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My wife and I are currently debating whether or not we should use a child harness (aka leash). It'd be great to take our son to the park and let him walk around on his own without having to chase him everywhere. However, I've always been against the idea of putting a leash on my child though now as a parent I understand why one would want to. Would love to know what others think, pros and cons to using one, and possible recommendations if we do decide to use one.
Yes, use a harness
We bought one that looks like a cool kids backpack but has a 3 foot long cord. The children love wearing it as we put their toys/comforter, some fruit and a drink inside. We use it every time we go out walking near roads or area where we need to be sure they won't run off. It has prevented them running in front of cars at least three times (particularly in car parking areas) and also stopped them hitting their head on hard ground when they fell as I used the cord to lower them slowly.
When your children are able to understand not to run off or towards traffic, you can reduce the use.
Some people think it is cruel. I wouldn't know - but my children have not been hit by cars, still have all their teeth and no scars on their faces.
When children start walking - and for the next year or so - they have an unhealthy attraction to the road. Your child's safety is far more important than the looks you'll get from bleeding-heart, childless know-it-alls, so I would say yes, get a harness.
You can get a harness with a soft animal toy build into it, so it looks like a cute little animal is hitching a ride. Our son quite liked it. It seems to change other people's perception from "isn't that cruel" to "isn't that cute".
Think of the harness in the same way as training wheels for a bike. You use it to teach a toddler to walk on paths and only cross the road when it's safe. You won't need it for long because from about 18 months onwards they're quite happy to hold your hand.
We didn't use harnesses for our kids, despite both of ours being of the sort mentioned above - running all over the place, very active, not tending to stay in one place for long. (I guess that's just "kids", but ours felt more active than others I've seen.)
We didn't avoid them out of concern for social issues (meh, I don't fit in and neither does my wife, and we don't care much). We chose not to use harnesses because of two reasons, somewhat interrelated:
Our approach was simply to make sure we focused on teaching from around 15-18 months what to do in these situations. I walk with my children (15 and 35 months) to the park on a nearly nightly basis before or after dinner, about 2 blocks. I use this as a great teaching tool: they have to follow all of the rules (hold hands for crossing street, stay on sidewalk inside me (away from the street from me), not run too far ahead); and I don't have to worry too much if they misbehave a little, because it's entirely residential, slow and quiet streets that rarely have traffic and if there is a car, I can be extra cautious - so if they don't follow the rules perfectly (like walking into the street unescorted), the consequences aren't dire and I have a buffer.
As a result, my 35 month old behaves perfectly on the sidewalk - stopping at every street or alley, even insisting I hold his hand if I forget. Even if he's having a "wild day", that doesn't mean he runs onto the street; he is sufficiently wild on the sidewalk. My 15 month old is learning, but since we're doing it now - when he's too slow to get in any real trouble - I'm confident he'll get there also, without serious danger.
I certainly wouldn't judge anyone who felt a harness was the safest way to handle their children, any more than I judge parents who hover near their children at the playground or limit their activities out of fear of getting hurt. I don't judge them and I don't want them to judge me for being too accepting of risk with my kids. I don't agree with those choices, personally, but it's just that: a personal choice of how best to raise children.
I bought one for my son when he was about 18 months old and wanted to walk everywhere, but everywhere literally meant EVERYWHERE.
Honestly, we only used it maybe 10 times. It wasn't that our son minded wearing it, we just didn't use it as much as we thought we would--mostly because kids that age generally don't really get that far away from you even if they do sort of wander off. Our daughter is now around that same age and we haven't even bothered--whenever we take her somewhere like a park, we allow her some space and stay within about 2-3 feet of her. If she's climbing on a play structure we stay closer in case she takes a nosedive.
If we were to go to an amusement park or something like that, I can see the benefits of the leash being greater because it is so easy to lose your kid in places like Disney even if they only get a few feet away from you, but for day-to-day stuff we didn't find it incredibly useful.
I lived in England when my kids were little. The sidewalks were narrow and often crowded. I had 4 kids......I used a harness because that was common there and made sense.
Now that we know more about the human brain and that it isn't developed until it is at least 25 yrs old, I think making a kid wear one makes even more sense.
Americans were the only ones upset by my kids being controlled, and one woman shouted at me, "Why would I treat my kids like I would a dog"? I wondered why she thought my kids weren't as valuable to me as my dog was. I told her I restrained my dog because I loved it, wanted to keep it safe, and wanted to respect other's right to safely use the sidewalks too......knowing that not everybody loves tripping over 3 yr old.
We used one of these cute monkey harness/backpacks a few times and it was great. We used it in very crowded venues (summer fairs, aquariums) where our daughter wanted to run everywhere and look at everything. It took the stress right out of those events, knowing that she was right there. Not only did we not get any funny looks, other people were clearly interested in getting the same thing.
We have a very spirited 3.5 year old, and we have never used a harness on him.
I believe in raising independent kids, and teaching them how to act in traffic - but that doesn't I don't understand the idea of putting a safety leash on!
What we did do however, is to require that he holds hands when crossing the street, and when waiting on the crosswalk sign. We have also gently held on to his clothing at a heavy intersection when he was a little younger (so he didn't run off).
When we are in a very busy place (like a park/fairground/mall) when he was younger we would sometimes use the stroller to make sure he stayed with us, but he loves to walk. We generally do let him roam a bit, but ask that he holds hands when there are lots of people. We usually also write our phone no on his arm with a sharpie when going to a crowded place, and ask him to tell people 'Please call my daddy' and show them the number if he gets lost. He hasn't gotten lost yet though.
In my mind the advantages of a hardness is:
The advantages of not using one are:
We used one a fair bit at that middle toddler stage with all three of our kids - when shopping, at festivals, anywhere crowded or when walking near busy roads it helped us in three ways:
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GENESEO, N.Y. - Will Porter, a 2012 SUNY Geneseo graduate, has received the 2012 Dante Society of America's Dante Prize for the best undergraduate essay, the first time in the society's long history that an undergraduate student has received the award twice. Porter also received it in 2010 as a sophomore.
"I truly admire Will, as a student and as a person," said Geneseo President Christopher C. Dahl. "Receiving this major national award in both his sophomore and senior years has further distinguished him as an outstanding scholar with boundless intellectual potential. As a student, he was universally admired by faculty for the caliber of his critical skills, the grace and polish of his writing, his love of literature, his personal modesty, and his collaborative relationships with fellow students. I was privileged to get to know him as a student in one of my courses. Without a doubt he is one of the college's most talented graduates."
Porter, from Manlius, N.Y., won virtually all literary prizes Geneseo offers and also received recognition for presentations at national meetings. He was an Edgar Fellow at Geneseo and as a junior was elected to the college's Phi Beta Kappa chapter. He was the only undergraduate to attend a national conference sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and the American Conference of Academic Deans on the future of the liberal arts.
"Will was perhaps the most outstanding undergraduate writer I have ever encountered," said Ron Herzman, SUNY distinguished teaching professor of English and a well-known expert on Dante. "I'm quite certain he is destined to become a leading scholar in his field, and I was honored to experience his intellectual maturity and deep appreciation for engaged scholarship."
Since graduating, Porter has been working as a research assistant for Geneseo history professor Michael Oberg and has submitted applications to attend graduate school next fall, focusing on Early Modern Studies.
The society has presented the annual Dante Prize since 1887 for the best competitive essay by an undergraduate in an American or Canadian college or university on a subject related to the life or works of the Italian poet Dante. Porter's latest winning essay is titled "The Clockwork of Dante's Cosmos: Some Uses of Time in Paradiso." His winning essay as a sophomore is titled "'L'arco de lo essilio': The Nexus of History, Pilgrimage and Prophecy in the Heaven of Mars."
Though Porter is the only undergraduate to win the Dante Prize twice, he is not the only Geneseo graduate who has won the prize. Lisa Caruana, a 2005 alumna, shared the 2005 prize with a student at Harvard College. She recently entered an environmental studies graduate program. Prize winners in others years have come from institutions such as Princeton University, Duke University, the University of California - Berkeley, Yale University, Columbia University, Brown University, Northwestern University, Bowdoin College, and Brigham Young University.
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The second map pack and add-on for Call of Duty: Ghosts has begun to roll out around the world and has already become available in certain regions, bringing with it four new multiplayer maps, a new episode of Extinction and a new weapon.
Launching today exclusively for Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners (for the time being), Devastation for Call of Duty: Ghosts weighs in at a file size of 1.34GB, but you'll need to grab the 242mb patch to gain compatibility with the new content (thanks to Antonov for the tips!)
Want to find out more about Devastation? Then don't miss the add-on's launch trailer featuring none other than the ferocious Predator (you know, from the movies) as well as a look at the latest Extinction episode, Mayday.
In addition to the new content, MP1st is reporting that there's a new tool available on Xbox One that will let you generate a load-out of weapons and equipment, along with new music for the menu and changes (described as 'buffs' by MP1st) for the game's SMGs – here's a look at the load-out generator tool, with a 'crazy' setting included:
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8 Celebrities With Unexpected Famous Relatives
#4. Armie Hammer (The Social Network) Is Related to One of the Owners of Arm & Hammer Baking Soda
You might recognize Armie Hammer from The Social Network and the trailers for the upcoming The Lone Ranger film. If you're wondering what kind of name "Armie" is for a guy, it's actually short for "Armand" -- and if you're wondering why he doesn't just go by Armand Hammer, just think about it: He sounds like a mascot for Arm & Hammer household products. As it turns out, this isn't exactly a coincidence.
Armie's great-grandfather was a famous industrialist also named Armand Hammer, who didn't found the Arm & Hammer brand, but was a major stockholder in the company. Confusingly, the brand was not named after him and he wasn't named after the brand -- it's either a bizarre coincidence or Hammer picked his investments by whichever ones sounded the most like his name. Either way, by the time Armie was born, his family was associated with Arm & Hammer, and they had to know that his name would sound like a jokey reference to it.
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"I'm just glad they didn't invest in butt wipes."
That, or they wanted Armie to be a communist like his great-great-grandfather Julius Hammer. Julius founded the Communist Party USA and first came up with the name "Armand Hammer" for his son in 1898, inspired by the Socialist Labor Party's logo:
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Because Hammerand Sickle sounded silly.
Great-Grandpa Armand himself kept ties to the Soviet Union throughout his life, which caused him to be dubbed a dirty commie pinko by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1919. In fact, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover kept a file on Hammer and saw him as kind of a nemesis -- so we think it's just a tiny bit ironic that when Clint Eastwood shot J. Edgar, a movie about Hoover's life, he happened to give the role of the FBI leader's right hand man (and purported lover) to none other than Armie Hammer, the great-grandson and namesake of the man the real Hoover hated so much.
#3. Jason Sudeikis Is the Nephew of Norm from Cheers
George Wendt is best known as Norm from the classic sitcom Cheers, but he's also made several guest appearances on Saturday Night Live as one of the Chicago Bears-obsessed "Superfans" -- apparently, SNL writers weren't willing to wait until Wendt hosted the show again before they could write another Superfans sketch, so they just kept bringing him back for episodes other people were hosting.
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He's the heavyset guy with the mustache and sunglasses.
But that isn't Wendt's only connection to the long-running show: He's also the uncle of current cast member Jason Sudeikis, famous for playing one of the Two A-Holes (with Kristen Wiig) and for his impersonations of VP Joe Biden and Mitt Romney.
Both Wendt and Sudeikis grew up in the Midwest, so it's not like they're Hollywood royalty or anything -- they both got to where they are the hard way. Wendt started out at the Second City improv theater ... sweeping floors. Years later, his nephew got his start at Second City Las Vegas.
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"Oh, no, we don't make new guys sweep anymore. How are you at giving hand jobs?"
Sudeikis got the job on SNL thanks to his uncle, but only indirectly: Wendt saw him performing at an improv and suggested he try out for the show. He was initially hired as a writer in 2003, occasionally playing characters like "audience member" or "person in background." He was finally upgraded to full cast member in 2006, and from there went on to appear in 30 Rock and star in films like Horrible Bosses with Kevin Spacey and Hall Pass with Owen Wilson.
Today, Sudeikis is dating Tron Legacy actress Olivia Wilde, who claims they "have sex like Kenyan marathon runners." We're guessing that's a good thing.
#2. Jenny McCarthy and Melissa McCarthy Are Cousins
This one was staring us in the face all along, and yet we never saw it coming.
Jenny McCarthy is classified on Wikipedia as a comedian, and if there's one phrase on the entire website in sore need of a "[citation needed]" by its side, that's gotta be it. Her entire style of "comedy" consists of being hot while sticking her tongue out, because it's hard to remember what's funny and what isn't when you have a boner.
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In the '90s, Jenny rocketed to fame with her six Playboy cover spreads, which led to her getting her own MTV show, Singled Out, and numerous other television and film roles. But at the same time, while Jenny was getting attention for picking her nose in a bikini and marrying Jim Carrey, she had a far more talented cousin called Melissa who was toiling away in obscurity because she doesn't have the kind of body Hugh Hefner will pay to see naked.
Little by little, however, Melissa managed to build her career, first through small TV roles in her cousin's shows and Gilmore Girls, then in her own sitcom, and finally co-starring in one of the most acclaimed comedies of 2011. You may remember her from the Oscars or the Emmys -- we're talking about Melissa McCarthy, 2012 Academy Award nominee for her role in Bridesmaids.
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She didn't win, but they gave her Rob Lowe as a consolation prize.
Yep, Melissa's father and Jenny's father are brothers, though honestly we wouldn't be surprised if at least one of the people involved in that equation was adopted. These days, Melissa has an Emmy to her name and dozens of nominations, while her hotter cousin is now better known for her well-publicized war against vaccines and her breakup with Carrey, rather than her actual work. Hey, maybe Jim will go for the talented McCarthy this time.
#1. Jamie Lee Curtis Is Janet Leigh's Daughter
You know Janet Leigh pretty well, even if you think you don't: She's the one who gets shower-knifed to violin music in the classic scene from Psycho. Despite not appearing in a whole lot of horror movies (and barely appearing in Psycho itself), that 45-second shower scene established Leigh as one of Hollywood's greatest "scream queens." But not the greatest one: That would be her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis.
You see, for a while Leigh was married to actor Tony Curtis (Some Like It Hot), and they had two daughters, Kelly and Jamie Lee. Both followed their parents into show business, and Jamie Lee's first big break as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) not only kick-started her career, but also inaugurated the whole "empowered woman in terror" genre (Alien came out a year later). As Laurie, Jamie Lee didn't scream for a man to save her -- she actually fought back.
If she'd been in the shower, Norman Bates would have ended up a eunuch.
After starring in a bunch more slasher flicks in the '80s, Jamie Lee showed that she also had a knack for comedy with movies like A Fish Called Wanda and Eddie Murphy's Trading Places, where she also showed her gazongas. In the '90s, she kicked ass beside Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies and returned to horror in Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, which features a cameo by her mom and references to Psycho.
For example, that's the same car where Hitchcock rubbed one out, probably.
Despite carrying Tony Curtis' name, Jamie Lee has pointed out several times that she hardly knew the guy and was a lot more influenced by her mother, which might explain why she insists on being credited with her middle name -- "Lee" sounds like "Leigh," after all.
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FOLLANSBEE - Power for part of Hooverson Heights was disrupted after a vehicle struck, and cut in two, a utility pole near 408 Rockdale Road at about 8:40 p.m. Friday.
The Brooke County Sheriff's Department charged Jeremy Charles Cercone, 22, of 574 Scenery Hill Road, Wellsburg, with driving under the influence after his vehicle struck a parked vehicle and then the utility pole.
Cercone told sheriff's deputies he had swerved to miss an animal that had run into the road.
Firefighters from Hooverson Heights and Follansbee were called after Cercone's vehicle and the pole were reported on fire.
'Mary's Gift of Mercy' to be shared
STEUBENVILLE - The Rev. Michael Gaitley, MIC, will speak at Franciscan University of Steubenville on the Blessed Mother, her son's divine mercy and how these elements guided Pope John Paul II throughout his pontificate on Jan. 22, the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade decision to legalize abortion.
Titled "Mary's Gift of Mercy: John Paul II and the Second Greatest Story Ever Told," Gaitley's lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Gentile Gallery of the J.C. Williams Center.
During his talk, Gaitley will draw connections to Mary's role in the pro-life cause and he will pass out free copies of his book on Marian consecration, "33 Days to Morning Glory." Gaitley, who graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 1999, is a member of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, the religious order entrusted with the Divine Mercy messages given by Jesus to St. Faustina Kowalska of Poland in the 1930s. Their mission includes spreading devotion to Mary as the Immaculate Conception and promoting the Divine Mercy message and devotion. The Marians have been official promoters of the authentic Divine Mercy message since 1941.
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Originally built for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, the Palace of Fine Arts now belongs to the city of San Francisco. Its design was inspired by Greek and Roman architecture, with large rotundas and colonnaded walkways. The Palace sits next to the Exploratorium and lagoon in the Presidio of San Francisco.
Fun Fact: Only one of the original eight domes and few of the walkways remain intact today.
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Phil Mickelson's taxes 2013: The truth behind Phil Mickelson's taxes
There's no doubt that Phil Mickelson pays a lot in income taxes as a California resident, but it's not as much as he thinks.
The champion golfer said this week he might have to move out of the Golden State because of recent hikes in federal and state taxes on the wealthy.
"If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent," he was quoted as saying in Yahoo Sports. "So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do."
California recently became the state with the highest top marginal tax rate thanks to voters passing in November a temporary tax hike on wealthy residents.
"California is beautiful, but we do have high taxes," said Gregg Wind, a partner at Wind & Stern, an accounting firm in Los Angeles. "That is a consideration for some folks."
Mickelson's tax rate, however, is closer to 51%, according to the Tax Foundation and California tax experts. His winnings and endorsements, which Sports Illustrated pegged at nearly $61 million in its most recent annual estimate, subject him to the highest marginal rates for married couples. Here's what they consist of:
-- A 39.6% top federal tax rate, up from 35%, on income above $450,000, thanks to the fiscal cliff deal passed by Congress on New Year's Day.
-- A 12.3% top state tax rate, up from 9.3%, on income above $1 million.
-- A 1% state mental health surcharge levied on incomes above $1 million.
-- A 3.8% Medicare tax rate, which includes a new 0.9% Medicare surcharge on earnings above $250,000.
But you have to consider that his state taxes are deductible from his federal taxes, which would leave him with a top rate of roughly 51%.
So where did he get the higher figure? It may be that he's adding in Social Security, disability and unemployment taxes. But those are levied only on a relatively tiny portion of his income and don't factor into his marginal tax rate.
Mickelson would have to fork over 15.3% in payroll taxes on the first $113,700.
And if he's self-incorporated, he may pay an additional:
--1% of the first $100,800 in state disability insurance taxes.
-- Up to 6.2% of the first $7,000 for state unemployment taxes.
-- 1.2% in federal unemployment taxes.
-- 0.1% in state employment training taxes.
Regardless of Mickelson's top rates, his actual tax bill isn't anywhere near one-half of his income. While it's hard to tell what the golfer really pays without seeing his tax returns, millionaires pay roughly 26% of their income in federal taxes, on average, according to William McBride, chief economist at the Tax Foundation.


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The new workflow management of Oracle´s Hyperion Planning: Define more details with Planning Unit Hierarchies and Promotional Paths
By Alexandra Georgescu on Mar 27, 2012
After having been almost unchanged for several years, starting with the 11.1.2 release of Oracle´s Hyperion Planning the Process Management has not only got a new name: "Approvals" now is offering the possibility to further split Planning Units (comprised of a unique Scenario-Version-Entity combination) into more detailed combinations along additional secondary dimensions, a so called Planning Unit Hierarchy, and also to pre-define a path of planners, reviewers and approvers, called Promotional Path. I´d like to introduce you to changes and enhancements in this new process management and arouse your curiosity for checking out more details on it.
One reason of using the former process management in Planning was to limit data entry rights to one person at a time based on the assignment of a planning unit. So the lowest level of granularity for this assignment was, for a given Scenario-Version combination, the individual entity. Even if in many cases one person wasn´t responsible for all data being entered into that entity, but for only part of it, it was not possible to split the ownership along another additional dimension, for example by assigning ownership to different accounts at the same time. By defining a so called Planning Unit Hierarchy (PUH) in Approvals this gap is now closed. Complementing new Shared Services roles for Planning have been created in order to manage set up and use of Approvals:
The Approvals Administrator consisting of the following roles:
- Approvals Ownership Assigner, who assigns owners and reviewers to planning units for which Write access is assigned (including Planner responsibilities).
- Approvals Supervisor, who stops and starts planning units and takes any action on planning units for which Write access is assigned.
- Approvals Process Designer, who can modify planning unit hierarchy secondary dimensions and entity members for which Write access is assigned, can also modify scenarios and versions that are assigned to planning unit hierarchies and can edit validation rules on data forms for which access is assigned. (this includes as well Planner and Ownership Assigner responsibilities)
Set up of a Planning Unit Hierarchy is done under the Administration menu, by selecting Approvals, then Planning Unit Hierarchy. Here you create new PUH´s or edit existing ones. The following window displays:
After providing a name and an optional description, a pre-selection of entities can be made for which the PUH will be defined. Available options are:
- All, which pre-selects all entities to be included for the definitions on the subsequent tabs
- None, manual entity selections will be made subsequently
- Custom, which offers the selection for an ancestor and the relative generations, that should be included for further definitions.
Finally a pattern needs to be selected, which will determine the general flow of ownership:
Proceeding to the next step, now a secondary dimension and the respective members from that dimension might be selected, in order to create more detailed combinations underneath each entity.
After selecting the Dimension and a Parent Member, the definition of a Relative Generation below this member assists in populating the field for Selected Members, while the Count column shows the number of selected members. For refining this list, you might click on the icon right beside the selected member field and use the check-boxes in the appearing list for deselecting members.
In order to reduce maintenance of the PUH due to changes in the dimensions included (members added, moved or removed) you should consider to dynamically link those dimensions in the PUH with the dimension hierarchies in the planning application. For secondary dimensions this is done using the check-boxes in the Auto Include column. For the primary dimension, the respective selection criteria is applied by right-clicking the name of an entity activated as planning unit, then selecting an item of the shown list of include or exclude options (children, descendants, etc.).
Anyway in order to apply dimension changes impacting the PUH a synchronization must be run. If this is really necessary or not is shown on the first screen after selecting from the menu Administration, then Approvals, then Planning Unit Hierarchy: under Synchronized you find the statuses Yes, No or Locked, where the last one indicates, that another user is just changing or synchronizing the PUH. Select one of the not synchronized PUH´s (status No) and click the Synchronize option in order to execute.
In the next step owners and reviewers are assigned to the PUH.
Using the icons with the magnifying glass right besides the columns for Owner and Reviewer the respective assignments can be made in the order that you want them to review the planning unit. While it is possible to assign only one owner per entity or combination of entity+ member of the secondary dimension, the selection for reviewers might consist of more than one person. The complete Promotional Path, including the defined owners and reviewers for the entity parents, can be shown by clicking the icon. In addition optional users might be defined for being notified about promotions for a planning unit.
Reviewers cannot change data, but can only review data according to their data access permissions and reject or promote planning units.
In order to complete your PUH definitions click Finish - this saves the PUH and closes the window. As a final step, before starting the approvals process, you need to assign the PUH to the Scenario-Version combination for which it should be used. From the Administration menu select Approvals, then Scenario and Version Assignment.
Expand the PUH in order to see already existing assignments. Under Actions click the add icon and select scenarios and versions to be assigned. If needed, click the remove icon in order to delete entries.
After these steps, set up is completed for starting the approvals process. Start, stop and control of the approvals process is now done under the Tools menu, and then Manage Approvals.
The new PUH feature is complemented by various additional settings and features; some of them at least should be mentioned here:
Export/Import of PUHs:
Out of Office agent:
Validation Rules changing promotional/approval path if violated (including the use of User-defined Attributes (UDAs)):
And various new and helpful reviewer actions with corresponding approval states.
More information
You can find more detailed information in the following documents:
- Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Backup and Recovery Guide (rel. 188.8.131.52)
- Oracle Essbase Online Documentation (rel. 184.108.40.206))
- Enterprise Performance Management System Documentation (including previous releases)
Or on the Oracle Technology Network.
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Bernhard Kinkel started working for Hyperion Solutions as a Presales Consultant and Consultant in 1998 and moved to Hyperion Education Services in 1999. He joined Oracle University in 2007 where he is a Principal Education Consultant. Based on these many years of working with Hyperion products he has detailed product knowledge across several versions. He delivers both classroom and live virtual courses. His areas of expertise are Oracle/Hyperion Essbase, Oracle Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Web Analysis.


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Osteoporotic fractures in men are a major health issue. However, studies involving men with osteoporosis have focused on the surrogate outcomes such as bone mineral density (BMD) and biochemical bone turnover markers (BTM). By contrast, data from randomized, double-blind, clinical trials assessing anti-fracture efficacy in men are lacking. Therefore, the recent multicenter randomized prospective trial assessing the effect of zoledronic on the risk of vertebral fracture in osteoporotic men as a primary end point is of particular interest. Previously, zoledronic acid reduced highly significantly fracture incidence in postmenopausal women and increased BMD in several studies carried out in men with low BMD.
This study was performed in 1199 men aged 50 to 85. Eligible men without fracture had BMD T-score≤-2.5 at total hip, femoral neck or lumbar spine. Eligible men with fracture had BMD T-score≤-1.5 and one to three vertebral fractures. (T-score was calculated as the number of SDs below or above the mean in young men.) Men were randomly assigned to receive zoledronic acid at a dose of 5 mg or placebo administered as a 15 to 30 minute i.v. infusion at baseline and month 12. All men received daily calcium (1000-1500 mg) and vitamin D (800-1200 IU). Men were followed up for 24 months; almost 90% of men completed the study.
Vertebral fracture incidence was 67% lower in the zoledronic acid group compared with the placebo group (RR= 0.33, 95% confidence interval: 0.16-0.70, p=0.002). Loss of height was smaller in the zoledronic acid group vs placebo group (2.2 vs 4.5 mm, p=0.002). Zoledronic acid induced a significant increase in BMD at the lumbar spine, total hip and femoral neck. The difference vs the placebo group was statistically significant for all the skeletal sites. Serum levels of bone formation markers (N-terminal propeptide of type I procollagen [PINP], bone-specific alkaline phosphatase) were significantly lower in men who received zoledronic acid than in men who received placebo. Levels of bone resorption markers (serum C-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen, urinary N-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen) were also significantly lower in men receiving zoledronic acid. The effect of zoledronic acid on the fracture incidence, BMD and BTM levels (except PINP) was similar in men with testosterone levels of >350 ng/dl and in men with testosterone levels of 350 ng/dl or less.
The most frequent adverse effect of zoledronic acid was the influenza-like syndrome (pyrexia, myalgia, arthralgia, headaches, chills, pain in the extremities). It occurred in 15% of men and subsided spontaneously. No case of osteonecrosis of the jaw and no case of subtrochanteric or atypical fracture were observed. No significant differences were observed between the groups with respect to death, cardiac arrhythmias or renal dysfunction, except for myocardial infarction which was slightly more frequent in the zoledronic acid group. However, the analysis of each case showed that these events were not related to the study drug.
A key strength of this study was a population that was large enough to detect the anti-fracture efficacy of zoledronic acid in the osteoporotic men in the framework of a placebo-controlled, randomized, prospective trial. Zoledronic acid increased BMD and decreased bone turnover rate. The effect of zoledronic acid was independent of total testosterone levels. The reduction of fracture risk, the increase in BMD, the decrease in bone turnover rate and the safety profile were similar to those found in postmenopausal women treated with zoledronic acid. These results provide support for the value of antiresorptive therapy in osteoporotic men. They may also contribute to a better definition of treatment recommendations of osteoporosis in men.
Reference: Boonen S et al. Fracture risk and zoledronic acid therapy in men with osteoporosis. N Engl J Med 2012, 367:1714-1723.


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"Blood Feud" tells a simple story. It begins with an immigrant grocer selling vegetables from a pushcart and ends in a court case with two billion at risk. Two brothers, sons of the founder, inherit equal share of a burgeoning food chain. One dies, and his widow, suspecting that she has been short-changed from profits, sues to recover.
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Lawyer representing youth in video to meet with local reporters today
January 7, 2013
STEUBENVILLE — A Columbus attorney who said he is representing the individual in a video that went viral last week will issue a public statement this afternoon....
It'll all come out in the wash. Although, it may take some scrubbing (and time) to get it all out.
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it is against Ohio state law to NOT report abuse against a child...the girl was 15 at the time of the rape...a CHILD...at the very least michael should be charged with this crime since he did NOTHING to report the crime...and his statement is ridiculous - he sounds sorry that he got caught, NOT about his part of his friends' actions...i hope every single woman in the US keeps his video viral and circulating so that no woman EVER makes the mistake of dating him
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Masked terrorists, Steubenville will always be a great city and I am very proud to call it my home. I am greatful for our excellent school system and I respect and trust our elected officials. I really wonder why anyone would give any credibility to a group of masked terrorists
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JIsolo: Are you REALLY an attorney? REALLY? Where did you go to law school? I specifically cite these words: "insenity defense. Red neks." REALLY?? If you are an attorney, you are the perfect example of why being a lawyer these days is now no more prestigious than being a used car salesman. I I had you as MY attorney, I would be wanting a serious discount. The quality of law schools must be in the gutter.
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Parents of the Ohio Valley should have second thoughts about what their children are doing and what they are learning in sports. This generations that has been bless with many things and end up in these videos doing stupid things. Maybe it is time to eliminate sports and just have physical education and courses in manners, repect and public behavior in the teen years.
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How about the alcohol purchased by parents or.sold to minors from locals who find it okay to "support" the football program. Are these adults going to be held accountable for their crimes? That town thrives on what money, legal and illegal, that football brings to the community. I especially love paying to park at Kroger, watching locals park for free, but beating them in Death Valley.... Priceless <3
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Never mind what blather the defense summons up. This is to Steubenville's District Attorney: if you're really concerned about justice, have the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department come in and investigate this case. They won't care about what the bad publicity will do to the football team; they won't give a rat's patoot about protecting your coach; they won't care about the rah-rah nonsense that insulates athletes on bad behavior from being prosecuted for rape...and this is coming from Texas, my friend. Small minds in small towns don't do good people any favors by tap dancing around horrendous acts like this. You guys don't like Anonymous because they made public info that your police department should have wrangled, not mangled.
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Michael Nodianos IS NOT INNOCENT! He CONFESSED in the video You IDIOT ! He IS AN ACCESSORY ! Charge HIM !
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JIsolo, this ******* from Steubenville, thinks that for an attorney you speak very ignorantly! We are not ALL ******** and we don't all want this swept under the rug so stop grouping Steubenville all together. If you passed the bar it must have been the biggest miracle in your state that day.
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rapemville ohio and walk
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With any luck his attorney will be announcing that Nodianos was found dead hanging from a tree after he found out his good buddies did to his mother what they did to this poor girl.
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...aaaaaand enter the US Justice Department. corrupt attorneys and corrupt cops, corrupt coaches and corrupt schools, dirty parents covering for dirty kids committing dirty crimes.If you have a child that is part of or even associates with a group that calls itself "the rape crew", You should do some serious soul searching about yourself as a parent and even more so, a human being. 25,000 people and counting have signed a petition for the president to address this issue, which by law, he will do. Not good for a town trying to dig itself out of a reputation of police and political corruption... alas somethings never change.
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My God. Red necks. I am an Attorney myself. I know that this "attorney" is supposed to defend a monkey... I know that it is his job, but hey, are going to claim an insenity defense. A picture is a hundred times more revealing, than a single word. Red neks. What are you protecting. A rape is a rape. There is all. No consent. Suddenly the victim a sixteen years old child is guilty because she was drunk, or because she was drugged. And a bragging gorila over a rape is a gorila.He is not funny. I hope all the residents in this stuped town have daughters, and I hope that they will change their minds next time if something happens to their children. Your town is like India. A rape is a rape. A am ashamed that I am a citizen of this country. Guns are OK, raping a 16 yeras old is OK, and a gorila making fun of it is OK.
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The fact that they are not being charged, for anything, is the main problem.
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I believe that is the primaru problem, those that were there that witnessed this act in some way, in my opinion are guilty bt "accessory".
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Clearly, I don't know the circumstances but it sure seemed like he was there and witnessed the crime, doesn't that make an accessory? Whichh is a crime!?
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Pear and Mincemeat Pie
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Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
This pear and mincemeat pie is not only delicious, but it also freezes like a charm.
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 40M
Serves: Serves 8-10
- 11/2 cups prepared mincemeat
- 1 tbsp brandy
- finely grated zest of 1 orange
- one 17.3oz (425g) box frozen puff pastry sheets, thawed as package directs
- 1/4 cup ground almonds
- 1 ripe pear, preferably Bosc, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
- 1 egg, beaten
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- In a bowl, mix together the mincemeat, brandy and orange zest. Roll each pastry sheet into an 11 × 8in (28 × 20cm) rectangle, and reserve the scraps for another use. Lay one rectangle on a parchment-lined baking sheet, then sprinkle evenly with the ground almonds, leaving a 3/4in (2cm) border around the edges. Spoon the mincemeat over the almonds, spreading evenly. Top with the pear, and brush the border with beaten egg. Place the second sheet of pastry on top, and press the edges together, pinching the sides with your finger and thumb. Use a sharp knife to make 2-3 slits in the top crust, for steam to escape. Freeze, uncovered, on the baking sheet until firm, then wrap in a double layer of foil, and freeze.
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I am not the greatest student, but I am a smart person and a pretty good writer. Well, I'm an ok writer. I have written 3 short stories in the past couple of years. I wrote a story about a former FBI agent that quit because he wanted to be a journalist. 5 years later, a russian terrorist finds him and tries to kill him. The other story is about a video game killer. It's about a man that hates video games ever since he was a kid, so he kills children and teenagers with their own games. Literally. The last story I wrote was when I was a student at UAT. It's set in an alternate universe in which teenagers can become detectives and no one respects them. It's just a procedural with teenage detectives. I did not know about 21 jump street during that time. I might post those stories on this blog later, but I need help right now.
I don't know what kind of career in writing or entertainment I want to go into. I love writing and it's my thing, but I'm no Aaron Sorkin or anything. I just have a passion for the entertainment industry and writing. I'm the only one in my family who loves to watch the behind the scenes featurettes on video games, movies, and tv shows. It just amazes me how these are made. It's a magical thing to me.I love film, tv, and video games, but I think I'm leaning over to the video game writing thing. I know I won't just jump into it, but as a college student, I need to think realistically about what I want to do.
I'm not the greatest student or writer, but I have a great passion for it. I know this and I feel it inside me. Ever since I was a kid, I've had a passion for writing stories or talking about them. I love anime and comics too. I don't have a problem writing for comic books, cartoons, or even writing about wrestling online and getting paid for it. I like wrestling too. Raw is the best. I don't have a problem writing for the WWE wither. Yes, I know it's scripted. Maybe I can be the guy that helps write the script. I love scriptwriting too.I am looking at schools with creative writing and journalism, but I just don't know what I want to do as a career. I have an idea, but I just need a push.
These are the different types of careers in writing i want to do:
1. Comic Book Dialog Writer or Story Writer.
2. Cartoon Writer
3. Video Game Dialog Writer or Mission Writer.
4. TV Writer
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The 6 Strangest Objects People Were Caught Having Sex With
#3. A Lamp Post
So, imagine you are walking innocently down the street on an usually nice day in February. It's a few days after Valentine's Day and you still have warm, fuzzy feelings of love and tenderness skipping through your chest. Yes life is full of sunshine and rainbows. Nothing can ruin your day ... right up to the moment you run into an extremely naked man grinding a lamp post like the strip show from Hell itself.
Congratulations, you now know exactly how those school children and young women felt when they encountered this exact scenario in Wiltshire, England.
"Noone will ever believe me."
The nameless 32-year-old man, whose identity is being protected for reasons we are unsure of (other than to not be called a "lamposexual" in public) was soon arrested for "suspicion of outraging public decency." Suspicion? Really? Even with eye witnesses? Now we are curious to find out how much more detective work it would take to get a conviction on publicly boning a street lamp.
We would also like to take this opportunity to point out how England is dominating this list. Kind of adds a whole new layer to that Telegraph headline from earlier. "Extra! Extra! It's an American fucking an inanimate object this time!"
#2. A Park Bench
Late one night, a certain man was walking around Hong Kong, in the park, lonely and bored. So he did what many of the lonely and bored people on this list did, and found the nearest thing with a hole in it to fuck. Then he saw it: a park bench, with holes in it. And then he made the fateful decision to have bit of the old in and out with it. What's the harm?
This is the harm:
Yes, that video is totally accurate, his penis got stuck in the bench. His ill-advised boning adventure soon led to over a dozen emergency personnel attempting to rescue him, while trying to hold in the Nelson Muntz style laughter brewing inside each of them.
The doctors had to use needles to drain blood from the man's penis but, sadly for Xing, getting stabbed in the dick did nothing to stop the swelling and loosen things up, so the rescuers had to cut away the part of the bench that he was stuck to, and shipped him off by ambulance, where it took doctors a painfully long four hours to remove the sheet of metal from Le's dong, which he almost lost.
"Ew, gross, not her. I want what's under her. Hell yeah."
So, yeah, from beginning to end that whole thing was one big Worst Case Scenario. All because of a single, momentary, horny lapse of judgment. You'd think that would scare people of inanimate object sex forever, but there's at least one guy we're pretty sure is still going strong. His name is Edward Smith and he has sex with...
#1. Cars
Edward Smith's love of cars didn't translate into a nice collection of rare vehicles, or a career as a mechanic. Oh, no, he's on this list because he wanted to express his love in a different way. Awww yeah.
Edward is one of a tiny number of people who are called mechaniphiliacs (only about 500 of them, as far as we know), and it's just what it sounds like. These are people that treat car washes like late night Cinemax movies, except instead of naughty inmates at an all-girls prison, it's seeing that dirty slut of a Scion get buffed nice and slow, just how papa likes it.
By Edward's count, since age 15 he's made love to around a thousand cars and he doesn't care who knows it (judging by the fact that he has done TV interviews about it).
Our research hasn't made it clear exactly how someone has sex with a car. Obviously you'd think of the tailpipe, but that would seem to create difficulties in terms of the positioning, especially for a car built low to the ground. And the car absolutely cannot be mounted while it's moving, as you'll see in this set of 30 photos of our attempt to demonstrate this.
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On top of all that, you'd always have that doubt in the back of you're mind that you're accidentally cornholing Optimus Prime.
The last guy you would want to date rape.
Edward's current fling is a Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, which instantly makes every Herbie the Love Bug movie ever made five times creepier. Other cars he's gave his mighty meat shaft to include: a 1993 Ford Ranger Splash he called Ginger, Cinnamon the '73 Opal GT, and a '69 Beetle which we are sure was probably the sluttiest car he's ever dated.
But cars aren't the only machine he's gone all the way with; he claimed in the documentary he totally had a fling with this helicopter one time. It's here that we're tempted to call bullshit on the whole thing, but really, why would somebody lie about that?
Don't worry, even what's considered "acceptable" in the world of sex is getting weirder. Want proof? Check out, The 25 Most Disturbing Sex Toys and The 10 Most Terrifying Guides to Sex.
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MUI101: Beg Band M (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Music
COURSE TITLE: Beginning Band M
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The beginning band course is designed to introduce students to the following: basic instrumental music techniques such as tone production, articulation, breath control, pitch discrimination; melodic and rhythmic concepts and patterns; practice skills and habits; solo, ensemble, and full group rehearsals; a variety of instrumental repertoire; opportunities for private instruction; experiences in performing; and sound practice habits.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities include, but are not limited to, the following instrumental music activities: demonstrating basic note reading techniques; demonstrating tone production on all wind instruments; participating in exercises in rhythm patterns such as perception of two-, three, and four-unit meter; demonstrating the ability to interpret the musical score; and sight-read music notation instrumentally.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be required to sight-read instrumental music in two-, three, and four-unit meters independently and in-group ensemble.
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- Demonstrate an interest in learning to play a band instrument.
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One major theme of the Bible is the number of covenants between God and humanity. How do Christians manage to work them out? Are the covenants prioritized from highest priority to lowest priority, or are they all of equal weight or importance? For Christians who may hold a dual-covenant theology, how does that work out? Do they really submit themselves to the Torah?
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Answering from the Reformed perspective:
There are essentially two covenants. The first covenant was with Adam, and is called the covenant of works. Adam was bound to obey the command not to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he obeyed, he would live. If he disobeyed, he would die. Adam disobeyed, and his sin, because of Adam's representative nature (see Romans 5), is passed on to all people by ordinary generation (that is, everyone but Jesus Christ).
The second covenant is the covenant of grace. Most of the Bible is spent in tracing out this second covenant. Most of the OT covenants (except that of works) are in this line. They just keep getting bigger and bigger in scope. So you have:
Finally, you get to the New Covenant in the grace line, which is so powerful it's retroactive.
So what to do with all these covenants? Well, first of all, I would point out that if anyone could perfectly keep the terms of the covenant of works, that person would be saved. Big if. The fact is, Adam's sinful nature is passed on to us, which rules this possibility out from the get-go. How many sins does a person have to commit in order to go to hell? Zero, because of the sinful nature.
So if we can't get to heaven with the covenant of works, that leaves the covenant of grace. Now, the New Covenant that Jesus instituted rather supercedes the previous ones, and indeed is the covenant to which all the other OT covenants in the grace line were pointing. It fulfills them. Therefore, because Christ is the perfect sacrifice, it would actually detract from His sacrifice to continue offering up the OT sacrifices.
The definitive work on the subject, so I'm told (I haven't read it, but I've heard it's good), is The Christ of the Covenants, by O. Palmer Robertson.


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Professor Blumrosen taught at Rutgers Law School from 1955 to 2002, specializing in labor and employment law. He served as Acting Dean in 1974-75.
Professor Blumrosen was a labor arbitrator, primarily in New Jersey, from 1957-1965. As consultant to the New Jersey Civil Rights Commission in 1963-64, he reported on enforcement of the New Jersey Civil Rights Law, "Anti-Discrimination Laws in Action in New Jersey: A Law-Sociology Study" (19 Rutgers Law Review 187, 1965). He assisted in organizing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1965 and served as its first chief of conciliations and director of federal-state relations, 1965-67. He was a special attorney in the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1968; consultant to Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards Arthur Fletcher (OFCCP) 1969-71, where he advised OFCCP on regulations and procedures including OFCCP-Order No. 4 and national program concerning the construction trades; acting director, Michigan Civil Rights Commission, 1972; organizer of programs on the 10th and 20th anniversaries of the Civil Rights Act, 1975 and 1984; consultant to EEOC chair Eleanor Holmes Norton, 1977-79 concerning guidelines on Employee selection procedures, affirmative action guidelines, as well as agency procedures and organization. In 1995, he advised the U.S. Department of Labor concerning the affirmative action-reverse discrimination controversy, and in 1996 and '97, reviewed programs of the EEOC for the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights.
Professor Blumrosen was of counsel to Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler (New York) from 1979-1982, advising employers on equal opportunity matters. He was counsel to NAACP in Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio, 109 S.Ct. 2115 (1989) [concerning the interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act] and in NAACP v. Meese, 615 F. Supp. 200 (D.D.C) 1985) [seeking injunction against recission of consent decrees involving affirmative action]. He was of counsel to mainly white female employees challenging a discriminatory layoff in Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal, 670 F.2d 760 (7th Cir. 1982) cert. denied, 103 S. Ct.2428 (1983), and counsel to the mainly white male employees seeking equal pay in Klask v. Northwest Airlines, 57 FEP Cases 1147, 1152 (D. Minn. 1989, 91).
Professor Blumrosen has written Modern Law: The Law Transmission System and Equal Employment Opportunity (1993, University of Wisconsin Press); Black Employment and the Law (1971, Rutgers University Press), and numerous law review articles, including "Strangers in Paradise: Griggs v. Duke Power Co. and the Concept of Employment Discrimination" (71 Michigan Law Review 59, 1972), which has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in two decisions. His essay "Six Conditions for Meaningful Self Regulation" was awarded the Ross Prize by the American Bar Association in 1983. In 1993, he was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa, where he examined whether U.S. equal employment experience would be useful in the post-apartheid period, and drafted a statute based on U.S. experience. In 1995, he was a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Institute Conference and Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.
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Language: $\{w \mid w \in \{ab\}^*\}$
It has problems in both directions: it doesn't accept the empty word, which is in the language, and it does accept a lot of words, like $aba$ and $abb$, that aren't in the language. The first problem is easily fixed: just make $q_0$ an acceptor state. The second requires some more significant changes. The $b$-transition from $q_3$ should go to $q_1$, the garbage state, and the $a$-transition should go to a new non-accepting state $q_4$. Can you then fill in what the two transitions from $q_4$ should be?
Alternatively, you could get rid of $q_3$ and have a $b$-transition from $q_2$ to $q_1$, using only three states altogether.
No it is not correct, your DFA accepts all strings starting with $ab$ and it doesn't accept the empty string.
your DFA will only accept string which starts from ab .so to make it work make every state will be a final state.


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The winners of this year's Agnes Hyde Writing Contest at Dakota Wesleyan University have been announced.
First, "To Be, or Not To Be?" by Ashley Kingdon, Huron
Second, "Matter over Mind," by Delayna Paulson, Mount Vernon
Third, Untitled (The tale of Lewis and Clark's exploratory journey), by Jonathan Wieger, Waubay
Honorable Mentions: "The Step," by Sarah Twibell, Orchard, Neb.; "A Life Stuck in the Autumn," by Autumn Schmidt, White
First, "Madison, Neb.," by Chris Gubbrud, Springfield
Second, "Ages of Red," by Taylor Spence, North Branch, Minn.
Third, "After a News Report Stating: Pony, Drunk on Fermented Apples, Drowns in a Swimming Pool," by Chris Gubbrud, Springfield
Honorable Mention: "A Figment," by Analisa Morel, Gilbert, Ariz.
First, "She & Him," by Analisa Morel, Gilbert, Ariz.
Second, "The Other Parts," by Amber Hiles, Woonsocket
Third, "The Deadly Cure," by Taylor Spence, North Branch, Minn.
Honorable Mentions: "Fourth Grief," by Emma Otterpohl, Mount Vernon; "Shakespeare," by Amanda Dixon, Mitchell
The Agnes Hyde Writing Contest was founded in 1985 by Joe Ditta, English professor at DWU from 1983-2012) and its namesake was a 1924 Dakota Wesleyan alumna and English professor at DWU from 1946 to 1951.


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I initially have ran a large, say 1000 (to be changed later) number of monte carlo simulations (mcRun), and I want to see when the average data result starts to converge to a reasonable value.
So I basically first ran 1000 simulations, and took average data based on 0 to first 10%(100), then average data based on 0 to 20%(200) and so on. So just to show the data:
For[n = 0, n < 10, n++, Print [data[n]]]
{622.917} {583.165} {564.45} {570.583} {584.956} {583.185} {579.662} {572.974} {570.253} {558.536}
So how to plot this data where Y is data[0] to data[9] and X is 0.1 mcRun, 0.2mcRun...1 mcRun. Or possibly 3D animate later using Manipulate? as I will have more sensitivity analysis to be done later.


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I've just moved into a new house (new for me; the house was built in 2006). I've purchased DSL service through AT&T, paying for speeds "up to" 768 Kbps downstream / 384 Kbps upstream. My issue is, the connection speed on the DSL is very slow -- the DSL modem connects at 224 Kbps downstream / 128 Kbps upstream, as reported by the modem's own built-in control panel applet (accessible at the internal IP http://192.168.0.1/).
However, my brother-in-law, living 9 doors down on the same street (and further from the local CO -- if the CO map at dslreports.com is to be believed), connects at a much more comfortable 1.5 Mbps downstream / 384 Kbps upstream. He has the same service from AT&T (although he's paying extra for the 1.5 Mbps service).
I'm not sure whether it matters, but I have a "dry" DSL connection -- DSL service only, no phone service.
I've tried the following:
Switching modems. I actually tried borrowing my brother-in-law's modem, that connects at 1.5 Mbps from his house; replacing that modem with the one at my house, it also connects at 224 Kbps. Both modems are the same model (Siemens SpeedStream 4100).
Connecting the modem directly to the phone jack on the outside of the house (to rule out the possibility of bad wiring inside the house). No change, the modem still connects at 224 Kbps.
Switching phone cables. No change.
I'm not sure what else to try. I did contact A&T; they informed me that they consider a connection speed of 224 Kbps to be "acceptable" for a customer paying for 768 Kbps service. Interestingly, AT&T did inform me that 1.5 Mbps service isn't even available at my location, based on an on-site test they performed recently (presumably of signal strength / quality).
So, my question has two parts:
(1) Why is my DSL connection speed so much slower (more than 6x slower!) than the service my brother-in-law is getting, when we're located in almost the same location (9 doors down on the same street)? (If the reason is that my DSL signal is weaker and/or poorer quality, then why might that be the case?)
(2) Is there anything I can do to improve the situation, short of dropping the DSL service (and paying significantly more money for cable)? The 224 Kbps connection speed is okay for email and surfing the web, but it's poor-to-unusable for large downloads, gaming, and YouTube.