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I was at my brothers and we just watched the 1st half os season 7 of Curb Your E.
I thought it was hysterical, especially 'The Midriff' episode' but part of me is wondering...many must have found this very offensive...the whole Jesus with a urine teardrop thing. I'm just wondering how many people we upset. Its completely understandable to be upset...but please dont be upset at me for finding it funny.

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American Autowire's Classic Update Kit - Ridding The Rat's NestWritten by on August 1, 2010 Swapping The Fire Hazard Harness For An American Autowire Kit Keeps This 'Stang In Step With Today's Technology.
It's fair to say nine out of 10 cars born in the '60s and '70s now have some sort of electrical problem. It may drain the battery in a couple of days, or have a cigarette lighter or dome light that keeps blowing a fuse. Or maybe it's a turn signal or brake light that fails to illuminate. Sometimes people hack into the factory circuit to juice some aftermarket accessory, causing all sorts of problems. Early fuse boxes don't have much room to adapt to the ever changing and complicating automotive movements.
Today we're adding things like electric fuel pumps, electronic speed sensors, digital ignition controls, and upgrading cars with power accessories that didn't come with them. All these power consumers need to be fed, and the only way to do that is to wire up a legitimate power source with a fuse or relay to distribute power as necessary.
If you've got more than one add-on planned, it can get messy real quick. The Project Street Fighter Mustang was a bare-bones optioned car with barely enough wires to run the straight-six and one headlight. Through its life, the 'Stang had been subject to questionable wiring repairs. With these violations to the factory wiring, there was no way it could handle the load of an electric fuel pump, electronic ignition, upgraded headlights, aftermarket electronic gauges, or anything else we may have in store for it. The ultimate solution is to replace the entire harness with something that has our future updates accounted for.
For over 20 years, American Autowire has been a huge player in the GM vehicle harness game. They got their start making a harness for first-gen Camaros so they could have a way to swap in gauges easily. It was 2008 when they debuted their first Classic Update Mustang harness to fit '67-68 Mustangs in Chad McQueen's Bullitt Mustang at the SEMA convention. Since then, they've been adding more Mustang harnesses to their catalog, including one that covers '64-66 Mustangs. The Classic Update kit is intended for restoration projects as well as highly modified cars. The heart of the harness is the fuse box packed with modern, flat-blade fuses and sometimes double the circuits found in the original box. From there the wires are grouped much like the factory to route in similar locations to mate up to stock components. American Autowire takes pride in the fact that they supply all of the necessary connectors to rewire your car from head to toe with nothing extra to buy for $659 (PN 510125). The kit includes correct headlight and taillight sockets, ignition switch, headlight switch, high-beam switch, along with the harnesses for any special factory components.
The Pro Touring movement has put a huge demand on vintage tin to feature goods they were never intended to have. Late-model engines and suspensions with far more electronic components such as electric senders for coolant temp, oil pressure, speed sensors, to name a few, have been finding their way between the fenders of early muscle cars. The Classic Update harness provides wiring and circuits to power them.
Our Mustang isn't ready to run, but it needed a harness if we were going to get any closer. While the interior was still gutted for the 'cage project, we opted to lay the harness in now, and wire up the parts as we get them. Coming soon are gauges, alternator, ignition, and starter solenoid that will be easily stitched in with the wires provided in the kit.
Tools You'll Need
Heat-Shrink Tubing and a Heat Gun
Heat-shrink tubing is great when you're working with non-insolated connectors or a wire loom that frays. You can get a heat gun from Harbor Freight for $10. If that price is too steep, using a lighter works, you just need to be careful not to burn anything. Heat-shrink tubing is also available at Harbor Freight in an assortment of sizes for $8. Both of these items are things you should keep around for future projects.
Electrical Tools
To cut, strip, and crimp a wire, you can get away with using one multi-tool, but serious wiremen usually find specific tools they become accustomed to. The orange-handled tool shown above is a fancy wire stripper that holds the wire with one set of jaws, and pulls the insulation away with the other. The large red-handled tool is an MSD ratcheting crimper that has removable jaws for standard connectors, Weatherpack connectors, and spark plug wire ends. The smaller red-handled tool is a traditional crimper that's better for hard-to-reach areas. Keep standard electrical connectors around just in case you need to modify something, though American Autowire includes all of the connectors you should need for the kit.
Zip Ties/Side-Cutting Pliers
When it comes to zip ties, it pays to buy in bulk! A 1,000-count, 4-inch zip-tie back was $11 from the local electrical supply store. Side-cutting pliers are the best tool for cutting the tails off the zip ties aside from a zip-tie gun.
Braided Loom
Wire sheathing is the key to cleaning up exposed wiring. We used this nylon material that expands as you push it together, like a Chinese finger trap. It grows to about double its taut dimension to allow you to easily push it along a wire and over connectors. On the small side there is sleeving meant to hold a wire as small as 3/32 inch that expands to about 1/4 inch. At the large side of the scale is the sleeving that at its smallest diameter is 1.5 inches but can hold up to a 3.5-inch bundle. There are different varieties of sleeving to accommodate heavy-duty or high-temperature conditions as needed. The two sizes most commonly used in the Mustang's harness are the 1/4- and 3/8-inch spools. They are very reasonably priced, so keeping this stuff in stock is a great idea.
|All prices are from the McMaster-Carr catalog
*All prices are from the McMaster-Carr catalog
|The Cost So Far
|The car
|Battery replace and relocation (11/08)
|Radiator and fans (12/08)
|Spindles, front brakes, wheels tires (1/09)
|Trunk rehab and toolbox (2/09)
|Rack-and-pinion steering, column, and wheel (4/09)
|9-inch rear and brakes (5/09)
|Rear suspension (6/09)
|Front suspension (7/09)
|Engine bay cleanup with engine sale (8/09)
|Smeding 427 Windsor (9/09)
|Keisler five-speed swap (10/09)
|Paint and body supplies (3/10)
|Engine brace (6/10)
|Rollcage (7/10)
|Wiring harness (current)
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The Classic Update kit includes wire for common modifications. If you don't use them, there's no sense in running the wires to nowhere. Here we cut the vehicle speed sensor wire and ground, and slipped heat shrink over the ends to ensure they won't short out.Unique to American Autowire's harness is a pre-wired relay system that incorporates fog lights into the mix. For those states where vehicles must go through inspection, they are wired to turn off the fog lights when the high beams are on to comply with the law.The Finished Product
 Here you see how the sleeving makes the frontend lighting harness almost disappear. We continue to use this method of downplaying the existence of wires anywhere they are exposed.Termination
 Heat-shrink tubing is the best way to terminate the loom. If the heat-shrink tubing doesn't slide over the end of the loom easily, wrap the transition in one layer of electrical tape; that will help the heat-shrink tubing to glide past it.Covering
 The best way to push this stuff over the wires is to make it walk like a caterpillar. From the side you're slipping it over, bunch it up, then smooth the material toward the far end of the wires. If there are not many wires in the bundle, the sleeving will slip over easily.Remove the tape before activating the heat shrink. You can use a heat gun, or a lighter in a pinch. Just don't touch the flame to the wire.Cutting
 First, you'll need to figure the length of the sheath you'll need. Be sure to account for how much the sleeving might compress to accept a larger diameter. It's possible to cut while it's on the wire but it's much more difficult. Special hot-blade cutting machines are sold for this material but it's not worth getting for a single job. We just whipped it with the flame from a lighter to ball the edges up a little bit. It will still unravel eventually, but it will hold up enough to get it on the wire.
The kit includes the plastic headlight connector housing and electrical connector ends. The low- and high-beam lead needs to go into the left-hand connector then out again to go to the right side. The black is the ground.If you don't have the factory harness to reference the placement of these three wires, American Autowire has a handy photo to make it foolproof.This wire group is for power accessories you may have added to your car. They are labeled for power windows, locks, fuel pump, battery power, and accessory power. They can be used for just about anything within the fuses' amperage bounds. Since the ignition-gated fuel power was the only item from this group we needed, we removed it and installed it into one of the blank receptacles in the rear body harness. It's a good idea to throw a couple extra wires in this bunch to use if something new comes up later in the build.This is by far the longest stretch of wire in the whole place. It needs to run through the kick panel, along the doorsill valley, over the rear wheelhouse, then to its destination by the tail panel. Here you can see how we zip tied the bunch of wires every 1.5 inches.Most cars have a channel built under the doorsill scuff plate to keep wires from being damaged. We ran our wiring the same way as the factory, seen here.


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I have been given a task to create profiles for the applications. The Database that we use is Postgresql. I've defined some function that will give me those profile and I've added them to the Postgresql source code. Now I don't know how to call those functions with a GUI. I mean how connect my Graphical user interface to those functions that I've created. For example I have a button in my GUI that is "Start creating profiles" and it's supposed to call those functions in postgresql source code code and so on...
Any ideas of how to call those function from my GUI?
I deeply appreciate your kind help in advance!
Based on the replies, in order to use the JDBC to connect my GUI to postgreSQL, I wrote this code but I have a problem with "URL"
I know these commands in Java to connect to database(PostgreSQL):
Connection con = null;
Statement s = null;
String url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost/mydb";
String user = "user";
String password = null;
try {
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
} catch (SQLException ex) {
Logger lgr = Logger.getLogger(Home.class.getName());
lgr.log(Level.SEVERE, ex.getMessage(), ex);
String query = " select * from my_function()";
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Every day, I get a lot of mail at my household. They range in importance from personal bills to advertisements or flyers. They may be addressed to the different members of the household as well.
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On Wednesday afternoon the Crisis Center of Dodge City received a unique donation, close to 60 handmade teddy bears.
"We have a lot of bears," Melena Levi-Kauffman, the interim director from the Kansas Coalition against sexual an domestic violence said. "There's one huge bag, and one medium sized bag, and both are filled with handmade bears."
The bears were made by Patty Renner and a group of friends at the senior center in Garden Plain.
"The Sedgwick County Extension office contacted us, and asked if we'd help make the bears for local children," Renner, who is the grandmother of Globe reporter Abigail Wilson, said. "They provided the material and the stuffing, and we did the work."
Renner and her friends made so many bears that the local police station said they had too many. So, Renner asked her granddaughter to bring them to Dodge to distribute.
All together about 12 ladies worked on the bears. Three sewed the material together and eight stuffed the bears.
"We had so much fun making the bears, just chatting away and it was nice because there was something for everyone to do," Renner said. "Those that liked to sew could do that, those that couldn't see well enough could stuff them."
But the best part of making all the bears for everyone was knowing that they would be going to a child in need.
The Crisis Center will distribute the bears between three locations, the shelter they operate, the Meadowlark House and the crisis center. Bears will be handed out to any client with a child, or children, to help make their experience a little bit easier.
"We are always so appreciative that someone in the community takes the time to reach out and give something for someone else," Levi-Kauffman said. "And the fact that these are all handmade makes them even more special."
Donations are always needed and appreciated at the crisis center. Just a few of the items they need include; baby/toddler clothes, baby furniture, baby items (shampoo, diapers, cream etc.), household furniture and kitchen supplies, non-perishable food and gift cards for restaurants or grocery stores.
"A lot of our clients, when they come see us, are in an emergency situation," Levi-Kauffman said, "so anything that people can donate to us is appreciated and will get used."
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A motorcyclist was taken to the hospital after he collided with a van Wednesday in north Leavenworth, a police spokesman said.
The accident was reported at 2:21 p.m. Wednesday at Fifth and Pawnee streets.
A 42-year-old Easton man was traveling south on Fifth Street on a 2004 Harley-Davidson motorcycle. A 41-year-old Leavenworth man was driving west on Pawnee in a 1992 GMC van.
The driver of the van stopped at a stop sign, but then pulled out in front of the motorcycle, according to Maj. Dan Nicodemus, deputy chief of the Leavenworth Police Department.
"The driver of the van stated he just didn't see the motorcycle," Nicodemus said.
The Easton man had abrasions to his right arm. He was transported by Leavenworth County EMS to the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kan.
The Leavenworth man was cited for an allegation of failing to yield from a stop sign.
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Once your treatments are completed, celebrate! Here are a few things to keep in mind:
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- Continue to eat well balanced meals to help speed the healing
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We are currently migrating our Visual Basic 6.0 program to .NET. The target audience are just normal desktop users at home. Discussing this, we realized that we cannot come up with mainstream programs that seem to be written in .NET. Are we mistaken? Is there a good reason for this?
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Depending on the definition of "main stream programs", there don't seem to be many of them to be written in VB6 either.
Of course, C# and VB.NET now has taken almost the place where VB6 was ~10 years ago. At least 98% is individual software you cannot buy in your local software store. But that does not mean there are no .NET programs out there. There are a lot - but you will have to search for them at the right places.
Your customer don't care if your program is written in .NET or not. Therefore, if you can ensure that the vast majority of your target audience can install and run your software without problems, you are good.
It's very difficult to find accurate information about .NET Framework penetration, so you shouldn't rely on any.
Why not targeting .NET Client Profile and ensure that it is installed along with your binaries? It's easy, simple and effective.
I see another big advantage of porting your VB6 code to .NET: the ability to create version of your software that runs on Linux and OSX using Mono. Notable example of desktop applications written in .NET and cross platforms are available here.
My personal experience is that .NET is dominant in in-house, enterprise-level development. Most of these applications are not build for public consumption and so are not a part of our everyday vocabulary.
Still, there is a very compelling reason that so many large companies have adopted these technologies: programmer productivity and happiness. C# is a wonderful, productive programming language and the .NET ecosystem is rich with existing libraries to keep us having having to reinvent wheels. Also, WCF, while astoundingly complicated at times, is a very powerful framework for building communications between different systems.
In regard to your specific circumstance, I would only undertake the porting of your application if you will be doing lots of enhancements and changes to it in the future. If it is stable and in maintenance mode, you will regret any decision besides leaving it as-is.
Actually, according to TIOBE, C# (a .NET language) is now the fourth most popular language in the world.
Also, I agree with another poster that clients do not care what language your app is written in, as long as it works.
Decide if there are features your market wants that you can only or more easily create in .NET. Consider that hiring new developers is another market to consider. You may or may not find more VB.NET devs that are suitable to your needs (level of experience, knowledge of domain, etc.). Do your current developers really want to make the switch?
I don't know about the home user market, but the business market is pretty heavy in .net apps.
VB6 is no longer supported by MS any more (ref: http://blogs.technet.com/b/lifecycle/archive/2008/04/16/end-of-support-for-visual-basic-6-0.aspx). So if you have issues from a development standpoint, you will not get support from the source.
VB.NET, on the other hand, is still actively developed and supported.
The similarity between the .NET Framework and the Java JRE as well as the similarities between C# and Java itself has grown the C#/.NET developer community extremely quickly.
The supply of VB6 developers is going to dwindle while the VB.NET/C# ones are likely to increase and can keep your product moving forward.
I'm pretty sure the ATI Catalyst graphics card control panel is written in .NET - so that's basically every PC which has an ATI graphics card. Big numbers of normal desktop users...
Another good example is Samsung Kies - which most people who have Samsung phones have installed..
I suppose it doesn't matter - what might matter more is what will the majority of programs be written in, in the future. Now MS are focussing on Win8 apps, you'd possibly be better off worrying about the adoption of HTML5+js and WinRT rather than legacy .NET.
Last thing you want to do is port everything to .NET and then have to do a lot more rework to make it work well with Windows 8.


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text: What is today? I think it's the fourteenth or something and if I'm right, and I think I am, Halloween is just about two weeks away from being a reality. I am so excited because this year I am planning on carving my own stencil drawn faces on a couple of huge pumpkins, and I also want to take my little sister out trick or treating. I'm not sure, but I think my sister wants to be a life like child sized vampire. Now because she came up with a random idea all on her own, she got me to thinking that I could make a tutorial on "how to draw a Halloween vampire", step by step, but make it in a female chibi version. The vampire's make-up and clothing style comes from my imagination, and the colors come from my kid sister. I love the way it turned out and for those of you that joined me live yesterday, you should have been there when I was drawing this vampire live. I had so much fun, and I hope that you guys have fun too. Remember to comment, fav, and rate this and all the tutorials you come across to let others know what you think.


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One of the many back-to-school rituals – covering the year's new textbooks – has been made easy as pie with a new piece of equipment at the Fond du Lac Public Library. For just $3 per book, the library will cover books up to 15 inches tall in just a few seconds. The clear plastic covers are extra-durable and resist moisture and sticky fingers.
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I'm taking an introductory course on probability theory. We've been introduced to the function $P(E), E \subseteq S$ ($S$ being the sample space of some random process) which maps the event $E$ to its corresponding probability. Clearly, $P$ is a function from $\mathcal{P}(S)$ to $[0,1]$.
My question appears when we introduce conditional probability. By the above reasoning $P(A|B)\ A,B\subseteq S$ would imply that $A|B$ is a subset of $S$. My problem is that I cannot see how $A|B$ can be a subset of $S$. I don't even see how $A|B$ is a set, and even if it is a set I cannot visualize how it relates to $A$ and $B$. It is clearly distinct from $A\cap B$ since $P(A|B)=P(A\cap B)$ does not hold in general.
Have I misunderstood something? Is the definition of 'event' as a subset of the sample space incorrect? What is the domain of $P$?


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Three Moves Ahead
At Columbia Law School, upper-year students interested in corporate and business law learn from some of the nation's most renowned practitioners and judges. Casebooks, Socratic exchanges, and traditional final exams are giving way to innovative teaching approaches that focus on interdisciplinary learning, global perspective, real-world strategy determinations, and lining up all the pieces necessary for a successful career.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark 2010 Citizens United decision, which held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting certain political expenditures by corporations and unions, Professor Robert J. Jackson Jr. embarked on a mission. His goal: persuade securities regulators to mandate that public companies disclose such spending to their shareholders. Investors, he contended, often know little-to-nothing about such corporate political spending, particularly when it occurs through intermediaries. And without that knowledge, they have no way of deciding whether it fits with their objectives.
"Corporate rules treat the decision to spend money on politics like any other decision," says Jackson, who researched the subject with the help of Columbia Law School students after the Citizens United decision. "There's no shareholder approval, and companies are not required to disclose this spending."
Jackson co-chaired a group of 10 prominent legal academics—including three others from Columbia Law School—who, with the help of student researchers, petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission in the summer of 2011 to issue new rules requiring public companies to disclose such spending. Since then, the petition has received nearly half-a-million comments—including supporting letters from heavyweight institutional investors—and the SEC is expected to propose a new disclosure rule soon. While it is not yet clear whether a new rule will pass, Jackson has succeeded in raising an important issue in a very public way, with his crusade landing on the front page of The New York Times in late-April. "Ours is the most-commented-on petition in the history of the SEC," he says.
Opponents of the proposal include many Republican legislators, as well as business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, which argue that securities regulators lack the authority and expertise to issue rules about political spending. Supporters—including large shareholders, pension funds, and several Democratic elected officials—assert that investors have every right to learn about the political spending of publicly traded companies.
The looming battle, sparked by a young professor, could transform a significant piece of the wild world of campaign spending, and that type of activism is one sign of a major shift that has taken place at Columbia Law School in the five years since the financial crisis. Across numerous areas of corporate and business law, there has been a fundamental rethinking of what legal education in those fields should consist of—with the Law School taking even greater advantage of its unmatched ties to the business law community, while focusing more than ever on the benefits of interdisciplinary learning and global proficiency. That rethinking has played out in the courses, the approaches, and the breakdown in barriers between related fields.
The Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy formalizes an interdisciplinary focus, particularly on important public policy issues. The Center on Global Legal Transformation, meanwhile, is a new multidisciplinary venue set on examining major issues raised by globalization. Upper-year seminars have an increasingly interdisciplinary feel, with Columbia Law School and Business School faculty teaching together, or tenured faculty tag-teaming with high-profile practitioners. Those students particularly inclined toward business may choose the Three-Year J.D./M.B.A. Program, an accelerated dual degree program with special upper-year courses. Students in that program gain a deep knowledge of both business and law—spending one full year at each school, and the third year taking classes in both disciplines—yet enter the workforce one year earlier than otherwise would be possible.
The upshot is an increasingly real-world education at a time when global business, economic policy, and financial regulation are on everyone's minds.
"A lot of the teaching that happens in the corporate law area, broadly defined, is heavily interdisciplinary," says Jeffrey N. Gordon, the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law and co-director of the Richman Center. "There's a lot of economics in the classes. I tell my students to follow the money. Part of the effort to train really great lawyers, who can play a leadership role in the public debates, involves an interdisciplinary focus for students."
One afternoon in early spring, John C. Coffee Jr., the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, and Delaware Supreme Court Justice Jack B. Jacobs, who is also an adjunct professor at the Law School, were preparing for a session of Corporations in Court, a course they have co-taught for the past four years. Each week, the seminar focuses on one important court case, bringing in the participants—lawyers and judges—to discuss how it played out and what it meant.
That day, the case under discussion would be Scully v. Nighthawk Radiology Holdings, Inc., a Delaware Court of Chancery case that raised several thorny issues relating to jurisdiction shopping. The plaintiffs in Nighthawk brought a class-action lawsuit challenging a merger in Delaware and in Arizona state court. When the Delaware court declined to expedite the case, the plaintiffs moved on to Arizona, where they won a so-called "disclosure-only" settlement, prompting the Delaware court to appoint a special counsel to investigate.
The complex case is overflowing with twists and turns, and in Coffee's office on the eighth floor of Jerome Greene Hall that afternoon, two participants in it—Delaware Chancery Court Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster and Gregory Williams, chairman of the corporate department at Richards, Layton & Finger, who had been appointed special counsel—brainstormed about how best to talk about it candidly with the students.
"We have today," Coffee later told the two dozen students seated around the conference room table, "an issue of dueling class actions."
For the next few hours, the conversation would delve into scores of questions: What happened when the plaintiffs filed multiple class-action claims? Was forum shopping distorting the judicial process? And could the broader systemic issues raised by the Nighthawk case be fixed?
The idea behind the innovative class, Coffee explains, is to prod students to understand how these complex cases actually proceed, from start to finish. Lawyers in the real world necessarily make decisions under uncertainty, he says, but, in the classroom, this is obscured because of a basic hindsight bias that comes from learning law through appellate decisions. The results in real-world cases depend on both sides making decisions as best they can under conditions of uncertainty, and in light of many moving pieces. "This is a chess game," says Coffee, who recently came up with the idea to launch The CLS Blue Sky Blog, a wide-ranging online forum focused on corporations and capital markets. "If you move your pawn to king 7, what happens three moves later?"
The Corporations in Court seminar is one of a number of classes at Columbia Law School that veer from more traditional law school norms—where casebooks are primary and the law can seem far removed from real-world complications and missteps. Several other upper-level seminars offer students insight into current business law developments from multiple perspectives.
Black Letter Law/White Collar Crime, which is co-taught by Coffee and U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York Jed Rakoff, who is currently an adjunct professor at the Law School and was formerly a litigation partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, focuses on corporate scandals of the past 30 years—Ivan Boesky, Enron, and others—to help students understand how conflicts of interest can trigger crimes. Meanwhile, Financial Institutions and Financial Crises, which Jeffrey Gordon teaches with Business School professor Patrick Bolton, asks students to examine the most recent global economic downturn in context. "We look at the pattern of financial crises, plural, which have been recurrent over a long period of time," Gordon explains, "and also at the pattern of regulatory reforms, which, in trying to address the causes of the immediate crisis, may set frameworks in which the next crisis may occur."
The course analyzes the legal issues at play in financial regulation, as well as the economic and historical underpinnings of financial instability. Such an approach, Gordon says, offers students a way to understand the recent crisis, and the resulting Dodd-Frank regulations that came out of it, but it goes deeper than that. "It's really about bringing this interdisciplinary perspective to bear to see deeper into how the system works," he says. "It's fun to teach."
A related seminar on financial institutions, taught by Adjunct Professor Margaret Tahyar '87, a partner in Davis Polk's financial institutions group, looks at systemic financial risk, both in the U.S. and internationally, and at the regulations designed to increase stability. Gordon, who previously co-taught the course with Tahyar, says that this year he is sitting in on it, instead. "It's a good way for me to stay in touch with what practitioners regard as cutting-edge questions," he says.
Robert Jackson, who previously worked at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Zack Friedman '06, of the global advisory and investment firm Henley Partners, co-teach an investment banking course that would seem equally at home in a business school as at the Law School. Drawing on their backgrounds in the corporate world, Jackson and Friedman use specific transactions to illuminate the investment banker's role in deal-making, capital-raising, and corporate restructurings. There is no final exam. The professors evaluate students on problem sets that reflect an investment banker's actual work.
Jackson also teaches a course on executive compensation that makes good use of what he learned in his role as deputy to Kenneth R. Feinberg, the Obama administration's former special master on executive compensation. "Before I went to Washington, I wasn't focused on policymaking, and I saw this enormous gap between what's required to regulate financial institutions and the skills that lawyers have," Jackson says. "I experienced a fundamental shift in the way that I looked at the world. Those divisions between public and private law, to the extent they were ever real, they aren't anymore."
In the executive compensation class, Jackson pushes students to take part in the regulatory process: Instead of requiring them to submit a final academic paper, he asks students to write to the SEC explaining how it should develop some aspects of the executive compensation rules in Dodd-Frank. "They work in groups, and develop consensus about the right choice," Jackson says. "If I learned anything about policymaking in Washington, it was that you have to make compromises."
Finally, in the Deals course, an especially popular offering developed by Professors Ronald Gilson and Victor P. Goldberg, students get an inside look at deal-making. After learning how to analyze mergers, acquisitions, financings, and the like, they plow through documents from five recent transactions, and class discussions often include guest appearances by the attorneys involved. The class is part of Columbia Law School's innovative Charles E. Gerber Transactional Studies Program, which is co-chaired by Professors Ronald Mann and Alex Raskolnikov. Students enrolled in recent Deals courses have examined movie financings, acquisitions in China, and pharmaceutical joint ventures. During one session, the lawyers for Kirk Kerkorian came in to talk about his unsuccessful effort to take over Chrysler.
A cornerstone of Columbia Law School's transactional studies program, the Deals course has been taught not just by Gilson and Goldberg, but also by Mann and Avery W. Katz. An offshoot of the Deals class, the Deals Workshop, gives upper-year students a more detailed look into deal structuring and negotiation. The high-profile practitioners who currently teach it include Arthur S. Kaufman '71, of counsel at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; James B. McHugh, formerly of counsel and associate general counsel at Goldman Sachs; and Melissa Sawyer, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, whose practice focuses on M&A work and private equity matters.
The idea behind all these courses is to provide Law School graduates with the background and experience they will need to succeed in a more difficult economy, where the ability to understand the economics of a deal, as well as its legal structure, will set them apart. "We can show that transaction structure creates value," Gilson says, "and we can give students a set of skills to do that."
Learning to add value to domestic transactions is critical, but so too, in an increasingly global world, is understanding the issues—and opportunities—abroad. Global trade has increased, as have cross-border investments. A U.S.-based company may operate in dozens of nations, subject to the financial regimes of each one of them. And the global financial system faces risks—as became abundantly clear during the financial crisis and the ongoing European economic crisis—that could not have been foreseen a generation ago. All of these global trends raise legal issues that students are exploring at Columbia Law School.
Numerous faculty members focus their work globally. Katharina Pistor, the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, is a world-renowned scholar specializing in how legal and sovereignty issues influence the global financial system. Petros C. Mavroidis, the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign and Comparative Law, is an expert on trade issues with a background as an attorney at the World Trade Organization. And George A. Bermann '75 LL.M., the Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and the Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, is a leading authority on international arbitration.
Professor Anu Bradford, who joined the Law School faculty in 2012, brings an expertise in European Union law and international economic law. "Given my international background, I teach much more globally," Bradford says. She previously practiced antitrust law and EU law at Cleary Gottlieb in Brussels, and served as an adviser on economic policy in the European Parliament and in the Parliament of Finland, her native country.
A new course Bradford created for the fall will examine international economic migration—the movement of people across state boundaries, often for economic opportunity—and the ways in which legal institutions can maximize economic gains and mitigate risks associated with economic migration. "I believe that it will provide a fascinating conversation on a very topical issue," she says.
For students interested in global economics, the resources go beyond those available in Jerome Greene Hall. Those who want to delve into international business law can earn a J.D. and a certificate in global business law and governance in association with the University of Paris I and Sciences Po, for example, while students interested in law and finance can study at Oxford through a joint program during the third year of law school.
Ronald Gilson, who is currently writing a paper on reform of the European takeover regime, sees the comparative, cross-border, and multidisciplinary work going on at Columbia Law School as reflective of a certain institutional mindset. "One of the hallmarks of the business group at Columbia is that pretty much everybody does comparative work," he says. "That allows them to begin to see connections between things that might not otherwise be apparent."


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Lawrence "Larry" A. Schmid was born on Nov. 18, 1946 in Riverside, California and died on June 24, 2011 at the young age of 64. He was the son of Arnold and Betty Schmid. Larry was a loving husband, father, grandfather, teacher and friend who enjoyed the outdoors, traveling, fishing, juggling and living life. He was an honest and caring man and those who knew him loved him.He is survived by his wife, best friend and soulmate, Donna Schmid; daughters, April (Schmid) McHugh and her husband, James McHugh; Krista Ratnaweera and her husband, Sirimal Ratnaweera; son, Ian Abramson; brother, Richard Schmid and his wife, Brenda Schmid; sisters, Mary Walton, Judy Cahill, and Karen Graves; grandson, Zakary McHugh and grand-daughter, Skye McHugh, five nieces and six nephews.We will miss him.Waterside service will begin at 3 p.m., Wednesday, June 29 at Meyers Falls. Please join the family for a fiesta immediately following. Please visit the on-line memorial and sign the guestbook at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory has been entrusted with arrangements.


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Cape Town is not only a beautiful city, but also one of the most cosmopoliton, tolerant and openly pink cities in the world.
The Mother City, as Cape Town is fondly called, is gay-friendly, with a multitude of venues which cater specificially for the gay community.
In South Africa it is illegal to discriminate against people because of their gender or sexual orientation, and it is therefore commonplace to see openly gay people in the city.
Be it along the Sea Point promenade, sipping cocktails in Camps Bay, enjoying cultural delights like our museums and art galleries, wherever you go, the welcome will be warm and friendly.
South Africa legalised gay marriages in 2006 and since then an entire wedding planning industry has sprung up. Getting married in Cape Town can be a spectacular affair, with beautiful venues, delicious food and wedding planners able to conjure up any theme.
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While gay people hang out wherever, and with whomever, they want, there are places in the city that are uniquely pink, such as De Waterkant, Green Point and Sea Point.
Cape Town is among the top 20 gay travel destinations for 2013, according to a survey conducted by Out Now Business Class, who specialises in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) market.
This comes after Clifton Third Beach was named among the top 10 gay beaches in the world by GayCities.com.
Sandy Bay, the only nudist beach in Cape Town, is also a favourite sunbathing spot.
When it comes to staying over in the city, gay travellers are spoilt for choice. The Grand Daddy and The Vineyard Hotels are gay-friendly, but there is a growing trend to gay-only establishments, such as the Pink Rose Guest House and the Amsterdam Guest House.
The discerning traveller who enjoys the finer things in life will take great joy in shopping at the V&A Waterfront, South Africa's most popular tourist destination. The Waterfront has special section dedicated to international designer brands.


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How can I Select all columns from all tables from the DB, like:
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in SQL Server 2008???
The table list it´s very very big, and have so many columns, is it possible to do it without writing the column names?
Or maybe make a select that returns the name of the tables.


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Who else is a member of the Order of the Cockatrice?
I need to add that to my CV.
Thanks for the $5 @jumbowoot!
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I am indeed a bad mamma-jamma.
I am!
Happy to be a member and can't wait to spend the coupon. Hopefully something good during the woot-off tomorrow.
I also grabbed the brass ring and joined the ranks of the creme-de-la-sicles!!
Thanks Jumbowoot!!! <3
I'm pretty sure @jumbowoot is going insane, and I'm right on board that crazy train!
Big ups for my brother from another mother @JUMBOWOOT !
Secretum Latina Codice Verba = secret Latin code words?
got the same email from @Jumbowoot, but my question is what's the coupon code? Shouldn't it start with something like DW whatever month it happened in and the year.
I am, I'm just not sure what my coupon code is. There's usually one provided in the email. Any ideas @jumboowoot?
uhh...there's no actual code in the email?
edit: DW chat says it's DWJULY12
Are we supposed to be so awesome that we can figure out the code by ourselves this month, or am I just blind?
Thanks @jumbowoot!
Thanks @Jumbowoot & staff.
@carl669: funky. Thanks. Wondered what it was.
waving hand over head me, me, me -- I am! :)
Seriously creme-de-la-sicles is one of the best phrases ever. Totally using that at least once a day for the rest of the week. That's (almost) as good as the coupon itself! Thanks @jumbowoot !!
Me too, me too!
@psumek: all thanks should go to @agingdragqueen. she's the one who posted it in DW chat.
all hail @agingdragqueen (and of course, @jumbowoot)
I didn't even notice there wasn't a code in the email until I saw the comments here. I wonder if they'll send a revised email.
Thanks, jumbo!
Score! Ready to score free shipping all day for the woot off! Thanks @jumbowoot !
Just got mine too.
Thanks jumbowoot!
I'm there too. Guessing maybe has to do with that big ol' black triangle next to our names?
I got it, you da man Mr. Woot
I am! I am! Thank you, @jumbowoot for such a great honor.
i love finding jumbowoot emails in my inbox. thanks, @jumbowoot! :)
Dearest Consumees,
LOL TRICKED YOU! By which I mean, I forgot to give you the coupon code. Tee Hee! Such a scamp I am!
Anyway use DWJULY12 and you'll get that $5 coupon I mentioned before. I blame the guy who ghost writes these for me. Trust me, his job is hanging by a thread now.
Secretum Latina Codice Verba!
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No love here.
Been a while for me, actually.
I, too, am a cockatrician! Thank you @jumbowoot.
@jumbowoot: Thank you so much for the heads up and the clarification of the coupon code. As always your the best and Thank you @Jumbowoot.
@jumbowoot: No worries. Thanks again for the bonus.
BTW just used it for some Nerf swag and it went through perfectly!
Writting in to report that The Hoff got a coupon. The Hoff Loves to Shop! Thank you @jumbowoot for this special treasure. I shall hold it dear to my heart and use it to buy something nice for my daughters or today's Wine.Woot.
Looks like we got a coupon, who is ready for a woot-hoff?
@jumbowoot: Gotta say, though, the slight omission caused me to reread and giggle over the email three times!
The code is so secret it wasn't in the e-mail, but it was a witty e-mail.
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My triangle is no longer black, but thank you, thank you @jumbowoot! Very handy of you to gift these right before a woot-off.
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What was the feat that the coupon was given for anyway?
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I think @jumbowoot may have gotten into some of that new Woot Cellars Fruit Bomber a bit early today.....
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Mary Lou (Keplar) Drew, age 80 of Rogers, Ark., and formerly of El Dorado, Kan., passed away Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 at the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Fayetteville, Ark.
Mary was born in El Dorado on June 2, 1932 to Edward and Mildred (Hartgrove) Keplar. Mary served her country in the United States Air Force during the Korean Conflict and received an honorable discharge. She enjoyed playing bingo and dominoes, going to the casinos, embroidering, and ceramics and she will be missed very much.
Preceded in death by her parents; one daughter, Connie Jernigan; three brothers, Robert, Billy and Bob Keplar; and one sister, Ruby Keplar, Mary is survived by two daughters, Beth Payton of St. Louis, Mo., and Toni Scykes-Baker of Kansas; three sons, James Jernigan of El Dorado, Luke Jernigan of Wichita, and Troy Jernigan of Joplin, Mo.; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and other relatives. Family members wish to add a very special thank you to Bernice and Randy Schatz at Veterans Home Health Care in Rogers, Ark., for taking care of Mary Drew for the last 2 1/2 years of her life.
Graveside Inurnment services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Walnut Valley Cemetery in El Dorado.
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Arrangements are with Benton County Memorial Park Funeral Home and Crematory of Rogers.
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A winter storm warning was issued by the National Weather service from Monday morning through Tuesday evening for a strong spring snowstorm that has the potential to drop up to a foot of snow east of the Continental Divide and around 3 to 6 inches or more of snow in Grand County.
"This will be mostly a Front Range storm," said David Barjenbruch, a forecaster for the National Weather Service based in Boulder. "At this point, we will take whatever snowpack we can get."
The higher mountains surrounding Grand County could see more snow than the lower elevations, according to Barjenbruch. East of Grand County could also see slightly more snow than the Middle Park area.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center has issued an avalanche watch that will be in effect through Tuesday night. The new snow from the spring storm, accompanied with wind, could increase the threat of avalanches in the Front Range zone including Berthoud Pass as well as across the state.
On Monday, April 8, the avalanche danger for the Front Range zone was low on all aspects and elevations.


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I'm looking for a term for use in documentation, and felt that SF users would have the more experienced set of terminologies compared to other sites.
At work there are development servers in the office (e.g. New York), development servers in datacenters (e.g. New Jersey, Connecticut), and UAT and production servers closer to clients (e.g. Toronto).
Among the office development servers and servers in certain datacenters, the mounted NFS partition for
/home is shared—one and the same. Other servers however, even ones that might be physically located in the same datacenter as one of the aforementioned servers, mount a different NFS partition, so that my
~acheong is distinct between the two _____ (groups? zones? networks?) At the UAT and production levels, the _____ fragment more and more (understandably, as geographically the servers are more scattered, firewalls, etc.)
What is the word that best fills those blanks?
"Groups" seems too generic. "Zones" might be confused with the fact that we zone servers to create several virtual ones. "Networks" might be misleading because the servers aren't (always) on separate networks—they just don't always mount the same
/home partition.
As I finished typing this question and considered what tags to use, I found network-share, which, I kind of like, but I'm not sure if it sounds awkward to write, "This special .cshrc must remain synced between the two network shares."


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8 Terrifying Animal Swarms Created by Human Stupidity
#4. Brown Tree Snake
At some point during World War II, a cargo ship pulled up to the Pacific island of Guam and, unnoticed by anyone, out slithered a brown tree snake that had been hiding on board.
Well, can't be that big of a deal -- originating from Australia, the brown tree snake poses almost no threat to an adult human and probably spends most of its time being picked on by all the other snakes.
The pit vipers always steal his lunch-mouse.
Since Guam has no indigenous species of snakes, the few brown tree snakes that sneaked onto the island were 1) able to breed out of control and 2) able to catch just about every native creature off-guard and eat the shit out of them. Birds, lizards, rodents -- scientists have concluded that the snake is responsible for decimating the populations of several species and even bringing others to extinction. There are currently millions of snakes in Guam today, so the small-animal genocide is likely to continue for some years to come.
Oh, and the snakes have also been known to cause rolling blackouts and power outages by climbing into power boxes and shorting them out, presumably turning the snakes into creatures of pure energy like that one gremlin in Gremlins 2.
#3. The Nile Perch
The Nile perch is a species of fish that has been known to reach over six feet in length, and as the name suggests, it's usually found in the Nile.
Or clenched in the hands of hillbillies.
Lake Victoria in Africa, meanwhile, was at one time considered the most diverse fishing environment on the entire planet. But damn it, there was one monstrous fish that was clearly missing from the collection. Thus the giant and terrifying Nile perch was introduced to the lake to try to attract more sport fishermen to the area and generate some revenue, because old drunk white people mean nothing but dollar signs.
Nothing says "Africa" quite like this picture.
The locals are in fact catching and eating the perch, but the damn things are so big they're actually contributing to deforestation in the area because of the massive amount of wood required to cook them.
"Do we have 40 bags of charcoal?"
And in the meantime, Lake Victoria lost its "most diverse" status after the Nile perch ate just about all of the other fish living in it. In fact, the perch have eaten so many of the lake's indigenous fish that they have had to start eating each other to survive.
Like this, with fish.
Now we can't blame people for wanting to bring tourism and money into the area, but if you want to attract fishermen, perhaps advertising the fact that you have one of the best fishing areas in the world is a decent way to do so without the hassle of introducing giant shark-size monsters into your lake.
The only thing that could make them worse is if they, oh, we don't know, could escape the water. You know, like ...
#2. The Snakehead Fish
The snakehead fish is (you guessed it) a fish with the head of a snake that can grow to be over three feet long and HOLY SHIT LOOK AT IT:
Look into its eyes and know the Doom of Man.
They are normally found horrifying the rivers of Asia and Africa, but they've been springing up in the U.K., Canada and the U.S. The snakehead fish are spread by pet owners who just get tired of taking care of them and dump them into the nearest body of water, except in places like Taiwan and Japan, where they have actually been introduced on purpose to help the fishing industry.
And by "fishing industry" we mean "the nightmares of children".
The fish are extremely aggressive and will eat just about anything they can, including other fish, frogs, crayfish, plankton ...
... and rats. And birds. Things that don't live in the water.
Like your soft, delicious family.
Yes, the snakehead fish can freaking walk on land, where it can survive for up to four days and travel a quarter of a mile to other bodies of water. They can do this because they actually have primitive lungs right above their gills that allow them to breathe air. We figure it's only a matter of time before they start boosting cars and robbing convenience stores.
There is no good reason for anyone to ever look that excited about a fish.
#1. Raccoons
Normally annoying people and sanitary departments alike in the U.S., the raccoon has invaded Europe and Japan thanks to Nazis and anime.
They make peculiar bedfellows.
In Europe, the raccoon plague started when the Nazis' Reich Forestry Service decided that it would "enrich the fauna" by introducing raccoons into the German wilderness, a move bewildering to even the most steadfast Nazi supporter. Raccoons were also kept in fur farms in the German countryside.
As for Japan, it all started with a popular anime show in the 1970s called Rascal the Raccoon. As a result of the show, Japanese kids brought in raccoons as pets at the rate of about 1,500 per year. Most of these pets either escaped or were tossed out by their owners, because a raccoon is kind of a pain in the ass to keep indoors.
The perfect pet for the communicable-disease-loving child in your life.
As you should've learned by now, introducing a nonindigenous animal into an ecosystem can have terrible results. The raccoons caused staggering agricultural losses with their insatiable appetites. In fact, at one point they had pretty much wiped out the German winemaking industry by eating the harvests of numerous vineyards. They've even been known to damage UNESCO World Heritage temples in Japan.
Germany has declared raccoons to be a game animal and encourages people to hunt them, while Japan has made it illegal to import them or to keep any as pets.
You can't blame them, when they carry umbrellas and wield their scrotums like clubs.
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Most of history i have heard has been about states, monarchies, grand buildings, etc. I'd like to get a picture of the general population throughout history. For example:
- where and how the general population lives
- what does an average person believe in
- how does the society look upon women, men, strangers, community, religion, faith
- how long is the workday
- what is the life expectancy
- how many children survive to adulthood
- how socially mobile is the society
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Danielle Buchanan ('12, MSSW) | Mental Health Specialist
Yamhill County Adult Mental Health, McMinnville, Oregon
Not only did Danielle Buchanan learn how to practice social work while at ACU, she also was equipped with a community of support and research opportunities that paved the way for a competitive residency at the Mayo Clinic. Danielle was one of only two applicants nationwide selected for the summer 2012 program at the Mayo Clinic, which is known as a worldwide leader in medical care, research and education.
A day in the life at Mayo Clinic
Because of her special interest in working with children, Danielle was placed in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit during her residency. Here she worked with children ages 5 to 18 needing temporary inpatient psychiatric hospitalization for mental health stabilization.
She describes her daily experience: "Every morning I met with the doctors and nurses who made up the treatment team. We visited patients and discussed their cases with them and any present family members. In the afternoons, I spent time completing psychosocial histories of new admissions, brief individual and family therapy with clients, and discharge planning and coordination to help arrange community services for children preparing to leave."
One of the greatest challenges of the [Mayo Clinic] residency was hearing of the heartbreak that often brought people to our door. I truly believe that my faith as a follower of Christ is what allows me to work with people feeling deep hurt.
Thanks to an internship she had completed at Hendrick Medical Center for her ACU graduate program, Danielle entered the residency with knowledge of hospital systems and medical terminology. However, knowledge does not always prepare for reality. Danielle says some of her hardest cases at the Mayo Clinic came from working with youth going through their first psychotic break.
"It was hard watching families mourn the loss of some of the futures that they imagined for their children," she recalls. "But it was also amazing to watch their love for one another as they began to create new dreams and a new vision for how to support one another."
Along with challenges, come rewards. The most rewarding part of Danielle's residency was working with these children and families. "I loved watching them reconnect and learn to communicate in new ways," she says. "Our unit was an opportunity for families on the run to stop and listen to each other a little better."
Benefits of a Christian foundation
Buchanan, who now works as a mental health specialist for the Yamhill County Adult Mental Health in Oregon, found ACU's social work program "a safe place to bring difficult cases and brainstorm out-of-the-box ways to help our clients," says Danielle. "It was fun to be a part of a cohort of passionate people working in different areas of our field. I learned so much from the experiences of my classmates and professors."
ACU also prepared Danielle for her career by providing her with a Christ-centered education. "Christian higher education gave me a place to process and explore how my faith informs my practice as a social worker," she says.
Because of this foundation, Danielle easily incorporates her faith with her daily encounters with people in stressful situations.
"One of the greatest challenges of the [Mayo Clinic] residency was hearing of the heartbreak that often brought people to our door," says Danielle. "I truly believe that my faith as a follower of Christ is what allows me to work with people feeling deep hurt."
Social work: the helping hand
Danielle chose to pursue social work, she says, because "I loved the idea of a career where I could spend every day reaching out to others who are looking for a helping hand."
I loved the idea of a career where I could spend every day reaching out to others who are looking for a helping hand.
She continues to serve others in her role as a mental health specialist for Yamhill County Adult Mental Health, McMinnville, Ore. She is a therapist and case manager for 60 individuals in her county with mental health challenges.
During the last five years, Danielle has worked in a variety of roles including local non-profit resource management, school counseling, child welfare, hospital social work and psychiatric inpatient social work. She offers advice to those interested in pursuing social work: "All of my past experiences have been vastly different and served me well. Social work is a broad field; don't be afraid to explore it and try a variety of placements in internship settings."
Social work provides Danielle an opportunity to shine the light of Christ both to others and through the person God made in her.
"The values of social work line up with my heart and the person that I have been created to be," says Danielle. "I am proud to defend those values: service, social justice, dignity and worth of all people, importance of human relationships, integrity and competence."
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in the course of introduction to cryptography on coursera professor suggested treating all messages as a long stream XORing them with the key this way we will not need to change the key and will not have the IV problem and the question is if so how can we generate a key that will encrypt the whole traffic using just XOR
Well, WEP uses RC4 to encrypt, and RC4 can be used to generate a long keystream to encrypt multiple messages. The key would be negotiated when the connection starts; both sides would hand over the negotiated session key to the RC4 algorithm, and RC4 then generates a long keystream that can be used to encryption. In fact, when SSL uses RC4, it does exactly this.
However, when it comes to WEP, there is a significant practical problem that doesn't arise with SSL; message reliability. With SSL, the protocol assumes that the protocol is run over a reliable transport (generally TCP); the transport protocol will ensure that the receiver will get every message the sender sends, and in the correct order (and if it can't ensure that, it raises an error condition that shuts down the connection.
This is important for RC4; it generates a separate part of the keystream for every message. For, if we encrypt two 100 byte messages, bytes 0 through 99 of the keystream will be used to encrypt message 1, and bytes 100 through 199 of the keystream will be used to encrypt message 2. When the receiver gets the encrypted message 1, he can use his copy of the RC4 keystream generator to create bytes 0 through 99 of the keystream, and decrypt message 1.
The problem comes in if the receiver never receives message 1, and instead receives message 2. If he were to ask RC4 for the next 100 bytes of the keystream, he'd get bytes 0 through 99, which won't decrypt message 2 properly at all.
With SSL, this situation never comes up; the underlying TCP protocol will ensure that message 1 will always arrive first (unless there's some man-in-the-middle attacker; yes, he can cause the connection to shut down; there's other protections in place that ensure he can't do anything else).
However, WEP is designed to protect wireless connections; the messages that it protects are datagrams transmitted over the radio. In practice, it is quite common for messages to not be received correctly (because of interference). Because of this, WEP cannot assume that all transmitted messages will be received, and so WEP cannot use a long-standing RC4 key.
A cryptographic protocol needs to meet multiple goals; they ought to be secure; however, they also need to work well with the overall system design. WEP, as designed, does the latter reasonably well; it's just the former they missed a bit.
WEP used a stream cipher. Stream ciphers are used to take a relatively short key and generate a seemingly endless supply of random data which can be XORed with the plaintext to generate the ciphertext.
That said, it is not really an endless supply of random data (see this Crypto.SE question), so, periodic rekeying would be necessary.
Your Coursera professor was wrong. Or, maybe you misunderstood him/her. (Hey, it happens sometimes. Nobody's perfect.)
WEP has many, many problems. The worst flaw -- and the best-known flaw -- relates to how WEP (mis)uses the IV with RC4. However, this is not the only flaw in WEP. Your professor's suggestion might eliminate the well-known flaw related to how WEP misuses its IV, but it doesn't eliminate the other problems with WEP. Those other problems with WEP are also very serious. So, your professor's "fix" is not sufficient, and such a scheme would not be safe in practice.
To learn more about a variety of problems in WEP, read the following research papers and blog posts:
P.S. Make sure you read Don't use encryption without message authentication. A stream cipher provides encryption, but not message authentication, so it needs to be combined with a MAC (message authentication code) if you want it to be secure.


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Hello, i wanna know how to read all the media files in all drives in pc.Media files like mp3,video and all other formats.If anyone can give the code in C# it will help me alot. Thanks
How to read all media files
Do you mean read recursively or read the content of them?
i want to make it to read all the media files in the pc just like we use search......i do-not wanna read content inside them just wanna see all the media files present in my whole pc.


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So I have a friend who wants a vector image done for a wall print in their karate studio. But they want the image 8 ft high and 5ft long. Do you actually make a file that big then draw the design then print it? Or is their some way to make it so its smaller, but for printing, scale it up proportionally?
I usually just work in some reasonable scale like 10% of actual. I do the same for large raster work but, obviously, increase the dpi accordingly.


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If you're thinking of picking up Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on PS3 then Konami has just announced a pre-order deal that may interest you. The game will be available to pre-order from the European PlayStation Store later today and if you pre-order it on PS3 before March 20th you'll get the digital version of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD for free. This deal is also available for gamers in North America.
Peace Walker is set before Ground Zeroes so playing through it will give you a much better idea of who Big Boss is as well as introduce you to key characters who feature in both Ground Zeroes and the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be released for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on March 18th in North America and March 20th in European territories. Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of this prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
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