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Thoralf Albert Skolem
Born: 23 May 1887 in Sandsvaer, Buskerud, Norway
Died: 23 March 1963 in Oslo, Norway
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Thoralf Skolem's parents were Helene Olette Vaal and Even Skolem, who was primary school teacher. Although his father was a teacher, Thoralf came from a farming family with most of his relations being farmers. He attended secondary school taking the final examination, the Examen artium, in Kristiania (later renamed Oslo) in 1905. He then entered Kristiania University to study mathematics, but he also took courses on physics, chemistry, zoology and botany.
In 1909 Skolem took a job as assistant to the physicist Kristian Birkeland, who was famed for his experiments with the aurora-like effect obtained by bombarding a magnetized sphere with electrons, and Skolem's first publications were physics papers written jointly with Birkeland. Skolem took his state examination in 1913, passing with distinction. His dissertation Undersokelser innenfor logikkens algebra Ⓣ was considered so outstanding that his achievement was reported to the King of Norway. He continued to act as Birkeland's assistant, however, and travelled with him to the Sudan in 1913 to observe the zodiacal light. Despite working on physics as Birkeland's assistant, he continued mathematical research and during this time he proved notable results on lattices which we mention below. In 1915 he travelled to Göttingen where he studied during the winter semester. Of course this was during the years of World War I, and conditions in Göttingen were extremely difficult. In 1916 he returned to Kristiania where he was appointed as a research fellow at the university. He did not, however, formally study for a doctorate as Fenstadt explains in [5]:-
... Viggo Brun and Skolem agreed that neither of them would bother to obtain the degree of Doctor, probably feeling that, in Norway, it served no useful function in the education of a young scientist.Skolem became a Docent in Mathematics in Kristiania in 1918, and in the same year he was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Despite his earlier agreement with Viggo Brun, he decided to submit a thesis for a doctorate in 1926 [5]:-
... in the middle twenties a younger generation of Norwegian mathematician emerged. It seems that Skolem then felt he too ought to fulfil the formal requirement of having a doctorate, and he "obtained permission" from Brun to submit a thesis. In 1924 Brun had been a professor in mathematics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.Skolem's advisor in Kristiania (or Oslo as it was renamed in 1925) had been Axel Thue although he had died in 1922, four years before Skolem decided to submit his thesis. It was entitled Einige Sätze über ganzzahlige Lösungen gewisser Gleichungen und Ungleichungen Ⓣ, and was on integral solutions of certain algebraic equations and inequalities.
On 23 May 1927 Skolem married Edith Wilhelmine Hasvold. He continued to work at the University of Oslo until 1930 when he moved to the Christian Michelsen's Institute in Bergen as a Research Associate. Although this does not sound a particularly grand title, in fact the post was a senior one in which Skolem was able to conduct independent research without any administrative or teaching duties. A condition of the job, however, was that he had to live in Bergen and that had the disadvantage that he did not have access to mathematical literature. He worked in Bergen until 1938 when, at the age of 51, he returned to Oslo as Professor of Mathematics at the university. Fenstadt writes in [5]:-
[Skolem] conducted the regular graduate courses in algebra and number theory, and rather infrequently lectured on mathematical logic. [He] was very modest and retiring by nature. He did not create any school and had no research students, but through his great accomplishments and research drive he inspired more than one of the younger Norwegian mathematicians.Skolem was remarkably productive publishing around 180 papers on topics such as Diophantine equations, mathematical logic, group theory, lattice theory and set theory. However, as Fenstadt explains in [2]:-
Skolem published ... most of his papers in Norwegian journals, and they have not always been easy to obtain for mathematicians abroad. This has had the consequence that others later have rediscovered his results. One example is the Skolem-Noether theorem.He did some early work in lattice theory. For example in 1912 he was the first to give a description of a free distributive lattice generated by n elements. He also showed in 1919 that every implicative lattice is distributive and, as a partial converse, that every finite distributive lattice is implicative. These results were rediscovered by other mathematicians in the 1930s and in 1936 Skolem published Über gewisse 'Verbände' oder 'Lattices' Ⓣ which is a survey of his own results from the 1912 and 1919 papers.
Skolem extended work by Löwenheim (published in 1915) to give the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem, which he published in 1920. It states that if a theory within first-order predicate calculus has a model then it has a countable model. His 1920 proof of this result used the axiom of choice, but later in 1922 and 1928 he gave proofs using König's lemma (due to Julius König) which do not require the axiom of choice.
He made refinements to Zermelo's axiomatic set theory, publishing work in 1922 and 1929. The first was the published version of the lecture Einige Bemerkungen zur axiomatischen Begründung der Mengenlehre Ⓣ which he gave in 1922 at the 5th Scandinavian Mathematics Congress. Here he applied the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem to show what became known as Skolem's paradox: If the Zermelo's axiomatic system for set theory is consistent then it must be satisfiable within a countable domain.
Jané writes in [8]:-
Skolem is commonly portrayed as arguing that certain otherwise well understood concepts are suspect simply because they cannot be characterized in a first-order language; in particular that, since all first-order formalizations of set theory (if consistent) have countable models, the concept of uncountability is flawed. ... Skolem's position is more solid than that. I see Skolem as arguing that all the evidence that has been given for the existence of uncountable sets is inconclusive, and the reason why he insists on considering countable models is that axiomatisation was put forward at the time as the only way to secure set theory, and what sets are and which sets exist was claimed to be determined by the axioms and their models (much as what Euclidean geometry is about was claimed to be determined by Hilbert's axioms and their models). In this situation, bringing countable models into play was perfectly in order, all the more so as no other models could be supplied without set-theoretical means. Today we may no longer uphold this claim, but if we do believe that there are uncountable sets, we should be willing to comply with Skolem's requirement that their existence be substantiated by some means other than mere formal postulation.In 1923 Skolem also developed a theory of recursive functions as a means of avoiding the so-called paradoxes of the infinite in his paper Begründung der elementären Arithmetik durch die rekurrierende Denkweise ohne Anwendung scheinbarer Veränderlichen mit unendlichem Ausdehnugsbereich Ⓣ. In it he developed number theory using two systems, one to define objects by primitive recursion, the other system to prove properties of the objects defined by the first system. With these he defined prime numbers and developed a considerable amount of number theory. Jervell, in [9], sees Skolem as being a pioneer in computer science:-
Skolem's two systems could be considered as a programming language for defining objects and a programming logic for proving properties about the objects.From 1933 he did pioneering work in metalogic and constructed a nonstandard model of arithmetic. Hao Wang, in A survey of Skolem's work in logic which appears in [2] writes:-
If one has to single out one most intriguing item, it would probably be his work on nonstandard models of set theory and number theory.Wang also indicates how useful it is to read Skolem's original papers [2]:-
Skolem has a tendency of treating general problems by concrete examples. Often proofs seem to be presented in the same order as he came to discover them.We mentioned above that Skolem worked on algebra, and we also mentioned the Skolem-Noether theorem. Skolem published this theorem in 1927 in a paper Zur Theorie der assoziativen Zahlensysteme Ⓣ. It characterizes the automorphisms of simple algebras and was later rediscovered by Emmy Noether.
Skolem was president of the Norwegian Mathematical Society and an editor of the Norsk Matematisk Tidsskrift (The Norwegian Mathematical Journal) for many years. After the creation of Mathematica Scandinavica (see the article on the Norwegian Mathematical Society for the story of the founding of this journal) he acted as an editor for the new journal. He received many honours such as being named a Knight of the First Class in the Royal Order of St Olav in 1954 by the King of Norway. He also received the Gunnerus Medal by Det Kongelige Norske Vitenskabers Selskab in 1962 in Trondheim.
In 1957 Skolem retired but continued to produce top quality research. He made several trips to the United States in the following years. Although Skolem was approaching 76 years of age when he died, his death was totally unexpected since he was still an extremely active and highly productive mathematician [5]:-
Age had not seemed to diminish either his research drive or creative ability.He had planned a further trip to the United States and had accepted invitations to speak at several universities there. His death came very suddenly.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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Additional Material in MacTutor
- Skolem: Abstract Set Theory
Cross-references in MacTutor
- 1950 ICM - Cambridge Massachusetts
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- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic
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text: Bali Everybody knows Bali is the place to go if you're looking for a fun beach holiday--lots of splendid surfing, diving, and snorkelling. While this is true, there are other aspects of Bali worth exploring. From art galleries, monkey reserves and delicious local delicacies, you can explore these and more on your own pace. Areas like Kuta and Legian are fast, noisy and hectic, while Ubud is very mellow and time seems to move slower. Take your pick. Top 5 Must Do's Jimbaran One of the best beaches in Bali, this calm and scenic bay is famous for its romantic sunset setting, a perfect place to have scrumptious seafood dinner by the beach. Babi Guling Ibu Oka The best place to enjoy Babi Guling--suckling pig cooked with different local spices. Be sure to get there early, the queue forms even before the place opens. Kuta Beach Welcome to Bali's biggest oceanfront draw. This beach is typically jam-packed with tourists with surfboards and local peddlers selling everything from snacks to foot massages. Tanah Lot One of the pilgrimage temples in Bali, it is located atop a rock formation, separated by the ocean. Enjoy breathtaking views complete with a full cultural experience of the Kecak dance. Padang Padang Beach One of the many famous surf beaches on the island, many tourists crowd here for its world class waves and some much-needed sunbathing! Surf lessons are available too. To and from airport Transportation Duration Fare Taxi to Kuta 15 minutes Rp 50.000 Taxi to Denpasar 24 minutes Rp 70.000 - Rp 90.000 Taxi to Jimbaran 10 minutes Rp 60.000 Taxi to Nusa Dua 20 minutes Rp 100.000 Taxi to Sanur 20 minutes Rp 95.000 Taxi to Ubud 1 hour 15 minutes Rp 195.000 Your awesome getaway awaits you right here! Book now Quick Facts Currency Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) Electricity 220-230V 50Hz Language Bahasa Indonesia, Balinese Time zone UTC +8 Tel code +62 361 Religion Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism Want to read more? Download FREE Awesome Indonesia Guide now! Weather APR - SEP Dry season 20°C - 31°C Head to their great beaches to cool down OCT - MAR Rainy season 20°C - 29°C Bring an umbrella! Taxes and charges Find out more about airport taxes, fees and other charges for Bali View how you can fly in with our interactive map! Map it out Check out these other destinations! Australia Gold Coast Melbourne Sydney Cambodia Siem Reap China Changsha Hangzhou Kunming Shanghai Wuhan Xi'An Hong Kong Hong Kong India Kochi Indonesia Bali Bandung Jakarta Solo Yogyakarta Japan Osaka Tokyo Malaysia Kota Kinabalu Kuala Lumpur Kuching Langkawi Miri Penang Myanmar Mandalay Nepal Kathmandu Singapore Singapore South Korea Busan Taiwan Taipei Thailand Bangkok Chiang Mai Krabi Phuket Surat Thani Vietnam Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City


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Piggy Sue is an important member of the Women of Whitebark Lane. She's responsible for holding all the loose change and dollar bills given at every social gathering.
Beginning in 2005-06, Sun City gained many new women along the cul-de-sac of Whitebark Lane. The group started as a social gathering but wanted to do more for the community. The 35 retired women decided to create a name and get organized.
They call themselves "WOW" and continue to involve the women of the street through book clubs, card playing, dinners and more. But most importantly, they not only care for those inside the Sun City neighborhood, but in Bluffton, too.
Piggy Sue was purchased after a member suggested becoming more charitable. At every social hour, the women donate small change and dollar bills to the piggybank. Piggy Sue is not just a piggybank, but a fashionista. She is dressed by the women for every special occasion whether it is a holiday party or just a new bow to place on her head.
"When a grandchild makes a good grade or we hear about good test results from the doctor, we'd donate a dollar or two," said Andrea Rudick, WOW member. "In our first year collecting, we raised $500 and donated it to Bluffton Self Help."
Continuing to collect through the help of Piggy Sue, the women raised $1,000 the next year donating the funds to Family Promise. In January, the group split its next $1,000 between Bluffton Self Help and Family Promise.
"We thought about donating the money to help those affected by hurricane Sandy or the families in Connecticut who lost their children in the shooting, but we decided to keep it local," Gail Taboada said.
Since many of the women volunteer individually with the two nonprofits, they decided to contribute as a group. The street also collects canned goods throughout the year to donate to local food banks.
As a way to keep a close-knit neighborhood, the Women of Whitebark formed a sunshine committee to help those in need.
"Whether it is a surgery, illness or loss, we make a plan within 24 hours for everyone to pitch in by delivering meals, offering rides to doctor visits or whatever the neighbor needs," Rudick said.
Evaline Roney never expected to be part of such a loving group. With a husband who served in the military, Roney didn't live in a neighborhood for long.
"It took me by surprise at how friendly everyone was on such a large scale," Roney said. "We all seem to mesh well and I think being retired helps us grow together."
Rudick said since everyone is a transplant, the Women of Whitebark Lane have become a family.
"We don't have children or grandchildren living nearby so our neighbors have become our extended family," Rudick said.


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Unreal Engine 4
Unreal Engine 4 is a game development engine that's shiny.
Things for me to learn
- How difficult to compile code?
- Rama load/save?
- Navigating between levels?
- Modular/bundler plugins? (half done)
- Moving objects? Moving platforms?
- Saving and loading instances?
- Multiplayer?
- Making materials?
- Painting terrain?
- Accessing VR controllers?
- Supporting both VR controllers and mouse/keyboard?
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- Committing to GitHub? Viewing diffs?
- Saving and loading games?
- Packaging & distributing?
- Built in tools for Git?
- Player movement?
- Rolling balls?
- Mobile support? - Needs VS 2015, keeps on crashing during build
Making objects move after they stop
The fix that worked for me was:
First, make sure they don't disappear after a few seconds. In the MyProjectile Blueprint's Defaults tab, change Initial Life Span to a larger number, or to 0.0 if you want them to stay forever.
Next, you'll want to make the projectiles physics actors. In the Components tab, select the [ROOT] CollisionComponent and scroll down to the Collision settings in the Details panel. For Collision Presets, choose
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Balls never stop rolling
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If you don't currently have a VR device connected, and/or you haven't installed the Oculus/SteamVR SDKs, you can enable this option by enabling the "SimpleHMD" plugin (through Project Settings) and restarting.
This will allow you to view an emulated VR stereo view.
Show FPS in game
In the console (by default, press tilde ~), type in
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GAME UK sales jumped 90% in December
UK retailer GAME saw its sales jump 90% in December, helped along with the release of PS4 and Xbox One.
Martyn Gibbs headlines
GAME in process of paying debt, to open 18 stores
GAME has paid off paid private investment firm OpCapita and its backers £3.2 million in interest and "monitoring fees" toward the £103 million it owes the firm after brokered a deal to get the retailer out of administration. The figure was paid towards the balance in four months and the remaining balance will have 7.5% […]
Game CEO backs OpCapita after Comet collapse, year earnings to hit £20m
Game is on track to make £20 million in pre-tax earnings for the current financial year, CEO Martyn Gibbs has revealed. Gibbs has also thrown his support behind OpCapita, the group that bought Game when its future hung in the balance last year. The group has just seen the collapse of electronics chain Comet, but […]
GAME and Gamestation brand separation being reviewed, says CEO
GAME group CEO Martyn Gibbs has said the company is researching the possibility of combining the GAME and Gamestation brands, or possibly doing away with one altogether.
GAME names new CEO after administration exit
GAME has named its new CEO as ex-employee Martyn Gibbs after exiting administration late yesterday.


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Today we're welcoming back contributing writer Jake Bouchard (for the 3rd time!) to share some information about the way the photographic film industry (specifically the photos labs) have changed over the years. He will share his personal story, along with some interesting facts, and a great overview of what has been happening over the past 18 years...
KEH and I discussed a few options for this guest post and decided on the general topic "The Evolution of Photo Lab Life." As I sat to write the post however, I realized I couldn't tell the story of what it's like to work in a struggling and declining industry without talking about how I got here. My career in the photographic industry and the industry in general share a couple of significant milestones; milestones that make me feel as if I am a curse to the world of "film photography." It sometimes feels like I'm the last of an endangered species, but I'm trying to hold on and there is some light at the end of the story, so please stick around…
My Life Before Photo Labs:
My grandmother, who had a large role in raising me, was an avid photographer who always had a camera with her and the book shelves at her house had a large section devoted to the art of photography. When I was in my early teens, my interest in making my own photographs began to rise, and by 1994 I was borrowing my grandmother's camera quite often and begging to be shuttled to the local Kmart to have my film processed. (In 1994 Apple released the Quicktake 100, the first popular consumer-level digital camera.) Eventually, I became bothersome enough that in 1996 she gave me one of her old cameras, a Yashica Electro 35 GSN, and since I had a license and a job by then, I was off and spending my own money on film and processing. (1996 saw the release of the fist Sony Cyber-Shot digital camera.)
I had a difficult time deciding what direction my life would take, but I stuck with adage "Make your avocation your vocation", and headed off to photography school in 1998. (The late 90s saw marketing partnerships between Kodak and companies like Kinko's, Microsoft, and IBM to help introduce and popularize the idea of digital photography.) The Hallmark Institute of Photography (HIP) was a short 10 month photography program that focused on traditional portrait and commercial photography. HIP was an amazing program and while there, I learned how to process film, print in the darkroom, and retouch negatives and prints with graphite, pencil, and dyes – everything a film photographer would want to know. I graduated from HIP in 1999 and went out into the world to look for a job. (1999 saw the release of Adobe Photoshop 5.5.) The summer after I graduated from Hallmark, they demolished the negative retouching room and installed their first full size computer lab – my class was the last one to learn all of the old-school techniques of film photography. (1999 was the year photographic film sales in the U.S. peaked, before dropping off over the next decade.)
Photo Lab Life, The Early Years:
While attending photography school, I found that I had more talent and interest in the processing/printing/finishing end of the photographic world than in the image making end. After graduating, I tried to make a living as a photo assistant and a freelance photographer, but kept gravitating back to lab work and eventually decided to make photo labs my full time job. My first full time lab job was at a small family run lab in Yarmouth, ME called Photo :59. Photo :59 was a single mini-lab operation that could process and print only 35mm C-41 film. We serviced a few local customers, but the bulk of the income came during the summer months when travelers would come in to have their film processed. Over the year or so that I was employed at Photo :59, we noticed a significant drop in film processing revenue and started having issues with the C-41 negative processing machine due to the low volume (more on that later). It seemed that the travelers were the ones with the money and access to early digital cameras, and tended to be early adopters. In the spring of 2000, I left Photo :59 to work for a larger lab in So. Portland, ME called 60 Minute Photo.
60 Minute Photo offered a wider range of services than Photo :59, and had a larger mix of customers that included professional portrait and wedding photographers. The lab at 60 Minute Photo employed 6-8 people and included 2 mini-lab printers, 2 darkrooms, C-41 and BW dip and dunk machines, and a fledgling digital service. When I left 60 Minute Photo they were still going strong, but there were dark clouds on the horizon and after 25+ years, the owner retired and sold the lab.
By the mid 2000s, both Photo :59 and 60 Minute Photo were closed. When I moved to Portland, ME in 1999 there were at least 7 independent labs in the area that serviced professional and amateur photographers. Today, I know of just one that still processes and prints traditional film.
The Middle Years:
I moved to Manchester, NH in 2002 and was lucky enough to find a great commercial lab called Image 4 Concepts. When I started working for Image 4 they were running a color and a b&w darkroom, and E-6 and C-41 dip and dunk film processors. They had a wide customer base that included a large number of commercial and art photographers. During the first year I was there, Image 4 saw a sharp decline in color negative film processing, but the E-6 volume continued to be strong for quite some time due to the fact that commercial photographers still relied on slide film for product shoots. The mid 2000s brought some impressive advances in digital image capture and our commercial photographer base dropped off almost entirely over the next five years. During the time I worked for Image 4, I helped shut down and dismantle all of the darkrooms and both film processors as the company adapted to the declining demand. Image 4 had been early adopters of drum scanning and Lightjet digital printing, so they remained flexible and over time changed their focus from a photographic lab to a Point of Sale and Trade show graphic production house.
My wife and I moved to Dover, NH where I started working around 2006 for River's Camera and Telescope as a camera sales person, but I quickly moved into the lab. River's was another small lab, but had some new machines and the company had been in existence for over 70 years when I started working for them. The lab maintained a C-41 machine, an E-6 roller transport film processor, and a small drum processor for black and white film. Within a year of employment at River's, I helped break down and remove the E-6 processor which couldn't be maintained due to low volume. When the owner decided to try to sell the River's name and the lab, I decided it was time to move on and ended up at Photosmith just down the street.
Photosmith's main location has been in the same little building for over 30 years and has expanded and contracted with the photo industry over the years. At its peak, Photosmith had two other locations (one included a portrait studio), and the lab also had a courier that would travel around to local businesses every day to pick up and drop off film for processing. When I arrived at Photosmith, one of the first things I helped do was to remove the E-6 roller transport film processor. It looked like we were heading down the same inevitable path that every other film lab I had worked for went down, and we were down to processing color negative film on just three days per week because of low volume.
Why Do Labs Close Or Stop Processing Film?
There are a large number of reasons why photo labs have closed their doors, but some keep on struggling through them and chugging along, but they will often have to work very hard to maintain the quality of their film processing. In-store equipment sales used to be large sources of income for labs and photo stores, but the increased popularity of digital photography and online camera sales have made it much more difficult to maintain staff and service. When commercial photo chemistry has low volumes of film passing through it, especially in large dip & dunk machines, the balance of the chemistry will be affected. Film processing machines run with a replenishment system that pumps fresh, concentrated chemistry into the tanks for each roll of film that passes through. When the volume of film drops and the chemistry sits for long periods of time, evaporation and oxidation will occur and this affects the balance of the process. Small adjustments can be made to correct these imbalances, but long term it becomes too costly and too difficult to maintain. Chemistry problems and low volume have hit photo labs of every size and type over the past decade.
There are a number of labs that have been able to adapt and maintain business by diversifying into digital services, digital press printing (greeting cards, photo books), and gifting (mugs, mouse pads, etc.), but the early stages of adaptation almost always include jettisoning their film processing. Usually it starts with black and white services (due to low demand and high labor), then it moves onto E-6 film processing (E-6 is very sensitive to chemistry imbalances and changes are very apparent). C-41 processing is a bit easier to maintain and labs can correct for some chemistry issues when printing, so it will usually be the last thing for a lab to decide to shut down. Labs can run small single-use chemistry drum processors, but it is quite labor intensive and often not viewed as worth the time.
Light At The End Of The Tunnel!
There were some dark days here at Photosmith, but we kept pushing along. We had a few loyal customers shooting film that kept pushing us to continue, and would recommend us to any friends they had. One customer in particular was a big fan of toy cameras and pointed us towards the people in the Lomography "movement." We decided that since we could still handle medium format films (which 1-hour chain labs generally don't handle), we should start a website dedicated to toy cameras and 120 film processing and launched 120processing.com for mail order film processing. 120processing.com started to get a fair amount of work, and people using us started asking if we offered other services… so we launched a full service mail order site called OldSchoolPhotoLab.com. We're still running relatively low volumes of E-6 and B&W film, but we now run drum processing units for those types of film.
In the end, what may have been viewed as the death knell for film photography may end up being the savior! The Internet had been a great resource for smaller independent companies like Photosmith to reach out past their normal geographic area, and through Twitter and other forms of social media fans of the old-school types of photography are connecting and sharing tips. Companies like Lomography are bringing back older types of film (like 110) and selling new, inexpensive film cameras, and retailers like KEH Camera who carry used equipment, in addition to online auction and selling sites are putting film cameras into the hands of people who might not have a store locally.
One of the areas that worries most people in the area of film photography is the supply of photographic film itself…. With news over the past year about Fuji cutting film lines, Kodak declaring bankruptcy and announcing the sale of its film division, and Efke stating that it is stopping production in the near future, it is hard to stay hopeful. Until you see that there are companies out there like Adox who are developing new photographic film emulsions and claiming that their film sales in Europe are on the rise. Kodak has stated that even after selling its film manufacturing, that they will continue to work with the new company for marketing and sales. In the darkest days of hope for film photography, a shining light is The Impossible Project, who is working to bring back instant film for Polaroid cameras and backs, and even most recently in an 8x10 format! Finally, we can't forget the story of Ilford. When Ilford announced it was closing a few years ago, the employees joined together and purchased the company and the company is still going strong today.
There are so many people who still want a tangible, real physical product that they are finding ways to make it happen. There is hope for film photography in the world! Even if your local lab had to shut its doors, fear not! Reach out online and find the resources, we're out here and we're not the only ones!


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WPF Data Binding:
In data binding we establish a connection between the properties of two objects that are interested in binding. Binding means establishing a relationship or forming a bond between two entities. In this relationship, one object is referred to as the source and one object is referred to as the target. In the most typical scenario, your source object is the object that contains your data and your target object is a control that displays that data.
For instance, consider a Employee class with a EmployeeName property. If you want to show the EmployeeName property value in the TextBox UI and have the UI automatically change when the EmployeeName property value changes at run-time, you can bind the TextBox.Text property to the EmployeeName property of the Employee object as shown in the following figure 1.
Figure 1: Source & Target Objects in Binding
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Images of all the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes' mountains, winter and summer
Rendez-vous TV Saveur invites viewers to watch films about food, local produce and regional wines.
Rendez-vous TV Discover provides images of walks and weekend/holiday ideas throughout the seasons and during big events
Rendez-vous TV Sport provides a regional overview of outdoor disciplines, via various big competitions and sporting activities
Rendez-vous TV Culture presents both live and recorded interviews, scenes from festivals, concerts and shows.
ViaRhôna TV explores through pictures the river and its surrounding areas.


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RIVERFEST Music Festival 2011
Full two-day line up:
Friday June 24
7:00 – 8:30 pm Rock Candy - Classic Rock.
9:00 – 11:30 The Unlimited Show Band - R&B, Funk, Soul, Motown.
Saturday June 25
4:00 pm Logan Street Band - Classic Rock and Blues From Paul McCartney to Led Zeppelin - Travis Tritt to the Stevie Ray Vaughan.
5:00 pm Trick Nickel - Contemporary Country - Country Rock. A big hit last year!
7:00 Josh and Holly - Country and Country Rock. Holly has appeared and competed in talent competition on CMT. Male/Female duo - with full band back-up.
9:00 Maurice John Vaughn Blues Revue wth special guest Anthony Buckner. Finalist in the "Best Blues Band" in Chicago - Alligator Records recording artists.
10:45 The Slyk Band - Riverfest tradition of high-output rock and fun. (times subject to change.)
Shady Glen Club 1504 Riverside Drive, Prospect, KY 40059
Take Rose Island Road 2.8 miles/Turn left on Oldham Acres/Then turn right on Riverside Drive (Valet parking) Field chair and cooler friendly! Food offered by Butchers Best
Meats and Deli "
Get advance tickets online: http://www.edgeoutreach.com/events/riverfest-tickets Only $10 for both days! Order today!
Same day: 2-day pass $20; 1-day $10. Advance tickets also available at Ear-X-tacy.
Riverfest Tickets | EDGE OUTREACH
JUNE 24-25, 2011. This is the 10th year for Riverfest and there's a great lineup of BANDS. Riverfest has been a strong supporter of EDGE OUTREACH water projects and EDGE is proud to be the beneficiary of this excellent event! Bring chairs, a cooler, your family and friends. Rain or Shine – the music


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Aaron Preston had hunted long and hard to find a project he could afford. One day his dad told him about a friend who had a clapped-out race car for sale. Said Chevy was a tired '65 Nova SS with a very unflattering nickname (the story's title gives a clue to what it was), but though it was really ratty, it was also really fast. After some haggling, Aaron talked the price down to the 700 bucks he could afford, and the Nova went home with its new owner.
The plan was to install fresh floors, give it a general overhaul, then get the Nova back on the track. But after the new pans were in, Aaron couldn't stop fixing things. Soon new quarter-panels were being welded in, then a Heidt's Mustang II front suspension conversion was installed. With the new front end in place, the firewall was treated to a smoothing job. After taking a long look at the body lines, Aaron wanted those gone too, so more metal smoothing took place.
With the body just right, next it was time for a powerplant. A budget-minded 350 crate motor was bought, and after it was nestled between the Nova's shock towers, the car was wired and plumbed. With the help of his friend Bill, Aaron spent the next five months building a custom interior for the '65.
Even though the car wasn't painted yet, the temptation to go cruising was too powerful, so Aaron was behind the wheel and out enjoying the open road. A lead-foot moment and a pinched vacuum line led to the blower-equipped engine turning into a hand grenade. Dreams of a Procharger F-2 were dancing in Aaron's mind, so the new engine would need to be plenty strong. Engine builder Andy Jensen put together a new 406-inch Mouse using a Motown block, Dart alloy heads, JE pistons, and a Callies crank. Comp Cams supplied the valvetrain including a solid roller bumpstick.
Induction after the F-2 is handled by an Edelbrock RPM Performer intake topped with a Holley 850 cfm fuel/air mixer. The whole package is estimated to make about 750 hp on pump gas. So far, the Nova has gone 10.83 in the quarter, with Aaron shutting it down at about 800 feet.
Backing the blown small-block up is a Turbo 400 built by Bill Worley with a reverse valve body and 3,500 rpm stall converter. A custom driveshaft from Inland Empire Driveline sends power to a Mopar 8-inch rear with 3.55 gears and a Detroit Locker limited-slip unit. The car was back halved, with a ladder bars suspension employed and QA1 coilovers providing some cushion. To make sure there's plenty of stopping power, Baer brakes with aluminum calipers are at all four corners. Rolling stock are Billet Specialties 17-inch wheels, with BFGoodrich rubber up front, and Hoosier drag radials out back.
Once the beefier engine was installed, the Nova went to the body shop for final panel straightening and paint. Spraying the car's custom House of Kolor coppery orange hue took an extra long time because it was painted in Ronald Ewanick's one-car garage. Ron was painting the car in his spare time, and his attention to detail resulted in a paintjob with a mirror-like finish.
Bill Weidemoyer, with Aaron's help, stitched up a custom leather and suede interior. Highlighting the fabrics are Auto Meter Ultra Lite gauges, Billet Specialties steering wheel, and B&M shifter for unleashing the beast as it were. All the speakers for the Alpine stereo systems were hidden to give the rollcagesurrounded interior an uncluttered look.
One of Aaron's biggest pleasures with the Nova is taking his dad out for cruises, and with over 700 hp, he probably enjoys being able to give his dad some new gray hairs, too.
So far, the Nova has gone 10.83 in the quarter, with Aaron shutting it down at about 800 feet.


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MIAMI (AP) — A lightning strike has killed one man and injured two others in a semi-rural area southwest of Miami.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials say the men were outdoors Monday afternoon when a major storm passed through the area. Authorities say the men tried to hide underneath a tractor-trailer truck but it was struck by lightning.
According to authorities, the energy passed through the trailer and into the men.
The two injured men were taken by ambulance to a trauma center for treatment. Their condition was not immediately known.


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Welcome to MyLabWiki
This is my personal wiki I use for prototyping, drafting, and working on various ideas within amateur radio, space communications, and other technological areas that interest me. I like the editing, indexing, and revision history capabilities a wiki offers and so I am using this wiki as an electronic Lab Journal – hence the name LabWiki :-)
You will find many more or less useful information here ranging from conceptual ideas to fully documented experiments. They are all organized in projects and categories. You are free to use the information on this site under the terms outlined here. You can read more about MyLabWiki and then have fun!
Featured Content
| C-band Receiver Station
This page describes a high performance SDR-based C-band receiver station originally created for tracking the UNITEC-1 spacecraft on its journey to Venus.
| Simple DVB with Gstreamer and GNU Radio
A simple video processing and broadcasting setup using webcams, Gstreamer and GNU Radio.
| S-band Receiver Station
This page describes a high performance SDR-based S-band receiver station originally created for receiving NASA's LRO and LCROSS spacecrafts.
| Embedded Video Processing and Radio Unit
Building a small, high performance single board computer for capturing and transmission of HD video. Work has bee done in OMAP3530 VPU and currently Romit2 VPU is active.
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As moms, it is always so easy to forget about yourself. Some of us take better care of ourselves then others, but not all of us have the luxury to take a lot of time out for ourselves.
What I have incorporated into my days are small little "ME" moments. Yes, just moments. But they are moments where I stop, breathe, and do a little something for ME.
Some examples...
My morning Cup of Coffee.
Once all the troops are sitting down and chowing down on their breakfast, mom sits down to enjoy a really good cup of coffee, usually made by dad on his way out. This is a really, really, REALLY great ME moment. Even if its only for a few minutes, I really enjoy it immensely.
Coconut water.
I have a constant supply of coconut water in the fridge, which not only is super healthy and gives me so much energy, I LOVE the taste. Sipping this through out the day keeps me hydrated and makes me happy. And no, I don't drink it out of a coconut, I just liked the photo :) Btw, dehydration really leads to crankiness. It is SO important to drink!
My Stash.
Yes, I have a stash in my bedroom. It is hidden away far better then any of my most expensive Jewelry. My stash consists of a variety of some of the most delicious chocolates one can encounter, and no, I dont share. With anyone. Not even the hubs. My stash makes me happy because when I am stressed or having a hard day, I go to my room for 5 minutes, close the door, access one little goodie and truly enjoy it. I have self control, hence I can have a stash. Many of my friends say they would eat the whole stash. Hence they have no stash. I love my stash. It makes me happy.
In the bathroom. Yes, I keep my favorite magazines in my bathroom and when I need a few minutes to check out, I sneak away and read an article or two until I start hearing the little knocks on the door. I like Oprah, Readers Digest, Better Homes and Gardens and a few more that I keep in there.
So my fellow mama's, get creative. Create little ME moments for yourself. It will give you something to look forward to everyday, and it doesn't have to be food. It can be a great smelling lotion that you put on and smell all day. It can be a pretty lip gloss that makes you feel pretty. But the important thing is, you are doing these little things for YOU. And I can bet you that your kids and your hubby will benefit greatly because when mommy is happy, everyone is happy!
Wishing you all a wonderful week, filled with many "ME" Moments!


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Luis Suárez brought his 10-day old son, Benjamin, and daughter, Delfina, on to the pitch before kick-off and requested a family snap from Liverpool's official photographer. He chose the Kop as the backdrop, showing the club still holds meaning despite the summer's attempt to leave, handed the children back to their mother, switched from family man to tireless menace and guided Liverpool to the top of the Premier League. He could have done so with Benjamin in his arms such was the resistance from Crystal Palace.
Suárez scored one improvised goal and shone on his first competitive outing at Anfield since biting Branislav Ivanovic in April. Daniel Sturridge added his eighth of the season and Steven Gerrard converted a penalty as Brendan Rodgers' team reclaimed top spot with a ruthless 45-minute display against Ian Holloway's struggling team. The overall 90, however, left the Liverpool manager deeply unimpressed, with the exception of the two strikers, as Palace created several clear chances and mounted a second-half recovery.
"In the final third it was very good," Rodgers said. "Those two boys up front [Suárez and Sturridge] are as good as anything in the league. We took our goals well but the second half was nowhere near where we wanted to be. In my first season we were guilty of playing well and not getting the result. Here we got the win without playing great."
Rodgers sent a collection of water bottles flying at 2-0 after yet another careless pass from defence. But his problems pale in comparison to Holloway's, whose return to the Premier League has brought six defeats in seven outings. "Missing the odd opportunity on the break in the first half was crucial," said the Palace manager. "We need more confidence in front of goal. There was enough fidgeting going on next to me from Brendan, believe you me, but unfortunately we are being punished for every mistake at the moment. It is unforgiving at this level."
The movement and finishing of Suárez and Sturridge was too much in the first half for Palace, who lack the defensive quality to cope with a partnership of that pedigree. Their decision-making was also culpable for Liverpool's advantage yet, despite the comfortable margin of the home victory, the visitors had sufficient chances to turn the afternoon into a contest.
Victor Moses served notice of Palace's inability to track runs into their area when picked out by José Enrique's fine first-time cross, only to squander the chance to convert against his former club. The onslaught commenced moments later. Moses was instrumental in the breakthrough, weaving his way across field and feeding Suárez on the left. The striker released José Enrique on the outside, the full-back returned a clever pass to Suárez and, despite losing his footing amid three Palace defenders, he managed to hook the ball beyond Julián Speroni while flat on the floor. An unorthodox finish from a rare talent, who pointed to his young family in celebration.
Speroni thwarted Sturridge when he was released by Raheem Sterling, part of a reorganised Liverpool midfield in the absence of the suspended Lucas Leiva, but was beaten emphatically when they next met. It was a goal from the Suárez textbook. José Enrique was again involved with a long ball down the left that Adrian Mariappa glanced into Sturridge's path. "He didn't need to go for that header," Holloway said. "The second goal was self-inflicted." The England international twisted Damien Delaney inside out and scored with a powerful finish into the far corner. It was Sturridge's 16th goal or assist in his past 12 Premier League appearances. Roy Hodgson, watching from a seat in the director's box having been affronted at his place among the scouts on his last Anfield visit, will have been pleased he came back.
At 2-0 with less than a quarter of the game gone, humiliation beckoned for Palace. Yet they responded well and had enough chances to have unnerved Liverpool. Mamadou Sakho blocked a drive from Stuart O'Keefe and Jimmy Kébé made a mess of a glorious opportunity when sent clear by a combination of Cameron Jerome and careless Liverpool defending. Kébé almost deflected Jerome's shot past Simon Mignolet from the rebound, but the keeper saved well and Puncheon skied the loose ball over.
Liverpool were reprieved again when Mignolet missed Jerome's deflected cross and Sakho almost sliced the ball into his own net. But the home side were gifted a third when Dean Moxey needlessly tugged Sterling on the corner of the area as he attempted a one-two with Suárez. The assistant referee immediately signalled for a spot-kick and Gerrard did the rest, sending Speroni the wrong way from 12 yards. "It wasn't a foul or inside the area," Holloway said.
Before the first half was over Moses struck the bar from a Suárez cross and Speroni saved well from the Uruguay forward. With the game won, Liverpool eased off after the interval and Palace discovered their finishing touch when substitute Dwight Gayle glanced José Campaña's free-kick into the far corner of Mignolet's goal. Palace's raucous away support taunted their Liverpool counterparts with: "Is this your first trip to Anfield?" The Kop responded with: "This is your last trip to Anfield." With some justification on this evidence.


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The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Crenshaw County, Alabama, is accepting applications for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2015 fiscal year. The signup is held on a continuous basis.
Any eligible land user who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, hayland, animal agriculture or non-industrial forestland may apply for assistance through this program.
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The US forces will "block worldwide access," to a range of websites including YouTube, MySpace and Photobucket from the unclassified Defense Department internet (or NIPRNET) as of today.
In a widely-reported memo, General BB Bell (commander of US forces in Korea) announced the upcoming blocks. He suggested that the changes were as much to preserve bandwidth as to muzzle critical comment and news-media access. "Recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network and bandwidth availability," he wrote.
It's true, of course, that modern warfare is intensely bandwidth hungry. In particular, unmanned combat platforms like the "Reaper" aerial hunter-killer and its smaller brethren need to send huge amounts of real-time video, which has to compete for satellite backhaul with the ordinary NIPRNET traffic from grunts on the ground.
The General's assertion that resource issues lay behind the decree was lent some credence by the inclusion of internet radio site Pandora.com on the banned list, too, and it was stressed that soldiers were still free to access YouTube and the rest via their private ISPs or other non-DoD channels.
A soldier could still upload his YouTube footage after returning to the States, for instance, or even during his tour if he/she could reach any affordable commercial providers while deployed.
Nonetheless, many analysts have seen this as at best a foolish gag on some of the most positive reporters from the Southwest Asian frontlines. Military bloggers and uploaders overall tend to be quite on-message from the DoD point of view, and now this support for the cause will be largely stifled. Others, of course, interpret the blocks as a straightforward case of censorship.
There could be an element of truth in all these positions. ®
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