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Star Wars creator George Lucas has been trying for years to convert a large parcel of land in Marin County, CA, into a 300,000-square-foot movie studio, with amenities including a day care center, restaurants, a gym and a parking garage, only to be shot down by his wealthy neighbors.
Because the local homeowners' association has refused to let Lucas move forward with the studio, he's decided to put the land to good use by transforming it into low-income housing, simultaneously doing a good deed and trolling his fellow landowners.
"If everyone feels that housing is less impactful on the land, then we are hoping that people who need it the most will benefit," Lucas snarked.
He's even donating the various studies and surveys he paid for while working on the movie studio project, to help the new housing development get underway more quickly.
That might be almost enough to outweigh creating Jar Jar Binks.

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John Kerr, the stage and film actor whose credits include the movie "South Pacific," the thriller "The Pit and the Pendulum" and a Tony Award-winning turn in "Tea and Sympathy," has died. He was 81.
Kerr died Saturday of heart failure at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, his son Michael said.
He was perhaps best known for playing a sensitive prep school student who is bullied for being a suspected homosexual in Elia Kazan's 1953 Broadway production of "Tea and Sympathy." He went on to reprise the role in a 1956 film version.
The Harvard-educated Kerr also played a district attorney on TV in "Peyton Place" in the mid-1960s. After leaving show business, he became a lawyer specializing in personal injury law.


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There is some evidence, or so they say, that Tarifa is as old as Cádiz. When you consider that Cádiz is a front runner for the western world's oldest city, that would make this little town on the southern tip of the Costa de la Luz pretty old. Phoenician, to add a little precision; or even pre-Phoenician.
The town I'm looking at now though, from up on the roof, as it sprawls around me in all directions, is largely an eighteenth century creation.
On my left, where we hang our washing, is Calle Castelar and the stately building opposite ours. From street level it looks like a bank but I think it must have been a merchant's house; a glimpse can be had of a verdant inner courtyard. It is no doubt divided into private apartments these days and someone has laid out a magnificent patio and conservatory on the roof. I could lazily leap the narrow gap between it and our roof, so tightly are the streets and alleys squeezed between buildings in the casco.
Behind it, the heights of old Tarifa. Like a cubist painting roofs sit on roofs beneath a clutter of solar panels, water tanks and laundry lines. The whole thing tumbles down as my gaze shifts rightward. In the distance some newer apartment blocks and the green hills that separate us from Algeciras. More


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Woman Is Divorcing Husband Because He Doesn't Like 'Frozen'by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Talk about 'Letting It Go'!
A woman in Japan is reportedly divorcing her husband solely because he doesn't like the Disney smash 'Frozen,' the New York Post reports.
According to the New York Post, the scorned husband took to a marriage advice forum to explain the situation, reportedly writing that his wife had become obsessed with the film and made him watch it with her. But after revealing that he "didn't really care for it," his wife just couldn't deal with it.
"If you can't understand what makes this movie great, there's something wrong with you as a human being!" she reportedly told him and apparently left to go isolate herself in a frozen ice castle — we mean, move in with her parents. She refuses to speak to him. (Well, at least she'd agree with our piece on how 'Frozen' is bringing back the Disney Renaissance.)
According to the man, 31, there were no other problems in the couple's relationship. The two had been married for six years and have no children together.
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The operative word above is "think," because no parent can ever know his or her child, especially during the firestorm known as adolescence.
Every school year, teenagers die and others teens are charged as adults in incidents in which brutal hazing leads to death. I first wrote about hazing, fraternities and sororities some years ago, when a group of teens hazed a group of high school junior girls taking part in a so-called "powder puff" football game. Thirty-two teens were suspended from school. During the brutal incident, caught on video, the girls were smeared with mud, paint, feces and garbage. Several were beaten, and five were hospitalized. The incident took place in a middle-class Chicago suburb, not unlike the communities in which we live.
How are so-called "good kids" capable of inflicting such humiliation and pain on their fellow students?
The striking element of this particular incident was the excessive brutality exhibited toward the young girls, and their apparent willingness to be hazed, at least initially. It makes us ask why the desire to belong, to be included in the pack, is so intense. Will these same victims victimize others next year, when younger girls are begging to be included? Perhaps part of the problem lies with the word "haze." It softens the reality. These teenagers punched their schoolmates in the face, broke their bones and covered them in filth. How could they not know they were going too far?
Every year, in universities across the country, young people die from hazing, almost always associated with alcohol. Statistics indicate that 2017 was a particularly tragic year. Campuses across the country were rocked by a number of fraternity deaths, generating a national conversation about the danger of fraternity culture and what can be done to keep students safe.
In one case, a young man was told to drink 18 shots of alcohol in 90 minutes. He was dead within hours. And so the stories go. And so the parents grieve. And so the universities investigate or close down fraternities, yet the culture persists on many campuses.
There is much talk these days about how to teach empathy. Empathic people are less likely to inflict pain on others or consider personal humiliation a form of entertainment. I do think we can teach our children empathy through our own behavior and through regular discussion. "How do you think that would feel?" we might ask a 7-year-old as we read a story together about bullying.
If we adults watch reality TV shows on which people are humiliated, forced to eat garbage and live vermin, starved and threatened and tormented, it's a natural step — for teenagers, especially — to experiment with the same behavior in their own lives. If we watch these shows and laugh at what we see, we're telling our kids that the violation of other human beings is acceptable as sport and entertainment.
I was sitting with a number of other parents when I first saw the video of the Chicago assault, and a few of them said, "My kid would never do something like that," meaning that their kid would never assault another or submit to such an assault. We all hope and pray that our children aren't capable of such brutality, on the one hand, or might have such low self-esteem, on the other, but it's foolish for any parent of any teen to say, "Not my child."
If we bring violence into our home via TV and video games, we are tacitly condoning such behavior. As parents and as a society, we must hold accountable teenagers who assault other teenagers — but we have to begin our lessons way before that. We have to make them know when they're just toddlers that hurting someone else is wrong. And somehow, we have to raise children with enough emotional strength to say no when the price of belonging could be their lives.
We have to allow them to experience the consequences of their actions, even when we want to save them that pain. When we lie for our children when they're 6 years old, we'll be lying for them when they're 16, and the consequences will be far greater.
Copyright 2019 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at email@example.com.


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Online petition seeks to filibuster SOPA bill in Senate
ALL OVER REDDIT, Twitter, and various blogs, the armies are gearing up to defend themselves against an encroaching enemy: the government.
And their greatest weapon is, ultimately, themselves. As a bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, gets ready to go to Congress, the Internet world has voiced anxiety that the legislation will restrict Internet freedom. In particular, there is concern that it will severely limit usage of sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter (now, that got your attention, didn't it!).
In a nutshell, SOP would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to combat online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. The bill was introduced in the House in October by Republican Representative Lamar Smith, from Texas. If passed, it would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to combat online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods, by allowing the U.S. Department of Justice and copyright holders to seek court orders requiring online advertising networks, payment processors and related entities to cease payments to websites and web-based services accused of copyright infringement.
So far, Reddit reports that over 900,000 people have signed an online petition asking Congress not to pass the SOPA bill. Both MoveOn and Change.org have lent their support to the petition, showcasing it on their websites. Anti-SOPA people call it the "Internet blacklist bill," and say that it will allow the music and television industries to shut down the aforementioned sites. It would also make it a crime to stream or display works protected by copyright without permission.
The best part about the anti-SOPA petition is that that the signatures will serve as a filibuster, read out name-by-name by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore), when the bill is presented for the Senate vote this week. This may be the first case where Internet activism is being taken up so directly in a Congressional vote. Wyden's argument is that the bill would actually make the Internet less secure, because government intervention disrupts, for example, the Domain Name System, and has an overall "effect on the net's structure." If the bill passes, he says, we may be headed toward a future where only people who can afford a website will be able to hire a lawyer.
Wyden is also speaking out against a similar act that restricts Internet usage, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), which would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders that will require Internet service providers to shut down websites accused of copyright infringement. Well, there goes my personal blog.
With SOPA and PIPA in place, the Internet would quickly cease to be such a wealth of ideas and information. It would lose its democratic nature. Act quickly to sign the petition and let the Senate know that the Web is important to our expression of free speech.


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A few people have mentioned it, but yes I've got my ears pierced again! Its not the first time I've had them done. When I was young I stretched them to about 24mm/28mm, I've had them taken out for about 4 years now and they have shrank down to around 8mm now but I don't wear plugs in them. I've been wanting to get another piercing above them for a while now, so finally bit the bullet and did it! However nowhere on my local highstreet would pierce them for me, I presume the hole I already had was a bit off putting so went to a specialist piercings place aka a goth shop to get them done! I've been stocking up on various earrings for the last few weeks, but these are my favorites so far. I have a little bit of an obsession with crosses I think! If you've followed my blog long enough to remember eargate then kudos to you!
& I also have lip and a monroe piercing, Surprises me how many people dont notice! But I dont really notice them on my own face anymore Im so used to them! Oh and also, I dont regret my piercings or stretched ears at all! It was a part of my teenage days & I've got a few crazy stories about them which I love telling!


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Rwanda Continues Show "Trial" of Opposition Leader
[Op-Ed Global: Rwanda]
The hearing had been postponed since 25 November 2011 due to the presiding judge's sick leave. Yesterday, it was adjourned to 13 December 2011 due to extra-court activities of judges. For both days, the high court heard defence conclusions on the contradictions
and inconsistencies observed in the oral answers from prosecutor's key witnesses and the defence submissions on 5 counts of the indictment.
The life of another opposition leader, Mr. Bernard Ntaganda, incarcerated in Kigali Central Prison as well and serving a politically motivated 4 year sentence is supposedly in danger. His political party, - Parti Social IMBERAKURI - informed the public that he was tortured last week inside the penitential premises.
Our government is continuously crippling democracy. A nightmare usurping people's freedoms, eavesdropping on phones or any other communications means and keeping the judiciary under its control.
The status of the proceedings is still. The High Court denied the defence the right to a direct cross-examination of the prosecutor's key witnesses.
They were given all the questions in order to revise them, prepare their answers beforehand and filter which one they wanted to take or not. Still their statements contradict in many parts both the arranged police and prosecutor's interviews or accounts of the modus operandi. Most of the police interrogations of the pleading guilty co-accused Tharcisse Nditurende which occurred during the first 7 months of his detention in a
military isolation confinement are no where in the dossier.
The prosecutor stated that the 21st April 2010 first arrest of Madame Victoire Ingabire came as a result of overwhelming evidence provided by Lt Colonel Tharcisse Nditurende. Curiously the first police written statement related to this co-accused are dated after the arrest of Ingabire. How could the prosecutor base the arrest warrant on statements that did not exist that time?
The defence analysis of all the statements of the key witness Vital Uwumuremyi, co-accused pleading guilty in this case, reveal that he was closely working for intelligence services under the supervision of CSP Tony Kuramba of the Criminal Investigation Department.
The evidence on the allegations - of genocide negation; discrimination and sectarianism; and willingly disseminating rumours aimed at inciting the public against the existing leadership - is based on the rights to political activities, freedom of speech and freedom of association. The
legal instruments which the Prosecutor is founding his case on are controversial and the government has already acknowledged the need to
review them.
"The prosecutor's case is full of flaws. From its inception to the indictment, it shows a clear determination to silence the political leader. The constitution of the Republic grants her the right to challenge governmental policies. The criminal investigations did not precede but it seems they have been initiated to justify or cover up the imprisonment of an opposition leader. The presumption of innocence has been violated during
the making of this case against my client", explained the lawyer Gatera Gashabana. The defence has given details on the lack of jurisdiction of the High court in this case to non avail: over 75% of evidence is based on allegations that pre-dated the criminal laws in force.
The Rwandan criminal procedure does not accept any retro-activity of the criminal law. The court does not have territorial jurisdiction to try the accused on the counts of the indictment.
Boniface Twagirimana is FDU-INKINGI Interim Vice President.
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Dead Poets founder at halfway mark of grave goal
Will make a stop in Portland
The founder of the Dead Poets Society of America is halfway to his goal of visiting the gravesites of 500 bards.
Walter Skold on Thursday is visiting the gravesite of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's brother Samuel at Portland's Western Cemetery. Skold says Samuel Longfellow was a hymn writer, pastor and poet.
It'll be his 251st burial plot visit, marking the kickoff of events leading to Dead Poets Remembrance Day on Oct. 7.
Skold, who's from Freeport, Maine, pushed for a national holiday after he discovered that the graves of many of the nation's literary forebears have been neglected.
Highlights this year will include a tribute to the poetry of John Updike and a special midnight reading of "The Raven" at Poe Corner in Boston, Edgar Allan Poe's hometown.


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extra-long [insert dongle joke here] linkfest this week since there wasn't one last sunday (sorry, dog ate it…). note that there (probably) won't be one next sunday either, 'cause i'll be too busy hunting for easter eggs…. (^_^)
Common DNA Markers Can Account for More Than Half of the Genetic Influence on Cognitive Abilities – "In the same sample of 3,154 pairs of 12-year-old twins, we directly compared twin-study heritability estimates for cognitive abilities (language, verbal, nonverbal, and general) with GCTA estimates captured by 1.7 million DNA markers. We found that DNA markers tagged by the array accounted for .66 of the estimated heritability, reaffirming that cognitive abilities are heritable. Larger sample sizes alone will be sufficient to identify many of the genetic variants that influence cognitive abilities." – via race/history/evolution notes.
Genotypes over-represented among college students are linked to better cognitive abilities and socioemotional adjustment – "The present study investigated … genotype frequencies of 284 SNPs covering major neurotransmitter genes in a sample of 478 Chinese college students, comparing these frequencies with those of a community sample (the 1000 Genomes dataset)…. Results showed that 24 loci showed Hardy–Weinberg disequilibrium among college students, but only two of these were in disequilibrium in the 1000 Genomes sample. These loci were found to be associated with mathematical abilities, executive functions, motivation, and adjustment-related behaviors such as alcohol use and emotion recognition." – via … somebody … can't remember who. sorry!
Genes and Smarts – from the derb.
Why Bacteria Commit Suicide – "[I]nfected individuals self-destructed before they could spread the virus to others."
Evolution via Roadkill – "Cliff swallows that build nests that dangle precariously from highway overpasses have a lower chance of becoming roadkill than in years past thanks to a shorter wingspan that lets them dodge oncoming traffic. That's the conclusion of a new study based on 3 decades of data collected on one population of the birds. The results suggest that shorter wingspan has been selected for over this time period because of the evolutionary pressure put on the population by cars."
'Out of Africa' Story Being Rewritten Again – "Our early human ancestors may have left Africa more recently than thought, between 62,000 and 95,000 years ago, suggests a new analysis of genetic material from fossil skeletons." – see also Mitochondrial DNA tree calibrated with ancient DNA @race/history/evolution notes and Revised timescale of human mtDNA evolution from dienekes.
How Social Darwinism Made Modern China – "A thousand years of meritocracy shaped the Middle Kingdom." – good stuff from ron unz. see also the derb and peter frost and anatoly.
Does the Clark-Unz model apply to Japan and Korea? – from peter frost.
Did evolution give us inflammatory disease? – "[S]ome variants in our genes that could put a person at risk for inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease or rheumatoid arthritis, have been the target of natural selection over the course of human history." – original research article.
Genes may be reason some kids are picky about food – "The study looked at 66 pairs of twins between ages 4 and 7 years old, and found that genes explain 72 percent of the variation among children in the tendency to avoid new foods, while the rest was influenced by environment."
A Tale of Three Maps – from jayman.
Dan Freedman's babies and National Character – from greg cochran @west hunter (buy the e-book!).
HVGIQ: The Bahamas – from jason malloy.
The Personality of Tribalism – from staffan.
Remembering Stephen Jay Gould: Bully and Boob – from steve sailer.
Depicting reality or escaping from it? – the awesome epigone asks a good question/makes a good point about something in steven pinker's Better Angels.
Assortative mating and shared life history strategy – from mr. mangan.
Uh-Oh… – malcolm pollack on why there's not so much "diversity" in silicon valley: "It's because Silicon Valley … *is* a meritocracy — you just can't fake being good at writing code, solving complex engineering problems, or designing high-tech gadgetry…."
Was inbreeding common among early humans? 100,000-year-old deformed skull adds evidence to theory of 'very small' communities – "The discovery adds to growing evidence that early humans inbred often" – prolly because populations were small. see also Abnormalities in Pleistocene Homo from dienekes.
Moral Matter – the neuroscience of morality.
Crime and punishment: From the neuroscience of freewill to legal reform
Men programmed to avoid sex with best friends' wives: study – "Researchers suggest guys may have a biological predisposition against hitting on their best friends' partners…. A University of Missouri study has found that adult males' testosterone levels dropped when they were interacting with the marital partner of a close friend."
Downton Abbey: Earl of Grantham maximizes inclusive fitness – @occam's razor.
Experts Say Food May Contribute To Anger, Violent Behavior – "Pace and other nutritionists say if you eat plenty of fish, eggs, beans, fruits and green leafy vegetables, you should have the nutrients you need. However, people who tend to eat a diet loaded with processed or packaged foods could find themselves more easily irritated."
Women abused as children likelier to bear autistic child
One of Us – animals are people, too.
Text mining uncovers British reserve and US emotion – "An analysis of the digitized texts of English-language books over the past century concludes that, since the 1980s, words that carry emotional content have become significantly more common in US books than in British ones."
Evolution and Existentialism, an Intellectual Odd Couple – "On the basis of evolutionary existentialism, I would therefore like to suggest the heretical and admittedly paradoxical notion that, in fact, we need to teach more disobedience. Not only disobedience to political and social authority but especially disobedience to some of our troublesome genetic inclinations." – hmmmm….
Forbidden City – "The left-wing stranglehold on academia."
bonus: Life found deep under the sea – "Oceanic-crust microbes survive on hydrogen and carbon dioxide." in other microbial news: Mariana Trench: Deepest ocean 'teems with microbes' – "The deepest place in the ocean is teeming with microscopic life, a study suggests."
bonus bonus: Palestinian Mother Speaks Out About Daughter's Honor Killing – "[H]onor killing defendants [are] usually given light sentences. Three years in prison was the stiffest in these cases. Life sentences or execution were never a consideration…. Offenders receive reduced sentences pursuant to Article 18 of Penal Code no. 74 of 1936, which is entitled 'Necessity.' The article provides for 'leniency in punishment for crimes that offenders have committed in order to avert consequences, which could cause irreparable damage to their honor, money, or the honor of those such offenders are obliged to protect.'"
bonus bonus bonus: The Hate List – "[T]he [$]PLC's site explains that it counts counted '1,007 active hate groups in the United States in 2012,' including 'organizations and their chapters.' But 'The Year in Hate and Extremism' did not make the 'chapter' distinction explicit. It is rarely drawn out in the organization's frequent media appearances, nor was it mentioned in a letter from the SPLC to the Justice Department warning of the growing threat." – see also What's hate got to do with it? @bad data, bad!
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Try these fun, delicious Asian beef lettuce wraps for a fresh and healthy twist on your usual menu!
Apart from being a shrill, shouting TV chef, Gordon Ramsay has long been a big influence in my cooking. The softer side of him is evident in many of his Britain based shows. In my new favorite, Ultimate Cookery Course, he highlights his love of simple, flavorful ingredients and the amazing meals they make. Watching it makes me want to gnaw my arm off, but hey, it's a good way to get inspired!
In a recent episode, he stirred up some Asian beef lettuce wraps that got both me and the mister drooling! They were sweet and spicy, fresh and tangy, and just what we needed to balance all the comfort food I've been cooking up.
Here's what ya gotta do… Into a sizzling hot pan, toss in bell peppers and onions, add in the beef and get it nice and browned. Slip in a scrumptious combination of garlic, soy, hoisin and chili sauces, rice wine vinegar and fragrant fresh ginger.
The aroma is amazing! Commence arm gnawing.
Pile it high in a big bowl and plop it in the center of a bunch of crisp lettuce leaves. Serve it with a bowl of your favorite rice and you have yourself a mouthwatering dinner… and leftovers for lunch! These lettuce wraps make for a delicious way to switch up a mundane menu and inspire you to cook with simple yet exotic flavors!
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Asian Beef Lettuce Wraps
Yield: Serves 4 (3 wraps each)
12 leaves lettuce (iceberg, romaine, Boston or green leaf)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced
1 yellow onion, diced
1 lb. ground beef
1/4 tsp. each salt and pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
1-2 Tbsp. chili sauce (such as Sambal Oelek*)
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
1/2 Tablespoon honey
4 green onions, chopped
Gently rinse lettuce leaves and pat dry, careful not to tear them. Set aside.
In a large nonstick skillet, heat oil over high heat. Add bell pepper and onion, cook 3 minutes. Add ground beef and cook 5 minutes, breaking up with a wooden spoon. Drain grease and return pan to stovetop; reduce heat to medium. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in garlic, soy sauce, hoisin and chili sauces, ginger, rice wine vinegar and honey. Cook until sauce has thickened, 3-4 minutes. Stir in green onions.
Spoon meat mixture into a medium bowl and place on a large serving platter. Arrange lettuce leaves around the bowl and serve.
* This is a thick red paste with medium-high spice, made from red chilies, vinegar and salt. It can be found in the Asian or ethnic sections of most grocery stores.
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Herb Popovers with Buttery Eggs
This is a beautiful breakfast which is quick to make. Delicious, hearty and elegant.
For the Herb Popovers:
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp celery salt
2 large eggs
1 cup milk
1 Tbsp butter, melted
2 Tbsp fresh herbs such as chervil, parsley, chives, tarragon
For the buttery eggs:
1/4 cup butter
6 large eggs, beaten
2 Tbsp fresh herbs such as chervil, parsley, chives, tarragon
2 Tbsp half and half (or heavy cream)
salt and pepper to taste
Herbs for decoration (optional)
Nutritional information
No nutrition information available
To make the popovers...generously grease a 12-cup muffin pan. Sift flour and celery salt into a large bowl. Add eggs, milk and butter and beat well. Stir in mixed herbs. Pour mixture into oven, set temperature to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) and bake for 30 minutes without opening the door.
To make the eggs...melt butter in a small saucepan. Add eggs and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened. Remove from heat and stir in mixed herbs and half and half (or heavy cream if using). Season with salt and pepper. Serve each person 2 popovers with a mound of buttered eggs. Garnish plate with some left over herbs (optional).


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Known to be the world's largest private-car collection, the LeMay Collection consists of more than 2,300 vehicles. About 500 from Harold LeMay's original collection will be housed in the LeMay--America's Car Museum.
After 10 years in development, America's Car Museum broke ground in Tacoma, Wash., on June 10.
Anticipated to be the largest automotive museum in North America, it will display more than the cars of the LeMay family. America's Car Museum will also feature interactive exhibits, an education and restoration exhibit, stores and restaurants.
The museum will also include storage for 1,000 cars, enabling private collectors to store and show their vehicles.
The $60 million project is expected to bring an estimated 425,000 visitors annually to Tacoma.
The grand opening of the LeMay--America's Car Museum is set for summer 2011. In the meantime, visitors can take a tour of the current LeMay Museum at Marymount.
For more information, visit www.lemaymuseum.org.


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Kent State to Offer Nation's First Master of Fashion Degree
Kent State University's Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising (the Fashion School) is now offering a Master of Fashion (MFash) degree program. Launching in fall 2014, the program is designed for highly creative and motivated fashion industry professionals who wish to conduct intensive practitioner-based research. The Fashion School at Kent State is the first school anywhere in the United States to offer a Master of Fashion degree.
The Master of Fashion is a 30-credit professional degree program designed to enable students with specialized interests to pursue advanced studies. These areas of study complement the traditional elements of the fashion curriculum, allowing students to customize a cross-disciplinary course of study with a high level of specialization.
"We think of this program as the future of the fashion industry in practice," said Kent State's Fashion School Director J.R. Campbell. "The unique Master of Fashion degree program is positioned to engage with the broad range of resources we support through the school, such as our TechStyleLAB, Fashion School Store and study away locations worldwide."
The program approaches advanced fashion practice from a number of different perspectives, including technology implementation, management, design, sustainability and product development. Unlike M.A., M.B.A. and M.Des. degree programs, which engage with specific areas of the fashion world, the MFash degree is based in the comprehensive context of today's fashion practitioners.
"Rather than compartmentalizing aspects of fashion practice into 'art' and 'business,' the MFash program explores fashion as an aggregate phenomenon," said Catherine Leslie, graduate studies coordinator for Kent State's Fashion School. "The coursework is theoretically rich, but it's also commerce-based. We think of the industry as an extension of the classroom."
"The degree has more industry context than an M.F.A., as well as a research and thesis component that may not be present in the M.B.A. approach," Campbell explained. "The MFash positions graduates to fulfill hybridized roles competitively with applicants who have several years of industry experience. Our graduates will be able to approach the industry creatively and drive innovation."
The MFash is designed to prepare graduates who are ideally suited to meet the demands of today's rapidly evolving fashion world. New technology has resulted in unprecedented job opportunities, and companies are thinking differently about the way they hire.
The MFash also addresses emerging entrepreneurial trends toward small- to medium-sized businesses that manufacture locally or within the United States. Through the integrated use of new technologies, the curriculum will support a greater diversity of employment opportunities connected to the broader fashion universe.
"We are excited to add graduate education alongside the Fashion School's already superb undergraduate programs," said John R. Crawford, dean of Kent State's College of the Arts.
Funded graduate assistantships will be available as part of a comprehensive recruitment package. The MFash program is accepting applications to enroll beginning in fall 2014. For more information, visit www.fashionschool.kent.edu or contact Leslie at firstname.lastname@example.com 330-672-0169.
To watch a video of Campbell discussing the new Master of Fashion degree program, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2p2pLe_jKI&feature=youtu.be.
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A student in Kent State University's Fashion School stands in Rockwell Hall, home of the Fashion School. Kent State is launching the nation's first Master of Fashion degree program in fall 2014.
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Waking up at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge can produce early morning dialogue that wouldn't be out of place in any one of "The Hangover" movies.
"Is that a reticulated giraffe outside our hotel window?
"I don't know, but where did that white-bearded wildebeest come from?"
Unlike some Vegas bachelor parties, there is no forgetting the sights and sounds at perhaps the most original—and easily the most exotic—of all of Disney's high-end resort properties.
In the years prior to its April 2001 opening, Disney sent teams to more than 20 African lodges in order to bring some of that flavor back to Lake Buena Vista. The result is a 74-acre resort—including a 45-acre "savanna" with nearly 200 mammals and birds—that replicates the African experience in more ways than one.
The wildlife, viewable from many of the rooms and also from specified areas throughout resort, freely roams the savanna—but don't worry, a perimeter fence keeps them from wandering onto a first-floor balcony. You'll find everything from impalas and kudu to zebras and gazelles.
This is Disney at its most exorbitant—with room prices to match. The resort is divided into two sections—Kidani Village and Jambo House, which hosts the major restaurants. A standard room with one king bed and a savanna view (based on June 2013 pricing) is nearly $500 per night.
For those with larger families and the means to handle the tab, check out the deluxe two-bedroom villas, which go for $1,800 per night in June and can sleep eight. The dark woods, African artifacts and stunning attention to interior detail throughout the property may be Disney's finest hour when it comes to decor and design.
The deluxe rooms also open up a world within a world—the Kilimanjaro Club. Guests in one of the 74 club-level rooms can access the sixth-floor concierge lounge, which keeps the food and beverages flowing all day and into the evening—think breakfast treats, appetizers, wines and cordials, desserts and fresh fruits.
As an added bonus, club-level guests are the only ones who can experience (for another $170 per person) a guided sunset safari tour—inside the animal reserve—that ends with dinner at Jiko, the featured fine dining experience. Jiko's menu, filled with global cuisine, changes each season. At Sanaa, another outstanding sit-down eatery that overlooks the "savanna," menu favorites (think slow-cooked meats and creative vegetarian offerings) combine East African cuisine with Indian flourishes.
Families also will enjoy Boma, a 270-seat buffet-style "marketplace" restaurant that rotates some 60 mostly regional offerings—from Côte d'Ivoire seafood gumbo to bobotie (a South African dish of spiced minced meat) to Durban-style roasted chicken. There are enough recognizable dishes to keep any fussy eaters happy, but more adventurous diners will have a field day sampling the many exquisite dishes.
Though many visitors to Disney's theme parks use their hotels as a pit stop between tram rides, Animal Kingdom Lodge gives its guest plenty of reason to kick back and enjoy the resort. Both the Uzima pool (all 11,000 square feet of it) at Jambo House and Samawati Springs pool at Kidani Village feature mega slides. Each section of the resort also houses state-of-the-art exercise centers (the Jambo House version also includes massage and spa treatments).
As one would expect, buses run from early morning to 2 a.m., transporting hotel guests back and forth from Disney's theme and water parks.
A few nights at the Lodge and, trust us, you'll never want to get out of Africa.
Where: 2901 Osceola Parkway, Lake Buena Vista
Reservations: 407/939-7429
Room rates: Starting at $314
Website: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/resorts/animal-kingdom-lodge/


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About 1,000 runners will kick off the Dublin Irish Festival with an Aug. 1 5K.
About 1,000 runners will kick off the Dublin Irish Festival with an Aug. 1 5K.
The IGS Energy/Dublin Irish Festival 5K will mark the beginning of the multi-day festival celebrating all things Irish in Coffman Park Aug. 2-4.
The running tradition that starts the DIF at 7 p.m. the Thursday before the festival officially opens lets runners don some green, get a little exercise and spend an evening in Historic Dublin.
"It's a nice kickoff to the weekend," said Sara O'Malley, Dublin events assistant.
The race usually draws 800 to 900 runners, and 1,090 showed up last year, O'Malley said.
The event shuts down Historic Dublin streets, something that doesn't occur very often.
"We really cut back on shutting down High Street in Historic Dublin," Events Manager Alison LeRoy said.
The Kids Dash will return to the event for the second year.
"Last year we had about 60 kids," said Trish Lackey, events administrator for Dublin.
"We already have about 100 registered this year."
The Kids Dash takes young runners a quarter of a mile through Historic Dublin at 6:45 p.m. Aug. 1.
"(Columbus Blue Jackets mascot) Stinger comes out and does calisthenics with the kids," Lackey said.
At the run, children can also make signs to support 5K runners in a craft tent.
"It's a fun event because kids in the dash or not in the dash can color a sign for their mom or dad running in the race," O'Malley said.
DIF Honorary Chairman Frank Slavic and pipers will kick off the 5K. The DubCrawl will follow it.
"Businesses are open and there's music playing," O'Malley said.
From 5 p.m. to midnight, the DubCrawl will run with specials and live music.
Vinegar Hill is slated to play from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. at Ha'penny Bridge Imports of Ireland; Capital City Pipes & Drums will perform at the 5K start and finish line from 6:30 to 7 p.m.; and the Dublin Cornet Band will play in the BriHi Square Plaza from 6:45 to 9 p.m.
Also slated to perform are The Kells from 7:45 to 8:45 p.m. in the Frog Park and Brigid's Cross from 8 to 11 p.m. at Brazenhead.
Registration for the DIF 5K for adults is $30 before July 27 and $35 after. Registration for runners 18 and younger is $25.
The Kids Dash for ages 12 and younger is $5.
Packets can be picked up before the Aug. 1 race at Columbus Running Co. locations or onsite beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot behind 27 N. High Street.
For registration or more information, look online at dublinirishfestival.org.


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Muhammad Speaks
Classical Islam: A History 600 A.D.-1258 A.D.
The Cambridge History of Islam, Volume I: The Central Islamic Lands, Volume II: The Further Islamic Lands; Islamic Society and Civilization
A History of Islamic Philosophy
The Fihrist of al-Nadim: A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture
Arabic and Persian Poems
There is always something spectacular about the rise of a new religion—the suddenness, in historical terms, with which a new faith, preached by one man to a handful of followers, spreads over a vast area, sweeping along with it whole peoples and often conferring on its first adherents wealth and power beyond their dreams and ambitions. Perhaps none has been so spectacular as the rise of Islam.
At first sight the geographical source looks unpromising—a backwater of civilization even in the seventh century A.D. Arabia was then as now a largely desert area—natura maligna, to use Irfan Shahid's phrase—thinly populated by a mainly nomadic people, organized on tribal lines that would seem effectively to prevent any mass movement under a centralized administration. This picture is not however complete; the southwestern corner of the peninsula was an important source of spices, frankincense and myrrh, and other products, and the trade routes from Yemen, as well as from Ethiopia on the other side of the Red Sea, passed along the narrow Hijaz coast on their way to the prosperous lands of Syria, Asia Minor, and Persia. The city of Mecca naturally became a breeding ground not merely for material wealth but also for religious, political, and social ideas of all kinds, brought there by merchants and travelers from all over the Middle Eastern world.
In this ferment of Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, and pagan ideas was born and raised the young Muhammad. Orphaned as a child, he was brought up by his uncle, a prominent member of the dominant Meccan family, and in due course married a wealthy widow some years older than himself. So far there had been little to mark him out from his contemporaries, though we may be sure that the contacts he made on business trips to Syria and elsewhere as his wife's agent set him thinking about many matters over and above his commerical interests.
He was already forty when in 610 (Professor von Grunebaum questions this traditional date, as also the date of Muhammad's birth, but does not give any reasons for his doubts) he began to see visions and to receive revelations which to him, and increasingly to his family, friends, and fellow townsmen, were nothing less than the Divine Word conveyed to him as the chosen messenger of God to His people. The claim is an immense one, accepted now by millions of Muslims throughout the world, rejected by non-Muslims; but neither point of view requires us to ignore either the personality of the Prophet or the social and economic environment that molded it. As Professor Montgomery Watt percipiently remarks, "For him religion was the total response of his personality to the total situation in which he found himself."
The events of the next twenty years—the steady flow of new revelations (later collected into the book known as the Koran), the opposition of the Meccan politicians, Muhammad's flight to the town of Yathrib or Medina in 622 A.D. (the Hijra or Migration, from which…
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2010 Bonneville Speed Week - Racing On The Moon
The 62nd Annual Bonneville Speed Week From A Newbie's Point Of View
Land Speed Racing, specifically on the Bonneville Salt Flats, is Freiburger territory when it comes to coverage in HRM. He's made the trek from California to Nevada religiously, while practically memorizing the Southern California Timing Association rule book in an endless search for new classes to compete in. Show him a photo of almost any LSR car and he'll tell you what's under the hood and how fast it's been. In short, the guy lives for this sport and its most iconic annual event, Speed Week, but had other corporate commitments this year and had to send me to cover it for HOT ROD.
An admission of guilt: Before last week, I'd never been to Bonneville and never really paid much attention to land speed racing. I had read about it in magazines, sure, but the premise of the sport seemed so far-fetched and unattainable that I never entertained the thought of attending an event, let alone racing at one. A single day spent roaming the snow-white salt as cars, trucks, and motorcycles ripped by at blinding speeds, plus inhaling the sweet fumes of exhausted race fuel and chatting with the most gracious group of volunteers and fans I've ever met, changed all that. I spent four more days meeting as many racers as possible and soaking up the atmosphere, feeling blessed for the opportunity. I've got the fever now.
The salt crunches softly beneath your sandals at Bonneville, and were it not for the mountains surrounding the venue, the place would look like a playground for lunar rovers, not race cars. Some of the vehicles look like they belong in a science fiction flick and not on a race course, but that's part of the appeal. Somehow each of them fits into this scene. The fenderless lakesters, dart-shaped streamliners, chopped coupes, and roadsters modified until their origins are unrecognizable all have a home at this track and within this family of racers, who inject all their being into creating machines that punish the salt and give an aerodynamic middle finger to the wind. And what is the payoff for all the hard work, ingenuity, luck, and money required to set a record here? A trophy and the respect and admiration of their peers, for there are no monetary rewards for excelling in this racing discipline.
From the outside looking in, this is a sport for madmen, a dangerous and unnecessary exploitation of automotive machinery in a place where Mother Nature surely had different intentions. Once you're sucked in, though, it makes just as much sense to bolt a turbocharger onto a Suzuki compact car and charge toward greatness for miles at triple-digit speeds on this hallowed ground as it does to swap an LS engine into a first-gen Camaro and blast down a suburban quarter-mile dragstrip. The danger of spinning or barrel-rolling helplessly across a racecourse without man-made barriers is ever present, but everyone here believes the pursuit of mind-blowing speed far outweighs the consequences that come with too little downforce and too much horsepower. Like all motorsports, this one generates unbelievable stories of mountainous highs and subterranean lows. Here are a few of my favorite moments from Speed Week 2010.
200 MPH Club Stories
The Bonneville 200 MPH Club is a beast because it's very difficult to get into. Not only do you have to run in excess of 200 mph to be eligible for it, but you don't get the coveted red hat unless you break an existing record at Bonneville at the same time, and you must also meet the mph minimum that is established by the club; sometimes the existing record is the minimum, sometimes it's higher. Consequently, land speed racing is chock-full of stories about racers who tried and failed to get their hat. Of the 487 vehicles competing at this event, only 22 drivers got into the club and only two more got into the vaunted 300 MPH Club. Mike Manghelli (shown here in the White Goose Bar) tunes the White Goose Bar '80 VW pickup now, but it took a decade full of crashes and several other car builds before he joined the club. He crashed in 1994 at 258 mph in a big-block-powered lakester during a qualifying pass that was faster than the existing record. Mike broke his humerus, elbow, and hand and then wasn't able to back up his run due to the accident. He spent the next nine years helping others get into the club in various cars, including Mike Cook's Alfa Romeo. In 2003, he was finally in the right car at the right time and scored his red hat with a 232-mph run in the Wilson Waters highboy.


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This message preached at Foothills Community Church on September 14, 2014 was part 2 of a 4 part series entitled, "The Movement: Beyond the Blue Chair." a series of messages to encourage people to move from being a passive worshipper to a fully committed follower of Jesus.
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Frieri can't seal Weaver's win as Angels fall to Nats
Closer charged with all four Washington runs in ninth in defeat
WASHINGTON -- Most of the Angels were in dress shirts and slacks, finishing their meals or packing their bags as clubhouse attendants dashed through the visiting clubhouse at Nationals Park, cleaning spikes, loading bags and collecting tips late into Wednesday night.
Tucked away in a corner, head down, staring into his locker and still in full uniform, sat Ernesto Frieri, a half-hour removed from the meltdown that evaporated a three-run lead and prevented a three-game sweep.
"Today," the Angels' closer said later, "it was a mess."
Frieri had given up his fifth home run in 10 appearances, courtesy of a leadoff shot by Jose Lobaton, blown his second save on a game-tying two-run double by Jayson Werth, and watched as Fernando Salas surrendered the walk-off single to Adam LaRoche that handed the Angels a bitter, 5-4 defeat.
Frieri's ERA is now 9.35 through 8 2/3 innings -- but Angels manager Mike Scioscia is not pondering a change at closer.
At least not yet.
"It's in him," Scioscia said of Frieri. "We just need to get him a little more consistent."
Frieri gave up back-to-back ninth-inning homers on April 2, blew a one-run lead by giving up a two-run, ninth-inning homer to A's catcher John Jaso on April 14, and gave up a leadoff homer to the Nationals' Ian Desmond on Monday night, just before recording the next three outs to maintain a two-run lead and lock down the save.
On Wednesday, with the Angels three outs away from their first sweep in the nation's capital since 1962, and their first winning record since Opening Day 2013, Frieri could do nothing right.
"It [stinks], because we're playing really good baseball," he said. "I'm mad at myself, because I keep missing pitches, and if I keep doing that, I'm going to keep getting hurt like that. I don't know, man. I'm fighting, I'm trying to get better. But if I don't make my pitch, I'm going to get hurt."
Jered Weaver pitched six innings of one-run ball for the second straight time, lowering his ERA from 5.79 to 4.11 in that span. And Mike Trout turned in a couple of key plays against Bryce Harper, taking away at least one RBI from the Nationals' phenom with a diving catch in the first, then beating Harper's throw home while scoring all the way from first on Albert Pujols' double in the sixth.
Erick Aybar then added an RBI single, David Freese scored on a wild pitch, Trout drove in a ninth-inning run, and Michael Kohn and Joe Smith locked it down in the seventh and eighth, paving the way for Frieri to record the final three outs.
On 0-2, Lobaton roped a down-the-middle fastball over the right-field fence to cut the Nats' deficit to two.
After a strikeout of pinch-hitter Zach Walters, Denard Span got a chest-high, 1-2 fastball and smoked a base hit up the middle.
On 3-2, Frieri just missed with a fastball outside, walking Anthony Rendon to put two on with one out for Werth.
Frieri missed badly with the first three fastballs, then grooved one right down the middle on 3-0, and Werth lined it down the left-field line, watched it ricochet off the fence in left field, and motored to second as the two tying runs crossed home plate.
Frieri wasn't surprised Werth took a hack on 3-0.
"I knew that he was going to swing," Frieri said. "He's a power guy. You have to try to keep the ball down, but I still missed, right down the middle."
"It's one of those situations where if you hit into a double play right there, it's probably the worst play you have ever seen," Werth said. "If you get a hit, it's the best. I'm glad it worked out."
Frieri could only watch as Salas came out of the bullpen and fired the first-pitch fastball to LaRoche that landed in shallow left-center field and ended the game. And afterward, Weaver could only stew.
"I'll have five days," Weaver said. "That's what [stinks] about being a starting pitcher. You can't come back the next day and redeem yourself and pick up that win. It'll be a tough one for five days, but I'll go back out there and keep battling and keep competing like I do. Hopefully, the chips fall in place."
The Angels boarded a late-night train from Union Station in Washington to Penn Station in New York, where they'll enjoy an off-day on Thursday before starting a three-game weekend series against the Yankees to finish off a three-city road trip.
And during that time, Scioscia will ponder the ninth inning, and perhaps chalk up recent history.
Last year, when Frieri gave up 12 runs in a 4 2/3-inning stretch that spanned from July 23 to Aug. 6, Scioscia changed it up in the ninth, put Frieri in less stressful situations, reinserted him later, and watched as he posted a 1.66 ERA in 19 outings the rest of the way.
History may repeat itself soon.
"I can't control the manager's decision," Frieri said. "I'm struggling right now. I'm honest. Everybody knows that. It's not just about the closer's role. It's about doing my job, going out there and competing and helping the team win some games. Like I said, I'm going to keep working, I'm going to keep getting better. If they give me the chance to go out there and compete, I'm going to try to do my best. But I won't quit."


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Recent Debian blog entries with this title (by Lucas Nussbaum, Matt Palmer) point out assortedly that:
- Existing developers frequently know the code base so much better than newcomers that they're likely way more effective at improving things than some callow newcomer.
- Taking those developers' time to do your pet thing instead of something they find useful mayn't be more effective.
Both points are quite valid, and recent PostgreSQL CommitFest activity suggests a way to at least try to evaluate things.
The PostgreSQL project has a number of committers that are unusually productive developers (-1 from me, Tom? :-)), and there have certainly been times when the "best" outcome has been for someone to come in suggesting ideas, and for one of the notably productive folk to implement it.
But there has been some debate surrounding the 2011-01 CommitFest, which consists of some 98 proposed patches, all of which require review. These are all, in fact, patches that came as some sort of response to Please send a patch :-). The trouble with this particular CommitFest is that the patches have been overwhelming the reviewers in terms of sheer volume. Developers that should be considering working on their own "pet features" have been drawn into the review process to look at others' features instead. None of these results are inherently a bad thing, except for the aggregate that falls out, which is that there's so much stuff outstanding that it's tough to get them all properly reviewed.
If a project is busy and vital, it's pretty necessary for people to do a fair bit of "scratching their own itches" (in keeping with Matt Palmer's comment) in order to grow the community of people capable of giving real assistance to managing the code base.
"Growing community" requires that some people struggle with the code base a bit so that they become familiar enough to become effective in the future.


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Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, who is running for mayor of San Diego, has received national publicity for his decision to leave the Republican Party and re-register as independent. He's also come under criticism.
Jon Fleischman, the Republican Party operative who publishes the conservative site Flashreport.org, posted the text of Fletcher's speech seeking the endorsement of the Republican Party in San Diego -- a speech given 17 days before the assemblyman and mayoral candidate left the party.
I was struck by how partisan the speech was. It began: "Thank you for having me. I've been a Republican my entire life, which is telling because I came out of a Democratic household." And it included boasts about his opposition to taxes and his work pressuring Republicans to toe the party line.
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Fletcher also described the party as a team of which he was proud to be a member.
"I was the political director of the California Republican Party, where we gave more money and support to our grassroots causes and our county parties than at any point in our history, because I believe in that effort. I traveled around the country teaching youth outreach and voter registration at the request of the National Party. Then I went abroad to promote our principles and ideas in East Timor and Cambodia and Serbia. And time and again I've demonstrated commitment to our cause as a team player."
But what's most striking was a passage at the end, where he asked for the endorsement -- and suggested he would love to be on the GOP's team even if the party didn't issue an endorsement.
"If this party chooses to endorse, I'd be honored to be your endorsed candidate. If you choose not to endorse, I'll be honored to join our team either as a member or as a nominee for mayor after the primary as we defeat Bob Filner and as we get our city back on track."
Of course, Fletcher didn't get the endorsement. And the party chose to endorse -- someone else. Some Republicans are reading Fletcher's original speech as deceptive, given that he left the party and didn't remain on the team. At the same time, this speech could also be read as a warning -- since he didn't say what he would do if someone else got the endorsement.
I'm not a big fan of political loyalty; political leadership often requires betrayal of one's strongest backers. And Republicans have done themselves no favors with a scorched-earth approach to their own party members who challenge party orthodoxy. But giving a speech like that and leaving the party a little more than two weeks later? That's chutzpah. And Republicans are right, in this case, to be a little angry.
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A friend's mother used to have one of those tacky plates expressing homilies hanging up on her kitchen wall. Hers read, "Lord, if you can't make me thin, please make all my friends fat." There's a sort of religious fanatic's wish fulfilling fantasy expressed in that message, namely: "I don't want to be happy, but others to be more miserable." Only, it doesn't quite get the desire for power correct; more accurately, it should've read, "make my friends fatter than me." Peter Parker would've hardly captured the dork imagination had he only been given the strength of his high school arch-nemesis, Flash Thompson. No, he needed to become vastly superior. A thought experiment regarding this fantasized superiority complex comes by way of Fernando Meirelles' film adaptation of Nobel-laureate Jose Saramago's novel, Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (An Essay On Blindness). I haven't read the book (too busy with comics), but it sounds pretty close to the film's.
The story takes place in the not-too-distant future in an unnamed city where an epidemic of "white blindness" breaks out. The afflicted characters describe the blindness as swimming through milk, and the grey shapes fading into a white fog digitally created for the camera eye reinforce this description. A more allegorically rich name for the film might've been The Ganzfeld ("whole field"), since the affliction bears a close resemblance to the old gestalt effect of creating a sort of snowblindness with a homogeneous distribution of light across the retina. The ganzfeld parallels the redistribution of power relations among the blind and the seeing within the story. As it were, "seeing the light" no longer has any beneficial effects for the sighted (just as belief in a god has no real moral benefits for the religious, if the millennia-old Christian support for torture is any indication).Continue Reading


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While writing an article for Fox News Latino about Rapimoto, I had the opportunity to interview the owner of the company, Bernardo Bravo. Our E-mails went back and forth a few times and Bernardo mentioned to me that he had another company where he sells "cosas muy curiosas" – so I clicked over to see what these curious things might be.
While I found a lot of fun, interesting things, the Futbolín Humano definitely got my attention. In English we know the game as Foosball or Table Football/Soccer. Carlos calls it Fútbolito, but some countries call it Futbolín. Chile seems to prefer the term "Taca Taca" for the game. Whatever you call it, the game takes on new fun when you become part of it as you do in the version called "Futbolín Humano" (Human Foosball or Taca Taca Humano.)
Here's regular Futbolín:
And here's Futbolín Humano:
Love this version with school children. Wish we had these built on playgrounds in the United States:


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GIS-integrated asset management software helps city cut costs, improve service quality
VUEWorks, Inc. has announced that the city of Burnsville, Minn., has adopted its VUEWorks software for Web-enabled, GIS-integrated work order and asset management. Burnsville, population 63,000, is using VUEWorks for real-time data collection, tracking and maintenance of its sanitary and storm sewer assets. The city's ultimate goal is to manage all physical assets with VUEWorks, including streets, parks and natural resources. Ruekert-Mielke, Inc. of Waukesha, Wis., is providing consulting and Web-hosting services for VUEWorks and ESRI's ArcIMS software application.
Burnsville is an ideal client for our firm," said Thomas Tym, Ruekert-Mielke principal/senior project manager. "The City wanted the benefits of VUEWorks, but also wanted to minimize hardware and software expenses, and staff resources. Utilizing our hosting services, Burnsville can focus their efforts on inputting and managing data, leaving the management of file servers, software installations and configurations, file backups and data protection in the hands of a service provider with proven experience and longevity."
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Assert Statements Shine Light Into Dark Corners
Last week, I introduced the notion of an invariant. Invariants are an unusual concept because our programs usually do not check them. Instead, invariants are intellectual tools that programmers use to think about how their programs work. We continue by exploring the consequences of checking that invariants actually hold when they should — a state of affairs that in principle should always be true.
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We used as an example last week a
v, with elements that we assume are sorted. We explained that because the elements were sorted, we could use a binary-search algorithm to find values in the
vector, and in exchange for that convenience, we had to ensure that the elements actually were sorted whenever we were done working with them.
What we didn't talk about was what happens if the
vector somehow winds up getting out of sequence, and how to detect that it has done so. If our code is written correctly, that should never happen — which, of course, is why we feel free about writing code in the first place that assumes that the
vector is in sequence. However, precisely because we believe such conditions should never happen, we tend not to think about that possibility. As a result, when invariants do turn out to be false during program execution, the result often appears as a failure in what looks at first like an unrelated part of the program. We call such a situation an invariant failure; such failures can be very hard to trace.
Among the easiest ways to avoid invariant failures is to use
assert statements to detect them. Technically speaking, the
assert statement in C++ is a preprocessor macro, not a statement, but it behaves similarly to a statement. It takes the form
and either tests the expression or does nothing, depending on whether the preprocessor macro
NDEBUG is defined at the point in the program that contains the
assert. If
NDEBUG is not set, the expression is tested; if the test yields false (i.e., zero), the entire program is terminated.
The idea, then, is that the
NDEBUG macro is used to turn off "debugging mode," and if a program is compiled in debugging mode, encountering an
assert statement verifies that the expression given as its argument is true. So, for example, we can write a statement such as
before we try to use a binary-search algorithm on
v. If the program is compiled in debugging mode, the
assert will call
is_sorted, which can check whether
v is actually sorted. If, on the other hand, the program is compiled in production mode, the entire
assert statement does nothing.
is_sorted in this way is a good example of why
assert is useful. We do not want to call
is_sorted every time we use
v, because if we could afford to do so, we could probably also have chosen algorithms that do not require
v to be sorted at all. On the other hand, being able to turn on debug mode and have
is_sorted called for us is useful: Whenever the program is misbehaving in ways that "can't happen," we can turn on debug mode, recompile the program, and quickly learn whether the problem is an invariant failure.
assert is implemented as a macro, turning on
NDEBUG completely eliminates the code that tests the condition. This behavior has the obvious advantage that there is no overhead attached to using
assert when it is not needed. However, there is a more subtle advantage to using
assert rather than exceptions to handle invariant failure: An invariant failure is a clear sign that the program is broken. If you like, the point of
assert is to handle situations that "can't happen." When such a situation happens anyway, it's hard to say what code that catches an exception might do, because that code might rely on information that is wrong because of the invariant failure.
Despite the foregoing discussion, there is one big disadvantage to using
assert: When an
assert fails, the program terminates. This property of
assert is hard to accommodate in systems that need to keep running. It's unacceptable for a program such as a word processor to terminate with an assertion failure simply because the user happened to do something that triggered a previously undetected bug. And yet the whole reason for using an
assert is to ensure that the program does not quietly continue producing nonsense results because the conditions that it expected to find do not exist.
In effect, by catching invariant failures as they happen,
assert makes programs more likely to produce correct results — if they produce results at all. This behavior leaves unanswered the question of how one deals with the failed invariants. We shall discuss strategies for doing so next time.