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In light of several recent, heinous incidents of violence against young women, specifically the Steubenville gang rape [2] and the attack in New Delhi [3], among many others, advocates have reached out to NRCDV staff about being saddened and discouraged after reading through the details of these inhumane acts of violence against young women. To help offer a way for advocates to recharge and re-engage, the NRCDV brings to you the voices of 4 powerful women who are dedicated to ending violence against women and girls and who have been working in the movement for decades.
Let's learn from these four amazingly dedicated and experienced advocates about how to stay motivated and steadfast to do this work in the face of opposition, apathy, and continued acts of dehumanizing violence that often go unpunished.
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[2] http://localleaks.blogs.ru/
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Kobe Bryant Visits Manny Pacquiao
NBA superstar visits with Manny Pacquiao at the Wildcard Gym in Hollywood. read more »
Juan Manuel Marquez Arrives in Manila
Juan Manuel Marquez arrives at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and at the Manila Hotel in preparation for the start of the Global Press Tour leading to his fight with Manny Pacquiao on November 12th in Las Vegas. read more »
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Juan Manuel Marquez decides to take a run around the hotel in Manila shortly after check-in. read more »
Marquez with Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim
Marquez and Arum were invited to visit with The Honorable Alfredo S. Lim, Mayor, City of Manila. read more »
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Maochun Yu is Professor of East Asia and Military History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. He is the author of The Dragon's War and numerous articles on modern China and the military and intelligence history of World War II and the Cold War. He is a resident of Annapolis, MD.
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HUNTINGTON - The dream of a state title remains alive for four area grapplers as "Championship Saturday" of the 66th annual West Virginia High School Wrestling Championships begins.
Five OVAC wrestlers punched their tickets for tonight's finals, set for 6 p.m. at Big Sandy Superstore Arena.
Consolation semifinals and third- and fifth-place bouts, featuring 25 OVAC entrants, start at 10:45 a.m.
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TANGLED — Brooke's Nathan Dawson defeated Wheeling Park's Geremy Paige, 3-2, in overtime, Friday to advance to the West Virginia Class AAA 195-pound state championship match.
Dallas Baciak and Jonny Davis will battle for Class AAA championships for Wheeling Park.
Nate Dawson goes after his second straight crown for Brooke, while John Marshall's Cullen Ebbert and Morgantown's Taylor Ortiz will take the stage later in the evening.
Madonna's Garrett Hypes is the lone Class AA-A finalist.
Hypes (28-3) is in the 152-pound final by virtue of a 6-3 decision against Liberty-Raleigh's RK Elam. He'll face unbeaten Malik Boatwright of Greenbrier West for the title.
Baciak topped Point Pleasant's John Raike in his 113-pound semifinal.
The Park sophomore (35-4) trailed 6-4 heading into the third period, but quickly turned the tables by pinning Raike 20 seconds into the final period.
Davis, the Region One champion who is now 33-6, advanced by pinning Winfield's Isaac Reed in 5:34 at 145 pounds. He'll face Huntington's Justin Arthur for the championship.
Dawson (44-5) defeated Park's Geremy Paige, 3-2, in a thrilling 195-pound overtime bout. He will go for the repeat against Preston's Terrance Fanning in a rematch of the Region One championship. Fanning won that match, 6-3.
"I wrestled three times and he's gotten better every time," Dawson said of Paige, who he finished 3-0 against this season. "I did what I had to do out there."
"This is huge. It's all I think about. I want to be a two-time champ."
Ebbert also went to overtime and prevailed, 3-2, against Buckhannon-Upshur's Daniel Nolte at 220 pounds. The Monarchs junior improved to 41-3.
"Cullen has had a good season and we'd like to see him finish it off with a state championship," Monarchs coach Ted Zervos said. "He only has three losses this year, two to the same kid at Steubenville. He s been wrestling well all year and focused on he wants to achieve."
Ortiz, who was third last season, topped Nitro's David Smith, 4-1, to reach the 285-pound final. He'll face Ripley's Daryl Hicks.
Still alive for Park are: Dylan Taylor (138), Danny Colby (160) and Paige.
Cody Amos, the third-place finisher at 182 pounds last year, saw his prep career come to an unfortunate end when he was injured against Lewis County's Ryan Carson in the quarterfinals.
Dillon Shaw (152), Skippy Scurry (182) and Preston Wise (285) are still afloat for Brooke, as is John Marshall's Zach Tubaugh (132).
Isaiah Hood (126), Scott Lopez (132) and Nate Constante (170) are still alive for University.
Oak Glen is alive in the consolations thanks to Danny Wyke (113), Josh Cornell (120) and Kyle Mack (126).
Dalton Wood (106) and Dillon Blake (145) remain in play for Cameron, while and Jared Wright (195) is alive for Magnolia.
The host Highlanders are on the verge of winning their first state championship and snapping South's four-year winning streak.
Huntington has 152.5 points, 16 better than second-place Parkersburg. Wheeling Park is sixth, Brooke 12th and John Marshall 13th.
Greenbrier West tops the AA-A leader board with 115.5, followed by Independence (95.5). Oak Glen is 12th.


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It is known that solving systems of linear equations is reducible to SVD in a straightforward way; if you want to solve $\mathbf{Ax}=\mathbf{b}$, then you can perform SVD on $\mathbf{A}$ and minimize $||\mathbf{UDVx}-\mathbf{b}||$.
However, is there a reverse reduction that is also very efficient? That is, if you can solve linear equations, you can solve SVD?
EDIT: Because of Denis's comment/answer below, it looks like there isn't a reduction in general. But I'm interested in these problems over $\mathbb{C}$; so, the new question is: If we can solve linear equations over $\mathbb{C}$ exactly or approximately, can we perform an "approximate" SVD (for some suitable notion of "approximate")?
The answer still seems to be in the negative, but I defer to people who actually know something about this.


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The 5 Most Incredible Scenes Ever Preserved by Fossils
Paleontology is a tricky business. While it's easy enough to study living animals -- because they're, you know, right there -- a paleontologist has to work with parts and pieces all smashed up and tossed about by millions of years of geological demolition derbies. However, every once in a while Mother Nature decides to cut your friendly neighborhood dinosaur hunter some slack by capturing a perfect snapshot of something awesome. Like ...
#5. Ancient Predators Caught in the Act of Murder
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If you've ever been to a natural history museum, you've probably seen those giant skeletal reconstructions of dinosaurs rending each other's neck-meat in epic Tokyo-stomping battles for survival. Of course, dinosaurs never come straight out of the ground like that. The best a paleontologist can hope for is some tooth marks on bones -- anything more elaborate takes a cinematic eye and a whole ream of that wire they use to stitch the bones back together.
Except, that is, when they find something like this:
Dinosaur Kingdom Nakasato via University of British Columbia
"Say 'uncle'! Say it!"
Yep, that there is a protoceratops locked in vicious battle with a motherfuckin' velociraptor. This fossil turned up in the Gobi Desert in 1971, complete with the raptor's trademark death-sickle claw buried deep in its victim's neck and its arm broken in its victim's jaws (OK, so maybe "victim" wasn't the right word to use there). They were unexpectedly frozen in their never-ending battle royale when the collapse of a sand cliff buried them, and today "the fighting dinosaurs" are considered a national treasure of Mongolia.
But America wasn't about to be outdone by some Mongolians, and in 2006 a team in Montana went and dug up the classic tyrannosaurus vs. triceratops match-up dinosaur fans have been having stop-motion daydreams about for generations. The "Montana dueling dinosaurs" feature a showdown between a 30-foot nanotyrannus and an unidentified triceratops relative. This brutal battle between equal-and-opposite titans resulted in crushed bones, broken teeth, and mutual annihilation.
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They basically found these fossils while digging through your childhood fantasies.
But dinosaurs had more to worry about than other dinos. In India, fossil hunters came across a dinosaur nest full of sauropod eggs. Sauropods were the famous "long-necks," the biggest land animals ever to crush the planet underfoot, and adults were as untouchable to predators as elephants are today. But as tiny 20-inch hatchlings, these would-be giants made easy snacks for all sorts of prehistoric monstrosities, including, in this case, snakes:
If you're thinking that looks more like a fossilized dino turd than a snake, here it is seen through Science's patented Fossil-o-Scope:
Wilson et al, PLoS Biology
Take note of Littlefoot's stubby arms pleading for mercy.
And if that's still not clear enough, here's a full 3D sculpt of the horrific scene:
Ximena Erickson and Bonnie Miljour; sculpture by Tyler Keillor
Snakes haven't evolved much since the age of dinosaurs. No need to change once you've perfected the art of being terrifying.
A mudslide interrupted the snake before it could gulp down the infant, meaning it's really only guilty of attempted baby dino murder.
#4. Two Mammoths Beating Each Other to Death (Over a Woman)
Velizar Simeonovski/The Field Museum via Smithsonian.com
In 1962, a surveyor working on a Nebraska range discovered some gigantic bones sticking out of the ground. The Dinosaur Police were called to the scene, and they found the skeleton of a 12,000-year-old mammoth. At first it was all standard procedure, but as the investigators kept digging, they noticed that something was a little off. Namely, that the mammoth seemed to have way too many tusks.
Bruce McIntosh via Rapid City Journal
"We're dealing with a mutant double-mammoth, or possibly some kind of land Cthulhu."
Digging deeper, they made a bizarre discovery that no one had ever seen before: The extra set of tusks belonged to a second mammoth, and the two had died with their tusks tangled up around each other's heads.
The detectives had an idea about how these behemoths might have ended up in such an awkward position: Males of modern animals such as elephants, moose, and frat-house jackasses often engage in savage head-butting contests to impress women, and they reasoned that these mammoths had (literally) joined in battle the same way. But they couldn't prove their hypothesis until 40 years later, when they ran the skeletons through a battery of modern tests.
Phil Hore/Bone Rooms
"Our core samples show conclusively that they were attempting to combine into a Megazord."
Dental exams revealed that the mammoths were both mature enough to enter their seasonal hormone rage, and that they died during the time of year when their murder-boners were pulsing at full power. After getting their faces tied up in a ridiculous knot, they fell and pinned each other down, exhausting themselves in their desperate struggle to escape.
Phil Hore/Bone Rooms
Believe it or not, this painting isn't on the side of a van.
It was a truly grueling death for our two hormone-fueled mammoth teenagers, but as miserable as it sounds, they were still probably better off than the wolf they squished as they went down.
#3. A Sudden, Mass Slaughter
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A mere 10 or 12 million years ago, Mother Nature decided to toss modern paleontologists a bone by setting up perhaps the most elaborate fossil photo shoot of all time ... by going into full-on Extinction Mode.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
This is what a paleontologist looks like when he's giddy.
A volcanic hotspot in Idaho blew a hole out of the planet with the power of 100 Mount St. Helens explosions, puking debris across hundreds of square miles of North America. A thousand miles away in northern Nebraska, a cloud of fine volcanic ash drifted down like a snow day in Tartarus. The ash was no longer blazing hot, nor particularly poisonous -- which was too bad for the animals of a local watering hole. Denied a glorious fire-and-brimstone volcanic death befitting the circumstances, they were instead treated to a long and painful suffocation. By the time the dust had settled, the entire region was thoroughly buried in ash.
Fast-forward to 1971. Paleontologist Mike Voorhies was digging in a ravine that had been buried in 10 to 20 feet of ash and found a mass graveyard. Within three short seasons of digging, this virtually bottomless ash hole shat out 200 skeletons of at least 17 animal species -- an entire ecosystem of extinct American rhinos, horses, camels, birds, turtles, and more. Most of the skeletons were in perfect condition, and all had telltale growths on their bones indicating lung failure. Young rhinos were found beside their dead mothers still trying to nurse, and others nuzzled noses as if kissing each other goodbye.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Let's not desecrate this solemn scene with jokes about how it looks like they're humping.
The site is now the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Park, and they're still digging up victims over 40 years after the initial discovery, including long-extinct oddities like giraffe-necked camels and saber-toothed deer. New finds are constantly uncovered and left in position so that anyone can take a joyous stroll through the park to witness Mother Nature's grim panorama of despair.


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Rather than alleviate demand, L.A.'s favorite ramen restaurant imports a controversial style of Japanese noodles.
Rather than alleviate demand, L.A.'s favorite ramen restaurant imports a controversial style of Japanese noodles.
The two smashed patties with gold and purple cheese on a crunch bun will only be available when the team is playing.
In honor of its anniversary, white miso and Hokkaido ramen will both be offered on discount.
In typical style, the first four days of business will be dedicated to Facebook fans only.
The restaurant will introduce house-made corned beef sandwiches and a new cocktail called the Shillelagh.
The Hokkaido-style ramen made famous in Torrance is now serving in the former home of Raku.
Fatburger and Buffalo's Cafe Express are celebrating their new-found union tomorrow.
Basically, you're still not getting in here.
The Venice local has a full new menu, but is sticking to simple aesthetics.
Feau, who recently closed The Royce in Pasadena, will team up with The Oinkster chef-owner and former L'Orangerie sous chef Ressul Rassallat.
The restaurant will tempt you away from ramenville next Wednesday.
The imported chain specializes in miso-based Hokkaido ramen.
The new annex will help stem the overflow of hungry ramen-cultists.
The fire comes after a recent relaunch of this ancient Oklahoma import.
The noodles are daily made and served ice-shocked and slippery.
Under the new chef, takoyaki transforms into arancini, unagi is layered with lardo, and salmon is smoked with a handheld gun.
The Taiwanese import offers adjustable sugar levels in its hot and cold drinks.
Gold considers the West L.A. burger bar through the prism of Myhrvold, Umami Burger, and Blumenthal.
Charlie Parker's using a whole pig in dishes like pork cheek ragout and a bacon and date cake.
The Sin City burger joint is still promising a fall opening at the site of this shuttered 40-year-old mom and pop.


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PRESENTER: Christina Wanat, chief administrator for student learning at Eastern Gateway Community College, recently served on a panel presentation at the national Achieving the Dream conference in Dallas.
The panel of five presented on "Broad Engagement: Student Success Across the State."
AtD is a national organization that is dedicated to helping more community college students, particularly low-income students and students of color, stay in school and earn a college certificate or degree.
Evidence-based, student-centered and built on the values of equity and excellence, AtD is closing achievement gaps and accelerating student success nationwide by guiding evidence-based institutional improvement; influencing public policy; generating knowledge; and engaging the public, according to officials.
Eastern Gateway is one of 52 leader colleges with AtD. The college joined the organization in 2005.
Wanat earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from West Liberty University and a master's degree in higher education from Jones International University.
She joined the college in 1999 as director of the Eastern Ohio Valley Tech Prep Consortium. Formerly of Wellsburg, Wanat now resides in New Philadelphia.
HONORED: Mary Ellen Horkey was named the March employee of the month at Eastern Gateway Community College.
Horkey, a clerk in central services in the business services department, began working at the college in 1994 and earned an associate of applied business degree in business management from Eastern Gateway.
She and her husband, Perry, reside in Amsterdam.
CAREER FAIR: Wheeling Jesuit University and the Regional Economic Development partnership are co-hosting a career fair for Wheeling Jesuit University students and young alumni on Tuesday in Troy Theater, Swint Hall. The event is designed to assist local and regional companies with recruiting efforts.
"This career fair offers area businesses a chance to hire full-time employees, as well as meet with students interested in internship opportunities," said Christine Ohl-Gigliotti, dean of student development.
The career fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The first session is for general employment opportunities, and the evening session is specifically for careers in the health sciences.
For information, contact Nora Snyder, executive secretary to the dean of student development, at (304) 243-2350.
ON RISE: The U.S. deficit in the broadest measure of foreign trade increased at the end of last year to the highest level in three years, widened by a slight decline in exports and higher imports.
The Commerce Department says the current account trade deficit increased 15.3 percent in the October-December quarter, to $124.1 billion.
The increase was partly influenced by an increase in imported airplanes. Exports decreased slightly to $380.4 billion. Imports ticked up to $566.7 billion.
For the year, the current account deficit rose 0.6 percent to $473.4 billion, the largest imbalance since 2008.
Economists think the deficit will keep rising in 2012. Troubles in Europe and slower growth in Asia are likely to drag on U.S. exports.
And stronger growth in the United States should boosts imports.
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I frequently see Simulation and Emulation in computer science. These two terms seem synonymous. Is there any difference between Simulation and Emulation?
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Yes, the concepts are different.
Think of a flight simulator as an example. It looks and feels like you are flying an airplane, but you are completely disconnected from the reality of flying the plane, and you can bend or break those rules as you see fit. For example, fly an Airbus A380 upside down between London and Sydney without breaking it.
The M.A.M.E. system is built around this very premise. All those old arcade systems that have been long forgotten, that were implemented almost entirely in hardware, or in the firmware of their hardware systems can be emulated right down to the original bugs and crashes that would occur when you reached the highest possible score.
A simulation is a model constructed of something else which reproduces some of that thing's features and leaves others out - obviously you want to preserve the features relevant to your query, and leave out the irrelevant ones.
For instance, a simulation of early-morning commuter traffic leaves out the commuter's names, and maybe even their identities (using a counter variable rather than an actual set of
Emulation is the running of a software X created for platform A on platform B, without changing the software itself. This requires building a model of A that runs on B, and obviously it has to model everything about A that involves code execution. (In theory you could omit support for opcodes that you know this particular software won't ever use, but that is rare - doing an emulator is hard work, and it's much more worthwhile to do a thorough job and have something reusable than a kludge that works only for S.)
Both means something doing the job of something else.
The difference is that "Simulation" happens at a conscious level (with respect to the user) and is finalized typically to anticipate the result of a reality without touching the reality itself.
"Emulation" happens at an unconscious level, and has the purpose to replace an underlying component with another different one that -in respect to the user- works as the old one.
In other words, simulation happen in a "parallel world", while emulation happens in a "replaced world".
Technically, they both do the same: do something in an environment that acts as if it were the real thing.
Conceptually, however, there is an important difference.
A simulation is supposed to be detached from the real world to a certain degree; the output of a simulation is not directly connected to the thing it simulates. For example, an aircraft simulator does not actually fly, and the pilot is not actually communicating with a real air traffic controller.
A simulation usually has the goal of testing or predicting some real-life process in a safe environment; because the simulation is disconnected from the real world, nothing really bad can happen (a crashed aircraft simulator never kills real people).
An emulation, by contrast, has the goal of taking the place of the real thing: for example, if you emulate a simple microcontroller using a more sophisticated programmable CPU, that CPU can be used in place of the original microcontroller; it will be physically connected to some machine, and it will actually control that machine just like the microcontroller would.
The goal of an emulation is to replace hardware or software components with functional equivalents when the original modules aren't available (or have become too expensive, if only to maintain). Emulation can also serve the goal of using hardware more flexibly - the same programmable microcontroller can double for several simpler controllers, switching emulation mode as needed.
While the etymology isn't strictly accurate, think about the difference between sympathy, "I can imagine what that must feel like" and empathy, "I know what that feels like." A simulation might include visual representation of a problem, but it might not. For example it might just print out columns of numbers representing how many people are lined up for something or total revenue or average speed. It has some characteristics that match reality, and some that don't.
Emulation, which is often used in the context of one platform pretending to be another platform, is far more complete. So Windows Phone developers can run or debug their phone apps on a Windows machine in an emulator, which looks like a phone and behaves like one too. You can run your old Commodore 64 games in an emulator, too.
The words aren't precise. Most flight simulators are more like emulators in my opinion, but the name has stuck from a time when they were not so immersive. Some people reserve the word emulator for the cross-platform case and reject it for anything else. You'll probably never be thought wrong if you do the same when speaking, but understand that some people may place the boundary between the two words a little differently, and make allowances when someone says "this is an emulation" for a really accurate and complete simulation.
Both terms are very much similar in concept - mimicking.
Simulation or Simulators make use of software to produce a replicated system that is very much similar to target model in respect to its underlying core functionality(especially its basic methodology).
Emulators, on the other hand, focus more on exterior similarity when compared to target system. It has minimum concern for "how" the functions are mimicked. Emulators are, in general, used when working in a completely different environment(For example a different Operating system) as compared to the original system.
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7 Great Men in History (And Why You Should Hate Them)
Some historical claims are irrefutable: Hitler was a dick; Einstein was a brilliant sex maniac. A few other claims, however, are not quite as black and white. In honor of Labor Day, the only federal holiday that doesn't pay homage to a historical event or person, we've uncovered some 100-percent true reasons you should probably hate some of history's greatest heroes.
Historical Figure: Patrick Henry
What He's Remembered For
Most people know Patrick Henry as the radical revolutionary credited for demanding "Give me liberty or give me death," thereby inspiring all of Virginia to take up arms against British tyranny.
Why You Should Hate Him
Few people know that when he wasn't giving moving speeches, he was locking his wife in his basement. In Mindblowers, by Jim Rhine, we learn that for the last four years of her life Henry's wife was chained in her basement, possibly in a straitjacket and forbidden to see her children. It isn't unreasonable to conclude that the following conversation may have, at some point, occurred.
|Alright, honey, I'm going out for some beer and stronger chains. Anything you need?
|Yes. UNCHAIN ME FROM THE MOTHERFUCKING BASE ...
|Besides me unchaining you from the basement. Which we've discussed, remember? Remember, hon? How we discussed that?
|Patrick, I swear to God, either give me liberty or give me death.
|Ha, ha! Well, no, of course. But ... waiiiittt ... that ... did you come up with that? Is that yours? Can I use that?
|What? What are you talking about?
|Honey, I think you just saved America.
|Awesome. Now, unchain me from the basement.
|That's just the sort of crazy talk I'd expect from a woman I chained in my basement.
Historical Figure: Gandhi
What He's Remembered For
Being a spiritual leader in India who fought for Indian independence without ever resorting to violence. He's primarily known in America as that Macintosh spokesperson who looks sort of like E.T.
Why You Should Hate Him
Here's a quote from Gandhi: "I do not consider [name omitted] to be as bad as depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing, and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed."
Can you guess who's name was omitted? If you guessed Adolf Hitler, you're right and also totally insane for guessing that. You may remember Hitler as the character mentioned in the intro to this piece as an irrefutable dick. Apparently, Gandhi disagreed. We should have known this about Gandhi as soon as he started shaving his head ...
Historical Figure: Thomas Jefferson
What He's Remembered For
He wrote the Declaration of Independence and served as a governor, a minister to France, a secretary of state and a president of the United States.
Why You Should Hate Him
Jefferson's torrid affair with his slave, Sally Hemmings, is already fairly well-publicized. You think that's a scandal? Please. President Sex Machine would be lucky if that was the end of that issue. Instead, he fathered and subsequently denied several of Hemmings' children while giving speeches explaining how a white man marrying a black woman would produce "a degradation to which no lover of his country, no lover of excellence in the human character can innocently consent."
Also, Sally Hemmings was most likely the sister of Jefferson's dead wife, essentially his sister-in-law, so there would be a couple of kids running around the White House that Jefferson was both father and Uncle to. He'd really have his hands full. At least, he would have, had he ever actually acknowledged their existence.
Historical Figure: Woodrow Wilson
What He's Remembered For
He was the 28th American president, a Nobel Prize winner and the only president in history to have a Ph.D.
Why You Should Hate Him
He was a gigantic racist. This is true. When he wasn't creating the Federal Trade Commission or setting up the League of Nations, Ol' Woody was praising the KKK and laughing at the "darky" stories his wife would tell him nightly. He referred to other ethnic groups, including African-Americans as "hyphenated Americans" and, according to John Richard Stephens' Weird History 101, has gone on record to say, "Any man who carries a hyphen with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready." The man clearly did not care for the hyphen.
With the rise of al-Qaeda, you could almost make the argument that Wilson was ahead of his time in his hyphen-phobia, a word he was probably terrified of. But, then you remember that he would have thought Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a bigger threat than al-Zawahiri and you realize Wilson was actually retarded.


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Did you know Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile, Armagedon) died?
I always liked his characters, my favorite would be Bear from Armagedon.
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I saw it on MSN. He was a nice character actor.
Sad. He was a great actor, and a very gentle and kind person. I met him personally twice, and he never failed to impress us with his gentle demeanor and his generous smile. RIP.
John Coffee was the man. RIP
I hadn't heard, thanks for posting. He was good!
What I want to know is why he died after Omarosa left his room.
"...his passing came very suddenly. We're told his fiancee, Omarosa Manigault, was with him in his hospital room in Los Angeles and left for a short period of time. When she returned ... he had died."
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/03/michael-clarke-duncan-dead/#ixzz2E35EjR3I
I think she pulled the plug on big man.
@lll0228: I met him once when I was stuck at a dead end Macy's job a few years ago. Nicest guy ever, didn't mind people coming up to him asking for autographs/pictures while he was trying to buy a new shirt and suit.
Yes, I heard that. It's sad. He was a good actor IMO who looked like a big tough guy who was a teddy bear inside.
I'll expect a touching tribute of Craig Ferguson's show Tuesday night. They seemed to have such a good time together in Scotland earlier this year.
He seemed like a decent guy - always liked his movies.. I started watching the finder too, so that sucks he's not going to be on anymore (if it airs next season)
Here's a strange interview w/ Olivia Munn.. gets a little um... "aggressive" there towards the end :)
The Finder did not get renewed. He was the only one on there I actually liked ... I will miss him. He was brilliant in The Green Mile and very funny in Armageddon. I never read a bad word about him. Not so many can live 54 years and be celebrities and have folks able to say that. He must have been a fine man.
That's a shame. Thanks for sharing!
"Leaving, on a jet plane". RIP


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Words to Use with Your Kids Every Day
In This Article:
Communicating with your child involves more than the words and phrases you use. What you are saying will be more effective if you:
- Try to speak to your child in a pleasant tone of voice, instead of an angry one.
- Speak in a light conversational tone instead of yelling. If you do end up yelling, apologize to your child.
- Take the time to really communicate with your child, instead of rushing through a conversation.
- Devote your full attention to your child when she is talking to you, and try not to let your mind wander.
- Use facial expressions that correspond to the words you're speaking and the emotions you're feeling.
- Let your love and respect for your child guide your words and actions.
- Let the responsibility of being a parent be reflected in your willingness to take control when it's necessary.
- Smile more often than you frown.
Excepted from "Words to Parent By," March 1999, in Our Children, the official magazine of the National PTA.
About the authors: Vera Lane, Ph.D. and Dorothy Molyneaux, Ph.D., are specialists in child-language development and family communication. Dr. Lane is associate dean and Dr. Molyneaux is professor emerita at the San Francisco State University College of Education.
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Letter Lovers
Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of using a pen, exercises in making marks on the page, and introductions to forms of italic and blackletter. In later classes we'll make our own cola pens, 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?
What to bring
Recommended, but not required:
- An phone/mp3/music player, headphones, and a few of your favorite songs
- A ball point pen and blank printer paper
- Any calligraphy pen, markers, ink you already have
- Clothes that you don't mind getting a little ink on, a smock, or a very steady hand.
I will have some pens and paper too, so don't sweat it if you come last minute.
Thursday Evenings at 6:00pm.
There will be no class on July 18th as I'll be out of town (and it's Five Minutes of Fame), but people are welcome to come and practice together.
We are just getting started, so if this doesn't work for you, please contact me. Sunday afternoons were another possibility.
Church classroom at Noisebridge
2169 Mission St., San Francisco, 94114 (at 18th St., near 16th St. BART station).
First time visitors should read this for getting in: Explicit directions and how to get inside
Instruction is free!
And the materials are almost free--it's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.
Stan James, a longtime letter lover, current refugee from the startup world.


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WEIRTON - The Weir High girls basketball team rallied from 11 points down in the third quarter to win a thriller, 53-49, in overtime Monday night over Steubenville Catholic Central at the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse.
The Lady Crusaders had things pretty much their own way throughout the first half, running their set offense smoothly and getting easy shots against a soft Weir High zone defense. They led at the intermission 27-16. But in the second half, veteran coach Bill Smith had his Lady Red Riders turn up the defensive intensity to tie the score at 43-43 at the end of regulation.
Junior point guard Alyssa Shingle found nothing but net on a jumper from the foul line following a time out to knot the score with 43 seconds still remaining on the clock. Both teams had a couple of opportunities to win the game before the final buzzer, but couldn't get a bucket.
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FOR TWO — Catholic Central's Rachel Irvin goes up for two of her game-high 25 points in front of Weir's Raegan?Stead, who scored 24 points, during the Crusaders' 53-49 overtime loss Monday in Weirton.
-- Fred Younce
TO THE HOLE — Weir's Alyssa Shingle goes to the hoop for two against Steubenville Catholic Central's Rachel Irvin as the Crusaders' Tori Knight looks on during the Red Riders' 53-49 overtime win Monday in Weirton.
-- Fred Younce
"We changed defenses at halftime because I thought we became complacent in the first half just standing around defensively," Smith explained. "We wanted to get our girls into a rhythm and change the pace a little bit and it worked out for us."
The Crusaders were able to break the pressure defense early in the third quarter and held a 31-20 lead with 6:32 left in the period when senior Rachel Irvin hit a layup off a nice pass from Rachael Rigaud.
That's when the Lady Riders began chipping away at the lead.
"We told them at halftime that Weir was going to pressure us, but as long as we took care of the ball we'd be OK," said Crusader coach Tom Winland, whose team turned the ball over 20 times in the game, 11 of them in the fatal fourth quarter and overtime. "We kept telling the kids to take care of the ball. We didn't want them to speed us up, but that's exactly what the pressure did to us. We were throwing the ball at our own player's knees and over their heads. That's what it came down to, we turned the ball over way too much."
Adding to the litany of turnovers was four straight steals by Weir High senior, Raven Young, who seemed to be all over the court in the final minutes. She stole the ball four straight times and Weir High was able to convert the steals into points.
Young got a layup and two free throws off of her steals, while Raegan Stead stuck home a field goal and two freebies during Weir High's 10-0 run in the final 3:51 of regulation time.
"Raven is our best defensive player there's no question about it," Smith explained. "I kept telling her to step up, step up and she did when it counted.
"We've been telling the team all year that anyone can mess around and shoot the ball, but it takes special people to play defense, and once our kids made up their minds that they were going to play defense, we turned our defense into offense at the other end."
The win spoiled a career game by Catholic Central's Irvin. The Crusader senior had a double-double with 25 points and 10 rebounds. She got Central's final two points during regulation with 3:51 left. That's when Young went on her defensive tear.
Weir High sophomore Stead also scored a career high with 24 points including five in the overtime period. She also grabbed four rebounds and had a couple of steals.
The Red Riders, who had defeated Catholic Central 53-39 on Dec. 17, took control early in the four-minute overtime. When senior co-captain Shelva Burns drove the lane for a deuce on the first OT possession, Weir High had its first lead of the game.
Then, Stead drove the lane for two while the Crusaders continued to struggle getting the ball into the offensive zone, and when they did, they were unable to make shots.
"That's what happens when you speed up like that," said Winland. "You begin rushing your shots and don't get the easier shots."
Shingle made a free throw and Stead followed with another so that by the time Central scored on a Tori Knight three-pointer with 35 seconds left, Weir High was still in control, 49-46.
Shingle got to the line again with 16.9 seconds left to can two free throws to make it 51-46, but the Crusaders weren't ready to call it quits. Irvin made the first of two free throws at the 10.2 mark.
Weir High turned the ball over on the ensuing inbounds play giving Irvin a chance to grab a rebound and put the ball back up cutting the Rider lead to 51-49.
Stead calmly walked to the foul line after being fouled with 2.1 seconds left and iced the game swishing two for the final margin.
Shingle finished with 13 points to back up Stead.
Knight had eight points and Regaud, who hauled in 14 rebounds (Central out rebounded the Riders, 41-21), tossed in seven.
The loss dropped the Crusaders to 5-11 on the season and Winland said eight of the losses are by 10 points or under and five of them are by six or less.
The Red Riders' record advanced to 5-7.
Both teams have rivalry games coming up Thursday. Weir High goes to Madonna for the annual city championship game while the Crusaders are at home with Big Red.
Weir High 53, CCHS 49
Weir 10 6 11 16 10 - 53
CCHS: Knight 3 0-0 8, Irvin 12 1-2 25, Rigaud 3 1-2 7, Mirabella 1 0-0 2, Parkinson 2 0-0 5, Dziewatkowski 1 0-0 2. Totals: 22 2-4 49. 3-pointers: Knight (2), Parkinson; Rebounds: 41 (Rigaud, 14, Irvin, 10); Turnovers: 20.
WEIR HIGH: Young 2 2-6 6, Stead 9 5-6 24, Shingle 4 3-4 13, Lemley 1 0-0 2, Burns 2 2-4 6, Dalrymple 1 0-0 2. Totals: 19 12-20 53. 3-pointers: Shingle (2), Stead; Rebounds: 21 (Burns, 6); Turnovers: 8.


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Soldiers from Fort Campbell will be donating food items to the installation's YMCA for distribution to other military families.
On Friday morning, each soldier from the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division will donate two food items to the Backdoor Boutique, which is a free store for military families on the post on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line. It offers household and personal items, such as baby clothes and appliances.
The unit is donating canned goods to help other soldiers in need and their families during the holiday season. Following the donation, the battalion will participate in a physical fitness event at the Division Parade Field.


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How can one determine approximately what percentage of options trades are buyer-initiated vs. seller-initiated? What measures of order flow are available specifically for options, preferably for individual contracts covering specific strikes and maturities?
How can one determine approximately what percentage of options trades are buyer-initiated vs. seller-initiated?
Pan and Poteshman (2006) were able to obtain a "unique dataset from the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) which breaks down the daily trading volume of both call and put options into four categories according to whether a trade is initiated by a buyer or a seller, and whether the initiator opens a new option position or closes an existing option position." I don't know where they got the data, but obviously this would answer your question.
Otherwise, you could use the Lee and Ready (1991) algorithm to infer, with some noise, whether a trade is buyer or seller initiated. In fact, Amin and Lee (1997) did precisely this in a paper studying options trading around earnings announcements.
For every option bought there is an equal quantity of options sold.
For example, when reporters say "stocks dropped because of heavy selling", this is strictly speaking impossible. For every stock sold someone is on the other side of the trade -- so stocks dropped because of heavy buying as well with equal intensity. What is happening is that the willingess to pay for stock (demand curve) has shifted to the left, therefore prices have dropped.


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I am planning to upgrade from 8.10 to 10.04. But I am wondering if there will be data loss during the upgrade?
For example:
Will the application that I have installed on 8.10 still be there after upgrade?
Will the settings of the applications such as the bookmarks for Firefox and for Google Chrome be preserved?
Will all the personal files under my home directory be preserved?
Any other things I need to know for the upgrade?
Thanks and regards!


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A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias's life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother's baby daughtera child Moon never knew existedis waiting for him in Southeast Asia.
A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon to Vietnam. In a chilling world of mystery and silence, disguise and deception, he'll risk everything for the sake of one little girland discover a Moon Mathias who's a better man than he ever thought he could be.
About the Author
Tony Hillerman was the former president of the Mystery Writers of America and received its Edgar® and Grand Master awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indians Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, and the Navajo Tribes Special Friend Award. He lived with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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"Hillerman does an exemplary job...offering plenty of romance and suspense."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"An atmospheric and successful thriller...a thoughtful tale of high adventure."
-San Jose Mercury News
"[It] proves Hillerman can write good fiction without calling in the Tribal Police."
-Entertainment Weekly


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GUI (graphical user interface) metod preferred. For example - can the new remote login feature be used for the purpose if the remote person has Ubuntu live cd and know how to boot it? The built-in remote login feature in question has been described here Ubuntu 12.10 Login Screen Adds Remote Desktop Access Remmina maybe? http://askubuntu.com/a/16767/
This is very simple to do, I do it all the time. First you need to boot into some kind of environment.
With a little work you can make a script to do all this for you, and have a rapid deployment setup that is really quite handy. Here is a guide that should help get you going.
i don't think a remote installment of ubuntu from a live cd is available, as the new install wizard requires the GUI to navigate trough the setup.. before there was a preseed function, but it has been compleetly removed.
the best shot you may have, is to try to temp install sshd on the live version, and see if you have any chance there
If you boot from live CD and the sistem get's an ip, then he could activate Desktop Sharing and you will be able to continue the installation. All you have to do is install on your computer an VNC viewer and guide that person to configure access to the target computer on port 5900.
note: port 12345 should be open in the router
adjust sda with your cases
Depending on disk size and the speed of the connection it will take a while.
You can pipe to tar -xzpsf - to compress the flow


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The 6 Stupidest Plots of Supposedly Smart Movie Villains
#3. GoldenEye & Under Siege 2: Dark Territory -- The Villains Make a Fortune on a Terrorist Attack (Which Will Render Their Money Worthless)
The scheme:
1995 saw the release of both GoldenEye and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, one of which marked James Bond's return to the screen after a long absence, while the other marked Steven Seagal's return to the screen after eating an entire pan of baked macaroni at Piccadilly Cafeteria. Both films feature a villain planning to launch a terrorist strike with computers and a satellite, adding more fuel to the long-standing belief that Hollywood doesn't completely understand how either of those things work.
In Under Siege 2, Travis Dane is paid $1 billion by Middle Eastern terrorists to hijack a military satellite particle weapon and fire it at a nuclear reactor hidden beneath the Pentagon, triggering an explosion that will wipe out the entire eastern seaboard. He intends to do this with a CD-ROM.
No, seriously.
In GoldenEye, Alec Trevelyan aims to hack into the Bank of England and steal all their funds electronically. Immediately afterward, he will use the GoldenEye satellite to send an electromagnetic pulse through London, erasing all of their financial records and sending the country into chaos (and neatly covering his theft, to boot).
"OK, Nightcrawler, put in the CD-ROM."
But wait a second ...
In both movies, the villains are getting paid in the currency of a nation whose economy is about to be completely annihilated by their actions, effectively reducing their ill-gotten fortunes to valueless stacks of colorful paper.
Dane's plan to nuke Washington, D.C. would instantly vaporize most of the government and leave a third of the United States totally uninhabitable. It is safe to assume that the value of the dollar would take a catastrophic plunge, much like Steven Seagal himself in Executive Decision. Now this makes sense from the point of view of the terrorists who hired Dane -- they just want to see the US destroyed. But Dane is getting paid in the currency he's about to render useless -- when the money is transferred to his account, you can clearly see that he's getting tossed one billion American dollars to destroy the only nation capable of honoring their value:
His lack of foresight is apparently deafening.
Alec Trevelyan makes the same mistake. It does no good to loot the Bank of England if you're going to erase Great Britain's entire financial history 30 minutes later. It's going to be difficult to convince people to deal in pounds sterling if there's no record of the damnn things being worth anything. That's like stealing a bunch of Picasso paintings and then Men-In-Black-ing Picasso from everyone's memory.
We suppose Trevelyan could delay phase two of his plan long enough to take his stolen money to a currency exchange, but coming in with a sum large enough to maintain the Crown would probably raise a few eyebrows (and Politburo alarms). No matter how you look at it, he's coming out of this broke.
"Before I kill you, James, I'm really gonna need that 20 bucks you owe me."
#2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Mr. Rooney Tries to Nail Ferris on an Excused Absence
The scheme:
Edward Rooney, the most vindictive high school principal in history outside of Ernie Hudson in The Substitute, has made it his mission to bust Ferris Bueller, a wormy egocentric teenager who spends the entire movie smiling disingenuously and dressing like Tommy Davidson. After Ferris fakes an illness to skip school for a day, Rooney decides to put every single one of his duties as an educator aside and leaves his office to go searching for him, obsessed with catching Ferris in the act so he can use it as evidence to prevent him from graduating. Although if Rooney hates him so much, we're curious as to why he'd want to keep him around for another year.
Not to mention the fact that Ferris is clearly 24 years old.
But wait a second ...
Ferris' absence from school was excused by his parents, which means Rooney can't do a goddamned thing about it.
When Ferris doesn't show up for class, Rooney immediately calls his mother, who confirms that Ferris is home sick for the day. And that, right there, should have been the end of it. Rooney's role in the situation has been completely eliminated. The school can't punish Ferris for an excused absence any more than Tom Hanks can slap Helen Hunt for getting remarried at the end of Cast Away after she thought he was dead for four years.
It doesn't matter if Rooney had been downtown to personally witness Ferris singing "Twist and Shout" on a parade float -- neither he nor the school has any legal right to take action. Hell, Ferris could walk right into Rooney's office and hand him a burrito. He literally can't do shit.
Sure, Rooney could call Ferris' parents and explain his concerns, particularly in the event of that burrito scenario. He could arrange a parent-teacher conference with the Buellers to discuss Ferris' numerous suspicious absences. But as far as punishing Ferris himself, Rooney's hands are tied.
So he breaks into the Bueller home instead.
#1. Superman Returns -- Lex Luthor Wants a Monopoly on Uninhabitable Real Estate
The Scheme:
Despite his reputation as one of the most diabolical geniuses in comic book history, the scope of Lex Luthor's cinematic scheming is apparently limited to elaborate real estate scams. In the original Superman, Luthor's plan was to fire a nuclear missile at the San Andreas Fault and sink California into the ocean, transforming some desert land in Arizona he'd just purchased on the cheap into million-dollar beachfront property.
In Superman Returns, Luthor creates a large Kryptonite-filled landmass in the North Atlantic Ocean, because that is apparently something you can do. The Kryptonite will eventually raise sea levels high enough to much of the world, allowing Luthor to live like a king on his own private island and charge a fortune to any survivors rich enough to purchase land from him.
It is a plan that radiates as much brilliance as the man who concocted it.
But wait a second ...
Luthor's doomsday-triggering paradise is a radioactive chunk of jagged sterile rock.
It would take a seriously compelling infomercial to sell even a photograph of this shithole.
The island is a barren gray wasteland completely incapable of sustaining life. Luthor himself would probably jump off the highest point of its dagger-toothed skyline after living there for a week. And just because Kryptonite is Superman's specific weakness doesn't mean it's harmless for regular humans. Kryptonite is an intensely radioactive substance, and building a house on a continent made of the stuff would be the same as unrolling a sleeping bag atop an exposed uranium core. This may be a comic book movie, but unless you're the main character, the only super power you're getting from radiation is cancer.
And this also brings to mind the problem with GoldenEye and Under Siege 2 earlier: What currency is Luthor planning on dealing in once the entire world is drowned by his floating toxic shit brick? Is he going to print a bunch of LuthorBucks to distribute among the survivors? He intends to become a billionaire by completely destroying the infrastructure that wealth requires to exist.
And even if the land did become valuable, what's to stop the first army that comes along from just taking it from him? He seems to think he can defend his claim to the only dry bit of land left in the entire world with a cartoon gangster overcoat and three--three--henchmen.
One of whom is Kumar.
His plan's best case scenario is he becomes king of a radioactive graveyard, trying to sell people real estate for billions of dollars that he cannot possibly spend.
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For more ridiculous acts of villainy, check out The 6 Most Pointlessly Elaborate Movie Murder Plots and The 6 Most Pointless Supervillain Schemes Ever Hatched.
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The University Archives was begun in 1966 by the University's president, Father Paul E. Waldschmidt, C.S.C., with the appointment of Brother David Martin, C.S.C., librarian, as archivist. He and his successor from 1983 to 1999, Rev. Barry Hagan, C.S.C., of the History Department, collected documents and photographs from the various University offices, colleges, schools, departments and some individuals as well as copies of many different University publications over the years. Until 1999, the University Archivist reported directly to the Academic Vice President. Beginning with the tenure of Rev. Robert Antonelli, C.S.C., assisted by Mrs. Martha Wachsmuth, from 1999-2012, the University Archives became a part of the University Library. Computers were added, compact shelving and climate control were installed, online database finding aids were compiled, and two digital collections were made available via the library web page. In 2012 Rev. Jeffrey Schneibel, C.S.C., was appointed University Archivist when Antonelli and Wachsmuth retired. Please telephone 503-943-7116 or email email@example.com for further information and service.
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Bowling Green has a new Judicial Circuit Judge. Tuesday morning John Riedlinger Grise was sworn in by former Circuit Court Judge John Minton.
Judge Grise has practiced law since 1984. He was appointed by Governor Ernie Fletcher when Judge Minton was elected to the Court of Appeals
Grise says he's excited to take on the new challenges.
Grise says, "It is an emotional day. I'm very excited and happy to move forward this job. At the same time, I've had a great law practice. I've loved practicing law and I had a great law firm to practice in. So there's some mixed emotions with it. But I'm very much ready to move forward and look forward to the future.
Before his appointment Judge Grise was a partner at Kerrick, Grise, Stivers and Coyle.


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I have a question about creating digital signatures for pdf files. I want to have a certificate for my company and have children certificates as many as the number of company's employees who can validate their signatures in pdf files.
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Can I use C# 4.0 with the target framework set to .NET 3.5 to develop an extension for ArcMap 9.3? Or does it have to be C# 3.0 or earlier?
Short answer: In my experience, there should be absolutely no problem developing .NET 3.5-based code for ArcGIS 9.3 in Visual Studio 2010 (with C# language version 4), as long as you explicitly target the .NET Framework 3.5. The C# language version is mostly irrelevant here.
Longer answer: You need to distinguish between the C# language version, and the targeted Framework version.
You can think of the .NET Framework as being made up of two major parts: the CLR (Common Language Runtime), and the BCL (Base Class Library). The former is the "virtual machine", while the latter is the class library (containing all the types that you can look up on MSDN).
.NET Frameworks 2 until 3.5 all use the same CLR (version 2), that is, the execution environment hasn't really evolved. What has evolved, however, is the BCL. If you're running a .NET 3.5 application on a .NET 2 machine, the main problem will not be that the "bytecode" (CIL) will be incompatible (it won't), but that the application might refer to and use types that were not yet available in the .NET 2 BCL.
Now, when you tell Visual Studio 2010 to target the .NET Framework 3.5, it will make sure that you won't use BCL types from any later Framework version. It will also make sure that the code output by the C# compiler will not require features only available in the CLR version 4.
The C# language version has very little to do with all this. What the C# compiler really does it to take your source code and translate it to a much lower-level programming language called CIL (Common Intermediate Language). Certain C# language constructs will no longer be recognisable in CIL: For example,
To sum this up: The C# language version becomes irrelevant as soon as your code is compiled. What is important is...
One notable exception (in the sense that a C# language construct requires a particular version of the framework; this was last the case whwn generics were introduced IIRC) might be the C# keyword
Keep in mind that VS2010 isnt a supported IDE for 9.3 development. You wont get any assembly references, help or template integration.
You can kind of make it work however: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/29935-VS2010-with-version-9.3.1


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NJIT's number of residential student housing capacity tops 2,200 beds, an increase of some 35 percent. To accommodate student demand, NJIT's housing has been filled to capacity using housing triples in double rooms and leasing off-campus space. These new residences and amenities are timely additions as the university's enrollment is expected to exceed 10,000 students.


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I' ve just bought a dell latitude 5520 and installed 11.10, my trouble is that the fan is noisy which is not regular.
It is quiet for 1 minute and then speeds up and slows down every 4 seconds for 1 minute : it's very annoying.
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I have to put music on when i'm on my computer...
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I made a custom wordpress theme from scratch. I added WooCommerce for the shopping cart and store. When I search products in the store the search results do not show pictures. How do I make the pictures of the products visible in search results?
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Where this "lives" on the admin UI may move. Make sure that you have all of the option boxes turned on so you can see all the UI options, then search for "featured image".
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Blender is the general low-budget answer for this, but is difficult to understand when compared to proprietary programs, say, 3DS Max. What else is out there?


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SALT LAKE CITY — Online discount retailer Overstock.com reported a 19% increase in total net revenue for the first quarter, thanks to a 21% increase in average order size.
Overstock.com's total net revenue for the quarter was $312 million, up from $262 million for the first quarter of last year, even though the company reported a small decrease in the number of customer orders. Its net income for the quarter surged to $8 million, up from $2.7 million for the same period last year.
The company's gross profit increased 24% to $59 million this quarter from $48 million for the same period last year. The increase in gross profit was primarily due to higher revenue and a shift in product sales mix into higher margin home and garden products, and lower warehousing costs, partially offset by higher freight costs.
Overstock.com's positive first quarter results follow the company's announcement that founder Patrick Byrne returned as its CEO. Byrne took a medical leave of absence in February to address cardiac issues thought to be associated with cancer treatments received much earlier in his life.


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November 6, 2013
New York University will host a screening of the award-winning documentary, "Before the Spring, After the Fall," which chronicles tumultuous events surrounding the 2011 revolution in Egypt, on Fri., Nov. 8, 7 p.m. at NYU's Cantor Film Center (36 East 8th Street/between University Place and Greene Street).
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"Before the Spring After the Fall" (BTSATF), by Academy Award-nominated director Jed Rothstein, captures the story of what happened before, during, and since the historic events in Egypt during the winter of 2011. Following the fortunes of one family at the center of Egypt's political life—father Ayman Nour was the only person ever to challenge Hosni Mubarak for the presidency—"BTSATF" gives viewers an inside look at the frustrations that led to the uprising and the challenges that those working for change in Egypt continue to face. Set to the rebellious heavy metal music performed by its main characters, "BTSATF" takes viewers from a battle that began as a fight for the freedom of expression in 2008 to the larger struggle for the future of the Middle East.
Rothstein and Producer Mark LeVine, GSAS '99, who authored Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam, the book on which the film is based, will be in attendance for a Q&A following the film.
"BTSATF" (72 mins.) was produced in Egypt and the U.S. and is in Arabic and English, with English subtitles.
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Last week was not just the celebration of the anniversary of the Pentaho Agile BI initiative, it was also the conclusion of my detective tour throughout the US to both teach and learn about Agile BI. I call this a detective tour because we really use these types of events to investigate and better understand just what's going on in the marketplace and what BI challenges companies are trying to overcome. Over the past 4 months Pentaho has visited over 26 cities worldwide with the Agile BI Tour – Data to Dashboards in Minutes. I was at 15 of the cities across the US presenting on our Agile BI Initiative along with our partners.
These live, free workshops were ideal for attendees to learn because of the depth of demonstrations, discussion of our Agile BI integration development environment and actual customer implementation examples. I personally found it very rewarding being on the ground and speaking with hundreds of BI users (or soon-to-be users). I had the usual slide presentations and demonstrations, yet found that in the majority of the cities, our time would consist of 70% Q&A and 30% slides. Along with the in-depth conversations I had with companies of all sizes across the US, I was also able to analyze the results of the survey's we received back from almost every attendee of the Agile BI tour. Drawing from my experience on the road and survey analysis, I have four major observations of the current state of Agile BI:
- There remains a crying need for a better BI solution in the marketplace.
- In almost all of the cities, the majority of attendees were already users of existing BI solutions, mostly those from the traditional vendors such as SAP/Business Objects, IBM/Cognos, Oracle, Microstrategy and others. While this was initially was a shock, their answers to the questionnaire revealed the dissatisfaction and challenges with existing solutions, and to a large degree, why they are looking for alternatives.
- An overwhelming number of attendees responded that their number one challenge with their existing BI solutions was cost followed closely by the lack of IT resources to get their projects done. Additional related factors included the complexity of existing BI solutions and the time it takes to get BI reports.
- Simply put, most users of BI need better, less expensive solutions that can deliver critical analytic data and reports faster. In spite of all of the BI solutions that are available today from the traditional BI vendors, the market and users still find themselves struggling with the core basics of putting more and better BI in the hands of users.
I can't wait until January and we are back on the road to more locations and more users with the Agile BI Tour. And of course, we are not slowing down on the product front either with very exciting product plans in the works for next year. For Pentaho and our users, 2011 promises to be an exciting year.
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On the mobile version of a site I am working on I would like the user to be able to download a contact card straight into their address book.
Is this possible with microformats (or anything for that matter) and which phone browsers / phones support what?
I have spent some time researching the issue and haven't come up with anything conclusive.


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The 5 Most Incredibly Detailed Replicas Ever Made by Fans
For whatever reason, a popular means of expressing one's enthusiasm for a piece of pop culture is to look at said thing and ask: "What if this was the size of a hamster village and made out of something completely stupid?" Replica and miniature hobbyists occupy a unique territory of fandom, but fortunately they're able to channel their obsessive natures into mind-boggling projects like ...
#5. A Lord of the Rings City Made of Matchsticks
For reasons that neither science nor theology will ever be able to explain, Patrick Acton decided to spend three years of his life stacking matchsticks together to form the mountain city of Minas Tirith, as seen in the Lord of the Rings movies:
"It's a burning passion."
Between the fortified city and the mountain upon which it sits, this seven-tier structure was built using 450,000 individual matchsticks. To us, gluing together that many matchsticks into a shapeless blob sounds like an impossibly tedious task, but Acton sculpted the city down to the last tiny detail, including windows, doors, staircases, archways, and even the trebuchets sitting atop each watchtower along the outer wall. He even managed to build curved walls and the winding branches of a miniature tree using nothing but tiny, brittle sticks.
We're amazed he didn't whittle a stick figure Denethor to plunge down in a fireball of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Acton's attention to detail was so specific that he had to create new buildings and structures to populate the fantasy capital city of Gondor, because neither the punishingly wordy books nor the 10-hour movie trilogy contained enough material for his liking. This makes Acton the first person in history to decide that The Lord of the Rings, in all of its adapted forms, simply wasn't long enough.
Acton thinks the final Hobbit film should be split into two parts.
The matchstick Minas Tirith is now part of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! collection, where it is displayed alongside other Patrick Acton structures, such as the 600,000-matchstick replica of Harry Potter's Hogwarts School of Wizardry, because Patrick Acton decided at an early age exactly how he wanted to be remembered.
As the man who built a fantasy dick tower out of matches.
#4. A 20,000-Piece Motor-Powered LEGO Batcave
If you wait long enough, your favorite pop culture property will inevitably be made into an impossibly expensive LEGO set. But the truly obsessed don't sit around and wait for that shit -- they make their own. Take Wayne Hussey and Carlyle Livingston II. They didn't feel like waiting for the gods of fun and whimsy to shine their light on Tim Burton's Batman, so they went ahead and created their own absurdly detailed LEGO Batcave themselves. The thing is so huge that you'd have to actually be Bruce Wayne to buy one in the unlikely event that they're ever mass-produced.
Carlyle Livingston
We're pretty sure you could fit a life-size billionaire orphan in there.
Livingston used to build props and models for the film industry, and Hussey is the director of BrickCon, a LEGO fan convention. With their powers combined, they were able to patiently spend over 400 hours assembling a LEGO replica of Batman's underground toy chest. The finished product consists of about 20,000 bricks and weighs around 100 pounds, which is enough to crush a child to death should it happen to tip over in the middle of a spirited play session. It includes five different Bat-vehicles to ride:
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Six, depending on the type of stories you tell about his relationship with Robin.
A tiny armory:
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Hang your Batarangs neatly, or face angry drunken Alfred.
And a miniature Batcomputer to decode the Riddler's nefarious riddles:
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Complete with pictures of Catwoman and ... um, Abraham Lincoln.
The LEGO Batcave requires four tiny motors to power all of its moving parts, which is more than most people need in their entire house. However, that's nothing compared to Gotham Park, the LEGO replica of the Joker's headquarters created by Paul Hetherington. It doesn't just "have" moving parts -- the entire thing moves.
Modeled after an abandoned theme park, the LEGO Joker's lair includes delightful automated set pieces that feature Batman getting assaulted by villains and Commissioner Gordon being lowered into a vat of acid. The elaborate scenes in Gotham Park require an undisclosed number of 9-volt motors and 30,000 LEGO bricks -- a full 10,000 more than the intimidatingly awesome LEGO Batcave. Then again, if anyone was going to outdo Batman in elaborate ridiculousness, it would be the Joker.
Carlyle Livingston
Some men just want to see their free time burn.
#3. Amazingly Detailed Titanic Replicas Built from Spare Parts
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Jason King of Welwyn, England, is super into the Titanic, which hardly makes him unique, despite the fact that it seems like an unsettlingly strange thing to be a fan of. In order to express his boundless enthusiasm in an equally unsettling manner, King decided to build his own replica Titanic out of garbage, such as scrap VCR parts, broken clocks, and other bits of random junk nobody wanted. This is presumably because Jason King, a student of history, wanted to pay tribute to the little-known fact that the original Titanic was also fashioned from old VCR parts.
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Our fact checkers have not verified that last sentence.
The finished replica is just under 9 feet long and was constructed over the course of two years, finishing just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking.
Jason King
The Guinness is there both for scale and to honor all of the Irish trapped in steerage.
King researched the Titanic's blueprints and read over 150 books on the infamous ship to learn the precise locations of brutally specific details like door handles, signal bells, and even the number and positioning of the benches on the top deck. It is unclear how many Billy Zanes he sculpted, although we assume the final count was at least one.
Jason King
He fashioned a tiny Bernard Hill out of Slim Jim meat stick shavings.
Not to be outdone by a fellow tragedy enthusiast's mad scientist-level of obsession, Stan Fraser of Scotland flung 12 years of his life into the cauldron of oblivion to construct his own 1:10 scale Titanic replica out of two old motor homes in his backyard.
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The trailers' occupants are trapped inside, victims of man's hubris.
To properly showcase this 100-foot mammoth, Fraser converted the inside of the replica ship into a full-size cafe and turned his house into a makeshift maritime museum. He also made sure to add a functioning Morse code station, presumably so visitors can relay his ransom demands to their loved ones once they realize they've been locked inside.