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Media Companion Gen2 - Manage your Movies, Shows, NFO, and more (Open Source VB.NET) - Printable Version
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Media Companion Gen2 - Finally Open Source - billyad2000 - 2009-06-27
Just a word to point out that Media Companion is not dead - in fact it's more alive than ever.
Christmas seen Media Companion finally move to open source. There are already half a dozen developers signed up, and at least a couple of them are very active.
It will probably take a while to clean the code up and iron out some of the bugs, but I would imagine that in a month or two you should start to see some big improvements.
MC is being developed on CodePlex, and if anyone is interested in working on this project then we would be happy to see you.
Latest version
Download Version 3.400
TV Show Support has now been added to the latest build.
As people reading the Media Companion forum, I have had great difficulty finding time to continue development of this project alone on my own. After much consideration I have decided that perhaps the best option is to make the whole project open source, and hopefully increase development of the program.
Following advice I have uploaded the code to CodePlex, the project can be found at http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/ and will be licenced under GPLv2
I know that this is likely a busy time for most people but for those who have expressed a willingness to get involved I will be happy to add people to the project, there is no doubt a lot to do with perhaps the first order of business probably being to clean up the code and identify buggy areas. As a fairly mature project with little documentation in the code I dare say that a lot of explanations will be needed and I will try to make myself available as much as possible, especially at first.
People who are needed
A Coordinator, I have every intention of remaining involved in this project, but I would like at least one other coordinator to work with me. Ideally this role will be given to someone I am familiar with, perhaps someone who has made valuable contributions to either this forum, or MCs own forum.
Programmers familiar with Visual Basic .NET 2.0, prepared to spend a lot of time understanding many thousands of lines of code written in perhaps an unorthodox manner. As I have stated before, I am a completely self tought amateur programmer who is a little out of his league now.
Perhaps you have no programming skills, but would like to be involved. Editors can be involved in making the project pages look as good as possible, keeping the project information current, perhaps creating the wiki or just updating the RSS feeds.
For everyone else, perhaps you could sign up to codeplex and give media companion your rating, perhaps follow it. This interest will help attract developers to MC.
I am hopeful that this move will allow MC to grow and develop much beyond what I could accomplish on my own.
- Waffa - 2009-06-27
Thx billy
Works fine so far.
- eriksmith200 - 2009-06-27
The menus do not work for me, only "Tools" has a "Rebuild movies" option
Since you're using external scrapers, is it possible to use the xbmc scrapers?
- Gamester17 - 2009-06-27
Does Media Companion Gen2 now use Nicezia's ScraperXML library so that it can use XML scrapers from XBMC?
Would be great if it could share scrapers with XBMC, this scraper editor also makes it easier to edit scrapers:
If not, is that planned for the future? ...and when, if ever are you going to open source Media Companion?
- alpha_125 - 2009-06-27
THx billyad2000, great start for the new generation, work for me...i'm sure that only fews improvements and it will be perfect
- Louike - 2009-06-27
Thanks man, my favorite media manager returns!
Are you planning on features like extrathumbs and media flagging?
- billyad2000 - 2009-06-27
eriksmith200 Wrote:The menus do not work for me, only "Tools" has a "Rebuild movies" option
As I said, I rushed this release out, the main menu items haven't been added yet, although MC doesn't really need them.
At the moment MC is not using XBMC scrapers, although looking at Gamester17s post then it may be time to implement this feature.
- dtviewer - 2009-06-27
Just a couple of things I noticed:
1)If I choose preferences-scraper-'disable output log', the check mark doesnt get saved.
2) The version I was using before this one finds all 714 of my movies. This one only finds 611. All the movies are in one folder.
Edit: It looks like it is not finding my 'iso' files.
Other than that, love the new interface. Much cleaner!!
Thanks Billy!!
- billyad2000 - 2009-06-27
Louike Wrote:Thanks man, my favorite media manager returns!
Media tagging is already implemented, just enable HD Tags (that does not include the studio tag hack)
What do you mean by extra thumbs?
- billyad2000 - 2009-06-27
dtviewer Wrote:Just a couple of things I noticed:
Need some more info in the fault,
is the fault on finding already created nfo files, or when you are searching for new media?
I've tested this and MC has no specific problem with iso files. It detects them just fine.
if all your movies and nfos are in the same folder, and it's loading some, but not all, then I can only suggest that their are xml errors within the files.
You can test this by opening one of the nfo files in internet explorer or firefox. If there is an error you will get a message. Just delete the bad nfo(s) and rescrape.
One of the disadvantages of using xml parsing is that it has zero tolerence for any errors in the xml. On the other hand. since the output is now created properly, these errors should not happen now.
- billyad2000 - 2009-06-27
Gamester17 Wrote:Does Media Companion Gen2 now use Nicezia's ScraperXML library so that it can use XML scrapers from XBMC?
Media Companion does not use Nicezia's ScraperXML library YET!
I've been offline for a few weeks and I wasn't aware of it's existance. If it works as well as it appears to at first glance then i'll be certainly looking to implement this asap.
TBH Media Companion can be open sourced now, I keep thinking that I will tidy the code up and include some documentation, but it never seems to happen, I just have not got the time, it's even worse now, a great deal of code needs pruning. If anybody wants to wade through the code then they are welcome to it. Although I have not got the slightest idea about how multiple people keep their work in sync.
- billyad2000 - 2009-06-27
dtviewer Wrote:Just a couple of things I noticed:
Sorry, forgot to comment on that one,
That option, along with a great many others is not at this time enabled. I could have spent another week or two making it 100%, but with the movie scraper being broken, i just concentrated on making sure the basics were ok.
Thanks for releasing this. I had to try MIP and i did not care for it. Yours is WAY better IMO. Everything that is enabled seems to be working great for me. It seems faster also.
- dtviewer - 2009-06-27
Thanks for the reply Billy.
I was wrong about it being just 'iso' files. It is some 'iso' and some 'avi' files that dont show.
A little more info for you:
I was recently using MC 2.135. All my movies are stored on my NAS in one folder. (\\Dansserver\movies)
Some of the movies are avi files, some iso files. ALL have nfo, tbn and jpg files generated by MC 2.135, and all show perfectly in xbmc with thumbs and fanart.
Today I downloaded the new MC gen 2 and added the \\dansserver\movies folder and clicked the scan folders for new movies button. MC Gen 2 says 'Displaying 611 of 611 movies'.
If I close Gen 2 and open 2.135 it shows 724 movies.
Zack And Miri Make A Porno[2008] does not show in Gen 2, but did in 2.135. This is an avi file. You've got mail [1998] shows in both. (also avi.)
Edit: After rereading your response to me it looks like exactly what you suggested: corrupt nfo files. I will delete and rescrape them. Thanks!!!
- fekker - 2009-06-28
billyad2000 Wrote:Media Companion does not use Nicezia's ScraperXML library YET!
I've been out of the loop awhile as well, checked out the scraper and it seems pretty straightforward, still have things to try out with it, but a great step towards UMC (formerlly UMM).. your new gui is slick, clean, and straightforward, I'd vote it be the base for UMC (if your still up for that one).
In about 2 weeks i'll be able to really start to hammer on UMC, to be honest I'm not sure of the current status, but will be checking it out.
I think what we need for that is a wrapper around the scraper xml so we can pass in an object and return it's propertys (i.e. pass in movie object and have it populated).. that should also work for the web gui and other os's as well. there's a bunch to figure out, and alot of the initial drive kinda was lost of the last month or so while I've been handling some personal matters.
I guess my point is that if you are still up for it, i'd like to get together in a few weeks to hammer out some details with the team.
- fekker


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A release from the Portland Thorns FC:
PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland Thorns FC today named Cindy Parlow Cone their first head coach. One of the all-time leading scorers for the U.S. Women's National Team and a FIFA Women's World Cup champion, Parlow Cone will lead Thorns FC in the inaugural season of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2013.
Parlow Cone's playing career included nine years on the international stage with the U.S. Women's National Team from 1996-2004, helping the team win the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup and gold medals at the 1996 and 2004 Olympic games. She ranks among the U.S. Women's National Team's all-time leading scorers with 75 goals and 35 assists in 158 career appearances.
Following her playing career, Parlow Cone, 34, has served as an assistant coach for the women's soccer program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she starred during her collegiate career, for the past six seasons from 2007-12. She helped guide the team to national championship-winning seasons in 2009 and 2012.
"Cindy had a very successful playing career at the highest levels of the sport and is very well respected," said Gavin Wilkinson, Portland Timbers general manager. "She was a part of a special group of players for the U.S. Women's National Team that endeared women's soccer to sports fans in the United States and helped catapult the U.S. women into one of the best teams in the world. As a coach, Cindy is ambitious, and we feel she is the perfect fit to lead Thorns FC and help build the women's game in Portland."
A native of Memphis, Tenn., Parlow Cone also spent the last six years as the director of coaching for senior girls programs (U-15 to U-18) at Triangle United Soccer Association in Chapel Hill, N.C., and has been a member of the U.S. U-14 and U-15 Girls National Team coaching staffs since 2010. She holds a USSF "A" License and has participated in a FIFA Futuro III course.
"It is very exciting to be part of a new women's league and to be a part of launching a new professional team in Portland," Parlow Cone said. "I've seen first-hand the great enthusiasm Portland has for soccer; it's a soccer-smart fan base that generates an incredible atmosphere. I am very much looking forward to the first season of Thorns FC."
Parlow Cone, a forward, began her international career with the U.S. Women's National Team in 1996, scoring twice in her debut and contributing to an 8-1 win over Russia on Jan.14, 1996. She was named the U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year in 1998 and was a member of the highly recognized United States squad for the 1999 Women's World Cup, scoring two goals in the tournament. The 1999 U.S. Women's National Team was named Sports Illustrated's 1999 Athlete of the Year.
Additionally, Parlow Cone helped the U.S. Women's National Team to a third-place finish in the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, playing in the semifinal match against Germany held at JELD-WEN Field, and a silver medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She, along with the other members of the 1996 Olympic team, was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 2004.
Parlow Cone played in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) for three seasons with the Atlanta Beat from 2001-03, leading the team to the postseason each season.
At North Carolina, Parlow Cone recorded 68 goals and 53 assists during her collegiate career from 1995-98, and is one of 10 players in the program's history to record 40 or more goals and assists in a career. She was a four-time All-American, won the Hermann Trophy in 1997 and 1998 as the nation's top player and led the Tar Heels to back-to-back national titles in 1996 and 1997.
Thorns FC play in the new eight-team National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) set to begin in spring 2013. The league will be administered by U.S. Soccer, which will subsidize the salaries of up to 24 U.S. Women's National Team players, while the Canadian Soccer Association and Federation of Mexican Football will each do the same for up to 16 players in the league.


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I have to let go of the past and all that I think would have supported me psychologically!
The story unfolds!
The psychopaths have bore children! Why? Manipulation! They will use children to make themselves look presentable! To who?; They will make themselves look presentable to the larger relative family systems; Why?; that the sociopath is excepted by the relatives; by the general larger family system!
Are the children cared about no! Nothing! If they have food and clothing and a place to live! That is luck when dealing with sociopaths!
The sociopaths buy a house in a middle class neighborhood! Why?; to look good to the family system! The bigger family system! Because they are psychopaths; they don't understand! No one wanted them around! They scared the relatives! None of the relatives wanted them around! They were concerned; the relatives!
So, as a child, Im in this house on this street! But these psychopaths are not middle class! They are nothing! They are criminals! This whole thing is a joke!
They will put my brothers and I through this horrible misery! We will be fooled by them and not know that we don't belong anywhere! My brothers and I are being used by these criminals; that is our purpose for these criminals! They are just using us! They don't care what happens to us in any regard! We do not know who we are dealing with or what is going on!
I remember being in this neighborhood and going to the local school; but something is wrong! Im alone to much! These people are not taking care of me! They don't care about my schooling or my future! Something is dreadfully wrong, but I survive and reach out to the others in the neighborhood and try to make a go of it!
I do not fit into this neighborhood! These are not my people! These people are snobbish! They are inconsiderate and canseeded! However, they get along with themselves! They are 2 faced and false!
This is not my neighborhood! Something is dreadfully wrong! Soon, people are not treating me for me! They are judging me and trying to make me inferior and I don't understand!
Later; I will understand! I did not come from this neighborhood, nor was I apart of it! I was apart of nothing!
The male sociopath in charge of our family; he acts out; trying to do things to look normal; but he is never working anywhere! I did not know this!
He lives of his wife, buys things to make him look normal like everyone else! He goes to meetings of his interests as if he is middle class and everything is fine! Nothing was fine!
He is a self centered narcissistic sociopath! They are dangerous people because they abuse children! They manipulate children the way they manipulate adults!
Problem; nothing was real! But I did not know it!
I put all my eggs into one basket; I thought I had a mother and father that loved me! I had nothing! These 2 strangers were sociopaths! And or sadistic psychopaths! They were never going to take care of children! They were opportunistic scum!
They moved into a house in a neighborhood they did not belong to! They had no culture or origin or economic class!
Most important; I was apart of nothing! That is what needs to be realized!
I need to go back into the memories and get all good memories of this time period; out of my system! All of it! It was all bad! Everything associated with this vermin was a lie! All of it!
I assigned positive virtue to these people! It was a grave mistake! I did not know who I was dealing with! They were fakes, as their house was fake and their false perceptions of who they were in the community!
They were jokers and liars and fakes! It was all a game for them! They were just having fun and excitement; when they got tired of the charade, they would move on!
I was completely abandon by them! I had no idea what to think or do!
I was living in this house! And the next thing I know; they are gone! No one considered my well being or where I end up! No one considered the years I had lived in this house! What they did was demonic and Un natural and brutal! In human! My mind was ripped apart!
They disrupted others lives with no regard to the children's well being; nothing! No remorse, no conscious! No concern! Nothing! Completely barbaric! In human!
So, I have to work through these years and separate myself from the idea of " mother/father"! It is strong in me that I had a mother n father! I had no mother or father! These were criminal based sociopaths! Nothing more! And I have to wake up and let go!
I came from nothing! The whole of this experience was a ######6 joke! All of it! Unreal! These people were never going to stick around! They were just playing games with other peoples lives! They couldn't care less!
If I was dead or alive; they couldn't care less! Complete sadistic psychopaths!


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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes
|Puccini: TOSCA [Includes RealAudio Selections]
|Band 5 [RealAudio available]
Act II: Vissi d'arte excerpt: "[Sem]pre con fč sincera"...to end of aria
Emma Eames (s), Tosca
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra--Luigi Mancinelli
January 3, 1903 (?)
[Slip and Glackens 57 are undated. The playback speed is reasonably close to the firmly dated tracks from this performance (not all at identical speeds themselves), and the aural perspective is similar; certainly the singer is Eames.]
When the full horror of Scarpia's proposition dawns on her, Tosca prays to the virgin.
[Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore,
non feci mai male ad anima vita!
Con man furtiva
quante miserie conobbi, aiutai.
Sem]pre con fč sincera
la mia preghiera
ai santi tabernacoli salě
Sempre con fč sincera,
diedi fiora agl'altar.
Nell'ora del dolore,
perchč, perchč, Signore,
perche me ne rimuneri cosě?
Diedi gioielli
della Madonna al manto,
e diedi il canto
agli astri, al ciel,
che ne ridean piů belli.
Nell'ora del dolor,
perchč, perchč, Signor,
ah, perchč me ne rimuneri cosě?
I lived for art, I lived for love,
and never did I harm a living being!
With a discreet hand
I aided whatever unfortunates I found.
Always, with pure faith,
my prayers rose
to the holy tabernacles.
Always, with pure faith,
I gave flowers for the altars.
In this hour of pain,
why, why, o Lord,
why dost Thou repay me thus?
I gave jewels
for the Madonna's mantle,
and gave my singing
to the stars, the heavens,
which shone more brightly from it.
In this hour of pain.
why, why, o Lord,
why dost Thou repay me thus?


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First Look: Pouring Ribbons, NYC
Pouring Ribbons, from the men of Alchemy Consulting—founder Toby Maloney, Joaquín Simó (Death & Company, Tales of the Cocktail 2012 Bartender of the Year), Troy Sidle (The Violet Hour), and Jason Cott—may be a formidable cocktail bar. But that's not all its proprietors wanted it to be. Joaquín Simó told us that he wanted any kind of drinker to feel comfortable at the bar, not to feel like they're at a temple of mixology where they're obligated to order a cocktail. "You're not doing us a disservice by ordering a beer. I have awesome beers!"
But the cocktails are what drew us there, of course. The Pouring Ribbons lineup has 15 house cocktails and as many classics. They're listed out in a menu, but then given two additional data points. Beneath each listing are two sliding scales: "refreshing" to "spiritous" on one axis; "comforting" to "adventurous" on one underneath.
And in the front of the menu, they're plotted out on a graph—you can see at a glance where your drink choice lies, and what clusters near it. That's a great deal of information delivered in a glance, and as someone who really does think of her drinks on those two axes—do I want a boozy drink right now, or a lighter one? Classic, or a little out there?—I feel as if I'm saving a lot of time (and bartender attention) seeing their cocktails laid out this way.
It makes sense at Pouring Ribbons in particular, where drinks list ingredients that even reasonably experienced drinkers might not recognize. And if they do, it's still not immediately apparent how they come together. Is a drink with corn milk and two bourbons on the light size, or the boozier? Their chart helps decode a bit.
Beyond the house cocktails, the menu is a familiar roster of classics, which Pouring Ribbons intentionally gives equal billing as their own inventions. "We're also interested in establishing our versions of these drinks—not to deviate from the classics, but to show you what our Manhattan looks like, or what our daiquiri looks like."
Nor were they interested in a few concession cocktails for "less serious" drinkers—"We didn't want to half-ass the vodka drink. In fact, that's the one I tell people to really not screw up, because if you can't do a vodka drink, why on earth should I trust you with gin? Or whiskey?"
Check out six of the Pouring Ribbons drinks in the slideshow above, a collection as distinct in appearance as in composition. "We literally draw the drinks as we come up with them," says Simó—"we sketch them out. A round of drinks coming to a table should all have distinctive visual appeal."
Pouring Ribbons
225 Avenue B, second floor, New York NY 10009 (map)
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"We stood here together in May 2017 to lay the foundation stone for the new validation centre," said Cathrina Claas-Mühlhäuser, recalling the start of construction. "Twenty-two months later, everything is now ready and functional. We would like to thank all those involved from CLAAS and our service providers for this."
CLAAS aims to achieve shorter development times for its combine harvesters, forage harvesters and tractors with the new building. Thirteen test cells can be used to simulate various forces encountered during harvests around the world. The tests on the electrically driven test rigs run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"The technical specifications of the building are quite impressive," says Dr Thomas Barrelmeyer, responsible for the engineering of all grain harvesting machinery. "For example, it has an installed cooling capacity of 1200 kW. This corresponds to the installed heating capacity of 120 single-family houses. But it is not only the technology that is important to us. A modern workplace should also be established for our employees." As a result, modern offices for around 200 employees with attractive communication areas have also been created on the more than 7,000 m² of total floor space.


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Switch from Mac to Chromebook Puts Acclaimed Philly High School at Center of Ed-Tech Debates
Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy, one of the country's most prominent technology-infused high schools and the subject of our year-long "Innovation Gamble" series, will be the first school in the nation to roll out Dell's newly unveiled Chromebook 11.
The switch—SLA has used Mac laptops for the past seven years, winning awards and national recognition along the way—sends interesting signals about both the business and pedagogical battles taking place in the world of educational technology.
My colleague Michele Molnar over at Marketplace K-12 has the skinny on Dell's leap into manufacturing Chromebooks, inexpensive laptop computers that run Google's Chrome operating system, support web-based applications, and store users' information on the cloud. She reports that Dell is joining Samsung and Acer in producing Chromebooks for the education market, which still heavily favors Apple's iPad as the digital learning device of choice.
Meanwhile, Christopher Lehmann, SLA's principal and the recipient of a new grant from Dell to fund the adoption of Chromebooks, argues that the $300-dollar devices are a potential game-changer for schools, providing 90 percent of the functionality of traditional laptops at one-fourth the price.
"I really think Chromebooks have the potential to revolutionize the way schools are thinking about technology," Lehmann said. "There is no more financial argument to be made about why a district can't go 1-to-1."
Similarly heady projections have accompanied any number of other ed-tech product releases in recent years—many of which have been accompanied by troubled rollouts. But people in the ed-tech world are likely to pay close attention to such proclamations from Lehmann, who was recently named the nation's "outstanding leader" by the International Society for Technology in Education,
SLA, which now operates in two separate campuses, is receiving an as-yet undisclosed amount that will cover Chromebook 11's for each of the 250 students in its two freshman classes, as well as support staff and some desktop hardware. The school will also partner with Dell to create a "center of excellence."
Lehmann said he hopes that partnership will result in a national platform to tout SLA's "inquiry-driven, project-based" approach to learning, which he described as an important counterexample to the "tutorial" model of personalized learning (in which technology is used to deliver tailored content to students) gaining traction around the country.
"People can come to SLA and see personalized learning that doesn't just mean the same content at a slightly different pace, but actually kids with their own skin in the game and designing projects and doing work that represents their own best ideas, that represent their interests, that represent their own passions," Lehmann said in a recent recorded interview with Education Week for the Innovation Gamble series (see video clip above.)
Chromebooks are designed to support use of Google Apps for Education, a suite of cloud-based tools for word-processing and other computing functions that encourage collaboration among multiple users.
The devices don't support traditional software programs, but do support a variety of educational apps, which can be centrally downloaded and managed. (Lehmann discussed the pros and cons of laptops vs. Chromebooks in the clip below.)
Dell officials said they want to promote SLA's instructional approach, but stressed they also recognize the wide variety of practices in schools.
"One-to-one initiatives are not one size fits all," said Jon Phillips, the company's managing director for worldwide education strategy. "We are very aware that visions for instruction need to be built by schools, for schools."
That emphasis on flexibility also extends to the various devices and platforms in use by districts, he said. In SLA's case, students are expected to do video production and other high-powered content creation that is not supported on the Chromebook; through its grant, Dell is paying for desktop and all-in-one stations to be used as supplements.
Phillips said Dell recognizes the growing expectation that students will use different devices for different learning tasks, as well as the growing reality that in many districts, multiple operating systems may be in play.
"You will see more hybrid environments, we believe," he said.
Science Leadership Academy won't receive its new devices until sometime next year—one of many hurdles that SLA has experienced as it navigates the School District of Philadelphia's ongoing financial crisis while attempting to replicate the flagship school at a second campus.
(Throughout this school year, Education Week is profiling that replication effort, part of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite's huge gamble to invest in innovative schools despite the cash-strapped district's massive budget shortfall. The next full installment should be ready in February.)
Lehmann said the difficult realities on the ground in Philadelphia should give people even more reason to pay attention to SLA's shift to Chromebooks.
"The idea that 1-to-1 is possible even in this climate, and that there is now a device that can robustly change learning at a cost that is affordable, I just think that's a game-changer," he said.
Videos by Jessica Kourkounis for Education Week.
Follow @BenjaminBHerold and @EdWeekEdTech for the latest news on ed-tech policies, practices and trends.


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Oceans and seas have a great potential for sustainable growth but are also vulnerable to significant environmental and economic shocks which need to be addressed by the international community including the impact of climate change, over-exploitation and poor management of marine resources, pollution, damage to the seabed and problems with oil, gas and mineral extraction.
At the same time, maritime transport, a key oceans economic sector and crucial for SIDS to connect to world markets, remains vulnerable to economic shocks and environmental risks arising from climate change, energy-dependency, and lack of appropriate financing.
This side event is part of joint efforts by UNCTAD and the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) to address emerging issues of interest to SIDS and implement the future outcomes of the Third UN SIDS Conference in Samoa.
The event will be co-chaired by UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi and PIFS Secretary-General, Tuiloma Neroni Slade.
Highlight some of the various economic and environmental challenges related to the oceanic environment and demonstrate how they can be turned into economic opportunities for SIDS and contribute to the structural progress and sustainable development of their economies; and
Provide examples of possible international action in support of efforts by SIDS to harness this potential and make the ocean an engine of economic and social progress.
The goals of developing sustainable and resilient maritime transport systems and promoting sound ocean-based trade and economic specialization will be focused upon as two important, complementary development objectives of SIDS.
These two subjects will also be flagged as two areas of action for UNCTAD, the arm of the UN system which pioneered international attention to the particular problems of SIDS four decades ago (1974), and has remained at the forefront of international support to the resilience-building and development efforts of SIDS.
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- Third United Nations Conference on Small Island Developing States, Apia, Samoa (1-4 September 2014)
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EMILY – Will Seinfeld take his web show 'Comedians in Cars' to television?
Will Seinfeld take his web show 'Comedians in Cars' to television?Jerry Seinfeld could have taken his gazillion-dollar "Seinfeld" fortune, gone merrily on his way and never worked again, but he decided two years ago to launch the web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" on Sony's Crackle.comThe show is exactly what it sounds like: Seinfeld in conversation with his funniest celebrity friends, including David Letterman, Tina Fey, Mel Brooks, Louis CK, Jon Stewart, Aziz Ansari and Sarah Silverman, among others.
The series, which is in its fourth season this summer, has collected more than 40 million views and an Emmy nomination.How has it done so well? Obviously having the name "Seinfeld" attached doesn't hurt.
But the best explanation is that it's a talk show without actually being a talk show.If that sounds like Seinfeld-ian nonsense, well, that's what it is.
Following tradition, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" is basically a show about nothing — except cars and coffee, sort of. Every Thursday at noon, a new episode (generally about 15 to 20 minutes long) is posted, each kicking off with Seinfeld asking a famous pal to join him for a cup of joe.
Then they take a ride in a classic car to a coffee shop and talk about everything from comedy to careers to kids to hobbies. It's essentially eavesdropping as stars chat, so you learn all kinds of fun facts.
For example: Jon Stewart has a three-legged dog. Tina Fey doesn't have a driver's license.
Every night, Mel Brooks goes to Carl Reiner's house where the two comedy legends eat dinner on TV trays and watch "Jeopardy!"As it's always an entertaining peek behind the scenes, the question becomes "When is Seinfeld going to take the show to television?" At this point, we know the drill: First comes the Web show, and if it's really good, it's picked up by a network for true stardom Even in a world where Netflix reigns, we're still ingrained to think of television as the ultimate platformSeinfeld's answer, however, has always been the same: Never And that's probably for the best. Everyone knows that talk shows can have a rough time in the television world.
Daytime and late-night TV are littered with failed ventures ("Bethenny," "The Arsenio Hall Show," "Totally Biased," "Katie," to name a few) for many reasons. Network interference.
Hosts and producers having different visions. The scramble to fill an episode every day or week.
Plus, Seinfeld isn't a fan of modern-day talk shows, calling them "promotional vehicles for the industry.""They're not talk shows, per se, they're kind of setup talk shows –''I'm gonna ask you this, then you say that'," he told the Hollywood Reporter "The shows are pretty cheap, too, so until it becomes an unworkable business model, I don't think you'll see change.
"Network executives could promise to stay out of Seinfeld's way, but the Internet still has much more freedom than broadcast or cable television could offer With the web show, there's no pressure about when an episode needs to run, or for how long. No one gives notes.
There are no pre-interviews. Seinfeld can do whatever he wants, however he wants, and the result is a genuinely fascinating conversation.
The most important point, though, involves the comedians themselves. In front of a studio audience, they don't open up the way they do in the relaxed atmosphere of Seinfeld's low-key production.
That, in a nutshell, is why "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" works. And, as Seinfeld has learned through the years, you don't mess with success.
(c) The Washington Post 201.
SOURCE: Today's Zaman


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|Feb 23, 2011 11:25 PM ET
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We all have our guilty pleasures. We're on a metal site, in the "Non-Metal Music" section. Some of us are purists, a reasonable number of us also listen to [good] Rap/Hip-hop. But guys, you know every once in awhile we have that random un-metal, as well as un-masculine song that our girlfriends made us listen to that somehow got stuck in your head like a malignant tumor and eventually it grew on you...Or maybe I can only speak for myself here.
So to our Metal fathers: Forgive me for I have sinned, once in awhile I listen to Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, The Ting Tings, Sam Sparro and Robin Thicke...And I enjoyed it.
|Feb 24, 2011 12:59 AM ET
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Hollywood Undead I've heard two songs that I like and I listen to them occasionally.
|Feb 24, 2011 3:37 AM ET
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The Sounds
My sister got me into this band some years ago and have since developed deep interest in them. In fact, I will be seeing them live next month. May I add that the vocalist is the very essence of beautiful Swedish women ;D
|Feb 24, 2011 8:59 AM ET
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My wife won't stop playing Adele...and I gotta say, that girl got some pipes.
|Feb 24, 2011 6:29 PM ET
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Only song I feel guilty about is Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha. Other than that, I have no problem admitting I like Limp Bizkit, Pet Shop Boys, Phil Collins and Leonard Nimoy's Bilbo Baggins song.
|Feb 24, 2011 6:42 PM ET
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Would rather take a blunt object to the forhead than listen to Alica Keys. Worst offence is probably Creed, who are widely considered to be a terrible band.
|Feb 24, 2011 8:22 PM ET
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Cynic - I really don't mind the new Creed album. The song overcome has an awesome guitar solo!
|Feb 24, 2011 9:52 PM ET
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The other night at a bar they were playing some really wack-ass electronic techno dance club song and I gotta say I was really diggin it, no idea who it was but if I did i'd totally download that shit and rave to it by myself at home. shit was sick!
|Feb 24, 2011 10:08 PM ET
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id have to say im way into blue grass n that hillbilly shit
|Feb 25, 2011 9:55 AM ET
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From music I listen to, Alter Bridge? I dunno. Slipknot, A7X maybe. I listen to jazz and blues, but nobody has anything on those genres.
When I go clubbing, I gotta say, I can dance to "Baby" by Bieber all fucking night long. That lesbian bitch is catchy.
To be fair, I can dance to anything.
|Feb 28, 2011 12:46 AM ET
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Ugh I'd say the only thing worst than Baby is Whip my Hair by Willow Smith.
|Mar 1, 2011 8:30 PM ET
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Weezer. Jam to weezer alot. Blink 182 got me into music in the first place and i still listen to em. Currently loving the cee lo green album called the lady killer...and lady gaga is always a good choice. and oh yeah i love me some natasha beddingfield. Its ok tho because i still have more metal cred than diamond oz.
|Mar 1, 2011 9:54 PM ET
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I also like Weezer, Cee Lo Green and some Lady Gaga. I draw the line at Natasha Bedingfield though :P
|Mar 2, 2011 1:25 AM ET
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I don't feel guilty for any of my pleasures. I do like me some Dixie Chicks, Arcade Fire, and 3oh!3 though, as far as groups that metalheads or people who like good music hate go.
(This post was last edited on March 2, 2011 at 1:27 AM ET.)
|Mar 2, 2011 4:38 AM ET
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I've been playing the SHIT out of Avenged's new album. Kill me.
I'd like Rhianna if it weren't for that distracting forehead of hers. You could land a jumbo jet on that thing.
Oz: you like Lady Gaga too? Her new single is parade-level gay. Wouldn't have pegged you as a fan, guilty or otherwise.
TIM: lesbian bitch ahaha.
|Mar 2, 2011 9:00 AM ET
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I haven't heard the new single yet. I'm not really a fan, I just think it's good pop music. Regarding the Rihanna forehead part, is that a Snatch reference?
|Mar 2, 2011 5:47 PM ET
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Her forehead is bigger than the state of Texas.
My guilty pleasure is 30 seconds to mars. I don't like them but I don't mind some of thier songs.
|Mar 3, 2011 9:50 AM ET
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I dont mind the rihanna megaforehead actually. The way i see it, thats just a good landing zone for my dick when it needs a rest... But her music just reminds me of a jamaican version of beyonce most of the time, so i usually pass on it.
|Mar 3, 2011 10:02 PM ET
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Rihanna's got the sexiest pussy ever...The only time I appreciated Perez Hilton was when he leaked Rihanna's nudes on the internet!
|Mar 3, 2011 10:03 PM ET
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I have so much metal cred I can make Lady Gaga a straight man's pop singer
|Mar 4, 2011 4:58 AM ET
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where to begin.. ;) Level42, Simple Minds, Sade, Bryan Adams, Kent and Shania Twain. Well, I don't actually listen to Twain, she's just fun to look at ;)
|Mar 6, 2011 1:44 AM ET
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I've been getting into rap and hip-hop recently, but I'm not ashamed of that. Also a HUGE fan of The Cure. Oh, and Coldplay. Yeah.
|Mar 12, 2011 3:51 AM ET
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Hammerheart, I love the Cure!
|Mar 12, 2011 7:49 AM ET
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Me too. They're fucking amazing.
|Mar 15, 2011 1:39 PM ET
|#25 (permalink)
I've recently discovered I also like the Spice Girls. Some of the production on their songs was pretty amazing.
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N0, 849,136. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented April 2, 1907.
Application filed October 16, 1906. Serial No. 339,151,
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, DANIEL KOPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Corsets, of which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to the construction of a corset of comparatively thin material, which by preference has at least one edge and possibly both edges finished and formed of Swiss embroidery, and said edges do not require binding or other finishing than that produced in the manufacture of the Swiss embroidery: and my invention further relates to the manner of connecting up the sections of this thin fabric body to provide not only the requisite strength above and below the waist, but at the waist-line, it being a fact that difficulties have heretofore been experienced in the manufacture of corsets of thin material not only in the matter of the sewed lines of union, but in the matter of ornamentation.
In the device of my invention I employ the thin Swiss-embroidery material, which is a well-known article of manufacture, and I form the fabric body of the corset with a series of connecting fabric sections above the waist-line, that are formed from this Swissembroidery material, and a second series of connecting fabric sections below the waistline, which are formed from similar thin material or may also be formed from the same Swiss-embroidery material, and I join these sections along the waist-line at the line of the usual waist-strip, said waist-line of connection extending from the front around to the back of the corset. The various fabric sections above arid below the waist-line are joined in lines that may and preferably do become the center lines of the bone-pockets, so that the support of the bone-pockets is lent to the sewed union of the said sections.
I take a suitable length of the thin Swiss-embroidery material having an embroidered straight edge and mark thereon the parts or sections of the corset of the desired proportions and shape and thereafter connect the fabric sections formed therefrom so that the embroidered or embroidered scalloped edge thereof constitutes the edge of the corset, the said embroidered edge constituting one edge of each part or section. This is done without trimming or cutting the fabric along said edge or binding the same, and this condition
maintains whether both upper or lower edges of the corset or or only one edge are formed from this thin embroidery fabric. I prefer to cut up the length of embroidery material on the marked lines of the parts or sections and join them by sewed lines of union, and the collated upper and lower parts are shaped and connected along the waist-line by sewed lines of union.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the upper portion of one-half of the corset of my invention spread out flat, the same terminating slightly below the waist-line. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the lower portion of onehalf of the corset of my invention, termin ating
slightly above the waist-line. Figs. 3 and 4, in larger size, are sectional views at the dotted lines x x and y y, respectively, of Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 represents a suitable length of embroidery material with the various parts or sections of one half of a corset marked thereon, the parts for the other half being the reversed duplicate thereof.
a represents the fabric sections above the waist-line, and a' the ornamental or embroidered edge of the sections a, which edge is shown as scalloped and constitutes the edge of the corset following the desired contour without trimming or cutting the fabric or binding the same.
b represents the waist-line, and d the usual waist-strip upon the under surface of the fabric sections extending from the front around to the back of the corset, the said waist-line throughout its continuity being substantially central of the strip d.
c represents the fabric sections below the waist-line. These sections are formed of similar material to the fabric-sections a. They may be embroidered or ornamented with an edge c' (shown in Fig. 2) and which is like and agrees with the ornamented edge a' at the top of the corset, or these fabricsections c may be finished With a plain bound edge c2, which is also shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, for I do not limit my invention as applied to the lower edge of the corset by an ornamental edge or a plain bound edgeonly to the ornamental edge a' at the top of the corset.
The fabric sections a and also the fabric sections c above and below the waist-line are joined in lines of sewing, 2 being the lines of sewing of the fabric sections a, and 3 being the lines of sewing of the fabric sections c, and these lines of union are shown as and become the center lines of the pairs of bonepockets e, it being a fact that when the bonepockets, which are of usual construction, are sewed to these fabric sections they are so placed that the lines 2 3 of sewing of the sections come at the center of the pairs of bonepockets between the bones, so that the edges of these sections are not only joined by lines of sewing, but are sewed down to the bonepockets by other closely-parallel lines of sewing, so that the support of the bonepockets is lent to the sewed unions of the said sections, and these sections are so arranged that in most cases these lines of sewing 2 3 and union of the sections are in line with one another at the upper and lower sections of the corset, although I do not limit myself in this respect.
The drawings illustrate the contour of the embroidered edge, which shows the upper portion of the corset made of the Swiss-embroidery material. It shows the lower edge as either similarly made or as bound with an ordinary binding-strip. In Fig. 5 I have shown a length of fabric material h, having an embroidered straight edge, with the parts or sections i, which edge to edge go to make up one-half of the corset marked thereon, from which their inclined or right-angular relation to the embroidered edge will be apparent. It will also be apparent, that these parts or sections are so proportioned and laid out that said embroidered edge constitutes one edge of the corset, and the aggregate of said embroidered edges constitute the finished edge of the corset. It will also be apparent that when these parts or sections are finished with definite outer edges that the inner edges are more or less irregular and require trimming before they can be joined throughout the waist-line b with the waist-strip d by sewed lines of union.
In my improved manner of constructing the corset of thin material the lines of union of the sections and the support therefor are really of greater strength or fully of as great strength as the material itself of the sections
between the bone-pockets. Therefore there is no greater tendency of the lines of union breaking or separating than there is of the fabric itself giving out.
I claim as my invention--
1. A corset comprising in both the upper and lower parts series of fabric sections cut from a length of fabric material, having an embroidered straight edge and the sections so proportioned that said embroidered edge constitutes one edge of each section, the embroidered edges constituting the finished edge of the corset and said sections united throughout the waist-line by a sewed union.
2. A corset comprising upper and lower series of fabric sections united throughout the waist-line by sewed lines of union and at least one of said series of fabric sections cut from a length of fabric material, having an embroidered straight edge and the sections so proportioned that the said embroidered edge constitutes the edge of the corset.
3. A corset formed from a length of fabric material, having an embroidered straight edge with shaped parts joined together by sewed lines of union, said embroidered edge constituting one edge of each part and the said embroidered edges constituting one finished edge of the corset and the respective parts united throughout the waist-line by a sewed union.
4. A corset formed from a length of fabric material, the opposite straight finished edges of which constitute the respective top and bottom edges of the corset and said strip severed lengthwise between said edges and the respective divisions of the corset united by sewed lines of union and formed from said parts which are shaped and united along the waist-line by sewed lines of union.
Signed by me this 5th day of October, 1906.


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West Virginia State Board Fires Superintendent Jorea Marple
The West Virginia Board of Education announced Nov. 15 that it has fired state Superintendent of Schools Jorea Marple by a 5-2 vote. The two board members who voted against Marple's dismissal, Priscilla Haden and Jenny Phillips, subsequently announced that they were resigning from the board effective Dec. 31.
The Associated Press reports that since Marple, whom the board appointed to the top schools spot in March 2011, was an at-will employee, the board doesn't have to provide a reason for her termination. However, in a statement also reported by the AP, board president L. Wade Linger Jr., while praising Marple for her public service, also said, "The West Virginia Board of Education believes this is a time for a change in direction. As such, we think it is important for new leadership."
The Charleston Gazette reported that upon being fired, Marple told the board: "I think that it's important to say that all of the data I have provided the state Board of Education through my evaluation has clearly indicated enormous progress in increasing what children need to know, increasing our expectations for what children need to know and how we expect them to behave."
There was also a report of a testy exchange in which Linger addressed her as "Mrs. Marple" and Marple shot back "It's Dr. Marple," before leaving. In an interview with the AP, Marple said she was surprised at being fired, and that she had tried during her tenure to "identify issues" like ways to fund schools.
I've contacted both Haden and Phillips for comment, but so far haven't heard back. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, had this to say in a statement: "I'd like to thank Dr. Marple for her outstanding service to the students of West Virginia. She has worked tirelessly over the last several decades and has truly put her heart into improving our state's education system."
Via WOWK-TV, the CBS affiliate in Charleston, the West Virginia Education Association, a state affiliate of the National Education Association, put out a statement from its president Dale Lee that strongly criticized the board's decision and appeared to place blame at the feet of former Gov. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, now a U.S. senator for the state: "WVEA is appalled at the actions of the Manchin appointees on the State Board of Education. Dr. Jorea Marple has done a great job during her short term as state superintendent of schools. ... The actions of the BOE (Board of Education) appear to be politically motivated, and that is a shame."
But there was also an "efficiency audit" of the state's K-12 public schools, released in January of this year, that said, as part of the summary: "We start with the fact that West Virginia has one of the most highly centralized and impermeable education systems in the country: No other state education system is so highly regulated in code and is constitutionally separate from the executive and legislative branches of government."
There's also the audit's dim assessment of West Virginia's place, and pace of change, in the K-12 landscape: "Across America, schools, school districts, and states are reforming and modernizing their systems of education. It is time for West Virginia to do so, as well."
This audit, done at the direction of the recently re-elected Tomblin, was highlighted by political columnist Hoppy Kercheval, who said board members like Linger are now pushing for reform, don't like the way Marple reacted to this push and, in Kercheval's view, tried to protect the state department's turf, even if the audit didn't really explicitly bash Marple herself.
"He (Linger) and Marple frequently butted heads behind the scenes as he tried to craft a response to the audit," Kercheval wrote. "I suspect if Marple had been willing to embrace change, like other progressive school systems across the country, she would still have a job."
You may recall that we did a multifaceted story on West Virginia's schools in McDowell County and how a variety of public and private groups were intervening there in order to improve public education there, in an effort similar to the Harlem Children's Zone Initiative. Do Tomblin, Linger, and others want to see similar efforts on a statewide basis with a more "modernizing" state superintendent at the helm?
When the state board (at the time led by Haden) picked Marple, the Charleston Gazette reported last year, one of the other finalists was Mark Manchin, the executive director of the state School Building Authority and a cousin of Joe Manchin. Gayle Manchin, who is vice president of the state school board (and is mentioned in our McDowell County story), is Joe Manchin's wife. Joe Manchin appointed both his wife and his cousin to their respective public offices. The WVEA has previously said Gayle Manchin should have stayed out of the last superintendent's search in which Marple was eventually hired. However, note that in the article, Haden, one of the board members who has quit in protest over Marple's hiring, said that there was no law requiring Gayle Manchin to recuse herself from the search.
Linger was also appointed by Joe Manchin, as were board members Robert Dunlevy, William White, Michael Green, and Phillips.
So do the board members, as Linger said, simply want a more aggressive, higher-profile state superintendent to take the place of Marple, who was deputy state superintendent before assuming the top education post? It's hard to argue that there isn't at least some momentum for big school policy changes in the state, but maybe that's not all there is to the story.
Photo: West Virginia State School Superintendent Jorea Marple appears before the state School Board last year in Charleston, W.Va. (Chris Dorst/Charleston Gazette/AP-File)


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METS: Dillon Gee pitches well, Mets beat Pirates
PITTSBURGH >> By the way he pitched, you never would have known that Dillon Gee's feet hurt.
The New York Mets right-hander developed blisters on the soles of his feet Sunday during an 87-degree afternoon. It was so warm that the dirt on the mound baked in the sun.
However, Gee overcame the blisters and pitched another gem against the Pirates. John Buck hit a two-run single during a three-run first inning to lead the Mets to a 4-2 win, and New York avoided a sweep by Pittsburgh before the All-Star break.
"Stuff-wise, it probably wasn't the best day but I just tried to throw a lot of strikes, especially after the guys got us out to an early lead and set the tone out there the first inning against a good pitcher," Gee said. "I just wanted to throw a lot of strikes after that and keep them off-balance."
Gee (7-7) allowed just one unearned run in 6 2/3 innings to the Pirates (56-37), who entered the day tied with St. Louis for the best record in the major leagues and the National League Central lead.
Gee is 3-0 with a 1.38 ERA in five career starts against Pittsburgh. He scattered five hits, struck out two and walked one.
"It's just sometimes this is the way it works out," Gee said of his success against the Pirates. "They're a really good team. I was just trying to throw strikes with all my pitches and just keep them off balance. And it worked out."
After having to use his bullpen for eight innings in the first two games of the series, New York manager Terry Collins was happy to see Gee pitch into the seventh.
"We needed to get innings, we needed to get him deep into the game, and he gave us that," Collins said. "He was exhausted. His foot was bothering him. But he gave us everything we needed today."
Buck's hit capped a three-run first inning against fill-in starter Gerrit Cole (4-3), who lost his third straight start after becoming the first Pirates pitcher since Nick Maddox in 1907 to win the first four of his career.
Buck, Eric Young Jr. and Marlon Byrd each had three hits for New York, which finished a 6-3 road trip. The Mets will host the All-Star Game on Tuesday night at Citi Field.
"It's nice that we've kind of proven to ourselves we can have a little more confidence moving to the second half, but there's still a long ways to go," said Mets third baseman David Wright, who will start for the NL on Tuesday. "We did have a nice month after a couple of pretty bad months. It's nice to be progressively getting better so hopefully the best is yet to come and we continue that trend."
Bobby Parnell earned his 17th save in 20 opportunities with a scoreless ninth despite giving up back-to-back singles to Clint Barmes and pinch-hitter Russell Martin with one out. He got Jordy Mercer to fly out to end the game.
"We continue to fight until the final out," Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said. "Sometimes I'd like to see us hit the 'go' button a little earlier in the game, but we always fight."
Starling Marte had two hits for the Pirates, whose three-game winning streak was snapped.
Cole surrendered three runs and six hits in five innings with two walks and five strikeouts. He started in place of All-Star left-hander Jeff Locke, who was scratched from this start on Saturday because of lower back tightness.
The Mets took a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Byrd bounced a run-scoring, ground-rule double into the left-field seats, and Buck lined a two-run single to right.
"I didn't come out ready to pitch and that inexcusable," Cole said. "It's just indefensible. I didn't give our team a very good chance to win. I put us in position where I had to scratch and claw and so did the rest of the team."
Marte also bounced an RBI double into the seats in the third inning to draw the Pirates within 3-1.
Daniel Murphy tripled in a run in the seventh to restore the Mets' three-run lead.
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a student concludes that `Energy is actually the momentum in the direction of time.' Is this student right? Could he be wrong?
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By comparatively examining the operators
a student concludes that `Energy is actually the momentum in the direction of time.' Is this student right? Could he be wrong?
The student is right in that energy is the analog of momentum in the "time direction" but I wouldn't go so far as to call it "momentum in the direction of time".
It's analogous in two ways that I can think of off the top of my head:
I wouldn't call it "momentum in the direction of time" because that phrase, at least to me, implies that energy is more momentum-like than it really is.
Energy is very momentum-like in Relativity theory. For a photon, which has zero rest mass, its energy is the absolute value of its momentum. But not for the reason your student puts forward. What your student said has to be reinterpreted quite a bit.
The first technicality, and it is important, is that $H$ does not equal the operator the student wrote down. In QM, $i\partial\over \partial t$ is not an operator. Whenever you say « operator », you have to be clear in your mind on what space are you operating? The Hamiltonian is an operator in the space of functions of $x$, such as $e^{-x^2}$. An example of $H$ is what was suggested in one of the comments, $-{\partial^2\over\partial x^2}$.
Obviously if you apply your students operator to $e^{-x^2}$, you get zero.
What your student is getting confused by is the difference between a parameter and a variable. The time-dependent Schroedinger equation is better written this way: if $\psi_t(x)$ is the wave function of a system at time t, then it satisfies $$i{d\psi_t\over dt}= H\cdot \psi_t$$ and $\psi_t$ is being treated like a vector which moves with time, so a path in space. For example, $\psi_t (x) = e^{-{x^2\over t}}$ which describes a path which does not satisfy this equation.
Even better would be $$\psi_t = e^{itH}\cdot\psi_o$$ which makes it totally clear that $t$ is a parameter.
But what your student is getting right is the idea that since in relativity time is analogous to space, then motion along the path ought to be analogous to motion in space. The value of any $f(x+a)$ can be found by Taylor's theorem from the value at $f(x)$ and all its derivatives, and this calculus fact can be rewritten in operator terms as $$f(x+a)=e^{a{\partial\over\partial x}}\cdot f.$$ Since this translation in space of a wave function uses the momentum operator of QM in the same way as Schroedinger's equation for time-translation along the path of the wave function uses the operator $H$, (the correct one, not the student's one), the Hamiltonian, which is the energy, we have
translation in space <-----> exponentiation of the momentum operator
translation in time <-----> exponentiation of the energy operator
and so from this we can draw the conclusion that energy is the time-component of momentum.
So in a way, your student was on to something. But one mustn't write $H = i{\partial\over\partial t}$ an equality of operators. That $H\cdot f = i{\partial\over\partial t}\cdot f$ is a condition on $f$ that $f$ has to satisfy.
Here is another way of looking at it, using classical mechanics:
Given a Hamiltonian that may depend explicitly on time: $H = H(q,p,t)$, $(q,p)\in\mathbb{R}^{2n}$. We enlarge phase space to $(Q,P)\in\mathbb{R}^{2n+2}$, $Q=(q,q_e)$, $P = (p,p_e)$. Introduce the corresponding new Hamiltonian $K(Q,P) = H(q,p,p_e) - q_e$. Hamilton's equations of motion now become
$$ \dot{q} = \frac{\partial H}{\partial p} , \quad \dot{p} = - \frac{\partial H}{\partial q}, \quad \dot{q_e} = \frac{\partial H}{\partial t}, \quad \dot{p_e} = 1. $$
These are the original equations of motion for $(q,p)$ in addition to two extra equations. If we recall that in Hamiltonian mechanics $\dot{E} = \partial H/\partial t$, we see the following: The extended system has the energy of the original system as a degree of freedom $E(t) = q_e(t)$, and time as well: $t = p_e$.
In this way, it is natural to think of time as the conjugate of energy.
So yes, even if the wording of the student was imprecise, time and energy are conjugate variables.
In quantum mechanics, the operators work like extractors. They extract physical information from the wave functions for example moment or energy. So they do not carry physical information like direction themselves.


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Some are questioning whether the state school board violated Utah's Open and Public Meetings Act when it elected new leaders by secret ballot earlier this month.
On Dec. 7, board members voted to re-elect Debra Roberts as board chairwoman and elect David Crandall as vice chairman of the 15-member body, which oversees and guides education for about 600,000 students enrolled in the state's public schools.
As it has in years past, the board voted in its open meeting but conducted the vote by secret ballot choosing selections on paper without revealing who voted for whom. The Open and Public Meetings Act requires written minutes of an open meeting to include "a record, by individual member, of each vote taken by the public body."
The law also states, "An ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, contract, or appointment may not be approved at a closed meeting."
Appointing leaders is not among the reasons listed within the law for which a public body may close a meeting to the public.
"I think it's very clear that secret ballots are not permitted under the Open Meetings Act," said Jeff Hunt, a Salt Lake City attorney who specializes in First Amendment issues.
Hunt, who has represented several local media outlets including The Salt Lake Tribune on unrelated First Amendment cases, said he doesn't think secret ballots are "consistent with the letter and spirit of the Open Meetings Act."
Roberts, who was chosen as chairwoman for the fifth time, said the board has often voted by secret ballot in the past. She said no one has expressed concern about the practice to the board during her tenure.
She said voting by secret ballot can help members vote more freely without fear of hurting fellow board members.
Roberts earned 10 votes while her opponent Tami Pyfer earned five. For the vice chairman spot, David Crandall earned 10 votes and his opponent, also Tami Pyfer, earned five.
Plus, Roberts said, the state Senate and House vote for their leaders secretly as well.
Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, confirmed that the Senate majority caucus votes for its leaders in a closed meeting. But it appears that vote is legal because the Open and Public Meetings Act states political parties, political groups and political caucuses are not considered public bodies.
"These are people we've worked with and will work with," he said, "and I think that it's important to avoid feelings and potential animosity."
He said he can see arguments both in favor and against allowing a true public body to also vote for its leaders by secret ballot, but he empathizes with the argument that "silent votes" be allowed.
Hunt, however, said having to make uncomfortable decisions publicly "kind of goes along with the territory" of being an elected official.
"You have to be prepared to make those decisions in view of the public," Hunt said. "That's just part of the public trust that you exercise and while it may be uncomfortable for certain members and maybe it would be easier to do it in a secret session, expediency and comfort are not the prime values served by the Open Meetings Act. Transparency and accountability are."
Hunt said the board would not necessarily have to redo its vote unless someone legally challenged it, getting a court to void the action.
Roberts said, barring such a legal challenge, it would be up to the board to decide whether to redo its vote or alter its bylaws to make the vote public in the future.
The board's own bylaws require the board to vote for its leaders by ballot, saying, "Each member will check the personal choice for Chair and Vice Chair."
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