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Sophomore Jake Waterman and junior Kevin McCarthy know they will return to the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships for the second consecutive year. The duo posted automatic qualifying times in the 800-meter run at Saturday's Fred Wilt Memorial Invitational at Anderson University to help the Wabash team win the event.
Waterman won the event with an impressive time of 1:50.87, well ahead of the automatic qualifying time of 1:52.80 established by the NCAA. His time is the second-fastest posted in the nation at this point in the season, and broke his old school record of 1:52.59 set last season.
McCarthy took second in the event with an equally quick time of 1:52.03, the fifth-fastest time nationally this year. Teammates Justin Allen and Donavan White added to the team point totals in the event by finishing fifth and sixth, respectively. Allen crossed the finish line in 1:59.65, while White posted a time of 1:59.77.
Seth Einterz added an individual victory in the mile run with a winning time of 4:23.95. Brian David took fifth place with a time of 4:30.03. The Little Giants 800-meter relay team of Sean Hildebrand, Chet Riddle, Vann Hunt, and John Haley scored a victory as well with a combined time of 1:32.42 to score ten points for the team. Haley and Riddle were also part of Wabash's winning 1600-meter relay team, joining Waterman and McCarthy to post a top time of 3:25.14.
Haley and Riddle also added two individual second-place finishes. Haley was second in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.02. Riddle took second place in the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.22. Hunt was fifth (24.03), while Charles Smothers and Patrick Neary (24.09) tied for sixth. Smothers added a third place finish in the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.58. Hildebrand took fourth in the event (6.66).
Matt Knox took second place in the pole vault by clearing 4.55 meters (14 feet, 11 inches). The height tied him with first place finisher Tyler Anderson from Defiance, but Anderson cleared the height before Knox. Wabash vaulter Trevor Young also cleared 4.55 meters after Knox and Anderson to take third place.
Matt Scheller was second in the shot put with a mark of 14.93 meters (48 feet, 11.75 inches). Joel Beier took fourth place (13.46 meters; 44 feet, 2 inches). Scheller added a fifth place finish in the weight throw (15.45 meters; 50 feet, 8.25 inches). Chase Belton took third in the triple jump with a mark of 12.22 meters (40 feet, 1.25 inches). Jonathon Koop was fourth overall (11.67 meters; 38 feet, 3.50 inches). James Kervan scored a fourth-place finish in the 400-meter dash with a time of 52.46.
Wabash won the meet with a total of 132.66 points, doubling second-place team Defiance's score of 56 points. DePauw was third (54), followed by Franklin (52), Anderson (49), and Manchester (44). Mount St. Joseph (42), Centre (36), Ashland (18), Earlham 10.33), Allegheny (10), Rose-Hulman (6), and Calumet-St. Joseph (4) completed the team scoring.


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Career in Medical Command Brought Care, Laughter to Sailors and Soldiers
Capt. Shari Holtzclaw Kirshner '76 was just looking for some help with graduate
school tuition when she joined the military reserves. Some 33 years later, she retired from a career with the U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps.
As commanding officer of the Naval Medical Logistics Command from 2001 to 2005, Shari oversaw distribution of medical supplies to ships, bases and hospitals worldwide.

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The Bay Area posted strong job gains in March, a report released Friday showed, suggesting the region's job market has resumed its upward trajectory after a setback in February. The Bay Area now has added jobs for 20 of the past 21 months.
"The Bay Area jobs recovery has legs," said Michael Yoshikami, chief executive and founder of Walnut Creek-based investment firm Destination Wealth Management. "Technology is continuing to drive hiring. And tech hiring will bring in hiring from other industries."
What's more, the Bay Area appears to be the primary propellant for the job growth that has occurred in California over the past 12 months.
The Bay Area added nearly 86,000 jobs in the one-year period that ended in March, while California added nearly 286,000 jobs. That means the Bay Area accounted for 30 percent of the job gains statewide — although the region has only 22 percent of all the jobs that exist in the state.
Employers in the Bay Area added 4,200 jobs in March, according to the state Employment Development Department. That compares with a drop of 3,300 jobs in February.
The South Bay gained 1,900 jobs and the East Bay added 1,200. And despite being considerably smaller than the Bay Area's three primary urban centers, Solano County gained a sturdy 1,000 jobs in March. The San Francisco-San Mateo-Marin region lost 300 jobs. All the numbers were adjusted for seasonal variations.
"Things are definitely moving in the right direction," said Jordan Levine, an economist and director of research with Beacon Economics. "The South Bay continues strong job gains. Now the East Bay is showing a nice jump."
California added 25,500 jobs in March, the EDD reported. That follows a gain of 37,400 jobs in the state in February.
The unemployment rate in California improved to 9.4 percent in March, the EDD reported. The statewide jobless rate was 9.6 percent in February. California's jobless rate remains stubbornly worse than the nationwide rate of 7.6 percent.
The East Bay jobless rate was 7.8 percent in March, compared with 8.1 percent in February, while the South Bay posted a 7.3 percent rate, compared with 7.6 percent in February, and the San Francisco metro area reported a 5.8 percent rate, better than the 6 percent in February, the EDD reported.
Nationwide, employers added 88,000 jobs in March, the U.S. Labor Department reported earlier this month. That was a sharp slowdown from the gain of 268,000 jobs in February.
"There is no question now that California is emerging again as an economic growth leader," Stephen Levy, director of the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, wrote Friday as part of his analysis of the employment report. "The California economy continues to outpace the nation."
Over the 12 months that ended in March, job totals increased by 2 percent in California and by 1.4 percent in the nation.
The Bay Area, South Bay, San Francisco region, and even the battered East Bay are all showing stronger growth rates than the nation.
During the most recent 12 months ending in March, the South Bay job base grew by 3.3 percent, the San Francisco-San Mateo-Marin region by 2.8 percent, the East Bay by 1.9 percent and the Bay Area by 2.7 percent, this newspaper's analysis of the EDD figures shows.
"The job gains are solid in the Bay Area," said Scott Anderson, chief economist with San Francisco-based Bank of the West. "It may not be a golden recovery. But it's at least a bronze or a silver medal."
"There are no signs of recession in the Bay Area," Anderson added. "There is some weakness in manufacturing. But overall there are no real red flags."
Contact George Avalos at 408-373-3556 or 925-977-8477. Follow him at Twitter.com/george_avalos.


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The current gun control debate is being controlled by politicians and the media, both of which have self-serving agendas that have nothing to do with the merits of this most important constitutional right as it relates to our freedoms.
We all want the same outcomes. We all want to go about our daily lives enjoying life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The fact that the recurring gun control debate draws such a passionate response is evidence enough that one side is not being allowed to be heard.
When one continually hears that there are 300 million guns in America, and that the
I believe reasonable Americans accept that there should be restrictions on certain kinds of weapons for obvious reasons, and laws for them have been on the books for years. So what is the new variable in today's culture of violence and unacceptable behavior: A new tool or something else?
Most people believe we could take away all the tools of destruction and American society would still have a violence problem. We need to look elsewhere.
The core of the gun control debate is where to draw the line between what is allowed and what is not, while at the same time being ever vigilant against sliding down the slippery slope into tyranny. History clearly teaches this with respect to gun control, and it is self-evident as to why the Second Amendment is part of our Bill of Rights.
Two critical truths that get lost in the gun control debate are the fact that evil exists and that people respond to evil differently. Some take flight while others stay to fight (sometimes against their will). It's how we're all wired.
For one group to deny the other this instinctive survival response is not an acceptable option for most. And the gun is the great equalizer: Ask any woman.
At the core of the gun control debate is responsibility. Either we are a people who take responsibility for our actions or we abdicate this responsibility to the government.
Most people understand there a price to be paid for this responsibility. But the price is far higher when it is abdicated to the government.
As has been observed, "those who give up freedom for safety will in the end lose both." For the common good, allow both sides of the gun control debate to be heard with respect. An informed choice will promote compliance.
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Despite its victory over the messianic creeds of communism and national socialism, democratic capitalism, the economic-political system that has provided the nations of the West with an unprecedented degree of prosperity and freedom, faces extraordinary challenges in the new millennium. Not only has a fanatical form of Islam disrupted the peace of the postcommunist era, which some had wrongly heralded as the "end of history," Western societies also remain haunted by internal demons: egalitarian fantasies, moral libertinism, an arid and unsustainable secularism, a suicide of culture.
Yet, in Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents, Brian C. Anderson argues that nothing ordains the triumph of these demons over the democratic capitalist prospect. Drawing on a rich anti-utopian tradition of political thought, he defends the real achievements of the free society against an array of critics, from Jean-Paul Sartre and John Gray to John Rawls and Antonio Negri.
Anderson pays particularly close attention to the United States, the democratic capitalist nation par excellence, showing how it differs from other liberal democracies in its robust religiosity, vigorous civil society, and constitutionalism—all under threat from the American Left. Finally, Anderson explores the thought of some of the most insightful friends of the modern regime of liberty, including the brilliant French political theorist Pierre Manent and the godfather of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol.
Crisply and vividly presented, Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents is an essential guide to the conflicts of our time.
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"The author rebukes the works of several anti-capitalist intellectuals and highlights their nabit of setting up fallacious straw man arguments to plow through."
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"Anyone interested in understanding our political conversation will find Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents an invaluable guide. In vigorous and clear prose, Brian Anderson surveys the important ideas and thinkers that for good or ill underlie political issues from judicial activism to civil society. His defense of democratic capitalism is all the more persuasive for its honest recognition of liberal democracy's weaknesses. This is the book every voter should read before the next election."
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"[Anderson] gives us instead a bright, restless little book that illuminates the problem while pointing to resources, both intellectualand moral, capable of reviving the patient. Reviving, not curing. Reviving is the most for which a democratic capitalist is entitled to hope, such are the self-cancelling factors in the whole glorious, often-nutty persuasion."
"Anderson, the author of "South Park Conservatives," shows no interest in partisan gotcha or culture-war hype. He concerns himself with politics in the Aristotelian sense: the study of how people best govern their societies and their souls...Anderson establishes himself among the most probing and erudite political essayists of our day....
To read Anderson at his luminous best is to be reminded of conservatism at its wisest - not least in its understanding of its own limitations."
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Bruce Lundvall '57
(Editor's Note: The following story is featured in the spring edition of Bucknell Magazine.)
By David Pulizzi '94
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Last June, Bruce Lundvall '57, the much-respected president of the storied jazz label Blue Note Records, traveled from his home in Wyckoff, N.J., to Bucknell University to visit with some old friends and to accept the Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Chosen Profession.
Nattily attired, as usual, in a sharp suit and tie, Lundvall stood behind the lectern onstage at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts and, with characteristic wit, recounted his own professional genesis story. "My first memory," he said, "was in high school, telling my father, 'I want to be in the record business when I grow up.' He said, 'Son, you'll have to choose—one or the other.'"
Big laughs ensued, as Lundvall no doubt knew they would. He's a famously charming man, accustomed to humbly acknowledging the grand, hard-earned success of his long and illustrious career, whether before a crowd of admiring classmates or in the presence of a lone admiring journalist from, say, Down Beat magazine or The New York Times.
Genius unsurpassed
In the jazz world especially, where Lundvall has long loomed as a bearded, stylishly bespectacled eminence of sorts, his reputation as a charismatic gentleman genius is unsurpassed. Singer Dianne Reeves, a mainstay on the Blue Note roster since 1988, typified the general sentiments of many when she recalled her reaction to Lundvall's offer to sign her to the label. "I was thrilled," she said. "I wanted to be part of anything that he was part of."
When pressed, Lundvall's memories predate the high school conversation he had with his father. He recalls early exposure to the big-band sounds of Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton and to the great Harlem stride pianist Fats Waller.
He remembers being a boy of 12 or so, growing up in Cliffside Park, N.J., sitting alone in his father's '38 Plymouth, radio turned on and up, listening raptly to the intricate musings of jazz pianists Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Earl Garner, as they performed during live 15-minute broadcasts from New York City, that sprawling jazz metropolis poised restlessly just across the Hudson River from the Lundvall family's suburban dwelling. He remembers borrowing a recording of the trailblazing bebop pianist Bud Powell from a friend a couple years later, then playing the platter for a week straight, over and over.
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"I didn't get it all," he notes, with lingering fascination, "but I just loved it. After that, I started buying every bebop record you can imagine."
Around this time, he also began playing the trumpet and piano by ear. "I desperately wanted to be a jazz musician," he once remarked, "but I was no good." He soon took up the saxophone, only to achieve equally unsatisfactory results.
In the summer of 1953, Lundvall arrived at Bucknell to study commerce and finance. In Lewisburg, he did what he could to scratch his jazz itch in a town where jazz hardly flourished. ("There weren't many people into it, that's for sure," Lundvall says.) He produced a couple concerts that were staged in the Vaughan Literature Building and hosted a weekly jazz program on WVBU. Most significantly, he befriended Mike Berniker '57, a fellow jazz enthusiast who would go on to forge his own admirable career as a producer in the music business.
Lifelong friends
The two met as incoming students during the first day of orientation week. "He didn't know me, and I didn't know him," Lundvall recalls. "But he was standing right next to me, and he began humming 'Night in Tunisia.' I said, 'Are you a jazz fan?' He said, 'Yeah, are you?' We became lifelong friends."
Shortly before Lundvall graduated from Bucknell, he says, "All the major companies came around to interview people for jobs—Xerox, IBM, all the insurance companies, and so on. They would come on campus, looking for trainees. I was furious. I hated the interviews. I hated the whole process. I said, 'I don't want to do any of this stuff.' I was a big record collector, a bad saxophone player, and all I wanted to do was be in the music business."
With that in mind, he went to New York City, hoping to find an entry-level position at Blue Note Records, his favorite label. "And Alfred Lion was there," Lundvall continues, recalling his first encounter with the German-born immigrant who, with financier and writer Max Margulis, co-founded Blue Note Records in 1939. "He ushered me to the door very politely, saying with this heavy German accent, 'Vee don't have jobs. It's just Frank [Blue Note photographer Francis Wolf], me, and my vife.' I said, 'I'll work for nothing.' He said, 'Ahh, vee don't need you. Vee do all this ourselves.'"
Columbia Records
Unable to find suitable employment in the record business, Lundvall enlisted in the Army. A day after his discharge, in 1960, he received a call from Berniker, who had been discharged from the Army three months earlier and who had since taken a job at Columbia Records in New York City.
"Well," asked Berniker, "what do you want to do?" "Man," Lundvall replied, "I want to do what you're doing!" Berniker arranged for Lundvall to interview with Bill Gallagher, Columbia's vice president of sales and marketing.
Lundvall recalls the brevity of the interview: "I showed him an article I had written for The Bucknellian about jazz, and, basically, I was hired." Soon Lundvall began working as a trainee in the company's marketing department. By the time he left the label 21 years later, he had become president of the domestic division of Columbia's parent company CBS Records and had amassed for Columbia the largest and most diverse jazz roster in the business.
Hired by EMI
After working for a short stint as the president of another record company, Electra/Asylum, Lundvall was hired by EMI — which had acquired Blue Note in 1979, only to allow it to fall into dormancy soon thereafter — to revive its formerly prestigious jazz imprint. Since then, with steady resolve and an abiding respect for the legacy that Alfred Lion established during his 28-year tenure at Blue Note's helm (Lion retired in 1967 and passed away 20 years later), Lundvall has managed to bring the label back to full, blooming life.
Today, at 72, Bruce Lundvall is right where he wants to be. As the officially titled president and CEO of EMI Jazz and Classics, he heads the world's most renowned and historically important jazz label. He oversees a roster of 25 acts, including his most famous and profitable discovery, the wispy-voiced singer Norah Jones, whose three Blue Note albums have sold some 30 million copies worldwide since 2002.
He has three grown children, and he lives happily in Wyckoff, N. J., with his wife of 47 years, Katherine. On top of all that, he's healthy and still relishes scouting for fresh talent at Manhattan jazz clubs once or twice a week.
Language of musicians
"Bruce speaks the language of musicians," notes Dianne Reeves. "He's all in the music; he's part of the blood of it."
Speaking about his status as a record-label executive, he informed the audience at the Alumni Awards ceremony last June, "I'm going to continue doing this until I hit the wrong side of the grass, I guess." Then, wrapping up his acceptance speech, he left those assembled with this nugget of wisdom: "The one lesson I really learned in life is: Youth passes swiftly, but if you're lucky, immaturity can last a lifetime."
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Is a new electronic device on your holiday wish list? If it is and your wishes come true, don't forget to recycle your old one. For environmental preservation, "reuse" is always the best choice, but if your old phone, music player, game, TV or other electronic device cannot be passed on to someone else, take it to an electronics recycling collection site or event. Many stores that sell electronics and also some thrift stores accept them for recycling, and most municipalities have an electronics waste recycling drop-off site, so options are available.
It is important to recycle electronic goods because they have heavy metals in them that are toxic to the environment, but also valuable resources for making new electronic goods. Waste collection crews in New York state are no longer allowed to pickup electronic waste co-mingled with other recycling or trash at your home or business, so be sure to ask about recycling options when you purchase something new.
Did some of your strings of holiday lights provide glowing good cheer for the last time? String lights aren't accepted in curbside collection programs (they are hard for the sorting equipment to handle), but they do have metals in them worth recovering. Scrap metal facilities and electronic recycling companies accept them for recycling, so you don't have to put them in the trash.
Remember that the wrapping paper, gift bags and boxes you receive your gifts in are all recyclable in your household recycling container. When wrapping gifts, you can reduce waste by selecting recycled-content paper or a reusable wrapping material. I've received gifts wrapped in the Sunday comics, a reusable cloth gift bag and even wrapped in a towel with a bow.
Holiday cards and much of the packaging from your holiday meals are recyclable, too. And don't forget the extra toilet paper tubes from all those guests. If you have too much recycling to fit in your collection container, you may put the extra in a clear plastic bag. Broken bulky toys like a plastic workbench or kitchen center may be recycled, too. Set extra bags and bulky items out next to your recycling cart or bin on your normal recycling week.
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Some people use peak flow meters to monitor changes in asthma. Peak flow readings show how well a child's lungs are working. This calculator shows the predicted peak flow in children. With your child's height, you can find his or her predicted peak flow. Predicted peak flow is how much air a child of a certain height is expected to breathe out (exhale) after taking a deep breath.
An even more important number is your child's personal best peak flow. This number helps monitor your child's asthma. Changes from your child's personal best help you see how well your child's asthma is controlled. These changes also can let you know when your child needs medicine and when your child needs medical care.
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Note: The minimum height for this calculator is 44 inches.
Here's how to find out your child's personal best peak flow:
Once you know your child's personal best peak flow, you and your child can work with his or her health care provider to figure out the peak flow ranges for each of the asthma action plan zones.
If you don't have an asthma action plan for your child or if his or her plan is not up to date, make sure you talk with your child's provider.
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Because your child's height is , his or her predicted peak flow is .
Asthma action plans are divided into zones. Each zone gives symptoms and peak flow ranges and what actions to take.
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Unknown and Undated: Exploring Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Miscellaneous Papers
A virtual repository of a substantial cross-section of the Archives' most significant collections.
Visit the Terra Foundation Center for Digital Collections
The Archives of American Art holds rich resources documenting important Chicago artists, art institutions, and organizations, and we have selected some rare and unique materials from those resources to highlight here.
Original material can be consulted by appointment in our Washington, D.C. Headquarters.
Select holdings are available on microfilm at the Archives' offices in Washington, D.C. and at our New York Office.
Copies of unrestricted microfilm materials can be obtained through one of our affiliated research centers.
Through collecting, preserving, and providing access to our collections, the Archives inspires new ways of interpreting the visual arts in America and allows current and future generations to piece together the nation's rich artistic and cultural heritage.


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Salim R necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 60 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Hadiya is the Arabic word for Gift. Our company has the ambition to become the reference online gift store in France and in Europe for modern Muslim families. The three axes of our development are: promotion of generosity, unique buying experience, and top customer service level. The concept is declined into a range of products that include traditional gifts and more innovative packages that include personalized gifts and gift boxes. Gifts are so important to share love and respect, we have to encourage people to offer gifts to all close-bys and relatives !
Hadiya targets the whole Muslim community in France and in Europe but consumers are more likely to be in the 20-40 age group. Teenagers and elderly people will be targeted as secondary consumer niches. We want something fresh and attractive !
We are looking for an original, elegant and user-friendly design. The two key directions for work are
-GIFT STORE: use ribbons, gift boxes, hearts or whatever icons and self-meaning drawings
-BEDOUIN STYLE : we have thought about drawing dunes in the top and bottom banners, and use pictures and symbols that remind of deserts and nomadic life for the background (shaded profiles of camels, palm trees and Bedouins –use oriental fonts )
We know it is not that easy to combine both but we trust your imagination and talent guys ! Reference colors are Green, gold and white (same as logo), but deviations are accepted for both colors and theme if it looks great!
See wireframe attached. We want 3 pages on the basis of the model provided (or any better proposal !). 1st attachment presents the general layout and numbers the specific elements for which we expect a separate design (29 elements). The capital letters give an idea of the different font styles we want to use. The main example we have used is the e-store http://bit.ly/eRK6rP from which we want to borrow the top dynamic menu bar (number 2a, 2b and 2c) and the central banner concept. We like the user-friendliness of http://bit.ly/mjo27 and the background of http://bit.ly/2lMhKJ. 2nd attachment shows some poor attempt of ours to anticipate final look.
For 1st page, please provide the design for the full bar #2 and for the boxes that appear when you point on the category (text in the left, product image in the right, box screen-wide). As for the central banner please use a combo of some of the pictures attached for your proposal.
The top, bottom and side banners (1a to 1d) should be integrated into a single background with a shaded drawing of Bedouin style such as attachment 3. Please integrate the logo attached in this background. The e-boutique is then integrated in the middle of this background to fit all screen configurations. For all boxes numbered we expect an original shape, frame & background colors+ full set of original icons.
Finally please use a specific font and if possible an Arabic font that would match it. Of course these requirements are meant as guidelines, and designs with different but original approaches will be taken into account as well! But final award will be conditional upon delivery of all individual elements requested (we'll proceed step by step to achieve the result)
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Apple must be listening to developer complaints, because promo codes appear to be back for App Store offerings rated 17+. As pointed out by TUAW, a number of developers are beginning to report that they can once again request promo codes for their "mature" applications, including numerous apps that pull down content from the Internet.
News spread last week that Apple had unceremoniously yanked promo codes out of the hands of some iPhone app developers because their apps sported the 17+ rating. This included e-book reader Eucalyptus and a number of other programs that were able to grab content online that was potentially mature. Developers were irked for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that they could no longer offer free downloads to app reviewers to have a look, or to users they wanted to woo. It certainly put them on an uneven playing field compared to their non-17+ counterparts.
Apple hasn't made a peep about the changes either way, but developers have begun being able to request the codes again, so it seems as if the company has relented on this particular point. Let's just hope this isn't a blip and that the promo codes stick around.
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I'm back to total black looks and this coord is one of my favorites so far! The dress is a bit short on me but nothing you can't solve with a pair of shorts under it, I'm always in love with laces dresses, I have quite a tiny collection in my closet, I'm thinking about getting a burgundy one! The belt is really gorgeous, I totally love it! I have to expand my belt collection, sometimes they make the difference in a look. Currently I feel full of inspiration for so many things I don't know how to use all my energy ahah starting the past year a good routine with my work out, diet and study made me a totally different person in a positive way, always full of energy and with the desire to do a lot of things in my day!


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Matching Gift programs are provided as an employee benefit at many companies in the United States. These programs vary as to the amount matched, but generally offer a dollar-for-dollar match when an employee makes a personal gift to a nonprofit organization. Every year, hundreds of companies help support RIT through this generous program.
At RIT, you receive credit for both your gift and the matching gift amount.
To find out if your company (or your spouse's or partner's) offers a matching gift program, search the online matching gift company list. You can search by company or subsidiary name and find out matching ratios, company contacts, and other pertinent information. Check directly with your human resources or matching gift department to find out how your company handles matching gifts.
AND, if your spouse or partner also works for a matching gift company, you may be able to TRIPLE the value of your gift!
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"I have been blessed to be where I am in life because of the valuable investments people have made in me. It is the people we meet and the lessons we learn that help shape our experiences and prepare us for the future. The men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Mu Sigma chapter at RIT gave me a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that helped me create my path to success. It is with great responsibility and pleasure that I give back to the family that has helped me become the man that I am. I was excited to find out that my employer Cisco Systems had a Gift Matching program that allowed me to double what I was able to give to RIT and Alpha Phi Alpha."
Ron Dufort '99
Design/Integration Engineer
Global Product Development Group, Xerox Corporation
"By using the Gift Matching program at Xerox, I double what I give to RIT. I like that my company is helping my alma mater. And I especially like that Xerox's matching dollars go to the same fund I support-the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. It's so easy. I fill out a form, send it to HR and I double the impact of my contribution."
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In principle a sequence in a non-Hausdorff space can converge to two points simultaneously.
Can anyone give me an explicit example of the above?
Or tell me any method of generating such kinds of examples?
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In principle a sequence in a non-Hausdorff space can converge to two points simultaneously.
Can anyone give me an explicit example of the above?
Or tell me any method of generating such kinds of examples?
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Let $X = \mathbb{R} \setminus \{0 \} \cup \{ a,b\}$. Hence $X$ is the real line sans the origin with two points $a\neq b$, both not in $\mathbb{R}$, thrown in. The topology is generated by the open intervals in $\mathbb{R} \setminus \{0\}$ along with sets of the form $(u,0)\cup \{a\} \cup (0,v)$ and $(u,0)\cup \{b\} \cup (0,v)$, where $u < 0 < v$. $X$ is not Hausdorff because $a$ and $b$ cannot be separated by disjoint open sets. Every sequence that converges to $a$ also converges to $b$. Eg. $1/n \to a$ and $1/n \to b$.
here is another example, that shows, that the following statement is (surprisingly) not symmetric: Every sequence that converges to $a$ also converges to $b$.
Consider the set two element set $\{a,b\}$ with topology $\{\emptyset,\{b\},\{a,b\}\}$. Then every sequence, that converges to $a$ also converges to $b$ and the sequence, which is constant $b$ converges only to $b$.
The easiest type of counterexample is a space that is not $T_1$, which means that there exist two points $x$ and $y$ such that every open set that contains $x$, also contains $y$. If that happens, then every sequence of points that converges to $y$, also converges to $x$. The most extreme case, as Konrad points out, is $X$ with the indiscrete topology. Then everything converges to everything. Examples that are not $T_1$ are valid but artificial. Given such a space, you can make a natural $T_1$ quotient using the closures of all of the points (even though these closures may be nested), and then ask the question again.
An indisputably natural example which is also $T_1$ is the Zariski topology on $\mathbb{Q}^n$. In this topology, a set is closed when it is the solution set to a polynomial equation with rational coefficients. This is a poorly behaved topology, but it is widely used, and (in the version that I am using) points are closed. You can still make a sequence that converges to every point. Number the set of available polynomials $p_1, p_2, \ldots$, and then choose each point $\vec{x}_k$ such that $p_j(\vec{x}_k) \ne 0$ when $j < k$. The construction is also possible in the Zariski topology on $\mathbb{R}^n$, but it is trickier because the polynomials now have real coefficients and there are uncountably many. Nonetheless you can let $$\vec{x}_k = (k!,(k!)!,((k!)!)!, \ldots, \text{$k$ with $n$ factorials}).$$
Here are two relevant facts:
1) In a Hausdorff space, a sequence converges to at most one point.
2) A first-countable space in which each sequence converges to at most one point is Hausdorff.
See e.g. pages 4 to 5 of
for the (easy) proofs of these facts, together with the definition of first-countable. See p. 6 for an example showing that 2) does not hold with the hypothesis of first-countability dropped.
It seems like a worthwhile exercise to use 2) to find spaces that have the property you want. For instance, the cofinite topology on a countably infinite set is first-countable and not Hausdorff, so there must be non-uniquely convergent sequences.
Addendum: Here are some further simple considerations which unify some of the other examples given.
For a topological space $X$, consider the specialization relation: a point $x$ specializes to the point $y$ if $y$ lies in the closure of $\{x\}$. This implies that any sequence which converges to $x$ also converges to $y$. (If in the previous sentence we replace "sequence" by "net", we get a characterization of the specialization relation.) The specialization relation is always reflexive and transitive, so is a quasi-order.
Note that a topological space is T_1, or separated, iff the specalization relation is simply equality. Thus in a space which is not separated, there exist distinct points $x$ and $y$ such that every net which converges to $x$ also converges to $y$. If $X$ is first countable, we may replace "net" by "sequence".
A topological space $X$ satisfies the T_0 separation axiom, or is a Kolmogorov space, if for any distinct points $x,y \in X$, there is an open set containing exactly one of $x$ and $y$. A space is Kolmogorov iff the specalization relation is anti-symmetric, i.e., is a partial ordering. Thus in a non-Kolmogorov space, there exist distinct points $x$ and $y$ such that a net converges to $x$ iff it converges to $Y$. (If $X$ is first countable...)
An example of a first countable non-Kolmogorov space is a pseudo-metric space which is not a metric space (a pseudo-metric is like a metric except $\rho(x,y) = 0 \iff x = y$ is weakened to $\rho(x,x) = 0$). In particular, the topology defined by a semi-norm which is not a norm always gives such examples.
I think the Zariski topology from a subfield provides even more natural examples. You can define a Zariski topology from Q on $C^n$ so that the closed sets are zero sets of polynomials with rational coefficients. Then
1) Because $\pi$ is transcendental, the closure of ($\pi$,0) in $C^2$ in this topology is the x-axis y=0. (This topology is not $T_1$.) The constant sequence such that every point is ($\pi$,0) converges to every point on the x-axis.
2) If $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are algebraically independent transcendentals, then the constant sequence {($\alpha$,$\beta$)} converges to every point.
Another natural non-Hausdorff space is the quotient topology on leaves of a foliation. Consider the foliation of $R^2$ by vertical lines x=a for a≤-1 or a≥1, and by parallel U-shaped leaves, y=$1/(1-x^2)+C$ where -1<x<1. Then a sequence of leaves with $C$ -> -$\infty$ converges both to the leaf x=-1 and the leaf x=+1.
An easy, non-silly example (that is perhaps more appealing than the Zariski topology to a student at the level of someone asking this question) is simply to consider the space of real-valued integrable functions on $[0,1]$ with the pseudo-norm $\|f\| = \int_0^1 |f|$. The topology generated by the balls is not Hausdorff, an explicit example of a sequence converging to two points is simply the constant sequence $f_n = 0$, which converges both to the constant $0$ function as well as the function $f(x) = 0$ for $x \in [0,1)$, $f(1) = 1$.
While simply considered as a topological space, this really doesn't present any issues, because we may easily quotient to get a Hausdorff space. But while this is trivial from a topological perspective, and we don't lose any information about behavior in the psuedo-norm by quotienting to get a norm, quotienting like that is really quite a violent act as far as pointwise behavior is concerned. We now have to worry about things like sets of measure 0 piling up (on uncountable families) or, likewise, the stark realization that via our a.e. equivalence we improve the behavior of one topology (going from a pseudo-norm to a norm) at the expense of destroying another (from pointwise convergence to a.e. convergence we have abandoned the realm of topology altogether. A.e. convergence does not generally come from a topology!)
I can't write a comment, therefore I write an answer. Here https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1102001/pushout-of-topological-hausdorff-spaces-is-not-hausdorff you can see examples, where the pushout of topological Hausdorff-spaces is not Hausdorff. Furthermore this is a way to construct non-Hausdorff spaces, construct a suitable pushout.. Regards
An easy example, in the same vein as Greg's one. Take the real line $\mathbb{R}$ with the finite complement topology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_complement_topology .
That is, a subset $U \subset \mathbb{R}$ is open if and only if it is the empty set or its complement $\mathbb{R}\backslash U$ is a finite set. Then every sequence $(x_n)$ of points of $\mathbb{R}$ converges to every point $x \in \mathbb{R}$.
To see this, take any open set $U$ containing $x$. Because $\mathbb{R} \backslash U$ has only a finite number of points, an infinite number of points of the sequence $(x_n)$ must be in $U$; i.e., there exists $n_0 \in \mathbb{N}$ such that, for every $n \geq n_0$, $x_n \in U$. Thus, $(x_n) \longrightarrow x$.
Note also that in a T2 space, since you can separate points then the limit will be unique. However that does not mean the converse is true.
We can construct a space in which the limit is unique but the space is not T2. Let the real line have the cocountable topology. Suppose you have a sequence that has 2 limits $x$ and $y$, then consider an open set, call it $U_x$ consisting of the complement of the points which are not x. Then $x\in U_x$ and there must be some $N$ such that $\forall n>N, x_n\in U_x$ that point but $\forall n>N, x_n=x$ because we get $x_n\in U_x\cap\(x_k)=x$, I mean the set of all $x_k$ here. Similarly for $y$ and so now $\forall n>max(N,N')$ we get $x_n=x=y$ which is false since these are two different elements. So the limit is unique.
The topology is not Hausdorff, two non-empty sets have to intersect.
Consider $X = \mathbb{R}$ , and for every $a \in [-\infty , \infty ] $ , $(a,\infty )$ is an open set.
It is a topology because any finite intersection yields an open "ray" of the largest starting point, and any union yields an open "ray" with the minimal starting point, which might be $-\infty $. It is worth noticing that if we'd choose $[a, \infty )$ as our topology base, we'd result in open rays as well (consider $\cup_j [1/j, \infty)$ for example.
Well, now take the sequence $x_j = 2+ 1/j$. We now show it converges $\forall b\leq 2$. For such $b$ and an arbitrary open set $b \in U$, it has the form of $U = (c, \infty ), c < b <2 < x_j , \forall j$, therefore $x_j$ converges to all $b \leq 2$
This examples relays heavily on the fact that every neighborhood of $b$ is also a neighborhood of $2$ , and therefore you can only say of a sequence what it's minimal neighborhood, but not a point of convergence.


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Speculation had been floating for months that Amazon was working on its own smartphone. After all, it seems like a logical step after moving from e-readers to full-fledged media tablets with the Kindle Fire. Yet reports that Amazon would debut a phone at yesterday's Kindle product announcements proved to be a bit optimistic.
So what happened? As it turns out, Amazon may have skirted the need for one.
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Separately from Amazon's introduction of new Kindle hardware yesterday, Verizon Wireless announced it will be preloading Amazon mobile applications on selected Android devices.Not just a single app, either: Amazon has managed to get a whole passel of its mobile apps onto Verizon phones, including its mainstream Shopping app, along with its Kindle, Audible, and MP3 apps, an app supporting clothing sales through its Zappos subsidiary (smartphone users just gotta have shoes), and its IMDb app. Initially, these will crop up on the Samsung Stellar, LG Intuition, and the new Motorola Droid Razr M. There's no word on whether the deal with be extended to other Android devices going forward.
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It's easy to dismiss these pre-loaded apps as just-another instance of the kind of "bloatware" that has migrated from the Windows PC industry to Android smartphones: Carriers like to preload phones with selected software as a way to distinguish devices from their competitors', as well as provide gateways into their own branded (and often fee-associated) mobile services. For many users, they will be just that.
However, for Amazon, these apps also convert those Verizon devices into Amazon storefronts, just like an Amazon phone would do. The deal is about more than being able to read Kindle titles or buy MP3s on the go: With Amazon's shopping app, users can scan barcodes or take pictures of products while they're out shopping and immediately pull up listings for the same products on Amazon. And guess what? There's nothing to stop Amazon from using location information available in phones and undercutting retailers who might just happen to meet or beat Amazon's prices. The app essentially converts smartphone users into Amazon agents, reporting back to Amazon about retailer's products and pricing.
Amazon's mobile apps essentially convert brick-and-mortar retailers into showrooms for merchandize sold by Amazon. See something you like in a store? Snap a picture and order it directly from Amazon. And consumers seem to love taking their mobile phones shopping: according to Nielsen, as of June 2012 a whopping 47 percent of smartphone owners were using a shopping app. Now, at least for some Verizon customers, the odds are going up that that shopping app is from Amazon.
So does Amazon even need a smartphone?
The argument for Amazon making the leap to smartphones derives from one simple fact: Far more people have smartphones than e-readers or tablets. At the end of 2011, 470 million people globally owned smartphones, while only 81 million owned tablets. If a company really wants to be a part of consumers' buying and spending decisions, it needs to be on their smartphones.
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An Amazon smartphone could literally move the Amazon media and shopping experience right to the home screen, putting an Amazon-assisted shopping experience right at users' fingertips, rather than buried in an app. A phone like that could be an easy sell to mobile-addicted shoppers — particularly those who are already members of Amazon's customer pool. Amazon could attract even more customers through its famous little-or-no-margin pricing . An Amazon phone could sport high-end Android hardware at the price of a mid-level or even entry-level phone — after all, Amazon wants to make its money selling goods and services, not gadgets.
The case against an Amazon smartphone
Of course, shopping and media consumption are far from the only things people do with their smartphones. That might be why Amazon (so far) hasn't pulled the trigger on the idea.
Creating a customized "fork" of Android for the Kindle Fire tied users deep into the Amazon content ecosystem, while suppressing much of the noise and distraction that comes with a stock Android experience. However, it also came with a downside: no Google apps like Gmail, calendars, contacts, Google search, Google Maps, or even Google Chrome. Amazon's Silk browser provides a ready substitute for one of them, but the company would need to many more of its own apps to develop a usable smartphone.
Amazon doesn't have it's own Web search, it's own mapping, or its own email service. It would either have to roll its own (which is time- and resource-intensive: just ask Apple) or partner with existing players. It won't be able to partner with Google or Apple, so that largely leaves Microsoft as the most logical partner for email and search services. For mapping, Amazon could try to make a go with OpenStreetMap, or make a deal with Nokia, whose Navteq subsidiary is one of the most robust and mature players in the industry.
Those kinds of partnerships would cost Amazon money — especially since, in the case of Microsoft and Nokia, Amazon phones would be competing against the Windows Phone platform. That, in turn, would drive up the cost of a hypothetical Amazon smartphone, making a it more difficult to hit a low price point and undercut the existing Android smartphone market.
Should Google be worried about Amazon?
In the wake of Apple's $1 billion court victory over Samsung, many industry watchers have been thinking of Apple as Android's biggest enemy. After all, the late Steve Jobs regarded Android as a stolen product, and vowed to go "thermonuclear" to destroy it.
However, with Amazon, Google may face a serious threat from within its own ranks. If Amazon plays its cards right, the company could conceivably subvert the existing Android ecosystem and make Android a vehicle for its own services, rather than Google's.
After all, Amazon's content ecosystem is far more mature than Google Play. Amazon has its own forked version of Android, its own Web browser, its own app store, and it's now producing hardware cheaper than Google's own Nexus 7 tablet, and still on par with it. Amazon's Kindle Fire is arguably the most successful Android tablet to date — Amazon claims its first Kindle Fire accounts for 22 percent of the tablet market, though it has declined to offer sales figures.
Now, Amazon is now inking deals with carriers to put Amazon's retail and shopping offerings front and center on smartphones, displacing things like Google Shopping. If Amazon can continue to push its content and shopping ecosystems onto smartphones through carriers like Verizon, the rumored "Amazon smartphone" may remain exactly that — just a rumor.
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Israel's government on Wednesday officially passed the first of many hurdles toward getting the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community into the army and general workforce, which would mark a seismic shift in modern Israeli society.
At a meeting of the Peri Committee established by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to explore solutions to this problem, all but two cabinet ministers voted in favor of draft legislation authorizing criminal proceedings against Orthodox Jews who do not answer the mandatory call to military service.
When Israel was first reborn as a nation state 65 years ago, the first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, struck a deal with the powerful rabbis of his time whereby a select group of 400 Torah scholars would be exempt from military service in order to continue their studies. Both the rabbis and Ben Gurion agreed that pious study of God's Word was just as important as wielding a gun when it came to Israel's defense.
But today, that exemption clause is used by the vast majority of young ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to get out of doing national service. With changing demographics, it has become a major problem as nearly one-third of Israel's Jewish population fails to help defend the country, join the workforce or pay taxes.
One of the most hotly debated campaign promises in Israel's recent general election was the determined pledge by Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid to alter the ultra-Orthodox position in society before it's too late.
To this end, Bennett and Lapid forged what proved to be an unbreakable alliance, forcing Netanyahu to bring the Orthodox into the military draft.
Lapid hailed Wednesday's initial approval of the new law as a "historic moment" for Israel, and told the ultra-Orthodox community that this is being done because Israel needs them, "with gun in hand, alongside us."
Lapid sought to repel accusations that he is anti-religious, explaining that the move "isn't an attack on the world of Torah. None of us want to force you into secularism."
At the same time, Lapid continued, "We're together in the same boat and we can't carry you on our backs. I know you think studying Torah defends the people of Israel. The idea that all the people of Israel are brothers protects us just as much."
The new law still allows a rabbinical council to select up to 1,800 outstanding young Torah students every year who will be exempts from national service. It also provides for the deferment of national service for up to two years to continue religious studies.
If passed, the new law should bring an additional 7,000-8,000 recruits into the Israeli army every year. Lapid and others hope that following their service, more of these ultra-Orthodox men will also enter the workforce.
But, it's not a done deal yet. While Lapid has tied his continued presence in the government to this bill, there remains heavy opposition from the ultra-Orthodox community, including members of Knesset.
For the past few weeks, major Orthodox demonstrations have been held around Israel decrying what they see as an attack not only on their community, but on the Bible itself.
The ultra-Orthodox continue to wield significant influence in various parts of the government, and there are more than a few who are skeptical that Lapid's bill will ever be passed into law.
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Police investigating the stabbing of a Saudi Arabian student have released an e-fit image of a man they would like to speak to.
Nahid Almanea, 31, was knifed 16 times and left to die on the Salary Brook Trail in Colchester, Essex, at around 10.40am on June 17.
The force said the man in the e-fit was seen running up Hewes Close, away from the Salary Brook Trail at 10.56am.
The e-fit released
He is described as white, aged between 18 and 25, of medium build and with dark hair.
He was wearing a long-sleeve plain hooded top that is described as "London bus red" and dark trousers.
SEE ALSO: Female Muslim Students Living In Fear After Nahid Almanea Stabbed To Death In Essex
Ms Almanea has been described as an "exceptional" English language programme student at the University of Essex who was aiming to study at PhD level.
Essex Police say there are similarities to the murder of James Attfield, 33, who was stabbed 102 times on his arms, hands, back, neck and head, in a park in the town on March 29.
Officers do not know if the pair were murdered by the same killer, but they are keeping an "open mind".
Part of the Salary Brook Trail nature reserve that had been closed for police searches reopened to the public on Wednesday.
Chief Inspector Richard Phillibrown, Colchester district commander, said: "We have received excellent support throughout this investigation from the whole community.
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Anyone with information should contact the force on 01245 282103 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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The Bureau of State Payrolls (BOSP) communicated in our memorandum, DBFBP 98-10 dated June 8, 1998, that Agencies with their own rule writing authority could operate under the Department of Management Services (DMS) rules regarding implementing the provisions of Chapter 98-18, Laws of Florida. It has been brought to our attention that it may be inappropriate for BOSP to advise agencies to operate in a manner that may be inconsistent with the intent of the rule-making authority for those agencies. Therefore, each agency with authority to establish their own personnel/payroll rules will be expected to comply with their own rules unless there is a conflict with Chapter 98-18, Laws of Florida, in which case, the law will prevail.
In our memorandum, DBFBP 98-10, we indicated that agencies should make sure that eligibility determination can been made prior to the payment of leave. We also indicated that each agency should obtain verification of the Division of Retirement's determination of each employee's eligibility for DROP prior to the payment of leave. We have been advised by the Division of Retirement that they do not provide agencies with verification of eligibility; however, they will notify agencies if they determine that a person is not eligible. Therefore, receipt of DROP eligibility determination from the Division of Retirement is not a prerequisite to payment for the leave.
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While visiting Ray Keener in Boulder, Colorado, I had a chance to see Jobst Brandt's last Cinelli, the one ridden before he switched to Tom Ritchey and Peter Johnson frames.
Ray is lovingly restoring the Cinelli with a new paint job and no doubt some good components. While Cinelli made excellent frames, they had one design limitation (in hindsight) — lugs. That meant the tube diameter had to be one-inch or one-and-an-eighth for the down tube. Ray says the bike has a lot of flex, although it never seemed to affect Jobst.
By contrast, also shown in the photo, is a frame built for Ray by the Bay Area's Peter Johnson in 1980. It's fillet brazed, has no lugs, and that meant Peter could build bikes with larger diameter tubes.
Fillet brazing offered a big advantage when Tom Ritchey started building mountain bike frames starting in 1979. He used larger diameter tubes for more durable bikes.
Jobst bought his first fully equipped Cinelli on Oct. 2, 1957, at Cupertino Bike Shop, paying $138. It was a blue Super Corsa, 62 cm.
Ray still rides Peter's bike day in and day out after all these years.


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A bone mineral density (BMD) test measures how much calcium and other types of minerals are in an area of your bone.
This test helps your health care provider detect
Alternative Names
BMD test; Bone density test; Bone densitometry; DEXA scan; DXA; Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry; p-DEXA; Osteoporosis-BMD
How the Test is Performed
Bone density testing can be done several different ways.
The most common and accurate way uses a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan. DEXA uses low-dose
There are two types of DEXA scans:
Central DEXA. You lie on a soft table. The scanner passes over your lower spine and hip. Usually, you do not need to undress. This scan is the best test to predict your risk of fractures.
Peripheral DEXA (p-DEXA). These smaller machines measure the bone density in your wrist, fingers, leg, or heel. These machines are in doctor's offices, pharmacies, shopping centers, and at health fairs.
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If you are or could be pregnant, tell your health care provider before this test is done.
How the Test will Feel
The scan is painless. You need to remain still during the test.
Why the Test is Performed
Bone mineral density (BMD) tests are used to:
- Diagnose bone loss and osteoporosis
- See how well osteoporosis medicine is working
- Predict your risk of future bone fractures
You should have bone mineral testing or screening if you have an increased risk of osteoporosis. You are more likely to get osteoporosis if you are:
- A woman, age 65 or older
- A man, age 70 or older
Women under age 65 and men ages 50 to 70 are at increased risk of osteoporosis if they have:
- A broken bone caused by normal activities, such as a fall from standing height or lower (fragility fracture)
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Current practice recommends BMD retesting every 2 years. However, recent research suggests that some women may be able to wait a much longer time between their screening tests. Discuss with your doctor how often you should be tested.
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With either score, a negative number means you have thinner bones than average. The more negative the number, the higher your risk of a bone fracture.
A T-score is within the normal range if it is -1.0 or above.
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Bone mineral density testing does not diagnose fractures. Along with other risk factors you may have, it helps predict your risk of having a bone fracture in the future. Your doctor will help you understand the results.
If your T-score is:
Between -1 and -2.5, you may have early bone loss (osteopenia).
Below -2.5, you likely have osteoporosis.
Treatment recommendation depends on your total fracture risk. This risk can be calculated using the FRAX score. Your health care provider can tell you more about this. You can also find information about FRAX online.
Bone mineral density uses a slight amount of radiation. Most doctors feel that the risk is very low compared with the benefits of finding osteoporosis before you break a bone.


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Is snorting Provigil (Modafinil) more effective than just swallowing them?
Is snorting Provigil (Modafinil) more effective than just swallowing them?
probably - you get an onset of its effects similar to "instant release" - rather than a slower gastric release of this medication !!*
*I am completely speculating here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<<<<~~~~~
It's mentioned in a couple experience reports on erowid.
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Methods of ingestion:
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1-3 Hours to come on long lasting (I can take 200mg at 8am and still be lively at midnight)
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1-2 Hours to come on
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Instant hit, seems to last as long
No effect.I then ground up the entire provigil pill and began insufflating small amounts of it until after 5 minutes or so maybe 1/6th of the pill was gone. After taking the provigil I began to feel the Adderall more intensely, and could tell the provigil had a feel of it own, less pushy and less speedy but perhaps more stimulating overall. The feeling was somewhat similar to what 100 mg of Adderall will do to me, however the feeling was much different than speed alone, and the duration was much shorter (about a half hour of really feeling up, with after effects of perhaps 5 hours). I think insufflating provigil with speed is interesting if you like bad drip taste and a euphoric high, but it is not so useful for studying. The provigil added much more to the euphoria than to the concentration or speed. The provigil seemes to also make me think alot which might make it good for critical thinking or writing a paper, but not too good for studying notes or doing math homework, it tends to create distracting thoughts.Never tried it myself, though.At about 4:30 in the morning, I realized that there was no way I was going to get enough sleep to feel rested before the day started. So instead of going into hibernation, I decided to crush up one 200 mg tablet of Provigil. I separated it into two lines, one for each nostril. After clearing my nostrils, I immediately start coughing, and look for a drink. After a cool glass of Sunny D, the coughing ceases.
By 5 am, I still am tired, but I feel less foggy. I decide to play some guitar hero. After about a half hour of guitar hero, I feel even more tired. My alertness seems to be fading, and the fogs of insomnia return. My overall impression of the experience is quite disappointing. The only noticeable affect (mild alertness increase) was short lasting and not worth the shitty after taste in my throat.
I would simply ask WHY since it just keeps you awake, it doesn't make you feel good (or, that's my experience).
i think i read somewhere it is not water soluable so dont waste your time
try it and let us know
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I tried snorting some modafinil (100mg) and noticed the usual effects, onset a little faster than oral (15-30min). This is powder, not crushed pills


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Designing for "Big Data" Web2.0 Expo, Jeff Veen
Jeff Veen from Small Batch, Inc., presented a short and sweet session over at Web2.0 Expo in San Francisco in information graphics and data visualization. During the talk, he focuses on some of the classic examples of information visualization (John Snow pump, Minard's map, the tube map, Gapminder's dynamic data visualizations etc.), the issue of "decorative" data versus accessible and usable data, and the emerging challenge to empower lay people to participate in visualizing and analyzing their own data.
3 Key points stood out for creating a good infographics:
- Find a story in the data
- Assign different visual cues to each dimension of the data
- Remove everything that isn't telling the story
Also read: Infographics: Primer for Learning Content Designer
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Preheat oven to 325. Place the turkey on the rack and position in the roasting pan. Whisk together the molasses and olive oil. Brush over the bird. Sprinkle the turkey thoroughly with salt and pepper. Roast for about 3 hours or until the juices run clear and the leg is easily moved. Allow to sit for about 10 minutes before carving.


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lukasb needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 57 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Duncan McCoy
We're planning on starting a new brand and sell printed t-shirts.
We are targeting a mainstream audience in the ages 15-40.
We want a fresh, edgy and cool looking design with prints on both front and back of the t-shirt.
You can short our brand name in some places (example: D. McCoy, DM) if you think this looks good.
If we had a good picture of what we wanted, we would have drawed it ourselves, so use your imagination and keep an open mind.
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Financing for K-12 targeted
Maria Elena Baca, Star Tribune, November 27, 2012 – A group charged with reshaping how Minnesota pays for its public education system on Tuesday recommended increasing equity among state school districts by moving away from districts' reliance on taxpayer-approved levies.
Faced with a model criticized for increasingly creating financial "haves and have nots," the group suggested taking some money from districts that approve levies to create a statewide pool. Districts that haven't been able to get levies approved would be taxed for their share.
"Currently, ZIP code matters in how much funding schools receive because it's reliant on property taxes through passage of referendums," Minnesota Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius said after the group presented its plan.
Last year, a record 132 school districts held referendums, most asking for renewals or increases in their operating levies. In 2011, local school districts levied $707 million to supplement state aid, up from $223 million in 2002.
Under the plan, the state would not increase taxes overall, but some property owners would see their taxes go up while others would see theirs go down, said Tom Melcher, finance director for the state Department of Education. Any shift would depend on property values and current referendum levels.
The recommendations, which would cost an additional $633 million a year if fully implemented, will be forwarded to the Legislature and to Gov. Mark Dayton. Both will have to agree on changes to the state's funding formulas, a perennial issue at the Capitol. Any changes would take effect in the 2015 fiscal year.
Despite a DFL governor and DFL majorities in both houses, one lawmaker was quick to criticize the recommendations and the change in leadership.
"My first thoughts are, a lot of people's taxes are going to have to go up to pay for this," said Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, the outgoing chairman of the House Education Finance Committee.
The plan does not reflect the $2.4 billion the Legislature has in effect "borrowed" from education funding to help beat down years of budget deficits. The repayment will continue, but the rate will depend on the state's revenue forecast, due next week.
Among the key recommendations of the Education Finance Working Group, a coalition of school officials and education advocates:
• Place $300 per student from districts' voter-approved operating levies into a uniform general education funding formula, set at 2003 payment levels, adjusted for inflation.
• Simplify per-student funding formulas, taking into account the age, ability and socioeconomics of students in a district.
• Invest in all-day kindergarten for at-risk students across the state.
• Boost the state's basic per-student allocation from $5,224 to $6,300, taking into account changes in how students are counted.
• Increase state funding for special education by $150 million to $200 million, to help districts make up for a funding gap that totals about $600 million.
• Shift special education and integration funding to reflect demographic changes in inner-ring suburbs and outstate population centers.
The boost in per-student aid also is a combination the rolled-over referendum dollars and other existing state funds, such as the safe-schools levy, gifted and talented revenue and other money that would become more flexible for district use.
In addition to increasing aid for special education, the group recommended replacing the current formula with one that is weighted depending on the concentration and needs of students in each district. The report also encouraged requiring districts where special- education students are open-enrolled to pay for 10 percent of the non-reimbursed cost of their education services, as a way to increase accountability and efficiency.
Dayton's spokeswoman, Katharine Tinucci, said the governor had not yet reviewed the recommendations. She said, however, that Dayton is both keen on increasing education funding and aware of continuing budgetary uncertainties.
Were the group's recommendations to be adopted, the increase in funding would depend on how quickly the changes are adopted.
The most aggressive adoption plan would create a state funding increase of about $101.8 million, which is adjusted to reflect the state's current payment practice, onto the current $14.4 billion two-year budget.
Some members of the group acknowledged some difficulty with the concept that some of the communities facing tax increases will not receive additional benefits.
"You try to create win-wins, but sometimes you're going to have some win-loss," said Ric Dressen, superintendent of Edina schools and a task force member.
He said he joined the near-unanimous vote to approve the recommendations, but said the increase in taxes with no increase in benefits among some school districts is a problem the Legislature will have to tackle.
It was less of an issue for task force member Mary Cecconi, executive director of Minnesota Parents United for Public Schools.
"Taxes reflect a communal need," she said.
"You don't build a road by yourself, but you utilize a road. If you think schools only serve your child's need, you're forgetting the most important need for schools, which is to educate kids so they can be productive, citizens, who hold jobs and govern themselves."