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The Channels of Acupuncture (9780443074912)
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
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This book illuminates and examines the art of traditional Chinese acupuncture with this in-depth look at the secondary channels and other key structures encompassing the human body in Chinese anatomy. This book describes in detail the pathways, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of the Luo, Muscle, and Divergent secondary channels, as well as other key structures such as the Cou Li and Huang membranes, and gives a thorough, clear overview of subjects poorly understood and incompletely covered in other English language texts. Over one third of the book is dedicated to the Eight Extraordinary Channels, providing the reader with the most in-depth information available in the English language. Drawing on his broad clinical experience, the author covers the energetic physiology, pathology and points by body area, providing ease of access for both the student and practitioner of acupuncture. The Channels of Acupuncture presents comprehensive and clear information on an essential part of traditional Chinese medicine.
- Covers key channels not thoroughly discussed in other texts, giving all students and practitioners detailed and clear material to guide them in their practice of acupuncture.
- Offers new information and insight on other key body structures in Chinese medicine including extraordinary vessels as well as the Cou Li and Huang membranes.
- Clear illustrations depict the exact channel pathways, diminishing any confusion about their location.
- Case histories and research from Giovanni Maciocia present a wide range of experiences and examples of clinical practice and study.
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rea nisanov, Rated: 5
An Extraordinary Book!
After reading it back and forth, trying to understand and furthermore , to practice all that this book has to offer, I came to realize that Chinese medicine as an art is achievable only once you contain and fully master the human landscape -the web of vessels that construct our body/being. And that goal is brought to us, very well written and organized within this book.
Anonymous, Rated: 5
Finally a great explanation of meridian style acupuncture
There are many fine herbalists, but the number of solid acupucnturists remain few. This book is the first step for any acupuncturist that wants to learn to approach their entire treatment from a Chinese point of view, specifically, meridian/channel theory. This is probably Giovanni's finest book. Interspersed throughout the book are quotes from some of the Chinese Medical Classics, such as the Nei Jing. These reinforce Giovanni's ideas. If you've never heard of the Gao or the Huang, you should start with this book. If you are tired of using the same points or you're protocol medicine isn't working, you should buy this book. I went to a college where most students ran to protocols and Estim rather than relying on solid theory and needle technique. This book should be a standard textbook in meridian classes. Giovanni even includes sections on Ghost points and Celestial points as well as lengthy sections on the extraordinary vessels and the divergents. His discussions on luo channels and musculo-tendino and particularly good. Don't hesitate, buy it now!
Antonio Alfaro, Rated: 5
The Channels of Acupuncture
I still going thru the pages of this book on a daily bases to increase my capabilities of points choosing for different cases. It is an amazing resource of information. Definitely buy this book!
Mary Margaret Dobson, Rated: 5
Buy this book!
As a teacher of Secondary Vessels theory, I have been waiting for this book for several years. It is clearly presented in such a way that even beginning students can comprehend, and more advanced students and practitioners can implement immediately. Most of this information was available in other forms if one had the wherewithal to chase it all down, but as usual Mr. Maciocia pulls it all together in a seamless whole. I recommend it to students and practitioners at all levels of experience.
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Solo queue and our team needs support; lock in Sona. Go to lane, AD carry turret dives 60% health Sion and Taric. Complains to Sona for not supporting well enough. Game goes on and AD carry continues to make terrible decisions and complains about support. What should a support character do in this sort of situation?
This is a tough question to answer because you aren't in control of the other person's actions. Generally speaking, it's far easier to support more passive gameplay, and the difficulty of supporting increases as the carry becomes more aggressive. Ultimately, like in the situation you present, supporting becomes impossible in any meaningful manner. The way I see it, you have three options:
The first option is the one you should pursue first. The relationship between AD Carry and Support needs to be tight-knit for success. Often, even aggressive AD carries realize this. The second option is what you'll be doing a lot. You have a duty to your carry to support them (hence the name of the role). Try not to die, obviously, but do everything else in your power to help them accomplish whatever they're trying to do. The third option should be an absolute last resort. Just giving up on your lane isn't something to be done lightly.
If the AD carry is aggressive you should be prepared to ward the river for ganks, and force trades too if possible. If he's being overly retardet and just impossible to co-operate with, hit up the fancy ignore button.
What if the support is bad? I'm a decent AD player and I sometimes get way too passive supports. For example, i was playing corki and had a Leona supporting me who should be an aggressive laner who forces trades and keeps the opposing carry in fear of the pull-stun combo, but instead she just literally AFK'd at our bush.
They had Graves & Blitzcrank combo which was hella aggressive, so i was forced to play passively because 2v1 was not an option. Once blitz caught me off guard with his pull, i was able to valkyrie away and stay alive with heal, but right afterwards the leona decides to go in 2v1 while i had literally 100 hp left? and dies right off the bat, giving the graves 1-0 lead. From then on the lane just snowballed to their favour making us lose the lane and i got all the blames from it from the team. ''Nice feed corki'' etc
So its not just the AD carry who needs to be good, its also the support. When i do get a good support i usually end up with a 12-4, 8-2 17-4 ~~ ish score on any AD.
There is not not much you can do. The support role is about supporting good carries; if the carry is bad, support during the lane phase can only help so much.

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If you visit this link, you'll see at the top of the PDF view. Basic properties of finite abelian groups:
Every quotient group of a finite abelian group is isomorphic to a subgroup.
If the above statement true, it would make some proofs in Serge Lang's Algebra easier, particularly in the p-Sylow groups section.
I know that there is a correspondence between subgroups of G/N and subgroups of G containing N, but the corresponding groups are not necessarily isomorphic or are they?


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I don´t know if it is correct what I'm doing, but if not let me know. I have a question about this previous post: Problems using jQuery quicksand with fancybox
The fancybox is working perfect but i have a problem. When I use the script:
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It the sandbox plugin, which is cloning the elements in order to arrange them easily, it clones the first set 5 times and the rest 3 times so my first gallery has 7 images by 5 sandbox clones = 35 images in the gallery second gallery has 4 by 3 clones = 12 images in the gallery and so on and so forth.
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I can't find any options for rounded corners in the draw palette in Flash CS6 and Google is not returning any answers. This seems like it should be so simply to do. I want to use the palette to draw a rectangle with rounded corners WITHOUT using actionscript. How can I do this?
Take a look at this: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/animation-and-3d/9780133052718/4dot-modifying-simple-graphics/ch04lev1sec9
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I spend a non-neglible time in the bathroom, sitting on the pot. It occured to me that I could be using the time better and not let precious productivity time literally go to waste.
So, how do I maximize productivity while in the bathroom, and how can you spend that time in a useful fashion?


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Simple Definition of confess
: to admit that you did something wrong or illegal
: to talk about or admit something that makes you embarrassed, ashamed, etc.
: to tell (your sins) to God or to a priest
Full Definition of confess
transitive verb
1 : to tell or make known (as something wrong or damaging to oneself) : admit <he confessed his guilt>
2 a : to acknowledge (sin) to God or to a priest b : to receive the confession of (a penitent)
3 : to declare faith in or adherence to : profess
4 : to give evidence of
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1 a : to disclose one's faults; specifically : to unburden one's sins or the state of one's conscience to God or to a priest b : to hear a confession
confessableplay \-ˈfe-sə-bəl\ adjective
Examples of confess in a sentence
He confessed after being questioned for many hours.
He willingly confessed his crime.
I have to confess that I was afraid at first.
I confessed my sins to the priest.
Origin and Etymology of confess
Middle English, from Anglo-French confesser, from confés having confessed, from Latin confessus, past participle of confitēri to confess, from com- + fatēri to confess; akin to Latin fari to speak — more at ban
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I am trying to get event information from a fan page, but running into troubles just getting ANYTHING out of the event_member db.
I can get proper information out of the event DB with; query: 'SELECT eid, name, tagline, pic_small,host, description, start_time, creator FROM event WHERE eid=EVENTIDNUMBER'
but to get the eid(s) query: 'SELECT eid FROM event_member WHERE uid=1289767016'
returns nothing.
I really really need this to work. I can;t seem to get anywhere with Facebook, and am feeling very unhappy with my commiment to make somthing work with FB.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. - The Alabama softball team had four players earn 2012 National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American honors. Sophomore Jackie Traina (Naples, Fla.) was named to the first team, senior Amanda Locke (Mesquite, Texas) and sophomore Kaila Hunt (Evans, Ga.) were named to the second team and senior Jennifer Fenton (Kennesaw, Ga.) was named to the third team.
The four NFCA All-Americans equals the most in a single season in school history, tying the mark set in 2001, 2008, and 2011.
Traina earns her second straight All-American honor and her second first-team selection (2011). The right-hander enters the Women's College World Series with a 37-2 record and a 1.67 ERA.
The sophomore leads the Southeastern Conference with 316 strikeouts in 246 2/3 innings of work this season. She has been especially potent in the postseason, with a 4-0 record and a 1.25 ERA in four starts and 35 strikeouts in 28 innings.
Hunt has been a power hitter at the plate this season, with a team-high 20 home runs and 74 RBI on the year. She is in second place in UA single season history in home runs and is tied for second in runs driven in. She is leading the team with a .747 slugging percentage, in addition to hitting .324 on the year. She enters the WCWS with 23 RBI in her past 11 games.
Locke has been a solid complement to Hunt this season, as she has hit 17 home runs, good for second on the team, in addition to driving in 51 runs. The two have combined for 37 home runs, which is second in school history between two teammates. Locke has slugged at a .713 clip, good for second on the team, and has batted .313.
Fenton has been a steadying senior influence for the Crimson Tide, and has been one of the steadiest postseason performers in school history. Fenton leads the team with a .389 batting average and 43 stolen bases. She set the national record earlier this season when she stole her 74th consecutive stolen base against LSU.
Alabama will open play in its eighth trip to the WCWS on Thursday, May 31, against SEC foe Tennessee. The two teams will get things started at 6 p.m. CT, with Beth Mowins and Jessica Mendoza calling the game on ESPN2.


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To clean-cut stainless steel sheet and plate, fabricators first must choose the right CNC cutting equipment and then set the correct process-related variables. Precise machine motion controls, torch-to-material distance control, and the correct plasma and assist gases all are crucial to producing weld-ready plasma-cut edges on all stainless steel thicknesses.
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Planning, gas, rigs, tips, location, and cutting all have significant effects on field welding jobs. Taking these into account may save you a lot of time and trouble when doing repair on structural members.


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What is the memory/cpu/other requirements to run PostgreSQL database server efficiently ? Is a way to appoint a hardware configuration for some sort of requirements - for example number of users, number of queries etc ?
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PostgreSQL is open source and you can use on almost any Linux/UNIX-like machine, plus Windows and Mac OS X. See the buildfarm for a list of known-working configurations. Precompiled binary installers and/or packages are available for popular platforms. I had some problems compiling it on AIX, but it was because I used
The minimum RAM you will need is 32MB, and you'll need least 50KB of disk space. As with any other database everything depends of the queries you are going to do, how many users you will have, what your performance requirements are, etc.
If you can, try to divide your DB between different physical hard drives (eg WAL on one, main tables + indexes on another), tune
I recommend that you to read Greg Smith's book PostgreSQL High Performance.
First, the minimum requirements will be met by almost any machine. PostgreSQL can start and run (for a small db with few concurrent connections!) on very modest hardware. As of 9.2 you can get linear scalability for reads up to about 64 cores, and for writes up to around 20 cores, if I understand Robert Haas's blog posts correctly. In general you need less CPU speed and more cores, and better disk I/O to get the best performance.
So PostgreSQL scales down pretty well, and it also scales up quite well. As for your questions about configuration, you can set maximum number of users, max timeouts for queries, and logging of slow queries in the postgresql.conf.


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WEIRTON - Rick Witkowski has been accepted as a member of the Class of 2013 of the Weirton Hall of Fame in the category of music and fine arts.
In his youth, Witkowski played drums and guitar for a number of local bands and in the 1970's, he was the co-founder of the progressive rock group, Crack the Sky, for whom he continues to write and produce music.
In 1980, he married Deborah Kucan with whom he wrote "Vitamin L" performed by B. E. Talyor. The song became a No. 1 hit in Pittsburgh and No. 66 on Billboard's Hot 100. In the 1990's, he went on tour with contemporary Christian artist Kathy Troccoli where he opened for Pope John Paul II in Central Park in New York City in 1995.
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On several occasions, Witkowski has performed with Bruce Springsteen and, with Crack the Sky, opened for bands from Journey to Supertramp.
Witkowski opened Studio L in Weirton in 1986 where he and his wife Deb wrote, produced and used local talent in a number of songs for local businesses including Gus's Goodies, DeeJays, Hausers, The Health Plan and theme songs for WTOV-9's "What Would Deb Do?" "Sports Friday" and "Summer of Fun." They even sang the "Shop Around in Your Hometown" for the Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce.
National clients have included Old Navy, Nabisco, Spike TV, MTV, VH-1, Bravo Network, TBS, Razor and Tie and TNN.
Throughout the years, Witkowski has done many book-to-tape projects for Macmillan and then Macmillan-McGraw Hill Publishing Company and Scholastic Publishing out of New York City using local talent. Studio L has also had a relationship with Nickelodeon over the years as Witkowski has written and produced theme songs and been involved with music and vocal talent for the Kids' Choice Awards, "Guts," "Global Guts," "My Family's Got Guts," "Kablam!," "Action League Now," "Double Dare 2000" and "Family Double Dare," "Figure It Out," "U to U" and "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius." Two projects for Nickelodeon were also recorded at Studio L, "Peanut Butter Jam" and "Songs From the Backseat." He was also a creative force for Nick at Nite and TV Land by creating a variety of theme songs using local talent for vocals and instruments.
In 2009, Witkowski teamed up with St. Paul School's music director, the Rev. Larry Dorsch to write and record for the original musical written by Dorsch called, "I, Paul."
In 2010, he was involved in a project in Atlanta, Ga. called "Elf Magic" where he and his wife created a CD of songs that became part of a package for a company's Christmas elf tradition that is still popular today. He created the theme song and supplied music for the television series "Bar Karma" which aired on Current TV in 2011.
Witkowski created music and songs for the PBS pilot, "SCIENTASTIC," which picks up production again in the coming spring and will feature his music. In February, INOCENTE won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short where Witkowski, along with Beaver Falls, Pa. native Vanessa Campagna, wrote the music.
Now, at the age of 60, he continues to sport his signature Chuck Taylor All-Stars as he helps book local talent at concerts and festivals. He is a voting member of the ASCAP and votes on the Grammy's and is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild and votes on the SAG awards each year.
Witkowski is always proud to talk about his hometown wherever he goes proclaiming it truly is "almost heaven."
The fifth-annual Weirton Hall of Fame induction ceremony is set to take place at 2 p.m. on Aug. 4 at the Knights of Columbus.
Tickets are available until July 31 for $25 each at the Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce, Marsh's Pipe and Supply, R.E. Saxon Jeweler and the Weirton Municipal Building. Approximately 250 tickets are being sold and will not be available at the door. The event is open to the public.


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Does anyone know how to write a Mathematica function that returns the Google PageRank of a given URL?
I found a tutorial for achieving this in a bash script here, but I have no idea how to port this over to Mathematica.
I am not sure what exactly that rank mean. But here's direct rough porting of code:
Seeing as how someone has been nice enough to write the C-code for you, you could just use that. Assuming you have a C compiler on your machine, here's how you use it within Mathematica. Note that
I guess that the point of this thing is that it can be used in conjunction with Google's API to get very rough info on a sites rank. We can use it like so.
This could be to generate an image like so:
Incidentally, another very nice tool for obtaining page rank information is via WolframAlpha:
If you're on Windows platform and you're using MSVS compiler, there is no C99 support. That is why above code will fail to compile, because of the lack of stdbool.h
A workaround for this is:
Now you need to specify the _Win32 preprocessor definition, in order to exclude the stdbool.h block:


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pyite: in true 2000 fashion, they dug deep into the punch intro. good opener that got the crowd gassed.
nicu: this one folowed punch really well. good straight forward version.
my soul: this one seemed to have a little extra snap on this evening. straight forward but good.
poor heart: ditto what i said for the last 3 songs.
wolfman's brother: this allowed for the nights first real exploration. they did not take it too far, but like everything else in this set, it was a nice tight version.
first tube: trey seemed to get a little extra rowdy on this take. page also got in the mix a little bit here.
llama: good sharp llama... my lord, everything in this set is sounding soooo clean and sharp. high energy too on this one.
guyute: of course, they nailed it!
run like an antelope: huge surprise! i was certain this one would hold out to deer creek; little did we know, we'd get it at the first night of deer creek too. well, the made their first alpine valley antelope count. real nice set closer.
set 2
heavy things: standard warm up stuff.
piper: they really cut loose on this one. trey and page are all over the place before settling into...
rock and roll: their playing in the first set carried over to this rock and roll. after cutting loose in piper, they tightened right back up for this one. high energy, tight playing.
tweezer: this is one of my all time favorite tweezers. trey's guitar solo was outrageous. it hit such a hard climax before dropping into...
walk away: ah, rocking the james gang. page, like in rock and roll, really hits this one vocally. the musical momentum of tweezer is really felt in this walk away.
twist: pretty solid version. it's on par with the one they would play at the next show at deer creeek.
the horse>silent: not really what i was looking for here, but it worked well. good version of a good tune.
possum: always a good closer to get you ready for a decent little drive down to indiana. this version is not as over the top as some, but it satisfied.
suzy>tweezer reprise: par for the course on this evening, this encore was pretty straightforward but played with a ton of energy and was razor sharp. then it was time to jet down to deer creek to catch phil and friend before phish's 3 night stand....
I feel that if Phish needed live takes of some classic tunes for radio air play, this would be the show to pull from. the horse>silent, nicu, my soul, poor heart, and llama were all very straight forward but they were all played particularly well on this evening. The second set was killer too. they only really cut loose in a couple of songs, but they just simply nailed everything.
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pyite>nicu, my soul, llama, run like an antelope
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Farberware® 6 Piece Resin Knife Set for $31 + shipping
For all those people who think style doesn't stop at the living room.
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Before you get all excited, Resin is not ceramic or else this would be the best deal on Woot ever.
I bought these on woot about a year ago and I love them. They are beautiful and still very sharp. Just be sure to only hand wash them.
This appears to be non-stick coated knifes. I guess I can see where that might be useful. For the average college kid just looking to have something, the price isn't bad. Anyone else... well... One thing I have learned over the years, every chef swears by their own knives... whether by the brand, German or Japanese, etc... I bought a $100 set a few years back because it was "affordable", and I am already looking to invest in a new set again. Do the research, spend the money, and you will not regret it. Knives are the only real kitchen tools you shouldn't pick up in the bargain bin. Wow, as a wooter since 2007, it actually hurt me a little to say that... but I stick to it.
Do they make these out of plastic clamshell packaging? Because there is nothing sharper than that.


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Can anyone recommend a wireless flash set up for Sony A200 camera/Sony F58-AM flash unit?
You'd use the pop-up as a trigger; it will provide TTL control of the F58-AM. The only thing you're missing, really, is the off-camera shoe (to mount it on a lightstand) and that's the same unit as the Minolta/KonicaMinolta OC-1, so you may be able to pick one up fairly cheaply on the used market. If you don't want the on-camera flash to influence the lighting, you can put a bit of card in front of it (it doesn't have to be white card) -- as long as even a little bit of light leaks from the pop-up, it should be enough to control the remote flash.
Your other option is a radio trigger like the Cactus v4 trigger with a hot shoe adapter to provide the interface. I don't know anything about the adapter, there may be others around as well, but the Cactus triggers are okay, not great, but okay, and generally work in a reasonable range for home studio fun (I have them and have used them on studio strobes).
Pixel and Phottix radio flash triggers have Sony/Minolta hotshoe versions, but you can just use hotshoe adapters with any manual radio triggers, since TTL communication doesn't matter. If you need TTL over radio the Pixel Kings and Phottix Odins both have Sony/Minolta hotshoe versions (but they obviously don't support the newer Sony iso-compliant hotshoe flash gear).


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I'm looking for an anecdote about a mathematician who studied random walks. I'm attempting to write an article and hope to include the story (but only if I can get the details correct). I'll try to do my best describing it in hopes someone else has heard it and knows a name or the full story.
A mathematician was walking through the park and entertaining mathematical whims. He noticed that he kept running into this same couple as he wandered around aimlessly. He wasn't sure if this behaviour was expected by chance or whether perhaps the female of the couple thought that he was cute. He rushed home to analyse the situation in terms of random walks in two dimensions.


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He was born January 9, 1942, in New Cumberland, W.Va, a son of the late Lawrence and Stella (Fisher) Porter.
Gene was a member of the New Cumberland Church of the Nazarene, belonged to New Cumberland Masonic Lodge 22, the Hancock Chapter 14 RAM, Weirton Commandery No. 30, Knights Templar.
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He retired after working thirty three years from Weirton Steel Corporation as plant protection supervisor.
He last worked for the Hancock County School System and he formerly worked for Turley Ambulance as an EMT. Gene also served on the New Cumberland City Council.
He was also preceded in death by a grandson, Alexander Douglass Porter, three brothers; Bill, Charlie and Carl; six sisters, Evelyn, Lucille, Ruth, Thelma, Martha and Edith.
Gene will be sadly missed by his loving wife of 51 years, Janet (Jacobs) Porter at home; four sons, Gene (Denita) Porter Jr of Kentucky, Mitch (Amy) Porter of Chester, David (Joan) Porter of Erie, Pa and Jason (Maggie) Porter of Columbus ; ten grandchildren, Kristen (Jake) Mosley, Trent Porter, Josh (Keshia) Porter, Dean Porter, Ryan Porter, Bethany Porter, Gabe Porter, Nicole Smith, Tasha Smith , Aaron Smith; three great- grandchildren, Colten Myers, Alyssa Henry, Alexander Jones and by a sister, Betty Lou Rossi of New Cumberland.
Visitation will be held Tuesday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Nixon Funeral Home in New Cumberland, with funeral services at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at the New Cumberland Church of the Nazarene Pastor Craig Greathouse will officiate.
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This is strictly in non-combat situations!
Do all characters automatically know how to ride a horse? Would it be fair to have players roll a (nature?) check to determine whether it's a skill they need to learn first?
Some of the exotic mounts in Adventurer's Vault seem like they really couldn't be ridden by just anyone (like the shark or the manticore). Shouldn't dangerous/difficult mounts require some sort of skill or training to ride?
Also, I assume all types of mounts are tame when sold in cities and such, but what if the players encounter a wild specimen and want to tame it for riding?
I only ask because I could find nothing on the topic in any of the books I have!


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If we fix a locally profinite group $G$ , we note $R(G)$ the category of smooth representations of $G$, $\mathcal{E}$ the set of equivalence classes of $R(G)$, and finaly $Irr(G)$ the set of irreducible equivalence calasses. I recall that the theorem of Cantor-Bernstein says : If $E$ and $F$ two sets. If there is an injection from $E$ to $F$ and an injection from $F$ to $E$, then there is a bijection between $E$ and $F$. This enables us to define an ordering relation in the set of equipotence classes of sets : If $E$ and $F$ two sets, we note $E\leq F$ if $E$ injects in $F$.
Similarly, we define a relation $\leq$ in $\mathcal{E}$, but in general is not an ordering relation, I think that is an ordering relation if $R(G)$ is semisimple (for example, for compact locally profinite group).
If $L$ a non empty subset of $Irr(G)$, we define a $L$-minimal representation as a smooth representation $\pi$ of $G$ such that :
1) For every $\sigma\in L$, $\sigma \leq \pi$.
2) For every $\tau \in R(G)$, if $\sigma\leq\tau$ for every $\sigma\in L$, then $\pi\leq\tau$.
I ask the following questions:
Q1) An $L$-minimal representation exits ?
Q2) unicity ?
Q3) If $\pi$ an $L$-minimal (if there exist) representation, $dim\mathbf{Hom}_{G}(\sigma,\pi)$, where $\sigma\in L$, is minimal ?
I'm interested of this question for the set $L_{k}$ of equivalence classes of irreducible supercuspidal representation of $PGL(n,F)$ with conductor=$k$.


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Let $A$ be a complete regular local noetherian ring of dimension $d>1$ and $B$ an $A$-algebra, finite and free as $A$-module. Assume moreover that there exists an open subset $U$ of $\textrm{Spec}\ A$ of primes of height $d-1$ such that there is exactly one prime in $\textrm{Spec}\ B$ over a prime of $U$. Is it then true that $\textrm{Spec}\ B$ is an irreducible topological space?
Under various choices of ancillary hypotheses, results like this one follow from Zariski's connectedness principle; see e.g A useful form of principle of connectedness.


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As a preliminary solution, I am currently using the Nuclex framework in an C#/XNA game project for buffered keyboard input. Sadly, nuclex relies on SlimDX.Directinput.dll and therefore to my knowledge can only be used under Windows OSs. However, I use MonoGame to target other platforms (Linux, OSX, etc.) and therfore I am looking for a portable way to integrate buffered keyboard input aross all platforms. Is there any?
SharpInputSystem was created for this exact purpose. It provides a portable way of access the Keyboard and Mouse on most platforms and GamePad/Joystick on a few others. In full disclosure, I am the author, but I needed a similar library for the samples I provide with Axiom.
It may need to be modified to load the MonoGame assemblies properly, I am currently loading the Xna libraries dynamically to avoid a dependency on a strong name. I can either look into making those changes if you want or if you feel up to it, submit a patch once you've got it working.
While not properly portable (it is only for Windows and Linux). MonoGame has an event for text input that uses properly buffered keyboard input.


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Greg Kelly, NYC Fox News anchor and son of police commissioner Ray Kelly, is off the hook on rape charges after police decided that his accuser actually had a consensual encounter with him, then changed her story when her boyfriend found out. Fine. Only Kelly and the woman really know what happened. But why is the New York Post such an extremely gleeful Greg Kelly defender?
Yes, the Post is a shitty right wing partisan paper that routinely takes up causes to drive sales. Still, a rape charge against a public figure is not something that a gutter tabloid would naturally just take a strong side in, given its potential to be a good story either way. Remember, nobody really knew which way the case would go after the initial charges surfaced about two weeks ago. Some brief highlights of the Post's Kelly coverage:
- A Jan. 27 story just after the charges hit played Kelly's absence from his TV show as a tragedy: "It was a bad day for 'Good Day New York.' A rape allegation kept Greg Kelly from appearing in his anchor chair on the popular WNYW/Fox 5 morning show yesterday as his co-anchor, Rosanna Scotto rushed to his defense."
- The same day, an anonymously sourced story about how the DA's office "has serious doubts" about the woman's claims. Sample anonymous quote: "It sounds like a bunch of BS."
- A Jan. 28 story revealed that the Post knew the accuser's identity and would not reveal it—except for saying that she was a "29-year-old woman" with a "paralegal job at a Financial District law firm" and a brother in the NYPD. That's all. "And there are no witnesses to back up her claims," the story adds helpfully.
- Jan. 29: another anonymously sourced story saying the woman was "instantly enamored" and "star-struck" by Kelly.
- Not just one but two separate columns by hysteric-in-chief Andrea Peyser railing against the woman who accused Kelly and calling for her to be prosecuted.
- And, of course, once the DA decided not to prosecute Kelly, the Post ran everything about his accuser, pics and all, to contrast with Kelly's upcoming "joyful return to the airwaves." Joyful.
1) The Post is a fundamentally misogynist institution run by misogynists.
2) The Post decided to use this case as an opportunity to do a favor for Ray Kelly. Police and crime coverage is the Post's bread and butter. It pays to be on the commissioner's good side.
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For probably the first time in 37 years, my mom will not have to work the day after Thanksgiving. She won't be getting up at 2 am to be ready in time to open for the Black Friday sales or, in the alternative, getting home after midnight because she's worked the late shift and has to clean up from the madness. And I couldn't be happier for her! It's a bit sad, because the reason she retired is that her particular store closed, but seriously, mom, you don't need the hassle anymore :-)
That said, I've heard a lot of backlash against Black Friday this year. Much of it has to do with more stores than ever deciding to open at midnight for their big sales. It is a bit insane. Not too long ago, 6 am seemed to be standard. Then a few people pushed it back to 5 am. Then we started seeing 4 am. The first midnight opening I recall was Toys R Us. This year, Target, Best Buy and Kohls are among those joining the fray. Add to that the stores doing Thanksgiving Day specials - I admit, I've been out at KMart Thanksgiving morning!
All of this, some people argue, has made Thanksgiving almost an afterthought. They say people are foregoing the time spent appreciating family and friends and the other blessings in life and instead focusing the retail-palooza that follows. Instead of enjoying Thanksgiving dinner, they say, we'll be munching PB&J while standing in a line, hoping to get the cheapest BluRay player or hottest toy.
While I do enjoy hitting the stores on Black Friday (well, enjoy might be a bit strong - but I do think you need to keep a sense of humor about it!), I also admit I see some truth in what the naysayers point out. It comes back to how the holiday season gets us stressed out over what we have to buy and the things people want and the money we must spend. In other words, is this year's Black Friday another sign of over-commercialization? Or is it simply meeting the demand of what the public wants?
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couple vs couple of
For example: "a couple of things" vs "a couple things"
I know "a couple of things" is grammatically correct, but I also often hear couple used without the "of", and by educated people.
Now I'm confused. Isn't "couple things" wrong?
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@ElktoothChain - My idea of descriptivism is that you make your case and support it with examples, not simply insult people and talk down to them. And perhaps say something specifically relevant to the topic.
Your example, Mike, does not deal with the same idea or structure at all. Speed is right.
Dominic, your instincts are correct. "A couple of X" is similar to "a pair of X." "A couple X" is just slurred.
A COUPLE X is everyday North-American English, but wouldn't generally be acceptable in a formal context. It's hardly used in Britain at all, although I've used it myself a couple times. ;)
Use "couple of" if you assume couple to be a noun, such as pair: "a couple of apples" or "a pair of apples." Drop the "of" if you assume "couple" to be an adjective, such as few: "a couple apples" or "a few apples."
What a lot of annoying prescriptivists here. Yuck. Anecdotal explanations of linguistics and language use lead only to perpetuation of outmoded and simply incorrect ways of perceiving and understanding how language works and develops (note that word, quite the opposite of "devolves").
"A couple of x" is definitely correct; omitting "of" is just one more of countless examples of our "progressively" more illiterate society where what once would have been red lined in grade school is now sadly found in the NY Times, once our nation's leading newspaper, now it's leading laughingstock.
Taken from Mirriam Webster Dictionary:
The adjective use of a couple, without of, has been called nonstandard, but it is not. In both British and American English it is standard before a word (as more or less) indicating degree <a couple more examples of Middle English writing — Charles Barber>. Its use before an ordinary plural noun is an Americanism, common in speech and in writing that is not meant to be formal or elevated <the first couple chapters are pretty good — E. B. White (letter)> <still operated a couple wagons for hire — Garrison Keillor>. It is most frequently used with periods of time <a couple weeks> and numbers <a couple hundred> <a couple dozen>.
Dave, don't try that at home! :-)
In Roger Waters' The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking we here him saying: "Hello...ya wanna cup coffee? [...] I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee?"
I think it's just a matter of how much one has got sleep the night before. Some people don't wanna speak too much so they use the of-free version of "couple of X."
Why is "couple of X" grammatically correct? What is the logic? And if "of" should be inserted after couple, then why not after "few or "several?" A few of things? A several of things? "A couple of things" sounds pretentious to me -- "of" is an extra word that has no use. I say drop it.
I consider the Mirriam Webster Dictionary a source for USan English which is a type of patois - not authentic English.
For an excellent treatment of the subject see
Think of all the apples in the world. You just want two apples. So you choose "a couple of" them. That's how I see it. Perhaps some people confuse "a couple apples" with "a few apples." Interesting how they do get "few" right: No one says, "a few of apples." Seems people should be able to keep the two separate without using up too much brain power.
Speed, I don't think this is entirely correct. The word can be used without the 'of' in a few situatoins.
How many did she have?
She had a couple.
"A couple things" is wrong, but the alternative is too antiquated for common use. I refer to "some coupled things". The "things" you see, are "coupled" meaning that the were put/made in couples.
Since "couple" is a noun, as already indicated, it is more correct to use it with "of"
before another noun. But if it going to devolve into "a couple" & schwa, (comparable
to "gonna" and "tuh" [to]) better to accept the less correct form.
It is all part of an evil American plot to eliminate prepositions.


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STEUBENVILLE - With a huge smile on his face and a large field of grass in front of him, Steubenville's Bryan Pierro sprinted straight to the pitcher's mound like Jared Hughes of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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GOOD EFFORT — Brooke's Heath Hildreth dives for a ball in foul territory while Bruins teammate Russell Schwertfeger looks on during the annual OVAC?All-Star game at Vaccaro Field Monday.
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Pierro blazed a fastball past Starkey for a first-pitch strike. Then, he issued two wild pitches allowing University's Travis Renner, who reached on a single, to advance to third base.
"I wasn't worried about it," Pierro said. "I was just out there throwing. I knew I had my boy from River (catcher Eric Dierkes) behind me blocking it up."
On the next pitch, Starkey hit a ground ball to shortstop Brenton Colabella for a routine out.
Shenendoah's Ryan Lovette sent West Virginia down in order in the ninth inning as Ohio took a 7-4 victory.
Lovette was the Zeps' pitching ace all season.
Pierro hasn't had a long pitching performance in six years.
"It's been a while," Pierro said. "I throw every now and then in Legion, but that was the longest since I pitched as a 12-year old in Little League."
Catholic Central head coach Don Young, an assistant on the OVAC team and former leader of the Post 33 Legion team, gave the nod for Pierro to pitch on Monday.
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Normally Big Red's shortstop, Pierro helped guide the high school team to its first regional tournament appearance since 2011. Next year, he will play baseball at Otterbein University.
On Monday, he drew a walk and singled - on top of a rare, but successful outing on the mound.
"It was fun," Pierro said. "It was good to come out here and get a win and play with the best players in the Ohio Valley. It was a great experience."
Ohio scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning. Buckeye Local's Chase Hopkins drew a walk before Colabella started a rally. He singled and scored on a throwing error.
"I saw a curveball that hung," Colabella said of his hit off Valley's Brandon Stoneking. "It was a good place to drive it and I took it to right field."
Robert Vargo of Martins' Ferry drove in Hopkins on a single to left field. Edison's Nolan Marcus was hit by a pitch in the first. He scored on a fielder's choice grounder to the shortstop, hit by Bellaire's Nic Patrone.
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Ohio scored two more in the seventh when Conotton Valley's Ryan Johnson brought home Dierkes and Meadowbrook's Cameron Summers.
"This was a good time to come out and play with a group of great guys," Colabella said. "It feels good to win something for Ohio and have some fun."
McIntosh pitched the third inning, starting with a walk to Madonna's Will Bowser. He then retired the next three batters on a total of 13 pitches. Big Red's Justin Corsi sent the West Virginia batters down in order in the fourth inning. Jonathon Borkoski of Buckeye Local allowed a pair of runs in the fifth. He was facing Bishop Donahue's Hunter Kashke with a full-count and two outs as the Bishops slugger drilled a hit to center field, scoring two.
Marcus struck out two batters in a sixth inning appearance. West Virginia scored two more runs in the eighth inning.
"This was a good way for them to end the season and their high school careers," Young said.
Toronto sophomore Blaze Glenn was named the OVAC 2A Player of the Year.
"I had no clue I was going to get it," Glenn said. "It's a nice honor. It's an individual honor, but I couldn't have got it without my teammates or coaches. The seniors really pushed us hard at every game and every practice."
Red Knights seniors include Billy Solomon, Tyler Antinone, Jarin McIntosh, Sam Pinkerton, Ryan Clink, Logan Allen and Glenn's older brother, Chez.
"It was a lot of fun to have the chance to play with him in football and baseball," Blaze said. "I'm going to miss him the next two years."
Chez is still undecided of his college plans, as is Blaze. However, he has received contact from Marshall University to potentially play baseball for the Thundering Herd.
"I'm just working as hard as I can every single day," Blaze said. "I'm staying at it and trying my hardest."
Wheeling Park head coach Mike McLeod was named the OVAC coach of the year. His Patriots advanced to the state tournament for the first time since 1989 with a 9-6 win over Morgantown in the Class AAA Region I championship last Saturday. On Friday, they will play Riverside at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston.
Steubenville coach Fred Heatherington was recognized for his 500th career victory, recorded this season with a 5-4 win over Catholic Central on May 1.
Toronto's Brian Perkins was honored for his 200th career victory and Mike Collopy of Edison was applauded for his 100th career victory.
St. Clairsville's Tom Sliva earned his 300th career victory this past season. All four coaches received commemorative plaques during Monday's all-star game.


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"I am grateful to Saint Louis University for honoring my father's many sacrifices for our country by providing for and empowering his only daughter.
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Thanks to Saint Louis University's support and quality education, I look forward to the next stage of my life as college graduate."
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Hey there, hip cats... put on a happy face and get groovy with the latest slice of The Sounds and Sights of Cinema. This week's show spotlights jazz in film music, baby! On the program, your ears will be treated to:
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Touch of Evil - Henry Mancini
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Two Saudi cargo planes, laden with more than 20 tons of medical supplies bound for Palestinians in Gaza, arrived in Al-Arish, Egypt yesterday.
Prince Faisal bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Chairman of the Saudi Red Crescent Commission, noted today that more aid is already on the way. "A relief aircraft loaded with 16 tons of critical medical supplies took off today from Riyadh Airbase Airport heading to Egypt to help with the relief work there," he said. "A fleet of medical relief aircraft is being dispatched on a daily basis to secure all necessary medicines for the Palestinian people in coordination with all hospitals in the Kingdom."
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A benefit was held for Eleden "Ellie" Fonseca. Ellie was a victim of Domestic Violence. She is the daughter of Sheriff's Office employee Angie Rodriguez. Chances were sold to win a Yeti 50 cooler filled with goodies. The drawing was held this afternoon and the winner was Rogelio Betancurt. The benefit raised $3302.20. Prayers for you Ellie!
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Howser and Molly Child Earn All-Tournament Honors: Abby Child Named Tourney MVPApril 28, 2014
HARROGATE, Tenn. – On the heels of Anderson University's first Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Softball Championship, senior shortstop Abby Child has been named the Tournament MVP, while junior Katelynn Howser and sophomore Molly Child were named to the All-Tournament Team, as announced by the conference office Monday morning.
Abby Child had seven hits in 12 at-bats (.583) during the four-game span, punctuated by a walk-off two-run homer in the win past Catawba on Saturday to send Anderson to the title game. She also posted two additional home runs, eight RBI, three walks and three runs during the tournament, and her 17 total bases were a tournament-high.
The senior went 2-for-3 with a double and three RBI in AU's 5-0 championship game victory over Wingate.
Molly Child was 5-for-14 (.357) during the tournament, including a pair of key doubles, and scored four runs while driving in three runs.
Howser, a right-handed hurler, garnered the start in each of the four tournament contests and earned three wins without a loss, while posting a 2.30 ERA. She tossed 24 1/3 innings, including two complete games, while surrendering eight earned runs on 26 hits. Howser struck out 12 and walked 10, with opponents hitting .274 over the four contests.
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April 11, 2004 | Miami HeraldA story about the various models and formulas used to predict the outcome of presidential elections mentions the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA'S IOWA ELECTRONIC MARKETS, which allows participants to buy and sell futures contracts that pay out relative to actual votes received by each candidate. The market opened only in 1988, but in the five presidential elections during which it has operated, it has been more accurate in predicting final vote shares than the last national polls taken before Election Day. As of midweek, the Iowa market gives Bush a 52 percent lead over Kerry's 48 percent.
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The Grouchy Ladybug
A ladybug challenges another ladybug to a fight because she doesn't want to share her aphids. But before the fight begins, she decides the ladybug she challenged isn't big enough to be worth her time. She goes off and challenges all kind of animals to a fight, until she meets a blue whale, who slaps her back to her starting point. She sees the same ladybug she had challenged before, but this time with a new perspective.
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Are there any derivatives which pay amount $a(p-b)^{2}-c$ where $p$ is the price of underling asset ? (or in the case of options $max(0,a(p-b)^{2}-c)$) I'm not very strict here but I only want to know if there are any derivatives which profile of profits is quadratic function of price of underling assets (quadratic on some subset of set of all $p$ )?
Are there any derivatives which pay amount $a(p-b)^{2}-c$ where $p$ is the price of underling asset?
You can ask for a quote from a bank as I am sure they will create it for you. If you want to create this kind of payoff yourself, you can use the following paper from Peter Carr where he introduces the spanning formula for replicating any twice differentiable payoff.
Variance swaps are arguably a little like that. As mentioned, power contracts too, but sometimes only by virtue of correlation/cross-gammas between volatilities and underlyings.
I haven't personally seen a contract with an exponent in it.
It's pretty straightforward to replicate (in theory!) by just buying a call struck at b, and another one struck at b+1, and another one struck at b+2, and another one struck at b+3, and so on, and then buy a put struck at b, and another one struck at b-1, and another one struck at b-2, etc., and then scaling the whole thing and adding c.
You can easily construct any European payoff, i.e. any payoff that is some function f(S(T)) for a fixed T, if you have call options (expiring at T) at any strike available.


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Big Round Numbers In Sight for Stocks
U.S. stocks pushed farther into record territory as an upbeat labor report lifted major benchmarks to their fourth straight gain.
Thanks to a steady grind higher, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index is within striking distance of topping 1600 for the first time and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is closing in on 15,000.
On Thursday, the Dow added 62.90 points, or 0.4%, to 14865.14. The blue chips are up 2.1% over the past four sessions, on pace for one of the year's biggest weekly gains. The S&P 500 climbed 5.64 points, or 0.4%, to 1593.37. For the year, the S&P 500 is up 12% and the Dow 13%.
Technology stocks, however, lagged Thursday's advance. Hampered by news of a slump in personal computer shipments, the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 2.90 points, or 0.1%, to 3300.16.
For weeks, many investors have said stocks have rallied too far, too fast and are due for a pullback. But the move higher in prices has proved durable.
"It seems like we're due for a consolidation at some point, but what we saw was awfully mild," said Brian Lazorishak, portfolio manager and quantitative analyst at Chase Investment Counsel. "You have to respect the trend when the path of least resistance appears to be up."
Giving a boost to the stock market Thursday was good news on the employment front, with initial claims for jobless benefits falling more than expected in the latest week, to 346,000. It was the first time in four weeks that new applications for unemployment benefits fell.
More broadly, stock prices have been buoyed by a steady stream of buyers waiting in the wings, as money has flowed into stock funds out of cash. Assets in money-market funds declined by $8.38 billion in the latest week, according to iMoneyNet.
"We're definitely in an environment where people are buying the dips," said Greg Peterson, director of Ballentine Partners, which oversees $3.8 billion. Mr. Peterson said his firm is sticking by its stock positions.
After a robust start to the year for stocks, many investors were looking for major benchmarks to step back amid concerns about the U.S. economy and questions about when the Federal Reserve might begin to taper its stimulus efforts. Last Friday's disappointing jobs report, which showed far fewer jobs added in March than forecast, seemed like it could pull the rug out from under the rally.
But the prospect of sluggish growth also reinforced views that the Fed will continue to rely on bond-buying to hold down interest rates, which generally boosts the appeal of stocks. The release of the Fed's latest policy-meeting minutes this week only enforced that view.
"Recent gains are all about global monetary easing," said Michael Yoshikami, chief executive of Destination Wealth Management, which manages $1.3 billion. "The jobs numbers last week were good news for the Fed's policy," he said.
Mr. Yoshikami said he has been selling defensive-sector stocks like Johnson & Johnson JNJ -0.25 % in recent weeks and moving into riskier consumer-discretionary stocks he views as undervalued. At the same time, Mr. Yoshikami said he has been cutting back on owning gold since it tends to decline as stocks move higher.
One exception to the rally Thursday was the technology sector, after market research firm IDC reported world-wide shipments of personal computers fell 13.9% in the first quarter, the biggest decline since the reporting of quarterly numbers started in 1994.
That news hit shares of Microsoft MSFT 0.04 % particularly hard. The software giant's stock had been on a tear in recent days, gaining 5.9% in just two sessions. But Thursday it fell back as Goldman Sachs GS -0.29 % cut the stock's rating to "sell" from "neutral," citing accelerating PC market-share losses and lack of traction in tablets and smartphones.
Meanwhile, the dollar slipped against the yen but continued to trade near ¥100. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average climbed 2% to the highest level seen since July 2008 as markets reacted to the Bank of Japan's new aggressive efforts to ease monetary policy.
Australia's S&P ASX 200 gained 0.8% to a 3½-week high, while China's Shanghai Composite bucked the regional trend by slipping 0.3%.
Meanwhile, European markets were broadly higher. The Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.6%, as the index notched a fourth-straight gain.
May crude-oil futures eased 1.2% to settle ate $93.51 a barrel, while April gold futures added 0.4% to settle at $1,564.30 a troy ounce. Yields on a 10-year Treasury bonds fell to 1.790% as demand rose.
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5 Clues Hidden in Computer Files That Can Get You Busted
It may seem like the Internet is a Wild Wild West of hackers, spammers and document leakers, but it's actually harder to get away with things in the computer age than you might think. Hidden in each and every computer file you create is another layer of data that even a mildly knowledgeable computer user can dig up. Documents and photos reveal more about you than you think, and data you think you deleted, don't stay gone.
You are leaving digital fingerprints all over everything you do on a computer and, unfortunately for the bad guys, it doesn't exactly take a CSI team to find them ...
#5. Word Document Reveals That the Iraq Invasion Was Based on Plagiarized College Essays
Every Microsoft Word document you create contains a hidden log of everything you did to it, ever. Specifically, it contains a revision history showing who touched the document, and when. You'd think this would be the sort of thing military intelligence would care about when creating sensitive, world-changing documents, but you'd be wrong.
"Now replace 'No Evidence of WMDs' with 'Bulging titloads of WMDs, you guys.'"
So flash back to the early 2000s, when America was largely focused on two things -- the invasion of Iraq and justifying the invasion of Iraq, more or less in that order. The British government wanted to help out, so in January of 2003 they published a dossier entitled "Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation." The dossier was supposedly a top-level report compiled by military intelligence outlining all the reasons America should get its tanks into Iraq as soon as possible (the report was even quoted by Colin Powell when he addressed the U.N. to support the invasion).
The problems with the report, which would later become known as "the dodgy dossier" despite its complete inability to dodge anything other than basic computer literacy, began when the government made the mistake of posting it online in its original Word document format. That meant its revision history was visible to anyone who knew where to look:
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"Mnuts licked file ..."
That meant the public could easily see that the supposed military intelligence document was primarily written and edited by the staff at Downing Street (the British version of the White House) and the Prime Minister's Press Secretary.
Furthermore, the vast majority of the report was literally cut and pasted from various post-graduate essays published in academic journals as far back as 1997. To recap: The in-depth report on Iraq supposedly compiled by top-level military intelligence officials and drawn from the most current analysis of the region was actually created by a bunch of British interns hitting Ctrl-C on public information published back when Batman & Robin came out. And then they left the document's revision history visible, so that all of the world could see what they did.
"And once again, I'd like to stress that hackers put that information there to make us look bad."
The Word version was quickly removed from the website (and replaced with a PDF, which doesn't carry the same revision log), and U.K. Press Secretary Alastair Campbell had to appear in front of a parliamentary committee to explain a few things, like why in the hell his staff seemingly fabricated a report that was considered a key document in the decision to invade Iraq. The moral of this story is that Campbell resigned a few months later having worked at Downing Street for six years, and Iraq totally got invaded anyway.
#4. A World-Class Hacker Is Caught by His Girlfriend's Boob Photo
Every photo you take with your phone gives away your location (as we mentioned here), due to embedded strings of information called Exif data, which we're betting most of you had no idea was even there. You'd think that, say, a world-class hacker would know about it, but you'd be wrong.
In February 2012, a member of CabinCr3w (an offshoot group of the Anonymous hackers) successfully hacked into private police databases and then published personal information (including home addresses and cell phone numbers) of over 100 Los Angeles police officers on the Internet. The digital bandit posted a calling card of sorts along with the stolen information:
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Amazingly, this photo is directly relevant to this entry.
The photo was a taunt from the CabinCr3w, and that incredible boobie-boast almost came true -- the FBI had exactly zero leads on the cyber-attack and indeed were teetering on the verge of Pwnage. The hack job itself was untraceable, and the website where all the personal information of the police officers had been posted was just a link shared anonymously via Twitter. It seemed the only mistake CabinCr3w had made was the regrettable spelling of the word "bitches."
However, while the tweet and the hack were both untraceable, the image of gloating cleavage had not had its Exif data removed before it was posted. Even though this information can be removed pretty easily (especially for someone who can hack secure police databases without a trace), the photo above was posted with all its Exif data still embedded in it, almost as if the poster had been distracted by something else at the time. This is like shooting someone, wiping your fingerprints off of the bullet, and leaving the gun at the scene.
And then personally handing that gun directly to the bumbling detective assigned to the case.
The FBI, after many hours of closely scrutinizing the photo with a flashlight under the covers, after lights out, tracked the Exif information imbedded in the image file to a Higinio O. Ochoa III of Galveston, Texas. At the time, Ochoa was living in Australia with his girlfriend, and the boobs in question wound up being hers. The FBI arrested the shit out of him and brought him back to Texas, where he promptly pled guilty. He received a $14,000 fine for "accessing a protected computer without authorization" and over two years in federal prison, where he is presumably learning the powerful lesson that "anarchy" is only fun until someone takes your computer away. His girlfriend's breasts received a suspended sentence.
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#3. Word Doc Reveals a Drug's Dangerous Side Effect
In addition to keeping track of who touched a document (as in the Iraq case above), Word documents also keep track of the editing changes made. What, you thought that deleting a sentence from a document before emailing it to everyone caused it to vanish from the universe? Better hope you've never changed your mind about what you wanted to say halfway through a work memo ...
Which brings us to Merck & Co., the pharmaceutical company most famous for the arthritis medication Vioxx, which was pulled from the market after it was revealed that long term use of the drug caused heart attacks (even if it still worked really well on the whole). Merck was swiftly flooded with almost 7,000 lawsuits after the recall, but in their defense, it's not like anyone knew Vioxx would kill people.
"Now if you have a heart attack and die, whose fault is it? That's right, yours."
Actually, Merck had specifically known that exact thing for years. And the bizarre thing is, they almost told everyone about it, but changed their minds at the last minute and then poorly covered up their tracks. Thanks, again, to their Word document's revision history.
Five years before Vioxx got recalled, Merck had run a clinical study of the drug in The New England Journal of Medicine. After Vioxx was pulled, the editors of The New England Journal went back to the original file of the study Merck had sent to them and checked the editing history. Sure enough, they discovered a table that had been deleted from the study two days before Merck submitted the final draft -- a table called "Cardiovascular Events."
"His last words were that his heart attack had nothing to do with Vioxx. It was a personal choice."
As you might guess from the title, the chart detailed the cardiovascular effects of Vioxx, including at least three heart attacks that had occurred during the trial but which were never officially reported. Ever. Presumably because Merck had another table somewhere that told them heart attacks cause amnesia.
It would have been impossible to prove Merck knew anything about the drug's lethality if anyone in the upper echelon of a billion-dollar industry knew how to clear the document's revision history (again, see the "dodgy dossier", above). Consequently, the original version of the article was used as an exhibit by most Plaintiffs in the Vioxx lawsuits, which went pretty well for all non-Merck personnel involved (the ones that didn't have heart attacks, anyway) -- to date, the company has paid out almost $11.5 billion in fines and settlements.
Don't look at it as a loss of money. Look at it as getting away with mass murder.


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I'm planning to use WordPress to maintain and publish a role-playing system. Is there a best practice for managing content in WordPress that isn't time sensitive?
Should I use pages and make short notification posts when those are updated? I know posts and pages are stored the same, it's handling the creation and presentation that's giving me trouble. I want updates to be obvious, but without republishing entire sections of content.


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Of all places for Kurt Warner to get backed up against a wall, and then repeatedly and viciously head-butted about his religion, a Good Day L.A. interview was not our first guess. But yesterday, the former NFL quarterback and born-again Christian joined Jillian Reynolds, Steve Edwards, and Dorothy Lucey to talk about his career, his family, his dancing ability, and the absolute particulars of his religious beliefs. Because talk about a "fallen world" where "sin has taken over" goes great with a morning cup of coffee.
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