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This month the Governor of Maryland announced a new state CIO, and a new cybersecurity role for outgoing CIO Elliot H. Schlanger.
Monday, August 26, Maryland's new chief information officer and secretary for the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) will take office, as announced by Gov. Martin O'Malley earlier this month. Isabel FitzGerald brings private- and public-sector experience, having served as CIO for the Maryland Department of Human Resources and later serving as the governor's deputy secretary for operations. She will replace Elliot H. Schlanger, who will fill the newly created position of Director of Cybersecurity for the state.
While finishing up at her old position, FitzGerald shared with Government Technology a general outline for the future as she plans to take on new technology projects for the state and continue those led by Schlanger. FitzGerald named four main areas she said she will focus on as the foundation for the state's technological future.
Although Schlanger will head cybersecurity operations for the state, cybersecurity will remain an important focus for DoIT, FitzGerald said. "It's important for us to make sure we're doing the things we need to and also lay the foundation for the mobile society that we live in," she said. "Our data is no longer at rest." With the proliferation of mobile devices, security is as critical an issue as ever and keeping the state secure remains one of the governor's main directives, she said.
The state will also continue much of the interoperability work already under way, she said. "I think we have an opportunity to standardize and consolidate and derive economies of scale, both in terms of hardware, software and services," she said.
The state started some consolidation initiatives early that can now be expanded upon, she said. "One of my longer range goals, I really want to lay the foundation and create a structure where we really change how we manage our data and how we bring data to the residents that we serve," she said. "I want to change up the customer experience. I want to make more information available."
The state has begun making more services available, and FitzGerald said she wants to move the state toward delivering more services in the formats that people want. "I think it's very important to be able to lay that foundation, which requires us to modernize some of our infrastructure and some of the systems that we use," she said.
Lastly, she said, the state should improve its business relations with groups like TechAmerica, to make gains in areas like procurement changes. "[I want to] really find a good balance between making sure that the state's protected and can quantify its risk, and also creating terms and conditions and processes that also support innovation and support competition in the market," she said.
These four fundamental things will create the structure for long-term improvement in the state, FitzGerald said. "Well done is better than well said," she said, citing her own motto. "I think it's important to plan, but it's equally important or more important to be able to actually execute it. I think people can plan themselves to death and it's important to make the best decisions that you can based on available data and move forward."
She will be able to execute her plan, she said, based on her experience in the Department of Human Resources where she was a consumer of the technology she will now be charged with providing. "I'm very well aware of the challenges that exist in IT and the importance of it as well, so I want to make sure the things we're doing at DoIT support initiatives that bring true value to the agencies that we serve."
She plans on being highly collaborative with other cabinet secretaries and agencies, she said, as well as building stronger relationships with industry partners like TechAmerica, adding that their experience with government and the visibility of government IT across the country allows them to share valuable knowledge. "The best source of information are the business partners and the people in the industry," she said.
TechAmerica issued a press release commending the state for the appointments of both FitzGerald and Schlanger to the new cybersecurity position.
"FitzGerald is a great selection for state CIO, said Carol Henton, vice president for state and local government at TechAmerica. "I understand that she is passionate about public service, and she certainly understands the important role that state government plays in protecting and providing support to its vulnerable citizens," Henton said. "But perhaps more relevant to TechAmerica and its member companies, she is willing to support and drive innovation. And she's not afraid to be an agent of change."
Henton echoed comments made by FitzGerald that the state needs to update its procurement policies, and said the state has recently had major challenges in that area. "The good news is that the state has recognized they have problems," she said. "They've recognized that they've set themselves into a situation where they're not getting the competition and bids they would like.


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By Paulist Father Tom Holahan
One in a series
ROME — I'd like to take "spiritual perfection" as my theme for my time on the "Year for Priests" blog. You may find me musing on the food of Italy or an incident during the handing out of tickets to the weekly papal audience (if you are in Rome, just about every Tuesday from 5 p.m. is "ticket distribution" day; drop in), but I like to think that reflections on both the sublime and ridiculous can contribute to our perfection of spirit.
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Diary entry — Sept. 1: I find the chapel of St. Monica just to the left of Sant'Agostino's high altar. Her remains have been moved to an ornate silver coffin just beneath the chapel's altar, on the left is her marble sarcophagus, a large side panel is from the original burial. The oil painting above includes the Latin phrase "Ubi tu ibi et ille," a reference to Monica's dream about her son recorded in Augustine's Confessions:
(Book III, Chapter 11)…she saw herself standing on a certain wooden rule, (8) and a bright youth advancing towards her, joyous and smiling upon her, whilst she was grieving and bowed down with sorrow. But he having inquired of her the cause of her sorrow and daily weeping … and she answering that it was my perdition she was lamenting, he bade her rest contented, and told her to behold and see "that where she was, there was I also." And when she looked, she saw me standing near her on the same rule. (20) … and I tried to put this construction on it, "That she rather should not despair of being some day what I was," she immediately, without hesitation, replied, "No; for it was not told me that where he is, there shalt thou be," but "where thou art, there shall he be." I confess to Thee, O Lord … Thy answer through my watchful mother … even then moved me more than the dream itself …"
Another painting has, in large letters, "Monica Ora Pro Nobis." In Monica's case, an especially appropriate sentiment since her entire adult life was spent in prayer for the conversion of her husband and son. Though she lived in ancient times, she is patron of quite relevant issues: abuse victims, alcoholics, difficult marriages and, of course, "disappointing children." It's so good to have her in a church named after her son.
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On my first trip back to Marymount International School since my return to Rome, I encountered the caper. I had passed clumps of these pink flowers hanging from the stone wall adjacent to the entrance. A teacher pointed out the famous buds which, pickled or salted, are a common ingredient in Mediterranean cuisine. Yet another harvestable "weed" that contributes to unbeatable Italian food. I am not completely over the shock of finding so much of what is on my dinner table growing in patches and corners of yards — from lemons to this caper to "family" olive trees and grapevines.
Sometimes you hear about the pillaging that took place in Rome after the Roman Empire went into decline. Those who took the statues and put them on their own monuments we think should not have done it, they should have kept them where they historically were. But here is something sad and true that I had not considered: the reason so much pillage was going on during the early Middle Ages was that no one could make anything as good; every appropriation was also an admission that the past was so much better than the present. I realize that I have never lived in a time when that was true, but that I might — soon. It's not that I have given up on the world; it's that I have begun to question a world that believes it can stand on its own, with no higher reference point. Here, in a city steeped in the Renaissance and High Baroque, I can see what might have been. Now the case for religion has to be fresh, to each succeeding generation.
Father Thomas J. Holahan, CSP, was ordained for the Paulist Fathers in 1977. Since 2006 he has served as vice-rector at the Church of Santa Susanna in Rome. This church was designated for Americans in Rome by the Vatican in 1922. He is also chaplain to Marymount International School. Previously, he has worked in campus ministry at the University of Colorado (Boulder), the University of California (Berkeley) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also served as communications director for the dioceses of Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio.

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Unless you have a piece of duct tape or cardboard to put over it.
They were talking about how for streamed movies the Kinect can count the number of people watching - and if it exceeds the number permitted by license (4 I think), the One will prompt you to pay for additional viewers. And games won't play at all if the Kinect doesn't see you.
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The Stranger at the Wall
The couple which had been childless for about 15 years decided to end their unsuccessful marriage in the least painful manner. A short while after their divorce the woman discovered that she was pregnant. The only thing standing in the way of her ex-husband remarrying her was that his name was Cohen and a kohen is prohibited from marrying any divorcee, even his own.
Heartbroken, he turned to the great halachic authority Rabbi Yosef Sholom Eliyashiv for guidance. The rabbi told him that there was no way he could halachically permit such a marriage if he was a kohen but urged him to go pray at the Western Wall for Heavenly assistance.
As the husband stood before the sacred wall tearfully and loudly praying he felt a tap on his shoulder. When asked what he was lamenting about he told the stranger his sad story. "Do you have a father?" asked the stranger and the reply was that his father was in an old-age home in the US. The stranger urged him to immediately fly to visit his father. Although failing to understand what point there was in visiting his frail father who could hardly communicate, he decided to follow this advice.
When he arrived at his father's bedside the doctor in attendance told him that his father, Mr. Cohen, had not spoken for months and he should not expect to communicate with him. But as the son related his problem the father, to everyone's surprise, suddenly spoke and informed him that he was not his son, but rather a child he had adopted after the Holocaust. This meant that he was not a kohen after all and the story had a happy ending.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Picdesk http://www.picdesk.com
We are an image agency specializing in images of women for professional buyers.
We sell rights-managed images of women and complete bikini photo shoots, representing over 40 international photographers and hundreds of on-call freelance photographers.
Our customers are the top 450 men's and women's lifestyle magazines, calendar and poster companies. Our suppliers are the photographers.
Our target audience for this 1 page brochure is the models.
We are offering aspiring models and actresses the chance to have a photo shoot with an internationally published photographer, and then for us to market that shoot to our international publishing customers.
The girls get:
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• 8+ digitally retouched images
• Marketing of images to Editors and Photo Editors of more than 450 magazines worldwide
• Images displayed on Picdesk website
• 10% commission of global image Sales
• Follow up Interviews with clients
Our biggest selling point over our competitors is that we have a LOT of photographers to choose from - its about choice, and the subsequent marketing by us that will give them the exposure.... its not just about getting the shoot done - its about the quality of the shoot - then the international follow up marketing that differentiates us.
Style: We would like to keep the in line with the design style of our website http://www.picdesk.com - we like Helvetica Neue as a font, and we have all the text and copy for the brochure in the attached word.doc.
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We plan to market this 1 pager through the social media channels facebook and twitter, and drive inquiries to us via email at this stage. We want to connect models with photographers - generating $$ by selling the shoot package - and then us selling the images afterwards.
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"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they are still beautiful."
- Alice Walker
It's hard to believe, but the materials for your dream space had a life long before you. And it is that history that makes them perfect for your home. Before they took residence in your home, they lived in nature. And, in many ways, nature lived in them. This is evident in the grain of the wood, the pinholes, the knots, the burls and the eclectic coloration left behind by mineral deposits. If you look closely, you can read the story of their former life. As with all organic material, there are also things to expect as the wood adjusts to a new life in your home.
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Discover the selection of wood types available from KraftMaid and find out for yourself how wood and finish combine.
Joint Lines
Wood is in a constant state of expansion and contraction. This normal movement may cause some hairline cracks at the joints in the finish surface on cabinet doors and face frames. This is a natural occurrence and does not weaken or diminish the strength of the joints.
End Grain
End grain surfaces are softer in composition than other areas of the wood. As such, they absorb more stain and often appear darker. This is a natural reaction and potential variances cannot be prevented.
Mineral Streaks
In nature, mineral deposits may form in the wood as the tree extracts nutrients from the soil. Common in many wood types, these mineral deposits cause blackish-blue streaks in the grain. When a finish is applied to mineral streaks, it may appear lighter or darker than other areas of your cabinetry.
Show through or "telegraphing" of wood characteristics may happen when paint is applied to any specie of natural wood. These characteristics, such as open grain, pin holes, knots and mineral streaks, may be visible through the paint. Telegraphing may happen on doors, face frames, moldings and any decorative end panel or enhancement made of natural wood. Take this into consideration when choosing our finishes that feature paint as the base technique, including paint with glaze and vintage techniques.
Certain wood, such as cherry, will continue to mellow and darken over time. This brings warmth to lightly-stained cherry and increases depth below darker stains.
Environmental Factors
A wood product is typically affected by environmental conditions that may alter its appearance from what it looked like when it was new. Here are a few conditions to keep in mind:
- As wood ages, the appearance of the finish may change or darken over time due to environmental factors such as interior lighting, sunlight and humidity.
- Finishes react to prolonged exposure to tobacco smoke, resulting in discoloration, which is especially noticeable on white and lighter finishes.
- Ovens and ranges emit heat and steam during operation. To protect the finish of adjacent cabinets, we strongly recommend the use of heat shields. On thermofoil cabinetry, heat shields are required.
- Showroom cabinetry samples, depending on age, room lighting and environmental factors, may look different from the new cabinetry installed in your home. To ensure satisfaction with a finish color, it is best to view a new sample in your home environment.
Color Variation
All KraftMaid finishes are hand-crafted. As such, each door will be consistently unique. In addition, the natural characteristics of wood lend themselves to color variation, and this is also true when finish is applied. Veneer wood absorbs more stain than solid wood and will appear darker. Some door styles are built with a solid wood frame and a veneer center panel, which will show more color variation than doors with all solid wood components.


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To help ensure an adequate blood supply for the
region, the Central Illinois Community Blood Center is offering
opportunities to donate blood in Logan County.
Monday, April 7,
noon-6 p.m. —
Lincoln Masonic Center, 2022 N. Kickapoo
Thursday, April 10, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. —
Logan County Department of Public Health, 109 Third St.
For your convenience, call the blood center toll-free to sign up
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The Boston Red Sox had a wild celebration inside the visiting clubhouse at Dodgers stadium after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 to win the World Series. The festivities had the usual assortment of champagne showers and cigars, but things got crazy when Rick Porcello stripped off his clothes and dived into an ice tub full of beer. The locker room party featured some karaoke, lead by Brock Holt singing his favorite country songs.
The Red Sox took a dig at the New York Yankees, blasting "New York, New York," and ended their celebration with a dance party set to "California Love."
While the players were enjoying their victory, Red Sox fans on the other side of the country celebrated in their own way across New England.
Fans at the Cask 'N Flagon erupted into cheers after Chris Sale struck out Manny Machado to clinch the series.
College students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst took the streets singing "Sweet Caroline," while another fan dove into a puddle of dirty water, a reference to Red Sox victory anthem "Dirty Water" by The Standells.
Everybody seemed to have a good time, even the cops, who were on duty to make sure things didn't get too out control.
Being in the air didn't stop some fans from celebrating, blasting "Sweet Caroline" from their phone.
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The original Battlefield: Bad Company was one of the great near misses of the current console generation. The team at DICE did its level best to mix the wide open maps, freeform gameplay and vehicular mayhem of multiplayer Battlefield with the more structured, story-led approach of a single-player FPS, but the combination never quite gelled.
Many of us loved the game for its twisted take on warfare, for its great dialogue, its interesting characters and - best of all - its destructible scenery, but it was impossible to turn a blind eye to where the game didn't work. Remember the enemy troops? Not a brain cell to share between them, but the sharpshooting skills of Annie Oakley. Or how about that weird health system, where on dying you could simply respawn and throw yourself back into the fray?
This makes sense within the context of an online game, but within a single-player campaign it just felt wrong. The difficulty level was all over the shop, and many of the levels were just not that interesting. Even the multiplayer was good, but slightly underwhelming in comparison to the PC Battlefields, or even the console Battlefield 1943 that shipped last year.
The sequel, however, is fantastic. In some ways DICE has been more conservative this time around, rejecting the bits of the Battlefield franchise that don't work in a single-player game, and pinching elements from other franchises that do. And when we say other franchises, we mean one other franchise in particular. In many respects, DICE has taken the first game's attitude and a revamped version of its Frostbite engine, and used it to power a Modern Warfare clone. Yet that description isn't really fair, because - in a lot of ways - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a better game than Modern Warfare 2.
Don't worry: the baby hasn't gone out with the bathwater. Bad Company 2 is still a dark, witty take on the military action game, with often brilliant snatches of Tarantino-esque banter running right through the middle of every mission. The plot centres on a more generic doomsday weapon/spy conspiracy device than the Three Kings inspired gold heist of the original, but where Modern Warfare 2 handled its plot in a slightly po-faced, Tom Clancy fashion, Bad Company 2 just uses it as a level to keep you moving from one FUBAR situation to another.
What's more, the way that you're constantly fighting with the same three-man team gives the game a real sense of personality that Infinity Ward's epics sometimes lack. Sure, some of the Modern Warfare 2 special forces crew stick in the mind - who can forget Captain Price? - but can you remember the rest of the grunts? I'm not so sure.
Bad Company 2 is undoubtedly more linear than the original Bad Company, the areas that you're being funnelled through are more open than those you'd find in most parts of Modern Warfare 2, and there's still plenty of racing around in tanks and Humvees to be done. Yet Bad Company 2 has learnt from Infinity Ward, orchestrating wave after wave of action, and throwing in some genuinely brilliant set-pieces. As a whole the pacing isn't as intense and dramatic as Modern Warfare or Modern Warfare 2, but what you've lost in terms of Bad Company's freedom is gained in a more focused and engaging thrill ride. Bad Company 2 is consistently gripping, white-knuckle stuff.
When the bullets start flying, it's exhilarating. Enemy intelligence is still a bit woolly, but they try a bit harder to flank and use cover, and the near-universal sharpshooting skills that made Bad Company so frustrating has been mercifully toned down. It's the sheer quantity of destruction, however, that makes the sequel so vastly entertaining. One minute you'll be skulking underneath an upstairs window in a mountain cottage, taking sneaky potshots at the troops and machine-gunners down below, the next minute there will be no window, no wall and not really much cottage to speak of. Amazingly, Bad Company 2 ups the ante on destruction from the already destructive original.
Fuel tanks blow up, shattering buildings in the vicinity. Trees and pylons collapse, crushing anything below. In one early mission there's a battle in a riverside village against an armoured patrol boat, and as you try to get a bead on the boat, practically the whole village erupts around you. Breathtaking stuff.
All the booms and bangs certainly contribute to a dynamic audio/visual experience, but even in its quieter moments Bad Company 2 is a beautiful looking game. Whether you're deep in the South American rain-forest or making your way through the snow, the natural scenery is stunning, and the character models rich with detail. And when it comes to lighting and atmospheric weather effects, Bad Company 2 arguably outdoes Modern Warfare 2, with one frosty level in particular featuring a blizzard so convincing, you'll be tempted to turn the central heating up a notch to keep from freezing. My one complaint? A lack of variety in the enemy soldier models. And when that's your biggest major grumble, a game just has to be doing something right.
Sounds good? It gets better. Switch from the single-player campaign to the online multiplayer mode, and Bad Company 2 is the first console battlefield to deliver the kind of experience that made the series' name on the PC. The focal Conquest and Rush modes give you the epic maps and vehicular mayhem we used to take for granted from Battlefield 2, but the destructible scenery and map design arguably up the carnage factor, making Bad Company 2 arguably the most thrilling, unpredictable shooter in town - and that includes Modern Warfare 2. And if you want a tighter, more concentrated hit, the Squad Rush and Squad Deathmatch modes deliver, decreasing the numbers, but also reducing the scale to make things quick, dirty and explosive.
With comprehensive overhauls to the single-player and multiplayer modes, Bad Company 2 is everything you'd want from a console Battlefield. The surprise is that, by the standards of any franchise, it's an exemplary military shooter, and better in many respects than the genre's current benchmark, Modern Warfare 2. Unless you're sick and tired of shooting goons in uniform, you need this game in your collection.


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Italy Roundtable: Why I Write About Italy
This is the first installment of the monthly Italy Blogging Roundtable, a project organized by travel writing powerhouse Jessica Spiegel, and including professional travel writer Melanie Renzulli, art historian and general brainiac Alexandra Korey, Tuscan uber-blogger Gloria, and me. I am very much enjoying my time here while I can, because in just a few short months my fellow participants will realize that I am the millstone standing between them and fame, at which point I will quietly fade into obscurity and remain the subject of myth and conjecture for generations, much like the fifth Beatle.
Our topic this month is "Why I Write About Italy". So pull up a chair to our Roundtable, have some Chex Mix, and join in on the conversation.
Why I Write About Italy
"Write what you know," they say.
They also say, "Use correct spelling and punctuation". But if there's one thing I've learned in almost two decades of living in this benign anarchy known as Italy, it's that there are certain rules which absolutely must be observed in any circumstance lest you unwittingly release the winds of hell, destruction, or—god forbid—brutta figura (i.e.: when shaking hands in a crowd, never reach across another person's outstretched arm, which brings on the evil eye and/or plagues of grasshoppers) and there are certain rules which are discretionary (i.e.: Red means stop. Green means go.).
To say I write about Italy because I know Italy would be folly, of course. Italy—much like Italian, theoretical mathematics, and parenting—is a field in which the only thing you ever truly know is this: The more you know, the more you realize you don't know jack. Knowing this captivating country is as daunting—and, ultimately, impossible—as trying to frame a river. Italy rushes past, churning up sand and bubbling over boulders, changing its path according to history, trend, and whim, alternatively drying up and flooding the plain, and confounding anyone who tries to navigate its changeable waters.
I don't know Italy, and never will. But I do know some things about my corner of Italy—Umbria–and my experience living here as an American expat, married to an Italian, raising two sons, and running a business. And that's what I write.
Umbria is Changing
The world is changing, and Umbria along with it. But the changes this rural region has gone through over a single generation took most of the western world a plodding two hundred years. My husband has gone from having no electricity, indoor plumbing, or telephone in the late 1960s to having wifi and solar energy in 2011. He remembers harvesting grain with a thresher powered by a hand-cranked motor, piling haystacks two stories high, and walking to a schoolhouse with all five elementary grades in a single room.
Clearly, modernization is positive, but has also brought with it a certain loss of traditions and unraveling of social fabric. The countryside has emptied out, as have many historic centers, and soulless apartment blocks have replaced courtyards and piazze. Outdoor markets and tiny specialized shops have succumbed to shopping centers and box stores. Backyard wood-burning ovens and cold January days of curing prosciutto and salame can't compete with the convenience of industrial bakeries and butchers.
And so I grasp on to these disappearing vestiges of the slower, richer (though, certainly, smellier and grimier) Umbria…I try to hold on to these wisps of memory like a child grasping to catch fog in his hand. I try to stop time for just a minute, just 500 words, just enough to remember the torta, the Cantamaggio, the hog butchering, the artisans, the people and their lives before there's no one left who can.
Italy is Demanding
Diego to my Frida, Ted to my Sylvia: Italy exalts and rarifies me, stripping me to my creative and artistic core, teaching me the worth of beauty, time, and love. The next day–hour, moment?—Italy exhausts and defeats me, exasperating me with demands and accusations, making me long for escape. Italy is a demanding lover and I am hopelessly in its thrall.
But instead of a legacy of jarringly intimate paintings or confessional poems, I find relief in leaving a breadcrumb trail of reminders. I write about what I love about Umbria, about Italy, about my life here because I know there are times–many times–when I need to page through these mental photographs like an unhappy wife who studies her wedding album trying to recapture what it was that made her fall in love in the first place.
And so I visit the villages, study the art, hike the mountains, discover the workshops, dance at the festivals, learn the recipes, drink the wine, banter with the people. I jealously hoard these stories –snapshots of a courtship—until I find I need to take them out of their dusty shoebox, spread them out on the kitchen table, and say, "See? Look how happy we are here. This was when we first met. We should really go back there and visit again."
I am Dying
Pipe down, we're all dying. Sooner or later we'll be gone, and our children and grandchildren will be left with very little information that goes deeper than what is recorded in the municipal archives. Our inner lives, our impressions, our decision-making processes, our visceral hate of cilantro…anything that fills in the sketchy outlines of our life will be precious to them.
How I would love to know what my great-grandmother was thinking all those weeks on the ship from Greece, what she made of her first hot dog, how long it took her to wrap her head around English, what she missed the most from Mykonos, what she loved most about America, why—oddly–her favorite snack was Dutch windmill cookies. But I will never know those things, because Yia Yia didn't write them down.
And so I write. I write for Umbria, past and future. I write for myself, head over heels. I write for my children, who will wonder.
This is why I write about Italy; this is what I know.
Curious to hear what Alexandra, Gloria, Melanie, and Jessica had to say about this month's topic? Check out their blog posts, and leave your comments.
- On Writing About Italy from writingsharks.net with commentary on how to improve your writing and proofreading.
- Because it's not Florence everywhere… and because it's home. from At Home in Tuscany
- What Can I Write About Italy That Hasn't Been Written Before? from Italofile
- Why I Write About Italy from WhyGo Italy


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The Road to KDE 4: Kalzium and KmPlot
Since not all of the development for KDE 4 is in base technologies, this week features two of applications from the KDE-Edu team: Kalzium, a feature-filled
These educational tools have received a lot of work for KDE 4. In particular, Kalzium and KmPlot developments are happening at an amazing rate.
Kalzium (the German word for Calcium) has been a part of KDE since version 3.1 and is now one of the most useful applications developed by the KDE-Edu team. Initially it was just a program that displayed the periodic table, alongside some useful numbers like atomic weights, boiling points, etc. It was later extended to include a lot of background information on the elements, and more detailed chemistry information (such as emission spectra) which made it a very useful chemistry reference.
In KDE 3.5.5 (which I used for these screenshots, even though 3.5.6 was released last week), Kalzium looks something like this when first loaded:
You can see that the interface is pretty simple, and presents a lot of information. If you click on an element it brings up even more information on its properties.
The main user interface in KDE 4 does not look that different, except for the fact that Qt 4 introduces some appearance changes, and there are some more icons (some that haven't been drawn yet) in the toolbar. Here's a peek at Kalzium in the KDE 4 development series:
So Kalzium is visually quite similar between versions at this point. However, the important thing to note in the KDE 4 screenshot is the tools menu. In KDE 3.5.5, this menu contains only Plot Data and Glossary.
Plot Data shows the elements plotted in a variety of useful ways, such as mass, radius, electronegativity, etc. while the Glossary shows definitions for many of the more common chemical terms. It is apparently missing the above mentioned electronegativity, so evidently there is still room for improvement here. Making improvements to the Glossary would be a great opportunity for a chemistry-inclined person to contribute to Kalzium in KDE 4 without having to be a programmer.
Anyway, back to the new tools. I'll focus on a few of the newly developed tools that will make Kalzium even more useful in KDE 4:
The isotope table will display a list of isotopes and their decay methods - as a geologist for example, it is important for me to know that Potassium-40 usually decays by electron capture.
The new equation solver is also quite useful, as seen in the following screenshot provided by Kalzium lead developer Carsten Niehaus:
You basically just punch in a chemical equation leaving letters in place of the numbers you are looking for, and it spits out a response. In high school chemistry, students are expected to be able to solve these sorts of equations manually, but like most equations, once you solve enough of them, it simply becomes tedious. This equation solver can save a lot of time for complex equations.
And finally, the most visible change to Kalzium is the inclusion of the Kalzium 3D work, which turns the program into a 3D molecule viewer. Initially, it was developed by the Kalzium developers for use in this application only, but some collaboration has since happened and it will now be using libavogadro a library jointly developed by the Kalzium and Avogadro developers.
According to the Kalzium developers work is progressing on porting the 3D modeller to use libavagadro, an effort led by Donald Curtis, providing a more general/powerful framework for rendering/manipulating molecules with Qt and OpenGL library. It is shared between Kalzium and Avogadro (and more). Avogadro is a much more advanced molecular modelling programs, useful for creating the actual molecule files, and doing quantum chemistry. Kalzium 3D will simply act as a viewer for files constructed using these programs.
Kalzium developer Benoît Jacob submits the following screenshot showing the 3D molecule viewer in action using the new Kalzium 3D functionality. This functionality is already SVN as this article goes to press, however work continues with libavogadro integration.
Kalzium will likely ship with a library of common molecules ready to view provided by the BlueObelisk project. Thanks to the OpenBabel library, it should also be able to open molecule files in a huge variety of formats (I counted 62 file formats that it already supports).
On to our next KDE-Edu feature: KmPlot. For a while already, this application has had the ability to plot regular functions, parametric functions, and polar functions, as well as show derivatives (or regular functions) and a few other goodies. It has been useful as an equation visualization tool, but the interface has been awkward, with many little cluttered dialogs to fight with.
Below is KmPlot in KDE 3.5.5 with it's default settings, and three functions plotted, one of each type:
The dialogs used to plot these equations look something like this, except there is one unique dialog for each type of plot:
Here's a quick look of the new KmPlot interface with the same three functions plotted. No more dialogs to mess with, and the plots can be in shapes other than square! Plus Qt 4 gives everything a nice anti-aliased touch.
KmPlot has received a huge amount of work, and should be one of the KDE 4's killer apps for students, engineers, and more. It plots differential equations now, has a new equation editor, and (as seen in the above screenshot) gives tips as to how to correct your equations.
The new equation editor is shown below with a differential equation being edited:
As you can see, it's much easier to enter an equation when you can design the functions in a nice syntax checking editor like this one. There is a lot more work going into KmPlot than I can describe in just this article, so if you are interested in more information, check out its development status page.
KDE-Edu is a growing project, with many great applications being developed for a wide variety of age groups. They will have support for Windows and Mac as well, thanks to the improved QT 4 and KDE 4 libraries, and should become more popular programs as a result. Since there is so much great work happening here, expect some other KDE-Edu applications to show up in future articles.
digg it!
By patcito at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: digg it!
By illogic-al at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
> Making improvements to the Glossary would be a great opportunity for a
Or, if you're not chemistry-inclined why not suggest words or terms that you don't know and include those terms in the glossary? that way terms commonly known to chemists are not overlooked.
thanks for the great work!
By bkn at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Kalzium looks promising
Especially the 3D viewer. Is there any chance of having a PDB viewer (Protein Databank) integrated into KDE? That would be really great. Apart from that, great work. Can't wait for KDE4
By Rithvik at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
It seems to me that all these molecule databases would be a perfect candidate for the GHNS (Get Hot New Stuff) feature. It seems a bit unnecessary to include everything in the chem world in kdeedu. It's already big enough as it is.
By Inge Wallin at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
Sounds like a good idea, I'll forward it to Carsten if he hasn't already read your comment. I guess we could make it so that the first time the user launches the mol viewer, he gets proposed to download molecule files.
By Benoit Jacob at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
Well, *some* molecules should of course be shipped with Kalzium. It's just that all these databases are terribly big, and not especially useful for everybody.
By Inge Wallin at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
Sure, we'll ship at least a few molecules. By the way, the whole gzipped archive weighs 300 kb.
By Benoit Jacob at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
So maybe a good behavior is to show by default ony a few mols, and then put a button in the GUI saying "download more molecules".
Well, we need to think more about this.
By Benoit Jacob at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
We use OpenBabel to load molecule files, and OpenBabel supports 62 file formats as Troy counted. I checked, PDB is among the supported formats.
By Benoit Jacob at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
That is understood. Openbabel does convert and support many formats, but it looses a lot of annotations on the way, such as residue information.
By Rithvik at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
ah ok, thanks for explaining. I'm no chemist and I'm only doing the math and OpenGL stuff here, but I'll point Carsten and Donald to your comment.
By Benoit Jacob at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
Well, there is Bioclipse (http://www.bioclipse.net/): http://bioclipse.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=5
Of course, that is not in Konq, but for that you can of course use JMol (http://jmol.sourceforge.net/). Look at the screenies if you want to see it in action: http://jmol.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
By Carsten Niehaus at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
I have mentioned and use jmol. I didn't know of bioclipse. Thanks.
By Rithvik at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
I've been working on pulling some extra information (annotations?) into OpenBabel. I know that there is already work for residue information (although i haven't worked on that directly). libavogadro will support it, and thus kalzium.
By dcurtis at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
that's the spirit. thank *you* all
just a short note the feature is coming to a library that is used by a library that is used by our favorite KDE application AND 'competing' apps.. That's the real power of FOSS. Sh1t, I just love this. It's like 'sweets hitting the fan' or so...lol.
By eMPe at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: that's the spirit. thank *you* all
When I started that 3D-feature I wrote my own cml-parser. After some days I thought that is a really stupid idea and ported Kalzium to OpenBabel. It took me about 2 hours and five emails.
In the end OpenBabel has a couple of bugs left, the API-docs are now cleaner (because of my stupid questions ;-) and OB even has some new features I needed. Avogadro is also using OB, as is GHemical and others.
By Carsten Niehaus at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: Open Babel problems?
If you have particular "problems" with Open Babel, you really should report them to the bug tracker. Please don't just gripe about the project on a random forum -- your bugs won't be fixed that way. Better yet, please give us example files of stripping out annotations and tell us what we should do instead. Residue information certainly should be retained when reading a PDB file. Check out PDB -> Mol2 for example.
Yes, Avogadro does have options for rendering a residue at a time, or secondary structure, etc. We've planned it that way. But Avogadro is also based on Open Babel, so if you really think there are problems in the underlying library, it'll be a problem with Kalzium, Avogadro... well quite a few viewers.
I like to think Open Babel as a project is pretty good about responding to critiques and suggestions. So please tell us what we're doing wrong so we can fix them!
By Geoff Hutchison at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: Kalzium looks promising
I am working together with Jerome and his project:
Currently, that project ships 524 structures. If you are missing any structure tell me and I promise it will be there ASAP.
By Carsten Niehaus at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
LaTeX support
Does anybody know, if LaTeX support is planned for KmPlot or Kalzium (exporting molecules).
That would be really cool!
By Peter at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: LaTeX support
Kmplot would benefit from sharing some code to edit formulas with KFormula from KOffice. It's basically two different implementations that do the same thing. Probably also two different implementations to save them in various formats, parse them and possibly other stuff too.
PS. KFormula does have export to Latex even if I hear that there is a bug in it.
By Inge Wallin at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: LaTeX support
By Steve at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: LaTeX support
That would only work for 2D-structures, right? Well, if OpenBabel gets this feature I would implement it in Kalzium, yes.
By Carsten Niehaus at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: LaTeX support
Yes,only for 2D-formulas. Do you know:
Some thing like that would be pretty cool.
By Peter at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: LaTeX support
Well, Kalzium would inherit this feature automatically if Open Babel had it.
So my best suggestion is to either push for this or find someone to implement it in Open Babel:
The particular file format request looks like this:
However, it lacks a lot of detail! If you have a few minutes to flesh out the request, including the "LaTeX" format you want (Fig?) and how this might work, it would be greatly appreciated.
By Geoff Hutchison at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: LaTeX support
Kmplot will export to an .eps file, and you can include that in a LaTeX file. That's really the best way to get graphics into a LaTeX file anyway.
By Brent at Sun, 2008/03/30 - 5:00am
potting experimental data with kmplot?
The new interface of kmplot looks pretty cool and the feature listing is impressive. I just wonder why it does not support plotting of x,y-data (or have I overlooked something on the feature page)? To me as an engineer kmplot would be much more useful if I could compare experimental (x,y) data to mathematical functions, which kmplot plots so well.
By ups at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: potting experimental data with kmplot?
The next version of KChart will hopefully be able to do that. KOffice 2.0 is not released yet, but then again, neither is kmplot 4.
By Inge Wallin at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: potting experimental data with kmplot?
Do kmplot and kchart share libraries? I hope there isn't extra duplicated effort in drawing graphs, and the kmplot graphs look much nicer than those in kchart 1.6.
Looking forward to KOffice 2.0!
By Yuriy at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: potting experimental data with kmplot?
Kst from extragear is a very powerful tool for data plotting, which you might find useful
By Philip Rodrigues at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: potting experimental data with kmplot?
One really good solution I have found is www.zunzun.com . The website author uses open-source tools to display and fit data, as well as data analysis statistics and graphs. I used it to do data analysis for a paper I recently prepared, and recommended it to the lab supervisor at my university for use in the undergraduate physics labs.
Another good option is Gnuplot. I've also done plotting in Kile, the KDE Latex interface, though it was function plotting and not fitting. While I agree that it would be a good addition to KDE, I have to give a shout-out for some tools that have been very useful for me.
By Me at Tue, 2007/02/06 - 6:00am
Re: potting experimental data with kmplot?
I'm glad you found my web site useful. The site fitting code is available under a BSD-style license at http://sf.net/projects/pythonequations.
By James R. Phillips at Thu, 2007/04/19 - 5:00am
Wasted effort - help Maxima, Axiom, Scilab
With _real_ mathematics open source projects like Axiom (CAS), Maxima (CAS), and Scilab (matlab like, feature-full and fast, unlike the stagnated Octave), and R (full-blown professional statistics environment - but in serious need of some spreadsheet interface) it's a real shame that KDE chooses to waste time with replicating functionalities that are already in other software, when eforts could be made to further those serious packages.
By jj at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Wasted effort - help Maxima, Axiom, Scilab
The projects you mention have nothing to do with Kalzium and Kmplot.
Obviously you haven't RTFA.
By Benoit Jacob at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Wasted effort - help Maxima, Axiom, Scilab
KmPlot is designed for quick-and-easy plotting for simple math, not full blown math suites. If you want to do serious math, you use a serious math program, not a program that ships as part of an educational suite.
You wouldn't use javascript to write a kernel. Don't use KmPlot for your math thesis.
By Troy Unrau at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Wasted effort - help Maxima, Axiom, Scilab
By name at Sat, 2007/02/03 - 6:00am
Re: Wasted effort - help Maxima, Axiom, Scilab
still, the direct competitor is gnuplot...
By nick at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Wasted effort - help Maxima, Axiom, Scilab
"Stop writing toys. Stop playing."
Excuse me? Are you telling developers they can't have fun? Be a little nicer when you make requests!
By kwilliam at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: Wasted effort - help Maxima, Axiom, Scilab
You should mention Python + SciPy + NumPy + Matplotlib. This should be the winning combination, IMHO. At least, this the best I found in open source, after having wandering for a while (Scilab, Octave, Gnuplot, R and others)! I encourage people to write libraries/toolboxes in this framework. Scilab and Octave fail to compete with Matlab, even if Scilab is good. I think that Python with brilliant libraries such SciPy is the best path for open source software to compete with Matlab. The work is well advanced, but help is needed!
Your sentences "Stop writing toys. Stop playing." had to lead to disagreements! On one hand, you cannot blame people writing new software _for you and for free_. On the other hand, developers with ambition bring useful tools, which is better including for them, in the end. But, in my experience, many many developers do not understand that. I do not know why. Open source might suffer from a lack of steering people, just like there are good managers in firms that prevent talented people from wasting their time.
By Hobbes at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Scilab is not open source
Um, except that Scilab is not a "real" open-source project. In fact, it is not "open source" at all according to the commonly-accepted OSI definition, despite the Scilab web page's prominent claim to be an "open source platform".
In particular, their license prohibits commercial redistribution of modified versions.
(And if you're about to object, "But who cares about that?", think about it: it gives a single organization, INRIA, an effective monopoly over commercial support for Scilab. If all free software had that restriction, commercial Linux distros would basically be out of business and the world would be quite different.)
By Frodo at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am
there is a need for a KDE Maxima
Telling volunteers what to do (and especially what not to do) is the height of superiority and ignorance. I haven't used KmPlot, but Kalzium is actually really handy.
I agree that a KDE computer algebra system would be really nice. I currently use Mathematica, and its interface frankly just sucks. It totally breaks down if you commit the sin of turning the numlock key on (yes, its a math program that doesn't let you use the number pad!) and its the only program I've seen to misbehave with Beryl. A KDE frontend to Maxima would be killer.
By Ian Monroe at Fri, 2007/02/02 - 6:00am
Re: there is a need for a KDE Maxima
By Christian Brønn... at Tue, 2008/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: Wasted effort - help Maxima, Axiom, Scilab
I totally way disagree... Plenty of programs _nominally_ have KmPlot's functionality. KmPlot is the _only_ program I've seen that does plots easily and quickly, and that allows you to change the coordinate plane dynamically and to trace Y-values along a function curve. I'll grant that I'm not a super open-source uber expert, but I know that ease of use counts and the time I would waste trying to figure out how to do plots in other programs (most implementations I've seen are simply frontends for GNUplot) is time I could have spent working and getting things done. KDEplot is simple, extensible, and powerful, and that's very important. Saying it's a "wasted effort" belies all the time and energy it has saved me in my math classes, but moreso it belies all the money it saves for all math students who need a quick and easy plotting program at home and don't feel like paying $80+ for a graphing calculator. (Remember, not everyone is going to learn about GNUplot frontends. Personally, I can barely get my brain around it and it's so frustrating, I'd much rather use KMPlot's simple, friendly, and dynamic interface, where I can add functions, change the grid, edit functions, etc. on the fly and with the fewest processes possible.)
Personally, I love Maxima... I use it and KMPlot together as something of a tag team for massive math productivity. A KDE frontend for Maxima would be killer, and one that would integrate with KMPlot would be sublime (in fact, combining such tools to create an integrated math toolkit, like Mathematica, would be a great goal). Just, please don't insult the work that KMPlot's team has put into this piece of software. I know it's not wasted effort because of how important it is to my math education. KMPlot is easy, simple, and fun to use, and that matters. I can't wait for the new version. And if you think developers should "stop playing" or "stop making toys".. you might want to realize that Linux basically started with some guy (that is, Linus) seeing if he could make his own OS just for the fun of it. There's value in toys and in tinkering; if you enjoy making your software, you'll make software that you will enjoy using, and that is the software that will be useful.
Sure, other programs do what KMPlot does... just not as well.
By Tina Russell at Tue, 2007/05/22 - 5:00am
About the R/S Phrases Icon
At the Tools menu there is a R/S Phrases with an important simbol as the icon.
The icon used at R/S Phrases means Biohazard, it must be used only with biological threats like pathogenic baterias, virus, genetic modified foods, pieces of tissues from a sick guy and so on.
When you use a simbol for a diferent meaning, like the heavy rock band Biohazard, this simbol become weak. I think this simbol for R/S Phrases must be changed.
If you link this simbol with a rock band or a R/S Phrases you get a wrong meaning at your mind. If you see a package with this simbol at the streets you think: "Cool man, let me see what I got today.!" and hoooo hoooo you are infected.
This can sound geek, but this simbol is an international standard.
Thanks for the amazing work folks.
By "from Brazil wi... at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: About the R/S Phrases Icon
R/S means "risk and safety".
So I think the icon is appropriate.
By Benoit Jacob at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: About the R/S Phrases Icon
That simbol means "Biological Hazard".
This is compliant whith the ISO 3864, wich specifies international standards for safety symbols.
-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohazard
""A biological hazard or biohazard is an organism, or substance derived from an organism, that poses a threat to (primarily) human health. This can include medical waste, samples of a microorganism, virus or toxin (from a biological source) that can impact human health.""
It's not relatad to other kind of threaths or hazards, like chemical products or radioative metals.
We have the radioactive simbol, the toxic simbol, the chemical hazard simbol.
Please, check this page:
-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_symbol
By "from Brazil wi... at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am
Re: About the R/S Phrases Icon
thanks for explaining; i'll report to Carsten if he doesn't already know.
By Benoit Jacob at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am
What's up with those -> arrows in the equation editor? We have Unicode (→) for a reason. Or is KDE not up to 1991 standards yet?
By Anonymous Coward at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: unicode
It's because most keyboards do not have a key to input an arrow, that's all.
How would you write an arrow in a text box on most keyboards? -> obviously. :)
Using the same arrow in the output - well, that may not be necessary.
By Troy Unrau at Wed, 2007/01/31 - 6:00am
Re: unicode
"How would you write an arrow in a text box on most keyboards? -> obviously. :)"
alt-gr+i works quite well. It is the default on quite a few X keyboards layouts.
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I'm watching an old episode of Family Feud on the Game Show Network, and I am floored. I think I'd be better at this game than anyone who has ever been on it. But more importantly, I could never bring myself to respond "good answer" to anything they say.
Name a profession with a high divorce rate? Bus Driver!
Good answer!
What would ruin a party? No pretzels!
Good answer!
Who is the most incredible woman who ever lived? Betty Ford!
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My answers were "entertainment," "no guests," and "the Virgin Mary," respectively. Those were numbers 2, 1, and 1. Granted, I am in the comfort of my home whereas these people are under the hot lights of a terribly cheesy television studio.
I know that game shows are harder in person; I have been on two of them. Recently I was on Street Smarts and got my butt whooped. Yes, my nerves had something to do with it. But that's also a game based on luck. Family Feud is based on skill. The skill of tapping in to the collective conciseness of 100 morons, but skill nonetheless.
When I was 12, I was also on Video Power, a short-lived show where four pre-teens competed against each other at various Nintendo games. I did okay - until the host stepped on my foot. He said he didn't want to reshoot so I lost. I got a great consolation prize so I didn't mind. Besides, who am I to argue with THE Johnny Arcade?
Until now, I never thought of looking up Johnny Arcade on the web. But now I know his real name is Stivi Pakoski and he hasn't done much since. Take that, Stivi. Serves you right for ruining my chances to get covered in Velcro and stick video games to my chest in the bonus round.
While watching the Feud, I marvel at how dumb people can be. A gentleman was just asked to name a fictional bear and he said, "polar." And of course, his family encouraged him. A quick impression of my family in the same situation:
"What are you, stupid! Get out of the family! You're dead to me! Guards!"
And that's how it should be.
Maybe I'm glad my family never played the Feud, since one of us would likely say something silly, and we'd have to go through all the hassle of selling someone on the black market.
Jeopardy is a difficult show, and even if you know the answers, someone else is likely to buzz in before you. Win Ben Stein's Money was tough, especially when Jimmy Kimmel would waste the contestant's time by stuttering over the questions. And Quiz Show was almost impossible; not only would the producers make things harder for contestants they didn't like, but you'd have to get by Ralph Fiennes.
Other shows are just too easy. Contestants on Wheel of Fortune routinely need all the letters turned in order to solve the puzzle. The last contestant on the Price is Right rarely figures out that you always bid "blank-oh-one." And contestants on Hollywood Squares don't know how to play tic tac toe, let alone the answers to any of the questions.
And yet, their families are still encouraging. I've seen people on the Wheel lose cars during a puzzle that an eight-year-old playing hangman would have solved. And when their families come up on stage at the end, they still dance and hug and say "good answer." Even though she guessed that a strawberry dessert would be the Mojave.
Perhaps it's a positive sign. A sign that we're taught to love our families so unconditionally that we hug them even when they display the IQ of Vienna Sausage. Or maybe it's a sign that we love being on TV so much that nothing else matters to us when we are.
Maybe Johnny Arcade knows. Next time I'm at Starbucks, I'll ask him.


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New ESRB ratings indicate that Tecmo is planning to inject some life into the incredibly dull Wii Virtual Console Arcade lineup, with new ratings for Ninja Gaiden, Solomon's Key and Rygar.
Those three Tecmo arcade games all spawned NES ports, with Ninja Gaiden remarkably different from its arcade predecessor. While we haven't seen an announcement for those three newly rated titles, Tecmo recently brought the arcade version of Tecmo Bowl to the Virtual Console Arcade. It appears its plans don't stop there.
No word yet on when we can expect to see the arcade versions of Ninja Gaiden, Solomon's Key and Rygar available via the Wii Shop Channel, but we're just glad to see something happening on the VC Arcade front.


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Scientific EvidenceSLN #: 15984
Course Prefix: LAW-649
Course Section: 001
Credit Hours: 2
Instructor(s): Plunkett
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This seminar examines the legal principles governing the use of scientific evidence in civil and criminal litigation. It also describes the basic scientific underpinnings of expert testimony from the physical, biological, medical, behavioral, and statistical sciences. Particular attention will be paid to DNA evidence. The course will also focus on problems involving the actual courtroom testimony of experts taken from transcripts of actual trials. This will permit direct and cross examination of experts from various scientific fields who will be appearing during the course. The goal of the course is to familiarize students with all aspects of the scientific expert in the courtroom both on direct and cross examination. In addition, a series of litigation-related research and writing exercises will be assigned. These may take the form of office memoranda, pretrial motions and memoranda of points and authorities, appellate briefs, or court opinions in simulated cases. Grades will be based on the written and oral exercises and answers to problems. These will be critiqued by the instructors, and there will be opportunities for rewriting. Some federal judges and experts will participate in teaching the course and evaluating the exercises.
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What: Polo Lounge has introduced Garden to Glass Concept, where freshly grown herbs, fruits and vegetables are the main ingredients in the cocktails. Ingredients from various plants are on display at the lounge bar.
Lounge highlights -
Polo Lounge offers a collection of whiskeys, cognacs, single malts and handcrafted beers complimented with live jazz performances six days a week. A snack menu accompanies this line-up. The bestselling items from this menu include kebab platters, pizzas and spring rolls.
Where: Hyatt Regency, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi, DL 110066
Timings: 11:00 am to 1:00 am
Contact: 011 6677 1314
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Give your kid a real tret with Caffe 9 Kid's Special menu. Now, Caffe 9 have a separate dedicated Kids menu with several combo meal options like pasta, pizza, burgers, noodles, rice etc. Some of the key highlights from the special kids meal are:-
Mini Pizza
Mini Vegetable Burger Meal
Vegetable Chinese Kids meal
Chicken Chinese Kids meal
Indian Mini Meal
Mini Pasta Meal
Mini Chicken Burger Meal
Where: Caffe 9, P-15, outer Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi - 1
Time: 12 p.m - 1 A.M
For Reservations: 011 41509040, +91 9811859324
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For the ones who think beer is much more than an afternoon drink, 7° Brauhaus, the German Microbrewery & Kitchen has launched 'The Beer Enthusiasts Club.' The club aims at creating a community of beer lovers who are not only passionate about the drink but also the stories behind it.
Some of the highlights are:
Every Wednesday, the restaurant will offer unlimited beer at Rs. 750/- all inclusive.
20% discount on food & beverage, an experience to learn from the Brew Master, exclusive tasting sessions to try over 100+ Craft beers from across the world, and much more.
Mr. Sanjay Mathur, Managing Director, 7° Brauhaus, said, "We are overwhelmed to launch The Beer Enthusiast Club, which is an exquisite concept to bring together all the beer lovers to appreciate fine beer. This restaurant is a place that connects like-minded beer enthusiasts over good beer and encourages good conversations. Our idea is to create a new and holistic experience during every visit."
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Varq at Taj Mahal Hotel celebrated its 5th anniversary, where Chef Hemant Oberoi, who has been instrumental since the inception of the restaurant, was present. Varq was voted among top 50 restaurants of the world the in the Eleventh annual listing of The S. Pellegrino World's Best Restaurants held in Singapore earlier this year.
Speaking on the occasion, Grand master Chef Hemant Oberoi said, "Varq is the unfurling of luxury in all aspects - a combination of sophisticated dining discreet service and exquisite interiors. With Varq, we have retained the secrets of Indian traditional cuisine while presenting in an innovative and contemporary way. We are honored that guests have extended their support to Varq over the years and have become a part of this great culinary journey with us. We are proud to carry on this legacy today and look forward to serving our patrons for years to come"
The unveiling of the new menu by Chef Hemant Oberoi was followed by a specially crafted celebratory Gulab Jamun Cheese Cake. Some of the new dishes introduced by him are Green Chilli Tulsi & Pinenut fish, Kolo kithe, Sunehari Nalli, Masala cord on rice.
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The Westin Gurgaon, hosted its first ever 'Wine Dinner' at Prego, a Californian style Italian restaurant. Italian Chef Di Cuisine, Emiliano Di Stefano prepared delectable courses as part of a special menu that was paired with a host of hand-picked wines.
Chicken and Truffle Galantine with an Attems' Sauvignon Blanc 2011, and a Lasagnetta Tricolore ai Funghi accompanied by a smooth Castello Banfi Chianti 'Placido' 2012 were a few of the pairings.
Additionally, all guests had a personal interaction with world renowned Sommelier, Giorgia Nanut, who deftly explained the art and reasoning behind food and wine pairing.
This concept of pairing food & wine may just become a frequent highlight at the hotel.
Where: Prego, The Westin Gurgaon, New Delhi
Contact: +91 124 4977841
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Michelin star chef Vikas Khanna stormed the afternoon at The Imperial Culinary Club with a live cook out of vibrant dishes from Mumbai. He also launched his book as a tribute to the city of dreams called 'Savour Mumbai.'
The live cook out included recipes like Kaju Kothambir Vadi from Maharashtra, Khubani Ka Shahi Tukda from Lucknow, Guava and cottage Cheese salad from Allahabad, Kacche kele ki Asharfi from Hyderabad and Chicken Cafreal from Goa. Find these recipes here.
On the book launch and the culinary session, Vikas Khanna said, "If you cannot make a food pilgrimage to Mumbai soon, here is a piece of Mumbai we have created for your kitchens."
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"I travelled to Europe and the most famous red-light district, De Wallen caught me by surprise. That's how I thought of Amsterdam Kitchen and Bar, where I decided to juxtapose the spirit of the lively street with a fantastic gastronomical experience.
Quirky fun colors dominate the color scheme and it is packed with special features like Dutch hand painted ceramics, the wooden clog wall, where guests can scribble on the wooden shoe on their birthday, virtual show doors, windows and street lamps.
For me, more than concentrating on alcohol which is a standardized product available everywhere, I concentrated a lot more on food, the presentation, display, quality of raw materials and hygiene", says Sanuj Birla, owner.
The menu is the brainchild of Abhinav Sharma, head chef, and consists of crispy comfort food, grills (yes, they serve beef), burgers and pizzas, among other things.
Having had a taste of food here, it doesn't disappoint. The lamb shank packs in flavour and falls off the bone. The Ravioli is stuffed just right with spinach and cheese. The vegetarian starters give stiff competition to the non-vegetarian ones. Also, they have a whole range of drinking games starting from Rs. 1500-4500, every Thursday and Sunday.
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Situated on the top floor of Shoppers Stop mall, Aanch is an authentic Indian cuisine restaurant that houses five different ambiences under one roof with a common menu. It's divided into a family restaurant, an English bar lounge, a private dining room, a hookah lounge and an open air restaurant.
Apart from Indian, Aanch offers Chinese, Continental, Arabic, Mexican and Italian cuisines.
To perfect dal makhani and butter chicken, which make the two main dishes in an Indian restaurant; the Aanch team went around Delhi to taste these recipes and tried to make them better in their own kitchen. Finally after about 30 trials, they were satisfied with the results.
Meal For two: 1500/- ++
Address: 4th Floor Terrace, Shoppers Stop Mall, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi
Phone: 011 - 30146022
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Located at Greater Kailash-2 market in South Delhi, The French bistro - Rara Avis celebrated its first anniversary.
Mr. Laurent Guiraud of Rara Avis made a special announcement, "In response to our ground breaking accolades, from critics and foodies alike, We at Rara Avis 'Delhi' are proud to announce our most recent enterprise, opening soon, in the beach-side-paradise of Goa – Rara Avis 'Konkan'
See who all attended the anniversary celebration in the next few slides.
In photo: Mr. Shashi Tharoor at Rara Avis
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Ambassador of Mexico H.E Mr. Jamie Nualart
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Ambika Pillai with Vijay Arora
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Gautam Kalra, Hirathi Rebello, Ambika Pilla and Joey Mathews
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Gunjita Dhawan with Anita Bajaj
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Hosts for the evening - Laurent, Chef Jerome with Rajiv
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Madhavi Kapoor with Sonny Walia
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Ravi and Bintio Bajaj
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Ramola Bachchan
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Editor-in-chief & publisher of Tehelka magazine, Tarun Tejpal
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What: It's time for you to eat your heart out with Loca -la-Zona's big fat range of messy Bum Burgers. The Bum Burgers have an option of a fat chicken or vegetable patty in a triple decker bun with heaps of lolzslaw (inhouse variation of colslaw) filled in with veggies along with a cone of fries.
Where: Lolz: Loca La Zona Cafe, K 124,Sector-12, Pratap Vihar, Ghaziabad
Price: Rs 145
Timings: 11 am - 11pm
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Choose from a variety of party cakes, tea treats, brownies, muffins, pies and other desserts. The products here do not contain any added preservatives or artificial coloring agents. Pippins can also whip up healthy oatmeal cookies, wheat or ragi and sugar free cakes.
Contact: 9868896912/9999493767
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It's time for a lavish indulgence as Hilton, New Delhi brings to you a delectable new menu at Zune. Savor a fine selection of all-time favorites from cuisines that are specific to Delhi, Punjab and Kashmir.
Indulge your taste buds an extensive range of rich vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes such as pakhtooni jheenga, murgh malai kebab, roti pe soya boti, kukkar achari and palak ka halwa (in picture), among others.
Meal for two: Rs 1800 plus taxes
Where: Zune, Hilton New Delhi/Janakpuri hotel, Janakpuri District Centre Complex, New Delhi- 110058
Time: 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
For reservations: 91-11-4123-4123
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Actors Emraan Hashmi and Kalki Koechlin were spotted at Cafe Ludus in Saket for the promotion of their new film, Ek Thi Daayan.
The event also saw the launch of FHM app, FHM MyPurpleMartini's Club Card and fashion designer Jaya Mishra showcasing her latest collection.
Located at MGF Metropolitan Mall Saket, Cafe Ludus has been divided into a laboratory, a library, a cafeteria and an amphitheatre, and the food at Cafe Ludus has flavors from around the world. The outdoor seating is reminiscent of a Greek courtyard with white drapes and wooden bleachers.
Address: 24 & 25, 2nd Floor, MGF Metropolitian Mall, Saket, New Delhi
Timings: 12 Noon to 1 AM
Phone: 011 30146022
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Uber Lounger is a Bar–Café–Lounge. Suited for morning tea, brunch or late drinks.
Décor: Divided into two floors – the ground floor has been made to be laidback and relaxed while the lower ground floor has been made into a lounge with warm lights, a dance floor and cabin rooms.
Music: A special 'Sufiyana Shaam' every Wednesday. Musical nights every weekend.
Food and contact details in the next slide.
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A casual dining space with a multi-cuisine menu. Some of its signature dishes include 'Uber Chip & Dip', 'Grilled Basa Fish', 'Classic Grilled Chicken' and 'Soya Azwani Chaap.' Pair these with their collection of draught beers, cocktails, spirits, fine wines and champagnes.
M-42, M Block Market, Greater Kailash 2, New Delhi
011 - 30146022
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Nostalgia at 1911 Brasserie known for classic European evenings with old world western fare and live music, unveiled The Grand Steinway S-155 - synonymous with the finest pianos since 1853. It is now the only five star deluxe hotel in India to be a proud possessor of this legendary piano.
Sharing his views on the proud occasion Mr. Vijay Wanchoo, Sr. Executive Vice President and GM said: "Nostalgia imbues reflections of the era gone by with exquisite specialties flambéed on tables, coupled with vintage and new wines in a picturesque setting. The launch of The Grand Steinway S -155 will enrich the Nostalgia experience and will throw spotlight on unmatched piano music, unearthing the soul, while enchanting diners." He further said " Steinway at Nostalgia represents a unique marriage of classic cuisine with classic music"
The glamorous evening saw the presence of Karl Lutchmayer – the renowned concert British pianist who enthralled the audience during the unveiling and his dynamic recitals and numerous sequences inspired the gathering.
Website: The Imperial India
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Chopsticks, located at The Village Restaurant Complex next to Siri Fort Auditorium, recently underwent a radical change with the joining of Chef Amit Gurung.
In picture: Chicken satay
Restaurant interiors
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The new menu at Chopsticks serves some authentic delicacies like spicy wok tossed lamb with galangal, tender squid, and crispy calamari chilli mayo.
In picture: Crispy calamari
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Chef Amit Gurung's passion for innovation has led to the introduction of a variety of cuisines such as Indonesian, Malaysian and Japanese to the Chopsticks menu.
In picture: Laksa soup
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The restaurant has won the Hotel & Food Service award for its oriental cuisine three times.
In picture: Thai red prawn curry
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This 150 seater fine dining restaurant came into existence in 1983 and initially only specialized in authentic Chinese food.
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Get a sneak peek of restaurant interiors, the food they serve and their menus, all packed here, in one place.