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Who says you need mountains to go climbing? There are plenty of alternatives in the shape of spectacular climbing walls on churches, dams and the cooling towers of nuclear power plants.
Built 150 years ago, St. Alban's Church in Liverpool, England, inspires aspiration to other spheres. Today, visitors no longer come here to pray, but to climb its venerable walls, including an overhanging 17.5-meter lead wall.
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Cheek for Frick!
It's become customary at around this time of year for Blue Jays fans to whip themselves into a frenzy to get Tom Cheek onto the final ballot for the Ford Frick Award, a broadcaster's trip to the Hall of Fame.
At times, it has been a task that seems destined to lead to heartbreak, with some other broadcaster's "turn" always seemingly coming before Tom's.
Enough. Now is Tom's time, and now is our time to help put him over the top.
The fan voting portion is being held on Facebook at www.facebook.com/baseballhall under the "Polls" section. And yeah, we wonder ourselves why they are doing this vote in this manner, but whatever. (If it means that you have to join Facebook, then so be it. Tom's worth it.)
At last look, Cheek had more votes than anyone of the dozens of names on the list, and accounted for 28% of all the votes. A huge number of votes from the fans might not mean squat for the Illuminati-like group who make the final decision...but it couldn't hurt could it?
Get out, vote early and vote often.
(And incidentally: If someone with the Rogers Baseball Operations wants to prove to the fanbase that they are not a bunch of fatuous gasbags, maybe they could get off their hands and use their multitude of platforms to get the word out and get the vote out for Tom. It's the least they could do.)
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Based on the fact that nearly 80% of the vote is split between Cheek, longtime Expos announcer Jacques Doucet (a good second choice really) and Joe Nuxhall, I'm guessing bloggers are the only ones promoting this vote in any way so far.
I'm happy to see Cheek out in front, but if this poll has any effect on the ultimate deciders, people other than those three might need to receive more than 1 or 2 votes each.
- December 3, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I've heard before that it is Nuxhall's "turn" this year...so we'll see what happens.
But it would be great if even one or two of the final voters looked at that outpouring of sentiment and decided that Cheek must have had an impact.
- December 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- The Ack said...
Agreed. The only positive, er, non-negative, if Tom doesn't win this year would be if Nuxhall wins, because his name seems to be at the top of the "leaderboard".
Then again, I'm sure another well known name would pop up and take his place.
- December 3, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Tao, the same Rogers group that has Bl e Jays in the outfield? Or even Cito's name screwed up out there? and is nickeling and diming the payroll ? I hope the best for Cheek and his vote BUT the team needs to get asses back in the stadium and fix the letters on the wall first!
- December 3, 2009 at 12:43 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
If we can get Cheek into the Hall, it will have been a good winter.
Handsome Tony Viner needs to pull some strings.
- December 3, 2009 at 1:29 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I'm reasonably sure that Handsome Tony Viner will note that this was a part of his plan all along.
- December 3, 2009 at 3:40 PM
How is Gaston's name on the Level of Excellence wrong (because it's up there in the first place?)? I've never noticed.
- December 3, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Yeah, I can't wait until White Collar Narcissus and Lothario to the secretary pool Tony Viner chimes in on where exactly the memory of Cheek fits in with his 'Handsome Tony's Blue Jays Omnibus Plan®'.
I'd like to think, no hope, that it is merely a matter of time before Cheek gets the recognition he deserves. I'd hate for it to be reduced to a question of 'if'.
- December 3, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Look, Tom cheek was a great broadcaster and a hero to all Jays fans. He deserves a spot in the hall, and I have contacts that will get it done. I just have to appease their lovely wives for them first(Chateau Briand and a Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac 1996, in Cabo, possibly).
I have worked day and night to build up this wall of deceit that adumbrates the profits I have generated for my company, and the gambit shall be revealed in good order, when my adversaries least expect it. Once the young core establishes themselves definitively, I will commit $150MM to payroll in an astounding move that will shock the world.
Look, my schemes are never easy to comprehend for the layman, who has no idea what it's like to be a sexy, smart, handsome business tycoon like me. Sure, I am sneaky and even a liar, but nice guys finish last. Do you want some little saint running your team in the real world of snakes and Steinbrenners, or will you just trust Handsome Tony Viner with the future of your happiness?
Handsome Tony Viner
- December 3, 2009 at 8:18 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
New T-Shirt:
I Trust Handsome Tony Viner
- December 3, 2009 at 8:59 PM
I want to believe.
- December 3, 2009 at 9:14 PM
"Sure, I am sneaky and even a liar, but nice guys finish last."
bahaha... handsome tony rules.
- December 3, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Scoots to Boston apparently, which will put a dent in the Type A free agency compensation the Jays get via the draft. Of course, accumulating a gaggle of draft picks means squat if you can't sign some of your top 100 picks.
I half expect Handsome Tony to get his hands dirty during the negotiation period after the draft this summer. Not sure what Handsome Tony has in his quiver of contract negotiating tactics. Lies? Intimidation? Agent Abduction? A Rusty Crowbar? A Well Tanked Private Jet with Clearance from US Authorities to Make 'Unscheduled Stops' at Guantanamo?
Um, so if Prospect Porn is the new standard to determine baseball fan zealotry, what exactly is someone who salivates at the idea of the high number of draft picks? A Future Fetishist? Tony Viner?
- December 4, 2009 at 4:24 AM
"Lies? Intimidation? Agent Abduction? A Rusty Crowbar? A Well Tanked Private Jet with Clearance from US Authorities to Make 'Unscheduled Stops' at Guantanamo?"
All of the above. Call me a bad guy. But trust me.
Yours truely,
Handsome Tony Viner
- December 4, 2009 at 8:15 AM
- Ian Hunter said...
Having the vote on Facebook seems so unofficial ... they may as well have put it on Myspace.
Oh well, I'm casting my ballot for Cheek every day regardless.
- December 4, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- Darren Priest said...
Yeah, that voting location seemed pretty dubious. Especially since it required you to add some poll software to your account, but I did it anyways.
- December 4, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Gil Fisher said...
I went to Indigo and I couldn't find this "facebook".
- December 4, 2009 at 11:51 AM
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Industry pundits say the changing of the guard probably won't have as much of an impact as general macroeconomic trends, the health of the public markets and investors' willingness to sink money into good ideas, even after a tumultuous correction. "Most early-stage investors are gun-shy now, and I don't think the election is going to change that," says Dave Pell, the managing partner of Arba Seed Investment Group and author of daily e-newsletter Davenetics, which provides links to top tech stories.
While access to capital still exists, says Jim Goetz, partner with Palo Alto-based venture capital firm Accel Partners, the dotcom fallout has led to an emphasis on solid business plans and good management. He says, "The return to the basics will continue to be the focus of the venture community." Assuming the IPO market picks up again, VC experts say that return is good for both businesses and investors.
The small-business lending climate won't prove much different, says the SBA's Mike Stamler. Many factors will determine how much cash entrepreneurs will borrow during Bush's term: bank liquidity, interest rates, the economy's overall direction, the demand for capital and the inflation outlook, among others.
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The Raiders seemed in complete control of the match at halftime behind two goals from junior forward Innocent Buule and a hefty 12-3 edge in shots. But, Farmingdale State battled Rutgers-Newark evenly in the second half as each squad took 10 shots.
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He curled a free kick from just outside the 18 around the blocking wall and just inside the right post in the 74th minute to tie the contest before he drilled the game-winner through the save attempt by Martirano from 45 yards out on the left side on another free kick with exactly 15 minutes left in the match. The match was played in a steady drizzle.
Buule notched his eighth and ninth goals of the season six minutes apart in the opening period. He ran onto a through pass from sophomore midfielder Ronald Quiroz and fired a shot into the left side of the net in the 33rd minute. He collected a loose ball on the left side, broke down Ram goalkeeper Patrick Gubbins with a nifty move near the 18, and punched in his second tally in the 69th minute.
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Duarte headed in a corner kick from the left side from junior midfielder Sean Nelson in the 86th minute to level the score at 2-2.
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How to fix a slow draining tub
One of the most common plumbing issues is a slow draining bathtub.
Usually, the drain gets backed up because there is hair and debris slowing down the water. An easy way to clear the blockage is a pair of needle nose pliers.
If there is a tub stopper in the drain you may have to remove it before trying to clear the blockage.
To prevent blockage – or a complete clogging of the drain – it's a good idea clear debris from the drain on a regular basis.


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We run professional development classes for teacher, showing them how to incorporate Robotics into their curriculum. We aim to show them easy activities that do not require too much specific technology knowledge.
We also run fun workshops at schools for the students themselves as well as providing resource material that teachers can purchase.
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text: A series of new architecture commissions and exhibitions suggests that museums might no longer be in the business of pageantry. In this third, and final, part of a series examining the notion of the post-spectacle museum, Architonic meets Michael Govan, director and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (by David Sokol)


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Exclusive Media is launching sales in Cannes and will screen Nimród Antal's Metallica Through The Never starring the band and Dane DeHaan from breakout hit Chronicle.
Bob Berney's Picturehouse holds North American rights to the film, which weaves live concert footage with the story of a roadie on a life-changing mission. Charlotte Huggins produces.
Picturehouse will release exclusively in IMAX on Sept 27 followed by wide expansion on Oct 4.
Exclusive Media's president of international sales and distribution Alex Walton negotiated the deal for the film with Berney and QPrime's Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch.
"This feature film is a wild and a refreshingly unique cinematic experience - a Metallica extravaganza that will electrify fans and movie-goers around the world," said Walton.
"After wading through multiple international distribution options for our film, we are excited to be partnering up with the folks at Exclusive Media, who we feel understand Metallica and understand our film better than anyone else," said the band's Lars Ulrich.


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Lenovo has updated its X1 Carbon by adding the power of touch to its latest Windows 8 Ultrabook.
The logically named X1 Carbon Touch adds the hands-on functionality to the screen, but this does bloat the asking price and means the screen is a slither thicker and heavier than that of the original.
It's hardly a case of "who ate all the pies" though, as the X1 Carbon Touch is still thin and, at 1.5kgs, lightweight enough to carry around on the go without it breaking your back. That 100g weight increase does mean it's around 7 per cent heavier than the origina X1 Carbon, which we reviewed and, in general, raved about recently.
READ: Lenovo X1 Carbon (original) review
The X1 Touch's 14-inch touchscreen is responsive to the slightest of hand, which in conjunction with full Windows 8 makes for a seamless user experience. However, like any touchscreen, the X1 Carbon Touch's screen does suffer from fingerprint marks.
The Windows 8 revolution is here, and the X1 Carbon Touch is the perfect fit. But at $1,500 in its basic configuration, this sturdy-shelled Ultrabook is a serious investment not to be taken, ahem, lightly.
We liked the original a lot, and this Touch version succeeds in bringing that up to date and into the Windows 8 space. Good job.


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Aug 10, 2012
Getting pulled over for rolling through a stop sign is whack. But getting pulled over, having a gun pointed in your face, and then being strip searched on the side of the road in front of your two children for rolling through a stop sign is, well, really whack and probably an excessive use of force.
Last July, Leila Tarantino claims that she was pulled over by an officer with the Citrus County Sheriff's Department.
The cop then placed Tarantino in the back of the squad car, where she allegedly sat for two hours. When backup arrived, Tarantino was strip searched on the side of the road, where passing motorists could see everything.
Then, in a gruesome twist, a female officer "forcibly removed" a tampon from Tarantino. Presumably, the cops were looking for drugs, but the lawsuit notes that a drug-sniffing dog was never called in, and cops never found any contraband or anything illegal.
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This special program is designed for people with memory loss and their caregivers. Participants experience works of art at the Modern through intimate conversations with docents and thoughtful projects designed by the Museum's education staff. Two sessions are offered on select Wednesdays, with space for 20 participants at both 10 am and 2 pm. This free program includes admission to the galleries and all materials.
To join us, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or 817.840.2118 with your preferred date, time, and estimated number of guests.


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Just a reminder that even though the holidays took her away from us, Jessica Lange will be back on our TV screens THIS WEEK! And because the holidays can't take away Netflix, I spent a good portion of them watching American Horror Story: Asylum while cross-stitching, which is the only appropriate activity to do while watching a series about the goings-on at a corrupt and possibly haunted institution. What TV shows are you excited about? What's going on with you? Anyone get a particularly awful holiday present? Let's all talk about it!
It's been great hanging with you today! Thank you so much for having me. I seriously haven't had this much fun all year! (Dad joke.) (Sorry.) (Had to.)


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Boosting local TV distribution in Astros' plans
HOUSTON -- Astros owner Jim Crane said Monday the team is disputing the involuntary bankruptcy petition that was filed Friday on behalf of the team's struggling regional sports partnership with the NBA's Houston Rockets and Comcast/NBC Universal.
"They filed for bankruptcy," Crane said. "We don't think that's correct. The unit still has the ability to pay the bills. There's really not anybody owed any money, so we hope to get that turned around and get them to the table."
The Houston Chronicle reported a hearing was scheduled Monday to determine whether an interim trustee should be appointed to oversee Houston Regional Sports Network, the corporate name for Comcast SportsNet Houston, which wasn't available this year on DirecTV, Dish Network and AT&T U-verse.
The Astros issued a statement Friday saying they didn't receive media rights fees in July, August and September and had invested additional money in order to keep the network viable.
Crane said the Astros are going to make a "very strong commitment" to get their games more widely distributed on television next year, after only about 40 percent of the Houston television market was able to watch games in 2013.
"Regardless of what's been reported, we want our fans to see the games," Crane said. "Next year, we're going to make a very strong commitment to get those to the fans, whether this deal works or not. We inherited the deal. They haven't brought us a lot of deals that make sense for equity long term. We've got to cut a good deal so long term, the franchise is viable and can compete from a payroll standpoint, which is in some instances more than half of your revenue.
"We can't do a long-term bad deal, so that's what we've focused on. The stuff that's been brought to us destroys our equity. We haven't been paid most of our rights fees money this year. It really hasn't worked for us. We're certainly open for a deal that works for us long term."
Crane said there's a chance Comcast and the Astros could go their separate ways.
"It's a possibility, yeah," Crane said.
Crane maintained it's important the Astros strike a viable long-term deal that's similar or better than the Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, their division rivals.
"We've got to cut a deal that works for the team, so this was a long-term deal," Crane said. "Comcast was in charge in executing the plan, and the plan hasn't evolved. We've tried to cooperate with them and work with everybody involved, but the other affiliates haven't bought in."


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Huzur gave a discourse on the guardianship of the Holy Qur'an in his Friday Sermon. One of the Divine attributes is Al Muhaimin (the Protector). The word has been translated by various Lexicons as One Who is a Guardian, One Who keeps others away from fear. It is also translated as Trustworthy; a Being that watches over people's affairs and is their Protector. In the Holy Qur'an the word 'muhaimin' is cited to describe the Qur'an, and terms it as 'muhaiminan alaihe', i.e. 'guardian over the earlier scriptures'. Further explaining the word Muhaimin, Huzur said 'muhaiminiat' is that station where a person likes nothing save the Being of Allah.
The word Muhaimin is cited in the Holy Qur'an twice, once in Surah Al Maidah and another time in Surah Al Hashr. In Surah Al Maidah it is used for the Qur'an calling it 'muhaiminan alaihe' which signifies that the Qur'an will testify the truth of the former scriptures. Huzur said indeed each and every word of the Holy Qur'an is the truth, is from God and verifies the earlier scriptures. Huzur said only those aspects of the earlier scriptures are correct which the Qur'an verifies. In Surah Al Maidah by calling it 'muhaiminan alaihe' Allah has assured the safeguard of the Qur'an although at another juncture (15:10) it is clearly stated that Allah Himself will safeguard the Qur'an.
Huzur said whether they acknowledge it or not a large section of people (outside Islam) who are interested in religion admit that their scriptures are not in their original form. This is because their teachings were not put in practice completely. They also acknowledge that the Qur'an is in its original form, though some among them are trying to raise doubts about this but they have not been able to prove anything. This gives the Qur'an distinction over the earlier scriptures. It also signifies that the teachings of the Qur'an are for all times and in accordance to the situation of each time and era it unfolds wonders for those who reflect on it. This is not just on national or communal level but also comes true for individuals who believe in it and strive to benefit from it. Huzur said in order to seek real benefit from the Qur'an one has to abide by its commandments completely, this strengthens one's faith and enables one to seek the beneficence of the Divine attribute of Al Muhaimin.
Indeed Allah says in the Qur'an 'vie, then with one another in good works' (2:149 & 5:49). Huzur said one has to impose these good works on oneself in order to put the teaching in practice or try and put it in practice. The Surah Al Maidah verse infers in the beginning that the earlier people forgot the teaching that was brought to them, as a result there was alternation and tempering in their scriptures and they were deprived of Divine favours. Had this not been the case the Jews and the Christians would have believed in the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him). Certainly there is no alternation in the Holy Qur'an; firstly it is safe in its textual form, secondly hundreds of thousands of people have it committed to memory. It has also been safeguarded through time by the various mujaddads (reformers) at the top of each century. After the advent of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) Allah further manifested the luminous aspects of this teaching. There is no question of this teaching being distorted, however people do get perverted. This is why it is said that one would be in the protection of the Qur'an if one puts its teaching in practice. As it is a guardian, each decision should be in accordance to it.
Huzur cited verses 58 to 62 of Surah Al Mu'minun (23:58-62). The translation reads:
"Verily, those who, out of fear of their Lord, always stand guard against sins.
And those who believe in the Signs of their Lord,
And those who ascribe not partners to their Lord,
And those who give what they give while their hearts are full of fear because to their Lord will they return –
These it is who hasten to do good works, and these it is who are foremost in them."
Huzur said in these verses some of the qualities of believers are cited. Most significantly worldliness is not their aspiration, for them the most significant search is the search for Allah. They are in awe of Allah and owing to the Divine connection that they aspire to, they put all the commandments in practice. They are reminded of Allah at all times and before every thing that they do, they strive to develop their faith and they have belief in every prophecy of the Holy Qur'an.
Huzur said in the current age the advent of the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) is a Sign among those Signs and prophecies. Majority of Muslims today, despite reading the prayer of guidance for 'The path of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy blessings' (1:7) due to their rejection of one who was commissioned and sent by God seem to be treading the path of those who incurred Divine displeasure and who went astray. Huzur said in the current age – in accordance to the prophecy of the Holy Qur'an - one's belief is completed only by accepting the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace).
Huzur said it is stated in Surah Al Jummah (chapter 62) that in the latter-days there would be a lot of subtle shirk (associating partners with Allah) among Muslims. They would be more interested in and attracted to the affairs of the world and like the Jews and the Christians before them they would have forgotten their teachings. Huzur said today we see majority of the world of Islam on these lines. We too need to self-examine and self-reflect lest we are deceived by our nafs (self). Huzur said there are those who do good works and spend their wealth openly in the way of Allah, yet they are conscious if they come up to the mark. This further enhances their piety and this alone brings one in the refuge of the One God Who is Most Exalted. It is the obligation of each believer to have a perception of Divine attributes.
The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) enjoined that if one read the last verses of Surah Al Hashr (59:23-25) and passed away on the day one would go to Heaven. The translation of the last three verses of Surah Hashr referred to here reads:
"He is Allah, there is none worthy of worship except Him, the Knower of the unseen and the seen. He is the Gracious, the Merciful.
He is Allah, there is none worthy of worship except Him, the Sovereign, the Holy One, the Source of Peace, the Bestower of Security, the Protector, the Mighty, the Subduer, the Exalted. Holy is Allah far above that which they associate with Him.
He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is the Mighty, the Wise."
Huzur said that simply reciting these verses does not bring about salvation. Indeed recitation is good but it should always be remembered that while the objective of man's creation is worship of God, there is some worship of God which has been cursed because it is done for pretentious purposes or is not from the heart. Therefore merely reciting these verses would not bring about salvation, unless they are reflected on and pondered over. If Allah is glorified with complete sincerity only then does one advance in piety. Huzur said it is Knower of the seen and the unseen God to Whom is our return.
One Who cannot be deceived. Therefore to derive benefit from the blessings inherent in His attributes each act of ours should be to seek His pleasure while having His awe and fear in our hearts. We should reflect on all this and should aspire to attain this station and when one strives for this and reads the verses of Surah Al Hashr with this mindset one will find God's love. May Allah enable everyone to do so.
The Promised Messiah (on whom be peace) said that when one attains true belief one find pleasure in doing good works and one is given insight and spiritual cognisance. Then one offers Salat as Salat is worthy of being offered. One is weary of sin and finds a particular fervour in one's heart to express the greatness and the glory of Allah and His Messenger. Such a belief does not even stop one from being placed on the cross like Jesus (on whom be peace). When one attains such a station of faith, it is then that Allah becomes one's Protector and Guardian and even brings one down from the cross. Only those who possess complete faith are shown such wonders.
Huzur prayed that may Allah make each one of us perfect in our faith and may we, having an insight and perception of the Divine attributes, always advance in piety, and continue to witness Allah's succour and help while remaining in His protection.
Huzur announced the sad news of the passing away of two young men of Qadian. Wasim Ahmad, who was 21 years old, a Moosi and a Jamia student was drowned while swimming in a canal. Huzur said he was a very proficient swimmer and was an expert at swimming in the sea. It seems he suffered an injury during swimming and as there was no one around he passed away. The other student Hafiz Ather Ahmad was a 19 year old student of the Jamia. He was travelling with his family when a heavy tree fell on their vehicle and he passed away on the spot. May Allah forgive them both and elevate their status. Huzur said he would lead their funeral Prayer in absentia after Jummah.
The Jumu'ah (Friday) prayer is one form of congregational worship in Islam. It takes place every Friday. Regular attendance at the Jumu'ah prayer is enjoined on the believer. According to a Saying of Muhammad(sa) this congregational prayer is twenty-five times more blessed than worship performed alone. (Bukhari)
"O ye who believe! When the call is made for Prayer on Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, and leave off all business. That is best for you, if you only knew." more
"… (He who) offers the Prayers and listens quitely when the Imam stands up for sermon, will have his sins forgiven between that Friday and the next" (Bukhari)


text: It's the beginning of July and I'm looking forward to celebrating summer in all of its glory – watermelon, blueberries, steamed crabs, swimming, picnics, fireflies, trips to the ocean, etc. July means we are squarely in the sights of summer; the new school year is comfortably far ahead of us, days are long, nights are warm and we are looking forward to vacations and time with family and friends. To be completely honest, however, there is one thing about July's arrival that's making me a tiny bit nervous. Months ago, I made the public commitment to participate in Plastic Free July. It's a global campaign designed to make us think about how we use plastic in our daily lives and an effort to get us to eliminate single-use plastic (plastic that is used only once, usually for just a few minutes, and then sent to the landfill or recycling facility) from our routines. Last year, I participated by vowing to eliminate the "top 4" from my routine for the month and ultimately forever. The "top 4" are the most commonly used single-use plastic items and consist of straws, plastic bags, plastic bottles and coffee cup lids. This year will be harder. I'd pledged to try and eliminate all single-use plastics for the month. I'll be stepping way outside comfort zone here and don't have any pre-conceived notions that I'll be 100 percent successful. My true goal, instead will be to get a better handle on my current consumption of single-use plastic, discover ways to regularly reduce its use and incorporate a few of those new ideas into my life going forward. Small steps, I know; but steps in the right direction. Knowing this will be a significant challenge, I've made a few rules for myself: Commit but don't kill yourself – I'm a working mom with limited free time. I want to learn from this experience not regret it! Don't stress about things beyond my control – I'm going to concentrate on things that I can change (how I purchase milk, bread, etc.) not things I can't (I have never been successful at stopping home delivery of our free local paper, conveniently wrapped in plastic, and I don't expect to magically become successful this month). That is a challenge for next year. Take at least three lessons learned from this experience and make them a permanent part of my routine. I made this pledge long before I had done any real research into what it would take to make it happen, and that is a good thing. If I had known what I was getting into, I'm not sure what I would have done. But, I made a promise and I intend to keep it – and learn some valuable lessons along the way. I also engaged the rest of the staff in the Aquarium's Conservation Department to join me. We'll be sharing our progress with you through this blog and through social media (#PlasticFreeJuly) throughout the month. Stay tuned to see how we do – and try it yourself! Together we can make a difference for our blue planet. Tags: conservation, plastic-free-july, plastics, plastic-pollution, national-aquarium-experts, laura-bankey Categories: Conservation Previous Post Next Post


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Auditions this week for "Anything Goes" mark the beginning of the end for Jim Coleman. The show, which opens in June, is the last he'll direct as artistic director for Stockton Civic Theatre, although he'll continue to be a part of the nonprofit company. He has plans to direct "Doubt: A Parable" and "Fiddler on the Roof" during the 2013-14 season.
Auditions this week for "Anything Goes" mark the beginning of the end for Jim Coleman. The show, which opens in June, is the last he'll direct as artistic director for Stockton Civic Theatre, although he'll continue to be a part of the nonprofit company. He has plans to direct "Doubt: A Parable" and "Fiddler on the Roof" during the 2013-14 season.
Coleman arrived as artistic director in 2005 after 30 years in New York as a director and musical director.
He landed his first major job in the Big Apple in 1979 when he became musical director for the Broadway production of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." He worked steadily in theater and at the New York City Opera.
Since arriving in Stockton, Coleman has raised the level of Stockton Civic Theatre productions, coming full circle last year with the production of "Sweeney Todd."
The 66-year-old plans to travel, work in other places and see friends when he gives up the day-to-day oversight of Stockton Civic Theatre.
Question: What was your favorite moment as a performer?
Answer: The greatest moment for me was the opening night of "Sweeney Todd" on Broadway, my opening night. It was not their opening night. I was young (31) and it was like a dream come true. The way all of that happened was crazy. I couldn't believe it was happening and I had to keep pinching myself to make sure I was really there. The first time I saw the show I dreamed that I would do it. I said to myself as I watched it when it was over, "I'm going to do this." To have it happen on this scale, it was a dream come true.
Q: Who's your favorite headliner you've worked with and why?
A: Angela Lansbury. She was an amazing human being besides being brilliant at everything she did. She was truly caring. She set a tone that was professional. She never expected more of anybody else than she gave herself. When you spend three years of your life with somebody, you see all different sides of them. In front of the company, there was never a moment of diva-ism. She was an amazing person and brilliant. I did "Mame" and "Sweeney" with her. That's a huge responsibility, big parts to do eight times a week, and she never complained. She was just about the best.
Q: What's the one show you never want to sit through again?
A: There's a few: "The Pajama Game," "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" and "Damn Yankees."
I hated them after I saw them. Then I got jobs, and it was a period in my career when you didn't turn down anything, you just did it. So, I ended up doing "Pajama Game" twice, "How to Succeed" three times and "Damn Yankees" twice.
I would never, ever go near (any) of them again and whenever they come up I say, "NO."
Q: What show makes you break out in a smile?
A: "White Christmas" and "42nd Street." They're both just a breath of fresh air. "White Christmas," I thought I would like it, but I ended up really, really loving it. The people in it, and then watching the joy on audience faces. I could do that every year.
Q: What do you watch on TV?
A: "Law & Order: SVU"; "Dancing With the Stars" is my guilty pleasure; "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"; "Scandal," I love "Scandal"; "American Idol"; and "Inside the Actor's Studio."
Q: Your piano playing is renowned, and anyone who wishes they could play envies that gift. What skill do you wish you had?
A: I wish I could play the harp. I took two harp lessons and quit. I just thought it was plucking strings, but there are three pedals, and each time there's an accent on the music you have to change the pedal. I was falling all over myself and I said, "I'm not going to play the harp."
Q: Most people go to theater as an escape. What's the escape for someone who spends a life working in theater?
A: I like to go to the theater, I love movies, I love to read, I love to go out to dinner. I love spending time with friends. I love going to the theater and seeing other people work. I love movies with a story to tell. I like a lot of movies they don't play in Stockton, that you have to see at the Tower Theatre (in Sacramento).
Q: What's your favorite movie?
A: My favorite movie is "Gone with the Wind." It's 74 years old and it stands up today. The way they adapted that 1,000-page book is amazing.
I love "All About Eve," the greatest movie about theater ever made. "Shawshank Redemption" and "Amore."
Q: What's your favorite book?
A: "The Help." I didn't want it to end. It's about the South and about the help, and I grew up in that era. And we had help, my grandmother (in Virginia) did, who became part of the family. There was something that really resonated.
Q: If you had an unlimited budget, what's the one show you'd love to produce here?'
A: "Les Miserables." We could do it. "Phantom of the Opera" you can't do without a lot of money. "Les Miserables" has things you have to work out. It should be done on a turntable. I love the story. I love the music. I love the power of it, that it can make audiences really feel something.
Something I'd like to do that costs tons and tons and tons of money is the Maury Yesten version of "Phantom," not Andrew Lloyd Webber's. Maury Yesten writes great music and the story has more of the phantom: where he came from, his relationship with his father. The phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's show; the phantom's only on stage 22 minutes.
Contact reporter Lori Gilbert at (209) 546-8284 or email@example.com.


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Update your Terms of Trade documents and register on the Personal Property Securities Register (ppsr.gov.au) or risk losing your assets.
If your Terms and Conditions of Trade don't have the correct provisions, you can lose goods supplied to a customer that becomes insolvent, even though you may have title and ownership to the goods.
Recently a Court decision highlights the need for retention of title suppliers to have adequate terms of trade documents and to register security interests on the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) to avoid losing assets if a customer becomes insolvent.
Swan Services Pty Ltd [2014] VSC 61 concerned a dispute between a cleaning equipment supplier (Central) and the liquidator of its insolvent customer (Swan).
Swan Services P/L went into liquidation in 2013, Central sought to recover equipment delivered between November 2012 and April 2013, which had not been paid for by Swan. Central relied on its Retention of Title clause printed on separate invoices provided when equipment was supplied. Central argued that the retention of title clauses formed part of the 2009 Credit Application, which Swan signed.
The effect of the Court's decision was that:
- Wording in the Credit Application suggested that the parties intended the terms to be incorporated were recorded in a separate document existing at the date of the credit agreement.
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I was reading over some news today and saw an article I thought was pretty good. For the most part it's a fair article on both sides but sometimes, the writer seems to lean more towards Linux. But he's talking about SUSE so it's OK
Anyway, this made me think, what ARE all of you going to do in 2007 when XP says to you "Buy Vista"?
Just wondering how many people are really going to do what is needed for Vista to run and then buy it.
-What are your plans, if any, with Vista?
-If you work in a small or home Office, are you going to pay for upgrades?
Article here:
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Opinion -- It's 2007, and you want to upgrade all your PCs' operating systems after the infamous March 2007 XP Meltdown. You know, the virus attack that actually melted computers running XP, but couldn't touch machines running any other OS? Never heard of it? Well, play along with me, OK?Let's say that you have a small office. Let's also presume that you've been running Windows XP Professional on decently powerful machines.Now, if you had a Linux expert on staff, you might have had Ubuntu, Freespire, or Xandros on your short list. But, you don't. You need an OS supplier that can hold your hand both during and after the upgrade. Since Red Hat doesn't do much with the desktop, that pretty much means Novell/SUSE, for now.So, the first question is: can your boxes run SLED 10? The answer, since I do it every day on a no-name box with exactly those components, is yes, you sure can.Can you run Vista? Well... that's another question, isn't it?Based on what I've seen of the Release Candidate 1 of Vista, the answer is no. SLED, on the other hand, does just fine with this hardware.For starters, you can't run the fancy 3D, translucent Aero Glass on it. Minus the pretty Glass bits, Aero was OK. SLED, on the other hand, had no trouble delivering the pretty desktop goodies with Xgl.
For Vista, if you want good graphics, you really need a DirectX 9-compliant 3D 128-MB video card that supports Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware a WDDM (Windows Device Driver Model) driver. You'll do a lot better, though, with 256MB of RAM.
In addition, Vista was overall rather laggy on this system. It wasn't that it was always slow. It wasn't. But, when Vista was loaded down with several typical office applications, Outlook 2003, Word 2003, and Firefox 1.506 or Internet Explorer 7 beta, it would start slowing significantly. Primarily, this seemed to be happening because even with this relatively light load, it had to swap data to the hard disk for virtual memory.
SLED, with a similar load, running the Microsoft Office applications on CrossOver Office, and Firefox 1.506, had no trouble whatsoever keeping up the pace.
As it happens, Microsoft has an answer for this drive problem. Vista is able to use flash memory with its ReadyBoost feature, and ReadyDrive, which uses a flash cache on the system's hard drive to improve overall performance.
The problem with this idea is that almost no PCs have significant amounts of flash memory installed and flash-enabled "hybrid" drives, aren't here yet. Samsung and Seagate Technology promise that these drives will be here in Q1 or Q2 of 2007. But, neither company has even demonstrated a production design drive yet.
In any case, all that Microsoft is really doing is hiding under a fancy new name the fact that Vista requires enormous amounts of RAM, by saying that it can make use of flash memory for what boils down to the ancient speed-up idea of disk caching.
SLED? It does just fine with 512MB of normal, old cheap RAM and an inexpensive hard drive.
The processor speed seemed to have little to do with either operating system's overall performance. While SLED 10, of course, runs faster with a better graphics card and more memory, Vista RC 1 demands a powerful video processor and all the RAM you can give it.
To make Vista as capable as SLED was on the base system, I had to push my system up to 2GB of RAM and add a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT card. I was, of course, unable to add flash memory or a flash-enabled "hybrid" hard-drive.
The total hardware cost to make this business PC Vista-capable was $325.
OK, but with the SLED option, you have to wipe out the disk and install a fresh operating system -- so, wouldn't that cost more? Well, yes, you would, but when eWEEK Labs tried to update an XP system to Vista RC 1, they found that it took hours for their test update... to fail.
Not good.
They were able to eventually update the system, but they found along the way that many applications no longer worked.
It seems to me that if you're going to be upgrading older systems, SLED is actually an easier, and thus less inexpensive, upgrade then Vista.
Applications are, of course, another matter. Most, but not all, Windows applications will run on Vista. However, many primary office applications, like Microsoft Office 2003, will run on Linux with CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office. The standard version of this program currently costs $39.95.
Again, with a Linux expert on hand, you could get the same result for free by using WINE. Alas, in our example, you don't have one.
But, you could also switch over much of your Windows application and data to Linux without any additional cost by changing over to SLED 10's included OpenOffice.org 2.0. Out of the box, it can handle basic Microsoft Office documents and spreadsheets without any fuss or muss.
If you need more, Versora Progression Desktop for Linux does an excellent job of automatically transferring transfer files and settings from Windows desktops and the Microsoft Office suite to Linux desktops and Linux-based office applications. The price for this software is $30.
If you're wedded to the pairing of Outlook and Exchange server, you don't have to give up a thing. Novell's included groupware/email program, Evolution, can work hand-in-glove with Exchange 2000 and 2003 using the supplied Evolution Exchange program.
You will be concerned, with reason, about the costs of re-training desktop users. SLED, especially when set up to use the KDE 3.5.1 interface, actually looks and feels a lot like XP. If you use Versora to transfer desktop settings, fonts, and the like, I believe you'll find some users won't even be able to tell that they've switched desktops. While some Linux users dislike the "Windowsness" of KDE, people coming from Windows are sure to like it.
What they may not like, though, is that learning to use Vista's UI (user interface) may prove more troubling that learning SLED's XP-like UI. The interface is glaringly inconsistent across Windows Vista and all of its applications. That's not my opinion, by the way. That's my paraphrase of the Windows expert's expert Paul Thurrott's recent review of what's wrong in Vista RC1.
Read it, and then consider your users trying to find missing "Back" keys and the fundamental disconnect between Vista's search function and its built-in Find application's dialog.
I suspect many users will find it easier to shift over to SLED, because it actually will be closer to their XP experience than Vista will be. If nothing else, they will certainly expect to need to work on SLED, whereas I know many of them will be unpleasantly surprised to see how much they'll need to re-learn to get the hang of Vista.
On Vista, you'll also need to upgrade your security software. Microsoft does supply its own antivirus and anti-spam software, Windows Live OneCare. But, it will cost your company $50 a desktop per year. In other words, Microsoft will be charging you about the same as you're already paying to Symantec or McAfee for basic security programs.
With SLED, anti-spam is included with the industry-standard SpamAssassin and you can protect your PC's applications with Novell AppArmor. As is, SLED doesn't come with specific anti-virus protection. After all, Windows gets a new virus every day, while we're still waiting for the first real Linux virus to appear. That said, if you want anti-viral protection for SLED, you can get the free, official version of ClamAV from Novell/SUSE.
So, let's add it all up, shall we, and see what it will cost you to upgrade your office XP systems to either Vista or SLED.
SLED will cost you $50 per desktop. The suggested upgrade retail price for Windows Vista Business is $199. If you had to buy a new license, it would hit your wallet for $299.
For Vista, you'll need to spend at least $325 for better hardware, not counting the labor expense. With Vista, you'll also need to upgrade at least some of your software, and continue to pay for security software. Let's call this total $200.
You'll also need to retrain your employees on either platform. For the reasons, I discuss above, the actually appears to be a wash.
Now, with SLED, you don't need to update your hardware. Let's say that you use both Versora and CrossOver Office to make life as easy as possible for your users. That will run you $70.
While free, open-source software can supply most of your needs, let's presume that you'll need to pay at least $50 for some program that won't be available within SLED or the open-source community. Of course, you won't need to pay for anti-virus or spam protection, so you'll save that cash.
So, bottom line time, it will cost you $724 per PC to upgrade to Vista. Or, you could pay $170 per PC to get SLED. That's a savings of $554 per user desktop.
Now, you could argue that you can do better with Vista pricing than that, and the like. I won't argue with you. You can also drop the software costs of everything on the Linux side to zero. How? By firing your MCSE (Microsoft Certified Software Engineer) IT staffer and replacing him with a NLCE (Novell Certified Linux Engineer) professional and switching over to openSUSE 10.1 and using purely open-source solutions. When it comes to software and IT costs, there are almost endless variables. One thing, though, is certain: the upfront costs of a Linux desktop are far lower than Vista's price-tag.
You may feel absolutely sure that your users will find it much harder to move to SLED than to Vista. There, I will argue with you. Take a long, hard look at Vista, then take a look at SLED. Do the same thing, for that matter, with Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org 2.0. If your mind is at all open, I think you're going to find that users will face pretty much an even learning curve, no matter which operating system you switch to.
Putting aside all issues of Linux being more secure than Windows, and Vista lacking almost every significant feature it was supposed to include, just looking at the dollars and cents, just looking at getting office work done, SLED, the Linux desktop, is unquestionably the better choice over Vista.
What are your thoughts? Personally if I buy a Computer new after next year and vista is on it, I'll leave it on for a while and give it a try. Though I DO think it's bad when an OS needs similar requirements to a top of the line Alienware from 3 years ago lol.


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At Hulu's Upfront event in New York today, the streaming media company announced some interesting news for cable cutters and entertainment indulgers. Beginning this summer, viewers without paid Hulu Plus accounts will be able to view full episodes of TV shows via the Hulu mobile apps at no cost. The content will still be ad-supported, of course, as even paid members are exposed to advertising, but content will include full TV episodes. Currently, only Hulu members with a paid subscription can access content on mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad and free viewing is restricted to the web. Additionally, Hulu says the company will release "the next generation" of its Hulu Plus app for iPhone around the same time this summer.
In addition to news that the company will allow streaming of full TV episode on mobile devices for the first time, Hulu also announced a new format for advertising while viewing content.
Specifically, Hulu announced "in-stream purchase units" that will allow users to directly interact with ads without being pulled away from the content (aside from the time it takes to deliver an action).
We will be rolling out the first ever "In-Stream Purchase Unit" later this year with Pizza Hut as our launch partner. The unit will enable consumers to make an order for pick-up or delivery without ever leaving the Hulu environment. With our effective targeting capabilities, this new innovation allows advertisers to target the right demographic, at the right time – all while allowing viewers to immediately pick up where they left off once their order is placed.
While most users, especially paid subscribers, would probably prefer to experience an ad-free version of Hulu, it's certainly interesting to see the company take advantage of modern technologies in advertising potentially making the platform much more viable in the long run.
Hulu also announced to it has surpassed 6 million paid subscribers to its service. For perspective, Netflix recently reported 44 million customers, albeit without revenue from advertising during content streaming.
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Start times: First session (9-11:30 a.m.): 4 years and younger, 7 and 8 year olds, 11 and 12 year olds, Second session (noon-3 p.m.): 5 and 6 year olds, 9 and 10 year olds, and 13 to 15 year olds. This is for non-high school wrestlers only.
It is an open tournament, so you do not have to represent a club, it's for anyone who doesn't compete on a high school level to come compete.
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Cop Tasers 10-Year-Old Boy For Refusing to Clean Patrol Car
Officer demonstrates what police do best on school "career day"
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Oct 30, 2012
A state police officer in New Mexico is being sued after he allegedly tasered a child in a school playground for no reason other than he refused to clean the cop's patrol car.
The boy's legal guardian, Rachel Higgins, claims that Officer Chris Webb shot the boy, referred to as "R.D.", with a 50,000 volt stun gun while visiting on a "career day" at Tularosa New Mexico Intermediate School on May 4.
The complaint notes that the officer approached a group of boys and asked which of them wanted to clean his car. When R.D. said he had no desire to clean the patrol vehicle, Officer Webb is claimed to have stated "'Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.'"
He then pointed his taser at the boy, according to the report, and fired two barbs directly into the 10-year old's chest, electrifying him and causing him to blackout.
Webb then extracted the barbs from the child's chest, leaving scarring " that look like cigarette burns".
"Instead of calling emergency medical personnel, Officer Webb pulled out the barbs and took the boy to the school principal's office," the complaint states.
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Farmingdale 58
Montclair 52
Montclair, NJ - Sophomore forward Mercedes Miller (New York, NY/Manhattan Center) scored 12 of her 14 points in the second half and also pulled down 13 rebounds as the third-seed Rams extended their season tonight with a win over second-seed Montclair State, 58-52, in the semifinals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Metro Women's Basketball Tournament at Panzer Gymnasium on Friday evening.
Dankery Perez (New York, NY/Manhattan Center) added 10 points and five rebounds as Farmingdale State (19-9) advance to the championship game where they will host fourth-seeded Kean University. Kean defeated first-seed Stevens, 72-70 in Hoboken in the other semifinal. The Rams, making its third appearance in the ECAC Tournament, is seeking its first Metro crown. Farmingdale State also defeated Montclair State for the second time this season. The Rams picked up an 80-75 win over the Red Hawks in Farmingdale, NY back in December.
Stephanie Machin (New Providence, NJ/New Providence) had a game-high 21 points and eight rebounds for Montclair State, which ended its season at 18-10. The Red Hawks were making its 12th appearance in the ECAC Tournament and seeking its first finals appearance since winning the title in 1999.
A back and forth affair that saw nine ties and five lead changes, Farmingdale State opened up the second half with a six-point spurt to take a 34-28 lead with 16:38 to play as Miller scored on a jumper. Montclair State would respond with a 10-2 run over next four minutes to take a two-point lead. Machin had six of those points, including a pair of free throws that made the score, 38-36.
Miller and Kristen Tong (Swanzey, NH/Monadnock Regional) each scored to put the Rams back on top, 40-38 before Garrabrant forged the ninth and final tie at 40-40 as she connected from short range with 7:54 remaining. Angela Williams (New York, NY/Murry Bergtraum) then buried a three-pointer to put Farmingdale State up, 43-40 and after a Garrabrant bucket, Williams struck again with another three as the Rams led 46-42 with 5:17 left. Tong extended the 48-42 with a jumper at the 2:28 mark.
The Red Hawks would get as close as four points on two occasions, the final time at 53-49 on a three-pointer by Horan. However, Farmingdale State closed out the game by hitting 5-of-8 attempts at the free throw line.
Williams finished with nine points and seven rebounds for the Rams, who were out rebounded in the game, 45-43. Melissa Harry (Baldwin, NY/Baldwin) added nine points and seven rebounds while Rochelle Clark (Bellport, NY/Bellport) registered seven points and six assists.
Horan had 10 points, seven rebounds and six assists for Montclair State, who also got eight points and 11 rebounds from Garrabrant. Ferin Catlett (Lawnside, NJ/Haddon Heights) had eight points.
Farmingdale State will host Kean University for the ECAC Metro Championship Crown at home on Saturday, March 4 in the Walter A. Lynch Sports Center at 7 p.m.


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President Obama marked Labor day with a call to union men and women to help him revive the struggling economy, saying "a strong labor movement is part of a strong economy."
In Cincinnati Monday to speak to thousands of union members at a picnic, Obama thank organized labor for its strong support and pledged to re-energize the Labor Department on behalf of working people. Noting the 9.7% unemployment rate, Obama said "we've still got a long way to go. So we will not rest. We will not let up."
He also said the "public option" of a federally run health care program should be part of U.S. health care reform, saying government involvement will bring prices down.
"I want a health insurance system that works as well for the American people as it does for the insurance industry. They should be free to make a profit. But they also have to be fair," the president added before asking the crowd of 5,000 people to support reform.
Obama chose the Labor Day union picnic in Cincinnati as the backdrop to announce his selection of Ron Bloom as senior counselor for manufacturing policy. Bloom planned to travel there with the president for an afternoon announcement at the AFL-CIO event.
Obama's speech to union members was the first of at least three speeches this week. Obama's remarks were expected to touch on health care in advance of a Wednesday evening address to Congress on his proposed overhaul. On Tuesday, Obama will speak to American children as they begin the school year. On Wednesday, he plans to address Congress on his health care plan.
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On fibonacci numbers as an example of asymptotic complexity
Most people have seen the elegant recursive definition of fibonacci numbers: In Haskell,
fib 0 = 1 fib 1 = 1 fib n = fib (n-1) + fib (n-2)
and the fact that this performs horridly for higher values of n is well-known. But there are a couple cute aspects of this example that are less known, so I thought I'd just take a moment to point them out.
First of all, what is the asymptotic complexity of the earlier implementation? It's exponential, sure, but let's take a closer look at the analysis. Let's define a function fibtime to approximate the number of time steps needed to calculate the result of fib. Since it's straight-forward recursion where each individual function application performs constant work, and since we're assuming arithmetic can be done in constant time (this isn't actually true! See comments later…) we can measure fibtime with the number of function applications needed to get the answer; all of the other work goes into the constant factor. So it takes only one function application to evaluate the base cases; but for the inductive case, we need to evaluate two smaller instances of the problem as well:
fibtime 0 = 1 fibtime 1 = 1 fibtime n = fibtime (n-1) + fibtime (n-2) + 1
Look familiar? Well, almost… there's an extra "+1" in there. Solve the recurrence relation, though, and that comes out in the constant factor, too… so the time complexity of computing fib n is O(fib n). Cute, huh?
Okay, so we want something faster. The normal answer is to convert to tail recursion (or write the obvious imperative algorithm; they amount to the same thing):
Edit 3: Thanks to Raphael in the comments for the comments that led to writing this code in a clearer style, and unifying it with the later version.
fib n = fst . fibpair where fibpair 0 = (0,1) fibpair n = (b,a+b) where (a,b) = fibpair (n-1)
The asymptotic analysis here is easy, and the running time is O(n). Equivalently, Haskell allows a nifty definition using lazy lists:
fib n = fibs !! n where fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)
While this looks substantially different, it turns out to be the same algorithm written in a more declarative style. So great, we've gone from exponential to linear. Most people stop there.
But can we do better? Yes, it turns out we can! A key observation here is that
In other words, you can encode the state (the a and b from the tail recursive version above) into a matrix, such that making progress involves just multiplying by a constant matrix. But matrix multiplication is expensive, and even multiplication of constant 2×2 matrices takes some time, so this would still be linear with a somewhat worse constant factor… right?
Wrong! The key point is that matrix multiplication is associative, and that means that we can rearrange the multiplications to avoid duplicating work. How do I compute the 16th power of a matrix? The best way is not to multiply the matrix by itself 16 times, but rather to compute the 8th power, and then square that. If the power I want is odd, then I will just compute the power one below, and multiply by the original matrix once, but crucially, this can only happen once before I have an even power again! So overall, computing the nth power of a matrix can be done in O(log n) time.
We don't really want to represent matrices explicitly, so we instead just encode the first matrix above as the ordered pair (a,b), as we did earlier. (Note that in this encoding, the identity matrix, which is the zero'th power of any matrix, is just (0,1), which was the same base case earlier… in fact we're just adding one special case to the earlier code.) Doing some basic algebra, the result turns out to look like this:
fib n = fst . fibpair where fibpair 0 = (0,1) fibpair n | even n = (2*a*b-a^2, a^2+b^2) where (a,b) = fibpair (n `quot` 2) | odd n = (b, a+b) where (a,b) = fibpair (n - 1)
So, ever wanted to know the ten millionth fibonacci number? No problem! In case you were curious; the answer is 2,089,877 decimal digits long.
Wait a second here… at this point, you should be questioning whether our code really runs in logarithmic time! Dear reader, I've been lying to you. Just the length of the output from the fibonacci function is actually linear in the value of n! So it's outright impossible to produce that output in better than O(n) time. So was this all a waste? No, not really. We made a simplifying assumption up front that all arithmetic can be done in constant time. For most reasonable values of input, we make that assumption all the time, and it's useful in practice. However, it does fail when we hit very large values that exceed normal fixed size data types. This algorithm doesn't really run in logarithmic time… but in the exact same sense, neither was the previous version really linear.
Okay, we've got that down. So…. can we do better?
Not really, if we need precise answers. The fibonacci numbers actually have a closed-form solution involving the golden ratio, but it too requires computing nth powers – this time of some exact representation of the algebraic reals if we don't want to get rounding error – so it's not going to be asymptotically better, and is likely to have much worse constant factors. That said, if all you want is an approximation of results well within the range of a double precision floating point number, you can get that using the closed form, in constant time!
approxfib n = round (phi ** x / sqrt 5) where x = fromIntegral (n+1) phi = (1 + sqrt 5) / 2
Edit: Thanks to mathnerd for pointing out that the psi part of Binet's formula is always less than 1/2, so just rounding the answer is enough without actually subtracting it.
Using double precision floating point, this is exact up to the 70th fibonacci number (approximately 300 trillion), so it does pretty well for small numbers! The rounding error is very low (as in, less than a billionth of a percent) up through the 1473rd number; but then we hit the upper end of the range of double precision floating point numbers, and things go bad. If you want an exact answer or arbitrarily large numbers, it won't do the job; but for reasonable ranges, it gives a decent approximation.
Edit 2: It's also interesting to note that the closed form solution, known as Binet's formula, can be derived from the matrix approach mentioned above. The approach is to decompose the constant matrix from earlier into a diagonal matrix of eigenvalues via a spectral decomposition. Then its powers can be computed by powers of the diagonal matrix of eigenvalues, which then leads to Binet's formula. Conversely, if you do decide to look for an efficient exact representation for computing Binet's formula with arbitrary size numbers, you end up deciding to work in the field , which is an extension field of dimension 2 over the rationals. If you then derive multiplication formulas for that field, they look very familiar: you end up doing exactly the same math on pairs of numbers that we did for the matrix solution. Thanks to brandonpelfrey, poulson, and fredrihj from Reddit for the conversation leading to that observation.
And there you have it, more than you ever wanted to know about computing fibonacci numbers.
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Sjoerd Visscher / Jul 20 2011 12:08 pm
Lovely stuff. The pow function is implemented as (^) for instances of Num, so fib can also be implemented as:
data F = F Integer Integer deriving (Eq, Show)
instance Num F where
fromInteger n = F n 0
F a b * F c d = F (a * c + b * d) (b * c + (a – b) * d)
fib n = f where F _ f = F 1 1 ^ n
Chaddaï Fouché / Jul 20 2011 4:27 pm
Very nice summary, simple, easy to follow and pretty complete on the big picture. You often see small parts of this lying around but rarely is it all compiled in an interesting and short text.
עמיר / Jul 20 2011 6:47 pm
Actually, the O(1) solution can also be found through matrix exponentiation. And your "approxfib" uses the exact formula for Fibonacci numbers, so the "round" is only applied to floats without a fractional part. You can drop the psi**x part and the function will always return the same result.
The trick with matrices is that the matrix [0 1 ; 1 1] is a product of 3 matrices M * D * N, where M*N=1 and D is diagonal. So its n'th power is (M*D*N)^n = M * D^n * N, an the power of a diagonal matrix is just raising the diagonal elements to the relevant power. Computing this with the actual numbers gives the formula of your "approxfib".
Mathnerd314 / Jul 20 2011 6:59 pm
You don't need the psi. (see wikipedia)
Anonymous / Jul 21 2011 8:05 am
The third lecture of the "Introduction to Algorithms" course on MIT OpenCourseware goes over the complexity of the matrix multiplication approach and Binet's Formula:
@ עמיר : Slick… but you appear to be assuming that exponentiation is an O(1) operation. But for n :: Integer in Haskell isn't it more like O(ln(n))?
raphael / Jul 22 2011 8:29 am
an elegant solution with O(n) and constant space complexity:
fibtwo 0 = (0,1)
fibtwo (n+1) = (b,a+b), where (a,b) = fibtwo n
Marius / Sep 3 2011 12:54 am
In your first function "fib 0 = 1" is wrong.
Furthermore your adaption of raphaels function is in pointfree style, therefore you have to remove the parameter n from fib:
fib = fst . fibpair
where fibpair 0 = (0,1)
fibpair n = (b,a+b) where (a,b) = fibpair (n-1)