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Design and Development of Novel Routing Methodologies for Dynamic Roadway Navigation Systems
To date, traditional navigation systems have embedded algorithms that attempt to minimize trip distance and/or travel time. However, many drivers are now becoming increasingly concerned with fuel costs and vehicle emissions that are detrimental to the environment. Therefore, it is desirable to create new "environmentally-friendly†and "energy-friendly†navigation algorithms. Taking advantage of the latest navigation technology, in this dissertation, new navigation techniques have been developed that focus on minimizing energy consumption and vehicle emissions. These methods combine sophisticated mobile-source energy and emission models with route minimization algorithms that are used for navigational purposes. It is also known that different road types can play a significant role in emissions and fuel consumption. As such, a new standalone, high-accuracy road type classification methodology has been developed that only uses a short vehicle velocity trajectory as input, without any external mapping system. Further, it was found that under chaotic traffic conditions (e.g., those caused by high demand, unexpected road closures, and natural disasters), a shortest-distance route algorithm might suggest a route with unreasonably long travel times, consuming a great deal of energy. On the other hand, under similar chaotic traffic conditions, a shortest-duration routing algorithm might frequently advise a driver to switch routes to avoid congested roadways and maintain reasonable travel time. The number of possible routes varies by the roadway network topology and the location within the network. Thus, it is useful to know how many possible routes exist. Therefore, a new navigational mobility index (NMI) has been developed and justified with an initial focus on freeway networks. NMI can be based on the number of possible routes weighted by shared segments among routes from a source to a destination (referred to as node-to-node NMI). Based on node- to-node NMI, node-NMI and area-NMI are also defined and justified. Different applications of NMI include: 1) measurement of the degree of freedom in which drivers can choose routes from a route choice perspective; 2) determination of the potential effectiveness of navigation systems; 3) determination of the overall connectivity level of an area; and 4) the guidance of the movement of people during an evacuation due to a disaster event. Based on the proposed NMI concept, a new routing methodology has been developed that is based on maximizing the degree of freedom for re-routing while driving from a known location to a desired destination. Not only is this routing methodology beneficial for dealing with random incidents, it is also useful during major disaster situations when people in an affected area need to be quickly evacuated and relocated to safer areas. A variety of experiments have been carried out to determine the effectiveness of the proposed concept and routing methodology. The main contribution of this dissertation are as follows: 1) We prove that a shortest-duration and a shortest-distance route are not necessary the most energy efficient route. We have combined a state-of-art energy/emissions model with navigation technologies to develop an environmentally-friendly navigation methodology, which is unique; 2) Because road type plays an important role in vehicle emission and energy consumption, we have developed a highly accurate, low complexity, and stand-alone road-type classification algorithm that only uses a short vehicle speed trajectory as input without external support such as a map system; 3) We have originally proposed and defined a navigational mobility index (NMI) concept specifically for navigational purposes—compared to other existing similar concepts, it has numerous desirable properties and can be used to evaluate the potential effectiveness of a navigation system; 4) Based on the original NMI concept, node-NMI and area-NMI measures have been further defined that can be used to assess the overall degree of freedom of routing in an area; and 5) For emergency evacuation and navigation under chaotic traffic conditions (e.g., those due to high demand or unexpected road closures), drivers can maximize their degree-of-freedom when re-routing. This is highly desirable under emergency evacuation scenarios, in which drivers are more likely to arrive to the safe area using NMI-based navigation than using the traditional shortest-distance or shortest-duration navigation.
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ASK A QUESTION how do you say "live life with no regrets"?
I am getting a tattoo that i would like to say "live life with no regrets" in spanish but i cant get the right words in the right context
so the phrase would be "to live life with no regrets"
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live life to the fullest = vivir la vida al limite
vivir la vida sin arrepentimientos
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The University of Otago has settled on an option for replacing its ageing dental school, with the ''four-year'' construction project set to be the largest in the institution's history.
Chief operating officer John Patrick said the university's dental school project working party, of which he is the chairman, yesterday agreed on an option to renovate and add to the existing dental school.
After a ''range of options'' were explored over the past few years, the choice eventually came down building a ''completely new'' dental school on a separate site and renovating the old building.
The working party also chose a lead architect for the project yesterday, but was unwilling to release a name as a contract was yet to be signed, Mr Patrick said at yesterday's university council meeting.
The developments were a ''major milestone'' for a project, which Mr Patrick previously said would be the largest building project in the university's history.
''We now look forward to moving on and getting this project done.''
The budget for the project had previously been put at somewhere between $50 million and $100 million and the university has signalled it would be high up its massive capital works programme, which is expected to cost more than $600 million.
Going with the option of renovating the existing building came with ''significant challenges'', Mr Patrick said yesterday.
''One of the challenges is the decant, because this work will have to be done while this dental school still operates.''
However, the architects had assured the university this was possible.
''They are all very confident that they can do the work without disturbing too much the operation.''
The university council approved extra funding, of an unknown amount, for the project during the closed section of yesterday's council meeting.
In a statement provided to Otago Daily Times after the meeting, Mr Patrick said it was unknown when construction would start on the project, but the work was expected to take four years to complete.
The funding approved yesterday would pay for a range of work including a concept design report, a detailed estimate to prepare for the next funding application and the development of staging and decanting strategies.
Other steps that had to happen before construction began included a detailed cost estimate, project budget approval and the appointment of contractors.


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Rush Hour's man in Amsterdam unleashes choice cuts from his upcoming Light Fantastic LP. Opener "Two Together," featuring Berlin first lady Steffi, is top discohouse, with a textured guitars and catchy piano riffs worthy of a KDJ production. "True Friends" works an elegant, minimal house arrangement into a chorus of robotic voices. Closer "Avenido" is pure heat, floating a simple melody over a percussive workout which recalls the taut energy of the Relief catalog.


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VA Unemployment Rate Down to 5.7 in October
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia's jobless rate fell slightly in October after remaining steady for three consecutive months.
The Virginia Employment Commission says the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 5.7 percent last month, down from 5.9 percent in September and 6.2 percent a year ago. In October, the number of unemployed Virginians decreased and the labor force increased.
Virginia's unemployment rate has been trending down since January 2010, when joblessness peaked at 7.3 percent. The rate had fallen to a three-year low earlier this year and increased during June and July in a pattern similar to last year.
The rate is still below the national average, which rose to 7.9 percent in October. The Labor Department says rates fell in 37 states and Washington, rose in seven and were unchanged in six.


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By DOUG WILSON
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Twenty-four mournful notes from a bugle serve as the final goodbye, the final honor, accorded to veterans.
For the past year and a half, 13-year-old Sammy Flentje has been playing taps at military funerals and official ceremonies in Quincy. Military officials say the teen's service is needed, because the last generation of veterans trained as buglers is dying.
"It's an art that's going out. We don't have buglers any more," local American Legion Commander Harry Hendricks said.
Sammy said it's important to honor veterans who risked their lives and devoted so much of their time and efforts to the nation, so he joined the long procession of buglers who have played taps as a show of respect and thanks for servicemen and women.
Sammy came to Beth Young's attention about 18 months ago when he was in the sixth grade. She was at the Flentje home reconnecting with Sammy's father, Karl, one of her former students.
"I was visiting his parents one day, and I heard him practicing his trumpet. I said, 'He's good.' He had amazing tone for a young person," Young said.
She asked Sammy's parents if he would be interested in volunteering to play taps at military funerals and other ceremonies. He has been volunteering his time ever since.
Young is retired after spending 33 years as a school teacher and librarian with the Quincy Public Schools, and she was the quiz bowl coach for 23 years.
Young also is a bugler.
"I played taps when I was in junior high. My dad was a regional (American Legion) commander, and I played taps at funerals or events when they needed somebody," Young said.
Young's career made bugling difficult, but Whitey Pohlman, a former American Legion Post 37 commander in Quincy, told her he would count on her helping at funerals after she retired.
"I have been playing taps again for about 10 years. For the first three or four years, I was the assistant and Bob Ericson was the principal bugler," Young said.
Ericson, a Quincy native, famously signaled the ceasefire of the Korean War with his bugle in 1953. Ericson now resides at the Illinois Veterans Home.
A sense of pride and history
Sammy has played at more than 25 military funerals or other events this year. His parents or his grandmother usually drive him to the events, though he occasionally has pedaled his bicycle to events close to his home.
Buglers show up at cemeteries along with honor guards and may wait 15 to 90 minutes.
"These are not 10 minutes each," Young said.
When Sammy first began bugling, the honor guard members or other adults often would come over and compliment him after he finished playing.
"They would say, 'Good job, young man. We appreciate that,' " Karl Flentje said. "It was almost like he was embarrassed that he was being singled out. He's not one to stand in the limelight."
Much to Sammy's relief, most of the honor guard members have gotten used to seeing him at military funerals. He's just part of the team now, and that makes him more comfortable. If there's interaction with the veterans in the honor guard, it's usually by way of good-natured ribbing for the young bugler. He said if they joke with him, he jokes right back.
There's no generation gap when honoring veterans is involved.
"It feels good to be able to help out," Sammy said. "It's pretty important to honor the veterans."
Bugling gives Sammy a sense of pride and history.
Sammy was 1 year old when the terrorist attacks took place on Sept. 11, 2001. After playing taps at Quincy's 911 Memorial for two years, Sammy has gained a greater appreciation for the life-saving efforts of firefighters who died when the World Trade Center's twin towers fell.
Hendricks has been involved in honor guard duty since returning from the Korean War. He also has experienced the pride from serving at funerals.
"It's done because it's an honor for veterans to have an honor guard at their funeral, and it's an honor for the people in that unit. It's a two-way street," he said.
Difficult to find buglers
Hendricks said American Legion commanders all over the nation are finding it mor e difficult each year to find people who will be in an honor guard. When it comes to live buglers, many posts have given up.
"Now they've got a bugle that plays itself," he said.
Three local funeral homes have bought and shared a player bugles, where a taped taps performance is triggered by the push of a button.
Hendricks understands why the taped performances are needed, but he shakes his head when he thinks about relying on canned music.
Sammy has the same reaction.
"He tells us, 'I don't understand why they can't find people to do it live, because it's really easy,' " Stephanie Flentje, Sammy's mother, said.
The genuine World War II bugle that Sammy uses is smaller than the trumpet he plays in the Quincy Junior High School band. Bugles also lack the valves that trumpet players use to hit different notes. The five notes played on bugles are controlled by the bugler's lips, but Young said that becomes more difficult when funerals are held in sub-zero temperatures.
"We're playing in heat, rain, cold and ice. The only time we don't play is when there's lightning," Young said.
Becoming a team
Young said Sammy is a great example of American youth, not only because of his bugling.
He's a Herald-Whig carrier, delivering about 53 newspapers in his neighborhood on weekends. His paper route is another activity that breaks down his natural shyness.
"I have figured out how to interact more with people. I talk with people on the route, especially if they're up on the porch when I'm delivering," Sammy said.
Sammy has been a member of a youth group at St. John's Church since the summer of 2012. Operation Serve has six-member teams who do public service projects. They have done work at the Horizons Soup Kitchen and cleaned out public bathrooms, which he describes as "not that hard and not that bad."
He came to Quincy from Germany in 2008 with his parents and sisters, Becky, 10, and Ruth, 7. Karl, a Quincy native, served as a preacher and missionary at a Baptist Church in Germany for 15 years, and each family member speaks both German and English. Sammy also is taking Spanish classes in school.
Sammy has been taking trumpet lessons from Jeff Schuecking, who plays with Quincy's Heidelberg Band among other groups. He also is playing French horn.
When people ask Young about the teen bugler working with her at funerals or ceremonial events, she often gives credit to Quincy Junior High School, where Sammy is in the music program. She said there a lot of stories where young people are doing good things that might get overlooked.
Young and Sammy have become a bugling team.
When Sammy first started playing at military funerals, he didn't have a uniform. Young joked with him that he could hide behind a bush or a tree. The Legion post eventually bought him a uniform, then altered it to fit the teen's slender build.
When Young and Sammy play Taps, they're usually performing an arrangement of "echo" taps. One of them will start the song. The other will stand at a modest distance and echo the melody. To some listeners, it sounds like an echo. To others, it is a response from a fellow bugler.
For Sammy and Young, echo taps also seems like a fitting allegory for a pair of buglers passing along the melody that is the last thing heard in a military burial.
They hope more buglers will take up the refrain and keep the military tradition alive for generations to come.


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After a thrilling win in the final seconds against conference rival Minnesota, the Badgers are now 5-2 in Big Ten conference play. Head coach Bo Ryan has his sights set on the future with their next conference game against Ohio State in Columbus.
The Badgers have been playing lockdown defense as of late, holding conference opponents to an average of just 52.1 points per game, a fact that has Ryan impressed with his team's effort.
"They're really hustling and working so doggone hard to limit looks and not give teams second shots," Ryan said at his weekly press conference Monday.
Jackson has been forced to step up this year at point guard following a season-ending ACL injury to Josh Gasser before the season began.
While Ryan said Gasser's rehabilitation has been progressing nicely, he was a bit more skeptical about sophomore forward Frank Kaminsky's injury status.
Sunday marked the first day he returned to limited practice.
"Frank has missed a lot here because he hasn't done very much," Ryan said when asked about Kaminsky's availability. "So I'm not sure. We'll know more tonight, and we'll definitely know tomorrow something."
Injuries are not the only problem the Badgers are facing. They have had a hard time putting points on the board in the last two games, scoring 45 points in the victory against Minnesota after tallying just 47 points in their loss to Michigan State.
A major player in UW's recent point struggle has been free throws, with the Badgers shooting a measly number from the line – just 60.8 percent on the season. Nonetheless, Ryan doesn't seem phased by their struggles.
"Several teams struggle," Ryan said. "Sometimes it's because of an individual or two. When we led the nation, it was two guys getting most of the free throws in Jon Leuer and Jordan Taylor.
"Two guys that believed, every time they walked up there, they had their routine. Nothing ever entered their mind, anything other than saying the other team is going to take the ball out of bounds because it's going to come through the net."
In their Saturday matchup with Minnesota, the Badgers shot 37 percent from the field, 50 percent from the free throw line and only 31.8 percent from three-point range. They have been in a shooting funk, which Ryan addressed when he was asked about senior center Jared Berggren, who has shot a combined 4-for-17 from the field and a combined 1-for-8 from three-point range in the last two games.
"I like to see it go through the net, wherever that is, but he is a threat inside and out," Ryan stated.
Even though Berggren is in a slump, Ryan knows he is still a threat for any basketball team to have to guard and he said he is confident Berggren will get back on track, especially when Kaminksy is able to return.
"He works so hard defensively, especially with Frank out the last three games," Ryan said. "He hasn't had pretty much the same substitution pattern, rest periods that he was getting used to."
The Badgers' next opponent is Ohio State and star forward Deshaun Thomas. Thomas is leading the Big Ten with an average of 20 points per game this season.


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Trace Adkins, Alabama and Kris Kristofferson have teamed up to pay tribute to late country legend Waylon Jennings on a new album.
The Music Inside: A Collaboration Dedicated to Waylon Jennings will be the first of a trilogy of tributes to Jennings, who died in 2002.
Alabama's rendition of Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way will be released as the project's first single on 29 November (10). It's the band's first new recording in a decade.
Kristofferson and Patty Griffin will duet on Rose in Paradise, and Jennings' widow, Jessi Colter, will perform Good Hearted Woman. The late icon's son, Shooter Jennings, has covered Belle of the Ball for the project.
Jennings himself appears on two tracks - Go Down Rockin' and a duet with John Hiatt on Just to Satisfy You.
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Dick Cheney is right. President Barack Obama should release any evidence the government has that shows whether torture — sorry, "enhanced interrogation techniques" — induced al-Qaida detainees to give up information that saved American lives.
But Obama shouldn't stop there. Cheney has called for the release of memos he remembers from his days as vice president — presumably the periodic can-do reports the CIA sent over to show that its hard-nosed interrogations were producing good results.
Those memos are only a starting point. There's also a secret 2004 report from the CIA's inspector general that described the interrogations in such horrifying terms that then-CIA director George Tenet immediately suspended the program he had created. And there are secret memos from officials in the Defense and State departments questioning whether the abuse of prisoners was producing anything that couldn't have been learned through less ugly methods.
All those documents and more should be declassified and released so that our own government can see more clearly what it has done and learn from its mistakes.
The George W. Bush administration's terrorist-detainee programs — the wholesale arrests of thousands in Afghanistan, the "rendition" of suspects to other countries, the secret imprisonment of detainees without legal review and the use of waterboarding, humiliation and other harsh interrogation measures — add up to the most serious violations of civil liberties by a U.S. government in a generation. They deserve some sunlight.
But there's a reason Cheney, no fan of government openness, is calling for more disclosures. The reality of defending the United States against terrorists — and most of the remaining detainees at Guantanamo are, in fact, terrorists — may make the balance of morality in these situations a bit more ambiguous.
In 2002, when Pakistani authorities captured al-Qaida logistics chief Abu Zubaydah, CIA officials suspected he knew what al-Qaida was planning next, as well as the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. When Abu Zubaydah didn't give up that information under conventional interrogation, the CIA sought permission to use physical force.
Abu Zubaydah, after all, had been involved in the advance planning for the 9/11 attacks against New York and Washington, D.C. There was little chance for calm deliberation. "They (CIA officials) came in and said, 'We think this will work, this is the only way he will talk,' " recalled a former official who was in the White House at the time. "The threat streams (of incoming intelligence warnings were) extremely active. There's discussion of a radiological attack. … They are saying this thing could happen any day — this is urgent, this is urgent."
It turned out that Abu Zubaydah didn't know as much as the CIA thought he did — or at least not that he spilled. In hindsight, subjecting him to physical abuse was wrong. But was it justifiable at the time? Not an easy call.
Former officials have sought to defend their decision to authorize physical abuse of prisoners on the grounds that the brutality produced information that saved American lives. But not all of their claims have proved airtight.
Last week, some former officials asserted that the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed enabled the CIA to stop al-Qaida from bombing Los Angeles' Library Tower (now the US Bank Tower). But the plot was actually foiled months earlier, according to Bush's own counterterrorism chief. A more solid claim appears to be that Mohammed gave up the names of other suspects, who in turn gave up the names of others. Was that worth the cost? We don't know.
Of course, the question is not whether abusive interrogations produced any useful information. It's whether the abuse produced information that could not have been learned any other way, and whether the value of the information outweighed the damage to its victims: the detainees and the U.S. legal system.
A little-known facet of Bush's detainee program is that it touched off furious debate inside the administration, including in-house revolts by lawyers at the Justice, Defense and State departments. Several times, Bush's national security advisers — first Condoleezza Rice, then Stephen Hadley — asked the CIA to report whether the program was still necessary and useful. Four successive CIA chiefs all reported that the program was crucial and should continue.
That doesn't mean they had no qualms. In 2004, CIA inspector general John Helgerson issued a secret report charging major abuses of detainees, including several deaths of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq. The report was so stinging, one former official said, that Tenet actually suspended "enhanced interrogations" for a time. And the CIA reportedly commissioned several audits of the program, but shared the results with almost no one outside the agency, perhaps to avoid giving ammunition to potential critics.
There appear to have been two centers of adamant resistance to second thoughts. One was the insistence by Cheney and his chief counsel, David Addington, that presidential decisions were beyond challenge, even by his own aides. The other, less examined until now, was the CIA's insistence that violent interrogations were both necessary and useful — right up until Jan. 22, when Obama outlawed the practice.
The central question today isn't whether some CIA contractors overstepped the blurry lines of their rule book, or whether a few pliable lawyers in the Justice Department produced legal opinions to satisfy their bosses. We know they did. Now we need to ask why the government was unable to correct an erroneous course for seven years, except when the Supreme Court forced it to — and then only minimally. We don't need criminal prosecutions; we need public accountability at the top. Starting, for example, with public testimony from Dick Cheney.


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BRADENTON - After watching Sarasota and Port Charlotte refurbish their baseball stadiums to attract new teams, Bradenton wanted to upgrade the spring training home of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
And, on the year it turns 90, McKechnie Field gets a facelift.
Bradenton has a long-term lease with the Pirates, but the Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers in recent years have both moved their spring training operations to Arizona. And renovations at Mckechnie Field aim not just to keep one team in one city, but to help keep spring training in Florida.
"We're actually split between Arizona and Florida with the number of teams (that each state has)," says Bradenton Mayor Wayne Poston. "We used to have them all."
So even with more than 25 years left on a long-term lease with the Pirates, Poston says the city needed to bring its venerable old stadium into the 21st century. "It's an economic development tool that makes sense for us," he says, especially since bed taxes will pay for it, not those on local residents.
"We would never even look at another facility," says Trevor Gooby, the Pirates Director of Florida Operations. "The city and the county have really been tremendous." But he says the team also wanted a stadium with more of the amenities people expect to see at stadiums now. Baseball, it seems, is but one thing people come to a baseball game to see. "I have young kids," Gooby says. "They want to come out, see the mascot, eat a hotdog, drink a soda, and run around."
There will be spaces to do that. More restrooms and concessions. And a party deck that groups can rent. The upgrades will make McKechnie able to host other events, from youth sports tournaments to concerts. And if it still takes imagination to see all that, it still looks good to Wayne Poston.
"Just fabulous," he says, looking at the construction site. "I can't stop smiling about it."
The contractor doing the work on the stadium says that his crews have a lot of work to do, but that it will finish the job by February 22nd, when the Pirates play their first spring training game there.


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Fifth Day of Losses for Stocks; Apple Breaks $600 Billion in Worth
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(NEW YORK) — The markets continued to slide for a fifth day Tuesday. Europe's economic crisis, the disappointing jobs report and the diminished prospect of help from the Federal Reserve have been weighing on the markets.
The Dow plunged 214 points, while the Nasdaq and S&P gave up 56 and 24 points, respectively.
Tuesday's trading session turned out to be the Dow's worst day since February. The Nasdaq and S&P both saw their biggest one-day drops in months.
It may be worth keeping in mind, though, that U.S. stock markets have been sharply higher in recent months, and are trading well above the financial crisis low of 6,547.05 in March 2009.
Meanwhile, Apple's reached another market milestone. The tech giant's market worth reached the $600 billion mark Tuesday. The only other company to do that is Microsoft, which crossed $600 billion in 1999 at the height of the tech bubble.
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You Begin to Get the Picture
Patience (After Sebald)
Grant Gee
Tacita Dean, Adam Phillips, Robert Macfarlane, Barbara Hui, Rick Moody, Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair
(Cinema Guild)
US theatrical: 9 May 2012 (Limited release)
UK theatrical: 27 Jan 2012 (General release)
There's these small disjunctions that start to occur. I took his word that that's herring, I don't know what herring looks like.
—Lise Patt
"Which category would you like your book to be in?" Christopher MacLebose recalls asking W.G. Sebald. The author had brought his book, Rings of Saturn to be published by the Harvill & MacLehose Press, and MacLebose had in mind where the volume might be shelved. It was a quaint notion, back in 1995, that a book had to shelved according to categories in a store, and Sebald resisted, says MacLebose: "There wasn't a category that he wouldn't require."
The story serves as apt introduction to the story of Rings of Saturn, as recounted in Patience (After Sebald). As colleagues, writers, and artists remember and read various passages from the book, you come to realize that none of their observations is quite the same as another, that none of them finds the same resonance or possibility in what they read. And so Grant Gee's odd, beautiful film becomes not just the story of the book—in which the narrator walks through the Suffolk countryside, describing if not categorizing what he sees, but also the story of reading, how individuals bring themselves to books… or films, or pubs, or cemeteries.
Patience (After Sebald) invites viewers to ponder this process (and so does the Film Forum, where it opens 9 May, and where a series of writers will introduce it on different nights over the week following). Though it occasionally illustrates passages, in dissolving images of book pages and shorelines, bare tree branches and bathtubs and clock faces, it's less concerned with times and places than with how these might signify. Sometimes archival, other times composed for the film, these clips are infrequently layered with hovering headshots of the interviewees, remembering when they first met Sebald or encountered his work, and how they read him.
Gee—who made the superb 1999 Radiohead documentary Meeting People Is Easy—structures the film to preserve a sense of loss and also a sense of seeking. Marina Warner remarks the indirection of the book—or maybe her reading—saying that, for all the book's naming of actual places that can be (and have been) mapped, it is also about other episodes. As the narrator reflects on the brutal massacres of the Taiping Rebellion, he is, according to Warner, "using something to deflect from his main occupation, the genocidal wars of the 20th century," including the World Wars, and including the Allies' firebombings of German cities.
It matters that Sebald is German-born, and that he wrote in German, then worked closely with translators to conjure English versions (rather than translating his books himself). Rings of Saturn raises the specter of destruction and desolation, says Adam Phillips, landscapes "irradiated by melancholy." For Katie Mitchell, the book evokes "the really fleeting and really fast way we perceive and put things together." She offers her own example from Rings of Saturn, a section describing "a moth coming to its end." If there are no "references to battlefields in this passage," she says, it exemplifies the book's pattern, by which "a subject which at first glance seems quite far removed from the undeclared concern of a book, can encapsulate that concern."
As Warner insinuates here, the process of discovering that concern—or better, rediscovering it, for it's never quite lost—is concerned with time (as time changes places and affects people's memories). It is never-ending as well as endlessly rewarding, not to mention utterly ordinary, really, the way anyone gets through the day. "He's a biographer," essays Robert Macfarlane, "A biographer who walks his subjects back in time, then forwards afterwards into death, it's never quite clear." What is clear, in the film at least, is that walking offers a mostly useful metaphor, perhaps especially in its literalness. And for Sebald and his followers (including those who come after, sometimes walking in his footsteps, visiting the same sites named in the book), walking becomes a means to understanding, to absorbing and reflecting, to seeing and being seen.
Sebald's writing, observes Adam Phillips, "seemed to have a way actually of thinking about these issues that was neither sensationalist nor self-pitying, that could be on one hand, sort of grimly humorous but also very, very straightforward." For Phillips, it's "like the best version of journalism one could imagine, really straightforward documentary writing that was really artful at the same time." Just so, the film is at once poetry and observation, vérité and recovery, preserving and letting go. Macfarlane remembers trying to track Sebald's journey, to, as he puts it, "To footstep his footsteeping," by re-walking "most of Rings of Saturn." Though he imagined he might begin on a gray day, as described in the book, he landed on a bright one, and so his efforts turned into something else from the start. Distracted by his own activities, he found himself having "far too much fun to footstep Sebald," which made his memory of his walk very different from his memory of Sebald's. He looks back on his walk and realizes, "I couldn't be there, it was a completely bad fit between footstepper and footsteppee."
At the same time—or perhaps another time—it is, you see too, a perfect fit. As Macfarlane may see himself, as you may see yourself, you must also read. For in Patience (After Sebald), seeing is reading, interpreting, contextualizing, situating, again and again.
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WASHINGTON (Apr. 25)
Israel Ambassador Avraham Harman emphasized Israel's achievements in integrating immigrants of diverse backgrounds in an anniversary interview on the NBC-TV "Today" program this morning, and revealed that an estimated 20 percent of Israeli marriages now link Ashkenazim with Sephardim.
Mr. Harman said that diversity of citizens represented a major social problem but that efforts to effectuate fusion of peoples has brought results. He said that 10 percent of university graduates today are Sephardim, and 26 percent of secondary school students are from that segment of Israel's population which is generally regarded as being culturally and economically on a lower level. He referred to students whose parents came from such countries as Morocco. He voiced hope for a "cross-fertilization of culture," an amalgamation of peoples originating in Europe with Middle East-influenced peoples.
In an address at an Israel Independence Day celebration here sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Mr. Harman pledged that Israel would never be the first country in its area to introduce any new type of weapon.
He said that, while peace has not been achieved in the Middle East, "one important development has occurred." He pointed out that "the extremist Arab viewpoint, which has been articulated consistently and with particular intensity in recent years, is that the State of Israel must be destroyed. "It is clear today that this is an unrealistic goal," he said, "and that increasing numbers of Arabs are realizing that it cannot be attained and that the future of the Middle East lies in the direction of Arab-Israel co-existence and accommodation."


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Get hackers frustrated with password response
Many years ago I worked on mainframe computers. They were primitive compared to today's common desktop except in one sense. We used a concept called hacker frustration. I never hear references to that today.
Hacker frustration was a simple process of doubling the response time for a user ID every time an incorrect password was entered, starting with some number like eight seconds after the first incorrect response.
My bank freezes my account after the third incorrect password. I have to call them to reset the account. However, that's not the only stupid thing my bank does.
— Ralph Coffin, Altadena
Krauthammer wrong to attack president on duties
Columnist Charles Krauthammer and his comrades attack President Obama as if he were unique in his attempts to exercise his executive duties. President George Bush issued more than 150 signing statements through which he asserted his power as president to ignore the very laws he simultaneously signed (compare with Obama's 28).
Krauthammer's idol, Samuel B. Alito, now a Supreme Court Justice, praised such statements as overcoming restraints on executive power imposed by Congress. He approved that signing statements "increase the power of the executive to shape the law."
Krauthammer and comrades hypocritically deify President Reagan's administration, which broke U.S. law, violating the embargo against providing arms to Iran and the congressional restrictions on providing funds for the Nicaraguan Contras. Somehow it is OK for conservative executives to "shape the law" but illicit when President Obama issues the more traditional and constitutionally supported guidelines on the implementation of laws on the books such as Obamacare.
— Carl Selkin, Pasadena
Gay rights issues not a proper concern for Obama
With Americans losing their jobs, their homes and our veterans suffering a decrease in benefits, President Obama has taken the gay rights revolution global. U.S. diplomats in foreign countries will take part in gay/lesbian parades this weekend. A Polish gay magazine has received U.S. funding. Our U.S. State Department has spent $12 million in foreign countries on the efforts to fund advocacy groups. Gays and lesbians have rights but to think our veterans have their benefits reduced, and people here in the United States are homeless and hungry, our president spends $12 million to promote gay rights? Ludicrous! I just love our president's priorities.
— Gwen Hards, Glendora
Whittier council unbroken
I just opened my paper this morning, which I've done for the past 35 years, and read "Lawsuit seeks to remove council" here in Whittier, and immediately felt ill. Who do these people think they are? They do not represent me, my husband, our son or the majority of the people in Whittier.
If this group has a problem with our City Council, then vote them out the democratic way during the next scheduled city elections. It's very simple. The people have voted these individual council members into office and we feel that they have done an outstanding job. How can Whittier have had elections for decades the same way and now all of a sudden the elections are unlawful?
The people who are bringing about this lawsuit are way out of line and sound very racist. They are trying to change our community and are also costing Whittier a great deal of money by continuing this ridiculous lawsuit. They will not nullify our votes.
— Jeanne Moraga, Whittier


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Oooohhhooooohh!!! That's gonna look insane dude!!!!! Lovely.
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8's N/A? Been there done that
Oooohhhooooohh!!! That's gonna look insane dude!!!!! Lovely.
holy shiz
2010 6.1 B5 auto Challenger
BFNY Performance
HEMITUNER Performance
Stock 12.94 @ 108
SC'd 11.52 @ 120
f@king sick....
That looks awesome Jeff...I bet you're getting excited!
2006 Inferno Red Charger SRT8
SHR trans|Wavetrac&3.23s|DSS shafts
Built by Cam
Tuned by Sohfast94
*Car sold, and missed, September 2013*
That looks great Jeff!!
06 MSRT8 Mods: PWR Aluminum 406, Thitek Heads, AGP Twin Turbo kit, ATF TH400, DSS 9'' IRS
Installed by GearHead Fabrications
RIP Lou
That's going to look killer buddy.
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I assure you the habit of modding only gets worse! I know how people on drugs feel. I'm afraid I will start pawning sh*t if I don't get control of myself!
6.1 HEMI, RPM blower cam, 80 lb. injectors, Dual Walbro 255 fuel pumps, D-1SC ProCharger @ 14 psi, Kooks LT's w/High Flow Cats, MagnaFlow exhaust, Paramount Performance High Torque NAG1, Paramount Performance Dominator Torque Converter, DSS driveshaft, DSS 1000 hp axles Suspension-Fully adjustable Pedders, with sway bars and bushings.
Replacement: 2009 CTS-V 628 rwhp 610 Torque / 750 rwhp 775 Torque with wet 100 shot
Damn I like those valve covers. Might have to steal that idea too.
All I can say is WOW! they look amazing!!!!!!!!
2005 BRIGHT SILVER METALLIC MAGNUM R/T. MODS TO DATE:LMI CARBON FIBER HAMMER BLUE FILTER A LA CHRIS,BILLET TECH SATIN CATCH CAN. BLUE HOSES UNDER HOOD,DANKO LIP SPOILER FLAT BLACK,RED R/T ON GRILL AND REAR HATCH.BLACK BUMPER INSERTS AND BLACK SIDE MOULDING. VINYL DECALS MATTE BLACK HOOD STRIPES,TRUE SRT8 UPPER AND LOWER GRILL A LA DENNIS!!!!! RIP MAGNUM on 4/5/13. New ride 2015 challenger Srt392. All black emblems,hellcat airbox. 4/30/15
looks heavy......... especially the cute little BT badges....
9.39 @ 148 mph PWR forged 6.1 Procharger F1A Nitrous Outlet
AfterHours Mopar Perf. installed!!!
"This is what I love about drag racing. I feel an intense focus as everything is extremely loud and quiet around me simultaneously. Nothing else besides me and my immediate environment exists for these short moments." - Budoboy
^^ lol yeah, looks great but thats gonna add some time for sure!!
Amazing job, thats some serious slow and steady pulling through the dip!!
Looks awesome!


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With dozens of zoo games, farm games and maintenance games out there for mobile, EA now offers a more "magical" approach to satisfy the needs of critter-crazy game enthusiasts.
The new Fantasy Safari is what a wild animal park might be like if it had been taken from the pages of a storybook. Combining realistic safari elements like jeeps, rolling dunes and exotic attractions with truly unreal animals – from dragons and trolls to fairies and unicorns – this is not your ordinary zoo game.
Players can fill their safari with dozens of magical creatures. Once they've chosen a favorite, they can make it a Star Attraction, complete with a special Star Habitat. The best part? Animals in Star Habitats have custom animations, each triggered by the player's interaction. This means that when you pet your dragon, he'll breathe fire!
With Fantasy Safari, you can finally experience the dream of building a park filled with your favorite magical creatures. Check it out on the App Store today.


text: hi; i purchased B&S Old Workhorse Collodion kit; mixed it and my problem started... afer developing the plate layer of collodion is light brown. i tested with exposed and non-exposed (sensitized and developed) plates. each plate looks the same after developing. and fixer doesn't change anything. i use B&S developer also. no idea what can be wrong. p.


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Roll Call: Many Districts Seeking Supers; Brazil Exporting College Students To Florida; UF Education School Rising
Expect a bidding war for top superintendents, in Tuesday's education headlines.
Duval may face fierce competition for high-caliber superintendent | jacksonville.com Duval County schools may find themselves in a bidding war for their next superintendent, as at least 60 districts — many large, urban districts — are seeking new leaders. (jacksonville.com)
Brazilian community grows in Volusia colleges – News Brazil is one of Florida's largest trading partners, and is now exchanging college students as well. The students are part of a science and technology program that expects to send tens of thousands of Brazilian students to U.S. colleges. (news-journalonline.com)
How did UF grad schools fare in U.S. News and World Report's rankings | Gainesville.com The University of Florida's graduate education school made a big jump in U.S. News and World Report's rankings this year. (gainesville.com)
Florida Prepaid tuition: Newly passed tuition bill could jeopardize prepaid program – South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Allowing the University of Florida and Florida State University could render Florida's prepaid tuition plan useless, according to a Q&A in the Sun-Sentinel. (sun-sentinel.com)
Beth Kassab: Tougher school standards are just what we need – OrlandoSentinel.com "School grades help drive the economy when the system for measuring them is credible. If we hand out A's like Little League participation trophies, they become meaningless. That why it's important to raise standards. Demand more and get more." (orlandosentinel.com)


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By Nate Adcock on Sun, 01/17/2010
I am not a cook by any stretch of the imagination, but a good recipe app is a no-brainer for even me to add to my iPod touch (you never know, I may start). I really enjoy southwest and Mexican cuisine (as my wife is from Mexico, and a good cook), but I can't boil water without ruining it, so if I were to attempt cooking anything in my house, it would best if it were microwaveable. But if you, on the other hand, have culinary skills and have an interest in Jamaican food, you might want to check out Cook Jamaican Recipes.
Cook Jamaican Recipes categorizes and combines the best dishes, drinks and great Jamaican flavors together in an easy to navigate application for your iPhone or touch. Selections from the main screen will provide recipe infomation, pix of finished dishes, and even an encyclopedia of essential ingredients.
The recipes include a full description of the ingrediants and steps to create each dish. Personally I would like to see hot links added between ingredients listed in the recipes, and the table of Essentials where applicable (to save you from switching back and forth). CJR also allows you to e-mail recipes to your friends...
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If you enjoy cooking, Cook Jamaican Recipes is a good app to add to your iPhone, but could use a few tweaks. Some of the recipes lacked pictures, and the steps could be a bit more explanatory for a cooking novice like me. There were a few typos, and things that could stand to be cleaned up, but I tested the 1.0 version of the app, and already they have updated to 1.2. The price is currently $1.99, and I think the developers might consider knocking that down to $.99 cents for awhile, until more features are added. A few enhancements I would consider making are added Wiki or web-search links, background and historical information on dish origins, even pix/links of traditional methods of preparing the dishes as well would make it more interesting. Get the flavor of Jamaica, learn about it's history and culture as you prepare your dish, in other words. I will look forward to those features in an upcoming release, but for now, you can still use this app to wow your friends with some authentic Gizzada at your next party, so go check it out...App Store link below.


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Hot Rods Forever stamps. Photo and image courtesy United States Post Office. Recognizing that hot rods have long been an iconic representation of American culture, freedom and ingenuity, the United States Post Office has unveiled a pair of new "Forever" stamps, each honoring the iconic ... Read more
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Testimony By New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane Before The New York City Planning Commission's Hearing Regarding The Whitney Museum Expansion And High Line Park Maintenance And Operations Facility
My name is Thomas K. Duane and I represent New York State's 29th Senate District, in which the Whitney Museum of American Art's proposed museum and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation's proposed maintenance and operations facility for the High Line public open space are located. Thank you for the opportunity to present testimony before the New York City Planning Commission (CPC) today.
As a longtime elected representative of Greenwich Village, it gives me great pleasure to be able to join Manhattan Community Board 2 (CB2) and many neighborhood advocates and residents in strongly supporting the applications being heard today to facilitate construction of the Whitney Museum expansion and a High Line Park maintenance and operations facility on Gansevoort and Washington Streets in the Meatpacking District. Whitney representatives have shown a great degree of thoughtfulness in the planning of this proposal and, by meeting with the community early and often, have shown a strong and welcome willingness to integrate their institution seamlessly into the neighborhood. I appreciate the Whitney Museum volunteering to not utilize the maximum floor area available and to meet regularly with CB2 and the community to discuss construction mitigation as this project progresses. The result of their efforts has been clear community support for their applications.
Although I usually share the community's skepticism of special permits, the proposed museum is an educational and cultural facility that will add value to this neighborhood and the granting of a special permit to allow this use is certainly appropriate. The Whitney Museum has secured a renowned architect who has created an unusual design gracefully blending the grittiness of the Meatpacking District with the elegance of an art museum. The proposed museum will not only provide additional space for the Whitney to display their large collection of art, it will also allow space for educational programs and cultural events. There will be public open space on an expanded Gansevoort Street sidewalk, public amenities on the first floor including a free gallery, restaurant, bookstore and restroom, and a pleasant array of outdoor terraces accommodating large works of art which will be visible from the High Line. All are welcome.
The applications before CPC also include a new extraordinary benefit for the community: a much-needed maintenance and operations facility for the High Line. This facility will provide the Parks Department with an elevator which will enable a maintenance crew to move equipment to the High Line and will also provide pedestrian access to the park by an elevator and a street level stairway. These amenities are necessary to foster the enjoyment of the High Line Park and certainly warrant CPC's approval.
As an avid supporter of the High Line and the arts, I am excited about these two additions to my district. I understand that the list of requests is long and complicated, but this is a rare and exceptional partnership between the community and a developer resulting in a mutually beneficial proposal. For these reasons, I am proud to endorse these applications and urge CPC to do so as well. Thank you for allowing me to testify today and for your consideration of my recommendations.


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text: When it comes to the CS and TS in Morocco, I've heard people recommend just doing the CS because its all around just as good. I'm wondering if it is the same for Yak & Yeti? I'm looking for food quality and atmosphere of the two places. I'd hate to spend a TS credit on it, if the CS isn't far off from it, but then again, I don't mind spending the credit if its worth it. TIA!!


text: Yup, those words came straight out of the vet's mouth. She is fighting an infection but with the medication she'll be ok in no time. The vet wants her back every six months though to check her out agian since she is older and can deteriorate quickly. But Simba was not pts today though the doctor said she is fine and still has a good quality of life.


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Jil Vs Rey this weekend - Tv9
Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 09:42 AM
Sai Dharam Tej's "Rey" and Gopichand's "Jil", which are scheduled to be released in theatres across the globe on 27 March, will clash at the box office this weekend . "Jil" is a romantic action entertainer, which has been directed by Radha Krishna and jointly produced by Vamsi Krishna Reddy and Pramod Uppalapati. Gopichand plays hero, while Rashi Khanna plays opposite to Gopichand . "Rey" Directed and produced by YVS Chowdary, "Rey" is a musical romance drama film high on action quotient. Sai Dharam Tej plays hero, while Saiyami Kher and Shraddha Das appear in female leads.


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A student got behind the wheel of the car while over the drink drive limit following an argument with his ex-girlfriend.
Police were tipped off in the early hours of Tuesday October 2 that a man who had been driving away from a pub had been drinking.
They saw the white Ford Fiesta, driven by Shane Coffey, was going the wrong way down a one-way street in Eastbourne and when they spoke to him they noticed he was drunk, unsteady on his feet and smelt of alcohol.
Prosecutor Jeremy King told Eastbourne magistrates the 21-year-old failed a roadside breath test and a later reading at the police station showed he had 102mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath.
The legal limit is 35mcg and therefore Coffey was nearly three times the drink drive limit.
At a hearing at Eastbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday October 16 Coffey, of Durham Avenue, Essex, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol.
Dale Beeson, defending, said his client was a third year sports science student who also worked at a health and fitness centre in his home city and had no previous convictions.
He said Coffey had been visiting friends in Eastbourne on the night in question and that he was planning on staying over.
He added, "He came into contact with his previous girlfriend and was involved in an argument and drove around to clear his head.
"He came to the attention of police and made the mistake of going down a one way street.
"He pleaded guilty.
"He is not a regular drinker and has committed no previous offences.
"He's a sports science student in his third year.
"It's going to have implications for him.
"It was a stupid action on his part, a one-off impulsive action in the face of emotion.
"He understands the seriousness of the offence.
"He stands here embarrassed and ashamed of his actions.
"I would invite you to offer him the drink driver awareness course."
Magistrates told Coffey the reading was very high.
They disqualified him from driving for 24 months.
He was also fined £200, must pay £85 court costs and a £20 victim surcharge.
He was offered a drink driver rehabilitation course which will reduce his ban by six months if he completes it in a set period of time.


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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by rustlicense, Jan 23, 2011.
i juss updated to the crappy froyo and i hate it anyway to get back to 2.1?
ikr me 2 my phone keeps freezing for no reason and the market takes 10 min to load
Try a factory reset. It won't take you back to 2.1, but it's supposed to fix the issues you're having.
I'm debating about whether to update or not. So far, I don't think I am.
Personally from what i've experienced, I wouldn't upgrade to Froyo and wish there was a way I could go back. Not that i'm having any particular problems, but overall 2.1 was much smoother and faster. Maybe once the devs cook up some nice ROMs, my feelings will change, but right now I preferred my phone they way it was.
Exactly why I'm going to stay with what I have at the moment. I'm running V4, a beautiful ADW theme from y0rk that's red and black, my corporate email and other stuff and it's beautiful. I don't wanna lose it.
Original poster, do a factory reset!
Others, you cant ecpect a stock rom from lg/verizon to be on par with what our devs cook up. Be patient and things will get better. Im running rooted froyo with 0 problems.
Wow! I'm surprised to see these negative comments. Definitely try doing the factory reset first. My phone runs amazingly fast. Absolutely no lockups, reboots, or FCs. Everything is running great and I wouldnt go back to 2.1 for anything!
I'm not complaining. Just made up my mind I'm not updating until the wonderful devs come up with wonderful roms.
my problems are along list freezing force closeing market wont open and the phone is juss garbage now. and im tring to root with no succes can anybody help with this otherwise im smashing the phoine into little peices ohhh and i reset my phone three times now and its still horriable please help!!!!!!
Go the IRC. Someone might be able to help you there.
freenode Web IRC (qwebirc)
ya they where no help anybody have any luck with root yet?
They were no help? That really surprises me. The IRC peeps are gods & goddesses.
Is this the factory data reset? I've lost all messaging capabilities with Froyo. Also, a lot of force closes.
Just about everyone that has gone to IRC and asked specific questions regarding rooting Froyo has successfully completed the process. Have you tried the guide? Have you pm'ed anyone? I can't count on my fingers and toes all the people that have came out of IRC with rooted Froyo...
Yes, factory data reset.
If you want rooted FroYo, you absolutely have to use the guide posted here: http://androidforums.com/ally-all-things-root/263285-guide-froyo-2-2-1-root-users.html
There is no other way to get your phone rooted with 2.2 at this time if you have already updated it.
If you need help, go back to IRC, politely pose your question and then be patient as there are a lot of folks trying to get help at the moment. I would specifically look for Dots, Death2All110 (D2A something in IRC), Sora1995 or Afteraffect.
IRC can be a pain because there are so many trollers there talking trash. Try to get someone engaged in a private chat to work with you. And please be courteous and respectful. People with a 'tude usually end up being ignored.
Also, please read everything on rooting with FroYo and make some effort to take it as far as you can before you ask for help. It's really frustrating to offer to help someone and then find they haven't done the first thing to get ready to be helped. Download the necessary files, back up your data to your PC, have your phone charged and ready, and allow sufficient time to be helped. (I once had someone ask me to help him and 3 minutes into it, he wanted to know if we were almost done because he wanted to go play PS3. GRRR!!)
Good luck on your quest. I think the end results more than justify the effort.
I have an unrooted Froyo Ally, and it's working just wonderfully, as smooth as can be.
Of course, I'm not expecting my Ally to run like an Evo. Some people, it looks like, are.
These posts surprise me as well. I was rooted and running punisher, which I really like, and I updated to froyo before they found the root because it was telling me every 15 minutes that I had an update. I love it! The only thing I got a custom ROM for was for the A2SD, and now that I have it with froyo, I'm good to go. I'll pay attention to the devs for custom froyo ROMs, but as fast and smooth as froyo is, I'm not seeing a reason to root right now. It's like having a brand new phone! Sorry for all of the problems everyone else is having.
2.2 is way better on these phones than 2.1. If youre having force closes and market issues and everything else, obviously something isnt working correctly. You couldnt possibly think that was what LG intended, so its not really fair or helpful to people pondering the switch to represent the upgrade that way. This sort of goes back to the people who post the 'Punisher ruined my phone' type of threads when in reality they ruined their phone making a mistake trying to install punisher. If you go to IRC and be patient, calm, and respectful that these are people willing to give their time and knowledge to you for free, you will get help.
Also, if you're trying to root your phone with no success and you have 2.2 already installed, i can almost assure you that is the source of the problem.
To all those crying about people not liking Froyo, we are all entitled to our opinions, both the people who like it and the peope who don't. Please try and remember that before you respond and poke fun, throw blame, make assumptions, etc. about the people who are having problems with it.
Bottom line is if you don"t like FroYo, go back to 2.1, root and install one of the great custom ROMs and move on. Some of us LOVE FroYo and appreciate all the hard work that Trident, Death2All110, drellisdee, savoxis and the other devs have made to get us rooted.
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Im so glad i learnt about ROM's when i did =] i was so excited for froyo, and i woke up every morning waiting for the day...and i flashed V4 the day before it came out, and dont regret it, i love it. Hopefully some really great ROM's will come out for froyo and take away a big burden from sum people's problems with froyo...also just to ask real quick, if i used my backup i made right before i flashed v4 of the stock 2.1, will the update for froyo pop up? or will i have to search and install it myself?
EarlyMon - thanks for your intervention and edits. I apologize if my comments made anyone feel attacked. My point is that, like everything in Life, FroYo is obviously not for everyone. If it's not working out for someone, please follow up with a post describing the problem so it can be addressed, or go into IRC and get some help. If you just want to go back to Android 2.1 Stock and root again, that can be accomplished too. Just complaining without making an effort to get your problems resolved does no one any good and unfairly discredits reputable software and the hard work of our devs.
While frustrating to some, it's ok to complain about Froyo and do nothing at this time.
Everyone has a right to their opinion, and sometimes need their voice to be heard.
So long as such posts and any replies are made in strict accordance with the site policies, conveniently condensed above, we have no issues.
If the Froyo in question is from an independent dev, then it's better to not complain publicly that it's no good - it's better to go thru the dev's feedback policy and provide a breakdown of your issues found - politely and without invective - and then perhaps choose a rom better suited to your needs.
Please distinguish and note well: Froyo comes from Google, Froyo roms often come from independent devs.
If Froyo itself and not the rom is at issue, then sharing frustrations with friends or reporting to Google is more appropriate than reporting to devs - but they may consider enhancements, depending upon their issues and workloads.
If you find an individual on either side of this matter taking a position that is simply disagreeable to you, agree to disagree by adding them to your ignore list (yes - we have that as a tool, see your User CP page, link at upper left of this page).
Anyone breaking the rules can be shown to us via the !Report button.
Try to get along and remember your worst enemy today is often your best friend tomorrow.
The independent devs tend to be your best friends, even if something didn't work out for you.


text: I have massive battery issues, and i need urgent help please here are the problems; Charges VERY slowly (8 hours to reach 40%) Drains very quickly! ( i do have juice defender + low brightness etc) The higher it charges, the slower its charging gets. Here is what has happened. My phone has been soft bricked coz i was getting used to flashing new ROMS. both times, i have used USB Jig to get it out of soft-bricked state. could this be the issue? (issue started after i got phone out of soft bricked state first time) can i fix this battery issue somehow? Cleaning battery stat bin will help? (note i cant get it to charge fully) Is getting a new battery the solution or will it be same? (i have taken out battery and recharged, no change.) im using a stock rom atm 2.3.6 PLEASE REPLY


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GRAHAM Rose has the ear of a major electrical supplier after a raft of complaints about power cuts.
The Appleton resident, 67, has been appointed the voice of the consumer on a panel run by Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD).
The semi-retired business consultant was named a "local community representative" after complaining of eight power cuts from May to July.
The Park Lane resident will now be speaking up for people across central and southern England at quarterly meetings.
He said: "Last summer I was in touch with the company regularly over the power cuts in the village and I think they thought in the end it would be better to have me involved with the group."
The SSEPD customer voice groups are made up of nine representatives from SSEPD and local stakeholder groups.
"The group meets every three months but if people have concerns they can contact me and I will raise them at the earliest possible opportunity," said Mr Rose.
Communication between customers and the firm is key, he said. "If people in rural communities are on low-voltage systems SSEPD does not know those residents have had a power cut until they phone up.
"Sometimes the system can go down for a minute if a crow flies into a power line, and then your alarm clock won't go off, so a one-minute outage can sometimes be as bad as one that last several hours. I want SSEPD to provide a better service and I want them to invest more money in the system as a result."
Replacing old kit with new technology such as smart meters – which send information to the company – is vital, he said.
The father-of-two – who has lived with wife Judith in the village for 42 years – said: "Until smart meters are brought in, the company will continue not to know in rural areas when there has been an outage.
"SSEPD also has a very good mobile phone app which shows where all the power cuts are and what the progress is but they have not promoted it properly."
A spokesman for SSEPD said: "By placing the needs of our customers and stakeholders at the centre of our business, we can ensure that our distribution network is fit for purpose. To help us do this we have formed two customer voice groups.
"Concerned about the frequent power cuts in his rural area, Mr Rose would like to see clearer communication on the reason for power cuts and the timetable to rectify faults. He also raised his concern for scale of SSEPD investment and the need to have the latest technology."
The firm yesterday announced a price freeze until 2016.
Mr Rose said: "The news from SSE plc of the separation of distribution and retail makes sense. The consumer is confused as to who they are actually dealing with. I only hope the suggestion it will freeze prices until 2016 will be passed through to the retailers."
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Drinking alcohol in moderation may be good for our pay packets as well as our health, according to research from the University of New South Wales.
Dr Garry Barrett from the Department of Economics found that Australian men who drink a moderate amount of alcohol earn more than both their teetotaler and heavy drinking counterparts.
"I became interested in all the reports in the media that suggested that drinking in moderation was good for your health. I wanted to know if this translated into satisfaction at work too," he said.
Using a mathematical model to compare income and alcohol consumption, Dr Barrett found that moderate drinkers earned 4% more than heavy drinkers, and 12% more than non-drinkers, regardless of age, education, marital status, occupation or where the person lived.
"I think this analysis is picking up on the productivity aspect," he said. "It may be that moderate drinkers get more done in a day, have less sick days and are more reliable. And they are being rewarded for that in terms of their salary."
But what about teetotalers who never have to take a day off for a hangover? "I thought the lower wages for teetotalers is a strange result, but the studies do say that having a little bit to drink can be good for both your mental and physical health, and I think that's what we are seeing here," said Dr Barrett.
"But it may also be that teetotalers who perceive drinking alcohol as risky behaviour may also tend to avoid doing risky jobs. They may tend to work in safer areas, or more secure jobs with less chance of layoff, and these jobs may offer lower wages."


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For Anthony Weiner, Eight Awkward Dongs From The Movies (NSFW)
Did not make the cut.
In my review of The Hangover Part II, I made a comment about the seeming preponderance of male genitalia on the big screen lately. The phenomenon has been limited primarily to comedies because, let's face it, penises are pretty damn funny looking.
Judging by that screening, we're a ways off from adopting a blasé attitude towards full dude frontal. In part, I blame the hilarious names we have for our members. Try not snickering when you hear the word "schvantz." You can't do it.
I also noticed the dread appendage poking its way into more serious fare. For two weeks running now, we've seen extended cock sequences on HBO's Game of Thrones (Dany's attempted poisoner last week, Hodor "The Tripod" this week), further confirming this tubesteak infiltration isn't confined to R-rated bromedies. This was something I could write a column around, I felt, but I needed a solid intro.
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Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter career ended in tatters Monday, as the New York Democrat admitted in a chaotic news conference that he used social media to send explicit photographs and sexually suggestive text messages to several women over the course of three years.
"To be clear, the picture is of me and I sent it," Weiner said of a photograph of him in gray underwear that surfaced a week and a half ago and whose origin he had previously questioned.
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In researching this piece, I discovered two things. First, it's easy to "inadvertantly" stumble upon a lot of gay pornography on the internet. Second, the mere presence of a man's "equipment" wasn't sufficient to make the list, otherwise it would be nothing but Ewan McGregor movies. The unveiling had to be embarrassing, inopportune, or otherwise ill-advised.
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I have to credit my ex-girlfriends with having the decency to break up with me when I was more or less fully clothed (the time I was shirtless at Lollapalooza doesn't count as it was quite hot). And even if they had, I'd like to think I'd have the decency to put my pants on immediately.
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Second only to MacGregor in total onscreen member exposure. The difference being, as I understand it, Keitel is actually a rather scary fellow. MacGregor played Obi-Wan Kenobi, for christ's sake. I don't even know if Jedi knights have penises (you know Luke and Leia were actually fathered by Chewbacca, right?).
Ugh. There's a mental picture I didn't need.
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Relax. His character is technically 32 years old. Think of him as Gary Coleman and you'll be fine. Okay, maybe not.
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I never really warmed up to this movie, though I've grown to appreciate it more as years have gone by. Probably I'm just gratified to learn that Marky Mark's good vibration generator isn't actually that big.
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Don't you hate it when your relaxing shvitz is interrupted by Russian gangsters? Oh, and I couldn't find the actual clip on anything that wasn't something called "hotmales.com" or the like. Forge that path on your own.
Graham Chapman, Life of Brian
Let this be a warning to us all: sleeping in the nude just doesn't pay off. You never know when the fire alarm will go off, your toddler will want to crawl into bed with you, or a few thousand potential worshippers are going to show up outside your window.
No one expects the...wait, wrong skit.
Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game
I saw this on a date, and so unimpressed was she by my inability to recognize Dil's man hands she never went out with me again. My high-pitched squealing during the Big Moment probably didn't help.
Jeremy Irons, Damage
Give Weiner some credit: at least he didn't get caught nailing his (nonexistent) son's girlfriend. And then watch said son plummet off a balcony. And then run naked down the stairs to certain infamy and ruin. That's something, right?
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Is it possible to have a 3+ dimensional array?
I think a 3d array would work when working with 3d, but 4d+? Wouldnt that defy the laws of physics or something? What would it look like?
Is it possible to have a 3+ dimensional array?
I think a 3d array would work when working with 3d, but 4d+? Wouldnt that defy the laws of physics or something? What would it look like?
You'll run out of memory pretty quickly if you have lots of large arrays, though.Code:int three_dimensional_array[x][y][z]; int four_dimensional_array[x][y][z][a]; int eight_dimensional_array[x][y][z][a][b][c][d][e];
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wait, how can you simulate a 4d+ array? Make a 4dimensional world?!
Isnt 4d time, 5d space, 6d amtter, 7d i have no clue... but im gonna google it.
What are you talking about? You're not creating physical dimensions here. Just a series of arrays of arrays of arrays ...
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
You are creating a huge mess. The most dimensions I'd ever use is 2, and I normally use 1D arrays or linear arrays.
I know, but arrays can be just like dimensions in real life. Isnt there a way to simulate it somehow? How 1d is like a string (a line) while 2d is like a square (down adn across) and 3d is like a 3d cube(detph/z axis). So what would 4d be?
Oh and this is just for informational purposes... Its not like im really gonan be using anything more then 3d tops.
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The fact that humans perceive only 3 physical dimensions is coincidental to the fact that arrays can be multi-dimensional. Each dimension of an array represents whatever you are needing to represent. If you want to use a 4 dimension array to keep track of x,y and z coordinates for each time interval a then you could use a 4 dimension array.Originally Posted by SG57You could also use a larger dimension array something likeCode:world[x][y][z][a]where the row and column are what is stored in the row and column of a spreadsheet that is in a particular workbook that is located in a particular folder that resides within a particular company that is based out of a certain city in a certain state in a particular country... This could be accomplished much more efficiently using other methods of course, but is an example of a 9+ dimension array.Code:data[row][column][sheet][workbook][folder][company][city][state][country][etc...]
What do you want 4d to be? There are widely differing opinions of what the 4th dimension is, whether it is actually time, or it is some measurement humans are unable to perceive naturally, or whatever. If you are the program writer, you decide what 4d is. I like to think of the 4th dimension as time because it is conceptually easy for me to understand, but I have heard compelling arguments otherwise.Originally Posted by SG57
Either way, you should define your world (3d or 4d or 12d?) before you start trying to figure out how to represent it in a data structure.
abachler: "A great programmer never stops optimizing a piece of code until it consists of nothing but preprocessor directives and comments "
you ready for a mess of uneccessary code?
This is an attempt to find out if my compiler (MSVC 2003) put a limit on the levels of indirection I can have. Looking at the asm, she accounted for all 33. I don't want to go any further.Code:int i = 3; int* pi = &i; int** p2i = π int*** p3i = &p2i; int**** p4i = &p3i; int***** p5i = &p4i; int****** p6i = &p5i; int******* p7i = &p6i; int******** p8i = &p7i; int********* p9i = &p8i; int********** p10i = &p9i; int*********** p11i = &p10i; int************ p12i = &p11i; int************* p13i = &p12i; int************** p14i = &p13i; int*************** p15i = &p14i; int**************** p16i = &p15i; int***************** p17i = &p16i; int****************** p18i = &p17i; int******************* p19i = &p18i; int******************** p20i = &p19i; int********************* p21i = &p20i; int********************** p22i = &p21i; int*********************** p23i = &p22i; int************************ p24i = &p23i; int************************* p25i = &p24i; int************************** p26i = &p25i; int*************************** p27i = &p26i; int**************************** p28i = &p27i; int***************************** p29i = &p28i; int****************************** p30i = &p29i; int******************************* p31i = &p30i; int******************************** p32i = &p31i; int********************************* p33i = &p32i; cout << *********************************p33i << endl;
My compiler (MinGW) supports over 3000 levels of indirection before it runs out of stack space (it must be recursive).
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The impossibility of 4 dimensions in real life does not in any way affect the plausibility of having a multidimensional array in C. In any case, even a 2D array is stored one-dimensionally in your computer's RAM. In fact, most processors don't support 2+D arrays; they are only provided in C as a convenience.
Code:#include <stdio.h> void J(char*a){int f,i=0,c='1';for(;a[i]!='0';++i)if(i==81){ puts(a);return;}for(;c<='9';++c){for(f=0;f<9;++f)if(a[i-i%27+i%9 /3*3+f/3*9+f%3]==c||a[i%9+f*9]==c||a[i-i%9+f]==c)goto e;a[i]=c;J(a);a[i] ='0';e:;}}int main(int c,char**v){int t=0;if(c>1){for(;v[1][ t];++t);if(t==81){J(v[1]);return 0;}}puts("sudoku [0-9]{81}");return 1;}
A line of text. - 1 dimension.
A page of lines. - 2 dimensions.
A folder of papers. - 3 dimensions.
A box of folders. - 4 dimensions.
A truck of boxes. - 5 dimensions.
A warehouse of trucks. - 6 dimensions.
A field of warehouses. - 7 dimensions.
We could go on, but I'll assume you've grasped the concept.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
This thread is a clear example of the complete abuse of arrays and their usefulness.
This should answer all your questions. Notice it's from webster.cs.ucr - the same site you can get Randall Hyde's Art of Assembly Language. Definitely not a coincedence.
Now you can see why using more than 1 dimension will severely impact the performance of the array, especially if does NOT have dimensions that are a power of 2. Even using bit shifting for multi-dimensional arrays with dimensions that are a power of 2 will still be slower than using a 1 dimensional array.
So how do you solve the problem? In C you use structs, and in C++ you use classes.
Much better than:Code:struct Person { int iAge; int iHeightInches; int iShoeSize; int iYearBorn; int iMonthBorn; int iDayBorn }; Person Crowd[1000];
To fill the array using structs watch:Code:int Crowd[1000][6];
1000 iterations, 6 variables set per iteration.Code:for (int i=0;i<1000;i++) { Crowd[i].iAge=0; Crowd[i].iHeightInches=0; Crowd[i].iShoeSize=0; Crowd[i].iYearBorn=0; Crowd[i].iMonthBorn=0; Crowd[i].iDayBorn=0; }
As opposed to the two dimensional method:
6000 iterations.Code:for (int i=0;i<1000;i++) { for (int j=0;j<6;j++) { Crowd[i][j]=0; } }
You could unroll the inner loop and still get 1000 iterations, but you still have the fact that in the array, none of the elements have any apparent meaning. They are just memory locations. With the structure you can tell exactly what each variable is representing.
The only reason I would ever allocate a huge linear array is if I wanted to do my own memory management for something like a game. Then I would make functions and sort of a small memory management API to manage that huge chunk of memory. This has the benefit of, hopefully, being faster, easier to use, etc.
Hope this helps.
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A story this morning in the Buffalo News is exciting for the city of Cleveland, and Browns fans. It appears Cleveland was chosen over Buffalo as the location for a new movie called "Draft Day" which will star Kevin Costner and be directed by Ivan Reitman.
"A furious fourth-quarter rally mounted by New York State officials – including a top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo – has fallen short in keeping the film "Draft Day" in Buffalo.
The movie, which was to depict Kevin Costner as a fictitious Buffalo Bills general manager trying to restore his team to past glory, will now be shot in Cleveland instead, with the actor portraying the Cleveland Browns GM.
The big reason, said Tim Clark, who heads the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission, was economics.
"At the end of the day, it was a money thing. I think Mr. [Ivan] Reitman really wanted to shoot here, but it just came down to the cost factor. What we were told is that the Cleveland incentives were better," Clark said."
Principal photography is supposed to begin filming next month at the NFL draft in Radio City Music Hall.
The movie was apparently in danger of never being made, with executives claiming it was unmarketable- especially outside of America.
Here is a description of the story–
"The story, which centers around Costner's character bustling around on draft day trying to trade the first pick of the draft into a series of better players for his flailing team, isn't just a football-centric story. There are relationship aspects as well, with the GM's family baggage popping up occasionally and, of course, a few surprising romantic developments as well. Sounds like a nice Moneyball-esque comedy that might concentrate a bit more on heart than pure numbers, and a great return to form for Costner, who hasn't made a true sports film since 1999's For Love of the Game."
[Related: Michael Lombardi to have title changed to GM]
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