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== Wikimap Help ==
== Wikimap Help ==
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We've divided our help page into different sections to help you find the answers to your questions. Click on the section title or the questions to go to that page and view all the topics listed under it. Alumni.NET is divided into three distinct parts - www.Alumni.NET, wiki.Alumni.NET, and Wikimap.
www.Alumni.NET Help
- How do I register as a member?
- Just click on the register link located on the upper right hand corner. You will need to reply to a confirmation email sent to the email address used to register with our site to complete the registration process.
- I get an error that says 'Email already exists'.
- If you get this error message while registering, it means that you are already a registered member of Alumni.NET. To begin enjoying the benefits of registration, all you need to do is login. Only one registration is needed to manage all your groups in Alumni.NET. If you were trying to correct an error you made during registration, you just need to use the edit your profile icon beside your name.
- How do I register with more than one group?
- To register with more than one group, you do NOT need to go through the entire registration process again. Just login using your email address and password then look for your group in Alumni.NET. On your group page, click on JOIN THIS GROUP and you just need to fill in your start and end years and degree or position. It's that simple!
- How do I register a Friend or Family Member?
- You may add a friend or family member, but please ask their permission before doing so. You can register their names the same way you registered yours but you must use a different email address for each person you wish to register with Alumni.NET
- How do I modify My Registration?
- To modify your registration, you need to login to Alumni.NET and use the Edit your profile icon located beside your name on the left hand side. You can change your personal and group details from that page. Changing your e-mail would generate a new confirmation email.
- Go to the login page now
- How do I deactivate my registration?
- Go to the Settings Section to deactivate your account. Logging in after deactivation will automatically activate the account again.
- I didn't Receive E-Mail Confirmation. How do I request for a new one?
- If you didn't receive an email confirmation when you registered, please check your spam folder. There will be a link to resend your confirmation email if you try to login. Click on the website link in the email to begin enjoying the privileges of being an Alumni.NET member. In the event that you do not receive you confirmation email after a resend request, please send us an email. Unconfirmed accounts will not be visible to other users, will not be able to access in the next login, and will be unable to post in discussion boards.
- How do I Login?
- You can login from an page on Alumni.NET. Just enter your Email address and Password in the Member Login box at the left-hand side of the page. The Login link is available on any Alumni.NET Page.
- If you are already logged in, your name will be listed in the box. To change the user currently logged in to Alumni.NET, just click on 'Logout' and login again.
- Why do I need to login? There are some features that are exclusive to members of Alumni.NET. You need to be logged in to access these features.
- My e-mail address has changed. How do I login?
- If your email address has changed, use your OLD email address to login to Alumni.NET. Click on the Edit Your Profile Icon beside your name on the left-hand side. On the edit page, click on "Contact". Change your email address to your NEW address and click on "Submit". A verification email will be sent to your new email.
- I've forgotten my password. Can you send it to me?
- If your current email address is the same as the one you registered in Alumni.NET, please follow these simple steps:
- Go to our main page http://www.alumni.net/
- In the Members Login box, click 'Forgot Password?'.
- You will be taken to a form where you just have to enter your Email Address and click on 'Submit'. Your password will automatically be sent to your via email.
- I want to request for my lost password now.
- If your current email address is the same as the one you registered in Alumni.NET, please follow these simple steps:
- I've forgotten my password and my email has changed. How do I login?
- If your Email Address has Changed, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with 'Email Change' in the subject line. Please include the following information in the body of the message:
- Email address used to sign up for Alumni.NET
- First and Last Name of Registrant
- New Email address
- We will change your email for you and send you your password. You can then login to Alumni.NET using your new email address and password.
- If your Email Address has Changed, please send an email to email@example.com with 'Email Change' in the subject line. Please include the following information in the body of the message:
Location Listing
- How do I add a location?
- To add a location, simply go to the page where the new location should be listed and click on "Add Location" at the bottom of the page. Fill in all the fields in the form and click the Submit button. An email will be sent to you when the new location has been added.
- Note: Some locations (United States of America, Canada, India and the Philippines) do not have an "Add Location" link because these countries already have a complete city listing.
- How do I modify or delete a location?
- To modify or delete a location, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with 'Location Listing' as your email subject. Please make sure you include the details of what location to modify or delete and its complete location path in Alumni.NET.
Search Feature
- What can I search for?
- You can search for a member, group, or location. When searching for members, type their first name and last name. You can also enter the maiden last name of a fellow alumni, and if they've entered that in their profile, their name will appear in the results.
- I got too many search results
- If you got too many search results, you may have used too generic a word like a country name. Try searching again using words that uniquely identify your group or location.
- I didn't get any search results
- If you didn't get any search results, either your group or location is not yet listed with Alumni.NET or your group or location is spelled differently in Alumni.NET. Our groups are listed the way they were submitted to us. Try searching with a slight variation in the spelling. If your school has more than one official name, try searching for either of the names. Better yet, use a single keyword that identifies your organization.
- If you are searching for a member, try searching only for their last name to get a list of all possible matches.
- If your school is not listed, go to the city where it is supposed to be listed and click on "Add Group" to add it to Alumni.NET. We will email you when the new group has already been added.
- If your location is not registered, simply go to the page where the new location should be listed and click on "Add Location" at the bottom of the page. Fill in all the fields in the form and click the Submit button. An email will be sent to you when the new location has been added.
- Note: Some locations (United States of America, Canda, India and the Philippines) do not have an "Add Location" link because these countries already have a complete city listing or their city listings are currently being organized.
- Search Tips
- Search is NOT case-sensitive.
- Search results for groups and locations are arranged alphabetically by country and contain 20 results per page.
- Do not use abbreviations of your group to search for it.
- Don't use generic words like "high school", "college" or a country name. These words produce too many search results.
- Try to use words that uniquely identify your group.
- Try to use a variation in the spelling of your group while searching. For instance, an group that begins with 'Saint' may also be listed as 'St' or 'St.'.
Profile Edit Page
- What is the Profile Edit page?
- The Profile Edit is your own personalized page where you can manage your profile and all your groups. You can get to this page by logging in to the site and clicking on the Edit your Profile Icon beside your name on the left.
- What can I do on the Profile Edit page?
- Your Profile Edit page is your control center. You can change your profile, change your contact details, upload your picture, and change your group details.
- How do I change my profile/contact details?
- You can manually change your personal information such as:
- Your First or Last Name
- Your Email Address / Password
- Your Homepage
- You can do this by clicking on the tabs of the Profile Edit Page. Make the necessary changes and click on "Save".
- You can manually change your personal information such as:
- How do I join a group/sub-group?
- The easiest way to join a group is to first look for your group in Alumni.NET. Use the search feature to help you. Once you've found your group, click on 'Join this Group' located near the group name. Please enter your period of attendance and the degree/title and major/subtitle fields.
- How do I leave a group/sub-group?
- If you want to leave a group, go to the main group page and click on the 'Leave Group' link at the left side. Removing yourself from a group does not delete your Alumni.NET registration. You are just removed from the group you choose.
- How do I change my organization period of attendance?
- Changing your Group Period of Attendance is as easy as clicking 'Edit' under the Groups Tab on your Profile Edit page, making your changes, and clicking on 'Save'.
- How do I delete my duplicate registration?
- If you have two or more records with Alumni.NET that use different e-mail addresses but refer to the same person, login using the first email address and password and request for that registration to be deleted. Once that is done login using the second email address and password and add your groups to this profile.
- How do I delete my entire alumni registration?
- How do I upload my picture?
- To upload your picture, click on 'Picture Tab' located on your Profile Edit page. A new window will appear. Click on the 'Browse' button to choose the file, then click on 'Save'. To change the picture, just click on 'Browse' again and follow the same steps.
- How do I change my uploaded picture?
- To change your picture, follow the same steps used to Upload your picture and it will automatically be changed.
- How do I delete my uploaded picture?
Settings Page
- How do I change my email alert settings?
- Visit the settings section and you can edit the type of email alerts you would to receive.
- How do I change my privacy settings?
- Visit the settings section and you can edit the privacy settings for your personal information, photo albums, friends, activities, and applications.
Group Listing
- How do I add a group?
- If you wish to add your group to the Alumni.NET listing, kindly go to the City Location under which you want to add your group. Click on "Add Group" at the left of the page. Fill in all the fields in the form and click the Submit button.
- Alumni.NET now support six types of groups:
- University - Any college or university around the globe
- High School - Any high school around the globe
- Middle School
- Primary/Elementary School
- Company - Any company (national or international)
- Generic - Any registered organization that does not fall under the previous categories
- What is a sub-group?
- A sub-group is any group that has another group as its parent. You can only be a member of a sub-group is you are already a member of its parent group.
- An example of a sub-group that you can add is the different departments in a school or company. You may also add your club or fraternity/sorority or your graduating class. This is an easier way for you to keep in contact with your friends!
- If you wish to add a sub-group to the Alumni.NET listing, kindly go to the group page under which you want to add your group. Click on "Add Subgroup" at the left side of the page. Fill in all the fields in the form and click the Submit button.
- How do I modify or Delete a Group?
- To modify or delete an group, please email firstname.lastname@example.com with 'Group Listing' as your email subject. Please include all details for the modification or deletion.
- How do I view the Member Directory?
- The member directory of each organization is divided according to its membership types. For schools, the member types are student/alumni, faculty, and employee. For companies, the membership type is employee. For generic groups, the membership type is member. For each membership type, you can choose to view the members either by last name or by last year of attendance.
- How do I add a Related Link?
- If you would like to add link on a Group's Page, please go to that page, and click "Add Related Link" at the left side of the page. Fill in all the fields in the form and click the Submit button. An email will be sent to you when the new link has been added by the moderator.
- How do I modify or delete a Link?
- To modify or delete a link on an Group's Page, please send a message to the moderator of the group. Please include all details needed for the modification or deletion. If there is no listed moderator, please email firstname.lastname@example.com with 'Related Links' as your email subject.
- What are the popular groups in my area?
- You may view the top (popular) groups in your area determined by your ip address by visiting the main groups page.
- What is a Moderator?
- A moderator has the ability to do the following functions for a group:
- Edit group info
- Upload group logo
- Approve new members for closed groups
- Delete group members
- Approve, edit and delete related links
- Receive email alert on reported discussion board abuse
- Delete discussion board articles
- Approve new subgroups
- Edit photo albums
- Set the User Interface color of the group to match school colors
- Activate the RSS feed for the discussion board. This is one way to automatically post in Facebook fan pages.
- A moderator has the ability to do the following functions for a group:
- How do I become a Moderator?
- You automatically become the moderator of a new group or subgroup added to Alumni.NET. For groups that are already listed, you can send a message to the moderator to add you as another group admin of the group. For groups with no group admin listed, please send email to email@example.com. Please include the URL of the group and the reason why you would like to be a Moderator.
- What is an Official School Moderator?
- If you are affiliated with the school's alumni relations office, you can send email to firstname.lastname@example.com to be provided with additional capabilities. The additions include the ability to send an email alert to every member of the group for a discussion board announcement. Email alerts provide higher response rates to announcements.
Discussion Board
- How do I view the Discussion Board?
- You may click on the 'Discussions' link on the main group page to view the entire board. You need to be logged in to view any posting (the site will ask you to do so).
- Who can post a message?
- To post a message on the Discussion Board of a group, you must be a member of that group, and must be currently logged in.
- Who can read the Board?
- All users can read the contents of the Discussion Board by default. If the moderator makes the group closed (new members are approved by the moderator), only members of the group can read the Discussion Board contents.
- What is Relevance Year?
- This will help notify members of this group (via their activity stream) whose membership years overlap to the year provided in relevance year. If you want every members to be notified, select 'All'.
- How do I post a message?
- There are two options to post a message. To start a new topic or thread, click on the Start New Topic Tab. To reply to a message, click on the Reply to topic link on the upper right hand side or use the Reply box located at the bottom of the message.
- How do I modify a message?
- This feature is currently not supported.
- How do I delete a message?
- This feature is currently not supported.
- How do I report an inappropriate message?
- If you see a message that contains inappropriate content, click on the 'Report' link located at the right side of the post time. A new page will appear where you need to enter the reason for the request, and click on 'Submit'. The moderator of the group or a member of the Alumni.NET support team will review the message and delete it if it is deemed inapproriate.
- I want to search for a message
- This feature is currently not supported.
- When do I get an email alert?
- By default, you will receive an email alert when a user comments on a discussion thread that you have posted to. You can turn this off by going to the Settings section.
Donate Board
- What is a Donate Board?
- A Donate Board automatically appears in a group when it has a moderator. The donate board is a subset of the discussion board for topics related to causes.
- Who can post on the Donate Board?
- Only the moderator can start a donate topic for fraud prevention. However, all the members of the group can comment on a donate topic. DonorsChoose.ORG & Philippine Deped projects are also shown on the donate board.
Link to Group
- How do I Link to Alumni.NET?
- Each main group page has a "Link to Group" option on the left hand side. This page shows how to create a javascript link to Alumni.NET that will show a member preview section on the linking website. A width of 350 is recommended.
Your Lists
- What are lists?
- Lists are composed of friends, members, and non-members (identified by email). Lists are visible to all the members of the list but can only be modified by the creator.
- What are lists used for?
- Lists are currently used for regularly sending a message to a group of users and for photo album sharing permissions.
Sending Messages
- How do I send a message to members?
- To send a message to a member, click on Send Message link on the left hand side of the member's profile page. You may also go your home page and click on the Messages link. Click on Compose Message and a pop-up will show your friends and your lists. You can set the recipient to contain a combination of friends and lists.
- Did the member view my message?
- Members typically get an email notification when they receive a new message. They will then have the option to login and reply back to your message.
- How do I send email to a school's administrator or professor?
- We do not have any direct affiliation with the School/Professors and hence do not have the information you are requesting. Try to visit the website of the school or you may want to post a message on the discussion board regarding your request.
Photo Albums
- How do I upload pictures to my profile?
- Click on the Photos link located on the left hand side of your Home or Profile page. Create an album. After which, you can then add photos to the album. Multiple photos can be uploaded using a flash uploader or a javascript uploader.
- Who can see my profile photo albums?
- Click on the Settings link located on the upper right hand side. You can then set the privacy permissions for your photo albums. The choices are only friends, friends of friends, and everyone. Your main profile photo is always accessible by everyone. Within each album, you may set the sharing permissions to bypass the main settings. Besides sharing to friends, friends of friends, and everyone, you may also do customize sharing. You can share to specific individuals and/or lists. All photo albums defaults to automatically sharing to tagged individuals which can be turned off.
- What are the features of the ActiveX, Java, and Flash Photo Uploaders?
- For the ActiveX, Java, and Flash uploader, the image can be cropped, rotated, and is resized before is it uploaded. The resized images have a maximum dimension of 720. Images are added to the end of the album.
- The Flash uploaded has the additional feature rearranging photo but due to technology limitations, only photos with dimensions less than 2880 can be shown as thumbnails and are compressed before being uploaded. Larger photos are uploaded without compression.
- What are the features of the Javascript Photo Uploader?
- For the javascript uploader, the maximum initial photo file size for upload is 5MB. Each photo is resized after they are uploaded and before being saved in Alumni.NET. The resized images have a maximum dimension of 720. Images are added to the end of the album.
- How do I upload pictures to a group?
- Click on the Photos tab on main group page. You will be given to view albums and create albums if you are a member of the group. You may upload photos to a new album to an existing album.
- Who can see group photo albums?
- When a group photo album is created, the user has the option to limit access to the album only to members of the group or have it accessible by everyone. The user can also set the relevance year so that the appropriate group members will be alerted of the new photos in their activity stream.
- What is photo tagging?
- Photo tagging gives the ability to identify people in photos. This tagging ability is available to the photo owner, photo owner friends, and group members if the photo is in a group album. The default list for tagging are the user's friends and fellow group members. The user can also enter a name and email not in the list. Upon tagging, the identified individual is informed through email and activity stream if an Alumni.NET member. Tagged individuals may view the photo without logging in if the photo album is set to be accessible to everyone. Otherwise, the individual is required to log in and join the group if it is in a group photo album.
- What EXIF data is stored?
- Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a specification for the image file format used by digital cameras. The flash uploader currently saves the geolocation and time taken information of the images being uploaded.
- What are the maps shown with the photos?
- When geotagged photos are uploaded, location information is retained after resizing and uploading of photos. This information is shown in the map located at the bottom of the uploaded geotagged photo. The location of the photo is shown by the red marker. Pink markers represent other photos taken by the user. Yellow markers are photos taken by the user's friends.
- What are the email alerts for the Photo Albums?
- By default, users that are tagged are immediately sent email alerts. Photo owners, tagged users on the photos, and users that have previously commented on a photo receive new email alerts when there are new comments. Tagged individuals that are members are required to log in to view the photo. Nonmembers are given a special code to access the photo. They are invited to register in order to view the entire photo album.
- How does a company/recruiter target Alumni.NET Schools for their job listing?
- Visit JobsCity.NET and create a free account. When you post a job listing, there will be an option to target Alumni.NET schools. Any university or college in Alumni.NET can be targeted. There is a maximum of 10 targeted schools for each job listing.
- What is Classifieds tab for groups?
- For Philippine groups with map location, BuyAndSellPlus.COM provides a classified section. All classified ads marked with the same location will be shown in the Alumni.NET group classifieds section. For easy posting to this group, there is a link that pre-fills the map location information on the buyandsellplus.com form.
Activity Section
- What items are included in the Activity Section?
- New Activity, Friends, Photos, Photo Tags, Group Membership, Discussion Postings, and Comments are currently included in the Friend's Activity section. URLs included are automatically made clickable and opens a new tab upon clicking.
Open Social Applications
- Open Social user applications will be available soon.
Other Concerns
- I want to add an Alumni.NET logo to my website
- We would greatly appreciate a link from your web site. Thank you for supporting us.
- How can a school/company/organization officially work together with Alumni.NET?
- Alumni.NET has been working successfully with different school organizations to help reach their alumni for several years. You may send your inquiry on possible partnerships with Alumni.NET by sending email to email@example.com with "Business Development / Partnership Inquiry" as message subject.
- I want to share a success story
- Do you have a success story to share? We'd love to hear them! To send us the story, send email to email@example.com with "Success Stories" as message subject. We publish some of your success stories on the site for everyone to see.
- I want to report a member's behavior on Alumni.NET
- If a member of Alumni.NET is using the site for unsolicited marketing purposes or is displaying any other behavior that is inappropriate, please report that member to firstname.lastname@example.com with 'Report Member' as your e-mail subject. Please include in the e-mail body the message of the member and an explanation of what they have done.
- I want to report a bug in the system
- To report a bug, send email to email@example.com with "Bug" as message subject.
- I want to send my Comments and Suggestions
- For questions about the site, or to send comments and suggestions, send email to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Comments/Suggestions" as message subject.
- Alumni.NET accepts various forms of advertising. The quickest way to advertise on Alumni.NET is to use Google Adwords and specify Alumni.NET as your target site for your ads. We are also glad to assist you to create other effective and efficient marketing campaigns possible. Please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com . Please state the type of advertising and target audience in your e-mail body and we'll try to get back to you as soon as we can.
wiki.Alumni.NET Help
wiki.Alumni.NET is designed for sharing information regarding neighborhood locations such as schools, stores, restaurants, tourist attractions, companies, and other organizations. Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software. Please use the search box to find a location wiki page. Feel free to add any information or any new points you think will be useful to other users. For an overview of all Alumni.NET features, take a tour. To view a wiki map in your area determined by your ip address, please visit the main page.
- How to add new wiki points in Wiki.Alumni.NET
Please use the search box on the left hand side to first search for the new point you would like to add. If it does not exist, try searching for nearby points. Entering "City Name, Country Name" on the search box would usually be sufficient. Click on the nearest point you can find. On this wiki page, click on the "Add New Point" button located below the map to add your new wiki point.
- How to view Wiki.Alumni.NET on an iPhone
Wiki.Alumni.NET map and information can be viewed on your iPhone or iPod Touch using Wikimap®.
- How to view Wiki.Alumni.NET locations with webcams
Visit [1].
- How to add social networking features to a wiki page
If you have created a wiki page for a school, a company, or a group, you can easily associate Alumni.NET social networking features. Click on the "Alumni Directory" link on the left hand side of the wiki page. You will be directed to a Location Page. Click on the "Add Group to the Location" link and use the exact same name of the wiki page. After approval of your submission, the wiki page will start having social networking functionalities.
Wikimap Help
Visit [2].
Contact Us
We haven't answered your question? Contact us and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
- For questions about the site, or to send comments and suggestions, send email to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Comments/Suggestions" as message subject.
- If you'd like to share your success story, send email to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Success Stories" as message subject.
- For Advertising inquiries, send an email to email@example.com.
- For Business Development, and Partnership inquiries, send your proposals by sending email to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Business Development / Partnership Inquiry" as message subject.
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Do you provide for the serving of communion to the sick?
Yes. The Directory for Public Worship, Chapter IV-A-3 requires that the Lord's Supper (and Baptism) ordinarily should be observed in a public worship service. But note the following: "Nevertheless, if a session shall judge that very unusual circumstances shall obtain in a particular instance, the sacraments may be administered elsewhere; but, in any event, the church must be represented in the service."
This means that if a member in good standing is hospitalized or housebound due to illness or other incapacitating circumstances, the Lord's Supper can be administered outside a regular worship service. However, "the church must be represented at such a service." That means that a pastor must administer the sacrament, accompanied by at least one other elder. It is highly appropriate that other members of the church also be present and partake with the shut-in. So the church, in principle, is present though not in totality. In churches that I have served, certain ill or disabled members are so served in the afternoon of the day on which communion is regularly served.
We believe that the Lord's Supper is a means of grace, and that every believer is entitled to that means of grace, the sick and the infirm particularly! Of course, when this is done, the Session at its next meeting should record the fact in its minutes. And if you are interested in having the Lord's Supper served to such a person, you should feel free to request to your session that such be done.
"Questions and Answers" is a weekly feature of the OPC website. The answers come from individual ministers in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church expressing their own convictions and do not necessarily represent an "official" position of the Church, especially in areas where the Standards of the Church (the Scriptures and the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms) are silent.
The questions come from individuals like yourself. If you have questions about biblical and theological matters, you are invited to send them by e-mail by using the "Pose a Question" link on the OPC home page or by clicking here.
At least one new question is posted each week, so there should always be something new here for you to read. (For those people who would like to look at previous questions and answers, they will continue to be available as well.)
The purpose of the OPC website's "Questions and Answers" is to respond to biblical and theological questions. Matters of church discipline, disputes, or debates go beyond the scope of our work. We recommend that you present your concerns in these areas to the appropriate judicatory. In most cases this will be to a local pastor, elder, or session. We do not want the website to replace personal involvement in, or commitment to, the local, visible church.
While we will respond to every serious questioner, we are not bound to give a substantive answer to every question, should we deem the question to be beyond the scope of our purpose or our own ability to answer.
You will receive an answer by e-mail. Please be patient as many of our respondents are busy pastors. The response to your question may take up to two (2) weeks. Some of the questions submitted will be chosen to be posted here, along with the corresponding answers.
Note that the "Questions and Answers" posted on the site have been editedall personal references are removed, Scripture references or from some source may be added, and sometimes portions are expandedto make the questions and answers more useful to a larger audience.
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This is the kind of sh*t that makes me crazy.
Toronto Saturday night, Bill Clinton event, major celebrities in attendance, and some of the wealthiest people in Canada filled 30 tables sold at $300K each. I repeat – these people are RICH. They move in rich circles. And if you think it's lame to stop a celebrity and ask him/her for a photo on the street, how about in an exclusive ballroom when the instructions on your ticket specify NO CAMERAS?
Am told that as soon as dinner started, these millionaires in tuxedos practically "stampeded" over to Tom Cruise's table, photographing him while he was eating! WTF??? That apparently wasn't enough and before long, they started tapping him on the shoulder, interrupting his meal, and requesting personal photo opps. The MC for the evening, Eugene Levy, had to get up on stage to tell them, twice, to stop. No use. They kept coming and coming.
All credit to him, Tom Cruise (Katie did not come along) was lovely. He obliged each and every rude fan, he barely ate, and was finally given some peace when security intervened and people were told to get a f&cking life.
As for John Travolta – well you'll recall, Toronto is the city where his gay last escaped. While shooting Hairspray in my home town, John allegedly popped a few c*ckstands with multiple male massage therapists, to the point where he was allegedly asked to leave the very posh, very wasp Granite Club for inappropriate conduct on the massage table and in the locker room after allegedly propositioning male clients and staff alike.
Perhaps that's why Kelly Preston was on hand and perhaps it's why she kept a firm hand, literally, on her husband all night, ensuring that the Xenu beat loud and proud in his heart so that nary a sequin came loose from under his spray-painted rug. John walked the line so well, in fact, that he barely spoke throughout the entire event, and appeared to be exceedingly uncomfortable, almost out of it while delivering his speech, painfully inarticulate, and disappearing for a lengthy absence immediately afterwards, leaving Kelly and Sir Elton John to gossip like good fags and hags.
Do you pity the poor pilot?
PS. Why is it so hard to find a photo of Tom Cruise and John Travolta…together?
File photos from WENN
Travolta spacey, Tom swarmed
This is the kind of sh*t that makes me crazy.


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PORTLAND, Maine — The civilian worker accused of setting fire to a nuclear submarine at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will remain in jail as he awaits trial on arson charges.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Casey James Fury poses too great a risk of danger to the community to be allowed out on bail.
Fury sought permission at a detention hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland to live at his father's home in Eliot, Maine, and try to find work in the area while his trial gets under way. But Magistrate Judge John Rich III ruled there are no conditions of release that can ensure Fury won't harm others.
Fury allegedly confessed in a videotaped interview to starting the May 23 fire on the USS Miami, a Los Angeles-class attack submarine. More than 100 firefighters helped to extinguish the fire, which spread through the forward areas of the vessel and continued to burn for approximately 12 hours.
The fire caused an estimated $400 million worth of damage, and seven firefighters suffered minor injuries during the event.
Investigators say Fury has also confessed to lighting a second fire underneath the same ship on June 16, and to pulling a fire alarm during a third incident.
Although Fury doesn't have a lengthy criminal record, Rich said he was troubled by the 24-year-old's decision to allegedly set a second fire after witnessing the damage and injury caused by the first.
"The utter disregard for the safety of others and the community is simply too great to allow the defendant to be released in this instance," Rich said.
Fury faces two felony counts of arson within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. The charges carry a potential lifetime prison sentence and fines of up to $250,000 each.
Public defender David Beneman said his client was struggling with escalating anxiety problems and had trouble sleeping earlier this year. Those problems were exacerbated by the restrictive nature of working inside a high-security naval facility, Beneman said. He compared Fury's actions to a middle school student who pulls the fire alarm to get out of taking a test.
Fury's father and step other also took the stand during Wednesday's detention hearing. James Fury said his son has not demonstrated a pattern of starting fires in the past.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Darcie McElwee countered that Fury has demonstrated a pattern of reckless indifference to the safety of others, which includes two arrests for driving while intoxicated.
The most recent arrest came June 14, two days before Fury allegedly set a small fire in the dry dock cradle area underneath the USS Miami. He was also arrested for marijuana possession in the past, McElwee said.
Wednesday's hearing, which lasted nearly three hours, also included testimony from one of the victims of the fire, Lt. Richard McMunn, an officer on the USS Miami who was injured during the first fire. McMunn said he fractured six ribs and injured his knee after falling several feet through a hole in the ship's hull.
"I am only one of the many victims of this fire ..." McMunn said. "Every taxpayer in America is a victim of this fire."
Fury allegedly set fire to a stack of alcohol wipes to start the second fire in June. In an interview last month, Fury allegedly told investigators he was sending text messages back and forth to his ex-girlfriend immediately before the fire. He became "anxious about the conversation" and wanted to leave work, according to court documents.
At the time, Fury was taking Celexa for his anxiety and depression, Klonopin for the anxiety, Zyrtec for allergies and Ambien for sleeping problems, according to the affidavit. Investigators have also discovered Fury was treated at an in-patient mental health facility between June 21 and June 23.
Fury, a painter and sandblaster, initially denied any involvement in the fires, but eventually confessed to sparking the June fire, according to court documents. He subsequently confessed to starting the May fire while undergoing a polygraph test.
Fury then led Navy investigators on a walk-through of the USS Pasadena, another submarine stationed at the shipyard with a similar layout to the Miami, and demonstrated how he allegedly started the May fire.
USS Miami fire suspect to stay in jail: Judge rules danger to community is too great
PORTLAND, Maine — The civilian worker accused of setting fire to a nuclear submarine at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will remain in jail as he awaits trial on arson charges.


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Alicia is a patient care assistant who has four underage children at home. She is a "per diem" employee who works a full time schedule. Despite working in the healthcare industry with vulnerable populations, her employer does not offer any paid sick time off for per diem workers. This is a concerning issue for Alicia because it puts her, her family, and her patients at a greater risk of contracting and spreading illnesses.
Raquel is a hardworking mom from Paterson who works for a mommy and me shelter. Raquel believes it is unfair to her clients when she goes to work sick because she is spreading her illness to the moms and babies at the shelter. She also explains that in 2006 her son was diagnosed with chronic asthma and that since then it has been difficult for her to take off of work to care for him when he's sick. Raquel believes that workers should be allowed to stay home to care for themselves or their child without the fear of losing a paycheck. An employee shouldn't have to choose between paying the bills and caring for a sick child.
Armando is a member of New Labor. He worked at a gas station in New Brunswick for three and a half years, working 7 days a week with only a single day off once every three months and he had not paid sick days. Even when Armando's wife needed an operation, his boss would not let him have a day off or even leave work early to be with her. Armando's boss was also not paying him proper overtime and when he filed a complaint with the Department of Labor, he was fired for doing so. Armando believes that all workers need to keep fighting for justice in the workplace. Click Here For a Full Transcript and Translation
Derrick is an airport worker who cleans planes in Newark, NJ. Derrick talks about how the lack of earned sick days has impacted him personally; after an injury to his hand on the job, he was expected to continue working even though he was in pain. Derrick was unable to take time off because he could not afford to miss work and Derrick strongly feels that some earned sick time off would have allowed him to heal faster. Derrick also explains how he has seen his fellow employees come to work with the flu, risking infecting others simply because they could not afford to take the time off, and he feels that the new earned sick days ordinance in Newark will improve his and many others' work environment. Derrick also discusses how the new minimum wage increase has affected him, as well as other airport workers.
Josefa is a member of New Labor in New Brunswick and a mother of a five year old daughter. Josefa explains the difficulties she has had in taking off work from her job at a restaurant when she or her daughter have gotten sick. She ended up having her hours reduced and her shift changed at her last restaurant job when her boss didnt like her being out, so she ended up having to leave. Once she had to leave her sick daughter with a friend because her boss refused to let her take off work and this made her realize how little some employers care about their employees' well-being and this is why legislating paid sick days is so important to her. Click Here For a Full Transcript and Translation
Leticia is a fast food worker in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and mother of two. Leticia, a member of New Labor, expresses how it is important to her that when her children are sick, she has the ability to stay home and care for them. Leticia hopes that earned sick days legislation will prevail so she can afford to take care of her family when they get sick. Click Here For a Full Transcript and Translation
Anastasia is a bartender who got sick and was forced to come to work, regardless of whether she was contagious or not. When Anastasia informed her managers that she might have mono, they said that she would have to work until she had a doctor's note, and even when Anastasia brought in the note, her employer threatened to fire her is she didnt report for the busy Labor Day holiday weekend. Anastasia also touches upon the struggle of not knowing how to pay her bills or buy food while she was out of work.
Manuel is a cleaning worker at Newark Airport, working with 32BJ to organize workers there. While on the job Manuel slipped on ice and injured his elbow. After filling out various paperwork through the company and completing a drug test, Manuel was finally sent for an x-ray. The doctors told him that he had injured a tendon and that he should return in two days for further evaluation and therapy. Manuel said he was lucky that he had the next two days off of work, because if he had not, the airport would not have reimbursed him anyway for his time off due to injury since he has no earned sick days. Click Here For a Full Transcript and Translation
As a forklift driver, Shyrone unexpectedly fell ill and visited in the emergency room for treatment of his conditions. While doctors insisted that Shyrone remain hospitalized to get proper medical care, he ran out of sick time at work and was threatened with termination. Shyrone was forced to make the decision to remain in the hospital and care for his health rather than to go to work and earn a living. He was fired by his employer for missing work time and was forced to file for unemployment benefits. Shyrone and his family struggled financially as a result as the unemployment benefits did not nearly compare to when he was fully employed.
Safiyyah's lack of employer-provided earned sick days forced her to go to work ill as well as send her sick children to school. Being sick at work, Safiyyah did not feel that she could perform her duties to the best of her abilities and was uncomfortable with her how condition was affecting her co-workers. Safiyyah's feels that workers and children should not put others at risk of infection because of a parent does not have paid time to take from work.


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So award season is supposed to be over. But a press release just landed in my inbox: the MTV Movie Awards are happening on April 13th. Conan O'Brien is hosting. And MTV really, really wants Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence to show up because The Wolf Of Wall Street and American Hustle have the most nominations. Click here to see the full list.
I appreciate that they're so unapologetic about the fact that all they care about is getting the right celebrities there. And the ones who actually come are the ones who will win. So even though Cate Blanchett just won the Oscar for Best Actress, she doesn't get a mention in the Best Female Performance category. Lupita does though! Because that's how popular she is now. She's up against Amy Adams for American Hustle, Sandra Bullock for Gravity, Jennifer Lawrence for Catching Fire and not American Hustle, and… Jennifer Aniston for We're The Millers.
Yes. In MTV's mind, Jennifer Aniston > Cate Blanchett.
Aniston's actually been nominated 3 times – for her performance, for best kiss, and for taking her shirt off. Interestingly enough, Brad Pitt is also on the list for Best Scared As Sh-t Performance in WWZ. Basically, they really, really want him to attend. So you can't really piss on MTV too hard. Not when they're working for us. Not when they're working to create Good Gossip.
Pitt was actually at the Movie Awards last year as a presenter when he was hustling hard for WWZ. And while he won't be hustling hard for anything this time, the Jolie has Maleficent on her schedule. You know they work as a team. So it's not totally impossible that they would be there.
F-ck. I just realised I totally forgot to namecheck my book baby, Listen To The Squawking Chicken, for no reason during every article I wrote yesterday. Did I mention that Emma Forrest, the author of one of my favourite books of all time blurbed my book baby? Click here and scroll down to read what she wrote. By the way, I would not be mad at the paparazzi if they wanted to take pictures of my book baby.
My book baby will be born on April 1 in Canada. Click here to pre-order.
My book baby will be born on April 22 in the United States. Click here to pre-order from Amazon and click here to pre-order from Barnes & Noble.
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What remains of Khuzaa after the Israeli attack. Photo by Lazar Simeonov.
As one of the coldest winters in recent history across Palestine and the Middle East starts to break, and people begin to look toward the spring, the inhabitants of Khuza'a in the Gaza Strip are still reeling from the effects of the July-August 2014 war. The approximately one and a half month conflict left 2,205 Palestinians dead, mostly unarmed civilians, whereas 71 Israelis died, the vast majority of them soldiers.
The asymmetric conflict mostly consisted of the Israeli army's intensive bombardment of the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air. However, for short periods of the conflict, Israeli soldiers did enter and occupy some areas of Gaza. As soon as the ground troops entered, however, they were met with stiff opposition from all of the Palestinian resistance groups, and within a matter of days, the IDF had already sustained its most significant casualties since the 2006 war with Lebanon. These losses drew a fierce backlash from Israel, who reverted to intense bombardment and demolition of entire neighbourhoods in order to avoid clashing with the Palestinian militant groups at close quarters on the ground. One such area was the town of Khuza'a, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Palestine Monitor spoke with Walid Rouk, a local from Khuza'a working with the charity Freedom Aid, to hear more about what happened there and the efforts to return to normal life since the war ended. Walid explains that the population of Khuza'a is about 15,000 people, 84 of whom were killed during the war. This small village lost more people during last summer's violence than the entire state of Israel.
Rouk recounts with pride how Yasser Arafat awarded his town a certification, along with the West Bank city of Jericho, for being the most beautiful places in Palestine. Khuza'a was an important agricultural area in Gaza, renowned for its olive groves and lemon trees. It was one of the quietest areas in the notoriously overcrowded Gaza Strip, and was well provided for in infrastructure with good telecommunications, electricity and water services.
All of this was wiped out in four short days when the Israeli army entered and occupied the area with tanks and infantry. Thousands fled in the face of the invasion, carrying their loved ones and whatever few prized possessions they could lug along with them. Walid stayed with his family and neighbours for two weeks in a United Nations school, and he paints a harrowing picture of the scenes he encountered on returning. The Khuza'a of his youth was no more. 90% of the buildings were completely destroyed by bulldozers and tanks. This included his old school, all but two of the town's mosques and all but one room of his old house lay in ruins. The town graveyard had even been blown to smithereens—there was no safe haven in Khuza'a for the living or the dead.
Indeed, Walid tells of how the stench of death haunted the air as he returned to what used to be his home town. Most of the residents had fled, but during the initial evacuation, he had already seen neighbours and friends, many carrying white flags, being shot at from behind by the advancing Israeli soldiers and artillery. Moreover, some of the old and infirm were unable to run and could not be evacuated in time. Nobody who remained in the village was left alive after the Israeli army's four-day occupation. So when Walid and others returned, the unburied remains of many of their neighbours had already been baking in the summer heat for two weeks, in the streets and beneath the rubble. They lay where they fell.
One such case, which has shot to prominence as of late, is the death of 74-year-old Ghalya Abu Rida. The Israeli military released a photo of an IDF soldier giving Ghalya a drink of water. She was later found dead. Ahmed Qdeh, a journalist from Al-Aqsa TV and a local from Khuza'a claimed to have witnessed this event. "During the aggression, an Israeli soldier approached the old woman and took a photo for another soldier while giving her water. They then executed her by shooting her in the head from a distance of one metre and let her bleed until she died," said Qdeh.
An Israeli English language blog, Israelly Cool, dismissed the story as lies and "a Palestinian Blood Libel." Walid Rouk, however, corroborates Qdeh's account, saying that he visited the area around Ghalya Abu Rida's home after returning to Khuza'a. He spoke to her neighbours and family about what happened; "I went to see her family at her old home and they showed me the medical report from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The report said she was shot from one metre away and the bullet it was lodged inside of her head," Rouk claimed.
This alleged summary execution is one of the many cases being looked at closely by groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International as instances of possible war crimes committed by the Israeli army in Khuza'a and elsewhere in Gaza during the Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. Both parties have been prevented from sending their international experts to Gaza to document the facts, but have been slowly gathering information through the limited operations they already have extant in Gaza.
Walid trembles when he speaks about what happened in Khuza'a, condemning the lack of humanity of the world toward his people. "No media covered what happened, there was no camera from anywhere covering Khuza'a. This is a war against humanity, not just Palestinian people," he told the Palestine Monitor over the phone.
This is what led him and his friends to set up the Humans of Khuza'a Facebook page, to record some of these stories and share them with the world. With the ongoing work being done to document potential war crimes in the area and the Palestinian Authorities recent moves to join the International Criminal Court, perhaps the horrors of Khuza'a will be belatedly relayed to the world through these fora.
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Senjutsu (仙術, English TV: Sage Jutsu, Literally meaning: Sage Techniques) refers to a specialised field of techniques that allows the user to sense and then gather the natural energy (自然エネルギー, shizen enerugī) around a person.
Main articles: Sage Mode, Sage Transformation and Orochimaru's Juinjutsu Senjutsu practitioners learn to draw the energy of nature inside of them, blending it with their own chakra (created from spiritual and physical energy within the shinobi). This adds a new dimension of power to the practitioner's chakra, resulting in the creation of "senjutsu chakra" (仙術チャクラ, senjutsu chakura). In humans, this new chakra enables the user to enter an empowered state called Sage Mode. Those that can absorb or manipulate senjutsu chakra are known as sages (仙人, sennin). Currently, there are two known ways to learn senjutsu: One being to learn from the toads of Mount Myōboku as Jiraiya and Naruto have done, and the other from the snakes from the Ryūchi Cave where Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi learned it.
Generally, senjutsu chakra cannot be used by those untrained in senjutsu, though this is not always the case. Members of Jūgo's clan passively absorb natural energy, mutating their bodies. Because they cannot control the chakra they are creating, they tend to go into berserk rages. Orochimaru would experiment on the enzyme responsible for these rages, and use that as the basis of his cursed seals, which would absorb the wielder's chakra and in return feed them Orochimaru's senjutsu chakra.
During the Fourth Shinobi World War, the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki Obito Uchiha gained the ability to nullify normal ninjutsu, but discovered he could not nullify techniques augmented by senjutsu.[1]
After Naruto recieved the Sage's senjutsu, his Sage Mode became greatly empowered and, along with the chakra of the nine tailed beasts, gained access to a form referred to as Six Paths Sage Technique.[2]
- In the anime, the sound of natural energy being gathered to form senjutsu chakra is the same as the one used for the healing green chakra of the Mystical Palm Technique.
- The word senjutsu (仙術) uses the same hiragana: せんじゅつ, as the Japanese art of scrying (占術), possibly an allusion towards the abilities of Sages to sense persons while in Sage Mode.


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Australia checking 2 objects in search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia >> An Australian search and rescue official says that planes have been sent to check on two objects possibly related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that were spotted on satellite imagery in the Indian Ocean about 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth.
But John Young of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority cautioned Friday against expectations that this may help solve the mystery of the plane that went missing with 239 people on board nearly two weeks ago.
Young told reporters, "We have been in this business of doing search and rescue and using sat images before and they do not always turn out to be related to the search even if they look good, so we will hold our views on that until they are sited close-up."


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Kwikset to Sponsor Richard Childress Racing Driver Ryan Newman at Kansas
Kwikset®, a leading brand of the Hardware and Home Improvement (HHI) division of Spectrum Brands Holdings (NYSE:SPB), continues to engage with consumers through strategic partnerships by sponsoring Richard Childress Racing and driver Ryan Newman during the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Season. As part of the partnership, Kwikset will be the primary sponsor and paint scheme for Newman's car during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Kansas Race in Kansas City on May 10, and will have its logo on Newman's No. 31 car for every race during the 2014 Sprint Cup Series in an associate capacity.
"Kwikset is continuously investing in ways to connect with current and potential customers, and our ongoing partnership with RCR has been a valuable way to engage with this core audience in their daily lives," said Greg Gluchowski, president, HHI. "Our partnership with RCR and Ryan Newman gives us the opportunity to showcase our passion for safety and innovation and connect with the massive NASCAR audience this season."
As a leader in innovation and home security, the company views NASCAR as a sport that aligns with its values and serves as a natural way to reach its passionate fan base. Kwikset had a similar partnership with RCR in 2013. This is the first year Kwikset will work with Newman, who is one of the sport's top veterans.
"We view Kwikset as a great partner and we look forward to working with them to help spread their safety and innovation message," said Richard Childress, president and CEO of RCR. "Kwikset has shown they are strongly committed to NASCAR and we're thrilled we are teaming up with them again this season."
Newman, nicknamed "Rocket Man," has had an incredibly successful NASCAR career. In his 15-year career, he has 17 victories, more than 185 top-10s, and was named NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rookie of the Year in 2002 and Driver of the Year in 2003. He won the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in 2008, the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2013, and has finished a career best of sixth in the final NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings three times.
"Safety is important in all aspects of my life, so the partnership with Kwikset made perfect sense for our team," said Newman. "I'm excited to have their logo on my car this year and look forward to educating fans about innovations in security on and off the track."
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Tomorrow, Apple will hold a special media event to unveil the next generation of iPods, as has become customary in the last few years. Apple's tight rein on future product announcements has led to a number of rumors, possible leaks, and speculation about what Apple will be announcing. Here's a rundown of the things that may be coming tomorrow, plus a poll so you can tell us what you hope will be on the agenda.
It's practically a given that Apple will unveil new iPod touch and iPod nano models. No one expects a radical form-factor change, but numerous rumors have pointed to Apple adding cameras to both the iPod touch and the iPod nano. Adding a camera to the iPod touch should be simple to do and would further unify Apple's mobile platform. Adding one to the iPod nano is not an idea we're entirely sold on, though one manufacturer was showing off new cases for the purported new camera-equipped nanos at IFA last week. The latest rumor about iPods with cameras indicates that production problems may delay shipment of updated devices, but that seems to further cement the notion that iPod cameras are a done deal.
Another related rumor went as far as to suggest that Apple would stuff a camera module into the iPod classic. We're not buying this one so much—the Classic is on life support as far as Apple is concerned. Despite some users who long to carry every last song or movie with them in their pocket, its sales numbers appear to have taken a nose dive. Apple dropped the larger 160GB model earlier this year, and, if anything other than a capacity bump is added to the classic, we'd frankly be shocked. If Apple simply dumps it, we won't be surprised at all.
Something that fits right in with the "rock and roll" theme is a project codenamed "Cocktail." Cocktail is purported to be a last gasp effort to resurrect the album as a viable format in the download age by offering a package including an album's songs along with interactive "booklets" including artwork, liner notes, and other content. We still believe that a better solution to the resurgence of buying singles to the detriment of full album sales is making better albums, but an album format designed for interaction with a computer is certainly an idea worth exploring.
The last truly music-related rumor is that The Beatles catalog may finally become available via iTunes. It's no secret that Steve Jobs is a huge Beatles fan, but so far the catalog has not been available anywhere online (aside from dodgy sites like allofmp3.com)—not even on iTunes. Apple's event is being held on 9/9/09, the same day as the release of The Beatles: Rock Band as well as the band's entire catalog in remastered form. If The Beatles were going to be available on iTunes, tomorrow would be a great time to maximize the hype. Still, Apple used lyrics from a Stones song in the invitation to the event, which is akin to using the Hatfield coat of arms (assuming for the moment there is one) to advertise a McCoy press conference.
Of course, that 9/9/09 date might also be a clever time to released iTunes 9. The update to iTunes is rumored to support all sorts of things, including the aforementioned "Cocktail" format; a way to organize iPhone OS apps visually; integration with social media sites like Last.fm, Facebook, and Twitter; and even magical Blu-ray support. Since no shipping Macs include Blu-ray drives, we're left wondering what that Blu-ray support could possibly entail, though.
Last week, a rumor popped up suggesting that constrained availability of the 40GB Apple TV was a sign that an upgrade was imminent. We have our doubts that it will show at the Apple event, however, which are supported by sources for The Loop that said "no way" to the Apple TV upgrade question. Of course, there's still the long-standing rumor that Apple might offer an iTunes video streaming service, which could easily leverage the company's proposed HTTP Live Streaming protocol, and would only require a software upgrade.
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Since 1989 textile exports from such companies as Tiger Brand, Montreal Woollens, Cambridge Towel, Penmans-Forsyth, Barrday and others have tripled. This $10 billion industry has embraced NAFTA and exports to the United States are four times greater than before free trade. The Textile Human Resources Council is also launching its textile management internship program at Mohawk College.
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1. Design a data structure that uses $ O(n^2) $ space and answers queries in $ O(1) $ time.
Build an $ n × n $ lookup table with the answer to every possible query, indexed by $ i $ and $ j $.
2. Design a data structure that uses $ O(n) $ space and answers queries in $ O(\log n) $ time.
The basic idea in this solution is to build a multi-resolution representation of the input, with each node able to answer the query for part of the input sequence. A tree of such nodes makes it possible to answer arbitrary queries quickly by covering the query range with ranges covered by nodes.
Build a binary tree in which each node holds the lowest value for a range of indexes. The root node spans the whole input sequence. The root node's children span the left and right halves of the input sequence, and so on. Each leaf node spans a single-element "range" of the input, with the "lowest" value in that range being the value at that position in the input sequence. The total number of nodes in the tree is $ O(n) $.
The query function is recursive, starting from the root:
- If the query range exactly matches the range spanned by the current node, return the current node's value.
- If the query range falls entirely within the left half, return the result of calling the query function on the left child.
- If the query range falls entirely within the right half, return the result of calling the query function on the right child.
- Otherwise return the lowest of the results from calling the query function on the left child and the right child.
The query function will visit at most two leaf nodes, and runs in $ O(\log n) $ time.
While it is true that at most 2 leaf nodes are visited, it is clear to this reader that the above algorithm has worst case $ O( n) $ running time. For example, say we have elements indexed 0 to 15, and we are interested in querying the minimum of elements 1 to 14, inclusive. Then following the above procedure will require visiting nodes [1], [2,3], [4,7], [8,11], [12,13] and [14], a total of $ O(\log n) $ nodes (since there are at most 2 queried nodes per level of the tree), but requiring a distance of 8 to traverse. Indeed, for any $ n=2^k - 1 $ and query $ [1,2^k-2] $, $ O(\log n) $ nodes will be visited, with $ O(n) $ traversal time. See below for a true $ O(\log n) $ algorithm (basically the above algorithm branches down the tree from the root in multiple directions, while the below algorithm begins at a leaf and takes a single path up and then down the tree).
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==== 2. (Alternate explanation)
We can assume, w.l.o.g., that n is a power of 2. For instance, if n is 16. We can then calculate minima for the following ranges:
- 0-15
- 0-7 and 8-15
- 0-3, 4-7, 8-11 and 12-15
- 0-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15
Note that this is O(n) space, or more precisely, (n-1) space. Now, to calculate the minimum for a particular range, build up non-overlapping ranges from the above set of ranges that cumulatively cover the desired range. If the range is 3-14, for example, the build-up would be 3; 4-7; 8-11; 12-13, and 14. This is O(log n). The minimum of the values of these ranges gives us the desired answer. To calculate the minimum of m unsorted values is O(m), and since m is O(log n), the minimum calculation is also O(log n).
An algorithm to obtain the covering 3; 4-7; 8-11; 12-13; 14 is as follows: Call $ i=3, j=15 $. We are trying to cover the half open interval $ [3,15) $. Initialize $ k=i $: at each step of the algorithm, we add the largest power of 2 not greater than the least significant bit of $ k $, which keeps $ k $ below $ j $. So starting with $ k=11 $ (in binary) we have $ k=k+01=100 $. Then we have $ k=k+100=1000 $. Next we attempt $ k=k+1000 $, but this leads to $ k>j $; so we try $ k=k+0100=1100 $. Next we do $ k=k+0010=1110 $. Lastly $ k=k+0001 $. The sequence of $ k $-values gives us the minimal set of ranges needed to cover $ [3,15) $; namely, $ [3,4) \; [4,8) \; [8,12) \; [12,14) \; [14,15) $, as desired.


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If the chess engine dies or is killed while on ICC, xboard does not disconnect the ICC session. It remains active and can still accept matches, all of which it will forfeit w/o making any moves.
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Contestants on BBC One's The Voice are trying to fight off a virus which has left them struggling to rehearse.
Frances Wood, Joelle Moses and Jaz Ellington have been struck down by the vomit bug this week.
All three are on Will.i.am's team, but others on the show are said to be worried about becoming ill before Saturday's heat.
Teams coached by Will and Sir Tom Jones will be taking part during this weekend's edition which will see four acts leave the competition.
The BBC said it was hoping the contestants would be fit to take part in the programme.
A spokesman said: "We're making sure the sick artists are getting all the rest and recuperation they need, and barring any further outbreaks, are confident they'll all make it back for Saturday night's show."
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From an interview with Dennis Drayna Ph.D., Chief, Section on Systems Biology of Communication Disorders, Laboratory of Communication Disorders.
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine.*
A study led by NIDCD researchers has identified three genes as a source of stuttering in volunteers from Pakistan, the U.S., and England. Read the press release here.
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Q. You've found mutations in genes that are involved in cell metabolism. What does this tell us about the causes of stuttering?
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Q. Do your findings generate new avenues for treatment of stuttering?
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Q. Your findings potentially explain only a small fraction of stuttering. What about all the other causes of stuttering?
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Stadium roof won't be finished for World Cup opener
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SAO PAULO (AP) - The roof of the stadium hosting the World Cup opener in a few weeks will not be fully finished in time for the tournament, constructors said Friday.
Construction company Odebrecht confirmed that a part of the roof at the Itaquerao will only be completed after the World Cup.
There was not enough time to install the glass covers that were supposed to be added to the stadium's roofing structure, so Odebrecht and local organizers decided to postpone the work until after the tournament.
Odebrecht said the missing covers will not affect fans watching matches in the stadium, although it appears from photos that more people would be covered from rain if they were in place.
Also Friday, the company in charge of 20,000 temporary seats needed for the opener said it successfully addressed all health and safety issues that had prompted prosecutors to threaten to halt work at the venue.
Odebrecht said in an email sent to The Associated Press that "the glass covers will only be installed after the World Cup" because "transparency studies" were still being finalized to make sure the covers can allow the passage of the proper amount of light needed to "preserve the pitch in good conditions."
The metal structures where the glasses have to be installed are in place but they will be empty by the time the nearly 70,000 fans and guests arrive for the high-profile opener between Brazil and Croatia on June 12. The venue will host five World Cup matches, including one of the semifinals.
Odebrecht said the roof itself is ready and guaranteed that the covers are not essential, even though they were part of the initial project.
The company had already said that not all fans in the temporary seats behind the goals will be fully covered from rain.
The local World Cup organizing committee said it was not a requirement to have stadiums with all of their seats covered.
"The architectural project of the Arena de Sao Paulo, as of the other 11 stadiums, is not intended to have 100 percent of the fans protected from rain," the committee said in a statement. "That is only possible in stadiums completely covered."
FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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NYC Food Events for the Weekend and Beyond
This weekend isn't just about football: tomorrow marks the start of the Lunar New Year, too. Here are a few NYC events for feasting after the parade in Chinatown, as well as wine tastings, special dinners, and more to round out the week.
Friday, January 31
Chinese New Year Brunch at The Queens Kickshaw
Friday, January 31st, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Fresh off the success of their Christmas Eve Asian-Jewish brunch, The Queens Kickshaw in Astoria will be serving up another round of fusion foods for the Lunar New Year. Dishes include a ramen noodle kugel, okonomi matzo brei, and kimchi shakshouka.40-17 Broadway, Astoria, NY; event details.
A Celebration of the Lunar New Year with Xi'an Famous Foods and Pok Pok
Friday, January 31st and Saturday, February 1st, 6 p.m. or 9 p.m. Two iconic restaurants team up to offer a Thai-Chinese menu at Pok Pok's Red Hook location. Their spin on longevity noodles, rice cakes, and other traditional new year's fare is sure to send you galloping into the year of the horse. $150. 127 Columbia St., Brooklyn, NY; event details and tickets.
Saturday, February 1
Tết in NYC: Vietnamese Lunar New Year Celebration at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
Saturday, February 1st, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Mekong and the Vietnam Heritage Center are throwing an entertainment-packed New Year's celebration. There will be lots of free Vietnamese culinary specialties on offer as well—rice cakes, crispy spring rolls, and more. Free. 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY; event details.
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Italian Wine Tasting with Slow Food New York City
Monday, February 3rd, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Slow Food, the organization dedicated to promoting sustainable and ethical agriculture, is hosting their third annual Slow Wine US tour. At the NYC stop, you'll have the chance to taste wines from producers included in the latest Slow Wine guide and learn about regional diversity and terroir in the Italian peninsula. $45. 125 W. 18th St., New York, NY; event details and tickets.
Tuesday, February 4
Beer Dinner at Prime Meats
Tuesday, February 5th, 7 p.m. Farm to table restaurant Prime Meats is offering a hearty five course meal with beer pairings. Expect winter warmers such as cheddar beer soup and venison schnitzel alongside suds from Barrier Brewing, Schönram, and others. $55; RSVP to [email protected] 456 Court St., Brooklyn, NY; event details.
Wednesday, February 5
DISH with Allison Patel at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Wednesday, February 5th, 7 p.m. DISH is a regular gathering of chefs, restauranteurs, authors, and critics that offers up literary and culinary feasts. This time around, Allison Patel of Brenne Whisky will be on hand to conduct a tasting and discussion of the craft of single-malt French whisky making. $5 suggested donation. 126 Crosby St., New York, NY; event details.
Thursday, February 6
The World of Sicilian Wine at the 92nd Street Y
Thursday, February 6th, 7 p.m. Join renowned wine expert Bill Nesto and Italian culture specialist Frances di Savino as they lead a talk and tasting that delves into the ancient and diverse traditions of Sicilian winemaking. Their recent book, The World of Sicilian Wine, has been acclaimed for the depth of coverage it offers on the rebirth of the Sicilian wine industry and the rediscovery of varietals such as Nero d'Avola and Frappato. $32. 1395 Lexington Ave., New York, NY; event details and tickets.
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