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Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Fab new stamps from Premium Craft Brands

Good morning, today's the day our lovely Nikky Hall is on Create and Craft at 1pm demonstrating lots of scrummy goodies including fabby embellies from Dutch Doobadoo and some amazing stamps from Premium Craft Brands. Nikky has designed the stamps and they are fab-u-lous, great for all sorts of projects from vintage to quirky and just the job for mixed media projects too!

These quirky flowers are one of my favourite stamps from the set, you've got to love those ink blots too lol. I stamped the flowers on some linen card that I'd coloured with silver PanPastel. I also stamped the ink blots and the sentiment and then got to work coloured the flowers with Graph'It markers, giving them a bit of sparkle with a Graph'It shake pen

I've dusted off my corner punch and rounded off all the corners and matted on some black card. To finish off I've added some red pompom trim, black seam binding and a polke dot button.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
Crafters Cafe: glitter
Creative knockouts: anything goes
Stamping Sensations: dies/punches
Sweet Stampin: No designer papers
That's Crafty: black and white with a splash of colour

Thanks for popping by today
Claire xx

  1. I can see why you like the flower stamps Claire, these are wonderful. I love the red and black colour way too.

    Sue xx

  2. great colours Claire - the new stamps look fab x

  3. I do so love Nicky's quirky designs and you've made good use of them here.

  4. What amazing card! I like the fabulous stamps and cute details.

  5. pretty nice blog, following :)

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Friday, November 27, 2009

The Woody Woodbury Show with guests Eileen Barton, Henny Youngman, Donna Jean Young and Johnny Mathis (January 11th, 1968)

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I love this, Woody is a friend of mine and his son sent me the link. Got anymore?

Kliph Nesteroff said...

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Seattle Seahawks SOAR to the Super Bowl Once Again

On Sunday afternoon, the Seattle Seahawks defeated the Green Bay Packers 28-22 in a thrilling overtime victory to advance to the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 1.

You may remember that Marie, Arielle, and I did a song for the Seattle Seahawks last year on the eve of their Super Bowl appearance.  Unsurprisingly, this video has picked up some more hits this past week, pushing towards the 200,000 view mark.

We’ll be recording a new song for this year’s Super Bowl run sometime this week.  Get ready…it’s going to be a lot of fun!

In the meantime, enjoy last year’s song called “SOAR”, a parody of Katy Perry’s smash hit “ROAR”.

From YouTube Parody to CenturyLink Field

When we put together the SOAR video 8 months ago, little did we know that it would go semi-viral (as of this writing, it has 167,000 views on YouTube).  It landed us a live performance at the Seattle Seahawks party at the Plaza of Nations on July 4.

And just last week, Marie landed her biggest gig to date:  singing the national anthems at CenturyLink Field in Seattle before the Super Bowl rematch between the champion Seahawks and the visiting Denver Broncos on September 21!

September 21 will mark the Seahawks’ annual “Canada Day” game where they honour their Canadian fans for their support – hence the 2 anthems.  And it’s fitting that Marie will be singing before the Super Bowl rematch…as we made our song specifically for the 2014 Super Bowl.

Needless to say, I’m super proud of Marie and extremely excited for her.  She’s worked really hard over the years honing her craft, and she deserves all the good things coming to her.  And given Ariana Grande’s spectacular performance earlier tonight before the Seahawks’ win over Green Bay, Marie has some big shoes (and vocal pipes) to fill.  But I know she will be just fine.  In fact, I predict that she’ll SOAR!

Read a Vancouver Sun article about Marie.

Soaring Over 125,000 Views on YouTube – The Story of our Seahawks Super Bowl Song

Arielle, Marie, and me
Arielle, Marie, and me

Our Seahawks music video almost never happened.

On Sunday, January 19 I texted Marie and asked her what she thought about doing a Seahawks song for the week leading up to Super Bowl 48 on February 2.  She replied with an emphatic yes.

The idea was born.
The idea was born.

Continue reading Soaring Over 125,000 Views on YouTube – The Story of our Seahawks Super Bowl Song

SOAR – Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl Song (Parody of Katy Perry’s “ROAR”)

We’re used to making songs about the Vancouver Canucks but for this week we’ll be focusing on the Seattle Seahawks as they look ahead to Sunday’s Super Bowl where they’ll take on the Denver Broncos.

Once again, I brought together two of the most talented and lovely ladies around to help me:  Marie Hui and Arielle Tuliao.

We touch on Richard Sherman and the Legion of Boom, Marshawn Lynch, Russell Wilson, Percy Harvin, and of course, the 12th man.

Can’t wait until Sunday:  the Seahawks are gonna SOAR!

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Clay’s Canucks Compositions: The Music of the 2011-2012 Season

As Boston’s elimination from the Stanley Cup Playoffs brought sweet music (and small consolation) to the ears of Vancouver Canucks fans, I reflected back to my music-related Clay’s Canucks Commentaries for the season.  There were four in total and included many of my friends and family members…all more talented than I am (there’s a reason why I only play the piano and don’t sing).  A few quick facts:

-the four videos total over 19,000 hits on YouTube
-they’ve been featured on Puck Daddy, Global TV and Canucks.com
-my guests include an anthem singer, an actress, viral video stars, my sons, my church buddies, and a foreign exchange student
-we cover Michael Jackson, Katy Perry, Adele, Justin Bieber, Journey, and the incomparable Bruce Hornsby and the Range

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Stuck On A Comet Hurtling Into Deep Space, Stranded Lander Fails To Wake Up

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ESA’s Stranded Comet Lander Remains Silent
As Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko hurdles through space, outbound from the sun, a dark passenger sits on its surface. Since July 9, 2015, Philae—the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission’s comet lander—has remained silent.
Philae on the comet.  Image: European Space Agency On Jan. 10, the lander team attempted a last-ditch effort to trigger a response from the spacecraft. Via Rosetta, the team sent a command attempting to make Philae’s momentum wheel switch on.
“Time is running out, so we want to explore all possibilities,” said Stephan Ulamec, the Philae lander manager at the German Aerospace Center.
By the end of January, conditions on the comet will be “lander-hostile.” At 300 million km distance from the sun, the temperature will be less than -51 C, too cold for the lander to turn on.
Philae’s mission has faced obstacles. In November 2014, the solar-powered Philae successfully landed on the comet’s surface but wound up on the comet’s dark side. The lander was only online for 60 hrs before it went silent.
In June 2015, sunlight became stronger and Philae came back online, but went silent again on July 9.
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The Goalie Jersey is a body item in Club Penguin. It costs 600 coins in the Snow and Sports catalog, and only members could buy it.

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May 27, 2010 September 23, 2010
May 31, 2011 December 8, 2011
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March 14, 2013 December 5, 2013
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June 30, 2015 November 4, 2015
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The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation reached a turning point in its history in June 2008, with eight organisations signing a Membership Charter that commits them to improve how each of the members will work in Pacific island countries. Signing the Charter formalises membership on the Roundtable and commits organisations to becoming more transparent and accountable in implementing the newly drafted Regional Action Strategy for Nature Conservation, 2008-2012.

Chris Margules of Conservation International signs the Roundtable Charter witnessed by Taholo Kami. Photo: Seema Deo

“The Charter reflects the collective experience of Roundtable members and our recognition that there is a need for radical change in the way we work together,” said Stuart Chape, who signed the Charter on behalf of the Director of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).

Another signatory, Chris Margules, Director for Conservation International’s Indonesia-Pacific Field Division, added, “Most importantly, the Charter commits members to working in the interests of countries and supporting the implementation of National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plans (NBSAPS). The NBSAPs outline a country’s conservation priorities and need to play a more prominent role in driving the work of conservation organisations and donors.”

“The Roundtable is a professional conservation body, which provides a valuable process for bringing strategic oversight to conservation in the region,” explained Taholo Kami, current Chair of the Roundtable and Director of the Suva-based IUCN Regional Office for Oceania. “There are many organisations working in nature conservation throughout the Pacific region and we need an effective forum to ensure accountability, transparency and coordination for conservation.”

The membership charter was also signed by the University of the South Pacific, the Pacific Applied GeoScience Commission (SOPAC), the Locally Managed Marine Area Network, the South Pacific Programme Office for WWF and The Nature Conservancy.

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Establishing a Foothold

Assault on Temple Prime

Part of

Third Tiberium War

Albania, Yellow Zone Y-1, Eastern Europe

Nod supply depot destroyed

Destroy the supply depot

Repel the raiders from the area

GDI Commander (TWIII)

Raiding party including engineers, grenadiers, missile and rifle squads, 4 APCs, 2 Pitbulls, 4 Predator tanks
Mammoth 27 when first reinforcement bay is captured

Nod depot garrison:

Unmanned vehicles

Critical infrastructure buildings destroyed

Nod Under Pressure is the penultimate GDI mission in Act III, as part of their preparations to renew their siege of Temple Prime.

GDI Director Redmond Boyle ordered the annihilation of Nod's Temple Prime for the GDI press to rally on. After establishing a strong foothold in Croatia, GDI would have to take out Nod's supply base in Albania, before commencing the attack on Kane's Temple Prime itself.

The raid

Phase One: Initial skirmishes

Three GDI grenadier squads were inserted into the area to take out the Laser defense turrets before the APCs could arrive. Destroying the Hub system and the Nod infantry outpost, the grenadiers made way for the four APCs, two Pitbulls and four Predator tanks escorting a Battle Rig to enter the region without any harm and made their way towards the only bridge connecting their location and the supply depot. Unfortunately a Nod scout team detected the GDI presence and rushed to destroy the bridge. Trapped on the wrong side, the GDI force proceeded to destroy the Nod SAM turrets in another outpost before engineers were dropped into the area. With one engineer repaired the bridge, the GDI force crossed the ravine.

Phase Two: Establishing the air base

The GDI team entered the depot with some resistance from the Nod defenders on the other side of the bridge. Their goal was to establish a base of operations east of the bridge. The GDI team fought their way to the Nod infantry base, occasionally blowing up the volatile barrels to cause a chain reaction on the unmanned Nod vehicles. After razing the infantry outpost to the ground and capturing a Reinforcement Bay that gave GDI a Mammoth tank, GDI constructed an airbase for the Firehawks to dock at.

Phase Three: Death from above

Oh pretty impressive Commander, wiping out all those ... unmanned vehicles (chuckles)! Let's see how you fare when the targets shoot back.
- Kane taunting the commander

With the remaining force defending the airbases from Nod raids, the Firehawks started their bombardment of the Nod depot, destroying the barrels to their advantage. Occasionally the Firehawks engaged in air-to-air combat with the Nod Venoms. GDI engineers also captured two more Reinforcement Bays, after the Firehawks razed the accompanied Nod outposts to the ground, using the reinforcements to aid the Firehawks on the ground. After destroying all the unmanned vehicles by destroying the flammable barrels which caused a chain reaction, the GDI Firehawks proceeded to systematically raze the main Nod base, taking out all of their forces and important infrastructures. GDI were thus victorious, though Kane goaded the GDI commander for wasting his time in destroying unmanned vehicles.

The destruction of Nod's main supply depot in Albania meant GDI would not have worry about any Nod reinforcements in their siege on Temple Prime. Nod in the meantime heavily fortified their walls with firepower and prepared to defend their most Holy Temple against the oncoming GDI onslaught.

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Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Tour Photo Diary on Tumblr

We've documented our recent short tour of Czech Republic and Germany here on tumblr with a series of photographs.

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Audacious Art Experiment Review

Read this fine piece of writing relating to our latest single, 'Carry You On My Shoulders'. It's great to hear people voicing an opinion of our music that mirrors how we feel about what we're doing:

Sunday, 3 April 2011

'Carry You on my shoulders' single release

We are set to release our next single 'Carry you on my shoulders' on 11.04.11 through Run of the Mill Records (UK) and Silver Rocket (Czech).
It will be available on a limited 7"vinyl with a free CD and pin badge or digital download. The artwork features a collection of photographs taken on an original Lomo camera.

We took a slightly different approach on the B side track with a stripped down arrangement of the song 'Wish List'. It was recorded over a few weeks by ourselves and good friend James Hutchinson. Guitars and voices were put down in a very small bathroom with additional vocals from The Lake Poets. Percussion and bass were recorded separately in an old miners hall with other parts added in a church hall including a Steinway grand piano and Timpani. The B side will be named 'Wished out' and will be exclusive to this single release.

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Saturday, 12 March 2011

German/Czech April Dates

To coincide with our new single, Carry You On My Shoulders which is released on Run of The Mill and Silver Rocket (http://www.silver-rocket.org/) we're doing some dates in Germany and Czech Republic! We're releasing limited edition 7" singles with mp3 download. Get on the vinyl train...

18.04.11 DE - Leipzig – Frühauf

19.04.11 CZ – Prague – Klub 007 Strahov

20.04.11 CZ - Kolin – Holubnik

21.04.11 CZ - Jindrichuv Hradec - Bar 69

22.04.11 CZ – Strakonice – Klub Habes

23.04.11 CZ – Koprivnice – Klub Hans

24.04.11 CZ – Brno - Vegalite

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She always knew that her father’s love was non-existent, but Myka Prentiss never imagined he would sell her like a piece of furniture. His campaign to get re-elected as Senator has turned him into a man she barely recognizes, and she wants just one night where she can forget.

The job is starting to wear on Justice Alexandre, and he is thinking it may be time for a change. His conscience never used to be a problem, but the older he gets; the harder it is to sleep at night.

The night she spent in the arms of a stranger was more powerful and erotic than anything Myka had ever experienced, but to see that same man on her doorstep now is a totally different story. Justice was horrified when his last job came in to eliminate Myka, and after the mind-blowing night in her arms, he will do whatever it takes to find out who put a hit on her. Myka and Justice must find out who is behind the contract, before someone realizes the job is not complete, but can Myka really trust the man who was sent to kill her? Her body says yes, and her heart is falling hard and fast, but what will happen when it is all over, and she is in way over her head with a man who is a hired gun?

Is it hot in here? Whew, it will be as soon as you get your hands on this! Justice is rugged, ripped, and almost too hot to handle. I love how he and Myka do not let a little thing like a death threat get in the way of their passion, and each time they touch it just gets better and better. Myka is all sexy, from her luxurious curls to her designer heels, and woman enough to make a man like Justice melt with desire.

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Women's Soccer Looking to Make Noise in the SAC

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As preseason dies down and real games are set to begin, head women's soccer coach Dan Muns describes his team as "seasoned, confident and ready for anybody." The third-year coach believes his team is primed for a strong campaign in 2013.

"Coming into this season, we have high expectations for this group," said Muns. "There were periods last fall where we played pretty exceptional soccer. We were just inconsistent, and you can expect that with a young group.  Moving into the spring, those young players have become much more tested and focused."

The Cobras will need that focus heading into this year's season, as they prepare to face new competition in the South Atlantic Conference.

"We approached the spring with the mentality of how we would need to play transitioning into the SAC," said Muns. "That's why we chose to play three Division I opponents, and that's why we chose to play teams that were going to make us better in preparation for the SAC.  This team started preparing for the conference switch back in November, and now it's time to take the test."

The 2013 Coker roster will consist of 25 players, including 17 returners.  When asked about the team's strengths, Muns said he believes that they will be difficult to score on.

"We have a lot of confidence when we're defending; we feel like we can defend against anybody," he said.

Junior goalkeeper Lizz Morris is one of the main contributors to that confidence.  In 2012, Morris ranked fourth in the nation among Division II goalies for most saves in a season after she compiled a total of 148 on the year.

Along with Morris, the Coker defense will be led by junior defender Trah Monroe.  Monroe is a transfer student from Jones Junior College.

Heading the offense for the Cobras is junior midfielder Millie Rogers, along with sophomores Heather Blaschke, Jalynn Fortt and forward Jenna Pacyna.

The eight newcomers cover each position, but Muns described the majority as "goal scorers." Those that could make an early impact are freshmen Kate Allen, Cassandra Ordonez, Salina Maynard and Jordan Roy.

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riend of mine poses an interesting question on his blog:

n most of the equipment I work with, the sensors (RTD’s - heat sensors that tell the controller the temperature of something, photocells – proximity sensors that sense when the product, ie., a box, is passing a certain point on a conveyor, limit switches – simple mechanical open/close switches that would tell the controller a safety door was open or a button was being pushed) each typically communicate with the controller through it’s own pair of wires that go from the sensor to an input/output board in the controller. You can end up with a lot of wires.

Now there are systems that use control networks and “smart sensors” that not only send the information for which it exists (“115 ohms meaning 350 degrees F”, “I sense a box!”, or “button pushed”) but also a packet of info identifying the sensor. This way, you can run all this information through a single cable instead of hundreds of wire pairs.

My question is… in which way does the human body work? The first (dumb open/close switches) or the second (smart sensors)?

His guess that it’s the second option (his initial guess at least). My guess was the first. Wikipedia talks of nerve cells but I can’t seem to find a smoking gun. Opinions?

"May I ask you, inquired the elevator in its sweetest, most reasonable voice, if you've considered all the possibilities that down might offer you?"

levators are fascinating things. I say that despite being trapped in one for forty-five minutes last week (no lie — myself and five other strangers found ourselves stuck 14 floors up, making nervous jokes during a rush hour malfunction).

What I often ponder is the ideal algorithm for running one, or more critically, a set of elevators. Poking around I’ve found that my initial hunch was correct — there’s what’s referred to as the elevator algorithm that dictates that an elevator will move in its current direction, stopping only to let people on or off, until it has no more calls in that direction.

At that point it can either sit there and wait (which is probably more energy and cost efficient) or try to go to a more useful floor (the lobby when people are expected to arrive, or the top floor when they’re expected to leave).

Some other interesting factoids:

  • The elevator algorithm is also used for hard disk access, to optimize the motion of the arm when dealing with read/write requests.
  • In areas where there are a lot of Jews, you will often find Sabbath elevators, which operate in accordance with some Orthodox and conservative rabbinic prohibitions. Wild!
  • Some modern elevators (including, apparently, the one in the Adelaide office of my company) require users to select their desired floor from a central console. They are then told which numbered elevator to get on. Inside the elevator, there are no buttons to push. This is apparently much more efficient but has some human-factors drawbacks:

    • The console doesn’t recognize when a group of people is too large to fit in a single elevator.

    • A single person requesting an elevator multiple times might end up with multiple elevators dispatched to retrieve her/him.

    • People not knowing the system often get on an elevator and end up being taken for a ride!

What other heuristics could you use if you had to program a set of elevators?

Another thing to ponder: how could you determine the finer points of the algorithm used in a given office building, just by calling and riding the elevators? It would seem to require an accomplice at the very least.

Unconventional solutions to computer miscreants

ecades ago, the writers of an early “shared” operating system known as the Incompatible Timesharing System or ITS got so fed up with people deliberately trying to find ways to crash the system that they came up with a novel solution — a KILL SYSTEM command that anyone could run that would crash the system (presumably to take all the fun and challenge out of it). I love that. While it’s hard to imagine such a feature being implemented in a modern operating system, I believe the spirit of the idea might still be usable in other contexts.

Pretty much every single online gaming website I’ve seen has a problem with people running cheats — computer programs that stand in for the human and respond with uncanny precision or speed. I know FPS games have a large problem with cheaters who can fire with with deadly aim (among other tricks), but my own experience is with more basic games. I used to spend a lot of time on online versions of the word game Boggle, including PlaySite’s Tangleword (which is now IWin’s Boggle) and Yahoo’s Word Racer. Cheaters were a rampant, recurring, and frustrating problem. People would write programs that generated all the words for a given board from a dictionary, and would achieve phenomenal scores as a result, much to the chagrin of everyone trying to win on brainpower alone. Writing such a program is not difficult (I know, because I wrote one; I never used it to win, except against other cheaters), but these people were difficult if not impossible to discourage. Might the solution be to allow anyone a “super-user” account that always wins? I’d love to see the experiment done.

I recently worked on a major redesign of a website for a major maker of tourist guidebooks. They had just fully embraced the idea of letting users supply content across many different areas of the site, but in every case we had to seriously consider the possibility of malicious uploads, largely because of one pathological individual who had been carrying out a vendetta against the company for the last decade. On every public forum on their old site he took every opportunity to add comments that were embarrassing, confusing, malicious, or disgusting. He would create new accounts as soon as his old ones were banned, often several times in the same day. (The solution we implemented for the site redesign was that uploads everywhere had to be approved of by a moderator.)

I got to wondering, what if instead of banning such an individual, his account got tagged in such a way that he could still view his postings, but no one else could? Presumably he might never know that his account was so tagged, and would continue to waste his energies devising his malicious missives when in fact his words would be reaching nobody. It would be activated when either he is logged in, or a cookie is set on his machine (presuming he doesn’t disallow them; most forums require you to allow). I’m sure the most persistent people would eventually catch on, and resort to logging out and removing the cookie, or checking from another machine to see if their posts were actually getting through, but at the very least it would increase the burden on these lowlifes.

This idea might work with the problem of cheaters on some gaming sites too. If their account gets tagged, they can still “log in”, but no one would see their scores but them. I’ve found that such cheaters actually thrive on the outraged comments they generate, but I could never convince other players to just ignore them in the comment areas. When such a “secretly blacklisted” tag is set by a moderator, no one would see the cheater’s comments either, though he would see theirs. To the cheater, it would just seem like they were being ignored. It would be trickier for FPS-type games; when the cheater kills someone, the server would have to pretend (to the cheater’s client machine) that the person’s avatar had died, and send no more updates as to that person’s whereabouts. Some situations wouldn’t be fakable but I bet you could fool a lot of the cheaters for much of the time. It would be the ultimate pwn.

Could spam be dealt with similarly? I’ve always wished there was as option in email programs that allowed you to respond as if your account didn’t exist. That is, send the exact response to the sender that the mail server on your host would send if there was no such login on that host. I’m not fully sure if this could work, though; is the check for whether an account exists done during the initial handshake between sender and receiver, or at some later point?

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Really big numbers. And I mean, REALLY big.

onsider a favorite song of mine, Built To Spill’s “Randy Describe Eternity”:

Built to SpillRandy Described Eternity

The song asks you to imagine a very large number by means of an analogy. The full lyrics go like this:

every thousand years

this metal sphere

ten times the size of Jupiter

floats just a few yards past the earth

you climb on your roof

and take a swipe at it

with a single feather

hit it once every thousand years

`til you’ve worn it down

to the size of a pea

yeah I’d say that’s a long time

but it’s only half a blink

in the place you’re gonna be

where you gonna be

where will you spend eternity

I’m gonna be perfect from now on

I’m gonna be perfect starting now

stop making that sound

stop making that sound

I will say I forgot

but it was only yesterday

and it’s all you had to say

Despite the technical difficulties of having a metal sphere that large pass that close to the Earth, it’s a cool metaphor. So how long of a time are we talking about here? Let’s come up with an estimate.

First consider how much a swipe of a feather would remove from the sphere. Let’s take a guess and say that 100 swipes would remove a square millimeter. (That’s being conservative, I think; could you really complete dissolve a grain of sand by brushing it a hundred times with a feather?)

Now consider the size of the sphere, “ten times the size of Jupiter”. Let’s assume they mean ten times the volume, which would be 10 × 1.43128 × 1015 km³, or 1.43128×1016 km³, which in cubic millimeters is 1.43128 × 1034 mm³. The “size of a pea” amount left over is incidental.

So if we just multiple that figure by 100 (feather swipes) times 1000 years, and we get 1.43128 × 1039 years. Let’s call this Randy’s number. Is it older than the current age of the universe? Yes, by a long shot. The universe is only about 1.37 × 1010 years; Randy’s number is 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 times larger. Yeah, I’d say that’s a long time.

Clifford Pickover’s Mazes For The Mind mentions a few other large (estimated) numbers:

  • The talking number — the total number of words spoken by humans since the dawn of history: 1016

  • The Coney Island number — the total number of grains of sand on the beach at Coney Island: 1020

  • The ice age number — the total number of ice crystals necessary to form the ice age: 1030

Douglas Hoftstadter in Metamagical Themas mentions a few others:

  • The Hemoglobin number — the number of hemoglobin molecules in the human body: 6 x 1021

  • Rubik’s constant — the number of possible configurations of a Rubik’s cube: 4.3 x 1019

Huge numbers, to be sure. Larger still is the infamous googol, which is 10100. Now consider the googolplex, which is 10googol. It is said that such a number could never be written down, as it would require more space than is available in the known universe.

But even these numbers are peanuts compared to some other numbers which have been envisioned. Consider tetration, Knuth’s up-arrow notation, Steinhaus-Moser notation, or Conway’s chained arrow notation.

Finally, just to fry your brain a little more, consider a number proposed in the excellent web comic XKCD, in his strip What XKCD Means”:

The Ackermann function with Graham’s number as its arguments is a number orders of magnitude larger than we can imagine. Actually, you can hardly say it’s “orders of magnitude” larger since that only implies exponentially larger; this number goes way, way, way beyond that!

But it’s still finite. And if you divide it by infinity, you still get zero. That kills me.

Quick and Dirty 3-D Rendering

By using a handy shortcut, you can render 3D objects painlessly.

Usually this is done using transformation matrices. This sort of matrix manipulation was actually discovered back in the 18th century, but like many great mathematical discoveries, had no real practical application. Until the modern era, that is, when someone discovered that this trick was perfect for rendering 3D graphics. It lets you rotate, scale, shear, etc. any image, and the really nice thing is that once you decide all the transformations you want, you can reduce them to a single matrix and so compute the positions of everything you want to draw rather quickly.

But unless you live and breathe the stuff, it’s too complicated to remember how to set it up off the top of your head, and a lot of code even if you know how. So here’s a tip that will get you rendering 3D objects in no time.

First, draw yourself a set of axises, like so:

It doesn’t have to be very accurate, just so as it looks fairly proportional. Now, imagine that each of the arrows is one unit long. You need to write functions that return x and y for a given (x,y,z) point. So ask yourself — for each unit of x, how much do we actually move horizontally? How about for each unit of y? For each unit of z, we don’t move horizontally at all, but for the other two, you can make a guess. Let’s say the tip of the x axis is 16 pixels to the right of the origin, and the tip of the y is 20. Again, accuracy isn’t important, as long as you’re in the ballpark and the numbers are proportional. Since you want it to appear in the center, add an offset that’s half the width of the screen. So your method for determining the screen x coordinate of your point will look something like this:

private int getX( Point p )
return CENTER_X + p.x*16 + p.y*20 + p.z*0;

Obviously, the p.z*0 could have been left out, but I leave it there for illustration.

Similarly, the screen y coordinate can be determined just by guessing the offset of the tips of the x, y, and z axises on our sketch. Looks like about -10, 5, and -20 respectively (remember y coordinates count down from the top in most computer graphics systems). So our function for determining the screen y of your point will look like this:

private int getY( Point p )
return CENTER_Y + p.x*-10 + p.y*5 + p.z*-20;

Let’s see it in action. Here’s an applet that defines a few lines in terms of their 3D endpoints, and then draws them on our 2D screen using the methods described above. Specifically, it defines all the lines necessary to draw the cube that stretches from -1 to 1 on each axis. Give it a click to run it:

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(Java source for main class here. Parent applet here.)

Not bad, huh? It’s handy for quick visualizations, and you’ll probably see it again here before long.

Towers of Hanoi

Any discussion of beauty in programming must necessarily begin with recursion in general, and the Towers of Hanoi in particular. This will be review for anyone who’s studied computer science, but that’s okay since I won’t have many readers at this point anyway.

The Towers of Hanoi is a puzzle of simple construction but fascinating complexity. It consists of three pegs. To start with, on one of the pegs is a number of disks, stacked from largest to smallest. The object is to move the stack of disks to one of the other pegs, with the restrictions that you can only move one disk at a time, and a disk may never be placed on a disk that’s smaller than it.

There’s a beautiful computer algorithm to solve it, and that I want to talk about. But the Towers of Hanoi was a toy long before there were computers. So first, have a play at solving it by yourself. Increase the number of disks if you find it too easy to start with. Most people, when they first start playing with it, end up moving disks pretty much randomly at the start. After a point you may find yourself making small goals, like “Okay, I need to get these smallest three disks over to this peg, so I can move the next biggest disk…” Eventually you realize that, if you’re starting with, say, six disks, you’re going to have to move five of them out of the way (onto the extra peg), then move the sixth and largest disk to the target peg, then move the first five on top of it.

So let’s look at the actual program that solves it. The number of disks has been made a parameter so we can eventually solve it for any number of disks. I’ll add comments to make it exceedingly clear what’s going on.

private static void hanoi( int numberOfPegs, String fromPeg,
String targetPeg, String otherPeg )
// First, move all but the largest disk to the extra peg.
if (numberOfPegs > 1)
hanoi( /* move */ numberOfPegs-1, /* pegs */
/* from the */ fromPeg,
/* to the */ otherPeg,
/* via the */ targetPeg);

// Next, move the largest disk to the target page. We'll just print
// out the move we're making.
System.out.println("Move a disk from " + fromPeg + " to " + targetPeg);

// Lastly, move the disks that we moved out of the way on top of
// the largest disk.
if (numberOfPegs > 1)
hanoi( /* move */ numberOfPegs-1, /* pegs */
/* from the */ otherPeg,
/* to the */ targetPeg,
/* via the */ fromPeg);

We’ve had to add the extra peg as the last parameter, just to keep track of it. But notice how similar it is to the original plan, of moving all but the largest disk out of the way, then moving the largest disk, then moving all the remaining disks on top of it. But as an algorithm it looks like it only sketches the broad plan. It just doesn’t look complex enough to solve that first step — moving all but the largest disk out of the way — not to mention he third step, which is just as complex. But miraculously, it works! Try running the code yourself. How could it possibly do all those intermediate steps?

It turns out that the problem of how to move n-1 disks from the “from” peg to the “other” peg is just a smaller, simpler version of the problem of moving n disks from the “from” peg to the “target” peg. It’s just that we’re now using the “extra” peg as our target peg, and the target peg as the extra peg. So this method will just be solving the problem for smaller and smaller versions of the problem, until eventually it has to solve it for only a single disk. And if you trace the code for what happens when there’s a single disk (when numberOfPegs==1), you’ll see that all it will do is the print statement.

To me, the Towers of Hanoi problem is the most beautiful algorithm there is. And it fits the requirements for a recursive algorithm perfectly; it can be broken up into smaller problems, until it reaches an exceedingly simple case (just moving a single disk).

I wonder how long it took after the first computers were made until the Towers of Hanoi was successfully programmed. Very probably it was done in machine code, using a stack of some sort. But what was the first language that would have allowed it to be done with a nice readable recursive function? I would love to have been a fly on the wall.

There’s lots more to the Towers of Hanoi, which I will cover in a later post.

Hello, world!

Hello, World! And welcome to Computronium.

In this forum I’ll be talking about things that thrill my brain. Mostly, as the name implies, it’ll be about computing, especially the recreational variety, but I’ll be taking brief interludes into math, physics, astronomy, or whatever else strikes my fancy. I’ll be focusing on the bits that are just fun, or interesting, or beautiful to me. Hopefully they will be to you too.

I have met a number of people in my life who enjoy computer programming for its own sake. But there’s also people who think that anything created on a computer is inherently soulless, and that any art created on a computer is cold and robotic. I couldn’t disagree more. Art created on a computer is as human as the person who makes it. But the logic underneath too is beautiful in and of itself.

Though I’ll be presenting things that give me “intellectual” thrills, my goal will always be to simplify, and to explain clearly, without dressing things up in fancy language. I’ll be writing about what I know but also about what I don’t — things I’m curious about. So I’m counting on input from you all. Not everything I’ll be writing about will be deeply profound — some of the topics I’m pondering will require just a few sentences. But even in dusting off these old ideas that I’ve pondered before, I’ve come up with new ways of looking at them, as well as some completely new ideas. I’m sure, with the participation in this forum that I’m hoping for, there’ll be lots and lots of other things that come up.

So, the main topic: computing. Computers themselves are ghastly, I believe, BUT, they’re the only things that let you compute. We’ll not be arguing here the merits of Java versus C++, or talk much about the flavor du jour of software processes. I have preferences in these matters, of course, but the underlying algorithms are what really interest me. Some languages do indeed encourage you to look at problems in interesting ways, but for much of what I’ll be talking about, the choice of programming language is pretty much moot. And as far as process — while I’m totally convinced of the necessity of good software practices, I don’t find a lot of joy in talking about it.


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Sacrifice of Purusa: The Genesis of all things

After verses 3&4 Purusasukta changes its focus from the qualities of Purusa to focus on the sacrifice of Purusa.  Verses 6&7 bring this focus about in the following way.  (The sanskrit transliterations, and many of my thoughts on the Purusasukta, have come from studying the book Christ in the Ancient Vedas by Joseph Padinjarekara (346 pp. 2007))

Verse 6-7 in Purusasukta

English Translation Sanskrit Transliteration
When the gods performed a sacrifice with Purusa as an oblation, spring was its melted butter, summer its fuel, and autumn its oblation.  They sprinkled Purusa, born in the beginning as a sacrifice in the straw.  The gods, sadhyas, and the seers sacrificed him as the victim Yatpurusena havisa Deva yajnam atanvata Vasanto asyasid ajyam Grisma idhmah saraddhavih Tam Yajnam barhisi prauksan Purusam jatamgratah Tena deva ayajanta Sadhya rsayas ca ye

Though not all aspects of these verses are immediately clear, what is clear is that the focus is about the sacrifice of Purusa.  The ancient vedic commentator Sayanacharya had this remark:

“the rsis – the saints and gods – bound the Purusa, the sacrificial victim to a sacrificial pole as a sacrificial animal and offered him in the sacrifice by their minds” Sayanacharya’s Commentary on Rg Veda 10.90.7

Verses 8-9 begin with the phrase “Tasmadyajnatsarvahutah…” which means that in his sacrifice Purusa offered all that he had – he held nothing back.  This demonstrated the love that Purusa had in the giving of his sacrifice.  It is only with love that we can give ourselves fully to others and hold nothing back.  As Yeshu Satsang (Jesus Christ) said in Veda Pusthakam (Bible)

“Greater love has no one that this:  that one lay down his life for his friends” (John15: 13).

Yeshu Satsang (Jesus Christ) said this to his disciples as he was willingly about to submit himself to the sacrifice of going to the cross.  Is there a connection between the sacrifice of Purusa and that of Yeshu Satsang?  Verse 5 of Purusasukta (which we have skipped thus far) offers a clue – but the clue would at first indicate that there is no connection.  Here is verse 5

Verse 5 in Purusasukta

English Translation Sanskrit Transliteration
From that – from a part of Purusa – the universe was born and it was made the seat of Purusa and he became omnipresent Tasmad Viralajayata Virajo adhi Purusah Sa jato atyaricyata Pascadbhumim atho purah

According to Purusasukta, Purusa was sacrificed at the beginning of time and it resulted in the creation of the universe.  Thus this sacrifice could not be performed on earth because the sacrifice was what brought the earth forth.  Verse 13 clearly shows this creation resulting from the sacrifice of Purusa.  It says

Verse 13 in Purusasukta

English Translation Sanskrit Transliteration
Moon was born from His mind.  The sun came out of his eye.  Lightning, rain and fire were produced from his mouth.  From his breath the wind was born. Candrama manaso jatas Caksoh suryo ajayata Mukhad Indra sca Agnisca Pranad Vayur ajayata

It is in the deeper understanding, rather than what we get from hearsay, of the Veda Pusthakam (Bible) that it all becomes clear.  We see the beginning of this clarity when we read the writings of the Rsis (prophet) Micah.  He lived about 750 BC and though he lived 750 years before the coming of Jesus Christ (Yeshu Satsang) he foresaw his coming by noting the city where he would be born.  He wrote

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from days of eternity. (Micah 5:2)

Micah predicted that the ruler (or Christ) would come out of the town of Bethlehem.  750 years later Jesus Christ (Yeshu Satsang) was born in this town in fulfillment of this vision.  Seekers after truth usually focus their wonder on this aspect of Micah’s vision.  However, it is the description of the origins of this coming one that I want to draw our attention to just now.  Micah predicts the future coming, but he says that the origins of this coming one are deep in the past.  His ‘origins are from of old’.  The origins of this coming one predate his appearing on earth!  How far back does the ‘… of old’ go?  It goes to the ‘days of eternity’.  Other sayings of True Knowledge in the Veda Pusthakam (Bible) clarify it further.  In Colosians 1:15 the Rsis Paul (who wrote about 50 AD) declared about Yeshu (Jesus) that:

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. (Colossians 1:15)

Yeshu is declared to be the ‘image of the invisible God’ and the ‘firstborn over all creation’.  In other words, though Yeshu’s incarnation was at a precise time in history (4 BC – 30 AD), he existed before anything was created – even to eternity past. He did so because God (Prajapati) has always existed in eternity past, and being his ‘image’ Jesus (Yeshu Satsang) would also have always existed.

The Sacrifice from creation of the world – the Genesis of everything

But not only has he existed from eternity past, the Rsis (prophet) John in a vision of heaven saw this Jesus (Yeshu Satsang) depicted as

“…  the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world” (Revelation 13:8)

Is this not a contradiction?  Was not Jesus (Yeshu Satsang) slain in 30 AD?  If he was slain then, how could he also be slain ‘from the creation of the world’?  It is in this paradox that we see that the Purusasukta and the Veda Pusthakan are describing the same thing.  We saw that Verse 6 of Purusasukta says that the sacrifice of Purusa was in ‘the beginning’.  Joseph Padinjarekara in his book Christ in the Vedas indicates that the Sanskrit commentary on the Purusasukta tells us that this sacrifice of Purusa in the beginning was ‘in the heart of God’ (he translated this as the meaning of the Sanskrit ‘Manasayagam’).  He also references the Sanskrit scholar NJ Shende as saying that this sacrifice in the beginning was a “mental or symbolic one” (NJ Shende. The Purusasukta (RV 10-90) in Vedic Literature (Publications of the Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit, University of Poona) 1965.

So now the mystery of the Purusasukta becomes clear.  Purusa was God and the Image of God from eternity Past.  He was before anything else.  He is firstborn of all.  God, in his omniscience, knew that the creation of mankind would necessitate a sacrifice.  This sacrifice would require all that he could provide – the incarnation of Purusa into the world to be sacrificed as a washing or cleansing from sin.  It was at this point that God had to decide whether to go ahead with creation of the universe and mankind or not.  In that decision Purusa decided to be willing to be sacrificed, and the creation went ahead.  So mentally, or in the heart of God, Purusa was ‘slain from the creation of the world” as the Veda Pusthakan declares.

Once that decision was made – before time even began – God (Prajapati – The Lord of all creation) set about creating time, the universe and mankind. Thus the willing sacrifice of Purusa caused ‘the universe to be born’ (verse 5), the moon, sun, lightning and rain (v 13) to be made, and even time itself (spring, summer and autumn mentioned in v 6) to begin.  Purusa was firstborn over all this.

Who are the ‘gods’ that sacrificed Purusa?

But one puzzle remains.  Purusasukta verse 6 says that the ‘gods’ (devas) sacrificed Purusa?  Who are these gods?  Veda Pusthakan (The Bible) explains it.  One of the Rsis, David, wrote a sacred hymn in 1000 BC that revealed how God (Prajapati) spoke of men and women:

“I said, ‘You are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most High.’ (Psalm 82:6)

Yeshu Satsang (Jesus Christ) 1000 years later commented on this sacred hymn of Rsis David by saying:

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are gods’? 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken— 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? (John 10:34-36)

Yeshu Satsang (Jesus Christ) affirms the Rsis David’s use of the term ‘gods’ as true scripture.  In what way is this so?  We see in the creation account in the Veda Pusthakan that we are ‘made in the image of God’ (Genesis 1:27).  So in some sense perhaps we could be considered ‘gods’ because we are made in the image of God.  But the Veda Pusthakan explains further.  It declares that those who accept this sacrifice of Purusa are:

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will (Ephesians 1:4-5)

When Prajapati-Purusa made the decision before the creation of the world to offer Purusa as the perfect sacrifice, God also chose people.  What did he chose them for?  It says very clearly he chose us to be his ‘sons’.

In other words, the Veda Pusthakan (The Bible) declares that men and women were chosen when God chose to fully give Himself in the perfect sacrifice to become children of God through this sacrifice.  In that full sense we are said to be ‘gods’.  This is true for those whom (as Yeshu Satsang declared above) to those ‘to whom the Word of God came’ – to those who accept His Word.  And in that full sense it was the needs of the future sons of god that bound Purusa to his sacrifice.  As Purusasukta verse 6 says ‘The gods performed a sacrifice with Purusa as the oblation’.  Purusa’s sacrifice was our cleansing.

The Sacrifice of Purusa – the way to heaven

So we see in the wisdom of the ancient Purusasukta and the Veda Pusthakam the plan of God revealed.  It is an awesome plan – one that we could not have imagined.  It is also very important for us because as the Purusasukta concludes in the 16th verse

English Translation Sanskrit Transliteration
The gods sacrificed Purusa as the sacrifice.  This is the earliest established principle.  Through this the sages obtain heaven Yajnena yajnamajayanta Devastani dharmani prathamanyasan Teha nakam mahimanah sacanta Yatra purve sadhyah santidevah

A sage is a ‘wise’ person. And it is truly a wise thing to yearn for obtaining heaven.  This is not out of our reach.  It is not impossible.  It is not only for the most ascetic of holy men who through extreme discipline and meditation achieve moksha.  It is not only for gurus.  On the contrary it was a way provided for by Purusa himself in his incarnation as Jesus Christ (Yeshu Satsang).

The sacrifice of Purusa – No other way to heaven

In fact not only has this been provided for us but the Sanskrit commentary by Sayanacharya between verse 15 and 16 of Purusasukta says

English Translation Sanskrit Transliteration
Thus, the one who knows this becomes able to reach the state of deathlessness.  No other way is known for this Tameva vidvanamrta iha bhavati Nanyah panta ayanaya vedyate

No other way is known to reach eternal life (deathlessness)!  Surely it is wisdom therefore to study the matter a bit more thoroughly.  Thus far I have jumped around through the Veda Pusthakam (The Bible) showing how it tells an overarching story of God, mankind and reality that is echoes with the story told in Purusasukta.  But I have not looked at this story in detail or in order.  There is much more to learn, many more rsis and hymns and principles that are revealed.  With this as our motive, I would like to invite you to explore along with me the Veda Pusthakam in more detail, starting at the beginning, learning about the creation, what happened that required this sacrifice of Purusa, what happened to the world that brought about the flood of Manu (Noah in Veda Pusthakan) and how the nations of the world learned and preserved the promise of the Perfect sacrifice that would free them from death and grant eternal life in Heaven.  Surely that is something worth learning and living for.


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Darlene Ann (LaMarche) Jacques

WAUKESHA, Wis. – Darlene Ann (LaMarche) Jacques went home to be with her heavenly father on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Darlene was born the first daughter of Lawrence and Angeline LaMarche on Jan. 18, 1942, in Escanaba.

On Jan. 21, 1961, she married the love of her life Jerome and together they had three children.

Darlene started working at the young age of 15 as a waitress, a position she loved and continued throughout her life including the Elks in Waukesha. She also worked for many years for Process Display in New Berlin and Amron Cooperation in Waukesha.

Darlene was not only the rock of the family she was the angel to all who knew her. She always put everyone first and lived life to its fullest. She had a special love for children, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She will truly be missed by many.

Darlene is survived by her husband, Jerome; twin sons, Kevin (Kim) Jacques of Wind Lake, Kelvin (Stacy) Jacques of Sullivan; daughter, Kim (Scott) McCullough of Waukesha; grandchildren, Shannon Gooch-Jacques, Amy Jacques, Amber (Tom Tymus) Jacques, Shayne Jacques, Cody, Austin, Chloe’ McCullough; great-grandchildren, Madison, Deion, and Lily; mother, Angeline LaMarche of Escanaba; brothers, Art (Elaine), Dale (Sue), and Dwayne (Myra) LaMarche of Escanaba; and sisters, Margie (Sid) Milkiewicz, Kathy (Joe) Karl and Judi (Dick) LaCosse of Escanaba. She was preceded in death by her father, Lawrence; brother, Leonard; father and mother in-law, Ernest and Viola Jacques.

Visitation for Darlene Ann Jacques will be held at Church and Chapel Funeral Home, 380 Bluemound Rd., Waukesha WI, 53188 (corner of Hwy J & Hwy JJ, four blocks south of I-94) on Sunday, Jan. 27, from 2-6 p.m. with a service 6 p.m.

Burial will be at the Genesee Cemetery on Monday, Jan. 28, please meet directly at the cemetery at 10 a.m.

Because of Darlene’s love of children memorials appreciated to St. Jude’s or to help in the fight of cancer Waukesha/Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital Foundation.

Church and Chapel Funeral Services, 380 Bluemound Rd.,Waukesha, 262-549-0659 are assisting the family with arrangements. For obits-condolences-directions visit, www.churchandchapel.com.


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Time to get rid of the R-word

State lawmakers want to to remove the terms “mental retardation” and “mentally retarded” from state law.

The legislation in Lansing incorporates some recent recommendations from a mental health commission appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder. The bipartisan bills would strike references to outdated language such as “retarded” from various statutes and instead use terms such as “developmentally disabled” or “intellectually disabled.”

We feel this is legislation that should have been adopted a long time ago. Currently, Michigan is one of only seven states that haven’t replaced the R-word state law. Congress removed the R-word from various federal laws in 2010.

Legislation removing the terms from state law unanimously passed the state Senate. A similar package of bills is expected to easily pass the House.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is a supporter of the effort. Snyder proclaimed March 5 as “Spread the Word to End the Word Day” in Michigan. The day was devoted to educating and raising awareness of the positive impact individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities have in our communities and why the use of the R-word, “retard(ed)”, is hurtful, even in casual conversation.

The Michigan House and Senate also passed resolution proclaiming March 5 as “Spread the Word to End the Word Day” in Michigan.

The Spread the Word to End the Word campaign is an ongoing national effort by Special Olympics and its supporters to raise the consciousness of society about the dehumanizing and hurtful effects of the R-word and encourages people to pledge to stop using it.

The R-word exists in 17 state statutes at the present time. Last month, the Mental Health and Wellness Commission, chaired by Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, whose daughter has autism, released a 29-page report that included a recommendation to remove the word from state law.

Words can be hurtful, and the R-word has no place in the laws of Michigan. Let’s hope it disappears from both the lawbooks and our language.


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Be cautious with advisers

To Americans of a certain age, the news out of Washington may sound disturbingly similar to reports from more than a half-century ago.

On Tuesday, an official at the Pentagon said consideration is being given to sending more U.S. military advisers to Iraq. The intent would be to assist that country’s government in beating back an assault by Islamic terrorists.

About 250 U.S. military advisers already are working in Iraq. According to the Defense Department, 160 of them are advising Iraqi forces directly. Another 90 are, to quote an Associated Press story, “studying the strength of the Islamic State militant group’s fighters and the Iraqi government forces …”

Rewind to the early 1960s, when then-President John F. Kennedy began stepping up involvement of U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam.

If you do not recall what happened next, check the history books. Eventually, U.S. advisers became involved in combat. Some were wounded and killed. That led to a formal U.S. combat role in the Vietnam War.

And that led to 58,220 American deaths and hundreds of thousands of Americans wounded.

Perhaps more advisers should be sent to Iraq – but not at the risk of an escalation of the U.S. military role there, whether by accident or design.


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For The Record

College Update

Fredonia Native Nick Bailen

Helps RPI to Pair of Wins

Fredonia native Nick Bailen helped the Rensselaer Poyltechnic Institute, the No. 17 ranked NCAA Division I men’s hockey team, to a pair of wins this past weekend while also being named Player of the Week for the week ending March 3.

The Engineers picked up a 5-0 win over Clarkson and a 4-1 win over St. Lawrence, as Bailen recorded five points on a goal and four assists, earning a plus-5 rating over the two games. The Engineers finished the regular season 17-12-5 and 12-7-3 in the ECAC.

It was Bailen’s second time being named Player of the Week, having earned the award previously on Feb. 12. Bailen, a senior defenseman, leads the Engineers in points with 31 (12 goals, 19 assists). Nationally, he is second amongst defenseman, averaging .94 points per game while scoring seven power-play goals, good enough for seventh in the country.

Bailen will look to help the Engineers in the ECAC playoffs, which begin March 15.

Adult Bowling

Lucky Lanes

Women’s A League – Team high game: Coughlan’s 635. Team high series: Coughlan’s 1,804.

Other high scores: Jackie Grant 182-196-536, Debbie Skinner 174-211-536, Michele Frederickson 182-185-519, Jane Rose 162-162-166-490, Joanie Rammelt 162-204-514, Ashley Bloss 170, Penny Haight 162-169, Rose Kellog 170, Roberta Patterson 166, Shirley Salerno 165, Sara Tulipane 181.

Women’s A League – Team high game: Fredonia Animal Hospital 664, Foxy Ladies 664. Team high series: Foxy Ladies 1,858.

Other high scores: Amy Seybold 162-175-234-571, Jane Rose 171-172-205-548, Jackie Grant 191-201-205-597, JoAnne Arnold 170-192-510, Debbie Skinner 170-181-500, Joanie Rammelt 177-184-513, Michele Frederickson 177-185, Kim Kreger 168-189, Kitten Edgerton 189, Penny Haight 170, Roberta Patterson 168, Shirley Salerno 168, Priscilla Seybold 160.

Forestville Softball Signups

Signups for girls aged 8-14 will take place on Wednesday, March 13, from 5:30-7 p.m., in the Forestville Elementary school gym.

Age groups will be: 10-under, 12-under and 14-under. Any questions, call Mike Nasal at 998-9720 or Mark Ostrye at 401-9111.


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Area Police

Lincoln Avenue fire under investigation

OBSERVER Staff Report

The Dunkirk Fire Department has provided more information about the fire that occurred Saturday evening on Lincoln Avenue.

Firefighters responded to a reported structure fire at 128 Lincoln Ave. at about 10:20 p.m. Saturday. Crews found heavy fire in a one-and-a-half story frame house. Exterior and interior attacks were made using two two-and-a-half inch and two one-and-three-quarter inch lines.

The residence was not occupied at the time of the fire. Damage to the house was heavy with exposure damage to an exterior wall at 126 Lincoln Ave.

There were no injuries. The fire is under investigation by the Dunkirk Fire Department and the Chautauqua County Fire Investigation Team.

Ellicott man charged with

criminal possession of a weapon

On Friday, New York State Police in Jamestown charged Jeffrey Young, 54, of Merriam Street in Ellicott, with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class D felony.

Young was detained following a traffic stop on Washington Avenue in Jamestown. Reportedly, he possessed a switch blade in plain view.

Young was processed at the state police barracks in Jamestown, arraigned in the City of Jamestown, and remanded to the Chautauqua County Jail.

Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office

MAYVILLE – Albert Chapman Jr., 29, of Jamestown was taken into custody Wednesday after appearing on the Chautauqua County Most Wanted List for violation of treatment court. Chapman was taken to the Chautauqua County Jail.

On Friday at about 2 a.m., deputies charged Jose L. Maisonet, 18, of Jamestown was charged with disorderly conduct.

Reportedly Maisonet was in the roadway on E. Second Street obstructing traffic. According to deputies, he intentionally slapped a slow moving vehicle which had slowed down for his presence.

Maisonet was taken into custody and then released with an appearance ticket for Jamestown Court at a later date.

RIPLEY – At about 10 p.m. on Friday, Patrick R. Ziolowski, 31, of Route 76 in Ripley was charged with speeding 47 mph in a 35 mph zone, one headlight and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation.

A sheriff’s deputy stopped Ziolkowski on West Main Road for speeding and for having only one working headlight. Further investigation reportedly revealed his driver’s license was suspended for failure to answer a summons.

Ziolkowski was taken into custody and later released with appearance tickets for the Town of Ripley Court.

City Court

An appearance ticket for Dunkirk City Court was issued by the building inspector to Sandra Waskiewicz for property located at 152 King St. The appearance ticket was for a charge of failure to remove unregistered vehicles from the property and failure to comply with a directive of the building inspector to remove said vehicles. Waskiewicz pleaded guilty and was fined a total of $150, $50 for each count and a $50 court surcharge.

State Police at Jamestown

KIANTONE – On Friday Kevin Haglund, 32, of Maple Street St. and Dominique Leeper, 27 of Arden Parkway, both in Jamestown, were charged for unlawful possession of marijuana.

They were stopped at a road check. Troopers reported that both possessed less than 25 grams of marijuana.

They were released on appearance tickets returnable to the Town of Kiantone Court on March 19.

ELLICOTT – On Saturday, troopers charged James Brown, 39, of Baker Street in the city of Jamestown for driving while intoxicated.

Troopers reported Brown was stopped for moving from lane unsafely on State Route 394. Brown reportedly failed field sobriety tests. He was taken to the state police barracks in Jamestown where he provided a breath sample reported to be .12 percent.

Brown was issued traffic tickets and is scheduled for the Town of Ellicott Court on March 19.


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Brocton: Major efforts bring arch back

Something just was not right going through the four corners of Brocton in the last five months.

But this past weekend, history returned to the village. Triumphantly.

The historic Brocton arches are back where they belong, thanks to the support of the community and generous donors. With the arches in place, the only thing that lacks is a real celebration for the village.

“This was truly a community event where everybody came together to refurbish Brocton’s arch and allowed it to be put back up,” said Brocton Mayor David Hazelton. “Now we can look forward to having it lit, which should happen before July and having it rededicated.”

The reconstruction of the arch occurred on a beautiful day in our region. Here’s hoping the rededication day will be just as nice.


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TB-positive herd found in Alpena County

ALPENA – Another dairy cow herd in Alpena County has tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, according to Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development officials.

A cow in a herd sized from 51 to 99 cattle tested as a reactor during routine annual whole-herd testing in September 2012, animal industry division Director James Averill said. It’s the 55th TB-positive found within the state since 1998, when testing began.

Necropsy on the cow revealed lesions like those found with TB, and a laboratory culture result later confirmed the bacterial infection’s presence, Averill said.

“There have been additional animals found at this time (within the herd), some confirmed, and some that are waiting to hear for culture results,” he said.

Cultures can take 6-8 weeks, as bovine TB is a slow-growing bacteria, Averill said.

The department will host a public meeting at 7 p.m. on Jan. 10 at the Wilson Township Hall, 3746 King Settlement Road in Herron, according to a press release. Richard Smith, TB eradication program director, will attend and talk about the disease and what’s been found at the farm thus far.

The original test was done on Sept. 25, Smith said. Three days later, secondary tests were done on suspect cows, turning up four reactors overall. All four were sent to a lab for further tests, with one proving to be infected.

Currently, the farm where the infected herd was found is in quarantine, with no animals to leave or enter the farm, Averill said. It’s located in an area where TB-positive herds have been found before, and where deer carrying the disease also are known to roam. The farm had not been previously found to have TB-positive cattle, and does not have a wildlife risk mitigation plan in place.

Milk from the farm can still be sold during quarantine, Averill said, adding pasteurization would kill any TB bacteria if it were present in the milk.

The herd’s owners have started a test-and-removal process, with MDARD testing every 60 days for a period of time, Averill said. One more test will be done six months after the last to assure the herd is TB-free.

Since the infection was discovered, veterinarians, biologists and dairy scientists have visited the farm to try to determine how the outbreak occurred, Smith said. They’ll be putting together their findings in the next month or so.

Jordan Travis can be reached via email at jtravis@thealpenanews.com or by phone at 358-5688.


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