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Topic: Mac OS X 10.7
Apple's OS X passes Windows Vista in worldwide usage
09/03/2012, 08:09 am
Total Web usage of Apple's OS X operating system has exceeded Microsoft's Windows Vista, while for the first time, Windows 7 has topped Windows XP to become the world's largest operating system.
Apple releases Safari 6 with offline reading for OS X 10.7 Lion
07/25/2012, 09:07 am
For those with OS X 10.7 Lion who aren't ready to upgrade to Wednesday's release of Mountain Lion, Safari 6 is now available for download, though a Windows version of Safari 6 remains absent.
Apple pulls Messages for Mac beta ahead of Mountain Lion
06/12/2012, 01:06 pm
With OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion set to launch in July, Apple has pulled the link to download its Messages for Mac beta.
Mac App Store apps begin to comply with sandboxing rule ahead of deadline
05/17/2012, 12:05 pm
Applications complying with Apple's sandboxing rules for OS X have begun to appear on the Mac App Store, with Pixelmator being among the first major offerings to meet the forthcoming requirement.
OS X Lion tested with unreleased Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge chip
03/23/2012, 03:03 pm
A modified version of OS X 10.7.3 has been tested with an unreleased Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge chip, giving a first indication of how Apple's next-generation Macs will perform.
Apple preparing for first external betas of OS X 10.7.4
03/12/2012, 03:03 pm
Apple is wrapping up work on its next performance and maintenance update for the Lion operating system, as OS X 10.7.4 will soon make its way to developers for testing.
Mac OS X Lion update resolves Time Machine issue
03/05/2012, 05:03 pm
Apple on Monday released an update for Mac OS X 10.7.3 which resolves an issue that some users faced when restoring their Mac from a Time Machine backup.
Gatekeeper is hidden in OS X 10.7.3 Lion, developers can preview it now
02/16/2012, 03:02 pm
Though it will formally debut later this year in Mountain Lion, Apple has secretly included its new Gatekeeper feature in OS X 10.7.3 Lion, and developers can enable it now to test it.
Apple's iOS finishes 2011 with 52% share of mobile Web browsing
01/02/2012, 09:01 am
Apple closed out 2011 with a commanding 52.1 percent share of mobile devices tracked browsing the Web, while Google's Android had just 16.2 percent.
Inside Apple's 2011: Mac hardware and Mac OS X
12/28/2011, 11:12 pm
This year, Apple's Mac OS X platform turned ten years old, launched the 10.7 Lion reference release, introduced the Mac App Store and iCloud, and delivered a series of new Macs boasting fast, flexible Thunderbolt connectivity and speedy new Sandy Bridge processors.
Quicken for Mac 2007 being rebuilt to work with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
12/22/2011, 02:12 pm
Intuit announced to customers on Thursday that it plans to release a "re-engineered" version of Quicken for Mac 2007 that will be compatible with the latest version of Apple's Mac operating system, OS X 10.7 Lion.
Apple updates Keynote, Windows iCloud Control Panel
12/01/2011, 08:12 pm
Following a Safari browser fix on Tuesday, Apple has issued updates to its Keynote presentation software and the iCloud Control Panel for iOS device owners using Windows PCs.
Microsoft to follow Apple's Lion lead with digital delivery of Windows 8
11/22/2011, 10:11 am
Much like Apple did with the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in July, Microsoft plans to make the simplest and easiest method of installing Windows 8 a download over the Internet.
Apple begins testing Mac OS X 10.7.3 with focus on iCloud storage
11/15/2011, 05:11 pm
Apple on Tuesday began widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.7.3, the third maintenance update to its relatively new Lion operating system that will improve upon iCloud's Documents in the Cloud, among a handful of other areas.
Apple plans software fix for Lion battery life issues on older MacBooks
11/15/2011, 04:11 pm
As some users continue to report battery life issues running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on older MacBooks, Apple continues to look into the problem in hopes of finding a solution.
Mac OS X Lion and iTunes to get iCloud updates ahead of iOS
10/08/2011, 04:10 pm
Mac OS X Lion and iTunes users next week will reportedly gain access to Apple's new iCloud software a day or so prior to the launch of iOS 5.
Apple invites developers to submit iOS 5, iCloud-enabled Lion apps
10/05/2011, 02:10 pm
Apple on Wednesday put a call out to developers, encouraging them to submit their updated applications built for iOS 5 and iCloud, set to launch in one week.
Sales of Apple's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion top 6M, 80% more than Snow Leopard
10/04/2011, 01:10 pm
Apple on Tuesday revealed that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is its best-selling operating system yet, with sales having reached 6 million since it launched in July.
Apple supplies developers new build of Mac OS X 10.7.2 ahead of iCloud launch
09/22/2011, 02:09 pm
As Apple moves forward toward the upcoming launch of iCloud, a new beta of Mac OS X 10.7.2 was supplied to developers on Thursday with no known issues.
Apple issues new iCloud-equipped build of Mac OS X 10.7.2 to developers
09/16/2011, 03:09 pm
Apple on Friday supplied developers with yet another beta build of Mac OS X 10.7.2 as it moves closer to releasing the update for Lion with support for iCloud integration.


text: Thanks to scientists like Dr. John Searle, Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language at University of California- Berkeley, some key points about us Homo sapiens have been established. These points are rather remarkable. It turns out that the big step between civilization and more primitive forms of human society is written language. He says writing constitutes civilization. It is the infrastructure of civilization itself. Writing is a virtual reality environment for the human mind. The key word is virtual. It has affected who we are, how we think, how we remember, how we organize. We aren't born with it. Homo sapiens must learn how to live as civilized human beings. Advanced forms of civilization, such as killing others because we disagree with them, marriage, or becoming a newspaper editor, are only possible because of written language. Written language shapes our cognition. What does this mean?

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Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
November 3, 2004
Members of the general public look to museums for the best examples of ancient life — the biggest dinosaur, the nicest fossils of plants and bugs. Increasingly, researchers are looking to museum collections to answer questions about what lived on earth millions of years ago and how life evolved.
Digging up stream beds, river banks, flood plains, and road cuts and analyzing the resulting boxes of dirt and rock is time consuming and expensive. Also, many promising sites are being covered with human developments or preserved from potential erosion with large boulders or rip rap.
But are museum collections representative of what is found in nature? Maybe the curator just looked for T-rex teeth and flies in amber.
Susan Barbour Wood, of Stuart, Va., a Ph.D. student in geosciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, compared the biodiversity of the mollusk collection from the Chesapeake region at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville with bulk samples collected from five geological formations in the Chesapeake Bay area. She will report her findings at the 116th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver Nov. 7-10.
"It takes a lot of money to collect fossil-laden sediments from the field. Museum collections are already collected and sorted by the type of organism. If museum collections are representative of what is found in nature, it makes the research easier in terms of cost and time," Barbour Wood said. So I am comparing my bulk collections, time period by time period." Martinsville is near her home and the university and has extensive collections representative in terms of diversity and abundance compared to the mollusks preserved as fossils in nature from these time periods.
A bulk collection is "when you chop a cubic meter of sediment out of a river bank, for instance," Barbour Wood said. "The larger the sample, or more samples you collect, the more likely you are going to get all of the preservable organisms that lived in an area in a particular time period." For her research, she used outcrops that have already been chronologically mapped.
Barbour Wood is studying the ancestors of today's marine clams and snails. Her primary focus is the Eastover Formation of the upper most Miocene, about 6.5 million years ago. "It is an understudied period," she said. She also is interested in other time periods, but is collecting this one to make sure it is represented in the literature. "I want to compare the Eastover to other time periods to see how diversity of organisms changed over time, which may be in part a result of climate change."
"People who study the diversity of life are trying to database what has been on earth and why it has changed. It is hard to get grants to do this from fieldwork; therefore paleontologists may want to use museum collections. It is important to know if the curator was interested in one species or the diversity of all during the time period in question. Whether you are building a large database or doing a small study of Virginia and Maryland, you have to know how and why material was collected."
She was pleasantly surprised by her comparison of bulk diversity with the Virginia Museum of Natural History collection. "I figured it would be similar, but the Museum collection's biodiversity is very much the same as field-based bulk collections from several sites."
The Virginia Museum of Natural History invertebrate fossil collections are primarily from New Jersey to Florida from the Cretaceous to Pleistocene in age. Fossils were removed from sandy to silty unconsolidated beds around river and road cuts where fresh earth is exposed and easily accessible, providing excellent coverage of time periods available on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Barbour Wood said.
Lauck Ward, the curator, "has an extensive collection of Atlantic Seaboard organisms. He has done a good job of covering time periods and fossil localities, including some that are no longer accessible," Barbour Wood said.
Another finding is that shells in the museum collections are better preserved, she said. "It is an advantage of time. Museums can keep the best examples of specimens for collections gathered over time."
However, collections in other institutions also would have to be examined prior to use for the study of the diversity and abundance.
Museums also contain "picked collections", which are "when you go along an outcrop and select the best examples of a particular species," Barbour Wood said. "It is not representative of what you see in nature, but picked collections are handy because they capture rare organisms that don't persist or preserve well in the environment. They also are helpful for studying a large number of a particular species, although collection of nicer, often larger, specimens can mean there are few examples of hard-to-see juveniles."
Barbour Wood concludes that museums can be an important resource to researchers because they often represent the efforts of several researchers, provide data on sites no longer available, and make data collection cost and time effective. However, it is important to understand the methodology behind the collections to control for biases and aid interpretation of data.
Barbour Wood will present the paper, "Quantifying collection biases in bulk, museum, and literature based molluscan sample data," at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10, in rooms 108/110/112 of the Colorado Convention Center. Co-authors are Michal Kowalewski, professor of geosciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, and museum curator Lauck Ward.
Barbour Wood, who expects to graduate in December 2005, visited the museum as she was growing up and later interned there before working on her master's degree in 1998.
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech has grown to become among the largest universities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech's eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and outreach activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.


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Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
Every year, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute releases an oft-cited (and oft-critiqued) Urban Mobility Report that measures congestion on American roads, famously ranking the metros with the most heinous traffic. The report homes in on a central cost of mobility: the price we pay to sit in gridlock.
It does not, however, look much at the value we get for paying that cost: access to wherever we're trying to go.
"When we think about this as economists, we know that every trip that is made is worth it – the value outweighs the cost of taking it – or it wouldn't have happened," says Andrew Owen, the director of the recently created Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota. "It's a little bit disingenuous to use metrics that only talk about the cost of travel."
Consider a metric – or a map – that captures value instead. Not: How long will it take me to reach my office? But: How many jobs can I reach in half an hour? How many grocery stores are accessible by car within five minutes? Which neighborhoods in town enable the greatest accessibility, by public transit, to really good restaurants?
"We're interested in looking at how well transportation systems connect people to the things they want to reach," Owen says, "not just how well they let people move around in space."
What would that look like? For starters, this map of the Minneapolis/St. Paul region, created by the Accessibility Observatory:
It looks a bit like an isochrone, a map showing how far you can travel on a transportation network in a given time frame, starting from a single location. But this map tells us something about every point of origin in the Minneapolis/St. Paul region simultaneously. Specifically, it tells us how many jobs are accessible within 30 minutes – using the key at right – from each location by public transit, during the 7-9 a.m. peak morning window. The darker green areas have the greatest accessibility to jobs; the lighter green areas have the least. The red lines show transit routes.
Bear with me while I explain how all of this information is possible to convey in one picture. This map is built with three key datasets: GTFS data from the local transit agency tracking when and how often buses and trains run, and where riders might transfer between them (this data didn't exist a few years ago); OpenStreetMap data on pedestrian routes and walking times needed to reach the nearest transit stop, or to reach an office on the other end of a bus ride (this data also didn't exist a few years ago); and block-level job counts from the Census Bureau. Those numbers are technically estimates at the block level (for disclosure reasons), but they scale up to accurate, actual numbers at larger geographies.
The Minneapolis/St. Paul region shown here has 54,000 census blocks. The Accessibility Observatory created a shortest-path tree for every one of them. Given realistic pedestrian access, and actual transit headways and routes, this map reflects every potential path to a job that's possible, within 30 minutes, from every single block group. Similar calculations could be made with car travel, but the Accessibility Observatory hasn't gotten that far yet.
In the Minneapolis/St. Paul region, this travel-time matrix effectively contains 2.9 billion points of data, for every single minute of departure. Your travel options are different, however, if you leave the house at the height of rush hour than if you travel during off-peak service. In fact, depending on when your bus runs, your 30-minute travel map may look different at 7:01 and 7:10 and 7:59. The above map above spans the morning peak from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. This means it portrays service averaged across 2.9 billion points of data in 120 different scenarios (for each minute from 7-9 a.m.).
To capture a city's picture of transit accessibility to jobs over an entire day (don't forget the night workers!), you'd need to draw those same 54,000 shortest-tree paths for 1,440 minutes. In Minneapolis, that means the Accessibility Observatory – or, rather, the computers it hires from Amazon – processed 4.2 trillion points of data. With it, Owen could now show you a map of 30-minute job accessibility during a different window, from say 4-6 p.m., or he could show you the jobs that are reachable within 15 minutes instead.
"I sometimes still don't believe it's actually possible," he says. "Then the data comes back, and I think 'oh, right, computers!'"
This data is also capable of illustrating how much accessibility to jobs varies across time, from a single location. On some street corners, the bus comes every few minutes, and your accessibility looks about the same whether you leave the house at 7:05 a.m. or 8:45 a.m. In other places, the bus runs only every 30 minutes or so, meaning that your accessibility fluctuates significantly, as in this neighborhood charted by Owen below:
Turn that variable into yet another map, and this next picture shows variation in accessibility to jobs across the region. The palest areas have the most consistent service (and access to jobs), the dark brown areas have the least. Not surprisingly, if you live in downtown Minneapolis, at the center of a hub-and-spoke transit system, your access to jobs is consistently good throughout the 7-9 a.m. window:
The Accessibility Observatory's goal is to repeat this data-crunching process in metros all over the country (a task primarily limited by cloud computing time and the money needed to buy it). Owen would ultimately like to create a kind of comprehensive, annual accessibility report that would mirror the Texas Transportation Institute's Mobility Report. As with congestion metrics, the data would need constant updating, both as transit service changes, and as the locations of jobs shift, too.
Such information could be potentially useful in ways that Owen hasn't even thought of yet (he's hoping researchers of other kinds will knock on his door). Maps like the first one above could help you make smarter decisions about where it live. It could be layered with socio-economic data about a city, more clearly revealing the opportunities for job access in low-income neighborhoods. It could be used to track changes in transit service over time, or to predict the disruptions that could come from future changes.
In the below map, for instance, Owen has calculated the change in accessibility to jobs, during the same 7-9 a.m. window, between 2010 and 2013. The dark green areas have access to 100 percent more jobs in 2013 than in 2010 (dark brown areas lost the most access). The yellow arrow points to a region where bus frequency was significantly increased along a particular line. The red arrow highlights a corridor with a new BRT line, with major improvements to job access right around a single station.
In this fourth map, Owen simulated what would happen to job access if the No. 6 bus were simply eliminated on the southwest side of Minneapolis (holding all else equal in town):
With such manipulations, this tool could help agencies make smarter decisions about how to improve transit for particular neighborhoods, or where to plan new housing, or how to navigate painful budget cuts.
"I hope that's not the reason someone has to use this," Owen says of that last scenario. "But if it helps them weather a budget cut in a way that impacts communities the least, we'd be really happy with that."
From here, it's intriguing to imagine changing out many of these variables: What would access look like, for instance, to top-rated public schools?
All maps courtesy of the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota.
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I don't find the premise or the comparisons relevant.There are only two MF companies, excepting a few ultra tiny body and lens makers, such as Alpa. These are Hasselblad, and Phase One / Mamiya / Leaf (really all one company).Even these are very small, producing products in the low to mid thousands a year. Based on what I know about Phase, they are accommodating the marketplace quite well. While pro sales are declining, enthusiast sales are holding steady and even climbing in some markets. The museum, science, military markets also continue and even expand.As for Hasselblad, I have no knowledge of how their sales are or what their plans are. The pimping up of OEM NEX cameras seems misguided at best, but stranger things have happened.So, I wouldn't worry about MF. Leica is a player as well, and they seem to be selling every S2 and lens that they can make.The industry just isn't about megapixels any more, from the point and shoots to backs. There are other metrics that potential purchasers care about. And in some markets, the ones where MF plays, price isn't foremost the way it is in mass markets. The wealthy amateur and scientific/military/museum segment is driven by needs other than simple price/performance analysis, or the availability of glitzy features.Once film was over there never was a mass market for medium format, and there never will be. But mice do very nicely living almost invisibly among the feet of elephants, who hardly notice or care that they are there.Just keep in mind that Canon makes more Rebels in one factory in a single day than the entire MF industry makes backs in a year. And that probably includes both gross profit and margin as well.Michael
MF has a different lookMF has a different crop ratioMF has a big viewfinderMF has finder optionsMF has faster syncMF has leaf shutter lensesMF can shoot film or digital
While 80mp backs and tech cameras have an edge it is not all it is made out to be. ... "nothing can touch it" .... makes it sound untouchable.However things are very close:Here is a good comparison made by an IQ180 and tech camera owner that is also an experienced landscape photographer:http://www.circleofconfusion.ie/d800e-vs-phase-one-iq180/It gets even more interesting if we consider the lens used on the Nikon. It's not one of their best and somewhat due for an update.here is how it compared with the state of the art in 135 format DSLR lenses.Nikon 24mm pc-e @ f8Canon 24mm TS-E @ f8Then there is what has already been announced...... Zeiss is throwing it's weight behind very high end 135 DSLR format lenses in a manner that never have before.The new 55mm f1.4 is a sign of what is on the horizon. MF makers are small and dependant on what Dalsa and Truesense make. Dalsa and true sense are more heavily inversted in other fields than MF enthusiat and pro photography. What they put out for Phase and Hasselblad is dependant on what they make for industrial applications for industrial equipment imaging systems. Dalsa was absorbed by Teledyne a giant industrial and defense contractor. Even if you go to their imaging website while the home page scrolls through many applications and areas it works in it does not feature enthusiast/armature or professional photography.http://www.teledynedalsa.com/While the MF companies have been in decline in the digital age, Zeiss has grown into a company with $ 5.5 billion of revenue.The fact that they have thrown their weight behind motion picture and 135 format DSLR and pretty much have nothing to do with medium formatsays a lot.
...- camera handling is different (MF has analogue cameras with buttons instead of dials digital menues)Well, Phase P45+ seems pretty much menu based, Sony Alpha 99 has plenty of buttons.- you can use the same sensor (DB) on different camera bodies (eg. on a 645 SLR and a tech cam)Yeah, that's great!- you can use different sensors (DBs) on the same cameraWhy? Even if you can afford two different sensors you would probably use the best one!- you can shoot vertical compositions without rotating the camera (on some MF / LF models)Yes, nice! You need a large image circle to support that! Hows wide are your wide angles get on that combo?- super easy and fast sensor cleaning on DBsYes, of course! On the other hand, how much dust do you get on that big sensor? Some of the samples I have seen posted from MF were about the dirtiest I have seen. The IR filter on those sensor is exposed and easy to scratch.
Here's a though regarding tech cameras.....Have you guys seen the new FF sony compact....How about this as a tech camera system...Modify the new sony FF compact and rig it as a two shot high speed stitch system...Make a conversion lens to put infront of your Rodi or Schneider tech lens just for composition purposes thatchanges the angle of view to preview your final two shot stitch so you can compose live view on the sony sensor...Flip the preivew and composition converter lens out of the way, fine focus with live view off the sensor and shoot your two stitch shotsmoving the sensor on the back of the tech camera.The camera is small enough to make an automatic mechanism to do this.48mp with higher dynamic range captures for not much money at all.Hell the camera only coasts $ 2,800 .... probably less on the street.Actually how about pairing something like this with the Canon 17mm TS lens. Two frame stitch-O-sonymatic ultra wide 48 MP shots.Would be a damn good option for architectural photographer, product photographers. Certainly very interesting for the landscape enthusiast with out a budget for an IQ180Arca Swiss Sony colaboration maybe....
I believe this post was started just to spark an argument.
Hi,I don't think so. C't is one of the largest and most respected periodicals in Europe. That said, C't is a computer periodical and not about photography. They have photography specials that are quite good.The views may just be different. I just got a mail from a photographer selling of his IQ180. He acknowledges the benefits of the IQ180, but he says he cannot see differences between IQ180 and D800E in prints up to 36" (without a loupe), the D800E has better DR and simply is more practical.I'd suggest that we see a similar move from full frame or APS-C to micro 4/3. Once a technology is good enough it will compete, not on quality but practicality.Best regardsErik
... And don't forget the pundits that predicted film would be dead in five years in 2000...
you can use different sensors (DBs) on the same cameraWhy? Even if you can afford two different sensors you would probably use the best one!
you can shoot vertical compositions without rotating the camera (on some MF / LF models)Yes, nice! You need a large image circle to support that! Hows wide are your wide angles get on that combo?
super easy and fast sensor cleaning on DBsYes, of course! On the other hand, how much dust do you get on that big sensor? Some of the samples I have seen posted from MF were about the dirtiest I have seen. The IR filter on those sensor is exposed and easy to scratch.
Lets face it, with the quality of APS-C and m4/3, 35mm is dead...And don't forget the pundits that predicted film would be dead in five years in 2000...
People, note that Fred, who is the loudest and most persistent nagging voice about the D800, has not given up his 8x10 or his Fuji. When he posts his own images, how many his work images were taken with the d800? I mean ones that he is proud of?
They're usually the same people that say a Hyundai is faster than a 5 year old Porsche for 1/2 the price. That's true, but if they won the lottery tomorrow I doubt if they'd buy Hyundais.Actually if everyone won the lottery tomorrow I doubt if Hyundai would exist.


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Less is More: Seven Carmakers Agree on One Standard For EV Fast Charging
To help ensure simple electric car charging methods for the future, several car manufacturers -- including Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Porsche, and Volkswagen -- are working together to establish a standard protocol for rapid electric vehicle charging in both the U.S. and Europe.
All seven have agreed on a standardized vehicle inlet and charging connector, along with a common method in which the car communicates with the charging station. They also considered the future of smart grid application and have decided to use HomePlug GreenPHY for the communication protocol. The agreement is compatible with the J1772 connector standard in the U.S., now used at Level 2 (220V in the U.S.) charging stations.
"At Ford, we know how important it is to provide technologically innovative solutions that are convenient for our customers - it's part of our 'One Ford' vision and a key factor in our company's overall success," said Steve Biegun, Ford's vice president of international government affairs. "We applied the same philosophy in working with other global automakers and governments to offer one common approach on charging electric vehicles - helping speed infrastructure development, strengthen economic growth and most importantly, make charging even more convenient for our customers."
However, it's a different story for Japanese cars such as the Nissan Leaf and the Mitsubishi i, which currently support the CHAdeMO standard for level 3 DC fast charging (anywhere between 300-500 volts). That means owners of Japanese EVs will likely have to use adapters for any quick charging station that isn't CHAdeMO compatible. Tesla, which created its charging units prior to standardization, also requires an adaptor for any station outside of the automaker's proprietary connectors for all charge levels (1,2, and 3) for both the Roadster and upcoming Tesla S sedan.
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Amid all the recent political uproar, car enthusiasts in Tehran, Iran still have something good to live for and it's not the new Mercedes-McLaren SLR 722GT Type R Chrome Edition. No, there's a unique group of individuals that have fallen in love with the Pontiac Firebird. As it turns out, cruising in any one of the various vintage 'Birds — or any car really — is one of the very few outlets for young men to meet women in Iran due to very strict rules regarding male/female interaction. We applaud this crew for everything they stand for because at the end of the day, vintage American muscle knows no borders. (Hat Tip To Taylor!)
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I am not an expert in random graph but I need the following result and I couldn't find any reference on this.
Let $G(X \cup Y,p)$ be a random bipartite graph where the set of edges is $X \cup Y$, $X$ and $Y$ both have cardinality $n$ and $p$ is the proba of adding an edge between each node in $X$ and each node in $Y$. $p \in (0,1)$ is independent of $n$. I am interested in the (expected) size of the largest biclique (not necessarily balanced!). To be more precise, a set $E_1 \cup E_2$, $E_1 \subset X$ and $E_2 \subset Y$ is a biclique if for each node $x \in X$ and each node $y \in Y$, there is an edge between $x$ and $y$. The size of a biclique $E_1 \cup E_2$ is $\mid E_1 \mid + \mid E_2 \mid$.
Let $E$ be a biclique. The conjecture is that
- for all $\alpha>0$, Pr{E has size greater than $\alpha \times n$}$\rightarrow 0$ as $n \rightarrow \infty.$
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The server is authenticated with a digital signature based on an RSA, DSA or ECDSA public-key algorithm. At the beginning of the connection, the server sends its public key to the client for validation.
Server authentication is done during Diffie-Hellman key exchange through a single public-key operation. When public-key authentication is used to authenticate the server, the first connection is very important. During the first connection the client will display a message similar to the one in Figure 4.2.
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Artist Jed Henry has taken famous characters from the video game console pantheon and reconfigured them as samurais on centuries-old Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. The results are pretty clever — I'm liking how Mega Man's defeated robot masters have become a cloud of oni. Henry's not done with this series yet, as his next illustration will dial up the direness of Mario Kart. UPDATED 7/12: Henry's been busy adding more of these, check them out below.
Semi-related: Real-life adventures in Japanese art history, both of which are debatably safe for work but completely hilarious: 1, 2.
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Online Advertising Solutions, the company behind the online video advertising network Captain Ad (http://www.captainad.com), is launching a second online video ad network. While Captain Ad is targeting "long tail publishers" and "performance advertisers" the new ad network is targeting "medium to large online publishers of quality video content" and "brand advertisers".
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Market Update for the Quarter Ending September 30, 2017
Presented by Summit Financial Corporation
Positive quarter for global markets
Despite some early volatility, September ended up being a positive month for most financial markets. This capped off a solid quarter where markets also saw gains across the board. Here in the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average led the pack with a 2.16-percent gain for September. The S&P 500 Index was up 2.06 percent for the month, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.11 percent. On a quarterly basis, the Nasdaq had the best return, climbing 6.06 percent. The Dow was right behind with a 5.58-percent return for the quarter, while the S&P 500 finished up 4.48 percent.
These positive results were backed up by solid fundamentals. According to FactSet, as of September 29, the estimated third-quarter earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 was 4.2 percent. This growth is expected to be broad based—occurring in 8 of the 11 sectors—with the energy sector leading the pack. Despite the recent hurricanes, more companies have issued positive guidance than negative, which is another good sign. Even so, it will be important to watch actual earnings for the third quarter, as the effects of the hurricanes remain uncertain. Technical factors were also supportive for all three U.S. indices during the quarter.
Internationally, results were similar. The MSCI EAFE Index gained 2.49 percent for September and 5.40 percent for the quarter on better economic and political news, especially in Europe. Emerging markets experienced a small pullback in September, which led to a 0.38-percent decline in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. But the index outperformed all other equity indices for the quarter, surging 8.04 percent. Much of this outperformance in emerging markets can be attributed to the declining value of the dollar during the quarter. Technicals for developed and emerging indices were positive, as both remained well above their trend lines for the quarter.
In the fixed income space, results were mixed. The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index lost 0.48 percent in September. A sell-off in global fixed income toward month-end caused domestic interest rates to rise to their highest levels in more than two months. In addition, the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond increased from 2.16 percent at the start of the month to 2.33 percent by month-end due to expectations that the Federal Reserve would start raising rates. For the quarter, however, the index was up 0.85 percent.
High-yield corporate bonds had a strong month and quarter, with spreads remaining near post-recession lows. The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Index notched gains of 0.90 percent and 1.98 percent for the month and quarter, respectively.
Hurricanes cloud housing outlook
Beginning in mid-August with Hurricane Harvey, the Eastern Seaboard saw three major storms touch down in U.S. territory. The damage they caused to both people and property was tremendous, and we are just starting to see some of the economic impact.
Housing, for example, which had been an area of strength, showed signs of weakening. In August, both new and existing home sales declined. Although discouraging, these results were likely due to tight supply. (Housing inventory is down 6.5 percent compared with this time last year.) There could be some hurricane effects showing up in these numbers as well, as dramatic weather decreased home sales in the South.
Homebuilder confidence also declined. This could be due to worries about supply and labor shortages as both are diverted to rebuilding in the storm states. This measure remains in expansionary territory, however. And while confidence may have slipped, homebuilders are clearly responding to low supply levels: both building permits and housing starts increased in August. In fact, as you can see in the following chart—which compares the supply of housing on a year-over-year basis—builders have increased efforts to create new housing stock in the past few months.
Figure 1. Annual Change in Supply of Houses in the U.S., 2007–2017
Consumer, business confidence continue
While homebuilder confidence declined slightly in August, consumer and business confidence remained strong. Consumer sentiment, as measured by the Conference Board and University of Michigan surveys, remained near year-to-date highs. In fact, the Conference Board survey currently sits at its second-highest level since 2001.
Consumers validated these strong confidence numbers with actual dollars spent. Looking at August's retail sales report, the headline figure, which includes volatile auto sales, declined. But the core reading, which strips out autos, rose by 0.2 percent—a solid if not spectacular figure. Again, however, this data was likely affected by the hurricanes, as vehicle sales in the storm-hit regions dropped dramatically.
Businesses also had positive news on the confidence and spending fronts. The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing and nonmanufacturing indices both increased by more than expected, indicating that business confidence remains strong. The manufacturing index for September was especially positive, reaching its highest level in 13 years.
As was the case with consumers, this confidence also translated into solid hard spending data. The best economic indicator—orders for business equipment—posted a strong 0.9-percent gain, following an upwardly revised 1.1-percent increase in July. This suggests that, after rising substantially in the second quarter, business investment is on track for another increase in the third quarter. This has been one of the weak areas of the recovery, so these gains in the face of the storms are a positive indicator.
Politics takes center stage
Given the continued strength of the U.S. economy, as well as the synchronized expansion around the world, the major source of market risk comes from politics. The next story we'll want to pay attention to is the Trump administration's tax reform proposal and the effects any changes to the tax code could have on the economy. From an economic perspective, there are more opportunities than risks here. And with the deferral of the debt ceiling issue to December, political risks in the U.S. are lower than they have been in recent months.
International politics is a different story. In Germany, the recent election left Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union in control. This helped calm concerns, but the inclusion of a substantial populist voting bloc showed that the potential for political disruption in this dominant European country remains very real. Other areas of political risk include Spain, where violence around the Catalan independence referendum at month-end cast a pall on the economy. The United Kingdom, where the negotiations around an exit from the European Union are becoming increasingly difficult, is another focal point.
Concerns in Asia rose as well. North Korea remains a very big issue. Also, in Japan, snap elections could cause Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to lose power for the first time since 2012. Abe has served as a key U.S. ally during his tenure, so this change would certainly introduce volatility. In China, the pending People's Congress has the potential for surprises as well.
While the U.S. is relatively stable, international risks are rising to a level we haven't seen for some time. None of these risks seems to be at a level that could disrupt the global economy, but we need to keep our eyes open.
Despite the risks, economy resilient
Although very real risks are out there, they have had remarkably little effect on the economy and the financial markets. As long as the economic fundamentals remain sound, growth tends to continue, and that's what we're seeing today.
Of course, this does not mean we won't see more volatility. We will. In fact, given recent complacency, any volatility will feel worse than ever. As noted above, politics is the major issue right now, and it could well rock markets. But even with those political risks, the solid economic growth trends around the world put us in a better place to weather any issues that may arise.
Fundamentals ultimately drive long-term performance, and the fundamentals remain solid. While volatility is inevitable, as long as we focus on long-term performance and meeting our goals, short-term pullbacks can offer more of an opportunity than a threat. As always, a well-diversified portfolio that aligns financial goals and timelines remains the best way to get where you want to go.
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Both New York teams will wear helmet decals to recognize the fallen at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which is about 60 miles from New York City.
We had previously noted that the Giants will wear helmet decals with the initials SHES, for Sandy Hook Elementary School, on Sunday. The Jets have also announced that they will wear the decals on Monday night.
All NFL teams will have a moment of silence to remember the victims of Friday's shooting before the national anthem at this week's games.
A gunman killed 26 people, 20 of them 6- and 7-year-old children, at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday.


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George Clooney has defended his call for Britain to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece as he launched his latest film at the National Gallery in London.
The Hollywood star, whose new movie The Monuments Men tackles the issue of stolen art works, stood by his view that the UK should follow the example of the Vatican and the US's Getty Museum by giving back the relics.
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Speaking at a press conference at the National Gallery, he said: "I stepped into one the other day, I was at a press conference and somebody brought it up. So I did a little research to make sure I wasn't completely out of my mind, and even in England the polling is in favour of returning the marbles.
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Clooney - the writer, director and star of the new film about a special troupe of soldiers on a mission to recover and return art stolen by the Nazis from Europe in the Second World War - went on: "There's certain pieces that you look at and think that actually would probably be the right thing to do.
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His co-star Bill Murray agreed, joking the art had had a "nice stay" in London.
"It seems like it's a problem all over the world," said the Lost In Translation and Ghostbusters star.
"Who wins this art and where did it come from and do they have the right to get it back. It's had a very nice stay here, certainly, but London's gotten crowded and there's plenty of room back there in Greece.
"England could take the lead on this kind of thing - letting art go back where it came from. And then if they were all together, the Greeks are nothing but generous, they'd loan it back once in a while like people do with art, right?"
The Monuments Men, which also stars John Goodman, Bob Balaban, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville and Cate Blanchett, is based on the true story of the team of art experts who entered the war with the objective of saving Europe's greatest art and buildings.
But Clooney and his fellow screenwriter Grant Heslov admitted they had taken a little poetic licence with the story, and they chose to change the name of The Monuments Men involved in the film.
Clooney said: "We wanted to change the names, because we wanted to be able to tell a story. We weren't doing a documentary, we didn't want to give any of these real men flaws that would be upsetting to their families. We wanted our ability to be able to tell a story without offending anyone."
The Monuments Men opens in cinemas on February 14.


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Hot weekend to be followed by a much cooler week
Pattern shift looms
Since August 15 we have only experienced five days with high temperatures under 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and only one of those days was below average for the date. All the others have been above average, and at times well above average.
Yesterday's record of 97 degrees at Denver International Airport was a whopping 15 degrees above normal for this time of year.
With another scorcher on the way today, and only a few degrees cooler in the forecast for Sunday, you may be asking yourself if this will ever end. If so, you are in luck.
Temperatures for this coming week look to be dramatically cooler, with highs Tuesday forecast to be some 20 degrees cooler than our forecast highs today. The question will be just how good of a shot of cooler air we will get. High temperatures would likely be more or less 80, but a stronger shot could mean highs near 70 mid-week. For now, will go somewhere in the middle.
In addition to the cooler temperatures, expect an increased chance for showers and thunderstorms for the coming week. Our best shot at moisture appears to be Tuesday and Wednesday, but some models, such as the 12z GFS, try to keep a good amount of moisture in the area through the end of the week.
The long term outlook is still up for debate. Some of the extended models show a persistent dome of warmer than average weather over the central United States days 10 to 20, while others keep us closer to normal with an even better shot of cooler air arriving by day 14.


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A friend recently told me about a new website called Foodoro that is an online marketplace for independent food producers. She mentioned that Foodoro is selling products from some well-known food companies in the Bay Area so I decided to check them out. I also had a chance to talk with one of the founders, Jay, to learn a little bit more about them.
Foodoro is an online marketplace where people buy products directly from independent food producers (Foodoro refers to them as "foodmakers"). According to Jay, their goal is "to connect independent foodmakers directly with their customers" and it does seem like the website is geared towards that goal. Each vendor has a few paragraphs on what their focus is, why they make the food they make, and what makes their products unique. That's something I'm always interested in when buying a product from an "independent". Knowing what they're goals and attitudes toward food are helps me anticipate and focus on the texture, flavor, scent, or other aspect of the food that makes it unique. I always like reading this sort of information on the backs of product boxes and on menus of family owned restaurants, so I'm glad to find it as part of the Foodoro website.
Whether or not a site like this can survive (especially in this economy) really depends on the what products they have on their site. Since Foodoro just started and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of their sellers are from the Bay Area. All of the food producers I saw on the site are small, independent companies - most of which I'd categorize as artisan food makers. This is great news for me, since I'm used to having access to a lot of these food products while I'm in the City (where I work) and in South Bay (where I live) and, in a few months, I'll be moving out of California.}?>
Some of the vendors that caught my eye were:
Donna's Tamales (Vegan / Vegetarian): I'm a fan of Donna's from my days wandering through the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market. The tamales are always a treat and, even though I'm not vegetarian, I really enjoy these handmade tamales (especially the Cheese Chili Corn Tamales which are available as part of a sampler pack).
Dee's Organic Mini Doughnuts: Apparently this is a fairly new company (I hadn't heard of them), that has created a unique product. They make mini cake doughnuts using all organic, premium ingredients like Dagoba chocolate and Meyer lemons. I remember eating mini cake doughnuts growing up, but it looks like Dee's is making the grown up version. Delivery is free, but currently limited to only the San Francisco Bay Area. (This is an example of where Foodoro needs to grow and either get a variety of specialty food makers across the U.S. or figure out how to ship foods like doughnuts without detracting quality.)
Gelateria Naia: This company uses local ingredients and hand churns gelato every Saturday before shipping it. They have a few retail outlets scattered around the Bay Area according to the store locator. I tried adding the 4 pints of the Gelato Cremes ($40) to the cart to see how much it would cost to ship. Surprisingly, it was only about $14.83 for delivery to Santa Clara; the price jumps to $46.51 if I want to send it to someone in New York city. It probably makes sense for Foodoro to find a bunch of gelato makers who can serve regional markets to keep shipping costs down. That way, it would be fun and relatively affordable to send some pints of gelato instead of flowers. One nice thing about Foodoro is that if you live near the artisan, you can find the closest store instead of dealing with shipping. For instance, I found out that I could get Naia gelato at their store in North Beach. It would be helpful if they put the store locator directly on the product page, however, because this feature is a bit buried. After I found the product page, I had to click on the Naia logo then on Store Locator. Not a big deal, but a Yelp-like map on the side bar would be welcome.
In general, Foodoro sports a very clean site design and emphasizes decent sized product photos. This makes sense given that they're trying to sell high-end gourmet food. Some of the product photography they have is quite good (Jay informed me that only some of the products are photographed by the vendors and the Foodoro staff takes most of the pictures on the website - I suspect that these good looking shots are taken by the Foodoro guys, but I could be wrong).
Here are a few pictures that caused me to click to the details page while I was running through the site.
Classic Pate de Fruit from Charles Chocolates
Gelato Cremes 4 Pints Collection from Gelateria Naia
Dee's Crazy 8 Mini Organic Doughnuts
Chardonnay Wine Jelly from Napa Valley Wine Jelly
Talking to Jay, I was led to believe Foodoro is about the same size as Fanpop (which is still just four guys including myself). I suppose that's one of the reasons why I'm so excited about what they are doing. They've managed to pull together several artisan food makers in the area and provide an online outlet (so I can get my Bay Area fix even after I move!). What I'm really hoping is that now that they've started, it'll snowball into a larger site where more and more vendors will be available and we can choose from various locations (perhaps try honey from Napa, Santa Cruz, Arizona, Texas, South Carolina, and New England). It's a good start so far and I'm pretty happy to see some vendors that didn't have online sales (at least I didn't know about it).
After my conversation/interview with the co-founder of Foodoro, he was kind enough to offer Cooking For Engineers readers a discount for Valentine's Day gifts. Just enter the voucher code CFE-VDAY to get 15% off any purchase from Foodoro.com until February 14, 2009.
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On February 05, 2009 at 10:43 PM, sjbartnikowski said...
Subject: Excellent tip!
Referred the site to my wife's family's coffee roasting business in the Dallas area. Maybe it'll spread.
On February 06, 2009 at 01:57 AM, elmo (guest) said...
Subject: cool site!
foodoro has some pretty and unique food that i don't know where you'd find elsewhere.. great for gifts :) the site is quite user friendly too!
On February 06, 2009 at 10:28 AM, an anonymous reader said...
Subject: good luck
looks like they are selling interesting products but it's a tough time to be starting a company that sells gourmet food. shipping is expensive, too and everyone's used to getting free shipping from amazon. good luck!
On February 06, 2009 at 03:24 PM, Ricks! (guest) said...
Subject: Nice!
Just ordered some chocolates from them, they came and were promptly devoured.
Next up on the list: gelato!!
Great reccomendation!
Next up on the list: gelato!!
Great reccomendation!
On February 06, 2009 at 05:06 PM, Michael Chu said...
Subject: Re: Nice!
Ricks! wrote:
Just ordered some chocolates from them, they came and were promptly devoured.
Wow, that was fast. Which chocolates did you get?
On February 06, 2009 at 09:23 PM, Ricks! (guest) said...
Ah, I didn't mean to imply I ordered it today. I stumbled upon the site couple days ago and put in an order.
Overall the order process and delivery was very smooth. I ordered a few Genmai Chocolate Bars. I've never really had a mix of tea and chocolate until I had these.
Overall the order process and delivery was very smooth. I ordered a few Genmai Chocolate Bars. I've never really had a mix of tea and chocolate until I had these.
On February 07, 2009 at 12:39 AM, dannie@foodoro (guest) said...
Thanks Michael for the awesome post!
Someone pointed out that it wasn't clear to them about the voucher code Foodoro is currently offering to the Cooking for Engineers readers. The voucher code offered is indeed Site-Wide, so 15% will be discounted on all products in our marketplace.
Someone pointed out that it wasn't clear to them about the voucher code Foodoro is currently offering to the Cooking for Engineers readers. The voucher code offered is indeed Site-Wide, so 15% will be discounted on all products in our marketplace.
On February 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM, charlie (guest) said...
Subject: delicious!
i tried the white peach jelly and red pepper jelly from hurley farms and they tasted GREAT! now i'm awaiting the noci gelato pack from gelateria naia this week and am very interested to see how the gelato holds up during the shipping process to texas...


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There was a certain mystique to our former spot, in an old mill building on the banks of a canal, hearing the drone of freight trains navigating their way north (though we might not miss the exhaust from said freight trains)...
And having our workspace in an artists' building was pretty cool, and gave us lots of backdrops for good photography.
|A shot from the aptly named Artwork booklet, shot at the Western Ave. Studios.
|From the booklet Panache, a trio of scarves in front of an old mill door.
|All our office stuff had to go in these giant boxes on wheels.
|However, life must go on, in spite of ever-increasing disorganization.
|That's A LOT of yarn to move
|Still more yarn to move...
|Oh wait, that was just what doesn't fit on the shelves.
|Where all our pattern books once lived.
|Heather cleared out this entire thing, and many others just like it.
|They always look so big when they're empty.
|Goodbye Lowell warehouse!


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Starbucks tip jar thief shouts 'You can't catch me' at officers
Police: 53-year-old tries to take tip jar after barista refuses to serve free coffee
MADISON, Wis. — A man was arrested Sunday morning after running from police who were pursuing him for allegedly stealing a tip jar from a Starbucks, according to a release.
Kirk L. Becker, 53, took the tip jar from the Starbucks at 1 E. Main St. around 8:25 a.m. after the barista turned down his request for free coffee, police said.
According to the release, Becker said, "There are homeless people out here. You should invite them in for free coffee."
When the barista told Becker that would be against the store's policy, he called her selfish and grabbed the tip jar with a couple dollars in it, police said.
As Becker attempted to run from officers he yelled, "You can't catch me," according to the release. Police were able to take Becker into custody, and as they handcuffed him he shouted, "I do not forgive you."
Becker faces tentative charges of theft and resisting or obstructing an officer.Madison crime map


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The most westerly of South Sudan's ten states Western Bahr el Ghazal State also borders Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap to the east and Western Equatoria to the south.
Area: 93,900 km²
Approximate Population: 333,431
Capital: Wau
Other Important Towns: Raja, Deim Zubeir, Kuajiena and Kangi
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Already shorthanded, DU will open second half without Beau Bennett
In addition to playing without 14-goal scorers Drew Shore and Jason Zucker, DU will take on a decent Northern Michigan team (9-8-3) this weekend without Beau Bennett. The freshman and first-round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins will miss his fourth and fifth consecutive games with a knee injury.
Before the Pios closed out the first half of the season with a series at Alaska-Anchorage Dec. 10-11, Bennett said he was confident he would return to the lineup this weekend. But he tried to skate this week with the team and the knee just isn't responding. Sounds like he'll sit out for precautionary reasons. The injury, suffered Dec. 4 at Minnesota-Duluth, is listed as a strain.
Shore and Zucker, meanwhile, are in Buffalo playing for the U.S. World Junior team. Combined, Shore, Zucker and Bennett (three) have scored 31 of 66 goals for DU.


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Dr. Debra B. Morton is the much admired and beloved Senior Pastor of the Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Co-Pastor of Changing A Generation Full Gospel Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. She works diligently in the service of the Lord with her husband, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr., Presiding Bishop of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International (FGBCFI). Dr. Morton also serves as General Overseer of the women's division and daughters of the promise (DOP) of the (FGBCFI). As General Overseer, she oversees and ministers to more than 20,000 women annually. It was Dr. Morton's founding of the Women of Excellence Ministry (WOE) in 1987 that most profoundly expanded her sphere of influence far beyond the local pastorate. As founder of WOE for over 15 years, Dr. Morton nurtured thousands of women. As a result of WOE, many pastors, entrepreneurs, teachers, etc. were birthed.
In 1993, Debra B. Morton was ordained as an Elder. She thereby earned the ground-breaking distinction as one of the first ordained female elders to preach in the Baptist pulpit. Dr. Morton hosted weekly an early morning television and radio talk shows, "Morning Coffee," where discussions of everyday life were infused with spiritual application. Locally her radio show gained much popularity as did her TV nationally, on the Word Television Network – as Dr. Morton proclaimed: "Jesus is better than a good cup of coffee; He is Lord."
In 1999, Dr. Morton received her Doctor of Ministry degree from Friends International Christian University.
She has written six books to date:
· "Help, Lord, My Husband Has Two Wives"
· "Morning Coffee" Volumes I and II, a daily prayer journal with scriptures
and reflections that inspire conversations with God"
· "The New Millennium Question: Where is the Lord God of Elijah?"
· "Seize Opportunity": It's Your Season!
· "I'm in Love with My Pastor BUT He Still Has "Two Wives"!
To add to her many accomplishments, as the Executive Producer of the hit album, "Where There Is A Will There Is A Way," featuring the WOE Mass Choir, Dr. Morton was nominated for a prestigious Stellar Award and received the James Cleveland Award from Gospel Truth Magazine in Las Vegas. She also wrote two songs on the (FGBCFI) Daughters of the Promise project.
In October 2002, Debra B. Morton, along with WOE, opened SpaNobia, a full-service day spa-salon that reflected the standards of God's excellency of which both the organization and its founder embrace.
In spite of the catastrophic devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Morton was able to help her husband rebuild the Ministry in New Orleans, Louisiana and expand to Atlanta, Georgia. There she was project manager for the renovation of the new Atlanta edifice.
A new fragrance line, "Blessings in a Bottle" was launched by Dr. Morton. Some of the proceeds will go to help benefit the House of Promise – a home for troubled teen girls.
Dr. Morton takes the greatest pride in these: her personal relationship with Jesus Christ, her role as wife, mother of her three children – Jasmine, Paul Jr., and Christiann – and grandmother to little Elvin Ross, Jr. and London Paul Ross.
Her eternal goal is to tear down the Kingdom of darkness as she prophetically brings light to all who will hear her.


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2 cups blueberries
2 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons water
zest and juice of 1 lime
In a medium saucepan bring the blueberries, water and sugar to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce the heat and simmer until the blueberries are easily mashed and the sugar is fully dissolved. Mash with a potato masher until fairly smooth. You can either strain (really mashing the pulp with the back of spoon to get all of the guts out) or leave the skins in. Stir in the lime juice and zest. Allow to cool to room temperature then stir in the milk. Refrigerate overnight or until very cold then pour into a ice cream or gelato maker and churn as per the machine's directions. Store in an air-tight, freezer-safe container.


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