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A delicious meal at Blu Italian Grille and live jazz and blues entertainment in Blu Bar were highlights of the classic, laid-back New Year's Eve celebration held Dec. 31 at the Louisville Marriott Downtown.
Hotel guests who selected one of the Marriott's special New Year's packages enjoyed a complete pampered experience, which included the meal as well as complimentary welcome cocktails and champagne, deluxe overnight accommodations, late check-out and a breakfast buffet for two in Blu Italian Grille.
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Thursday, September 6, 2001 / 11:30 AM
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Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne and Dr. Roslyn Carter of Florida Atlantic University are pleased to announce that 32 law enforcement professionals from 15 South Florida agencies will graduate tomorrow from the Center for Advanced Criminal Justice Studies. All successfully completed the Center's Criminal Justice Executive Leadership Program. Sheriff Jenne, Dr. Carter and Class Representative Capt. Louis Cavallo from North Lauderdale Police Department will speak.
The center, which opened in May 1999, is a partnership between the Broward Sheriff's Office, Florida Atlantic University and the Sheriff's Foundation of Broward County. Courses are taught on Fridays for 25 weeks at FAU's Davie campus. The program helps students apply criminal justice theory to real-life situations, and is valuable for mid- and upper-level managers hoping to become future sheriffs and chiefs.
This is the Center's first graduating class to include law enforcement professionals from agencies other than BSO. The graduates include: Capt. Edgar Morley of the Boca Raton Police Department; Lts. Wendy Sue Danysh, Chris Frey and Sgt. James Prestinari of the Boynton Beach Police Department; Capt. Brian Callaghan, Lt. John Hale, Lt. Frank Imparato, Sgt. Lynn Jaffe, Lts. Keith Neely, and Andrew Smalling of BSO; Sgt. Robert Beckmann of the Cooper City Police Department; Sgts. Tony Pustizzi and Kevin Montagna of the Coral Springs Police Department; Special Agent Maurice Spates of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement; Sgts. Tom Harrington, Harvey Jacques, Gregory Salters and Mitch VanSant of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department; Sgts. Sonia Queipo and Marsha Roaden of the Hallandale Beach Police Department; Sgt. Michael Springstun of the Hollywood Police Department; Cmdr. Michael Oh of the Lighthouse Point Police Department; Sgts. Michael Borrelli and Dana Watson of the Margate Police Department; Capt. Louis Cavallo and Sgt. Thomas Watkins of the North Lauderdale Police Department; Maj. Dan Smith, Lt. Reginald Allen, and Capt. Christopher Kneisley of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office; Terrill Gardner of the State Attorney's Office; Sgt. Nick Ismailoff and Lt. Ben Idalberto Torres of the Key Biscayne Police Department.
The next Criminal Justice Executive Leadership class begins in January 2002.
This report by:
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Few days back, I faced two interviews.
It's obvious that they are going to ask about the different techniques I have learned. So, I gave them link of my tutorials while giving telephonic interview (Skype). In short, I explained the things using my blogs which they wanted to know.
Say for example,
Q: What challenge did you face earlier and how did you solve it ?
A: I got stuck when client insist me to have customized moviePlayer in iPhone, I came out to an solution. I have given complete brief of that technique here.
After this conversation, this was their response:
We are happy to see you active in such manner. But our company has some rules and regulations. You are not allowed to post anything regarding our project. If you are willing to obey our rules, we are happy with that and we will hire you.
I just couldn't understand why knowledge sharing is strictly prohibited?
I am fully agree that if company is developing new APIs, or new technologies I should not publicly discuss it.
But my blogs are about some techniques sharing. Why am I forced to shut down my open-source sharing if I want to join that company?
I also explained them, If no one is going to share their knowledge, how are you going to learn such things?
I gave examples like these:
- If Ray Wenderlich doesn't post about game development, how am I gonna learn game development basics for iPhone / iOS?
- If Jon Skeet is not allowed to give answer on Stack Overflow, how am I gonna learn superstitious things?
Summary :
- Why do company think like that "Our developer share our company's details?"
- Why do company think like that "It's their own property, If we do some research regarding development on office? " (need brief, I can elaborate more, just comment for that, I will edit question).
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Well! I am sharing techniques in small pieces & functionalities. I am not sharing whole project. Similarly, I am also doing some research work at my home & share about my technical experience. What is the reason behind interrupting someone's life. Its all about sharing the stuff that you have learned & it's strongly not about sharing companies client details or company projects.


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Rademacher's Theorem(that every Lipschitz function on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ is almost everywhere differentiable) is a remarkable result on the structure of the space of Lipschitz functions, but I was wondering whether it has any interesting applications. All of the "useful" results(or maybe "applicable") that I know of about weak versions of differentiability involve estimates(eg Sobolev embedding, Lebesgue differentiation theorem.)
The one-dimensional Rademacher differentiation theorem implies that the Cartesian product of two compact measure zero subsets of the real line is purely unrectifiable, which in turn can be used to establish the Besicovitch projection theorem, which asserts that if a subset of the plane has finite 1-dimensional Hausdorff measure and is purely unrectifiable, then almost every projection of that set to the real line has measure zero. Thus, for instance, if one takes the Cartesian product $C \times C$ of two copies of the middle-halves Cantor set $\{0,1\} \in C = \frac{1}{4} C \cup (\frac{1}{4} C + \frac{3}{4}) \subset [0,1]$, then almost every line in the plane will fail to hit this set. (Quantitative versions of this problem (commonly known as "Buffon's needle problem") have attracted attention in recent years, see e.g. the recent survey of Laba at http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0247 .)
A few years ago with Hans Lindblad in http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.0949 , we used the one-dimensional Rademacher differentiation theorem to establish that solutions to a certain nonlinear wave equation in one spatial dimension necessarily decayed to zero as time went to infinity. This is in contrast to the linear wave equation which does not decay in one spatial dimension. The rough idea was that if the solution did not decay, then one could show that it concentrated along a Lipschitz curve in spacetime, which by Rademacher was approximately linear at some locations and some scales, and this could be shown to be in contradiction to a certain Morawetz-type estimate on solutions to nonlinear wave equations.
One fairly well known application of the higher-dimensional Rademacher differentiation theorem is by Pansu who extended this theorem to Carnot groups, and a variant of his theory establishes the fact that if two finitely generated nilpotent groups are quasiisometric, then their associated Carnot groups are isomorphic, which is still one of the strongest statements known about quasiisometry of groups in the nilpotent case.
A Banach space is said to have the RNP provided every Lipschitz function from the line into the space has a point of differentiability. Reflexive spaces and separable dual spaces have the RNP. If $X$ is a separable Banach space and $Y$ has the RNP, Rademacher's theorem is used to proved that every Lipschitz function from $X$ into $Y$ is differentiable off a null set (where null set can have various meanings). A huge number of results in nonlinear geometric functional analysis depend on this. See the book "Geometric nonlinear functional analysis" by Benyamini and Lindenstrauss for some of them.
The application I am most familiar with is that it is used in the proof of the following result:
Suppose $f : \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$ is Lipschitz. For any $\epsilon > 0$, there exists a $C^1$ function $g$ such that the Lebesgue measure of the set { $f\neq g$ } $\cup$ { $D f \neq D g $ } is at most $\epsilon$.
One reason I know for this result being useful is that it gives the `approximate' tangent bundle structure on a countably rectifiable set:
A countably $n$-rectifiable subset of Euclidean space is usually defined as a set (almost all of) which is contained in a countable union of Lipschitz images of $\mathbb{R}^n$. The preceeding proposition is used to show that one can replace " Lipschitz images of $\mathbb{R}^n$ " with "embedded $n$-dimensional $C^1$ submanifolds" in this definition.
Since $C^1$ submanifolds have tangent spaces, one is now only a couple of checks away from the fact that one can define the intrinsic derivative of a locally Lipschitz function at almost every point of a countably rectifiable set.
Having this kind of differentiable structure for objects and functions so weak is essential for studying various GMT-esque regularity problems e.g. understanding the singularities of stationary varifolds.


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Terry Wayne Wilson, 47, of Andover, retired US Postal Service employee, passed away on Oct. 29 after a 7-year battle with cancer. He was born in Independence, Kan., on Aug. 19, 1965 to Morris "Stub" and Judy (Hare) Wilson. Terry was married to Kim Reed in Andover. Terry worked for the postal service since 1988 and had been the Postmaster in Andover for 11 years. He was an all-around athlete and coach. Terry is survived by his wife, Kim; parents, Stub and Judy Wilson; children, Colton Levi Wilson, Colbie Leigh and Coby Levin Hanshaw, and Caleb Liam Wilson; brother, Marty Eugene Wilson; nephews, Matt and Trevor Wilson; and many other family and friends. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Heritage Funeral Home, 502 W. Central, Andover. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Faith Baptist Church, 417 W. Central, Andover with interment to follow at Bruno Township Cemetery, Andover. Online register available at www.heritageofandover.com
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- BSO Case Number: DR12-12-038
- PIO Number: 12-12-1A
- Date: 12/1/12
- Time: 7:06 a.m.
- Place of Occurrence: Small alley between the Rattlesnake Jake's restaurant and Sea Girl clothing shop, 2054 N. Ocean Drive, Deerfield Beach
- Jurisdiction: Deerfield Beach
- Bradley Suessine, 42, male, 2/13/70, at large (DECEASED)
- John Stabile, 23, male, 6/12/89, 728 SE 19 Ave., Apt. 1, Deerfield Beach (IN CUSTODY)
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Broward Sheriff's Office homicide detectives are releasing the identity of the homeless man who was stabbed early Saturday morning (Dec. 1) in Deerfield Beach.
BSO deputies were dispatched to 2054 N. Ocean Drive in Deerfield Beach at 7:06 a.m. December 1, after a man said he had killed a homeless man. When units arrived on scene, John stabile, 23, was waiting for them, sitting on the street curb with the murder weapon in his waistband. Stabile told detectives he stabbed the adult male, identified as Bradley Suessine, 42, in the alley between Rattlesnake Jake's and the Sea Girl shop, and then waited for him to die before calling to report the murder. He denies knowing or having had any problems with Suessine, but told detectives he had seen him around the area and had been thinking about killing him for a couple of weeks.
Stabile said he saw Suessine Saturday morning, went to his own apartment nearby to grab a large butcher knife, then went back to find Suessine and kill him.
Stabile told detectives he wants to go to jail for the rest of his life. If not, he said he would kill again.
Stabile is being held at the BSO Main Jail on one count of murder in the first degree
- INVESTIGATORS: Dets. Perez and Berrena, CID-Homicide; Deerfield Beach; Crime Scene
- THIS REPORT BY: Keyla Concepcion/PIO 12/4/12 0930
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What are some trading strategies for stocks (just stocks, no derivatives) using freely available online data sources?
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There are two broad categories of trading strategies.
Elder's book outlines the major ones: http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Living-Psychology-Tactics-Management/dp/0471592242
And the depressing truth about most of these strategies is outlined by Aronson: http://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Based-Technical-Analysis-Scientific-Statistical/dp/0470008741/


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I want to dig into C and normally when I want to learn a new language I think of a simple/attainable project goal that has some practical purpose (make use of an api, automate a task, etc...)
I'm having a harder time coming up with one for C mainly because everything I read points to the fact that C's primary use currently is in embedded systems and more complex software projects like operating systems.
Does this point me to the fact that I don't need to learn it or that I just need to be a bit more convoluted in my learning strategy?
References to practical learning resources? (tutorial/how to that produces an end result that has some purpose/benifit)


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I have a Series 1 pole with a pole rotator and foot plate on the bottom and a Quick Mount Mini Adapter Plate on the top.
I want to mount a RS-1 without rotator to the top of the pole. Will the RS-1 without rotator mount directly to a Quick Mount Mini Adapter Clamp or do I need an some kind of adapter?
Thank you
Martin Waite
With pole adapter the connection is fixed to top of pole. With QMM you can take off the whole RS1-S with camera mounted off top of pole, which I feel is the most comfortable and secure version. You have to change the lens ring position from normal position for R1 to another one for R1-S. Then the foot is mounted to the opposite side of Nikon white camera mount point on the lens. You can measure H for NPP as shown and add 6,5mm for reference offset point of large side of the vertical rail. So add H = lens axis to bottom of foot + 6,5mm = LRS on R1-S. Test with the well known tutorials.
Hope this helps a little bit.
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With the ring mount systems like RS-1 it's not clear to me how to calibrate the upper rail setting. Does this mean that, based on the lens/camera combination the customer submits, the collar you ship requires no calibration by the customer? In other words, the customer only needs to calibrate the lower rail?
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It's calibrated like the R1 Series. There are inserts to be placed in the lens ring for different lenses which offer you the possibility to have a fixed point.
For example: http://www.nodalninja.com/qr/r1-r10/...-and-nikon/31/
There are a few settings, in case you like to use your Nex5 Dennis might help you with settings. But you have to test it on your own anyway.
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Ok. I looked at the R1 manual and it looks like there is an adjustment, if I understand step 5 correctly. In this case, do you have to note your calibration setting and line it up every time you mount the lens to the quick release mount? If that's the case, it seems like it would be a risk if working in a hurry in dim lighting.
You can use a rail stop to do it in the dark or one of the inserts.
Insert like this for example:
To adjust the panohead in the evening or even in the dark I bought myself an outdoor headlamp which let's me see everything I need.
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How are the rail stops and stop plates installed? I'm trying to fully understand what I need so I can order what I need in one shipment.
Railstops are placed on the footplate of the lens ring itself. This offers changing if you like to change your lens.
The stop plate will be placed below the footplate and gives fixed position. "LRS 35" in the picture is the number for the top plate your have to use with this certain lens ring. There is also a "universal" version shown by Nick. If you use this one, glue the parts to the stop plate when you have found your parts. I lost one of the parts because I did not glue them.
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FRAMINGHAM - The Framingham Public Library closes today at 5:30 p.m. for the July 4 holiday and doesn't reopen until Monday.
The closing applies to both the main library on Lexington Street and the McAuliffe branch library on Nicholas Road.
For more on the library, visit www.framinghamlibrary.org.
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Chicken and Sweet Corn Soup
Categories: Comfort Foods, Kid-friendly, Low-fat, Quick to fix
Type: Soups and Stews
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Corn adds a little sweetness to this yummy chicken soup recipe.
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 30M
Serves: Serves 4
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp (25g) butter
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 2 × 12oz (350g) cans corn kernels, drained
- 12oz (350g) leftover roast chicken, skin removed, coarsely shredded
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 4 cups hot chicken stock
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- handful of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
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- Heat the olive oil and butter in a Dutch oven or large deep frying pan over low heat. Add the onion, and cook gently for about 5 minutes, or until soft.
- Add 1 can of the drained corn into a food processor, and pulse on and off for a few times until the kernels are a chunky purée. Scrape this into the pan with the onion. Stir in the chicken and garlic, and season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Increase the heat slightly, and cook for a few minutes longer to blend flavors.
- Now add the remaining corn and the stock, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat slightly, and simmer for 20 minutes. Taste, and season again with salt and pepper if needed. Stir in the parsley just before serving.
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There are two lists {a, b, c, a, d, a, e} and {a, c, a}. I need to remove those elements from the first list which appears in a second list, to get {b, d, a, e}
Please see my second answer; the method therein is far more efficient than the ones below.
Here somewhat longer but also a bit more efficient:
This avoids incrementing counters for elements that will never be dropped.
With some data this is not too far behind Leonid's method:
Where there is heavy duplication Leonid's method is still much faster than mine.
New proposal
I was thinking about this problem today and came up with a new approach. In testing it appears to be competitively fast, often notably faster than any other method yet posted. It is also quite clean.
A limitation shared with rasher's
The question example:
The prior frontrunners for performance are Leonid's
For all values (in this test)
The code above is quite opaque compared to my more direct and literal first answer. I think an explanation is in order.
The list of elements-to-remove, named
I am sure I missed a more elegant / short version, but here is an implementation which will be efficient even for large lists:
It borrows main ideas from here, but modifies it to the needs of the problem at hand. Once position intervals for elements in the sorted main list are found, they are shrinked by the number of same elements present in the second list, from the start (from the left end). From this, I generate partial list of positions in the ordered list, and reverse that via the ordering of that list, to get a list of positions in the original list. The algorithm has a log-linear complexity in the length of the first list and linear complexity in the length of the second list.
Examples and benchmarks
We have
for larger lists:
A much faster method. Based on my method for multiple-position finding:
Caveats: I assume the list of elements to be deleted is a subset of the target list. Easily modified if that's not the case.
A quick performance comparison with the two fasted methods posted previously. Relative performance (time, normalized to 1 for the fastest), on a list generated with
Here's a slightly unconventional solution using patterns, and is very compact too:
This exploits the fact that by default,
In Mathematica 9.0.0 there are several undocumented functions for dealing with hash maps explicitly.
Here is the solution based on these functions:
But for this particular question solutions by Leonid and Mr.Wizard are faster.
An approach using
Simple Approach where order does not matter
For the test case this yields:
Perhaps, not the desired outcome.
Order matters
This is somewhat messy but I post anyway. Most of the code relates to order:
For the test case this yields the desired:


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Fort Campbell is opening a renovated women's health clinic at the Blanchfield Army Community Hospital.
A ribbon-cutting event will be held on Monday at the post on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line. The $8.4 million renovation started in February 2012 with collaboration from the staff members to create a patient-center design.
Obstetric patients will benefit from a breastfeeding room, a 3-D ultrasound room, and large areas for education and group appointments. The new clinic is more environmentally friendly and now encompasses 28,000 square feet.


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The NAACP has joined forces with the wife of a Georgia man now serving a lifetime sentence for a shooting they and several witnesses all agree he only committed after his family was attacked on their own property by a raging and threatening trespasser.
John McNeil has been jailed at the Macon State Prison since November of 2006 in the shooting death of Brian Epp, a 19-year-old contractor the family once employed before engaging in a running feud with him which had recently grown even more heated when Epp pulled a knife on McNeil's 19-year-old son.
From Day 1 of the December 6, 2005 deadly encounter, McNeil has maintained he only acted in self-defense after returning home to find Epp angrily stalking his property. After repeatedly asking him to leave, and even firing a warning shot, McNeil testified he only shot Epp after he charged towards him with his hands jammed in his pocket as if he were retrieving a weapon.
When Kennesaw police arrived, several witnesses supported McNeil's self-defense version of events and officers initially declined to seek charges against the 45-year-old businessman and community volunteer with no history of an arrest record.
"John called 911 and told the police he was on his way home," said his wife, Anita. "It is hard to think he got convicted. You expect the law to be on the side of the person defending themselves and not the aggressor."
Indeed, the law seemed to be on McNeil's side until Cobb County District Attorney Pat Head ingratiated himself with the case nearly a year to the date of its occurrence. Despite the steadfast recommendations of several investigating detectives, Head moved to criminally charge McNeil and in 2006 he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Almost immediately and in utter defiance of the decision to even formally charge McNeil, the Kennesaw Police Department refused to arrest McNeil, prompting Head to elicit and instruct the Cobb County Sheriff's Office to do so.
"The events of this case can only be described as tragic," said NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. "Yes, this is about a white DA who did the wrong thing… overrode two white detectives who did the right thing. We want to reunite John McNeil with his family."
Raising Jealous' and other activists' sense of urgency to gain McNeil's release all the more are reports McNeil's wife has been diagnosed with advanced stage cancer, which has prevented her from visiting her husband for the last two years. McNeil's mother also died just last month.
"It is very possible that John McNeil's wife could die while he's still trying to clear his name," said Jealous. "She will now be flying down here with her mayor, who has arranged special transportation so that she could see her husband for what may be one last time."
Equally infuriating McNeil's supporters is the fact the state of Georgia legally allows individuals to defend themselves with a weapon if they feel threatened on their own property without having to wait for the situation to escalate. A predominantly white, conservative suburb Kennesaw also has a 30-year-old mandatory law requiring heads of households to own at least one firearm.
"If this can happen to John McNeil, then it can happen to any black man standing out here or standing anywhere in America, no matter how much good you've done or how right you are," said the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP. "The John McNeil case is the best example of unequal justice, not just in Georgia, but in America. Whether it is a black man trying to defend his property or he's a victim of circumstance, there's not justice."
Earlier this year, McNeil filed a writ of Habeas Corpus relief contending that his conviction was completely unsubstantiated, a legal maneuver which is now pending before the Baldwin County Superior Court. A 2008 appeal filed on his behalf was denied when six of seven Georgia Supreme Court Justices ruled to uphold his conviction.
Meanwhile, the case has also sparked instant comparisons to the Trayvon Martin case and how the Castle Doctrine compares to the state of Florida's incendiary 'Stand Your Ground Laws.' But in Jealous' eyes, there are clear distinctions.
"'Stand Your Ground' laws are so broad that they allow people to racially profile with deadly force anywhere," he said. "The basic difference is that the castle-doctrine law allows you to protect your home.' Stand your ground' allows you to appoint yourself vigilante-in-chief. And that's what Zimmerman (admitted shooter George) did."
"The heartbreaking thing," Jealous added, "is, here we are in the 21st century on the eve of the 150th-anniversary celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation and we still find ourselves defending black men [and] black people's most basic rights to protect their own lives."
Chimed Mark Yurachek, McNeil's attorney, "It's fair to say we have made what we feel is a compelling case for everyone to believe at the minimum my client deserves new trial, if not a release."
NAACP officials add they plan to hold a rally on the anniversary of McNeil's sentence in early November. Organizers recently sent out a petition urging the Georgia Attorney General not to pursue an appeal should the judge rule to overturn McNeil's verdict. To date, the petition has already amassed more than 12,000 signatures.
Click here to sign up for the NAACP's petition to get justice for John McNeil.
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GAUDIO, Dominick M., Sr., 80 of Follansbee, WV, passed away on Saturday, July 6, 2013, at Weirton Geriatric Center, Weirton, WV.
Dominick was born on Dec. 19, 1932, in Follansbee, WV., the son of the late Patsy and Concetta (Carigliano) Gaudio.
Dominick was a veteran of the United States Air Force. He worked in the steel industry for many years. Dominick was a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Follansbee, WV.
In addition to his parents, Dominick was preceded in death by his wife, Clara (Zackoski) Gaudio; and nine brothers and sisters.
Dominick is survived by two sons, Dominick (Cindy) Gaudio Jr. of Weirton, WV and Anthony (LaWanda) Gaudio of Los Angeles, CA; four grandchildren, Leah, Rossi, Jon and Christian Gaudio; two sisters, Jo Ann Cline of Weirton, WV, and Caroline Zaposki of Arizona; a brother, Patsy Gaudio of Follansbee, WV; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Family and Friends will be received on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, from 4-8 p.m., and again on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, from 9 a.m. until time of Liturgy of the Word outside of Mass at 10 a.m. at the James Funeral Home, 1245 Main St., Follansbee, WV (304-527- 1717), with Father Pete Giannamore, presiding.
Entombment will follow in Highland Hills Memorial Gardens, Follansbee, WV with military honors by the United States Air Force and the Ohio Valley Veterans Honor Guard.
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The Disturbing Origins of 5 Common Nursery Rhymes
#2. Pop Goes the Weasel
All around the mulberry bush
The monkey chased the weasel;
The monkey thought 'twas all in good sport
Pop! goes the weasel.
A penny for a spool of thread,
A penny for a needle-
That's the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
We Thought it Meant...
Spontaneous combustion in the animal kingdom, along with an assertion that all monkeys are douchebags.
But Some Experts Say...
Pop goes the Weasel is a merry tune centered on an all too familiar children's theme: the cycle of poverty in society.
A good chunk of the poem is made up of plays on words that are themselves Cockney slang terms from the old days. So for instance, "Pop" is a slang term meaning to pawn something (that is, sell it at a pawn shop) while "weasel" translates to "coat". Does that help? No?
Well, the deal was that no matter how piss poor a London man was back in the day, he was expected to own a suit in order to dress nicely on Sunday. The trick to being able to do this was to pawn your suit ("Pop goes the weasel") on Monday and then purchase it back before Sunday.
One of the lesser-known, but more traditional verses states:
Up and down the City road,
In and out the Eagle,
That's the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
The Eagle refers to The Eagle Tavern in northern London, reminding young ones about excessive poverty due to heavy drinking and depression--a lesson that every child should know by age 5.
#1. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockleshells
And pretty maids all in a row.
We Thought it Meant...
A cute old woman with an interest in horticulture. Oh, and it has the word "cockleshell." We like that.
A dick bouquet of cockleshells. Weiner.
But Some Experts Say...
Queen "Bloody" Mary was popular enough to frequent a number of nursery rhymes, which is pretty impressive all these centuries later. How many nursery rhymes do you appear in? Yeah, that's what we thought. You need to start doing something with your life.
Anyway, in this delightful tune, Mary is addressed first-hand about all of the poor saps she's sent to the graveyard (her garden). The silver bells refer to instruments of torture that crushed the thumb with the tightening of a screw, and cockleshells (heh) were torture devices that were attached to the genitals. Come on, don't act surprised. They're called cockleshells for God's sake.
The maids in the final line allude to the newly invented guillotine, which was nicknamed The Maiden.
They called it "The Maiden" because the first moniker, "Captain Choppy," never caught on [citation needed].
If your childhood isn't sufficiently ruined check out The Gruesome Origins of 5 Popular Fairy Tales or take a look back at 8 Kids Movies That Lied to Us.


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America Recycles Day: Collection at Lipscomb University
To celebrate America Recycles Day, Nov. 15, 2013, Lipscomb Academy and Lipscomb University are hosting household and e-waste collections on Friday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Nov. 16. The academy will collect items at the elementary school campus at 4517 Granny White Pike, Nashville, and the university will collect items at the Lipscomb Academy football field at the corner of Lealand and Caldwell lanes.
Household and electronic waste will be collected along with expired drugs and recyclable materials.
Items accepted and not accepted are listed below. For more information e-mail Linda Phipps at firstname.lastname@example.com or call her at 615.966.6629 or call Ginger Reasonover at 615.966.6326.
Household waste items accepted on both collection days are:
- Small batteries, alkaline and rechargeable (A, AA, AAA, C, D, 9-volt, button) – No car batteries.
- Compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) & fluorescent tubes
- Used and well-worn clothing and linens (for charity use and cloth recycling)
- Cell phones
- Mercury thermometers can be exchanged for a digital thermometer
- Empty personal-care containers, such as shampoo, conditioner, make-up, mascara, etc.
- Unused and out-of-date medications, both prescriptive and over-the-counter
- Ink cartridges
- Plastic bags (grocery store, department store, dry cleaning, etc.)
- Empty chip bags
- Aluminum cans
- Plastic beverage bottles
- Newspaper
*No liquid wastes of any kind.
E-waste items accepted include:
Computers and Peripherals
Complete and partial systems (working or not), processors (CPUs), optical drives (CDROM, CDRW, DVD, etc), network and communications hardware (modems, routers, hubs, etc), drives (hard drives, floppy), keyboards, laptops, mice, monitors, network hardware (servers), paper tape readers and punchers, plotters, printers, tape drives
Home Electronics
TVs (CRT, flat panel, plasma, etc), microwaves, mixers, phones (corded, cordless, and cellular), entertainment goods (VCRs, DVD players, radios and speakers but NO WHITE GOODS (including: refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers).
Office Equipment
Barcode equipment, pagers, copy machines, fax machines, telephone systems (cordless, cellular, desk)
Security equipment
Cameras, recorders, alarms, VCR's, key pads
Utility and Power Equipment
CATV, cable, electric generators, gas meters, repeaters, transformers, water meters, specialty equipment, construction, production, manufacturing equipment
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Everyone in general lean towards roof or gable end of house venting. Then of these two whichever is shortest run..Also everyone agrees down hill slope toward exterior of house..If one is to vent through the roof no house could accomplish this. The slope would inevitably point back to the ceiling. My house has two baths on the front side of house..Currently they vent to the front side of soffit..If I vented them both to the Gable 18ft of pipe would be needed. If vented through the roof 13ft would be needed to get to the back side of the ridge vent..Any advice would be appreciated.
I have a similar issue. The conclusion I have come to is that the shortest available route that is horizontal is probably best if you have to take account of cold climate and that a solid pipe if possible is even better. You will need to note the distance spec of your fan and go for more power if necessary. If you have very cold winters you may have problems with steam condensing in a vertical pipe and dripping back into your bathroom. In any case the vent conduit should be covered with insulation.


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Table of Contents
- Anemia facts
- What is anemia?
- What are the symptoms of anemia?
- What causes anemia?
- Can inadequate iron cause anemia (iron deficiency anemia)?
- Iron deficiency anemia (continued)
- What about sudden (acute) blood loss as a cause of anemia?
- What are other causes of anemia?
- Can anemia be hereditary?
- How is anemia diagnosed?
- What is a complete blood cell (CBC) count?
- How is blood collected for a CBC?
- What is the red blood cell (RBC) count?
- What is hemoglobin?
- What does a low hemoglobin level mean?
- What is the hematocrit?
- How is hematocrit determined?
- How is anemia treated?
- What are the complications of anemia?
- What is the outlook (prognosis) for anemia?
Anemia facts
- Anemia is a medical condition in which the red blood cell count or hemoglobin is less than normal.
- For men, anemia is typically defined as hemoglobin level of less than 13.5 gram/100 ml and in women as hemoglobin of less than 12.0 gram/100 ml.
- Anemia is caused by either a decrease in production of red blood cells or hemoglobin, or an increase in loss (usually due to bleeding) or destruction of red blood cells.
- Some patients with anemia have no symptoms. Those that do have symptoms may
- feel tired,
- become easily fatigued,
- appear pale,
- have a feeling of a heart racing,
- feel short of breath, and/or
- have worsening heart problems.
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@hamas We are bombing you.
Matt Buchanan of Buzzfeed hasnoticed something unusual about the Israeli Defense Forces Twitter feed. This morning it announced a major assault on Gaza and has been regularly updating followers on the operation.
That came at 9:29 a.m. Two minutes later, the IDF tweeted:
That link takes you to the IDF's liveblog of the assault, where you can watch a video of the IDF bombing a car carrying Al-Jabari, along with a poster listing his offenses and announcing that he has been "ELIMINATED." And if you missed that on the liveblog, you could catch it onTwitter:
As the day wore on, the IDF continued livetweeting the operation. It began uploading photos to its Flickr account. It reminded followers of Hamas's crimes. It offered free advice to members of Hamas:
Slate'sFruzsina Erdgh says this is good propaganda. And no doubt she's right. But it's also bad for the soul.Read the Reuters report on "Operation Pillar of Defence" here.
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The chance of the lions and lambs lying down together in that part of the world seem to be slim to none.
My first thought about this was that dotCommonweal had been hi-jacked by some spammer. Is it possible to reduce it all in size?
Your wish...
The Israelis had demonstrated enormous patience in containing their response to new rocket fire from Garza. The usual mantra is already underway: those damnable Jews must be wiped off the face of the earth for having the gall to defend themselves.
Who started this round of attacks? Hamas?
yes, Israel's attack was in response to Palestinian rocket fire .... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-assault.h...
Hello? See that Reuters story I linked to at the end?
The Reuters story says the operation began with the assassination of Jabari, but as to why it was instituted in the first place - seems to be a response to Palestinian rocket fire beforehand, at least according to the NYT article I linked to above ..."Southern Israel has been struck by more than 750 rockets fired from Gaza this year that have hit homes and caused injuries .... On Saturday, Gaza militants fired an antitank missile at an Israeli military jeep patrolling the Gaza border, injuring four soldiers. Both the rocket fire and the buildup of advanced weaponry in Gaza have increasingly tested Israeli officials and prompted such an intense response, according to military experts in Israel. "
From the Reuters report:"The onslaught shattered hopes that a truce mediated on Tuesday by Egypt could pull the two sides back from the brink of war after five days of escalating Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli strikes at militant targets."
Also, Jack: watch your mouth. No one has damned the Jews here.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/10/cnews-us-palestinians-israel-v... story takes us back 5 days, when Israel bombed a ste in Gaza from which rockets were being fired, and alludes to an altercation that killed an 18 year old Palestinian two days earlier as possibly sparking that rocket attack.It is a typical escalation where it is hard to place blame IMO. I's "surgical strike"/assassination follow P's escalation of rocket attacks follows I's....
Surgical strikes???More military claptrap. Whether from Israel, or the US drone war and the American continued policy of targetted assisnation.Result in this latest "surgical strike" eight civilians killed at least 2 children.Not excusing the Hamas "terrorists".As far as US foreign policy, where is Ron Paul when you need him!!
It has often been noted that the nature of war has changed. ISTM that the morality of "surgical strikes" needs to be developed. I'm not so sure they are always wrong.
OK, Grant - I didn't read the Reuters article closely enough.I don't know about the morality of drone warfare but I think it's inevitable because it saves lives on the side that is using it against others. Maybe part of what seems odd about the Israelis live blogging a war is that we aren't used to such pragmatism?
The question of who started what in that part of the world reminds me of one of my namesake's line in Airplane II:McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now. Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it...
Morality in warfare? Even in the much vaunted "self defense" the best we can hope for is "Father forgive them for they know not what they do?"Disclosure: I spent a wee bit of time in the SE Asian garden spot called Viet Nam back in the days.
The Twitter post is repugnant and revolting. (what does it say that both repugnant and revolting are violent words at their base?) It is hard not to blame the Israelis. They have more resources with which they can be more creative for peace and unity. General Marshall (of the great Marshall Plan) told Truman not to allow the state of Israel to happen. Now that it happened can't we devise a Marshall plan there? After all the Dutch may be coming to New York to block the floods. Not without remuneration and active pitchmen. Will it be called New Amsterdam again?
" It is hard not to blame the Israelis"I guess I don't want to blame them for a number of reasons, partly that we as Catholics made their lives miserable for centuries, because they were almost exterminated by the Germans, because they have no other friends than us, and because if we were in their shoes I think we would be doing pretty much the same things they are. That's not to say that what they're doing is 100% right, but there's plenty of blame to go around in this conflict.
The NYT has a discussion of "targeted killings" by 5 debaters. Very interesting. I didn't know, for instance, that it is sometimes allowable by some international law. The writers set up some criteria for when it would be justified -- and wise. There is also a chilling comment by Jessica Snapper, "... the only unethical action you can take in warfare is the failure to act in the best interest of your people." Sheesh.http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/11/14/how-can-targeted-killing...
I guess I dont want to blame them for a number of reasons, partly that we as Catholics made their lives miserable for centuries, because they were almost exterminated by the Germans, because they have no other friends than us, and because if we were in their shoes I think we would be doing pretty much the same things they are. Thats not to say that what theyre doing is 100% right, but theres plenty of blame to go around in this conflict.Thank you Crystal, and God bless you.
Thank you Crystal and Bob, and God bless you. I understand up to 800 rockets have been fired into Israel this year alone.
Approximately 200 rockets from Gaza struck Israel in 2010. Over 600 rockets struck in 2011. Over 800 rockets struck Israel in 2012 before Israel acted on November 14. In the 4 days before November 14, that is, from November 10-13, 121 rockets struck Israel from Gaza. As the rocket attacks escalated in the last few months, Israel repeatedly warned Gaza that there would be consequences if it did not stop. Israel has the same right of self defense as any other country and Gaza has the same duty as any other country to refrain from its acts of aggression. No one can fight an urban war without inflicting unintended casualties on civilian populations. Not Israel. Not the United States. Not NATO in Libya. Not the opposition to Assad in Syria. No one ever has and no one ever will. If Israel is to avoid such casualties, then it must not fight back. And that is the real aim of some who accuse Israel of war crimes whenever a Palestinian civilian is killed to make it morally unacceptable for Israel to defend itself. The difference between Israel and Gaza is that every rocket aimed at Israel is intended to kill civilians. Civilians are the acknowledged and undeniable target. Gaza deliberately stores weapons in schools and hospitals and mosques. Under the Geneva Convention, it is a war crime to do so. And although Israel has refrained from attacking such sites, under international law, it is permitted to attack civilian sites that are being used for military purposes.


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Baseball Readies for Weekend SAC Series at Lincoln MemorialApril 10, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Looking to remain in the top-six in the South Atlantic Conference standings for its first ever berth in the Food Lion SAC Tournament, Anderson University hits the road for a key conference series with last year's tournament champion, Lincoln Memorial, beginning with a single game on Friday at 4 p.m., following by a series-closing doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m.
The Trojans
Despite a nonconference setback to nationally-ranked Lander on Tuesday, AU remains in the tournament hunt, taking two-of-three from SAC rival Lenoir-Rhyne last weekend at Anderson Memorial Stadium. With the two triumphs, the Trojans are a half-game ahead of Newberry and Carson-Newman for fifth place in the SAC standings, as the top-six teams in the conference will advance to the SAC Tournament beginning on April 24.
Overall, Anderson enters the weekend with a 16-25 record, but is 4-2 in its last six contests. Despite the below .500 overall record, the Trojans are 11-12 within the league, as just four of the 11 SAC teams carry winning records inside the league.
In the last conference series against L-R, AU received two complete games win from starters Thomas Goodman and Landon Beck. Goodman shined in the first game on Saturday, tossing nine innings while striking out five Bears en route to his third victory of the season. Despite giving up a season-high 11 hits in the second game on Saturday, Beck bounced back and totaled five strikeouts for his fifth complete game of the year.
Offensively, the Trojans are led by sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper, who leads the team in average (.358), runs scored (37), hits (58), RBI (43) doubles (16) and triples (2). Cooper is also one of two players in the SAC with 100 or more total bases with 102 for the season.
Behind Cooper in the doubles category, senior outfielder Paul Como is currently on a seven-game hitting streak while driving in seven runs and scoring six times during the streak. For the year, Como has blasted four home runs, with three coming during his current hitting streak, while hitting .277 for the year.
Classmate and fellow outfielder Nathan Galliford has hit 12 homers on the season, as he is one of two players in the league with double figure home runs. The senior is hitting .299 for the campaign with 38 RBI (fourth in SAC) and 35 runs scored (sixth in SAC).
The Railsplitters
Sitting atop the conference standings, Lincoln Memorial enters the weekend with a 25-12-1 overall record with a 15-5 mark in the SAC. Most recently, the Railsplitters have won six or their last seven contests and ride a three-game winning streak into the weekend. This week, LMU picked up a pair of nonconference wins, beginnings with a 14-7 victory over Kentucky State on Tuesday, followed by a 13-1 seven-inning win over UVa-Wise on Wednesday.
Headlining the Railsplitter lineup has been senior two-way player Josh Coker who is currently tied with Galliford for the conference lead in home runs with 12 and is in second behind Cooper in RBI with 42. His 15 doubles and 100 total bases are second to Cooper, as he was named the SAC Player of the Week and NCBWA National Hitter of the Week for games played between March 3-9. That week, Coker hit .467 with five home runs in four games. During that same week, Coker also posted three saves in 4.2 innings pitched. Currently, Coker leads the SAC in saves with eight.
Junior right-hander Logan Sawyer has the team-lead in wins with six in eight starts, while he carries a 4.06 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 58.2 innings. Fellow starter, right-hander Zac Butler, has a team-high 10 starts this season as he boasts a 5.06 ERA with 32 strikeouts in 58.2 innings.
The Series
Since the move into the SAC before the 2011 season, Anderson has one series win over the Railsplitters coming in 2011 when AU took two-of-three at Anderson Memorial Stadium. Since then, Lincoln Memorial has taken two-of-three from the Trojans over the last two campaigns.


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These days, attracting new refinery projects isn't a "specific aim" of the EDB, a government agency that promotes Singapore as an investment destination. They instead want new investment in specialty chemicals, which they say isn't as crowded with competitors.
By ERIC YEP
Singapore, one of Asia's top refining centers, isn't
actively seeking to expand its refining capacity, preferring
instead to attract new energy-related investment into the
specialty chemical sector, which isn't as crowded with
competitors, according to Eugene Leong, director of energy and
chemicals at the city-state's Economic Development Board.
Singapore is Asia's largest oil-trading hub and
fifth-largest oil refiner, with the capacity to process 1.3
million bpd of crude oil. It previously showed an interest in
expanding beyond the three refining complexes that are
currently located on Jurong Island, to the south of Singapore
proper, owned by Shell, ExxonMobil and Singapore Refining Co. -- a joint venture
between Chevron and Singapore Petroleum, a unit of
In 2010,
Singapore-based oil trader Hin Leong Group submitted a proposal
to build a 300,000-500,000-bpd refinery, the Energy Information
Administration said on its website in March.
But these days, attracting new refinery projects isn't a "specific aim" of
the EDB, a government agency that promotes Singapore as an
investment destination, Mr. Leong told The Wall Street
"Our focus really is on upgrading existing assets so that
they can be more competitive," he said, referring to a
combination of upgrading units and building plants to produce
value-added chemicals that are used to produce niche products
such as paints and electronics.
According to Standard Chartered analyst Priya Balchandani,
anyone considering building a new refinery in Singapore should
carefully weigh the pros and cons: On one hand, the city-state
is an established trading hub that could benefit from increased
business that will be generated as the global economic recovery
progresses, but on the other, a wave of oil-refining capacity
expansions could diminish demand for
Singapore's output.
In a report published late last year, Ms. Balchandani said
she expected global crude-distillation capacity to increase by
around 10 million bpd between 2013 and 2017, with Asia and the
Middle East accounting for most of the growth.
Competition in traditional refining and petrochemical sectors is heating up
in large part as a result of shifting export patterns, with
regional governments investing in local fuel production facilities to reduce reliance on
Major oil refiners in Asia have been able to derive strong
profits from the price differences between crude oil and
refined products over the past few years, but the addition of
new plants in the region, especially in China and the Middle
East, will put pressure on those price differences, or refining
"We continue to hold a cautious view on the Asia refining
sector on our assumption that refining margins will trend down
this year to $7.00 a barrel, from $7.50-7.60 a barrel in
2011-12," analysts at Nomura said in a research note last week,
citing overcapacity.
Rather than competing for narrowing margins, Singapore wants
to increase the proportion of refined products that are
processed into chemicals that can be sold at higher prices
compared with "commodity chemicals" that are used in everyday
plastics such as containers, bottles or bags.
Oil companies are on board, viewing Singapore as a
"long-term strategic manufacturing site," and they expect to
remain competitive through upgrades and specialty petrochemical products, Mr. Leong
The city-state's refining and chemicals sector accounted for
around 42% of foreign capital investment in 2012, second only
to electronics, according to the EDB. Foreign investment in the
chemical sector rose to S$6.7 billion in 2012 from S$2.5
billion in 2011.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch last month estimated the
specialty chemical market to be valued at around $100 billion
in Asia, half of which is driven by demand from China and less
than 10% from India, mainly in the construction, automobile,
information technology and cosmetics
The bank said most of this demand is met by companies in
North America, Europe and Japan rather than
domestic companies in consuming countries, as the Asian
chemical industry is mostly skewed toward producing commodity
Mr. Leong said he wasn't concerned that a glut of shale gas
in the US will give a price advantage to American petrochemical plants that use ethane
as a feedstock, as companies with
operations in Singapore can offset the added cost of naphtha feedstock used to make petrochemicals by diversifying into
specialty chemicals, vertically integrating their refining business, producing a
different product slate and by being closer to Asian end users
than their North American competitors.
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What The Internet Is Hiding From You
Short answer: Way more than you think. Former MoveOn director Eli Pariser laid it all out in this eye-opening TED talk, and got a standing ovation for his trouble. His book on the topic, The Filter Bubble, is out this week — help make it a hit here.
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Northwest & Northeast Arkansas Families Can Find Important Health Resources on Revamped Centers for Children Website
LITTLE ROCK, AR. (Aug. 19, 2013) — For parents of kids in northwest and northeast Arkansas, finding the best pediatric health information will now be easier with a newly revamped website for the Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Centers for Children, a network with facilities located in Lowell and Jonesboro.
The redesign of the site, centersforchildren.org, will provide greater convenience in navigation and usability for visitors and families with information from referring physicians of ACH and UAMS.
The Centers for Children offer pediatric subspecialty care for families throughout Arkansas, with convenient locations that administer clinic visits and follow-up medical care. These sites give services to patients ranging from infants to young adults, from initial diagnosis to follow-up care. With the collaboration of ACH and UAMS, families are able to experience quality care closer to home.
The site centersforchildren.org displays a number of new and colorful features. The site's scalable design supports the addition of new locations and includes important content such as health library topics, news and appointment information, which can be elevated to the homepage. The Centers' initiatives are supported through the site and new navigation structure enables visitors to quickly find clinic locations.
"With a new look, feel and design, the Centers for Children website will offer greater access and easier navigation for visitors," said ACH Director of Communications Dan McFadden, APR. "This upgrade will help parents more easily find information they are looking for and ways in which their child can receive excellent care for their medical needs closer to home in northeast or northwest Arkansas."
Arkansas Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children from birth to age 21. Over the past century, ACH has grown to span 29 city blocks and house 370 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,000 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development. For more information, visit www.archildrens.org.
UAMS is the state's only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute, the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging and the Translational Research Institute. Named best Little Rock metropolitan area hospital by U.S. News & World Report, it is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has more than 2,800 students and 790 medical residents. It is the state's largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including about 1,000 physicians and other professionals who provide care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children's Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS regional centers throughout the state. Visit www.uams.edu or
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For the project, Jacobs is licensing its SUPERCLAUS technology. Jacobs introduced the technology in 1985, and now has over 200 licensed units in operation. The technology offers performance features in areas such as reliability, sulfur recovery levels, sulfur emissions reduction and continuous operation.
Jacobs Engineering Group on Tuesday received a contract from
Malaysian state-owned oil company Petronas to develop a basic
engineering package for three sulfur recovery units (SRUs).
The contract value was not disclosed. Officials said the
basic engineering services would be provided from Jacobs
Leiden office in The Netherlands.
For the project, Jacobs is licensing its
SUPERCLAUS technology. Jacobs introduced the
SUPERCLAUS technology in 1985, and now has over
200 licensed units in operation worldwide.
The technology offers a number of
highly-valued performance features in areas such as reliability, sulfur recovery levels,
sulfur emissions reduction and simple
continuous operation, according to the company.
Petronas new, three-train sulfur plant is part of the
refinery and petrochemical integrated development
(RAPID) project site in the state of Johor,
Through RAPID, Petronas is establishing an optimally
configured, integrated complex that focuses on production of
high, value-added petrochemicals.
This involves building a refinery to supply naphtha and to
produce gasoline and diesel that meet European clean
fuels specifications.
The petrochemical complex is designed
and developed to produce ethylene and olefins that are used in
downstream plants to produce petrochemical derivatives.
We are very pleased to work again with Petronas and to
provide our technology in support of its goals
for long-term growth, said Jacobs vice president Robert
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very awesome. i love that idea of buying a phone at it automatically (or after some sort of authentication process) gets customized to your needs and interests.
but since when did bill not care about users? isn't that what the company is about?
Nice Q&A session, wonderfull to see how mr gates is able to again give such an amazing overview of his or the organizations idea. This is not something he is making up to sound good, he really believes it. Not only seeing it happening, but making it happen.
It's amazing to think that he is a person with no real need to work for human survival, but still he works a lot at a very high level to get the technical ideas and think of the business aspect behind them and put them all in to context.
Just one question, in the live stream from the keynote he had some white thing in his hand which he was holding like it was an deck of cards, readdy to start playing poker. It looked like some sort of next generation ipod mini looking device.
What did he do with that device? was it to foward the slides or did it function as something else?
I thought the same (only 11?) and I haven't even watched it yet hehe
Awesome Video. I would give apple the finger to. Bill better care about users.
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I think a rabbi would tell you pretty much what a psychologist would tell you here -- if it's a young child it's not a big deal; if it's an older child that can be a bit weird for them.
If I recall correctly, halacha discusses the permissibility of a father co-sleeping with his young daughter; if she's young enough that she wouldn't be embarrassed naked in front of him (preschool age?) it's okay.
Yes the Talmud talks about the praises about one especially modest woman who would make sure even the walls of her house wouldn't see her in any state of undress whatsoever -- but that's not the letter of the law. (And ask your rabbi whether pushing for an extreme like this is right in your situation. Often it isn't.)


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Unfortunately weve seen far better representations of this game to let it slip away. Its not a bad game, its just overshadowed.
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Medal of Honor Warfighter is the latest installment in the 2010 reboot of the classic franchise. Warfighter, along with Battlefield, are EAs attempt at capturing the coveted military first person shooter market share from Activisions Call of Duty franchise. Does Medal of Honor Warfighter live up to the expectations of its classic predecessors or does it trip on an IED?
The games single player campaign is decent enough to keep you interested, which is until a couple hours in when the realization sets in that there is no story. I found myself killing enemies and asking why I am fighting these people. This leaves you with a sense of mindlessly killing Arabs in a generic Middle Eastern country with no clear purpose. I was so disinterested that I almost didnt even finish the campaign at all. And if youre not paying attention youll miss the queue that shows youre in a flashback and become completely lost in the plot.
The other characters that fight with you also blend in together and are just as generic. Other modern military first person shooters give your buddies defining characteristics and personalities. With Warfighter you dont know whom youre fighting with and feel no emotional attachment when one of them dies.
This is the main reason that you bought the game anyway so the story might not turn you off. The multiplayer is significantly better than the campaign, although it still comes up a bit short. You will find everything there is in all other first person shooters, but thats it. Theres death match, team death match, capture the flag, leveling up, upgrading your weapons, plus a few others, but nothing we havent seen before.
The maps themselves are generics and there isnt much originality between them. Oftentimes I became lost and didnt know where to go. The spawn points are horrible and youll find yourself spawning right behind enemies or vice versa.
On consoles Warfighter is sub par in its presentation. There are way too many games that just look better in general. This might have been decent enough for a launch title on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, but it just doesnt look up to code. Environments are repetitive and are mostly composed of brown and greys that give no multiplayer map much originality.
The textures are bad. Theres just not that much detail in anything. On the PC it is noticeably better, but even that is sub par compared to other games in the genre. Even EAs own Battlefield 3 looks miles ahead in this department.
After everything Medal of Honor Warfighter is an mediocre game, but it is eclipsed by the very games that its trying to compete against. Everything about this game just comes up average. Maybe if the market wasnt so flooded with this type of first person shooter it would stand out. Unfortunately weve seen far better representations of this game to let it slip away. Its not a bad game, its just overshadowed.
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Your doctor will advise you on healthy eating and lifestyle measures. If you smoke, you'll be given information about support groups in your local area to help you stop smoking.
If you are breast-feeding, you may not have a period for a while after giving birth. Although this means you are less likely to conceive, you can still ovulate, so you shouldn't assume that you don't need to use contraception. The doctor or nurse will discuss contraception and sexual health with you and may recommend the progesterone-only pill, which can be prescribed from 21 days if you're breast-feeding.
If you decided to bottle-feed, you will probably have had your first period prior to this checkup and so certainly could become pregnant again. Although your doctor will have already discussed contraception with you, this will be addressed again at your six-week checkup. The doctor or nurse will want to check that you have contraceptive measures in place; if not, he or she will offer you guidance and advice.
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What do you do with a lung cancer patient who lost his spleen who is on chemo? Anything special?
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We would treat someone with lung cancer and no spleen just like any other patient with lung cancer. However, people without a spleen have a higher risk for certain infections and need to take some precautions because of this.
An infection can rapidly progress to sepsis and can lead to death if not treated quickly with antibiotics. Some experts believe people without a spleen should have antibiotics on hand to be started at the first sign of infection, prior to being evaluated by the healthcare team. These survivors must be aware of the importance of reporting a fever (temperature > 100.4 °) or any sign of infection to their healthcare team right away, or to go to an emergency room for evaluation if their doctor is not available. They must be sure to let any healthcare provider caring for them know that they do not have a spleen.
Survivors should wear a medic-alert bracelet noting this condition ("asplenia") and should receive annual influenza vaccines, as well as the pneumococcal and Hepatitis B vaccines. They should also receive the meningococcal and H. influenzae type b vaccines (this is not the same as the annual flu vaccine), and if bitten by a dog, cat or rodent, antibiotics are required to prevent infection with Capnocytophaga canimorsus bacteria.
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GLEN DALE - When the Cockayne Farmstead was built 150 years ago, the latest "green" technology was used in the home's heating and cooling systems.
Strategically-placed windows, attic dormers and doors for ventilation and light, fire places in every room, and a wrap-around porch each helped keep the 1800s farmhouse as comfortable as technology at the time could allow.
Today, the new direction in "green" climate-control technology is being installed at the historic farmhouse to help protect the home and its collection of family artifacts that span three centuries. A geothermal system was chosen as a "green" method to control not only the internal temperature, but most importantly, the humidity inside the home, in order to protect the contents from deterioration.
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A drilling rig bores into the gravel-filled soil for the installation of a geothermal climate-control system in the Cockayne Farmstead in Glen Dale. Workers from Dillan Well Drilling Inc. of Darlington, Pa., maneuver the drill to place pipes more than 300 feet deep.
What makes geothermal so attractive is that the primary source of heating and cooling is taken straight from the earth.
Sid Loudin of Rumer-Loudin Inc. of Barnesville, whose company is installing the system, said a geothermal climate system uses the constant temperature of the earth below the depth of 11 feet to both heat and cool a building. The system circulates water through u-shaped pipes - called "wells" - buried in the earth. The water in the pipes picks up the area's constant ground heat of 52 degrees Fahrenheit, and transfers the heat to a freon compressor system through a coaxial coil. The freon gives up its heat to an air stream that is fed through a building via duct work.
The system reverses the process to cool the building in the summer.
In the case of the Cockayne Farmstead, the duct work is being run from the attic down through the chimneys. The mechanical room housing the compressor is housed in the farm's second floor bathroom, and the pumps circulating the water have been installed in the house's cellar. A steam humidifier will control the moisture levels that are critical to protecting the furnishings and other contents.
The area's geography has meant that the drillers for the project, Dillan Well Drilling of Darlington, Pa., have had to drill down 320 feet through ancient river rock deposits to bedrock to construct the "wells" on the north lawn. Loudin said the project is drilling four wells that are deeper, so the project's "footprint" on the north lawn is smaller. Once the pipes are placed in the ground, a grout-like material is injected around them to assure the pipes have contact with the earth to transfer the heat.
Loudin said his company's experience with geothermal systems goes back to 1990 when their first system was installed. His family has had a geothermal system in their home since 1992.
Funding for the project has come, in part, through a federal Transportation Enhancement grant and through a Cultural Facilities Capital Resources Grant awarded by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
The Cockayne Farmstead was once part of a 300-acre merino sheep farm that spanned both sides of Wheeling Avenue from the Ohio River to the hillsides above John Marshall High School. The farm's barn once stood on the present-day site of the school's field house.
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This is embarrasingly, the first problem in notes on introductory combinatorics by Polya and Tarjan. (Solved, but I havent looked).
Problem statement: Find the number of ways of spelling "abracadabra" always going from one letter to the adjacent.
$$A$$ $$B \quad B$$ $$R \quad R \quad R $$ $$A\quad A \quad A \quad A $$ $$C\quad C\quad C\quad C\quad C$$ $$A\quad A \quad A \quad A \quad A\quad A$$ $$D\quad D\quad D\quad D\quad D$$ $$A\quad A \quad A \quad A $$ $$B \quad B \quad B $$ $$R \quad R$$ $$A$$
I got a very improbable answer of $2^{25}$ so I tried a simpler case to understand it.
Starting at the northmost A there are two routes. At each of the two B's on the second row there are $2$ routes, so uptil this point
$$A$$ $$B \quad B$$ $$R \quad R \quad R $$
there should be $2^3$ ways to get the three letter word "ABR" but on manually counting the number of ways is just 4 (LL, LR, RR, RL where R=right/L=left). What is wrong with my approach? More precisely, where have I overcounted?
Edit: I understood my problem. I used the product rule instead of the sum rule. I think I will stop paying attention to these "rules" as they are hindering my problem solving anyway. (I have asked a previous questions on the subject)


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The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Balletto of Middlebury and the granddaughter of the late Constance DelCioppo.
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