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The Individualization Fallacy in Forensic Science Evidence
Michael J. Saks
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Jonathan J. Koehler
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol 61, No. 1, pp. 199-219, 2008
Forensic identification science involves two fundamental steps. The first step is to compare a questioned item of evidence to an exemplar from a known source and judge whether they appear so alike that they can be said to match. The second step is to assess the meaning of that reported match: What is the probability that the questioned and the known originated from the same source? Part II of this Essay explains what we mean by the term 'individualization fallacy' and describes the origins of individualization in criminalistics. Part III critically examines the arguments offered in support of the individualization hypothesis. This Part also addresses the second step in forensic identification: What inferences can be drawn from a forensic scientist's conclusion that an exemplar (such as a partial fingerprint, handwriting sample, or tireprint) matches a known source? Forensic scientists across a broad array of sub-specialties long have maintained that such a finding is synonymous with a conclusion that the exemplar marking is produced by the known source. Part IV gives a historical account of scientists who have recognized the problem of individualization in forensic science. Part V offers suggestions for ways to improve the scientific foundation of identification in criminalistics. Finally, Part VI concludes that forensic scientists must provide sound evidence for their conclusions and should avoid exaggerating their results.
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subj: etale covers of line bundles on an abelian variety
Is there an explicit decryption of finite etale covers of a line bundle $L$ on an abelian variety and its associated C*-bundles $L^o = L \setminus A\times {0}$ (i.e. the C*-bundle $L^o$ is $L$ without the zero section) ?
Pull-back along multiplication by $n$ map $n:A\rightarrow A$ gives a pull-back $n^*_A L' \rightarrow L$.
A tensor power map $L'\mapsto L'^{\otimes n}$ gives rise to an etale map of
$L^o \rightarrow L^{o\otimes n}$, and thus if $L$ happens to be a tensor power, to an etale cover of $L^o$.
Can we obtain all etale covers of $L^o$ this way ?


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Motivation: I'm doing research in mathematics education. I'm particularly interested in teaching mathematicians programming and utilizing programming to teach the metacognitive skills necessary for mathematics.
Question: Was programming/computer science brought up in your undergraduate/graduate mathematics education? Did you see any consistent problems that you and your peers experienced with computer science/programming constructs?


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A perk of having a career in fitness is its portability. How refreshing it is to be able to teach no matter where we live! Fortunately, many instructors are able to work in the same gym for prolonged periods and do not have the stresses of starting over. Most of us at some point will still battle complacency in our class design and coaching once we fall into a rhythm of teaching. Do not become too comfortable because we are obligated to consistently offer a meaningful class or training session to our members.
As a Spinning® instructor who has moved many times and taught in gyms on both coasts, I experienced the frustration of starting over, building a class and fitting into a new environment where my style was not familiar. The following tips may be appropriate for your classes as well as for the instructor who is new to teaching or to a facility.
1. Research your options- and all the gyms within a radius you'd be willing to drive. Are any of them official Spinning® facilities? If not, make a trip to each gym for a visitor's pass and take some classes. Which one feels like a good fit? Introduce yourself to the manager or owner when possible and let them know you are a certified Spinning® instructor interested in working at the club. Perhaps give a compliment on something you liked about the studio, instructor or gym. Have a resume ready to give to them.
2. Feel out the gym- Once you have a job, attend as many Spinning® or cycling classes as possible to get a feel for what the members are used to and gauge the gym culture. What is the demographic? Are riders able to set up their bikes correctly?
Become familiar with the room setup and how to use the stereo before you teach. Introduce yourself to the other instructors when taking their classes.
3. Trust Your Training- Prepare ahead of time and trust the training you received. The Spinning® program is a safe and effective program when used as it is designed. It's imperative to be yourself and offer a class based on your personality and teaching style. Refer to the Spinning manual if necessary to refresh class design. Write the profile and then layer in the music, keeping it simple at first. Do not fall into the trap of throwing a bunch of music together at the last minute and winging the class. Use the Energy Zone heart rate and cadence parameters. You can't go wrong! Remember the contraindicated moves! Many gyms won't offer classes based on all of the Energy Zones so provide a variety when you start teaching
4. Show Confidence Even If You Don't Feel It- Often as a new instructor, nerves are present in front of a class of eager students. Everyone in the room started as a beginner at some point, even the best, most seasoned instructor. Rely on the profile and cue to the members what they should feel at certain points during class. Smile and provide a tip or two that relates to the class goal. This provides the "why" to the students and reinforces your knowledge.
5. Build Rapport – Learn your students' names first and foremost! It's hard to do but will pay off. They will feel important and may become a class regular. You can walk around before class begins to personally say hello and engage with each member. If the class size is too large, make a point to say hello to those you don't know and talk to some others after class. Be available by standing near the door, thanking everyone as they leave. Be careful not to turn your back to the class once the music stops to make notes or sign the roster. Lastly, build rapport by being genuine and showing your personality. It is easier to feel intimidated at first and even easier to sink into the shoes of the instructor whose style packs the room. Be yourself! You'll gain your own following and they will appreciate you for YOU.
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I was trying to solve the problem of finding the value of a non-squared matrix $T$ ($n \times m$) which solves
where $X$ is a symmetric and positive semidefinite $m \times m$ matrix, and $m > n$.
I saw this post (Solving a quadratic matrix equation) but unfortunately it seems that no solution was yet found and $T$ in that case is squared, which is not my case.
I know that if $T$ would be squared, one could use the Cholesky decomposition and find that $X = Z^T Z$ and assign $T = Z$. Unfortunately I cannot do this since the Cholesky decomposition always gives squared $Z$.


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Lost River Pizza is one of five restaurants that could receive the award.
The award goes to the restaurant that best satisfies customers and embraces the community.
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Petrella works at JBHS's Gill House location, and her co-workers say she is "very helpful to (them) and to clients. She is patient, kind and very considerate to all who enter Gill House."
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The 6 Manliest Ways People Still Hunt for Food
#3. The Inuit Dig Through Frozen Sea Water Caves for Mussels
The native Inuit of certain areas of northern Canada eat a shit-ton of seal meat, because there really isn't anything else around (not even plant life), and Applebee's has yet to recognize the franchise potential of the Arctic Circle. After subsisting on nothing but adorable flesh for months on end, the situation becomes so desperate that the Inuit are driven to dig directly into icy chunks of frozen ocean for a chance of finding some mussels, essentially walking right into a natural booby trap.
There is a thick layer of ice that covers the arctic sea for most of the year, as you might expect. However, when the tide recedes, it just leaves a big frozen slab. The sea level drops by almost 40 feet, leaving mussels on the seabed exposed for a few crucial minutes beneath that perilously unstable sheet of ice. The palate-bored Canadian Inuit will dig through the frozen layer and enter the shifting, groaning ice caves formed by the receding tide to collect these mussels, because they are seriously that fucking tired of seal meat.
They have maybe a half an hour to scuttle through the ice caves and scoop up bucketfuls of mussels before the tide returns, flooding the caves and pushing the ice back into place, trapping them underneath. Of course, that's assuming the caves don't just collapse on top of them -- with the ocean gone, there is literally nothing supporting the weight of the ice. It's only a matter of time before they get crushed or drowned or both, all for a few pounds of seafood that will probably be eaten in a single evening. But hey, it's better than eating more goddamned seal!
#2. The Sami Castrate Reindeer With Their Teeth
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"Hell no. You go in that tent."
The nomadic Sami reindeer herders of Siberia traditionally half-castrate their male stock for practical reasons that surely must have existed at some point. Half-castration is when you don't actually remove the testicles, but merely pulp them within the scrotum, like smashing a sock full of hard-boiled eggs against a refrigerator.
However, there aren't any veterinary clinics within hundreds (maybe thousands) of miles of the Sami people, and those reindeer balls aren't going to crush themselves. So, calling on that practicality and tradition we mentioned earlier, most of the Sami herders still do their castrating the same way their parents and grandparents did before them -- with their teeth.
Sven Nackstrand / Getty
"Susie, it is time to learn the ways of your people. Did you bring a roll of floss and some mouthwash?"
As you can imagine, biting reindeer testicles is a two-person job, because doing it alone would just be ridiculous. One person cheerfully lassos the panicking deer and holds the struggling animal down while another buries her face in its crotch to chew on its furry beanbag. And as this bizarre quasi-Epcot Center video makes perfectly clear, storied tradition dictates that the ball-munching be done by the Sami women:
Why this cannot be done with a mallet or two big rocks is never made clear, nor is it clear why the Sami don't simply cast their male reindeer in a Farrelly brothers movie to receive the necessary groin trauma. At any rate, the resulting half-castrated reindeer will still produce male hormones, so he'll grow to full size and strength, but will be much less aggressive (due to, and we cannot stress this enough, his balls being jellied in his nutsack by a woman's teeth). Fully castrated reindeer don't grow as large, producing inferior pelts and antlers, and are less suitable for pulling sleighs.
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"Minka may have squished my testicles like fruit-filled Gushers between her teeth,
but at least I get to drag bastard children through the snow with a bell around my neck."
Also, the Sami method of half-castration doesn't break the skin, unlike the way a full castration does, or a spirited boot-heel axe kick might. Since the animal is left with no open wounds, this greatly reduces the risk of infection, which is a good thing because medical facilities are thin on the ground in an icy wasteland. Frenzied testicle chewing was simply the Sami ancestors' best available option, and since Siberia hasn't been developed much beyond the Road Warrior Christmas special it's been for the past several centuries, it's still pretty much the best option. To produce the best herd of pliable and efficient sleigh pullers, half-castration is almost a must. This is another way of saying that Rudolph, before guiding Santa's way to the chimneys of virtuous children, was probably busy lighting Mrs. Claus' midnight scrotum gnashings.
#1. The People of Lamalera Stab Whales
Yes, that is a man flying through the air and dive-stabbing a whale. Look, no one likes seeing whales die. That's something just about everyone other than Captain Planet villains and the Japanese can agree on. As such, there has been a worldwide ban on whaling in place since the mid-1980s. However, the people of the Indonesian town of Lamalera are exempt from the international whaling ban, because whaling in Lamalera looks like that.
Daily Mail
That dude in the middle just leveled up.
The Lamaleran whalers begin a day of hunting on the beach, peering owlishly at the surf, watching for the telltale breach or blowhole geyser of a whale. If one is spotted, the whalers race to their boats, shove them quickly into the water and then spend a couple of hours paddling out to where they last saw the whale, because Lamaleran whaling vessels don't have motors. Check out the above picture again (which is ridiculous, we know you never stopped looking at the picture) -- it's just a bunch of dudes in a rowboat with ropes and bamboo harpoons. They don't use modern technology of any kind. Lamaleran whaling, you see, is based on a series of heavily contingent "if"s.
If they manage to make it out to the whale before it leaves, and if they can maneuver their boat close enough, one of the designated harpooners will grab the bamboo tool of his trade and fling himself at the whale like King Leonidas if Persian Moby-Dick had bitten his leg off. After being stuck, the whale will either thrash its tail and dive, often smashing boats apart or dragging them down with it, or start circling the whalers. Provided they haven't been obliterated or drowned, the rest of the whalers will start jabbing at the whale with harpoons and other traditional stab-struments like machetes.
Ardiles Rante via lightstalkers
"Send those Whale Wars guys out here. We'll eat them, too."
If one boat gets destroyed, the whalers swim to another, often going through several in a single hunt. On one occasion, a whale trashed two boats before dragging the third (and all its occupants) all the way to Timor, which is a different freaking country. Many of the whalers eventually forgo the boats altogether and leap directly into the water to hack at the whale with knives, which is especially dangerous when you consider that a bloody melee in the ocean is exactly the kind of party that sharks attend.
Once the whale is finally too exhausted and wounded to continue, the whalers drag it back to shore, singing a song that is part gratitude and part apology to ease the whale's departing spirit. Every part of the whale is then harvested as either food or resources to sustain the entire town. Before you write it all off as gruesome or cruel, think of how many times you've bothered to sing to a bucket of KFC as you drove it back to your family. The answer is probably less than five, and you didn't participate in any stage of the chicken hunt.
For more articles that'll put hair on your chest, check out The 9 Manliest Names in the World and 5 Manliest Hobbies You've Never Heard of.
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What is the etymology of the word バレる, and why is it often written with katakana?
ばれる(P); バレる (v1,vi) to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.) (behavior)
その秘密はついにばれた。 The secret came to light at last.
The verb bare-ru is a 下一段 verb, so you can expect that it was 下二段 bar-u before that, hence bar-u > bar-uru > bare-ru. It is noteworthy in that it begins with a voiced consonant (b), which essentially does not happen in words of Japanese origin. Rather, it is more likely that it is a recent contraction of another word, which I assume was abare-ru (暴れる). And in fact, it is a recent verb with early citations from the mid 17th century. Reasons to write it in katakana are 1) lack of kanji, 2) emphasis, 3) colloquial. Hiragana works just as well, though.
The accepted answer to this question on chiebukuro suggests that there is no sure answer to the origin of バレる. Some of the suggestions given include 暴く/暴かれる, 破{ば}れる, and 晴れ晴れ.


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Wonderful! This is what our hobby is all about. Congratulations on a great weekend! 73, Stefan VE4NSA -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of hasan schiers Sent: July 4, 2006 8:31 PM To: email@example.com Subject: [amsat-bb] A Satellite Weekend! I planned it a week in advance when I saw that I would have Friday through Tuesday off, with no other presssing obligations. (4th of July weekend) First, I had some station work to do: Station Setup: 2m/70cm nested quads (4 el on 2m, 8 el on 70cm), M2 CP-30 RHC 70cm. Az/El rotors (manually controlled), Yaesu GS-800 Az, KR-500 EL. Metal crossboom at 8'. All antennas fed with 80' of LMR 400, Gasfet preamps for both bands, at the antennas. (SSB Electronics) Rigs: Kenwood TS-2000 (old firmware, no tone on FM satellites), Kenwood D7a(g) handheld. 1. Move the 70cm preamp from a nested 2m/70cm quad to the M2 CP-30 14.2 dBc right hand circular 70cm antenna. Results: No more cross mod in mode J, greatly increased sensitivity on 70cm receive. This opened up Mode J on AO-51 and FO-29. 2. Trim the surrounding trees so I could turn and properly elevate the array. This took about an hour with a extensible tree-saw. Results: No more hanging up of the CP-30 in the low lying tree branches. 3. Install SatPC32 on the new computer, get it working with the TS-2000. (Quite easy since WA4EWV emailed me his doppler.sqf file for SatPC32.) I printed out all the passes of VO-52, FO-29 and AO-51 for the period I had off. (Friday evening through Tuesday evening), and highlighted the best passes with a yellow highlighter), then arranged my "schedule", so I could catch the best passes to evaluate the system changes I had made. On Sunday night I had completed all the work and decided to listen to AO-51 (which I knew I couldn't use because the TS-2000 had no 67 Hz tone in SAT mode. AO-51 was pinning my S-meter for most of the pass even with close in vegetation losses. Until I got below 10 degrees, it was very strong. This got me to thinking that I could use my hand-held on the uplink (since it had PL tone). I rigged up a switch so I could switch between my normal setup and having the HT do the uplink quickly. This way, I had doppler control of my receive frequency, and didn't have to worry too much about doppler on the uplink (5 khz max change for the pass) Next AO-51 pass, I made several contacts and was quite excited. This struck me as silly, as I've been doing sats since AO-6 and practically lived on AO-7, AO-8, AO-10, AO-13 and AO-40. An FM satellite? Fun...nah. Actually, the operating techniques for AO-51 are so idiosyncratically different from my real satellite interests (linear and HEO stuff), that it sort of captured my imagination and I had real fun with all of the passes, listening 80% of the time, and popping in for a quick exchange a few times each pass. Nothing more than call and grid square...this leaves a LOT of openings for others to make contacts. Not exactly meaningful conversations, but a very considerate way to share a limited resource. Now, on to the 'real' satellite work with VO-52 and FO-29. I was astonished at how much better I heard with the preamp moved to the M2 CP30 RHC 70cm antenna. It made FO-29 pure pleasure. When I had open sky, the 4 element 2m quad on the uplink only needed 5 watts output (not even considering the loss of 80' of LMR-400) to produce a very solid signal. The 2m quad is vertically polarized, rear mounted. I ran into a lot of old friends, and made some new ones. Signals were just outstanding. As always, vegetation losses from the surrounding trees were VERY predictable on Mode J. I could even observe shooting between branches, not to mention the regular broad obstructions of the trees and adjacent forest a mere 10' away in wide swaths of directions (180 to 5 degrees , requiring elevation of > 20, and some places 30 degrees to clear enough of the vegetation to not suffer high losses) The losses, as would be expected, were far higher on the downlink (70cm) than they were on the uplink (2m). This required careful attention to uplink power. The solution is NOT to increase TX power as the RX losses increase...otherwise one just becomes a passband hog. Slight increases in uplink power are justified by the vegetation losses on 2m, but no amount of uplink increase could make up for downlink losses from the trees. I made lots of FO-29 qsos and even hit one pass where I was really loud the entire pass....and NOT ONE QSO! I don't know where everyone was, but for 15 minutes straight I called CQ briefly, listened, resumed calling CQ, tuned the passband...NADA! Very strange. VO-52 is so loud! The antenna mounted preamp at the antenna (4 element vertically polarized 2m quad) really does the job. Very little fading, signals 5 to 8 units out of the noise. It reminded me of how much I enjoyed mode B on AO-7. What fun! Uplink power on 70cm: 5 watts to the M2 CP-30 RHC antenna (up 8' on the cross boom). When in the vegetation, I had to increase power to as much as 35 watts to stay in the bird. I could tell how to make the adjustments to the uplink, by listening to the passband on 2m. If the passband stayed loud, but my sig went in the toilet, it was time to increase uplink power. I had to manage my uplink power a lot during a pass to be considerate. On none of the satellites did I find I needed to change polarities. Vertical polarization on 2m and RHC on 70cm worked admirably on VO-52, FO-29 and AO-51. I saw VERY LITTLE polarization fading. LEOs are nice for that. (actually so was AO-40). I was really bummed out when AO-40 shut down. With a little motivation and effort, I have been able to enjoy sat ops again, in spite of no HEO bird. The maddening race to adjust my rotors (but not having to do doppler due to PCSat32) and carry on a conversation has been quite nostalgic. Planning, scheduling and then executing a successful pass can be quite entertaining. My efforts paid off with many pleasant qso's, and the linear birds (VO-52 and FO-29) showed many qsos that lasted the entire pass AOS to LOS. The "good old days" are back. I have found a "half-full" glass and relegated my "half-empty" one to the cupboard. That's a summary of my weekend. Sat Ops have been lots of fun on this "Satellite Weekend". p.s., between passes 6m opened and I worked a flurry of stations on two of the days. Hope I didn't bore too many of you. 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Santa Ana, California (United States)
Combining the energy of a teenager with maturity beyond her years, Courtney exudes exceptional drive and determination. Her friendly, out-going personality makes her instantly attractive.
With an all-or-nothing outlook, the blonde bombshell believes her surfing should do the talking - and although she is an excellent communicator, has chosen athlete over model on her road to success. Her ability to lose with grace adds to her attractive personality, taking both success and defeat with a smile, demonstrating the makings of a true champion. Courtney is a creative being finding fulfillment beyond her sporting achievements, enhancing her well-rounded character and aspirations as a positive role model and brand ambassador.
• Barrel riding and carve 360's
• A keen and proven big wave surfer
• Lethal backhand surfing
• Courtney like shoes, she has 56 pairs!
• She writes a journal, documenting her travels, her goals and all what-ever she finds inspiring or interesting at the time.
• Courtney is an avid skateboarder and Mountain biker.
• Supporter of Surf Aid International and Boarding 4 Breast Cancer.
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Courtney Conlogue is female surfing's new 'super athlete'. Without a doubt the fittest girl on the elite ASP Women's World Title Tour, 'Lil Flip' has been known to put in six-hour marathon surf sessions and boasts a training regime that would rival that of a professional boxer. Consequently, not only can Courtney out-paddle any girl on tour but her big wave aspirations have ensured she has an unwavering endurance for anything the ocean throws at her – making her a feared competitor by even the most seasoned of pro's.
Born into a passionate surfing family, Courtney learned to surf on a family vacation down in Mexico where her father pushed her into a few waves on a bodyboard at the tender age of four. At five, Courtney had found her feet on a surfboard, quickly rising to the top, winning almost every event she entered to seal her title as a national amateur champion.
In 2010 and amidst her senior high school year, Courtney set out on a global campaign to qualify for the ASP World Tour, juggling exams and school commitments with the ASP Star events, claiming victory at the ASP 6-Star Cabreiroa Surfing Girls Pro in Spain, before taking runner up to Laura Enever in the Azores Islands Women's Pro – to finish the year at World No. 3 and in so doing, qualified for the 2011 ASP Elite tier tour.
With a polished surfing style that is both powerful and progressive, Courtney has become increasingly comfortable in woman-on-woman competition and burst into the Top Ten in her first year. Courtney's unwavering determination and work ethic have set her apart from her rivals as she nears her goal of a Top Five finish. With a fiercely goal orientated approach, a solid support network and close bond with her mom and coach Tracey, Courtney is well on her way to achieving her ultimate goal of becoming world champion.


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Brown Deer boys rally to earn share of Woodland title
It's like Brown Deer boys basketball coach Kelly Appleby said:
Well, the Falcons clinched a share of the Woodland Conference Eastern Division title Tuesday night with probably their best quarter of the year, as they erased an eight-point halftime deficit to host Whitnall with a 33-8 third period frenzy that left their hosts looking for the bus that had run over them.
The end result was an 87-72 decision that improved the Falcons to 13-1 in Woodland play and 15-3 overall, while Whitnall fell to 8-6 and 10-7, respectively. Shorewood at 8-5 is the only team with an outside chance of even tieing the Falcons for the divisional crown with four games left to play.
Appleby said the team simply needed a change of strategy.
"We were working really hard at a tight man defense in the first half," he said. "What we needed to do was to try something that was more usable and more conducive to success for us."
Which was full-court, in-your-face man pressure, which would tighten up the gaps left as the Falcons had fallen behind, 41-33, at the half.
Brown Deer got the third quarter off to a good start, as a three-pointer from senior D'Sean Groce on the first possession, cut the deficit to 41-36. The host school bumped the lead back up to seven on a nifty lay-up by Daniel Weymier at the 7:31 mark of the third quarter.
Those would be the last points Whitnall would score for close to four minutes, as the Falcons would go on a 19-0 run that put them ahead for good at 55-43.
Senior point guard Desmond Jackson would get the go-ahead points on a three-pointer from the wing at the 5:44 mark of the third and he and Groce would combine on a unique five-point play that all but broke Whitnall's back a minute later.
Jackson (14 points) got a steal and a lay-up to make it 49-43 Brown Deer. It was determined that he was fouled after the shot so Brown Deer got the ball back. Groce then calmly took the inbounds' pass and notched a baseline three-pointer to make it 52-43.
A minute after that, Groce closed out the run with a trey from the wing that expanded the lead to 55-42 with 3:44 left in the third. Whitnall, which had expended two timeouts during the run, simply had no answers as Brown Deer would go on to take a 66-49 lead at the end of the third.
In the third, the Falcons hit 12 of 22 shots, including four threes, they would dominate the boards by a rough estimate of 15-1, force five turnovers and equal all the points they scored in the first half in just one period of play.
Brown Deer would hold Whitnall at bay in the fourth quarter as courtesy of 17 of 24 free throws on the night, the advantage would never drop below 10 points.
Appleby said the game was very similar to wins earlier in the season over Greendale and Pius XI, as in both those decisions, the Falcons fell behind big in the first half, only to rally and win going away.
"Both those games we responded very well early in the second half," said Applby. "We knew we could put some pressure on them and speed up the game a little."
Both Jackson and Palmer were pleased with the conference title, which was a very important first goal for the 10-man Falcon senior class.
"It's always good to get that out of the way first," said Palmer.
"It feels good because we've earned it," said Jackson.
Center Devante Jackson, who would foul out of the game in the fourth quarter, would also finish with 18 points for the Falcons while Whitnall was led by Mitch Brault with 17.
Appleby was a happy and relieved man afterward as the Falcons can win the championship outright with a victory at St. Francis next Tuesday (Feb. 5).
"We have either a share of the Woodland title or we've won it outright (a tie for the moment), but we just want to keep the momentum going. We want a full head of steam by (WIAA) tourney time."
Palmer agreed.
"We can still do a lot better," he said. "We have a lot more building to do until we reach our full potential."
Greenfield Public Library to close for Super Bowl Sunday
The Greenfield Public Library will be closed Feb. 3, Super Bowl Sunday, a day when it is nearly deserted every year.
The Library Board approved the closure in November as part of its 2013 calendar approval.
As a side benefit, being closed on Super Bowl Sunday will enable the staff to enjoy Super Bowl parties and get-togethers, said Sheila O'Brien, director of the library, at 5310 W. Layton Ave.
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Is there a way to add either Javascript or additional css rules to InfoPath forms that are generated by the forms server in SharePoint 2010 or 2013?
As a side-off note, Infopath 2003 used JS for code-behind though probably it wouldn't help you in any way since, I guess, you one should understand that Infopath forms are not HTML or web pages, they are XML data to be used by external tools, like for example Sharepoint Server IPFS - Infopath Forms Service, to generate web pages on the basis of XSN Infopath form template, while the data, in case of sharepoint library Infopath forms, is stored in Infopath XML data forms.
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As it was answered before, it is possible to use C# or VB.NET in Infopath 2010 or 2013, unless it is Sharepoint List Form type where code-behind is not possible at all, and one cannot add OOTB CSS rules neither to Infopath XML data forms not to XSN Infopath form templates.
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This year's Golden Ticket winner will receive two tickets to each 2013-2014 regular season home football and basketball game for the major university in either Louisville or Lexington, winner's choice.
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• 2013 Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway, Bluegrass Club
• 2013 Louisville Bats season home games
• 2014 Paul Hornung Award Banquet
• 2014 PGA Championship
"During the past two years, we have seen continued – and growing – interest in our Golden Ticket raffle," said Karl Schmitt, executive director of the Louisville Sports Commission. "In our third year of offering the raffle, we expect no less based on the high level of initial interest Louisville sports fans have expressed in the events we are offering."
A total of 350 tickets will be sold at $100 each. The winner will be drawn on April 23 and need not be present to win.
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Definition of restricted in English:
1Limited in extent, number, scope, or action: Western scientists had only restricted access to the site
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- Downwardly mobile, despite their gentle origins, these men had limited resources and restricted access to luxurious apparel.
- In urban areas, however, the choice of space is limited because of the restricted availability of houses and the nature of freehold land tenure.
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1.1British (Of a document or information) not to be disclosed to the public for reasons of national security.
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- Dr. Steelwell was caught with restricted info on aliens in his possession and kicked out of Area 51.
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1.2 Biology (Of a virus) unable to reproduce at its normal rate in certain hosts: the mechanism of restricted virus replication
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- Restricted virus production in latently infected glial cells is host-cell determined and associated with a block in Rev-dependent regulation.
- Abundant expression of all viral protein mRNAs and reduced or lacking protein translation, especially of the matrix protein, were the most important findings, indicating that restricted virus infection in the grey matter might represent a mechanism for viral persistence in distemper polioencephalitis.
1.3 Biochemistry (Of DNA) subject to degradation by a restriction enzyme: some enzymes cleave DNA at restricted sites
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- The chief feature of the plan is its lucidity, despite the fact that the building had to be fitted into a highly restricted site.
- If 50% of the cells which permit injection of restricted DNA are infected with at least two phage genomes and genomes are subsequently segregated by cell division, then the number of potential yielder cells should significantly increase during the course of the experiment.
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- This organism grew restrictedly on various culture media, and formed olive brown to dark green colonies.
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- The town was medieval, surrounded by a wall, which symbolized for Tillich the narrowness and restrictedness of his environment.
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1)Noun: An unfortunate character who is unable to stop killing people in embarrasing ways. 2)Adjective: To kill someone in an embarrasing way.
1)Pity that guy is Pyre.2)I am going to pyre you.
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But we can't be complacent. There's no reason why a trojan or worm can't work in Linux. A malicious app running as a limited user can still do a whole load of damage. And the real flaw in all of this is the users.
Users are idiots who can be convinced to do almost anything if you dress it up with enough pomp or make it look like they're going to get something worthwhile from the process.
Read: Linux isn't invulnerable. Don't say it is. (Disclaimer: my post, my blog)
We can't judge just on OS alone, plenty of security flaws relate to bad user practices, social engineering and just plain ignorance. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
Also, regardless of OS, no system is secure if you have physical access to it ;)
More secure than Windows:
For more explanation about the above points please refer pcworld.com/why_linux_is_more_secure_than_windows
There has been a lot of debate over whether a open environment is intrinsically more secure than a closed environment. The problem being that when we compare the security of Windows with Linux the argument is always trotted out that because Windows has such a market domination, that the attackers target Windows and if Linux had the same level of usage then it would be found just as vulnerable.
The key point to take here is that it is the mono-culture that is really at fault. One of the key advantages of Linux is that there are a plethora of different distributions, while an attack may be exploited across a number of different distributions rarely will it affect all. We can see this from the vulnerability reports that are reported, in that even if a widely used application or library is found to be vulnerable that exposure is usually limited because of configuration options to only a few distributions. The same doesn't seem to apply to the Windows family as the configuration of librarys and applications are the same across variants.
The answer is easy and for sure Ubuntu is much safer than Windows and also Mac OS.
Conclusion: Windows is completely unsafe since it has unchangeable architectural issues and Microsoft's politic to always let the users bypass all security attempts due to "convenience for the users" reasons. Also it is most widely used OS and so it is well exploited by criminals. It is a easy target for them.
Mac OS is much safer but Apple is keeping all issues in secret and tends to fix issues quite late, much later than even MS. Just because its low market share is is not such an attractive target.
Most safe is a Linux like Ubuntu. But keep in mind if someone really wants to hack your computer it is still possible. Maybe just harder. If someone has physical access to your computer it is still quite easy. So even if using Ubuntu you are still not safe from secret service, competing companies, employers and "friends".
The biggest security threat is still the user. The tendency to download some hacked software from internet, to click links in emails, ...
And furthermore most users even don't see a problem having male-ware on their computer. Nowadays male-ware is not like old time viruses breaking ones system. And as long as users still can use their computers for surfing, chatting and facebook they just don't care if it is used in a bot net.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link or a chain is as secure as its unsafest link. The user is the weakest link, not the OS. Linux-people do know what a computer is, do have a notion of computer-security. Most people don't. Give them any computer, it will be infected in no time, Windows, Mac Os-X, Linux, ...
To make a generic point; Mac OS-X is partly open source. The closed source parts are, unsurprisingly, the most attacked bits by Mac Virii. Make of that what you will.


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This is one of my standard go-to recipes when we're wanting something good, quick, and nutritious. My husband and I love it. I use organic baby spinach instead of the chard though.
Skillet Gnocchi with Chard & White Beans
From EatingWell: January/February 2009
In this one-skillet supper, we toss dark leafy greens, diced tomatoes and white beans with gnocchi and top it all with gooey mozzarella. Serve with a mixed green salad with vinaigrette.
419 Reviews for Skillet Gnocchi with Chard & White Beans
I added a little crushed red pepper but other than that followed the recipe. It is a keeper in my household.
love love this recipe make it regularly but with baby spinach and fresh chillies
I usually use kale instead but my tip for making it better is live the slightly crispy gnocchi out until you serve it else it gets soggy.
This is our go to meal with two teens and working parents. We can sit together and enjoy the meal that did NOT suck up our dining time!


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Some of the restrictive policies toward non-citizens implemented after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 – particularly those affecting visa processing and others targeting Muslims and Arabs – may undermine U.S. foreign policy in the long term. According to foreign policy experts, these policies risk damaging U.S. relations with the international community without enhancing national security.
A growing number of foreign policy experts are voicing concern that certain restrictive policies toward non-citizens implemented by the U.S. government in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks may be causing long-term damage to U.S. foreign policy goals. According to these experts, some policies, in particular the registration requirements imposed on non-immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, have cast a net too wide to effectively enhance security, while promoting a perception that Muslims and Arabs are no longer welcome in the United States.
Writing in the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs, John N. Paden, George Mason University Professor of International Studies, and Peter W. Singer, Olin Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, argue that poorly conceived and inappropriately implemented regulations have sent a message to "potential friends and supporters of the United States" that "they are no longer wanted in the country." Paden and Singer write, "The most painful irony of this new policy is that the United States' openness to outsiders has long been the underpinning of the country's economic and social fabric."
As a result, by fostering resentment and anger against the United States, these new rules run the risk of undermining diplomatic efforts by the U.S. government to build cooperative and amicable international relations, particularly with Muslim and Arab countries. While some may argue that we should not care what other nations think of us, the fact remains that, whether we like it or not, international cooperation is needed to achieve American objectives on many issues. Moreover, certain policies make cooperation in the war on terrorism more difficult both at home and abroad. Pakistani government officials have said that the decision to add Pakistani males to the list of individuals who are photographed and fingerprinted upon entry to the United States has been potentially destabilizing to Pakistan's government. It engendered street protests in Pakistan and makes Pakistan's cooperation with the United States against terrorists more controversial inside the country.
Some policies have also fostered resentment among Muslims and Arabs in the United States. Actions described by some as "secret detentions" and the registration requirements for citizens of 25 mostly Muslim countries have "alienated a lot of these communities, caused a great deal of fear and reinforced the tendency of immigrant communities to huddle together and not trust authorities, which works against intelligence gathering by law enforcement, particularly the FBI," said Vincent Cannistraro, former director of Counterterrorism Operations and Analysis at the Central Intelligence Agency.
"The idea that you stigmatize whole classes of people and profile them because you think this is going to prevent the next terrorist attack is exactly the wrong way [to go about it]," said Cannistraro. "There may very well be another clandestine al-Qaeda cell in North America, but none of these methodologies has contributed to identifying them."
New Regulations
Some of the new regulations that have been criticized derive their authority from the broad discretion granted to the executive branch by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Most controversial has been the special "call-in registration" requirement for male non-immigrants (primarily visitors or temporary workers), 16 years or older, from any of 25 predominantly Muslim countries, who must meet strict deadlines for reporting to immigration authorities after arriving in the country, regardless of any previous background checks or screening procedures. In addition, security checks on visa applicants, while necessary and desirable, have been implemented in a way that harms chances for foreign students to start their studies and obstructs important international research programs.
Citing the results of an October 2002 survey by the Association of American Universities and NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Paden and Singer note that "Unintended consequences of the new visa screening requirements have included a massive decrease in the number of foreign students from Muslim states, scores of foreign faculty being unavailable to teach courses, scientific research projects becoming delayed or derailed, and businesses moving trade elsewhere." Moreover, "the selective registration program for Muslim males inside the United States has had little success in finding actual terrorists, even while causing great distress and offense to Muslim visitors."
There have been self-congratulatory statements in the press from Department of Justice (DOJ) aides like Kris Kobach, who, predictably, said of alien registration: "I regard this as a great success." However, it's worth noting that no terrorists have been prosecuted criminally or paraded before TV cameras as a result of the mass registration of Muslims and Arabs. Does anyone doubt that the Justice Department would have announced any forthcoming criminal prosecutions of terrorists discovered through this controversial policy?
On April 29, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced that a new entry-exit system, to be "phased in" starting at the end of the year, will provide "the crucial biometric information needed to end the domestic registration of people from certain countries." Subsequent clarifications from the Department of Homeland Security indicate that no new countries will be added to the call-in registration list for those inside the United States, but it remains uncertain whether those who have already been registered will have continuing reporting obligations or whether new arrivals from these nations will continue to be fingerprinted upon entry to the United States. One hopes that lessons learned from the various debacles created by DOJ's National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) will inform policymakers on the design of the new system.
Impact of Visa Screening Delays
The U.S. government has not been able to cope effectively with new visa screening requirements, including name checks on certain categories of individuals applying for U.S. entry. This has resulted in months-long backlogs that have real-world consequences. On December 13, 2002, the presidents of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine issued a statement in which they expressed concern that "Recent efforts by our government to constrain the flow of international visitors in the name of national security are having serious unintended consequences for American science, engineering, and medicine."
The Hartford Courant reported on a visa delay that forced a University of Utah laboratory to shut down just as it was nearing completion of a decade-long project to create "HIV-fighting molecules small enough to turn into drugs." One of the lab's principal researchers returned home to Egypt in May 2002 "to accompany his children to their exams," was "flagged for a security review" when he tried to return," and "has been waiting for a visa to return to the University of Utah ever since."
Delays in security reviews have also debilitated the U.S. refugee program. Largely because of the enormous delays in conducting background checks, the United States admitted fewer than 28,000 refugees in Fiscal Year 2002, the lowest total in 25 years and well below the 70,000 ceiling. Projections this year are for an even lower number of admissions as a result of the new policies. As of March 31, fewer than 9,000 refugees had been admitted so far this fiscal year. While some of these new policies may have been necessary, the question of whether adequate priority and resources have been devoted to them must be asked. Officials must concede the real human cost of these policies not being adequately implemented.
Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, Honorary Chair of NAFSA's Strategic Task Force on International Student Access, has written that, "Educating the world's future leaders is part of the solution to terrorism, not part of the problem… Welcoming international students to our nation constitutes a crucial long-term investment in American leadership and security. Such openness has long been a bulwark of U.S. foreign policy and is a proven means to fight against the uninformed stereotypes, fear, and ignorance that are at the heart of the crisis we face today."
The concern is that, in the long run, certain policies may turn potentially pro-American young people against the United States. Future leaders in many nations may never be exposed to America, its market economy, and its system of government. The list of foreign leaders educated in the United States is lengthy and includes Mexican President Vincente Fox, Saudi Arabia's minister of foreign affairs Prince Saud Faisal, and Filipino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. "Rather than combating the growing radicalism and anti-Americanism of many Muslim youths around the world, the stringent new policies are only feeding such resentment," write Paden and Singer. "At a time when the United States needs pro-American ambassadors more than ever, its government seems bent on turning away the next generation of them."
As the United States moves beyond the events of September 11, key challenges confront policymakers. Immigration policies must be carefully tailored to effectively enhance national security and take into consideration long-term foreign policy objectives, while upholding the U.S. tradition of welcoming newcomers and recognizing the important contributions immigrants make to the U.S. economy and society.
* Benjamin Johnson is the Director of the Immigration Policy Center.
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Let $E$ be a locally compact Hausdorff space with countable base and $X_t$ be a stochastic process taking values in the one-point compactification of $E$ (with the Borel $\sigma$-algebra). Let $f$ be a continuous function vanishing at infinity. I'm wondering under what conditions it is true that $x \mapsto \mathbf{E}^{x}[f(X_t)]$ is a continuous function?
If $X_t$ is a Brownian motion on $\mathbb{R}$, it is straightforward to verify this is true and, in fact, it is true whenever $X_t$ is an Ito diffusion.
An example where this fails is if we let $E=\mathbf{R}$ and let $X_t$ be a reflected Brownian motion on $\{ x: x\geq 0 \}$ and be the negative of the absolute value of a Brownian motion in $\mathbb{R}^3$ on $\{x : x<0 \}$.
More broadly, I'm curious as to what kind of conditions on the sample paths of a Markov process $X$ with continuous paths force it to be a Feller process. The condition I'm asking about seems to be the one that does not come for free if you start with such an $X$.


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In this day, I guess as days before us, negative people and evil have always existed. If we, true people who attempt to follow a "path" of peace and compassion, allow ourselves to be caught up in such negativity, we then get sucked into a "pathology" that we simply do not need and in the end will ruin us and feed into the other's drama. Something healthy folks do not need.
Lesssons learned in the martial arts, especially Hapkido and Aikido, teach students to "move off the line" of the attack. Unlike Katate and other "hard" styles of martial arts where one "crashes" into the other to block, punch and kick, Aikido and Hapkido teaches one to "blend" with the attacking force, thus giving "no resistance" and then no platform for the attacker to work his/her skill. The name itself, Hapkido and Aikido, both coming from the same art AikiJujutsu, means a "blending of energy."
So what does this mean to the non-martial artist? Everything! Just take a look at families, coworkers and employers and managers and one can find someone who, for whatever reason, enjoys making life miserable for others. Also, the pathology in the DSM IV-TR, a manual of diagonotics for psychiatric professionals, clearly states the need for these folks of drama to be the center of attention and self- empowerment.
For the layperson, the words of Confucius, come to mind. "A superior man is modest in speech, but exceeds in his actions." Thanks to Bohdi Sanders, PhD, for this quote. I once had an Aikido Sensei, Julie Clothier, 5th Dan, talk to me about being an "empty jacket" to aggression. Julie Sensei was of advanced years, but her teachings were more than applicable to the present world we live in. If we do not give evil a platform, then they have no control over us. This is "moving off the line" as taught in Hapkido and Aikido. Taking the path of least resistance. No fight; no blame as is quoted in the Tao Te Ching.
This is a brief look into a different way to handle aggression, drama queens and kings, and others who spin an evil web of negativity. For those who are more interested in a deeper look, may I sugguest the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Stephen Mitchell's version (easier to read), or the books by Bohdi Sanders on Warrior Wisdom.
Happy Training,
Master Ken


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WACO (December 3, 2012)-One man was quickly arrested Wednesday afternoon thanks to U.S. marshals, who were in the area working on an unrelated investigation when a shot was fired after an argument between two drivers in a Waco residential neighborhood .
Police say David Allen Coleman, 50, was arrested at about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday after U.S. Marshals stopped him in the 3100 block of Sanger Avenue.
Coleman was listed Thursday on the McLennan County Jail Log where he was ordered held pending discharging a firearm charges.
It wasn't clear at what or at whom the shot was fired, police said.
When the man who fired spotted the marshals, he threw the gun out of the window of his vehicle.
The marshals took Coleman into custody and requested backup from Waco police.
The 29-year-old driver of the other vehicle said he didn't know the man whom authorities arrested.
Sanger Avenue was closed to traffic between North 32nd and North 33rd while marshals and police investigated.