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Let y = ax^2 + bx + c for some unknown a, b and c. Write the given conditions as equations in a, b and c. You'll get three equations in three variables. Recall that the point of minimum of a parabola is -b / (2a).
Kindly help me about this quadratic equation please
Q: The quadratic function which takes the value 41 at x=-2 and the value 20 at x=5 and is minimized at x=2 is
y = __x2 - __x + __
The minimum value of this function is __
I really need to solve this . thank you
What will be the equation?
You don't compute an equation; you solve it.
Start by substituting x = -2 into ax^2 + bx + c = 41. Similarly, substitute x = 5 into ax^2 + bx + c = 20. Finally, write the equation saying that the point of minimum, i.e., x = -b / (2a), equals 2.
Hmm, no. The minus in the second equation looks like it acts on 25a only. In any case, -2b - 5b = -7b, so the result should be -21a -7b = 21. You can divide both sides by 7.
I have already said this.
First, it is better to avoid notation spanning several lines because this forum does not preserve alignment. Instead of , you can simply write x = -b / (2a) = 2.
I don't understand the notation "7 [-21a -7b = 21] 7". Dividing -21a - 7b = 21 by 7 gives -3a - b = 3. The last equation, -b / (2a) = 2, can be multiplied by 2a to get -b = 4a, or 4a + b = 0. Thus, you have
Adding these equations gives a = 3. Substituting this value of a into either of the two equations above gives you b, and knowing a and b you can find c from any of the equations in post #5 (with the correction in post #6).


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Hi All,
A few weeks ago I posted some names that i have thought up which didnt get the best feedback and understandably, they were a little different. Last night DH was reading the baby name book and he stumbled across a name that he is beyond in love with. I have been thinking about it on and off throughout the day and it is growing on me... Also, I know if I really wanted a name which he didnt much care for I know he would agree anyways to make me happy so I am thinking I would love to let him choose the name he loves. It is very straight and simple compared to my chosen names so far but i think it is also quite pretty and so I wanted to get opinions on the name Tessa. Other names we have on the list (suggested by me) are Evangeline and Everly What do you think of these 3 names and if you do like Tessa can you suggest possible middle names.. we have an Italian surname with 11 letters staring with C ending in NE so looking for a short mn to go with Tessa or even either of the other 2 names. Thanks #2Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:45 PM
I don't mind Tessa, it is a simple classic name - none of this made up new fangled nonsense.
I do admit that I prefer Evangeline though. I don't like Everly. #3Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:46 PM
Also - Evangeline may be too long if you have an 11 letter surname!
#4Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:47 PM
Everly - awful
Evangeline - too prissy Tessa - a winner! #5Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:48 PM
Tessa is lovely.
Tessa Kate Tessa Sabine Tessa Chloe Tessa Charlotte Tessa Lily Tessa May Tessa Beatrice Tessa Skye I love Evangeline too. #6Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:49 PM
I think Tessa and Evangeline are both gorgeous names I'm not too fond of Everly though.
#7Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:50 PM
Tessa is nice
what about Tessa Eve other short mns Amy Marie Kate Faith Grace Joy Hope Jade Lea Maeve Naomi Phoebe Ruth Chloe Zoe Anne #8Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:50 PM
Tessa is a great name.
I don't like Everly at all and Evangeline does nothing for me either. #9Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:50 PM
Tessa is ]Beautiful
#10Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:52 PM
Tess Evangeline is lovely.
#11Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:55 PM QUOTE (kerilyntaryn @ 23/01/2013, 01:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Tessa is nice what about Tessa Eve Ohhhh....I really like Tessa Eve... it will give DH his name and I was loving the EVE or EVA names hence the Evangeline and the Everly but didnt just want to go for Eve or Eva for the full first name I was also thinking Ivy for the middle name but Eve could be a winner Thank you!! #12Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:58 PM
I don't like Evangeline. Never have, and I don't know why.
Tessa is great. Doesn't wow me, but it's very nice. ETA: Just saw your above post. What about Tessa Evelina? Edited by emlis22, 23 January 2013 - 12:59 PM. #13Posted 23 January 2013 - 12:59 PM QUOTE (pjemc @ 23/01/2013, 01:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ohhhh....I really like Tessa Eve... it will give DH his name and I was loving the EVE or EVA names hence the Evangeline and the Everly but didnt just want to go for Eve or Eva for the full first name I was also thinking Ivy for the middle name but Eve could be a winner Thank you!! Tessa Eve C...ne is an incredibly beautiful name, and when you say it out loud is less clunky thank Ivy as MN since Ivy has that extra syllable I also love the name Tess, which she will get as a nickname sometimes #14Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:00 PM QUOTE (DomesticDivinity @ 23/01/2013, 01:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Also - Evangeline may be too long if you have an 11 letter surname! I gave my youngest son an 11 letter first name (6 letter middle name) with a 12 letter surname. I alternate between feeling sorry for him and having a giggle about it as is doesn't fit on any official plastic cards, (license, medicare, etc.) Op, I like Tessa and Evangeline together (Tessa as first name), but like a PP, I don't like Everly. #15Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:04 PM
Yeah, i had thought Evangeline maybe too long with our first name but i liked it so tried not to think about that, I think you may be right though and it is too long.
#16Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:05 PM
Tessa. is OK.
Evangeline - LOVE! Everly - nah. I saw a name today that might be a good suggestion for you: Odette. I think it is lovely and classic (like Evangeline) but not as long. #17Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:05 PM
Tessa Eve is really beautiful...
#18Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:09 PM
Tessa is pretty and sweet, though I think of it (and Tess) as nicknames. A rather charming nickname though.
I like Evangeline. I am a sucker for -line names though. Everly is not my thing, would prefer Evanthe or Emily. #19Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:16 PM QUOTE (Bek+3 @ 23/01/2013, 01:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Tessa is a great name. I don't like Everly at all and Evangeline does nothing for me either. Ditto. #20Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:21 PM
Tessa Eve is just wonderful.
#21Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:22 PM
I think Tessa is a great name and Tessa Eve is a great combo, especially as it incorporates the Eve part you liked. Tessa Ivy goes well too.
I don't mind Everly. Not a fan of Evangeline, I much prefer short names, especially when you have a long surname #22Posted 23 January 2013 - 04:09 PM
Tessa is beautiful, we're considering it too. Tessa Eve is perfect for you.
I'm not a fan of either of the others. #23Posted 23 January 2013 - 04:14 PM
Tessa is nice, instead of Everly, what about Evelyn? Eve is a lovely short mn that goes with about everything.
#24Posted 23 January 2013 - 04:22 PM
Tessa is the best of those 3. I think I read today that Dave Hughes called his me bub Tessa.
#25Posted 23 January 2013 - 04:35 PM
Ergghhh not a fan of hughesy so i might just have to block that thought out Dylans mummy.
Im hopeless, things turn me off names so easy so ill just ignore an annoying celeb using the same name Told DH about Tessa Eve and he really likes it 1 user(s) are reading this topic0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users |
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Background: The treatment of Tourette's disorder with classical neuroleptics is limited by their side effects. Risperidone is a new efficacious antipsychotic with a low propensity for extrapyramidal side effects. To establish risperidone's therapeutic potential in Tourette's disorder, we studied the safety and efficacy of risperidone in comparison with pimozide in patients with Tourette's disorder diagnosed according to DSM-III-R.
Method: In a 12-week, multicenter, double-blind, parallel-group study, 26 patients were treated with risperidone (mean daily dose = 3.8 mg), and 24 patients were treated with pimozide (mean daily dose = 2.9 mg).
Results: There was significant improvement of tics with respect to the Tourette's Symptom Severity Scale (TSSS) for both groups. Forty-one patients completed the study. At endpoint, 54% (14/26) of the risperidone patients and 38% (9/24) of the pimozide patients had only very mild or no symptoms on the global severity rating of the TSSS. Both treatment groups had improved significantly at endpoint in regard to Global Assessment of Functioning and Clinical Global Impressions scale outcomes. Symptoms of anxiety and depressive mood improved significantly from baseline in both groups. Obsessive-compulsive behavior improvement reached significance only in the risperidone group. Although the severity of extrapyramidal side effects was low in both groups, fewer patients in the risperidone group reported extrapyramidal side effects (N = 4) compared with the pimozide group (N = 8). Depression, fatigue, and somnolence were reported as the most prominent side effects in both treatment groups.
Conclusion: Both drugs were efficacious and well tolerated in patients with Tourette's disorder. Risperidone may become the first-line drug in the treatment of Tourette's disorder owing to a more favorable efficacy and tolerability profile.
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Oh, my. That is the class of ship Garris Shrike's Trader's Luck belongs to, isn't it? I always pictured it as an Acclamator-class since all I knew about it was that it was a Clone Wars troopship from the Republic, even though I knew that wasn't right. Now I know.
Nope. His ship was Liberty-class. Just one of a parade of Clone Wars ships that never got used in any of the various Clone Wars material.
I guess I'll go on picturing it as an Acclamator, then. Yeah, I wish more EU ships had shown up in the prequels. At least TCW finally gave us Z-95 Headhunters.
We got some, but I was thinking of the large number of ships that didn't get anything - especially some ships introduced in Clone Wars material, like the Geonosian dreadnaught.
Alright, it's time for our next subject, @patchworkz7 1. Tell us about your username, why you chose it, what it means, etc. And what is the best way to address you? 2. What made you sign up for the Jedi Council Forums? Do you post on any other forums?
I'm about to head out for the afternoon, but I can get to these easily enough! 1) Waaaay back when I was signing up for either my old email account or the Warren Ellis Forums on Delphi (I forget which), I needed a screen name and looked around and the copy of PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ that I'd been reading to my niece was sitting next to me, only I had to add a z, and so most things I sign up for since then are some permutation of "patchwork(z)". On the forums the best way is probably "patch" which is the default everyone seems to use. 2) Huh...well, when I was young the only VHS tape we owned was STAR WARS (before it was a new hope) and when my parents would have friends over for dinner I was sat in front of the TV and would demand Star Wars be played. I later got a copy of ESB on VHS and a copy of the novelization,, and thus my love of Star Wars was born. My earliest EU was a record and book thing that I THINK was SoTME, because I remember crystal trees (?) and Chewbacca and Leia fighting Vader in it. Something about them crashing their ships? I confess I've not read SoTME in some time. I would check in on SW every now and then, and I loved, loved, loved the SW comics from Dark Horse but sort of lost track after Zahn's first trilogy until 2004. While on my honeymoon in England I was visiting my friend Karen when she announced she needed to discuss something at dinner and did I know anything about Star Wars. I may actually have been a member prior to her getting the gig to do RC, but I can't recall. TFN is actually responsible for me moving to California (which I love) as I started talking to a poster with a love for Jaina Solo and became internet friends with her and hung out with her at SDCC and eventually my wife and I spent a year as room mates with Shea, and I was there when she got the gig for LFL doing Topps Galaxy cards, hence my avatar. In case it isn't obvious, the Jim or James thanked in the front pages of most Traviss books and Karen Miller's TCW novels is me, and Karen was kind enough to name Mij Gilamar after me. We've known each other since becoming friends at the Clarion Writers Workshop East in 2000. Star Wars has, and continues, to bring wonderful people and opportunities into my life.
@patchworkz7 3. What do you do for a living? Is it your ideal profession, and if not what is? 4. Where are you originally from? What are some of the best parts about the places you've lived?
Okay! Back from Brick Mansions (moment of silence for Paul Walker) which was not as good as the French film it's based on but such is life, and now back to the questions. 3) I originally got my BA in English from Michigan State and worked as a newspaper stringer/technical writer before going to Clarion on the back of my first serious attempt at fiction...fast forward a few years through the year I spent in London...meeting my future wife at a Belle & Sebastian show...and I went back to school for Radiography. So, I am a diagnostic radiographer, which is a fancy way of saying I'm the guy who takes your x-rays. Except I spent eight years as a Level 1 Trauma & Surgery team member and hold all sorts of additional licenses associated with that. I currently run the radiology department at an ortho clinic which is much less physically and emotionally stressful. As much as I miss the thrill of working a trauma, after a while you get tired of death and blood and violence and want something a bit more low-key. It is my ideal profession, and I also still do writing on the side and am getting back into that this year in a bigger way. At the moment I have to say it's my dream profession and while I miss trauma (sometimes) I love what I do and it gives me time to write. I write on the side and have had fiction and essay pieces in numerous anthologies, webzines, and so on. I've written two novels for Warhammer 40K, one got spiked because the video game it was based on was canceled, and the other is with the editor right now.I've also written several short stories for that universe, one of which was published in FEAR THE ALIEN and a couple more that are sitting in drawers because I wrote them as a canon issue was being resolved and they don't quite fit anymore. 4) Detroit! Born and raised not far from the intersection of Joy and Evergreen, my dad was a Detroit firefighter for 35 years and seeing his First Responder manual as a kid is probably one of the things that made me interested in medicine. As much as I loved the Detroit that was...it's not in good shape, but I grew up when it was still very big city but at the same time there was a sense of neighborhood and community. I went to Michigan State University in East Lansing and then did a lot of traveling including backpacking across Europe and living a couple of summers in London, including working at a bar attached to a youth hostel. I loved London, and my local friends took me to underground clubs and raves and it was a wild time living out of a youth hostel and enjoying life. I met my future wife in Seattle after I'd come back, met a girl in Michigan, and took a roadtrip across the country with her and travelled up the west coast. I ended up emailing the girl I met in Seattle and visiting her in Madison and two months later moved there from Michigan for a year. Madison, Wi is a gorgeous town and earns the name "Berkeley of the Midwest". I decided to go back and get my medical degree before I moved to SAN FRANCISCO! Well...the Bay Area, since I live in the East Bay, but I love SF with the diversity and the people and if I want to do something I just hop on BART and I'm in the city. I wanted to live on the west coast since I'd travelled up it years before, and one day I got an email from Shea asking me if I still wanted to move and she needed roommates and a month and a half latter I was living in the East Bay. I suspect my rambling days are over as I love the Bay Area and while I could be persuaded to move to Oregon or Washington, unless I won the lottery and could move to London I don't think I'd want to live anywhere else. Of course, if I'm being honest...the things I loved about London were the things I loved when I was young and single. I am old and boring now and do not hit the dancefloor or the raves much anymore.
First an EMT, now a radiographer. Who am I gonna interview next, a dentist? 5. What places have you traveled too? Any favorite locations? 6. What other franchises do you like besides SW and which are you most passionate about?
5) Oh, it must be my Romany blood because I have traveled a lot, and often lived for times out of my backpack. There's no experience like life experience. If I had to pick a favourite it'd be the UK. I loved the British Isles, and I loved going up to northern England and Scotland. I even loved Portsmouth. When I backpacked across the UK and Ireland I have never in my life met so many wonderful and gracious people. I can't tell you how welcoming the people were. I ended up spending nights on sofas, in guest beds, in barns...everywhere I went it seemed like if I hadn't already lined up a place to stay I had people offering. I like Paris okay...but it was really the surrounding towns that were the best, and again, the people there were wonderful. Forget what you might think about the French, they were welcoming and the night I got into France all the hotels were booked and I ended up crashing on someone's floor. I traveled across Europe, up through Belgium and the Netherlands, Denmark...down through Germany and back across Europe and back over to the UK. I wish I'd had time to get to the Czech Republic, even if my Czech is almost non-existent, or even further up to Oslo. Someday I want to get to Iceland. Domestically...it's all about the West Coast. Although I do like Vegas. It's not a place I'd want to live, but despite not gambling I've enjoyed my trips there. Portland is...well, Portlandia is accurate. During the same trip I met my wife, Elise, at the Belle & Sebastian show two girlfriends found out Amy (the girl I was riding with) and I didn't have a place to stay and next I knew we were all crashing in their queen bed in a little loft apartment after the show and they made us a vegan (of course!) breakfast the next morning. I just loved Portland and Olympia and the Northwest in general. Seattle was okay, but I think I'd take Portland any day. If Shea hadn't wanted roommates it was Portland that my wife and I were looking at to move to. 6) Wow...this is a big one. Just sticking to franchises; Robotech is pretty much what made me a reader, as well as blowing my mind by having people die, taking on mixed raced relationships, transgenderism, and just loads of things that were not topics on adult shows in the 1980's. The books were written by Jack McKinney, who is actually the pen name of Brian Daley and James Luceno (I recall reading the Daley Han Solo adventures just because of that) and the books hit me at a pretty formative time. When I was a kid we had RiF (Reading is Fundamental) so I read lots of Battletech (Mike Stakepole!), some Dragonlance stuff, and loads of other stuff that I don't really follow anymore but recall fondly. OK, off the top of my head; Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Halo, Gears of War, Warhammer 40K, and those are the "corporate" franchises. If we were talking about just book series...yeah, I'm verbose enough. If we got into comic books....yikes! Because I'm also a writer and know so many writers and artists I don't...it's not that I'm not passionate, it's knowing how the sausage is made does change how I interact with franchises. I know so many comic book writers, franchise novel writers, artists, etc across so much media that I see and hear a lot of the backdoor politics and sometimes that can bum me out, but that stuff is there for creator owned stuff to a degree too. I guess knowing the behind the scenes does change how I look at things, but I still love SW and so many franchises. I love Warhammer40K because it's such a broad church and you have people like Sandy Mitchell doing satirical work, Dan Abnett doing wonderfully large space opera and military SF and there's something for everyone. It's such a big, crazy story. I think a lot of the franchises I love are more comic book related, but that could be another question. I would say that ROBOTECH was pretty important to me thanks largely to James Luceno and Brian Daley, Warhammer 40K is my dose of big, crazy SF, and then you have Mass Effect which just blows my mind. I love that there's no canon to Mass Effect. The canon in Mass Effect and Dragon Age are totally what I make it, and this works better with Mass Effect because my FemShep is a singular character through all three games and I absolutely love the franchise and the story it allowed me to tell myself. Special mention to the works of Simon R Green which are pretty well interconnected; Deathstalker is the absolutely insane space opera that is just BRILLIANT and Star Wars could learn some stuff from him. His urban fantasies are wonderful as well and I look forward to a new Simon R Green novel like it's Christmas.
@patchworkz7 7. What was your reaction to the announcement of Disney's purchase of Star Wars, and what are your hopes for the ST? 8. Regarding the EU, we got some really big announcements the other day. What is your opinion on the role the EU will play going forward?
7) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...as some hack writing for a deadline one wrote. I honestly think it's a good thing because it frees the franchise from the fickle tourism of George Lucas, who...all power to him for creating it and it was his as he owned it and he allowed people to write and create and make things in his universe...George just never really seemed all that interested in the story. He'd kinda get involved when something novel came along like the TCW cartoon and if some new technology caught his eye, but I think he was really at the end of his desire to do much with the universe, so as much as people are upset they should ask themselves would they rather get a new EU and ST or would they rather have nothing. Me? More SW is always good. Will it thrill me as much as it did when I was six years old watching a second generation copy of Star Wars on VHS...probably not, and that's okay, because someone else will get that rush, and I don't like it that there's a perception (somewhat grounded in reality) that there's loads of fan factions that are at war with each other. That side of things just bums me out. My hope is that we get good, exciting, entertaining movies that they bring the joy we've all taken away from SW to a new generation of fans. 8) Well, I'm already biased as I love Luceno an JJM. I don't personally know Luceno, but I've met JJM and both of them have worked in both EU's, and while part of me is sorry to see the EU become Legends and non-canon, no one is going to take away those stories, and now the slate is clean and we have some great writers who have the chance to write what they want without being beholden to three decades of material. I'm excited because I think there's a lot of potential there and I think we'll see something that isn't the same EU...it may have nothing from the old EU of it, but I think it'll be exciting and I know that the writers they've brought on have an honest love for the franchise and the skills to do the job.
@patchworkz7 9. What are your favorite non-SW TV shows/movies? 10. Based on the promotional material what are your thoughts on Rebels?
9) Oh, another tough one as I stink at listing favourites...well, just a scattershot of TV; Person of Interest, Archer, Strikeback, Daily Show, Arrow, True Detective, South Park, Nu-BSG, Forbrydelsen (aka The Killing), Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes, House, MD, Sandbaggers...and the many permutations of Law & Order except Criminal Intent. And a scattershot of movies; Blade Runner (best movie EVER), The Third Man, Heat, Alien/Aliens, Casablanca, The Apartment, Blues Brothers, Ronin, Chinatown, Drugstore Cowboy, and many more. 10) I was really turned off by the first few seasons of TCW...the animation and writing just were not up to par, I thought, but I will say that the faux-marionette look faded with time to be replaced by a slicker look, and I just watched the episode "Bounty" the other night and I can honestly say it was good. And kids seems to love TCW. The kids that I know who watched it had the same crazy excitement for it that I had for the movies...so, that's a good thing, and from what I can see of Rebels they're only taking it further and getting slicker with the animation. Most important is that the cast seems very diverse and it looks like there's a lot of love and excitement going into it. And I love the idea of a punk rawk sk8er Mando ;p So I say bring it on, and I'll be checking out the first few episodes and if it catches my interest...I'm in.
@patchworkz7 Oh boy, you're gonna hate these qs. 11. What are your favorite novels, books, and short stories, both in and out of SW, and why? 12. What are your favorite comics and graphic novels, both in and out of SW, and why?
Oh, man... 11) Okay...inside SW I would say James Luceno has rarely let me down and, of course, the X-Wing. I'll also venture the controversial opinion that I really enjoyed Drew K's work with Bane and one thing about him is that he can lay out action without it being overboard. I really think a certain SW writer who loves long, detailed lightsaber fights could learn a thing or two from his stuff. Outside of SW...wow. Just off the top of my head; TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD because I think it's my all time favourite novel, anything by Charlie Huston (especially his crime novels) because he has a wonderful style and his crime novels are crisp, his vampire novels noirish but original, and his SF novel SLEEPLESS was painfully plausible, anything by Simon R Green because despite his quirks he is a Big Idea guy who retains the humanity of the stories and he fits everything including the kitchen sink in, Harlan Ellison because he's a short, yappy Jew pain in the ass who has mastered the art of the short story and to read his work is to wade through Harlan's blood and viscera poured out on the page and laced with razorwire the bites into you and won't let go, especially the short story "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin" as well as "Deathbird". Alfred Bester's THE STARS MY DESTINATION and THE DEMOLISHED MAN as well as his shorts because he's another humanist SF writer who is just a master of weaving SF and humanism into a glorious bundle. Joel Shepherd's Cassandra Kresnov novels for being Blade Runner cross with Ghost in the Shell, THE WATCH novels by Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko (NIGHT WATCH, DAY WATCH, LAST WATCH, etc) for being utterly different than most urban fantasies, having a fascinating ecology of the supernatural, and offering a sardonic look at the nature of good and evil. HOUSE OF LEAVES by Mark Z Danielewski is just mind-blowing and the closest to a horror movie in novel form. Blew my mind the first time I read it and I reread it about once a year. Just about anything by Dan Abnett is going to entertain me because he's just a master of fast moving action SF. The science writings of Mary Roach such as STIFF or PACKING FOR MARS are easy and accessible for everyone as well as being hilarious. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'brien remains a deeply moving true story of a man trying to come to grips with Vietnam. I'll stop before I get too carried away...but I would be remiss if I didn't mention Cordwainer Smith...one of the most overlooked but greatest SF writers ever whose "Ballard of Lost C'mell"...well, my allergies start acting up when I read that one. 12) Ugghh...man, I will try not to take up too much space and hit the highlights; THE INVISIBLES by Grant Morrison is an absolute amazing piece of work and remains something I reread every few months because I find something new every time. Morrison is just one of those writers who almost never lets me down but with THE INVISIBLES he takes it a step further and shows us why saving the world is both the easiest and hardest thing to do and maybe saving the world is just saving ourselves. Alan Moore's FROM HELL is just a massive tome that is a testament to his skill as a writer but the best part is the afterword that takes the form of looking at how the Ripper legend grew and a look at how the mystery grew and took a life of its own. As to Moore's WATCHMEN, well it's pretty much the definitive word on superheroes. Warren Ellis is responsible for me meeting many lifelong friends, many of whom went forth from his old Delphi message boards from the late 90's to have careers in comics. His own comics are absolutely wonderful; THE AUTHORITY is a love song to over the top superheroes and blurs the line between the fantasy and a horrifying reality while things like Nextwave are a hilarious roadtrip through the Marvel Universe and includes Fin Fan Foom...what more do I need to say? TRANSMET is some of the best SF/political comics you can find. He's reinvented, for the better, plenty of superheroes including the defining EXTREMIS run on IRON MAN. SCALPED by Jason Aaron is an absolutely amazing piece of crime fiction set on an Indian Rez that is just some of the best stuff in the genre and medium. WORMWOOD, GENTLEMAN CORPSE by Ben Templesmith is just crazy...urban horror gonzo comics. I'm just going to list comics I love and am reading and would recommend; HAWKEYE, SAGA, DEAD BODY ROAD, LUTHER STRODE, FUSE, BRPD, HELLBOY, PRETTY DEADLY.... Look for these names, basically; Justin Jordan, Anthony Johnson, Kieron Gillen, Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka...they are all automatic buys from me just on name value alone, and the first four all started as posters on Warren Ellis' old Delphi forums...it blows my mind how many of my friends from those forums, people I used to drink with and chat with, and am still friends with...and they went on to be some of the finest writers of comic books I know. I can't forget PAD's work...anything Peter David touches is going to be gold because he's just a great writer who is witty but not as cynical as some of my other faves. That is most definitely not a comprehensive list...I have four bookshelves stuff with graphic novels and books as well as an external HD stuff with e-books and e-comics and there's just too much to name.
Might as well roll with all these announcements as they come. @patchworkz7 13. What do you think about the casting announcement for Episode VII? 14. If you could meet any three people involved in SW, living or deceased, whom would you meet and why?
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13) I'm optimistic. I know the thing to do is immediately leap to conclusions but we have a core cast, some members may be added, and in terms of the Diversity Score (and I very much appreciate all of Coop's work with the Diversity thread)...you know, I think you're already in the hole when you're already bringing back the white cast + droids and Wookiee, because that's going to be the focus (supposedly) so right there you've got what screenwriters would consider a crowded room. I would like to see more females onscreen. I think we need pilots and soldiers and all sorts being female. No more taking the female pilots out of the final product. But I think Adam Driver would make a great villain and when my wife and I hate-watch GIRLS he's the only likable person to be had...so there's that. It's early days and we honestly don't know what the final cast is going to be and Disney is planning quite a lot of these movies so I'm not going to jump to conclusions just yet, but I remain optimistic and I think when we start seeing trailers and costumes even those with doubts are going to get that old familiar charge. I do hope once we're past the hump of seeing off the old generation that we get stories with new and varied casts and I think that's absolutely something that will happen. 14) Huh...well, I have never met James Luceno, and the man has been (as said) partly responsible for me being such a voracious reader and a writer by co-authoring those old Robotech tie-ins that I really think I'd enjoy the chance to sit down and thank him and tell him that even something that...and I don't know how he looks at those old Robotech novels he did with Brian Daley...but even something that wasn't perhaps the most artistic of ventures still ignited a fire and a passion for reading and really helped spark my imagination. And I still remember the bits he and/or Brian Daley added on such as the extended Roy Fokker's death experience and just the little spins they put on things from the show. Of course, his Star Wars stuff has been awesome as well, so I think just for having been involved with so many things I love that's one. Since you added the deceased bit...I wish I'd been able to tell Brian Daley the same things. Harrison Ford disturbingly resembles my dad both in looks and general attitude, and despite his gruffness I would really just like to have a beer with the man and then go build something with him. Frame a house or do some finishing...but just have a beer and a chat and do something hands on. There are some people you'd just like to have a beer with and he's on my list. This is hard for me because I don't get starstruck, never have...and having insight into how the sausage is made, so to speak, perhaps robs a bit of the luster...right up until I pick up the book and read, or look at the artwork, or watch the film and then that part of my brain turns off and it doesn't matter if it's something someone I know wrote or drew or acted in...that drops away and I'm sucked in. I think the real question would be whether I'd want to have a beer with an actor and carpenter or a smuggler and rebel hero. There's two boxes in my head, one labeled Harrison Ford and one Han Solo and it would make the six year old squee to meet Han Solo, but old experienced me knows it's just Harrison Ford in different clothes ;p I would still love to have a beer with Harrison Ford, mind you, or chat with Carrie Fisher about...oh, anything, because I worked with substance abuse and mental health patients for a time and her experiences in both fields would be fascinating. People are generally fascinating. Karen once asked me if SW had been ruined for me by seeing how things were produced and decisions made and knowing as much as I know about publishing in general and all that and the truth is that when I sit down to read or watch something all that falls away and I'm still that six year old kid who wanted to grow up to be an X-wing pilot. The same with most things...I can switch on my objective "editor" switch if I really wanted to but when I pick up SW I have to admit I'm not very picky...in hindsight I've seen some scenes and passages from books removed from context and cringed at how clunky they were, but when I sit down in "Entertain Me" mode, I'm reading for pure enjoyment, and I usually get that from even the stuff that sometimes isn't quite up to snuff or flat-out silly.
I've got the entire Dark Tower series in hardcover staring at me from the bookshelf right now, and not partly because my wife is a huge Stephen King fan and loves the Dark Tower books, so it was an easy sell to get her onto reading those comics/graphic novels.
@patchworkz7 15. If you could choose one Force power to have IRL, which one would it be and why? 16. If you could live on any planet in the GFFA, what would that be?
15) I am going to say telekinesis, mainly because I can think of ways to simulate other powers using TK and also because it's so handy! 16) I'm torn between my love of big cities but also my love of nature...so I'm going to say Mandalore as seen in the RC books. If I want to be left alone like Jeremiah Johnson I could be or I could be down to the town and sitting in a tapcafe. Good enough for me!
@patchworkz7 17. What are your favorite SW video games? What are your thoughts on the future of SW games under EA? 18. What are some of your favorite quotes? (Fictional/said by real people, etc.)


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Usually thought of as a middle-of-the-road popular singer, Françoise Hardy — at the beginning of her career, at least — covered more stylistic ground and owed more debts to pop/rock than she's given credit for. Immensely popular in her native France, the chanteuse first displayed her breathy, measured vocals in the early and mid-'60s. Her (mostly self-penned) recordings from that era draw from French pop traditions, lightweight '50s teen idol rock, girl groups, and sultry jazz and blues — sometimes in the same song. The material is perhaps too unreservedly sentimental for some (in the French tradition), but the songs are invariably catchy and the production, arrangements, and near-operatic backup harmonies excellent, at times almost Spector-esque. Fans of Marianne Faithfull's mid-'60s work can find something of a French equivalent here, though Hardy's material was stronger and her delivery more confident.
In the 1950s, Hardy was inspired by early rock recordings to pick up the guitar, and was already writing her own songs by the time she was a teenager. By the age of 17, she was already singing her own compositions in French clubs, and successfully auditioned for Vogue Records in France in late 1961. Her debut EP appeared the following year, inaugurating a series of successful EPs and albums that would last through the '60s. Hardy sang of young love with both fetching moodiness and unrestrained ebullience; although she often wrote both her music and lyrics, she co-wrote tunes with others as well. She was greatly aided by a number of talented arrangers who seemed to be attempting (usually successfully) to blend American and British production sophistication with a Continental European sensibility. Charles Blackwell was the most notable and effective of these figures; in 1964, interestingly, she recorded some tracks under the direction of the great American R&B guitarist Mickey Baker (yes, the same one who played on Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange"), who was then based in France.
Starting in 1964, Hardy made periodic attempts to capture the international market with English-language recordings. Although these weren't entirely unsuccessful ("All Over the World" was actually a British Top 20 hit in 1965), by the late '60s she was concentrating on more mainstream, middle-of-the-road material and arrangements on both her French and English sessions. She has remained popular in France and continued recording well into the 2000s, releasing such notable albums as 2006's Parenthèses, a 12-track collection of duets with the likes of longtime collaborator Henri Salvador, Jacques Dutronc (Hardy's husband), Julio Iglesias, and relative newcomer Ben Christophers. In the following decade, her success continued with 2010's La Pluie sans Parapluie, and 2012's L'Amour Fou, which came bundled with an accompanying novel of the same title also written by Hardy, and saw her nominated for two Victoires de la Musique.
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Industry confident of clearing m-commerce hurdles
The planets are aligned and all the elements of the wireless zodiac are falling into place. But astrology is a notoriously inexact science, and whether the promise of mobile commerce will descend successfully from outer space to cyberspace is still a question for the sages.
"The Holy Grail of m-commerce," Probe Research analysts say, "is the quest to turn cell phone subscribers into customers who will purchase goods and services with their mobile phones."
Though there are big hurdles standards, security, presentation to overcome before that vast revenue can be tapped, vendors say theyre betting on the technologys potential. Accenture, a consulting company, projects that revenue from m-commerce will reach $55.4 billion by 2003. Some analysts estimate 45 percent of electronic commerce will be m-commerce by 2004, with as many as 1.3 billion Web-enabled mobile devices in use worldwide. Broadly speaking, m-commerce is the ability to make commercial transactions from a wireless phone, personal digital assistant or, someday, wearable computer like that guy on television who scares the pigeons in the piazza. A second application making mobile employees in companies more efficient may be closer to reality than are retail uses. "We see m-commerce as being one of our largest markets over the next few years," says Grant Ross, vice president of solution delivery at EHPT USA, a joint venture of wireless powerhouse Ericsson and Hewlett-Packard. EHPT is retooling its billing software for the emerging m-commerce market. "We see the whole area of m-commerce and content management and wireless broadband as being the way the industry is headed." And while the hype is reaching a crescendo, the actual delivery of m-commerce in the U.S. is still mostly limited to test markets and television commercials. It is no accident that most of those commercials take place in European settings. There are twice as many Wireless Application Protocol-enabled cell phones in Europe about 2 million as in North America. In Japan, about 18.7 million users receive wireless Web content under the i-mode protocol. The U.S. has been slow to adopt wireless Web technology, in part because of the six or seven interoperable wireless standards. Europe, by contrast, has settled on the global system for mobile communication standard (GSM).
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In the U.S., perhaps the most ambitious m-commerce experiment has been an advertising test being conducted by marketing company SkyGo along the high-tech corridor between Denver and Boulder, Colo. The company handed out 1,000 free, WAP-enabled phones, then pushed a minimum of three advertising messages to users each day. SkyGo Chief Executive Daren Tsui says the trial consisted of interactive branding ads. Kentucky Fried Chicken, for instance, ran trivia games in which the correct answer to the days question resulted in a coupon for a free drink with a chicken sandwich. "There is a lot of misunderstanding about advertising on wireless devices," Tsui says. "People think it is just cramming banner ads onto the phones. But there is a lot of consumer participation." Tsui says response to the test, which ended Jan. 31, was favorable. "Were seeing that 60 percent of the participants found the wireless ads to be valuable; 27 percent say they would likely switch to another wireless service provider if they can receive this kind of service." Evan Grossman, a senior vice president at HookMedia, which manages advertising across all forms of digital media, is considerably more skeptical about the promise of m-commerce. "In the U.S., we are at least two years away from being able to reach a meaningful audience through wireless devices," Grossman says. "At some point, I think you have solutions without problems. Fundamentally, a lot on the publishers side as opposed to the actual clients and advertisers think that wireless is going to be used to broadcast to people or ring people up every time they pass a Starbucks or a McDonalds, which we think is incredibly unrealistic," he says. Hiring a few college kids to hand out fliers in front of Starbucks is probably more cost-effective than m-commerce advertising, he says. SkyGo would not release any cost data for its test. "Right now, and for the foreseeable future in the United States, there are not enough people using the devices that are reachable across a single network," Grossman says. "We are advising our clients to be testing in the wireless space, but given the lack of standards and the lack of reach, for the next two years it is not going to change their bottom line at all." Still, most of the pieces that have to be in place to make m-commerce successful are already available. Americans are at ease with their cell phones and with Internet shopping, so moving to m-commerce wont require re-educating the public to use the technology. Experience has shown that the more you have to modify behavior, the less chance the technology has, EHPTs Ross says. Americans in particular are sharply protective of their privacy and suspicious of potential threats to it. "Mistakes can be very costly in terms of destroying consumer trust," says Ann Lynch, an analyst at Probe Research. So wireless security is growing more sophisticated. In Europe, handsets contain subscriber-identity module cards, which verify user identity and enable inter-network roaming. Software enabling payment via cell phone is made more secure by storing payment data on servers, rather than in the handset, explains Scott Geddes, vice president for m-commerce at the German firm Brokat. The company last month rolled out its version of a wireless wallet, which manages information like credit-card numbers, shipping addresses and other payment data. New devices are also coming into the market. Ericsson will soon offer the R380, which is a combination PDA and phone. As wireless devices get faster, smarter and cheaper, software platforms to power the m-commerce equation are emerging at light speed. Mitch Bishop, vice president of marketing at software developer Mobileum, says the new platforms are allowing developers to "write a single application and have it work on whatever device is out there," regardless of standards and manufacturers. "There is an Oklahoma land rush on the part of application developers and the people supplying them to put the infrastructure in place to make this happen," Bishop says.
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But then there are the dreaded "lessons from e-commerce." probe says that the U.S. was just messing around with e-commerce when Internet penetration was at about 20 percent; the serious stuff only started when the Web started reaching about 40 percent of Americans. Similar penetration rates for Web-enabled wireless devices will probably be required before sustainable m-commerce can develop. So far, few Web sites are equipped to accept m-commerce transactions, though there are exceptions. Brokerage firms Charles Schwab & Co., E*Trade Group and TD Waterhouse have joined Mobileum in an m-commerce initiative. And DealTime, "the worlds leading source of information on how to buy things online," has tailored its applications to mobile users. Garrett LePaw, DealTimes vice president of wireless and emerging platforms, says that so far, "the user base is quite small . . . but weve seen a steady ramp-up." He expects the new, more flexible and user-friendly devices to help drive the increase. The consensus seems to be that it will be 2004 or 2005 before the U.S. sees the three As of m-commerce anything, any time, anywhere. However, Niraj Jetly, global practice director for m-business solutions at Breakaway Solutions, says that existing m-commerce technologies can be used now within companies to increase efficiency, allowing workers to access corporate information anywhere. Companies can use existing technologies to channel information to their mobile employees. Jetly estimates that in large companies, about 20 percent of workers usually those near the top of the decision-making ladder are not usually working at their desks, but are roaming about the building, the country or the world. "When they are actually in front of the customer, they dont have access to the business intelligence they need," Jetly says. Mobile devices can be used to efficiently push the information to the sales force, the shop floor, the truck driver, or, perhaps, to the executive facing a delayed flight. "As it applies to consumers, they would like to access information any time, anywhere, from any device," he says. "They would also like to have a rich experience. So they need faster connections, some location-sensitive technologies and application structure in place," Jetly adds. "But that is not going to happen right now. It is going to take another three to four years."
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Well It's Lonesome in This Big Town
I've only been to Houston once, and that was for a layover, so I never left the airport. I was still afraid I was gonna get arrested for not carrying a gun.
Founded by brothers Augustus and John Allen, who paid $1.40 per acre for 6,642 acres of land near Buffalo Bayou in 1838, Houston is named after Sam Houston, general of Texas army that won independence from Mexico, and president of the Republic of Texas. Some also call it "Space City, USA" (probably not it's locals though). It's the 4th largest city in the United States, and home to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the world's biggest rodeo. It's also home to Comets and Astros, Aeros, Hotshots, Rockets, and Texans. NASA's got a thing going there. Cowboy hats and oil rigs figure prominently in the skyline. The Geto Boys were from Houston. Kenny Rogers, Barbara Mandrell, Howard Hughes, and Tommy Tune have all been born or resided in Houston. According to the 2003-4 U.S. census, folks from Houston eat out more than any other city in the United States.
We're informative here at the Mountain.
But we're not really concerned with Houston the city so much as Houston the idea. Houston the song. One we're quite keen on here at the Mountain. A stumbling, shambolic western hymn to, ostensibly, losing oneself and finding, again, in the green, green, grass of home. Or something. Maybe it's not about that at all.
Here's another Mountain favorite(hell, they're all favorites, aren't they?), presented in glorious technicolor. One by the man who wrote it, one by the man who perfected it, 'nother by a country prankster, and the final by a savant genius. Enjoy.
Lee Hazlewood: Houston (mp3)
Dean Martin: Houston (mp3)
Bobby Bare: Houston (mp3)
The Fall: 41 Loop/Houston (mp3)
The Mountain is not planning on visiting Houston anytime soon, but if we do, we'd be inclined to check out their local, independent establishments. To get a proper taste of the character of the city.
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We do like to call it "Space City" from time to time, but usually "H-Town" or "H-Tizzy" is what you get from the kids. You get "Bayou City" every once in a while.
And I don't know the last time I saw a cowboy hat on someone, and it's even rodeo time.
But thanks for the Houston songs! - 1:19 PM
- Happy In Bag said...
I just learned that Cactus Records is closing on March 31. They're good people, and they're also connected to the Daly family, big players in the independent record label industry decades ago.
If you go to the Big H., make sure you hit McGonigels Mucky Duck.
It's one of the best live music venues around. - 8:20 AM
You forgot about Beyonce and Destiny's Child!
- Joe de Vivre said...
Great songs! Thanks
RE Houston its worth noting that the hot mouth organ featured on Dean
Martins recording is provided by Sun rockabilly pioneer Billy Lee Riley
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The decision on whom to allot the higher education ministry is easy, given the fact that there is nobody else apparently fighting for it except for Harak Singh. But the same over the PWD ministry is tricky. With Amrita Rawat and Hridiyesh staking a claim on it, the CM is in between a rock and a hard place. Both are powerful ministers and are forces to be reckoned with, especially when Rawat is heading a minority government supported by PDF.
In the previous government, the PWD ministry was under the then chief minister, Vijay Bahuguna. However, in the ND Tiwari-government it was handled by Indira Hridiyesh. It is this fact that Hridiyesh is flaunting to stake her claim on the PWD ministry.
Before the leadership changeover in the state government, when speculations about who would replace Bahaguna as the chief minister were still doing the rounds, Hridiyesh had publicly announced that she was best suited to be the chief minister as she was the senior-most minister in the cabinet.However, when Bahuguna resigned, Harish Rawat became the CM instead. So it is only natural that Rawat is wary of disappointing Hridiyesh a second time, by denying her the PWD ministry.
Meanwhile, he cannot choose Hridiyesh over Amrita Rawat as well. Her husband, Pauri MP Satpal Maharaj, is a mentor of Progressive Democratic Front chairman Mantri Prasad Naithani. The seven-member PDF is supporting Congress in the assembly, which has 33 legislators — two short of the majority. So again, Rawat would not want to do anything that would upset the coalition, according to sources in the Congress.
"They (the three minister) are applying pressure tactics to take advantage of the political compulsions faced by the CM and get what they want," a source said.Currently the chief minister is at the helms of 11 ministries and around 40 departments and is in a dilemma over their distribution to others.Meanwhile, the state Congress leaders said there was nothing wrong with ministers lobbying for particular posts.
"Ours is a democratic party… So there is nothing wrong if our ministries are lobbying for better portfolios," state Congress spokesperson Surendra Agrawal said.


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CHEESECAKE: We have always had sugar & gluten-free cheesecakes in a variety of flavors both in the 6″ size and 9″ size. A list of our variety is:
New York (plain, but can have toppings added like caramel, raspberry topping, chocolate, or cherries).
Raspberry Swirl – can add more raspberry for topping
Chocolate Swirl – can add more chocolate for topping
Pumpkin (seasonal)
Right now we are offering individual servings of the cheesecake in New York (plain), raspberry, chocolate swirl, and pumpkin (seasonal). They are selling for $3.00 each.
These little gems are extremely popular and often times we run out (certainly not on purpose). Please let us know your choices and we will try to have them ready on pre-orders with 48 hours' notice.
All of our salad dressings, jams, sauces, dipping sauces, and syrups are totally free of gluten, sugar, calories (imagine that), fat, carbohydrate, & cholesterol. They are so packed with flavor and you can enjoy them guilt free. We even have boxes of travel packs. JAMS, DRESSINGS, and SAUCES 2015. Click on this link and see all that you have to choose from.
We have had a very exciting week. We had a staff meeting and we all agreed that we were bored with our cases and we needed to up our game. With 4 bakers with very creative ideas I turned them loose. WOW! These are the new gluten-free items they made.
This is a "dressed up" brownie. We took two and stacked with whipped cream in the middle and cherries on top. Really good if slightly warmed with Dryers no-sugar added vanilla ice cream on top. I actually ate this delight after we made it. It was soooo good! In my job I can eat what bugs me and this was bugging me sitting there all by itself with no one to enjoy it.
Haystack cookie. 1 cookie is 57 cal. 5g carb 1 protein 1 point per cookie
The haystack cookie is made with chocolate, oats, and dry coconut. These are like the no-bake cookie we made as children. Now there is a memory that warms the heart.
This gluten-free dark chocolate cake with yummy whipped cream frosting can keep up with the big boys. We understand the need for chocolate anything, but our gluten intolerants now can have their cake and eat it too. We can decorate a full cake or cupcakes for you.
Sugar-free and gluten-free chocolate cake.
Sugar-free gluten-free Orange Hazelnut cake


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CELEBRATION OF SPORTS GOLF TOURNAMENT Timbers at Troy Golf Course Friday, October 2, 2015 at 9 AM
Celebrate community sports and enjoy a day on the links. Don't miss out on your chance to win some great prizes! Fee includes lunch, green fees, cart, use of driving range, awards and hole prizes. Format is best ball scramble, check in 8 AM, shotgun start at 9 AM.
RP6601.501 $340 / Foursome
RP6601.502 $85 / IndividualFor more information please contact Mike Blevins, 410-313-1691.


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Infusing Sustainability into the Curriculum
Many of the country's future leaders – politicians, educators, chief executive officers, small business owners and homeowners – are educated and engaged by institutions like the University of Rhode Island. As educators, we have the opportunity to offer a systems thinking approach to learning that will cultivate engaged citizens and leaders who are capable of analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing information from multiple sources in order to render reasoned decisions.
Additional Resources
Prior to the workshop, please familiarize yourself with these available resources as they will be referenced often throughout the day. In particular, the website for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) includes invaluable information that you can only access via a member login. URI is a member institution and as faculty, you may use your URI email address to create a user ID to access resources exclusive to AASHE members. Please create a member login prior to the workshop.
URI Sustainability Documents
Teaching Aids
Now in its third year, Thundermist Grows is a project designed to provide healthy food in an area that some call a food desert