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Obama 2008: A Change in the Wind
By docteger on Sep 12, 2008
My hairdresser scared the \* out of me. You're really voting for Barack Obama? His name scares me, she said. His name? Here is a woman living in the cosmopolitan center of the Rocky Mountains who thinks John McCain was the better choice for president because his name was Anglo-Saxon? I asked her to please educate herself on Barack Obama before November 4 and not just spout off, what sounded to me like, talking points from Fox Television. The people in this country can't take four more months, much less four more years, of Republican rule.
Dearest Lynde:
One of my favorite songs from the '80s\* took on a whole new meaning when I heard it on the way home. The song speaks to the spirit of Barack Obama and his supporters. The video clips give you perspective on what should and should not be feared. Please watch it, dance along if you'd like, and use the links below to get more information. Your fellow citizens will appreciate you for doing that.
all the best,
- Red. White and Blue
- Hurricane Katrina: The Drive: New Orleans Lower 9th Ward
- Bush, McCain - So Happy Together
- BarackObama.com


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Accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB), this program provides the professional training and credentials required to practice as a licensed architect.
Sure, architects design buildings. But there's much more to the profession than intricate drawings and hard hats.
As a student in this professional-degree program, you will form a broad understanding of how architects solve complex problems to improve lives. You will gain experiences using the latest design techniques and modeling technologies, and study current topics in community planning, green-building design, environmental control, construction methods and more.
Through design studio experiences, architecture students tackle real-world challenges in communities and urban neighborhoods around the world. The program includes international field trips and the option to study architecture in urban downtown Boise.
Students who are pursuing the pre-professional B.S. Architecture may be able to transition seamlessly into the M. Arch. professional program during their senior year. This makes it possible to earn both the undergraduate degree and the master's degree in less time.

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text: So I was asked to make this tutorial on a logo design from a record label. At first I didn't understand what Strange was so I had to do some research because I couldn't find any bio information. At last I found the image of a dragon silhouette and underneath it said 'Strange Music'. Here is "how to draw Strange Music", step by step. This logo is part of an independent record label that produces mainly hip hop music. The company was started and founded by Tech N9ne, and Travis O'Gunin back in 1999. Strange Music covered labels for Stevie Stone, Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, Jay Rock and many more. I like the design its very simple to replicate so I'm confident that folks who know of this logo will enjoy tackling the tut for it. So go ahead and have fun with drawing Strange Music logo and I will be back in a bit.


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Skype Brings Together Bands and Fans at SXSW 2013
03/18/2013 in Big Blog by Leanne Johnson
Over the past weekend, hordes of music fans and artists once again gathered together in Austin, Texas for the 27th annual SXSW Music Conference. The days were jam packed with people from around the world in the music industry, eager to share their experiences and stories with one another. Music truly brings people together, just … Read more


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Which natural (non-synthetic) fabrics are good for hiking winter weather? I know cotton will generally trap moisture and invite hypothermia, while wool is warm but heavy. What other natural fabrics will work well in winter conditions?
There are many excellent natural fabrics for winter hiking:
When I'm enjoying nature I like to wear what's natural.
You probably want wool. Wool has a fairly good warmth to weight ratio, and keeps most of its warmth when its wet. You can get wool products for both base layers and insulating middle layers. "Merino wool" is the style of wool that seems to be popular for high end outdoor wear now.
They can be expensive, but the following companies make very high quality wool pieces for outdoor wear: Ibex, Smart Wool, Icebreaker. More general outdoor companies like Patagonia, Arc'Teryx, and Outdoor Research also offer some wool pieces. Unfortunatly, they're very expensive. Like a lot of "natural" products, wool outdoor pieces are priced as luxury versions of the synthetic ones.
Down may also be appropriate, but I've never seen down jackets that weren't also made with nylon (I don't understand your motivations for wanting natural materials, so I don't know if this is a problem). Down has the best warmth-to-weight ratio of almost any material, but keep in mind that its worthless when it gets wet.
For what its worth, wool is relatively warm when its wet, but that isn't a substitute for keeping dry - if it might be raining where you're going, you should bring some kind of dry outer shell. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any commercially available natural materials for that (i.e., there isn't a natural alternative to a Gor-Tex jacket). Even with nice wool layers, if you get rained on enough, you would still get hypothermic.
As others have said, wool is the best of the easily available natural materials. It's main advantages are:
On the downside:
Down is a very warm natural material and is highly compressible, but has serious downsides that it looses most of its insulating property when wet, and it really soaks up water and not only stops insulating but gets very heavy. For most people that go places often enough where getting rained on is a common consideration, down is essentially useless for clothing. Down can be good for something like a sleeping bag that you have means to keep out of the rain.
There are other natural materials with some interesting properties, but after wool and down they get exotic, and either impossible to find or very expensive if you do. For example, wolf fur is the best for repelling snow, and seal skin is particularly good for waterproof garments.
I know you asked about natural materials, but without explaining why your question is limited that seems silly. Modern technology has not only produced materials that are very good for outdoor use, but has also made them accessible and affordable. For example, polypropelene is even better at insulating when wet than wool, and feels much more comfortable against your skin. A tight nylon mesh is still breathable but much better as a wind barrier for the weight than any natural material I know.
My winter outfit uses a combination of materials. Cotton is no good when wet, but light and comfortable when dry. When you know you can stay dry (which includes managing sweat), cotton can be nice, but be prepared to change quickly when conditions change. For serious conditions I like a polypro "sweater" on first, a wool sweater over that, and a wind shell over that. The wind shell can be a ordinary windbreaker (preferably without extra insulting lining, just a real windbreaker) or a rain shell, depending on conditions. You can mix and match these layers to suite a variety of conditions.
In winter particularly, be aggressive about changing your layers for the conditions. You're going to get hot hiking uphill. Strip down as appropriate as soon as that happens. As soon as you get to the top, put on a layer or two before you cool down. It's a lot more comfortable to switch layers when you're warm.


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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Process Migration
From: Ralph Castain (rhc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-10 11:03:10
So what you are looking for is an MPI extension API that let's you say "migrate me from my current node to node <foo>"? Or do you have a rank that is the "master" that would order "move rank N to node <foo>"?
Either could be provided, I imagine - just want to ensure I understand what you need. Can you pass along a brief description of the syntax and functionality you would need?
On Nov 10, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Mudassar Majeed wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. In our previous publication, we have figured it out that run more than one processes on cores and balancing the computational load considerably reduces the total execution time. You know the MPI_Graph_create function, we created another function MPI_Load_create that maps the processes on cores such that balance of computational load can be achieved on cores. We were having some issues with increase in communication cost due to ranks rearrangements (due to MPI_Comm_split, with color=0), so in this research work we will see how can we balance both computation load on each core and communication load on each node. Those processes that communicate more will reside on the same node keeping the computational load balance over the cores. I solved this problem using ILP but ILP takes time and can't be used in run time so I am thinking about an heuristic. That's why I want to see if it is possible to migrate a process from one core to another or not. Then I will see how good my heuristic will be.
> thanks
> Mudassar
> From: Jeff Squyres <jsquyres_at_[hidden]>
> To: Mudassar Majeed <mudassarm30_at_[hidden]>; Open MPI Users <users_at_[hidden]>
> Cc: Ralph Castain <rhc_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Process Migration
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Mudassar Majeed wrote:
> > Thank you for your reply. I am implementing a load balancing function for MPI, that will balance the computation load and the communication both at a time. So my algorithm assumes that all the cores may at the end get different number of processes to run.
> Are you talking about over-subscribing cores? I.e., putting more than 1 MPI process on each core?
> In general, that's not a good idea.
> > In the beginning (before that function will be called), each core will have equal number of processes. So I am thinking either to start more processes on each core (than needed) and run my function for load balancing and then block the remaining processes (on each core). In this way I will be able to achieve different number of processes per core.
> Open MPI spins aggressively looking for network progress. For example, if you block in an MPI_RECV waiting for a message, Open MPI is actively banging on the CPU looking for network progress. Because of this (and other reasons), you probably do not want to over-subscribe your processors (meaning: you probably don't want to put more than 1 process per core).
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I have the Dungeon Master's Kit, and have just finished my first reading of the DMB it includes. I think it's a good book, though some things are missing, rituals being the one I recall now (besides small references. I'd have liked to know at least some generalities about rituals, if those belong in DM books).
I have read many good things about the DMG 2, and its advice for creating adventures. Is there a significant difference, or has most of that good content been included in the Essentials DM Book?
EDIT I'd really like a proper comparison between the two books, not a "DMG2 is an awesome book". The question is not exactly about how great the DMG2 is, but about its content compared to the DM Book.


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When there are two objects going to collide, I check them with CGRectIntersectsRect. However, before it returns me with YES (they collide), they are already overlapped. Is there any other way to detect and resolve collision?
My workaround is to compare their Y axis and move the object far apart from each other, once they are detected collision.
Also, one of my objects is a circle, is there any other functions for iPhone SDK to detect the collision better? (currently I treat the circle as a rectangle, as its frame is a rectangle)


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A tuckie is a girl around the ages 13-16, usually seen at parties in the greensborough area. A 'Mint Tuckie' is a attractive tuckie.
di brun 16 agosto 2008
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di MrWatts 22 giugno 2014
Guys who are so uptight they tuck in their shirts when it's not formally necessary. eg- a job interview or business meeting. Men who think it's proper to tuck in their polo or t-shirt when they're in a casual dress situation. eg- a party.
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text: Every once in a while I will feel like drawing anime related stuff, and today I made a tutorial on "how to draw an anime girl face,", step by step. Instead of drawing a typical looking anime girl, I went ahead and tried to create a figure that not only looks pretty, but colorful too. Everybody has their own style of drawing when it comes to making anime people both males, and females. As you can see my style of drawing is colorful, and more realistic then exaggerated. I had a lot of fun developing this anime face, and I think the end results give her a personality all of her own. Have fun with this tutorial on "how to draw an anime girl face", step by step. You can color her in using any shade you like, and when you're done you can use what you drew for your next character creation. Adios amigos and have an awesome drawing day!


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Daily Nutritional Needs for Pregnant Women
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Eating 3-4 portions of fresh fruit daily will also provide a wide range of vitamins and minerals, many of which contain important protective antioxidants.
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Excerpted from Pregnancy Day by Day.
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Winchester Mansions: Old school charm with a modern twist
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Reflecting on International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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Kansas Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman has made changes in the department's top management because of the departures of two high-level administrators.
Rodman announced Tuesday the immediate promotion of Assistant Secretary Jackie McClaskey to deputy secretary. McClaskey has worked in the Agriculture Department since January 2011.
Erik Wisner will become assistant secretary for administrative services next week. He is now a special assistant on regulatory and policy matters.
Chad Bontrager will become an assistant secretary in August, overseeing agribusiness development, food safety and lodging inspections and the state's weights and measures program. He is currently agribusiness development coordinator.
They'll replace Assistant Secretary Kim Christiansen, who will become executive director at the utility-regulating Kansas Corporation Commission, and Assistant Secretary Jim Riemann, who's retiring in August.
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Can a CFG over large alphabet describe a language, where each terminal appears even number of times?
If yes, would the Chomsky Normal Form be polynomial in |Σ| ?
EDIT: What about a language where each terminal appears 0 or 2 times?
EDIT: Solving this may give interesting extension to "Restricted read twice BDDs and context free grammars"
Find a context-free grammar (CFG) for the language L of all words such that each terminal in a word occurs even number of times over a possibly large alphabet Σ
My long aproach is (the only nonterminal is S):
S ⟶ ε | SS
x ∈ Σ : S ⟶ xSx
x,y ∈ Σ : S ⟶ xxSyy | yySxx | xySxy | xySyx | yxSyx | yxSxy
Second try, incremental approach.
S ⟶ ε | SS
Terminal productions (suboptimal): x,y ∈ Σ : S ⟶ xx | yy |xxyy | yyxx | xyxy | xyyx | yxyx | yxxy
Incremental: x ∈ Σ : S ⟶ SxSxS
By the way, the homework is over now.
Technically it wasn't a homework assigned to me. I don't know the answer and thought the question was easy. Best.
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Character definitions: Reuven is the proud owner of Big Business A. Shimon was hired to work for Big Business A.
As part of his job, Shimon is responsible for interacting with various Big Business A clients. Shimon has access to information such as how much each client is paying for Big Business A's Stuff, as well as relevant contact information of each of these clients.
Shimon soon decides to leave Big Business A, and open his own Big Business B. Big Business B just happens to deal in the same Stuff as Big Business A. Shimon wants to use all his information and "hit" some of Big Business A's big clients to get them to use Big Business B's services.
- Can Shimon "steal" Reuven's clients?
- If he does, can Reuven sue Shimon in Beis Din and win?


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Note that each data line represaents predicted levels given a 6000 year old model, and a 1.5 billion year old model. The RATE group has recieved their data from an independent lab, and look where the data lines up! If this isn't compelling evidence for a young world, I'm not sure if anything would convince Old Earthers. This is how science should work - A prediction is made, the experiment is run, and the result is checked against the prediction.
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The experimenter, being a uniformitarian (believer in long ages) and not having read our prediction, had no idea what results we were hoping for. ... To our great delight, the data fell right on the "6,000 year" prediction! This alignment validates the young-age model even for readers who are not experts in this field, because the probability of such a lineup by accident is small. The data resoundingly reject the "1.5 billion year" model. The experimenter, whose name is in one of our articles, stands by his data, even though as a uniformitarian he does not like our interpretation of them.


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Poisoning our children every day
March 17, 2013
Would you knowingly allow anyone to inject your child with a dose of a known poison? Would you knowingly poison your own child? Don't answer too fast, because that is exactly what's happening ever......
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High School
Busy schedule as local teams make runs
13 locals alive in state tournaments
|Litchfield's Isabelle Binstadt (13) plays the ball off a corner kick during their Class S tournament game against Coventry Monday at Litchfield High School. (Jim Shannon/RA)
Entering tournament play Tuesday there are 13 local teams still alive in the various brackets, and that's not counting the swim teams who will have their state championship meets this week. In volleyball three local teams are already at the semifinal stage, while the Cheshire field hockey team will also play its next game in the semis.
Six girls soccer teams will battle in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, including NVL champion Watertown and Class M No. 2 seed Woodland.
And how about the Litchfield girls, who last year made a magical run all the way to the Class S state final (which they lost, 3-0, to Immaculate) as the No. 7 seed. The Cowgirls are back deep in the Class S mix, and host the No. 23 seed on Wednesday for a shot at the state semis.
Boys soccer
Boys soccer
Field hockey
Girls soccer
Six girls soccer teams will battle in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, including NVL champion Watertown and Class M No. 2 seed Woodland.
And how about the Litchfield girls, who last year made a magical run all the way to the Class S state final (which they lost, 3-0, to Immaculate) as the No. 7 seed. The Cowgirls are back deep in the Class S mix, and host the No. 23 seed on Wednesday for a shot at the state semis.
The schedule
Boys soccer
- Class M: No. 5 Lewis Mills (15-2-0) at No. 4 Abbott Tech (15-1-0)
- Class LL: No. 10 Staples (15-4) at No. 2 Cheshire (18-1)
- Class S championships at SCSU
- Class M championships at Wesleyan
Boys soccer
- Class S: No. 5 St. Paul (12-5-0) at No. 4 Bloomfield (12-4-1)
Field hockey
- Class L: No. 2 Cheshire (16-2-0-0) vs. No. 3 Simsbury (15-2-0-1) at Wethersfield
Girls soccer
- Class L: No. 5 Watertown (14-4-0) at No. 4 Masuk (13-2-2)
- Class L: No. 11 Pomperaug (9-2-7) at No. 3 RHAM (15-3-0) (game at ECSU)
- Class M: No. 12 Ellington (12-3-3) at No. 4 Lewis Mills (15-1-1)
- Class M: No. 8 Nonnewaug (14-3-1) at No. 1 Northwest Catholic (16-0-1)
- Class M: No. 10 Rocky Hill (13-3-2) at No. 2 Woodland (16-1-0)
- Class S: No. 23 Morgan (7-8-3) at No. 2 Litchfield (14-2-1)
- Class M: No. 1 Woodland (18-2) vs. No. 5 Tolland (16-4) at Berlin
- Class S: No. 5 Terryville (19-1) vs. No. 1 Coventry (20-0) at SMSA
- Class S: No. 3 Holy Cross (19-1) vs. No. 2 Morgan (20-0) at SMSA
- Class L championships at SCSU
- Class LL championships at Wesleyan
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So now the only Imler performance is 4/19 evening. Tomorrow I buy additional tickets to that! No way I'm missing Imler as O/O.
Frankly, this casting schedule for Swan Lake is somewhat puzzling to me. I wish I was clever enough to figure out what the message is.
Posted 11 April 2009 - 05:21 PM
So now the only Imler performance is 4/19 evening. Tomorrow I buy additional tickets to that! No way I'm missing Imler as O/O.
Frankly, this casting schedule for Swan Lake is somewhat puzzling to me. I wish I was clever enough to figure out what the message is.
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On a side note, they did announce asking for people to silence their cell phones, which seemed to work since not one went off that I could hear. However, the people behind me felt that any music prior to the curtain rising meant they could still talk. Ugh. I love the music. Please don't talk over it.
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I saw all four performances this week,
At "Les Sylphides" in Phoenix last weekend, during the opening tableau, before any dancer had moved, the 70-something behind me announced to her friend (and the entire main floor) -- "This music is so beautiful. I could just come to listen to the music."
A little later in the Wheeldon, she informed us all that "That must be what's-his-name."
Posted 13 April 2009 - 07:50 PM
I understand how injury can affect casting plans. My puzzlement over the casting for Swan Lake is an overall one. Look at all the casts, look at all the partnering, look at who's dancing which speciality roles. Usually I can see why things are the way they are......not this time (except a bit here and there).
I don't know if there is a message to figure out with casting. Sometimes casting changes because of an illness or injury. I don't think it has anything to do with you not being clever enough to figure it out.
Posted 13 April 2009 - 08:13 PM
A lesson well worth learning! I too have been amazed at the difference between dress reheasals and true performances.
Well, let me tell you that after her performance last night, my daughter now understands the difference between a dress rehearsal and the real thing!
Your daugther is correct....plus, it seemed to me that Louise attempted a triple at the end, but the landing was flawed. None the less, they were beautifully done as you say.
My daughter said she only did 28 fouettes rather than 32, but they were gorgeous.
I too felt Karel did a marvelous job. I still think he has a ways to go -- he has the pyro-technics down pat, he can act (IMO he needs more power in this area however), his partnering is solid if perhaps not yet inspired, and he's handsome as hell.....not to mention his height (I'm guessing 6'4"). PNB has some great young men coming along...Karel Cruz certainly among them, as well as Seth Orza, Jordan Pacitti (he seems to be taking off like a late blooming phenomenon lately, and he's one of the best at character roles ever); Barry Kerolis; Jerome Tisserand; Josh Spell; and an amazing crop of apprentice men (all tall).
But an even bigger surprise to me was Karel Cruz. He is a star! I completely believed him as the regal prince. His dancing was beautiful and easy. So relaxed and yet powerful. We had no fear of him falling out of any turns. He nailed it all. And what a presence onstage with that height and those long legs. Wow! I'm looking for him to be a principal. (Maybe in the fall?) I loved watching him!
I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think the choreography expects them to be in unison. Each of the "Guests" in Act 1 is expected to have a sort of "fugal" start of a phrase rather than strict unison. Maybe someone else has the definitive answer to this.
Also in Act 1, I thought the unison parts weren't in sync for the 6 ladies dance.
Here, here! Marie was absolutely superb as the Persian. In fact she's been superb in everything lately. I smell a Principal coming one of these years.
.........Maria Chapman as Persian.
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The Virgin Mary is a Protestant
How else to explain that debacle of a loss to Alabama -- the team from about the most Protestant state in the nation whipping the team that is the repository of all that is good and right and holy about Catholicism in America.More bad news: Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly is reportedly interviewing for the Philadelphia Eagles vacant head coaching job. That would be a good fit: a coach who can't win the big games in college going to a franchise that can't win the big ones in the NFL.There is one bit of good news, though: one of six computers used in the BCS "matrix" still ranks Notre Dame No. 1 over Alabama. A Catholic computer?So what strikes me most, however, is that since Monday night's whupping, all those ND fans have been almost entirely silent. Nary a peep on the interwebs, where for weeks there had been nothing but triumphalism and woofing about how Notre Dame's imminent championship season showed the superiority of a Catholic school (crowing from many folks who just a couple years earlier were blasting ND as having sold its Catholic soul -- hmmmm) and how the divine hand of a Catholic God was clearly at work in this miraculous season (brought to you by Mormon players and perhaps one sex assault suspect, but whatever). Heck, this season even taught me that the inimitable G.K. Chesterton once lent his bloviations to the cause of Our Lady's football team.How could they lose with such backing? But lose they did. Crushed, actually. Not that there seems to be any humility coming from ND fans -- the Golden Domers who bragged of beating the Mobile Homers. Well, maybe those poor kids from the South can teach rich white suburbanite Catholics something.But seriously, folks. After all the chest-thumping and scapular-waving, don't Catholics have anything to say about the theodicy of football? How it is that Notre Dame could lose and thereby undermine the Catholic faith? How it is that the brilliant RGIII may have been chewed up and spit out in his rookie season with the Redskins? Why it is that we continue to to cheer for our teams (mea maxima culpa) even thought the sport can cause traumatic brain injury that leads terrific athletes and fathers and husbands like former N.F.L. linebacker Junior Seau to blow their brains out at a young age?Actual religious faith seems to be a more nuanced discipline than the all-or-nothing world of football fundamentalism.Then again, in the case of Notre Dame's lost championship, maybe the answer is obvious: Notre Dame used its free 30-second spot during the highly-rated telecast to promote the fact that it is No. 1 in graduating student-athletes. That was a "cowardly decision," suggested George Weigel, who said the university should have instead used the spot to promote the pro-life cause or the bishops' religious freedom campaign.Because of course carrying water for the Republican party is really what a Catholic university is all about. And it's what wins football championships.
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David Gibson: The reason that you don't hear much from "Domers" is that by the end of the first quarter of Monday night's game it was pretty embarrassing that ND football world even thinks that it belongs on the same field with these Alabama guys. They're in a whole different league.I'm not so sure that ND should even "want" to compete on this level anymore because of how much ND will have to give up in its institutional integrity to even play this game on this level anymore.Face it, ND is more about RAH-RAH football. Alabama (and the rest of the SEC) is playing professional sports. That's great for Alabama if that is what it is about - go for it! ND should focus on keeping the luster sparkling on that golden dome.It's a smart move for ND to join the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) for football. That is about the level of football where they can be competitive. Maybe, playing in the ACC will raise the level of ND's basketball program?
Mr. Weigel is mistaken. Students want to go to a good academic university. Their parents want, especially for student-athletes, for their son or daughter to go to a school with a good athletic program that will give their kids a great education. Then they find out that the great university is built on Catholic faith by their witness of faith and how well they are taught.You aren't recruit Catholics by advertising Catholic faith to an audience that is looking for a good academic program. We attract followers of Jesus by example, not just with good ads.
Jim Jenkins, I think Notre Dame does want to be Alabama, or at least beat Alabama (or whoever it will be next year), and I am not sure how much different ND is from all the other big time semi-pro programs. Here's an interesting experiment in the making: The Big East is now all Catholic in basketball with the Catholic Seven schools comprising its members: St. John's, Georgetown, Marquette, DePaul, Seton Hall, Providence and Villanova. Should they play up this identity? Could it be a light unto the sports nations? There is some debate: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaab--catholic-seven-will-regain-identity-... http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaab--catholic-seven-will-regain-identity-...
What about the brouhaha in these blogs about football in general as being a blood-sport that ought to be banned at Catholic colleges for the grave injuries it can cause? And much more institutionally indictingy, the accounts of the way ND handled the tragic suicide of the coed who said she's been raped bya team member? Are these discussions now over?
It is proof once more that God's way is the way of suffering, sorrow, humiliation, and defeat. But we knew that. Why else would he have made a football in the shape of a vesica piscis?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesica_piscis
Lizzy Seeberg was not a "coed". She was a student at St. Mary's, a women's college.
Two decades (or so) ago, Boston Globe op-ed columnist Derrick Jackson was a then-lonely "voice crying in the wilderness" about the shame of low graduation rates for athletes playing Division 1 money-making (for the institution) sports for American colleges and universities. Jackson was also one of, if not the, first to zero in on what he named the "graduation gap"---the gap in graduation rates for black and white teammates. Jackson has no particular reason to cheer for Notre Dame (other than his persistent efforts to shine a light on the issue), but here's the opening of his column last week:" Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame, where graduates come with gridiron fame. The Fighting Irish are in the national collegiate championship football game Monday with a 100 percent Graduation Success Rate for their African-American players, tied for first with Rice University. Among the 70 teams in this seasons bowl games, Notre Dame also tied with Northwestern for a 97 percent overall graduation rate.But cheer not just for Notre Dame. Fifty-six teams, a record 80 percent, scored either a Touchdown or a First Down in my 17th annual Graduation Gap Bowl. Touchdowns are scored by teams with graduation rates of at least 50 percent for black and white players, and with racial gaps of less than 15 percentage points."http://www.bostonglobe.com/editorial/2013/01/05/touchdown-for-graduation...'s nice to see some progress being made.
Here is Melinda Henneberger over at Deadspin right before the game on why she would not be rooting for her alma mater: http://deadspin.com/5973194/ask-melinda-henneberger-about-notre-dames-se... the way, if you Google "Alabama football asexual assault" you will get "about" 6,930,000 results.
Brian Kelly reportedly interviewed with the Eagles on Tuesday, one day after Monday night's debacle. I'm sure he had to prepare for the interview, and that preparation may have detracted from the prep time for the BCS game, though I doubt extra preparation would have changed the outcome of the BCS game. I also hope that Kelly isn't serious about jumping to the Eagles and that he is using the interview as leverage for an extension of his ND contract. If he is serious about moving on to the pros at this time, then the timing of the interview hearkens back to his timing in accepting the ND job, i.e., when he got Cincinnati into the Sugar Bowl but then accepted the ND job before the bowl game was actually played. That left a bad memory of him at Cincinnati if I recall correctly.
The speculation is that Kelly is using the negotiations to get a longer and more lucrative contract, but that's pretty much par for the course in this business.
How can $$$$ compare to the Skip-Purgatory-Go-Directly-to-Heaven card that every ND head football coach is issued? :)
The Henneberger piece is devastating. Cowardice is a strong word, but it seems to me that there may be cowardice at work here, in the administration's refusal to confront rape forthrightly.
Thorin: What a useless comment.
I taught in ND in 1981-2, a very bad year for football there despite all the grotto novenas and tricolor tossing. After one defeat the captain told the Chicago paper "I guess God didn't want us to win" and the reported commented, "When he gets older he may realize that God doesn't care who wins, even when ND is playing." I recounted this to a priest and two seminarians and the priest said, "I don't know about that. When we has that last-minute score last semester, don't you thing the Blessed Virgin was smiling down on us?" Was he pulling my leg? Can't be sure.
I am an ND fan and alum, and I was disappointed but not surprised by Monday night's result. I think a lot of people, ND fans included, were aware beforehand that the game could be a blowout for Alabama. I am also an Ohioan and Ohio State fan and remember well the championship game in 2007 when Ohio State was blown out by the Florida Gators (coached by Urban Meyer). In general, it seems that the top teams from the SEC are just too strong for the top teams from the Midwest!I think David Gibson raises some good questions about big-time football's place in higher education today. It will be interesting to see what ND does if Brian Kelly departs. ND has long been committed to the idea that it is possible to both (1) compete with the big teams in college football every year and (2) do so in an ethical way. But it seems it really hasn't been able to find the right balance since Ara Parseghian or perhaps Devine was coach (before I was born). In hindsight, Holtz looks good, but when he was coach there was a lot of talk that he had sullied the ideals of the program ... and then in his later years, there were even complaints that he wasn't winning enough (which seem silly now). Anyhow, whatever happens with Kelly, I have confidence in Fr. Jenkins and Jack Swarbrick, and I think ND will do the right thing with respect to football ... tho I am not quite sure what the right thing is!
Listen up, you guys. Slavery was horrible. But if Darwin is right (and there is every reason to think he was ) there was a survival of only the fittest among those forced to America from Africa. The survival rate of the people on the slave ships was horrendously low. This implies that those who survived as slaves were physically (and, having taught in a predominantly blac college, I suspect mentally as well) superior on average to the rest of the American population. I mean that you have every reason to expect that those poor boys from the Sough (largely African Americans) will be superior athletes.My brother, a physical anthropologist, tells me my theory is all wet. but the scores regularly validate it. Sorry, Notre Dame, but if you can't recruit enough of the right kids, you ain't gonna win. And if the SEC recruits its own, you ain't gonna get those kids.
Where does Texas A&M rank in all of this? Wouldn't they be considered better than Alabama?
I find this post by David Gibson (the poor man's John Allen) redolent of what the old moral theologians call delectatio morosa. I was sorry to see Notre Dame lose to Alabama but hardly thought it had cosmic significance. In fact, I was amused by a message sent to me by a contemplative nun originally from Mobile who told me that her kin had tee shirts inscribed with these words: Hail Mary full of grace/Notre Dame in second place. In a spirit of faux humility I answered that ND ended up in fourth place.
I love it when local sports teams fail--it's a very particular sort of schadenfreude that I experience in a very intense way. Even after I've moved away from a place, I still love it when the once local, now distant team bites the dust, and will feel blue for a few days if they pull off a championship. I've never been to South Bend (praise God), and so I think it is a testament to the sort of translocality Notre Dame has that I was deeply, deeply pleased by their being trounced so badly.
David Gibson (the poor mans John Allen) - a textbook example of an ad hominem.
I dont think Ive ever seen a more unadulterated presentation of the far left pathology. We despise our own, we fantasize the other.
David Gibson: I agree that ND would like to compete with the Alabama's. But let's hope that my namesake [but no relation] President John Jenkins, CSC understands that that would be a bridge TOO far!Brian Kelley to the Eagles??? I have to say, it wouldn't surprise me. The Eagles are SOOOOOO desperate for a winner that they would willingly make Brian Kelley a very wealth man. The Eagles are going to need a lot more than Brian Kelly to beat RG3.
In the minds of grads and fans, is UND an academic institution or a vehicle on which to hang high testosterone fantasies of wannabes and also-rans?
Speaking of Notre Dame football and, we may safely assume, virginity (inasmuch as corporeal existence would seem to be a prerequisite for sexual activity), this story is burning up the sports-media airwaves this morning.Headline: "Manti Te'o: a linebacker, a made-up girlfriend and a national hoax"http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/sport/manti-teo-controversy/?hpt=hp_c1
Jim P. --I saw a couple of TV reports on that. No one seems to be wondering whether the kid has all his marbles. Brain damage? Sad any way you look at it.


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Following are statements released by members of the Kansas Congressional delegation following Tuesday's State of the Union address:
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas:
"The President has proposed more of the same tax and spend policies that have left us with a nearly $17 trillion and climbing debt and with many still out of work. Rather than at least a path toward fiscal responsibility, we got another campaign speech.
"Kansans are tired of the brinksmanship. They are sick of the unknown; are tired of the government regulations, the taxes and the rising costs and uncertainty of the new health care law. They are fearful of the future for their children and grandchildren. If it was the President's intention to lead the nation to an economic recovery, I am afraid the President missed the mark.
"The administration is already targeting painful cuts within the President's own proposed sequester. In the coming days we will have to see if the President is serious about actions to avoid the pending disaster that is his sequester. If he does not, the American people will again be driven to the brink with a stalled economy."
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas:
"With 23 million Americans unemployed or underemployed, I was hoping the President would outline an agenda focused on policies that promote economic growth, job creation, and opportunities for every American. Unfortunately, he delivered the same message of higher taxes and spending, more regulation of our lives and businesses, and refused to address the need for solvent Social Security and Medicare programs. It is no wonder our economy is shrinking and businesses not hiring.
"Economic growth starts with the private sector, not government. That is why this week, along with Senators Warner and Coons, I will reintroduce legislation aimed at jumpstarting the economy through the creation and growth of new businesses called the Startup Act 3.0. The original legislation was introduced last spring, and builds on recommendations made by the Kauffman Foundation and the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to boost economic growth.
"This President and Congress must work to make certain our nation remains a place where the American dream is alive and well. I'm ready to work with the President and my colleagues to reduce spending, encourage entrepreneurship, reform our complicated tax code, and reduce unnecessary regulations."
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Dist. 1:
"Empty rhetoric is no replacement for real leadership. Despite tremendous proof showing that Big Government does not work, President Obama doubled down on growing the influence of Washington in the day-to-day affairs of families, local schools, and state governments. And, even if it means abandoning the Constitution or acting above the law, President Obama made it very clear that he will take matters into his own hands and subvert the legislative authority of Congress."
"Where are the jobs, President Obama? Nearly 23 million Americans are out of work, underemployed, or have given up looking for work altogether. That means millions of households where the American Dream is dying or is dead. For so many families across the nation, the prospect that the next generation will be better off than the last seems like a distant hope. Even if folks are employed, many face stagnant wages and higher costs of living; many are dipping into their retirement savings – or not even saving altogether. It's a recipe for sustained financial disaster."
"Why is your Administration waging a war against entrepreneurs? Only twice did you say 'small business,' despite the fact that it is the engine of economic growth. Our small businesses demand that Washington cut the red tape and cut taxes, yet your Administration's record is abysmal on those fronts. Freedom, growth, and opportunity will prevail when Washington gets out of the way."
"Where is the promised deficit reduction, President Obama? In 2009, you promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of your first term. Instead, you have a record of trillion-dollar deficits every single year of your presidency. Instead of paying down the deficits, let alone the debt, you have offered nothing but unbalanced and irresponsible budgets that ask the next generation to foot the bill for your lack of leadership. The 111th Congress tried your big-government stimulus; all that's left is another $1 trillion in debt."
"Why are you doubling down on your health care plan when there is overwhelming evidence that it is not going to deliver what you promised? Millions of Americans will lose their employer-based coverage, despite the assurances that they could keep their plan if they like it. CBO predicts more than a trillion dollars of unanticipated costs. And, most egregiously, this Administration is willing to eliminate the most precious of our freedoms – religious liberty – in order to advance their own narrow agenda. Forcing people of faith to pay for abortion drugs is a tremendous affront to more than 200 years of freedom of religion."
Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Dist. 2:
"Tonight the president discussed his plans for his second term. And while I agree, our top priorities should be strengthening the economy, reducing our budget deficits, and increasing job opportunities for hardworking Americans, I disagree on how we get there.
"The hardworking American middle-class is what made this country great. An abundance of jobs allowed them to dream big, provide for their families, and save for their futures. But today, this American Dream seems just out of reach.
"Today, folks are struggling. There are still more than 12 million people unemployed. We see it all around us: the "going-out-of-business" signs...the college grads without jobs…the layoffs...
"The only way to fix it, is to get the economy churning again. That is how we protect the American dream for future generations - by creating the conditions for economic growth and job creation.
"You see, the government does have a role to play. But raising taxes, yet again, to pay for the latest big government program is not how you create economic growth. We've already done that, and your paycheck is less now, than it was 6 months ago. It's time we put our trust back in hardworking Americans.
"Most folks agree, we need to balance our budget, fix our tax code and protect Medicare and Social Security. We can do that, but we don't need any more campaign speeches. We need folks on both sides who can try to find some common ground. Republicans and Democrats must stop the rhetoric, get serious, and work together to benefit us all. That is progress, and that, is what your family deserves."


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Picking from this question I read the Wikipedia article but I can't understand why stacking copies of the same image over each other should enhance the image resolution?
The process is complicated but this should give an intuition into what's going on. Imagine you have a regular camera, but with motors to move the sensor half a pixel in any direction.
Instead of taking one image this camera takes four: one centred, one shifted half a pixel right, one shifted half a pixel down, and one shifted half a pixel right and half a pixel down.
We can then take the centred image, make it double the size, spacing out the pixels like so:
Then we can fill in the gaps, using the other shifted images, 1, 2, and 3:
Leaving us with a image of twice the resolution. Interestingly enough there are cameras than employ this technique - such as the Hasselblad H4D-200MS (sorry if you have to ask how much you can't afford one).
Superresolution with a standard camera is a bit more complex as when you have uncontrolled camera or subject motion you don't get anywhere near an exact half pixel shift, but unless you are extremely unlucky your shifted image will be some amount offset from the original. By combining enough images you will get a very irregularly sampled image (with pixel samples that don't fall onto a grid) but one which can be interpolated (by tracing lines between samples to guess a result that does fall on an exact gridline) into a regular image.
Consider that the sensor is not a perfect capture device. Each pixel will be recorded with some amount of error. For example, if the most accurate value of a pixel is
Also note that on each exposure a given pixel will have a different error, the cells in the sensor have no memory, so a pixel that came out low one time may come out high in the next one.
When you take several exposures of the same subject and average them together you are effectively reducing
The following is as I understand things. People should feel free to point out any misconceptions so that we are all edified, but hopefully will actually point out any they spot and not just mumble in their beer. (or beards or ...).
Put simply and simplistsically, there is slightly different information in the different photos and various methods are used to detect and extract this extra information and combine it in a consistent additive manner.
It's worth noting that the system is not guaranteed to work in all cases.
Aliasing is the ability of the system to properly present data of the frequencies concerned. See "explanation" as end.
If I understand them correctly (and I may or may not) their phrase"is weak enough" means that their is extra information that the sensor cannot itself resolve that is usually considered bad so it is normally suppressed where possible VBUT that this "aliased" extra information is needed by the SR system. The Nikon D800r has no antialisasing optical filter on the sensor whereas the std D800 and almost all other DSLRs do have such a filter.
MTF is effectively the ability of the lens to produce contrast OR to produce "sharpness" (the two being tightly interrelated. MTF is usally best near the lens middle and, with a rectangular image, falls off towards edges and usually more so in image corners. They are saying that the ability of the system to produce a super resolution image depends on its ability to render contrast and sharpness - ie on its quality. ie the lens needs to be at least about as good as the lens which would oroduce the super rsolutionj iomage directyly if sensor and process capabilities were improved.
Aliasing is what happens when an information stream is sampled so slowly that some of the high frequency information changes more rapidl;y than the sampling rate and "wraps around" and appears as if it is really a lower frequency component. In a limiting system the sampling rate needs to be at least double the highest information rate present but in practice somewhat higher rates than this are required.
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Generating random number in a range with Java
I am trying to create a random number that is above the value of one boundary, and below another. The number can be equal to either of the boundaries too.
Both boundaries are created from random. highNumber is a random between 0 and 100, and lowNumber is a random between 0 and half of highNumber.
At the moment my code is as follows:
public static void createCorrectNumber() {
random = new Random();
correctNumber = random.nextInt(highNumber)+1;
correctNumber -= lowNumber;
This is not functional, as when the lower bound is taken away from it, it can become lower than the boundary. Any ideas?


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Thursday was Jura Day. It started far too early for any of our liking, and lack of sleep is beginning to play heavily on people's sanity; that and the midges.
We left in a hurry to catch the ferry at 8.30am, at the other side of the Island. You know, over there.
It is not a long journey. In fact we reached Jura in about 4 and-a-half minutes, the malt mobile rolling off the boat and onto the rugged shore.Force of habit made us reach for the sat nav, to aid us in our navigation of the Island's one, single track road. We were going the right way.
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At Digital Trends, We. Like. Bikes. A lot. They're great for the environment, help us get a little exercise into our days, and are cheaper to maintain than a full-size automobile. The only issue with bikes is that it's hard to carry around too many things with you because you either have to strap them onto the back seat of the bike if it has one, or lug things in a backpack which can slow you down. Not anymore.
A prototype bike from the French carmaker Peugeot has appeared in the wild and is designed with tech geeks in mind. Known as the Peugeot DL122, this bicycle contains a middle storage compartment to fit a laptop, messenger bag, briefcase or a thinner backpack so you can take the weight off your back. You can lock the compartment to ensure nothing slips out during the ride. The bike is also made with lightweight materials such as aluminum and wood to make up for the weight you add when you use it. That means if you own a Macbook Air, it will be as if you're adding no weight at all.
The location of this compartment works for the Peugeot DL122 because it focuses the heaviest part of the bike to the middle, helping make the center of gravity stable and evenly distributing mass across the bike. Compared to the traditional way of strapping items to the back of the bike, this weight distribution can ease the force you need to maintain balance. It will also be nice to be able to see your belongings in case you accidentally left your backpack open and all your things may have flown out of it as you pedal away.
Our only concern is the impact on the laptop when we're actually riding the bike. City roads aren't always smooth, so hopefully the compartment is sturdy and cushioned enough to provide support for the stored laptop to minimize any shuffle it may experience along the ride.
Given the amount of space in the storage compartment, you can probably also fit a variety of different things that aren't laptops or bags. What could you see yourself storing in there? Maybe grocery bags after a quick shopping trip, or books for a quick ride to and from the library?
While there are no words on when the Peugeot DL122 may go into mass production or how much it will cost, we anticipate the prototype to come into complete fruition in the near future because of how realistic the photos look. It's also not an impossible concept, and is great urban design for the modern bikers in many of us. The company has had a long history of making bikes, dating as far back as the year 1830, so we hope to see this 21st century design in retail stores soon.


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Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir (Large Print / Paperback)
A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, Bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror. Weaving together the voices of three generations of women, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie and her mother, Rita Lurie, provide powerful--and inspiring--evidence of the resilience of the human spirit, relevant to every culture in every corner of the world. By turns unimaginably devastating and incredibly uplifting, this firsthand account of survival and psychological healing offers a strong, poignant message of hope in our own uncertain times.
Rita Lurie was five years old when she was forced to flee her home in Poland to hide from the Nazis. From the summer of 1942 to mid-1944, she and fourteen members of her family shared a nearly silent existence in a cramped, dark attic, subsisting on scraps of raw food. Young Rita watched helplessly as first her younger brother then her mother died before her eyes. Motherless and stateless, Rita and her surviving family spent the next five years wandering throughout Europe, waiting for a country to accept them. The tragedy of the Holocaust was only the beginning of Rita's story.
Decades later, Rita, now a mother herself, is the matriarch of a close-knit family in California. Yet in addition to love, Rita unknowingly passes to her children feelings of fear, apprehension, and guilt. Her daughter Leslie, an accomplished lawyer, media executive, and philanthropist, began probing the traumatic events of her mother's childhood to discover how Rita's pain has affected not only Leslie's life and outlook but also her own daughter, Mikaela's.
A decade-long collaboration between mother and daughter, Bending Toward the Sun reveals how deeply the Holocaust remains in the hearts and minds of survivors, influencing even the lives of their descendants. It also sheds light on the generational reach of any trauma, beyond the initial victim. Drawing on interviews with the other survivors and with the Polish family who hid five-year-old Rita, this book brings together the stories of three generations of women--mother, daughter, and granddaughter--to understand the legacy that unites, inspires, and haunts them all.
About the Author
A writer, lawyer, and former executive at NBC, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie is a member and former president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education and a teacher of Holocaust studies. A founding board member and past president of the nonprofit Alliance for Children's Rights, she has worked at a major Los Angeles law firm, served as a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals law clerk, and is a member of the board of directors for several nonprofit organizations, including the Los Angeles Music Center. Recently Leslie was appointed by the mayor of Los Angeles to a panel to devise a new cultural plan for the city. She is a recipient of the American Jewish Congress's Tzedek Award for Outstanding Commitment to Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Justice, and the Alliance for Children's Rights Child Advocate of the Year Award. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, two children, and stepson.
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"BENDING TOWARD THE SUN is a captivating memoir that explores a complicated, loving, and enduring mother-daughter bond, and reveals how doubts, hopes, and dreams are handed down from generation to generation. As both a mother and a daughter, I found it deeply touching."
-Arianna Huffington, author, syndicated columnist, and founder of The Huffington Post
"Here is a memoir that takes us through many worlds, through heartache and noble hopes, through the mysteries of family love and toward a beautiful, light filled conclusion. Read BENDING TOWARD THE SUN and enrich your life."
-Rabbi David Wolpe, author of Why Faith Matters and Making Loss Matter-Creating Meaning in Difficult Times
"Gripping, exhausting, exciting, devastating--this book is at times hard to read but always impossible to put down. "
-Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Founding President, Jewish Life Network; former Chairman of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
"BENDING TOWARD THE SUN is . . . bolstered by writing that is compelling and sensitive, the book transcends the holocaust genre with its multi-generational point of view on the ultimate effect of fear and evil on young minds."
-Dick Wolf, Emmy Award-winning creator and Executive Producer of Law and Order; Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; and Law and Order: Criminal Intent


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As United Steelworkers officials ask Gov. John Kasich to help hundreds of displaced Ormet Corp. employees get back to work, they are now asking the public to join them for a "Save Ohio Jobs" rally.
The rally is set for 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Ormet Local No. 5724 office in Clarington, Ohio. Displaced employees, retirees, union leaders and public officials are expected to attend.
The event will feature the unveiling of a video and website the USW will use to help convince Kasich to act, while those who attend will also have the opportunity to sign a statement the USW plans to mail to the governor.
Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols continues to emphasize that the governor's office is working with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, as well as the Monroe County Department of Job and Family Services, to help displaced Ormet workers receive new job training and benefits.
He also is not sure exactly what the administration could have done to prevent Ormet's shutdown.
"To this point, the only thing (USW officials) have suggested to us is that we should lean on the (Public Utilities Commission of Ohio). That is a violation of Ohio law," Nichols said.
Nevertheless, Ormet workers remain very critical of Kasich for, in their opinions, not taking action to try to help Ormet avoid a shutdown.
Ormet CEO Mike Tanchuk announced the full shutdown of Ormet Oct. 4, after the PUCO refused to lower Ormet's American Electric Power costs from $60 down to $45.89 per megawatt-hour as Ormet requested. This leaves hundreds of employees wondering if they have worked their last shifts at the bankrupt Monroe County plant.
Last week, AEP wanted to shut off all electricity to the Hannibal plant because of Ormet's inability to pay its bills, but the PUCO ordered AEP to keep the lights on during Ormet's bankruptcy proceedings. Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection agency were concerned that shutting off all power to the facility would release harmful chemicals such as cyanide and arsenic into the Ohio groundwater.
In announcing the planned Tuesday rally, USW spokesman Tony Montana confirmed that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware will allow Ormet's Burnside, La., alumina refinery to be sold to Almatis Inc.
"The transaction included, among other things, the assumption of the existing collective bargaining agreement and benefit liabilities," Montana said.


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text: Libyan Supreme Court Chief Justice Kamal Bashir Dhan visited the Law School this past fall to discuss the difficulties that arise when governments transition to democracy. Said Mechichi, Tunisia's state secretary for reform in the Ministry of the Interior, joined Dhan for a panel discussion co-hosted by Professor Katharina Pistor, director of the Columbia Law School Center on Global Legal Transformation. Libya and Tunisia both experienced government overthrow during the Arab Spring period, and both Dhan and Mechichi elaborated on the challenges those countries face with respect to holding elections, drafting constitutions, and reforming previously existing laws.


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Dana 60 Axle - The Flying AnvilWritten by on January 1, 2001 Contributors: Jake Armstrong Learning To Love The Dana 60
When we think of indestructible, images of Mack trucks, battleships, overcooked Spam, and Baskervilles feet come to mind. Ask a hot rodder about an indestructible axle, and the Dana 60 is first on the list. Though originally designed for ¾- and 1-ton personnel carriers in WWII, during the supercar 60s this big-guy axle was beneath all Chrysler Corporation passenger cars equipped with the Street Hemi or 440 wedge and a manual transmission. Since then, racers of every stripe have latched onto the Dana and its huge 9.75-inch ring gear, heavily ribbed cast-iron housing, and numerous extreme-duty features.
But for every hot rodder who swears by his Dana, there are just as many who swear at it. These critics cite difficult assembly, lack of economy-oriented gear ratios, and its inherent porkiness. With Jim Cook at Performance Differential, we took a closer look and explored the myths and realities surrounding the mother of all third members. Rather than outline the step-by-step assembly process, weve concentrated on pointers and tips to help you Dana shoppers.
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While most Dana 60 housings produced in the last half-century are pretty much identical; two raised pads and a trio of threaded holes above the pinion (see bolts) delineate automotive housings from industrial ones. Industrial housings are rounded rather than flat in this area. For passenger-car use, Chrysler mounted a pinion snubber in this spot to prevent driveshaft-to-chassis problems under heavy load. Most Dana 60 assemblies sold today are based on industrial housings that pose no problem unless you are intent on using an adjustable pinion snubber. Our empty "car" Dana cost $250. Notice the beefy yoke (PN 3-4-5731X) supplied by DTS. It accepts a GMC truck 1350 Spicer U-joint that offers a distinct strength advantage over the stamped, strap-type retainers and smaller 7290 U-joints used on Chrysler musclecars.When converting from truck-type full-floating axles to semi-floating axles and passenger car brakes, or when narrowing, it is common practice to re-tube the housing. Always drill and tap a 3/8-inch hole and install a vent to void heated air rather than having it pressurize the lubricant and cause leaks. The vent also locates the brass junction block to the axle tube, sanitizing brake line installation. Currie Enterprises revamped our Dana with 3-inch diameter 3/8-inch wall tubing, and Performance Differential installed Chrysler housing ends.Before buying a used Dana housing, inspect the carrier bearing thrust surface on the driver-side of the case (pointer). Since this surface takes all thrust loading during acceleration, it must have an as-cast texture; any signs of scarring, overheating, or metal transfer is an indication of a spun carrier bearing. Damage here will make it difficult to establish proper carrier bearing preload upon reassembly. Such damage is repairable, but involves specialized welding and machine spot-facing operations. Use another housing if possible.Inspect the housing ends. Accident damage and curb shots can foster cracks that are very difficult to repair properly. If welded, the housing must be oven-heated to prevent distortion that can alter the critical 0.003 to 0.005 press fit of the axle tubes. While many racers attempt to strengthen this area by applying a continuous bead of weld at the tube/housing juncture, the extreme localized heat can crack the housing. Jim Cook says: "Unless you are set up to preheat the housing and tubes prior to welding, don't do it." The four large evenly spaced spot-welds that lock each tube into the housing are extremely durable.If you're starting off with a pile of parts, make sure that you have both of the original carrier bearing caps; mismatched caps can cause premature bearing failure by pinching the outer race. Put on your detective hat and look closely for punch marks and letter symbols identifying cap position and orientation, but keep in mind that additional markings may have been added over the years during rebuilds. If the caps are lost, get some stronger aftermarket replacements, remembering they must be precisely faced to obtain the specified inside diameter. (Fingers point to matching index marks.)Part of Dana-phobia stems from the trial-and-error techniques required during assembly. The depth of the pinion gear is determined by a shim positioned between the case and the lower pinion bearing race, but you won't know if the depth is correct until the differential and ring gear are installed. If it is out of spec, you must disassemble everything and add or subtract shims. Jim Cook says an experienced rebuilder can get it right the first time and that it usually means reusing the shims that were already in place, assuming the axle was in good working order. If there are no shims, start with a 0.035-inch sliver and go from there.When setting the pinion bearing preload, the objective is to establish 18 to 25 inch-pounds of drag with a new bearing, and 10 to 15 with used bearings. Any more or less forces the issue of disassembly and adjustment of the shim pack. For our buildup, Cook installed 4 shims totaling 0.085-inch and got it on the first try. Details like this are the reason it is often cheaper to farm out the assembly work to an experienced shop.While the factory service manuals call for 250 lb-ft on the pinion nut, doing so requires a special tool to immobilize the yoke. To save time, especially when correct bearing preload proves elusive, Jim says an air impact capable of generating 300 lb-ft is just as effective. Apply red thread-locking compound before torquing.
After applying red thread-locking compound to the 12 ring gear bolts, tighten them in a crisscross pattern to draw the gear onto the carrier evenly; then torque to 110 lb-ft. Regardless of differential type, the Dana 60 employs two distinct carrier assemblies. One accepts 3.54, 3.70, and 4.10:1 gearsets while the other accommodates the thinner ring gears found in 4.56:1 and lower (higher numeric) ratios. A Mopar Performance ring gear spacer and bolt kit (P3549856) permits 4.56:1 and lower ratios on 4.10 and higher carriers, but strength is compromised. Our street Dart uses a Tractech Detroit Locker (225SL-29B) with Richmond 8620 street/strip series 3.54:1 gearset (49-0129-1).Another thing that scares people away from the Dana is the case-spreader, a cumbersome tool that is quite easy to misuse. This medieval torture device has pins that hook into two locating holes in the housing (arrows); the screw-jack then spreads the case to ease differential installation. Cases spread more than 0.020 usually suffer permanent distortion that makes it impossible to arrive at the proper carrier bearing preload. Instead, Cook installs the carrier bearings and adds enough shims (typically 0.050) to produce a snug fit in the case. Then he removes the carrier assembly and adds 0.010 shims to get the proper bearing preload. Rather than using the spreader tool, Cook uses a soft hammer to return the unit to the housing. After torquing the carrier bearing caps to 105 lb-ft, he uses a dial indicator to measure backlash. At 0.008-inch, ours falls right in the middle of the acceptable range.After coating the ring gear with white grease, Cook spins the gears in both directions with a 1/2-inch electric drill motor while applying a slight drag by hand to produce drive and coast wear patterns that either confirm proper setup or identify the need for adjustment. Take care to avoid cutting your hands.The finger points to ideal contact pattern on drive side of ring gear. The black ink pen markings highlight the long, even contact region. If in doubt, refer to the tooth contact chart supplied with the gearset; if the pattern does not match, reset the pinion depth as well as the gear backlash.We replaced the inspection cover with a cast-aluminum Ultra-Pro cap support cover by LPW Racing Products. The screw-in struts apply a gentle preload (10 lb-ft) against the carrier bearing caps to prevent deflection. The jam nuts are then tightened a like amount. RTV sealant on the threads prevents leaks and seals the cover to the housing. LPW makes cap support inspection covers for most popular Salisbury axles.Moser Engineering earns high praise for accommodating our oddball axle specifications and getting it right the first time while still meeting their two-day turnaround policy. Because the stock wheel tubs in our Dart test car limit tire clearance, we designed our Dana 60 to be an exact dimensional clone of an A-body Mopar 83/4 (bare housing width: 529/16-inch, drum-to-drum width: 57.5-inch). The A-body 83/4 brake backing plates are shallower than more common B-body backing plates, a feature that works with narrow 1.75-inch brake shoes (10-inch diameter drums) to afford an extra 1/2-inch of wheel lip clearance. Moser is the only aftermarket source to offer the specialized 21/16-inch A-body axle bearing offset. The 1.48-inch diameter Moser axle (right) and a stock 1.30-inch diameter Chrysler A-body 83/4 axleshaft are illustrated here. Forged from high-strength alloy, the Moser Custom Alloy axles are rated at 12,000 lb-ft of torque and are perfectly suited to the varied demands of racing and street use. Note that the troublesome stock endplay adjustment ring (arrow) is replaced by a user-friendly non-adjustable sealed bearing on the Moser unit.


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It is important to check with your doctor before starting an exercise program during your cancer treatments, as there may be some days when you shouldn't exercise.
You should try to exercise at least 3 days per week during your treatment for cancer.
This is an important part of any exercise program. It is even more important if you are not used to exercising, if you have heart problems, or if you are older than 55. Warm up exercises help your body get ready by slowing increasing your heart rate, your body temperature, and warming your muscles to prevent injury.
Examples of a warm up:
In order to gain the benefits of exercise, you have to "overload" or push your body. It's important to do this slowly to prevent injury. There are a number of ways to know if you are working hard enough to gain benefits including the Borg-RPE scale, heart rate response, or the talk test.
If you haven't been exercising, aim to work at a rating of 9-11 Very Light to Light work. Once you are able to walk for 20-30 minutes at this level, then gradually increase your intensity to 11-13. You can do this by walking or biking faster, including small hills in your walk, or swinging your arms during walking.
Borg-RPE-Scale® [PDF]
At the end of your exercise, you need to cool down your heart, body temperature, and muscles. You should walk slowly for 5 minutes before stopping. If you have a heart condition, your doctor may ask you to cool down for more than 5 minutes.
During treatment, you should try to exercise 3 days each week. Each time, you should try to exercise for 30 minutes. If you have not exercised before, or you are having a lot of side-effects from treatment, you should start more slowly.
Exercise can help you get back to the activities you enjoy. Always check with your doctor before starting to exercise.
Your exercise program should change in a few ways after treatment has ended.
Borg-RPE-Scale® [PDF]
1. Subtract your age from 220. This is your maximum heart rate.
2. After sitting for a few minutes take your heart rate.
(HR max – HR rest) x .5 + HR rest = low end of training zone
(HR max – HR rest) x .65 + HR rest = high end of training zone
For example, I am a 60 year old woman who has finished treatment for colon cancer. I talked to my doctor about exercise and she says that I can and should start a program.
My maximum heart rate is: 220-60 = 160.
I count 78 beats at my wrist in 1 minute. This is my resting heart rate.
My training zone is:
(HR max – HR rest) x .5 + HR rest = low end of training zone
(160-78) x .5 + 78 = 119
(HR max – HR rest) x .65 + HR rest = high end of training zone
(160-78) x .65 + 78 = 131
After my 5 minute warm-up, I will walk faster. When I walk faster, I will take my heart rate. My goal is to have my heart rate between 119 beats/minute and 131 beats/minute. If my heart rate is between these numbers, I am walking at the right speed to get the most out of my exercise program.
If my heart rate is less than 119 beats/minute when walking, I should Walk Faster.
If my heart rate is more than 131 beats/minute when walking, I should Walk Slower.
If you are just beginning an exercise program or had a lot of side effects from cancer treatment, start at a lower intensity (30-40%).
Another easy way to determine if you are working hard enough is the talk test. When you are walking you should feel a little breathless and you may sweat. You should aim for a speed or pace that allows you to talk, but not sing. If you are able to sing, then your intensity is too low and you should quicken your pace.
If you have gotten chemotherapy to treat your cancer, you must talk to your doctor about exercise. Each type of chemotherapy is different in how it affects your body. Some days, your doctor might ask you not to exercise because of low blood counts or fever. Some side-effects of chemotherapy that may affect your exercise are:
Radiation therapy is a common treatment for cancer. Most people who have radiation feel tired. Exercise can help you deal with feeling tired and give you more energy.
OncoLink has a large section on cancer related fatigue, with helpful tips and information.
Radiation and the sun. You are more likely to get a sunburn during and after radiation therapy. Talk to your doctor about skin protection. You may want to exercise in the morning or in the early evening so that you are less likely to get a sunburn.
If you got whole body radiation therapy, you should be careful about exercising in hot weather. Your body may have trouble getting rid of the heat you make during exercise, which can be dangerous. Dress in light clothes and exercise in the morning or early evening. Talk to your doctor about when and how you should exercise.
Some cancers affect the bones in the body, making them weak. Other times, the treatment you get for cancer can cause the bones to be weak. Exercise, if done right, can help to strengthen your bones.
Cancers that MAY affect your bones are:
It is important that you talk to your doctor about the health of your bones.
Your doctor may tell you it is safe to exercise.
Your doctor may ask you to stop exercising until after treatment has ended.
You doctor may tell you not to use heavy weights for strengthening.


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Did anyone play pure miniature play in Battletech? i.e. Off hex maps? Was it particularly difficult?
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I played "pure miniatures" in Battletech extensively in 1995-1999. The game shop I played at had a large sand table (sandbox on stilts) that added a lot to the game. We used model railroad terrain and buildings, which added a lot to the fun of the game.
It was not difficult to play, although there were a few rules modifications that we made to make play easier to adjudicate.
1) 1 hex = 2"
2) For movement purposes, 1 vertical inch is a level change.
3) Your mini moves straight forward. 1 mp per facing change, including fractions of a hex face.
4) Your forward field of fire is decided by the rear two angles of the mech's base \_/ and torso twists changed this field by another hex face left or right.
5) Line of sight is determined by laser pointer from the head of the shooter to the body of the target. If you can't see the knees of the target, it has partial cover.
It's pretty easy. I have played a number of these.
If you use Heavy Metal Pro, you can pick a scale and choose to print all of the ranges and movement speeds in inches, instead of hexes. This makes it incredibly easy. Also, it gets rid of arguments about line-of-sight. The only things you need to play are pencil and record sheet, dice, and enough tape measures to go around.
If you don't use HMP, you will have to do some simple multiplication. (Ex: SRMs range of 3/6/9 becomes 9"/18"/27" in a 3-inch scale. Multiply everything by 3.) You can do the math ahead of time, and write it on your sheet, to make things easier.
At Dexcon, they have actually had a "macro" scale battletech game, using Robotech models a foot tall, with a scale of 1 or 2 feet per hex. I have also played a "macro" style game outside in a friend's oversized back yard. Very cool =)
I have. It works just fine if you like pure miniature play for other games (40k comes to mind). The lack of hexgrid makes ranging a little more irritating, but the ability to seamlessly open the playing space makes for some fun strategic variety. The big headaches come in if you start playing with spaces large enough for on-board artillery attacks and/or if you use airstrikes. Both rules need conversion to retain sanity (or deal with an obsolete metric such as arty using 'mapsheets' as its range increment).
For airstrikes we decided on a minimum and maximum length of low-altitude flight and then the beginning and end of that path became the beginning and end of striking aircraft's vulnerability to AAA (rather than having aircraft skim the earth for the entire length of however absurdly large a playing area you had). Pilots could shorten the path at a greater risk of playing lawn darts.
I did once.
Other than that I suck at those kinds of tactical miniatures games, no it wasn't hard.
Rather, I should say it wasn't hard to play, but it was very hard for me to win.
But they weren't my miniatures, so maybe he just put a lot more thought into it than I did.
As someone who is a longtime BT player, I don't recommend Wizkids miniatures rules for classic battletech. They aren't awful but I find the standard hex-based play much smoother.
Yes, I have. Twasn't hard, but I found it added more effort and gave no real benefit, and further, it made showing and adjudicating torso twists a pain. But that was more than 15 years ago.
I recommend using minis on hexgrid instead.


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Tom Vichich will forever be remembered as the coach who led Shadyside to the 1976 state track and field championshi....
Seth, I enjoyed your tribute to Coach Vichich. He was a great coach and person. He coached me as a JV basketball player and I served as a track manager under him. In addition to basketball, I also played football with Tommy, his son, for 4 years. As a result of my friendship with Tommy, I got to know Coach Vichich outside of our coach to player relationship. He is one of the best mentors I can imagine and a wonderful family man. I shed a few tears for him this week, but more importantly I remembered him fondly and thankfully. I am a better man for having known him. Kevin Girts SHS Class of 1976
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It's amazing how the baby looks nothing like Justin at all. Biel got her child from a sperm bank. Just so jt can keep his secret of being a closeted gay man. The marriage is just a cover up. Just like all the women celebrity he co-called dated. It's all part of the closeted gay male game. He has to convince people that he is straight. Espically since lance tried to out him years back. He deny it and ever since till he got married he been playing the wominizer ladies man game. So no one would ever expect him being gay.
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