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PAWS, 800 W. 1st, will be open for cat and dog adoptions as well as vaccinations from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Wednesday. and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. No dogs will be accepted at this time.
Grays Harbor Home & Community Educators (HCE) have scheduled dinner at 6:15 p.m., Thursday at the United Christian Church, followed by a program at 7 and a meeting at 8. The program will be a speaker from the County Emergency Management Office.
Aberdeen Timberland Library Board will meet at 4 p.m., Thursday in the library.
Washington State Department of Veterans' Affairs has a representative available 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., every Wednesday, in the Work Source building, 511 W. Heron St. For more information, call 538-2364. After hours, call 532-0656 or (800) 562-2308.
College Life for all Harbor area college age students will meet at 6:56 p.m., Thursday at Grays Harbor College. College Life is affiliated with Young Life, a non-denominational Christian ministry that reaches out to youth. For more information, call 590-0948.
Man to Man, a support group for men with prostate cancer, will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Grays Harbor Community Hospital East Campus Conference Room D. Family members and friends are encouraged to attend. For more information, call 538-9442.
Beyond Survival, a community sexual assault program, offers support to victims of sexual assault, including advocacy, one-on-one therapy and support groups. All services are available at no charge. For information or to make an appointment call 533-9751.
Twin Harbors Chess Club will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Premier Realty, 421 West State St. Players of all levels are invited. There are no fees. For more information, call 533-1900.
Evergreen Senior Citizens will meet at noon, Thursday, at the Aberdeen Eagles for lunch.
Grays Harbor Bird Club will meet at 6 p.m., Thursday in the Hoquiam Timberland Library. Dave Butterfield will present a program. Everyone is invited.
Grays Harbor American Red Cross volunteers will meet at 6:30 p.m., Thursday in the Grays Harbor YMCA conference room. For more information about volunteering or to schedule a disaster preparedness speaker for your group or organization, call 500-1462.
Adventist Community Services Food Bank will distribute food to community members every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 3101 Cherry St.
Grays Harbor Bridge Club members and newcomers are invited to play duplicate bridge at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Church of the Nazarene at 7th and K streets. For partnership arrangements, call JoAnn Boettcher at 289-2809.
Central Park
Lord's Pantry Food Bank, hosted by Grays Harbor Foursquare Church, is open from 10 a.m. to noon, Thursday. The church is located at 4800 Central Park Drive. For more information, call 589-3000.
Grays Harbor Fire Protection District No. 2 Commissioners, will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, at the Central Park Fire Station.
Moms In Prayer International, a Christ-centered interdenominational ministry of mothers praying for their children and their schools, have moms praying at 8:30 a.m. every Thursday that school is in session at the First Baptist Church, 303 W. Pioneer. All women interested in praying for children is invited. For more information, call Emily Meier at 249-4224 or visit the website: www.momsinprayer.org.
TOPS Club, Inc. (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) WA 1522 has private weigh-in from 6 to 6:30 every Thursday in the Forestry Meeting Room, 310 W. Spruce Ave., 2nd Floor. Meetings follow at 6:30. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 581-3863.
Citizen Corps, a group that creates opportunities for individuals to help their communities prepare for and respond to emergencies by bringing together local leaders, volunteers and first responder organizations, will meet at 9 a.m., Wednesday, in the Forestry Building, 310 W. Spruce St. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 249-3911.
Grays Harbor Local Emergency Planning Committee will meet at 10:15 a.m., Wednesday in the Forestry Building, 310 W. Spruce St. Everyone is invited. For more information, call 249-3911.
GriefShare, a gathering of individuals who have lost a loved one, will meet at 7 p.m., Thursday, at the Montesano Church of God, 317 Spruce. For more information, call 249-3242.
Elma Timberland Library will present "Local Writers Group" at 5:30 p.m., Thursday for adults and teens.
Eagles Auxiliary No. 1440 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, in the hall.
Ocean Shores
Ocean Shores Lions Club will meet at noon, Thursday, in the Lions Club building on Ocean Shores Blvd.
TOPS Inc., No. WA 1425, will meet at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Ocean Shores Library. TOPS, Take Off Pounds Sensibly, teaches participants how to lose and keep off weight. For more information, call 580-0388.
South Beach Ambulance Service Inc. will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Westport City Council Chambers, 506 N. Montesano St.
North County
Quinault Nation Veteran's Club will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday at the club in Taholah.
Raymond Timberland Library will present "PageTurners Book Discussion" at 7 p.m., Thursday for adults.
Pacific County
North Willapa Harbor Grange No. 947 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the hall at the corner of Hwy. 105 and Jacobsen Road in North Cove.
Self-Help Groups
Support groups for people with addictions meet throughout Grays Harbor and Pacific counties. For more information, call the number in your area:
Alcohólicos Anónimos — 532-9606
11th Step Meditation group — 360-209-9051
Regeneration — 942-7385 or 425-315-4297
Narcotics Anonymous — 589-8620
Alcoholics Anonymous — 532-2691
Al-Anon — Aberdeen, 532-7585/East County 249-4945 or 861-8208
Relationships in Recovery — 533-8500
Overeaters Anonymous — 360-359-2755/East County 482-8091
Gamblers Anonymous — Grays Harbor & East County 360-556-5161
Celebrate Recovery — Pacific County 942-5530/Grays Harbor 533-7129
Thirty Below, a 12 step recovery meeting for people under the age of 30 — 580-7359
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PTE303: EngDraw (2014-2015)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Career and Technical Education
COURSE TITLE: Engineering Drawing/CAD
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
About the Program:
Engineering Drawing - CAD prepares students for careers in science, technology, engineering and math. The course sequence focuses on duties and tasks performed by professionals in engineering and engineering technology as well as pre-employment and employment skills.
Major Concepts/Content: This course is recommended for students interested in engineering or related careers and/or aspiring to become engineers, architects, and engineer technicians. Engineering drawing is a Computer Aided Drawing and Design (CAD) course designed to provide students with instruction in computer graphic skills and design fundamentals. Students will learn the use of a CAD system for two-dimensional drawing and three-dimensional modeling. Through the use of the Internet students will explore the wide range of CAD technologies and applications.
Major Instructional Activities: Engineering Drawing will cover a thorough introduction to the fundamental concepts and principles of technical drawings. This will help the student to communicate with others by being able to draw as well as interpret drawings and sketches. The student will complete drawing and learn concepts from the following areas: but is not limited to, pictorial, multi-view, geometric construction, sectional views, dimensioning, threads and fasteners, and assembly drawings. Instructional activities are provided in the pre-engineering laboratory, using hands-on experiences with equipment and materials related to course content. Students will be required to plan and produce projects. They will develop solutions to problem solving activities, present ideas and information orally and in writing. Students will investigate content-related occupations and assume leadership roles and work cooperatively.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Course work completed will be analyzed and evaluated for accuracy and use of drawing concepts. Reports will be graded for content and form. In addition, the students will be evaluated on their ability to cooperatively work together and solve problems.
PTE303:Engineering Drawing CAD Course Description
PTE303: Engineering Drawing CAD Student Competency Record
Essential Software: The focus of this course will be the use of the Autodesk Suite to design forms, model complex shapes and design in 3D.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Federal prosecutors laid out information about a Manhattan doctor's assets as he seeks to be released from custody as he waits for his case to proceed in the court system.
The government says illegal practices went on at Dr. Michael Schuster's clinic, Manhattan Pain & Spine, for more than five years. The clinic has been seized and will be closing at the end of the month after authorities exposed an alleged pill mill.
Last week, the 53-year-old physician was indicted by a federal grand jury. He is accused of illegally distributing prescription medications.
Schuster is charged with four counts: one count of conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances, one count of unlawful distribution of controlled substances, one count of unlawfully distributing controlled substances to a person under 21 years old and one count of maintaining a premises in furtherance of of unlawful drug distribution.
He pleaded not guilty to his charges during his arraignment in Topeka Tuesday. A detention hearing was also held Tuesday because Schuster wants to be released from jail as he awaits trial. In a previous hearing, prosecutors said they consider Schuster to be a flight risk due to his many assets.
Prosecutors called an FBI agent and asset forfeiture investigator with the FBI to the stand to testify about their findings in the case. They told the judge that Schuster has two passports and upwards of 30 properties in the United States, including properties in Kansas, New York, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, Texas and New Mexico. Most of the property is vacant land.. He also has property in Argentina, Paraguay and Canada and more than $1 million in foreign bank accounts, they said. The asset forfeiture investigator said she did not know where some $400,000 went from one bank account in Canada, as documented in financial reports submitted by Schuster.
Schuster's wife, Janet Immer, meanwhile, testified that her and her husband never did anything improper with their land and they've been paying property taxes on all of their properties, which the government placed an estimated $2 million value on.
Schuster's indictment alleges that he employed unlicensed staff members who distributed controlled substances to patients using his signature on prescriptions while he was traveling out of the state or out of the country.
According to the government, their investigation found that 542 patients received prescriptions for medications including painkillers and antidepressants when Schuster was out of the office.
Schuster was arrested last week; his license indefinitely suspended and his office raided by some 30 law enforcement officers.
According to the indictment, he would pre-sign blank prescription pads that his staff would use to issue medications when he traveled.
Investigators documented various prescriptions bearing Schuster's signature while he was on trips to Russia, South Africa, Uruguay, Canada, New York, Chile, Argentina, and Israel.
The investigation into the practices at Schuster's clinic began early in 2012 when the Riley County Police Department received reports that Schuster was issuing prescriptions for high dosages of scheduled drugs based on minimal or cursory physical examinations and allowing for "early refills" of the medications.
Authorities say as a result, several patients overdosed. The FBI spoke to several doctors on Fort Riley who reported that several active duty soldiers and their families members who died from overdoses were Schuster's patients. Fort Riley has declined to comment further on the deaths, saying only that they are cooperating with the investigation.
In his indictment it states that "from April 2007 to August 2012 Schuster knowingly maintained" his clinic "for the purpose of unlawfully distributing controlled substances."
Schuster faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each of his charges. If death or bodily injury results from the crime, the penalty is not less than 20 years.
The government, upon convicted, wants Schuster to forfeit any profits or property used to commit the crimes or purchased with criminal proceeds.
His detention hearing was continued until Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 2:30 so Schuster's attorney could review banking documents the prosecution is going to submit.


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The 10 Most Misleadingly Pornographic Movie Titles
We want to take a moment to alert the public about some of the most egregious false advertising we've ever seen. We're talking of course about movies we put on our Netflix queue under the assumption they were porn, based on their grossly misleading titles.
What's even more insidious is that each film had scenes and lines of dialog that really got our hopes up that we were about to see some hardcore action. Here are a few of the movies we're naming in our upcoming lawsuit:
#10. Anaconda
The lines that got our hopes up:
"Is it just me or does the jungle make you really, really horny?"
"Asshole in one."
#9. What Lies Beneath
The lines that got our hopes up:
"Pick up any dudes yet?"
"I have one in the trunk!"
#8. The Punisher
The lines that got our hopes up:
"Need any help with some underpants, sir?
"It won't hurt at first."
"He hasn't slept all week."
"How do you know?"
"'Cause I haven't slept all week."
#7. Shooter
The lines that got our hopes up:
"Not hard enough."
"Movement. Two men. Approximately ... 40 goats."
#6. There Will Be Blood
The lines that got our hopes up:
"I do my own drilling and the men that work for me, work for me and they are men I know. I make it my business to be there and see to their work. I don't lose my tools in the hole.
"I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you."
"I'm finished."
#5. A Few Good Men
The lines that got our hopes up:
"I want you to know that I am proud neither of what I have done, nor of what I am doing."
"Are you planning on doing any investigating, or are you just gonna take the guided tour?"
"I'm pacing myself."
#4. Holes
The lines that got our hopes up:
"He's not going to take it. Come here--eat the cookie."
"Pick a hole, any hole."
#3. Kicking and Screaming
The lines that got our hopes up:
"What is that haunting aroma?"
"You ease up on him."
"Look at the size of this bad boy, huh?"
#2. Lorenzo's Oil
The lines that got our hopes up:
"Dr. Nikolias, what about the other boys, what results are you seeing in them?"
"Michaela, the doctors are in the dark. They're groping in the dark."
#1. Big Trouble in Little China
The lines that got our hopes up:
And finally, one we were relieved wasn't porn ...
Big Daddy
The lines that made us call the police:
"Having a kid is great ... as long as his eyes are closed and he's not moving or speaking."
If you enjoyed that check out our rundown of The 15 Most Sexually Unappealing Porn Titles. Feel like getting the experience of watching porn without all that pesky arousal? Behold as Cracked Watches Pornography And Describes it to You. Wondering what sort of obscene, yet bizarrely earnest statement our resident spam bot is going to make today? Check out the comments below.


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2016 Reno Tahoe Special Events Calendar
The AMS Arenacross Series captures the heart of America's motorcycle lovers and showcases the most intimate form of indoor, off-road motorcycle racing. Like its big brother Supercross, dirt race tracks are constructed offering thrilling races for fans.
Building - Main Arena
Paid Parking - $8.00 per vehicle
Event: Friday & Saturday 7:00pm - doors open at 6:00pm
Saturday track party - 5pm - 6p (RECYCLE ANY MONSTER ENERGY CAN) with a valid Saturday ticket at the entrance for YOUR FREE admission to the TRACK PARTY
Sunday Noon - doors open at 8:00am
Ticket Prices: In advance Friday & Saturday Adults $22.00 - $32.00 (general admission)
Children from 2 - 12 $10.00 (general admission)
Sunday - General Admission Adults $22.00 & Children from 2 - 12 $10.00
Day of show all tickets $2.00 additional
For tickets call 800-745-3000 (Ticketmaster) or tickets may be purchased at Ticketmaster.com
May also purchase tickets at the Silver Legacy Casino Box Office open daily at noon with the exception Closed on Mondays
Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center Box Office - 1350 N. Wells Avenue open week of the event
Monday - Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday & Saturday - 10am - 8pm
Sunday - 8am - 2pm
Visit Web Site
Phone: 630-566-6100
Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center
1350 N. Wells Avenue Reno, Nv 89512


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Well, I was tired of getting beaten everytime I face him and I know this is the 2nd Sonny Forum but i could'nt find the 1st Sonny Forum so I came here. So I tried all the strategies i could figure out but they all dont work! So i came here for help from the masters to give me some tips on defeating Galiant the Paladin.
He is in Zone 3.
My stats:
I am a Destroyer class. Level 15
Vitality: 91
Strength: 72
Magic: 20
Speed: 47
Focus: 120
My Armory:
Headwear: Crown of Frozen Shadows (from the ice lord guy in Zone 2)
Gloves: Breakers Gloves
No Secondary Arms
Primary Arms: Cannibals Hunger (from the Baron)
Bodywear: Armor of the Teacher (from the ice lord guy in Zone 2)
Leggings: Survivors Leggings
Footwear: Menders Boots
Veradux: He has all his normal armor exept i have him a Primary Arm: Bloody Blade; He is also Level 15 and his AI mode is Tactical.
My Abilities:
(remember, I am Level 15 Destroyer)
Smash 2/5
Wound 2/3
Break 1/1
Disruption 1/5
Iron Skin 1/5
Brutality 1/5
Aggression 3/3
Heroic Motivation 2/3
Magic Bolt 1/10
What Abilities I put in the Action Bar:
Quick Strike (Default)
Heroic Motivation
Supression (Default)
So, post a comment/feedback below about anything I should change to FINALLY defeat Galiant the Paladin. ( I was thinking to Re-Spec, but I didnt know what to change so…) Thanks guys for reading this whole thing. Hope I could find help in this world… of shadows…light…scary…dark…scary…nice…scary…scary… WELL you know what I mean, Thanks again for taking your time to read this :)


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I am told that finite groups have unique factorization under direct product. That is, call a nontrivial group "indivisible" if it is not isomorphic to a direct product of nontrivial groups. Then every finite group can be "factored" (by direct product) into a unique collection of indivisible groups.
In particular, if $G$ and $H$ are finite groups so that $G\times G\cong H\times H$, then $G\cong H$.
Can anyone provide a reference to a proof of these results? What is known in the infinite case? Thanks.


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ECHO's 6th annual "Taste for Prevention" event was held Aug. 17 at the Starks Building.
Local celebrities served wine provided by Party Mart, which guests enjoyed along with incredible hors d'oeuvres from some of Louisville's finest restaurants. An auction was held to benefit ECHO's child abuse prevention programs.
Photos By LIAM SPRADLIN | Contributing Photographer


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December 2008 Indie Next List
"In The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb captures the essence of modern America through the events of the past decade. Though sweeping, the story resonates in a powerfully intimate and personal way, at once heart-wrenching and hopeful, with characters so deeply conceived that you will think of them and their lives long after you have finished reading the book."
— Suzy Staubach, UConn Co-op, Storrs, CT
When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. When Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.
About the Author
Wally Lamb is the author of four previous novels, including the New York Times and national bestseller The Hour I First Believed and Wishin' and Hopin', a bestselling novella. His first two works of fiction, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both number-one New York Times bestsellers and Oprah's Book Club selections. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine. The Lambs are the parents of three sons.
Praise For…
"Lamb . . . has delivered a tour de force, his best yet. A"
-Entertainment Weekly
"A page-turner. . . . Lamb remains a storyteller at the top of his game."
-Craig Wilson, USA Today
"Too compelling to put down . . . a richly textured story . . . moving, funny, and completely unpredictable."
-Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Every character is rendered with vivid, utterly convincing depth. . . . A heck of a page-turner."
-Dallas Morning News
"Lamb, a maestro of orchestrating emotion . . . knows how to make his fans' hearts sing."
-Corrie Pikul, Elle
"Wally Lamb is a remarkable talent."
-Columbus Dispatch
"Lamb has crafted another affecting, engrossing tome about complicated, interesting characters."
-Cherie Parker, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title"
-Miami Herald
"Lamb does an extraordinary job narrating some of the most terrifying tragedies of the past 10 years....an epic journey. Grade: A."
-Rocky Mountain News
"When you put Lamb's newest novel down, it will be reluctantly. It's that good."
-Knoxville News-Sentinel


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Free 1-Year SiriusXM Internet Radio Trial for $0 + free shipping
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I signed up for this about 30 minutes ago. If someone figures out how to change the password they assign to you, please let me know.
@missellienc: Ya I'm trying to figure that out too
Done! Thanks! I am streaming this on my phone as we speak!
hows post thank you
Nice find! Thanks for posting.
Just followed the link and says it is no longer found.
@smbean1: Still working for me.
Try copying and pasting the link in: http://tinyurl.com/8d78udm
Good call. It found the page. I should have thought of that. Thank you.
I'm listening too!
Worked for me 10 minutes ago.
Works great from computer, link isn't found from smartphone.
Thanks! However in 365 days I am going to be very sad.
Is this internet only or will it work for a receiver?
Awesome find! Thanks a ton!
Awesome, still working.
@bdonson76: It is internet only.
Thanks. I've been thinking of signing up, but don't know how much I'd use it. This will get me through next year's baseball season, so will give me a good idea.
@gernapious: Thanks! So I can stream it to my phone then to my bluetooth motorola car receiver and broadcast to my car radio. Ain't technology great.
Worked for me. Still trying to figure out how to reset the password.
@dannykel: Yeah the link was not found from my smartphone either.
This is perfect. I just cancelled my online last week. Thanks so much!
Worked initially, but now it won't let me log in, and when I try "forgot password" it's saying my username doesn't exist.
No longer valid?
Works just fine, I am streaming on my skyrocket right now. Copy and paste the link from the comments, and you will be fine.
I was excited until I realized this was for internet streaming only. I really don't get the point of that, when there are already so many terrestrial radio stations that stream their content for free. Last I heard, Sirius's content wasn't any different or less ad-supported than the land based stations.
@mgermano It looks like if you wanna listen after you have closed your browser, you need to use the link from the email (or bookmark it) to get to the login page. The standard SiriusXM login page will NOT work with this account type.
Apparently siriusXM thinks that an email address that is all caps is not valid.
@mgermano: I had the same issue til I realized the email says you have to go to https://www.siriusxm.com/player to log in, not the main page. Hope that helps.
@ehejl: I agree. I am not sure why I should want to listen to this instead of Pandora...
Awesome deal. It can be used on cell phones too. No need to get a SiriusXM kit for the car if you have the data plan to stream on your phone all the time.
I invented that Robin
No Howard Stern live, just the week in review show
Nice find! Is working for me. I have Sirius in my car and HAD the internet radio, but didn't feel like paying for the internet radio anymore. This is nice...
If there are any sports fans out there, they have stations dedicated to each team that provide live play by play for each game. Especially great if you live way far away from your favorite team.
This is excellent!! Now I can listen to POTUS at work! Woohoo!
But, weird. I thought I'd try listening to Stern since I haven't since he went to satellite, and so far I've heard only commercials. If I wanted commercials, I'd listen to regular radio! Confused!
@cyberfrog96: Exactly!! I listen to POTUS all the time and hate leaving my car to go into work and not be able to listen to it. Sweeet!!!
Worked for me, good thing because my car subscription just ended.
@cs3308: I was wondering about that. Does it include all sports stations? I thought you needed the Premium package or something??
@kirbee: Thanks!
just worked for me
nice, no trash garbage to sign up for, just right in and listening with just your name and email address!
Is there a way to make this free account link with a Sirius xm radio?
Winning thanks for the heads up
Mine worked. Great deal!
Very nice find, i love my wooters. worked for me got the e-mail in seconds, i did see where it said it could take up to 30 min. I do not see how to change the password either :(
@kirbee: Actually not true. From the www.siriusxm.com home page you just need to click the "listen online" button at the top of the page and then login with your username and password. Logging in this way will start their "Mini Player" which is nice.
@generalmoocow: Yeah, I don't think you can with this trial account. Anyone else find a way to do this?


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This article appears in the Fall 2011 CLINIC NEWS.
In October 2010, when Urban Legal Clinic (ULC) law student Jessica Rivera '11 and social work student Frank Barszcz '12 first met their client, F, he was 16 years old and incarcerated in a secure facility for juvenile offenders. He was there as the result of a long history of involvement in the State's juvenile justice system and after having been discharged from two residential drug treatment programs.
F was a handsome young man with a broad smile that he used, according to Barszcz, "like a salesman's tool of persuasion. The smile was more for Jessica than it was for me but I could tell there was something about this kid that you just could not help but like."
The inter-disciplinary student team was assigned to represent F through the New Jersey Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network (JIDAN), a joint initiative of the ULC, the Children's Justice Clinic at Rutgers Law School–Camden, and the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender. JIDAN is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and is part of Models for Change, the foundation's multi-year national juvenile justice reform. New Jersey was one of four states selected by the foundation to participate in the network in 2009 after a competitive national application process.
JIDAN aims to improve access to and the quality of legal representation for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. In New Jersey, once a young person is committed to the long-term custody of the juvenile justice system, he or she no longer has a right to legal representation to monitor conditions of confinement, ensure that the client is receiving appropriate educational or rehabilitative services, or help the client prepare for release. JIDAN closes this gap by having the two law school clinics provide post-sentencing representation to juvenile Public Defender clients.
With the assistance of Clinical Professor Jennifer Valverde, who also holds a Master Degree in social work, the ULC has developed an inter-disciplinary approach to this crucial advocacy. Law and social work students work under the guidance of Clinical Professor Laura Cohen to ensure the safety and well-being of their clients. Like F, children in custody often present with a constellation of previously unmet needs, including mental health, medical, educational, and other therapeutic concerns. Many have suffered previous abuse and severe trauma and have been involved in the foster care, mental health, and special education systems.
Thus, while Jessica worked to ensure that F received the legal protection he is constitutionally entitled to, Frank helped F and his family assess their situation from a social work perspective so that they felt more engaged and better able to participate in F's legal representation. Despite these somewhat different roles, social work students in the law school's clinical program are part of the defense team and bound by the same ethical rules of confidentiality.
Frank and Jessica met with F several times during his incarceration and worked with him and his family to develop his aftercare plan. Through their efforts, counseling services were put into place immediately and F quickly was placed in an appropriate school. Without the ULC's involvement, it is unlikely that F would have received this vital assistance.


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The Globetrotter (not in fact a special model but a term for top-of-the-range versions of long-distance heavy-duty Volvo trucks) is perhaps the biggest success in the history of Volvo Truck Division/Volvo Truck Corporation. The Globetrotter quickly built up a reputation as the most luxurious truck in the world.'
Intended as a mobile hotel
Initially, the Globetrotter was never intended as a luxury truck for western Europe, but as a mobile hotel for truck drivers in countries behind the former 'Iron curtain'. Before 'The Wall' fell, it was very tough for the drivers from these countries to perform long-distance-transports, since they could bring very little western currency on their missions to 'The West'.
Volvo decided to supply the transport companies in these countries with a truck cab which had huge interior space and features not previously found in truck cabs, like refrigerator, water tank, sink, kitchen, etc (all these features, except the huge interior space, were available at extra cost).
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Thanks to the introduction of the F10/F12 trucks two years earlier, however, the transport companies and their drivers had realised that the comfort of a high-class truck cab was not only beneficial to driver comfort, health and safety, but also to the efficiency of the driver.
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Recently a relative of mine who is a widow got engaged. The children were told that the Minhag is that children do not attend a wedding of their parents. What is the source of this Minhag? What is the reason?
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Per Ohr.edu in the name of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita, Children have a Chiyuv to respect their parents even after the parents have passed away. Attending the marriage of a surviving parent would be disrespectful to the deceased parent.
See Hirhurim for more reasons.
I know of a family where the mother passed away at a young age, leaving her husband and 5 or 6 children, the youngest of whom was around three. I suppose because of this the husband re-married before a year had passed. Before the wedding one of the sons told me that he and his siblings would attend the wedding out of kavod for their father. And this while they were still in mourning.
He said his father had told him this from Rav Moshe Feinstein. If someone could find a source I would be grateful.


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Is it secure to store the hash of a symmetric cipher key along with data encrypted with that key? Are there any circumstances or algorithms in which this combination could lead to potential weaknesses -- or is it always a bad idea? Assume the cipher is AES-128 or -192 and the hash is SHA-256, and also assume that the key was derived from a pass phrase.
I think this is generally not a good idea, for two reasons.
First, do not generate a key as a hash of a passphrase. Where possible, you should try to avoid deriving cryptographic keys from passphrases, as passphrases rarely have enough entropy to make a secure crypto key. If you must derive the crypto key from a passphrase, then be sure to use PBKDF2 (or similar key derivation function), which is specifically designed to mitigate (but not eliminate) some of these risks, by making key derivation a slow process.
Second, if the key is derived from a passphrase, I do not recommend storing a hash of the key. This may make it easier to mount exhaustive passphrase-search attacks, including facilitating construction of rainbow tables that map from the hashed-key to the original passphrase. Instead, simply use authenticated encryption.
If you use authenticated encryption, there's no need to store a hash of the key. You can tell whether a key is correct by trying to decrypt and seeing whether the decryption is authentic. If it is authentic, you're good; if it isn't authentic, you've got the wrong key.
And you probably want authentication anyway, so this kills two birds with one stone.
It is secure.
I should stress that there is no good reason to do this and several bad ones( i.e. trying to authenticate your data or protect against some kind of attack). You should read D.W.'s answer for a bunch of reasons why you might try to this and why it doesn't actually solve your problem.
However, it is secure assuming sha256 is hard to invert. If this is the case, than the best an attacker can do is simply try keys and see if they match the hash. This is slightly faster than doing a trial decryption, but not anywhere near fast enough to make it feasible to try all of the $2^{128}$ possible random keys. If your key is not random, than your construction isn't secure, but it wouldn't be secure even if you removed the hash(because doing trial decryptions instead of a hash compare to find the key is not that much harder).
Formally, if you want a definition in terms of provable security, its secure under the random oracle model (where we replace sha256 with a call to a truly random "function")


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KILLEEN (November 29, 2012)--A Killeen man was sentenced Wednesday to federal prison after he earlier pleaded guilty to breaking into a soldier's barracks room and stealing several items.
U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith sentenced Norris Dupard, Jr., to serve two 2-year prison terms concurrently, to be followed by two concurrent 3-year terms on supervised release.
Smith also ordered Dupard to pay a $1,000 fine and $200 in special assessment to the court.
An affidavit filed by an FBI special agent who investigated the burglary said on Jan. 7, Dupard broke into a room in a U.S. Army barracks on Fort Hood and stole a MAC Book Pro laptop, an XBOX 360 gaming system, a VIZIO 26" LED television, misc jewelry, clothes and two olive drab army laundry bags.
When confronted by investigators, Dupard admitted he had pawned some of the stolen items at Action Pawn #1 in Killeen.
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At 10:59 p.m. Friday, officers responded to the area of 16th and Market streets for a report of shots being fired. They recovered spent shell casings in the area of the 15th Street alley and Lane B, which is the alley between Market and Main streets. Officers also found two handguns allegedly belonging to Bradley and Torres.
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Pretty much as the title says. Is there a reason I should favor Markdown over HTML in posts to Stack Exchange sites?
The only advantage of Markdown in comments is that less characters are used. In fact, for sites like this I don't see any point in using Markdown; what would be much more useful is a WYSIWYG editor, because the posts are never viewed in raw text format, except in editing but a WYSIWYG would solve that.
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I cannot find anything on google that indicates there has been cases of malware on Windows Phone 7, doe's anyone know if this is true?
It appears Flame can hit Windows Phone 7 as Microsoft just released a patch to address an attack via the Microsoft update vector using the cert flaw (Information Week article of 5 June 2012). So that answer is yes there is malware that attacks Windows Phone 7.
No. As of right now there is no known malware for windows phone 7. Hence the difficulty in finding any information about it. This includes Flame. Unlike how Apple made their phones, the Windows Phone 7 OS and Windows 7, XP, etc., share very little similarities. IE, unless one was to write a piece of malware specifically for Windows Phone 7, it would not run on Windows Phone 7. The one thing they do share in common is Silverlight. Sorry for the uncertainty, as I am no expert in Silverlight or Windows Phone 7 development, but it seems like it would be possible to write malicious code for Silverlight on Windows and have it be portable to Windows Phone 7. The reason I think this isn't possible, is because Silverlight is run through a browser on Windows 7 but Silverlight is not supported through the browser on Windows Phone 7. Again I'm sorry for the uncertainty, perhaps instead of down voting, someone could shed some light on if that is indeed correct.
With that being said, Windows has taken several preventative measure which make it highly unlikely that malware will ever affect a Windows Phone 7. One such measure, is much like the iOS app store, all the available content to be downloaded from the Windows marketplace has been checked for quality as well as malicious content.
After an app is installed on the phone, much like Silverlight for regular Windows, the app gets it's own isolated storage. This allotted space is the only space the app has access to, likewise, no other app has access to this space. It's completely isolated from the rest of the phone's storage.
Much like the storage isolation, every app is run in a sandbox environment. Within this environment apps do not have access to certain resources, such as the file system as previously mentioned, if an app needs access to other resources it can do so using the API Window's has set up for this purpose. This includes access to other applications but this API does not allow one application to return data to another.
The browser is also sandboxed and is not able to launch code from websites which in turn helps reduce the risk of a web based attack.
Sandboxing is obviously not full proof, Android phones also run their apps in a sandboxed environment and there is obviously malware for those devices.
Finally, although this is not a security measure it does apply to Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 has always had a very small share of the overall mobile market place. Why bother writing malware for a device that <5% of the marketplace uses when you could write one for a much larger portion? Especially since the Android marketplace has had only nominal success in preventing malware. It seems as though it'd be a waste of time.
It should be noted, that not every security measure is full proof and it's not impossible for the phone to get malware. For example, if you jailbreak/dev your Windows Phone 7 device, you can install whatever you'd like onto, this could include malicious content. The previous arguments and security measures they have put into place, however, should be a good case as to why there is no known malware for Windows Phone 7 devices. I also did not list all of the security features as there are several more but this should be sufficient in explaining why Windows Phone 7 isn't currently threatened by malware.


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April 27, 2011 -- They may be built like tanks, but armadillos' natural armor doesn't protect them from leprosy.
Now a new study shows that some armadillos and people with leprosy in the southern United States are infected with the same bacterial strain. That suggests that the disease, which causes skin lesions and eventual nerve damage, can pass between species, although that circumstance appears to be rare.
The discovery has offered scientists a new way to think about how leprosy may persist in the environment. And it helps to explain how some people contract the disease, especially if they've never traveled outside the U. S.
"It's an excellent scientific publication," says William R. Levis, MD, a specialist in treating leprosy, which is also called Hansen's disease, and clinical assistant professor at NYU's Langone Medical Center in New York City.
Levis says that although the science is sound, he fears the study will misdirect attention in a disease that's already misunderstood and underappreciated.
"While it's a nice scientific article, they're missing the point. The armadillo is not really a major public health issue," says Levis, who was not involved in the research. "The fact is that leprosy in the United States is an imported disease."
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Stress Reworks Dopamine Systems via Glucocorticoids
19 January 2013. Stressful events contribute to the development of psychiatric illnesses, but what are the transducers of this connection? Two studies published January 18 in Science uncover actions by stress hormones on dopamine signaling in mice. One study, led by François Tronche of Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France, finds that stress-induced glucocorticoids act on neurons receiving dopamine messages. The second study, led by Akira Sawa of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, examines stress-induced consequences in mice engineered to model a genetic predisposition for psychiatric illness—disruption of the DISC1 gene. In these mice, stress-induced glucocorticoids tamped down dopamine release through epigenetic mechanisms. Both studies illuminate circuit-specific consequences of the body-wide release of glucocorticoids during stressful events.
Although these studies do not set out to model a specific psychiatric disorder, they grapple with mechanisms behind the adolescence or early adult onset of many of these, including schizophrenia. Because stress can precipitate illness onset, researchers have been studying the cumulative effects of stress on mouse behavior. Different stress regimens in mice can produce various adverse outcomes, including immobility in the forced swim test (taken as a sign of despair), anxiety-like behaviors, or impaired social interactions (Russo et al., 2012). Recent optogenetic studies in rodents have linked stress-induced depression-like behaviors to dopamine signaling (see SRF related news story), but the new studies address how dopamine systems become dysregulated by stress in the first place.
Glucocorticoids are steroid hormones released by the adrenal glands during stress. Glucocorticoid receptors are found throughout the brain, and when activated, they move to the cells nucleus to work as transcription factors, where they can fine-tune gene expression. But that isnt their only mode of action, as laid out in an accompanying perspective piece by Bruce McEwen (McEwen, 2013). Though the precise steps between glucocorticoid receptor activation and changes to dopamine systems remain murky, the results suggest that glucocorticoids may offer some therapeutic clues to psychiatric disorders.
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In the first study, first author Jacques Barik and colleagues use the social defeat paradigm, in which mice are repeatedly attacked by another mouse. After 10 days of this, these socially defeated mice show signs of social aversion, spending less time interacting with a novel mouse. To figure out where in the brain glucocorticoids were acting to produce this behavior, the researchers engineered mice to lack glucocorticoid receptors in dopamine-containing neurons of the ventral tegmental area (VTA); these mice, however, still developed social aversion after social defeat. But when the researchers tested a different group of mice—missing glucocorticoid receptors in dopamine-receiving neurons (specifically, those with D1a receptors), these mice did not develop social aversion after social defeat, looking very much like undefeated mice. Interestingly, anxiety-like and despair-like behaviors remained in these mice, suggesting they are mediated by separate neural circuitry.
The ablation of glucocorticoid receptors from dopamine-receiving neurons trickled back to the dopamine-containing neurons of the VTA, too. The researchers found signs of abnormal dopamine neuron activity, with less burst-firing recorded in the VTA, and less dopamine release measured by microdialysis in the nucleus accumbens, a target of the VTA. The researchers suggest that this might involve a feedback loop from dopamine-receiving neurons in the nucleus accumbens that project back to the VTA. Next, the researchers tested whether suppressing dopamine release in control mice could protect them from developing social aversion in response to social defeat. It did: while saline-injected mice exhibited the expected social aversion, mice injected with quinpirole (a D2R agonist that lowers dopamine neuron activity through autoreceptors) spent more than twice the amount of time interacting with another mouse.
Stressful adolescence
In the second study, first author Minae Niwa and colleagues focused on the lingering effects of an episode of stress in adolescence in a mouse model of susceptibility to mental illness. Mice were engineered to carry a dominant-negative form of human DISC1, a gene fingered by a chromosomal translocation found in a family beset by mental illness (see SRF related news story). Sawa and colleagues have proposed that the DISC1 disruption produces a truncated protein that binds to normal copies of the protein, thus interfering with their usual function. Sawas group has found schizophrenia-related phenotypes in mice expressing this dominant-negative DISC1 (DN-DISC1) in hippocampus and cortex (see SRF related news story), but the new study expresses the construct more widely throughout the brain via a prion protein promoter.
Because brain maturation continues into the teenage years (see SRF related news story), this is considered a vulnerable time for brain development, when stressful events may have lasting consequences. The researchers found that housing the DN-DISC1 mice alone for three weeks during adolescence produced behavioral abnormalities likened to symptoms of psychiatric disorders: impaired paired pulse inhibition, longer immobility in the forced swim test, and increased locomotion (including after an acute injection of methamphetamine). These outcomes required a combination of the genetic risk and stressful environment: controls, control mice with the same schedule of social isolation, or DN-DISC1 mice without social isolation did not develop these behaviors.
Looking for neural changes that might account for these behaviors, the researchers found evidence for disturbed dopamine signaling in one pathway: the frontal cortex contained decreased dopamine levels and decreased tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), an enzyme needed to make dopamine; these changes were not apparent, however, in the caudate putamen or nucleus accumbens, which are subcortical destinations for dopamine-releasing projections. These disturbances were put right by a dose of mifepristone, a glucocorticoid receptor blocker, thus implicating the stress hormone in creating the dopamine disturbances. Further experiments found that DN-DISC1 mice receiving a stint of social isolation had elevated methylation of the TH gene—an epigenetic mark that suppresses transcription—but only in those VTA neurons projecting to the cortex, not those headed to the nucleus accumbens.
This methylation pattern was not easily undone, lasting well into mouse adulthood. But a dose of mifepristone normalized methylation of the TH gene, indicating regulation by glucocorticoids. The researchers suggest that their mice may model psychotic depression, an illness reported to respond to glucocorticoid receptor blockers (Flores et al., 2006).
Together, the studies offer up some tangible leads on where stress acts in the brain to produce adverse outcomes, for mice at least. Given the complex interactions of glucocorticoids in the brain, more remains to be discovered, but the circuit-specificity of glucocorticoid action can already inform ideas about how individuals may cope with stressful events.—Michele Solis.
Barik J, Marti F, Morel C, Fernandez SP, Lanteri C, Godeheu G, Tassin JP, Mombereau C, Faure P, Tronche F. Chronic stress triggers social aversion via glucocorticoid receptor in dopaminoceptive neurons. Science. 2013 Jan 18. Abstract
Niwa M, Jaaro-Peled H, Tankou S, Seshadri S, Hikida T, Matsumoto Y, Cascella N.G. Kano S, Ozaki N, Nabeshima T, Sawa A. Adolescent StressInduced Epigenetic Control of Dopaminergic Neurons via Glucocorticoids. Science. 2013 Jan 18. Abstract


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What "lost" Petipa Ballet would you most like to see?
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I'm leaving off major revivals of works that originated elsewhere but feel free to suggest some.
There are a number I'd love to see bits from (or all)--or at least hear about in more detail. I know that Tsar Kandavl or Le Roi Candaule from the 1860s but revived last by him in 1903 (and notated) was one of his biggest early successes and a huge spectacle, yet I know nothing about it really.
People often hold up the important ballets with Tchaikovsky and later Glazunov as rare and great examples of Petipa and the imperial ballet working with "Symphonic composers" It's for this reason some other works with noted, but now forgotten composers, interest me.
1887's Tulipe de Harlaam was staged by Lev Ivanov but with involvement from Petipa and the music was by Baron Boris Fitinhof-Schel, who was in his day a respected composer. I'm not sure if anything's remained from it. In 1893 Baron wrote another ballet, which was staged by Ceccheti and Ivanov under the supervision of Petipa--Cinderella. This work has always fascinated me because I can't help thinking that Petipa or Vseveloshsky considered it a sort of followup to their previous fairy tale ballet--Sleeping Beauty. It also is where Legnanai first did her 32 fouettes yet I know nothing else of it.
Going backwards, in 1888 he did The Vestal which was a huge success and many ballet historians claim was a precursor to Sleeping Beauty. It was also done with a symphonic (but mainly forgotten) composer, Mikhail Ivanov. I know some parts were incorporated into a Le Corsair revival 10 years later, and that it was set in Ancient Rome, and nothing else.
Also, in 1896 was another Perrault fairy tale ballet, Bluebeard. I've read this was also a success and had some very popular illusions (one was a scene of dance instruction where the corps would be behind a scrim acting as a mirrored reflection), and the score was by Pyotr Schenck. I have no idea how close it stuck to the rather distrubing original fairy tale but I find the idea fascinating.
As a Glazunov fan I wish something from his stagins fo the one acts Les Saisons and Russes D'amour remained, although I know versions of Seasons have been performed in Russia a long time and elsewhere.
Finally I'd LOVE to know more about the scandalous debacle of his final ballet, 1903's The Magic Mirror with music by opera composer Arseny Koreshchenko. I've read it was a return to the convulated melodramatic storylines he had used in his earlier career, but that's all I know...
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There are a number of ballets in the Sergeyev Collection at Harvard University that should be revived. I for one would LOVE to see the original Petipa production of Paquita revived, which fortunately we have a full notation of.
TI read somewhere that the Petipa portions of PAQUITA -- the Chirldren's Mazurka, Pas de Trois and Grand Pas and a special coda-- were recently revived at the Bolshoi.
I would love to see a revival of the classic old version of LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE as it was danced at the Mariinsky in the early 1900s (Petipa-Gorsky after St. Leon), to the music of Pugni, with additions by Drigo, Lizst, etc. I am somewhat disappointed tha tthe Mariinsky has chosen to revive the (to me) charmless 1960s Rodion Schedrin score, which isn't even of the Mariinsky-Kirov's heritage but, rather, a Bolshoi creation. [The Mariinsky seems to be in a Schedrin-Plisetskaya Kick these days.]
Posted 12 February 2009 - 09:05 PM
I would love to see a revival of the classic old version of LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE as it was danced at the Mariinsky in the early 1900s (Petipa-Gorsky after St. Leon), to the music of Pugni, with additions by Drigo, Lizst, etc. I am somewhat disappointed tha tthe Mariinsky has chosen to revive the (to me) charmless 1960s Rodion Schedrin score, which isn't even of the Mariinsky-Kirov's heritage but, rather, a Bolshoi creation. [The Mariinsky seems to be in a Schedrin-Plisetskaya Kick these days.]
It will be VERY interesting to see what kind of choreography Alexei Ratmansky will do with the new version of Little Humpbacked Horse. I'm hoping it won't be something radical, especially given the finicky audience in Saint Petersburg so used to the "Kirov" style as defined by Konstantin Sergeyev.
If the Mariinsky Ballet was still interested in doing "reconstructions" I think the old early 1900's version of Paquita should be near the top of the list. Pierre Lacotte's reconstruction for the Paris Opera Ballet is NOT truly authentic because Lacotte didn't use the original choreography (which fortunately has been preserved with the Sergeyev Collection).
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Back to the theme of this thread, Petipa. It's a shame that Petipa Era at the Mariinsky ended just as the movie camera came into being. Thank goodness for the Harvard Notes.
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Cotillon [ca. 1933] 6 1/2 min. : si. color.
Performance by the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe filmed in New York City, ca. 1933, by Laird Goldsborough.
Choreography: George Balanchine. Excerpts from the ballet performed by artists of the Ballet Russe. Among the leading dancers are Tamara Toumanova, Olga Morosova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, and David Lichine.
if mem. serves when the Joffrey's Hodson/Arhcer staging was being shown for the first time in NYC, a press preview included a screening of a film from Australia - i assume it was silent and can't precisely recall how extensive its footage was. i recall the H/A team making much of the research done to put the ballet in Joffrey rep. This would mean that the film(s) shown at the press gathering were to show the kinds of documentation that were used to PIECE the ballet back together.
to get back to Petipa and to Natalia's point about the unfortunate fact that films weren't made of this repertory, it's doubly frustrating when one realizes that Maryinsky dancer and teacher Aleksandr Shiryaev OFFERED to film the repertory once he became fascinated by the motion picture technology of the early 20th c. and that the Maryinsky administration said, 'no thank you, we have our photos...'
apparently a recent silent film festival in Italy showed more of Shiryaev's films, that is, more than those already included in BELATED PREMIERE, Bocharov's documentary about A.S. - these included more individual, silent clips of solo dances (all character numbers) that the dancer-turned-filmmaker made on his own. but these were more bits and hardly lengthy examples of turn-of-the-20th-c. russian dancing.
Posted 14 February 2009 - 03:57 PM
How many "lost" Petipa ballets could be revived? As Petipa is a staple for many companies I'd expect some interest in expanding the repertoire.
A good 20 or so ballets have been notated in some form with fragments of many more, Cliff. I don't have my copies of the Harvard contents on me here but I think this Wikipedia list ( http://en.wikipedia....eyev_Collection ) is pretty much correct. Doug and others should be more knowledgeable than I, but I'd guess that there ar emany reasons more aren't revived despite the recognition of Petipa's name.
Access to the notations, someone who can work from them and to the scores would be a big one. Many of these scores, if they exist, are probably in the Mariinsky Archives which they guard pretty carefully. I also am not sure there'd be a huge for a fairly obscure title with a plot no one knows and a score by someone like Minkus for most casual ballet audiences. The ballets that have survived usually have some reason why they have--and it'd be better for more companies to do, say Raymonda instead. Also they require big productions. As well most of the ballets that exist in notation form in close to full, that are full evening ballets and not one acts, are performed in some form already--the main exception seems to be Roi Candaule.
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Yes, Esmeralda must be revived by a top company. I could be a great vehicle for a number of ABT ballerinas, such as Herrera or Murphy or, especially, Vishneva. Vishneva was born to be Esmeralda. Let's give her the chance!
Posted 16 February 2009 - 02:09 PM
Yes, Esmeralda must be revived by a top company. I could be a great vehicle for a number of ABT ballerinas, such as Herrera or Murphy or, especially, Vishneva. Vishneva was born to be Esmeralda. Let's give her the chance!
I agree! With her dark hair and petite stature Vishneva makes a natural gypsy. I could see her rocking the house with the tambourine variation and then breaking our hearts with the pas de six. Other ballerinas I could see making a splash in the part are Natalia Osipova or Tamara Rojo.
Natalia, any reason why the Maly dumped Esmeralda? I would think this is an ideal ballet a smaller company like the Maly/Mikhailovsky could dance, as it probably wouldn't require a huge corps de ballet and could show off character dancing and mime.
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I am taking Abstract Algebra and in the first assignment we were asked to determine which values of $n$ make the following function injective.
$f: \mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$
$x \mapsto x^n$ $| n \in \mathbb{N^+}$
Obviously the case where $n$ is even is quite easy to disprove. For the odd case I had a more difficult time. I understand that I could use the fact that the odd functions are continuous and because their derivative is positive everywhere (besides 0 which is dealt with separately), the function is increasing so $a > b \implies f(a) > f(b)$ which would prove it was injective. However, I do not think this is the proper way to go about it, as we have not and will not cover continuity and those sort of things. Not to mention this method seems out of place with the other problems in the homework which all deal with equivalence relations and general set theory questions.
So I just want to know, is there a simpler way of going about proving the odd power function is injective that does not use much Real Analysis as much?


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If you are upgrading in place, you shouldn't need to transfer any databases; the instance will retain information on databases.
If you are installing a new named instance or installing it fresh on a different server, you have two major options: deatch-and-attach, and backup-and-restore.
The detach-attach option is pretty quick: detach the current database using
The backup and restore option is pretty simple: take a backup of the current database. Then, copy that backup someplace where the new instance can see it, and restore from that backup. You'll have a copy of the current database on the 2008 instance, as well as on the 2005 instance.
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I agree with Kevin's accepted answer and I wanted to add another perspective on the detach/attach vs backup/restore part. You can see more in this question on In Place vs Migration for SQL Server Upgrades where I wrote a section in my answer discussing this same question.
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Now you can mitigate that by taking a backup before detaching for the upgrade or migration (and you should!) and that will help you but it also adds steps and if everything that can go wrong does go wrong during your upgrade, you could theoretically be in a bad spot.
The biggest benefit of detach/attach is you save some time, but for me that benefit is usually outweighed by my sense of the risks and challenges.
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