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Sometimes you think about something and then keep noticing it popping up everywhere. So anyway I was recently pondering in a not to serious manner if there were any links between Atheism and fitness and in particular obesity. Then I heard a DJ on a radio talk show comment that it was quite likely that Atheists were unfit and overweight because they probably have not much concern about the future. You know the way we don't have a positive outlook on life because we are so miserable all the time. We apparently suffer from the vice called Greed and we also lack self-control. Anyway lets' not go there on trying to even work that one out. Then I got a mailshot with a link to a topic on "Who is fatter – Atheists or Theists? So I thought I would ask what you think.
Now I know that there would not appear to any correlation between Atheism and Obesity. However it may be that we do take our health more seriously if we look at the world through more scientific eyes. Maybe we see through the marketing more. Maybe as we know that as we only have one life we want to enjoy it as much as possible so we take more notice of what we consume. We all agree some Theists will swallow just about anything but would there be anything in their worldview to make them less concerned. I anticipate plenty of comments on the Jesus biscuits and the bloody wine.
Are you careful about what you eat? Do you try to keep fit? Are your more like Penn or more like Teller?
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For the record I am 5ft 11inches, 170lbs and a BMI of 23.7 though I am not to up on the scientific value of the BMI scale. I don't smoke and seldom drink alcohol. I do moderate regular exercise and am fit and healthy. I avoid sugary or salty foods whenever possible and try to eat fresh food rather than processed. I am not too fussy about it all though.
Like most atheists I don't always eat christians, but when I do, I prefer Soylent Green. Actually I do enjoy working out and eating right because I just feel better when I do.
I am 6'0", 216 lbs. Last year I made it up to 230 and decided I didn't like that, so I lost 20 and gained a few back, but glad I made it through this Thanksgiving without really gaining. I also just bought a workout station that should help me through the winter when it is more difficult to work off the calories. It is not yet a clothes hanger, and really, I don't expect it to be. I don't know my BMI.
We recently got a juicer, and at least 4 days a week I am having a fruit/veggie smoothie in the morning. I have cut almost all of the low quality foods out of my life, but I still have a way to go.
I would call myself better than average, but not by much.
I suppose the reason that so few fronkeys have been spotted in Bavaria is that some so called missing links with hyperextensible claws may have eaten them all from the "Original Early Bird" menus. You might be the first to have feathers but please there is no need to get them all in a flap.!!
Are atheists for healthy than theists? That could be an interesting study. A theory, since atheists are more about ideas than self image, we might be less attached to our weight and posible bad habits, and more willing to change our eating and activity behaviers. If we value health, as an idea, we might be more willing to take the needed steps to actualize it.
Of course, if you are a guilt ridden ex-theist, to you might be on a death spiral. Always looking for security or medication via food/drink/drugs/alcohol, killing the liver, kidneys, brain cells, and GI track.
I for one know that I have one life to live and therefore I am trying to get into the best shape of my life.
Check out Rush Limbaugh. He's fat, deaf, smokes cigars, sits on his ass all day, is a drug addict, is in his fourth marriage (so far), spews hate daily, and is a Christian.
Me? I'm a champion marathoner who has been keeping fit all my life. Unlike Rush, I am, at 77, trim; have all my senses working perfectly; don't drink or smoke; am constantly active; don't do ANY drugs; don't rage in hatred for women and minorities; and don't believe Christ ever existed.
I can't, of course, speak for other atheists, especially since I don't know any.
@Morgan I have heard that Theists can suffer from probllems with their knees from searching for that second life.
@ Dale keep it lit !!
I weigh what I weighed in high school, for what that's worth!
I do care about my health and I am a healthy individual. I do put thought into what I eat. I try to eat foods grown/raised locally and I avoid processed foods. I try to keep active, I do a ton of walking ad some biking and my job keeps me on my feet. I'm not all crazy about my food or exercise, to be one of those people who watches literally every tiny thing they eat or are on a rigid intense exercise regimen would stress me out and cause me to not be happy. Also, I know what I do with my body has an effect on my health and longevity but I also know that my genes (depending on what they contain) could kill me early or allow me to live to 100+ regardless of what I do.


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Robust real-time pupil tracking in highly off-axis images
Robust, accurate, real-time pupil tracking is a key component for online gaze estimation. On head-mounted eye trackers, existing algorithms that rely on circular pupils or contiguous pupil regions fail to detect or accurately track the pupil. This is because the pupil ellipse is often highly eccentric and partially occluded by eyelashes. We present a novel, real-time dark-pupil tracking algorithm that is robust under such conditions. Our approach uses a Haar-like feature detector to roughly estimate the pupil location, performs a k-means segmentation on the surrounding region to refine the pupil centre, and fits an ellipse to the pupil using a novel image-aware Random Sample Concensus (RANSAC) ellipse fitting. We compare our approach against existing real-time pupil tracking implementations, using a set of manually labelled infra-red dark-pupil eye images. We show that our technique has a higher pupil detection rate and greater pupil tracking accuracy
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indianapolis Colts have signed Arena Football League receiver Jeremy Kelley to a reserve-future contract.
The 6-foot-6, 230-pound Kelley made 19 catches for 231 yards with seven TDs for the Utah Blaze last season. He played the previous year with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL, catching two passes for 15 yards.
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Online Hierarchical Storage Manager for Linux
Online Hierarchical Storage Manager (OHSM) is the first attempt towards an enterprise level open source data storage manager which automatically moves data between high-cost and low-cost storage media. HSM systems exist because high-speed storage devices, such as hard disk drive arrays, are more expensive (per byte stored) than slower devices, such as optical discs and magnetic tape drives. While it would be ideal to have all data available on high-speed devices all the time, this is prohibitively expensive for many organizations. Instead, HSM systems store the bulk of the enterprise's data on slower devices, and then copy data to faster disk drives when needed. In effect, OHSM turns the fast disk drives into caches for the slower mass storage devices. There would be certain policies that would be set by the data center administrators as to which data can safely be moved to slower devices and which data should stay on the fast devices. Under manual circumstances the data centers suffers from down time and also change in the namespace. Policy rules specify both initial allocation destinations and relocation destinations as priority-ordered lists of placement classes. Files are allocated in the first placement class in the list if free space permits, in the second class if no free space is available in the first, and so forth.
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Fundamentally, enterprises organize their digital information as hierarchies (directories) of files. Files are usually closely associated with business purpose—documents, tables of transaction records, images, audio tracks, and other digital business objects are all conveniently represented as files, each with a business value. Files are therefore obvious objects around which to optimize storage and I/O cost and performance.
In a typical HSM scenario, data files which are frequently used are stored on disk drives, but are eventually migrated to tape if they are not used for a certain period of time, typically a few months. If a user does reuse a file which is on tape, it is automatically moved back to disk storage. The advantage is that the total amount of stored data can be much larger than the capacity of the disk storage available, but since only rarely-used files are on tape, most users will usually not notice any slowdown.


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Weight Watchers has some new commercials starring Charles Barkley, in which, much like Jennifer Hudson did, he stands against a black background while wearing a black dress. Apparently dudes think dieting is girly stuff, so Barkley wants guys to know they can "lose like a man."
Barkley explains that he's already lost 42 lbs. on Weight Watchers, and he likes it because he can still eat "man food" like steak and pizza. Ladies, did you know that every time you eat steak or pizza, you're eating food made for men? True facts!
Anyway, the spot's comedy rests on the fact that you will find a man in a wig, heels and dress hilarious, since everyone knows that it's re-cock-ulous for a big strong man to stoop to a lady's level and be seen in such frippery. (A woman in men's clothing is tough, means business or has a sort of offbeat charm, a la Annie Hall.) Just a few months ago, Barkley was on Saturday Night Live and joked that Weight Watchers was working, but he was so hungry that everyone looks like turkey legs to him. Maybe he was lightheaded when he agreed to put on the frock. (Probably not, though: Sir Charles dressed up as Alicia Keys 2 years ago.)
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Senior third baseman Ryan McAllister (Miller Place, N.Y.) led off the bottom of the ninth with a triple to left center and scored on the Rams' next at-bat as junior left fielder David Zilnicki (Riverhead, N.Y.) doubled to right field. Farmingdale State cut the deficit to 6-3 as freshman Matthew Zsevc (Westbury, N.Y) had a pinch hit RBI single up the middle which scored Zilnicki. After a Thomas Rydzewski (Franklin Square, N.Y.) walk, freshman shortstop Anthony Alvino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) hit an RBI double down the left field line to pull the Rams within two. In Farmingdale State next at-bat, Bohonan was hit by a pitch to load the bases. With one out, Levine hit a 3-run walk-off double down the right field line to give the Rams a 7-6 victory and clinch a berth in the NCAA Regional Tournament. Levine was named the Skyline Conference Tournament's Most Valuable Player.
Levine was 2-for-5 with 3 RBI, while Alvino was 2-for-5 with two runs scored and an RBI. Zilnicki batted 2-for-3 with an RBI and a scored a run and McAllister had two hits and a run scored for Farmingdale State. Junior pitcher Anthony Eilers (Bay Shore, N.Y.) earned the win after throwing 2.1 scoreless innings of relief.
Old Westbury was led by Valerio who was 2-for-5 with 2 RBI and a run scored, while senior right fielder Anthony Orsano (Williston Park, N.Y.) had two hits and an RBI.
The Rams next will host Kean in a non-conference game on Friday, May 11th at 1:00 p.m., before the Regional Tournament begins on May 16th.


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WILLOUGHBY, Ohio: A 13-year-old boy in northeast Ohio has entered the equivalent of not guilty pleas to charges that he stole a search-and-rescue dog.
The boy�s public defender told The News-Herald of Willoughby that he entered the pleas in juvenile court Wednesday.
The boy was accused of stealing the dog in Kirtland in September, when he was 12. He was charged with theft of a police dog and grand theft, both felonies. He also faces misdemeanor counts of harassing a police dog and criminal mischief.
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Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at MIT's Media Lab. He is the author of "Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection", published by W.W. Norton in June 2013. With Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan co-founded international blogging community Global Voices. Global Voices showcases news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations and thirty languages. Ethan's research focuses on issues of internet freedom, civic engagement through digital tools and international connections through media. He blogs at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog and lives in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.


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Halloween memories from my own childhood have been covered in a previous Memory Monday, Holidays Then and Now, so for Randy Seaver's latest Saturday Night Genealogy Fun I will post one of my favorite Halloween memories from when my daughters were little. (Well, it's a favorite now; it wasn't then.)
At our church the high school kids are in charge of putting on a Halloween party for the younger kids. Because the high school kids are still young enough to remember what they enjoyed at Halloween parties, they always put together a very enjoyable event – lots of games, prizes, and yummy food.
The party I remember in particular took place when our younger daughter had just turned five years old. She did not like to lose. She has never liked to lose. So, except for the "everybody wins" type of games, each game was a potential minefield. However, she had learned some good manners, and that was her downfall.
The game this time was Musical Chairs (to the accompaniment of "Monster Mash"). We and the other parents were standing around, watching and talking, as was our pastor, Father John.
The music stopped. The kids lunged at the remaining seats. Our daughter, who had never played Musical Chairs before, let a smaller boy take the remaining seat, then stood there, waiting for the music to start up again. One of the teenagers came over to lead her away and explained that since she had not taken a chair, she was now "out".
Our daughter stomped off, full of a five-year-old's indignation. "This is a
b---head game!" she cried.
Gulp. Heh-heh. Dunno where she learned that word….
Father John continued to smile benevolently. He must have heard that word before.
[Note: I altered this story after I mentioned to my husband that I had posted it here. My husband corrected my memory: I had forgotten that our daughter had lost because she had offered her seat to another child, which only increased her indignation.]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
SNGF - Halloween Memories
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And a 5 year old can get so upset-especially when she thought she was being good-cute!ReplyDelete
Poor baby! Her good turn turned on her.ReplyDelete
Life's lessons. I'm sure she won the next year.
Great story.
Tipper - Yeah, talk about disillusionment!ReplyDelete
fM - Actually, Em played Musical Chairs one more time, in kindergarten. She lost again (though I think she lasted three or four rounds). That was the last time she played, as far as I know.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria - A brazen daytime bombing that killed eight people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack, Bulgaria's interior minister said Thursday.
The suspect was reported to have been carrying a Michigan state issued license.
After further investigation, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov says that the Michigan license carried by the suspected suicide attacker in the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists was a fake.
Borisov said Thursday "we worked on this with colleagues from the FBI and CIA. They said that there is no such person in their database." He did not release a name.
Borisov says he has asked for the release of a photo of the suspect taken from a security camera from the area before the attack, which gutted the bus at the airport in the Black Sea resort city of Burgas on Wednesday.
Earlier, officials lowered the death toll to seven, including the suspected bomber, after mistakenly reporting that someone had died overnight.
Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the suspected bomber appeared on security camera tape for nearly an hour before the Wednesday attack, which gutted the bus at the airport in the quiet Black Sea resort city of Burgas, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital, Sofia.
The Israelis had just arrived on a charter flight from Tel Aviv carrying 154 people, including eight children.
No group had immediately claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell upon Iran and its Lebanese proxy, the Hezbollah guerrilla group. Iran's state TV rejected accusations of Tehran's involvement.
A commentary Thursday on the TV website calls claims by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others "ridiculous" and "sensational."
The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks attributed to Iran that have targeted Israelis and Jews overseas and threatened to escalate a shadow war between the two arch-enemies.
"All signs point to Iran," Netanyahu said Wednesday. "Just in the past few months, we have seen attempts by Iran to harm Israelis in Thailand, India, Georgia, Kenya, Cyprus and more. This is an Iranian terror attack that is spreading across the world. Israel will react forcefully to Iran's terror."
The Israeli leader gave no evidence to back his charges.
An Israeli military plane was preparing to fly back 30 wounded Israelis who had been hospitalized in Burgas. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Paul Hirschson said all of the wounded had left the hospital for the airport, some of them on stretchers.
Israeli doctors were to examine two more seriously wounded Israelis to see if their conditions allowed them to fly back to Israel, too, military Dr. David Dagan told Army Radio.
A Bulgarian government plane will fly some 100 Israelis who were not wounded and wanted to cut short their vacation back to Israel.
Black smoke billowed into the sky from the stricken bus after the bomb exploded. Young Israelis said they were just boarding when the blast ripped through the white vehicle in the airport parking lot.
"We were at the entrance of the bus and in a few seconds we heard a huge boom," said Gal Malka, an Israeli teenager who was slightly wounded.
The resort town has become a popular travel destination in recent years for Israelis, particularly for recent high school graduates before they are drafted for mandatory military service.
Despite repeated alerts and concerns of an Iranian-backed attack in recent months, Israel said it had no advance intelligence on a pending attack in Bulgaria.
Late Wednesday, Israel announced it was dispatching a military medical and relief team to Bulgaria, a country of 7.3 million bordering Greece and Turkey.
The Burgas airport was closed and traffic redirected. In Sofia, meanwhile, Mayor Yordanka Fandakova ordered a stronger police presence at all public places linked to the Jewish community. There are some 5,000 Jews in Bulgaria and most live in the capital.
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Having a decent bag to lug your precious camera kit about in is crucial. Without one, lenses will get scratched and dropped, memory cards lost and plenty of things dented and bashed about.
There are however a massive number of camera bags to choose from, with a hugely varied price range, making it very difficult to pick out the right one for the right job. Is an over the shoulder best? Should you go for a traditional rucksack, or is there one bag to rule them all? Check out our top five camera bag list to find out which is the one for you?
Domke F-2 - the pro's choice
Domke has a long running history of making camera bags. Its F-2 has been the go to for professionals and photojournalists the world over for years. They are tough, they are lightweight, they are comfortable and your camera gear is very easily accessed.
The levels of protection and pockets is not quite the same as some of the more high tech rucksacks but the amount carried in such a small bag is unparalleled. The Domke straps are also very, very comfy meaning you can carry around a heavy load of camera gear for the day without too many shoulder problems.
The F-2 can carry two camera bodies, anywhere up to 10 lenses, both big and small, and all the filters, light meters and flashes you would ever need.
The sand canvas material that the Domke bag is made out of is also a lot more unobtrusive than normal overly high tech camera sacks, so it draws a lot less attention to your gear - useful if you're on holiday somewhere dodgy.
Think Tank Streetwalker - street shooter's favourite
Think Tank make highly formidable and extremely comfortable rucksacks; perfect for those who regularly go on lengthy photowalks.
The bag is deliberately slim and has a small profile on your back, meaning you can get on the train, while wearing it, without smashing it into someones face. The entire front of the bag zips open allowing you to get access to the around five-strong lens pockets. Smaller zip open areas also allow you to access things like memory cards and other accessories quickly.
The real benefit of the Streetwalker, however, is the straps, we personally think it's one of the most comfortable rucksacks we have ever worn. The small size and comfort factor make it a great travelling companion as well.
Lowepro Dryzone 200 - the adventurer
Extreme sports enthusiasts and Ray Mears fans alike will most definitely like this one. This is the camera bag for the snapper that likes to throw themselves about and push their gear to its extreme.
Totally waterproof and floatable, it means you could, in theory, set about snapping while wearing it out in the ocean. The Dryzone 200 features things like an inner drypod for storing whatever gear you have and it's entirely customisable. The straps are also very good and highly adjustable meaning the back should, in theory, remain comfy even when wet.
This is the bag for those who fear water damage to their cameras, who live in countries with a rainy season, or who, in general, think gettings photo gear wet is a bad idea.
Kata UL-BD-255 - The speed demon
Kata make seriously good photography bags. You pay a premium price for a Kata sack but you most definitely get value in return. The Bug 255 is no exception. Priced in at £349, it is one of the more expensive offerings in our top five list.
The idea behind this bag is that everything is modular, meaning you can divide up sections between gear that you need quick access to and that which you would carry for emergencies. It is also massive. You can fit an entire 17-inch laptop into the back as well as a DSLR with a full 70-200mm lens.
The real trick about the Bug 255, however, is the hatch which opens at the front. You can quickly drop out a zoom and pop in the camera you have in your hands. It is perfect for those who carry two bodies but don't want the weight of a pair of cameras around their neck.
Lowepro Inverse 200 AW - the alternative
Those opposed to the common rucksack approach should think about this one. You can keep it strapped to your belt and still lug a single camera and pair of lenses about. This means plenty of movement but added protection for your photo gear.
Dual track zips on the top mean you can access your camera stuff quickly, so it is definitely one for the more street photo orientated to consider. The bag is a sort of belt and, should you fancy it, shoulder bag combination. The shoulder strapped and 3D mesh belt mean weight is distributed nicely and helps keep things comfy while not pulling your trousers down thanks to the mass of a camera and two lenses.
There is a slideout all-weather cover in the bottom which is particularly useful should you take the bag travelling, which we think it is definitely suited to do.
Which do you fancy or is there a cracker in your collection you should tell us about? Let us know in the comments.


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Tanya Ballard Brown
Tanya N. Ballard is a Southern girl, an optimist and a wild dreamer who laughs loudly and often.
As an editor for NPR.org, Tanya brainstorms and develops digital features; collaborates with radio editors and reporters to create compelling digital content that complements radio reports; manages digital producers and interns; and, line edits stories appearing on the website. Tanya also writes blog posts, commentaries and book reviews, has served as acting supervising editor for Digital Arts, Books and Entertainment; edited for Talk of the Nation and Tell Me More; and filed on-air spots for newscast. Occasionally, she sits in with the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast team and hosts NPR Facebook Live segments.
Projects she has worked on include Abused and Betrayed: People With Intellectual Disabilities And An Epidemic of Sexual Assault; Months After Pulse Shooting: 'There Is A Wound On The Entire Community'; Staving Off Eviction; Stuck in the Middle: Work, Health and Happiness at Midlife; Teenage Diaries Revisited; School's Out: The Cost of Dropping Out (video); Americandy: Sweet Land Of Liberty; Living Large: Obesity In America; the Cities Project; Farm Fresh Foods; Dirty Money, winner of a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting, a Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and an Edward R. Murrow award; Friday Night Lives, winner of an Edward R. Murrow Award; and, WASP: Women With Wings In WWII, winner of a GRACIE Award.
Tanya is former editor for investigative and long-term projects at washingtonpost.com and during her tenure there coordinated with the print and digital newsrooms to develop multimedia content for investigative reports.
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SUNNYVALE, CA, July 2, 2003 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) announced today the appointment of Richard S.O. Chernicoff to the newly created position of vice president, business development. Chernicoff will be based in Sunnyvale and report to Eli Harari, SanDisk CEO and president.
"Rich's appointment reflects our commitment to pursue growth opportunities within existing and emerging new markets. Rich brings to SanDisk a wealth of legal, financial and business experience. Having previously worked with Rich, I appreciate his integrity and broad understanding of complex business issues," said Harari.
|In his new position, Chernicoff will be responsible for a range of activities including mergers/acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and partnerships. Chernicoff will work closely with SanDisk OEM and retail business units, as well as engineering, finance, operations, technology and legal teams.
Chernicoff's mergers/acquisitions and capital markets expertise was developed at the international law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Until early 2003, Chernicoff was a partner servicing the SanDisk account while at Brobeck, Phlegher & Harrison LLP. Through Brobeck, Phlegher & Harrison, he obtained in-depth knowledge of intellectual property and other key value drivers for technology companies. Chernicoff began his career at Ernst & Young LLP and was licensed as a certified public accountant.
Chernicoff received his B.S. degree from California State University, Northridge and a J.D. from St. John's University School of Law, New York.
SanDisk, the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.
SanDisk's web site/home page address: www.sandisk.com


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The skinny new iMac goes on sale today. But before anyone in the US has even had a chance to touch it, an enterprising Japanese blogger has already managed to tear one to pieces.
Detail from the teardown are scant and poorly translated by Google but there are plenty of pictures. This is the 21.5-inch version and one thing is glaringly obvious: despite its slender frame—it's 80 percent thinner than previous iMacs and just 5mm thick at its narrowest point—there's still spare room inside the thing.
Clearly the thickness is limited by the depth of the components that have to be squeezed in there, but it makes you wonder just how insanely thin we might see desktops become in the future. With a little clever component design, this iMac could've been even thinner than it already is.
We'll have to wait for a more thorough inspection of what's inside before we can tell you more about the guts of the iMac, but given it's available from today, that shouldn't take long. [Kodawarisan via Ubergizmo]


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You've seen them on countless suburban streets and maybe winced. They are snout houses: the design reality caused by builders trying to balance rising land prices, shrinking lots, maintaining affordability and delivering convenience for suburban families demanding double-car garages.
These are mostly suburban homes where garages dominate, sticking out front of the house and all but hiding the front door and any windows. Forget about front porches and room for a tiny outdoor living room to dally and say hello to the neighbours. Instead, thousands of homes built in suburban communities in the '80s and '90s were about Home Sweet Garage. But there are rumblings of a garage revolution.
"It's the evolution of the garage," says Alain Miguelez, program manager of development review for the inner urban area of Ottawa. To start, the city passed a zoning bylaw last May forbidding garages on lots measuring less than 7.6 metres if there is no rear access and imposing restrictions on bigger lots, telling developers who want to do business in the city's five inner wards they would have to tuck garages in the rear or have access off a rear lane. A garage on a lot bigger than 7.6 metres cannot take up more than 50 per cent of the house face.
The zoning bylaw is being contested by the building industry and a decision by the Ontario Municipal Board is expected shortly. (See Garage Wars on page 3) There is also a discussion ready to start to modify garages in the suburbs, says Miguelez, who expects talks with builders, developers and community groups will take place over the next 18 to 24 months.
The aim is to take the emphasis off the garage and put it on the house, he says, citing new communities such as Minto's Ampersand in Barrhaven. The energy-efficient walk-up apartments have front doors facing the streets and parking tucked into the interior. Ampersand was built to be close to public transportation, shops and restaurants, taking the reliance off the car.
Mattamy Homes has also developed communities with rear parking in both Fairwinds in Kanata by Scotiabank Place and in Half Moon Bay in Barrhaven.
"These are the type of community planning we will value in the future," says Miguelez.
The concept to overhaul garages is not new.
Snout houses were banned in Portland, Ore., in 2000, despite an uproar from the building industry. But it's a tough battle. Planners in Independence, Texas, for example, looked at banning snout houses in 2004 but backed away.
Contingents of architects and planners have promoted the concept of New Urbanism since the '90s, developing communities built on a grid pattern, with small parks and garages behind homes, like Seaside in Florida and Cornell north of Toronto.
Closer to home, Merle Nicholds, the last mayor of Kanata before amalgamation, pushed Urbandale when it was designing the Kanata community of Village Green, a neighbourhood of small parks and porches that pulled up level to garages.
There is now a mix of walk-up units with covered parking at the rear, corner townhomes with large wraparound porches and single homes. A central cenotaph across from shops and a Greek Orthodox Church anchors the square.
"The square works really well," says Miguelez. "It is a community gathering spot."
The design change also prompted construction modifications, including a bigger emphasis on insulation when living spaces are located over garages, says Urbandale general manager Matthew Sachs.
"The worst thing is to have a cold floor over the garage, so we also heat the space below the room," he says.
There is no way to predict what will happen in Ottawa with suburban garages, but the city is moving toward a variation on New Urbanism, starting with garages tucked to the back at a demonstration project in the Barrhaven community of Longfields.
The 50-hectare site is owned by the Ottawa Community Land Development Corporation, and Councillor Jan Harder, who is its chair, is a big booster of rear parking, saying the homes will give a new, gentler face to the street.
"Here we go back to the future and a product that will give real character to the area and freshen up the streetscape," says Harder. "We want front doors and porches facing the street, not garages."
Despite snow-removal issues from back lanes, Harder wants to take a chance. "Yes, Ottawa gets snow, but if we want higher density in the suburbs, we are going to have to deal with that issue."
Cardel and Monarch are readying plans to launch new housing types this spring in one sector of the site, which is located off Woodroffe Avenue and Longfields Drive. Cardel is bringing plans for townhomes and semi-detached homes from its Calgary offices, while Monarch is importing plans from successful communities it has built in Toronto.
The Monarch homes, which will include partially finished basements and three bedrooms, range from 2,000 square feet to a tad less than 2,400 sq. ft. Some of the homes will feature detached rear garages off a laneway, while models will have garages attached to the rear of the house, says Rob Pierce, director of land development for the Ottawa offices of Monarch.
"The days of snout houses are long behind us in suburban communities," says Pierce, who admits the rear-lane concept in Longfields certainly creates an attractive streetscape, but the trade-off is a less efficient use of land because the developer has to build a front road and rear lane.
Monarch and many other builders in the city have already been downplaying the garage by developing designs where the house is flush with the garage, ensuring front doors and porches get "equal or greater emphasis than the garage."
Nearby in Longfields, Bulat Homes, Richcraft, Campanale Homes and Tartan are building housing with unobtrusive parking solutions. "The suburbs are not comparable to inner-city neighbourhoods," says Harder. "Yet we still want to move away from the traditional snout houses, the garage out front and a little door. We want house faces that are more enticing."
There have been earlier success stories with moving garages to the back, including Charlesfort Homes, which built two-storey homes with a strong Glebe flavour and garages at the back of a shared laneway in an experimental community in Centrepointe in the early '90s that was backed by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
"Once we had a model open and people could see how it worked, they sold well," says owner Doug Casey, who wanted homes with laneways where kids could play hopscotch and where the house dominated and the garage was out of sight.
Builder Denis Laporte and marketing expert Ron Desjardins also offered homes with garages on back lanes, near Greenbank Road and Strandherd Drive in Barrhaven. "It was a slow, steady sell once we had a model, but it was clear Ottawa buyers would accept homes with garages at the rear, but they had to be attached to the house," says Desjardins, who is vice-president of PMA Brethour Reality Group.
The garage transformation is also happening in inner-city neighbourhoods, including contemporary townhomes in Lindenlea by Mod-box, which believes the city's policy leads to more vibrant communities and better buildings because it allows for better living spaces, more light and volume, says spokeswoman Melissa Reeves.
"It allows us to make the most of the limited space available in urban areas."
Other examples include modern designs with garages tucked under second-floor living spaces on Gordon Street, and rear parking on a modern stucco duplex built at the corner of Metcalfe Street and Pretoria Avenue.
Initially, custom builder Frank Porcari bought the Metcalfe lot intending to tear down the old single home and build three townhomes with garages facing the street.
Early discussions with city planners changed his planning, and the veteran builder and owner of Ottawa Carleton Construction built a semi-detached home on the corner. The homes sold for $650,000 and $690,000 and residents access the rear garage doors by a shared laneway.
"It is a good solution," says Por-cari, who decided he didn't want to fight city hall and prickly planners. "You need garages. It's Ottawa, and there is winter."
Home design: Where do our garages belong?
You've seen them on countless suburban streets and maybe winced. They are snout houses: the design reality caused by builders trying to balance rising land prices, shrinking lots, maintaining affordability and delivering convenience for suburban families demanding double-car garages.


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Pakistan's former captain, Wasim Akram has advised the PCB and the national team management to not treat the players like schoolboys during the tour of India.
Responding to remarks made by the Pakistan team manager, Naved Cheema that players would not be allowed free movement or to attend private parties or functions in India, Akram said today that if they were made to feel like they were in jail in India it would affect their performances.
"I don't agree with this approach. I think the players should be given space and freedom. If they are relaxed and open minded they will perform better as well," Akram said. "I know due to the spot-fixing scandal and increased media glare things have changed in international cricket but still players must be given responsibility," he added.
Akram said that during the time of Imran Khan, players were relaxed as the captain and management didn't place undue curbs on their movement. "It was only one day before a match or during the match that we knew we had to adhere to strict timings but otherwise there were no bars on us and the players also realised their responsibilities," he said.
Akram said the PCB needed to give more responsibility to players. "In India Pakistani players are popular and it is a great experience touring India. I have been there with the national team a number of times. I say don't turn it into a jail for the players."
He also dismissed talk of Pakistan being the favourites in the coming T20 and ODI series, after India had lost at home to England in the Test series. "Tests is something different and India will have a different team for the limited-over games. But even otherwise I know from experience that once the toss is done both teams start off on a even kneel in any match... that is the beauty of Indo-Pak contests. The past or past performances don't matter at all."
The former fast bowling great was pretty sure the Pakistan team would encounter flat batting wickets in the series. "Our advantage is that we have experienced bowlers like Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal who bowl well even in such conditions."
On the proposed tour by Bangladesh to Pakistan, he appreciated the efforts being made by the Bangladesh Cricket Board to send a team to his country. "They were supposed to come in April (but) they didn't come... now they are saying they will come. Regardless of everything I appreciate the fact that they are at least trying to send a team. Even if some of their senior players don't come what is important is that international cricket will return to Pakistan."


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Latest media releases
UBS appoints Johan Jervøe as Group Chief Marketing Officer
UBS today announced the appointment of Johan Jervøe as Group Chief Marketing Officer, effective 1 October. He will be based in Zurich, reporting to Hubertus Kuelps, Group Head of Communications and Branding.
Zurich/Basel, 3 September 2013 – Jervøe, a Danish national, will join UBS from Intel where he is currently global vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group and director of Partner Marketing, the area responsible for innovative programs which market Intel's PC, smartphone and tablet businesses and for engagement with other major brands and media partners.
Jervøe joined Intel in 2009 following a thirteen-year career with McDonald's in the US and Europe. In his last role there, as corporate vice president of Global Marketing, he oversaw digital marketing technology and innovation, global entertainment and sports sponsorships. He also served as chief marketing officer of McDonald's Germany, a position in which he led the team which originated the global 'i'm lovin' it' brand campaign.
Before joining McDonald's in 1996, Jervøe was a brand manager at Kraft Jacobs Suchard and a consultant at Roland Berger in Vienna, Austria.
Johan Jervøe succeeds Bernhard Eggli who will be leaving UBS to pursue other opportunities. During his 17 years at UBS, the last 10 of which were spent in his current role, Eggli was instrumental in building the UBS brand, most notably through the implementation of the single brand strategy and the launch of the 'You & Us' advertising campaign.
Media contact Switzerland: Tel. +41-44-234 85 00


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Progress ~ Live-a-Live 2.0 close to completion Live-A-Live
# Posted on January 13th, 2008 03:57 PM by Gideon ZhiIt´s taken a whole lot longer than anyone could have predicted, but I think we´ve finally fixed all of the little niggling technical issues. One particularly nasty one, just resolved, would corrupt your save data and replace characters with multiple Oersteds.
The scripts are all edited save for the final chapter, but of course due to that previously-mentioned save corruption, I need to restart the game from the beginning. Provided a speedy replay and no further technical problems (and maybe some wrangling with SNES9X´s cheat engine) an in-house betatest should be coming pretty soon, with a release following shortly thereafter. No promises, though! We thought the technicals had been resolved last September, but look how wrong we were!
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Major Release ~ Metal Max Returns: Roll out! Metal Max Returns
# Posted on November 6th, 2007 12:13 PM by Gideon ZhiAfter possibly the longest playtest period I´ve ever had to slog through, Metal Max Returns is finally ready!
Metal Max is an open, nonlinear RPG with a heavy focus on sidequests and tank tweaking. The main game has you chasing bounty heads and finding new vehicles for your entourage, but there�s so much other stuff to do! You can pimp your tanks with decals and accessories, you can buy furniture and wall hangings for your home, play with little critters that eat your money and grow to enormous proportions, or enjoy a host of minigames. Go hunting for this week´s target and become a rich and famous bounty hunter!
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Miscellaneous ~ Front Page/Forum Integration# Posted on October 5th, 2007 06:51 AM by Gideon ZhiJust dropping a quick note to say that front page updates have been integrated into the Pantheon. You´ll be able to talk about posted news by hitting the "Discuss News" link at the bottom of each post from here on out. Enjoy!
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Progress ~ SRW Gaiden - Technicals Mostly Resolved Super Robot Wars Gaiden
# Posted on October 4th, 2007 08:28 AM by Gideon ZhiJust dropping a quick note to say that most of the technical issues in SRW Gaiden have been resolved. There are still some bad strings and/or crashes, occasionally, and the menu system needs quite a lot of textual work, but none of it should prove very challenging. The biggest "issue" is that speaker portraits garble when a unit gets destroyed. Not sure why, just yet.
Here are some snaps of working battle sequence text.
Progress ~ Super Robot Wars Gaiden - Script Inserted, Kinda Super Robot Wars Gaiden
# Posted on September 28th, 2007 03:54 AM by Gideon ZhiIt still has a lot of technical problems, but the really good news is that all of the necessary pointer writes have been added to SRW Gaiden´s script. It´s... big, of course - roughly 800K of text, all of which is going to need to be edited. The font routine is also only semi-functional, but the stuff that IS working looks pretty good. Unfortunately, the stuff that IS working isn´t a lot of it.
Here are some snaps.
Miscellaneous ~ Pantheon Upgrade# Posted on September 13th, 2007 01:14 AM by Gideon ZhiJust a quick note to mention that the Pantheon upgrade is complete. The link in the site´s nav bar should take you there; if for some reason it takes you to the old address, merely follow Gon to the new one.
Major Release ~ Danzarb Is Done Dragon Squadron: Danzarb
# Posted on August 24th, 2007 07:31 AM by Gideon ZhiIt´s late and I´m tired, so I´ll keep this brief and let the project´s subsite do the talking. Danzarb´s out. Enjoy, and for god´s sake, if you have problems getting it to run, READ THE README!
Sincerest apologies to DaMarsMan for neglecting to add his contribution (script formatting) to the readme. It´s been fixed.
Miscellaneous ~ Pantheon is fixed.# Posted on July 31st, 2007 01:07 AM by Gideon ZhiThanks, koit!
Announcement ~ Announcing Live-A-Live v2.0 Deluxe Live-A-Live
# Posted on June 10th, 2007 01:02 AM by Gideon ZhiIt´s not done yet - and if it were, I´d still wait to release it, especially with the recent Der Langrisser release. Instead, this post is to whet your appetite a bit for the definitive English edition of this fantastic game.
New in v2.0 deluxe:
-A complete edit and polish of the script
-Font is now fully variable-width (courtesy of RedComet from Twilight Translations)
-Each chapter now has its own unique font, for a total of nine fonts (including the default system font)
-Rom has been expanded to allow for more fonts and more text
Currently, I´ve edited the Old West, Near Future, Sci-fi, Present Day, and Bakumatsu chapters. That leaves the Prehistoric, Ancient China, Medieval, and Final chapters to go - and Prehistoric has virtually no text anyway. There are still some glitches in the code as well; nothing major I don´t think, but they´re issues that do need to be resolved in the end. Regardless, this should be done very, very soon.
Major Release ~ Fly! SRW1 is done! Super Robot Wars
# Posted on May 20th, 2007 03:51 AM by Gideon ZhiAfter roughly... 28 hours now since I started working on it, the translation for the original Super Robot Wars is ready to go. I need to thank Tyria for his dialogue translation (the other things you did are coming soon too, I promise!) as well as Ryusui and Ian Kelley for both translating the stuff I kept finding quickly and efficiently. (The title screen is also Ryusui´s.)
Please don´t expect much from this. Being the very first Super Robot War it´s not all that great of a game, but it really is an interesting footnote in the history of a truly fantastic series of games.


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A Beaumont man has undergone at least one surgery and is recovering after he was wounded in a gunfight with Beaumont police Saturday night, Aug. 24.
According to a BPD press release, officers responded to the Sunshine Market at 3310 Concord in response to a robbery at the small grocer Saturday night about 11:16 p.m. The clerk told police a man robbed him at gunpoint and fled. Minutes later, an officer would find a man matching the description given to police by the store clerk in the 3300 block of Cleveland Street. The press release said when the officer exited his vehicle, the suspect fired a single shot at the officer before fleeing. The officer returned fire several times before the suspect fled and an area-wide manhunt ensued with the help of police K-9 units.
The man may have been able to evade police for several hours, but wounds he likely suffered when the officer returned fire eventually brought a family member to call EMS on his behalf.
At about 7 a.m. Sunday morning, Aug. 25, EMS responded to the 3900 block of Steelton in Beaumont after a caller told police her brother had broken his arm. When they arrived, EMS discovered the man had actually suffered a gunshot wound.
Police arrived soon after, according to the press release, and found a man they identified as 35-year-old Mitchell James Clay of Beaumont. Police identified Clay as the man who robbed the store and shot at police and confiscated items that implicated him in the Sunshine Market robbery, the press release said.
Monday, Aug. 26, police issued an arrest warrant for Clay, and Judge Dollinger attached a $75,000 bond for aggravated robbery and a $125,000 for aggravated assault of a public servant.
Clay is still at Christus St. Elizabeth hospital where police will take him into custody upon his release.
Clay may require numerous follow-up surgeries to repair damage from the gunshot wound, according to the press release.


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@Tom - I know what you mean, I'm schizophrenic and so am I --
Mercedes, my dad was Catholic and my mom Methodist. She converted to Catholicism when I was in a Catholic middle school.
About your "...we've always trusted God to get us through."
While in college in Florida, and quitting Catholicism, I rented a room from a elderly Methodist couple who told me their belief: Pray as if everything depends on God; work as if everything depends on me. I thought about it and asked myself "Why do both?" Prayer never had worked for me so I chose to do the work part.
That was decades before the Internet and before support groups like this one. Quitting religion was a mostly lonely task. In the college library I found and read books about the different kinds of Christianity, about the many different world religions, and about the world's many creation stories. I was relieved to find that all of the world's major religions have a form of the Golden Rule.
I met atheists who said they "knew" there is no god and decided that they knew as little as Catholics knew, and so I settled on agnosticism.
More important than that was graduating and finding work I enjoyed that people would pay me to do.
I wish you success in your search.
At 13, I stood on a hilltop in a lightening storm, and dared god to strike me dead - I walked off the hilltop an atheist.
You sound a lot me, at one time. However for me religion and it's influence made me a Hateful, B@#$%. I could not rationalize why we are so special and how god could of made such an utter mistake by granting me passage to the world. But as I started to break free, I found relief, from all the worrying, and intolerance that comes as a part of a true believer.
More importantly, if a religion does make all good people feel happy and empowered, it's good, but just one human is made to feel less than all other humans, because of words in a book, it's not so great now is it? A god who is all good, all powerful, all knowing, all loving, could not create a hell, could not be envious of how human existence, or jealous of our interactions as humans. S/he could also no knowingly create evil, bad sure why not, but a human that wants to see the world burn is against the whole prefect bit.
Bad things happen, life is hard, it's is suppose to be difficult. But to think a god has an investment or a reason to see one human excel and another suffer, after all it's Yahweh's plan. The plan is for most people to live in poverty? A fair and honest god, that allows genocide or war? For women to be property, own by a man, or even more laughable made from a rib, even though every single human is a female before it's a male. For the minorities of world to suffer from the lack of protection, the lack of education, the lack of food, shelter, water, clothes, love, community, property?
So all that is part of god's perfect?? plan? This is what stopped my faith, and I would of rather been able to hang on to some form of god, but the picture wasn't painted as such, it was painted to scare you into submission, which is really the cruelest trick of all, you could possibly be robbing yourself of a better life, one filled with joy, and love for everyone that can be considered good, by a standard of real world moral, based of earthly knowledge, and common sense.
So I have some questions for you Mercedes.
Do you feel like in your current perceptions, that atheists can be grouped and labeled as a whole?
Do you feel there is any possibility that any other religion could be true?
Do you, for the briefest moment, feel that after reading some of the posts on this thread your belief could be changed?
Do you believe in the literal story of creation as set in the bible?
Do you know any atheists in your personal life at all?
What part of the U.S. do you live in?
Wrong question. It's not what we BELIEVE it's what we DON'T believe. We do not believe in anything supernatural: Any God, Psychics, Mediums, Prayer, etc.
It is a bit of a grey area as to what we believe because that connotes some sort of faith. To be clear, I don't think any Atheist subscribes to faith (although some right wing conservatives would say we do, we don't). We, for lack of a better term, believe in anything for which there is scientific, tested, and proven evidence. This being said our beliefs can change with new evidence (like any good science). We try to stay current on our research and we can be swayed given proper evidence.
Look at it this way: Is it really plausible that the entire universe was created by some magical sorcerer? To me, waiting for an explanation beats that one!
RE: "I am a Christian...." - that's OK Mercedes, none of us are perfect --
I still call myself a Christian sometimes. I haven't figured out if I'm a Christian or an atheist. Some days I just feel like I really need God, yet I've gone almost two years now without believing in him and I'm still doing fine.
I believe that if you say the Bible is true, it needs to stand up to the same kind of scrutiny you would give any other belief system. I believe it's important to follow the facts, no matter where they lead, even if it makes you uncomfortable. I believe that science works; computers, microwaves, and penicillin were invented by humans doing research and using their minds, not handed down by divine revelation.
I believe slavery is wrong, that men and women are equal, and that political/religious freedom is good. These are all values which are not found in the Bible. (You could make an equally strong argument for or against any of them based on the Bible.) I believe those values have come about slowly through cultural evolution and a better understanding of empathy, not by studying the Bible -- in fact, periods where people relied more heavily on the Bible are periods which did not have those values.
The atheists on this site I'm sure have given you many ideas where to get more information. Many of the users on this site have blogs detailing what they believe. I like this blog, myself, and this one. Good luck. I apologize that I haven't had time to read all the comments, so I hope I'm not just repeating what others have said.
Isn't science a way we can understand God better?
Absolutely not. Science has been disproving the claims of gods and holy books at every turn. Science supports facts and testable evidence. The scientific method is anathema to religion. Every scientific discovery is first denied by the church, and later reworded to sound like "See! We told you God is great!"
As Neil deGrasse Tyson put it,
"I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don't."
Or my personal favorite,
"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."