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Data Processing Centre
The Data Processing Centre (DPC) is the central site where the coding and data entry of census forms takes place. Located in Sydney for the 1996 Census, the DPC employs approximately 1,200 temporary staff during peak processing time.
All stages of the Census are subject to stringent quality assurance procedures which result in data of high quality. However, the Census is subject to a number of errors, although the effect of such errors on overall census results is generally insignificant and does not impair the usefulness of census data.
For the 1996 Census there is a two-phase approach to processing and release of census data. Easy-to-process topics, which comprise the majority of the census topics, are included in the first release of the data. The remaining topics, which require more complex processing, are included in the second release.
The 1996 Census was conducted on 6 August 1996.
See Census Counts - Place of Enumeration, Marital Status.
See Census Counts - Place of Enumeration.
See Census Counts - Place of Usual Residence.
See Child Type (CTPP), Family.
A dependent child is an individual who is either a child under 15 or a dependent student, which is any child in a family under
See Dependent Children, Household, Temporarily Absent.
See Dependent Child, Foster Child.
See Dependent Children, Relationship.
A dependent student is defined as a natural, adopted, step or foster child who is 15-24 years of age and who attends a secondary or tertiary educational institution as a full-time student, and who has no partner or child of his/her own usually resident in the same household.
Some census data need to be derived in cases where a question has not been answered. For example, if birthplace of mother (Question 16 BPFP) has not been completed by a child, but the mother states a birthplace, the child's mother's birthplace (BPFP) can be derived.
Software packages which run on personal computers, which have the ability to process digital geographic information.
See Journey to Work.
Spatial features of a map are represented as objects and stored in computer file as points and vectors. Aspatial data such as the names of features can be associated with these objects.
The All-point Base Map is derived from the Output Spatial Database (OSD) and the Reduced Base Map is derived from the Reduced Output spatial Database (ROSD).
The ABS wants to ensure that its clients have access to the digital base maps as it recognises the importance they have for many clients: firstly, in underpinning the 1996 Census digital boundaries; and secondly, in the further dimensions that they add to the analysis that many ABS clients wish to undertake.
Digital boundaries
The 1996 Census digital boundaries facilitate the analysis and display of 1996 Census statistical data through their use in various software packages. Statistical data from other ABS collections, or from other sources, can also be used in conjunction with these boundaries. However the geographic areas on which the data are based must concord with the 1996 Census boundaries.
Census All-point Boundaries: the 1996 Census All-point Boundaries were drawn from the Output Spatial Database (OSD) and therefore represent the boundaries at the highest level of detail possible. They are intended for use in sophisticated GIS systems that are capable of dealing with graphical elements containing large numbers of points. The All-point Boundaries align with the 1996 ABS/PSMA All-point Base Map. They do not necessarily align with any other digital base map.
The data quality and spatial accuracy of these boundaries are closely linked to the digital base map upon which they were based.
Census Reduced Boundaries: these are a filtered version of the 1996 Census All-point Boundaries and were drawn from the Reduced Output Spatial Database (ROSD). These boundaries are intended for use in GIS and desktop mapping packages. 'Low-end' mapping modules, such as those included in Excel 95 and Lotus 123, are capable of using these boundaries. However, display speeds may be fairly slow. The 1996 Census Reduced Boundaries align with the 1996 ABS/PSMA Reduced Base Map. They do not necessarily align with any other digital base map (see Use with alternative digital base maps, below).
When using these boundaries, users should be aware that, as a result of the reduction process used to create these boundaries, they are not exact in area and extent. They therefore should not be used for highly detailed spatial analysis involving attributes that are highly dependant on area and extent factors.
Census Shapes Boundaries: these are a version of the 1996 Census Reduced Boundaries that have undergone further filtering. These boundaries have been drawn from the Shapes Output Spatial Database. The boundaries have been specifically created for use in 'low-end' mapping modules such as those included in Excel 95 and Lotus 123 where the low number of points used to create these shapes boundaries enable much faster display speeds. GIS and Desktop Mapping Packages are able to use these boundaries but the limitations described below should be considered in all uses. The 1996 Census Shapes Boundaries do not align with the any of the 1996 ABS/PSMA Digital Base Maps.
The extent and area of these Shapes Boundaries have been significantly altered by the additional filtering used to produce them. Due to these changes they should not be used for any analysis involving extent or area attributes derived from the spatial data. Area data for any of the geographic areas represented by the Shapes Boundaries can be obtained from ABS Client Services (refer to the contact list at the end of this publication). The boundaries should also only be used for broad level thematic mapping. If used for detailed mapping purposes, extrapolation of boundary detail is not valid.
Dissemination of boundaries: the dissemination of the 1996 Census digital boundaries is through a network of ABS appointed secondary providers. Each secondary provider has a non-exclusive license to distribute, and provide after sales support for, a set of nominated file formats. It has been the intention of the ABS that all common industry formats be covered by at least one supplier with experience in that format.
Statistical data for use in conjunction with the 1996 Census digital boundaries can be obtained from ABS Client Services.
Use with alternative digital base maps: the 1996 Census digital boundaries may be used in conjunction with base map data other than the recommended ABS/PSMA base map, however, alignment of boundaries to these alternative base maps cannot be expected. This is due to three factors:
If the alternative base map is not derived from the same digitising source then the points defining each of the corresponding features is different and the boundaries do not align perfectly.
The original ABS/PSMA base map is spatially accurate to specific tolerances. If an alternative base map has different spatial accuracy characteristics then the boundaries cannot be expected to align.
The Shapes and Reduced Boundaries have undergone filtering which has reduced their spatial accuracy. This substantially reduces the likelihood that these boundaries fit to an alternative base map. This effect increases with the level of filtering.
Copyright on boundaries: The copyright and intellectual property rights for the 1996 Census digital boundaries are retained solely by the Commonwealth of Australia and are administered by the ABS. Any use of the boundaries is subject to a standard licence agreement to be signed by parties purchasing the boundaries.
See also See also Digital Base Map Data, Output Spatial Database, Reduced Output Spatial Database, Shapes Output Spatial Database.
Digital Spatial Data
See Centroid, Digital Boundaries, Digital Base Map Data, Census Geographic areas.
See Digital Base Map Data.
See Digital Boundaries.
Foreign diplomatic personnel, their families and their dwellings are outside the scope of the Census. This derives from the Vienna Convention. In practice, a diplomat is defined as someone entitled to travel on a diplomatic passport.
The Directory of Census Statistics contains a summary of the broad range of publications, electronic products, maps and consultancy services available from the 1996 Census. The products and services are progressively released between 1997 and 1999 as the detailed data becomes available. A brief description (abstract) of the contents of each item is provided, as well as details of the geographic coverage, price, availability by medium and ordering information.
See Field Management Area (FMA), Statistical Division.
See Registered Marital Status (MSTP).
A dwelling is a building or structure in which people live. This can be a building, such as a house; part of a building, such as a flat; or it could be a caravan or tent, humpy or park bench.
This is a new classificatory variable for the 1996 Census. Dwelling Location (DLOD) applies only to private dwellings and is separated into caravan park, marina, self-care accommodation for retired/aged, Manufactured Home Estate, and other. The majority of private dwellings will appear in the 'other' category.
This variable records the type of structure of all private dwellings enumerated in the Census, and includes occupied caravans and improvised dwellings. The information is provided by the census collector on the back of the Household Form.
Other dwelling related variables are:
Data on dwelling structure are used to monitor changes in housing characteristics, to help formulate housing policies and to review existing housing stock.
See Caravans, Dwelling, Dwelling Location (DLOD), Dwelling Type (DWTD), Number of Motor Vehicles (VEHD), Tenure Type (TEND).
Dwelling Type (DWTD)
This variable classifies all dwelling into basic dwelling types. Dwellings are enumerated in the Census as one of the following:
Private dwellings include occupied residences in caravan parks, marinas, manufactures homes, and accommodation for the retired or aged (self-care).
People enumerated in Shipping Collection Districts appear under the offshore category.
See also Dwelling, Dwelling Location (DLOD), Dwelling Structure (STRD), Migratory Collection Districts, Shipping Collection Districts, Type of Non-Private Dwelling (NPDD).
Dwelling Variables
The following are a list of the dwelling variables that are available:

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Watch Atlanta Falcons OnlineBy Jeremy Evans / August 16, 2017 / Tags: NFL Football, NFL Teams
Here's how to watch Atlanta Falcons online this NFL season.
Use the services in the table below to live stream Atlanta Falcons games this season. You don't need a cable or satellite TV subscription to use any of these services. All offer a free trial.
⊕ PRO TIP: You can live stream every Falcons game this season with NFL Game Pass International. See how to get NFL Game Pass International in the US.
Take advantage of the free trials to see which streaming service you like best.
* YouTube TV is only available in select cities. See how to get a free trial of YouTube TV in any location.
Note: If you have a streaming service (Sling TV, CBS All Access, etc.) and can't watch Falcons games online in your area, there is a way to bypass the location restrictions and get access. See how here.
What's The Best Way To Watch Atlanta Falcons Online?
The best way to watch Atlanta Falcons online is to use NFL Game Pass International. This is the only service that will let you watch every Atlanta Falcons game live online.
The US version of NFL Game Pass DOES NOT live stream any regular season games. But, with NFL Game Pass International, you can live stream Falcons games from the preseason through the Super Bowl. You can watch on any device, both live and on-demand. You also get access to every other game around the NFL — and can even watch four games at once with NFL Red Zone, included with NFL Game Pass International. This is NFL streaming at its best.
The NFL doesn't let US fans sign up for Game Pass International. Thankfully, there's an easy way to get it anyway. See how to get NFL Game Pass International in the US.
NFL Game Pass is a bit pricier than other options though (around $150 for the season). If that's too much for you, then we recommend fuboTV as the next best way to watch Atlanta Falcons online. FuboTV will give you access to most Falcons live streams throughout the season. That's because fuboTV will let you live stream all games on FOX, NBC, and CBS. Since the Falcons are an NFC team, most of their games will be on FOX. (FOX has broadcast rights to all NFC teams.)
That said, you'll probably also want a VPN to use with fuboTV. FOX — and thereby fuboTV — blocks access to games depending on where you're located. With a VPN, you can bypass the geo-blocks and get access to every game, whether it's in your local market or not.
We recommend NordVPN because it has the fastest streaming speeds and works on all devices. It also has one of the best deals out there — only $3.29/month (limited-time offer). Just follow these 3 steps to unblock NFL games on any site or streaming service:
1. Sign up for a 30-day trial of NordVPN (now for a limited time, get it for just $3/mo)
2. Download the app(s) for the device(s) you want to use
3. Connect to any US server and start watching.
See more about how to unblock sports with a VPN.
How Can I Live Stream Falcons Games From Outside Georgia?
If you're not in Georgia, but want to watch Atlanta Falcons online, you'll need a VPN. You can use a VPN (virtual private network) with any streaming service or website (Sling TV, fuboTV, CBS.com, etc) to get around location restrictions on games.
See, the networks that broadcast NFL games restrict access based on location. So Falcons live streams are only available to people in the Georgia market. With a VPN, you can bypass these restrictions.
A VPN works by changing your digital location. So even though you're outside the Falcons local market, with a VPN you can appear to be located anywhere you want. By "tricking" websites and services into "thinking" you're in Atlanta, you can get access to watch Falcons online from anywhere.
See how to use a VPN to watch Falcons games online from outside Georgia.
How Can I Watch Falcons Online Without Cable?
To watch Atlanta Falcons online without cable, just use any of the streaming services in the table above. All these services are available without a cable or satellite TV subscription.
⊕ Watch NFL Football Online 2018
Most will let you live stream Falcons games on any device. Many also have a DVR function so you can record games to watch them later. All services offer a free trial, so take advantage of this to check them out, and even watch Falcons games online free for a while.
Where Can I Watch Today's Atlanta Falcons Live Stream
For today's Falcons live stream, see the table above for the Atlanta Falcons TV schedule. This has the complete Falcons schedule, and all the options to watch each game live online.
The table is also an easy way to see which service will let you watch the most Falcons games online this year. You can sign up for a free trial of any service to watch today's Falcons live stream free.
Can I Watch Falcons Online Free?
First, you can get a free trial of any/all of the streaming services in the table above. This will let you watch Falcons online free for a week or more for each service.
You might be tempted to watch free Falcons live steams from various websites that broadcast pirated streams. But after you try this once, you probably won't be tempted again. You'll have to play link chase, getting shuffled around to multiple sketchy sites. And you'll have to deal with lots of ads, poor video quality, and streams that die in the middle of a game.
You might also try using Kodi to watch the day's Falcons live stream free. But as with piracy sites, the Atlanta Falcons live streams on Kodi are unreliable and will likely cause you more frustration than enjoyable football time.
A final option is to watch Falcons free over-the-air. With a decent indoor antenna, you can watch Falcons games free on FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC. See the Falcons TV schedule above to find the games you can watch free with an antenna. Then see how to choose the right TV antenna for you.


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CECAM school: Fast Methods for Long Range Interactions in Complex Particle Systems
- Anfang
- 09.09.2013 09:00 Uhr
- Ende
- 13.09.2013 16:00 Uhr
- Veranstaltungsort
- Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Rotunde, Geb. 16.4, R. 301
Computer simulations of complex particle systems have a strongly increasing impact in a broad field of physics, e.g. in astrophysics, statistical physics, plasma physics, material sciences or physical chemistry and biophysics. Along with the development of computer hardware, which nowadays shows a performance in the range of PFlop/s, it is essential to develop efficient and scalable algorithms which solve the physical problem. Since with more powerful computer systems usually also the problem size is increased, it is important to implement optimally scaling algorithms, which increase the computational effort proportionally to the number of particles. Especially in fields, where long-range interactions between particles have to be considered the numerical effort is usually very demanding.
This CECAM School is organized by Godehard Sutmann, Ivo Kabadshow and Paul Gibbon (JSC) and will take place at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich Supercomputing Centre.


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This upgrade file applies for the ZR08HF/(00/05/10) DVR.
You can find your DVR's model number on the label at the bottom of your DVR.
Please follow up the below video to upgrade the DVR:
The below is the detail steps to upgrade the DVR:
(1). You needn't open the upgrade file, please directly download the upgrade file
and save it to your U-disk.
(Please save the upgrade file rootfs-3521 in the root directory, not save it under any other folders.)
Note: it is better to use a 16GB or smaller flash drive with a Fat32 format.
(2). The file's name should be rootfs-3521, can not be have any changes,
if the file's name change to rootfs-3521(1), the upgrade will be failed.
(3). Before starting to upgrade, please remove the mouse and unplug the power supply,
then plug the U-disk into the DVR's USB port, and plug the power supply.
(4). It can upgrade automatically as long as it has electricity, the upgrade process need
to last several minutes, please be patient.
After upgraded, Please go to the DVR's main menu – information – System to check the version.
If the upgrade was failed, we suggest you change another U-disk or USB port to try.
Please don't worry, if this can't help you, please feel free to contact us.


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Boston – One city, two faces
Sedate, educated and intellectual it may be, but Boston is not necessarily the most exciting U.S. metropolis. Still, the capital of the New England state of Massachusetts does have its wild, crazy, frivolous moments. We take a look at both sides.
Embark on a journey to the center of the earth: The Mapparium, a walk-through globe three stories high, opens up new perspectives on our planet.
Science show
Some of the world's most brilliant minds are hard at work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The MIT Museum exhibits some of their findings – fascinating.
Fine prospect
Study, do research – and take in the skyline: There's no better panoramic view of Boston's skyline to be had than from the roof of the library at Tufts University.
Rubble Rousers
At Restoration Resources, all manner of architectural artifacts, ornaments and statues are rescued, upcycled and dedicated to a new purpose.
He's alive
Don't just look, please touch the life-size, movable dinosaur at the Boston Children's Museum, which brings the world playfully within young peoples' grasp.
Time travel
The four-kilometer Freedom Trail takes history fans on a leisurely stroll through old Boston. It includes 16 historical attractions.
What looks like an iced tea dispenser is really a secret door leading into the ultracool sneaker store Bodega. Shoe fetishists, rejoice!
Higher Endeavors
Brooklyn Boulders is a climbing gym like any other except that here, you can also see art, listen to live music and learn stuff in TED talks.
Wet! Wetter! Wettest!
Taking a tour of Boston Harbor by boat sounds relaxing, right? Not aboard the monster speed boat Codzilla, where a good soaking is the order of the day.
Cool cliché
Embarrassing? Romantic? Undeniably unforgettable: a trip down the Charles River in a Venetian gondola. Off into the sunset you go!
Building robots, making jewelry, repairing bikes – skills of all kinds, some more useful than others, are taught in workshops at Artisan's Asylum.
An art in itself
The 500 artworks exhibited at The Museum of Bad Art are well meant but sadly not well done. How did they come to be shown? They are simply too bad to ignore.
Getting there from Germany
For more about upcoming flight deals to Boston and a selection of other Lufthansa destinations, go to


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Come and celebrate 50 years of Penguin poetry at the University of Bristol
Press release issued: 23 February 2012
A celebration of Penguin poetry and the 1960s will take place at the University of Bristol next month featuring Al Alvarez, one of the most influential critics of recent times, and three of the original Penguin Modern Poets: John Fuller, Edward Lucie-Smith and Tom Raworth.
'The New Poetry & Penguin Modern Poets 50 Years' is a one day conference, hosted by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Arts and Humanities (BIRTHA), in association with the AHRC Penguin Archive Project, the University of Bristol's Department of English and the Alumni Office. The conference takes place on Friday 16 March in the Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol.
The conference will culminate with an evening event: Al Alvarez in conversation, followed by poetry readings by John Fuller, Edward Lucie-Smith and Tom Raworth. This event, which begins at 6pm in the Wills Memorial Building, is free and all are welcome; to register, click here.
Al Alvarez edited The New Poetry, a groundbreaking anthology of post-war English poetry, published in 1962. He was poetry editor of the Observer in the 1950s and 60s, and has also written acclaimed books on everything from poetry to poker. He is perhaps best known for his study of suicide The Savage God with its classic memoir of his friend, Sylvia Plath.
Edward Lucie-Smith is an internationally known poet, curator, photographer, historian, and anthologist, and an art critic whose books are standard texts across the globe. A key figure in the poetry world of the 1960s, he edited Penguin's British Poetry Since 1945, a book which introduced generations of readers to modern verse.
John Fuller is a poet, novelist, critic and fellow emeritus of Magdalen College, Oxford. Winner of the Forward Prize for poetry in 1996 and the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse in 2006, he has also been awarded the Whitbread First Novel award and been nominated for the Booker Prize.
Tom Raworth has been one of the most important figures in the poetic avant-garde of the last fifty years. A poet with a substantial international reputation, he was awarded the Antonio Delfini prize for lifetime achievement in Italy in 2007.
To register for the conference (by 29 February), click here £35, delegate rate; £18, postgraduate rate. All welcome. The conference begins at 9am on Friday 16 March in the Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol


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Founded in 1647... blogging 360 years later. The first public school district in America, Boston Public Schools proudly serves more than 56,000 pre-k through 12th graders in 125 schools.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Charleston High promotes authentic learning
On February 2 I sat in on a workshop held at Charleston High, which featured breakdancing, poetry readings, singing, and West African drumming. This was part of a weeklong workshop known as "Art of Agency." Charlestown High School headmaster William Thomas noted as he watched students perform their spoken word poetry, "This is exactly the kind of thing that makes a school great."
The workshops developed after surveying students, which determined that classes needed to be more energetic and relevant to issues concerning them. The weeklong workshops replace regular academic classes and allow students to attend various art sessions. Students in Diploma Plus begin and end each day by gathering in "talking circles," which is a time of reflection for the students. "So what did you learn?" asks Director of Diploma Plus Sunny Pai. "How did today make you a stronger student?
"Art for Agency" is one of three workshops held at the school. The first workshop, "A Third Eye Opening: A Conference on Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation," took place in October with topics of discussion including ethnic identity, gender, bullying, and homophobia. The workshops are led by Sung-Joon Pai, Director of Diploma Plus SLC, with funding from Nellie Mae Education Foundation. Diploma Plus is a program that started at Charlestown High in 2009, which re-engages students who are 16 yrs. or older and 2 years over grade level with few credits.
I asked junior Brianna Boyd for her thoughts on the weeklong workshop and she said, "It's been an incredible week. We don't get to do this often and it's nice to see art in many forms. Senior Paul Homes chimed in, "This is my third year in DP, and it's great to see an organized event at the school. I'm into art and it inspires me to see something like this. It's also cool to see your peers share a piece of themselves with you." I asked Mr. Pai for his thoughts on the workshop and he responded, "This is what schools should be like all the time--engaging students and communities, while also inspiring them. This is authentic learning that we need!"
A third workshop will be held in April. If you would like to learn more about Diploma Plus check out: http://www.diplomaplus.net
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LOL! Watch Morgan Freeman + Jimmy Fallon Inhale Helium Together [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
It looks like Jimmy Fallon is as obsessed with the clip of Morgan Freeman talking on helium as the rest of us are — so much so that he even made the iconic actor do it again!
When Morgan Freeman stopped by 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' to promote his new thriller, 'Lucy,' last night (June 24), the hilarious host couldn't resist asking Freeman to once again treat us all to the effects of his gorgeously smooth voice on helium. But because it can't be one-sided, the two decide to have an entire conversation while sucking the helium from balloons.
"Do you ever want to go to space?" Fallon asks the veteran actor with a high-pitched giggle.
Inhaling the helium, Freeman replies: "I really shouldn't be doing this," leaving Fallon laughing so hard that he literally spins around in his seat and pounds his desk.
"It's very undignified," he continues after inhaling even more helium. "See?"
There's a reason that Fallon and the audience can't stop roaring with laughter: Morgan Freeman on helium is downright hilarious. Check it out in the video above!


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Reds game is on mLB network.
Reds game is on mLB network.
Dusty said Cozart had played 34 games without a break. Smart to rest him now IMO. Give him the two day break.
Izturis can't hit but he's very competent at shortstop and Cozart needs to be ready for all the games to come.
Glad it's not an injury, or at least apparently it isn't.
Fifteen pitches for Latos, 1-2 count on Duda, two outs man on first. Stolen base by Murphy.
Tom Servo (09-25-2013)
I am getting the Reds broadcasters on mlb network.
No dice for the Mets. Bit of a pun.
Thanks Cumberlandreds.
cumberlandreds (09-25-2013)
Is Matzusaka doing the baseball version of 'twerking' out there?
cumberlandreds (09-25-2013),dubc47834 (09-25-2013)
I have never seen a more deliberate windup. Slow motion.
Reds Fan Since 1971
Missed first inning...did Billy look completely clueless on his K?
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — No. 23 Georgia was near the end zone all day.
Seven times to be exact.
The Bulldogs scored just one touchdown in seven trips inside the 21-yard line, their biggest downfall in a 24-19 loss to Nebraska in the rain-soaked Gator Bowl on Wednesday.
Georgia (8-5) failed repeatedly to take advantage of opportunities, settling for four short field goals and dropping two fourth-down passes in the red zone in the closing minutes. Rantavious Wooten dropped a fourth-and-2 pass around the 10-yard line with 4:42 to play. The Bulldogs got the ball back and marched toward the end zone, but Arthur Lynch dropped a fourth-and-3 pass that would have moved the chains with about 25 seconds remaining.
"That (stinks)," said running back Todd Gurley, who finished with 183 total yards. "To go all the way down there like that, and on fourth down you just give it to them, that's a bad feeling right there."
No one felt worse than Lynch, a senior and team captain.
"I think I turned my head at the last second and was thinking end zone," Lynch said. "It's one of those situations. It's not so much I dropped the pass. It's that I let my team down. At the end of the day, it's one of those things that you can never forget, brush off your shoulders.
"It's a win or a loss, and we lost. But I will never able to forget this one. If I run that play 49 more times, I make the catch."
Lynch finished with six catches for 69 yards. Gurley had seven receptions for 97 yards, including a 25-yard score on the first play of the fourth quarter that cut Nebraska's lead to 24-19.
But the Bulldogs couldn't finish.
The dropped passes were huge. And so were turnovers.
Reggie Davis muffed a punt deep in Georgia territory in the second quarter and Nebraska (9-4) scored two plays later. The Huskers also turned Hutson Mason's lone interception into a touchdown.
Mason, making his second straight start in place of injured starter Aaron Murray, completed 21 of 39 passes for 320 yards, with a touchdown and an interception.
"I don't think anybody wants to go out there and slosh around," Georgia coach Mark Richt said, blaming some of his team's issues on wet footballs and sloppy field conditions. "It makes it tougher to execute in the passing game, obviously. But I thought Hutson, as time went on and got used to the elements, did a really good job. Hutson's a great football player, a great person, a great leader for our team. Got a lot of faith how he'll do in the future as well."
Mason believes starting the final two games will pay dividends next season.
"It's been a big blessing," he said. "By no means am I happy that Aaron got hurt. It's been a great opportunity to get two games under my belt. It's huge for next season when you talk about, 'Do guys believe in you?' For my career here, I've been known as a practice player. For guys to see me perform in two games, I believe that they believe in me.
"It's big going into the offseason. Guys believing in you, buying in, knowing you're the leader of this team, knowing you're in charge, it's huge."
For all of Georgia's problems, maybe the biggest one was a defensive lapse on third-and-14 at Nebraska's 1-yard line.
The Cornhuskers had a choice: Sneak the ball in hopes of getting a little extra room to punt or take a shot deep.
They chose to throw — and boy did they wing it.
Tommy Armstrong Jr. connected with Quincy Enunwa for a 99-yard touchdown, the longest play in school and Gator Bowl history.
"It's not an exciting thing to see," Richt said. "It's not something I'm happy about, obviously. ... You could fall apart and start ripping everybody up, breaking them down, watching your team fall apart on the sideline, or you can keep your composure, keep digging, fighting, scratching, and keep putting yourself and your team in position to win.
"That's what we were trying to do. That's what we did do. We had a really excellent chance of finishing the game on a high note. It just didn't happen."


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Recipient: Ralph W. Steen Library at Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas
Grant: 2005 National Leadership Grant for Libraries
Pictured: Curriculum Development Team teacher Alisa Ripley poses with her 4th grade art class.
At the turn of the 21st century, access was a problem for people in East Texas who wanted to learn the history of the area – and for teachers who wanted to teach about it. Museums and cultural societies had limited visiting hours, and none of their collections were online.
To make historical resources available on the Web, the Ralph W. Steen Library at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches launched the Texas TIDES Digital Learning Consortium project in 2002, funded by a state grant. The Library worked with five local museums, libraries, and archives to start a digital collection of resources – documents, photos, and oral histories – focused on East Texas history. The resulting Web site contained lesson plans for fourth- and seventh-grade history teachers, more than 10,000 digitized primary resources, and a fully searchable database.
In 2005, the Library received a three-year, $570,000 National Leadership Grant for Libraries to expand the Texas TIDES digital collections and develop interdisciplinary learning communities.
Serving the K-12 Community
The TIDES (Teaching, Images and Digital Experiences) project focused on two audiences: K-12 educators and students, as well as colleges and universities.
During the grant period, most of the Library's efforts revolved around the K-12 audience. The TIDES team worked with 20 schools in East Texas, hiring teachers to create lesson plans, training teachers to use the digital resources in the classroom, and providing cultural resources in the form of virtual expeditions and bilingual material.
Partway into the grant, the Library discovered that what teachers really needed was Hispanic cultural content, to connect with the growing population of Hispanic students and have them participate more in class. To get that content, the Library created partnerships with four Mexican schools, sent some East Texas teachers to Mexico, and had Mexican teachers come to East Texas.
"We worked with K-12 teachers in East Texas and in Mexico and really brought them in and got them involved," explained Rachel Galan, Associate Director for Library Information Services at the Steen Library. "So they were involved in virtual field trip creation and they created lesson plans for the classroom."
Seven Texas teachers participated in nine Teacher Expeditions over the course of the project. These included trips to Mexico as well as to local institutions, such as the Tyler Museum of Art and the Caldwell Zoo.
The Library also formed two Curriculum Development Teams of teachers who used material in the TIDES collection to create lesson plans. One was an art teacher, which turned out to be a plus, because the local school district had slashed or totally eliminated art programs in elementary schools.
"Having an art teacher on board who could add that component into lesson plans that the subject area teachers were creating got everybody very excited," said Galan.
The Library gradually expanded the TIDES Web site, adding science and world history resources and creating portals for each type of user – teachers; elementary, middle, and high school students; and university folks.
"We did a lot of that work ourselves," explained Galan. "We went out, we photographed, we did the metadata. We didn't ask institutions to do that work."
The Library worked with small, local institutions, such as the Piney Woods Native Plant Center and the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, because the larger collections were being handled by the University of North Texas and the University of Houston.
"When we brought in teachers from Mexico, that really opened the door to all of that Mexico content and cultural content that is available now. And as the graduate students got involved, they started adding content and their fellow graduate students and their faculty were more willing to get involved at that point and add their own research collections. So it just kind of snowballed person by person," said Galan.
In addition, the team experimented with social media, including Facebook and Twitter. The Digital Projects director writes a blog and the team is building a Flickr site for photographs.
Educators Surf the TIDES
The results were incredible. The Web sites received 31 million hits during the grant period and the TIDES database now hosts more than 22,000 primary source images and documents, 222 videos, and more than 200 lesson plans.
Beyond the numbers, the Library's ability to keep TIDES going may be the most important result. Galan noted, "I think the sustainability of the program is most significant, because now we can really continue to look at the needs of the community, the university community and the local community, and build on what we started. And we have a really great staff."
The Digital Projects team includes a librarian, a library metadata specialist, an educator, and a database manager.
Another key result was that teachers reported a new connection with their Mexican-American students and increased openness from them.
"I think the biggest impact on the community was really in bridging that kind of cultural divide that is in the classrooms now. We took teachers to Mexico and they came back and shared with their schools, and parents were excited and the Hispanic kids started opening up and talking," said Galan. "And it really bridged, for the teachers and the students, that divide."
Challenges and Lessons Learned
During the grant period, the Library had three directors and Galan was moved to a new position, heading up a new department – Digital Projects. The changing leadership and job shuffling presented a bit of a challenge.
"There was lots of administration and staff movement, but once we got the Digital Projects department established, we had money – and a place – to bring students in. So students started contributing work and getting really excited about the community piece and working with the schools," said Galan.
One big lesson was that the Web site needed to have separate interfaces, or entry points, for each type of user.
"What we realized is the availability of the material is just a minor thing. I mean it really has to be user focused. The whole Web interface to get in, the metadata that's used with the collections, how you guide them to what they want to find. So each individual user group needs its own individual access," she said.
The team also learned that teachers will participate in an online community only if they are required to. Initially, the Tides Learning Community that the Library set up for teachers barely got any use.
"The teachers aren't comfortable at all in that realm. So I wrote it in their contracts that they needed to get involved. And then we started posting weekly discussion questions to get them talking, and that helped," said Galan.
Another lesson was that the greatest community needs may be apparent only once the project is underway.
"We thought we knew what the needs were in the community, I mean we did focus groups and needs assessments and we thought we had a good grasp on it, but the greater needs we didn't really discover until we were in the project," said Galan.
Working with the University
After the IMLS grant ended in 2008, the Library made sure Digital Projects was fully staffed and also migrated TIDES to a new database system. The project's next steps include integrating TIDES at the university level and creating a community-access portal.
"We are creating the framework to create an institutional repository here at the university, which will be really that research portal that was underdeveloped in the IMLS grant," said Galan.
She continued, "We've gotten involved in a couple other big grant initiatives on campus, and one of them is a National Park Service grant, a Preserve America grant. And that's allowing funding to create that community Web interface into the collections."
New partnerships within the university continue to blossom and many people are getting excited about adding their research collections.


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Thursday, July 22, 2010
What's it Like When the Hunger Challenge Never Ends? A Family Living on Food Stamps
3 comments:
- Susan said...
I live in Raleigh, North Carolina. I feed my family of six (we do not receive food stamps) on a monthly budget of $500 (actually, it's closer to $450, and I could actually get it down to under $400 with a little extra work, but let's be generous and round up).
What's my secret? Well, it's not gardening; we don't have a garden. Nor do I coupon, and I don't have the time to comparison shop at different stores, either. I do not base my menus around sales flyers, and I don't keep a "price book".
So how do I do it? Well, I have two monthly well-thought-out B/L/S/D menu plans that I rotate. They provide us with a full protein at every meal, a snack once a day, hot breakfasts, and a "special meal" (with wine and dessert!) once a week. I'd guess the calorie count per person would be in the 1500 range. Most of the carbs are complex.
I'd be happy to share my meal plans (for free) with anyone who would like to see how eating well on less than $100 per person per month can be done. We've been doing it for two years now. Just send me an e-mail at nsbedwell @ mindspring.com and ask for them. Or perhaps the Hunger Challenge blog would allow me to post them here (again, for free)? It would certainly allow many more people to eat well on food stamps -- which I assume (hope) is the goal.
P.S. I forgot to mention that that $500 includes our cleaning and personal products, like shampoo, bath soap, laundry detergent, etc. I shop at Aldi. If you don't have an Aldi nearby, you can get everything on my menu plans at Wal-Mart for about $600 per month. I don't know what the price tags would come to in NYC or SFO or LAX or CHI, but in Raleigh, having done a little planning at the beginning, $500 a month is enough for our family of three adults and three teenagers to have a varied, healthful, good-tasting, quick-and-easy-to-cook diet.
I'm looking forward to taking the Hunger Challenge this year and blogging about it. I'll definitely put up Youtube videos: I hope to inspire people to save money while eating healthy, by simply thinking differently about how they shop and plan their meals.
- August 11, 2010 at 9:23 AM
My family received food stamps while my husband was in grad school in Ohio. I did use coupons (coupling coupons with sale prices) and we also received WIC. We consistently spent only half of our allowance for a family of 4. My total grocery expenditure per month, including diapers and personal care items was $400. Very similar to Susan's experience(although I have requested her plan, because she's figured out how to do it more cheaply.)
One point regarding Food Stamps is that there are no nutritional guidelines, except exclusions, as to how it should be spent. With WIC you can only buy designated items in particular amounts based on your family's need. If the Food Stamp program were similar, nutritional objectives would be met and cost could be controlled. You can use coupons with both WIC and Food Stamps, but few people do.
I know life makes major demands on the population that typically qualifies for Food Stamps but, from my experience, a lot can be done to make what is provided more than amply meet your needs.
- August 11, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- San Francisco Food Bank said...
Thanks for your comments! We did email you, because we'd be quite interested in receiving your plan - but we didn't hear back from you.
It's important to remember that there may be some regional food cost differences that work to your advantage vs. San Francisco - and other expenses, like housing and gasoline, here can be astronomical compared to the rest of the country. But all that aside, we're sure there are some very helpful menu tips you have to share!
- December 9, 2010 at 12:34 PM


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Izmir is the third largest city in Turkey with a population of around 4 million, the second biggest port after Istanbul, and a very good transport hub. The fact that almost half of its population of 4 million are under the age of 30, makes İzmir a city full of life. The city hosts tens of thousands of university students, educates scientists, artists, business leaders and academics. It is a rapidly growing city on the Central Aegean coast of Turkey.
Once the ancient city of Smyrna, İzmir is now a modern, developed, and busy commercial center, set around a huge bay and surrounded by mountains. The broad boulevards, glass-fronted buildings and modern shopping centers are dotted with traditional red-tiled roofs, the 18th century market, and old mosques and churches, although the city has an atmosphere more of Mediterranean Europe than traditional Turkey.
İzmir owes its position as an economically and socially dynamic city to its location, climate and the fact that it has been a home to many different cultures and religions. Persians, Ancient Greeks, Assyrians, Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans are just a few of the dozens of different civilizations that the city has hosted throughout its long history.
The history of Izmir stretches back to around 3000 BC when the Trojans founded the city Yeşilova Mound in Bornova then continued at Smyrna-Tepekule Ruins and then Kadifekalein the northern suburb of Bayrakli. This was the birthplace of Homer, who was thought to have lived here around the 8th century BC. The Aeolians, the first Greek settlers, were eventually taken over by their Greek rivals the Ionians. The Ionians were followed by the Lydians who destroyed the city around 600BC before a brief recovery following Alexander the Great's arrival in 334 BC.
After his death, Alexander's generals followed his wishes and re-established Smyrna on Mount Pagos in Kadifekale, and the city then prospered under the Romans. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 178 AD but later reconstructed and became a major commercial port during the Byzantine Empire. After the Byzantines, the city had a turbulent time under the Arabs, Seljuks, Crusaders and Mongols, until Mehmet I incorporated it into the Ottoman Empire in 1415. Under Suleyman the Magnificent, Smyrna became a thriving and sophisticated city and a huge trading center, despite its frequent earthquakes. It was a cosmopolitan city , with a Greek Orthodox majority along with Armenians, Jews and Muslims. Numerous languages could be heard in the streets, spoken by locals and visiting traders.
Following World War I and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, and on the basis of the majority Greek population in the area, Greece was granted a mandate over Izmir from the Allies. Athens took control over the whole of the Aegean region.
Rising tensions led the outbreak of war as the Greeks purshed further into the heart of Anatolia in an attempt to unite the Greek communities of Asia Minor. Led by Kemal Ataturk the Turkish army launched a counter-attack and seized the city. Soon thereafter 70% of the city burned to the ground by the Greek forces. The 'Great Fire' ended multinational authority of the city and the Greek and Armenian populations were expelled.
Ataturk formally took Izmir on 9 September 1922, which is celebrated as the day of the city's liberation.
Due to its geographical location, similar climatic features are observed in almost every part of the province. Since the average number of sunny days reaches up to almost 300 a year, the solar potential is very high in İzmir.
Dry and sunny summers in Izmir are so infernally hot and sticky that, unless there is an air-conditioning in your room, you will most likely have trouble falling asleep at least on your first night, no matter whether the windows are wide open or not. However, a mild breeze coming in ashore from the sea (locally called meltem) may refreshen the evenings, at least in locations close to the waterfront. Temperature can drop down to freezing point (0°C/32°F) in mostly windy and rainy winters, however snowfall is some sort of curiousness in these latitudes, which happens once or at most twice a decade, if at all.
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By train[edit]
Izmir has two railway stations: Basmane in the city center serves regional trains and the Metro, and Alsancak in the north serves intercity trains and the IZBAN.
The main intercity services include: Ankara (Mavi Tren is the fastest at 14 hours), Denizli (3 express trains daily, 5-6 hours) and Isparta (9 hours). Trains for Istanbul connect with a ferry at Bandirma.
Basmane station is linked by metro (which has a seperate station than the train one) to Konak in the west and to Bornova in the east.
By boat[edit]
The weekend ferry from Izmir to Istanbul has been suspended (2009), one or two weekly ferries between Izmir and Venice (67 hours). All ferries dock at the Alsancak Ferry Terminal, 2km north of the city center.
Cruise ships call on the port of Izmir all year round at Alsancak[12]. The center of town, Konak, is about 2 km south of Alsancak. When you exit the pier area, turn right at the waterfront and follow the Kordon to Konak, about a 25 minute stroll.
By plane[edit]
Adnan Menderes Airport (IATA: ADB, ICAO: LTBJ), 16 km south of the city center, has several daily flights to Istanbul, Ankara, and Antalya. There are also regular flights from many European cities.
Iz Air [13] is a local carrier operating out of Adnan Menderes and offers many domestic connections.
From the airport, you have three public transport options into the city:
Tickets can be bought at manned booths ("gise"). There is a local transport card for residents but you can also prefer "3-5 Bilet" [17] (3-5 Tickets) for short term stays. Price depends on how many trips you will make. It costs 6,5 TL and 15,2 TL for 2 and 5 trips respectively. (October 2013) Please note that you cannot buy one way 3-5 Bilet as the minimum fare covers two trips. You can buy a local transport card for 6 TL. When you load money to this card, you can use every buses, trains and ferries for 2 TL for 90 minutes. Like this; you can use train to got to Halkapınar (app. 30 minutes) and then you can use metro line for free to go to Konak (app. 15 minutes) an than you can use ferry for free to go to Karşıyaka (app. 20 minutes) and than you can use train again for free back to go to airport.
By bus[edit]
The bus station, or otogar, is 6km north east of town although there are plenty of dolmuş that make the journey there from the centre. The bus station is huge and has an internet cafe, plenty of facilities for food and drink and a large number of agencies selling tickets for coaches which, if departing imminently, they will be shouting out the destinations of. It also has pay toilets.
Buses to Istanbul take 9 hours (including a brief trip on a ferry) and travellers are provided with water, hot drinks, snacks and regular stops for toilets and food all for free on the better services for fares around 100TL per person one way.
Get around[edit]
Due to the Great Fire of 1920s, there is a relative lack of historical sights in Izmir, especially when considered how old the city really is (more than 5000 years old).
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You can go to Konak Pier, a small mall along the Kordon with a cinema and with local and other known brands. Another mall is called Forum, in Bornova. Forum is a very big mall with all brands and a supermarket in a Mediterreanean style one floored houses in open air. Kemeraltı (in the city center) offers great deal of souveniers in a nice traditional athmosphere.
Eat[edit][add listing]
Izmir is a member of World Gourmet Cities Network (DELICE), a network with 22 cities from different parts of the world. Became a member in 2015, Izmir is the 23rd city in the network.
Drink[edit][add listing]
Join the nightlife on Kıbrıs Şehitleri Caddesi in Alsancak, and go find the Gazi Kadinlar Street. Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are when the street is liveliest.
Sleep[edit][add listing]
In Izmir there are many hotels which are suitable for all tastes and budgets. Hilton, Swissotel and Movenpick are just a few minutes away by foot from Cumhuriyet Meydani (Republic Square) Hotel Ibis is very close to the city center, located nearby Alsancak Railway Station. Also there is Crowne Plaza, which is about 30 min. from center.
Tourism Information Office[edit]
You can call tourism offices for all of your questions.
Stay safe[edit]
Izmir is a relatively safe city for its size, however it does have its "dodgy" areas. The city center as well as populated suburbs are generally safe during the day. Use common sense if walking at night, avoid dark and narrow alleyways (found mainly in Alsancak and Konak). Avoid the streets around the main port as well as the streets around the railway junction (Hilal, Halkapinar). Be weary in Basmane, though it is fine to stay in hostels in this neighbourhood (the Syrian food will keep you coming back). It is important to also be cautious in Kadifekale, which is where one of the city's main landmarks is located. It is not advisable to travel on foot in the neighborhoods on the south side of the train tracks near the city center at night.
Use common sense and you will be relatively safe. If you find yourself in any situation don't be afraid to call the police (155). Izmir Police Department has a "tourism police" section where travellers can report passport loss and theft or any other criminal activity they may have become victims of. The staff is multilingual and will speak English, German, French, and Arabic.
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This year's Sox team are the Peoria Javelinas. The Full Roster is here. Besides Jordan Danks and Dayan Viciedo the other Sox participants are: Justin Cassel, Johnnie Lowe, Henry Mabee, Jacob Rasner, and C.J. Retherford.
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Benedict's culture minister at the Vatican, Ravasi consistently makes the short lists of closely watched candidates to be the next pope. He is one of the favorites among Catholics who long to see a return to the tradition of Italian popes. The polyglot biblical scholar peppers speeches with references ranging from Aristotle to late British diva Winehouse.
At Benedict's request, Ravasi led the pontiff and other Vatican prelates in daily Lenten meditation and prayer services during what turned out to be the pontiff's last full week in the papacy. Ravasi's words were podcast for all to hear on Vatican Radio, and the prelate tweeted in English and Italian to give the flavor of his sermons to those outside the Holy See's inner circle. Ravasi's foreign language prowess is reminiscent of that of the late globetrotting John Paul II: He tweets in English, chats in Italian and has impressed his audiences by switching to Hebrew and Arabic in some of his speeches. As a child, he taught himself ancient Greek.
Ravasi's intellect is so hungry that he doesn't seem to sleep much at night. "He is so busy reading and digesting things," said John Thavis, author of the recently published "The Vatican Diaries," an inside look at the workings of the Holy See.
EDITOR'S NOTE: As the Roman Catholic Church prepares to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, The Associated Press is profiling key cardinals seen as "papabili" - contenders to the throne. In the secretive world of the Vatican, there is no way to know who is in the running, and history has yielded plenty of surprises. But these are the names that have come up time and again in speculation. Today: Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi.
Benedict, who relaxes by playing Mozart on the piano, yearned to have the Church relive at least some of the role it had held for centuries as patron of the arts, as attested by the frescoed Vatican ceilings and walls by Michelangelo, Raphael and other great artists.
It has been Ravasi's role to spearhead that effort.
But Ravasi's Vatican resume is perhaps most notable for his efforts for dialogue with atheists. He spearheaded the Vatican's "Courtyard of the Gentiles" initiatives - a series of meetings, conferences and other intellectually flavored initiatives that brought together believers and non-believers together in the common bond of culture.
"Believers and non-believers inhabit the same Earth and occupy the same classrooms of universities," Ravasi told Italian religious affairs weekly Famiglia Cristiana in an interview in 2011. Asked if he wanted to convert atheists, he replied "Absolutely not."
"Half of my friends are non-believers," he said.
His recent Lenten meditations exalted a running theme of Benedict, whose many papal writings elaborated his thesis that faith was not only compatible with reason, but - more crucially - complementary. Ravasi's treatment of the theme was sound-bite ready: "Faith answers why, science how."
The aphoristic statement was made in the Vatican's Redemptoris Mater chapel in the Apostlic Palace. Benedict, who would later praise Ravasi for the quality of his preaching, was among the contemplative audience. As duly noted in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Benedict sent Ravasi a thank-you letter gushing with praise - saying the meditations were "enriched by your science and your experience." Benedict ended his note of appreciation with a wish that God might "reward you for this effort, that you so brilliantly carried out."
In some ways, Ravasi might match the job description of the next pope laid out last week by Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, a Frenchman who heads the Vatican's office of inter-religious dialogue.
"We need a pope who's very open to dialogue with cultures and religions," Tauran told the French Catholic news agency I.Media. Tauran also said the next pope "must continue what Benedict XVI did -teach the contents of faith."
The 70-year-old Ravasi said earlier this year that he took to listening to Amy Winehouse's "lacerating" lyrics to help him understand the new language and culture of young people and how to communicate with them.
Speaking to journalists about research he did for a speech about the culture of youth, Ravasi confessed that after playing CDs of Winehouse music, he realized that the things young people's ears are attuned to are different than his.
"Still," he said, "in these words - so lacerating musically and thematically - emerge questions of common sense for all."
Ravasi is a frequent front-page commentator on Italian dailies, including a newspaper of the country's industrialist lobbies, and made frequent appearances on an Italian private TV network that is part of Silvio Berlusconi's media empire.
But Ravasi's resume is short on pastoral experience. And his confession to a crash course in pop music might not be enough to convince his fellow cardinals he has the star power for the top job in the Catholic church.
Benedict had the same shortcoming, but that was apparently acceptable to the cardinals who in 2005 ended up electing the elderly, reserved intellectual, perhaps to counterbalance what had just been the nearly 27-year pontificate of the charismatic, globetrotting John Paul II - who rapped in midnight prayer vigils with youth from around the world.
Ravasi had been widely viewed as a strong candidate a few years ago to lead the archdiocese of Milan, Italy's most prestigious diocese away from Rome and a training ground for "papabili" - cardinals who have the stuff to be future popes.
But Benedict instead appointed Venice's cardinal, Angelo Scola, another leading papal candidate, to the Milan post.
Ravasi's CV does have a prestigious Milan address - he use to run the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, a 400-year-old library founded by a cardinal and famed for Leonardo da Vinci's 1,119-page Atlantic Codex.
One of his predecessors in heading the venerable institution was the future Pope Pius XI.


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Last week the first Charity:Water completion report arrived for a water project PCPartPicker sponsored in Malawi, Africa. Because of this project (the actual well is in the picture above), 373 people in the Chasembe community now have access to clean and safe drinking water. My heart is filled with joy hearing this news, and I wanted to share it with you because you're a part of it too.
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Diamond Not Qualified for Fed Board
Tuesday the Senate Banking Committee meets for the second time to consider the nomination of Peter Diamond to a seat on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. Since Professor Diamond was first nominated, he has been awarded the Nobel prize in economics.
Putting aside his academic qualifications, and his misguided views on Social Security, Professor Diamond is not qualified to be a Fed governor for one very simple reason: he is from a Federal Reserve district that already has representation on the Fed. Paragraph 10–1 of the Federal Reserve Act requires that:
In selecting the members of the Board, not more than one of whom shall be selected from any one Federal Reserve district, the President shall have due regard to a fair representation of the financial, agricultural, industrial, and commercial interests, and geographical divisions of the country.
Mr. Diamond's Senate paperwork states he is from Massachusetts, which is also the case for sitting Fed governor Dan Tarullo. In fairness this provision of the law has been ignored and violated in the past. In fact, both current Fed Governors Duke and Raskin are both from the Richmond district. As Duke was there first, it would seem clear from a reading of the law and Raskin's bio that Raskin is serving in violation of the statute. But then given the actions of the Fed over the last few years, the Fed has certainly shown that it doesn't feel constrained by statutes.
Bloomberg reports that despite what Diamond's paperwork says, the White House claims he's from Chicago. Not that he's ever lived there, but because he once gave a lecture at Northwestern. Next I suspect the White House will claim an extended lay‐over at O'Hare is sufficient for residency.
For perhaps the first time in history, all the Federal Reserve governors are from coastal states. Also every single Fed governor is from a state that Obama won. Only one governor is from west of the Mississippi river. How anyone can believe the current make‐up of the Board is a "fair representation" is beyond me. Perhaps this is one explanation for the currently low public opinion of the Fed; it has become more a Cambridge‐Wall Street‐Washington echo chamber than anything else.


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Dan H. EMERITUS (4)Foals continue to evolve and improve....AndyC (4)This is no horseplay....putnam39 (4.5)Holy Fire – the third time certainly is the charm. Here, Foals has successfully reconci...Jack Fraser (4)The future seems a bit too much like what it used to be....
Gyromania (4)on the cusp...garth (3.5)Foals make a diverse whole...
First staff review! Tie me to a pole, beat me senselessly for using too many commas, and then beg for me to be Emeritused. Go ahead.
"Inhaler" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_PMvjmC6M
"My Number" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsGFnLl2u0
"Milk & Black Spiders" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2-Ik9uz1bU
Album Rating: 4.0that summary makes me rock out so damn hard. my desk-chair is swiveling like cray let me tell you wHat.
Dude, Yannis would be so proud of you and your desk-chair.
Album Rating: 4.0"This release's downfall, though, is an overemphasis on atmosphere."
you nailed it. I actually don't mind that so much cause most of the songs here rock really, really
hard, but if it was a more cohesive album with a kind of uniting atmospheric tone (if you dig) then
it'd be an easy 4.3 haha
edit whoops I misread that, thought you said "undermephasis" or something to that effect.
i agree with aids
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offgreat work on this man. sorry i didn't end up posting mine though, i know you've been itching to put this up.
I do get what you're saying, man. The way I see it, though, is that the strongest tracks here don't really worry about atmosphere. "My Number"? "Inhaler"? Nah, not much atmosphere. The tracks that emphasize it dive into the fog too thoroughly, like "Late Night" and "Stepson." There are even instances where perfectly good songs are dampened by Yannis' vocal reverb (looking at you, "Providence"!)
No worries, Matt. Things happen, and I'm understanding of that =] and thanks a lot.
Album Rating: 4.0yeah well I guess you're approaching it from a place where you're analyzing individual songs. I was viewing it as more an overall thing. I think this thing lacks some sort of overall atmospheric identity, which could be explained, I suppose, by what you said about the best songs not having any atmosphere, and the weaker ones going overboard with it (I can agree with that). There's no cohesion or album identity, not really, it's just a collection rock songs that range from pretty cool to fucking great.
I absolutely agree that the album could use a more focused atmosphere. And I feel TLF did a much better job at that, but this album has so many cool moments that I'm not going to fault it too much.
Album Rating: 4.0yeah I agree with that 100%
I actually like this more than TLF in spite of that album feeling more unified.
Both of them have stellar tracks, for sure.
I was hoping there would be a few songs here that had the stellar progression of "Black Gold" and "Afterglow," y'know? I think "Milk & Black Spiders" is the closest match here for me. I just love when everything comes in for the final chorus.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offi'm actually going to post mine still (better late than never right?!), but you covered the bases pretty well.
also, i'm not sure i agree that inhaler doesn't have much of an atmosphere - referring mostly to the chorus. i actually liken the chorus of that song to a cross between Thursday's full collapse and no devolucion. you're totally right about the more atmospheric tracks not really sticking though. i feel like the album's apex is at the very beginning: inhaler and my number are two absolutely phenomenal songs, and from there it never recaptures the energy of the former or the sheer pop brilliance of the latter. still a well-rounded and enjoyable album though
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offclean your ears
Ah, yeah, the chorus does have some atmosphere. It just isn't as blatant as on other tracks here.
Also, I view "My Number" as a more fleshed-out "Total Life Forever." Do any of you guys see that?
Potsy, you should lay off the lukewarm statements pal, what have I told you
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offsometimes i think we're on the same page and then you say something totally wrong like that =[
Potsy and I are never really on the same page, and I think we've just accepted this.
I don't really see how Inhaler is less 'independent' than a track like 'Miami' to be honest, man.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffAlso, I view "My Number" as a more fleshed-out "Total Life Forever." Do any of you guys see that?
i hear it now that you've mentioned it. the similarity, i mean - i don't know if i'd call my number more fleshed out but rather just more enjoyable.
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James McAvoy will star opposite Jessica Chastain in 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby'.
The Scottish actor will play the restaurant owner husband of Jessica's character in the double feature which will follow the couple as they deal with "an emotional, life-altering experience" when the wife goes back to college.
The unique project will tell their story in two movies and from each of their perspectives and will be called 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His' and 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers'.
However, the double love story, which has been written and will be directed by Ned Benson, will be stand-alone movies.
Kirk D'Amico from Myriad Pictures - who will sell the movie at Cannes - said in a statement: "I am thrilled that we can share the excitement of James joining the cast with our buyers in Cannes, who have been so enthusiastic about the project from the beginning. James is one of the finest actors working today and I look forward to seeing Ned's rich, complex characters come alive.
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PHP 5 OOP: Interfaces Abstract Classes and the Adapter Pattern
PHP 5 made significant improvements on the Object Orientated programming model of PHP 4 bringing it more in line with languages such as Visual Basic .NET and Java. The improved object model in PHP 5 makes developing applications using OOP much easier and gives you the programmer, greater flexibility.
In this series of articles I will demonstrate the new features of the PHP 5 object and show you how to create a database abstraction layer similar to PEAR DB. I will also introduce you to a few design patterns that can be applied to common OOP related problems.
In this article, I introduce you to some of the features of the PHP 5 object model. You will see how to create a database abstraction layer similar to the Pear DB abstraction layer. You'll also learn how to adapt this abstraction layer for your own uses.
One of PHP's stronger areas is its support for database connectivity. It is able to connect to and talk to just about any database server or interface you can imagine. However, with this comes a few inherent problems; each database system has its own features, functions and in most cases they have their own versions of SQL. Although the functions used to access these databases are similar they do vary subtly meaning that if you were to want to port an application written for MySql to MS SQL server, the refactoring would require manually changing all calls to mysql_query() to mssql_query().
While we are not going to go as far as developing a database independent version of SQL, the new features of PHP 5 will be us build a consistent database API with support for stored procedures (where it is not already present). This will then make switching from one database system to another as painless as changing one line of code.
Interfaces Abstract Classes and the Adapter Pattern
The first features new to PHP 5 to be covered in this article are abstract classes and interfaces. These concepts are nothing more than features added to OOP, which help the programmer follow good coding standards.
Abstract Classes
An abstract class is a class that is only partially implemented by the programmer. It may contain one or more abstract methods. An abstract method is simply a function definition that serves to tell the programmer that the method must be implemented in a child class.
To create an abstract class we use the code shown in Listing 1:
Listing 1: An Abstract PHP class
<?php abstract class Weapon { private $SerialNumber; abstract public function fire(); public function __construct($SerialNumber) { $this->SerialNumber = $SerialNumber; } public function getSerialNumber() { return $this->SerialNumber; } } ?>
The abstract class in Listing 1 contains some of the methods required for a weapon. The fire() method however, cannot be implemented because each different weapons use different firing different mechanisms. The method is therefore declared as abstract, meaning it will be implemented in a more specific child class.
Because the class is abstract, an instance of it can never be created (remember, it is only a partial implementation). Instead a child class must be created using inheritance and implement the fire method in itself. Failure to do so will result in a fatal error. Listing 2 shows a child class being created from the Abstract Weapon class.
Listing 2: Extending the Abstract Weapons class
<?php class Gun extends Weapon { public function fire() { if($this->SafetyOff) { return $this->CurrentBullet; } } } class Cannon extends Weapon { public function fire() { $this->NeedsLoading = true; return $this->CurrentCanon; } ?>
An instance of the Cannon and Gun classes can now be created because they now fully implemented subclasses of weapon.
An interface is similar to an abstract class; indeed interfaces occupy the same namespace as classes and abstract classes. For that reason, you cannot define an interface with the same name as a class. An interface is a fully abstract class; none of its methods are implemented and instead of a class sub-classing from it, it is said to implement that interface.
An interface will be used in the database abstraction layer you create. This ensures that every time you create a class for a particular database, the same API is exposed. When using an interface, you can then rely on the methods defined for the interface to be part of the class because, if they are not, PHP will not parse it.
The MySql functions will be used as an example because they are the most commonly used amongst PHP programmers. The most commonly used functions are:
- mysql_connect()
- mysql_error()
- mysql_errno()
- mysql_query()
- mysql_fetch_array()
- mysql_fetch_row()
- mysql_fetch_assoc()
- mysql_fetch_object()
- mysql_num_rows()
- mysql_close()
If all the database class APIs you create can expose the same methods with the same return types then you can be sure that changing from one database to another, such as from MySql to Postgre SQL, will be painless. As such, the interface in listing 3 can be determined for your API.
Listing 3: An Abstracted Database Interface
interface DB { public function connect(); public function error(); public function errno(); public static function escape_string($string); public function query($query); public function fetch_array($result); public function fetch_row($result); public function fetch_assoc($result); public function fetch_object($result); public function num_rows($result); public function close(); }
Any class implementing the interface must define each method that is declared in the interface, and each method must have at least the parameters identified in their interface definitions. It may have more parameters as long as they are optional, but it cannot have less.
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A list of book releases compiled by Dr. Dobb's to keep you up-to-date on software development tools and techniques.
Code in the Cloud: Programming Google AppEngine (Beta)
by Mark C. Chu-Carroll
Cloud applications are the next big shift in application development: instead of building single-user applications to run on a personal computer, new applications are being built as multi-user services that run in data centers around the world. One of the most exciting new environments for building services in the cloud is Google's AppEngine. AppEngine is a powerful, easy-to-use framework for developing cloud-based services. This book will teach you what you need to make the shift to cloud development using AppEngine. This title is currently available in "Beta." If you buy the eBook now, you'll be able to download successive releases of the eBook as the authors add material and correct mistakes. You'll get the final eBook when the book is finished. If you buy the combo pack (Beta eBook plus the finished Paper Book) now, you'll get the Beta eBook immediately, and you'll get the finished paper book when it's released.
The Developer's Guide to Social Programming: Building Social Context Using Facebook, Google Friend Connect, and the Twitter API
by Mark D. Hawker
This book shows developers how to build applications that integrate with the major social networking sites. Unlike competitive books that focus on a single social media platform, this book covers all three leading platforms: Facebook, OpenSocial, and Twitter. Hawker identifies the characteristics of superior, highly engaging social media applications, and shows how to use the Facebook platform, Google Friend Connect, and the Twitter API to create them.
CISSP Study Guide
by Eric Conrad, Seth Misenar, and Joshua Feldman
The CISSP certification is the very first and most prestigious, globally recognized, vendor neutral exam for information security professionals. Over 60,000 professionals are certified worldwide with many more joining their ranks. This new study guide is aligned to cover all of the material included in the exam complete with special attention to recent updates. The ten domains are covered completely in their own chapters (including access control, cryptography, and security architecture) and are as concise as possible with an eye to acing the exam.