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Adding Cereal to Baby Formula
Q: Several people have encouraged me to add a teaspoon of baby cereal to my infant's formula bottle at night to help her sleep a little longer. My mother says she was advised by her doctor to do this with me 30 years ago. I've been researching it before I try it and have gotten mixed responses. Some say it works, others say it is a myth, and others say it is harmful. Is it harmful to add such a small amount to my three-week-old's bottle?
A: Adding cereal to a bottle to help a baby sleep is a myth. Studies show that there is no change in the amount of time that a baby will sleep if cereal is put into the bottle. The presumption is that the extra calories from the cereal will help the baby feel full for a longer period of time, and thus not wake up so soon to be fed. Others suggest that the slight thickening of the formula that occurs when adding cereal will allow the formula to stay in the stomach longer and thus the baby won't have an empty stomach quite so soon. However, a teaspoon of infant cereal has only 5 calories. A 4-ounce bottle of formula has 80 calories, so an extra teaspoon of cereal is a negligible contribution. And there is no significant change in how quickly the stomach empties with that small an amount of cereal. While solid foods in general take longer to be digested, this is really not applicable to infant cereal.
The main drawback of giving the cereal is that it is not necessary. While it is true that it is unlikely for there to be any real harm to the baby from having the cereal, very rarely infants can have adverse reactions (like allergies) to cereal.
The other thing to consider is what are appropriate expectations for a three-week-old baby. A three-week-old is supposed to wake and eat every three to four hours. It is not until about three months of age that we expect babies to sleep for six or seven hours at night.
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Shari Nethersole is a physician at Children's Hospital, Boston, and an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Yale University and Harvard Medical School, and did her internship and residency at Children's Hospital, Boston. As a pediatrician, she tries to work with parents to identify and address their concerns.


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Unanswered: Alternative to filters' setValue() method in Beta 4
I see that in Ext Gwt 2.2.5 the grild filters interface contained a setValue method. That method is no longer available in the Ext Gwt 3 beta 4. I was wondering how we are now supposed to programmatically set the value of a grid filter. With the click of a button I want to be able to trigger predetermined filtering 'macros' on a near by grid and have those macro filtering values show up in each column's filter menu and have the toolbar/paging to update accordingly as well.
Any help on how to do this would be appreciated.
21 Mar 2012 6:35 AM #2
I've tried to implement the above functionality with a StoreFilter, which seems to work as far as the grid contents filter goes, but the problem is that it still displays the unfiltered total and unfiltered number of pages in the paging toolbar. Is there anyway to update the paging toolbar to reflect how the StoreFilter has reduced the returned number of rows?
StoreFilter<StatusSummary> rulenameStoreFilter = new StoreFilter<StatusSummary>() { @Override public boolean select(Store<StatusSummary> store, StatusSummary parent, StatusSummary item) { return item.getRulename().equals(filterRulename); } }; store.addFilter(rulenameStoreFilter);
21 Mar 2012 9:27 AM #3
Another problem with the above approach is that is only checks against the current page's worth of data. I need a way to send the filtering information to the service.
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So, we wound up writing our own extensions to the filters we needed that had this functionality because while we are using filters, but they are located in separate toolbar from the grid and we didn't like the grid header menu functionality for filter interaction. We essentially added setValue() methods to do this.
That said, every filter has a getValueProvider() method which returns a ValueProvider instance for that filter. The ValueProvider has a setValue(...) method which, in theory, should allow you to set the value. However, I have not actually tested whether or not this works and if so does so consistently. I've found that certain FilterConfig fields can be overwritten between your filter's getFilterConfig() method and the call to the server (e.g., setField(...) values are are overridden later).
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Chia-Chin (Cristi) Chang, who has been with the college since 2005, holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and a master's in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after earning her bachelor's degree in mathematics from National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan.
Well versed in mathematics and computer programming, Chang has taught numerous courses in both disciplines and excels in the areas of mathematical software. She's had two research papers published.


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From 23rd to 24th March 2013, Bandung, capital of West Java will become an ocean of pedals and wheels as thousands of antique bicycles gather for the "Bandoeng Laoetan Onthel" The International Classic Bicycles Festival.
Using the old Bahasa Indonesia spelling for the title of the event to match the classic ambience of the festival, "Bandoeng Laoetan Onthel" literally means: Bandung, the Ocean of Classic Bicycles. The triennial event will showcase a massive collection of classic bicycles from all over Indonesia and abroad. As in previous festivals in 2007 and 2010, this year's festivities will also be highlighted with a number of activities such as classic bicycles freestyle race, city tour and parade, entertainment stages, and various traditional Sundanese art performances.
Aside from participated by numerous classic bikers clubs from all over Indonesia, the event will also be attended by classic bicycles collectors and experts Andre Koopmans, Jos Rietveld, and Theo de Kogel from the Netherlands, Colin Kirsch from the United Kingdom, and the entourage of Kelab Basikal Tua Classic Bicycles Club from Malaysia.
Presented and organized by Paguyuban Sapedah Baheula Bandoeng West Java Indonesia (Classic Bicycles Association of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia) the event is not only intended as a gathering arena where classic bike enthusiasts from all over the archipelago can meet and interact, but the event moreover aims to promote cycling as a lifestyle for the general public. In a world of modern transport filled and motorized vehicles that emit all kinds of pollutions, bicycles are considered as the perfect mode of transportation that are not only eco-friendly but also promote health.
The past Bandoeng Laoetan Onthell 2010 was attended by over 5.000 "Onthelists" from all over the archipelago and abroad. This year, the number is expected to grow as more and more people are taking an interest in classical bicycles. Held only once in three years, the event is certainly something that you cannot afford to miss
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By Kinsey Janke / SARampage.com
Despite the fervent stat keeping and updating done by fans, journalists and PR staffs throughout the hockey world, the actual players who are achieving milestones or breaking records aren't as dialed in as many may assume.
For Mike Mottau, a 14-year veteran who has 814 professional hockey games under his belt, lacing up the skates for his 500th career American Hockey League game on Oct. 12 was just like any another game.
"I actually didn't know about it," Mottau said. "Someone in the locker room mentioned it before the game. You don't really keep track as they come. When my career is over, it will be nice to be able to look back and see how many games I played, and see my statistics. But when you're in it, you just stay in the present and focus on what needs to be done."
With all the awards Mottau has bagged throughout his career, it's easy to understand why his 500th AHL game may have slipped through the cracks.
The Boston native won the Hobey Baker Award in 2000, college hockey's highest honor, following his senior season at Boston College. The veteran defenseman is also a three-time AHL All-Star and has suited up in 313 NHL games, tallying 58 points (seven goals, 51 assists).
Mottau was drafted 182nd overall by the New York Rangers in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, and made his NHL debut with the Rangers during the 2000-01 season. In addition to his professional career in North America, Mottau has also represented the United States four times in international play.
It's this experience in all aspects and levels of the game that made the Rampage brass happy to see Mottau return to the Panthers organization this offseason. Last year, Mottau played 16 games in San Antonio after signing a professional tryout contract with the club in December.
"He's a very good experienced leader that can play power play, penalty kill, five on five, and has experience late in games," said Rampage head coach Pete Horachek. "He's not easily rattled, and he's very composed. He's a smart player, and when we have meetings, he's not afraid to speak up."
On a roster that features a handful of players under the age of 25 – and many with only a few years of professional hockey to their names – experience like Mottau's is priceless.
"He brings a lot to this team," said Rampage defenseman Alex Petrovic. "He's a really good role model for all of us. Whether we have a work out or just practice, he's always going hard. He pushes me; he pushes everyone…He's almost like a father figure to all of us. He's a great guy to have on the team."
Despite being 14 years his elder, Petrovic cites how easy Mottau is to play alongside, having been his defensive partner for parts of the last two seasons. His propensity for making good, smart plays on the ice keeps it simple for the rest of his teammates. This sentiment was echoed whole-heartedly by San Antonio's netminder, Dov Grumet-Morris.
"He brings consistency, and that's essentially what you want out of your defensive core and that's what you want out of your leader because it allows everyone to play off of that," said Grumet-Morris. "I don't have to worry about the what-ifs. I have full confidence that he can do exactly what is asked of him."
Mottau's composure and killer work ethic both on and off the ice – in preparation for life after hockey, he's been interning in personal finance firms like Morgan Stanley for the past eight off seasons – are the intangibles that often make a good hockey player a great one.
"He's well respected in the locker room, and he's respected on the bench," said Horachek. "When I'm out of the room, that's the voice the players want to hear."
Like most players, the cup at the end of the road is always the endgame, whether it bears the name Kelly, Calder, or Stanley. But even after almost a decade and a half, Mottau is still focused on the here and now.
"The work that needs to be done before you get there is the exciting part," he said. "Just having that goal in mind is great, but the work you need to put in to get it done is really the key. I just try to be the best player I can be day in and day out, year after year. It's gotten me to this point, so it's been somewhat successful and I'm proud of it so far."


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The entire Bennington community mourns the loss of Helen Frankenthaler '49, one of the most influential figures in contemporary American art and a former Bennington trustee, who died on December 27, at the age of 83.
Ms. Frankenthaler, who has had one of the longest, most productive and successful careers of any female artist, was a major contributor to the abstract expressionist and color field movements of the 1950s and 60s. Her pioneering technique, along with her use of landscape to inform her abstract work, forever changed the way artists conceived and used color in their work.
At Bennington, Ms. Frankenthaler studied with renowned painter Paul Feeley as well as other luminaries such as Peter Drucker, Kenneth Burke, and Eric Fromm. It was here that she developed a friendship with art critic Clement Greenberg—a frequent visitor to campus—who introduced her to other abstract painters including Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning.
After graduating from Bennington, Ms. Frankenthaler entered the New York art scene and developed a technique known as "stain painting," which became the hallmark of her style and enabled her to create bold, color-filled canvases that seemed to float on air.
Over the course of her career, Ms. Frankenthaler had several one-woman exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her works are included in virtually every major art museum collection in this country.
A 2001 National Medal of Arts recipient, Ms. Frankenthaler's other honors include a Philadelphia Academy Medal of Honor, induction into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, and countless others. She served on the Bennington College Board of Trustees from 1967-1974, and from 1975-1982.
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ToolShed Tooltip #22 - Channel9 and the Tool Shed ... A Treasure Chest of Resources
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This Tool Shed Tooltip is about a very valuable resource for all developers... Channel9. Do you know there are other Microsoft communities linked to Channel9 for
TechNet Edge and more? Do you know... not every video posted to the channel9 site makes it to the home page? How do you find all of the videos? Do you know you can download a video in many different formats from Zune to High Def for offline
viewing? Do you know about the upcoming enhancements to Channel 9? Do you know you can rate videos and provide much wanted feedback? Did you know there is a channel9 toolshed
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toolshed code site? Watch this video to learn answers to these questions and many other tips and tricks to optimize your resource experience.
This clip was originally filmed as part of Episode 4 of It's All About The Tools, but it is not included in the final version. So, this is never seen before footage! This was presented in front of a live audience. And even though it was a roomful of Niners... each person I talked to after the event, still walked away learning something. Hopefully you will too!
The show is hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on https://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: https://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast
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Internet of Things: Thinking services
By Harish Gaur on Sep 10, 2013
Internet of Things brings tremendous promise to integrate every smart "thing" in this world. Having been an integration practitioner for more than decade, I find it hard to resist drawing a parallel between these 2 worlds: the world of integration & the world of Internet of Things.
- IoT market is Wild Wild West - fragmented, full of competing standards & proprietary solutions - exactly where integration was in 90s before SOA, webServices & XML redefined the landscape. ETSI is doing significant work to unify different standardization efforts and Oracle is actively contributing to this effort. But, there is lot of ground to be covered.
- Smart things i.e. sensing devices, medium powered gateways represent the IoT endpoints. This is akin to B2B integration scenario where cloud apps, B2B apps etc are communicating with the integration platform. Of course, we are now talking about hundreds to even millions of devices sending data to an enterprise versus a handful of apps in a traditional integration project
- There are wide range of devices supporting different interfaces, communication protocols and lack interoperability. It's virtually impossible for any vendor to provide connectivity solution to entire breed of current and emerging devices. Before enterprise applications started becoming service enabled, we all grappled with the challenge of dealing with myriad of applications exposing their functionality through proprietary interfaces.
List could go on and on. But, it makes one think whether a service oriented approach could be considered when building an IoT application. Before we apply service oriented principles to IoT architecture, we should acknowledge the fact that IoT does bring its unique set of challenges
- Security: How do I ensure that data in motion (traveling between devices, gateways, network to enterprise apps/cloud) or data at rest is secured?
- Identity – Device is the new data source. But, there is no human associated with a M2M device unlike an enterprise app or a mobile. This makes it challenging for enterprises to manage the device lifecycle - onboard/off board new devices and manage their identity
- Device Management: How do I remotely manage and monitor a device throughout its lifecycle (diagnostics, troubleshooting, configuration)?
- Analytics: IoT will lead to data deluge. Enterprises would need to think beyond traditional business intelligence tools. How do I analyze IoT data at real-time (i.e. is there a medical emergency based on data received from blood pressure monitor?) to how data is analyzed for historical & predictive analytics (How do I improve patient care based on medical trends from patients over past 6 months)?
In a typical SOA Composite application, we have collection of business processes, business services, data services with each layer building on top of the other to enable loosely coupled integration. Data services expose application interfaces as services which could in turn be orchestrated together to create a business service. E.g. "Create Employee Record" Data Service is responsible for creating a new record in Fusion HCM application, while "Onboard Employee" business service would orchestrate several steps (read data services) needed to on-board a new employee (create employee record, provision new email account etc).
">Figure 1: Layered SOA Architecture
IoT architecture could essentially be modeled in a similar layered format. Device layer, at the bottom, is the main source of data. It includes sensing/edge devices which sense the surrounding environment and transmit data in regular intervals. These sensors, in turn, may interact with an intelligent gateway. Gateway provides data aggregator and in few cases device level data processing capabilities. Data is funneled through a communication service provider network. CSP could either play the role of the network provider or it could move up the value chain to offer IoT infrastructure services. This layer would enable seamless connectivity with different M2M devices (akin to data services in SOA) and offer the ability to remotely monitor and manage them for device connectivity.
IOT services layer is completed agnostic of underlying
devices, communication protocols and connectivity semantics. This layer would
include core set of services to build IoT applications (i.e. composite
- Analyze data at real-time (event processing)
- Act on M2M data & events (integration service)
- Enable historical, real-time and predictive analytics (Analytics Services)
- Visualize operational and analytical data through mobile/desktop (UI Services)
- Manage data security & identity of
devices/apps (Security & Identity Management Service)
- Figure 2: Layered IoT Architecture
Oracle IoT platform enables this service oriented approach to building IoT applications. Listen to this webcast replay how Oracle customers have leveraged Oracle IoT stack to build applications for smart city, home automation, industrial automation and e-health.


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Airport hotels
There are six hotels at or near Marseille Provence Airport, all operating a shuttle service to and from the terminals.
Hotel Pullman Marseille Provence
This is the luxury option for those needing to stay close to the airport. The 178-room hotel offers four classes of accommodation, including a suite. There is a combined restaurant/lounge, extensive meeting and conference facilities, a spa, golf course and an outdoor pool.BP 50 13728 Marignane France Tel: 04 4278 4278. Web: www.pullmanhotels.com
Hotel Novotel Aéroport Porte de Marseille
Five minutes by shuttle from Marseille Provence Airport, the 4-star Novotel has 12 meeting rooms. Other facilities include a swimming pool, bar, restaurant, Wi-Fi access and children's play areas.Les Estroublans 24 Rue de Madrid 13127 Vitrolles France Tel: 04 4289 9044. Web: www.novotel.com
Best Western Hôtel Marseille Aéroport Offering 120 rooms, five meeting rooms and a 24-hour reception, the Best Western Hôtel Marseille Aéroport is immediately opposite the airport terminal building. It also has an outdoor pool, fitness room and a tennis court, along with a restaurant/bar.Face à l'aéroport 13127 Vitrolles France Tel: 04 4215 5400. Web: www.bestwestern-marseille-aeroport.com
Ibis Marseille Aéroport
The Ibis boasts a restaurant, bar, swimming pool and terrace. The 125-room property is just 500m (1,640ft) from Marseille Provence Airport, but a free shuttle service is available for guests.BP 119 13279 Marignane France Tel: 04 4279 6161. Web: www.accorhotels.com
Aéroport Marseille Provence offers basic, but clean and modern accommodation in a typically French style. The hotel has 117 rooms accommodating up to three people. A breakfast buffet is included in the room rate, along with free Wi-Fi internet.Les Salins BP 116 13729 Marignane France Tel: 0892 680 954. Web: www.etaphotel.com


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Solaris and SPARC virtualization management features of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center including "Live Migration"
By LeonShaner on Feb 07, 2012
This blog provides a short history of how Oracle technology in the Solaris and SPARC world has progressed to where we are with the SPARC-T4 Server family and Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly Logical Domains). The entry continues with observations of why these technologies are relevant to business and IT stakeholders, today. And finally, how Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is piquing customer interest in moving forward with Logical Domains, followed by a short demonstration of LDom Migration in action.
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I have created a static frontpage where I load in the content of all my pages. Now I have a normal custom menu, but the links refer to the pages, for example: http://mysite.com/about
Now the I want to have the link directed to the page itself with http://mysite.com/#about.
Now I have a custom walker that I use, and I have tried the following code:
$attributes .= ! empty( $item->url ) ? ' href="' . esc_attr( get_bloginfo('url').'#'.$item->title ) .'"' : '';
Now this works ok, except for the home link itself. The home links to http://mysite.com/#home, but that one just needs to link to http://mysite.com/#
Is there something different I could use then
$item->title to append.
If you want to know the method that I use to create the single page:
Creating the modern 'single page' html5 css3 layout in wordpress
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Just wanted to tell you guys what i did, maybe it helps someone.
Pages are structured like this:
Home (public) -> cutom menu item -> [link:#][label:home]
portfolio (private) -> cutom menu item -> [link:#portfolio][label:portfolio]
contact (private) -> cutom menu item -> [link:#contact][label:contact]
blog (public) -> page menu item -> [link:blog][label:blog]
Home and blog will be indexed and visible. portfolio and contact are loaded in home which is a front_page.php.
Note that I use relative links, and not absolute, html output will be href="#contact".
Now having it like this will conflict on the blog page, the links will become http://mysite.com/blog/#contact. We don't want that, we want just http://mysite.com/#contact
In my default walker I am going to edit edit in the absolute path. I do it here just to make the template a little more dynamic.
if($item->object == 'custom'){
$attributes .= ! empty( $item->url ) ? ' href="' .
esc_attr(get_bloginfo('url').'/'.$item->url ) .'"' : '';
$attributes .= ! empty( $item->url ) ? ' href="' .
esc_attr( $item->url ) .'"' : '';
Source to the complete walker can be found here: Menu items description?
Now the next thing is 1) to have a nice scroll effect (jquery scrollto) when the links are clicked on the frontpage 2) be redirected to the blog when the blog link is clicked 3) be redirected back to the right section when a hashlink is clicked on the blogpage.
Script for jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.menu-item-object-custom a').bind('click', function(e) {
var parts = ($(this).attr("href")).split("#");
var target = '#' + parts[1];
var moveto = $(target).length ? $(target).offset().top : 0;
$('html, body').stop().animate({ scrollTop: moveto }, 1500, function() {
location.hash = target;
return false;
window.location = $(this).attr("href");
Note that the url in the browser is also changed, so the back button works also, and there is easy bookmarking.
Thanks for all the suggestions and inspiration bellow!! And I hope someone can use this.


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New OpenSolaris Storage Community Page
By pkasper on Jan 09, 2009
Question: So, what have I been working on?
Answer: A new update to the OpenSolaris Storage Community page.
The new home page now provides a What's New section, an easy way to see the latest Storage Stop blog entries and storage announce posts, and a Video Highlight section.
Peter Buckingham and I plan to provide regular updates to both the What's New and Video Highlight sections, so keep checking back.
If you have any questions or suggestions, email me (paul.kasper at sun.com), leave a comment, or post to the storage discuss forum.


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A wave of restrictive voting laws is sweeping the nation. As of May 21, 2012, the Brennan Center for Justice [1] at New York University School of Law counted "at least 180 restrictive bills introduced since the beginning of 2011 in 41 states." Bills requiring voters "to show photo identification in order to vote" were signed into law in Alabama, Kansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Adding insult to injury, Alabama, Kansas, and Tennessee went a step further and required voters to present proof of U.S. citizenship in order to vote. In addition, Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico have undertaken purges [2] of their voter rolls to sweep away anyone who might be a non-U.S. citizen.
All of these actions have been undertaken in the name of preventing voter fraud, particularly illegal voting by non-citizens. Proponents of harsh voter laws often assert, without a shred of hard evidence, that hordes of immigrants are swaying election results by wheedling their way into the voting booth. However, repeated investigations over the years have found no indication that systematic vote fraud by non-citizens is anything other than the product of overactive imaginations.
Fighting Phantoms: No Evidence of Widespread or Systematic Vote Fraud by Non-Citizens
- Election experts tend to agree that modern-day voter fraud is a very rare occurrence in the United States, primarily because it is so irrational. The potential payoff (a vote) is not worth the risk of jail time, thousands of dollars in fines, and—in the case of non-citizens—possibly deportation.
- The Brennan Center succinctly summarizes this point in a 2006 fact sheet [3]: "Each act of voter fraud risks five years in prison and a $10,000 fine—but yields at most one incremental vote. The single vote is simply not worth the price. Because voter fraud is essentially irrational, it is not surprising that no credible evidence suggests a voter fraud epidemic."
- Researcher Lorraine Minnite writes in a 2010 book [4] that "there is good evidence to support the conclusion (1) that voters rarely fraudulently register or vote; (2) that protections against voter fraud are sufficiently provided for in federal and state law; and (3) that from a cost-benefit perspective this makes it irrational for voters to cast fraudulent ballots."
- According to a 2007 report [5] written by Minnite for Project Vote, "government records show that only 24 people were convicted of or pleaded guilty to illegal voting between 2002 and 2005, an average of eight people a year. This includes 19 people who were ineligible to vote, five because they were still under state supervision for felony convictions, and 14 who were not U.S. citizens; and five people who voted twice in the same election, once in Kansas and again in Missouri."
- As the Brennan Center [6] notes, one is more likely to be struck by lightning than to come across an actual case of voter fraud.
- Similarly, a 2005 report [7] by the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio and the League of Women Voters of Ohio found that a grand total of four votes cast in the state's 2002 and 2004 general elections were in some way "fraudulent," amounting to .00000044% of all votes cast.
- An October 18, 2010, story [8] in the National Journal points out that "a five-year investigation by the Bush Justice Department…turned up virtually no evidence of widespread voter fraud." Nevertheless, anti-immigrant activists are fond of pretending that fraudulent voting by non-citizens is a national epidemic.
- The New York Times notes [2] that, in 2011, "New Mexico's wasteful investigation of 64,000 'suspicious' voter registrations found only 19 cases of voters who may have been noncitizens."
Sore Losers, Mistakes, and Mischief Behind Voter Fraud Charges
- Project Vote [5] found that "most voter fraud allegations turn out to be something other than fraud. A review of news stories over a recent two year period found that reports of voter fraud were most often limited to local races and individual acts and fell into three categories: unsubstantiated or false claims by the loser of a close race, mischief, and administrative or voter error." The report concludes that "when we probe most allegations of voter fraud we find errors, incompetence and partisanship."
- Many accusations of voter fraud by non-citizens stem from database errors. The Brennan Center [6] notes that "government citizenship records—as the government itself acknowledges—are…replete with errors or incomplete information. Naturalization documentation may find its way into the government files slowly, or not at all, leaving outdated or inaccurate information for investigators looking for fraud. And this, in turn, leads to flawed accusations that noncitizens have been voting, when the voters in question have in fact become fully naturalized American citizens."
- The Brennan Center [6] concludes that "allegations of widespread voter fraud…often prove greatly exaggerated. It is easy to grab headlines with a lurid claim ('Tens of thousands may be voting illegally!'); the follow-up—when any exists—is not usually deemed newsworthy. Yet on closer examination, many of the claims of voter fraud amount to a great deal of smoke without much fire. The allegations simply do not pan out."
Allegations Put Minorities, Immigrants, and the Poor in the Cross-Hairs
- According to the Brennan Center [6], "claims of voter fraud are frequently used to justify policies that do not solve the alleged wrongs, but that could well disenfranchise legitimate voters. Overly restrictive identification requirements for voters at the polls—which address a sort of voter fraud more rare than death by lightning—is only the most prominent example."
- Minnite writes [4] that allegations of voter fraud "shrewdly veil a political strategy for winning elections by tamping down turnout among socially subordinate groups" such as racial minorities, immigrants, and the poor. She goes on to say that "restrictive voter identification rules that cause people to lose their votes also undermine the integrity of the electoral process. The point is there is no integrity without access. We need to simplify our electoral system, not encumber it with more tangled rules justified by myth."
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Testifying before Congress about religious liberty last February, William Lori, archbishop of Baltimore, proffered an analogy. The government would not force a kosher deli to serve ham sandwiches, Lori observed; so why force Catholic hospitals to provide their employees with contraception coverage?
I was surprised that a bishop would make this comparison—and certain that Aquinas would have been shocked. Catholics traditionally have seen the prohibition against contraception as a moral norm binding on all human beings, like prohibitions against murder, theft, and lying; by contrast, the laws of kashrut are cultic precepts that bind only Jews. But then I began to wonder whether Lori was on to something. From a sociological perspective, the prohibition against contraception does seem to be morphing from a universally applicable moral norm into a cultic norm that marks and defines Catholic identity—one strict form of it, anyway—within a broader pluralistic culture.
Traditionally, Catholics don't build religious identity around adherence to absolute negative moral norms, but rather view those norms as the foundation of an acceptable moral identity. Yet many Orthodox Jews (especially those living in pluralistic societies) do build their identity around the laws of kosher, measuring their religious and communal commitment through their recognition of ritual laws of purity and contamination.
Thanks to John Paul II's "Theology of the Body," a small but dedicated group of Catholics appears to be structuring their family lives around the prohibition of contraception. In treating that prohibition as the linchpin of a faithful Catholic life, including faithfulness to divinely ordained gender roles, they are transforming the prohibition into a religious identity marker. If their blogs are any indication, Catholics who publicize their commitment to this church teaching tend to see those who don't follow it as inauthentic Catholics. That is more akin to a cultic judgment than a moral one. Significantly, no one talks about the prohibitions against stealing, lying, or murdering this way. Someone who commits murder would be labeled a sinner or a bad Catholic—not an inauthentic one.
The similarities go further. Conformity to cultic norms generally takes a great deal of thought and vigilance, and Natural Family Planning demands ongoing vigilance in ways analogous to keeping kosher. Just as there are competing rabbinical schools, there exist NFP experts, as well as study groups and manuals, to address technical questions. Not surprisingly, enterprising adherents to both Jewish dietary prohibitions and the Catholic ban on contraception have invented smartphone apps to make conformity easier.
In contrast, I'm not aware of an app for "not killing"—or "not stealing," for that matter. That's because most people don't spend too much time thinking about whether and how to conform to basic moral prohibitions. In fact, the more fundamental the moral prohibition, the less time we ought to think about it. We would worry greatly about someone who said, "I want a promotion. I could kill my boss and take her job... but that would be wrong." Killing the boss is or should be unthinkable.
A critic might object by noting that some Catholics forgo both birth control and NFP, "leaving room" for God to plan their family. But this approach is also strikingly inconsistent with the way negative moral prohibitions operate in the Catholic tradition. After all, no one says, "I'm leaving room for God to plan my career, so I'm not going to steal my coworker's ideas." In the Catholic moral framework, the point of negative moral absolutes is to conform to God's law, not to leave room for divine providence to operate. Our tradition does not frame the relationship of God's will and human activity in this mutually exclusive way.
Can't the norm against contraception be both a universal moral norm and a cultic Catholic one? From a sociological perspective, pulling this off would be tricky. General moral norms are meant to gather all people together into the same moral community, highlighting commonality. (Think, for example, of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.) Cultic norms, by contrast, emphasize differences among subcommunities, focusing on what sets them apart.
A hundred years from now, no one will remember the political skirmishes around religious liberty during the 2012 presidential campaign. But some future historians of Catholic moral theology might point to Bishop Lori's testimony as a turning point, marking the moment when the church's official teachers began to concede that the prohibition against contraception could plausibly be defended no longer as a matter of a universal moral law, but only as a cultic precept binding on Catholics. Four decades after Humanae vitae, that prohibition looks increasingly like a form of Catholic kashrut.
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Excellent--and only too true--piece. One quibble. This did not start with Archbishop Lori's testimony before Congress, nor did it start only over contraception, at least in matters of public policy. If memory serves, the feud between Cuomo and Cardinal O'Connor over his "Notre Dame Speech" also used being Catholic as its main argument. Cuomo was personally opposed to abortion because he was Catholic, not because it was immoral. Likewise, when O'Connor went after him, it was less because he was defending an evil, but because he was violating Catholic teaching. Being "pro-life" is often times as much a marker of Catholic identity as a genuine commitment to the unborn. Not, I suspect, to the same extent that NFP and contraception can be, but nonetheless in ways that Aquinas would never have been able to recognize. I also find it ironic that as more and more on the left begin to see the problems with many forms of identity politics--in some ways accepting a decades-old conservative argument--they are being utilized more and more adamantly on the right.
Some Catholic blogs have pics of dozens of newly ordained married deacons in each diocese. . How about having a Catholic marker that every deacon group have at least an average total of six children. Don't ordain the ones-ye two-sys till the average gets to six... no getting there ?... get new candidates... go back to starting GO. We can all admire markers .
The concerns that Prof. Kaveany writes about sound very much like what was articulated when Humanae Vitae was released and even more so like what was said on the 25th Anniversary (see this excellent piece from America 1993 - http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10960)
As Catholics, many have struggled individually and with each other over the idea that EVERY contraceptive act is intrinsically disordered - Bishops and Bishops conferences since '68 have concluded that reasonable (and just as True) Catholics could come to a different conclusion - That changed with JPII.
Today, many argue for and could accept inseparability of the unitive and procreative senses of sexual intercourse if this inseparability is applied to the relationship, not each act. Couples bind themselves to a covenant that unites the conjugal and parental vocation. Their love is generously open to life, and procreation is the result of their deep personal love - that, to me, sounds more like a Universal Moral Law.
In the letter to Diognetus, the disciple observes, "Like others, they marry and have children, but they do not expose them. They share their meals, but not their wives." Sixty years ago in America, secular morality and Christian morality were much more aligned. Today, as in second century Rome, basic morality is becoming a cultural marker for those who follow Christ.
Wow, I hope that you are wrong and that 100 years from now no one will be discussing the morality or legality of contraception!! The strict, blind adherence to rules is one of the practices that Jesus spoke against. He was crucified because he spoke out against the established orders. Jesus came to give us life and that more abundantely. His life wasn't about strict adherence to rules and neither should ours be if we are his followers. These cults are missing his message and I can only hope that they will fade away or have little widesread appeal.
Ms. Kaveny seems surprisingly unfamiliar with the universality of the Catholic moral position on contraception as presented with such thoroughness and logic in the actual text of encyclicals Casti Connubii and Humanae Vitae. There our Church eruditely developed the rebuttal to the Protestant Lambeth Conference (circa 1930), which separated the unitive and procreative elements of sexual contact after centuries. Anyone rereading these encyclicals cannot fail to be impressed that the AUTHENTIC Catholic moral position on contraception has consistently been and remains its universality. Note that it is the AUTHENTIC Catholic position because it is universal, not universal because Catholics are cultic.
Even conservative Catholics I know who don't approve of contraception have noticed a certain cultishness among what might be called "neo-traditionalists," who as you say, live according to strict gender roles whereby women don't use contraceptives, alcohol, nicotine or makeup, dress in what might be called modest extremes (many in long skirts reminiscent of Prairie fashion) and make a point of following the Pauline injunction to "submit" to their husbands. Some say they seem more Protestant than Catholic, and many are, in fact, converts from evangelical Protestantist sects. On the other hand, there are also groups of Protestants who follow the same cultish pattern, including the refusal to use contraceptives, e.g., the 21-member Duggar family of cable TV fame. A growing number in both groups, Catholic and Protestant, seem to be taking their identity as non-contraception users to the next level by embracing the practice of "letting God decide" how many children they have, forgoing not only "artificial" birth control but any type of "natural family planning" as well.
The identity markers are those who support artifical birth control and go against the church's ban on artificial contraception. It's not a numbers game and the church's teachings against artifical birth control are fully consistent with it's theology;we're made in God's image and therefore human life is a good thing-not something to be avoided in a marriage by the use of artificial methods. [these methods alter the natural balance of a healthy body iwhich itself is not safe and'or always effective. And who wants to be having sex with a condom if you're married?]If Catholics were not labeling murder a sin but rather believed in it -then they too could be called inauthentic catholics.[And maybe all these catholics who support pre-emptive war or drone warfare on populated areas- are in deed supporting murder and therefore are in need of an app explaining how these pre-emptive wars go against Christ and his Church]? Those Catholics who believe in the church's theology around life and marriage and therefore oppose artifical birth control are not cultic-their opponents are.And the attempt to marginalize and denigrate them by labeling them as cultic is not only casting aspersions on them but is an attempt to invert and falsify the Church's theology.
As a Church doctrine, Usery has a remarkably similar history to the Doctrine on Contracepion. One doctrine was reformed, the other is in waiting. Consider the real history of the Usury Doctrine and how it represents solid evidence of how the Church has changed its teachings, a doctrine that was clearly written in Scipture of "Divine Law".
From at least the 12th to the 16th centuries the profit on a loan constituted the serious sin of usury.... "The doctrine of usury was enunciated by popes, 3 ecumenical councils, proclaimed by bishops, and taught unanimously by theologians". By 1565 Archbishop Charles Borrmeo of Milan found prevalent banking and business practices in his diocese in which an investor was guaranteed his capital plus a return. This was considered a mortal sin and a violation of divine law (Luke 6, 35).
At that time, the financial markets of Europe were undergoing substantial changes and innovation especially with respect to annuity contracts, exchange banking and deposits. A Church commission was set up to study these issues and enable the pope to decide the theological controversies about the moral law that had divided theologians, confused the laity and threatened to subvert the divine and natural law forbidding men to seek profit on a loan. Between 1571 and 1586 Pius V and Sixtus V issued 3 papal bulls Cum Onus, In Eam and Detestabilis Avaritia denouncing these financial practices as a mortal sin and against divine law. However, most theologians and the laity dissented to the papal bulls. The popes and their advisors feared that if the novel theories of innovating theologians were accepted the entire moral structure of Catholic thought on economic matters would crumble. By challenging established business practices, the popes anticipated objection and the continuance of sin. Nevertheless, they reasoned that the laity had to be instructed and theological innovators repressed. As it turned out, the dissent by theologians and the laity deprived the bulls of any force to influence anyone's behavior. It was also the theologians and the laity that helped reform the doctrine of usury over papal bulls. However, at that time no one was able to explain how the Church overlooked what was clearly written in scripture as divine law.
Today the Catholic Chuch faces similar issues of disgreement to Humanae Vitae. Three popes have issued encyclicals, an apostolic letter and a series of instructional talks all supporting the current prohibition against contraception. Like usury, most theologians and the laity disagree with HV; many bishops and priests also disagree with it. In many ways HV and the papal bulls concerning usury are "teachings not recieved". The doctrine of usery was eventually reformed. Some day HV will undergo a similar process of discernment.
Prof. Kaveny purposely misapplies the heart of Bishop Lori's analogy--government compulsion of conduct contrary to religious beliefs--in an effort to support her own agenda, which is to relegate use or rejection of contraception to a mere cultural marker among Catholics, rather than a consequential moral choice rooted in natural law. Her transparent goal in misapplying the analogy is to suggest that using contraception is fine and dandy for Catholics. It's not. It's one thing to be a Catholic but commit a sin, whether it's murder or adultery or lying. That's why the Church is here. People who are well don't need doctors. Catholics are sinners in need of the grace that flows from the Church. It's quite another to call oneself a Catholic while claiming that one may freely choose a lifestyle of sinful conduct--whether it's murder, adultery, lying, or contraception--and, moreover, claim it's not sinful at all. That, Prof. Kaveny, is what makes any Catholic inauthentic.
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Your argument that the moral choice (e.g. of contraception or NFP-PC) is rooted in natural law is an old argument that most theologians have abandoned. This old argument was criticized as legalism and physicialism and this lead to a "new natural law theory" that was also criticized which did not lead to a consensus of argument. After more than 20 years of debate, including other moral theories such as proportionalism-consequentialism, John Paul II wrote Vertitatis Spendor in 1993.
This document moved beyond the traditionalist view of natural law as the non-violation of natural ends, and beyond the question of a certain technique of birth regulation. JP II used a different approach to the important areas of natural law, moral action and intrinsically evil acts which differ significantly from appeals to nature in much of tradition. With respect to the moral specification of the contraceptive act, John Paul II offered this interpretation of Aquinas in VS 78:
The morality of the human act depends primarily and fundamentally on the object rationally chosen by the deliberate will, and that object is the proximate end of a deliberate decision, which determines the act of willing on the part of the acting person.
Unfortunately, the object as the proximate end of a deliberate decision is unsubstantiated because VS 78 is primarily based S.T. I-II, q. 18, a. 6 which never mentions the concept of a "proximate end". The "proximate end' is mentioned in S.T. I-II, q. 1, a. 3, ad. 3 but the example Aquinas uses demonstrates that the proximate end of the act of killing a person can either be moral or immoral based on the remote end to safeguard one's life or as an act of vengeance. In this case, the so-called proximate end does not specify, but the so-called remote or agent's end. There is also the specific problem with the definition of terms such as object to determine what morally specifies a human, voluntary action.
This position, VS 78, also discounts the role of reason and deliberation in choosing an appropriately right means-to-end, asserting that it is distorted reason and not an act of virtue if one rejects PC for good reasons (i.e., the 'good reasons' for avoiding fecundity promulgated by Pius XII in his Address to the Midwives). Therefore to assert that VS 78 is the absolute moral truth is highly controversial.
Contraception is not sinful nor is it like murder or adultery. It is a distortion based on the culture of the Catholic Church that feared any disagreement with past papal encyclicials or pronouncements would undermine the credibility of the magisterium. It is indeed a cultural marker but not solely a marker. There is some truth in Humanae Vitae, but not the complete moral truth. This is a complex subject. However, Aquinas's understanding of natural law was not based on the non-frustration of natural ends.
It seems to me that the difference between the use of contraceptive pills and 'natural familly planning' is essentially a difference between chemistry and physics. In both the intention is the same, to avoid pregnancy. One uses hormones to chemically regulate a woman's body, the other uses themometers, clocks, witching sticks (but never, presumably, alternatives to fully consumated vaginal intercourse). The intention is the same and the mechanisms only variations of the same thing -- keep the sperm from meeting up with the fertile ovum. So what's the difference?
Late to the party here but I felt the need to weigh in on this.
This issue is what is seriously causing me to consider leaving the church altogether. I have a feeling that some would be all to happy to see me leave. My choice to not have children was based on matters of conscience I will not get into here, but they were and are serious matters. We are taught that we cannot violate our conscience and I will not do so. It God judges me unfavorably in the end then I will leave that decision to him.
What I find reprehensible is that contraception always comes up in this "culture of death" talk. Who have I killed? So not having a child is tantamount to killing one now? This is starting to sound like the talk of a fertility cult instead of a religion. The church has no business getting involved in the intimate details of my committed monogamous marriage - a commitment that I also take very seriously.
I do understand and actually respect some of the underlying philosophy concerning natural law and the like. But the ability to act according to conscience, and not just submitting to instinct/nature/etc. is an integral part of bring human as well. The argument of course is that my conscience is obviously not properly informed. Does the church seriously believe that there are never valid reasons a person would decide not to have children, and that any decision to not procreate is sinful? I find this bizarre and completely removed from my life experience. Maybe it really is time for me to go.
It is heartening to see so many new voices emerging to challenge the myth that the sexual revolution and contraception have been a good thing for society.Collen Carroll Campbell, "What Women Want" http://www.wf-f.org/12-2-Campbell.htmlRita Joseph, "Serving an Epidemic of Sexual Excess: Free Contraceptive Coverage -- A Bad Joke Played on Women" http://www.wf-f.org/12-2-Joseph.htmlJennifer Fulwiler, "The Contraception Trap":http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jennifer-fulwiler/the-contraception-trap/#ixzz1sixRqAcS1Flesh:http://www.1flesh.org/category/arguments/Mary Eberstadt, "Has the Sexual Revolution Been Good for Women? No.":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304724404577297422171909202.htmlLila Rose, "Battle hymn of the anti-abortion feminist:"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74739.htmlTom Hoopes, "The Truth About Natural Family Planning:"http://www.kofc.org/en/columbia/detail/2012_07_nfp.htmlMister H, "Why the Catholic Church Opposes Contraception:"http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-catholic-church-opposes.htmlJanet Smith, with the classic "Contraception, Why not?"http://shop.mycatholicfaith.org/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=17Michael Giesler, "Contracepting America: the real war on women"http://lifesite.net/news/contracepting-america-the-real-war-on-womenLaura Locke, "The Dark Fruits of Contraception" http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/contraception%E2%80%99s-dark-fruits


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Usually the protocol for preparing electrocompetent E. coli cells calls for growing the cells at 37deg and 225rpms until they reach OD of 0.3. I was wondering, is there any reason they should grow at optimal conditions for growth, instead of at suboptimal, for example at 30 degrees? Also, what is the physiological/epigenetic difference between a culture of OD 0.2 vs 03. vs 0.3?
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I have an iPhone 4S, and an unlimited data plan, so I text. A lot. Apparently, it has been cutting one to two words off the ends of my text messages to my (non-iPhone-user) fiancé. I've always stayed under 160 characters - it splits those texts. Lately, I've taken to trying to stay under 100 characters, and still, the last 1-2 words get chopped off the end and sent as a new text. I can't find any answers online, and this is getting really aggravating for me and the recipients of my text messages. How do I fix this???
I have suffered numerous... Countless compatibility issues between different handsets/carriers. Even when texting in the same country.
One thing you have to understand is that a text is normally limited to 160 7-bits characters. Which means that any message containing special characters outside the range of the 7 bits characters will immediately be shorter.
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Depending on the characters you use the iPhone will select the character set adapted to the message.
Also I noticed that sometimes problems with character encodings and message length appeared when I was receiving messages from another carrier.
You should try sending the same message to another phone on the same carrier, then the same message on your carrier to see if the problem can be reproduced in these contexts.
As a side note you say you have an unlimited data plan. To my knowledge no carrier includes text messages in the data plan. You might want to check if you have unlimited text messages in your plan. If you use iMessage (blue messages on the iPhone) you effectively use the data plan, otherwise (green messages) go through the voice/text plan.
I am having the same issue with my texts splitting way under the 160 character count. This is happening to Sprint users since the IOS 5.1 upgrade. This is not happening to iPhone users who are with other carriers. A quick fix (until Sprint fixes this issue) is to space 3 times at the end of your message and it will not split (provided that is not over 160 after the spaces). It does work.
I have contacted Sprint and they want me to come in and have the prior operating system restored (when I was able to send a complete text). After that they will log it into the system as an issue.
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BELTON (February 5, 2013)--A Belton Small Animal Clinic employee is still in intensive care after being seriously injured in an accident in early January.
Jeffrey Ferguson suffered severe head trauma and has undergone several surgeries to repair damage to his abdominal area, according to a coworker.
The two-vehicle accident occurred at Hwy. 439 and Sparta Road on January 2.
Details about the wreck were not known.
Friends and coworkers at the Belton Small Animal Clinic are asking the community to assist them in praying for Ferguson.
A fund has been set up to help offset medical expenses.
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WEIRTON - Never Alone West Virginia, held at the Weirton Event Center, brought together members of the community to show support for those struggling with addiction.
Patti Barnabei, Never Alone founder, said the message is simple - you are never alone if you reach out for help.
The event featured live music and two motivational speakers, including Dwayne Woodruff, a cornerback with the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1979 to 1990 and current family law judge in Allegheny County, Pa.
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Woodruff, recanting his football days, said if you want to make a difference in someone's life, you can't do it by yourself. "You need a team."
"If you are going to fight drugs, alcohol and misguided youth, you need a good team. Just like the Pittsburgh Steelers. The community needs to start working out as a team," Woodruff said. "We are in a fight for kids looking to drugs and alcohol."
Woodruff said as a family court judge, he tries to show the juveniles before him that he cares for them and listens to what they are saying. "At least they know they are before a judge that cares for them. I treat them like my own kids."
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NEVER ALONE — Never Alone West Virginia on Saturday at the Weirton Event Center featured live music and motivational speakers about the dangers of drugs and getting help for addicts. Participating were, from left, Patti Barnabei, Never Alone founder, Dwayne Woodruff, former Pittsburgh Steeler and current Allegheny County, Pa., family law judge, and Joey DelSardo, former University of Pittsburgh football player and recovering drug addict. -- Mark Law
CANDLELIGHT MARCH — The end of Never Alone West Virginia on Saturday included a moment of silence to remember those that lost their life to drug addiction and for a candlelight march through the neighborhood around the Weirton Event Center. Cindy and Joe Alongi of Weirton prepare for the walk. -- Mark Law
Woodruff says he routinely is approached by juveniles that were once standing before him in court that turned their lives around and graduated high school or college and got a good job.
"They are proud for the first time. They think they are somebody. Get kids excited, get people out there that care, and they can do something with their life," he said.
But he also knows there are kids that stay on the wrong track.
"Today, we have too many kids who get too much of what they want instead of getting what they need. It takes a village to raise a child and I'm part of that village," Woodruff said.
"We don't have a juvenile problem. We have an adult problem."
Woodruff acknowledged the work of Barnabei in bringing the community together. "As adults, that is what we are supposed to do."
He said more people need to come to community events such as Never Alone.
"This is where it starts. The word will spread and it will get bigger and bigger."
Woodruff said the family needs to be the No. 1 priority today.
"If we aren't doing something positive, then someone out there will do something negative," he said about the influences on a child's life.
"Every kid wants to succeed. But when they lose guidance along the way - whoever is guiding them - then that is where they will go. Many kids want to be successful but they don't know what to do. Sometimes they are just scared. They have not learned that failure to part of life. Kids fall and they think it is over. We need to teach them to stand up and reach for their dreams," Woodruff said.
Also speaking was Joey DelSardo, a former University of Pittsburgh wide receiver and recovering drug addict,
DelSardo said he got addicted to pain pills in high school following a football injury.
"One thing I didn't know is that it would take five years to put that drug down," he said.
He eventually turned to heroin. DelSardo said nobody could see his addiction because he was so successful on the football field and basketball court in high school.
He got a scholarship to Pitt as a walk-on, One of his plays made the ESPN top play of the day as a freshman. But he was no longer the started in his sophomore year and his addiction turned worse. He stole from his brother, who idolized him. He had a gun pointed in his mouth while trying to buy drugs in the Homestead section of Pittsburgh. A neighbor, who was a cop, caught on to his addiction and told him that kicking the drug habit would be the hardest thing he ever did. DelSardo had to tell his family of his addiction, and he immediately went into a recovery program.
He has been clean for six years now, and has been speaking of his addiction recovery for the past three years.
He knew that recovery would take one day at a time.
"All of us here are affected by addiction. Some lost the lives of loved ones to addiction. Addiction is something you don't want to talk about," he said.
His goal is to reach just one addict when he talks. "That one person touches so many lives around them."
"I encourage people to get help. They can't do it alone. They need help."
The event concluded with a moment of silence for those who lost their lives to addiction in the community. A candlelight walk was then held in the neighborhood around the Weirton Event Center.
(Law can be contacted at email@example.com.)


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The �Textiles Today: Redefining the Medium� exhibition will open today with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Durango Arts Center. The display includes 20 nationally renowned textile artists and was curated by Durango artist Ilze Aviks. Most of the artists are teachers and professors whom Aviks met through her own travels as a guest instructor at universities and colleges throughout the U.S. �These are artists who really make a difference in the field,� Aviks said. �Textiles Today� will remain on display in the Barbara Conrad Gallery through June 2.


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Morgan Stanley to cut 6% of workforce
Layoffs are back on Wall Street, with Morgan Stanley expected to cut 6% of its workforce in the coming weeks.
Morgan Stanley plans to eliminate 1,600 jobs, due to "market conditions," according to a source familiar with the bank's plans.
The layoffs will hit employees at all levels, but more emphasis will be on "more senior employees," said the source.
The cuts will target what the bank calls its institutional securities group, which includes investment banking and stock and bond trading divisions, as well as the bank's back office support teams. Roughly half of the cuts will be made in the United States.
Morgan Stanley, which currently employs nearly 58,000, has been trimming its workforce over the past couple of years.
With this round of cuts, Morgan Stanley's total headcount will have been reduce by 10% since September 2011, to roughly 56,000.
The firm declined to comment but Morgan Stanley is far from alone.
In early December, Citigroup said it planned to cut 11,000 jobs, or 4% of its workforce.
After a challenging 2011, bank stocks were some of the biggest winners in 2012. Morgan Stanley's shares jumped 33% in 2012 and have continued to trade higher this year.


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Three Rivers police are looking for a man who demanded money from a store employee around 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
Police said the man entered South Main Shell, brandished a handgun and demanded that the clerk open a cash register. He fled from the business on foot.
A K-9 unit tracked the suspect to an area south of the store, before the scent was lost.
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I have a script that needs to be run every five seconds. I know that
cron can do tasks by the minute, but is there a way to run something every second?
Cron only allows for a minimum of one minute. What you could do is write a shell script with an infinite loop that runs your task, and then sleeps for 5 seconds. That way your task would be run more or less every 5 seconds, depending on how long the task itself takes.
It really does sound like you're doing something that you probably shouldn't be doing though. This feels wrong.
You could have a
My question, though, is What on EARTH could you be doing that needs to run every 5 seconds?
Just use a loop:
This will start your-script as a background job, sleep for 5 seconds, then loop again.
You can use Ctrl-C to abort it, or use any other condition instead of
Use cacti to monitor router and switch,but Cron only allows for a minimum of one minute,so if one port/device down,there is no warning until two minutes past.
Minimum configuration in cron is minutes, you can't set it for 5 seconds. You could use Quartz which does allow seconds. http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/docs/tutorials/crontrigger.html
You could use the GNU package mcron, a "Vixie cron" alternative.
"Can easily allow for finer time-points to be specified, i.e. seconds. In principle this could be extended to microseconds, but this is not implemented."
I've done this sort of thing very successfully (and the end result rans weeks at a time, till the machine is rebooted). As for what I was doing right now, updating information and putting it into cache - updating every 10 seconds.
The 'exec $0' restarts the script, but replacing the running script. It can be initially started with a crontab '@reboot' line.


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[European Union]
[crude oil]
By SARAH KENT and JENNY GROSS
The European Union's
ban on Iranian oil has pushed up the price of similar types of
low-quality oil as buyers scrabble for alternative
Paradoxically, there are surprising bargains to be found for
refiners with the flexibility to purchase and process
higher-quality grades.
While the price of high-sulfur Russian Urals crude has risen
sharply since the embargo began on July 1, higher-quality
grades in the Mediterranean and West Africa have come under
pressure, providing some unexpected breathing room for at least
some European refiners.
Soaring crude-oil prices and weakening local demand for fuel
eroded profits for European refiners in recent years, resulting
in several high-profile shutdowns.
Eight European refineries, equivalent to
about 8% of the working refining capacity in the region in
the first quarter of this year, have closed since the start of
the economic crisis in 2008.
Now, refineries that are able to process light, sweet crudes
are increasingly taking advantage of the lower prices, traders
in the Mediterranean market said.
"All the Iranian crude is no longer coming to Europe and that's causing a relative
shortage of heavy grades versus light ones and is creating a
distortion in the market," said Massimo Vacca, head of investor
relations at Saras, an Italian refiner.
"Saras is lucky because we have a flexible refining configuration. In general,
not all refineries can easily switch from one grade to the
European refiners have traditionally coveted high-quality,
sweet oil because it is easier to process into high-value
products such as gasoline.
As a result, it normally trades at a premium to oils with a
high sulfur content, similar in quality to Iran's crude, such
as Urals and Iraq's Kirkuk.
But the price of lower-quality crudes has been driven higher
this month because of the Iranian embargo, and low supplies and
delays in exports of Urals and Kirkuk.
At the same time, a surge in production of shale oil in the
US has reduced demand for light, sweet crude, while competition
remains high for heavier crude because of demand from high-tech
Asian refineries that can process it. And the resumption of
Libyan crude output has added to the glut of the light, sweet
Iranian oil output fell by 100,000 bpd in June, compared
with May, to 3.2 million bpd because of US and European Union
sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran over its nuclear program.
This took Iran's oil production to near 22-year lows.
Morgan Stanley, in a note published Wednesday, said the loss
of medium-sour oil from Iran has pushed some refiners to shift
purchases toward cheaper and more-available light, sweet crudes
from the Atlantic Basin.
But not all refiners have the ability to easily switch
between grades of crude oil, and that is putting pressure on
them to acquire similar-grade oil from other sources. The
European Union, on average, took 800,000 bpd of oil from Iran
in 2011.
"The refiners will clearly switch to the grades that make
most sense economically if they can make it work, but in the
first instance they would look for crude of a similar quality
to ones that they normally process, which is why Urals and
Iraqi crude may be preferred," said Toril Bosoni, a senior
oil-market analyst at the international Energy Agency.
"Anecdotal evidence and prices indicate there is increased
buying of Urals to replace Iranian [crude], and it's a good
substitute quality wise."
In the last week, Urals traded at a premium of as much as 30
cents to the physical Brent benchmark.
"In the past, sweet was stronger, but nowadays the situation
is different," said one oil trader at a European refiner, noting that the
surge in production in the US has caused the export market for
light, sweet crudes to fall apart.
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Is there some law of physics that strictly prohibits the projection of 2D or 3D images into thin air (such as holograms in movies) or is a solution to achieve this still up for grabs by an eventual discoverer?
Depends what you mean by project (and image!)
You can create a real image anywhere in space it's just that you can only see it if there is a screen or something to reflect it into your eyes - the image is obviously still there if you remove the screen.
You can also create a virtual image where the path of rays into your eye is the same as if the light was coming from an image at a particular position - even though there is nothing at that position. This is essentially what you are doing when you use a magnifying glass
So if you wanted to create the illusion of an image floating in space - you could do this by projecting the correct image directly into your eyes. If you want to do this and be able to move your head around then it gets trickier!
This imaging seems about state of the art right now http://www.gizmag.com/burton-true-3d-laser-plasma-display/20499/
Basically, a laser is focused at a certain point in air, and ionizes the air at that point, causing it to glow (and crackle.. not too safe)
Other approaches, use a similar principle, but with water or steam to require less power - not needing to ionize the air at the focal point.
An interesting paper that I have come across (can't find the reference just now) is not to use thin air but to use a clear aerogel, with quantum dots embedded in it.
In principle you could do it using two carefully tuned laser beams that scan a volume of air with invisible to the human eye light but feeding a two photon transition to a state that falls back to the ground state with a visible light transition.
There would, however, be the practical problem of having two fairly intense laser beams being shot out into the general environment...probably not eye safe without googles (and maybe protective clothing) to adsorb the (invisible) laser beams.
The most common way used to "project images on thin air" is by optically creating a virtual image. That's what 3D TVs and holograms do. (Note that 3D TV create a only a "static" virtual image : the point of view of the scene does not change if you move around ; unlike holograms). But one can tell none of those technologies can be used to reproduce what you see in (for example) StarWars : there is a need for a screen or a glass behind (every single pixel of) the 3D image for it to appear : the light rays have to come from somewhere, and we cannot yet curve them.. so.. in StarWars they are using a totally different technology : it litterally projects the image on thin air either by changing the state of the matter at the point of the projection or.. by curving light rays.. or.. by using some software like 3D Studio Max or Adobe's AfterEffect :P
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Hi there, In my studies I come up with this nonconvex optimization problem argmin |Ax|_2+lamda*|x|_1 subject to x'x=1 where cost function is nonsmooth but convex and the constrant in nonconvex. I tries subgradient projection method for convex constraints but the global solution is not my desired solution. My question is that I should solve this problem hurestically or there is a reliable method for this nonconvex optimization problem?
You can have a look of these papers: 1. Jonathan H. Manton, Optimization algorithms exploiting unitary constraints. 2. Zaiwen Zai and Wotao Yin, A feasible method for optimization with orthogonality constraints.
Wish these studies can help you.
Conceptually, for algorithm design, the following version of the problem might be amenable to a larger number of techniques:
\begin{equation*} \min_x\quad\|Ax-b\|^2\quad\text{s.t.}\quad \|x\|_1 \le \gamma,\quad\|x\|=1. \end{equation*}
There are two reasons behind this reformulation:
Of course, several other numerical ideas also apply. For example, to get a good solution, you could start with $\gamma$ very large so that the $\ell_1$ constraint essentially disappears; then solve the problem exactly, and then gradually tighten $\gamma$.


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Read the road as far ahead as possible and anticipate the flow of traffic. Act instead of react – increase your scope of action with an appropriate distance between vehicles to use momentum (an increased safety distance equivalent of about 3 seconds to the car in front optimises the options to balance speed fluctuations in traffic flow – enabling steady driving with constant speed).
2. Maintain a steady speed at low RPM
Drive smoothly, using the highest possible gear at low RPM.
3. Shift up early
Shift to higher gear at approximately 2.000 RPM. Consider the traffic situation, safety needs and vehicle specifics.
4. Check tyre pressures frequently at least once a month and before driving at high speed
Keep tyres properly inflated as low tyre pressure is a safety risk and wastes fuel. For correct tyre pressure (acc. To loading, highest pressure and speed driven), check with car's manual.
5. Consider any extra energy required costs fuel and money
Use air conditioning and electrical equipment wisely and switch it off if not needed. Electrical energy is converted from extra fuel burnt in a combustion engine, so electrical equipment doesn't work "for free" – it always costs extra energy and money.
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