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At the same time a local group is calling for elimination of red-light cameras here, statistics show they could be reducing the number of wrecks at the city's signalized intersections.
Citizens Against Photo Enforcement (C.A.P.E.), led by MTSU student Axl David, is launching a petition to eliminate the cameras that catch motorists running red lights and plans to submit it to the City Council once it reaches 1,000 signatures.
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WASHINGTON — The head of US Strategic Command made the case this morning that STRATCOM cannot be viewed simply as the nuclear arm of the Pentagon.
This is not your fathers STRATCOM, Gen. Robert Kehler said at a speech hosted at the Capitol Hill Club here. Those who continue to view Strategic Command as the nuclear command are only getting it partially right.
Instead, Kehler laid out his view of STRATCOM and its modern role as a multifunctional command that is largely a support team to the other commands. As part of its portfolio, Kehler highlighted cyber, space, missile defense and coordination of ISR assets.
Rather than regular vs irregular warfare, the US now faces hybrid threats, requiring an overall strategic view of enemies regardless of if they are extremist groups like al-Qaida or nations like North Korea. STRATCOM should be the place where that information is collected to form a strategic plan for handling these threats, Kehler argued.
[STRATCOM] attributes are unique among the combatant commands, Kehler said. Our nuclear and conventional strike, space, cyber and other capabilities remain foundational to confronting the challenges of the future. The United States can neither deter adversaries nor assure allies, nor prevail in a conflict, without them.
It was hard to miss the subtext to the generals comments STRATCOMs wide portfolio, which supports DoD operations around the globe, are all vital and need funding. The generals comments were made across the street from the House office buildings, where members of Congress are debating the Pentagons funding.
Im very concerned about the impact on readiness from sequestration, Kehler said. Today, STRATCOM can perform all of its assigned missions. Im worried about six months from now, a year from now, 18 months from now if the harm to the readiness accounts continue.
Kehler also pointed out that 60 percent of STRATCOMs force are civilian workers, who now face furloughs due to sequestration. They are us, we are them, and I am very worried about the long-term effect on our people, their morale and their families.
While emphasizing STRATCOMs non-nuclear areas, Kehler made it clear that managing the US nuclear arsenal is still a major responsibility.
The weapons still exist around the world, and as long as they do, that will remain my No. 1 job: to make sure to deter their use against the US or its allies and partners, Kehler said.
Responding to a question from the audience, Kehler said he was very concerned about the future of the domestic industrial base for nuclear weapons as the US looks to draw down its arsenal. While praising the reduction in nuclear weapons, Kehler called it a good news/bad news situation.
The good news is [the arsenal] shrunk. The bad news is, it shrunk leaving a drain of talent across the nuclear industry, including strategists and planners.
To help counter that brain drain, the Pentagon and industry need to work together to train the next generation of nuclear experts, Kehler said. In recent years, STRATCOM has held an annual symposium on nuclear matters with about 500 people to discuss these issues. But due to sequestration, the event will be held as a webinar.


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"Women Hold Up Half the Sky" succinctly and poetically expresses the essential role women play in the world.
The Chinese saying is the name of the best-selling 2010 book "Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" by award-winning journalists Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
The book inspired the exhibition of the same name at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center through March 31. ...


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Student Shows 2012: Birmingham School of Architecture
Laura Mark is disappointed by the lack of emphasis on hand-drawing at Birmingham
This year's show was laid out around a central space featuring collaborative projects produced by students and staff at the school and practices from the local region. The focal point was an impressive bar which was designed by two of the school's former students. Smaller rooms ran off this central space, each featuring an individual unit or year group.
The work was heavily computer-based with some impressive computer renders. But it was disappointing to see the lack of emphasis on hand-drawing. However, the use of models was encouraging and it was clear there was a focus on materiality.
It had to be the MArch unit going under the alias 'Happiness'. Here, students had come up with architectural interventions for a post-riot Tottenham.
Standout students
Sophie Britten won the school's RIBA Drawing Prize for her calm and thoughtful drawings. Her project focused on creating spaces for the elderly of Tottenham. It was an interesting investigation into the traditions and perceptions of our ageing population.
Also outstanding was Jamie Ho's FAT and Archigram-influenced work, which explored the multicultural population of Tottenham, aiming to create community cohesion through music and dance.
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State lawmakers are wrapping up work on the new two-year budget that takes effect July 1; negotiators for the Republican-controlled House and Senate start meeting today to resolve differences in the two chambers' budget bills. But it already seems clear that the final budget that will emerge from the General Assembly will be mostly bad for Ohio.
Lawmakers continue to spurn Republican Gov. John Kasich's plea to include in the new budget an expansion of Ohio's Medicaid program, which would be funded almost entirely by Washington under the federal Affordable Care Act. Expansion would provide health insurance promptly to 275,000 working-poor Ohioans, more than 18,000 of them in Lucas County.
Instead, GOP legislative leaders in both houses, fearful of hard-right opposition in Ohio to Obamacare, say they want to "study" the issue and propose Medicaid "reforms." That dodge was bad enough when it was merely an excuse for doing nothing. Now, some proposals threaten to restrict Medicaid eligibility further rather than expand it, in the phony guise of "bending the cost curve."
Legislators also are ignoring the governor's proposal for a modest, overdue increase in Ohio's severance tax on shale oil and natural-gas extraction. Mr. Kasich's offer to sweeten his proposal by earmarking more tax revenue from fracking to help impoverished counties in Appalachian Ohio appears to have attracted scant legislative support to overcome strong industry opposition.
The General Assembly's defiance on these two issues alone would give Mr. Kasich ample justification to veto the budget bill. But it is likely to include plenty of other objectionable features that also would merit line-item vetoes.
The Senate budget includes assaults on Ohio women's rights and health. The measure could make it virtually impossible for clinics that perform abortions to continue to operate. It also effectively defunds Planned Parenthood programs in Ohio - often the only sources of health care and family planning for poor women in the state - to punish the organization for its abortion rights advocacy.
Budgets at all levels of government reflect official priorities, and provide a sense of whom the people who approve the budgets think they are primarily serving. In Columbus, it's clear that the favored constituencies are special-interest groups with the most politically powerful lobbies and most generous campaign contributions, and right-wing extremists who are threatening GOP lawmakers with primary-election challenges next year.
The grotesquely partisan map of legislative districts that Republicans rammed through last year places most lawmakers beyond the reach of voter accountability in general elections.
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Lenovo tablets arrive: IdeaPad K1 and ThinkPad pack Netflix
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Lenovo intros Android tablets with Netflix
Lenovo on Wednesday formally tipped its hand and unveiled its first pure mobile tablets. The IdeaPad K1 and ThinkPad Tablet together have the familiar NVIDIA Tegra 2 and 10-inch, 1280x800 screens of most challengers but are the first Android 3 tablets anywhere to support Netflix: both add DRM that isn't in Android 3.1 itself and can not only stream the video service but rent movies outright from Google Videos. The Netflix app should be available as an update by the time the tablets ship and will be followed by an upgrade slightly after launch for buying movies.
Both will also ship with large app libraries preloaded, with as many as 40 total. The K1 will focus on gaming and media with Angry Birds HD, Need for Speed: Shift, Kindle, Slacker Radio, and Arcsync's 2GB cloud storage. More serious apps like Documents To Go will also be on both, although special pen support on the ThinkPad will be paralleled by a Notes Mobile app to take and file notes, including translating pen input to text.
The aim is to have a tablet that's truly ready to use from the start, Lenovo told Electronista.
Lenovo is bringing in its own mild customization of the OS with the Launch Zone UI, a five-point home screen interface for quick jumps to browsing, mail, movies, music, and reading. Social Touch will provide the obligatory unified Facebook, mail, and Twitter integration. Lenovo is even trying its hand at its own app store, the Lenovo App Shop, to curate apps it believes are optimized for its tablets.
The two are similar in more areas and are as large as original iPads, at about 0.52 inches thick and 1.6 pounds with a claimed 10-hour battery life. They partly make up for this with five-megapixel rear and two-megapixel front cameras as well as 1080p-capable mini HDMI outputs and microSD storage slots, although it's not clear if the cards will work without Android 3.2. The ThinkPad, apart from a more sober look, will have an N-Trig screen that supports a pressure-sensitive pen as well as full-size SD card and USB ports.
Corporate buyers will have extra security through Computrace to track lost tablets, Cisco VPN and Good Technology approvals, data encryption, and even the option of disabling ports to prevent abusing features. They also get extra, specialized Android support and the option of protection against accidental damage.
The IdeaPad K1 will be competitive with the iPad and should cost $499 for a 32GB Wi-Fi version when it arrives in August; a keyboard dock is available but hasn't been given a price. A ThinkPad Tablet will cost $479 for a 16GB Wi-Fi version without a pen and $509 for a version with the pen rolled in. A folio case with a built-in keyboard and optical trackpoint will cost $99. Versions of the ThinkPad with 3G will be available "shortly after launch," Lenovo said.
Lenovo's entrance into the tablet market has been one of the most delayed of any company involved, with models promised as early as January 2010 when the IdeaPad U1 crossover netbook/tablet hybrid appeared. Later that year, it delayed its plans to replace their custom Linux platforms with Android as well as to improve competition with the iPad. The Chinese firm has been cautious to get into the market and, in talking to Electronista on the eve of the launch, took a jab at Apple but claiming that it didn't believe in making "one tablet for everyone."
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OWENSBORO, Ky. (10/15/13) – Repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, is how Sutton Elementary Music teacher Vic Harrison is teaching third and fourth grade members of the Sutton Elementary Chorus how to sing their parts in Italian for the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra's performance of Puccini's La Boheme.
They will perform Sunday in Act 2, which calls for a group of children to sing.
"The hardest part is getting all the words into the very fast tempos and complex rhythms that Italian opera sometimes includes. Puccini certainly does that in Act 2," explained Harrison. "It's difficult because they are third and fourth graders, but they also pick up well on foreign languages because they are third and fourth graders," said Harrison.
He says he has found that repetition is the key to teaching his students to sing the score. "The problem is our limited practice time that makes it very difficult. So, we have made videos and put a link on my blog so that students can link to and watch the video of our pronunciations on YouTube. And, we are practicing hard to perfect our performance," Harrison explained.
The students are also performing with the Kentucky Wesleyan Singers and cast members of the Kentucky Opera Company who will also be a part of the OSO performance this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the RiverPark Center. Tickets are available by calling the RiverPark Center Box Office.
"Back in 1989 and 1991, I was privileged to sing in the Kentucky Opera chorus in Louisville and it is a thrill to be a part of a production like an opera, which draws together all four of the fine arts disciplines in glorious fashion--music, theatre, visual art, and many times dance. So I'm very happy for my students to be a part of this," Harrison said. "This opera really is a fantastic 'synthesis' of not only the performing arts, but also of the musical elements we learn about every year in elementary school—those of rhythm, melody, timbre, tempo, harmony, form, dynamics—they are all there, and it's great for the children to see that in real life. We are very fortunate to perform on stage with an outstanding orchestra and Maestro Palmer," he said.
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Very few pitchers can say that they tossed a no-hitter in their first varsity start.
Even fewer can say they accomplished the task without knowing they were working on one.
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True to its name, Tamale's Industry specializes in all sorts of tamales, including the blueberry and pineapple versions pictured at far left. A plate of chicken fajitas is shown at right. / Michael Morain/The Register
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Find it: 2728 Second Ave.
Hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday-Monday
Info: www.tamalesindustry.com; 515-288-1135
Scene: A trip to Tamales Industry isnt the same as a sunny getaway south of the border, but its about as close as you can get without buying a plane ticket. Everything about this mama-y-papa joint is welcoming, from the cheery yellow paint outside to the cool green walls within, decked out with maps and posters straight from Mexicos department of tourism. From the 30-seat dining room, you can peek into the tiny kitchen where owners Angelica and Francisco Tejeda have been working their magic since 2010. Theyve been in the business at other locations since 1995 and started making tamales long before they packed up from Michoacan.
Food: In the mood for a Three Tongue Taco Meal? Youre in luck (for $9). Or how about four enchiladas? Just say the word (and pay $7).
A couple who come here every few weeks were just leaving when we arrived, and they recommended the blueberry tamales. They were right. The Tejedas mash real fruit into the (corn) masa with a technique that can take up to a full day. But the results are delicious: The blueberry tamale is purple throughout and tastes like a cross between cake-y cornbread and a blueberry muffin. The pineapple version is studded with fruity nuggets, which give it a hint of sweetness.
Since the tamales are just $3 apiece ($10 for six, $18 for a dozen; call ahead for big orders), we also tried one stuffed with a poblano pepper, which melts in the masa like roasted garlic.
Tamales Industry is a popular vendor at the Wednesday farmers market that pops up on 13th Street in late summer, but its much easier to assemble a full sampler at the restaurant, where you can get burritos, fajitas, quesadillas or all of the above (for $7-$9 per plate). We sampled a tongue taco ($1.80) so tender and split a perfectly spiced order of chicken fajitas, which comes with fragrant rice and lightly refried beans. The salsa has two alter egos: sweet red and smoldering green.
Service: Charming. The Tejedas will take care of you from the moment you step inside.
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The North Coast grape harvest, which began Aug. 1 in Napa Valley with fruit for sparkling wines, has now progressed into grapes destined for still wines, the vast majority of the region's grape crop. Fruit is ripening faster in warm regions like Dry Creek Valley, leading to an unusually early start to harvest in hot spots.
In his 35 years harvesting grapes from the same vineyard, David Coffaro, owner of the Geyserville winery that bears his name, said crush has started this early only four or five times.
"I think we're a little heavier than normal," Coffaro said, indicating that he thought the harvest would be larger than normal. "I think the bunches are sizing up very good."
Harvest Begins In Sonoma County
Grape growers and vineyard managers said they are expecting a crop that's perhaps a little larger than normal, but probably not as bountiful as the bumper crop of 2012.
"We are excited about the start of harvest 2013," said Honore Comfort, executive director of the Sonoma County Vintners. "We're looking forward to a good year. The report so far is that the yields will be solid, and the quality very high, from across Sonoma County."
Stretches of warm weather did create some mild issues for growers. Some found themselves battling mites in the vineyards, which show up during heat spells and delay fruit ripening. Others found mildew among some clusters after dewy days, although growers said they were able to limit mildew problems by spraying with sulfur or taking other preventive actions.
"The mites will slow things down, but you won't lose anything," Coffaro said. "As far as the mildew, that can be a problem if it gets out of hand, but we didn't lose anything."
Meanwhile, harvest is on hold in cooler regions like the Russian River Valley. Some growers are anticipating an earlier start, but many expect to begin at a normal time.
Pinot noir in the Russian River Valley may be ready for harvest in about a week, said Ashley Herzberg, consulting winemaker for several wineries including Bacigalupi Vineyard in the Russian River Valley.
"Right now we're having pretty foggy mornings ... which gives it a nice hang time and lets the acid levels go down without the sugar going up too much," Herzberg said. "We had so many warm days so much earlier in the season, so everything happened earlier."


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Under a new artists program, the 2-year-old streaming service will pay musicians $10 for each subscriber they bring to the service. Among the artists already on board are Snoop Lion (the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg) and members of alternative rock bands The Raconteurs and Scissor Sisters.
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Great story, Ernie. You lived through some tough times.
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The LSU Tigers received a commitment from one of the country's top linebacker prospects.
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BATON ROUGE - The hope is that this is just the beginning.
Clifton Garrett, the No. 3 inside linebacker in the nation according to Rivals.com, verbally committed to LSU shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon at a press conference at Plainfield South High School in Joliet, Ill., when he pulled an LSU hat out of a bag. Then he took off his jacket to reveal an shirt.
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"It was very successful," said Roland Cooper, president of Chapter 1257 of the association. "This year we're hoping to exceed last year's numbers."
The third annual dinner will be held from 6-9 p.m. Saturday at the Elks Lodge, 2290 Hamilton.
"There are probably 1,500-plus veterans in the Alamogordo area," Cooper said in a telephone interview Monday. "All of them are welcome to attend, not just Air Force, and we want as many as possible.
"The first 250 are free, but they have to call me at 921-1815 for reservations to get on the list. That includes a spouse or significant other, but additional family members must buy a ticket.
"We're looking for maximum participation, because we want to give back to those who gave first," Cooper continued. "We want to let them know we haven't forgotten them, from World War II veterans to the present."
The featured speaker will be current command chief of the 49th Wing at Holloman Air Force Base, James Patrie.
"He'll thank everyone for their service, past and present, and make them feel appreciated," Cooper said. He retired himself as a master sergeant at Holloman Air Force Base in 2010.
Music will be provided by the First Armored Division Band, from Fort Bliss in El Paso.
Staff Sgt. Eugene Roberts, vice-president of the Air Force Sergeants Association and veterans representative, said the buffet menu will include brisket, barbequed chicken, salad, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans and dessert.
Tickets obtained through Cooper will be $12 for one, $20 for two, or $16 each at the door.
A brochure with the history of Veterans Day and the schedule of events will be on the tables.
Veterans Day started as Armistice Day because the Treaty of Versailles, the cessation of World War I hostilities, was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of November 1918. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Armistice Day in 1919.
Skip ahead to May 13, 1938, when Congress passed legislation making Armistice Day a legal federal holiday.
On June 1, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation changing the name of the legal holiday from Armistice Day to Veteran's Day. After it moved around the calendar for 20 years, legislation was passed, effective in 1978, to re-establish Nov. 11 as Veteran's Day.
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Dublin: Four Courts, 1997. 126 pages. Hardback.
This book is part of a continuing series on the subject of Protestant dissent in Ireland and based on papers originally presented at the third annual conference held at Marsh's Library in Dublin. The current volume is divided into four parts. Part one deals with an historical interpretation of Irish history in regard to dissent and governmental authority in the 18th century. In part two there are four chapters addressing various aspects of the political relationship of dissenters to legal statute and different governmental administrations in Ireland. The third part looks at John Wesley's political attitudes. The last part provides a select document relevant to this study.
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GREENVILLE, Ky. (7/29/13) – With the blast of sirens and a long line of fire engines leading the way through Greenville Courthouse Square on Sunday, 19-year-old Greenville firefighter and cancer victim Caleb Harvell was escorted home after receiving his first round of treatment for cancer.
As reported by SurfKY News last week, Harvell was taken to Muhlenberg County Hospital earlier this month complaining of severe pain. He was then diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemo and other treatment at Baptist Hospital in Madisonville.
Due to his surprise return from the hospital Sunday afternoon, there was little time for his growing number of supporters to gather on the courthouse square. But those who did turn out stood cheering and waving posters with messages of encouragement as Harvell was whisked through the courthouse square.
Making a brief stop at the Greenville Fire Department, Harvell told the crowd "I am ready to roll. Where is my radio at?" said the young man known as KB said, referring to his radio equipment used by firefighters.
Harvell's father, Phillip Harvell, is a training officer with the GFD, and the two shared hugs with well-wishers along with smiles of appreciation for the words of encouragement from those gathered outside the firehouse.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday that 14 more interceptors would be stationed in Alaska — increasing by almost half the 30 already deployed along the western coastline. The aim is to have them in place by 2017.
North Korea has threatened to unleash a second Korean War — backed by nuclear weapons — in response to U.N. sanctions imposed after its third atomic test in February and joint South Korea-U.S. military maneuvers.
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I am entering university next month and have some exemption exams today. One of which is Computer Organization: things like Boolean Algebra, Gates (AND, OR, NOT etc), Assembly Language are taught. I wonder why learn such low level stuff. Does it benefit me as a programmer, likely developing in much higher level languages like C#, Python, PHP etc?
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Software is an ever-changing field.
Some of what is hot today might and will be forgotten till the time you graduate.
Definitely concentrate on practical skills in popular languages like C# / Java / PHP.
Then study more 'hot' languages like Ruby, F#, Clojure.
Assembly Language while almost obsolete in 99% of the areas where software is used, will give you a unique perspective of the low level workings of your system.
Assembly is not that hard actually, and is a fun thing to brag about.
My colleagues are usually impressed when I tell them I have been doing machine code on 8bit computers (I didn't have an assembler).
Learning programming from the bottom up is invaluable. You will use boolean algebra practically every day as a programmer. Reducing truth-tables to minimal logical expressions and doing equivalent transformations of boolean expressions comes in very handy.
For example, when writing code, sometimes it's more natural to write something as:
If you know your equivalences, you would know that it might be clearer to write:
When you're examining code, you'll be able to quickly and easily tell if all cases are handled through complex
As for assembly and (basic) circuit design, this may not be something that you ever use. However, think about what it is that we do. We take high level specifications and break them down into smaller and smaller bits and build up a program of specific steps which will, in the end, act according to the specification.
By learning assembly and simple circuits, you bring this decomposition down to its lowest level. It is an excellent mental exercise that will (1) force you to think about what it means to work through a problem step by step, clock cycle by clock cycle; (2) make you appreciate all that is going on under-the-hood while using higher level languages; and (3) give you the understanding necessary when you have to get the maximum amount of performance out of a piece of code.
You will not be sitting at your desk performing boolean algebra problems to hand in to your boss, nor will you be hand coding a web site in assembler. But the skills that each of these exercises teach you will come in handy every single day.
You will understand the machine you are working with. As a Martial Artist needs to know his muscles and which diet is good for him. You will have to make many decisions and in some cases this may be the question if it's a good idea to implement some feature in a high level language or if you need to write it in a low level language to avoid performance problems. Even if you won't be able to implement it in Assembly yourself, because you specialized in something else, yo should know the differences so you know when it makes sense to hire somebody to do this kind of work.
If you work in high level languages you will benefit from knowing what's going on behind the scenes, how for example a map, a vector or a linked list is implemented and where are the advantages or disadvantages.
And in general it is just another way to train your ability in abstract thinking. It doesn't matter that much if you train this i Assembly or in Python.
I concur with what several others have already said. You won't be sitting at your desk doing boolean algebra exercises, nor is it likely that you will start out at a job where you are tasked with coding something in assembler. But the big advantage to having some grasp on these very basic concepts is that you will have a much better understanding of how computers work, and how the code you write is actually transformed into machine code (by the compiler and/or JITter) and executed by the processor. This understanding will help you consider how the code you write is likely to perform.
And, as for assembler specifically, device driver development and such things all aside, every once in a while, even though I mostly work on C#/ASP.NET web applications at present, I have been thrown into the debugger with nothing more than a disassembly listing. Having some idea how to read it is a huge benefit in such situations. You don't have to understand all the nitty-gritty details, but recognizing the assembly (or IL, in the case of .NET) code corresponding to common high-level-language constructs can really help you deduce whether the problem is actually there, or farther up the call stack. This is particularly common when you are working with third-party libraries for which the source code is not available.
For example, taking x86 Intel syntax assembly, if you're looking at the disassembly of a stack frame and seeing an
I have toyed with Intel assembly language programming on my own, as well as did some Motorola assembly development in school. The useful take-away from that hasn't been the knowledge of the language itself (I almost certainly could not write anything non-trivial in assembly language as it is), but the understanding of how the computer works, and the ability to read at least basic assembler language code and make heads and tails out of it.
I asked myself those same questions when I started to study Software engineering two years ago.
Learning boolean algebra, assembly language and others low level stuff is not necessary for every day work you will have to do at your job because you won't use theses knowledge often in high level language. But, programming is mainly about how to organise data and control the flow of execution of your programs, optimize your memory and the speed of your algorithm. You can't learn properly how to do those stuff in high level language because of the abstraction made over the data(everything is simplefied for you). Don't get me wrong, abstraction ain't a bad thing at all, because it help you to be much more productive in many ways. By contrast, programming in assembly language take an eternity...
In conclusion, learning low level stuff allow you to have a better understanding of what is going under the code you are writing in high level languages. This can make a huge difference between a good and a bad programmer.
I think it never hurts to answer questions starting with "should I learn" and a subject inside your domains (remember - there are always two domains: programmer's and user's) with yes. There is only a question of prioritizing what to learn first and what next.
High-level languages provide abstractions for the low-level stuff, and most of the time, you won't have to think about the low-level implementation when you write high-level code.
However, at some inevitable point, the abstraction will leak, and you will need your low-level knowledge to troubleshoot (and solve) the problem.
Here's nice reading on the matter: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html
Boolean algebra is a pretty good fundamental to have. Digital electronics (logic-gate-level circuit design for small circuits) is a good way of training the application of boolean algebra.
If it's more of an "introduction to assembly language", it certainly will not harm you, knowing how the actual hardware deals with stuff.
If you think it's trivial nonsense, why are you going for a degree in the first place?


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Utah's rehabilitation from the worst basketball season in school history begins on Friday night at the Huntsman Center.
On the surface, Division III opponent Willamette should provide easy fodder for the Utes. The Bearcats are an undersized team without the quickness or athleticism of the Pac-12 teams Utah will see nightly in a few months.
That doesn't mean there isn't a case of nerves around the Huntsman Center offices. Larry Krystkowiak wants to see some proof that an overhauled roster will be competitive and that this team can take care of business. Most of all, he wants wins and progress. And he wants the first step to come against the Bearcats.
"We're all anxious to get the season started," Krystkowiak said. "It's been a long process. We've had long practices, scrimmages and an exhibition. It's time to start things for real and to see where we're at and how far we have to go."
Utah preaches balance on both ends of the floor. Last week against Simon Fraser, the Utes received just that, placing four players in double digits as Utah defeated the Clan, 71-36. In that exhibition victory, the Utes looked overpowering in the rebounding battle.
Several Utes also played well off the bench, with sophomore center Dallin Bachynski leading all scorers with 16 points.
Krystkowiak would like to see that carry over into Friday. There have been rough spots in the preseason, such as a bad, losing scrimmage against Montana State two weeks ago. But the Utes appear to have improved since then.
How much so may not be known until Utah plays a more competitive team, such as BYU, in early December. For comparison's sake, the Utes lost their exhibition game last season to Adams State, then barely squeaked past San Diego Christian College 58-55 in their season opener.
In that sense, Utah is already performing better than it did a year ago at this time. But the Utes will be short-handed for the opener.
Shooting guard Jarred DuBois has been scratched because of a hip injury and is out for at least a week. DuBois had replaced Aaron Dotson (foot injury) in the starting lineup.
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Last meeting • Utah 41, Willamette 23 (Dec. 17, 1941)
About the Bearcats • Willamette was 5-20 last season and is a Division III school. ... Terrell Malley is the top returning scorer for the Bearcats. He averaged 12.2 pointer per game last season. ... Willamette competes in the Northwest Conference. ... The Bearcats' tallest player is 6-foot-6. ... The two schools will be meeting for the second time in 70 seasons.
About the Utes • Utah begins the season with five players 6-10 or taller. ... Aaron Dotson is expected to miss all of November with a stress fracture in his foot. ... Utah will attempt to win its second straight season opener under Krystkowiak. ... The Utes finished 6-9 at home last season. ... Utah will play a minimum of 28 televised games this season.


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On August 30, 1945, my late father of blessed memory was awarded the Bronze Star. The medal was pinned on his left breast at a ceremony in Luxembourg. It was for his dedicated service in Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army. Not bad for a man who had entered the United States brazenly but illegally 21 years earlier. CWO Gregorio A. Diaz retired in 1954 after 30 years of regular military service. He went to his grave some three decades later without bothering to tell anyone else — including his wife and family — that his entry into the United States at El Paso in February 1924 was a fraud based on a single but oh-so-important lie.
Okay. There were technically two lies, one not so, so important. Sometimes, a man has gotta do what a man has gotta do.
My father's service to his new country was in several ways very ordinary for Latino immigrants.
First he was not a raging criminal or a degenerate pervert. He was a man of strong moral principles and considerable personal courage.
The relationship between crime and immigration is precisely the opposite of the line that "race" experts and their twisted ilk peddle.
According to these grim Nativists, immigrants of the brown-skinned variety are a slavering horde of criminals pouring in to sell dope to our kids and rape our chaste womenfolk. In fact, immigrants of every national origin actually have a much lower crime rate than their second-generation children (measured by their rate of imprisonment for criminal conduct). And foreign-born men are imprisoned at half the rate of non-Hispanic native-born white men. Here's more news: Among Latinos, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Mexicans — "precisely the groups most stigmatized as 'illegals' in the public perception and outcry about immigration" — have the lowest incarceration rates!
Second, my father served his country in uniform, in peace and in war. He did not go on a crime rampage the minute he was safely into El Paso. He went to Ft. Bliss and joined the U.S. Cavalry.
Something I like to think about on Veteran's Day.
Oh, yeah, my dad's lies? Well, he claimed he was born in Mexico, but he actually was born in Spain. As hard as it is to believe today, in February 1924 Mexican nationals could legally cross the border and declare for immigration with a few token formalities, like a head tax and no apparent health issues. But Spaniards? Spaniards were subject to a relatively new quota system designed to preserve America's racial purity. My dad was from a poor fishing village in the Canary Islands, Garachico on Tenerife. There was no way he was going to get one of the 130 or so visas allowed for Spaniards that year. So he just claimed he was from Mexico. The inspectors waved him in. (You know, we all do kinda look alike.)
My dad also added a year to his age at the border, claiming he was 18, rather than 17.
The man had true grit.


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Wings first-round pick Anthony Mantha, here putting on a Detroit jersey during the 2013 NHL draft, gives the team a proven scorer with ample size (6-foot-4). (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Detroit� The Red Wings got their big man with a heavy shot, whom some observers are calling �a sniper.�
Is he Bryan Bickell, Vincent Lecavalier or Nathan Horton, the unrestricted free agents? No. This was the 2013 NHL draft, not unrestricted free agency.
As is often the case when it comes to the Wings these days, the fans simply are going to have to be more patient than that.
The player is an 18-year-old from Quebec named Anthony Mantha. At 6-foot-4, 190 or 200 pounds � depending on which scouting report one reads � with good skating skills for a big man and a heavy wrist shot, Mantha was the only 50-goal scorer in the draft.
Ken Holland looked happy at the Prudential Center in New Jersey. Mike Babcock looked ebullient.
The Red Wings may have the big sniper they have needed since Brendan Shanahan left town. But fans will not know for a while.
Mantha is unlikely to play in the NHL until about 2017.
Quick help unlikely
But fans of the Red Wings ought to be excited, nonetheless.
The fact of the matter is Bickell, Lecavalier and Horton are utterly unlikely to come to Detroit to play for the Wings. At this point in their careers, all three are still looking for a big payday.
The Blackhawks, for whom the large, gritty Bickell scored nine goals on the way to the Stanley Cup, were intent Sunday on clearing as much cap space as it could, trading Dave Bolland to the Maple Leafs. By the end of the day, they had re-signed Bickell for four years at $16 million.
Reportedly, the Red Wings are one of eight teams who have talked to Lecavalier, 33, who scored only 10 goals, albeit in the lockout-shortened season of 2013. It is conceivable most if not all of the other seven teams will offer Lecavalier more money and time.
Horton? The Bruins, who played in the Stanley Cup Finals, do not do well in the playoffs without the big forward. But, while Horton�s injury problems have been manifest, they may not keep some teams from showering the sizeable marksman with dollars.
Given the lay of the land in the NHL and the current status of the Red Wings, the importance of the NHL draft is increased and Mantha is an exciting development worth watching over the next few seasons.
What does it mean about now?
It means the Wings will continue to amass young talent to restock both the Calder Cup-winning Grand Rapids Griffins and their own increasingly youthful, surprisingly-successful roster in Detroit. And when they have enough pieces in place to pull the trigger on some moves for free agents that will suddenly and markedly increase their chances of winning the Stanley Cup, they will do it.
But, until then, Junes and Julys are more about youth and development for the Red Wings. While that makes thing less exciting, it also seems like the shrewd strategy.
While it is less than 50-50, perhaps considerably so, that they will sign a big-name unrestricted free agent this month, they were picking up what they needed for the more distant future by drafting large, goal-scoring forwards.
It has been a need for a few seasons that was underlined again this year, when goals were at a premium for the Red Wings, especially in postseason.
Picks will be heard from
Mantha is the highest forward selected in the draft by the Wings since Martin Lapointe, when that sizeable shooter was selected 10th in 1991.
They also selected 6-1, 190-pound Zach Nastasiuk, a goal-scoring forward, with the 48th pick, and Tyler Bertuzzi, Todd�s nephew, a 6-foot, 178-pound goal-scoring forward, at 59th. Both Nastasiuk and Bertuzzi, who is less sizeable than his uncle but shares some of his tenacious, physical instincts, were selected in the second round.
The trio are unlikely to play anytime soon. But as the Red Wings continue to retool, as they continue to add youth and size to the lineup, they may be important acquisitions to be heard from in the years to come.
Meanwhile, Holland and Babcock are undoubtedly interested in kicking a lot of tires in free agency this month. There are more players than just Lecavalier and Horton still available.
But after re-signing defenseman Jakub Kindl and penalty-killing forward Drew Miller this week and drafting the trio of goal-scoring forwards, the Wings undoubtedly believe they already have had the sort of success this offseason that is consistent with how they intend to restructure a perennial Stanley Cup contender: with draft choices and with players they develop in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Toledo, to be topped-off, eventually, with some key free-agent acquisitions or trades.
Something big might yet develop for them in the summer of 2013 along those two paths.
Even if it does not, however, their current plans are proceeding apace.


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President Obama declared last week that it was a "shameful" day in Washington. I find myself in total agreement with him. However, I agree for totally different reasons.
He was referring to the Senate's failure to pass the gun control law he supported. I found it much more shameful that he and other politicians would use the national tragedy in Newtown as cover to advance an agenda.
If one wonders why there was such virulent opposition to such "common-sense" legislation, just look at its content.
The legislation had absolutely nothing to do with what happened in Newtown. If it had dealt with banning certain guns, or school security, you could argue that you were doing something meaningful about the tragedy.
Instead, they chose to use the tragedy as a means to incrementally advance their agenda to weaken the Second Amendment.
ow you can argue about whether or not that was the president's intent, but once your motives are in question, my "common sense" says to oppose what you are trying to do.
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FLINT, Mich.,- After the second round of the Randy Wise Junior Open Zeyu He of Bradenton, Fla., continues his lead in the Boys Division shooting a 4-under-par 140. Danielle Frasier of Encinitas, Calif., leads the Girls Division by recording an even-par 144.
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He said with a combination of strong winds and a few mistakes, he struggled until the last few holes when he made birdies on Nos. 13 and 16. He's comeback on the back nine led him to a 37-36 for a 1-over-par 73 day total.
"Tomorrow I'll be practicing a little bit on the greens," He said. "I need to watch the yardage on the par 3s, keep calm and keep going."
In second is Jae Han Chun of Ansung-City, South Korea carding a 2-under-par 142. Currently in third place is Mark Mumford of Rye, N.Y., posting a 1-under-par 143. Michael Murray of Bradenton, Fla., is in contention for fourth, shooting an even-par 144. Standing in fifth is Colin Van Es of Granger, Ind., recording a 1-over-par 145.
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"I just want to play solid golf tomorrow," Frasier said. "My work paid off."
Currently in second place is Shannon Warner of Livonia, Mich., carding a 3-over-par 147 tournament total. Tied for third are Justine Chen of Lake Forest, Calif., Brooke Bettis of St. Charles, Ill., and Milena Savich of Carmel, Ind., all shooting 7-over-par 151 tournament totals.
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I say 2-2 at worst 3-1 at best...Charlotte is an easy one, but detroit is one of those games where you kinda know you're going to lose...that leave Phoenix and Sacto...no way do we lose both, but both teams can be pretty dangerous...i say it's a 50-50 chance of winning both, or splitting the two games...I say we win both, so 3-1
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2-2 sounds about right. Phoenix and Detroit will be good tests to know what this team can do against upper tier teams.
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