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On October 12, 1971, the United States House of Representatives approved the Equal Rights Amendment by a vote of 354 to 23. Five months later, the same amendment was passed by the Senate by a margin very nearly as lopsided—84 to 8—at which point the E.R.A. was sent on to the states for ratification. Several legislatures vied to be the first to approve it. (So eager was the Delaware state senate that it voted to ratify an hour and forty minutes before the amendment had technically been submitted.) Typical was the debate in Topeka, which took approximately ten minutes. The E.R.A. was supported by Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter, and actively lobbied for by the First Ladies Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter. The A.F.L.-C.I.O., the League of Women Voters, and the National Education Association backed it; women's magazines ranging from Redbook and Good Housekeeping to Cosmopolitan ran scores of positive articles on it, and its many celebrity champions included Patty Duke, Ann Landers, Erma Bombeck, Marlo Thomas, and Carol Burnett, the last of whom once pleaded, "I have three daughters. Unless they're protected by the Constitution, what's going to happen to them?"
Meanwhile, sitting in her living room in suburban St. Louis, Phyllis Schlafly had decided that the E.R.A. was a bad idea. Schlafly had no real organization to speak of, just a monthly newsletter that she mailed to a few thousand supporters, and it was there that she laid out her case against the amendment. American women, she wrote in the Phyllis Schlafly Report, were blessed to live in a country where Christian traditions of chivalry still held—"a man's first significant purchase (after a car) is a diamond for his bride"—and where free enterprise was continually improving life for the weaker sex. "The great heroes of women's liberation are not the straggly haired women on television talk shows and picket lines," she asserted, but "geniuses" like "Clarence Birdseye, who invented the process for freezing foods." Why, Schlafly demanded, should women "lower" themselves to equal rights "when we already have the status of special privilege?" Leaders of the pro-E.R.A. campaign found it hard to take such arguments seriously: according to one contemporary account, copies of the Report became collectors' items among feminists, acquired for their comic value.
The larger significance of events is, of course, often obscure to those busy living them out. Exactly what seemed most ridiculous about Schlafly in the early seventies—her antiquarian views, her screwball logic, her God's-on-our-side self-confidence—was by the end of the decade revealed to be her political strength. First the ratification process for the E.R.A. slowed, then it stalled out entirely. The last state to approve the amendment was Indiana, in January, 1977. Meanwhile, five states that had already voted to ratify rescinded their approval, a move of uncertain legal force but of ominous implications. As it became clear that the E.R.A. was going down, the tone of the Schlafly jokes began to sour.
"I just don't see why some people don't hit Phyllis Schlafly in the mouth," a well-known feminist lawyer, Florence Kennedy, told a Miami radio station.
"I'd like to burn you at the stake," Betty Friedan blurted out during a debate with Schlafly in Bloomington, Illinois. "I consider you a traitor to your sex. I consider you an Aunt Tom."
A new political biography, "Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade" (Princeton; $29.95), by Donald T. Critchlow, follows Schlafly from her birth to the present day—at eighty-one, she is still putting out the Report. Critchlow, a history professor at Saint Louis University, argues for the exemplarity of Schlafly's life, which, he claims, parallels the rise of American conservatism.
Schlafly was born into a family that, demographically speaking, should have been Democrats. Her parents, Bruce and Odile Stewart, were middle-class Catholics from St. Louis. When the Depression hit, Bruce, a sales engineer, lost his job, and for the next ten years the family got by on what Odile could earn, first as a salesclerk and later as a librarian. Through it all, the Stewarts remained politically anti-New Deal and socially admiring of old money. Phyllis was sent to Junior League dance classes and enrolled in the Academy of the Sacred Heart, an élite Catholic school where grades for deportment were given in French. (For the details of Schlafly's early life, Critchlow is heavily indebted to a popular biography, "The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority," written by Carol Felsenthal in 1981.) To make the private-school tuition, Odile had to work seven days a week.
At Sacred Heart, Phyllis received top honors every quarter except for one, a lapse that, she noted mournfully in a scrapbook, could be attributed to "the absence caused by my having the measles." Upon graduating, she received a full scholarship to a local Catholic college, but soon decided it wasn't challenging enough and enrolled in Washington University, in St. Louis. Schlafly graduated in three years, Phi Beta Kappa, went on to earn a master's degree in government from Radcliffe, and then worked for a year in Washington at the American Enterprise Association, the conservative think tank that later became the American Enterprise Institute. At twenty-five, she married Fred Schlafly, a lawyer fifteen years her senior. At twenty-six, she had her first child. (Five more followed.) The boy was not yet out of diapers when she decided to run for Congress.
The way Critchlow tells it, shortly after Christmas, 1951, the Schlaflys were visited by a group of local Republicans at odds with the Party establishment. (By this point, the family was living across the river from St. Louis, in Alton, Illinois.) The group wanted Fred to challenge the machine candidate for the Republican congressional nomination. Fred wasn't interested—"I am not your guy," he reportedly said—but his wife was. She threw herself into the campaign, firing off a barrage of daily press releases to the local papers, speaking before any group that would have her, and travelling from one end of the district to the other. Schlafly won the primary in an upset, and the morning after her victory she invited a photographer from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat into her kitchen, where she posed in a polka-dot apron, cooking eggs.
Schlafly's district—Illinois's Twenty-fourth—was heavily Democratic; her opponent, a five-term incumbent named Melvin Price, was a classically parochial congressman whose major interest was funnelling federal money back home. Breezily ignoring this fact, Schlafly portrayed him as a committed ideologue. When she wasn't attacking Price for championing "big government and big spending" and coddling Communist sympathizers—"The New Deal party was extremely slow in realizing the dangers of Communism, but my opponent, Melvin Price, was even slower than most of his party"—she was accusing the Truman Administration of treason. The Administration, she declared, handed over atom-bomb ingredients to the "Reds," passed around a drawing of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and practiced mind-control techniques copied from the Chinese. "Many government bureaus have developed extensive programs of brainwashing to push through socialized medicine and universal military training," she announced. Price won, as expected, but by the end of the campaign he was so livid he refused even to shake her hand.
After the election, Schlafly returned to private life, or at least to her version of it. She and her husband shared an obsession with the Communist menace and took to entertaining friends with after-dinner showings of films like "Operation Abolition," which portrayed students protesting the House Un-American Activities Committee as violence-prone radicals, and "Communism on the Map," which showed red ink slowly spreading across the globe until just a few countries, including Switzerland and the United States, remained. In the late fifties, they helped found a group, the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation, whose goal was to organize Catholics to resist the threat. "The plain facts are that Communism is advancing over the surface of the globe with such rapidity that if it continues at the same rate for the next thirteen years that it has been advancing during the past thirteen years, America will be Communist by 1970," Schlafly predicted.
Schlafly's views soon brought her into conflict with her own party. In 1958, as a prelude to opening negotiations with the U.S.S.R. on a nuclear-test-ban treaty, President Eisenhower proposed a one-year testing moratorium. The move, Schlafly wrote, was clearly "a victory for appeasement-minded politicians," for an agreement with the Soviets "will not stop Red aggression any more than disarming our local police will stop murder, theft, and rape." The following year, she compiled a reading list, "Inside the Communist Conspiracy," designed to counter what she called an "American failure to grasp the fact that we are already engaged in a total war with the Communists." The Soviets' talk about "peaceful coexistence," she said, really meant that "they will take a peaceful gun, containing a peaceful bullet, and kill you peacefully."
When Eisenhower's Vice-President, Richard Nixon, won the 1960 Republican Presidential nomination, Schlafly was unenthusiastic. Her favored candidate was Senator Barry Goldwater, of Arizona, and to help him secure the 1964 nomination she composed a pocket-sized book titled "A Choice Not an Echo." (The title was taken from a phrase Goldwater had used in announcing his candidacy.) In inimitable Schlafly style, "A Choice Not an Echo" mixed fact, sensational accusations, commonsensical truths, and elaborate conspiracy theories into a compelling but evidently bogus narrative. The book purported to explain how Republican "kingmakers" had wheeled and dealed and, when necessary, bribed their way through every Convention from 1936 to 1960 in order to secure the nomination for a man who would faithfully carry out their "America Last" vision of foreign policy. (Why exactly the kingmakers were intent on undermining the United States was never specified.)
"The kingmakers have a vested interest in preventing—at all cost—the nomination of a candidate, such as Barry Goldwater, who will let the Soviet system collapse of its own internal weaknesses," Schlafly warned. It was up to "grassroots Republicans" to stop this nefarious scheme. Schlafly published the book at her own expense in April, 1964, and began mailing it out, gratis, to friends and fellow anti-Communist activists. Soon the orders started pouring in. Within a month, the book had supposedly sold more than half a million copies, and, within six months, more than three million.
To a remarkable extent, "A Choice Not an Echo" fulfilled Schlafly's goal. Ninety-three per cent of the delegates to the 1964 Republican Convention reported having read it, and twenty-six per cent said that they had been influenced by it. "A Choice Not an Echo" had heralded the Arizona senator as "the one Republican candidate on the horizon who can and will win." Nevertheless, in November, when Goldwater was trounced by Lyndon Johnson, Schlafly brushed aside suggestions that she was in any way to blame for the rout. Responsibility for the defeat, she insisted, lay with the liberal wing of the Party, which had refused to abide by the "grassroots" choice: "Like spoiled children, they took their marbles and went home."
According to her first biographer, Carol Felsenthal, it wasn't until the Equal Rights Amendment had already passed the House that Schlafly decided she was against it. She launched her crusade, STOP ERA, in the fall of 1972, and by the following spring the amendment had won thirty of the necessary thirty-eight state ratifications. Still, Schlafly was confident. "I knew from the start that I had found enough seriously wrong with E.R.A. to stop it, or at least stall it, for an awfully long time," she would later say.
STOP ERA—the acronym stood for Stop Taking Our Privileges—initially drew its support from the same network of conservative women who had helped Schlafly distribute "A Choice Not an Echo." Soon the movement began to grow, according to Critchlow, mainly by involving young women—a large proportion of them Evangelical Christians—who had never before been involved in politics. (When the Supreme Court handed down Roe v. Wade, in January, 1973, the battle over the E.R.A. quickly became entangled with the fight over abortion rights.) In surveys, a remarkable ninety-eight per cent of E.R.A. opponents claimed church membership, as compared with thirty-one per cent of E.R.A. supporters.
Schlafly served as the public face of STOP ERA and, just as significant, as the behind-the-scenes strategist. She organized "training conferences" where she instructed her followers on how to hold press conferences, run phone banks, and infiltrate pro-E.R.A. organizations. She advised STOP ERA members on everything from the best way to hold a fund-raiser—give a brunch, avoid serving alcohol—to the proper attire for a TV appearance: "Always wear a scarf around your neck even if you have a short neck." Schlafly herself was unfailingly well groomed and cheerful, even when taunting her opponents. One of her favorite tactics was to upstage pro-E.R.A. forces at their own rallies. Another was to perform satirical ditties, like this one, written shortly after Playboy donated five thousand dollars to a pro-E.R.A. group:
"First of all, I want to thank my husband, Fred, for letting me come," Schlafly announced at a rally in Houston. "I always like to say that, because it makes the libs so mad."
Schlafly once said that the pro-E.R.A. movement had "sealed its own doom," and to a certain extent she was right. Feminist groups had fought off efforts to add a provision to the amendment that would have exempted women from the draft. Though it was unclear whether passage of the E.R.A. would have meant women could be sent into combat, advocates found themselves arguing that this would be a desirable outcome. (When Alan Alda, a vocal E.R.A. proponent, was asked whether he would support his daughters' being drafted, he answered emphatically "Yes," only to add that his daughters would be conscientious objectors.) Meanwhile, as the ratification battle dragged on, the nation's most prominent pro-E.R.A. group, the National Organization for Women, became increasingly associated with radical feminist politics. In a 1977 book, "The Power of the Positive Woman," Schlafly reprinted in its entirety one of the organization's pamphlets, "Revolution: Tomorrow Is NOW," which proposed, among other things, "an end to militarism, narcissism and sexually stereotyped advertising" for children's toys and a public veil-burning to "protest the second class status of women in all churches."


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Child Protective Services are legally mandated, non-voluntary services provided to ensure the safety and protection of children from abuse, neglect, and dependency. In North Carolina, any person who has reason to suspect that a child may be abused, neglected, or dependent is required by law to report their concerns to the agency (NC G.S. 7B-301). The agency determines if alleged reports meet the legal definitions contained in North Carolina General Statutes. Reports of abuse are responded to within 24 hours and reports of neglect and dependency within 72 hours. Approximately 135 reports are received each month.
Services are provided to assist with maintaining the safety of children in the home. A social worker will work with the family to alleviate the factors creating the abuse or neglect. Child and Family Team Meetings will be held periodically to develop case plans for children at risk. In some cases, the risk of harm to the child is so great that the child has to be removed and placed in an alternative living arrangement while family concerns are addressed. Safety for the child is the first priority with responses focused on preserving the family unit.
If you need more information about these services or need to make a report of abuse, neglect or dependency of a child, please call the Children's Services Intake Worker at 910-814-6662. Services are provided 24 hours per day, seven days per week. An on-call social worker can be reached through the Harnett County Sheriff's Office after regular working hours at (910) 893-9111.
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On Friday morning, May 23rd, our photography community lost on of its strongest voices for authenticity and education. Cornell Capa was an outstanding photojournalist but will be best known among photographers young and old for his contributions as president of Magnum Photos and founder of the International Center for Photography, both pillars of excellence. The number of photographers who have been inspired by all that ICP offers is impossible to count. And, Cornell's loss comes painfully close to the recent losses of his long-time Magnum colleagues Philip Jones Griffiths and Burt Glinn.
To read the ICP remembrance click here
To see read about Cornell's life and view the prepared slide show on Magnum's Blog, click here.
Read the New York Times remembrance written by Philip Gefter here
Read the LA Times obituary here
Read the International Herald Tribune obituary here
To read the PDN Obituary, click here.
Read and listen to the remembrance of NPR's All Things Considered here
When print dealer Peter Fetterman produced a catalogue of Capa's work in 2001, it featured this piece written by the late Richard Whelan, biographer of Cornell's older brother Robert Capa:
"During the course of his life, Cornell Capa has had three major and interrelated careers: (1) as a photographer who worked extensively for Life magazine and who has long been a member of the influential Magnum agency; (2) as the champion and editor of his brother Robert Capa¼s work; and (3) as the founder and director of the International Center of Photography in New York. After the opening of ICP in 1974, Cornell Capa had no time to pursue his own career as a photographer. Furthermore, his modesty and ethics prevented him from using his position to promote the photographs that he had made during nearly thirty years with Life and Magnum. Thus Cornell Capa the photographer has been overshadowed- indeed, almost completely hidden- by Cornell Capa the founder of ICP and by Cornell Capa the brother of Robert. Cornell Capa coined the phrase "concerned photographer" to signify a photographer who is passionately dedicated to doing work that will contribute to the understanding or the well-being of humanity- work that focuses with compassion, with intelligence, with warmth and generosity of spirit upon the human condition. Cornell Capa is himself a deeply concerned photographer. To all his work he brings his love of people and his profound concern for the plight of humanity. Robert Capa never photographed war as a dispassionate observer but rather always as a partisan. He used his camera not merely to make an accurate record but also to help the side in whose cause he believed. Cornell Capa has done the same as a photographer of peace. He has photographed, as a partisan fighting the cause of humanity, what he loves and what he hates. He often quotes the words of reformer-photographer Lewis W. Hine: "There were two things that I wanted to do. I wanted to show the things that needed to be corrected. And I wanted to show the things that needed to be appreciated." That is precisely what Cornell has dedicated his life to doing. As a teenager, Cornell wanted to become a doctor so that he could help humanity. Instead, he became a humanitarian photographer. It is very revealing that he became deeply involved in photographing the work of missionaries in Central and South America, for he himself is a kind of missionary, dedicated to advancing the cause of human decency through the power of photographic images to changed the ways in which people look at their world. Cornell Capa is above all else a photographer of people. No landscape or citiscape interests him unless it is populated. Robert Capa once remarked that the best advice he could give to other photographers was: "Like people and let them know it." That phrase could easily serve as the motto for the entire professional career of Cornell Capa. Without any doubt the quality that characterizes and unites all of Cornell¼s work is his extraordinary rapport with the people he photographs. Like his brother, Cornell puts his subjects at ease with his friendship, his sensitivity, his sympathy, and his enthusiasm. Cornell never exploits his subjects to make a sensationalistic picture; to him a good picture is one that does justice to its subject. Similarly with John F. Kennedy, Cornell was an enthusiastic supporter. After having covered Kennedy's campaign, he was so moved by the new president's inaugural address that he conceived- and was able to put into immediate execution- a project for nine Magnum photographers to cover every aspect of the administration's first 100 days. Cornell himself covered the White House, where he was warmly accepted by Kennedy and his wife. (Indeed, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became an important early supporter of ICP.) In a completely different area of experience, Cornell's photo-essay about an elderly woman living with her son and daughter-in-law in Philadelphia certainly derived much of its effectiveness from Cornell's great sympathy with the old lady. His own beloved but demanding mother had lived for many years with him and his wife, Edie, and he was thus well aware of the difficulties on both sides of such a situation. When Camera magazine asked Cornell in 1963 to make a selection of his own photographs for publication, he replied, "Single photographs are not what I do best. My most effective work is groups of photographs which hand together and tell stories. My pictures are the words which make up sentences which in turn form the story… I hope that as often as possible my pictures may have feeling, composition, and sometimes beauty- but my preoccupation is with the story and not with attaining a fine-art level in the individual pictures." Nevertheless, although Cornell nearly always set out to shoot groups of pictures that would cohere to form a factual and revealing narrative, the fact remains that within most of his photo-essays certain pictures stand out so strongly- because of the feelings that they capture, because of the effectiveness of their composition, and because of the beauty of the impact of the subject as seen and recorded on film by the photographer- that they sum up the entire story and even transcend it. They remain imbued with the very essence of the specific situation or person that they portray, and yet they simultaneously resonate with universal human experience. In other words, they are art. Even in isolation they speak whole sentences, and indeed whole volumes. They stand very solidly on their own and engrave themselves permanently upon the memory. © Richard Whelan, 2001. All rights reserved. From to the book, Cornell Capa, published by The Peter Fetterman Gallery, September 1st, 2001″
The Press Release from ICP is downloadable from this page as a pdf and informs us of the following:
"Buriel is private. A memorial service will be held on September 10th at 10 a.m. at The Times Center at 242 West 41st Street in Manhattan. Contributions in the memor of Cornell Capa may be made to the Cornell Capa Legacy Project, International Center for Photography, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, New York NY 10036; or by calling Chuck Ferrero at 212-857-0036."


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Food justice advocates rise up to confront corporate control of our food system
An alliance of Occupy groups, environmental and food justice organizations have called for a global day of action on February 27 to resist corporate control of our food system and to work towards a healthy food supply for all.
Occupy Our Food Supply is a call facilitated by Rainforest Action Network and is supported by over 60 Occupy groups and over 30 organizations including Family Farm Defenders, National Family Farms Coalition and Pesticide Action Network.
Ashley Schaeffer, Rainforest Agribusiness campaigner with Rainforest Action Network says of the day of action:
"Occupy our Food Supply is a day to reclaim our most basic life support system – our food – from corporate control. It is an unprecedented day of solidarity to create local, just solutions that steer our society away from the stranglehold of industrial food giants like Cargill and Monsanto."
Occupy Our Food Supply supporter Vandana Shiva says:
"Our food system has been hijacked by corporate giants from the Seed to the table. Seeds controlled by Monsanto, agribusiness trade controlled by Cargill, processing controlled by Pepsi and Philip Morris, retail controlled by Walmart – is a recipe for Food Dictatorship. We must Occupy the Food system to create Food Democracy."
Occupy Wall Street's Sustainability and Food Justice Committees also issued a letter in support of the day of action:
"On Monday, February 27th, 2012, OWS Food Justice, OWS Sustainability, Oakland Food Justice & the worldwide Occupy Movement invite you to join the Global Day of Action to Occupy the Food Supply. We challenge the corporate food regime that has prioritized profit over health and sustainability. We seek to create healthy local food systems. We stand in Solidarity with Indigenous communities, and communities around the world, that are struggling with hunger, exploitation, and unfair labor practices.
"On this day, in New York City, community gardeners, activists, labor unions, farmers, food workers, and citizens of the NYC metro area, will gather at Zuccotti Park at noon, for a Seed Exchange, to raise awareness about the corporate control of our food system and celebrate the local food communities in the metro area."
Vandana Shiva: "We must Occupy the Food system to create Food Democracy."
"When our food is at risk, we are all at risk."
In an op-ed on the Huffington Post today, Farm Aid president Willie Nelson and sustainable food advocate Anna Lappé, supporters of the day of action, emphasize that the consolidation of our food supply is harming the environment, food safety and farmers:
"Our food is under threat. It is felt by every family farmer who has lost their land and livelihood, every parent who can't find affordable or healthy ingredients in their neighborhood, every person worried about foodborne illnesses thanks to lobbyist-weakened food safety laws, every farmworker who faces toxic pesticides in the fields as part of a day's work.
"When our food is at risk we are all at risk.
"Over the last thirty years, we have witnessed a massive consolidation of our food system. Never have so few corporations been responsible for more of our food chain. Of the 40,000 food items in a typical U.S. grocery store, more than half are now brought to us by just 10 corporations. Today, three companies process more than 70 percent of all U.S. beef, Tyson, Cargill and JBS. More than 90 percent of soybean seeds and 80 percent of corn seeds used in the United States are sold by just one company: Monsanto. Four companies are responsible for up to 90 percent of the global trade in grain. And one in four food dollars is spent at Walmart.
"What does this matter for those of us who eat? Corporate control of our food system has led to the loss of millions of family farmers, the destruction of soil fertility, the pollution of our water, and health epidemics including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and even certain forms of cancer. More and more, the choices that determine the food on our shelves are made by corporations concerned less with protecting our health, our environment, or our jobs than with profit margins and executive bonuses.
"This consolidation also fuels the influence of concentrated economic power in politics: Last year alone, the biggest food companies spent tens of millions lobbying on Capitol Hill with more than $37 million used in the fight against junk food marketing guidelines for kids."
The Occupy Our Food Supply website indicates that the action is Inspired by the theme of CREATE/RESIST, and that in addition to confronting the corporation control of our food supply, we must work towards solutions to make healthy food accessible to everyone. It invites people to share their fair food solutions on their Facebook page and on Twitter using the #F27 hashtag.
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Eric Holt-Giménez, Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First Executive Director, writes that while the demand to fix the food system seems reasonable, it does not address the "inequitable foundations of the global food system."
The goal of food justice activists is a sustainable and equitable food system. Their strategy is to actively construct this alternative. Tactics include community gardens, CSAs, organic farming, etc. The problem is that this combination of strategy and tactics only addresses individual and institutional inequities in the food system, leaving the structure of the corporate food regime intact. The food justice movement has no strategy to address the inter-institutional (i.e. structural) ways that inequity is produced in the food system. By openly protesting the excesses of capitalism, Occupy does address this structure. This is why the convergence of Occupy and the food justice movement is so potentially powerful — and why it is feared. The political alignment of these movements, however, is no small challenge.
Find an Occupy Food Supply action near you: http://events.ran.org/occupyourfoodsupply


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Heap Sort
November 6, 2009
A priority queue is a data structure that permits insertion of a new element and retrieval of its smallest member; we have seen priority queues in two previous exercises. Priority queues permit sorting by inserting elements in random order and retrieving them in sorted order. Heapsort uses the heap data structure to maintain a priority queue. The heap is a tree embedded in an array, with the property that the item at each index i of the array is less than the children at indices 2i and 2i+1.
The key to understanding heapsort is a function we call
heapify that gives the sub-array
A[i .. n] the heap property if the sub-array
A[i+1 .. n] already has the property.
Heapify starts at the ith element of the array and swaps each element with its smallest child, repeating the operation at that child, stopping at the end of the array or when the current element is smaller than either of its children. Then heapsort works in two phases; the first phase forms an initial heap by calling
heapify on each element of the array from n/2 down to 1, then a second phase extracts the elements in order by repeatedly swapping the first element with the last, re-heaping the sub-array that excludes the last element, and recurring with the smaller sub-array that excludes the last element.
Your task is to write a function that sorts an array using the heapsort algorithm, using the conventions of the prior exercise. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
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April 29, 2011 at 8:07 AM
here is my implementation in c
static void heapify(int arr[], int left, int right); static void sort(int arr[], int left, int right); static void siftup(int arr[], int left, int right, int key); void heapsort(int arr[], int left, int right) { /* transform input file into a heap */ heapify(arr, (right+1)/2, right+1); /* sort the heap */ sort(arr, left+1, right+1); } static void heapify(int arr[], int left, int right) { int i; /* convert to heap */ for(i = left; i > 0; i--) siftup(arr, i, right, arr[i-1]); } static void sort(int arr[], int left, int right) { int i, key; for(i = right; i > 1; i--) { key = arr[i-1]; arr[i-1] = arr[left-1]; /* move the biggest element to the rightmost position in array */ /* move up the next biggest element to root */ siftup(arr, left, i-1, key); } } static void siftup(int arr[], int left, int right, int key) { int i, j; /* move down the tree */ for(i = left, j = 2*i; j <= right; i = j, j = 2*i) { /* j should point to the largest child */ if(j < right && arr[j-1] < arr[j]) j++; /* if child is smaller or equal to parent, than break out of loop */ if(key >= arr[j-1]) break; /* move up the child element */ arr[i-1] = arr[j-1]; } arr[i-1] = key; }


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Jean Lynx - Terreur au Cirque (Le Samedi, 1951)
Francis Josse began his career in 1940 by doing cover illustrations for Fillette. He made his comics debut in the following two years, drawing 'Bertrand le Preux' in Les Grandes Aventures and 'Nous les Gosses' in Gavroche.
Marc Le Téméraire
In 1943, he made the pro-Nazi espionage strip 'Marc le Téméraire' for the collaborating magazine Le Téméraire. Ironically, after the liberation, he made 'Mandrin' for Vaillant, a magazine published illegally during the War.
Jean Lynx - Le Bungalow Maudit (Le Samedi, 1951)
He was present in Paris-Jeunes with 'Titi' (1946) and in Donald with 'Réseau Mystère' (1948). For the publishing house Ray Flo, he assumed the pseudonym Monchas and made series like 'Jean Lynx' (later continued as 'Flèche d'Or') and 'Les 2 Risque-Tout'.
header for Les Trois Mousquetaires (Le Samedi, 1950-51)
One of the most prolific artists the Opera Mundi agency in the 1950s, he did a large amount of comic adaptations of novels, including 'Les Trois Mousquetaires' (730 strips), 'La Dame de Montsoreau', 'Anna Karénine' and 'Le Bossu' (1001 strips), mostly published in France-Soir, L'Aurore, Le Parisien Libéré and the regional press. Under the pen name Francey, he was present in Line (1958), J2 Magazine (1965) and in the Lancelot pocket book (1961).
Le Bossu (L'Aurore, 11-1-1961)


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I dreamt of my mother last night. We sat and talked on her bed in the room my parents had while I was growing up. It felt like a death-regret talk. The kind I have had with the old and dying about what they wish had been different in their life. My mom died when she was 50 of breast cancer, I was 12. In the dream she was frustrated because she couldn't figure out what she wanted. She was filled with anger and jealousy, both directed at me and at others. She was a hugely creative person, very kind and empathetic. She felt the pain of others too much. I think it tapped into her own pain and so was really uncomfortable. At that time tools for processing the issues in our lives were not very well known and definitely on the fringe. She was too scared to dig deep, too afraid of the shadow. She was never able to access her voice, her needs, and her mission. She did for others to the point of loosing herself. I believe this caused a level of resentment and discontent that opened the door to illness and ultimately her death. In the dream I asked if she was open to hearing my thoughts. I have felt for most of my life that her mission was to help others through her creativity. In the dream she said no, she wasn't open to me, she was angry and too locked into her dysfunctional pattern. I think the dream had everything to do with where I am in my life right now… and also the book I just finished earlier that evening.
It was Amanda Palmers "The Art of Asking". It is an extraordinary story of Amanda's journey of fully stepping into her "Artist" self and her life. Her process of recognizing and making peace with the doubting voices in her head. She calls them the "Fraud Police" and boy do I identify with those voices. It is a story of her powerful connection to her fans, fans she has built up almost one by one by being open and real with them, constantly connecting with them through social media. It is a story of their relationship and how they help each other, a true symbiotic relationship. It is the story of loyalty and ultimately of Love… Amanda's to her fans, her fans to her, allowing the love from her husband Neil Gaimon ( an amazing author whom I adore), and the story of the profound love between her and her dearest friend Anthony. But mostly it is about Amanda learning how to love Amanda. Not only did she go against the "Fraud Police" in her head but also she went against the established music profession, selling directly to her fans and supporters to staggering success! Really it is the story of a person stepping fully into herself and believing in herself against huge odds and finding Love… it was in her all along as mirrored to her by her fans and the ones closest to her. This book touched me deeply. I resonated with it on so many levels. Especially now with change visiting my life in a huge way…
As most of you know I am stepping out as a fine artist. I seem to be in a process of changing my creative expressions from events to painting. I am still creating beautiful events but they are not as prominent in my consciousness.
My studio jammed packed with paintings
This is the first time in my life where I am creating art for myself… creating what comes through me with no particular person in mind to receive it. In the past when I would create it would start with the client first. I would create for them specifically. My work was no less full of love and creativity but the prompting point was different. These pieces that I am creating now are truly of/from me.
"Grizzly" 4' by 4'
They have nothing to do with another person so there is no one to hide behind. These are pure expressions of my creativity, of Spirit, of Love. The animals that I paint are real to me. They have personalities and messages.
"Little Big Mouse" 4' by 3'
I feel vulnerable putting these out there for people. It is a raw and scary place. My fraud police have been rather loud lately. Yet at the same time this feels so beautiful and what I am supposed to do! I am also leaning the process of letting them go. Of detaching from them and allowing them to go to their respective homes, but it seem to be a bit challenging.
"Mouse" 4' by 3'
As to what to charge for them… that is a huge Pandora's box. I simultaneously feel like millions are not enough and "Oh my God, people will never pay for my art". Quite the process this is! As some of you know my sweetheart and I also need to move this year. The ranch where I live and work is selling so we need to go. On all levels I feel like I am being asked to dig deep, change, back myself up and believe in Me.
"Bee" still in progress 24" by 24"
I realize that I am in the same process that Amanda went through. I think I am finally, once and for all learning how to believe in myself. Finding my connection to my life's mission, to my God(ess), my source and trusting that. Letting go of the "fraud police" or at least recognizing when they are talking. Amanda is living life "full on fearless" as a friend of mine used to say. What a beautiful, regret-less life. She puts everything out there for all to see and lives Her life! So… thank you Amanda for your hard fought wisdom. I am hearing you. I am embracing this journey and loving it. Each day I believe more and more in who I am and my creativity. I am learning how to put myself out there and trust. Now if I could just get this social media thing down.
When last I blogged (ages ago… sorry!) I was getting ready for an art opening at my home. It was wonderful, lots of fun (once it started, I was stressing pretty hard up to that point), and many people came.
The entrance table showing a giclee print.
We set up in our garden and all around the house. It felt so right to hang all the animal paintings in nature. They belong there. Except for a some bird offerings (poop) they fared well and looked amazing!
Just outside the front of the house…
We hung the smaller paintings in the arbor where the feasting table usually sits…
I sold a couple of paintings, the colorful Wolf above on the left, the Eagle shown below, the man that commissioned me to paint his dog came by and picked up his painting.
"Fox" 3' by 3' and "Eagle" 3' by 4'
I also sold a few prints of my paintings. I am offering limited edition giclee prints of all my work. They look amazing in print. Quite a heady experience! Go to my etsy store for more info or leave me a message. Not all my paintings are in the store yet… I need a social media manager… that will work for free…
So on that note I am super excited to announce I am in another art show at a beautiful store here in Santa Barbara called Paradise Found.
It is a soul-centered store that sells Spiritual books, and gifts, crystals, music and so many beautiful things. I have been hanging paintings in there getting ready for the show on May 5th and enjoying seeing them on the walls.
They fit there. It feels so right! I think I have found their audience, the painting's people! I really hope the animals love it there and that in turn, they are loved.
In Santa Barbara every month we have an artist-opening-day called First Thursday. It is an opportunity for many of the shops on our main drag to stay open late, offer refreshments and showcase the local artists work. I will be there for the first Thursday of May, the 5th.
If you are in the area I would love to see you. The store is open all day but the art reception part starts at 5:30 and goes until 7ish. I am so happy to get my work out there more. I have been great at producing it but not so great at getting the word out there. I am trying to remedy that now.
On Memorial Day weekend I am venturing out to my Spiritual home, New Mexico for another art show. Taos is having an Arts and Crafts fare on May 29th through the 31st in Kit Carson park and I will be in it. Also on June 11th and 12th I will be in Santa Fe for their huge Arts and Crafts fair in the town square. I am hitching a small trailer to my old truck and taking my paintings on the road. I think they fit well in the Southwest so here goes. Hopefully my truck will make it… I wonder if my mechanic would like a painting in exchange for getting my truck road worthy… hmmmm…. If any of you are in the Santa Fe or Taos area please come by and visit. I would love an encouraging word and to connect with the folks in the land of blog/FB.
I also created a line of note cards based on the painting and I am selling them in my etsy store… here is a link. https://www.etsy.com/shop/TriciaSaroya?ref=hdr_shop_menu
I have also been steadily working on a deck of divination cards based on the paintings. There will be around 28 to 32 of them, 3.5" by 5". Each will have a side that is the same design so you can turn them over and pull a card based on your intuition and not on an image that is distracting you.
The plain side that is on all of them…
The other side will have an image of an animal embellished with symbols and pretty adornment. Each one is a different animal, with a number that takes you to a booklet with their message in it.
I am finally just about finished.
I think I have a manufacturer however if any of you have ideas I would love to hear them.
Carolyn Turgeon the editor of Faerie Magazine and author of many beautiful myth/faerie stories is running them by some contacts in the publishing world for me.
Wouldn't that be extraordinary to get picked up by a major publisher!!!!!
One way or another I should have them out there in the world this summer. In the mean time I have just ordered a line of note cards based on the Divination card images.
I didn't put the name or number on the note cards, just the embellished animal image.
I thought they were so pretty I wanted to offer them in another format.
I should have them in a week and will upload them to my store. Sooo much going on!
Speaking of Carolyn, she and her entourage are flying out to do another cover shoot for Faerie Magazine with me. As you may or may not remember I designed and set up the last cover shoot for the Spring edition with the lovely Kristina Anapau as our model. This edition is in the stores now.
Here are some behind the scene shots of our day.
My friend Laura Cogan of Passion Flowers, helping me create the magic…
Carolyn and I… yes I am an adoring fan…
The Spring issue also has a spread of a shoot I did a while back and was holding onto for something special.
It ended up in the magazine of course, I just love them!!! This shoot was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites and based loosely on Waterhouse's Lady of Shalott painting.
Lots of fun and flowers… just the thing!
My friend Shirlie Kemp shot everything to perfection.
Here are some behind the scenes of that shoot… always so much prep goes into these…
My sweetheart Vince Chafin built a platform in the trees so Shirlie could shoot back towards the boat.
That's him in the tree and me in the lagoon.
Below you can see her face, she is not only a lovely photographer but a sweetheart as well.
Shirlie and me…
More pictures of the magazine and the shoot we did with Kristina Anapau.
This next shoot will be for the Autumn issue and will be BEAUTIFUL! It is inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite painters again with lots of flowers and romance, set in nature. Think Nights in shinning armor, magical portals to the Faerie realm, mystical, abandoned Victorian tea tables out in the woods…. Very excited to be a part of this special and magical magazine! I will post some outtake pictures after we are done, (if ok with Carolyn).
I think that catches you up for now. Wish me luck at First Thursday and in New Mexico. It is time to connect these painting beings with their people!
Blessings to you always and thanks for journeying with me!!!


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A common form of evidence found at many crime scenes is firearms evidence. It can be in the form of a gun, shell casings, bullets, or any combination. This type of evidence can be found in related crimes such as murder, attempted murder, suicide, robbery, assault, and rape.
It's a fascinating and challenging technique for forensic scientists to begin to discover all of the characteristics of a particular firearm and how it was applied to the crime.
Firearms evidence can answer so many questions about a crime scene and can provide investigators with the answers to solve the crime and arrest the perpetrator.
What type of weapon was used in the crime?
How far away was the perpetrator when they fired the weapon?
Was the weapon in proper working order?
Who was the perpetrator?
Why did they use the gun?
The importance of reconstructing the crime scene can't be overstated when it comes to firearms evidence. Firearms identification refers to ballistics and the study of firearms, which includes the operation of the firearms, cartridges, bullet comparisons, powder patterns, and gunshot residue. These identifications are extremely important to forensic scientists and criminal investigators. They provide a detailed roadmap of clues of what exactly happened and provide a timeline of events.
The characteristics of firearms are divided into two broad groups: shoulder firearms and handguns, which can be further characterized by smoothbore and rifled weapons.
Basically, the rifling in a gun barrel is the spiral grooves cut into the barrel that reflects the twisting motion on the bullet as it leaves the barrel. This is what firearms examiners use to compare bullets from a crime scene and can be extremely important in any criminal investigation and prosecution.
Another important forensic tool in firearms evidence are the scratches or striations that are caused by the imperfections in the grooves placed in the barrel at the time of manufacture. The use of the weapon also causes distinct scratches and striations. This reflects the individual marking(s) of a particular gun and bullet and can identify the perpetrator.
Firearms evidence is similar to the types of characteristics of fingerprints. They are distinct and an extremely useful form of forensic evidence.
Guns account for many of the violent crimes today, but the crime scene and firearms evidence can reveal the clues to solve the mystery and bring the guilty to justice.
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Worthwhile funds sometimes get overlooked in the hurly-burly of a fast-expanding ETF industry.
The ETF market isn't always fair. Sometimes, perfectly sound funds don't get any attention for a number of different reasons.
For instance, a particular fund might not have been the first mover into a niche space. Or, herd mentality causes investors to pile into the most liquid fund, which isn't always the best choice. Also, funds simply get lost in the sea of 1,400-plus ETFs, and investors may not even know they exist.
Still, there's a fair share of these types of funds that deserve a shout-out, since they provide either better exposure than their peers, less risk or simply the only exposure to a promising investment theme.
One such fund in this category is the db-X MSCI Japan Currency-Hedged Equity Fund (NYSEArca: DBJP). I recently wrote about why currency-hedged products make sense for investing in Japan. I'm still surprised to see investors continuing to pile into the iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund (NYSEArca: EWJ).
Even investors looking to capitalize on a weakening yen scenario are choosing the $648 million WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (NYSEArca: DXJ). I'm also a big fan of DXJ, but I'm utterly shocked that DBJP, which is basically a currency-hedged version of the $4.5 billion EWJ, has only $4.8 million in assets under management.
The lack of interest in the iShares MSCI India Index Fund (BATS: INDA) is also a surprise. INDA tracks the exact same index as the iPath MSCI India Index ETN (NYSEArca: INP), but with an expense ratio of 0.65 percent is 24 basis points cheaper than INP. INDA also doesn't carry the issuer credit risk that the ETN-structured INP carries.
Still, investors have kept their $462 million in assets parked in INP, while INDA is neglected, with under $26 million in assets. I would think that INDA, which physically holds the underlying securities and carries no credit risk, deserves more attention.
What about the SPDR MSCI ACWI IMI ETF (NYSEArca: ACIM), which tracks a more comprehensive version of the same index as the $3 billion iShares MSCI ACWI Index Fund (NYSEArca: ACWI)?
ACIM covers not only large- and midcaps, the way ACWI does, but also includes small-caps, to cover 99 percent of the investable market cap. To boot, ACIM is cheaper by 9 basis points. Still, ACIM only has a measly $5 million in assets.
On the currency front, I can't neglect to mention the CurrencyShares Chinese Renminbi Trust (NYSEArca: FXCH), which offers investors a "pure play" on the renminbi and is physically backed by 500 yuan per share.
With FXCH, ETF investors can finally own a renminbi ETF that doesn't make use of forward currency contract exposure. Over the past several years, renminbi forward markets have been pricing in an appreciation in China's currency, making it difficult for funds using these derivative products to keep pace with the gains in spot rates.


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"We're very excited to announce a contract extension for Jim Schlossnagle to lead our baseball program," Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Chris Del Conte said. "Jim has done a phenomenal job and is synonymous with TCU and Fort Worth.
"Jim has established TCU as one of the nation's premier baseball programs, and he's done it the right way. It's a great day to be a Horned Frog when you can say that Jim Schlossnagle is going to be our baseball coach for a very long time."
Schlossnagle has put the TCU baseball program on the map in the past 11 seasons. TCU has produced the top-10 win totals in school history and ranks third in the state of Texas with 465 victories since 2004. He places second all-time at TCU in wins and owns a 465-221 record as the Horned Frogs' leader. In 13 years as a head coach, Schlossnagle is 542-268.
"This is a great day for me and my family because we truly love Fort Worth and TCU," Schlossnagle said. "It's an honor to be the baseball coach here and my wife, Kami, and I are very thankful to Chancellor Boschini, Mr. Del Conte and all of the great TCU fans for their continued support of our players and coaching staff."
The 2014 campaign saw the program reach new heights as the Horned Frogs took home the University's first team conference championship in the Big 12. TCU posted its eighth 40-win season under Schlossnagle's guidance, finishing the year with a 48-18 mark. History was made as the Horned Frogs earned their first-ever national seed and hosted an NCAA Super Regional for the first time.
The Frogs are one of just 10 programs to have multiple appearances in the College World Series in the past five years and one of just 13 programs to appear in 10 of the past 11 NCAA tournaments.
In his time at TCU, Schlossnagle has led the Frogs to a combined 14 conference championships. Since 2004, TCU has been crowned conference tournament champions seven times; twice in Conference USA, four times in the Mountain West and once in the Big 12. TCU was the Mountain West regular season champion in each of its seven seasons as members of the league.
Under his guidance, the Frogs have played in 10 NCAA Regionals, four NCAA Super Regionals and made two appearances in the College World Series. The Frogs boast a pair of top-five rankings to close out a season, finishing the 2010 campaign ranked No. 3 and the 2014 season at No. 5.
TCU has produced 81 all-conference selections, five conference pitchers of the year and three conference freshmen of the year. Thirteen athletes have earned All-America accolades and 14 have been named freshman All-Americans.
Schlossnagle has seen 50 players drafted in the past 11 seasons, including three first-round picks. Eight of his Horned Frogs have gone on to appear in a Major League game. Former Frog Matt Carpenter is a two-time MLB All-Star at two different positions.


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No. 16, Benji Jackson, gets ready to hit the ball
Pitcher, No. 30, Beau Hilton
Catcher, John Harris
First Baseman, No. 15, Dusty Quattlebaum and outfielder, No. 16, Benji Jackson
GW players and coach discuss plays
First Baseman, No. 15, Dusty Quattlebaum
Pitcher, No. 30, Beau Hilton and 2nd baseman, No. 6, Ryan Hodge
GW players and coaches watch from the dugout
No. 29, Scott Johnson
No. 15, Dusty Quattlebaum
No. 18, Scott Coleman
Pitcher, No. 40, Matt Fraudin
No. 36, Brantley Smith
No. 6, Ryan Hodge
No. 8, Ryan Allen
No. 16, Benji Jackson
Third Baseman, No. 18, Scott Coleman
Players watch from the dugout


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Tim Tebow's 20-yard TD run caps Broncos late rally
DENVER -- There's a new Comeback Kid in Denver, and John Elway's proudly looking on as this plucky quarterback wins with his legs, not his arm.
Tim Tebow's 20-yard touchdown run with 58 seconds left capped a 95-yard drive and sent the Broncos to a 17-13 victory over the stunned New York Jets on Thursday night.
"I like winning," Tebow said after his third comeback in a month, "but I wish it wasn't this stressful."
The Broncos had punted on their eight previous possessions when they got the ball with less than 6 minutes and 95 yards to go. Tebow calmly drove Denver down the field, thwarting a Jets defense that had throttled him all night.
"We played them well through the whole game, until that last play," Jets star cornerback Darrelle Revis said. "We played them well. Tim Tebow's legs took them to victory, ran them to victory."
On third-and-4 from the Jets 20 and under a minute left, the Broncos got an extra minute to think about things when a fan ran onto the field and was corralled by security.
During the break, the Jets dialed up their first all-out blitz of the night.
Tebow took the snap from the shotgun with 1:06 left, read the blitz and outflanked safety Eric Smith around the left edge, then cut back and bulled his way past other Jets into the end zone.
"He shocked me," Revis said, "probably shocked a lot of people."
Not Jets coach Rex Ryan.
"You know he's going to keep it in that situation. That's what he does. You keep the ball in your playmaker's hand," Ryan said. "We thought he was going to carry the ball and he didn't disappoint us. But he ran for a touchdown. The kid's a competitor and makes big plays with the game on the line."
The Jets (5-5) lost for the second time in four nights.
The Broncos (5-5) are 4-1 since Tebow replaced Kyle Orton, and at .500, they're a half game behind Oakland in the AFC West race.
"He's a competitive dude," Broncos coach John Fox said. "He's super competitive. He never lays his sword down. He'll fight you to the death. That's just his nature. He's a great young man."
Mark Sanchez's desperation pass toward the end zone was batted down as time expired and the Jets trudged off the field with their playoff hopes dimmed just a week after they were brimming with optimism.
Nick Folk's 45-yard field goal had broken a 10-10 tie with 9:14 remaining, and the Broncos found themselves facing a daunting task when they got the ball back with 5:54 left at their own 5.
New York safety Jim Leonhard could have quashed Denver's winning drive on the first play when he wrapped up Eddie Royal in the end zone on a throw to the right flat, but Royal wiggled free for 8 yards.
Tebow ran just twice for 11 yards until the final drive, when he carried seven times for 58 yards in a performance reminiscent of his miracle in Miami, when he was ineffective for 55 minutes, then led the Broncos to two TDs in the final 5 minutes of a game Denver won in overtime.
"I think it was just a bunch of guys that kept fighting, that had been knocked down a bunch of times and got back up," Tebow said. "I'm proud of these guys for their resiliency and determination."
After completing just two passes in a win at Kansas City four days earlier, Tebow completed 9 of 20 passes for 104 yards Thursday night.
"I said before, I trust him. I trust him with everything," teammate Von Miller said. "No matter how many interceptions he throws, no matter how many touchdowns he scores, that's Tim Tebow and I'm going to ride with him to the end. I hope he shut up a whole bunch of critics today."
The debate across the NFL is whether the option is sustainable? After all, when Elway joined the team's front office this year, he said Tebow had to become a pocket passer to make it in this league.
"I want to run whatever's going to work," Tebow said, disputing the notion advanced by Hall of Famer and TV broadcaster Steve Young that he must be mad that Fox isn't letting him throw the ball more like a conventional quarterback.
Before Denver's unorthodox option offense prevailed again, it appeared the Jets were going to win this one thanks to an oddball touchdown.
Left guard Matt Slauson recovered rookie running back Bilal Powell's fumble at the 1 and dived across the goal line early in the third quarter to give New York a 10-3 lead.
"It was awesome at the time," Slauson said. "Unfortunately, it doesn't mean anything now."
Denver tied it at 10 when Andre' Goodman stepped in front of Plaxico Burress and picked off Sanchez's ill-advised pass and returned it 26 yards for a touchdown.
"I shouldn't have thrown it," Sanchez lamented. "It's an embarrassing play on my part."
It was the third pick-six Sanchez has thrown this year, and the Jets followed that with their fourth lost fumble on special teams when Joe McKnight coughed it up on the kickoff return at his 41. Cassius Vaughn recovered for Denver, but the Broncos couldn't capitalize this time, going three and out.
McKnight and Powell shared snaps after New York's backfield took another hit when starting running back Shonn Greene took a knee to the ribs and didn't return. They were already without LaDainian Tomlinson (knee), so Powell was activated for the first time all season.
With each game, the Broncos mold their offense more and more to fit Tebow's unique skill set that made him the most successful combination college quarterback in NCAA history, just as former Florida coach Urban Meyer once suggested an NFL team would have to do.
And they keep watching him run roughshod over defenders who are bigger, faster and stronger than they were in the SEC.
"He did it to us in college and he's doing it here," said teammate Robert Ayers, who went to Tennessee. "It doesn't have to be pretty, it doesn't have to be Aaron Rodgers-like. As long as we get it done, that's all that matters."
Game notes
Broncos WR Eric Decker's girlfriend, country singer Jessie James, performed at halftime. ... Greene said X-rays were negative. ... No Jets offensive lineman had scored on a fumble recovery since guard Randy Rasmussen smothered running back Cliff McClain's fumble in the end zone against Miami in 1972.
Game Information
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- Bill Leavy
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When Google Wave was previewed last week, most people focused on its Gmail-like user interface and the slick way it handled collaborative spaces in real time. What was more exciting from a web technology point of view, although much less sexy, was the underlying protocol: Google Wave is built on top of an extended version of an open source real-time data standard called XMPP (aka Jabber when it's used as an instant messaging context). This means that anyone can build servers and end-user applications that are compatible with Wave.
Yesterday, the BBC announced that they were using an open source framework called Hemlock in order to provide real-time web games on their Childrens' site. Hemlock's interfaces are built in Flash, but the real-time aspect is powered by XMPP. Developer Ron DeVera explained why over on the Hemlock blog:
XMPP is commonly used to enable chatrooms, like Gtalk or Facebook Chat. However, instead of just sending text, Hemlock lets you send all kinds of data at the speed of instant messaging. Even better, XMPP is designed to scale up and send data to many people at once, so you can push that data to multiple people in real-time.
In other words, it's perfect for real-time applications on the web.
Servers already need software to host and process dynamic web pages, as well as a database server to handle most types of user data. To use XMPP, you need to add an XMPP server to the mix – something that in the past was more fiddly than most people were willing to play with. However, times have changed, and ejabberd is free, open source and easy to install on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux servers. (I'm still at the early stages of playing with it; I'll let you know how I get on.)
The XMPP community is still very small compared to the wider web, but developments like Wave and Hemlock should accelerate growth and interest in it. There are some interesting projects springing up, and lots of libraries available for XMPP development; XMPP programming is a skill developers should get in on now, before it really heats up.


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POLL RESULT: Which song in a Rob Zombie movie just gets stuck in your head. WATCH
So over the past month we have been polling you all to see what song from a Rob Zombie movie gets stuck in your head.
We gave five options and gave you a month (ish) to get your votes in. Well the month (ish) is up and the results are in. By an OVERWHELMING majority; 1629 votes, 50%; (and you probably guessed by the photo clue) The Devils Rejects final scene with the bloody shoot out with Free Bird playing is your winner. To find out more about the movie and to see links to purchase go to The Devils Rejects page here at robzombie.com
To WATCH the clip and to see the full results
Which of these songs from Rob Zombie movies, is the one that just gets stuck in your head?
Total votes: 3267
House of 1000 Corpses – I Remember You (699 votes, 21%)
The Devil's Rejects – Free Bird (1629 votes, 50%)
Halloween – Love Hurts (486 votes, 15%)
Halloween 2 – Nights In White Satin (323 votes, 10%)
THE LORDS OF SALEM – Tomorrow\'s Parties (130 votes, 4%)


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Technical climbing approach to a 6-person hut on Goat Plateau, half-way up Castle Mountain in Banff
National Park. Closed in winter.
Winter: world-class ski touring with heli access. Reservations by lottery. Summer: spectacular granite mountaineering with very long approach hike.
In the Adamant range of the Selkirk Mountains.
Mountaineering and alpine rock climbing hut in the Adamant range of the Selkirk Mountains. Helicopter access only.
Climbing hut in the world-famous Bugaboos. Superb granite mountaineering and alpine rock climbing in south-eastern BC. Closed in winter.
Luxurious fly-in self-catered backcountry ski lodge in winter and hiking destination in summer. Winter bookings through lottery only.
Hiking and mountaineering hut in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park near Nelson, BC. Closed in winter.
Located in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park near Nelson, BC. Used by hikers and mountaineers. Closed in winter.
6-person climbers' hut in the Mt. Alberta area. Used as a base for
climbing in summer, not used in winter. Very difficult access.
Cozy base for mountaineering, hiking and ski touring in the Fryatt Valley in Jasper National Park. (Avalanche terrain in winter).
Classic log cabin in the Tonquin Valley in Jasper National Park. Annual caribou closure (Nov. to Feb.). Long approach in winter.
Small wooden hut near Mt. Colin in Jasper National Park. Used as a base for rock climbing on Mt. Colin. Closed in winter.
Winter-only cabin close to Jasper townsite. 12 km, mostly flat ski or snowshoe approach.
Winter-only cabin for ski tourers and ice climbers in Waterton Lakes National Park. Closed in summer.
Comfortable lodging in private cabins and hearty, healthy, gourmet meals.
Modern 12-person mountaineering hut in the Tantalus Range near Squamish,
BC. Accessed by 12-hour hike or helicopter from Squamish.
Mountaineering Hut on Lake Lovely Water in the Tantalus Range near Squamish, BC. Also used to access the Jim Haberl Hut.
16-person ski touring hut in the Marriott Basin north of Whistler, BC. Access is a 2-3 hour ski.
Pronounced "Hi-SHIM-ya-wit", this hut provides access to extensive summer alpine hiking and challenging winter skiing in the heart of Vancouver Island.
Day hut and cook shelter for the nearby climbers' campground on Mazinaw
Lake, 300 km NE of Toronto. Boat access. Used by rock climbers.
Located in the Adirondack Forest Preserve State Park in New York State. Used as a base for hiking, skiing and rock climbing.


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Unfortunately, you won't be able to order a drink there. It's actually a gigantic, bar-shaped formation of stars found right at the center of our home galaxy. And it rotates like nothing else in the Milky Way.
While we have known for about eighty years that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, figuring out the finer details of its structure has proven tricky. While we can easily observe other, far distant galaxies and determine how they are put together, we don't have that luxury for our own - that's the problem with being stuck inside the thing you want to observe.
We know that there are two basic types of spiral galaxies - ones that have elongated stellar structures, or bars, in their central bulges, and ones that don't. But it's only now that a team of astronomers led by Dr. R. Michael Rich of UCLA and Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile has been able to confirm just which of these categories our galaxy falls into.
The astronomers studied the motions of a large number of giant red stars over a four year period. They were able to build up data on the velocities of 10,000 M giant stars. They found that these stars formed a giant conglomeration, a bar-shaped structure that points nearly in the direction of our own solar system, only off by 20 degrees.
Intriguingly, while the rest of our spiral galaxy orbits the central point like a pinwheel, this bar orbits in a cylindrical fashion, like a toilet roll holder. A computer simulation suggests that the bar formed from a massive disk of stars, which was then reorganized into this bar structure by the intense force of gravity. We also know that the stars in the bar have a lower metal content than stars elsewhere in the galaxy, which means they are some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way.
Via NOAO. Image via NASA.


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Doomed Star Eta Carinae
A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds is captured in this stunning Hubble telescope picture of the super-massive star Eta Carinae.
Even though Eta Carinae is more than 8,000 light-years away, features 10 billion miles across (about the diameter of our solar system) can be distinguished. Eta Carinae suffered a giant outburst about 150 years ago, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. Though the star released as much visible light as a supernova explosion, it survived the outburst. Somehow, the explosion produced two lobes and a large, thin equatorial disk, all moving outward at about 1.5 million miles per hour. Estimated to be 100 times heftier than our Sun, Eta Carinae may be one of the most massive stars in our galaxy.
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