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A risk factor is something that increases your chances of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop
brain tumors
with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing brain tumors. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
There are few known risk factors for brain tumors, mostly because little is known about the causes. Some cancers that move to the brain from
breast, skin, and a few other sites have identifiable risk factors.
Older individuals are at greater risk for cancer and get more metastatic brain tumors. Metastatic brain tumors start somewhere else in the body and then spread to the brain. Brain tumors in children are one of the most common kinds of pediatric cancers.
Several uncommon hereditary diseases can predispose a person to brain tumors.
Lifestyle factors that can increase your risk include:
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Brain tumor.
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If I want to register or renew www.therandomcatsite.com, I know for sure that I can pay GoDaddy about $12 to do so, and GoDaddy notes that the ICANN fee is $0.18. Is it possible to personally file a registration or renewal with ICANN (or whatever central organization handles registrations) and only pay the $0.18 fee?
The short answer is: no, you can't.
The long answer is: yes, you can. But in order to do so you'll need to be accredited by ICANN. See here.
ICANN doesn't provide domain registration services. They oversee the functioning of DNS and various other high-level things, including accrediting registrars. (FAQ here; especially see "What is ICANN?") Providing registation would probably be a a conflict of interest, actually.

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If ls lists the content of the current directory, is there a similar command that list the content of a non current directory, without using cd?
The syntax for
For what I'm calling
But when you give a directory name to
So, to list the contents of
If you give a relative path for the directory--that is, one that doesn't start with a
As a side note, sometimes you might find you don't want to list the contents of a directory, but just list the directory the same as a file would be listed. To do this, you can pass the


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Is it at all possible to switch between Windows and Ubuntu by press of a button, on a system with Windows 7 - Ubuntu 11.10 dual boot set up?
You cannot have two operating systems running next to each other at the same time. So there is no way to simply press a button and go to Windows.
What you could do is use virtualization, for example using VirtualBox. You boot one operating system normally, and run the other operating system in a virtual machine inside VirtualBox.
Note that there are some limitations to this - the OS running in the virtual machine does not have direct access to the hardware, so performance might be a little lower and 3D graphics etc. won't work as well as when running natively.
When you are booted up in Windows or Ubuntu, you can't switch to the other one. In dual boot you can be either in one or the other. If you want to switch between them live, you want to decide on one of them being the host and then through a virtual machine (WMPlayer) add the second OS.
This will have a master/slave, host/guest relationship between the 2 OSes. But one of them will be virtual.
It's a good way to test one of them.
The only way to boot a Windows install of any kind after booting into Ubuntu is by running it within a virtual system. You can create a shortcut link placed on your desktop that will autorun virtualbox for example, thus giving you the effect of "pushing a button" to run Windows. It's an option inside virtualbox to create this shortcut too, so it's fairly simple.
Actually, provided your hardware is compatible, you could pretty much accomplish what you have in mind using XenClinet 2 under which ALL of your operating systems would be running as virtual operating systems.
Note that, at the very least, your CPU must support VT-x or AMD-V to run XenClinet 2. Also, XenClinet 2 is currently in a "free to try" phase of development. Not sure what will be the cost/availability of XenClinet 2 in the future.
The above in mind, VirtualBox or VMware, as suggested by others, is probably the easier approach.
Use iReboot for OS switching. But of course, you will need to restart.


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After the hurricane when we came down with colds, I had an impulse to make chicken soup. But being congested, I really wanted something I could taste. I always love Asian soups, and a little spice sounded like a great idea. And it was. But next time, I won't wait to be sick to make … Continue reading


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February 4, 2013
New York University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) have established a partnership to publish Report on the Americas. CLACS and NACLA will formally announce the partnership at a celebration on Wed., Feb. 6, 6-9 p.m. at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Square South, between Thompson and Sullivan Sts.).
The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, call 212.998.8638 or email email@example.com. Reporters interested in attending must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU's Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Report on the Americas, published by NACLA since 1967, is the oldest and most widely read progressive magazine offering comprehensive analysis of Latin America and its relationship within the United States. Under the partnership, NACLA's offices will be located at CLACS on the NYU campus. NYU History Professor Greg Grandin will serve as executive editor; NACLA's Fred Rosen will continue to serve as the publication's editor.
Speakers at the launch celebration will include: Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, among other works; Rosen, who edited Report on the Americas from 1992 to 2003 and again beginning in the fall of 2012; and Jill Lane, an NYU professor of Spanish and Portuguese and director of CLACS.
The event will focus on the contents of Report on the Americas' winter issue, "Elections 2012: What Now?" The issue includes updates on the Central American refugee crisis, the growing asylum movement in the United States, and the current state of U.S.-Bolivian and U.S.-Ecuadorian relations. It also contains a new feature, Media Accuracy in Latin America, an analysis of U.S. news coverage of the region. For more on Report on the Americas, click here.
For more information on the CLACS Graduate MA Program and CLACS events, please visit www.clacs.as.nyu.edu.
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I have a tendency to open numerous tabs in Firefox and leave them open , mainly because I've found things interesting or useful and want to be able to refer back to them. However having hundereds open slows my PC down as it uses up tons of memory and also if I get a nasty crash I can lose them all. I've tried bookmarking them, but then I forget about them or the bookmark title bares no relation to the content of the page or why I wanted to keep it. I've tried storing in Evernote but this has a tendency to destory the formating, include unneccessary info or adverts and also becomes static, so I miss any updates. I've even tried a FireFox add-on that limited the number of tabs I could open, but that became annoying to use as I had to sacrifce other tabs to make way for new ones.
I want to be able to:
- easily catalogue these tabs with sufficient info that I know why I catalogued them
- easily find ones I'm looking for
- if possible find out when a page has been updated
EDIT: I'm not concerned with keeping things in sync between browsers on different computers
Is there a tool, addon or method people use to do this and if so what or how?
Anything that would increase my efficiency in managing this problem (I'm sure I'm not the only one) would be appreciated.


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I've purchased a few bags of loose fill cellulose insulation from the local hardware store (GreenFiber brand). How will the insulation work if I don't put it through the machine to fluff it and force it through a tube? Will the insulation be compressed a bit so that I won't get the coverage that the bag says, but its R value per inch should be about the same? Can I consider its R-value to be something close to the "dense-pack" R-value?
Since cellulose insulation is compressively packaged you cannot install it without using a blowing machine. I do not recommend trying to do this by hand. "A few bags" may not qualify you for loan of a machine, but you can certainly rent one from a big box home center or an equiment rental service.
The R-factor of fiber insulation follows an inverse "U" curve. As density increases, R-factor increases--up to a point. Dense packed cellulose insulation at 3.0 to 3.5 pcf--typical installed density in closed cavities--has an R-factor of 3.9 or 4.0, compared with 3.7 or 3.8 at settled density. Fiber glass at 2.2 to 2.5 pcf may have an R-factor in excess of 4.0, compared with 2.2 to 3.1 at design density. At some point the curves for both materials turn around and R-factor decreases with greater density. For cellulose that seems to be somewhere between 3.5 and 4.0.
That type of insulation comes highly compressed, blowing it in will get separated and back to its original size. Without decompressing it the insulation won't have any air space, so less insulation value. You will end up using more insulation material and spending more money for less insulation capability.
Additionally without a blower you'll have trouble getting it actually dispersed into your wall in the first place. Blowing it in will get it spread out evenly, simply pouring it in will likely leave large gaps, meaning less actual insulating.
Next you have the time factor. blowing it in is quick, but if you do it manually it's going to take much longer. First you'll have to find a way to decompress it fully, then lift it up to the hole, then push it in the hole, then manually disperse it somehow.
So can you do it without blowing it in? Yes, but it will take much longer to do, cost more in insulation, and not be as effective in insulating your home, meaning more money lost over time.
Having just done this, I'll report: doable, but a huge PITA. In order to get a good "fluff" on it, I ground it through expanded metal mesh (having tried a few other things which did not work as well first) - it's time consuming and dusty, but certainly possible if all you have to do is a bag/block or two. I've done one block, I might do another just to check the quality of a different supplier before placing a large order.
In my case it was a deliberate experiment, and the result of the experiment is that I will rent a blower ($70/day at the local rental place) and blow in (actually, I'll check against the cost of "having it done," as well); also that I won't be buying HD's "cellulose", which had a significant amount of plastic scrap in it (one does get up close and personal with the insulation when hand-grinding it through a sheet of expanded metal mesh.)
Methodology was to pry out a chunk of compressed insulation, place it on the expanded metal (an old patio table, in this case) and use a block (or your hand, but the block is more efficient and does not mind grinding on metal) to work the insulation though the mesh - then shovel/sweep to where it's needed (open attic application, not wall-stuffing.) A better setup could be made by building a box with sides and a mesh bottom to work it through, but it's not enough better to beat just using the right equipment on a larger-scale job. Certainly possible to do, however, if you have the time and patience and a dust mask - when what needs doing is small, and the rental of a machine exceeds the cost of the insulation.
I did an area above a garage using a mud (drywall) mixer on a drill and bent wire to fluff it up. For the few bales that I used, it worked well. I used a leaf rake to level it out. On flat ceilings with room to work it would be OK.
Cellulose insulation is available in batt form (like fiberglass batting,as rolled blankets, with or without vapor barrier). If you don't want to rent a blower, or if you're insulating open walls or ceilings, this may be an alternative. It will probably be more expensive to achieve the same R-value this way.
I had done this manually in my walls . I stapled down a roll out tarp paper to each stud and the bottom stud. Did this half way fluffed it in a huge crawfish pot(I'm from Louisiana), and used a dust pan to scoop Nd fill between each stud. Went back on the top tucked it into the lower trap stapled down and did the same as filling. I also note I'm doing this in a tiny home. 300 sq foot ground.


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- Era: World War II
- Number of Pages: 160
- Subject: World War II
- Date Available: January 2014
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The Bismarck is probably the most famous warship of WWII. The German battleship, 45,000 tons, was completed in early 1941 and went on to sink the 'Mighty Hood', pride of the Royal Navy. After a dramatic chase around the North Atlantic, Bismarck was finally dispatched less than five months after she was launched. Now available in paperback, The Battleship Bismarck, as a volume in "The Anatomy of a Ship" series, is the finest documentation of this famous ship ever published, providing a complete set of superbly executed line drawings, both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views including large scale plans on the interior flaps.
Jack Brower researched this book in the Bundesarchiv Kriegsmarine collection and through the original records of the shipyard of Blohm and Voss in Germany.


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I accidently deleted the ~/.Trash/ folder. How I fix this?
I do not want to:
- Restore files currently in the Trash can
- Restore files emptied with the Trash can
Open Terminal.app and type
It will create a new empty folder that Mac OS X can use to store trashed files; this won't save any old deleted files from the original .Trash folder you deleted.


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Angelman syndrome
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What causes Angelman syndrome?
Several different genetic mechanisms can inactivate or delete the maternal copy of the UBE3A gene. Most cases of Angelman syndrome occur when a segment of the maternal chromosome 15 containing this gene is deleted. In other cases, Angelman syndrome is caused by a mutation in the maternal copy of the UBE3A gene.[1]
In a small percentage of cases, a person with Angelman syndrome inherits two copies of chromosome 15 from his or her father, instead of one copy from each parent. This is called paternal uniparental disomy. Rarely, Angelman syndrome can also be caused by a chromosomal rearrangement called a translocation, or by a mutation or other defect in the region of DNA that controls activation of the UBE3A gene. These genetic changes can abnormally turn off (inactivate) UBE3A or other genes on the maternal copy of chromosome 15.[1]The cause of Angelman syndrome is unknown in 10 to 15 percent of affected individuals. Changes involving other genes or chromosomes may be responsible for the condition in these individuals.[1]
- Angelman syndrome. Genetics Home Reference. May 2015; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=angelmansyndrome.
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Our Brothers On The Court
It is a peculiarity of the current moment in American politics that the Supreme Court has six Catholic and three Jewish justices when Catholics and Jews make up only 22% and 3% respectively of the US population. (Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired in 2010, was the last remaining Protestant on the Court.)In the comparative lull today before the Court releases its final decisions of this term tomorrow, and in the wake of a flurry of decision in recent days, I've found myself thinking of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.Watching the the devastation that followed after the levees broke in New Orleans, and the ongoing collective failure by our government (my government!) to respond effectively, brought a mix of anger, shame, embarrassment and grief that, I think, was shared by many Americans.Regardless of what the Court decides tomorrow about the Affordable Care Act, I expect that I---and some minority of American Catholics---will feel some of those same emotions (more muted because Court decisions are themselves more "muted" actions than the flooding of a city), just as I have with many of its recent decisions.
My grief comes from the all-but-certain knowledge that the justices who favor striking down this nation's first attempt at something approaching universal health care will be the some of same justices who think life-without-parole is not "cruel and unusual punishment" for juveniles, or that Arizona should be able to create its own immigration laws, or unlimited corporate campaign spending is protected by the Constitution, or favor imposing unprecedented barriers to collective action by labor unions.* And from the knowledge that all of those justices (Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia and Thomas) are our Catholic brothers (my Catholic brothers!) in faith.My Catholic brothers may well be right in their interpretation of the Constitution. They may be right as a matter of law and legal philosophy. (They certainly know more about it than I do.) They may be right in how they apply our Catholic faith to their roles as civil justices. They may be better (far better!) Catholics than I.But I was raised in the practice of the faith by people who taught, in word and deed, that to be Catholic was to be on the side of the prisoners, the immigrants, the workers, the poor. Partly (the larger part, at least intellectually) that was because those were the teaching of the Church---starting with the Law and the Prophets, most centrally with the Gospels and Jesus' life and teachings, continuing with all manner of catechisms, conciliar documents, encyclicals and the examples of the saints.Partly (the smaller part, but very powerful on a gut level) it was because those were our people. If we (mercifully) weren't necessarily imprisoned, or new immigrants, or oppressed workers, or impoverished, our ancestors had been one or more of those---and we were not to shame them by forgetting where we came from.So now I look at my brothers on the Supreme Court. They have risen to the highest positions that exist in this country for their chosen profession, their vocation. Some of them have risen from humble beginnings, overcoming every obstacle of racial, religious and ethnic prejudice that stood in their paths.They embody, to some significant degree, great American stories and great Catholic stories---the kind of stories we tell to inspire ourselves and our children in the belief that anything is possible. And yet they keep making decisions (or issuing dissents) that sure look---from my poor vantage point---like betrayals of much of what I was taught growing up Catholic.As I said, this isn't an intellectual argument I'm making. It's an emotional reaction---one that I recognize says more about me than it does about my brothers on the Court. Over the years I've learned (slowly, painfully) that on balance I do better when I acknowledge those emotions then when I don't. In the current moment, I guess the best I can do and hope for, is that we all (me, you and our brothers on the Court) continue praying for each other.*By the way, if you're not already following SCOTUSblog for its great reporting, analysis and opinion writing on all things SCOTUS (Supreme Court Of The United States), I commend it to you.
About the Author
Luke Hill is a writer and community organizer in Boston. He blogs at dotCommonweal and MassCommons.
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"Partly (the smaller part, but very powerful on a gut level) it was because those were our people. If we (mercifully) werent necessarily imprisoned, or new immigrants, or oppressed workers, or impoverished, our ancestors had been one or more of thoseand we were not to shame them by forgetting where we came from."Ah, but that has passed and now assimilation into the great conservative milieu is very important. We have made it and now we have to raise the draw bridge and become more whatever. Religious principles are, after all, a matter of prudential judgment.
Thank you, Luke, for this reflection.We are in a strange era when the Cardinal begins a celebration of religious liberty with the pledge lof allegiance and mixes in patriotic songs and hymns and bendiction? The amalgamation of symbols and the apparent attempt to appropriate patriotism while disparaging the president and process is a strange scene. I wonder if by the election, depending upon what happens tomorow, a number of bishops or their sycophants will cross the line into such partisanship as to make it apparent that the episcopacy is, as Richard Riohr as others piut it, sounding like "the Republican party at prayer." Or in Court.
They are not the first who " Some of them have risen from humble beginnings, overcoming every obstacle of racial, religious and ethnic prejudice that stood in their paths.' We all know the too many who got a taste of the 'best' in country clubs and schools and immediately forgot where they came from.. Every culture has a name for that type.. In Dublin they call them Castle Catholics. What is the Italian expression? we got two on the SC.
"But I was raised in the practice of the faith by people who taught, in word and deed, that to be Catholic was to be on the side of the prisoners, the immigrants, the workers, the poor."Luke--I hate to say this, but I expected more from you than the implicit accusation that those who disagree with you are not on the side of the prisoner, the immigrant
Mark, perhaps Luke's "implicit accusation" is because those who disagree usually express everything but concern for the prisoner, immigrant, etc. Ed, right again.
Luke, it's a very poignant reflection. (And I'm quite pleased that you're posting here).I just think that the role of justices, whether they're Catholic or not, is to dispense justice, and justice itself is a very Catholic value. They aren't utterly free to imagine what justice is - they are constrained by the Constitution, and by the case law that has provided the common interpretation of what the Constitution means. They don't have the ability to just set aside the Constitution in pursuit of a Catholic ideal or any other ideal.I think that we have come to view the justices as gods, as the ultimate arbiters of what can and cannot be, and whose pronouncements we just need to accept. In fact, the people are really supreme. You've named some things in our society that may seem unjust. If the Constitution is preventing us from realizing that vision of justice - we the people have the ability to change it. It's hard work, but it can be done.
For Jim Pauwels and anyone else who's not a lawyer but is interested in the Court's interpretation of the Constitution, let me suggest Noah Feldman's "Scorpions" It tells the story of the court from the days of FDR through the 1954 decision on integrating the schools. This book is well written and accessible. In the course of it one see's the conflicting approaches to interpretation, e.g., strict constriction, legal realism, living constitution, etc. As Feldman shows, it's hard to find any judge, and some of these were great ones, who have rigorously followed some single interpretative course.
"They embody, to some significant degree, great American stories and great Catholic storiesthe kind of stories we tell to inspire ourselves and our children in the belief that anything is possible. And yet they keep making decisions (or issuing dissents) that sure lookfrom my poor vantage pointlike betrayals of much of what I was taught growing up Catholic."Funny, I feel that way about the Kennedys.
@Jeff Landry (6:27, 9:56 pm) I have relatives who agree with you....
"I have relatives who agree with you."Common ground, Luke. To be Barthian about it, a sign of the fact that the Faith stands in judgment of both (and all) political positions.
No WASPS. Goes to show you what happens when you educate the poor.
I don't think anyone here would say that the justices should impose Catholic values (whether lefty or right-wing) on society, Constitution be damned. But make no mistake -- the arch-conservatives on the Court today are activists, not passive interpreters of the Constitution. The Citizens United decision, to take one example, was much broader than it had to be even under a very traditional conservative interpretation of First Amendment constraints on campaign finance reform -- much broader than the petitioners had originally even argued for. And if the justices throw out Obamacare tomorrow, they will be throwing out well-settled Commerce Clause precedent, as I'm sure a dissent will explain in clear and scathing terms. Any principled judge will and should make decisions that he would not have made if s/he had been a legislator. But the four true arch-conservatives on the Court today err on the side of Republican doctrine a little too often to make it plausible that they are simply applying a neutral methodology and not effectively legislating their personal policy views, IMO. (Which is not to say they never depart from conservative orthodoxy. Scalia, for example, has written some significant pro-Fourth Amendment decisions.) Liberals clearly have been activists on the Court, too, but I'll take Brennan's activism over Scalia's any day, because I agree with Luke that siding with the poor and disenfranchised is the more genuinely Catholic (and humane) thing to do. If one is going to be an activist, why be an activist on the part of the entrenched and powerful?
The Constitution was invented by and instituted by WASPS. They can't be all bad.
From a lecture Scalia gave:
"There is no such thing as a 'Catholic judge,' he declared. "The bottom line is that the Catholic faith seems to me to have little effect on my work as a judge. . . . Just as there is no 'Catholic' way to cook a hamburger, I am hard pressed to tell you of a single opinion of mine that would have come out differently if I were not Catholic."
Even though I have at times disagreed with Justice Scalia's opinions, I happen to agree with the position that he articulated in the lecture quoted by George D @06/28/2012 - 8:00 am.The Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court should interpret the relevant laws as they understand them to the best of their ability in each case that comes before the Court, regardless of their religious beliefs.
"the arch-conservatives on the Court today are activists, not passive interpreters of the Constitution."Actually, if by "activist" what you mean is a judge who overturns an act of Congress, the actual evidence shows that the Roberts court has been the LEAST activist courts in recent history, as the New York Times noted: "Since some have asked, here is the direct link to the NYT article. Here is the relevant quote: The Roberts court is finding laws unconstitutional and reversing precedent two measures of activism no more often than earlier courts. The data accompanying the article shows this is an understatement. Specifically, the data show the following: - The Warren, Burger and Rehnquist Courts overturned precedents at an average rate of 2.7, 2.8 and 2.4 per term, respectively. The Roberts Court, on the other hand, has only overturned an average of 1.6 precedents per term. - The Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts struck down an average of 7.9, 12.5, and 8.2 laws per term, whereas the Roberts Court has only invalidated an average of 3 laws per term."As for the claim that "The Citizens United decision, to take one example, was much broader than it had to be even under a very traditional conservative interpretation of First Amendment constraints on campaign finance reform much broader than the petitioners had originally even argued for."- This is a false characterization on several levels. First, the author of the decision - Anthony Kennedy - is hardly an "arch-conservative" by any measure. Secondly, as the transcript of the oral argument and the briefs themselves made clear, constitutional issues WERE raised from the very beginning. Apparently what happened is that Chief Justice Roberts - someone who is often described as an "arch-conservative" - fashioned an opinion finding in favor of Citizens United on narrow, statutory grounds (namely regulation or direct-TV networks was not covered), and it was Kennedy who pushed the Court to rule on the constitutional issue. Finally, the position the Court took on the Constitutional question was argued and briefed by, among others, the ACLU. All that doesn't mean that the decision is right or wrong, but it weakens the argument floating around that Citizens United is (perhaps until today) proves that the Court is in the midst of a far-right-wing power grab.The Supreme Court has - since Marbury - struck down precedent, federal and state laws. Indeed, most opinions that liberals champion today struck down laws and precedent - Roe, for example, invalidated the laws of all 50 states when it was rendered. I don't hear liberals saying that Roe is some invalid, overreach on the part of the unelected judiciary.
To validate my last paragraph - the Supremes just invalidated an act of Congress, the Stolen Valor Act - on First Amendment grounds. It was signed by Pres. Bush. The majority included all 4 liberals, with Roberts and Kennedy.
And Roberts saves the day.(Mr. Toobin, call your office please.)
Jeff --Hmm. I wonder if Roberts is starting to pull a Teddy Roosevelt and move out of the super-conservative corner. Yes, Toobin just said on CNN, "I blew this one". He also said that the most extraordinary thing is that Kennedy wrote an opinion that could have been written by Scalia! If he's finally turning right, then we'd be back where we started.
"I wonder if Roberts is starting to pull a Teddy Roosevelt and move out of the super-conservative corner."Or maybe the "corner" was a wholly contrived notion that never existed from the beginning?
Roberts wasn't conservative? Teddy Roosevelt was conservative?
It would be nice if Ms Olivier would stop pontification about presidents who lived a century ago and apologized for her vicious misrepresentation of fellow bloggers on the gay pride thread.
Ann said: "The Constitution was invented by and instituted by WASPS. They cant be all bad."Don't forget that it took 27 amendments to correct for a lot of their WASPishness.
After reading E.J. Dionne's "Justice Scalia must resign" while I was on vacation, it occurred to me that we Catholics should take the lead in ushering Anton into retirement before he really embarrasses most Italian Americans and Catholics.I noted that above that ed gleason was asking for the Italian equivalent to the Irish, "Castle Catholics." [That's a good one ... I had never heard of it before!] I don't think it is the Italian equivalent, but my grandpa [usually after his morning shot of whiskey] would often say (in his Calabrian dialect): "Even Big Shots also have to take a s _ _ t at least once a day."


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This question got me thinking about amino acids and the ambiguity in the genetic code. With 4 nucleotides in RNA and 3 per codon, there are 64 codons. However, these 64 codons only code for 22 (including selenocysteine and pyrrolysine) amino acids, so many of the amino acids are coded by multiple codons.
Is there any hypothesis as to why there are only 22 amino acids and not 64? Is it possible that there were 64 (or at least more than 22) at an earlier time?


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I'm new to this and am just now researching which tools I want to try first. After lots of research, I've decided the NN5 looks perfect for what I want to do. I still am uncertain about the software. Has anybody been using Hugin for long? I am curious to know if it is constantly being improved, or if it is rather stagnant.
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Has anybody been using Hugin for long? I am curious to know if it is constantly being improved, or if it is rather stagnant.
Hugin is constantly being updated - often on a weekly basis as far as development versions are concerned. Stable releases are very infrequent. The latest versions for download are listed at http://panospace.wordpress.com/downloads/.
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What software are you using.
After years of punishing myself with PTGui, I switched to Autopano Pro and life has never been easier. Even if processing is a bit slow, the direct handling of raw files, the superior control point detection, the extensive editing options and the fantastic smartblend option
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With a dinner held in Beckham Hall at Fayerweather Wed., May 1, the Wesleyan athletic department recognized the accomplishments of 173 scholar-athletes while announcing the winners of the Roger Maynard Memorial Award, presented annunally to the top senior male and female scholar-athlete at the University. This year's recipients are Howard Tobochnik '13 (far left in bottom photo) and Laura Kurash '13 (far right in bottom photo). Both are seen with their respective head coaches, head wrestling coach Drew Black and head women's soccer coach Eva Meredith, along with athletics director Mike Whalen.
Those invited to the gathering were members of the sophomore, junior and senior classes who had distinguished themselves both in the classroom with a minimium GPA of 3.2 and in athletic competition as a significant contributor to the success of their chosen sport(s).
Tobochnik was an NCAA Division III qualifier in 2012-13 after finishing third at 149 pounds during the NCAA Northeast Regional qualifier. That followed his 21-1 dual-match record as he led the Cardinals to a 15-7 record. He was a four-year starter for the wrestling team and will graduate with more overall victories (119) than any previous Wesleyan grappler. He was a three-time National Wrestling Coaches Association Scholar All-American.
Kurash is the 2012 NESCAC Player of the Year in women's soccer after leading the team in scoring for a fourth straight year with nine goals and four assists for 22 points. She also was selected all-New England by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) as well as an NSCAA Scholar All-East pick and a CoSIDA District II Academic All-American. She graduates as the number-two all-time leading scorer at Wesleyan with 37 goals and 14 assists for 88 points with 15 of her 37 tallies counting as game-winners.
The Maynard Award, established in memory of Roger Maynard '37 by his family, recognizes the finest combination of athletic achievement and academic accomplishment among the senior student-athletes each year. It was first awarded in 1970 with women added to the honorees in 1977.
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I found it quite revealing to see the list of people that the Democratic Party had as speakers at their convention. Included in the invitation list were the president of the pro-abortion organization, NARAL, and the CEO of Planned Parenthood. I think it should alarm Democrats that their party is supporting organizations, such as Planned Parenthood, who have been caught red-handed covering up for sexual predators.
These organizations have also used their abortion services to "destroy" the evidence when their underage victims would become pregnant. To see the evidence for yourself that the abortion industry is indeed protecting pedophiles, please visit www.ChildPredator.com. Should not the fact that the Democrat party had leaders of these groups, which protect pedophiles, speak at their convention make you angry or at least suspect? If you are a Democrat, I kindly suggest that you take a second look at what your party is supporting.
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Born in Ferentino, Italy on September 25th, 1981, Angelo Palombo played at a professional level for 20 years, making his debut in 1998 with Urbania. He went on to capture 52 caps for his country, scoring one goal from his position as anchorman of the midfield. Almost his entire career was spent at Sampdoria, where he has become a legend of the club and holds the most league appearances record with 517 games played for the them.
In 1998/1999, he began his career with his local club Urbania, before moving to Fano the following season. In 2000/2001, he signed with Fiorentina, and made his debut in the Serie A the following season, playing 10 games for the club. However, he was let go on free, and Sampdoria jumped at the chance to sign him and never regretted it.
From the moment he stepped foot in Sampdoria, Angelo Palombo became the first name on the team sheet when it came to the midfield, playing in the same position for 18 years before hanging up his boots. He was never a goal scorer, but his contributions were second to none. His career high of 17 league assists, set in 2013/2014, is not only a Sampdoria record, but also a Serie A record, as well. In 2016/2017, Palombo was approaching the end of his career but was still contributing significantly, and he was rewarded for an excellent career by lifting the Serie A title for the first and only time in his career. It was a fitting end to an illustrious career for a man who, on his day, was considered the finest passer in Italy. His selections to the Serie A Team of the Year in 2014 and 2015, when he was at the prime of his career, proved that point.


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Speaking of Roosevelts! Franklin D. Roosevelt, our nation's 32nd president, was Teddy Roosevelt's fifth cousin. FDR helped the U.S. climb out of the Great Depression, created the Social Security Administration, and ruled the Oval Office for an unprecedented 12 years before succumbing to health problems in 1945. The first name Franklin has been in steady decline since the early 1900s, but that's what happens before a neat old name has a resurgence. Frankie, in particular, has a trendy ring to it as an up-and-coming girls' name.
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I have been out of wow for a long time. I have recently begun to play an arms warrior with 4 friends (mostly dungeons and some pvp). What are the best add-on's to help level a warrior?
Over the years Blizzard has been steadily taking the best ideas from the UI customization community and integrating them into the base UI. For example, the game now has a built-in version of QuestHelper which shows (on your map) where to go to kill monsters for quests and turn them in afterward. Frankly, there are no "vital" leveling addons anymore.
Some addons can be useful, of course, but it depends more on your own play style rather than "here's a list of what you need to play the game".
My advice is to just start playing with no UI addons, and wait until you find an itch that needs scratching before you bother installing any.
I definitely agree that there are no required "leveling" addons, unless you're talking about leveling professions, in which case addons like Gatherer, and Fishing Buddy and similar are useful.
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Campus Security
The Office of Campus Security (OCS) is located on the ground floor of the Gabhart Student Center. This office is normally staffed twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. In compliance with the Tennessee "College and University Security Information Act" and the federal "Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act," the Belmont University Office of Campus Security provides a monthly report of any crime on campus and provides, upon request during business hours, campus crime statistics and related data to employees and students desiring this information. The Office of Campus Security is also actively engaged in crime prevention strategies and timely security alerts.
Automobile Assistance: OCS provides services for automobiles, such as unlocking doors and jump-starting dead batteries.
Emergency Services: For on-campus emergencies, call 6911; for non-emergency assistance, call 460-6617.
Handicapped Parking: Handicapped students may park in the designated handicap spaces or in any parking lot on the campus, regardless of posted restrictions. Handicapped students must display handicap state-issued license plates, state-issued placard, or a handicap decal issued by the university. Temporary handicap decals are available to students with temporary injuries affecting their ability to walk. There is no fee for handicap decals.
Identification Cards: OCS generates the university ID cards and keeps an electronic file of these cards in its database. Cards are usually made during registration times and as needed.
Parking Permits: Any person operating an automobile on campus must display a valid registration decal and park only in those areas appropriately designated. Parking permits are to be displayed on the left bottom side of the rear window. Belmont Boulevard from Acklen Avenue to Portland is the property of the university. A decal must be displayed to park on this street.
Parking Violations/Fines: Failure to comply with parking regulations may result in a fine, having the vehicle towed from campus at the owner's expense, an immobilizing boot attached to the wheel of the vehicle, or the loss of campus parking privileges. Parking ticket fines must be paid before grades and transcripts will be released.
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Vehicle Registration: Students may register vehicles at the time of class registration or at other times as necessary. Temporary daily and weekly guest parking permits are available from OCS. Evening students (classes after 4:30 p.m.) are required to display a parking decal if they wish to park on campus. All evening students may use any parking lot or area not marked "Handicapped," or "Reserved."
Belmont University Bookstore
The university bookstore is located in the lower level of the Gabhart Student Center. Available for purchase are required textbooks (new and used), school supplies, Belmont logo clothing and gift items, greeting cards, and other related campus items. Belmont students may charge their textbooks, school supplies and other required items on their student account (with a Belmont ID), and be billed through their university account. Purchases may also be made by personal check, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, Anerican Express, or cash. Checks may be cashed for up to $20.00 with a Belmont ID.
Visit the bookstore's web page to check for special store hours, store policies, announcements, Belmont logo merchandise, and the list of textbooks required for Belmont classes. Also available is an opportunity to purchase textbooks on-line, prepaying with a credit card or charging on the student's Belmont account. Find us at Belmont University's official web address: www.belmont.edu
Career Services
Belmont University offers career services to students, alumni and potential employers. It serves students and alumni of the university by informing them about available positions, providing career counseling, and instructing them in effective resume writing and interviewing skills. Career testing and counseling are offered to current students and alumni. The office is located on the second floor of the Gabhart Student Center. In addition, the College of Business Career Development Center is located in the Massey Business Center.
The Office of Career Services assists the representatives of business, industry, government, health care, and education in finding qualified candidates for their organizations.
Anyone who has completed or is completing the work for a degree at Belmont University is eligible to use the Office of Career Services.
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Counseling Services
Personal counseling services are offered through the Office of teh Dean of Students and may help with such issues as academics, interpersonal relationships, religious questions, sexuality, stress, time management, addictions, anxiety and depression. Students are entitled to a limited number of counseling sessions with a licensed counselor at no cost.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 460-6407. A code of privacy is maintained in all counseling.
Communicable Disease/Virus Policy
In general, Belmont University is committed to a non-discriminatory policy with respect to persons having been diagnosed with a communicable disease/virus or other handicap. Any restrictions that may be imposed are determined in light of the most current medical knowledge and are in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. A strict code of confidentiality is maintained in all cases.
Judicial Service
The Belmont University mission states that we enable "men and women of diverse backgrounds to engage and transform the world with disciplined intelligence, compassion, courage, and faith." In order to prepare students for this mission, the university upholds high ideals and expectations for each member of the campus community. These ideals are expressed in the university's Statement of Commitments and various institutional policies. Belmont University's disciplinary process is designed to be a part of the educational mission of the University, one that focuses on upholding these commitments inherent in the Belmont community, teaching all members of the university community the commitments of appropriate behavior within a community.
Belmont's disciplinary process provides an outline in which members of the Belmont community may resolve violations fo commitments and policies with mutual respect for one another while fostering relationships. These relationships help to create an environment of accountability holding members of the community responsible for their actions with the ultimate goal of encouraging and fostering the personal growth and development of each student. Throughout the process, students are the priority.
For information regarding policies, procedures, and assistance, students may contact the Coordinator of Judicial Services in the Office of the Dean of Students or access The Bruin Guide online at www.belmont.edu/studentaffairs/bruinguide/index.html.
Substance-Free Campus Policy
Belmont University is committed to self-control and respect for self and others, which enable all individuals to develop intellectually, spiritually, socially, emotionally, and physically. Therefore, the university is committed to an environment free of the possession or use of alcohol and illegal drugs. It shall be a violation of the Community Commitments and the Substance-Free Campus Policy to drink, possess, distribute or be impaired as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages and on campus or at any university sponsored activity on or off campus. The university makes no special provision for used or unused alcohol or drug paraphernalia and containers. These items are prohibited as well. Additionally, it shall be a violation to be in the presence of an incident where violations of the university's Substance-Free Campus Polices have occurred regardless of a student's level of participation (referred to as complicity.) Also, any involvement in illegal activities on or off campus, including the use, possession, distribution or impairment as a result of illegal drugs shall result in the imposition of one or more of the disciplinary actions set forth elsewhere in The Bruin Guide. Violations of these standards of conduct may result in university disciplinary action and/or severe criminal penalties under local, state, and federal law.
The Substance-Free Campus Policy is fully outlined in The Bruin Guide available online at www.belmont.edu/studentaffairs/bruinguide/index.html.
Family and Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
FERPA is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974; it is the federal law that requires colleges and universities to maintain the privacy of students' education records. FERPA guarantees students the right of access to the education records, the right to consent prior to the release of a record to a third party, the right to challenge information contained in their records, and the right to be notified of their privacy rights. This means that students must consent before a record is disclosed to the parents or legal guardians, unless they are a dependent of his/her parents for income tax purposes, prior consent to disclosure to parents or guardians is not required. This states that 'personal information shall only be transferred to a third party on the condition that such party will not permit any other party to have access to such information without the written consent of the student.'
Confidential information is not to be released. Confidential information consists of any academic information (grades, transcripts), current class schedules, disciplinary records, etc. We can verify directory information over the phone as long as the student has not asked that directory information be kept confidential. Directory information includes but is not limited to name, address, phone, dates of attendance, major and minor, degrees and awards received.
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July 5, 2012
The Colorado economy continues to grow at a modest pace in 2012, positioning the state among the healthier in growth nationally, according to economist Richard Wobbekind of the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business.
Colorado to see continued moderate growth in 2012, forecasts CU economist
July 5, 2012 Richard Wobbekind
The Colorado economy continues to grow at a modest pace in 2012, positioning the state among the healthier in growth nationally, according to economist Richard Wobbekind of the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business.
CUT 1 "The Colorado economy has been growing at a pretty good pace through the first part of the year but the recent months have shown a little bit of slowing in terms of the growth rate. (18) We are anticipating continued moderate growth through out the rest of the year. (:18) Colorado will wind up being one of the better growth states in the country but not quite growing as fast as it was growing in January, February and March, for example, of this year." (:28)
Wobbekind, who presents the Colorado Business Economic Outlook forecast each December, recently met with steering committee members who represent the state's major economic sectors for a midyear update.
Midway through the year, Colorado's job growth rate is up to about 1.6 percent -- a gain of about 35,000 jobs in 2012 if the pace holds steady, placing the state sixth nationally in job growth rate. The estimate is up from last December when the forecast totaled about 23,000 jobs for the year.
CUT 2 "One of the things that's been really positive is that there has been job growth across a wide array of sectors. So it's really balanced growth which is symptomatic of broad-based recovery in the economy. (:13) Not only in the primary industries but some of the feeder industries have picked up because the primary industries have picked up." (:20)
Other notable mentions from the report are:
CUT 3 "Colorado's unemployment rate actually has risen a little bit and now were very close, we are about two or three tenths of a percent difference of the national number. What we've seen, and this is not unusual, as more people reenter the work force that actually raises the unemployment rate if they don't find jobs immediately because they are participating but they are unemployed." (:22)
CUT 4 "So far this has been a very good year, a surprisingly good year. (:05) And year over year data for the metro areas, in particular, which is a huge concentration of the construction industry, through May the data is up almost double year over year in terms of the combined residential, non-residential." (:27)
CUT 5 "The committee is anticipating another good year. Prices have held up. A big deal there is exports. Beef exports have been really outstanding. That has really helped the agricultural area in general." (:13)
Double Dip Recession-
CUT 6 "Our forecast does not have a double dip recession. But when you are at one-point-nine percent or one-point-eight percent GDP growth on a quarterly bases it certainly brings up those kinds of questions. (:14) And although it's not technically a recession when you're growing a point, a point and a half potential. It just feels like things are slow." (:22)
National Economy-
CUT 7 "Actually a little bit better growth than the first half of the year. It starts to pick up and it goes over the two percent range. But it's still below potential GDP, which is really the big issue. (:11) People are looking at this and saying how long can the ball roll slowly? Can it actually start to roll a little bit faster? Can we actually start to see a pick up? And if that were too happen you'd see larger pick up in terms of the number of new jobs." (:26)
To read more about the forecast go to www.colorado.edu/news.
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Hey everyone, I'm currently taking an Eletricity and Magnetism course and I'm having dificulty answering this problem. I've gone to my tutor, but sadly, he hasn't taken E+M for a while now and couldn't recall off the top of his head how to go about solving this. We went through my book together, but couldn't find any examples pertaining to this type of problem. (We did find examples of induced EMF's obviously, but making the leap to a spinning rod seems to be too great a task)
Anyways, here is the problem I'm working on:
A metal rod is spinning on an axis that is located in the middle of the rod, and perpendicular to the rod's length. If the rod is in an external magnetic field that is parallel to the axis the rod is spinning on, how would I go about finding the induced emf?
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Alfred J. Boulos '59 was an expert negotiator and adviser to governments and oil companies throughout the world. He passed away on January 31, 2013, at the age of 82.
Boulos was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1930. He graduated from Marquette University in 1954 and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy upon graduation. After serving as a line officer aboard U.S. aircraft carriers, he enrolled at Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and graduated in 1959. Boulos also earned an M.B.A. in business administration from New York University.
Boulos was named senior international counsel for Mobil Oil Corporation in 1964, working in both New York City and London. Five years later, he became senior director of international exploration and production for Conoco Inc. In that role, he directed the company's international negotiations with governments and oil companies. At that time, Boulos also served as chairman of the legal committee of the Oil Industry Group, an organization that negotiated prices, currency exchanges, and equity participation with OPEC. He would later found the European Petroleum Negotiators Group—which represented more than 200 oil companies—and serve as president of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators in Houston.
In 1987, Boulos was awarded the Columbia University Alumni Medal. After retirement from Conoco in 1993, he founded Boulos International and served as a consultant to gas and oil companies in the U.S. and abroad.
Boulos is survived by his wife, Mary; six children: Mary, Elizabeth, John, Peggy, Katie, and Suzie; and 11 grandchildren.


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Crossing an item of your bucket list is always an exciting thing to do.
And I got to do just that when I had the priviliage of attending the Madonna concert at Consol Energy Center Tuesday evening with friends.
We had tickets (printed on jumbo-sizeed paper - which ushers did comment on) since about April and had been anxiously waiting for the day to arrive. Finally, it did.
The tickets said the show was to start at 8 p.m. OK, no big deal. However, in an interview, Madonna herself said she wouldn't take the stage until about 10 p.m.
I looked into the matter and found many reviews that said she didn't come on stage until well after the schedueld start time as well. I finally conceded that it was going to be a late night. I may be asleep by the time she took the stage, but I paid good money for the ticket and got to see a superstar.
So, at 8:45 p.m., we settled into our seats, just as the opening "act" took the stage. A singer? No. A band? No. That I guess would be too much to ask for. A deejay. A plain, old ordinary man spinning records (he actually had records) opened for the pop diva. So, for an hour (yes, an hour) we listened to someone else's music played by some guy pushing buttons on the stage.
Where was Madonna?
Mr. DJ was off the stage by 9:50 p.m. We figured 10 maybe 15 minutes for Madonna to come out. No. It was 10:33 p.m. before her royal highness graced us with her presence. I know that exact time because I was watching my watch waiting to see just how long she was going to take.
But, alas, finally, the superstar takes to the stage. For a full 30 minutes, she put on a nonstop performance. Granted, I didn't know any of the songs, nor did I realize how dark and twisted and violent some of her stuff is, but she did put on a hell of a show. Her energy and stamina were amazing. No matter what you have to say about Madonna, whether it be good or bad, you have to admit she is an amazing performer and puts on one hell of a show.
And she didn't let up. Sure, she slowed it down with some slow songs, but the energy never left. I was disappointed that she didn't do many of her old songs, the ones I know and made me a fan. And most of the ones she did play, she changed. She slowed "Like a Virgin" down to a ballad (and rolled around the stage half-naked as she did it). The tune for "Papa Don't Preach" made the song barely recognizeable. And she didn't even do "Material Girl," which was one of her first songs that made her who she is.
To top all that off, as some of you may know, Madonna is an Obama supporter. So once she found out that he won the election, she did a happy dance and dedicated songs to him.
For her encore, she wore an Obama T-shirt (as did her dancers) and did a song about partying and celebrating. And being happy about his win wasn't even enough. The partying wasn't enough. Every time she said "yeah" about being excited for his win, she had to add the explosive "F" bomb. Not necessary. It is her right to be happy for his win. It is her right to vote for and support whomever she choses. However, I paid good money for my seat to see HER. I wanted to see HER play her music, to sing HER songs, to watch HER show. I was not there to the see the Obama hour.
Overall, I am glad I went. I got to see Madonna and her amazing showmanship. But is anyone worth a two-hour wait? I have to say no. It surprises me that fans put up with it.
I don't known who she thinks she is, but no one should keep people - people who paid a lot of money in some cases - waiting for more than two hours.
My ticket said 8. If the show wasn't going to start until 10, then it should have said 10. My ticket also said Madonna concert. It did not say political rally for President Obama.
(Letusick, a resident of Rayland, is a copy editor for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times.)


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