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Gingrich says refugee debate is a national security issue

This is a rush transcript from "Your World," November 20, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

NEIL CAVUTO, HOST:  Passes overwhelmingly in the House, a measure to stave off this Syrian refugee threat so that we can get a handle on it and understand who is coming in and whether they`re a security threat.

But now Harry Reid, at least in his capacity as minority leader in the Senate, won`t take it up.  I don`t know how that mucks up the process here, but I know this guy does, the former speaker of the House, author of the book "Duplicity."  It`s out now.

This guy is like Stephen King with political tones and others and a darn good writer at that.

Newt, good to have you.  Thanks for coming.

NEWT GINGRICH, R- FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE:  It`s good to be with you.

And there`s an amazing contrast between Paul Ryan in his new role as speaker, where in his first big test he crafted the legislation so that 47 Democrats could vote with him, basically a veto-override number, a bipartisan bill, as you just had a Democrat explain, well done.

And yet you have the same tired old partisan left-wing attitude from Harry Reid, and this is a national security issue.  This shouldn`t be a partisan issue.  It shouldn`t be even ideological.

CAVUTO:  So, can a minority leader -- educate me here -- stymie a bill and avoid it getting to the Senate floor?

GINGRICH:  I don`t think so.  I think that this is a real test for Mitch McConnell.

McConnell has an absolute obligation to exercise his power as majority leader.  Somehow, Reid was able to dominate the Senate when he was the majority leader and he`s trying to dominate the Senate as the minority leader.  Now, at some point, I think Mitch has got to stand up and say he can introduce the bill having filled the tree so there are no amendments, which is what Reid used to do all the time.

He can do lots of things to shove Reid around, but I think there`s a more important question here.  The number one job of the United States government is to protect us.  It`s not to protect refugees.  It`s not to protect foreigners.  It`s to protect Americans.

There`s more than enough reason to believe that there could be real danger from accepting people we haven`t vetted.  And, by the way, the president`s absurd, nasty comment the other day about pregnant women and children, somebody should remind him first a woman in the last 48 hours blew herself up trying to kill the police in Europe.

And the two Boston bombers came to the U.S. when they were respectively 9 and 16 years old.  So, there`s legitimate reason to say, let`s slow down, let`s understand what is going on.

CAVUTO:  Fair enough, fair enough.

We should say, in the case of the woman, now there are indications she might not have blown herself up.  She might have been killed when someone else did that.  But your point is well taken to say that this is something that crosses both sexes and obviously all countries.

CAVUTO:  But I do want to ask you about -- if this is never taken up in the Senate, and the president has said as much, that this is a waste of time, even though 47 Democrats have said it is not a waste of time, and we just heard from the former defense secretary, Robert Gates, that this shows we got to get serious how we deal with ISIS and the way we`re going is wrong or it has to be adjusted, it sounds like the president`s an island here on this.

GINGRICH:  Look, I think December 11, the continuing resolution runs out.
The House is in a position to send over a continuing resolution that does contain a six-month suspension, and the Senate Republicans can bring that up because it only takes 51 votes.

It can go to the president.  For the president to veto that and risk closing the government in order to bring in Syrian refugees would strike me as politically one of the most dangerous things any president in my lifetime has done.  The country will not understand why Barack Obama has more passion for Syrian refugees than he has for protecting Americans, and that`s exactly what is at stake here.

CAVUTO:  Do you think -- obviously, John Kerry was called on the carpet for trying to compare or distinguish between terror events in Paris, back in January the Charlie Hebdo attacks and now, that the administration is bending over backwards too much to understand what happens in these attacks, not alienate the entire Muslim community?

The latter part, I can understand here, but at what expense?  Do you worry that they`re blind to other issues?

GINGRICH:  Look, the elites all over the Western world desperately try to avoid facing reality.

A couple of days ago, you had a Bosnian come down the street yelling Allahu Akbar shooting and killing two soldiers and then blowing himself up.  The Bosnian prime minister was asked whether this might have been a terrorist act or jihad.  He refused to answer the question.

Now, at some point, you had today people who were seizing hostages in Mali, and asking them to be able to quote the Koran and if they were Christians killing them.  At some point, you have got to get real about this.  This administration, the president and the secretary of state are desperately hiding from reality, and I frankly don`t understand it.

It is almost inconceivable that you could be living through the horrible things we`re seeing, and refusing to learn from any of them.

CAVUTO:  Do you think as well that the commonality and all of these attacks, including the ones in Mali and the ones that happened in Paris, lack of communication amongst authorities, unaware that, for example, terrorists in their midst were being cited by other officials who some had dropped the ball either that sharing information with them or refused calls or e-mails from them?

It`s a familiar theme, Speaker, and it`s been borne out again and again.

GINGRICH:  There`s been such a desperate effort to be politically correct that we have consistently refused to look at the obvious.

The Army psychiatrist who jumped up and yelled Allahu Akbar and began kill peopling at Fort Hood, killing 13 Americans, had clearly been in touch with a very, very radical imam in Yemen.  They knew that he was dangerous.  They knew that he had grave psychological problems.

But who wants to render judgment?  And so you have over and over -- the neighborhood in Brussels, which has been called the center of jihadism in Europe, people know it`s there.  Well, why is it still there?  Why isn`t it broken up?  Why isn`t the mosque closed down?

These are the kind of arguments we`re going to have over the next few years, as we are forced to defend ourselves from people who want to kill us.

CAVUTO:  Well said.  Very good seeing you, Speaker.  Good luck with the book.

GINGRICH:  Good to see you.

CAVUTO:  I don`t think you need it, but good luck just the same.

GINGRICH:  And, by the way, congratulations on the debate.  You were magnificent.  You did a great job.

CAVUTO:  Oh, get out of here.  No, thank you very much.  I appreciate that, Newt Gingrich.

CAVUTO:  All right.

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Figure 4.1: The cart in its calibration posture before the calibration pattern. A program automatically locates the cross and the spots, and deduces the camera's focal length and distortion.

The cart camera, like most vidicons, has peculiar geometric properties. Its precision has been enhanced by an automatic focal length and distortion determining program.

The cart is parked a precise distance in front of a wall of many spots and one cross (Figure 4.1). The program digitizes an image of the spot array, locates the spots and the cross, and constructs a a two dimensional polynomial that relates the position of the spots in the image to their position in an ideal unity focal length camera, and another polynomial that converts points from the ideal camera to points in the image. These polynomials are used to correct the positions of perceived objects in later scenes.

Figure 4.2: The spot array, as digitized by the cart camera

The program tolerates a wide range of spot parameters (about 3 to 12 spots across), arbitrary image rotation, and is very robust. After being intensely fiddled with to work successfully on an initial set of 20 widely varying images, it has worked without error on 50 successive images. The test pattern for the cart is a 3 meter square painted on a wall, with 5 cm spots at 30 cm intervals. The program has also been used successfully with a small array (22 x 28 cm) to calibrate cameras other than the cart's \ref(W1).

Figure 4.3: Power spectrum of Figure 4.2, and folded transform

Figure 4.4: Results of the calibration program. The distortion polynomial it produced has been used to map an undistorted grid of ideal spot positions into the calculated real world ones. The result is superimposed on the original digitized spot image, making any discrepancies obvious.

Figure 4.5: Another instance of the distortion corrector at work; a longer focal length lens

Figure 4.6: Yet another example; a rotation

Figure 4.7: And yet another example

The algorithm reads in an image of such an array, and begins by determining its approximate spacing and orientation. It trims the picture to make it square, reduces it by averaging to 64 by 64, calculates the Fourier transform of the reduced image and takes its power spectrum, arriving at a 2D transform symmetric about the origin, and having strong peaks at frequencies corresponding to the horizontal and vertical and half-diagonal spacings, with weaker peaks at the harmonics. It multiplies each point $[i,j]$ in this transform by point $[-j,i]$ and points $[j-i,j+i]$ and $[i+j,j-i]$, effectively folding the primary peaks onto one another. The strongest peak in the 90° wedge around the $Y$ axis gives the spacing and orientation information needed by the next part of the process.

The directional variance interest operator described later (Chapter 5) is applied to roughly locate a spot near the center of the image. A special operator examines a window surrounding this position, generates a histogram of intensity values within the window, decides a threshold for separating the black spot from the white background, and calculates the centroid and first and second moment of the spot. This operator is again applied at a displacement from the first centroid indicated by the orientation and spacing of the grid, and so on, the region of found spots growing outward from the seed.

A binary template for the expected appearance of the cross in the middle of the array is constructed from the orientation/spacing determined determined by the Fourier transform step. The area around each of the found spots is thresholded on the basis of the expected cross area, and the resulting two valued pattern is convolved with the cross template. The closest match in the central portion of the picture is declared to be the origin.

Two least-squares polynomials (one for $X$ and one for $Y$) of third (or sometimes fourth) degree in two variables, relating the actual positions of the spots to the ideal positions in a unity focal length camera, are then generated and written into a file.

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  • From: Mladen Gogala <gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: peter.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:05:10 +0000

On 06/21/2005 08:42:50 PM, Pete Sharman wrote:
> Seriously, where a CFS is supported by the OS, why would you do anything else
> for the ORACLE_HOME?
> Pete

Because CFS might not be the best fit for a myriad of small files that need to
be paged
into the memory quickly. CFS may not support anything but direct I/O, therefore
not caching
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle and shared libraries on $ORACLE_HOME/lib, which means
that almost
all page faults will be hard faults. On the other hand, if CFS does cache files
as is the case
with UFS by SUN Microsystems, it needs the same type of mechanism to
synchronize the caches
across the nodes as are the ones used by oracle. That might perform well only
if background_dump_dest,
user_dump_dest and core_dump_dest are not on the same global file system. Also,
resist temptation
to put archive destinations on CFS. Putting it on normal FS and then sharing it
over public connection
by NFS is much faster then by putting it on CFS.
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The master suite is approached by a short series of steps and like the other bedrooms found on this floor, is approached through attractive doors with wood panelled architrave.
It boasts high ceilings, decorative architraves and a traditional feature windows offer views of the grounds and parkland.
Other internal details, typical of a farmhouse of the period, are spread throughout the property, including architraves and wooden ceiling beams.
Panelled doors with deep architraves give access to the principal reception rooms, which all have elegant ceiling heights, shuttered sash windows, traditional cast iron radiators, polished wooden floors and open fireplaces.
Each 'Chestnut' four-bedroom home and 'Hickory' three-bedroom home features an integrated dishwasher, whilst all houses feature an integrated fridge-freezer, washing machine and built-in oven in the fully-fitted kitchen, plus moulded skirtings and architraves and coving in the living room.
But there is no time for finishing touches, architraves or floral embellishments.
With contemporary skirtings and architraves, they each have ash veneer finish doors, stainless steel ironmongery,fitted carpets throughout and floor to ceiling feature windows.
Fine reception rooms have ornate moulded ceilings and walls, pedimented architraves and double herringbone oak block floors.
Classical Architecture will enable students to recover that lost knowledge and scholars to increase their own, for it contains both recondite as well as practical information: for example, the section on 'Ears' begins 'trusses or consoles on the flanks of architraves under the cornice, also called elbows, ancones, or prothyrides'.
The scope of work includes: a swath of grass inside the station on switching substation, a swath of grass in the ditches around the architraves of the station, cleaning, maintenance of drainage ditches, maintaining proper inheritance runoff and patency of road culverts, cleaning of wells, purification by agronomic (ripper) protective belt of land stations around the fence on the side of the inner and outer fences, cleaning of roads and internal roads extremities and external access, local spraying herbicides internal roads, yards, transformer stations, cleaning discs cable channels, tidying the area, disposal of waste.
To complement our beautiful flooring we supply skirting boards, architraves and door linings, all machined by us from European oak.
In the reception hall there is period Admittance to the three reception main rooms is through panelled doors with deep architraves and stone thresholds.
What's striking here are the beautiful proportions and tall ceiling heights with ornate cornicing, shuttered sash windows, panelled doors and deep architraves.
Stone mullioned deep bay windows enhance many rooms and the pine moulded architraves, heavy panelled doors and deep skirting boards, staircase balustrades are substantial, solid, and of high quality.
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Two poorly illustrated maps of the oasis are provided, one with the major artesian wells indicated.
The idea of protecting small public water supplies like his own from deliberate tampering became more pronounced as a result of the water testing he does for schools in the region that are not on a municipal water supply, but draw from artesian wells.
The majority of the province's artesian wells have dried up because of frequent droughts coupled with excessive consumption by farmers growing qat," he said.
A fenced pasture of approximately 160 acres fronting on Sneed Road, with two six-inch Artesian wells and micro-jet irrigation piping.
The rise of building and the construction of artesian wells around the spring has had a direct effect on the level of water and its pollution," explains Hamad Hasan, the mayor of Blbek.
While water delivery trucks have become a commonplace sight, a network of pipes to transport water from artesian wells has also taken shape, snaking along electricity poles belonging to Electricite du Liban.
The owners informed WAFA that a large Israeli military force, accompanied by heavy machinery, stormed Marj Bin Amer area in the village, before proceeding to demolish the three artesian wells, in addition to a shed and a water tank.
Drinking water obtained from various sources such as wells, springs, artesian wells, and the municipal water supply undergoes a purification process before being packaged in a plastic or glass bottle.
16 (BNA): The International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) of Muslim World League (MWL) spent in the past year an amount of SR 16,387,689 to drill 1880 shallow and artesian wells in 13 countries of Asia and Africa to provide clean drinking water and irrigation in many remote villages in underdeveloped countries, benefiting about 400,000 people.
We have iron molds that we fill with water from artesian wells equipped with filters," he explained.
He also said rampant violations against artesian wells are unacceptable as the Kingdom suffers acute water shortages.
The Ministry of Irrigation completed 50 new artesian wells, with a cost of EGP 25m as part of the project to reclaim the 1m acres for cultivation, according to Hossam Moghazy, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation.
Founded in 1993, Fish Brewing Company is owned by over 400 beer drinking consumers, who pooled their resources to build a landmark brewery in Olympia, WA, which is known for its quality water and artesian wells.
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Using an Arduino board as a USB keyboard

 Recent Arduino boards including the Uno and our Freetronics Eleven board use the small ATmega8U2 microcontroller to take care of the USB interface. However this can also be programmed to help the board behave as a USB keyboard, and the people at Mitchtech have explained the process for doing this in a well-documented manner. Several examples are shown, including making a keyboard-based volume control, for example:

Certainly useful - you could make a macro-style function to enter many presses, perhaps a sequence to enter a password, or hide it at the back of the machine and enter random keystrokes as a practical joke. All this and more is possible with our Freetronics Eleven - the Arduino-compatible with onboard prototyping area:

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F-ab is an online flash animation/video channel browser

F-ab is a player for online videos and other flash animations where, instead of a URL, you literally ’tune into’ channels that are broadcast over the internet in the manner of a radio dial. It offers more than 1200 such channels as of this writing, with the possibility of adding your own (including YouTube channels) to the mix. F-ab also has a flash-based videoconferencing component.

This program, as you might have surmised from the text above, is somewhat hard to describe. I knew instantly that I wanted to post it on Freewaregenius if only because of being so interesting, although for all intents and purposes it is hard to see why a user might be inclined to be browsing channels on F-ab rather than on a video sharing site or any of the free video/TV broadcasting programs that have proliferated recently. There are a number of ways in which this program is unique; here are some notes on this program:

  • What it is: F-ab downloads and delivers specific content in the manner of a video sharing service. It is not a player for SWF or FLV player.
  • Interactivity: Has an interactive dimension beyond the experience provided by video sharing, as it not only broadcasts flash video (FLV) but flash animations (SWF’s) as well .
  • The content: there are 4 categories: advertisement, art, science, and sport. I wasn’t really able to see any single thread that connects the different channels on offer, except perhaps that the animations tend to be artsy and “hip”. A lot of the flash advertising animations seem to be there because they are interestingly made rather than as ads.
  • Changing the channel: you can do this by moving a dial. F-ab can support up to 10,000 channels (from 0000 to 9999 on the dial); it currently is up to the 1200 or so channels. It doesn’t really work very well when most channels do not have content. The best way to browse F-ab is to go to the public “search” section and browse the categories/channels there, which are displayed in a list.
  • Publishing a channel: you can publish your own channels on F-ab. Publishing a YouTube channel is extremely easy and literally involves a simple dragging and dropping of your channel’s URL/Favicon onto the F-ab interface.
  • Videoconferencing: F-ab supports flash-based videoconferencing where instead of a telephone number, an email is used for the person to be called. This is disabled by default and you have to go to the preferences to enable it. Note that I did not try the videoconferencing functionality for this review.
  • Options: browse by category, bookmark a favorite channel, scale proportions (or view fullscreen), jump back to previously viewed channels,
  • Source: click the “source” button to open the source web page where your flash movie originated, in case you are interested in finding out more about it.
  • Quirks: might not play some videos correctly because it does not support Javascript, search does not work very well because content is not yet categorized, and, the F-ab site states, for some reason the application will not work if installed in the “program files” folder in vista (but will work if installed in the root directory).

The verdict: this is a rather interesting program, but might be more of a novelty item than a tool you would come back to over and over. The content provided has a definite coolness factor, which complement the sleek design of the user interface. It would be interesting to see how this program develops and whether it is able to find a niche for itself.

Having said this, it might be worth downloading this simply to browse the animations, if you are into this sort of thing.

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A lot of us have signed up for daily emails from Groupon or LivingSocial where the discounts/deals sometimes make us waver back and for between ‘should I’ or ‘should I not’. Restaurant.com is currently offering a deal on 80% off  of restaurant specific gift certificates.

It’s worth focusing on what this means in terms of ‘is this a frugal choice?” All indicators point to this being a good offer to buy because it allows for a somewhat expensive meal, if you’re taking you’re family, or the ability to spend a little extra if you’re having a date night. And spending a little extra would not come close to what you would spend without the deal.

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You decide to buy a gift certificate to Restaurant A for a “$100 for $35″. That is, you’re spending $35 to get $100 towards that restaurant.  In order to use $100,  however, you have to plan on spending a minimum of $35 for your purchase. (also, this does not include tip or couple with any other promotion). So, you can’t use this gift certificate on different occasions, it must be used all at once. There is also a $2-5 service fee as well. In all, you’re spending, at most, $55 (a very generous tip) on a $100 meal that could make a special frugal anniversary dinner or a rare night out with the entire family.

It seems daunting, but it really is a good deal. Each place is different and Restaurant.com does a great job of putting the fine print directly under the deals, which is a good move on their behalf.

You might be wondering, too, “But is this really frugal?” Of course, I’d say, because you are getting way more for what you paid and there are a lot of options to choose from. Frugal choices come in different forms and in the wave of the coupon craze, there’s always going to be a deal worth thinking about.

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  1. I just used the coupon code and link to get $25 dollars worth of food at Snoose Junction Pizzeria in Seattle for only $2. Keeping in mind that there is a minimum spending requirement of $35 I will be spending around $15 in total for a $35 meal. Still more than a 50% discount!

  2. Do you make money through that link? This post sounds awful sales-y. People should also keep in mind that restaurant.com is ALWAYS running 80% off sales – so it isn’t a hurry-before-they’re-gone kind of thing. Also, you might try searching the web for restaurant.com reviews. They are hundreds of horror stories of people buying certificates that the establishments refuse to honor. I guess they (restaurant.com) would keep selling the certs even after the merchants had cancelled their agreements with them. TONS of merchants have pulled out from offering certs on that site. There are only 4 restaurants within 100 miles of me that sell on that site – and they all have very specific requirements to use the certificates. Buyer beware…

    • You’re probably right and I think you have to be really careful with this site. I have friends that have used it and been successful which is why I did it. I probably wouldn’t have even tried without the 80% discount

  3. Always call before you head out to the restaurant because, as others have mentioned, sometimes the restaurant has cancelled the contract, but it still shows up on the website. I’ve had this happen several times. However, you can contact restaurants.com and exchange your coupon for another restaurant. Restaurants.com even exchanged an expired coupon for me.

  4. I have used restaurant.com a few times and generally have been unhappy with the results. The restaurants that are on their site are, in my experience, not very good. We did have one local restaurant that was great – so choose carefully. Check out yelp or tripadvisor reviews.

  5. We’ve had good luck with groupon for restaurants, but we’ve waited a few weeks after a deal and always call in advance. We’ve had to be flexible in terms of timing (sometimes, even though it is not in the fine print, they just don’t want you coming in at a particular time or day), but generally it’s worked pretty well.

    We always tip on the full price, not the discounted one, which may explain why we’ve always had good treatment (too many couponers tip on the discounted price and this really irks the restaurant staff).

    Restaurant.com is good in theory, not so good in reality because of the way the deals vary by restaurant (all kinds of restrictions–must spend at least X, etc. which often means you are ordering more than you’d want; limits on number of people at table;, etc.) Plus the deals are often at less than great restaurants. The other issue is given the fine print on how much you must spend, you often cannot use these and save any money if you want to dine alone. (This is really annoying to me as given my schedule, I often do dine out alone and don’t necessarily want to be forced into having dinner with someone else to use them.)

    FYI: I live in a major city and the depth of restaurants by area is very very limited given the number and types of cuisine available citywide.

  6. I will never buy from restaurant.com. In the town we jsut moved from, many of ourfavourite restaurants were locally owned (not chains) and several had signs for months and months on end that they cannot honor gift certificates from restaurant.com as they are unauthorized and the company refuses to take them down. One restaurant said if it honored these unauthorized gift certificates, they would go out of business when I asked the owner about it. I have also hear stories from friends in other towns and states who have tried to use them, only to find out they are not valid on certain menu items, certain days and times, or they won’t honor them unless you tell them you have it before you sit down and order. It sounds like a scam to me. I’m shocked to see you endorse this – you clearly have not done the kind of research I would expect.

  7. I looked at this site, but it doesn’t seem like that good of a deal. For instance the restaurant I looked at required a $20 purchase to use the $10 gift certificate that costs $5. So basically you get 25% off your meal in a best case scenario. That is not bad, but then the restaurant can add 18% gratuity. I will not eat at a restaurant that forces you to tip. A tip is something that should be given freely as a reward for good service, not forced regardless of service quality.

  8. I resisted signing up for Groupon for a long time because of being afraid of being tempted, but a couple of months ago my friend told me about a Groupon deal for $20 for a $40 box of organic groceries delivered to your door. I signed up and got it and it was enough for a family of two for a week – a really good deal. And I haven’t been tempted to buy things I don’t need, as they have a lot of deals for spas and gyms that I just don’t need. I did get a NYC tour bus deal for a great price for friends visiting from Japan. And I signed up for CrowdSource.com in Albany to get a great deal on the Albany Duck amphibious bus/boat tour with my sister and family – it was $12 for a $28 ticket and a lot of fun! So worth it!

  9. I use those restaurant.com gift certificates once a month because my favorite pizza place is on the list (fortunately). Used to get the 2$ will buy a 25$ gift certificate (with the coupon code), however we made the mistake of mentioning the coupon code to the server and now that restaraurant doesn’t accept coupon codes. We still get a very nice deal though, even without the code. We also go there without the coupon too. They make plenty of money off of me :) If it wasn’t a good deal for the restaurants that choose to be listed, they wouldn’t do it.

    A lot of ethnic restaurants are listed, my family is going to an Indian place this weekend and using a gift certificate – $25 gift certificate for $2. The minimum purchase is $50 (does not include alcohol in the total) – however 9 of us are going, so I know we’ll be WAY over that. I think the restaurants that are listed like restaurant.com because it brings in more people to try them. The $25 off was definitely a factor in us choosing that restaurant this time.

  10. It’s true, if you sign up for their newsletter, they send out those 80% codes every month or two. We’ve used them fairly successfully for two kinds of things: either, for a restaurant we already like but can’t afford for an anniversary dinner, or some similar kind of celebration, or to test out restaurants we haven’t heard of, but would like to try.

    Still, like anything else, it’s buyer beware! For every Italian place that we loved, there’s that pool joint where the waitress ignored us for 20 minutes (place was empty – we weren’t even seated yet) until we walked out.

  11. Do not use Restaurant.com. I bought it years ago and had problems when most of the restaurants quit and had to fight to get my money back. It seemed like there were a very few VERY expensive restaurants plus some that I didn’t want to even try…don’t believe the list they provide because it is often out of date.

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MERCERSBURG, Pa. (AP) – The double-barreled blast of winter that buried the Middle Atlantic region in 2 to 4 feet of snow couldn’t have come at a better time for area ski resorts, operators said Friday.

The three-day Presidents Day weekend can make or break their season – and this year, they’ve got it made.

“We are absolutely 100 percent crushed right now with people enjoying the awesome conditions,’’ said Matt See, spokesman for the Whitetail resort near Mercersburg, Pa. He said the resort, about 90 miles northwest of the nation’s capital, is having its best season since its 1991 opening.

Whitetail was closed Thursday so crews could safely clear the road that winds up the mountain to the ski area. But See wasn’t complaining since the workers smoothed the way for Whitetail customers like Ed Regnier, a U.S. Department of Energy engineer from Kensington, Md.

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“It’s been colder and drier, which makes for lighter, fluffier snow – what people think of as Utah powder or champagne powder kind of snow. The East Coast isn’t known for that, but we’ve gotten it this year, which has really been phenomenal,’’ she said.

The big snow was deja vu for Whitetail skiers Helik and Diane Shemer, of Leesburg, Va., who met at Virginia ski resort during a huge storm on Presidents Day weekend 2003.

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Pursuing concrete goals, like making a friend smile, rather than general ones, like making a friend happy, is a path to happiness, say researchers.

When you pursue concretely framed goals, your expectations of success are more likely to be met in reality. On the other hand, broad and abstract goals may bring about the dark side of happiness—unrealistic expectations.

These are the conclusions of a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology by Jennifer Aaker, a social psychologist and professor of marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

The pursuit of happiness is one of the most essential quests in life, and happiness is often considered a hallmark of psychological health. But it is more mysterious and complex than most people might imagine—and not always readily achievable, the researchers point out.

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“Although the desire for personal happiness may be clear, the path to achieving it is indefinite. One reason for this hazy route to happiness is that although people often think they know what leads to happiness, their predictions about what will make them happy are often inaccurate,” Aaker says.

One underappreciated way to increase one’s own happiness is to focus on elevating the happiness of others. The researchers conducted six experiments involving 543 people from laboratory studies and national survey pools. The level of abstraction of one’s “prosocial” goal—voluntary behavior intended to benefit someone else—was the critical factor of interest.

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The results show that acts designed to improve the well-being of others will lead to greater happiness for givers when these acts are associated with concretely framed, prosocial goals as opposed to abstractly framed prosocial goals—despite people’s intuitions to the contrary.

For example, an experiment involving bone marrow transplants focused on the whether giving those who need bone marrow transplants “greater hope”—the abstract goal—or giving those who need bone marrow transplants a “better chance of finding a donor”—the concrete goal—made a giver more happy.

The answer: Helping someone find a donor resulted in more happiness for the giver. This, the researchers wrote, was driven by givers’ perceptions that their actual acts better met their expectations of accomplishing their goal of helping another person.

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Aaker and coauthors show that these “happiness effects” are due to smaller gaps between one’s expectations of achieving the goal and the actual result when one’s goal is framed more concretely. Simply, the more abstract goals are often more unrealistic.

Is prosociality always a good goal to chase? According to this study, it depends. Sometimes people pursue prosociality in a way that is less than optimal.

“Discrepancies between aspirations and reality can be critical factors that, in extreme cases, may even lead the act of helping to eventually becoming a source of unhappiness,” explains lead author Melissa Rudd, Aakers’ former student who is currently an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Houston.

For example, when people pursue abstract prosocial goals and expect their relentless giving to result in tremendous and rapid change for the better—and it fails to materialize—they can suffer from “helper burnout,” which can negatively impact happiness.

But, encouraging givers to “reframe their prosocial goals in more concrete terms” would allow expectations to be better calibrated, increasing personal happiness, the researchers argue.

Givers are likely to experience greater happiness if they frame their prosocial goals in concrete rather than abstract terms.

Business nuances

The results have implications for the world of business. For instance, marketing or products that claim to help consumers achieve abstractly framed goals—like making someone else happy—might not be the best business decision. Instead, it might be wiser to reframe these promised goals in more specific, concrete terms.

Consider, for example, Tom’s Shoes. The company promises that if a customer buys a pair of shoes, they will deliver another pair to a child in need.

“Concrete initiatives such as this may be a more realistic way to accurately set consumers’ expectations from the outset and leave them happier in the end,” Aaker says.

Boosting happiness

Ultimately, people seek to be happy, and one clear path toward happiness is through prosocial behaviors.

“A prosocial act can not only boost the happiness of the recipient, but it can boost the happiness of the giver as well,” Aaker explains.

“However,” cautions Rudd, “not all prosocial goals are created equal.”

The researchers hope that future work will yield a deeper understanding of how to harvest happiness—such as by helping others—and how to avoid any unhappiness traps along the way. Sometimes, people pursue happiness ineffectively—as in giving to well-intentioned but broadly defined causes—which may leave them dissatisfied.

As Aaker notes, people often do not realize why they are left feeling unfulfilled— leading them to repeat their mistakes in the future.

But, on the bright side, greater happiness is just within reach when the goal of giving is realistically focused and viewed through a concrete lens.

Michael Norton, an associate professor of business at Harvard University, coauthored the study.

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Valve’s brilliant yet somewhat limited puzzle “shooter” Portal took the gaming world by storm when it was released as part of the Orange Box (still arguably the greatest $60 package in gaming history). Now Valve is giving the game its proper due in Portal 2 by upping the puzzle platforming ante and expanding upon the narrative of the first game to a ridiculous degree.

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The demo Valve showed off at Gamescom 2010 followed the same formula as the one shown during E3, with a few welcomed exceptions. In the new demo, Chell is once again guided around by the loveably innocent AI bot Wheatley (only now with the proper voice of the brilliant Stephen Merchant). In the first section, Wheatley provides light in a series of pitch black corridors. The lighting effects are particularly gripping, and the total darkness serves as a great contrast to the sterile, bright white walls of Aperture Science.

From there, Chell moved on to a companion cube and turret assembly plant. Giant tubes flowing with the iconic boxes snaked around the cavernous room as Chell made her way through the frenetic factory, at one point jumping across a broken walkway. Massive, laser-emitting machines assembled turrets, cutting components out of large sheets of metal, one of which Chell used to maneuver to the next area by riding on top of it. Seeing the guts of Aperture Science’s production facilities was quite unnerving for some strange reason, perhaps because the idea of a factory continuing to work even though no one is around to run is just inherently terrifying.

The demo then shifted to showing off some crazy combinations of the few new puzzle elements being introduced this time around. For instance, the Excursion Funnel is great for moving yourself across large open spaces thanks to its gravity-defying capabilities. But when you drop some massive globs of Repulsion Gel into the beam, suddenly you’re able to create a line of bouncing material that can then be used to propel yourself across a gap. Or you can drench a row of turrets with the goo, and watch them all ricochet around the room like a chipmunk on Adderall.

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Another simpler combination is one we’ve seen before but not in this way, and it came down to placing one portal beneath a flow of bouncing goo, and one on one side of a forked beam, thereby spraying the left side of a long hall with blue goo, then doing the same thing on the opposite side of the beam, which sprayed the adjacent wall. This then let Chell bounce between the two walls, over a pit of some kind of nasty, no doubt death-bringing ooze, and finally to safety.

The rest of the demo was similar if not the same as E3’s, and showed off the new Propulsion Gel and Faithplates. What was particularly interesting was that during the quick gameplay trailer that played at the end of the demo, there was a brief moment where you were sliding down what looked like an energy chute, as though you could create some kind of light road. It only lasted about half a second, so I can’t be sure, but, like everything else Valve has shown of the game, it looked utterly mental.

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Hopefully we’ll be seeing a bit more of Portal 2 in the coming months, and if not, then we’ll just have ot wait until February 9, 2011 when the game hits PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

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  • kilCanvas

    Source is once again looking pretty. Portal 2 seems likely to become the new benchmark in puzzle games, not only for the gameplay but the amazing storytelling!

    Posted: August 23, 2010 12:16 PM
  • gamemasterhalo:REACH

    portal is a pretty amazing game after all the preveiws ive seen so im happy 2 say I WANT PORTAL 2!!!!!!!

    Posted: August 22, 2010 9:29 PM
  • houdini pro

    Cant wait! love portal cant wait for portal 2

    Posted: August 21, 2010 10:42 PM
  • drago2021

    February 9th you elusive bastard, get your ass over here already!!!

    Posted: August 21, 2010 9:01 PM
  • orange_shirt_guy

    I think this might be one of the most crazy, insane, difficult games I have ever played, but I am going to enjoy every second of it! I got a feeling that Wheatly, or somebody similar, is going to be with you almost all of the game and will give you pointers and hints if you need them. And I have a feeling that they will all be witty and sarcastic! Like "why don't you put a portal over here dummy"

    Posted: August 21, 2010 6:51 PM
  • FrancisJansenU

    Erik Wolpaw talked about the Light Bridge on Gametrailers TV. Gameinformer also briefly touched on the Light Bridge on the co-op page.

    More Portal 2 will be shown at PAX.

    ...2011 is too far.

    Posted: August 21, 2010 4:08 PM
  • DragonRider6

    Looks great. I still with is had some form of competitive multiplayer though. Valve really has outdone themselves (which is an impressive feat seeing what they have produced before). Can't wait.

    BTW Orange box is only $30 now, not $60.

    Posted: August 21, 2010 3:14 PM
  • CFenix

    Damn 2011 seems like a long time from now. I guess I'll just have my companion cube keep me company until then.

    Posted: August 21, 2010 2:47 PM
  • repeteist

    I caught that "light bridge" as well.
    http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/o bjects/64330/portal-2/videos/g c10_portal2_demo2_81810.html
    (it's at 4:05)
    Definitely a game mechanic that Valve hasn't told us about yet. And knowing Valve, it didn't just slip in there unintentionally. In any case, I'm foaming at the mouth for this game. What I'm really excited about though is the multiplayer game, which hasn't yet made an appearance in the previews. We all remember how complicated the puzzles got in the first game, and the new game mechanics have the potential to increase the complexity of the puzzles even further. Can you even imagine what kind of a puzzle would require FOUR portals to complete? I sure can't, so I can't wait to see what Valve has managed to imagine.

    Posted: August 21, 2010 10:31 AM
  • Veagor

    Glad they changed some of the dialogue. There was some dialogue with Wheatley in the E3 demo (Particularly when GLaDos made an appearance) that really punched my goat in the nards.

    Posted: August 21, 2010 1:11 AM
  • Doug Otto

    I was watching a demo on IGN, and what I saw was utterly beautiful. the flashlight mechanics were so polished I couldn't believe it. The broken glass was detailed and simply worked. February 9th looks like decades away for me.

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EXCLUSIVE: Steve Niles 'Lost Ones' Interview

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