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WASHINGTON (AP) — A flurry of data issued Thursday sketched a brightening view of the U.S. economy in the final days before a presidential election that will pivot on the strength of the recovery.
Cheaper gas, rising home prices and lower unemployment have given consumers the confidence to spend more. And retailers, auto dealers and manufacturers are benefiting.
At the same time, many employers remain anxious about the economy, which is why only modest hiring gains are forecast for Friday's jobs report for October. It will be the last major report on the economy before Election Day.
Both presidential candidates pressed their arguments Thursday for why President Barack Obama's economic stewardship should or should not earn him another four-year term. Campaigning in Roanoke, Va., Mitt Romney argued that under Obama, household incomes have fallen behind inflation and poverty has worsened.
Obama, in a speech in Green Bay, Wis., contended that Romney's proposals are the same "top-down policies that crashed our economy." The president said his own economic approach was similar to Bill Clinton's in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy generated tens of millions of jobs and incomes surged.
Friday's jobs report is expected to show that the unemployment rate rose to 7.9 percent in October from 7.8 percent in September. Coming so close to the election, though, the most recent economic figures aren't expected to alter the outcome. Few voters are thought to still be undecided.
"People have given this a lot of thought," said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. "One report, unless it is a real shocker, is unlikely to affect their view of whether Obama has done a good job with the economy or if Romney would do a better job."
This week, Pew released a poll showing that likely voters, by 50 percent to 42 percent, thought Romney would do better at boosting job growth.
Here's what the reports issued Thursday showed about the state of the U.S. economy:
Americans have taken heart from recent declines in the unemployment rate. They appear increasingly confident that the economy can sustain its modest recovery. That's translating into more consumer spending — the fuel of U.S. economic growth — even though businesses have pulled back and exports have slowed.
Consumer confidence jumped last month. The Conference Board index of confidence reached 72.2, its highest since February 2008, two months into the Great Recession.
The index is still below the level of 90 that's consistent with a healthy economy. But it's up from 40.9 a year ago — the sharpest one-year increase since 1994, according to Robert Kavcic, an economist at BMO Capital Markets. And the index is far above its all-time low of 25.3 in February 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis.
Consumers are also spending more at retail stores, a separate report showed Thursday. Sales in stores open at least a year rose 5 percent in October, according to a tally from 21 retail chains by the International Council of Shopping Centers. Some of the increase, though, might reflect higher spending for generators, batteries, water and other supplies in preparation for Superstorm Sandy.
Job growth will likely remain modest. Most companies are reluctant to make major investments in hiring or equipment, economists say.
Economists have forecast that employers added 121,000 jobs last month — too slow a hiring pace to drive down the unemployment rate quickly. The rate has declined in recent months in part because some people have given up looking for work.
Applications for unemployment benefits fell 9,000 to 363,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. That level suggests that hiring is unlikely to pick up much from its current pace of about 150,000 jobs a month.
A report by payroll provider ADP showed that private companies added 158,000 jobs in October, up from 114,000 in September. ADP updated its methodology for the October report. It has frequently diverged sharply from the government's figures.
The U.S. economy expanded at a 2 percent annual pace in the July-September quarter, up from 1.3 percent in the second quarter. Most economists expect growth may slow a bit in the fourth quarter, partly because of disruptions from Superstorm Sandy.
Still, the economy is growing too slowly to bring rapid relief to roughly 12 million out-of-work Americans. With the unemployment rate still high, steady growth of more than 3 percent is generally needed to create a sufficient number of jobs.
Americans are buying more big-ticket items, like cars and appliances. Auto companies reported steady sales gains last month despite losing three days of business to the storm in heavily populated areas of the Northeast.
Toyota said its sales rose nearly 16 percent for the month. Volkswagen reported a 22 percent jump. Honda's sales gained 8.8 percent. Chrysler's sales rose 10 percent, General Motors' 5 percent and Ford's less than 1 percent.
Steady consumer spending is supporting gains in U.S. factory production. That's true even though businesses in the United States and overseas have reduced their demand for high-cost manufactured goods.
The Institute for Supply Management, a private trade group, said its index of factory activity ticked up to 51.7 in October from 51.5, slightly below the average for the past year of 52.2. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.
The ISM said new orders and production rose. The increase came mainly in consumer-oriented industries such as furniture, food and beverages, and computers. Demand for machinery, chemical products, steel and other metals fell.
U.S. businesses have become more cautious in recent months. Some are concerned that Congress will fail to reach a budget deal before January. If lawmakers can't strike an agreement, sharp tax increases and spending cuts will take effect next year and could trigger another recession.
Many American companies are also nervous about the economic outlook overseas. Europe's financial crisis has pushed much of that region into recession and cut into U.S. exports and corporate profits.
In a rare dose of healthy news for the global economy, China's manufacturing improved in October, two business surveys showed Thursday. The world's second-largest economy may be recovering from its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis.
Analysts expect China's growth to strengthen this quarter. But they caution that the rebound will be too weak to drive a global recovery without improvement in the United States and Europe.


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Arguably the most watched red carpet in the world, Sunday's 86th Annual Academy Awards was a whirl of escapist glamour.
Movie stars wafted over the rain-soaked carpet outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood showcasing elaborate evening wear in trend-forward bold colors, exquisite details and timeless silhouettes drawn on a myriad of inspirations.
Gowns came in red, blue and purple. Lupita Nyong'o wore a stunning, slightly sparkly Prada dress in a light blue with a plunging V-neckline and a flowing pleated skirt. The shade of blue, she said, was inspired by her hometown of Nairobi in Kenya.
Presenter Viola Davis wore an asymmetrical Escada gown in her "go-to" emerald green. Amy Adams — who styled herself — wore a strapless Gucci couture in navy blue that captured the bygone 1950s, with turn-back folds at the bust.
A pregnant Kerry Washington was enveloped in orchid. Jennifer Lawrence wore a strapless red Dior dress.
"People like to wear colors, especially if they're nominated,'" says Leslie Fremar, stylist to Charlize Theron who anticipated the bold color trend based on recent data from Ask.com, for which she's also a contributor. "That's the way to help enhance their moment and make them stand out.
"And sometimes black is color on some people," she adds. "It's about skin tone and what works on that person. Sometimes you wear this magnificent black dress and it really stands out on someone who has fair skin, light hair and even dark hair and light eyes. There's a lot of trial and error to find out what's right for that person."
Theron — who tried on one dress, and one dress only — wore a black gown in a simple 1950s silhouette with invisible straps and draped fabric at the back. A pregnant Olivia Wilde also wore a high-necked, sleeveless black Valentino. Julia Roberts wore a black peplum dress with a piece of black lace.
Actresses embraced surface decorations like beads that often cover the entire gown and touches of lace. Some wore sculpted creations full of drama, including Kristin Chenoweth's gold strapless Roberto Cavalli, Cate Blanchett's flowing nude Georgio Armani covered in beads and applique and Naomi Watts' cap-sleeved white Calvin Klein with all-over beading, and a "spider web" Bulgari necklace. Watts carried a little clutch bag with black and white geometric lines added to that special look. Portia de Rossi wore a patterned nude Naeem Khan dress that had cut outs of stars and various other shapes.
Men usually are overlooked on the red carpet, but not this year.
Pharrell Williams' tuxedo shorts weren't the only head turners. Many leading men rocked on the red carpet in white tuxedo jackets, including Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.
Leto came in an old-school shawl collar tuxedo jacket paired with a burgundy bow tie.
"I never really ever wear suits, so it's a fun opportunity to wear an old school classic," he told Ryan Seacrest who wore a similar look by Burberry.
Shawl collars are expected to be a big trend for men this season, says celebrity stylist Jeanne Yang who partnered with Gillette for the Oscars.
"What you're seeing are not the extremes of each decade but rather the most classic, clean, perfect silhouettes," Yang says. "These are pictures that will live forever, so you don't want to take any crazy fashion risks. People want to have something they know will look amazing and that they'll feel comfortable with."
How influential is the red carpet on fashion?
Tremendously, Fremar says.
"From working with Ask.com, it's been amazing to see what happens at home when people are watching it on TV, and how women are following these trends or loving what they see," she says. "It's so exciting for me to see that reaction from people. You're reaching a really huge audience."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Marian Gaborik scored twice in the first period and then completed his hat trick 27 seconds into overtime as the New York Rangers overcame a pair of blown leads and beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Wednesday night for their first win of the season.
Gaborik broke free and outraced Andrew Ference and Johnny Boychuk down the ice. His first shot was blocked by goalie Tuukka Rask, but Gaborik batted the rebound out of the air to end the game and start a cascade of flying hats onto the ice to celebrate his 14th NHL hat trick.
Taylor Pyatt also scored for the Rangers (1-2), who squandered leads of 2-0 and 3-2 en route to avenging a season-opening loss at Boston on Saturday. Henrik Lundqvist made 26 saves for the win.
Brad Marchand and Milan Lucic erased Boston's 2-0 deficit in the second period, and Nathan Horton got theBruins even again at 3 with 4:23 left in regulation.
It was Horton's first goal in more than a year as he was sidelined by a concussion last January until the NHL resumed last weekend. The Bruins fell to 2-0-1 in their first road game of the season.
Gaborik scored his first three goals of the young season while playing on a new top line with star forwards Rick Nash and Brad Richards. Rangers coach John Tortorella said before the game that this trio makes the club's offensive attack unbalanced, but he could hardly quibble with the instant results.
After a poor first period, the Bruins controlled play early in the second and earned a power play 18 seconds in when Rangers defenseman Marc Staal was called for tripping. Marchand cashed in with his second goal of the season at 1:05.
Boston clamped down on defense, too, and turned an 11-4 shots disadvantage into a 13-11 lead before New York put its first puck in on Rask with 11:54 left in the second. That broke a stretch of 14 minutes, 14 seconds between Rangers shots.
Still, Boston kept the pressure on Lundqvist, and the Bruins got to him again after the Rangers left Lucic all alone in front of the crease. Defenseman Zdeno Chara found him there with a pass, and Lucic fired a hard forehand in on Lundqvist that was blocked. The rebound, however, came right back to Lucic, who smacked the puck in with a second swipe to tie it at 12:24.
Just when it seemed the game had turned completely in Boston's direction, Pyatt restored the Rangers' lead 46 seconds later when he put in a rebound of Derek Stepan's drive that bounced off Rask's chest.
New York nearly had a two-goal lead again, but Carl Hagelin's drive that beat Rask was wiped off because Mike Rupp had been called for roughing just before the shot.
The Rangers were lucky to escape the second with the lead, as the Bruins again swarmed around Lundqvist and fired away at him.
That was a far cry from the first period when New York appeared to be in total control. It took until their third game for the Rangers to post their best period of the young season and grab their first lead.
Gaborik nearly scored his first less than 5 minutes into the game when he jabbed at a loose puck after Rask let it go free by taking his glove off of it. Rask fell onto his back, with his arms outstretched inside the net like a snow angel, and the whistle blew. A video replay ensued, but the puck never crossed the goal line.
Just 26 seconds after being thwarted, Gaborik finished off a brilliant end-to-end passing play for his 325th NHL goal.
Defenseman Michael Del Zotto started the play with a pass from behind his net out to center ice, where Richards deftly tipped it forward to Nash in the Bruins zone. Nash sent a crisp cross-ice pass to Gaborik, who patiently carried the puck down to the goal line and skillfully flicked a parallel shot under the crossbar behind Rask, that popped the water bottle out of its holder on top of the net at 4:36.
Gaborik struck again 2:13 later, this time set up directly by the defense pair behind him.
Rask had allowed a total of two goals in two games over 125 minutes of action this season before New York's big first period. The Bruins were being outshot 8-2 at the time, prompting Boston coach Claude Julien to use his lone timeout.
The Bruins doubled their shot total from four to eight in the final 2:31 of the period, despite being short-handed for two minutes after Adam McQuaid earned an extra roughing penalty when he dropped the gloves to fight New York's Brian Boyle.
NOTES: RW Arron Asham, who made his Rangers debut Sunday vs. Pittsburgh, sat out because of a groin injury. He was replaced in the lineup by D Steve Eminger. Stu Bickel moved up from defense to fill Asham's forward spot in limited ice time. … With his next win, Julien will move into a third-place tie with Don Cherry (231) on the Bruins' career coaching list. … Lundqvist made his 26th straight start against the Bruins, dating to Jan. 13, 2007. … The teams will meet one more time this season, at Boston on Feb. 12.
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Seinfeld's Michael Richards Joins TV Land's Kirstie Alley Pilot
Michael Richards may be coming back to series television.
The Seinfeld alum has signed on to co-star opposite Kirstie Alley in the TV Land pilot Giant Baby, according to Deadline.com.
Michael Richards opens up to Jerry Seinfeld about his comedy club meltdown
Giant Baby stars Alley as Madison "Maddie" Banks, a Broadway star whose life is turned upset down when Arlo (Eric Petersen), her long-lost son, shows up hoping to reconnect after the death of his adopted mother. Richards will play Maddie's limo driver. As previously announced, Alley's Cheers co-star Rhea Perlman will play Maddie's assistant and best friend.
Giant Baby would mark Richards' first regular series role in over a decade. He starred in NBC's short-lived The Michael Richards Show, and briefly appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm during the Seinfeld reunion arc.
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Police: Bloody pillow found in Massachusetts toddler's crib
BOSTON — A pillow, blanket and baby wipes stained with blood were found in the bedroom of the 1-year-old Massachusetts girl who died after she was allegedly assaulted by her Irish nanny, according to court documents filed by police.
Aisling McCarthy Brady, already jailed on an assault charge, could be charged with murder in last week's death of Rehma Sabir, a Cambridge infant who was hospitalized with head injuries on Jan. 14 — her first birthday. She died two days later.
Court documents filed Tuesday describe a gruesome scene inside the baby's bedroom and a concerned neighbor hearing a child's urgent cries fall silent.
An upstairs neighbor told police that on the day the baby was hospitalized, she heard the infant crying for almost an hour before it changed to "extreme crying." The woman said she knocked on the front door of the apartment for about 90 seconds, timing the knocks in between the baby's gasping so it would be heard by someone inside.
Her knocks went unanswered. Police said she told them she heard the baby cry for another 10 minutes.
"It started to slow and settle down before stopping completely," police said.
State police who later searched the girl's room found a bloody blanket and pillow in the crib and blood-stained baby wipes discarded in a diaper pail, according to court documents.
Dr. Alice Newton, medical director of the Child Protection Team at Boston Children's Hospital, diagnosed Rehma as a victim of abusive head trauma, according to the court documents.
"Abusive head trauma includes injuries caused by violent shaking as well as impact to the head either by directly striking the head or causing the head to strike another object or surface," the documents said.
Authorities said Brady, 34, could be charged with murder following completion of an autopsy. It's not clear when it will be completed.
Brady's lawyer, Melinda Thompson, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Wednesday. Thompson said Tuesday that her client had no role in the baby's death.
The baby's parents, Nada Siddiqui and Sameer Sabir, told police that Aisling had been their nanny for the last six months, caring for the baby while they worked.
State police said in the court documents that Brady was also watching another infant the day Rehma was hospitalized because the baby's parents participated in a nanny share. The other infant was not harmed.
Investigators who interviewed Brady said she told them the baby seemed "her usual self" while she played with her that morning. She went on to describe a happy baby she sang to at lunch time who suddenly "slouched" in her chair, her eyes half-open, after lunch, authorities said.
According to court documents, Brady told police she believed Rehma was tired and put her in her crib. When she went into the bedroom about three hours later, she noticed that "Rehma was 'clenching her fists and her arms and legs were stiff,'" according to police.
Brady said she got a wet cloth and put in on Rehma's head. Around that time the baby's mother returned home and called 911, according to police.
Immigration officials said Brady was in the country illegally after arriving from Ireland in 2002 under a tourist program. She was only authorized to stay 90 days.
Court records indicate Brady was previously charged with assault and had two restraining orders taken out against her.
Last year, a Dorchester woman got a restraining order against Brady after she said Brady harassed her by posting a message on a parenting website saying she saw the woman abusing kids on a playground.
In 2005, a former boyfriend got a restraining order after he said Brady assaulted him in a bar for talking to another woman.
In 2007, Brady and her roommate were both charged with assaulting each other and leaving bite marks on one another. The charges were dropped.
Thomas Collins, who has lived above Brady in a two-family home in Quincy for the last six years, said he has had numerous arguments with her over minor things such as use of the yard and an off-street parking space.
"She would literally get right in my face. She weighs probably about 95 pounds at the most ... and she would get right in my face, pointing in my face and swearing," Collins said.
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At least 2 dead in likely suicide attack outside US Embassy in Turkish capital
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ANKARA, Turkey – A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital on Friday, killing himself and one other person, officials said.
U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardione told reporters that a guard at the gate was killed in the 1:15 p.m. blast, and a Turkish citizen was wounded.
The bomb appeared to have exploded inside the security checkpoint at the side entrance of the embassy, but did not do damage inside the embassy itself. Footage showed that the door had been blown off its hinges and debris littered the ground and across the road. An Associated Press journalist saw a body in the street in front of an embassy side entrance.
Police swarmed the area and several ambulances were dispatched. An AP journalist one woman who appeared to be seriously injured being carried into an ambulance.
The police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government rules, said police had examined security cameras around the embassy and had identified two people who could have been the suicide bomber.
The phones were not being answered at the embassy. "The US Embassy would like to thank the Turkish Government, the media, and members of the public for their expressions of solidarity and outrage over the incident," it said in a statement.
The embassy building is heavily protected. It is near an area where several other embassies are located, including that of Germany and France. Police sealed off the area and journalists were being kept away.
There was no claim of responsibility, but Kurdish rebels and Islamic militants are active in Turkey. Kurdish rebels, who are fighting for autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey over the last year.
As well, homegrown Islamic militants tied to Al Qaeda have carried out suicide bombings in Istanbul, killing 58, in 2003. The targets were the British consulate, a British bank and two synagogues.
In 2008, an attack blamed on Al Qaeda-affiliated militants outside the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul left three assailants and three policemen dead.
In the November 2003 attack on the British consulate , a suspected Islamic militant rammed an explosive-laden pickup truck into the main gate, killing British Consul-General, Roger Short, and his assistant, Lisa Hallworth.
Turkey has become a harsh critic of the regime in Syria, where a vicious civil war has left at least 60,000 people dead. The first of six Patriot missile batteries being deployed to Turkey to protect against attack from Syria was declared operational and placed under NATO command on Saturday and others were expected to be operational in the coming days.


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I have just recently started my career as a web developer for a medium sized company. As soon as I started I got the task of expanding an existing application (badly coded, developed by multiple programmers over the years, handles the same tasks in different ways, zero structure).
So after I had successfully extended this application with the requested functionality, they gave me the task to fully maintain the application. This was not a problem, or so I thought. But then I was told not to improve the existing code and to focus only on bug fixes.
Ever since, I have had 3 more projects just like the above, and now have to maintain those, too. Also, I have to maintain 4 applications I created from scratch.
I'm beginning to get crazy from the daily mails of users (read: managers) for each application I have to maintain. They expect me to handle these mails directly while also working on 2 other new projects (and there are already 5 more projects lined up after those).
The sad thing is, I have yet to receive a bug report for anything that I have coded myself.
Is this normal? Am I doing the the work equivalent of a whole team of developers?
P.S. My salary is almost equal if not lower than that of a cashier at a supermarket.
Answer: It's Time for a Change (96 Votes)
Sounds like management has a problem managing your workload and prioritizing tasks. You should talk to your manager and make them understand that you are overloaded and you can't do effective work if everyone keeps bombarding you with requests which they want fulfilled immediately. That makes you jump from one task and project to another, wasting a lot of time switching gears in your mind. For effective software development work, one should be able to immerse oneself into a task and focus fully on it. The more interruptions, the more time is wasted by context switching. Research shows that it takes about 15 minutes to immerse and get to the state of flow where our mind works most efficiently. If you get interruptions every 15 minutes, you never get to flow, which is a tremendous waste for both you and the company.
So you should try to negotiate a more sensible working mode with your manager. This should include prioritizing the incoming requests and planning ahead to some extent. All user requests should be maintained in a list, ordered by priorities. And the priorities should not be decided by the requester (as naturally everyone thinks his/her request is the most important on earth), neither by you, but by someone with enough business knowledge and overview of the whole range of products you are maintaining (the product owner). Ideally, all incoming requests should be entered into an issue tracker like Jira or Mantis. Or at least mailed to the product owner, not you. And he/she should deal with all complaints from users, allowing you to focus on the development work. If this is unattainable, you should at least negotiate some windows of time when you look at incoming requests and deal with them, reserving an uninterruptible portion of your time solely for development.
If this is possible, the next step could be to plan ahead to some extent. I.e. estimate the time needed to implement the top priority requests, then schedule your time into sprints, which may be one or more weeks each, and allocate enough tasks to the next sprint to cover your time. You probably want to keep a portion of your time for incoming emergency requests, but the rest can be planned ahead. And you may also prefer to organize work on different projects into separate "streaks", i.e. to work on Project A on Monday, Project B on Tue-Wed, Project C on Thu morning and D in the afternoon etc., to further reduce context switching. This way you have a rough idea of what you are to do in the next one or few weeks. Moreover, this gives a roadmap to your clients too: they can see when they get which request implemented. You may or may not want to mention the word "agile" to your manager here—this is basically agile development, but some people oppose Agile without actually knowing what it is :-)
See: Effective ways of introducing Agile into the workplace.
Note that even if your current position seems low valued by your company, the more projects you are maintaining, the more negotiating power you have. Finding and training a new hire to maintain all these projects takes considerable time (money) for the company. And you may rightly point out that your code is so much better than the legacy parts of these apps, so it is not a given that they can easily find a candidate of similar capabilities for the same amount of money. Not to mention that if they don't improve working conditions, they will make the next guy get fed up and quit just as fast as you... Try to make them understand that it is in their own best interest to keep you, and to keep you happy where you are :-) This may give you some power to negotiate the above conditions, and/or request a pay raise.
Answer: It's a Buggy Job (170 Votes)
During one of my internships I found I spent a lot of time doing bug fixes. You have to realize that as an entry level employee you aren't going to get the sexiest work, you're going to get the grunt work no one else wants. It's unfortunate, but it's how it is at every job.
Additionally, you have to realize that to a company, having code that works is more important than having code that is clean. From your company's perspective, your changing the existing structure is money wasted on redoing something that is already done and potentally introducing even more errors. Usually these types of companies aren't computer/software companies so no sufficiently high manager has the technical background to know that sometimes you need to do these major overhauls. That said, if your company is run by technically competent people and they understand the value of good code, you may get more leeway, although sometimes you need to choose your battles (the main purpose of a business is still to make money, after all).
That said, you are not unreasonable in wanting to be able to leave your mark on the software and wanting more meaningful work. It is also unfortunate that you have to deal with so many projects at once while fielding requests from so many different managers.
As a programmer, it is a fact of life that you will spend more time maintaining and modifying other people's code than you will writing your own from scratch. If this is a problem for you then perhaps you should stick to developing as a hobby and pursue a different career. If you are OK with maintaining code but you feel you are not being used effectively or are being overwhelmed, then that is a matter you need to discuss with your manager. If your problems are more serious than that or if you feel like your managers don't know how to effectively manage your skill set then it would be a good idea to consider finding a position at a different company. Given your stated low salary, this is probably your best course of action.
Answer: Leave (84 Votes)
"P.S. My salary is almost equal if not lower then that of a cashier at a supermarket."
I wanted to write something about how to negotiate until I read that part of your question. Now, all I can say is: Leave!
That's at most half of what a developer with a degree usually earns. And it appears you're not learning anything on the job and you don't seem to be surrounded by brilliant engineers there. Your job is a waste of time. it's time to do something different.
Answer: More Suggestions (25 Votes)
In addition to other people's comments:
1. Yes, it is normal for an entry level employee to be given the jobs nobody else wants to do.
2. You should see this as a building block for your future career.
So what should you do? In order to prove youself as a professional developer you need to ensure your work is structured and planned, otherwise you may find it hard to build on the good things you're currently doing - so you should try to do things like the following (if you're not already):
- Log your work accurately, for each project. So if you spend 1 hour fixing a bug on project A, log this time. This will be useful to show to your manager if you want to discuss workloads.
- Write unit tests. You mention some of the projects you maintain are full of bugs, so my guess is that there are few (if any) unit tests. For each bug report, write a unit test which replicates the bug, then fix the bug. This will help ensure no regressions occur, improve the quality of the code, and serve as a platform on which to refactor the code if you're given the chance (eg. it could help you convince the stakeholders that rewriting some parts could improve quality without introducing new bugs, due to the unit test suite).
- Look for a new job—you work on many projects at once, you have written code from scratch, you have probably experianced the entire project lifecycle. You've gained some real, valuable experience and you will find success applying elsewhere.
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The free UML tool UMLet lets you draw UML diagrams with a light-weight, pop-up-free user interface. It lets you draw diagram sketches fast; export diagrams to pdf, eps, jpg, gif, svg, bmp, png, and...
MDT: UML2 Modeler is a tool to be used for modeling of whole systems with the use of UML language. Its main functionality is to model system architectures in MDT environment as well as dynamically ...
Blu Age Corporation, a Netfective Technology Group company, is a software vendor specialized in Agile Model Driven Development (MDD) and Legacy applications modernization.
Blu Age Software's wor...
Plato-X-Free Edition
To work with the UML there are many tools, including some free tools. The company Trufun from China owns a powerful and excellent UML tool, of which there is a free, but sti...
S(imple) U(ML)-statemodeler enables you to develop state-based software systems with only little programming effort. The application is easy to use and does not require any programming skills. So y...
Plugin implementing a data modeling DSL (domain specific language) with the same capabilities as UML ERD diagrams.
Supports database reverse engineering.
It allows you to create and print&nbs...
ModelGoon brings new points of view of a Java project. Thanks to its tight connection and interaction with the Eclipse Java Development Tools JDT. ModelGoon provides also round-trip features on Cla...
Information System Designer provides a set of tools to help you in the design and the development of applications. It brings a complete development environment based on and integrated to Eclipse.
Acceleo is a pragmatic implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) MOF Model to Text Language (MTL) standard. You do not need to be an expert to start using the plug-ins and create your fir...
Modeling Tools, IDE, Languages, UML
Last Updated on Friday, January 15, 2021 - 10:13 by Obeo Products
The ArchiMate add-in is an open-source initiative founded by Adocus. The add-in enables you to model enterprise architecture models based upon the well recognized and popular ArchiMate® 2.1 notatio...
UML, Modeling Tools, Modeling
Last Updated on Friday, February 10, 2017 - 09:53 by Thomas Wiman
BLU AGE Classic automatically extracts the business logic of complex and large legacy applications and accelerates their modernization into the target architecture of your choice.
Modeling Tools, Application Management, Rich Client Applications, Code Management, IDE
Last Updated on Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 06:25 by Harold Licari
Last Updated on Friday, July 3, 2015 - 04:39 by Harold Licari
BLU AGE Legacy Modernization module automatically extracts the business logic of complex and large legacy applications and accelerates their modernization into the target architecture of your choic...
Code Management, IDE, Application Management, Modeling Tools
Last Updated on Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 07:01 by Harold Licari
Eclipse OCL is an implementation of the Object Constraint Language (OCL) OMG standard for EMF-based models.
UML, IDE, Modeling Tools, Modeling, Languages
Last Updated on Friday, October 7, 2022 - 09:55 by Adolfo Sanchez-Barbudo Herrera
EcoreTools is a graphical modeler to create, edit and analyze Ecore models. It provides several a class diagram editor (similar to UML Class Diagrams), a package dependencies diagram editor and s...
Modeling Tools, UML, Modeling
Last Updated on Friday, January 15, 2021 - 10:12 by Obeo Products
Web, J2EE Development Platform, UML, Modeling Tools, IDE
Last Updated on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - 06:41 by Obeo Products
Kermeta workbench is a powerful metaprogramming environment based on an model-oriented language optimized for metamodel engineering and DSL engineering. Kermeta features a comprehensive environment...
Programming Languages, Modeling Tools, Modeling, Languages
Last Updated on Monday, February 4, 2019 - 13:49 by Didier Vojtisek
Kermeta 2 is the evolution of Kermeta workbench. This is a powerful metaprogramming environment based on an model-oriented language optimized for metamodel engineering and DSL engineering.
UML, Programming Languages, Languages, Modeling, Modeling Tools
Last Updated on Monday, February 4, 2019 - 13:55 by Didier Vojtisek
MetaModelAgent for open source Papyrus , IBM RSAD/RTE and HCL RTist accelerates the implementation and usage of UML-based Domain-specific modeling languages (DSML) as well as providing static mode...
UML, Modeling Tools, Systems Development, Modeling
Last Updated on Friday, October 7, 2022 - 09:57 by Thomas Wiman
Mia-Studio is a solution to create your own model-to-text or model-to-model transformations. Model-to-text transformations are created using templates based on a very simple syntax and rules writte...
UML, Systems Development, Modeling Tools, IDE, Tools
Last Updated on Friday, January 15, 2021 - 10:08 by Fabien Giquel
The generation booster for Android SDK illustrates the Mia-Studio IDE possibilities for UI layer development assistance. 'UML/IFML to Android' generation rules propose to generate some part...
Mobile and Device Development, UI, Modeling Tools
Last Updated on Thursday, September 3, 2020 - 08:56 by Fabien Giquel
Moka provides three key features: Execution, Debugging and Animation.
The execution feature relies on implementation of OMG Executable UML standards: fUML 1.4, PSCS 1.2 and PSSM 1.0...
Modeling Tools
Last Updated on Tuesday, August 17, 2021 - 04:29 by Pauline Deville
Papyrus Software Designer is a project of the Eclipse Papyrus's galaxy. It enables code generation and reverse engineering for C++ (C soon to come) and Java. Code generation from state-charts...
Last Updated on Friday, October 7, 2022 - 09:55 by Ansgar Radermacher
Papyurus-Model2Doc is a project of the Eclipse Papyrus's galaxy. It enables documentation generation for your UML Model.
The user can defines its document generation via a dedicated Ecore mo...
Last Updated on Monday, January 24, 2022 - 10:13 by Pauline Deville
Rational Software Architect Real-Time Edition (RSARTE) is an Eclipse-based modeling and development environment for creating event-driven real-time applications. It supports the Unified Modeling La...
Modeling, Modeling Tools
Last Updated on Monday, January 30, 2017 - 07:24 by Elena Strabykina
Feb 2013: BPF v0.8 with Design Pattern Reference is now available!
Solution BluePrint (SBP) is Zensar's initiative to incorporate engineering practices in software development. Zensar's approach...
Modeling Tools, Tools, Process, Team Development, Application Management
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UML Designer is a graphical tool to edit and vizualize UML 2.5 models.
It uses the standard UML2 metamodel provided by Eclipse Foundation and it implements the following generic UML diagrams:
Systems Development, UML, Modeling Tools, Modeling
Last Updated on Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 11:36 by Obeo Products
UML Lab provides truly agile modeling and coding with Eclipse. The tool integrates UML modeling with code generation and template-based reverse and round-trip engineering.
Source Code Analyzer, Modeling Tools, UML, Modeling, Editor
Last Updated on Friday, October 7, 2022 - 09:57 by Leif Geiger


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XnView is freeware software that allows you to view and convert graphic files. It's very fast and easy to use. But more importantly it supports more than 400 graphics formats!
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We hope you will use this tool to explore the catalog of thousands of grants made by SVCF in 2020, as well as the five previous years. In doing so, you can see the breadth of causes that our donors care about (as witnessed by the grants from donor advised, committee advised and corporate advised funds). You can also see those grants that have been directed by our staff and board of directors (grants from our "discretionary grantmaking") because of their central importance to SVCF's strategic focus areas for improving life in Silicon Valley.
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The BlueGene/Q processors that will power the 20 petaflops Sequoia supercomputer being built by IBM for Lawrence Livermore National Labs will be the first commercial processors to include hardware support for transactional memory. Transactional memory could prove to be a versatile solution to many of the issues that currently make highly scalable parallel programming a difficult task. Most research so far has been done on software-based transactional memory implementations. The BlueGene/Q-powered supercomputer will allow a much more extensive real-world testing of the technology and concepts. The inclusion of the feature was revealed at Hot Chips last week.
BlueGene/Q itself is a multicore 64-bit PowerPC-based system-on-chip based on IBM's multicore-oriented, 4-way multithreaded PowerPC A2 design. Each 1.47 billion transistor chip includes 18 cores. Sixteen will be used for running actual computations, one will be used for running the operating system, and the final core will be used to improve chip reliability. For BlueGene/Q, a quad floating point unit, capable of up to four double-precision floating point operations at a time, has been added to every A2 core. At the intended 1.6GHz clock speed, each chip will be capable of a total of 204.8 GFLOPS within a 55 W power envelope. The chips also include memory controllers and I/O connectivity.
The 18th core is a redundant spare. If a fault is detected in one of the chip's cores, the core can be disabled and transparently mapped to the redundant spare. Detection and remapping of faulty cores can be done at any stage of the system's manufacture—not just when the chip wafer is being tested, but also when chip has been installed into Sequoia. Sequoia will use about 100,000 of the chips in total to reach its 20 petaflops target. Sequoia's huge scale makes the ability to remap faulty cores important: IBM estimates that given the number of chips in the supercomputer, one chip will fail every three weeks, on average.
Traditional multithreading: locks and serialization
Transactional memory is an approach to parallel programming that has the potential to make efficient parallel programming a great deal easier than it is currently. Parallel programming is easy when a task can be broken up into many independent threads that don't share any data; each part can run on a processor core, and no coordination between cores is necessary. Things get more difficult when the different parts of the task aren't completely independent—for example, if different threads need to update a single value that they share.
The traditional solution is to use locks. Every time a thread needs to alter the shared value, it acquires the lock. No other thread can acquire the lock while one thread holds it; they just have to wait. The thread with the lock can then modify the shared value (which may require a complex computation, and hence can take a long time), and then release the lock. The release of the lock in turn allows the waiting threads to continue. This system works, but it has a number of problems in practice. If updates to the shared value occur only infrequently—and hence, it's rare for a thread to ever have to wait—the lock-based system can be very efficient. However, that efficiency tends to rapidly diminish whenever updates to the shared value are frequent: threads spend a lot of their time waiting for the lock to become available, and can't do any useful work while they're waiting.
Locks also prove quite difficult for programmers to use correctly. Though the case of a single shared value is easy to handle, real programs are rarely so simple. A program with two locks, A and B, is susceptible to a problem called deadlock. If two threads need both locks, they have a choice; they can either acquire lock A followed by lock B, or they can acquire lock B followed by lock A. As long as every thread acquires the locks in the same order, there's no problem. However, if one thread acquires lock A first, and the other acquires lock B first, then the two threads can get stuck—the first waits for lock B to become free, the second waits for lock A to become free, and neither can ever succeed. This is a deadlock.
This problem might seem easy to avoid, and indeed when a program only has two locks, it normally is—but it becomes harder to ensure that every part of the program does the right thing as the program becomes more complex. Add more locks, for other bits of shared data, and it becomes harder still.
Transactional memory: the end of locks
Transactional memory is designed to solve this kind of problem. With transactional memory, developers mark the portions of their programs that modify the shared data as being "atomic." Each atomic block is executed within a transaction: either the whole block executes, or none of it does. Within the atomic block, the program can read the shared value without locking it, perform all the computations it needs to perform, and then write the value back. At the end, it commits the transaction. The clever part happens with the commit operation: the transactional memory system checks to see if the shared data has been modified since the atomic operation was started. If it hasn't, the commit just makes the update and the thread can carry on with its work. If the shared value has changed, the transaction is aborted, and the work the thread did is rolled back. Typically when this happens, the program will simply retry the operation.
Transactional memory potentially offers a number of advantages over the lock-based scheme. First, it's optimistic: instead of each thread needing to acquire a lock just in case another thread tries to perform a concurrent operation, the threads assume that they'll succeed. It's only in the case of actual concurrent modifications that one thread will be forced to retry its work. Second, there's no deadlock scenario, since there are no locks. Third, the programming model is, broadly speaking, one that developers are quite familiar with; the notion of transactions and roll-back is familiar to most developers who've used relational databases, as they offer a somewhat similar set of features. Fourth, atomic blocks arguably make it a lot easier to construct large, correct programs: an atomic block with nested atomic blocks will do the right thing, but the same isn't necessarily true of lock-based programs.
(It's worth pointing out that transactional memory has a number of complexities of its own: for example, what if a transaction needs to do something that can't be rolled back, like sending data over a network or drawing on the screen? The best way to approach this kind of issue, and many others, is still an area of active research.)
The hardware advantage
Up until now, transactional memory research has mostly focused on software-based implementations. Real processors don't actually support transactional memory, so it has to be emulated in some way. Some schemes make use of virtual machines to do this—there are transactional memory modifications for the .NET and Java virtual machines, for example—others use native code, and require programmers to use special functions for accessing shared data, so that the transactional memory software can ensure the right things happen in the background. A consistent feature of all of these implementations is that they tend to be slow—sometimes very slow. Although the transactional memory makes it easier to produce bug-free programs, careful use of locks (or other multithreading techniques) can yield much greater performance.
BlueGene/Q moves transactional memory into the processor itself. It's the first commercial processor to do so, though Sun's Rock processor—cancelled when the company was purchased by Oracle—would also have included a transactional memory capability. The transactional memory implementation is predominantly found in the chip's 32MB level 2 cache. IBM did not describe the system in enormous detail at Hot Chips, but did describe a handful of details. Data in cache has a version tag, and the cache can store multiple versions of the same data. Software tells the processor to begin a transaction, does the work it needs to do, and then tells the processor to commit the work. If other threads have modified the data—creating multiple versions—the cache rejects the transaction and the software must try again. If other versions weren't created, the data is committed.
The same versioning facility can also be used for speculative execution. Instead of having to wait for up-to-date versions of all the data it needs—which might require, for example, waiting for another core to finish a computation—a thread can begin executing with the data it has, speculatively performing useful work. If it turns out that the data was up-to-date, it can commit that work, giving a performance boost: the work was done before the final value was delivered. If it turns out that the data was stale, the speculative work can be abandoned, and re-executed with the correct value.
A logical evolution
The transactional memory support is in some ways a logical extension of a feature that has long been a part of the PowerPC processor, "load-link/store-conditional," or LL/SC. LL/SC is a primitive operation that can be used as a building block for all kinds of thread-safe constructs. This includes both well-known mechanisms, like locks, and more exotic data structures, such as lists that can be modified by multiple threads simultaneously without any locking at all. Software transactional memory can also be created using LL/SC.
LL/SC has two parts. The first is the load-link. The program uses load-link to retrieve a value from memory. It can then perform the work it needs to do on that value. When it's finished, and needs to write a new value back to memory, it uses store-conditional. Store-conditional will only succeed if the memory value has not been modified since the load-link. If the value has been modified, the program has to go back to the beginning and start again.
LL/SC is in fact found on many processors—PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, and Alpha all use it. x86 doesn't; it has an alternative mechanism called "compare and swap." Most LL/SC systems are quite restrictive. For example, they may not be able to track writes to individual bytes of memory, but only entire cache lines, meaning that the SC operation can fail even if the monitored value wasn't actually modified. SC will also typically fail if, for example, a context switch (which flushes the cache) occurs between the LL and the SC. Some implementations will even make the SC fail if any value gets written to memory between the LL and the SC.
Transactional memory is a kind of LL/SC on steroids: each thread in a transaction can, in effect, perform an LL on many different memory locations, and the commit operation performs a kind of SC that takes effect on those multiple locations simultaneously, with either every store succeeding or failing together.
Will it deliver?
The implementation of the transactional memory itself is complex. Ruud Haring, who presented IBM's work at Hot Chips, claimed that "a lot of neat trickery" was required to make it work, and that it was a work of "sheer genius." After careful design work, the system was first built using FPGAs (chips that can be reconfigured in software) and, remarkably, it worked correctly first time. As complex as it is, the implementation still has its restrictions: notably, it doesn't offer any kind of multiprocessor transactional support. This isn't an issue for the specialized Sequoia, but it would be a problem for conventional multiprocessor machines: threads running on different CPUs could make concurrent modifications to shared data, and the transactional memory system won't detect that.
BlueGene/Q's hardware support allows use of transactional memory with little or no performance penalty. This lack of performance penalty in turn means that transactional memory can be used in real-world software, to see if it really is as useful in practice as it appears to be in theory. Haring said that, the transactional memory "feels good," but the team was still tuning compilers and software support, so it did not yet have any real-world data.
As specialized as Sequoia is, the insight it will give into the utility of transactional memory will be invaluable. The combination of ease-of-use advantages for programmers and the performance potential (both of transactional memory and speculative execution) make transactional memory very appealing. Software implementations, however, have for the most part reached a performance impasse: so severe are the performance issues that it puts the entire approach in jeopardy. If this hardware implementation proves successful, it could be the first of many. But if it doesn't work out—if it fails to deliver the performance and reliability that transactional memory is assumed to provide—it could sound the death knell for a once promising solution to the multicore conundrum.
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SAN JOSE, California—It's been five years since Stephanie Lenz, angry that a video of her son dancing to a Prince song was taken down from YouTube, reached out to the lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Ultimately, Lenz worked with EFF lawyers to sue Universal Music, the company that initiated the takedown.
Arguing against the takedown of a 29-second home video portraying a toddler dancing might have been a slam dunk from a PR perspective; legally speaking, it's been anything but. EFF was looking for a case that was so obviously an example of "fair use" that the content owner who initiated the takedown could actually be forced to pay damages, under a little-used section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, section 512(f). But the bar is very high to get that type of relief. That became crystal clear at the most important hearing in the case thus far, held today in San Jose.
Both sides have filed extensive motions saying all the facts point to a win for their side. US District Judge Jeremy Fogel, who is overseeing the case, said at the hearing that he isn't inclined to find for either side without a jury trial. After years of discovery, and several depositions of key Universal employees involved in the takedown, Fogel said that it isn't clear that EFF has met the high burden of showing that Universal exhibited "subjective bad faith."
EFF would have to show that there's no way the video was not fair use, first of all. In addition, EFF lawyers would have to show "there was some concerted activity on Universal's part to blind itself to that fact—that even knowing they had nothing to stand on with regards to fair use, they put out a takedown." Even if EFF could show that Universal Music acted recklessly or with negligence—that wouldn't be enough.
He hardly seemed ready to rule in Universal's favor, either. "A reasonable fact-finder could conclude, that this is an action taken in subjective bad faith," he said.
Having laid that out, he still listened to arguments on both sides. Corynne McSherry, arguing for EFF, said that Universal should be found liable because it really had no process in place that could have conceivably led to a finding of 'fair use.'
"Sean Johnson [the Universal employee who initiated the takedown] wasn't equipped—he had no idea what to look for. Whether it was Ms. Lenz's fair use, or anybody else's."
Kelly Klaus of Munger, Tolles & Olson argued for Universal. After years of discovery, Klaus argued, EFF can't show that anyone at Universal thought the takedown was illegitimate. "There is no evidence whatsoever in this record that Universal knew it was making a misrepresentation," said Klaus. "Their [EFF's] position is that every takedown notice done without someone doing a full [fair use] review is in violation of 512(f)." And that's just not practical, he said. Universal employees who were hunting for Prince songs on YouTube found thousands of posts, and many of them went back up as soon as they were taken down. "They were playing a game of whack-a-mole."
The amount of damages EFF is fighting for is tiny in the grand scheme of things. Judge Fogel has already limited the amount it can ask for. EFF is asking for compensation for 10 hours of Lenz's time, spent dealing with the takedown notice before she contacted EFF, based on the Pennsylvania minimum wage at the time of $6.25 per hour. It's also asking for $1,275 for the time that EFF attorneys spent advising her pre-suit.
Despite the fact that not much money can be won, in an interview with Ars, McSherry said that the principle the EFF is fighting for is still important.
"You have to have a process in place that will cause content owners to hesitate in the first place," said McSherry. That's more important than ever around election time. "Imagine if I put up a political video, and some content owner—based on a completely specious allegation of copyright infringement—took it down. Even if I counter-notice immediately, it will be taken down for two weeks."
At the end of the day, almost no users will be able to harness the resources that Stephanie Lenz has in an effort to fight back against a questionable copyright takedown, and so it's hard to see what effect this will have on protecting fair use rights more broadly. After five years, it isn't clear whether the fight to even win compensation for Lenz herself will bear fruit; it's harder yet to imagine anyone is eager to follow in her footsteps, or to believe it will lead to a sea change in the behavior of content owners.
Overall, there just isn't much strength in the part of the DMCA that prevents abusive takedowns. EFF's most strident attempt to put some teeth into that law has been a long slog, still without a clear outcome.


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A better way to manage aliases and primary email address for your Microsoft account
As we've talked about before, we're focused on delivering connected devices and services to you, our customers. And Microsoft account makes your experiences on devices and services more personal and relevant. When you sign in to any device or service with your Microsoft account, your personal settings, contacts and other information meet you there. It keeps you connected to the people you care about on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other services. It all just works, wherever you go.
One of our principles is that we should adapt to how you want to work, not vice versa. This is why we allow you to use any email address to sign in to your Microsoft account. We've also heard from you that over time things change with your account–you might get married, start a new job, move or any number of life events that make you want to change your email address. We want to make it easier to keep your account up to date as these life events happen.
Several years ago we launched the ability to rename or to add aliases to your account, which gave important flexibility to manage these changes. But we found that these tasks were a little too monolithic. For example, sometimes you wanted to sign in with one alias but use another to send mail or display on your Xbox. So we started working to break these tasks down to give you more flexibility.
In April, we added the ability to sign in with any alias on your account. At that time, Rename was left unchanged; and it walked you through an experience to add a new alias and switch which one was the "primary" alias on your account.
Today, we're replacing rename with a simpler and clearer choice to make any of your aliases a primary alias. We've also made it clearer why you might want to do this (and why you might not). Now that you can sign in with any alias, really the only reason to make a different alias your primary one is if you want a different email name to show on your Microsoft devices, like the background of your Xbox or your Windows 8 PC.
To manage your aliases (or make other changes to your account), go to https://account.live.com/, click on "Account aliases" in the left navigation bar, and then follow the instructions.
This change will roll out to all accounts in the next few days.
Thanks for all the feedback and for using our products. Keep the feedback coming.
— Eric Doerr, Group Program Manager, Microsoft account


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Valentine balloon fundraiser to benefit the United Way
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Rockford Register Star
MT. MORRIS — Pinecrest Community Center, 414 S. Wesley Ave., Mt. Morris, will hold a valentine balloon fundraiser to benefit the United Way of Ogle County.
The bouquets include two valentine balloons with a small bag of candy attached. Cost: $6 per bouquet. Delivery will be Feb. 14 and is available to Pinecrest residents only. Bouquets for people outside of Pinecrest can be picked up between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Feb. 14 from the Pinecrest Manor activities department.
Orders and payments must be received by Feb. 11. To place an order: 815-734-4103,pinecrestcommunity.org, or by mail to Pinecrest Community, 414 S. Wesley Ave., Mt. Morris, IL 61054.


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Top Moments: Idol's Verbal Lashing and New Girl's Elvis Funeral
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13. Best Translation: Any fears about new coaches Usher and Shakira fitting in on The Voice are quickly quelled on Season 4's two-night premiere. While Usher gets comfy from the get-go - pop that leg up! - Shakira shows her true, hilarious colors on Night 2 when she whips out a fake Spanish-to-country dictionary to try to convince a country singer to join her team. How do you say caliente in country?
12. Most Moving Exit: When Bryan accidentally comes home early and interrupts David's Eagle Scout meeting on The New Normal, David is (accidentally) forced to come out to his fellow Eagle Scouts, despite the fact that the organization has a decidedly anti-gay stance. Although no one in the group seems to mind, David later gets a letter kicking him out of the group. He confronts the Scouts' dads and when no one will tell him who tattled, he tosses his extremely decorated sash on the ground and says he'll be of service again when the Scouts can live up to their promise of being "loyal, trustworthy, and kind." Oh, captain, our captain.
11. Best Man of Action: Of The Good Wife's many villains over the years, Peter's Republican opponent for the Governor's office, Mike Kresteva, has to be the worst. Case in point: He lies to one of Chicago's top cardinals about Zach Florrick having a drug problem. So when Peter gets Mike alone at a fancy event, he decides to take matters into his own hands and punches him in the nose, sending him to the ground. To cover his tracks, Peter then throws his glass of alcohol at the floor near Kresteva, making it appear as if the normally sober candidate was a bad boy and fell on his own after drinking too much. Sometimes, it's good to be bad.
10. Host with the Least Award: Joey Lawrence co-hosts Splash, and Ryan Seacrest he is not. Before Nicole Eggert's dive, he and the sadistic producers run a clip of her (admittedly hilarious) pre-dive mishap with the most awkward introduction ever. "So, look, I know that you were doing your - your pre-dive warm-ups before the show and something happened, right?" he says. "Um, actually, I - I think we have a tape of that." Eggert is reduced to tears after watching the clip - from the 16-foot platform, mind you - and Lawrence does not help matters. "It looks like your arms just, like, gave out," he stammers. "Um, OK. Are you... are you all right? OK. So are you feeling - after something like that happens... what's making you emotional?" How pathetic your interview skills are, Joey. Whoa!
9. Friendliest Callbacks: Nine years after the end of Friends, Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox reunite on Go On, when Julie sets Ryan up with Talia (Cox), a recent widow. When the three are at dinner, the Friends references come fast and furious. "I don't cry that much. I hardly ever cry," Chandler, er, Ryan says. But he changes his tune when Talia reveals that she likes sensitive guys. "I cry all the time," he says. "I'm almost always crying. That's me - just a sensitive crier who drives a Porsche." Where's Joey when you need him?!
8. Worst Twist: Emily visits Mason in prison on Revenge, and he spills a deep, dark secret: Victoria had another son when she was 16 who was put in foster care. "I imagine you'll exploit this fresh little morsel with your usual flair?" Mason says. "You can't even begin to imagine," Emily replies. No, we can't. Another unnecessary twist to an already dull, torturous season? Stop while you're behind.
7. Best Twist: After spending so long rescuing Danny, his death comes as quite a shock. But the real twist in Revolution's midseason premiere is what happens after he dies. Crying, Rachel cuts open her son's corpse and removes a small, blinking device, resulting in a unanimous cry of "WTF?!" from the viewers. We can assume that the device has something to do with the experimental surgery that Randall helped Danny get, but still: What could it be? More importantly, when will we find out?
6. The Final Countdown Award: When a whole night's events are revealed to have taken place in Ted's imagination on How I Met Your Mother, Future Ted tells his kids how he would have spent one night if he had the chance to relive it: run to their mother's apartment. And so he does. In a moving, one-sided fantasy scene, he tells his future wife what is going to happen. "Hi. I'm Ted Mosby, and exactly 45 days from now, you and I are going to meet, and we're going to fall in love and we're going to get married and we're going to have two kids," he says. "We're going to love them and each other so much. All that is 45 days away. But I'm here now, I guess, because I want those extra 45 days with you. I want each one of them. If I can't have them, I'll take the 45 seconds before your boyfriend shows up and punches me in the face. Because I love you. I'm always going to love you. To the end of my days and beyond." Hear that? The Mother is 45 days away!
5. Most Poetic Departure Spartacus is known for its over-the-top, bloody deaths, but Crixus gets a more sentimental exit worthy of his role as the heart of the show. Just as the rebels are on the brink of conquering Rome, Marcus Crassus' forces descend upon them and defeat them. When Crixus is beheaded, we don't see fountains of blood or mangled flesh; instead his head parts with his body in a majestic, slow-motion arc that we witness through the reflection of his lover's eye. We'll miss you, champion of Capua.
4. Best Final Act: In his quest for redemption, Merle pays the ultimate price in the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead's third season. After initially knocking Michonne out so he can turn her over to The Governor, Merle finally caves to being a hero - setting Michonne free and going after The Governor himself. Unfortunately, his plan doesn't work out and Daryl is forced to put down his walker brother. At least now he can be reunited with that hand he lost!
3. Best (Worst) Interrogation: Nothing gets by that Dave Letterman! NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams stops by the Late Show for a friendly chat, but the chat is anything but friendly when Letterman starts asking about NBC's current PR disasters (aka the Matt Lauer and Jay Leno debacles). "Am I going to wake up in the shower?" Williams jokes. "Please tell me I'm going to wake up and it's going to be morning and I'm going to say 'Hey! I'm doing Dave tonight and that was just a dream.'" But Dave presses on, suggesting that NBC leaked rumors of Jimmy Fallon replacing Leno as a smokescreen to distract from Today's negative press. "If I'm on to something, blink twice," he says. BriWi, ever the pro, doesn't bat an eye.
2. Best Pelvis: When Nick's Elvis-loving father suddenly dies from a heart attack on New Girl, he and the gang travel to Chicago to help him cope and plan the funeral. But Nick quickly cracks under the pressure and not only comes to the funeral drunk, but with a really bad Elvis impersonator to perform at the service. Fortunately, the always game Jess steps in, donning a bejeweled white jumpsuit, cape and Elvis wig to perform. The result is no Aloha from Hawaii, but it certainly distracts from the coffin in the room.
1. Motown Meltdown Award: In possibly one of the worst performances to ever hit the American Idol stage, Lazaro, Devin and Burnell absolutely butcher the Motown classic "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" during their group performance. As if being off-key and out of harmony aren't bad enough, Lazaro blatantly forgets the lyrics during his solo, inciting a finger jab to the chest from Devin when it's over and The Wrath of Nicki Minaj. "I don't know what that was, but I'm gonna act like I ain't even seen it or heard it," she barks. "Lazaro, you fell as flat as a pancake. Don't ever do that. I don't know what happened but all three of you, go! Get off the stage! Go! Go!" And just when you think it couldn't get worse, Ryan Seacrest asks them what went wrong... and they take the bait. "Not to throw anyone under the bus, but..." Burnell says. "I learned my parts. I tried saving a couple people, but..." Devin adds. Oof. Low, but apparently Lazaro can't memorize more than one song at once.
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NICI Imaging Modes
NICI offers several imaging configurations. The science camera is always fed by the AO system, and the basic imaging optics of the AO system and science camera are fixed, providing a pixel scale of 18 mas per pixel and a field size of 18x18 arcsec in all modes. In addition, both science detectors are read out in all modes. However, the science camera can be reconfigured by inserting different masks, dichroics or beamsplitters, and filters into the beam.
For planning and execution purposes, NICI observations are divided between two principal modes:
- Coronagraphic AO Imaging: Configured by selecting one of the Coronagraphic focal-plane masks and a hard-edged pupil-plane mask. The science target is placed under the coronagraph spot and is also used for Adaptive Optics guiding. For best AO performance, the guide star must be a point source with no close, bright companions. The mask and target are nominally placed near the center of the field, but can be at any position along an arc traced by the coronagraph spot as it moves with its wheel.
- Standard (non-Coronagraphic) AO Imaging: Configured by selecting the Clear focal-plane mask. The target must still be sufficiently bright for AO guiding, but can be anywhere within the 8" patrol radius of the AO steering mirror (i.e. there is no coronagraph spot limitation). The Strehl ratio degrades with the separation between the science target and the AO guide star, although this degradation should be small since the maximum offset radius is within the isoplanatic patch of about 20"
In standard imaging mode, NICI's performance is affected by several factors.
- The warm AO relay optics, the optical/IR beamsplitter, and the Focal Plane Mask all raise the instrumental emissivity. The sensitiivity to point sources is very good because of the high Strehl ratio of the AO correction, but sensitivity to extended emission, especially in the K and L bands, is relatively low compared to standard IR imagers.
- Even in standard imaging mode, the Focal Plane Mask is set to a Clear substrate to maintain proper focus. Imperfections on this substrate appear in focus in the science images, and at K and L these warm features glow. Standard sky subtractions and flat fielding remove most of these artifacts, but these calibration data must be taken carefully without moving the mask in between.
- The Spider Mask, with its oversized central obscuration and spider vanes, cannot be removed from the beam and therefore causes stronger diffraction effects in standard images. (These effects are suppressed by the occulting spot in coronagraphy.)
We consider these to be principal modes because there are significant operational differences between them. For example, in coronagraph mode, precise acquisitions are needed to center a target on the coronagraph mask, and careful monitoring of the centering and AO correction are required during the observation. Standard imaging observations, on the other hand, have more relaxed acquisition requirements and are generally simpler to execute.
Each of the two principal modes offers the following options:
- Dual- or Single-channel imaging: Dual-channel imaging is configured by selecting the Dichroic Wheel (DW) H50/50 Beamsplitter, which sends half the light to each channel in the H and K bands. Single-channel imaging is configured by setting DW to either Open, which passes all light to the Red channel, or Mirror, which reflects all iight to the Blue Channel. Although only 1 channel is illuminated, this mode provides maximum sensitivity if only a single wavelength is desired.
- Cass Rotator Fixed or Following: Selectable in the OT NICI component. Fixed mode causes the sky field to rotate between images, which helps to distinguish faint, nearby companions (which rotate with the field) from a primary's speckles (which remain fixed). Details on this so-called Angular Differential Imaging mode are described in Observing Strategies. In Follow mode, the Cass Rotator tracks the sky so the field doesn't rotate. It is used for imaging of extended targets.
- Dithering:
- In standard imaging mode, dither patterns can be used to remove sky and detector artifacts, limited only by the accessibility of the AO guide star in the patrol field. Dithering is performed automatically by the Sequence Executor, including opening and closing the AO loops, so it is very efficient and reliable. However, its use should be carefully considered: in ADI mode the field rotation already provides a dithering effect, and moving the star around the field potentially changes the PSF which degrades the ADI subtraction.
- In coronagraphic mode, dithering is more problematic for the following reasons:
- In order to maintain the star under the mask, the two must be moved together;
- the mask moves along an arc traced by the wheel in which it is mounted;
- the mask position is not repeatable to sub-pixel accuracy;
- the mapping between the mask position and AO steering mirror is known only to limited accuracy.
- In coronagraphic mode, therefore, dithering requires a re-acquisition on the coronagraph spot at every step in order to maintain accurate centering. Due to the low observing efficiency, dithering is strongly discouraged for coronagraphy. The ADI mode is far more efficient and reliable for faint companion searches. For some applications where there is no choice, dithering can be permitted, but it must be at a low frequency (e.g. once every 15 minutes).
There are two additional principal modes which have not been officially commissioned.
- AO guiding on one target with a different target under the coronagraph spot: This mode has not been tested and is expected to be complex due to field rotation issues. Please consult with the instrument scientist to discuss feasibility.
- Extended AO guide star: For proper AO functionality the guide target should be a point source; guiding on extended targets up to 0.8 arcseconds diameter may be possible but is only offered on a shared-risk basis.
Sensitivity: Sensitivity and contrast strongly depend on the quality of the AO correction (Strehl ratio). The values listed on these pages are generally derived from observations taken with bright (V < 11) AO guide stars and in good seeing conditions. There is still little experience with very faint stars and worse than median seeing.


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