments and terminations from Wednesday's meeting visit http://www.boarddocs.com/ga/sccs/Board.nsf/Public?OpenFrameSet, click on 06/03/2009 REGULAR BOARD MEETING the click CONSENT AGEND, scroll down and click on items 9.08 through 9.12 The vote on the West Chatham Preparatory Academy charter school proposal was tabled to give the Pooler charter school group a second chance to revise their proposal. Superintendent Thomas Lockamy said he is supportive of the idea for the charter school but was concerned that the proposal lacked adequate financial planning. He recommended that the school board deny the charter school proposal and ask them to continue work on the plan. But board member Greg Sapp asked that they table the vote and give the organizers a second chance to make revisions. The plan for a technology driven charter high school was originally submitted in March, but the organizers asked for more time to address some of Lockamy's concerns. Their amended proposal has potential, according to Lockamy, but needs additional work to avoid financial problems in their first years of operation. The vote to table the issue was approved with Floyd Adams opposing. *Seventy-five percent of Savannah-Chatham Public School fifth graders met or exceeded the standard on the Grade 5 Writing Assessment. Compared to last year overall scores rose at seven elementary schools: Hesse, Hodge , Islands, Largo Tibet, Low, White Bluff and Windsor Forest. The remained steady at West Chatham and Thunderbolt and dropped at the remaining 21 elementary schools. And the number of students meeting or exceeding standards rose at the following schools: Garrison, Hesse, Hodge, Islands, Largo-Tibet, Thunderbolt, White Bluff, Port Wentworth, West Chatham, Windsor Forest, Low, Pooler, Southwest and Spencer. The number meeting or exceeding standards dropped at the 16 other elementary schools. The complete report is available at http://www.boarddocs.com/ga/sccs/Board.nsf/Public?OpenFrameSet by clicking on 06/03/2009 REGULAR BOARD MEETING then click on GOAL 1 - TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT The board agreed to reconsider their refusal to pay for a costly consultation contract mistake. On May 6, 2009, the school board voted against paying grant writing consultants $900,000 for assistance with Small Learning Communities grants. The district entered into an agreement with the consultant, Research Associates, to pay 3.75% of the gross grant award for ongoing technical services and to pay a subcontractor, the Evaluation Group, 9% of the gross grand award for independent evaluation services. Later that year the district received two separate grants totaling nearly $7 million. If district policy had been followed with these contracts, administrators would have taken bids for consultants. Last month five board members, Susu Cox Greg Sapp, Lori Brady, Julie Gerbsch and Floyd Adams voted not to pay. They argued that staff members dropped the ball. The superintendent and Board President Joe Buck warned that refusing payment for this expensive mistake may make them feel better, but the district has been spending the grant money and may be legally obligated to pay the grant consultant. Wednesday Lockamy said that the contract is binding and recommended that the board to consider paying Research Associates $258,690 over five years and paying The Evaluation Group $620,856 over five years. The board approved that payment recommendation. *The school board tentatively adopted its FY 2010 budget and millage rate as required by state law. The millage rate of 13.404 mills determines the amount of property taxes each Chatham County property owner will pay toward public schools. The rate is the same as in 2009. The following budgets were tentatively set: General Fund Budget $292,637,979 General Obligation Debt Budget $14,709,001 (this Amount is duplicated in Other Funds below) Special Revenue Funds Budgets $79,728,626 Other Funds Budgets for $22,947,520 (this amount includes GO Debt amount from above) Capital Projects Funds Budget: $80,159,001. A Special Board Meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. in the Jessie Collier DeLoach Board Room. The purpose of the meeting will be to adopt the FY 2010 budget and the recommended millage rate, as required by law. In the meantime school officials are still waiting for tax digest information from the local tax assessor's office. Local school system funds are generated through property taxes and the tax digest gives district officials an indication of the amount of revenue they should expect. Adams did not vote to adopt the tentative budget because of the uncertainty regarding local funds and because of disagreements over how funds will be allocated in the tentative budget. "My concerns are numerous," Adams said. "Paying for the redesign, transportation, teacher training, building maintenance and upkeep, the teacher job cuts; and the fact that we spent $21 million out of the general fund money this year makes me wonder where we would be next year if it weren't for the stimulus money. I think we should look into other option's rather than cutting teacher jobs, including raising the millage rate." * Officials were given approval to construct the new sales tax funded Pulaski Elementary school at Hunter Army Airfield. * The Superintendent's Student of the Month is Deondra' Eason an eighth grader at Hubert Middle School. Deondra' made the honor roll every marking period this year, is a member of the National Junior Honor Society and was recently nominated to serve on the City of Savannah's Youth Council and to serve as a Youth Ambassador. * Jaccaria Ellison from Bloomingdale Elementary School and Brendan Polk from Savannah Arts Academy were named National PTA Reflections Award winners for their exemplary talents in the arts. Jaccaria received the award in Dance and Brendon for Musical Composition. They were among six local public school students who advanced to the national level of the competition. * Woodville Tompkins Technical and Career Institute students were honored at the Career and Technical Instruction State Leadership Conference. Joseph Bartley took the top award for his project in Commercial Wiring, Joseph Buckley earned first place for his efforts in Collision Repair, Will Saturday won second place in Auto Technology, and Adrian Williams was awarded second place for his architectural drawing in Drafting and Design. * This year the district received $16 million in Title I funds for use at schools with high concentrations of low-income students. An audit of those funds determined that all federal guidelines for the use of those funds have been met. However auditors recommended that some changes occur to ensure the funds are being used as effectively and efficiently as possible. District administrator Aretha Rhone Bush was recently brought in to assist in developing and implementing best practices. *Special education students at Groves High School will perform a play, the Jelly Bean Conspiracy, 1:30 pm and 3:30 p.m. Thursday June 4 at the Groves High campus theatre room. * The Hubert Middle School media center will be named in honor of the late Ulyssee A. Benjamin, who served as principal of the school and worked to laid the groundwork for the school's academic turnaround. * Superintendent Thomas Lockamy discussed options the district is working on for keeping Hodge Elementary students in their current neighborhood. The education sales tax plan initially called for closing the elementary school and using the site for the new Savannah High School campus. However parents protested and the board agreed to come up with a plan to keep those students in the neighborhood. Lockamy said Wednesday staff is looking into several options including the creation of a K-8 school at DeRenne or Garrison Elementary schools.


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A man from Thorngrove in Bulawayo assaulted his wife for peeping during foreplay with his girlfriend in their matrimonial bedroom.
Amanda Chingove arrived home unannounced and found the doors leading to the main house locked.
When she tried to gain entry she was reportedly greeted with noises coming from the bedroom.
She peeped through the window and was shocked to see the amorous lovebirds — her husband Thabo Mabhena and his unnamed girlfriend.
Chingove who apparently failed to come to terms with the sight of her husband on top of another woman, went outside the yard to wait for them to finish.
After finishing Mabhena reportedly confronted his wife and started accusing her of disrespecting him.
A misunderstanding reportedly ensued between the two parties.
At the height of the altercation, Mabhena lost his temper and assaulted his wife all over the body.
He picked up a hoe which he wanted to strike her with but was restrained by their neighbour who rushed to the scene.
Chingove reported the matter to the police leading to Mabhena's arrest.
For the offence, Mabhena was dragged before Bulawayo magistrate Charity Maphosa facing a physical abuse charge.
Meanwhile, Mabhena faced another charge of assault following his arrest after he battered his ex-girlfriend Nokuthula Sibanda from Mzilikazi.
Mabhena assaulted Sibanda after he found her in the company of another man.
Mabhena, however, pleaded not guilty on both counts but the magistrate convicted him after she found overwhelming evidence that he committed the crimes.
He was, however, remanded out of custody to 4 March for sentencing.
Kudakwashe Jarawaza appeared for the State.

subset: commoncrawl


text: So I decided the other day to finally hack my wii after reading about it for a while. When I got my MAC address and verified that my software was the correct version I went to the please.hackmii.com website, but it was down. It was down again yesterday and down again today. Does anyone have any info on this? Was it taken down for a reason or does it go down often? Excited to hack my wii, but not sure if I will be able to if the site has been taken down.


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If you don't believe the Internet is still the Wild West, get a load of the court documents unsealed in the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube. Man, those two fight dirty.
Viacom has apparently collected a stash of incriminating YouTube emails regarding the posting of copyrighted material. Read more here, but a sampling of the damning evidence:
• In a July 29, 2005 email about competing video websites, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen wrote to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, "steal it!", and Chad Hurley responded: "hmm, steal the movies?" Steve Chen replìed: "we have to keep in mind that we need to attract traffic. how much traffic will we get from personal videos? remember, the only reason why our traffic surged was due to a video of this type.... viral videos will tend to be THOSE type of videos."
• In a July 19, 2005 email to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen wrote: "jawed, please stop putting stolen videos on the site. We're going to have a tough time defending the fact that we're not liable for the copyrighted material on the site because we didn't put it up when one of the co-founders is blatantly stealìng content from other sites and trying to get everyone to see it."
• In an April 23, 2005 email to YouTube cofounders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim wrote: "It's all 'bout da videos, yo. We'll be an excellent acquisition target once we're huge."
Karim was right about that, which is why YouTube's parent Google now must defend itself in court. And oh, Google has some dirt on Viacom, too:
"[Viacom] hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately 'roughed up' the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony e-mail addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom," Levine (YouTube's chief counsel) wrote.
In other words, Viacom wanted its videos on YouTube, just not "officially."
YouTube basically says that what Viacom is seeking would kill the Internet -- a rule that requires all websites to police all user-uploaded content for copyright infringement. Get it right or face "crushing liabilities".
Here's part of Viacom's statement:
Google bought YouTube because it was a haven of infringement. Google knew that YouTube's popularity depended on infringing materials with several senior Google executives warning that YouTube was a "rogue enabler of content theft." Instead of complying with the law, Google willfully and knowingly chose to continue YouTube's illegal practices...
The law is clear that Google and YouTube are liable for their infringement. The Supreme Court unanimously held in Grokster that a service that intends infringement is liable for that infringement. No case has ever suggested that the DMCA immunizes rampant intentional infringement of the sort Google and YouTube have engaged in.
Where do you come down on this one?


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Linda Court Salisbury
associate professor - marketing department
Ph.D., University of Michigan Ross School of Business
M.B.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S., University at Albany
Professor Linda C. Salisbury's general research interests are in consumer decision-making, with a primary focus on temporal aspects of consumer expectations, preference, and choice. She has examined phenomena such as choice diversification, preference uncertainty, customer satisfaction, and debt repayment behavior. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, and Marketing Science.
She currently teaches the Marketing Principles and Services Marketing courses in the undergraduate program, and Services Marketing in the MBA program.
Before joining the BC faculty, Professor Salisbury taught at the University of Michigan and Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to receiving her PhD, she worked in the consumer products, automotive, and management consulting industries.


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A friend and woman I worked with runs a dog rescue out of the TN/MS area called The Drifting Dog Rescue. Her name is Tonia and she has rescued hundreds and hundreds of dogs since I have known her - which is only a few years. She has many dogs in her own care as well - mostly pits, which are harder to place.
Recently, she accepted a new job and moved her family to NY - a week before hurricane Sandy. She was not in the direct path, but still sustained some damage. And a week into her new job (both her and her daughter worked here) they were told they were not a "good fit" and were released. So now, she is in New York with her family, recovering from the hurricane with no employment. She is struggling to be able to feed the 12 dogs she has left in her rescue. They are in foster care, but they need to be fed.
Please, consider donating - even $5.00 - so she can get these dogs fed.
Tonia is a wonderful woman with a HUGE passion for animals. Which is why she started the rescue organization.
Example of her big heart - I met her at a vet clinic - she hired me literally off the street, in my pajamas. I was bringing my dog in for shots - had lost my job the day before. When I got there, they were so busy, I asked if they needed help. She hired me on the spot. Well, I went home, took a shower and then came back, but you get the idea.
We went to a local kill shelter to rescue 2 puppies that were on death row. We came home with 15 puppies - one of which we picked up in the parking lot on our way out. That was Maggie, the chocolate lab. She is under my feet as I type. That was 4 years ago. I fostered these puppies - yes, all of them - with a promise from her she would find them homes. She did. Including these 15, over the next 4 months, we had a total of 22 puppies through our door - and she found them all forever homes. She changed my world and I will be forever grateful. I have donated what I can afford right now to help her out. I wish I could do more, but unfortunately I can't right now.
Please find it in your heart to help out. If not here with her, another way, with another dog or cat or shelter or rescue.
Thank you and God bless.
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Please consider helping feed rescue dogs
**Closed Thread**
Just made a donation. Thanks for helping!
Thank you so much!!!
I just chipped in.
Thank you!!
Bumping this important thread :)
Thank you for bumping this. Tonia was able to get these dogs placed and the chip-in is closed.
If I could mark it closed I would.
Thank you all again. It was a huge help!!
That's great news! :)
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…For literally no reason.
If it wasn't awkward enough to watch a grown man in a bathtub, this dude thought it would be fun or funny or some strange combination of both to take a bath in Pepsi.
Not even regular sugary Pepsi. The no sugar stuff that's full of harmful chemicals that we imagine are eating up his dead skin cells like acid.
Which makes us question whether diet soda facials or baths will become a new thing and if this guy is like some twisted trendsetter and if we should think about opening up a trendy spa that will last 3-5 years before some other food/beauty fad comes along and ultimately bankrupts us.
Anyway, happy Friday.
–Nadia Noir, CBS Radio Los Angeles


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If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Recently I purchased a 64GB microSD card through a marketplace I use often that was said to be from a major manufacturer for a very good but reasonable price (about 2X what a 32 GB costs instead of 2.5X) and in an original appearing package. On first connection it gave errors and seemed slow. I reformatted it but still seemed wrong.
Called the manufacturer and the numbers on the chip did not match a good one. Ran the bar code on the back and it came back as a much different device.
Apparently this is not a new situation and for more than you ever wanted to know including a utility to check see http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/.
What appears to be being done is to rewrite the SD Card partition table to change the number and ending sector to make a card "appear" larger. In my case it appears to be an 8GB card remarked as a 64 GB card. And a slow one (~4 MB/s write) at that.
The card may act normally for the first use of the drive up to its actual size but addresses beyond that limit may wrap back to the start and overwrite not just the original data but also the critical device information so that the next time it is loaded the device will be corrupt & all data lost.
Just to be clear, this is not an Acer issue, it related to microSD cards purchased elsewhere for use in our devices that you may encounter in the marketplace so be aware and know how to validate (either call the manufacturer with the numbers or run a fulll test).
I always use Class 10 from SanDisk. Never with noname or from eBay.
Any problem with 16, 32 or 64 Go. Some are in FAT32, NTFS or ext4. No data lost, no error.
Cross fingers
Use on HTC phone, Galaxy phone, Asus TF300T tablet (2 x 32), Acer W510, Nikon and Canon camera.
In France a 32 Go micro SDHC Class 10 SanDisk with adapter cost around 50 $ (and 70 $ for a 64 Go).
The Bible for SD Card: Wikipedia Secure Digital
This appered to be in a retail pack from an equally reputable manufacturer as SanDisk. All markings appeared correct until I called to verify.
BTW one sign that may show up in disk properties is a 64GB disk that reports over 64,000,000,000 bytes.
62.4 * 1.024 = 63.897 Count is almost right.
Philman wrote:
62.4 * 1.024 = 63.897 Count is almost right.
It would actually be:
62.4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 67001489817.6 for gigabytes.
Or more accurately yet:
67,106,762,752 /1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 62.49804306030273 ~ 62.4 (though I would have rounded it up to 63.5 myself)
True except that since the daze of the IBM-PC (1981-), a megabyte has been a million bytes (1,000,000) and not the hexadecimal 1,000h (1,048,576). Blame it on the marketeers if you will. MaxStor used to print it on the hard drive boxes.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte (section under Base 10)
Also what you see under Windows "properties" for a drive is the logical volume data and not the physical disk data. Try playing around with the program DISKPART.EXE (unless you really know what you are doing use only the LIST and SELECT commands).
For example when I list the partitions on a 2GB micro SD (was handy), it shows the disk as 1898 MB with one partition (what Windows sees) of 1897MB (Windows says 1.85GB or 1,989.869,568 bytes) with an offset of 65 kb. The difference is in the Marketting definition and the computer definition of a MegaByte.
Now that 65 KB offset contains the master boot record, the partition table(s), and the File Allocation Tables. If you format NTFS insead of FAT it takes more. This never shows up in the Windows "properties" pie chart.
So I can garuntee you that if the Capacity: bytes reported by Windoze is more than 64,000,000,000 bytes for a 64GB drive, somebody is being creative
Actually, that 'kilo equals a thousand, mega equals a million' thing has only been there as a marketing ploy for hard drive manufacturers. Programmers have always used the 'powers of two' model. Remember floppy disks? They tended to use 512 byte sectors and a 720k floppy held 1440 sectors, a 1.44M floppy had 2880 sectors (and if you were an Amiga fan an 880K floppy had 1760 sectors and a 1.76M floppy had 3120 sectors). System memory has been modeled as programmers like as well, where kilo is 1024, mega is 1024*1024, etc...
Hve to understand that back when a 10 MB ST512 was $3,000 every byte was important so the larger a number the drive mfr could put on a box the better.
Yes, computers and programmers think in Hex and can count to over a thousand on their fingers. Instructions in hex would fall out in logical arrays. Once upon a time microcode was important and you could do anything with cascaded bit slice processors like the AMD 2901.
But the "great unwashed" neever understood the difference so when consumer hard drives came out a standard was developed that had big numbers to help justify the big prices.
Now have a real 64GB. Muchfaster and note the reported size.
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After nearly two years of talks, the teachers union voted today to approve the memorandum of agreement ratified by the School Committee last week, brining to a close the sometimes divisive debate that had parents, teachers, and the public at odds.
After nearly two years of talks, the teachers union voted today to approve the memorandum of agreement ratified by the School Committee last week, brining to a close the sometimes divisive debate that had parents, teachers, and the public at odds.
Watertown Educators Association President Debra King said she was relieved to have the negotiations behind her and said the contract was fair to teachers and the town.
"I'm very happy it's finally settled and we can move on," King said. "It's a fair contract. If it wasn't fair, we wouldn't have signed it."
The contract follows the same base-wage structure followed by all of the town unions thus far, two years of zero percent base wage increases for the first two years of the contract, fiscal years 2011 and 2012, followed by a 2.5 percent base wage increase in the third year, fiscal year 2013.
The difference with the teachers union is the 2.5 percent base wage increase will take place in two stages over the year. Teachers will get a 1 percent increase on Sept. 1 followed by a 1.5 percent increase midway through the year. Teachers who did not receive step wage increases, or automatic annual raises, in the second year will also receive a $500 bonus in July, unlike other town unions.
It's a loss in base wages for the teachers compared to the MOA they approved in 2011. That gave them a 1.5 percent wage increase in fiscal 2012 as well as the 2.5 percent increase in 2013.
"Teachers took it on the chin," King said. "We felt like we really needed to get it settled…and it was a split increase, which was far less than what other unions in town took."
School Committee chair Eileen Hsu-Balzer said she would comment after teachers had taken their vote, but at the time of this writing, had not done so.
Cunniff School instructional assistant and behavioral specialist Elaine Antonellis said she was relieved that the contact had been settled.
"It's definitively less than what was promised last year," Antonellis said before adding she thought the contract was fair. "I'm most happy for the students though, that's what really matters."
Eighth grade humanities teacher Sam Morris agreed that the contract was fair to all of the parties involved.
"It's tough economic times. Everybody is suffering," Morris said. "It's great that both sides were able to make it work and reach a compromise."
The contract includes modifications to the current step structure, adding a "lane" for teachers who have earned a Masters degree and 45 credits, a 2 percent increase over teachers who have earned a Masters degree and 30 credits.
At the same time, the contract phases out another "lane" for teachers who have earned a Bachelors degree plus 15 credits, which is a lane between a Bachelors and a Masters degree, said School Committee negotiating team chair John Portz at their April 4 meeting.
Lanes differ from steps in that steps are automatically granted and lanes are granted only with advances in education or other training.
Other changes to the contract include an increase in the tuition reimbursement for teachers for the classes they take, an increase in the "pool that's available for that," and an increase in the maximum number of days teachers can draw from in the sick bay, among other more minor changes, Portz said.
King said most of the minor changes were agreed to very early on.
"There's more money for reimbursement to make that more equitable," King said. "The reimbursement isn't major but it helps a little bit."
Looking ahead:
Looming over what would have otherwise been a triumphant occasion was the prospect of resuming talks in less than a year. The three-year contract is set to expire at the end of August in 2013, meaning both sides will likely begin negotiating sometime this fall.
When the School Committee voted to approve the contract last week, all of the members on the negotiating team highlighted step increases as the major sticking point preventing both sides from agreeing to a fourth year of the contract.
"This is a three-year contract because the two parties could not agree on how to move forward with a fourth and subsequent years," Portz said. "In particular, the so-called step structure that provides automatic annual increases for many teachers became a major source of disagreement. It is a difficult challenge."
King said she was "gravely concerned" that reductions in the salary structure would drive teachers to other districts.
"Our biggest concern is that we'll continue to loose teachers," King said. "If you live in walking distance from districts where you can make $20,000 more, you're apt to go over to that district that pays you more money."
King said the danger is encouraging a culture where teachers who can't get jobs in higher paying districts will come to Watertown where they will get trained to be great teachers.
"They'll stay for two or three years and then move on," King said. "We'll become a training ground, which is not good for the district as a whole."
The 2.5 percent increase will contribute $510,237 to the FY13 budget, an increase over the $430,000 that accounts for annual step increases.
With the teachers salary figures squarely nailed down, the School Committee is expected to vote on a final recommendation for the Town Council at a special meeting tomorrow. The budget and finance subcommittee voted unanimously to recommend a 3.5 percent increase in the town appropriation.
The special School Committee meeting is scheduled for 8 p.m. April 11 in the Watertown High School small lecture hall.
Contact Watertown TAB staff reporter Erin Baldassari at (781) 433-8220 or email@example.com, and follow us on Twitter: @watertowntab.


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People here pretend to care about art, but they dont really give a damn, an old L.A. hand told me over a lunch of Yemenite chicken soup at a small restaurant on Fairfax. His evidence? In New York, the Cézanne and Pissarro exhibition was shown at the redesigned MoMA before overflowing crowds a few months back, but the identical exhibition at the as-yet-unredesigned, post-Tut LACMA is conspicuously underattended.
Theres nobody there, my friend said. Youll practically have the place to yourself.
Having witnessed the throngs that besieged LACMA during the van Gogh exhibition in 1999, I found this hard to believe. Nonetheless, since Id seen Cézanne and Pissarro in New York, I decided to put my friends claim to the test. In its MoMA incarnation, Cézanne and Pissarro was a fabulous show, though I cant actually say I really got to look at any of the paintings. I was able to glimpse some of them, certainly. I spied little bits and pieces of them Pissarros earthiness, Cézannes geometrically reordered landscapes over the shoulders and between the heads (and buzzing headsets) of hundreds, perhaps thousands of New Yorkers and tourists. You could tell it was a great exhibition. You just couldnt see it.
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My friend was right about LACMA. At 5:30 p.m. on a Thursday earlier this month, there were about 10 people in the Cézanne and Pissarro exhibition, excluding guards, and almost no one in the rest of the museum. Unlike in New York, I could actually observe, study and generally dwell on whatever painting I chose to for as long as I liked until the 8 p.m. closing time.
After my hectic New York experience, it was delightful, but also eerie, to find myself the sole visitor in a room staring, say, at a glazed, wintry Pissarro landscape of a snow-bound French farmhouse. Because the place was so empty, my mind (as it tends to on these occasions) instantly turned to thoughts of theft. I have no idea how to pilfer a painting as carefully protected as these must have been, but I sensed that the small female Asian security guard in the corner of the room was reading my thoughts as if they were being directly transmitted to a BlackBerry nestled in the palm of her hand. The lack of other people pressing around me made the notion of owning one of these pictures if only on a fantasy level conceivable. When 10 other people are jostling for position in front of a scrap of 19th-century canvas like starving refugees for food rations, the thought that in some alternative universe you could hang the thing in your living room just doesnt come up. Its too obviously public, all too clearly theirs at least as much as it is yours.
The glow of near-ownership lingered as I wandered through some of LACMAs other galleries, with their impressive proliferation of European, Asian and American paintings, furniture, glassware, sculpture and so on. Since it was a Thursday evening, entrance to the museum, except for the Cézanne and Pissarro exhibition, was free. But no one was there to take advantage of it. Everyones at the mall doing their Christmas shopping, a guard explained. I felt like doing a bit of Christmas shopping myself i.e., ransacking the place. In fact, I merely felt like an object of extreme suspicion a man who, for the price of $15, was now wandering alone through room after room filled with sumptuous artifacts valued in the millions of dollars, trailed by guards, vibration sensors, motion-detection devices, electronic tripwires, closed-circuit TV cameras and infrared rays.
Outside, the December chill had transformed the pompously designated Los Angeles Times Courtyard into a serene, virtually people-less artwork all its own. A handful of tourists hung around clutching LACMA bags laden with gift-shop goodies, ready to return to their hotels. Otherwise it was all blank walls, glass surfaces, planted shrubbery, advertisements for upcoming exhibitions, dark gray metal chairs and tables formally grouped, along with the inevitable lumpy Henry Moore sculpture. In the distance, you could hear the traffic on Wilshire Boulevard rush indifferently by. The museum was deserted, forgotten by the city, and I almost expected some masked men people who do know how to steal a painting to step out of the shadows and head for those shimmering Cézannes and Pissarros. It was a night for a heist, if ever there was one.
Read Doug Harvey's review of the Cézanne and Pissarro show here.


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" Brand: Tesco Carousel / Age: From Birth / Type: Musical Toy "
My son is fascinated with bunches of keys as long as it's a key and jingles he wants it, so I tried to overcome the problem of having to wrestle keys off of him every now and then by buying him the Tesco Carousel Musical Keys.
I saw these and wondered whether or not I should buy them, they're not very realistic looking and don't jingle but at such a reasonable price, I paid £3.00, I thought I'd give them a go.
The keys are brightly coloured with 3 different coloured keys and a large round key chain with 6 buttons with different pictures that make different noises and music. It also has a small light on the round key chain that lights up red when the appropriate button is pressed; it also makes a car engine noise which sounds very realistic.
My sons' opinion
Not really impressed unfortunately, when I first gave this to him when he was about 11 months he looked at it for about 3 seconds and dropped it to the floor. I showed him the buttons and the noises it makes but he still gives this toy very little attention and he certainly doesn't prefer it over the real door or car keys.
Age Range
The age range for this toy is from 10 months, I'd say you could happily give it to a younger child as it's quite a passive toy, if there is such a thing.
Overall it's an ok toy, for £3 it can be used as stocking filler or gifts at children's party.
It won't replace a real set of keys


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By Christine Kim
Schreyer Honors College, College Relations Intern
For Penn State students living in The GLOBE, the newly-renovated floor in Simmons Hall, it's all a matter of perspective.
The floor, which opened in August, is a new special living option within honors housing for students in the Schreyer Honors College. Through weekly activities and monthly programs coordinated by its student-run executive board, The GLOBE's mission is to provide students with the opportunity to gain a global worldview.
"The GLOBE is definitely about being a part of something bigger than yourself and understanding how small-scale actions can affect a larger-scale populace," said Preet Ahluwalia, a junior scholar majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology who serves as the floor's scholar assistant, a liaison between residents and the honors college staff, and is a member of the executive board. "We focus on global citizenship so it's a place to think about how you can actually impact change."
Anurag Kumar, a sophomore scholar majoring in finance and economics, points out that just having The GLOBE on campus could encourage global consciousness among students.
"It's a really good way to get awareness out about global issues, global programs, what's going on in the world that we don't really see," Kumar said. "It's about building a global perspective, and The GLOBE is a community of kids where we share each other's interests, which is really important to find on campus. I don't know what I was expecting, but everything -- the general living spaces, the people -- definitely exceeds my expectations."
One summer was all it took for the much-loved Simmons Dining Hall to be transformed into the newest residence floor on Penn State's University Park campus. With individual bathrooms, back-lit ceilings, carpeted floors and spacious rooms, The GLOBE is an updated version of "K" floor in McElwain Hall. Its 74 Schreyer Scholars share an interest in global awareness and must "earn" their privilege to live in The GLOBE, said Christian Brady, the Schreyer Honors College's dean.
"Once we learned that it would be gorgeous rooms and facilities, I realized it wouldn't be ideal to have those rooms simply go into general rotation because there would be debates and arguments over room assignments," Brady said. Admission into The GLOBE consisted of upperclassmen writing essays; freshmen had to indicate their interest and were chosen based on an essay written as part of their Schreyer application.
In addition, current residents must remain in good standing in The GLOBE by attending and actively participating in SLO programs throughout the semester -- and that's where Ahluwalia and the executive board come in. Programs are geared toward expanding each resident's global perspective and are divided into three broad categories: a speaker series, a faculty roundtable and study abroad panels.
"In terms of professors here, we're focusing on people who have worked abroad or bring a real global focus to their research," Ahluwalia said. "We try to focus on people who are making a difference -- and it's stuff that we can all do as well."
Within the first week of the fall semester, Ahluwalia and the executive board had hit the ground running. Its first program was a screening of "The Stoning of Soraya M.," a 2008 film based on a true story about the gruesome death of an Iranian woman. Though it was "very graphic and very painful to watch," Ahluwalia said it prompted discussion and introduced residents to the importance of global awareness. The GLOBE's first faculty visit was from Mia Bloom, professor of international studies and women's studies at Penn State as well as a fellow at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Penn State. A few days later, Arun Upneja, professor of hospitality management at Penn State and the associate dean of Schreyer Honors College, and Elena Galinova, The GLOBE's faculty adviser, presented a joint lecture called "Globalization in Our Penn State Community."
So far, The GLOBE has had a great start, said Ben Stewart, a first-year scholar double majoring in Spanish and Russian.
"Through The GLOBE, we've done a lot in a very short amount of time," said Stewart. "The programs themselves are all globally-based, with the movie showings, the speaker series and the presentations, but there's definitely enough variety in the material that, even if it doesn't directly appeal to you, there will be something that comes up that you'll take much more of an interest in."
Stewart adds that all of these programs have given him the opportunity to get more involved during his first semester. "With the network and through very distinguished faculty, it puts so many opportunities in front of you. I don't know why you wouldn't take them," he said.
Dean Brady also said The GLOBE and its programs have value for more than just its own residents. Rather than The GLOBE being a "cloistered, isolated experience," he wants it to contribute to the larger Penn State campus by utilizing the programs as well as the space itself. "We want the programming to spread out to all of the college and all of the University," he said.
To accomplish that, The GLOBE will offer other students the chance to attend events throughout the semester. Ahluwalia adds that this larger goal also involves partnering with smaller organizations on campus and providing them with opportunities to recruit and attract students to events. Through collaboration with multicultural groups on campus, diversity outreach, the University Office of Global Programs and even minority groups, it's "just a mishmash of things to try to bring the word out and let people go to what they want," she said.
For Divya Hosangadi, a first-year Scholar majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, living in The GLOBE was the perfect opportunity to continue pursuing her budding interests in global issues.
"In high school, I really liked learning about different cultures and focusing on issues dealing with diversity and global issues in general," Hosangadi said. "When I decided to come to Schreyer and Penn State, I became really interested in The GLOBE because I wanted to get involved in a community that focused on issues dealing with diversity and globalization."
Hosangadi's enthusiasm demonstrates the importance of Schreyer's global perspective mission.
"It's important to learn about these global issues because it's necessary to become a world citizen," she said. "As college students, we're eventually going to go out into the world, and we're going to contribute something to society. If we don't know the many issues there are in the world, it's going to be hard to successfully do that."
For more information about honors housing and the Schreyer Honors College, call 814-863-2635 or visit shc.psu.edu online.


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TYLER (TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH) - A 43-year-old Tyler meth-adone clinic owner pleaded guilty to attempting to burn down a building occupied by a competing clinic, and then plotting to kill his co-conspirator after learning he might testify against him, according to a news release from the Eastern District of Texas.
Edward Jacobs, 43, made the plea on Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judith Guth-rie's court to the felony offenses of attempted arson and solicitation of murder for hire, the release states.
Jacobs admitted that on March 19, he gave Daniel Kubisty about $3,000 to burn down a building in the 3300 block of East Fifth Street in Tyler, occupied at the time by the Add-Life Recovery Center methadone clinic, the release states.
Jacobs and Kubisty were indicted June 6 and charged with attempted arson and conspiracy to commit arson. The indictment alleged Jacobs and Kubisty conspired to burn down the building in order to gain a competitive advantage for the Methadone Clinic of East Texas, which also had an office in Tyler.
On March 19, Kubisty was arrested in Tyler by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and was found with a gasoline can with a wick saturated in gasoline protruding from its neck in the back of Kubisty's truck, according to the release.
Jacobs also admitted that on June 1, he arranged a meeting with a man he believed he could hire to kill Kubisty to prevent him from testifying against himself in a federal arson case. What Jacobs didn't know was the "hit man" he hired was cooperating with the ATF, the release stated.
During the meeting, Jacobs offered to pay the cooperating witness $12,000 for Kubisty's murder, according to the release. ATF was monitoring the meeting and arrested Jacobs at the scene. The June 6 indictment also charged Jacobs with witness tampering, murder for hire, solicitation of murder for hire and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, the release states. Jacobs has been in jail awaiting trial since that time.
He faces five to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the attempted arson, and up to 20 years in prison and a $125,000 fine for solicitation of murder for hire. Kubisty's case is still pending trial, according to the release.
This case was investigated by the ATF Tyler Office, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Noble.


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Print it out or change the font and color
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Give yourself a break
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Why isnt the six atom ring created when ASA binds to Fe3+ flat like the benzene ring? is it because that Fe3+ distorted the angles tats why it is not flat
How do the bond angles in the six atom ring (created when ASA binds to Fe3+) differ from the bond angles of the six atom benzene ring? are there even any tetrahedral angles in here because the angles i found are 123.66,124.12,119.15,114.71,89.86. Some are too big for 109 degrees
Calculate the molality (m) of CH2Cl2 in a solution generated by combining 846 g of the solute CH2Cl2 with 11.2 L of the solvent ethanol.
Using the balanced equation, determine the number of NaNO3 units in the visualization in the reaction. 3Ca(NO3)2(aq) + 2Na3PO4(aq) → 6NaNO3(aq) + Ca3(PO4)2(s)
If the ratio of the rate of effusion of an unknown gas to that of CO under the same conditions is 0.7978, calculate the molar mass (g/mol) of the gas
1) 14 moles of Ar 12 moles of N2 2 moles of BF3 If the total number of mol present in the mixture visualized is 1.43, calculate the number of mol of N2. 2) 11 moles of N2 4 moles of CSH4 If the total number of mol present in the mixture visualized is 1.68, calculate the number...
u were right on that significant figure. Thanks for the help
Infrared, ultraviolet, and visible radiation are all part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Arrange the three types of radiation in order of increasing energy? i put visible<infrared<ultraviolet. Is this correct though
An automobile tire is rated to last for 60,000 miles. To an order of magnitude, through how many revolutions will it turn? i put 10E7 but i got it wrong since i used 1rev/8ft
then do u write it as 1.62E4, but i remember that i did convert it to lb
An auditorium measures 35.0 m multiplied by 15.0 m multiplied by 5.0 m. The density of air is 1.20 kg/m3. What is the weight of air in the room in pounds? i got 4.25 x 10^5 and the page says that "Your response differs from the correct answer by orders of magnitude. lb&...
A. What is the mass of Solution 3? in g B. What is the density of Solution 2? g/ml solution 1: Mass Empty Flask (g):42.252 Mass NaCl (g):0.911 Volume Water (mL):100 Mass of Flask + Solution (g):43.107 solution 2: MEF: 45.778 mass nacl:0.897 volume water: 100 mass of Flask+sol:...
i don't know if this is right, 2SO32 + MnO4 yield 4SO42 + 2Mn2+
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@ DrBob222, i tried your way already and it didn't work. 2/102 x100=1.96 can you double check again
You have 2.0 g of solid A, 100.00 mL of water (100.0 g of water), and the total mass of solid A combined with 100.00 mL of water is found to be 102.0 g. The mass percent of A in this solution is
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Does knowledge acquired in highschool liberate or hinder students? Please help explain the question and your opinion.
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I know I just made a post saying that most stuff on Christianity was going to be on my new blog – but this touches on Hebrew Bible (and to some degree other ancient Near Eastern stuff) enough to where it's probably at home here, too.
In Colossians 1.18 and Revelation 1.5, Christ is referred to as "the firstborn of the dead" (ὁ πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν). This is interesting for a multitude of reasons – as evidence of a common formula circulating around the communities in which Colossians and Revelation were written, etc. – but most of all, because it's one of the loci classici that best embodies what is perhaps Christianity's major religious innovation: that the resurrection of a single human presages the general resurrection.
As such, this idea is seen as wholly unparalleled in the history of religions. Yet at every turn, early Christianity was informed by early Jewish beliefs – even its innovations seen through their lens. I wonder if it's not possible to see hints of this in the phrase πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν (and a variant of it in 1 Corinthians).
First, it's surprising how infrequently scholars note how similar this phrase is to one appearing in the Book of Job: בְּכֹור מָֽוֶת, "the firstborn of Death" (Job 18.13). πρωτότοκος is the normal Septuagint translation of בְּכֹור (according to Aune 2003, used for it 131 times). Although τῶν νεκρῶν is different than מָֽוֶת (not to mention LXX has θάνατος here [though LXX Jb. 18.13 is otherwise corrupt]), perhaps the main impediment to scholars reading the passages together is that, in Job 18, the "firstborn of mwṭ" is clearly a demonic, anthropophagous figure: "the firstborn of death devours his limbs."
Shifting gears ever so slightly, I mentioned that there's a variant of ὁ πρωτότοκος ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν in 1 Corinthians.
1 Cor. 15.20 reads "…Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep" (ἀπαρχὴ τῶν κεκοιμημένων). Although first fruits are, of course, a sacrificial offering – and elsewhere, Paul clearly understands Jesus's death as a sacrifice (most explicitly in Rom. 3.25) – here, as in the aforementioned texts, "first fruits" in conjunction with κεκοιμημένων (=those who have died) still seems to refer simply to the newness, the novelty of Jesus's resurrection, before the general resurrection. While Aune notes that ἀπαρχὴ is never used to translate בְּכֹור in LXX, it is used in conjunction with "firstborn" (πρωτότοκα) at LXX Ex. 22.29, and is clearly an analogous idea.
As Paul continues his discussion of death and resurrection throughout 1 Cor. 15, he personifies Death several times. The first instance of this is just a few verses later from 15.20, where he writes that the "last enemy to be destroyed is Death" (15.26). Finally, in 15.54, he quotes Isa. 25.8, "Death will be devoured" (κατεπόθη). It has often been noted that the Isaiah passage that Paul quotes may be building on ancient personifications of Death – though with an element of ironic reversal, as it usually Death (in the guise of the Semitic deity Mot and others) who does the devouring in ancient Near Eastern traditions.
Considering that Paul plays with this ironic reversal (as he does elsewhere), is it possible that he similarly appropriated the language of Job 18.13 – though not the LXX as we have it – in his utilization of the phrase ἀπαρχὴ τῶν κεκοιμημένων, but giving it an "opposite" twist (or even a polemical twist: that Jesus is the true firstborn/first fruits of Death)? The quotation of the Isaian "devoured" passage might give this additional credence.
This may help us view 1 Cor. 15.20, 26, and 54 more closely together, as expressive of Paul's knowledge of traditions of Death's personification. But how far does this principle extend?
Healey, in a paper called "'Death is Swallowed up in Victory' (1 Corinthians 15:54): Canaanite Mot in Prophecy and Apocalypse," notes that
the old mythology of the Ancient Near East and Greece was not dead in the first century C.E. The victory of Bel and Nabu over Tiamat was still celebrated at Palmyra, and at least some of the Jews of Palestine made use of old mythological ideas, as is clear from Jewish apocryphal works and some of the Dead Sea documents… (Healey in Harland/Hayward 1999: 212)
While echoing Bauckham in his view that the Ugaritic material is far too distant to have directly influenced Paul, he reiterates that "the image of Death the Devourer was maintained in popular culture through the intervening centuries, surfacing from time to time in poetic and less rigorously orthodox works" (213).
Job, it might be noted, has a large concentration of instances of personification of Death – and hints of revival/resurrection. Could Paul's remembrance of Job (esp. 18.13) have brought to mind his "inventory" of knowledge of personified Death, in all its Mediterranean and ancient Near Eastern guises – and even prompted him to think of the various things he did when composing 1 Cor. 15, a text full of death and decay of the body? Or is it the other way around?
What, then, is the relationship between the 1 Corinthians passage and the Colossians and Revelation phrase quoted earlier? Are there implications for the (contested) Pauline authorship of Colossians?


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As the name indicates, PatternFinder can be used to find patterns (defined or undefined) from data, but there is more to PatternFinder than just finding patterns.
The main analysis features available in PatternFinder are:
- Periodic statistic analysis of time series data
- Signal filtering and operations
- Overlaying and analyzing multiple signals
- Event analysis
- Pattern analysis (pattern finding)
In PatternFinder you can further analyse all data from Star-Oddi loggers, but also data from other data logging systems. PatternFinder works seamlessly together with Star-Oddi supporting software's SeaStar, Mercury and FoodStar, where retrieved data can be transferred over to PatternFinder with one button click. Other text format data (where you have "one measurement per line time series") can be imported to PatternFinder for analysis by defining the data format. In PatternFinder you can analyse data from several sources at the same time.
In PatternFinder you can create Single File Projects (SFP) or Multiple File Projects (MPF) by selecting one or many data files to work with. You can choose data from different sources (Star-Oddi data as well as outside data) to be added in a Multiple File Project. PatternFinder is an ideal tool in processing large amounts of data that otherwise would take a long time, e.g. data from several tagged animals over a time period of several years.
All operations in PatternFinder are viewed graphically, but all results can also be viewed as XML files or text files. All operations and results are registered, can be renamed, viewed as reports and printed out. The history of all operations and their results for each signal is registered and can be viewed simply by clicking the history button found in all graphs.
Almost all operations in PatternFinder result in time series data, including statistical analysis results, and can be exported in TXT, XML, HTML table or Excel file formats to other applications. All Event and Pattern graphs have a single click "export" button that exports the results to text file.
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Click on the links to view the PatternFinder user manual, tutorials and case studies.
Periodic statistic analysis of time series data
The user defines a period (time unit) the data is to be analysed in (i.e. months, weeks, hours, minutes, seconds). PatternFinder provides the user with a eleven signal graph including one signal for each statistic parameter: maximum, minimum, mean, standard deviation, median, range, points, energy, kurtosis and skewnes. Each statistic parameter signal can be extracted and saved as a separate signal and used for further analysis.
Signal filtering and signal operations
In PatternFinder signal stands for single data graph, whether a statistic parameter signal as described above or a measurement signal. Signals can be filtered before further analysis. Besides being able to "cut" the signals numerous other filtering options are available, such as single spike filtering, smoothing, moving average, round off and scaling. These filtering options come in handy when filtering out "noise" or preparing signals for event analysis or pattern recognition. Signal operations include subtracting one signal from another and comparing two signals.
Overlaying and analyzing multiple signals
Multiple data signals (from one or many sources) can be viewed in the same graph. The data can be viewed as it is, shifted to start at the same time or as annual data. Interpolation of the signals is also possible (giving same value for all signals).
Statistical analysis on each signal type (same unit value) is possible, resulting in a eleven signal graph. In this case all the statistical parameters refer to comparison of all the signals in a singular point. Each statistic parameter signal can be extracted and saved as a separate signal and analyzed further.
Event analysis
Two types of event analysis are defined in PatternFinder, behavioural event analysis and ambient event analysis. In behavioural event analysis changes in the signal are defined. This feature is designed for analysing signals from tagged animals that indicate a behavioural signature. Signals presenting parameters such as pressure, magnetic field strength and tilt can be further analysed with behavioural event analysis.
In ambient level analysis changes in level or level status are defined. The ambient event analysis is designed for environmental parameters such as wind speed or light. Both analysis methods produce an Event graph (ESX) that can be combined in a multi event graph.
Periodic statistical analysis on events is possible, resulting in a eight signal statistics graph. Each statistic parameter signal created can be extracted and saved as a separate signal and analysed further.
Pattern analysis
PatternFinder can be used to find patterns in data either by detecting occurrences of user defined patterns or scanning the data for possible patterns. The user defines a pattern that can be saved as a pattern template. Using autocorrelation and enveloping, the PatternFinder finds all occurrences of the defined pattern in the data (signal). The user can define in the software how similar (%) to the pattern template the accepted pattern has to be. Results are presented in a pattern graph.
When PatternFinder is scanning data for possible patterns without user defined model pattern, the pattern search is based on Events. Firstly the data is prepared for event analysis (e.g. smoothed) and then pattern recognition is run on the event graph finding all possible patterns in the signal. As you can imagine, all patterns is a lot of patterns. It is necessary for the user to set up some criteria for the pattern filter. Results are presented in a user selection pattern graph.
Periodical statistic analysis on the patterns is possible, resulting in a eight signal graph. Each statistic parameter signal can be extracted and saved as a separate signal and analysed further.


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On Wednesday at 10 a.m., Paul Tracy will take a group of cyclists on a tour of the Honda Indy Toronto temporary street course, mostly to show off his new physique a 40-pound lighter version of the Thrill from West Hill that showed up here a year ago.
Good for him.
But did he have to point out to anyone within hearing distance on Tuesday at the Media Pit Stop Challenge in aid of his Childrens Wish Foundation charity that maybe I might benefit from such an exercise?
OK, Ill give him the fact I might be slightly overweight OK, a lot overweight and a bit older than the average IZOD IndyCar driver. But there he was brandishing a microphone at the Yonge-Dundas Square sharing that opinion with a crowd of hundreds that had assembled to watch a dozen or so media types try to change the tires on Tracys No. 15 KV Racing Technology Dallara.
Lets see if McNulty can change tires as fast as he can write nasty columns about racing, Tracy said.
And later he reached over and patted my admittedly ample mid-section suggesting that age and too many meals of fries and burgers at various race tracks around the world have taken their toll.
I used to like it a lot better when Tracy used to refer to me as simply McNutty.
Not in a malicious way mind you. In fact, I think if he truly disliked me he would have and could have come up with much more colourful epithets from which to label me.
The nickname was an outgrowth of what he and his race teams sometimes felt were unfair or unfounded criticisms of him in particular, and the former Champ car World Series in general, in my columns.
For the most part, it was sort of a badge of dubious honour.
So when he showed up on Tuesday at the Media Pit Stop Challenge in which my partner city columnist Mike Strobel and myself managed the fifth fastest time of the day of 15.03 seconds to change two tires I expected a little more of the same.
But just as he has upped his racing game Tracy had a terrific weekend at the Camping World Grand Prix at Watkins Glen International 10 days ago he now has upped his critical assessments of yours truly.
Old and fat, that is.
I appreciate that Tracy did so with that wicked twinkle in his bright blues eyes, but golly, it sort of hurt.
That is until my daughter Natasha a witness to my humiliation at Tracys hands agreed with him.
So no, that doesnt mean Ill be there at the Princes Gate at 10 a.m. Wednesday to take up Tracys challenge.
Im afraid one trip around the 2.82-km Exhibition Place track would be way too little and way too late to erase a lifetime of excess in my case.
However, a year from now, without the aid of the high-priced trainers and plush gyms that Tracy has access to, maybe Ill give that bike challenge a go.


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