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Monday, January 30, 2012

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Hulk Obama

Quotation by Isaac Asimov about art and science

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
Russian-born U.S. author
Quote taken from "The Roving Mind", Chapter 25, Prometheus (1983)


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 "How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers". 
 








Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Word Cloud's of all the State of the Union addresses ever given by a U.S. President

State of the Union



State of the Union (SOTU) provides access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2012. SOTU allows you to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time, and to link to information on the historical context for their use. SOTU focuses on the relationship between individual addresses as compared to the entire collection of addresses, highlighting what is different about the selected document. You are invited to try and understand from this information the connection between politics and language–between the state we are in, and the language which names it and calls it into being.

The Words
SOTU maps the significant content of each State of the Union address so that users can appreciate its key terms and their relative importance.

The horizontal axis shows the average position of a word in the document. The vertical axis displays the word’s relative frequency, determined by comparing how frequently the word occurs in the document to how frequently it appears throughout the entire body of SOTU addresses (see appendix for details).

Common words (“and,” “the,” etc.) and words that occur frequently in the entire corpus (“states”) are largely filtered out; what remains are words that are especially characteristic of a given address. The size of the word indicates how many times it was used in the document. Click the word to view the full text of the address with the word highlighted. Rollover the word to get detailed frequency data.

The Data
The data underneath the map of significant words shows trends in the language of the State of the Union addresses. On the graph, white bars indicate the word length of each address. The red dots indicate readability as measured by the address’s Flesch-Kincaid score, which is meant to suggest the grade level in an American school for which the text is comprehensible. The actual scores are displayed in the bottom right corner of the interface (for more information on Flesch-Kincaid, see the appendix).

The current corpus contains:

  • 226 documents
  • 1,734,587 words
  • 27,308 unique words


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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Two Stylish and Chic Sweaters on sale at www.AndrewChristian.com

The Satans Sauce Knit Shirt

The Satans Sauce Knit Shirt by Insight is a great cold weather outerwear style for any wardrobe.



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Zoltan Long Sleeve By WESC
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This stylish multi-colored sweater is perfect for whenever it’s just a little bit nippy outside.  Its lightweight construction doesn’t way you down while it’s warming you up.


  • Crew neck, gathered hem.
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  • 17" shoulder, 28.5" length.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Cell Phones for Soldiers: you can get involved TODAY!



Donating gently-used mobile phones is simple and FREE! Every phone donated assists Cell Phones for Soldiers in its mission to provide free communication tools to service men and women.


Donated cell phones are sold to recycling partner, ReCellular. The money received from recycling cell phones is used to purchase calling cards and other communication tools for the U.S. military.


Minimize weight and save on postage by mailing cell phones only. Batteries, chargers and accessories are not required but gladly accepted.



Locate a Drop-Off Location Near You: CLICK HERE FOR DROP-OFF LOCATOR

Rob and Brittany Bergquist, Founders of Cell Phones for Soldiers

Mailing Address

To allow the charity to provide more communication tools to our troops, you can help by paying for postage. 

To pay for postage, simply mail your phone(s) to:

Cell Phones for Soldiers
C/o ReCellular
PO Box 9998
Dexter, MI 48130-9998

VIDEO & PHOTO REPORT: Disaster at Sea off the Italian Coastline- the Costa Concordia runs aground on rocks & sinks

Panic ensues after a luxury cruise ship dubbed the "Floating Temple of Fun" runs aground off Italy's coast line.

Two survivors of a cruise ship grounding who were found nearly a day after the ship rolled onto its side have been identified as a South Korean couple on their honeymoon.
Prato fire commander Vincenzo Bennardo told The Associated Press that rescuers who had been banging on doors of the ship cabins all night finally heard a reply from one of the rooms early Sunday. He said the two, about 29 years old, were in good condition. He said the rescuers never stopped going door-to-door during the night in the non-submerged part of the ship.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Got a DROID Phone? If so, You'll Want to Check OUT These 5 Settings to Adjust Immediately

If you got a new Android smartphone for the holidays, here are some things you want to do right away!

1. Don’t Skip the Google Account Setup
When you set up your Android for the first time, you’re asked to provide your Google account credentials. Doing so is the fastest way to set up your email, calendar, and contacts (core PIM functionality), but it’s optional, some people don’t have Google account, or for whatever reason they decide to skip the step. If you skipped it, go back and complete it, even if you’re using someone other than Google for your basic PIM functions.

Why? There are a few reasons. Not only will your contacts be synchronized with your Google account, they’ll also be synced with any Android’s you get in the future (if your current phone is lost, stolen, damaged, or in a year or so when you decide to upgrade). Additionally, you’ll need it for the Android Market.

While it’s probably true that you don’t need the Android Market to install apps on your phone, there is one case in particular where you’d want to: if your phone is lost. To the best of my knowledge, the Android Market is the only app store for Android that allows for remote installation of apps. Simply log into the Market using a desktop browser, then find an app called Plan B and install it (remotely) to your phone. Within minutes you’ll have an email telling you exactly where your phone is! Of course there are other apps that let you do similar things, but most have to be installed and configured before you lose your phone. The appropriately named Plan B app takes care of all of that for you, all you have to have done is set up your Google Account.

2. Get a Car Kit
It’s becoming illegal in more places — and is generally frowned upon everywhere — to use your phone in your car. Take that as an opportunity to trick out your ride for Android!

to learn more about this device
Two things you’ll want to get are a Bluetooth headset and a USB car charger, but if your phone has a car dock built specifically for it, you’ll probably want to consider that option first.

A car dock usually attaches to your windshield or dash and holds your phone where you can see it. Many have a charging solution built in (some will plug into your phone’s USB charging port, others, like the dock for Nexus One charge using three gold dots to carry the power — the dock for the Galaxy Nexus isn’t readily available yet). Some also connect to your phone’s audio, which not only lets you listen to music on your car’s sound system, they also do double-duty as a speaker phone.

Whether or not you opt for a car dock with these features built-in or opt for a USB charger and Bluetooth headset, you’ll appreciate having a fully-charged phone when you start your day at school or the office, and will be much safer keeping your phone out of your hands while driving.

3. Turn on Your WiFi 
There are three reasons why you’ll want to turn on your WiFi right away.

WiFi is probably faster than your phone’s 3G or 4G data connection, so when you’re under a WiFi bubble, your phone will be faster!

WiFi uses less power than traditional cellular data, so your battery will last longer when using WiFi rather than cellular data.

With almost all carriers throttling or limiting your data once you hit their data threshold, using WiFi whenever possible could save you quite a bit of money and frustration, which lets you save your cellular data for when you need it.

4. Set Your Data-Hungry Apps to Update Less Often
If you’re like me, you’ve got at least a couple social networking apps, a couple news and RSS apps, and maybe even a couple weather apps installed. These apps try to connect to various data services to keep the information on your phone up-to-date. This makes their apps feel faster because the information is already on your phone, before you ask for it. Unfortunately that means the app is going out on the Internet frequently to get updates — updates that you may never see.

To help keep data usage down and battery life from magically disappearing, you should open each type of app that I mentioned above and check its settings for “Update Frequency”. Some social apps are come set top update every 15 minutes. I set mine to update every 4 hours, or “only when charging”. Some apps even have an option to only sync when connected to WiFi. Keep in mind that some of the smarter apps use something called “push notifications” which only update when the server “pushes” a notice to them that there is something to update.

Check your apps and set them to something that’s more in-line with how often you actually use the apps. 

5. Log in to Google Talk

Google Talk is the chat app that comes built-in to your Android, and it’s terribly under-used. You can use Google Talk not only to instant message people with other Android smartphones, but also those who use Gmail on their desktop and laptop computers.

What’s really cool is that many of those computer users have microphones and speakers, and with the right plugin can audio chat with you. This is essentially a free way to make voice calls to anyone in the world with a Gmail account — and it’s built in to every Android out there.

What’s more, if your Android Smartphone has a front-facing camera, you can also use Google Talk to make and receive video calls! You can video call with other Android users, or computer users that have a webcam. This comes in particularly useful during the holidays when friends and family may not be able to come together. Unlike other video chatting solutions, Google Talk should work just fine over 3G, 4G, or WiFi.


The NEW American Dream as realized by foreign students coming to America to receive the BEST possible college education




Economic Impact:
International students contribute $17.8 billion to the US economy, through expenditures on tuition and living expenses.

Source: US Dept of Commerce
In China, rising incomes and the cheap dollar are increasingly making an American university education affordable. Many US schools, including small liberal arts colleges, are reaching out to Chinese families in the hope of establishing their brand in a region rich with promising young students. 

"They look at an education in the United States as something valuable," said Penny Johnston, the director of international admissions at Franklin & Marshall College. "It is different than the education they would get in China."
  
Johnston, along with her colleagues, is now traveling to China regularly to learn about geography and culture. "It's only been the last six or seven years that I have been traveling to China but each year I do a little bit more," said Johnston.

Among colleges that do not have a worldwide brand, there is a sense of urgency to get a critical mass of students from China, said John Latting, director of undergraduate admissions at Johns Hopkins University. "There needs to be an effect of building communities of people who have heard of the college," said Latting. In this growing and sometimes chaotic market, though, admissions officers face challenges. High schools and their standards are unknown and a growing number of agents that promise Chinese students placement in US schools have been unreliable and sometimes proven to be fraudulent. Johnston has occasionally asked her current students from China to help her with identifying fake transcripts. "If I ask them specifically to look at a letterhead, signature or a seal that has been stamped, some of them have been able to help me," Johnston said. China is not unique in the world in this aspect, said Latting. "The problem is just so much bigger because the growth is so much faster."

Sunday, January 8, 2012