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A tool for collaborative mobile learning about the image of the city
Mauro Cherubini & Pierre Dillenbourg
1. what is it
MapTribe is a software application for mobile phones. It enables group of users:
~ to see each other's position on a city map on the screen display
~ to add on this shared map a certain number of objects that will positioned on the map according to the user's real position in the city.
The set of objects to be dropped on the map includes symbols (limits, landmarks, paths, nodes, districts, …) , information (noise level at this point, number of cars per minute, …) and pictures. The precise set of symbols depends on the specific application (see point 2), each application using its own extensible library of objects. The phone software will be associated with PC software that enables users to more elaborated actions on the maps.
MapTribe is based on the idea that every person retains and develops over time an image of the spaces s/he lives, which may be quite different from the physical inhabited place. It is commonly experienced, in fact, that places are enriched of psychological features that transform their perception. MapTribe is a tool for exchanging and comparing these personal images of the city among a group of friends. The tool we are developing helps people in analysing, capturing and visualizing this mental structure and to share it in a social network. From the negotiation of the differences between the maps of each participant in the group, a common understanding raises, an informal learning obtained by each user of the system about the image of the city.
2. applications
This software is aimed towards mobile learning (our research domain) but multiple uses of this software can be expected. The three first examples concern learning applications. The next ones illustrate applications for a broader audience.
a. The Lost City. A group of architecture students have to reconstruct the historical evolution of the city of Lausanne. They have to understand how the old urban structure of the city from the Middle Age survived and melted in the actual city. Instead of using a current map of Lausanne, they download on their phone the 1850 map. The group members split into the city centre and attempt to follow the old streets as displayed on the phone.
From time to time, they bump into a building or they are not able to find where the urban tissue hides the old structure. In these cases, the students drop a landmark on the virtual map. Later on, in class, the actual map and the historical map are merged with the landmarks the students defined on their field trip. Finally, the professor collect the maps built by the students and use them in his next lecture.
b. Urban Embodiment. In schools of architecture, students learn about urban structures by analyzing city pictures and maps. The software would enable them to ground this conceptual experience into a direct physical experience of the city. A group of 10 architecture students is sent to a city they don't know. When they walk, they drop icons that correspond to the concepts used in their course on urban planning: they drop icon to define the zone limits, to define the main flows, the traffic nodes. They also collect information such as the level of noise at different points and collect pictures. Viewing the position of their team mates enable them to coordinate efficiently their moves in a way to cover the city within half a day. Later on, they come back to their university and work with the PC software. They analyse the data collected and argue about the points where they data do not match with each other (e.g. one 'zone limit' dropped by a student is not consistent with the 'zone limit' dropped by the other students). The PC software enables complex actions such as turning this set of zone limits into a zone area. By the end of the day, they have to give to their professor a map where the city is represented with the key concepts of the urban planning course.
c. Field Trips. The same software could be used in a variety of field trips outside city like observing and locating animals (e.g. bird watching), collecting geological samples in or observing specific phenomena in mountains area, etc.
d. Giving directions. Mr Schmidt has to meet Mrs Wenger at the computer shop. She asks him to explain where this shop is. Usually these explanations rely on rich contextual information such as "Just after the garage, turn left", "When you see the church, turn right". Giving such an explanation on the phone, i.e. turning verbal information into spatial information, is known to be rather difficult. It would be much better if Mr Schmidt could show the map, indicate the way with a cursor that Mrs Wenger perceives as well and pop-up pictures of landmarks such the garage or the church.
e. Convergence. Group of friends could use this software to find each other in large meetings (e.g. concerts), in complex environments (e.g. a ski resort), in instable environments (e.g. public transportation ,….)
f. Ubiquitous Games. Several games could exploit this software. The users would circumscribe parts of the city into virtual bounds, tracing virtual fences and barricades, enabling the system to trigger any offence to these autocratic properties. Throughout the city, different tribes will define their supremacy fighting for the space, defining social and commercial rules for the confining tribes and setting up modalities for aggregating and living their places.
Multiple other applications can be designed such as crisis management and rescue training, danger notification ("you are approaching a crevasse"), location-bound email (the emitter wants that the receiver only gets a message if she comes in some area). It is obvious that unexpected applications will emerge if we provide group of teenagers with such technology.
! -Since spatial information raise privacy issues, the provider will not collect the positioning automatically; it will be collected by the user phone (GPS module) and communicated by him.
3. technology
Our goal is to implement the project for the widest public, making it portable to several different kinds of hardware. For this reason we would develop the software using J2ME, the new Java standard for mobile applications. From the hardware point of view, no changes to current mobiles will be needed except for an external Bluetooth GPS (Global Positioning System) and compass unit, which will be used to augment the definition of positioning and to detect which direction the user will be facing.
The platform will be server based so that heavy computation is carried out outside the relatively constraint capabilities of the mobiles. On the server, a GIS (Geographical Information System) software will be interfaced with an SQL engine to answer all the continuous ping requests from the mobiles running the software, providing the needed computation.
4. contacts
Mauro Cherubini, project leader
Prof. Pierre Dillenbourg, project supervisor
MapTribe est une application logicielle pour téléphone
portable qui permet aux utilisateurs de:
Les objets inscriptibles sur la carte peuvent être des symboles (limites, monuments, chemins, noeuds, zones, ...) , des informations (niveau de bruit, nombre de voitures par minutes, ...) ainsi que des photos. Le logiciel sur téléphone sera associé à une version PC qui permettra de réaliser des actions plus élaborées.
MapTribe est basé sur l'idée que nous retenons et développons une image personnelle de l'espace dans lequel nous vivons. Celle-ci pouvant être différente de la réalité de l'espace physique habité. A la physicalité du lieu s'ajoute en effet une dimension psychologique liée à la perception de chacun. Dans cet optique, MapTribe est un outil qui permet d'échanger et de comparer les représentations personnelles de la ville au sein d'un groupe d'amis. L'outil que nous développons aidera les gens à analyser, saisir et visualiser cette structure mentale ainsi que de la partager dans un réseau social. La confrontation des représentations de chacun, sous la forme de cartes annotées, pourra permettre de faire émerger une compréhension commune de l'image de la ville.
[Cherubini and Nova2004] Cherubini, M. and Nova, N. (2004). To live or to master the city: the citizen dilemma: Some reflections on urban spaces fruition and on the possibility of change one's attitude. Imago Urbis, Universitas de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (2). http://imagourbis.unq.edu.ar/


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The Atlantis We Are Looking For
When one mentions the lost continent of Atlantis, one thinks of Plato's "Dialogues".
However, Plato's work was not the only one to point to a 'lost continent'. There are legends of other old civilizations that mention lost worlds which disappeared into the waters, as a result of volcanic eruptions, floods, and earthquakes. Today people fight over the existence of Atlantis continent, but they all take into account one story, that is Plato's. While we do expose the theories and the ongoing research on this sunk land, we try to bind together everything we have to create The Atlantis, the base for "Dialogues", the base for Kircher's and Piri Reis's map, the course of the ancient legends. The result might not be called "Atlantis", but a variation of it. There are so many researchers that claim to have discovered "the lost continent", that any new found land can be a possible Atlantis. Some even claim that Atlantis has already been found in the Aegean Sea, on the Island of Santorini. Maybe Atlantis is some kind of faerie tale, but there must be something lost out there, even if its name is not Atlantis, even if it is not in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Atlantis after all?
The old Greek scholars cast a completely different light on the story. After years and years of believing just because funny evidence claims the existence of Plato's Atlantis, I reached a point where I ask myself: But did it really exist, as Plato said?
I pointed my finger to the Azores, I pointed it to Santorini, and now I am pointing to nothing, because I don't know what to say. I might as well reach the conclusion that Atlantis continent is, after all, Plato's story, based on some real events, but adapted.

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John Gallagher, Jr. & Brie Larson: 'Short Term 12' Premiere!
The Newsroom's John Gallagher, Jr. and The Spectacular Now's Brie Larson are ready for their close ups at the premiere of their film Short Term 12 held at The Museum of Modern Art on Sunday evening (August 18) in New York City.
The 29-year-old actor and 23-year-old actress were joined at the event by the director and writer of the movie, Destin Cretton.
At the 2013 Locarno Film Festival earlier this month, the buzzed about indie film received a standing ovation after the screening, where the crowd applauded for over one minute – a rare occurrence at the festival, THR reports.
Short Term 12 hits theaters on August 23 – be sure to check it out!
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Can someone explain why the U.S. is wasting a single penny going after corruption in futbol? Nobody gives a fig about soccer in this country. Let the UK or Germans or someone go after these people.
Meanwhile, we should be prosecuting the financial and banking greedholes who crashed the world economy.


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Black N White House
Brand new website launch for Black N White House, a quality interior design consultancy. A sophisticated, sleek theme with an artful touch is designed to match the image of the firm. The portfolio is presented in a photo gallery style which users could navigate easily to view the different works.
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what is this game i see you play? it looks so weird but fun,
oh, now one hides, and then one jumps, and why does that one run?
it feels a match where one gives chase and prances, dances, spurns,
but then like a non-sequitur, the other does in turn!
i toss a ball against the wall, it's returned with due force,
then to and for, and back again, with nary a brief pause;
when suddenly, we drop our all, and whereforth the ball goes?
is no concur, you've missed the point, it's of who next now throws!
but wait, there's more, with sleight of hand, what false is now made true,
with magic words and mirrored glass, we've deceived, misconstrued;
so why do what? that chase, that dance, what essence did it pass?
its purpose was, to win, of course, and make it such that thus:
that when one's won, the other's, too, but play the game for fun,
when no longer can you tell start from end, then both are one.
oh, yet again, i've missed the point, i still don't get this game,
who keeps the score? am i ahead? or is the tally same?
oh, my, you say, i've always lost? how's that, we've but begun!
(for anything that gives you points is all under the sun).
so tell me not, the rules of play, derived from calvinball,
for if it were that one could win, without speaking in drawl -
if we hit that bullseye, all the dominoes will fall
like a house of cards - checkmate! (hooray, we've won nothing at all).
Sunday, 9 February 2014
play the game (queen music in the background)
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John D. Markley, Jr. has served as one of our directors since January 2002. Mr. Markley has served as Managing Member of Bear Creek Capital Management, an investment company in the communications media and technology industries, since February 2011.
Prior to Bear Creek, Mr. Markley served in a number of capacities at Columbia Capital Corporation, including as a partner, venture partner and portfolio company executive. Prior to Columbia Capital, Mr. Markley served at the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Markley has been a director of Charter Communications, Inc. since 2009, and was a director of Millennial Media, Inc. from 2006 – 2014.


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Day before yesterday while clicking the following pics my mom asked why I gave them a book's background. I could just smile and say waise hi. The actual thing is that I bought this earrings during my exam period only and that I am totally fida over anything green-maroon combi with antique finish these days. Since I've seen these kinds in the market I am head over heals in love with them. Though I was hesitating to buy them earlier as I am not much of a earring person, but I had to give in when I saw these pairs in the exhibition in our city.
I love exhibitions and cannot control my temptations visiting them specially when it is a handicraft exhibition. We had Sahara Arts and Handicrafts Exhibition held on our exhibition ground of the city. I must say it was a lovely one. The best place for me to visit during exams. This was my final sem and besides lots of other work too had to be completed. There was a huge roadblock I had to overcome and Alhamdulillah by my Rab's grace I could do it. Well well I m not gonna write anything negative today, I am very happy. So only good things as of now.
This above pair too I bought from the same exhibition. It has meenakari work on it. Its a pendant and earring set. A lill info on meenakari work can be found here and here. I can only say that there are several beautiful things in India and meenakari jewellery is one among them. During such exhibitions one gets to see handicrafts from various parts of India and it really makes us wonder about our country's talents spread all across. I am planning to use pearls for this pendant as such types can be seen a lot on television these days. Insha Allah soon I'll make and post it here.


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Eleanor Agnes Lee
Eleanor Agnes Lee [Wig] (1841 - 1873)
A Roman Doll
(In a Museum)
How an image of paint and wood
Leaped to her life with a love's control,
Struck the chords of her motherhood,
Passionate little mother-soul!
Fair to her sight were the stolid eyes,
Dear to her toil the robes empearled.
She crooned it the ancient lullabies,
She gathered it close from the outer world.


text: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's new president, has called for the extinction of Israel. But the Islamic Republic and the Jewish state were not always enemies, explains Trita Parsi. The inexperienced Iranian president has done it again. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments in a speech on 26 October – before an audience of 4,000 students attending a Tehran conference on "The World Without Zionism" …Devamını Oku »


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Photographer's Note
The Rocky Lake (Hungarian: Kő-pataki-tó, Slovakian: Skalnaté-pleso) with the Lomnicky saddle (left) and the Lonicky Peak (middle) in the background.
Nikon D700 + Tokina 17 mm, f 10, 1/250, iso 400.
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kasianowak (12931) 2018-09-14 12:29
Hi Gyorgy
What a wonderful place with this little lake! Great composition with layers of greens, rocks and blues.
Have a nice weekend
mesutilgim (108234) 2018-09-14 12:33
Hello Gyorgy,
Another nice landscape capture in your gallery, taken with very good pov and light management. Nice cloudy sky and perfect sharpness.
Nice framed.
TFS and best regards
macjake (86171) 2018-09-14 13:12
Hi Gy
sweeeeet. Oh man, i'd love to go hiking here with the camera in my bag, ready to take it out at any time. nice to see the rocks under the water on the bottom left, but the mountains, sky, clouds make it so attractive. dramatic view, lovely. cheers
PiotrF (35812) 2018-09-14 13:28
Hello Gyorgy ,
Great view of Rocky Lake and Lomnicky Peak in background.
The mountain on the right is Kezmarsky Peak .
I like this place and your photography is very good.
Fine presentation.
lousat (113073) 2018-09-14 14:26
Hi Gyorgy,another magnificent view from Slovakia mountains,a very wild scenery with the small lake too inside,the usual top quality of sharpness,i like it! Have a nice weekend and thanks,Luciano
jemaflor (118440) 2018-09-14 23:23
Hi Gyorgy,
Well photographed this mountain landscape with small lake, mountains and people on the trail, tfs.
holmertz (75149) 2018-09-15 1:46
Hello György,
It's a splendid view of the mountainsides covered with thorny bushes surrounding the lake with clear water. The hikers make the view lively. I just wonder how many of them that were walking along the track. Was there one uninterrupted queue of people all the way up to where you were standing? That would be like a mass invasion of the wilderness.
Kind regards,
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Here is an interesting Infographic about the world's most influential social sellers on how they spend their time in a day.
The Time is most precious, we all know that! Let us check how they allot their time for the day's activities!
The most notable point here is that, though they are very busy people still they keep a solid time for rest, I mean for sleeping.
That is indeed an essential thing to do daily. Whoever may be, a writer/blogger or any other busy person need enough sleep/rest.
In this infographic, all are taken care of that part very specifically. An important thing to emulate!
To continue reading please click on the below link:
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How World's Most Influential Social Sales People Spend Their Day! (An Infographic)
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This isn't the sort of thing I'd have done a few years ago. I've learnt better now: there is no time like the present. The things that you want are not going to magically resolve themselves without your input and nothing ever fell into your outstretched hands. If you want something, you should take it.
I wanted him.
I took him.
I'll even name him, after one of my friends rather pointedly noted my failure to name him even in conversation. As if it would be bad luck, somehow, and once made concrete I would only too soon be announcing that he has left, or not been all than he seemed. Ganymede, then. For the beautiful boy stolen by Zeus.
So named, we are together. Happily. Disgustingly well-matched. It's bewildering, sometimes. I try hard not to giggle, out loud, on the tube or at work. We are still in that sweet spot of a blissful daze, repeated fucking, barely able to keep our hands off each other. The realms of new discovery: each other's tastes and desire - sexual as well as otherwise. He's been reading the blog, from the beginning it seems, and we've discussed with interest the way that his own submission mirrors my own nascent desires. We become the dominant that we want, and then we develop into something else when we meet others - I feel as if I have discovered the submissive that perfectly matches me completely. It's not precisely like doing unto him that which I want to have done to me, it's more about acts that satisfy me are acts that satisfy him also. We are enthusiastically boyish together, and I am enjoying having an appreciative audience for my masculine persona, someone who revels in my androgyny. And I in his. We form an interesting mirror for each other, roughly of the same height and build. The fact that we can swap clothes is creating a lot of excitement in the wardrobe department, and I'm looking forward to developing an appreciation for cissyfication.
We fall into each other easily, as if we have been lovers for a long time.
Lying in the sun, his fingers searching out my pleasure in my cunt. I can see his delight at my satisfaction, and we reflect back upon each other. His pleasure in my pleasure skin bleaching white in the bright daylight. I watch him bite his lip - I love it when they bite their lip - his cock is hard and snug against my side. The obvious signs of desire are sometimes the best, and I am fond of a good erection, thus far he has not disappointed. The game is experimentation. Toys old and new. Each time we learn something new about what works, and each time we build on the last.
There are certain acts, certain first times that are significant. The first time you put a collar on someone, whether in play or to make them yours more permanently. The first time you experience a sensation that transports you elsewhere, into those spaces within you that you never knew existed. Ganymede and I are moving through first times at a rate of knots. where cherries are popped at a speed of kernals of corn. But some are worth savouring.
I'd initially thought to wait for a "special" moment to strap on and fuck him in the arse. It's one of those significant points. I knew that he was bi, so I'd assumed, wrongly as it turns out, that it wouldn't have been a new experience for him. I started slow, all the same, because the build up is part of the fun and I don't think I'll ever tire of putting things in people. After a while, I selected the narrowest of my cocks, pushed him down and pressed into him. A few experimental thrusts and he wriggles his bottom against my hips - I think the boy likes it. I flipped him over onto his back, resting his hips on a pillow to get a better angle and throwing his legs atop my shoulders. Taking him harder now, riding against the moans, grinning at the way his eyes stare wide at me, grinning harder after I slap his face and he whispers, smiling, "you are a mean Daddy." And he is my beautiful boy. We fuck. I revel in the fullness of his appreciation of me, of what he sees in me.
Later, I put him to sleep secure in a padded leather collar, with cuffs around his wrist and ankles. Tied loose enough to the head and foot of the bed, I give him some movement, and to avoid any accidental strangulation in the night. He lets me know that was the first time someone had fucked him like that, and I hold him, happy that I took him. That I have him. Yes, it's been quick. I know that. But I've been long in waiting, so now, I see no reason to hold back.
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Van Halen Unveil 'Pretty Woman' Preview From 'Tokyo Dome Live in Concert'
Van Halen fans have early access to a couple more minutes from the band's new Tokyo Dome Live in Concert LP, courtesy of a freshly posted preview stream of the album's version of "Pretty Woman."
This new sample arrives shortly after the group debuted a preview of the Tokyo Dome rendition of "I'm the One," and joins a small crowd of pre-release teasers that also includes peeks at "Unchained," "Panama" and "Runnin' With the Devil."
As previously reported, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert was recorded during the June 21, 2013, stop on Van Halen's tour in support of A Different Kind of Truth, the band's first studio album with original lead singer David Lee Roth since 1984. Collecting 23 tracks over two discs, it covers the seven-LP span of Roth's tenure with the group.
Tokyo Dome's release arrives at the forefront of some major Van Halen activity in 2015, including a new reissue campaign that's set to send remastered versions of Van Halen, Van Halen II, Diver Down, Fair Warning, Women and Children First and 1984 back to stores while the group returns to the road for an ambitious tour.
Starting July 5 in Seattle, Van Halen plan to headline more than three dozen shows across the U.S., a trek that will keep them traveling until the tour wraps up Oct. 2 in Los Angeles. They've also booked a pair of rare TV performances, agreeing to take the stage for the March 30 taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and the April 2 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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Whitney and Derrick
how they asked
June 20th, 2015 We were on vacation and had planned on heading to the St. Louis arch this day. Not only to see the arch, but ride 630 feet in the air on the journey to the top. We had to wait forever in the line, and then head through security. We had to empty our pockets, and walk through full body scanners. We then took some pictures, and were loaded into the elevator. These "elevators" are small cubicles that barely fit three people, let alone my mother (Sally), step-dad(Tom), Derrick, and myself, oh and our nerves. It's a four minute ride to the top. For people that are afraid of heights like Derrick and I, it seemed like 40 minutes. Once at the top, I tiptoed, inching my way to the windows to look out. Derrick was stuck in the middle of the room. He was barely moving, if he was moving. I swear the whole place was shaking because of Derrick's shivers. I was looking out the window, when my mom adverted my attention to the center of the room. I look at Derrick, and he is crawling on the floor in fear.
I quickly tell him get up, and turn back to the view of Busch Stadium (Go Cards). Mom and Tom giggled and told me to look again. WHAT THE?! Turns out Derrick was not crawling, he was on one knee with a ring. How he managed to get the ring past the metal detectors and security, I don't know. Any-who, he says words. I am sure they were romantic and super sweet. I was just saying yes and starting to ugly cry, so he had to get up and hug me. The staff and several witnesses applauded. It was just absolutely perfect! Now here we are. I get to marry my best friend on, August 13, 2017.


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Shippers shifted freight from all-truck modes to intermodal at the fastest pace in years during the second quarter, according to a closely watched survey by the Wolfe Trahan research group.Based on preliminary results of the survey conducted in July and early August, the shift from roads to rail occurred more than at any point in the last eight years, the analysts said, and shippers expect to shift more domestic cargo to intermodal in the months ahead. The full results of the survey are scheduled to be released before Labor Day.During the April-June quarter, "shippers in our survey shifted a net 4.5 percent of their volume from truck to rail," said analysts Edward Wolfe and Scott Group, for "the highest net shift to rail in the past eight years of our survey."Shippers also said they expect to move a net 3.6 percent more to rail from highway-only transport over the next 6-12 months, which is a pickup from recent surveys. In this year's first quarter, shippers projected a 3.2 percent net shift in the coming year, up slightly from last year's fourth quarter.For most of last year, surveyed shippers told Wolfe Trahan they only expected to shift a net 1.3 percent to 1.9 percent of their business away from road delivery to intermodal.While rail industry officials often credit the shift to improving rail service times and investments to convert more of their rail networks to doublestack clearances, researchers found a strong correlation between modal shifts and oil prices.When average quarterly oil prices were below $70 a barrel for West Texas Intermediate crude during 2009, the survey found freight shifting back to trucks and the delivery convenience they provide.But when WTI quarterly pricing moved above $70 per barrel in 2010 followed by a spike this year, shippers increasingly put more cargo aboard trains for the long-haul part of the trip.
With realistic long term oil prices remaining above $70 a barrel for the foreseeable future, freight rail is increasingly going to be the shipper of choice. Electrification, which offers energy prices roughly one third of the current cost of diesel, may become a means of competition between shipper; however, this is presuming that there is sufficient capacity on the rail lines to warrant such, which is generally not the case at present. Certainly however, the expectation of 500 hybrid locomotives sold by 2020 is one that should be easily matched. My own expectation is that such a number is probably on the more pessimistic side, should the claimed fuel savings hold up in practice.


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Kanyakumari (TN): Police fired teargas shells and made a lathicharge to disperse a crowd which threw stones, injuring nine police personnel, during a meeting of the United Christan Council near here, police sources said Wednesday.
Police said the members of the UCC wanted to take out a procession in connection with the Christmas celebrations in the Kulasekaram area last night.
BJP activists also wanted to take out a procession from Seruppalur Amman temple to Nagakodu in the same area to mark the birthday celebrations of former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee. Sensing trouble, police did not allow the processions, but UCC members insisted and blocked the road, police said.
MLAs Vijayarani and Pushpa leela Alphone held talks with police officials. SP Manivannan then held talks with the two groups,and allowed the UCC members to hold a public meeting.
Trouble started when some UCC members who addressed the meeting allegedly abused BJP leaders,forcing the police to grab the mike,leading to clash between police and UCC members, police said.
Some miscreants in the crowd started pelting stones at the police, forcing the police to burst tear gas shells and then resort to lathicharge to quell the violence, police said.
Police said they had filed cases under various IPC sections against 256 persons in connection with the violence and clash in which nine policemen were injured. Fifty persons were taken into custody and later released at mid-night last night.
The injured police personnel included Sub Inspectors Mohana Iyer, Regunathan and Jayanthi.
Police said the situation in the area was tense but under control and police personnel have been deployed in large numbers.


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Interview: Chris O'Dowd does funny and serious in 'Calvary'
Chris O'Dowd talks about "Calvary," an Irish comedy-drama about a priest (Brendan Gleeson) under fire.
Chris O'Dowd is best known for comedy, including his run on "The IT Crowd" and in "Bridesmaids" and "This is 40." But though he's been transitioning to drama — including his Tony-nominated turn in Broadway's "Of Mice and Men," opposite James Franco — he gets to do both sides in "Calvary." The latest from John Michael McDonagh ("The Guard"), it features him as a cuckolded butcher in a village whose priest (Brendan Gleeson) has been told by a mystery man he'll be killed in retaliation for the Catholic Church's abuse scandal.
His initial reservations: "I remember when I learned that John Michael was going to do a film about the priesthood, I was a little wary. I had a very positive relationship with priests when I was young. I kind of presumed — erroneously, it turned out — that it was going to be a hatchet job on priests. When I read it I was so pleasantly surprised that that wasn't the case. I would consider myself an atheist — or as John would call it, 'a recovered Catholic.' I felt it was very interesting to have a priest who is a hero in a story where organized religion is often the enemy."
A priest at the helm: "The idea that Brendan's character is somewhat ridiculed by the rest of the community was interesting. For centuries, people were made to feel small by their church. Now they've become the bullies. It's almost like that thing where you're bullied then you go home and you bully your kids, and then your kids bully somebody else."
His relationship to the setting: "We shot the film 20 minutes down the road from where I grew up. That kind of nihilism the characters feel I could recognize. Being brutally funny and brutally brutal is not something I had to think about."
The film is agnostic about religion's veracity: "Even though it's about our relationship with the church, it's not about if a god exists. It's right to not come down on either side. Saying he doesn't exist would have been as bad as John saying that he does."
Researching cases of people abused by the Catholic Church: "I read a few cases. It's harrowing. The disappointing thing is once you start looking for that on Google, it's endless. It's one of the reasons I'm delighted the film is coming out. There are so many incredible stories — tragic and harrowing stories that have never been told. That we can do one feels good."
On the acidic humor of his director and his brother, playwright Martin McDonagh ("In Bruges"): "They're concerning the market on that, the McDonaghs. They've got an incredible sense for it. It's almost like Beckett. The relationship between comedy and suspense is seen nowhere better at the moment than in the writing of the McDonaghs."
He always wanted to work with Brendan Gleeson: "He's a very sweet guy. He carries himself with such an integrity. He's very open and very loose and always up for a joke. He has that kind of confidence where he doesn't need to portray grandeur. But once the cameras go on he's like a colossal. He has the map of the world and it can take you in so many different directions."
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text: Hey, everyone! Just a few days ago I bought the Droid IV and I have this problem that I'd like to either fix permanently or otherwise exchange the phone while I'm still within the time allowed for returns/exchanges at Verizon. The landscape and portrait orientation seems to work just fine -- except when I turn off the screen, it being on landscape mode, because even if I wake it up on portrait, it will stay in landscape. (The other way works normally; it's only this one way it fails to switch on its own.) When the screen remains in landscape like that, although I wake it up in portrait, I can "fix it" by just tilting it to landscape then back to portrait again and the orientation will work normally again. I wonder if there's a cure for this that anyone will please share. I'd really appreciate it. Rocky P.S. I rooted and hotspotted the phone relatively soon after buying it, seemingly without any problems; but I don't remember if the problem existed before I did that. P.P.S. I'm sorry if this thread doesn't belong here.


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Better Health Together: A Citizen's Perspective
Posted on July 24, 2017 by Kerri MacKay
Stories are rarely created alone — and neither is change. In March, Infoway brought together health care change makers from across Canada to share our stories and experiences about digital health within our own health regions. Over two days, 34 patients, caregivers, technology developers, and more helped construct a vision for digital health in Canada for the next ten years, together.


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Henry Cabot Henhouse III is the millionaire playboy rooster whose alter ego is Super Chicken. When crime is afoot, his sidekick Fred will whip up some "Super Sauce" (a booze gag... ie; served in a martini glass or with a salted rim) In fact, much of the humor was for adults. Some other running gags are the Super Sauce always kicks in mid-sentence and the bad guys are usually 'the worlds blankiest criminal'. And of course there are the puns.
The Super Chicken Theme Song
When you find yourself in danger,
When you're threatened by a stranger,
When it looks like you will take a lickin', (bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk)
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Whether you are a speed whittler, an oyster shucker, or a pimp looking to make an authoritative fashion statement, a chainmail glove could be of some use. Pair it with a matching chainmail iPod case, or wear it solo, like Michael Jackson back when he wasn't scary. Whatever you do, its vendor warns you not to use it with power tools. Something to do with electric current coursing through your palm until you have nothing but a charred stump. Go figure.
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Perhaps the single greatest challenge for both actors and directors, aside from financing a film without studio interference, is to make an interesting film out of one single setting; one confined space or room. The story, the performances, the cinematography need to to both keep the viewers in that room while expanding its scope to something much larger and gripping. It's the ultimate irony: spending 90 minutes sitting in a small room watching a movie that takes place in a small room. Either you tap the viewer's imagination and psyche, or you come off as a a pr*ck who waste people's time and money.
Here's my pick of 5 films that pulled it off majestically.
Stuart Hazeldine's debut feature centers on a group of candidates applying for a rare high-level position in a world we learn to have been devastated by an outbreak. For these candidates, getting the job is do or die, which is exacerbated by the fact that none of them, left to their own devise in the room, know what the exam actually is. A beautifully filmed low-budgeter that looks -and is- way better than it would've if studio suits had been involved.
What Happened to Rinchard Linklater? He used to make such compelling movies on no money. Like this one (and of course Dazed and Confused, one of my all-time favorites). The no-budget, seedy motel setting allows for something unusual and unexpected: proving once and for all that Uma Thurman is an actual, bona fide good actress. Perhpas helped by the fact she was flanked by two very strong (and often underrated) actors themselves, Ex-Mr. Thurman Ethan Hawk and his Dead Poets classmate Robert Sean "Wilson" Leonard, who chew on their many confrontations with great gusto.
Sidney Lumet's thriller set the tone and paved the way for small films in small confinements to be regarded in a big way. An extroardinary example of a film where tension comes from personality conflict, dialogue and body language, not action. Not to mention one of Henry Fonda's most subtle and compelling performances this side of Once Upon a Time in the West.
(yes, it's the entire movie, you're welcome!)
Granted some of the scenes, compared to the other entries in this list, do take place outside the one room (though all of them are flashbacks) but you have to admit the priceless dialogues, instant-classic characters and killer soundtrack blow the walls right off the confined little warehouse that shelters the "color" crew. And if anything if gave birth to the "Tarantinesque" filmmaking style.
Has any other director in history seen his name so quickly become an adjective?
1- Rope (1948)
Some will argue I should've chosen Hitch's other single-setting masterpiece, Rear Window, but this granddaddy of all procedurals truly shines for it's tour-de-force cinematography of being filmed in only 10 cuts. Meaning for each take actors had to stay focused for up to 10 minutes without fail or else the entire 10-minute take had to be redone from scratch. The fact that the grand master made an edge-o'- your-seat thriller ouf of that is itself a commendable feat worth the watch. Oh, and it's based on a real-life murder case, just to sweeten the pot.


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Erin Lurie & Carson Rowell
Ceremony & Reception Venue: Rancho de las Aguilas
Lighting Design: A.G. Lighting. Music & Entertainment: Just A Few Cats – Music Garden. Wedding Planner: Jackie Rowell Events. Wedding Night Accommodations: The Tutwiler Hotel.
Bridal Gown: Brides Beautiful, GA. Cake, Catering: Chef Bob. Floral Design: HotHouse Design Studio. Groom's & Groomsmen's Attire: Jos. A. Bank. Photographer: Robert Norris Photography. Stationery: Pat Campbell. Transportation: Rare Transportation. Videographer: N.J. Production Company.
The Proposal: Erin and Carson are both from Birmingham, but never met until their first day of medical school orientation in Mobile. They began dating seven months later and were together all four years of school. Ultimately, their fate was sealed when they matched for their residency in Augusta, GA. In April 2012, Carson proposed at his parent's beach house in Destin, FL. Both of their families were also there waiting to celebrate with the couple. They all went to a nearby resort to hear Chevy 6 play—a band in which Carson's father was once a member. The highlight of the wedding was having Erin's grandfather, Henry Lapidus, perform at the ceremony.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
School Photos
Here's Owen's and James' school photos. Aren't they gorgeous little fellows?
I look at James' picture and see a boy who will try anything and everything, with no thought to scaring the wits out of his parents. Currently James is still in nursery school and is doing well, according to his last report. Well done, James!
When I look at Owen, I am truly amazed that he is reading already. The British system teaches phonetically and I love to hear him recite the alaphabet or sound out words. It is working like a charm and he is already texting his aunt and uncles.
Keep up the good work boys. Grandma is so very proud of you all.
Now all we have to do is get Ava into school and she will join the crowd!
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GOPer goes after Holder's paycheck
A new bill would strip government employees held in contempt of Congress of their paychecks, in the latest Republican-led attack on Attorney General Eric Holder.
"My bill will at least prevent current and future federal employees, like Attorney General Holder, from continuing to collect their taxpayer-paid salaries while held in contempt of Congress," Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold, the bill's author, said in a statement. He also notes that the bill could apply to the Internal Revenue Service's Lois Lerner, who could be held in contempt for her role in the IRS's profiling of conservative groups.
Holder was held in contempt in 2012 for not releasing documents related to the Fast and Furious program, a botched federal gun trafficking sting that existed from 2009-2011. Holder is the first cabinet member to be cited in contempt, according to Bloomberg.
"The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior," Farenthold said. The bill, announced Tuesday, was first introduced last Thursday.
Last week, Holder suggested that racism was at the root of how members of the House treated him in a hearing on the Fast and the Furious program.
"You look at the way the attorney general of the Untied States was treated yesterday by a House committee. Had nothing to do with me. Forget the — what attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?" he said, discussing racial profiling at a National Action Network event, referring to an exchange with Rep. Louie Gohmert, where the two sparred over Holder's contempt citation.
Farenthold refused to question Holder in that hearing, saying that anyone else who hadn't complied with a subpoena "would be in jail." His contempt for Holder is not new, either: last year, Farenthold joined with ten other hardline Republicans who tried to impeach Holder.


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Nawaz Sharif's return to Pak still uncertainNovember 14th, 2007 - 3:01 am ICT by admin
"The eagerness of Sharif, his party leaders and senior family members for his homecoming is understandable, but it can't take place unless all the parties involved in his deportation from Pakistan on Sept 10 work out at an agreement," an informed source told The News.
A source said that the parties involved in Sharif's deportation have not reached to any conclusion on this issue.
"I don't believe that these parties have reached a firm and final understanding, providing for Nawaz's return to Pakistan next month," one source said.
"For the moment what I see happening is that Nawaz will have no restrictions to fly back home after the general elections next year," he said.
Other sources underline the importance of the contempt of court petition that has been taken up by the Supreme Court for deporting Sharif in contravention of its August ruling that Sharif brothers have the fundamental right to enter and remain in Pakistan.
According to several lawyers, the apex court order was flouted. But it will all depend on the seven judges' panel headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry how they see it, the daily reported.
On the condition of anonymity many Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders also admit that they are not confident about Sharif's return next month.
Sources pointed out that the US may have a change of mind about keeping the former Prime Minister out of the country to give a free hand to Benazir to clinch power.
They also said President General Pervez Musharraf very well know that if PML-N chief is permitted to return at this juncture, the king's party would be pushed to the sidelines. (ANI)
- Nawaz Sharif to challenge Pakistani Kashmir voters list - Jun 28, 2011
- Nawaz Sharif advised two-week rest in London - Mar 22, 2011
- Nawaz Sharif begins fresh term as party chief - Jul 28, 2011
- Pakistan government indifferent to people, says Nawaz - Sep 16, 2011
- Sharif underwent series of heart procedures in London hospital - Mar 20, 2011
- PML-N decides to remove PPP ministers from Pak Punjab govt - Feb 23, 2011
- Stent inserted in ailing Nawaz Sharif's artery to ease blood flow in London - Mar 18, 2011
- Nawaz involved in corruption: Rehman Malik - Apr 29, 2012
- After threat to Zardari, PML-N offices set ablaze - Oct 30, 2011
- Blasphemy laws should remain intact in Pakistan: PPP leader - Jan 11, 2011
- PML-N wants PPP govt. to complete its term: Nawaz Sharif - Jan 11, 2011
- Nawaz Sharif re-elected PML-N president - Jul 27, 2011
- PM should respect court orders: Nawaz - Jan 17, 2012
- It's monarchy in Pakistan, not democracy, says Imran - Dec 17, 2011
- PML-N has given grace period to PPP to implement 10-point agenda: Sanaullah - Jan 11, 2011
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text: Mark R. Cohen is The Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His teaching lies in the field of Jewish-Msulim relations and Jewish history in medieval Arab world. Cohen has also taught or lectured in Israel, Europe, Russia, Egypt, and the Emirate of Qatar. His books are: Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt, 1980; Al-mujtama' al-yahudi fi Misr al-islamiyya fi al-'usur al-wusta (Jewish Life in Medieval Egypt 641-1382), 1987; The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's "Life of Judah," 1988; Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages, 1994, new edition 2008, (which has been translated into Hebrew, Turkish, German, Arabic, and French, Romanian and soon, Spanish); Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt; and The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza, 2005. In 2010 he was the first recipient of Merrimack College's Goldziher Prize for scholarship promoting better understanding between Jews and Muslims.


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Getting kitchen cabinets right
Having lots of storage in the kitchen is essential. This means that the most prominent feature of your kitchen is often your cabinets. Changing the design or surface of your cabinets can instantly revitalise and update your kitchen and create a huge impact. If you love your current layout, you may only need to replace the doors for an instant makeover. However, if your old cabinets are looking worse for wear inside, it's worth investing in some quality, custom made shelving.Read more
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text: TFW2005 and the Radicons are proud to announce yet another Customs Gallery update! This time we bring you 13 more new galleries. These galleries spotlight the works created by clay, Lucs, and Napjr. We regularly update our Radicons Customs gallery with photographs from the very threads in our Radicons Customs and Kitbashes forum. If you want to see your work end up being featured in our gallery in the future, then be sure to post a thread showcasing your work for everyone to see in our Radicons Customs and Kitbashes mini-site. While you're checking out these newest additions, feel free to take a look around at all the other great work already showcased in the Radicons Transformers Kitbashes and Customs Gallery. Movie Classic Camaro Bumblebee Detailed by: Napjr Movie Longarm Detailed by: Napjr Movie Dropkick Detailed by: Napjr Movie Payload Detailed by: Napjr Alternators Hoist by clay Alternators Ironhide and Ratchet by clay Alternators Magnus by clay Alternators Megatron by clay Alternators Predacons by clay Alternators Arcee by Lucs Alternators Breakdown by Lucs Alternators Megatron by Lucs Alternators Motormaster by Lucs


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Science Education
Are quarks confineable for study?
Quarks we study at Jefferson Lab are confined to each other by nature's laws. We shine our electrons on them to observe their behavior in their confined state. This is not so different from turning on a light to see a gold fish swimming in a glass bowl.
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- Slide the leaf onto the pencil followed by the flower.
- Repeat the above steps for each flower topped pencil that you would like to create.
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Ronald James Puzio, of Garfield, died on March 1. He was 62.
Born in Passaic, Puzio lived there for 52 years moving to Garfield 10 years ago. He was a custodian over 33 years for the Wayne Board of Education retiring in 2016, he was a member of the NJEA, The American Legion - Passaic Post 359, and a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Passaic.
Loving brother of Frank John Puzio and wife Gale, Arlene Kelly, Carol Brutosky and husband Robert, Linda Harris, and William Edward Puzio, beloved Godfather of Carol Ann Brutosky, and dear uncle of nine nieces and nephews, and five great-nieces and great-nephews.
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Unlike Presidents such as Franklin Roosevelt, Nixon, or Obama, chronicling an unusual pairing between any Hollywood Actor or Actress and Ronald Reagan is almost an exercise in futility, a nearly moot story since Reagan was himself a professional Hollywood Actor for over forty years by the time he became President of the United States in 1981. Not even John F. Kennedy, with all his entertainment industry contacts,can compare with Reagan on this account. These were not only his colleagues but his constituents, when he was served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952, and again for a one-year term in 1959.
The story of one such pairing, however, does take an interesting turn when it involves an iconic Actress with whom he, as a "bit player," had two scenes and then, nearly an entire half-century later, ends up being outshone by him when he rises to become the biggest star of all professions.
The story reveals much about their personalities when that Actress, whose legend was built not only on her extraordinary talent but vicious wit, targets the latter character trait on her former co-star who then, in reaction, ends up bestowing a coveted lifetime achievement award to her just one year later.
But that was Bette Davis – and Ronald Reagan.
They first met on the set of what proved to be one of Davis's most acclaimed films, Dark Victory (1939), for which she and the film were both nominated for an Academy Award.
Bette Davis starred as a hard-partying socialite "Judith Traherne" surrounded by a group of friends who enjoy playing all night with her, including "Ann," played by Geraldine Fitzgerald, and "Alec," which is the role Reagan played.
As she did in so many quality feature films, Davis hit every mark in Dark Victory, and it remained a work for which she maintained a lifelong pride.
For Reagan it was also a victory of sorts, giving him the chance to play in a major feature film, as opposed to the "B" films he was invariably cast in as a contract player. His role has Reagan performing as a good-time playboy type, who enjoys drinking it up with Davis. Unlike the Actress who drank and smoked heavily during her entire adult life, the typecasting for Reagan went against his real-life type and even his wholesome Hollywood persona. In fact, as the son of an alcoholic father, he was always cautious around liquor and never known to drink to excess. When his friend and fellow actor Robert Taylor died of lung cancer, he drew on his extraordinary personal discipline to simply stop smoking one day and never slip back to the habit or yearn for another cigarette.
While Davis went on to maintain her stardom as an Actress, Reagan struggled to get the quality roles he sought. Dark Victory had left him especially frustrated, having been initially eager to bring his more nuanced take on his character to his screen depiction of Alec.
The director Edmund Goulding, however, wasn't interested in Reagan's desire to bring depth to the shallow character. "I made a mistake I promised myself will never be repeated," Reagan later wrote about the compromise he had in not playing out the Alec character the way he had wanted to. He felt that his greatest opportunity came three years after Dark Victory, in the the film considered to be his best performance, in which he depicted a character whose legs are amputated, King's Row (1942).
After Dark Victory, Bette Davis only crossed paths again with Reagan at Hollywood award ceremonies. She never expected to someday share the stage with him again at a Washington award ceremony forty-eight years after their one film together, in which they only shared two scenes.
Both Davis and Reagan had started out as Democrats but during the 1960 presidential election, while Bette Davis made clear her support of John F. Kennedy and went on to perform at his Inaugural Gala on January 19, 1961, Reagan headed up the "Democrats for Nixon" committee of JFK's opponent. It may have been hard to shock Bette Davis about anything, but even she admitted to being startled, after Reagan became a Republican and was twice elected as both Governor of California and President of the United States.
By the 1980s, when Reagan was serving his eight years as President, Bette Davis had passed the half-century mark as a hard-working actress to become that rarest of beings in any profession, a living legend. She was feted at roasts and awards, and flattered as the subject of television interviews and documentaries, her razor wit and intelligent turn-of-phrase always an abiding element to her persona. Nor did she disappoint the public, focusing her sharp remarks on studio executives, her notorious bete noir Joan Crawford and co-stars – like the current President of the United States.
Here is a clip from a British documentary about Bette Davis in which a moment of one of her scenes with Reagan is shown, followed by her remarks at the time about him:
While enthralling Americans on the night of May 22, 1986, as a guest on the famous Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Bette Davis seemed to relish the chance she got to critique the President as the host brought out a picture of them together from Dark Victory. It momentarily caught her off-guard. "Well, I still can't get over…..calling him – " she hemmed and hawed.
"I was delighted to find out you have not been invited to the White House. Neither have I," she began, turning to Carson – who then corrected her. "You have been invited by the Reagans? Well. I have not!!" she continued on in mock insult, "I have not!"
With no deference to the current status of the man she'd only known as a 28-year old Actor, the 78-year old Bette Davis let it rip: "Everybody called him Little Ronnie Reagan. He did give one good performance. King's Row. We will hand that [to him]. But you know, take a man's legs off. It's a lot going for you in those scenes. But I have to say, I think he is infinitely better than I ever thought he would be. Infinitely." Despite making one brief deflection ("I think he shows quite a lot of guts – upon occasion. He's had some rather serious things to decide"), she couldn't help adding, "I just hope it doesn't encourage a lot of other actors. I think we shouldn't take over that field."
Here is a clip of the interview, a little bit into the recording:
Had her commentary on Reagan begun and ended with her Tonight Show appearance, Bette Davis's tart opinion might have faded from public recall.
As the months went by and she was still not invited to the White House, however, Reagan became a mainstay topic in her subsequent broadcast and print interviews. Calling him "the boy scout" in one interview, she hit even harder: "We didn't think he was terribly bright. For instance, in Dark Victory he is playing a gay man and he never really understood that….He did love to talk, though. He would go on and on and would eventually bore everyone. Jane Wyman divorced him because he was a bore!"
Commenting on his presidential performance, she used a dramatic pause to deliver another wallop: "He's certainly turning out to be a better actor than any of us ever thought he was."
Citizens had long exercised the right to sarcastically demean Presidents and the arrows shot at Reagan by his former co-star never failed to garner some press notice. Reagan made no response to Davis, even after she broke an tacitly-understood taboo of musing publicly about his divorce from Jane Wyman, still a painful issue for Reagan which the White House discouraged from even being acknowledging. Yet Ronald Reagan did respond to Bette Davis, passively but shockingly.
About a year after Bette Davis's Tonight Show interview, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board of trustees were in the midst of their secret selection process, deciding which artists in the fields of theater, film, comedy, dance, and music would be honored in 1987 with the center's annual lifetime achievement award. Hours before the pre-taped televised awards program is held in the Kennedy Center Opera House on a Sunday evening, the President of the United States places each medal around the neck of the artists, following a White House reception. Presidents don't chose which living legends are honored, but their prerogative to invite to the White House only those they're willing to engage with directly certainly factors into the annual recipients.
Just after Labor Day in 1987, the names of those Reagan would honor in his second-to-last White House award ceremony were publicly announced. They were singer Perry Como, singer and entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., musician Nathan Milstein, choreographer Alwin Nikolais.
And Bette Davis.
In Hollywood, a good old-fashioned clash war of massive egos was typical, but in his Washington, Ronald Reagan showed a cooler hand to the caustic one played him a year earlier by Bette Davis – and in doing so, he deftly took the upper-hand.
But not for long.
Thirteen days before she would find herself again facing her old co-star again, Bette Davis granted an interview to gossip columnist Liz Smith, ostensibly in promotion of what proved to her her last film, The Whales of August (1987).
As usual, she had something more to say – something about "little Ronnie Reagan." Her remarks may represent one of the few times when the formidable little woman essentially ate her own words : "I think Mr. Reagan has done very well under very difficult circumstances. He's had terrific problems physically and he's managed them very well."
Her reference to his health crises was not only to his colon cancer surgery in 1985, but skin cancer surgery in July, just four months before the event – and also prostate surgery only two weeks before her interview. It was one reality with which she could relate. At that point, Bette Davis had recently endured breast cancer and four strokes.
Finally, on December 6, 1987, Bette Davis went to the White House, attending the reception and then taking to the stage in the East Room. During the ceremony, just before placing the medal's rainbow-striped ribbon around the neck of each recipient, the President made introductory remarks about each. As he began his commentary on Bette Davis, the tough Actress twitched with nerves but laughed uproariously at his remark that the New York Time had recently praised what was her 100th and most recent film The Whales of August.
"Since getting this job, I've found out just how difficult it is to get a good notice from the New York Times. But then, he harked back half a century to their professional collaboration, and paid the quality of her work a gracious homage with some self-deprecation of his own career as an Actor. "If I had gotten roles as good as yours and been able to do them as good as you did," he said, with a wink to her, "I would have never left Hollywood."
One year and one month later, in January of 1989, Reagan's presidency ended and he returned home to Los Angeles.
Despite learning that her cancer had returned, Davis kept in motion until almost quite literally her last breath. Ten months after Reagan retired, Bette Davis had summoned the strength to go to Europe to accept an award, but collapsed. She died in Paris. Although just three years her junior but without the years of her heavy smoking and drinking, Ronald Reagan survived Bette Davis by fifteen years.
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Compton used a big second-quarter surge to pull away from Millikan and eventually defeat the Rams 70-35 in a Moore League game Friday night at Compton High.
Andrew DuVeau had 155 yards rushing and three touchdowns to lead the Tarbabes. DuVeau also caught two passes for 49 yards and another touchdown. Quarterback Dillard Okray had 154 yards passing on 5 of 10 attempts with two touchdowns and ran for another.
The Tar babes (3-7, 1-5) scored on their first play of the second quarter when Andrew DuVeau broke free for a 45-yard touchdown run to give Compton a 20-7 lead with 11:39 left in the second quarter.
After forcing the Rams to punt on their ensuing possession, the Tarbabes drove 64 yards in five plays to set up a five-yard touchdown run by DuVeau. A two-point conversion run by quarterback Dillard Okray gave the Tarbabes a 28-7 lead. Will Temple had a 23-yard run on the drive and Devonte Ford had a 20-yard run to help set up the score.
On the first play of the Rams' ensuing possession, Travon Jackson intercepted a Dean Duggan pass and returned it 35 yards for a touchdown as Compton began to pull away with a 36-7 lead. The Compton defense clamped down as Josiah DuVeau had an interception on the next Ram possession and then he recovered a fumble to end Millikan's next possession as well.
Compton had taken a 14-0 lead in the first quarter, thanks to a 45-yard screen pass and run from Okray to Andrew DuVeau.
But the Rams looked like they might get on track as they used a 45-yard run by Duggan to the Compton one yard line to set up their first score. Duggan hit Max Whitt for a touchdown on the next play to cut the Compton lead to 14-7.
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I have a file with list of paths to URLs and and files that resembles the extract bellow:
url_some_dta <- "url_goes_here"
backup_some_dta <- "path to the backup rds file goes here"
url_exotic_dta <- "another_url"
backup_exotic_dta <- "some backup rds file"
url_mysterious_dta <- "url goes here"
backup_mysterious_dta <- "backup rds file for myst. dta"
I'm reading those files via the
source command:
source(file = "urls_queries_files.R", local = TRUE)
When I list the objects, the objects appear in the alphabetical order:
> ls()
[1] "backup_exotic_dta" "backup_mysterious_dta" "backup_some_dta" "url_exotic_dta"
[5] "url_mysterious_dta" "url_some_dta"
This is problematic, as I'm interested in reading those objects in the order they are listed in the original file (urls_queries_files.R). The reason being that I want to draft a short script that will create backup
rds files upon the successful download of the URL. I will draft a simple loop that performs the download using the value from the first object and if this is successful saving the
rds file (the
rds files and
URLs are later used to populate data frames). All of that is fairly straightforward, but it would be much simpler if I could refer to the objects in the way they are listed in the original file. I could simply then:
all_objs <- ls()
and make my operations by:
all_objs[i] and
all_objs[i+1]. It appears that
ls with sorting set to
FALSE also does not return the desired results:
> ls(sorted = FALSE)
[1] "url_mysterious_dta" "url_exotic_dta"
[3] "backup_mysterious_dta" "backup_exotic_dta"
[5] "url_some_dta" "backup_some_dta"
My questions are:
- How to list R objects in the order they are typed in the source file?
- Out of curiosity: Running
sorted = FALSEappears to return a list that does not correspond to what was typed in the source file. Consequently, I'm wondering how does
sourcecommand determine which object appears first on the list ?


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2870?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12578248#action_12578248 ] Tom White commented on HADOOP-2870: ----------------------------------- Just noticed that this change removed the public RPC.stopClient() method. It's still used by DFSLocationsRoot in contrib. Should we add it back as a deprecated no-op? Or at least mark this change as incompatible in the change log and fix contrib. > Datanode.shutdown() and Namenode.stop() should close all rpc connections > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-2870 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2870 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Bug > Components: ipc > Affects Versions: 0.16.0 > Reporter: Hairong Kuang > Assignee: Hairong Kuang > Fix For: 0.17.0 > > Attachments: closeConnection.patch, closeConnection1.patch, closeConnection2.patch, closeConnection3.patch, closeConnection4.patch > > > Currently this two cleanup methods do not close all existing rpc connections. If a mini dfs cluster gets shutdown and then restarted as we do in TestFileCreation, RPCs in second mini cluster reuse the unclosed connections opened in the first run but there is no server running to serve the request. So the client get stuck waiting for the response forever if client side timeout gets removed as suggested by hadoop-2811. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Why was the 20th century the American century? It certainly helped that the U.S. unlike just about every other major power in Europe or Asia did not endure a ruinous war on its home territory. American agriculture kept our population growing and well fed, while abundant natural resources like oil, coal and iron helped power our economy. But the foundation of American power and influence was superior innovation. Before we won military, economic or political battles, we won knowledge battles. The electric lightbulb, the mass-produced automobile, the airplane, the personal computer, the Internet homegrown American innovators produced the new ideas and the new products that, to use President Barack Obama's State of the Union slogan, won the future.
Lately, though, we've lost confidence in the American ability to innovate especially on clean energy, the defining technological and economic challenge of the next several decades. Homegrown solar companies are falling behind cheaper Chinese competitors, while European firms have taken the lead on energy efficiency and other renewables. The U.S. imports more and more oil every year, while the institutions that have kept the country stocked with homegrown minds great public schools like the University of California are bleeding to death from budget cuts. Politicians and the public may worry about the waning economy and high unemployment today a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll had 73% of Americans saying the country was going in the wrong direction but if we lose our innovation edge, we've lost the century.
Arun Majumdar says that doesn't have to happen. Majumdar is the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and he might have the best job in government. ARPA-E is inspired by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency the well-funded military think tank that's helped invent everything from the GPS system to the Internet and its job is to fund the kind of transformative technologies that could really change the way we use energy. That's good for the global environment we need cleaner and more abundant power to feed a growing population on a shrinking planet but it's good for the U.S. economy too. "There's a global competition going on, and speed is of the essence," Majumdar told an audience last week at an energy conference put on by the innovation network PopTech in New York City. "The future is up for grabs."
Majumdar an energy expert who worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before taking over ARPA-E in 2009 sees the energy challenge in a global, holistic way. On one hand, climate change and resource scarcity means that we have to develop new and cleaner sources of energy otherwise we'll either cook ourselves or simply run out of juice, whichever comes first. But there are also hundreds of millions of new consumers around the world who lack the energy they need to live meaning our power mix doesn't just have to get cleaner, it needs to get cheaper too. That's an enormous problem, and it's going to require serious innovation. "We need to enable people to grow their economies and technologies in a sustainable way," Majumdar says. "The technologies to do that don't exist today."
That's where ARPA-E comes in. Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and bureaucrats in Washington might help fund new companies that improve on existing technologies and are close to commercialization think energy-efficient software and more productive solar panels. But ARPA-E funds the sort of ideas from university groups and early start-ups that are far from turning profit today but which could pay off enormously in the future. "We think of ourselves as preventure funders, [ideas] that are too risky for VCs," says Majumdar.
Some of the most promising ideas on their plate include:
Electrofuels that can use custom-designed microbes to convert carbon dioxide into liquid biofuels compatible with today's transport infrastructure.
Superior batteries that could be up to 10 times more powerful than today's popular lithium-ion cells, with the aim of producing batteries that could make electric fully vehicles competitive with gasoline-powered cars.
The SunShot Initiative shades of Kennedy's moon-shot pledge which promotes technologies that could lower the cost of solar power to 5 cents a kilowatt-hour, cheap enough to compete easily with fossil fuels.
A smarter, more powerful electrical grid that could seamlessly store the power generated by the sun or the wind enabling renewable power to meet around-the-clock demand.
Most of the ideas funded by Majumdar and his colleagues at ARPA-E won't succeed. That's just the nature of experimentation one truly transformative success for every 10 failures would be an excellent ratio. But that kind of gambling isn't often supported in Washington, where success often means avoiding blame. It doesn't help that the Obama Administration has placed some unfortunate bets on renewable energy, including hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money for the solar start-up Solyndra which just went belly up. And while science and technology operate on a long-term schedule think 10 to 15 years ahead politicians need to deliver by the next election cycle. Not even the luckiest scientist can hit pay dirt that fast especially on the massive scale of the global energy system.
Still, at a time when those who care about clean energy are desperate for even a scrap of good news, the work of ARPA-E offers a glimmer of optimism. Perhaps even more, it provides hope that America's most innovative days are still ahead of us, that we still have the brains and the nerve needed to win the future. "We have a shot at changing the future," says Majumdar. "This is real this is not fiction." The ideas are there; give them the support they need, and we might have back-to-back American centuries.


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